The Department of Justice finally released approximately 3 million documents related to disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, bringing the total release to approximately 3.5 million pages – over a month after being legally required to do so by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced at a Friday news conference that the release includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
“Today’s release marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance with the act,” Blanche said. “The department has engaged in an unprecedented and extensive effort to do so.”
The Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump on November 19, 2025, after passing Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.
The law required the Justice Department to publicly release all records related to investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days.
The December 19, 2025 deadline passed and was largely ignored, angering both voters and Epstein’s victims.
The files were collected from five primary sources including the Florida and New York cases against Epstein, the New York case against Maxwell, the New York cases investigating Epstein’s mysterious death, the Florida case investigating a former butler of Epstein, and the Office of Inspector General investigation into Epstein’s death, according to the Department of Justice.
Blanche said previously the Justice Department identified more than 6 million pages of materials as potentially responsive to the Epstein investigation. The Department said they withheld these documents from the public for legal reasons.
“The Department erred on the side of over-collecting materials, and any materials not produced fall within one of the following categories: Duplicate documents between SDNY and SDFL investigations. Withheld under privilege- deliberative process privilege, attorney client privilege. Withheld based upon exceptions under the act (depictions of violence); Items that were that are not part of the case file for Epstein or Maxwell and were completely unrelated to these cases,” the Justice Department claimed.
“Through the process, the Department provided clear instructions to reviewers that the redactions were to be limited to the protection of victims and their families,” the Justice Department said in a statement.
“Some pornographic images, whether commercial or not, were redacted, given the Department treated all women in those images as victims. Notable individuals and politicians were not redacted in the release of any files.”
The Justice Department said that some materials and claims they released may not be credible.
“This production may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos, as everything that was sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production that is responsive to the Act,” the Department stated.
“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
Deputy Attorney General Blanche told Fox News that federal agents reviewed years of Epstein’s personal emails.
“During the course of our investigation, we seized years and years’ worth of Epstein’s personal emails,” Blanche said. “These are communications with hundreds and hundreds of individuals discussing intimate details of Epstein’s and others’ lives.”
“In none of these communications, even when doing his best to disparage President Trump, did Epstein suggest President Trump had done anything criminal or had any inappropriate contact with any of his victims,” Blanche said.
U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton is reportedly leading an investigation into Epstein’s connections to prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, and his ties to major financial institutions. Trump asked the Justice Department to look into Epstein’s relationships with them in November.
Blanche stated that the White House was not involved in the Department’s review.
“There’s no oversight by the White House in the process we’ve taken over the past 60 days,” Blanche said. “There’s this mantra out there that the Department of Justice is supposed to protect Donald J. Trump… That’s not true. That was never the case,” Blanche said.
Blanche called the review and release of Epstein files an “unprecedented effort” and defended the Trump administration’s response to demands for their release.
“I take umbrage at the suggestion, which is totally false, that the attorney general or this department does not take child exploitation or sex trafficking seriously,” Blanche said. “We do.”
Before the latest release, the Justice Department had released just 100,000 pages of material including photos, videos, court records and emails, most of which was largely available to the public at the time.
The tens of thousands of pages of material released so far have included some mentioning prominent people including President Trump and former President Bill Clinton. Photos from the initial release showed Clinton traveling with Epstein, and pictures of Clinton in a jacuzzi with a sex trafficking victim. Clinton has denied all wrongdoing and said he had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 for her role in sex trafficking minor girls for Epstein and his elite friends and is serving a 20-year prison sentence. Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019 and died under mysterious circumstances in jail just before his trial.
Blanche warned that the documents released will not answer questions about Epstein, his client list, or the mishandling of the criminal cases against him.
“There’s a hunger, or a thirst, for information that I don’t think will be satisfied by review of these documents,” Blanche said.