According to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the department has posted more than three million files—including over two thousand videos and around 180,000 images. He made the statement at a press conference held to mark the release.
Some of the materials have been published in redacted form. Blanche explained that personal data of Epstein’s victims, as well as explicit photos and videos, had been removed from the documents. At the same time, as CNN notes, journalists found unredacted names of victims in files that have already been released.
The deputy attorney general separately stressed that the White House did not influence the Justice Department in preparing the release. “There is a claim that the Department of Justice is supposed to protect Donald Trump. That is not true. It never has been. We always care about the victims,” Blanche said.
The name of U.S. President Donald Trump appears in a number of documents. On social media and in some media outlets, an FBI file listing allegations of sexualized violence linked to Trump circulated widely. The document was compiled in August 2025. As CNN points out, a significant portion of the claims it contains appear to be based on unverified information. After the release, the Justice Department removed two versions of the file, but the document later became available again on the department’s website in .pdf format.
Some of the materials relate to FBI witness interviews. In one transcript from 2021, a victim said she was subjected to sexualized abuse as a minor after speaking with Epstein about harassment she had previously endured. In another interview, dated June 2020, a witness mentioned Epstein’s relationship with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
The released files also contain the names of American politicians and business figures. The Telegraph reports that the materials include letters Epstein allegedly sent to himself in 2013. They claim that Microsoft founder Bill Gates was purportedly diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection after contact with “Russian girls.” These claims are unsubstantiated.
Another document, also published in PDF format, contains a letter sent to Epstein in 2013 by Elon Musk, the head of Tesla and SpaceX. In it, Musk asks, “When are we going to your island?” The entrepreneur has previously said he declined an invitation to visit one of the two islands owned by Epstein.
As the Associated Press reports, some of the released materials relate to Epstein’s arrest and the circumstances of his suicide. Among the files are FBI reports on contacts with informants who recounted stories touching on themes of occultism and human sacrifice.