Changelog
September 2026
- Sep 26 Person Crime & Abuse NetworksLesley Groff
Jeffrey Epstein's New York executive assistant from 2001 to 2019, named and immunized as a potential co-conspirator in his 2007 non-prosecution agreement, never charged, who denies knowing of his crimes.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationAir Ghislaine, Inc.
Delaware aircraft company of Jeffrey Epstein, bearing Ghislaine Maxwell's first name, that held jet shares and helicopters from 2000, was renamed Shmitka Air and then Freedom Air International in 2010, and dissolved in 2012.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationBlack Family Foundation
Private foundation of Leon and Debra Black, established in 1997 with Jeffrey Epstein among its initial directors, which listed him on its tax returns until 2012 and funded Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationHyperion Air
Two Jeffrey Epstein aircraft companies: a Delaware corporation that held his Gulfstream N909JE from 1994 and a St. Thomas LLC, formed in 2012, that held his helicopters.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationJEGE, Inc.
Jeffrey Epstein's Delaware corporation that owned his Boeing 727, N908JE, from 2001 to 2019, with a namesake St. Thomas LLC formed in 2012 that held a Gulfstream IV and passed to new owners in 2019.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationWorld Transhumanist Association
Transhumanist membership organization founded in 1998 by Nick Bostrom and David Pearce, later renamed Humanity+, which received Jeffrey Epstein money in 2010 and from his Gratitude America in 2018.
- Sep 26 Place CityCharlotte Amalie
Capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands on St. Thomas, seat of the governor, courts and Justice Department that registered, waived for and later sued Jeffrey Epstein, and first address of his money-management company.
- Sep 26 Place Landmark9 East 71st Street
Seven-story limestone townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side that served as Jeffrey Epstein's primary New York residence and the site of conduct detailed in the federal sex-trafficking case against him.
- Sep 26 Place LandmarkFederal Prison Camp Bryan
Minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, to which Ghislaine Maxwell was moved in August 2025 after her Justice Department interview, drawing congressional inquiries into the transfer and her treatment.
- Sep 26 Place LandmarkLittle St. James
Little St. James is the roughly 70-acre island off St. Thomas that Jeffrey Epstein owned from 1998 through shell companies, where victims alleged abuse, and which his estate sold to Stephen Deckoff in 2023.
- Sep 26 Place LandmarkZorro Ranch
Zorro Ranch is the New Mexico property near Stanley that Jeffrey Epstein bought in 1993 from Governor Bruce King's family, where victims alleged abuse and which the state reinvestigated in 2026.
- Sep 26 Place Military InstallationIlopango Airbase
Salvadoran military air base that served as the hub for Oliver North's illegal Contra resupply operation and a center for Contra-connected cocaine trafficking during the 1980s.
- Sep 26 Place RegionSt. Croix
Island of the U.S. Virgin Islands, site of the 1878 Fireburn, the 1972 Fountain Valley killings and the HOVENSA refinery that Epstein's circle discussed as a Guantanamo replacement.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationSouthern Trust Company
Southern Trust Company was Jeffrey Epstein's U.S. Virgin Islands entity that obtained large territorial tax benefits by claiming to run a DNA-database and data-mining business the Virgin Islands later alleged it never actually conducted.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationTime
American news magazine, first published in 1923, which ran Beaty and Gwynne's 1991 BCCI exposé and was sold by Meredith to Marc and Lynne Benioff in 2018 for 190 million dollars.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationTroutman Sanders
Atlanta-rooted law firm that defended Jeffrey Epstein and Financial Trust Company against Steven Hoffenberg's Towers Financial suits in 2016 and 2018 and Epstein's estate in 2020, later Troutman Pepper Locke.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationUniversity of the Virgin Islands
Public land-grant university of the U.S. Virgin Islands whose research park declined Jeffrey Epstein around 2012, while its president kept soliciting him for a medical-school gift and its classes enrolled women connected to him.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationWilmerHale
Law firm formed by the 2004 merger of Hale and Dorr and Wilmer Cutler Pickering, which defended JPMorgan Chase in the Virgin Islands Epstein suit and investigated Epstein ties for Bard College and Apollo.
- Sep 26 Event Intelligence ScandalFrogman Case
Largest cocaine bust in West Coast history at the time (January 1983), which exposed direct links between Contra drug traffickers in San Francisco and the CIA, connections suppressed through direct CIA intervention.
- Sep 26 Event Law Enforcement & LegalUnited States v. Epstein
Federal sex-trafficking prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein in Manhattan, indicted July 2019 and dismissed after his death in jail that August, whose sealed grand jury record was ordered released in December 2025.
- Sep 26 Concept IdeologyExtropianism
Extropianism is the libertarian transhumanist movement founded by Max More in the late 1980s around the Extropy Institute, whose 1990s mailing list fed longtermism, the rationalist community and cypherpunk circles.
- Sep 26 Concept Intelligence ConceptFISA Section 702
FISA provision authorizing warrantless collection of foreigners' communications from U.S. providers, whose 'backdoor searches' of Americans' communications courts have held require Fourth Amendment scrutiny.
- Sep 26 Concept Crime & Abuse NetworksLolita Express
Press nickname for Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727-31, tail number N908JE, registered from 2001 to 2019 to his Delaware company JEGE, Inc., whose pilots' logs became a principal record of his associates.
- Sep 26 Concept IdeologyTranshumanism
Transhumanism is the movement to use technology to transcend human biological limits, named in its modern sense by Julian Huxley in 1957 and organized through the World Transhumanist Association founded in 1998.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationGoodwin Procter
Boston law firm founded in 1912 whose January 2020 report for MIT documented ten Epstein donations totaling 850,000 dollars and found that MIT's senior team had approved post-conviction gifts.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationGratitude America
Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas private foundation, recognized by the IRS in 2012, which took 10 million dollars from Leon Black in 2015 and paid Bard president Leon Botstein 150,000 dollars in 2016.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationHaddon, Morgan and Foreman
Denver criminal defense firm founded in 1976 by former public defenders, whose clients included Kobe Bryant, John Ramsey and Ghislaine Maxwell, and which sued Maxwell's family in 2022 for unpaid fees.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationHighbridge Capital Management
New York hedge fund founded in 1992 by Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca, with Jeffrey Epstein as a founding investor, whose 2004 sale to JPMorgan Epstein helped broker.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationJPMorgan Chase
Largest U.S. bank, which kept Jeffrey Epstein as a client from 1998 to 2013 over compliance objections, flagged most of his suspicious transactions only after his 2019 arrest, and paid 365 million dollars in settlements.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationJeffrey Epstein VI Foundation
Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas private foundation, registered with the IRS as Enhanced Education, which funded scientists and Edge, issued inflated gift claims, filed one tax return, and paid young models through Darren Indyke.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationJohn Templeton Foundation
Foundation established in 1987 by Sir John Templeton that granted Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics 1.5 million dollars in 2015 after receiving a false Jeffrey Epstein matching-funds letter.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationKirkland & Ellis
American law firm whose partners Jay Lefkowitz and Kenneth Starr negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement with Alexander Acosta, a former Kirkland associate, and which later employed William Barr.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationKobre & Kim
Litigation firm founded by two former Manhattan federal securities fraud prosecutors, which hired Matthew Menchel and Andrew Lourie, two supervisors of the 2006 to 2007 Epstein investigation, on leaving government.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationMotley Rice
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina plaintiffs' firm of the 1998 tobacco settlement negotiators, contingency counsel to the Virgin Islands against Epstein's estate and JPMorgan Chase, which took more than 43 million dollars in fees.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationSouthern Financial LLC
Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas limited liability company, registered in 2013, which held his Apollo Global Management shares and anchored a Deutsche Bank relationship worth about 98.6 million dollars in 2016.
- Sep 26 Organization U.S. GovernmentEconomic Development Commission
The Economic Development Commission is the U.S. Virgin Islands tax-incentive board that granted Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Trust and Southern Trust companies benefits from 1999 until his death, after his sex-offender registration.
- Sep 26 Organization U.S. GovernmentLegislature of the Virgin Islands
Unicameral legislature of the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose 2012 sex-offender travel law Epstein's circle sought to shape through senators Carlton Dowe and Celestino White, and several of whose former members dealt with Epstein.
- Sep 26 Organization U.S. GovernmentState Department
The State Department serves as the federal executive department responsible for the United States' foreign policy and international relations.
- Sep 26 Organization U.S. GovernmentVirgin Islands Department of Justice
Law department of the U.S. Virgin Islands, headed by a governor-appointed attorney general, which kept Jeffrey Epstein's sex-offender registration, waived his travel notice, then sued his estate and subpoenaed Ghislaine Maxwell.
- Sep 26 Organization U.S. GovernmentVirgin Islands Port Authority
Territorial authority owning the U.S. Virgin Islands' public airports and seaports, which leased Jeffrey Epstein's aviation company a St. Thomas hangar and whose director and board member both dealt with Epstein.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationApollo Global Management
Private-equity and credit firm founded in 1990 by Drexel Burnham Lambert alumni, whose co-founder Leon Black's payments to Jeffrey Epstein led to a 2021 board review, his departure, and a Senate investigation.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationBoies Schiller Flexner
New York law firm founded by David Boies in 1997 that hired Black Cube for Harvey Weinstein, represented Virginia Giuffre and Epstein victims, and surrendered its Giuffre v. Maxwell discovery to a 2019 grand jury.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationDechert
International law firm that conducted the 2020 to 2021 Apollo board review of Leon Black's 158 million dollars in payments to Jeffrey Epstein, which a Senate committee later said missed 12 million dollars.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationEpstein Victims' Compensation Program
Voluntary claims program funded by Jeffrey Epstein's estate and run by Jordana Feldman, which paid about 121 to 125 million dollars to some 136 to 150 claimants in exchange for releases, its records sealed.
- Sep 26 Organization Private OrganizationFinancial Trust Company
Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas money-management company, incorporated in 1998, which held Virgin Islands tax exemptions from 1999, a large Bear Stearns stake, and was accused of receiving Towers Financial proceeds.
- Sep 26 Person Law Enforcement & LegalMichael Reiter
Michael Reiter was the Palm Beach police chief from 2001 to 2009 who opened the 2005 Epstein investigation, sought the State Attorney's disqualification, and referred the case to the FBI.
- Sep 26 Person Organized CrimeRenato Pena
FDN San Francisco representative and cocaine dealer for Norwin Meneses who was arrested in 1984 and implicated the CIA in Contra drug trafficking during DEA debriefings.
- Sep 26 Person Key FiguresRicky Ross
Freeway Ricky Donnell Ross led South Central Los Angeles's largest crack cocaine distribution network, expanding from local dealing to a coast-to-coast operation that moved over 150 kilos per week at its peak.
- Sep 26 Person Law Enforcement & LegalRobert W. Sweet
Former New York deputy mayor and Carter-appointed Manhattan federal judge who sentenced Towers Financial's Steven Hoffenberg in 1997 and presided over the sealed Giuffre v. Maxwell record until his death in 2019.
- Sep 26 Person Crime & Abuse NetworksScott Rothstein
Disbarred Fort Lauderdale lawyer who ran a 1.2 billion dollar Ponzi scheme through his firm, including sham investments in legal settlements, and whom Jeffrey Epstein sued in 2009 alongside Bradley Edwards.