From Silicon Valley leaders and Wall Street heavyweights to members of the British royal family, a wide range of powerful men appear in a vast set of documents released Friday by the Justice Department as part of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, the AP reports.
Many of those named have denied close ties to the late financier or any involvement in the alleged sexual abuse of underage girls and young women that led to his arrest on sex-trafficking charges.
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No one mentioned has been charged in connection with the case.
Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan prison in 2019. Still, records show that some individuals continued to befriend or form new friendships with him, even after he was publicly labeled a registered sex offender.
Note: Names/references in the Epstein files do not warrant criminal activity.
Here’s a sampling of some of the notable names in the Epstein files:
US President Donald Trump
The released files reportedly contain at least 4,500 documents mentioning US President Donald Trump. Among them is a summary prepared by FBI officials last summer that compiled more than a dozen public tips related to Trump and Epstein, according to Justice Department emails released Friday.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Britain’s former Prince Andrew has faced scrutiny for years over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, including claims by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre that Epstein trafficked her and ordered her to have sex with Andrew — then known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — when she was 17, the AP reported.
The former prince has consistently denied the allegations, yet his brother, King Charles III, stripped him of his royal titles, including his titles of prince and Duke of York, late last year.
Mountbatten-Windsor’s name appears hundreds of times in documents released Friday, including Epstein’s private email correspondence.
A document showing email exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, and whom Epstein referred to as “The Duke” that was in a U.S. Department of Justice report, is pictured Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)(AP)EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Images from an undated and redacted document released by the US Department of Justice, photographed on Saturday, January 31, 2026, show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, bending over an unidentified person. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)(AP)
The materials include an invitation for Epstein to attend a dinner at Buckingham Palace, a message in which Epstein offered to introduce Mountbatten-Windsor to a 26-year-old Russian woman, and photographs that appear to show Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling over an unidentified woman lying on the floor.
Elon Musk
The billionaire founder of Tesla appeared several times in the documents released Friday, notably in email exchanges from 2012 and 2013 in which he discussed the possibility of visiting Epstein’s notorious private island in the Caribbean.
However, it remains unclear whether such visits actually occurred.
Musk claimed he repeatedly rejected the disgraced financier’s overtures. “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED,” he wrote on X in 2025.
Richard Branson
The billionaire founder of Virgin Group Limited corresponded extensively with Epstein in the years following Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea to soliciting sex from a minor and his agreement to register as a sex offender in Florida.
In one 2013 email exchange, Branson invited Epstein to visit his private Caribbean island.
This photo illustration taken in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2025, shows photos including former US President Bill Clinton, Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson and Ghislaine Maxwell after the US Justice Department began releasing long-awaited records from its investigation into the politically explosive case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Photo: Mandel NGAN / AFP)(AFP)
“Whenever you’re in the area, we’d love to see you,” he wrote. “As long as you bring your harem!”
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In another message that year, he suggested Epstein rehabilitate his image by persuading Microsoft founder Bill Gates to tell the public that Epstein “was a great advisor” to him and “more than learned his lesson and has not done anything against the law since.”
A document included in a U.S. Department of Justice report on the Jeffrey Epstein files is photographed Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, illustrating several people who handled or were close to Epstein’s financial affairs (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)(AP)
A spokesman for Branson suggested the “harem” comment referred to adult members of Epstein’s staff. The spokesman also said Branson eventually cut ties with Epstein after learning more about the “serious allegations” against him.
Steven’s desk
The New York Giants co-owner is mentioned more than 400 times in documents released Friday. Emails between him and Epstein indicate that Epstein repeatedly offered to introduce Tisch to various women over the years, the AP reported.
In one 2013 exchange, titled “Ukrainian Girl,” Epstein urged Tisch to connect with a specific woman, describing her appearance in explicit and crude language.
“Pro or civilian?” Tisch asked in response.
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Tisch, a scion of the powerful New York family that founded the Loews Corporation, admitted knowing Epstein but denied ever going to his infamous Caribbean island.
“We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about grown women, and we also discussed movies, philanthropy and investing,” said Tisch, who also won an Oscar in 1994 for producing Forrest Gump. “As we all now know, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret ever having associated with.
Casey Wasserman
Documents released Friday reveal that the head of the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics hosting committee exchanged flirtatious emails with Ghislaine Maxwell, a close associate of Epstein’s, the AP reported.
In an exchange in 2003, Wasserman wrote to Maxwell, “I think about you all the time. So, what do I have to do to see you in tight leather clothes?”
In another, Maxwell asks if the upcoming visit will be foggy enough “so you can float naked on the beach and no one sees you unless it’s up close?
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 “long before her horrific crimes came to light.”
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking and exploitation of minors.
Ehud Barak
The former Israeli prime minister and his wife appear repeatedly in documents released Friday, suggesting they maintained regular contact with Epstein for years, even after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to sex offenses in Florida, the AP reported.
Correspondence includes arrangements to visit Epstein’s residence in New York in 2017, as well as messages regarding routine details for further visits, meetings and phone calls with him.
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Barak admitted that he regularly visits Epstein on his trips to New York and flies on his private jet, but says he never observed any inappropriate behavior or parties.
Barak served as Israel’s prime minister from 1999 to 2001 and later served as its defense minister.
Howard Lutnick
US President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island with his family at least once, records released Friday showed.
This appears to contradict previous statements he made when he claimed to have cut ties with the disgraced financier, who was called a “gross” decades ago.
However, emails show that Lutnick and his wife accepted an invitation to Little St. in December 2012. James to the US Virgin Islands and planned to arrive on a yacht with their children. The former chairman of Newmark, a major commercial real estate company, also had drinks with Epstein on another occasion in 2011 and exchanged news with him regarding the construction of a building across the street from both their homes.
The Commerce Department said in a statement that Lutnick had “limited interactions with Mr. Epstein in the presence of his wife and was never charged with wrongdoing.”
Sergey Brin
The billionaire Google co-founder planned to meet with Epstein and Maxwell at his New York townhouse years before he was publicly accused of sexually abusing underage girls, emails show.
During one exchange in 2003, Maxwell invited him to join her at a screening of the Renee Zellweger film “Down with Love” in New York.
A few weeks later, she invited him to a “happily casual and relaxed” dinner at Epstein’s house. Brin offered to bring then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt with him.
A Google spokesman did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Saturday.
Steve Bannon
The former Trump aide exchanged hundreds of friendly texts with Epstein, some of which he sent months before his arrest and suicide in prison in 2019.
The two discussed politics, travel and a documentary Bannon was reportedly planning to help save Epstein’s reputation.
One exchange from 2018, for example, focused on Trump’s then-threats to oust Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. In a 2019 message, Bannon asked Epstein if he could provide his plane to pick him up in Rome.
Miroslav Lajčák
The Slovakian prime minister’s national security adviser Lajčák resigned on Saturday after his previous communications with Epstein were revealed in a document published on Friday.
Opposition parties and a nationalist ally in Fico’s governing coalition demanded his resignation.
Lajčák, a former Slovak foreign minister and former president of the UN General Assembly, faced no allegations of wrongdoing. However, he was photographed meeting with Epstein in the years between Epstein’s initial release from prison and his indictment in 2019 on sex-trafficking charges.
Lajčák stated that his communication with Epstein was conducted as a diplomat.
