The American Prospect: We Obtained Thousands of New Epstein Documents

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https://prospect.org/justice/2025-10-01-we-obtained-thousands-of-new-epstein-documents/



The American Prospect has obtained thousands of pages of documents related to the New Mexico attorney general’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, which began in 2019 under then-Attorney General Hector Balderas. The investigation involved Epstein’s sprawling New Mexico ranch, and the documents include hundreds of pages of media reports, land records, flight logs, court documents, and interviews with witnesses to Epstein’s crimes. While the documents fail to answer many of the questions that lawmakers and the public hope will be revealed by the disclosure of files held by the Department of Justice, they also raise several new ones.

The documents describe interviews with multiple attendees of Epstein’s 8,000-acre Zorro Ranch, and accusers who say they were assaulted there. Land records and letters included in the tranche also claim that New Mexico’s state land office improperly awarded public land to Epstein, and then failed to monitor the public land that was leased at a discount to the disgraced financier. The documents also show that New Mexico state investigators traveled to other states, including California, to investigate allegations lodged against Epstein.

Epstein’s major properties included a sprawling apartment in Paris, an extravagant townhouse in Manhattan, and a private island complex in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Zorro Ranch near Stanley, New Mexico, about an hour outside of Albuquerque, is the least probed and understood. Many of Epstein’s close associates, including former Barclays Bank chief executive Jes Staley and the now-imprisoned Ghislaine Maxwell, spent considerable time at the ranch, and flight logs detail hundreds of flights in and out of the property over two decades.



According to reporting by The New York Times, Epstein intended to eventually use the New Mexico complex “as a base where women would be inseminated with his sperm and would give birth to his babies,” according to two scientists and a financial adviser to whom Epstein described his plan. The ranch was sold for an undisclosed sum in 2023. Epstein also used the property to ingratiate himself with politicians like former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, now deceased, who asked to use Epstein’s private jet for travel in 2006, a request that was summarily denied by Maxwell and Epstein. The late Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre said in a deposition related to her 2015 lawsuit that Epstein repeatedly ordered her to give Richardson massages at the New Mexico ranch.

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1. Wonder if the Republicans can protect their pedophile leadership much longer?