Three million pages from the Justice Department’s files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> are being released to the public today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a press briefing Friday.<\/p>\n Blanche said the release will include 2,000 videos and 180,00 images related to the Epstein case.<\/p>\n Blanche said in total there were 6 million documents, but due to the presence of child sexual abuse material and victim rights obligations, not all documents are being made public in the current release.<\/p>\n A team of 500 attorneys from the Justice Department worked around the clock to redact and review material, said Blanche.\u00a0<\/p>\n “If any member of Congress wishes to review any portions of the response of production in any unredacted form, they’re welcome to make arrangements with the department to do so, and we’re happy to do that,” Blanche said.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s the latest in a series of releases that began last month in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act<\/a>, which passed Congress overwhelmingly and was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Nov. 19.\u00a0The act gave the Justice Department 30 days to make publicly available all unclassified records pertaining to investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.\u00a0<\/p>\n The bill contains several exceptions that allow for withholding or redacting records, notably to protect the privacy of Epstein’s victims.<\/p>\n Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference at the US Department of justice, January 30, 2026 in Washington.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Alex Wroblewski\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The DOJ to date had posted to its online Epstein library roughly 12,000 documents totaling about 125,000 pages — just a small fraction of the millions of records the department has been reviewing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Those materials included a record of a complaint to the FBI filed in 1996, years before the disgraced financier was first investigated for child sex abuse. The documents also included new details about\u00a0the government’s investigation into potential accomplices<\/a> as well as thousands of photographs of Epstein’s New York and U.S. Virgin Islands properties that were searched by the FBI after Epstein’s arrest in 2019.<\/p>\n The\u00a0initial release of the files<\/a>\u00a0also contained numerous old photos of Epstein traveling with former President Bill Clinton, including pictures of Clinton lounging in a jacuzzi and one of him swimming with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after her\u00a02021 conviction<\/a>\u00a0for sex trafficking of minors and other offenses.<\/p>\n The images, which were released without any context or background information, contained little information related to Trump, leading a spokesperson for Clinton to accuse the DOJ of selectively disclosing the pictures to imply wrongdoing on the part of Clinton where he said there is none.<\/p>\n “The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” Angel Urena said. “This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.”<\/p>\n An undated photo from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein is part of a collection of images released Dec. 18, 2025, by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n House Oversight Committee Democrats<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In an interview with ABC News on the day of the initial release, Blanche said that every document that mentions Trump will eventually be released<\/a>, “assuming it’s consistent with the law.”<\/p>\n “There’s no effort to hold anything back because there’s the name Donald J. Trump or anybody else’s name,” Blanche said.<\/p>\n Both Trump and Clinton have denied all wrongdoing and have denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.<\/p>\n Federal prosecutors have indicated in recent court filings that hundreds of government lawyers have spent weeks reviewing “several millions of pages<\/a>” of materials — including documents, audio and video files — in preparation for disclosure to the public.<\/p>\n The Epstein Files Transparency Act came after the Trump administration faced months of blowback<\/a> from its announcement last July that they would be releasing no additional Epstein files, after several top officials — including FBI Director Kash Patel and former Deputy Director Dan Bongino — had, prior to joining the administration, accused the government of shielding information regarding the Epstein case.<\/p>\n The files released thus far\u00a0have yet to\u00a0show evidence of\u00a0wrongdoing on the part of famous, powerful men, against the expectations of many of those who pushed for the files’ release.<\/p>\n Epstein owned two private islands in the Virgin Islands and large properties in New York City, New Mexico and Palm Beach, Florida, where he came under investigation for allegedly luring minor girls to his seaside home for massages that turned sexual. He served 13 months<\/a> of an 18-month sentence for sex crimes charges after reaching a controversial non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami.<\/p>\n In 2019, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York indicted Epstein<\/a> on charges that he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations,” using cash payments to recruit a “vast network of underage victims,” some of whom were as young as 14 years old.<\/p>\n Epstein died by suicide<\/a>\u00a0in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Alex\"](\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/1465e970-273d-451c-8227-fa4b054617a4\/todd-blanche-1-gty-gmh-260130_1769790478578_hpMain.jpg?w=375 "\\"Alex\\"")
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