#JeffreyEpstein
37 entries tagged JeffreyEpstein.
People (24)
- Alexander Acosta Alexander Acosta is the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 non-prosecution agreement, later found by a federal judge to have violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act and by the DOJ to reflect poor judgment, and who resigned as US Secretary of Labor in July 2019.
- Ari Ben-Menashe Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born Israeli-Canadian who describes himself as a former military-intelligence official and became a recurring source for claims about U.S.-Israeli arms dealing, the October Surprise, PROMIS, Robert Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein, claims repeatedly found uncorroborated and, by a congressional task force, not credible.
- Bill Clinton Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States and Governor of Arkansas during the Mena CIA-linked drug-smuggling period, whose administration terminated Project Stargate in 1995, and who took multiple flights on Jeffrey Epstein's aircraft for Clinton Foundation work in 2002-2003 while denying any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
- Cecile de Jongh Cecile de Jongh was the First Lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2015 and the office manager of Jeffrey Epstein's territorial companies, whom court filings later cast as his primary conduit for spreading money and influence through the territory's government.
- Denise George Denise George was the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General who sued Jeffrey Epstein's estate and JPMorgan Chase, and who was fired by the governor days after filing the JPMorgan suit.
- Ehud Barak Ehud Barak is an Israeli former prime minister, defense minister, and military intelligence chief whose documented years-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein included Epstein brokering an introduction to Peter Thiel over Palantir, an April 2014 email proposing a Thiel meeting, and a 2015 arrangement through which Epstein quietly invested approximately one million dollars in the Israeli surveillance-tech startup Carbyne.
- Elon Musk Elon Musk is a South African-born American billionaire who cofounded PayPal, founded SpaceX and Tesla, acquired X (Twitter), is a PayPal Mafia principal and 2026 Dialog retreat registrant, attended the 2015 Epstein dinner, and has been in documented regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022 while running the Starlink satellite network operationally significant to the Russia-Ukraine war.
- Ghislaine Maxwell Ghislaine Maxwell is the British socialite convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor for her role as Jeffrey Epstein's principal accomplice, daughter of the publishing mogul Robert Maxwell who was credibly alleged to have operated as a Mossad-connected intelligence asset, and the youngest of the Maxwell children whose family intelligence legacy has produced sustained reporting on whether the Epstein-Maxwell operation functioned as an intelligence-linked compromise operation.
- Jean-Luc Brunel French modeling agent and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, co-founder of MC2 Model Management with reported Epstein funding, who was arrested in France in 2020 on charges including rape of minors and died in a Paris prison in 2022.
- Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who ran a sex-trafficking operation alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, cultivated a network spanning technology billionaires, heads of state, intelligence officials, and elite scientists, and whose unexplained wealth, intelligence-adjacent contacts, and 2019 jail death produced sustained questions about whether his operation served blackmail or intelligence functions.
- Jes Staley Career JPMorgan banker who managed Jeffrey Epstein's private-banking relationship, later became Barclays chief executive, and was banned from senior UK finance roles in 2023 for misleading the regulator about the nature and timing of his Epstein relationship.
- John Brockman John Brockman is a New York literary agent who founded the Edge Foundation and Edge.org, hosted the annual Billionaires' Dinner, and whose salon was for years substantially funded by Jeffrey Epstein.
- Joi Ito Joi Ito is a Japanese-American venture capitalist and former director of the MIT Media Lab who resigned in September 2019 after Ronan Farrow's New Yorker reporting documented that the Media Lab had a deeper financial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than previously disclosed, and who attended the 2015 Epstein dinner alongside Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Zuckerberg.
- Leon Black Co-founder of Apollo Global Management who paid Jeffrey Epstein about 158 million dollars between 2012 and 2017 for tax and estate-planning structures that a Senate investigation said helped avoid more than a billion dollars in gift and estate taxes, and who resigned from Apollo in 2021 over the relationship.
- Leslie Wexner Founder of The Limited and L Brands who granted Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over his fortune in 1991 and later said Epstein misappropriated vast sums from him.
- Martin Nowak Martin Nowak is a Harvard mathematical biologist who directed the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which Jeffrey Epstein helped establish with a 2003 gift, and whom Harvard sanctioned in 2021 for hosting Epstein on campus after his 2008 conviction.
- Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky was an MIT cognitive scientist who co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, took funding from Jeffrey Epstein, and was named in a 2019 unsealed deposition by Virginia Giuffre, an allegation his widow disputed.
- Prince Andrew Prince Andrew is the second son of Queen Elizabeth II who befriended Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was photographed with Virginia Giuffre in 2001, settled her civil sexual-abuse suit in February 2022 without admitting liability, and was stripped of the Prince title, HRH style, and Duke of York dukedom in late 2025.
- Reid Hoffman Reid Hoffman is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, a PayPal Mafia principal as cofounder and executive vice president of PayPal, the cofounder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a Greylock general partner, a 2026 Dialog retreat registrant, and a 2015 Epstein dinner attendee who publicly apologized in 2019 for helping repair Jeffrey Epstein's post-conviction image.
- Robert Maxwell Robert Maxwell was a British publishing magnate, Labour MP, and alleged simultaneous asset of Mossad, British, and Soviet intelligence whose empire collapsed after he looted the Mirror Group pension funds, who was alleged to be the international distributor of backdoored PROMIS software, and who died at sea off the Canary Islands in 1991 amid contested allegations of foul play.
- Steven Hoffenberg Founder of Towers Financial Corporation who pleaded guilty in 1995 to a roughly 475 million dollar Ponzi scheme and later claimed Jeffrey Epstein helped architect the fraud, a claim for which Epstein was never charged.
- Tom Pritzker Thomas J. Pritzker is the billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and chairman of the Pritzker family's business empire, whose 2011 correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein used the phrase 'secret society' (Epstein Files document EFTA02407727), establishing a parallel 'secret society' channel through Epstein independent of the Peter Thiel correspondence.
- Virginia Giuffre Virginia Giuffre is a sex-trafficking survivor and advocate who said Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her at Mar-a-Lago around 2000 when she was a teenager and that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her to others including Prince Andrew, who litigated against Maxwell and Andrew, and who died by suicide in Western Australia on April 25, 2025.
- William Burns William J. Burns is an American diplomat and intelligence official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, president of the Carnegie Endowment, and Director of Central Intelligence from 2021 to 2025 under Joe Biden, and whose multiple 2014 meetings with Jeffrey Epstein at the Epstein Manhattan townhouse were documented in the Wall Street Journal's 2023 review of the Epstein calendars.
Organizations (7)
- Apollo Global Management Private-equity and credit firm founded in 1990 by Leon Black and other Drexel Burnham Lambert alumni, whose co-founder's roughly 158 million dollars in payments to Jeffrey Epstein triggered an independent review, Black's 2021 resignation, and a Senate investigation.
- Carbyne Carbyne is an Israeli-American emergency-communication and surveillance technology company founded in Tel Aviv as Reporty Homeland Security, into which Jeffrey Epstein quietly invested approximately one million dollars in 2015 through an arrangement brokered by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, and which has also received backing from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and has been deployed by U.S. police departments including Miami-Dade.
- Deutsche Bank German global bank that took Jeffrey Epstein as a client in 2013 after JPMorgan dropped him, processed suspicious payments to women and alleged co-conspirators despite internal warnings, and paid a 150 million dollar New York regulatory penalty and 75 million dollars to his victims.
- Edge Foundation The Edge Foundation is John Brockman's nonprofit that runs Edge.org, hosts the annual Edge Question and Billionaires' Dinner, and drew a majority of its 2001 to 2017 revenue from foundations associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
- JPMorgan Chase Largest U.S. bank, which kept Jeffrey Epstein as a private-banking client from 1998 to 2013 despite internal compliance warnings and later paid 290 million dollars to his victims and 75 million dollars to the U.S. Virgin Islands to settle sex-trafficking-facilitation claims.
- Southern 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.
- Towers Financial Corporation Manhattan debt-collection and securities firm run by Steven Hoffenberg that collapsed in 1993 and was prosecuted as a roughly 475 million dollar Ponzi scheme, with Jeffrey Epstein documented as a consultant.
Places (6)
- 358 El Brillo Way Waterfront Palm Beach mansion owned by Jeffrey Epstein where the 2005 Palm Beach Police Department investigation began after a parent reported that her teenage stepdaughter had been molested there.
- 9 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.
- Avenue Foch Jeffrey Epstein's apartment on the Avenue Foch in Paris, searched by French police in 2019 and central to the French criminal investigation into rape of minors and trafficking opened after his death.
- Great St. James Great St. James is the larger island adjacent to Little St. James that Jeffrey Epstein acquired in 2016 for 22.5 million dollars through a shell company whose listed beneficial owner was a Dubai businessman used without consent, on which Epstein conducted extensive unpermitted construction that drew U.S. Virgin Islands stop-work orders and fines, and which his estate sold with Little St. James to Stephen Deckoff in 2023.
- Little St. James Little St. James is the roughly 70-acre private island off St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands that Jeffrey Epstein bought in 1998 and developed into his main Caribbean compound, where victims alleged repeated abuse occurred, which federal agents searched after his 2019 death and which his estate sold with the adjacent Great St. James in 2023.
- Zorro Ranch Zorro Ranch is the roughly 7,600- to 10,000-acre New Mexico property near Stanley, south of Santa Fe, that Jeffrey Epstein acquired in 1993 from the family of former Governor Bruce King, built into a hilltop mansion compound with a private airstrip, where victims alleged abuse and where the New York Times reported he discussed a plan to seed the human race with his DNA, and which New Mexico reopened a criminal investigation and a legislative inquiry into in 2026.