The US Department of Justice has released three million files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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More details are emerging daily from theJanuary 30release of more than three million pages of documents by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), exposing the extraordinary breadth of Jeffrey Epstein’s social and financial circle, which included some of the world’s most powerful people.
Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who used his vast wealth and high-profile social connections to orchestrate a decade-long sex trafficking ring involving dozens of underage girls.
As news organisations and citizen journalistsworktheir way through the vast amount of material, Al Jazeera gives you the background you need to know about Epstein, his criminal cases, infamous island, inner circle, and the latest DOJ release to help you better understand the story.
Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law in the United States on November 19, 2025, the DOJ was meant to release all unclassified records related to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days.
In total, theDOJidentified six million pages of evidence. But so far, it has only released 3.5 million pages, including some 180,000 images and 2,000 videos.
The pages consist of email chains, text messages, internal investigative reports, news articles and other material tied to Epstein, including bank statements, wire transfer records, flight logs, and FBI interview summaries.
The files are organised into 12 separate data sets, each containing different categories of evidence as follows:
Compared to large data leaks and investigations, the Epstein files rank among some of the largest in terms of the number of documents.
