Epstein Files Reveal Prevalence of Child Sexual Offending in High Society

No one had considered the Epstein Files were going to be childhood reading. Yet, neither did anyone expect them to read like a modern version of The Marquis De Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom, with instead of high-ranking French aristocracy, the main players are now some of the most powerful politicians and oligarchs on the planet.

The US Department of Justice released the largest dump relating to the Epstein Files on 30 January 2026, which involved over 3 million files, including 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. A law was passed last September requiring the release. The DOJ has only partially abided by this, and while it was supposed to redact victim names, for the most part, it has blacked out the names of the culprits.

Accusations made to US intelligence and law enforcement agencies, plus emails, make up a great deal of the release, with the idea being that US citizen Jeffrey Epstein had been running a child sex trafficking operation, which involved providing well known political, business and other high profile figures with access to girls, who were under the legal age of consent, to sexually exploit.

Since the first Epstein Files dump last December, rising details relating to the Epstein child sex abuse ring, which involved Ghislaine Maxwell procuring children for sex with well-known adult men, are now suggesting that the American financier and high society socialiser was not operating alone, as the FBI investigation has involved ten alleged co-conspirators potentially in the ring.

The US Trump administration had been reluctant to release the files. The DOJ stated that the latest dump does not contain images of “death or physical abuse”. But as it turns out, current reigning US president Donald Trump was mentioned in the latest dump more than 38,000 times. Yet these files are being removed from the web. And the speculation is that Trump may have been a co-conspirator.

Blackmailing billionaires

Much of the Epstein Files contain unproven accusations provided to the FBI and many facts are learnt via email exchanges, such as tech billionaire Elon Musk’s eagerness to attend wild parties at Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little Saint James. And allegations of men having sex with teens, further spill over into random accusations of well-known men beating and strangling girls, sometimes to death.

Epstein was a financial advisor to the rich and famous, and he was a brilliant mathematician. But there’s much speculation about how he amounted his multimillions of dollars, and the idea has been that he was not only involved in providing young girls for sex to high-profile and powerful men, but that after delivery, he would then partake in blackmailing some of them via threat of exposing them.

The most recent dump last Friday adds further to these unsubstantiated blackmail claims, as there are several emails and drafts from Epstein addressing Microsoft chief Bill Gates about the billionaire having contracted a sexually transmitted disease from “Russian girls” and later requesting that the financier procure antibiotics to slip to his wife to ensure that she didn’t contract the STD.

In one of the exchanges from 2013, Epstein states to Gates, “To add insult to the injury you then implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis.” In this manner, Jeffrey is seen to be detailing what he has over Gates in terms of smearing Bill’s name.

The Guardian reported in 2023 that Epstein had attempted to extort money from Gates over the threat of exposing that he’d been involved with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova. Epstein is thought to have amounted his wealth in part via extortion, as well as through other operations such as arranging weapons and surveillance deals, as well as allegations of partaking in financial crimes.

Above the law and morality

US president Donald Trump ran for the presidency in 2024 on a platform that prioritised releasing the Epstein files, but since he took office he and his administration had tried to renege on this promise. The obvious reason now being that Trump appears in over 5,300 of the Epstein Files, with damning allegations made against the person now holding the most powerful office on the planet.

None of the allegations against Trump are proven, but they include his holding parties at Mar-a-Lago, and auctioning off underaged girls paraded before an adult clientele. Trump is also accused of receiving fellatio from a 13-year-old and hitting her when she bit his penis. There is an allegation he raped a 13-year-old girl and that he was present when a teenage girl’s baby was put to death.

Trump is understood to have had a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. The other US president that is understood to have had a keen friendship with Epstein is Bill Clinton. There is speculation both Trump and Clinton were involved in illegal sex with minors. Both men travelled multiple times on Jeffrey’s private plane that was known as the Lolita Express.

There are FBI diagrams in the latest dump that indicate co-conspirators under investigation with their names and photos blocked out. Of course, UK socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving 20 years prison time for her part in the sex trafficking ring. But under Trump, she’s been downgraded to a cushy low security prison environment.

Another alleged co-conspirator is French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel. Both Brunel and Epstein have been linked to modelling agencies helping young foreign women enter their countries. Brunel was arrested in France in 2020 and is said to have killed himself in prison in 2022. Epstein was arrested in the US in 2019 and said to have committed suicide that year. But many suspect both were murdered.

Working for the intelligence 

The Trump administration had attempted to downplay what the FBI had on file regarding Epstein since it took office in January 2025. However, what now appears to be the case is the US domestic spying agency has had its hands on mountains of the worst types of sexual allegations against some of the most senior US politicians and businessmen, and it was simply sitting on all this.

Epstein was arrested by the FBI in 2008 over soliciting underage sex and he was convicted. But he received what has been dubbed the “sweetheart deal”, which involved 18 months in minimum security prison with day release. Then US attorney for Southern Florida Alex Accosta said in later days that he negotiated the deal as he was told to go easy as Epstein was an “intelligence asset”.

The suggestion is that Epstein was working for an intelligence agency and hence, his blackmailing of politicians over having engaged in sex with children may have been more about swaying foreign policy decisions than money in exchange for silence. The speculation as to which intelligence agency the financier may have been involved with include US spies, Israel’s Mossad and Russian intelligence.

However, the latest document dump overwhelmingly suggests that if Epstein was working for an intelligence agency it was Mossad. In this manner, he would have likely been progressing Israeli foreign policy objectives via very illicit means.

And with convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell being the daughter of UK newspaper mogul and suspected significant Mossad asset Robert Maxwell as her father, the speculation is that Epstein formed a relationship with the Maxwells early on that led to the child sex trafficking ring, which is not thought to be an anomaly, but rather part of a much larger and seasoned hidden network.