Excerpts from Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, released by the US Department of Justice on January 30, 2026. Montage by Le Monde. MINISTERE AMERICAIN DE LA JUSTICE/LE MONDE
In the sprawling case around the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the release of an additional three million pages by the US Department of Justice on Friday, January 30, sent shockwaves through France, implicating several high-profile figures from politics, cinema and other cultural industries. None of the emails reviewed by Le Monde show any involvement in the trafficking committed by the child sex offender, but many raise questions about what the individuals in question knew or did not know.
During the 2010s, Epstein was known as a wealthy businessman who made his fortune on Wall Street and was close to Bill Gates and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley. He had already been accused in 2008 of setting up a system of underage prostitution at his villa in Palm Beach, Florida – the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified 33 victims, some as young as 14. The financier reached a deal with federal prosecutors in Florida, pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from just one 14-year-old girl, and negotiated an 18-month prison sentence.
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