WASHINGTON (AP) — In a close vote, Senate Republicans defeated an effort Wednesday by Democrats to insert language into Congress’ annual defense authorization bill that would have forced the public release of case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein. The Senate voted 51-49 to dismiss the changes to the bill,…
The signature of an American president is one of the planet’s most powerful symbols. It can set your tax bill, your immigration status and who does or does not get aid from the world’s largest economy. Now, though, Donald Trump’s distinctive signature is being scrutinized for a decidedly unpresidential reason. Two documents in Jeffrey Epstein…
Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant has claimed she had met with major celebrities and even a royal during her time with the disgraced financer. Epstein’s former employee, who remains anonymous, made claims in a 238-page book, called The First Fifty Years, compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell years prior. The full book, which was given to Congress by…
The leather-bound book, titled “The First Fifty Years,” is filled with handwritten and typed letters from friends, family and girlfriends, as well as childhood memories. Many of the handwritten letters are hard to decipher. The book also contains Epstein’s birth certificate, photos from childhood to adulthood, photos of women in bikinis, a chocolate chip cookie…
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Photo: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images It’s out. In July, The Wall Street Journal reported that Jeffrey Epstein had received a bawdy letter from Donald Trump in 2003 to mark Epstein’s 50th birthday. Though the reports at the time described the letter and others inside the birthday book that Ghislaine Maxwell had compiled for Epstein, neither the…
By Dan Gooding is a Newsweek reporter based in New York City. His focus is reporting on immigration and border security. He has covered immigration issues extensively, including the root causes of migration to the U.S., its impact on border communities and responses around the country. Dan joined Newsweek in 2024 from The Independent and…
A one-time friend of Jeffrey Epstein has laid bare the extraordinary way he tried to impress Donald Trump. Cleo Glyde, a model who knew Epstein in the ‘80s and ‘90s, before his horrific crimes came to light, spoke exclusively to The Daily Beast Podcast about how Epstein used her and a close friend as “trophies…
The so-called “missing minute” from the security camera video of the jail tier where the infamous sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein died is no longer missing. The gap in the footage captivated online conspiracy theorists and amateur sleuths when the FBI first made public the jail footage earlier this year. At the time, Attorney General Pam…
4m ago Epstein files include documents, videos, audio files The records released by the House Oversight Committee appear to include a combination of videos, audio recordings and text files — including emails and court documents. Some of the documents include redactions. It remains unclear whether the files contain any new information. Many files from…