The U.S. Department of Justice released more than three million additional pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, under the Transparency Act passed specifically for this purpose in November. The law had given a one-month deadline for the release of the files, which expired at the end of December 2025.
This package includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, and, combined with previous releases, brings the total number of pages disclosed “in compliance with the law” to nearly 3.5 million. These documents were compiled from investigations into Epstein and his former partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as the investigations into the sex offender’s death.
The Justice Department, which indicated that it had “erred in collecting excessive material,” explained that “any material not released” consists of duplicate documents, documents that “are not relevant to these cases,” or documents protected by “deliberative process and attorney-client privileges.”
During the process, the department gave “clear” instructions to reviewers to limit redactions to the protection of victims and their families. “Some pornographic images, whether commercial or not, have been redacted, as the Department considered all the women appearing in them to be victims. No public figures or politicians have been redacted,” it stated.
Later, in a press conference, Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that no man, including Trump, had been protected during the disclosure of the files: “I can assure you that we have complied with the law. We have not protected Trump, nor have we failed to protect anyone,” he concluded.
“The categories of documents withheld include those that the law permits to be withheld, files containing personal information that personally identifies victims or their personal and medical records, and similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy,” he said. They will also not publish “any document that would jeopardize an active federal investigation,” Blanche stated. “While the law allows for the withholding of information that needs to be kept secret for national security or foreign policy reasons, no files are being withheld or censored for that reason,” she added.
During her remarks, she also dismissed the idea that her office has a secret list of names of men associated with Epstein who abused women and asserted that if they obtain evidence that allows them to prosecute these individuals, they will do so.
