Days since 19 December 2025, the statutory deadline the regime missed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act to publish its unclassified Epstein holdings. The balance accrues until the account is settled in full.
The Epstein files are not one document but several separate records, and this ledger keeps what the record establishes strictly apart from who merely appears within it.
There was never a December 2019 release deadline. The decisive court unsealing came in January 2024, under an order dated 18 December 2023. We anchor the counter only to the deadline the regime actually missed.
Section 01b / Coverage
Coverage
The living, updated arm of this briefing. The sections below hold the evidentiary record; Coverage tracks the disclosure fight day by day, dated and sourced to the same standard. The Coverage page is an expansion of this section, not a separate destination.
- 30 Jan 2026 The regime released half the file and called it transparencySource: DOJ press release, 30 January 2026 Disclosure
- Feb 2026 Maxwell perjury matter advances over disputed flight-log testimonySource: S.D.N.Y. docket; pilot David Rodgers testimony Courts
- 2026 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stripped of his remaining titlesSource: Palace statement; Giuffre v. Prince Andrew Named
What the files are.
There is no single archive. The term covers at least four separate bodies of material, each with its own provenance. Every line carries its source, and every card opens.
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Court records
Thousands of pages filed under seal in Virginia Giuffre's defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell, unsealed in stages from 2019 to 2024 after the Miami Herald intervened.
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Giuffre v. Maxwell, S.D.N.Y. No. 1:15-cv-07433. Unsealing under Brown v. Maxwell, 929 F.3d 41 (2d Cir. 2019).
The docket behind most of what the public knows: Virginia Giuffre's 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell, settled in 2017 with its record sealed. The Miami Herald fought for it, and the Second Circuit ordered unsealing in 2019; the largest tranche landed in January 2024, naming more than 150 people.
Inside it: the depositions this ledger leans on, including Giuffre's of 3 May 2016 and Johanna Sjoberg's of 18 May 2016, along with exhibits, message logs and motions. It is sworn civil testimony: given under penalty of perjury, contested by opposing counsel, never ruled on by a jury. People appear in it as accused, as witnesses, and as passing mentions, and the difference is everything.
Read it for: the sworn allegations that anchor the named ledger below.
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DOJ and FBI files
Investigative holdings built from the 2006 FBI inquiry onward. As of late 2025, reported at nearly 100,000 unreleased pages plus devices holding more than 300 gigabytes of data.
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FBI and DOJ investigative holdings. FBI court filing, 2025.
The state's own file, running from the 2006 Palm Beach inquiry through the 2008 non-prosecution agreement, the 2019 S.D.N.Y. case, and the evidence seized on arrest: the home safes, the drives, the devices. An FBI court filing in late 2025 put the unreleased holdings at nearly 100,000 pages plus more than 300 gigabytes of device data.
This is the body of material the disclosure fight is actually about. It holds what the government knew and when it knew it: the 1996 Maria Farmer complaint, the 2008 deal that shut the first case down, and the interview records that keep surfacing in fragments through the releases.
Read it for: what the state knew, and how long it sat on it.
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The 2025 Transparency Act release
Material the regime was required to publish after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. DOJ reported releasing roughly 3.5 million pages in total, about half of what it had collected.
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DOJ press release, 30 January 2026. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025, setting a statutory deadline of 19 December 2025 for the unclassified holdings. The regime missed it; the counter at the top of this page has run since. A heavily redacted batch arrived on the deadline, and on 30 January 2026 the DOJ released roughly 3.5 million pages, about half of what it says it collected.
Two cautions travel with this trove. The DOJ itself warns it includes unverified public tips, some possibly fabricated, because everything sent to the FBI went in. And the release has been shown to be incomplete in specific ways: comparing it against the set produced to Maxwell's lawyers revealed withheld pages, including material mentioning Trump, which is now the subject of court orders to unredact or justify.
Read it for: the scale of what was released, and the shape of what was not.
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Flight logs and the contact book
Pilots' flight logs and Epstein's 97-page contact book, which lists roughly 1,571 names. Both have sat in court records for years, and both are best read with their cards open.
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Court records. 2009 FBI affidavit, reported by Mother Jones.
The pilots' logbooks entered court records through the Florida litigation and the 2009 FBI affidavit; the 97-page contact book, roughly 1,571 names, was published by Nick Bryant in 2015. They are the files people usually mean when they say "the list", and they are the most misread documents in the record.
What they establish is movement and network: who flew on which leg, on which date, and who Epstein's operation kept numbers for. A log line places a person on a plane with a date attached; the book records a contact. What each person did sits elsewhere in the record, in the sworn testimony and the investigative files, and this ledger keeps those layers separate so each can carry its own weight.
Read it for: dates, movement, and the reach of the network.
What the record establishes.
The strongest material rests on a verdict, sworn testimony, and contemporaneous complaints. This is what can be stated as established, with its form and source on every line.
People in power, named.
The most powerful names come first. After them, entries run by legal status, and the status column is the spine of this page. Named is not the same as guilty. Read the status before the name.
Specific allegation in sworn testimony. Never tested at trial. No finding of guilt.
Civil suit settled with no admission of liability. No criminal charge.
Named in a deposition. Denied the claim. No charge, never tested.
The accuser withdrew or disavowed the claim. The withdrawal is part of the record; the underlying claim was never adjudicated.
Filed and withdrawn without adjudication. Neither proven nor disproven in any court.
Appears in a flight log or contact book. This is not an accusation.
Listed as a potential co-conspirator in the 2008 non-prosecution agreement. Never charged.
Most conduct allegations against powerful men trace to one sworn source: Virginia Giuffre's deposition of 3 May 2016 in Giuffre v. Maxwell, with her 2015 filings and posthumous memoir. She was widely regarded as credible and corroborated on much of her account, she was never cross-examined at a criminal trial on these names, and in one case, Dershowitz, she later allowed she may have been mistaken. She died in April 2025. Both halves of that record belong in view at once.
Association, on the record
The people below appear in flight logs, the contact book, or released correspondence. No sworn allegation of sexual conduct against them sits in the court record. Their entries are kept, dated, and move up this ledger the moment the record changes.
What would move these entries
No allegation above upgrades from alleged to established without a conviction or a civil finding of liability. None exists. These are the open proceedings that could change a status, and this section changes the day one of them does.
Trump and Epstein.
A documented social friendship is not an allegation of a crime. This timeline keeps the two on separate tracks. Trump has not been credibly accused of involvement in Epstein's crimes. The live story is the regime's reversal on transparency.
The press, credibility ranked.
A ranked roster of the reporters who built this record, ordered by the rigor and reach of their work. It doubles as our shortlist of potential collaborators. The 2026 releases moved the center of gravity to the independents, who out-read the wires on the documents themselves.
Use with care. Whitney Webb has widely cited work on Epstein's financial and intelligence ties but ventures into contested, harder-to-verify territory. Cite her document work cautiously and corroborate independently.
Where the files reach.
The files are a US archive with an international cast. Three countries have opened criminal investigations; the United States, which holds the files, has opened none. Others have citizens in the record and, so far, no known public inquiry.
Sources: NBC News; NPR; PBS; Al Jazeera, February 2026. Map: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. "No known public investigation" states the public record as of the last update, nothing more.