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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says Friday\u2019s release fulfills a requirement established by Congress\u2019s Epstein Files Transparency Act.<\/em>
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The United States Department of Justice has released a massive new tranche of investigative files<\/a> related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
At a news conference on Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department was releasing more than 3 million pages of documents, as well as more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
He said the release means the department has met a legal requirement passed by Congress last year.
\u201cToday\u2019s release marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance with the act,\u201d Blanche said.
But the administration of President Donald Trump has faced scrutiny over the pacing of the files\u2019 release and redactions within the published documents.
Trump himself has been confronted with questions about his past relationship with Epstein, who cultivated a roster of influential contacts.
On Friday, Blanche dismissed rumours that the Justice Department had sought to protect powerful individuals, including Trump.
While Trump has acknowledged a years-long friendship with the financier, he has denied any knowledge of the underage sex-trafficking ring that prosecutors say Epstein led.
\u201cThere\u2019s this built-in assumption that somehow there\u2019s this hidden tranche of information \u200cof men that we know about, that we\u2019re covering up, or that we\u2019re not, we\u2019re choosing not to prosecute,\u201d Blanche said. \u201cThat is not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Justice Department had initially missed a December 19 deadline set by Congress to release all the files.
The publication is the result of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was passed in November with bipartisan support to force the release of all federal documents pertaining to Epstein.
In response to the law, the Justice Department said it had tasked hundreds of lawyers with reviewing the records to determine what needs to be blacked out to protect the identities of sexual abuse victims.
Blanche said the department withheld any materials that could jeopardise ongoing investigations or expose potential victims.
All women in the Epstein files other than Ghislaine Maxwell \u2014 an ex-girlfriend who was also convicted of child sex trafficking \u2014 have been obscured from the videos and images being released on Friday, according to Blanche.
In the past, some of Epstein\u2019s victims have slammed<\/a> the department\u2019s redactions and withholdings as excessive, with critics pointing out that previously published documents were among the files blacked out.
On Friday, several Democrats questioned what the Justice Department chose to withhold.
\u201cThe DOJ said it identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages but is releasing only about 3.5 million after review and redactions. This raises questions as to why the rest are being withheld,\u201d said Ro Khanna, a Democrat who co-sponsored the law requiring the release.
Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in Senate, called on officials to clearly say whether all documents related to Trump had been released.
\u201cYes or no? We need answers,\u201d he said.
In December, the Justice Department released an initial batch of Epstein-related documents, though it fell short of the full publication mandated by November\u2019s law.
That release, however, included previously unreleased flight logs<\/a> showing that Trump flew on Epstein\u2019s private jet in the 1990s. Those trips appeared to happen before Trump has said the pair had a falling out.
Earlier releases also contained images showing prominent individuals like tech billionaire Bill Gates, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, director Woody Allen and former US President Bill Clinton socialising with Epstein, sometimes on his private island.
Details were still emerging from the latest release. Early revelations include email exchanges with billionaire Elon Musk over a possible visit to Epstein\u2019s island; a string of texts between Epstein and Bannon, at times referencing Trump in the lead-up to Epstein\u2019s death; and investigative documents surrounding Epstein\u2019s incarceration and death.
To date, none of the individuals depicted or referenced in the releases have been charged with any crimes, outside of Maxwell.
Following her conviction in 2021, she is serving a 20-year prison sentence, though she has continued to deny any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Epstein died from apparent suicide in a New York jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
He had previously been convicted of state sex-offender charges in Florida in 2008 as part of a plea deal that was widely slammed for its leniency. He spent a total of 13 months in custody.
One of Epstein\u2019s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, also filed lawsuits against him, accusing him of arranging sexual encounters with politicians, business titans, academics and other influential figures while she was underage.
All of the men identified by Giuffre, who died in April 2025 in Australia, have denied the allegations.
Among the people she accused was Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, who denied the claims<\/a> but settled a lawsuit filed by Giuffre for an undisclosed sum.
In October, his brother, King Charles III of the United Kingdom, stripped Mountbatten-Windsor of his royal titles as a result of the controversy.<\/p>\n

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