• Justice Department released 3 million pages Friday but withheld another 3 million from 6 million total
• Todd Blanche says DOJ has no information about other men who abused Epstein’s 1,200+ identified victims
• Ghislaine Maxwell claims 25 men reached secret settlements, 4 co-conspirators never charged

WASHINGTON, D.C. (TDR) — The Justice Department released more than 3 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein investigative files Friday, but Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche acknowledged a troubling gap in the massive document dump: the absence of information about men who abused victims alongside the convicted sex offender.

During a press conference, Blanche stated the public should not expect to “uncover men within the Epstein files that abused women,” despite the DOJ having identified more than 1,200 Epstein survivors over the course of the 20-year investigation.

“I don’t know whether there are men out there that abused these women,” Blanche said when pressed by reporters. “If we learn about information and evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will. But I don’t think that the public or you all are going to uncover men within the Epstein files that abused women, unfortunately.”

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The admission raises questions about whether the investigation fully pursued all perpetrators, given that 1,200 victims could not have been abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell alone.

Half Of Total Documents Withheld From Public

Blanche revealed that the Justice Department possessed approximately 6 million pages of documents related to Epstein and Maxwell investigations but is releasing only between 3 million and 3.5 million—roughly half the total.

“We complied with the statute, we complied with the act, and there is no… that we did not protect President Trump, we didn’t protect or not protect anybody,” Blanche stated. “I think that there’s a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents, and there’s nothing I can do about that.”

The withheld documents include materials containing child sexual abuse imagery, victims’ personally identifying information, medical files, information related to ongoing cases, and images depicting death or abuse, according to the Justice Department.

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However, attorneys for Epstein survivors told ABC News that names and identifying information of numerous victims appear unredacted in the latest disclosure, including several women whose names have never been publicly associated with the case.

“We are getting constant calls for victims because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public, have all just been released for public consumption,” attorney Brad Edwards, who has represented Epstein victims for more than 20 years, said.

Maxwell Claims 25 Men Got Secret Settlements

The document release comes amid explosive allegations from Ghislaine Maxwell in a December habeas corpus petition seeking to overturn her 20-year sex trafficking conviction.

Maxwell claimed that 29 Epstein associates avoided prosecution through “secret settlements”—including 25 men who reached undisclosed agreements with plaintiff lawyers and four co-conspirators who were identified but never charged.

“New evidence reveals that there were 25 men with which the plaintiff lawyers reached secret settlements – that could equally be considered as co-conspirators,” Maxwell wrote in court filings. “None of these men have been prosecuted and none has been revealed to Petitioner; she would have called them as witnesses had she known.”

When asked about Maxwell’s allegations Friday, Blanche said he had no knowledge of such arrangements.

“I don’t have a reaction to her filing,” Blanche stated. “I can tell you that we reviewed every single piece of paper that we have associated with these investigations, Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell, and to the extent that such arrangements exist, I’m not aware of them.”

Maxwell’s credibility is questionable given her conviction and attempts to escape accountability. However, her sworn court filing directly contradicts Blanche’s assertion that the DOJ has no information about other perpetrators.

Key Documents Missing From Friday’s Release

Several critical documents that are known to exist do not appear in Friday’s massive file dump, raising questions about the completeness of the disclosure.

The most significant absence is a 60-count federal indictment complete with witness accounts that an assistant U.S. attorney in Florida was prepared to file against Epstein in 2007. That indictment was shelved when U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta intervened and gave Epstein a controversial plea deal instead.

The sweetheart deal allowed Epstein to plead guilty to lesser state charges and serve just 13 months in a county jail with work-release privileges, despite evidence he had sexually abused dozens of underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion.

Acosta’s non-prosecution agreement also reportedly granted immunity to potential co-conspirators, though the full extent of those protections remains unclear.

FBI Tip Sheet Shows Unverified Allegations

Among the released documents is a compilation of “salacious” tips the FBI received from people claiming they or someone they knew were victims of Epstein. The tips include allegations about then-citizen Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, and television personality Robin Leach.

The document, which appears to have been compiled in August 2025, shows that someone at the FBI requested a list from the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force. The tip sheet does not explain why this compilation was requested.

According to the document, some tips include notes indicating the FBI followed up with tipsters and either couldn’t make contact, found them not credible, or in one case sent someone to interview a tipster reporting on behalf of an unidentified female friend.

None of the tips resulted in robust investigations, at least according to the documentation released. The tips remain unverified allegations, and no one was charged based on these reports.

Broken Links Prevent Access To Image Files

The released documents include references to numerous JPEG images, but every single link is broken, preventing the public from viewing what these images contain. Additionally, entire pages appear completely blacked out with no indication of what information was redacted or why.

The Justice Department website hosting the files now includes an age verification tool requiring users to confirm they are 18 years or older due to potential depictions of nudity.

Congressional Sponsors Demand Access To Unredacted Files

The co-sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act are now demanding access to unredacted versions of key documents.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna of California sent a letter to Blanche requesting a meeting to view unredacted emails from Epstein’s accounts, victim interview statements, and the draft indictment and prosecution memorandum prepared by federal prosecutors in Florida.

“We have seen a blanket approach to redactions in some areas, while in other cases, victim names were not redacted at all,” the lawmakers wrote. “Congress cannot properly assess the Department’s handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases without access to the complete record.”

The Epstein Files Transparency Act allows the Justice Department to redact files to protect victims’ personal information, but the inconsistent application of redactions has raised concerns about whether the DOJ is using privacy protections to shield other information.

500 Attorneys Worked To Review 6 Million Pages

Blanche said a team of 500 attorneys and reviewers worked through weekends and holidays to comply with the transparency law, describing the volume as equivalent to “two Eiffel Towers of pages.”

The department redacted images of every woman depicted in the records except Ghislaine Maxwell. They also redacted images of exploited minors. No images of men were redacted unless it was impossible to redact the woman’s image without also redacting the man, Blanche stated.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed Congress overwhelmingly and was signed into law by President Trump on November 19. The act gave the Justice Department 30 days to release all unclassified records pertaining to Epstein and Maxwell investigations—a December 19 deadline that passed with only partial releases.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers had threatened to hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt for the delayed releases, prompting Friday’s massive document dump.

Files Include Communications With Prominent Figures

The released materials include previously reported information about Epstein’s connections to powerful individuals, including communications with Elon Musk about visiting Little St. James island.

In a late November 2012 exchange, Epstein inquired how many people Musk would like flown by helicopter to the island. Musk responded “probably just Talulah and me,” referencing actress Talulah Riley, his partner at the time.

“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Musk asked in the email exchange.

Epstein replied that he “understood” but noted “the ratio on my island might make Talilah uncomfortable”—a reference that remains unexplained but suggests an imbalance in the number of men versus women.

President Trump’s name appears thousands of times in the documents released to date, though most mentions appear to be references to Trump in news articles rather than direct connections. Neither Trump nor Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.

Questions Remain About Scope Of Investigation

The fundamental question raised by Friday’s document release is whether the Justice Department conducted a comprehensive investigation into all perpetrators who abused Epstein’s victims.

With more than 1,200 identified survivors, the mathematical reality suggests numerous individuals beyond Epstein and Maxwell were involved in the abuse. Prominent survivor Virginia Giuffre publicly named dozens of men involved in Epstein’s trafficking operation.

Yet Blanche’s acknowledgment that the public won’t find information about other abusers in the released files suggests either:

1. Epstein and Maxwell single-handedly abused more than 1,000 victims with no other perpetrators involved, or
2. The DOJ investigated other individuals but determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute, or
3. The investigation did not fully pursue all leads about other perpetrators.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the release of documents explaining investigative decisions, including why certain leads were not pursued. Such documents have not yet been identified in the massive Friday release.

“I take umbrage at the suggestion, which is totally false, that the attorney general or this department does not take child exploitation or sex trafficking seriously, or that we somehow do not want to protect victims,” Blanche said during the press conference.

Attorney General Bondi and Blanche submitted a six-page letter to Congress dated Friday stating that the production “marks the Department’s compliance with its production under the act” and that “today’s release marks the end of a comprehensive document identification and review process.”

As half of the Epstein investigative files remain withheld and critical questions about other perpetrators go unanswered, will Congress accept the Justice Department’s assertion that its disclosure obligations are complete?

Sources

This report was compiled using information from ABC News’ coverage of the document release, CBS News’ reporting on the press conference, NPR’s analysis of the files, the Justice Department’s official statement, The New Republic’s reporting on Maxwell’s allegations, AOL’s coverage of Maxwell’s court filing, The Daily Beast’s analysis of secret settlements, and PBS NewsHour’s coverage of the file release.

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