Charges towards Jeffrey Epstein have been introduced on July 8, 2019 in New York City. Epstein might be charged with one depend of intercourse trafficking of minors and one depend of conspiracy to interact in intercourse trafficking of minors.
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Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon are amongst those that appeared in partially redacted files associated to the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein that have been launched on Friday by Democrats within the House Oversight Committee.
The committee earlier launched into a probe to judge whether or not the federal authorities mishandled its case towards Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence following a 2022 conviction for recruiting teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.
President Donald Trump had promised voters on the marketing campaign path that he would release authorities paperwork associated to Epstein, who was arrested in the summertime of 2019 on intercourse trafficking prices and died in a New York federal jail, reportedly by suicide, earlier than trial.
However, Trump has refused to endorse the release of any Epstein files since returning to the White House in January, and Republicans in Congress have adopted his lead, retaining the paperwork out of the general public’s view.
Democrats within the committee on Friday launched redacted pages from a brand new batch of files they obtained via their probe with out giving their Republican friends superior discover. They have been rebuked for the transfer.
In a press release on Friday, the committee stated that the batch included 8,544 paperwork in response to a subpoena in August, and that, “Further review of the documents, which were redacted to protect the identity of victims, is ongoing.”
The newest batch of paperwork obtained by the committee from the Justice Department contained itineraries and notes by Epstein memorializing invites he’d despatched, journeys he’d deliberate and conferences he’d booked with tech and enterprise leaders.
Demonstrators collect for a press convention calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files outdoors the United States Captiol on Wednesday September 03, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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One of the itineraries indicated that Epstein anticipated Musk to make a visit to his non-public island within the U.S. Virgin Islands on Dec. 6, 2014, however then requested “is this still happening?”
Musk advised Vanity Fair in 2019 that he had visited Epstein’s New York City mansion and that Epstein “tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island,” however the Tesla CEO had declined.
In June, Musk wrote in a put up on X, that he thought Trump and his administration have been withholding Epstein-related files from the general public view with the intention to shield the president’s repute.
“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk, who was within the midst of a public spat with the president, wrote on the time. “That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Trump was talked about in beforehand launched courtroom paperwork from the Epstein case, however has not been formally accused of wrongdoing.
Musk began the 12 months main the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an effort to slash the dimensions of the federal authorities and scale back the ability of assorted regulatory businesses. He left DOGE in May, and he and the president proceeded to hurl insults at one another in public over plenty of disagreements.
However, Trump and Musk stay shut sufficient that they sat together at a memorial service for Charlie Kirk earlier this month after the right-wing activist was assassinated whereas talking at a college in Utah.
The partially redacted files additionally indicated Epstein had breakfast with Bannon on Feb. 16, 2019, and lunch with investor Peter Thiel on Nov. 27, 2017. Bannon is a long-time Trump ally, and Thiel was a significant backer of Trump forward of the 2016 election who spoke on the Republican National Convention.
The files additionally talked about that Epstein booked a “tentative breakfast party” with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, traditionally a supporter of Democrats, in December 2014.
Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Gates weren’t instantly accessible for remark.
