From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who’s who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released late last week by the U.S. Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein.
All have denied having anything to do with his alleged sexual abuse of girls and young women, and none have been charged with a crime connected to the investigation.
Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in a 2008 Florida plea deal that did not receive national media attention at the time but came to be viewed as a lenient sentence with opaque circumstances.
Reporting on his relationship with former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor began to pick up nearly three years later, while an explosive Miami Herald series detailing allegations of sexual abuse of a number of women and girls was published in late 2018.
Epstein, then 66, was indicted in New York in July 2019 on federal charges, but his death the following month in a Manhattan jail cell was ruled a suicide.
Here is a look at some of the notable names in the Epstein files, which also includes politicians, entertainment figures and royal family members.
Donald Trump
The new trove of documents contains thousands of references to the current U.S. president, much of which sheds little additional light on the men’s relationship. The documents include emails in which Epstein and others shared news articles about Trump, commented on his policies or his politics or gossiped about him and his family.
The Justice Department also disclosed a spreadsheet created last August that summarized calls made to law enforcement tip lines from people claiming to have some knowledge of wrongdoing by Trump, amid a range of uncorroborated stories involving many celebrities and somewhat fantastical scenarios.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the FBI fielded “hundreds of calls” about prominent individuals that were “quickly determined to not be credible.”
Millions of pages of documents — including 2,000 videos and 180,000 images — related to Jeffrey Epstein were released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche signalled that this drop represents the full release of Epstein files as required by law.
It’s long been known that Epstein was friends with Trump before the two had a falling out, although the circumstances concerning the end of their relationship are unclear.
A Washington Post report traces the origins of the split to 2004 and a Florida real estate transaction, while a 2020 book alleges that Epstein was banned from visiting Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2007 over allegations of an improper exchange with a teenage girl.
Trump last year said “in one of my very good moments” he turned down an invitation to visit Epstein’s private island of Little St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson, until last year Britain’s ambassador to Washington, resigned from the governing Labour Party on Sunday following new claims he received payments from Epstein two decades ago.
Mandelson said he was stepping aside to avoid causing “further embarrassment.” The latest release of Epstein files includes hundreds of text and email messages exchanged between Mandelson and the financier, revealing the British politician’s warm relationship with the man he called “my best pal” in 2003.
Several documents appear to refer to payments from Epstein to Mandelson or his partner, Reinaldo Avila da Silva. Mandelson has questioned the authenticity of the bank statements, saying in his party resignation letter that he had no recollection of receiving that money and would investigate.
He has denied knowledge of any Epstein crimes.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who appointed and months later fired Mandelson from his ambassadorial job, urged Mandelson to resign from the House of Lords on Monday.
Starmer does not have the power to remove him from that lifetime peerage, a government spokesperson said. If Mandelson refuses Starmer’s plea, ejecting him would be a lengthy process requiring Parliament to pass legislation.
Mandelson, like Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, is also facing calls to testify about Epstein in U.S. Congress.
Howard Lutnick
Trump’s commerce secretary visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island with his family on at least one occasion, records released Friday show.
That appears to contradict prior statements Lutnick has made claiming he cut ties with the disgraced financier, whom he’s called “gross,” decades ago.
But emails show Lutnick and his wife accepted an invitation to Little St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands in December 2012 and planned to arrive by yacht with their children.
The former chairman of Newmark, a major commercial real estate firm, also had drinks on another occasion in 2011 with Epstein and corresponded with him about the construction of a building across the street from both of their homes.
The U.S. Commerce Department, in a statement, said Lutnick had “limited interactions with Mr. Epstein in the presence of his wife and has never been accused of wrongdoing.”
Miroslav Lajcak
A national security adviser to the Slovakian prime minister, Lajcak resigned Saturday after his past communications with Epstein appeared in Friday’s document release. Opposition parties and a nationalist partner in Prime Minister Robert Fico’s governing coalition had called for him to step down.
Lajcak, a former Slovak foreign minister and a onetime president of the UN General Assembly, has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but was photographed meeting with Epstein in the years between his initial release from jail and his subsequent indictment in 2019 on sex trafficking charges.
He said his correspondence with Epstein was part of his diplomatic duties.
Bill Clinton
The investigative file includes snapshots that Epstein kept in his home in New York of the 42nd president of the United States and other famous people. It also contains messages investigators received from members of the general public demanding to know why Clinton wasn’t being investigated.
Clinton’s representatives say the former president broke off relations with Epstein after the first round of criminal charges in 2006, although Epstein’s confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell, attended the wedding of Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, in 2010.
The U.S. Department of Justice released thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein with many redactions. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton is among the most prominent people in this set of materials and there are few mentions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
As with Trump, it has been previously reported that Clinton flew several times on Epstein’s plane, often accompanied by others.
Clinton has denied any knowledge of wrongdoing by Epstein, and none of Epstein’s victims have publicly accused Clinton of being involved in Epstein’s alleged crimes.
A committee led by U.S. House Republicans has sought testimony from Clinton and his wife, although Hillary Clinton through a spokesperson has said she “cannot recall ever speaking to Epstein.”
The former president reportedly offered the panel the chance to interview him privately, which was rejected. The panel is recommending contempt charges for the Clintons, who have shown no inclination to testify, with the full House yet to consider the matter.
Ehud Barak
The former Israeli prime minister and his wife turn up frequently in the release Friday, with documents showing they stayed in regular contact with Epstein for years, including well after his 2008 guilty plea for sex crimes in Florida.
Among the correspondence are plans for a 2017 stay at Epstein’s New York residence. Other missives discuss mundane logistics for other visits, meetings and phone calls with Epstein.
Barak has acknowledged regularly visiting Epstein on his trips to New York and flying on his private plane, but maintains he never observed any inappropriate behaviour or parties.
Barak served as Israel’s prime minister from 1999 to 2001 and later served as its defence minister.
Elon Musk
The billionaire Tesla founder turns up at least a few times in Friday’s document release, notably in email exchanges in 2012 and 2013 in which he discussed visiting Epstein’s Caribbean island compound.
But it’s not immediately clear if the island visits took place. Spokespersons for Musk’s companies, Tesla and X, didn’t respond to emails seeking comment Friday or Saturday.
Musk has maintained that he repeatedly turned down the disgraced financier’s overtures. “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED,” he posted on X in 2025.
Casey Wasserman
The president of the committee for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles exchanged flirty emails with Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, Friday’s document release shows.
In a 2003 exchange, Wasserman wrote to Maxwell: “I think of you all the time. So, what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?”
In another, Maxwell asks whether it will be foggy enough during an upcoming visit “so that you can float naked down the beach and no one can see you unless they are close up?”
Wasserman released a statement Saturday saying he never had a personal or business relationship with Epstein and that he regretted the correspondence with Maxwell, which he said came “long before her horrific crimes came to light.”
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, after being indicted in 2020.
Richard Branson
The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group, a global conglomerate, exchanged numerous emails with Epstein.
In a 2013 exchange, Branson invited Epstein to his own private Caribbean island, which regularly hosts large conferences, charity events and business meetings.
“Any time you’re in the area would love to see you,” he wrote. “As long as you bring your harem!”
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The company stressed in a statement Saturday that there was no wrongdoing on Branson’s part and that any dealings with Epstein were “limited to group or business settings” more than a decade ago.
Branson also declined a charitable donation and decided not to meet or speak with him again after his team “uncovered serious allegations,” the company said.
“Had they had the full picture and information, there would have been no contact whatsoever,” the statement reads. “Richard believes that Epstein’s actions were abhorrent and supports the right to justice for his many victims.”
Steve Tisch
The New York Giants co-owner and producer of dozens of Hollywood films is mentioned more than 400 times in the files released Friday. Correspondence between the two shows Epstein offered to connect Tisch to numerous women over the years.
In one 2013 email exchange with the subject line “Ukrainian girl,” Epstein encouraged Tisch to contact a particular woman, whose physical beauty he praised in crude terms.
“Pro or civilian?” Tisch asked in reply.
Tisch, a scion of a powerful New York family that founded the Loews Corporation, has acknowledged knowing Epstein but denied ever going to his Caribbean island.
“We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy and investments,” said Tisch, who won an Academy Award in 1994 for producing Forrest Gump. “As we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with.”
Sergey Brin
The billionaire Google co-founder made plans to meet with Epstein and Maxwell at his townhouse in New York years before he was publicly accused of sexually abusing underage girls, emails show.
In one exchange in 2003, she invited him to a “happily casual and relaxed” dinner at Epstein’s house. Brin offered to bring along Google’s then-CEO Eric Schmidt.
Spokespersons for Google didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment Saturday.
Brett Ratner
The film director who made the recently released Melania Trump documentary Melania appears in several photographs included in the government’s files.
One, first released in December, shows him with his arms wrapped around the shirtless torso of Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modelling agent and Epstein acquaintance who killed himself in jail in 2022 while awaiting trial on rape charges.
Ratner and a spokesperson for his film company didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
The man formerly known as Britain’s Prince Andrew has long been dogged by questions about his relationship with Epstein, including allegations from the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre that she was trafficked by Epstein and instructed to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor when she was 17.
The former prince has repeatedly denied that it happened, but he settled a civil lawsuit with Giuffre in 2022. His brother, King Charles, stripped him of his royal titles late last year, including the right to be called a prince and the Duke of York.
Former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is facing more scrutiny after a new tranche of Epstein files uncovered questionable photos and the BBC aired new allegations from a woman linking the two men.
Mountbatten-Windsor’s name appears at least several hundred times in Friday’s document release, including in Epstein’s private emails.
Among the correspondence is an invitation for Epstein to dine at Buckingham Palace, Epstein’s offer to introduce Mountbatten-Windsor to a 26-year-old Russian woman and photos that appear to show Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling over an unidentified woman lying on the floor.
Sarah Ferguson
In March of 2011, Sarah Ferguson, then the Duchess of York, made a public apology for letting Epstein pay off some of her debts. Both she and her ex-husband, the former Prince Andrew, had come under tremendous public scrutiny for continuing a friendly relationship with Epstein after he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
She told London’s Evening Standard newspaper she would have “nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again.” But just two months later, she emailed Epstein to say she was going on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show and wanted his advice on how she should answer questions about their relationship.
“I just want to make sure you are aware of this and seek your advice on how you would like me to answer,” Ferguson wrote.
Epstein replied, “Jeffrey was unfairly characterized as a pedophile by the tabloid press. Many years ago Jeffrey pleaded guilty to soliciting underage prostitutes. He paid his debt to society and has sought forgiveness. I have nothing more to say.”
