Maxwell appeared to pay a visit to Sir Winston Churchill’s War Rooms with Bill Clinton and the actor Kevin Spacey. They are pictured gathered around a desk in the cabinet room, where Churchill directed Britain’s WW2 operations.
Each of them is wearing the same outfits they were pictured in when they posed on thrones in Buckingham Palace during a 2002 visit to the UK.
Clinton has denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. Spacey’s name first appeared in a release of Epstein files in 2024 but he has not been accused of wrongdoing.
In July, Spacey called for the files to be made public, writing on X: “Release the Epstein files. All of them. For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough. I hate to make this about me — but the media already has.”
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Richard Branson with Epstein
Sir Richard Branson appears in a picture with Epstein in the latest trove of released documents.
Wearing a white T-shirt and swimming shorts, the billionaire Branson, 75, poses in a tropical setting with Epstein.
Two women in the background of the photograph have their faces redacted.
Branson has appeared in pictures with Epstein in earlier releases. He has previously denied any wrongdoing and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing on his behalf.
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Lord Mandelson’s dinner with Epstein
Lord Mandelson, who was sacked from his job as the UK’s ambassador to Washington in September over his ties to Epstein, is pictured at a dinner with the sex offender.
Mandelson, in a jacket and shirt, is seated at a table with Epstein, who is wearing a grey hoodie.
A waiter is serving a sizable cake topped with candles, suggesting a celebration of some sort.
Mandelson was sacked when leaked emails revealed that he told Epstein in 2008 that he should “fight for early release” while he was awaiting sentencing for a child sex offence.
In 2023 it emerged that a JP Morgan report suggested Mandelson had stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan home after he had been convicted of sexual offences against children.
Mandelson has said he never witnessed any wrongdoing by Epstein and that he regrets his relationship with the financier.
‘Clueless little girl’
A birthday book featuring collages of Jeffrey Epstein has been pictured in the release. It includes photographs of women in strapless tops, shorts and vest tops with their faces blacked out.
The book opens with speech bubbles, saying next to the women: “once upon a time … there was a clueless little girl …” and “how do I look?”.
It continues: “What is he doing?! HE WOULDN’T.”
An image that appears to be of Epstein replies: “Mmm … elastic.”
Andrew pictured lying across laps of five women
Images released in the files document how Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor opened up British high society to Epstein and Maxwell, who are seen enjoying hunting trips at Balmoral and on the steps of 10 Downing Street.
Andrew is shown in one photo lying across the laps of five women, their faces redacted with black squares, with Maxwell standing behind them.
He has denied allegations of any wrongdoing.
Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger and Diana Ross seen in photographs
Several celebrities have cropped up in the newly released images. One shows Clinton alongside the singers Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. It is not clear when the image was taken.
Another photo shows Sir Mick Jagger seated next to Clinton at a dinner also attended by Maxwell.
The Rolling Stones singer, 82, posed for a picture with the former US president and a woman whose face is redacted.
Jagger, Jackson and Ross have not been accused of wrongdoing.
Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Mick Jagger and Bill Clinton
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Jagger, Clinton and an unknown woman
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Epstein with Michael Jackson
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Epstein’s townhouse pictured
Hundreds of photographs of Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse are among the releases. The photographs may have been taken when the authorities raided the house following his arrest in July of 2019.
Among them is a picture that appears to show a massage table, before a wall decorated with nude photographs of young women, their faces redacted.
A shot of a hallway shows a large painting of a woman with short dark hair standing naked, her hands behind her back, before traffic cones and a blue tripod stamped “police department”.
More pictures of Clinton in files
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Bill Clinton, right, and Ghislaine Maxwell, centre
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Bill Clinton seen in hot tub with blacked-out figure
Some of the images show the former president Bill Clinton in a hot tub, and separately a swimming pool with a woman that appears to be Ghislaine Maxwell.
Clinton’s office has previously acknowledged his meetings and trips with Epstein but asserted that he “knows nothing about the terrible crimes” Epstein committed and had never visited Epstein’s island or homes in New Mexico and Palm Beach.
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Clinton swimming with a woman that appears to be Maxwell
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Epstein and Maxwell in Queen’s box at Ascot
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell can be seen in the Queen’s box at Royal Ascot and on the steps of 10 Downing Street in photographs released by the Justice Department.
The documents shed light on the connections and high society life the pair enjoyed during visits to Britain, facilitated by their close friend Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Epstein and Maxwell were invited into the Royal Box as personal guests of Andrew on June 22, 2000, during Ladies’ Day. The event was attended by Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother.
Andrew confirmed during a BBC Newsnight interview that Epstein was his guest, not a guest of the Royal Family. Andrew described Epstein as a “plus one” to Maxwell.
In another, undated photograph, Maxwell is seen posing outside No 10.
White House: Trump is doing the most for Epstein’s victims
The White House said on Friday that the release of the Epstein files proved the administration was the “most transparent in history”.
“By releasing thousands of pages of documents, co-operating with the House oversight committee’s subpoena request and President Trump recently calling for further investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, the Trump administration has done more for the victims than Democrats ever have,” said Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman.
DoJ: Trump’s name was not redacted
There has not been an order to redact President Trump’s name from the Epstein files, the deputy attorney-general Todd Blanche has said.
“There’s no effort to hold anything back because there’s the name Donald J Trump, or anybody else’s name — Bill Clinton’s name, Reid Hoffman’s name. There’s no effort to hold back or not hold back because of that,” Blanche told ABC News on Friday.
Blanche also said that he could say for certain no such order was given, as he would have been the person to do so.
“I would give the order,” he said. “President Trump has certainly said from the beginning that he expects all files that can be released to be released and that’s exactly what we’re doing.”
Files are heavily redacted
Reporters, politicians and members of the public trawling through the vast collection of documents are encountering a persistent problem — many are heavily redacted.
Some pages are entirely concealed with black blocks. Social media has been flooded with users sharing screenshots of documents that are unreadable due to the redactions.
The search function also appears to be not working. Searching with “Trump”, for example, brings up no results.
At least some of the redactions are to protect victims of Epstein, officials have said.
‘This is not a full release,’ says top Democrat
Robert Garcia, the California congressman and top Democrat on the House oversight committee, said it is “clear that this is not a full release”.
“Our entire team has begun a major review,” he said. “We will keep the American people updated — but it’s clear that this is not a full release. We will continue to provide updates.”
Files that are yet to be released must still be redacted, the deputy attorney-general Todd Blanche said on Friday.
“I expect that we’re going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks,” he told Fox News. “So today, several hundred thousand, and then, over the next couple of weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more.”
What kind of files did the DoJ release?
The documents just released by the justice department were divided into four categories: court records, DoJ disclosures, House committee disclosures and Freedom of Information Act records.
Each category has its own webpage on the DoJ website and is broken down into subsections with individual documents listed underneath.
Have all the Epstein files been published?
Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney-general in the US Justice Department said earlier on Friday that there would be a delay in releasing many of the documents from the Epstein files.
Failing to release the full files would see the department run afoul of a law which gave the department 30 days to share the files with Congress.
Blanche attributed the delay to the need to redact names or identifying information about witnesses, which he said was proving to be a lengthy undertaking.
Documents span many investigations and more than a decade
The files released today combine a pair of federal investigations into Epstein’s sex-trafficking operations in Florida and New York, spanning more than a decade.
They are expected to include documents on his associates, including high-profile public figures, and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. They may also contain FBI reports, transcripts of witness interviews, photographs, videos and some material that may already be public, such as flight logs from Epstein’s private Boeing 727-100 aircraft, nicknamed the “Lolita Express”.
Police began investigating Epstein in Florida in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex. He pleaded guilty to a lesser prostitution charge. In 2019, police in New York revived the case and charged Epstein with sex trafficking, alleging he sexually abused dozens of girls. He killed himself in jail a month after his arrest.
The US Justice Department has released thousands of files relating to the convicted paedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The Epstein files were expected to be made up of some 300 gigabytes of data, video footage, audio clips, photographs and documents — the equivalent of streaming about 100 high-definition films or hundreds of thousands of pictures.
They have been published “in a searchable and downloadable format”.
Follow for more as our reporters bring you exactly what the files contain.