Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein are seen in this image released by the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., U.S., on December 19, 2025 as part of a new trove of documents from its investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Date and context is unclear.
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The Department of Justice on Friday is releasing more than three million additional pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The large release comes after weeks of criticism that the DOJ was not complying with the requirement under federal law passed in November that all files related to the notorious sex offender Epstein be publicly released by Dec. 19.
Blanche said Friday the DOJ was not releasing the rest of the more than six million total pages that have been identified as potentially responsive to the Epstein Transparency Act.
Speaking at a press conference at DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., Blanche said that more than 500 DOJ lawyers and other personnel had spent the past 75 days reviewing potential material related to Epstein and determining what needed to be released under the law.
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 30, 2026.
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“We’re releasing more than three million pages today, and not the six million pages that we collected,” Blanche said. “That means that the department produced approximately three-and-a-half million pages in compliance with the act.”
He said that no more documents would be released. The large release on Friday comes weeks after DOJ released a much-smaller tranche of Epstein-related documents on Dec. 19.
“Today’s release marks the end of a very comprehensive documentation, document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance with the act,” Blanche said.
Some of the material released relates to Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for crimes related to procuring underage girls for him to abuse. Epstein killed himself in a federal jail in New York City in August 2019, weeks after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges.
The DOJ said that any material not being released fell within one of four categories: duplicate documents between investigations by federal prosecutors in New York and Florida; documents covered by attorney-client privilege and other privileges; depictions of violence and files that contain personally identifiable information about victims; and items that were not part of the case files related to Epstein and Maxwell.
“We complied with the statute,” Blanche said Friday. “We complied with the act. We did not protect President Trump … or anybody.”
President Donald Trump had been friends with Epstein for years before the two men had a falling out in the mid-2000s.
“There’s not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding,” Blanche said.
