Jeffrey Epstein Files Part II - news and discussions

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Jeffrey Epstein had two key aides - why do they still control his money and secrets?​

Chi Chi Izundu, Olivia Davie sand Will Dahlgreen,
BBC News Investigations

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Jeffrey Epstein appointed two men to be executors of his estate - his accountant Richard Kahn and lawyer Darren Indyke

When the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion in July 2019, on the day he was arrested for child sex trafficking, agents forced open a large safe to find diamonds, bundles of cash, passports, binders of CDs and hard drives.

But an issue with the warrant meant they could not leave with the items. And when they returned with a new one, the safe had been emptied while they were gone - according to FBI documents.

Richard Kahn, Epstein's accountant and bookkeeper since 2005, had told the mansion's staff to pack two suitcases with the contents of the safe and deliver them to his home, agents wrote.

After the FBI spoke to Kahn's then lawyer, Kahn agreed to hand over the suitcases untouched, but he did not want agents coming to his house and declined to say who had told him to remove the items.

However, a source close to the investigation into Epstein told us that he was not aware of Kahn ever being interviewed or investigated in relation to the paedophile financier's criminal investigation.

Kahn's current lawyer told BBC News that his client had fully co-operated with the FBI's requests.

 

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Kahn, and Epstein's long-serving lawyer Darren Indyke, are the sole executors of Epstein's estate, controlling all his wealth and possessions.

Although hardly household names, the pair now hold control over compensation owed to survivors and the secrets contained in the documents still held by the Epstein estate - which, upon request, have been released to the House Oversight Committee.

As part of its investigation into Epstein's network, the congressional committee has subpoenaed - summoned - the pair to testify. Kahn is appearing on Wednesday 11 March, while Indyke is due to testify on Thursday 19 March.

We have spoken to people associated with investigations linked to Epstein, looked through papers from multiple court cases, and analysed the most recent material released in the Epstein files by the US Department of Justice - to try to uncover more about the role the two men are alleged to have played in Epstein's life and continue to play after his death.

 

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Epstein appointed Indyke and Kahn as co-executors in August 2019, just two days before he died in jail awaiting trial for sex-trafficking minors. He revised his will to transfer all his wealth into a trust named after the year of his birth, which the lawyer and accountant would administer.

In their role as executors, Indyke and Kahn have agreed compensation packages paid to survivors and included conditions that prevented survivors who accepted funds from taking further legal action against them personally. Other claims are still outstanding.

As beneficiaries of the trust, the men could also be paid tens of millions of dollars each from whatever remains when the claims are settled.

The value of Epstein's estate remains unclear. But it was estimated at roughly $635m (£475m) at the time of his death, according to Edwards Henderson, a law firm that represents many of the survivors.

 

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Court filings claim that, either Indyke and Kahn - but often both of them - "had signatory authority over virtually all of the accounts held by Epstein", which meant they were authorised to make transactions.

They also helped to run multiple Epstein corporations - some of which, it is alleged in court filings, existed solely for the purpose of his sex-trafficking operation. Kahn's lawyer told us "there is no basis for such claims" and that Epstein's businesses didn't operate to shield his activities; "virtually all of them were tax-filing entities whose ownership was never hidden".

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Richard Kahn (l) and Darren Indyke (r) have rarely been photographed in public

The pair allegedly received millions in fees and loans from Epstein, paid off survivors and even facilitated coerced marriages for women trafficked from abroad to allow them to stay in the US, according to documents filed in court.

One lawsuit alleges that no-one except Ghislaine Maxwell - a former British socialite and now convicted associate of Epstein - was "as essential and central to Epstein's operation" as Indyke and Khan.

 

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The money men​

Kahn was not just Epstein's accountant. According to company paperwork, he had a surprising sideline as the manager of a New York-based design company during the 2010s.

However, papers filed at court allege the company was part of a web of firms used by Epstein to funnel money to victims and the people who recruited women to be abused.

These details were uncovered in badly redacted documents from one court case brought by the US Virgin Islands (USVI) against Epstein's estate and the executors, Indyke and Kahn, on grounds of "human trafficking and financial fraud".

The case was settled in 2022, with the estate agreeing to pay more than $105m (£78m) in cash and half of the proceeds from the sale of one of Epstein's private islands. Court documents from the case alleged the pair helped Epstein manage 140 bank accounts.

 

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Forced marriages

Epstein encouraged some of the women he trafficked from overseas to find a US citizen to marry, often another woman, to ensure they could remain in the country.

After his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida, he focused on procuring and abusing women from Eastern Europe, who were "more isolated, dependent and vulnerable", the USVI court case alleges.

"I think it's time you found an american girlfriend", Epstein wrote in an email to an unidentified woman in March 2013. "same sex marriage will be the fastest way to green card. by far."

Later that year, another unidentified woman emailed Epstein to say: "We are going now to get marriage license. And she Is asking if it's possible to meet with you? Because she has some questions."

BBC News has seen a marriage certificate between two women, one of whom later came forward to say she had been abused.

 

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Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show​

Reuters
March 12, 2026

A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.

The details of who accessed a server at the FBI’s New York Field Office, ‌including the allegation that a foreign hacker was involved, are being reported here for the first time.

In a statement, the FBI said what it described as a “cyber incident” was “an isolated one”.

“The FBI restricted access to the malicious actor and rectified the network. The investigation remains ongoing, so we do not have further comments to provide at this time.”

Although the source said the intrusion appeared to have been carried out by a cybercriminal rather than a foreign government, the incident underscores the files’ potential intelligence value, one academic said.

The legally mandated publication of US Justice Department documents has exposed the dead financier’s ties to prominent people in politics, finance, academia and business, triggering investigations in numerous countries around the world.

 

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February 2023 break-in​

The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by Special Agent Aaron Spivack, who was trying to navigate the bureau’s complex procedures for handling digital evidence, according to the source and the documents.

A timeline written by Spivack and included in the large cache of Epstein documents released earlier this year said the break-in happened on February 12, 2023.

It was discovered the following day when Spivack turned on his computer and discovered a text file warning him that his network had been compromised, according to that document.

Further investigation turned up traces ‌of unusual activity ⁠on the server, the document said, adding that the activity “included combing through certain files pertaining to the Epstein investigation”.

The timeline does not say which specific files were accessed, whether the hacker downloaded the data, or who the hacker was. Reuters could not establish what, if any, overlap the affected data had with the Epstein documents published earlier this year or the files that remain under wraps.

 

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Epstein used modelling agent to recruit girls, Brazilian women tell BBC​

Luiz Fernando Toledo
BBC News Brasil

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Gláucia Fekete says modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was friends with Epstein, offered to fly her to New York
Warning: This story contains graphic sexual descriptions.

"If I had disobeyed my mother and gone to New York, what might have happened to me?" asks Gláucia Fekete.

In 2004, as a 16-year-old living in the Brazilian countryside, she was taking her first steps in the modelling world.

She says French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel visited her family home, to persuade her mother to let her go to a modelling contest in Ecuador. He later killed himself in prison, accused of rape, sexual assault and recruiting girls for the late US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Back then, they didn't know who Brunel was; they had been introduced by a famous Brazilian scout.

A BBC News Brasil investigation has found evidence that Brunel used modelling agencies linked to him at the time to actively seek out young women and girls from South America for Epstein, and to arrange visas for them to travel to the US.

Another Brazilian woman, who says she had a relationship with Epstein, showed the BBC her US visa. It named one of Brunel's agencies as her sponsor, even though she says she never did any modelling work for him and the travel documents were arranged solely so that she could visit Epstein.

 

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A U.S. congressional committee issued a subpoena to Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify behind closed doors in its probe of the late convicted sex criminal ‌Jeffrey Epstein.

Bondi faces accusations that the Justice Department has concealed the names of powerful associates of Epstein in its release of millions of documents related to the late financier https://reut.rs/4dbY8kb

 

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You can get rich either by putting effort or you can get as rich by stealing other peoples resources, lives. A system that is based on stealing can grow for a while and from outside look as a successful way to grow but it is doomed to devour itself at the end as it needs continious stealing from others whether money, resources or more generally lives of people.

 

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I swear flying saucers can start appearing in mass and many of the people looking up will say this is a distraction from Epstein files.

 

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'Men need to be perp-walked' after Epstein files release, Massie tells BBC​

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US Congressman Thomas Massie tells BBC he is 'not satisfied' with Epstein file release

One of the most outspoken members of the US Republican Party over the Epstein files has told the BBC he is "not satisfied until the survivors are satisfied".

Thomas Massie, a congressman representing Kentucky, told the Newsnight programme: "Men need to be perp-walked in handcuffs to the jail, and until we see that here in this country... we don't have a system of justice that's working."

Massie has criticised the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the number of files that it redacted or withheld after it complied with a law - co-written by Massie - to release all its material.

DOJ officials have said they have released all of their files other than certain items permitted to be exempt.

 

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In contrast with the situation in the US, the UK was "the only place that we're seeing arrests", Massie said. He said it was "ironic that [the US] thought we could have more justice by becoming independent from Britain".

Separately, following the release of the files in the US over a series of document drops, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Peter Mandelson were both arrested in the UK on suspicion of misconduct in public office over their connections to Epstein. Both were subsequently released under investigation.

Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender.

Mandelson, the former UK ambassador to the US, has repeatedly let it be known that he believes he has not acted criminally, did not act for personal gain and is co-operating with the police.