Let’s Take Another Look at the Latest Epstein Files Dump 

On Friday, the Justice Department released more than three million pages of the Epstein files—and newsrooms everywhere were forced to cancel their weekend plans to comb through the tranche of emails, court records, and 180,000 images that arrived more than a month after the DOJ’s required deadline. In addition to the more than 5,300 documents that mention Trump, the files mention pretty much every other man with any type of power in the U.S.

To start off, despite declaring in 2025 that he never wanted to go to Epstein’s island, Elon Musk exchanged several emails with Epstein from 2012 to 2013, asking to visit around New Year’s in 2013. While it’s unclear if the visit happened, Musk’s estranged 21-year-old daughter Vivian Wilson posted to Threads on Saturday that she remembers going from St. Vincent to St. Barth’s as a child during that time.

It’s important to note that the majority of claims and documents are uninvestigated and unverified, and many of the more shocking abuse allegations—like the one accusing Trump of raping a 13-year-old—were compiled from an FBI tip line. But let’s continue.

Also named was former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who exchanged chummy emails with Epstein leading up to his death in 2019 and floated creating a documentary to redeem the pedophile’s reputation; Brett Ratner, the accused sex pest and director of Melania’s documentary, appeared in multiple images with Epstein, where they’re both embracing unidentified women; and Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who very recently claimed that he cut ties with Epstein in 1998, seemingly emailed about plans to have lunch on Epstein island in 2012.

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Bill Gates and Bill Clinton were also referenced plenty, along with vomit-inducing mentions of both Bills’ willies. In one email exchange, Epstein alleged the Microsoft co-founder tried to hide a STI that he caught from “Russian girls” from his then-wife, Miranda Gates. After claiming Gates was able to treat it with antibiotics, Epstein writes, “Implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis.” A Gates spokesperson called the accusation “absolutely absurd and completely false.”

Clinton also seemingly flew on Epstein’s jet more than 15 times in the early 2000s, and around the same time, there were regular communications between his staffers and Ghislaine Maxwell. In one email exchange, Maxwell appears to have told Clinton that she told a tabloid what a “supper stud you are and how I have a crush on you and how you are hung like a horse.” (Typo—and type—is hers, not ours.) A spokesperson for the former president claimed he never wrote any of the emails.

One of the more surprising appearances was Nellie Bowles, who co-founded the Free Press with now-wife Bari Weiss in 2021. In one email exchange dated August 2018—about a decade after Epstein was briefly jailed for soliciting prostitution and around the time she met Weiss—Bowles, then an editor at the New York Times, was connected with Epstein by his PR person, Masha Drokova. Bowles and Epstein seem to have met in New York in September 2018, after which they became more-than-cordial.

“how did it go introducing your partner to mom? even better than the good career move? :)” Epstein wrote to Bowles. “Ahahahaha I missed this and just figured out who you are. It actually went great!” she replied. “When ste you and your babe back in nyc,” he wrote back. Bowles has rejected that any of this is new, tweeting that the correspondence was for a pair of articles she was writing at the time.

The former Prince Andrew and Epstein buddy, who was stripped of his title in October, also makes several hundred new appearances. In one new photo, he’s seen kneeling over an unidentified woman lying on the floor. Since the files were released, a woman alleged Epstein sent her the U.K. for a “sexual encounter” with the ex-prince. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated to reporters over the weekend that he’s pressuring the disgraced royal to testify before a congressional committee, a request he’s been ignoring since November.

And, along with the above incendiary allegations on the president, one declassified memo from 2020 claims Trump—who was finishing his first term—had been “compromised by Israel.” “CHS [a confidential human source] advised Chabad [a global Hasidic movement with ties to hardline colonial politics] is doing everything they can to co-opt the Trump presidency,” it reads. “Trump has been compromised by Israel. And Kushner is the real brains behind his organization and his Presidency.” It also details Epstein’s close relations to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, adding that he “trained as a spy under him.” (Barak and his wife also appear multiple times in the newest files.)

🇺🇸 New Epstein File Alleges Israel Controlled Trump During his First Term, Kushner Ran Everything

An unclassified FBI report based on information from a Confidential Human Source (CHS) alleges that during Donald Trump’s first term, Israel exerted significant influence over his… pic.twitter.com/QZ3FcjfR6P

— Ryan Rozbiani (@RyanRozbiani) January 30, 2026

On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi and DOJ Number 2 Todd Blanche said via email that Data Set 12 “marks the end” of the Epstein files. Though Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) accused Bondi of only partially uploading the files. “We are demanding the names of Epstein’s co-conspirators and the men and pedophiles who abused women and girls,” he said in a statement. “We will begin a thorough review of this latest limited production, but let’s be clear: our work and investigation are just getting started.”

Also, in a letter on Sunday, 20 of Epstein’s victims condemned the DOJ for failing to properly redact information, exposing their details and nude images. There were “literally 1000s of mistakes,” one of the attorneys told ABC News. “We are getting constant calls for victims because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public, have all just been released for public consumption.”