This image released by the Department of Justice in Washington on December 19, 2025 shows Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This is part of a trove of new documents from the investigation into the deceased financier and convicted sex offender. Date and context unclear.
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that the Justice Department will release more than 3 million pages of additional documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, as well as more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
The major release comes after weeks of criticism that the Justice Department was not complying with a requirement under a federal law passed in November to release all files related to notorious sex offender Epstein by Dec. 19.
Blanche said Friday that the Justice Department will not release the remaining pages, totaling more than 6 million pages, identified as potentially responsive to the Epstein Transparency Act.
At a news conference at the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington, Blanche said more than 500 Justice Department attorneys and other staff had spent the past 75 days reviewing material potentially related to Epstein to determine what should be released under the law.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Jan. 30, 2026.
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“Today we are publishing over 3 million pages instead of the 6 million we collected,” Blanche said. “This means that the department has created approximately 3.5 million pages pursuant to the Act.”
He said no further documents would be released. Friday’s big release comes weeks after the Justice Department released a much smaller portion of Epstein-related documents on Dec. 19.
“Today’s announcement marks the conclusion of a very comprehensive documentation, document identification, and review process to ensure transparency to the American public and compliance with the law,” Blanche said.
Some of the material released relates to Epstein’s convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal sentence for charges related to procuring underage girls for abuse. Epstein committed suicide in a federal prison in New York in August 2019, weeks after he was arrested on child sex trafficking charges.
The Justice Department said all of the unreleased materials fall into one of four categories of duplicate documents between investigations by federal prosecutors in New York and Florida. Documents subject to attorney-client privilege and other privileges. Files containing depictions of violence or personally identifiable information about victims. and items that were not part of the case file related to Epstein and Maxwell.
“We complied with the law,” Blanche said Friday. “We followed this law. We didn’t protect President Trump… or anyone.”
President Donald Trump remained friends with Epstein for years until the two had a falling out in the mid-2000s.
“Some of the top secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we are withholding do not exist,” Blanche said.
