Public-records research
A searchable archive of the Epstein public record
Court filings, depositions, exhibits, and congressional materials released by the U.S. Department of Justice and the House Oversight Committee — indexed, summarized, and searchable in natural language with citations back to the original PDFs on justice.gov.
- 2.2M+
- Indexed passages
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- Pre-answered Q&A
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- Topic guides
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- Public records
Topic guides
Background reading
Each guide is an editorial summary written to give a reader unfamiliar with the underlying material a clear, sourced understanding of the topic. Open the chat from any guide to ask specific questions against the documents it references.
September 24, 2007 — June 30, 2008
The 2008 Non-Prosecution Agreement
The federal plea deal in the Southern District of Florida that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to avoid federal charges for more than a decade — and the controversy that followed.
July 2019
The 2019 SDNY Indictment
The federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges filed in the Southern District of New York that ended Jeffrey Epstein's decade of immunity from federal prosecution.
November 2021 — June 2022 (sentencing)
The Maxwell Criminal Trial
The 2021 federal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell in the Southern District of New York, which produced extensive transcripts, exhibits, and witness testimony that are part of the public record.
January 2024
The 2024 Unsealing of Court Records
In January 2024, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered the unsealing of hundreds of pages of court records from a long-running civil case, releasing names and testimony previously redacted.
November 2020 and June 2023
DOJ Inspector General Reports
Two separate Department of Justice Office of Inspector General reports — one on the 2008 prosecutorial decisions, one on the 2019 conditions of confinement — produced detailed public findings about institutional failures.
Civil Litigation
Dozens of civil cases filed by victims and other parties have produced an extensive public record of pleadings, depositions, and exhibits — much of it now accessible through PACER and federal court archives.
Flight Logs and Travel Records
Pilot logs, flight manifests, and travel records introduced as exhibits in civil and criminal proceedings have become a frequently cited subset of the public document record.
Congressional Inquiry and Document Releases
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Senate Judiciary Committee have conducted inquiries that produced subpoenas, public hearings, and document releases now available in the public record.
The Document Corpus
An overview of the dataset behind this research tool: where the documents come from, how they were processed, and what types of records are searchable.
Pre-answered Q&A
Common research questions
Each question links to a pre-rendered answer drawn from the document corpus, with citations to the original DOJ PDFs. Click through to read; use the chat for follow-ups.
- Who was Jeffrey Epstein according to public court records and government documents?
- What were the terms of the 2008 non-prosecution agreement?
- What charges did the SDNY file against Jeffrey Epstein in July 2019?
- Which witnesses testified at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial?
- What was unsealed in January 2024 in the Doe v. Maxwell civil case?
- What did the 2020 Office of Professional Responsibility report conclude about Alex Acosta?
- What documents has the House Oversight Committee released about the Epstein investigation?
- What civil cases have been filed by victims of Jeffrey Epstein?
- What flight log records have been entered as court exhibits in cases related to Jeffrey Epstein?
- Where do the documents in the Epstein Files dataset come from?
- What did the JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank settlements involving the Epstein estate involve?
- What was Ghislaine Maxwell's sentence and how did the court calculate it?
About this project
What this archive is — and what it isn’t
Epstein Files is a free, non-commercial research tool that makes the public document record of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases searchable through natural language. The corpus combines court filings, depositions, exhibits, and correspondence released by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Southern District of New York.
None of the materials indexed here are private, leaked, or obtained outside the public record. Every cited document already exists on government servers; this site re-indexes them so they can be queried as a corpus instead of browsed one PDF at a time. The dataset itself is the Nikity/Epstein-Files corpus published on HuggingFace.
The chat assistant uses retrieval-augmented generation: when you ask a question, the
system retrieves the most relevant document passages from a vector index and asks a
large language model to summarize them. Every claim in an answer is tied to a
citation in the form [EFTA00000000]
that links back to the original PDF on justice.gov. If a citation isn’t there, the
statement is not in the documents.
This is editorial research, not legal advice. Many people mentioned in the corpus — in contact directories, flight manifests, or witness lists — are not accused of any crime. Inclusion in a document is not evidence of wrongdoing. Read the limitations page before drawing any conclusions, and verify against the cited originals.
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Reference & background
Q&A library
Pre-answered research questions with citations linking to the original DOJ PDFs.
All topic explorers
Background guides on each major event, court case, and document collection.
Methodology
How retrieval, citation injection, and known limitations work.
External resources
Official government repositories, investigative journalism, books, films.
Glossary
Plain-language definitions of legal and procedural terms.
Editorial standards
Who maintains this archive, what we publish, and how to report errors.
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