AG Pam Bondi releases Jeffrey Epstein files in long-awaited document dump after warning the files were ‘pretty sick’

Pam Bondi began ‘Phase One’ of releasing the long-awaited, mysterious files related to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein Thursday evening. 

The first wave of files posted on the Justice Department website have largely been circulating in the public domain for years but Bondi has promised more to come after being disgusted by what she’d seen.

‘What you’re going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information,’ Bondi told Fox on Wednesday. 

‘But, it’s pretty sick what that man did, along with his co-defendant,’ referring to Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Justice Department released a blacked-out list of over 250 masseuses and an evidence list showing entries for more than 150 items, including nude images, massage tables, sex toys and other items. 

There wasn’t any indication whether the list was from Epstein’s case, Maxwell’s case or some other investigation. 

That was one of ten different links were posted to the DOJ website Thursday evening, which include several flight logs and Epstein’s infamous ‘little black book.’

Celebrity names connected include the Hollywood, fashion and political elite, such as Tony Blair, Mike Bloomberg, Alec Baldwin, Courtney Love, Naomi Campbell, Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger. 

Bondi had teased the documents during a Fox News appearance Wednesday, declaring, ‘Breaking news right now, you´re going to see some Epstein information released.’ 

The Justice Department said it was making the documents public to show its commitment to transparency.

Bondi suggested in a Thursday letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that more records were recently discovered. 

She ordered the FBI to hand over ‘the full and complete Epstein files’ to her by Friday morning, and directed Patel to ‘conduct an immediate investigation’ into why her order to the FBI to turn over all documents was not followed.

President Donald Trump, who was in office when Epstein was arrested, suggested while campaigning last year that he’d seek to open up the government’s files.

Pedophile billionaire Epstein took his own life in jail on August 10, 2019, awaiting trial for sex trafficking and other heinous crimes.

The well-connected financier kept a wide circle of friends from fellow billionaires to politicians like Trump and Bill Clinton, and entertainment icons.

Epstein flew numerous well-heeled friends to his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, where some of them sexually abused children.

Many Americans have been waiting for the lengthy FBI investigation files to be released publicly after Trump promised to do so before he was reelected. 

The case has drawn widespread attention because of Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell´s links to royals, presidents and billionaires. 

Maxwell herself is the daughter of the late British media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who once owned the New York Daily News.

Over the years, thousands of pages of records have been released through lawsuits, Epstein´s criminal dockets, public disclosures and Freedom of Information Act requests. 

In January 2024, a court unsealed a trove of documents that had been collected as evidence in a lawsuit filed by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.

Much of the material, including transcripts of victim interviews and old police reports, had already been publicly known. 

They included mentions of Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew and magician David Copperfield, as well as testimony from one victim who said she met Jackson at Epstein´s Florida home but nothing untoward happened with him.

The previously released files included a 2016 deposition in which an accuser recounted spending several hours with Epstein at Trump´s Atlantic City casino but didn´t say if she actually met Trump and did not accuse him of any wrongdoing. 

This is a developing story.