This article provides a full rundown of the Epstein Files, highlighting the most important revelations from millions of recently released documents. From Epstein’s rise, wealth, and criminal network to his ties with global elites and the Mossad, it distills the key facts, exposing the power, influence, and systemic failures that allowed him to operate with impunity.

Born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents, Jeffrey Epstein would later become one of the most infamous figures of the modern era: a convicted sex offender accused of orchestrating a vast, international sex-trafficking operation involving underage girls, while maintaining close relationships with politicians, financiers, academics, royalty, and cultural elites.

With the US Department of Justice recently releasing more than 3 million pages of documents related to the Epstein case, often referred to in public discourse as the “Epstein files”, it has become increasingly important to understand not only the scope of his crimes, but who Epstein was, how he accumulated extraordinary wealth and influence, and how institutions repeatedly enabled him.

What follows is a reconstruction of Epstein’s life and rise, based primarily on a years-long investigative series by The New York Times, drawing on court records, financial documents, interviews with former associates, and previously unreleased archival material.

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