NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who鈥檚 who of powerful men make appearances in the huge released by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of .
All have denied having anything to do with his sexual abuse of girls and young women. Yet some of them maintained friendships with Epstein, or developed them anew, even after news stories made him widely known as an alleged abuser of young girls.
None have been charged with a crime connected to the investigation. Epstein in 2019.
Here鈥檚 a primer on some of the notable names in the Epstein files:
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
The man formerly known as Britain鈥檚 has long been dogged by questions about his relationship with Epstein, including allegations from the late that she was trafficked by Epstein and instructed to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor when she was 17.
that it happened, but his brother, King Charles III, still late last year, including the right to be called a prince and the Duke of York.
Mountbatten-Windsor鈥檚 name appears at least several hundred times in Friday鈥檚 document release, including in Epstein鈥檚 private emails.
Among the correspondence is an to dine at Buckingham Palace, Epstein鈥檚 offer to introduce Mountbatten-Windsor to a 26-year-old Russian woman, and photos that appear to show Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling over an unidentified woman lying on the floor.
Sarah Ferguson
In March of 2011, Sarah Ferguson, then the Duchess of York, made a public apology for letting Jeffrey Epstein pay off some of her debts. Both she and her ex-husband, the former Prince Andrew, had come under tremendous public scrutiny for continuing a friendly relationship with Epstein after he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
She told London鈥檚 Evening Standard newspaper she would have “nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again.鈥� But just two months later, she emailed Epstein to say she was going on Oprah Winfrey鈥檚 TV show and wanted his advice on how she should answer questions about their relationship.
鈥淚 just want to make sure you are aware of this and seek your advice on how you would like me to answer,鈥� Ferguson wrote.
Epstein replied, 鈥淛effrey was unfairly characterized as a pedophile by the tabloid press. Many years ago jeffrey pleaded guilty to soliciting underage prostitutes. He paid his debt to society and has sought forgiveness. I have nothing more to say.鈥�
Elon Musk
The billionaire Tesla founder turns up at least a few times in Friday鈥檚 document release, notably in email exchanges in 2012 and 2013 in which he discussed visiting Epstein鈥檚 infamous Caribbean island compound.
But it鈥檚 not immediately clear if the island visits took place. Spokespersons for Musk鈥檚 companies, Tesla and X, didn鈥檛 respond to emails seeking comment Friday or Saturday.
has maintained that he repeatedly turned down the disgraced financier鈥檚 overtures. 鈥淓pstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED,鈥� he posted on X in 2025.
Richard Branson
The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group, a global conglomerate, exchanged numerous emails with Epstein.
In a 2013 exchange, Branson invited Epstein to his own private Caribbean island, which regularly hosts large conferences, charity events and business meetings.
鈥淎ny time you鈥檙e in the area would love to see you,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淎s long as you bring your harem!鈥�
In another message that year, he suggested Epstein rehabilitate his image by convincing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to tell the public how Epstein had 鈥渂een a brilliant adviser to him鈥� and had 鈥渕ore than learnt your lesson and have done nothing that鈥檚 against the law since.鈥�
The company stressed in a statement Saturday that there was no wrongdoing on Branson’s part and that any dealings with Epstein were 鈥渓imited to group or business settings鈥� more than a decade ago.
Branson also declined a charitable donation and decided not to meet or speak with him again after his team 鈥渦ncovered serious allegations,” the company said.
鈥淗ad they had the full picture and information, there would have been no contact whatsoever,” the statement reads. “Richard believes that Epstein鈥檚 actions were abhorrent and supports the right to justice for his many victims.鈥�
Donald Trump
It’s long been known that Epstein was friends with Trump before the two had a falling out.
The new trove of documents contain thousands of references to Trump, much of which sheds little additional light on the men鈥檚 relationship. They included emails in which Epstein and others shared news articles about Trump, commented on his policies or his politics, or gossiped about him and his family.
The Justice Department also disclosed a spreadsheet created last August that summarized calls made to law enforcement tip lines from people claiming to have some knowledge of wrongdoing by Trump.
That document included a range of uncorroborated stories involving many different celebrities, and somewhat fantastical scenarios, occasionally with notations indicating what follow-up, if any, was done by agents.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the FBI fielded 鈥渉undreds of calls鈥� about prominent individuals that were 鈥渜uickly determined to not be credible.鈥�
Bill Clinton
Like Trump, Clinton spent time with Epstein more than two decades ago, including flying occasionally on his private jet and seeing him at the White House. Clinton also denied any knowledge of Epstein’s wrongdoing.
Clinton’s representatives say the former president broke off relations with Epstein after the first round of criminal charges in 2006.
The investigative file includes snapshots of Clinton and other famous people that Epstein kept in his home in New York. It also contains messages investigators received from members of the general public, demanding to know why Clinton wasn’t being investigated. None of Epstein’s victims have publicly accused Clinton of being involved in Epstein’s crimes.
Steven Tisch
The New York Giants co-owner is mentioned more than 400 times in the files released Friday. Correspondence between the two shows Epstein offered to connect Tisch to numerous women over the years.
In one 2013 email exchange with the subject line 鈥淯krainian girl,鈥� Epstein encouraged Tisch to contact a particular woman, whose physical beauty he praised in crude terms.
鈥淧ro or civilian?鈥� Tisch asked in reply.
Tisch, a scion of a powerful New York family that founded the Loews Corporation, has acknowledged knowing Epstein but to his infamous Caribbean island.
鈥淲e had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy and investments,鈥� said Tisch, who also won an Academy Award in 1994 for producing 鈥淔orrest Gump.鈥� 鈥淎s we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with.鈥�
Brett Ratner
The film director who made the recently released Melania Trump documentary appears in several photographs included in the government鈥檚 files.
One, first released in December, shows him with his arms wrapped around the shirtless torso of Jean Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent who killed himself in jail in 2022 while awaiting trial on rape charges.
The more recent document release has a sequence of other photos apparently taken around the same time. Some show Ratner sitting on a couch with Epstein, Brunel and at least two young women. In the photos, Rattner has his arms wrapped around one of the women, whose faces are blacked out.
Ratner and a spokesperson for his film company didn鈥檛 immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Casey Wasserman
The president of the committee for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, Friday’s document release shows.
In a 2003 exchange, Wasserman wrote to Maxwell: 鈥淚 think of you all the time. So, what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?鈥�
In another, Maxwell asks whether it will be foggy enough during an upcoming visit 鈥渟o that you can float naked down the beach and no one can see you unless they are close up?鈥�
Wasserman released a statement Saturday saying he never had a personal or business relationship with Epstein and that he regretted the correspondence with Maxwell, which he said came 鈥渓ong before her horrific crimes came to light.鈥�
Maxwell is currently serving a for sex trafficking.
Ehud Barak
The former Israeli prime minister and his wife turn up frequently in the documents released Friday, showing they stayed in regular contact with Epstein for years, including well after his 2008 guilty plea for sex crimes in Florida.
Among the correspondence are plans for a 2017 stay at Epstein鈥檚 New York residence. Other missives discuss mundane logistics for other visits, meetings and phone calls with Epstein.
Barak has acknowledged regularly visiting Epstein on his trips to New York and flying on his private plane, but maintains he any inappropriate behavior or parties.
Barak served as Israel鈥檚 prime minister from 1999 to 2001 and later served as its defense minister.
Larry Summers
Clinton’s former Secretary of the Treasury and the onetime president of Harvard University is another of Epstein’s well-known longtime acquaintances. The new documents are full of references to meetings and dinners between the two men.
A previously-released trove of documents show Summers emailing Epstein in 2019, after the financier had been charged with sexual abuse of minors, to discuss his interactions with a woman, writing he’d told her 鈥渁wfully coy u are.鈥� Epstein replied: 鈥測ou reacted well.鈥�
Summers has called his interactions with Epstein 鈥渁 major error of judgment.鈥�
Howard Lutnick
President Donald Trump鈥檚 commerce secretary visited Epstein鈥檚 private Caribbean island with his family on at least one occasion, records released Friday show.
That appears to contradict prior statements he鈥檚 made claiming he cut ties with the disgraced financier, who he鈥檚 called 鈥済ross,鈥� decades ago.
But emails show Lutnick and his wife accepted an invitation to Little St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands in December 2012 and planned to arrive by yacht with their children.
The former chairman of Newmark, a major commercial real estate firm, also had drinks on another occasion in 2011 with Epstein and corresponded with him about the construction of a building across the street from both of their homes.
The Commerce Department, in a statement, said Lutnick had 鈥渓imited interactions with Mr. Epstein in the presence of his wife and has never been accused of wrongdoing.鈥�
Sergey Brin
The billionaire Google co-founder made plans to meet with Epstein and Maxwell at his townhouse in New York years before he was publicly accused of sexually abusing underage girls, emails show.
In one exchange in 2003, Maxwell invited him to join her at a screening of the Renee Zellweger film 鈥淒own with Love鈥� in New York.
She followed up a few weeks later to invite him to a 鈥渉appily casual and relaxed鈥� dinner at Epstein鈥檚 house. Brin offered to bring along Google鈥檚 then-CEO Eric Schmidt.
Spokespersons for Google didn鈥檛 immediately respond to an email seeking comment Saturday.
Steve Bannon
The one-time adviser to Trump exchanged hundreds of friendly texts with Epstein, some sent months before the financier’s 2019 arrest and jailhouse suicide.
The two discussed politics, travel and a documentary Bannon was said to be planning that would help salvage Epstein鈥檚 reputation.
One 2018 exchange, for example, focused on Trump鈥檚 threats at the time to oust Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. In a 2019 message, Bannon asked Epstein if he could supply his plane to pick him up in Rome.
Epstein and Bannon also exchanged gossipy messages about Trump and his politics.
Bannon hasn鈥檛 responded to emails seeking comment.
Miroslav Lajcak
A national security adviser to the Slovakian prime minister, Lajcak resigned Saturday after his past communications with Epstein appeared in Friday鈥檚 document release.
Opposition parties and a nationalist partner in Fico鈥檚 governing coalition had called for him to step down.
Lajcak, a former Slovak foreign minister and a onetime president of the U.N. General Assembly, has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but was photographed meeting with Epstein in the years between his initial release from jail and his subsequent indictment in 2019 on sex trafficking charges.
He said his correspondence with Epstein were part of his diplomatic duties.
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