Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Friday morning that the Department of Justice had released at least three million new Epstein files to the public.
Hundreds of thousands of Epstein-related documents had already been made public by the House Committee on Oversight in late 2025, including sickening images showing Epstein surrounded by young-looking women.
The files, released following Epstein’s death in 2019, contain disturbing photographs of women’s bodies, harrowing notes, and references to famous figures including former President Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson.
Previous document dumps have sparked fierce backlash after large swathes of material were heavily redacted by the Justice Department. Officials said the caveats were necessary to protect victims’ privacy, national security, and other sensitive interests.
Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell has since claimed that 29 of Epstein’s associates were shielded through ‘secret settlements’ with the Justice Department. The allegation was made in a habeas corpus petition she filed on December 17 seeking to overturn her conviction.
Breaking:DOJ releases new trove of Epstein files
The Department of Justice released at least three million pages of documents linked to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein on Friday.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the department published ‘more than three million pages, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images in total.’
‘That means the department produced approximately 3.5 million pages in compliance with the act,’ he said.
He explained that six million pages of the files were collected and were contextually relevant, but three million had been released.
‘Although the act allows for withholding for items necessary to keep secret in the interest of national security or foreign policy, no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis,’ he said.
‘As you all know, under the act, the Department must subsequently submit to the House and Senate committees on Judiciary a report listing all categories of records released and withheld, a summary of redactions made, including legal basis for such redactions, and a list of all government officials and politically exposed persons named or referenced in the act. We will do so in due course as required under the act.’
Hundreds of thousands of documents from the investigation into his sex crimes have already been made public.
Those documents include images of the disgraced financier and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, socializing with high-profile figures, including former president Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson.
What has been omitted from the latest release?
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche explained what material has been redacted from the latest release of the Epstein files.
Here is what has been omitted:
- Identifiable information of victims
- Victims’ personal and medical files
- Child pornography and child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
- Information that could impact an active investigation
- Images of death, physical abuse or injury
- Files covered by various privileges
Bill Gates caught sexually transmitted disease from ‘Russian girls,’ new emails claim
Newly released emails describe Bill Gates having ‘sex with Russian girls’, catching an ‘STD’, then planning to ‘surreptitiously give’ antibiotics to his then-wife Melinda.
The shocking emails, sent from Epstein’s account to himself in July 2013, appear to be drafts of a letter intended to be sent by Gates’ then-top advisor Boris Nikolic, around his resignation from the Microsoft billionaire’s charitable foundation.
Epstein email says Bill Gates got STI, tried to give Melinda treatment
The astonishing new allegations emerged from the latest tranche of Epstein files, which were released by the Department of Justice on Friday.
White House not involved in files review
Todd Blanche insisted that the White House ‘had nothing to do’ with the latest Epstein files release.
‘They had no oversight, and they did not tell this department how to do our review and what to look for and what to redact or not redact,’ he said.
Trump not protected by DOJ, Deputy AG insists
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that the Department of Justice did not protect Donald Trump as they reviewed the Epstein files.
‘No, we did not protect President Trump,’ he said. ‘We didn’t protect or not protect anybody, I think there’s a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.’
Blanche said that Trump has been ‘consistent’ with his stance on Epstein and directed the DOJ to be transparent.
“There’s not been a change,’ he said. ‘[Trump’s] direction to the Department of Justice was to be transparent, release the files, be as transparent as we can, and that’s exactly what we did.’
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Actor Joe Manganiello Leaves Los Angeles: Fiancée Says Crime ‘at an All-Time High,’ ‘The Industry Has Moved’
Actor Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike, True Blood) has left Los Angeles along with his fiancée, Caitlin O’Connor, due to the city’s high crime rate and its fading status as “entertainment capital of the world.”
O’Connor (pictured, right) revealed to Fox News that she and Manganiello left the west coast for a safer environment in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
“The crime in Los Angeles is at an all-time high,” she said. “We were thinking about it for a long time, and the right house happened to come up. We went to look at it in Pittsburgh, and it was perfect for us.”
“Also, L.A. is no longer the entertainment capital of the world,” she added. “Actors do not audition there anymore. Many casting directors don’t have offices there anymore. For the most part, everything is on Zoom. A lot of premieres happen in New York. There are studios being built in New Jersey, and things are moving overseas. Many projects are being filmed overseas, even by professionals who have worked in L.A. on set their whole lives. The industry has moved. It’s no longer there.”
O’Connor believed that the coronavirus pandemic and the WGA/SAG strikes severely changed the industry.
“I think after COVID and the strikes [in Hollywood], things have evolved, things have changed,” she said. “You can really work from anywhere, and you can travel to wherever you’re filming from your home base. That’s why we decided to switch it up and have our home base be in Pittsburgh.”
O’Connor also revealed that she and her husband relocated to keep supporting UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh – a relationship that reportedly dates back to 2011 when he “hosted an event tied to the season finale of HBO’s True Blood, donating 100% of the proceeds and making multiple visits to young patients over the years,” per the New York Post.
“In 2015, he served as the honorary chair of the foundation’s 125th anniversary gala, celebrating its status as one of the nation’s leading pediatric hospitals. He now serves on the hospital’s board of trustees and continues to help raise funds for critical programs,” added the outlet.
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