From hundreds of images and police bodycam footage to interviews with victims: What new Justice Department files reveal about Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell cases

A new set of files has been released amid the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday (September 2, 2025) publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department. The folders, released in response to a subpoena, contained hundreds of image files of years-old court filings related to Epstein and Maxwell. A subpoena is an order to compel someone to give testimony about something in a legal setting, usually before a court.

According to news agency AP, they also contained video files appearing to be body cam footage from police searches, as well as law enforcement interviews with victims, with their faces obscured. The files, however, mostly contain information that was already publicly known. The files included audio of an Epstein employee describing to a law enforcement official how “there were a lot of girls that were very, very young” visiting the home, but couldn’t say for sure if they were minors, news agency AP reported.

Over the course of Epstein’s visits to the home, the man said more than a dozen girls might visit and that he was charged with cleaning the room where Epstein had massages twice daily. Timestamps read out by officials at the beginning of the files suggested that some of the interviews with officers from the Palm Beach Police Department date to 2005. Most, if not all, of the text documents posted on Tuesday had already been public.


It is pertinent to mention that the probable cause affidavit and other records from the 2005 investigation into Epstein contained a notation indicating that they’d been previously released in a 2017 public records request. According to AP, those files were posted to the website of the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office in July 2017.

Thousands of pages and videos released via Google Drive

Lawmakers at 6 p.m. released thousands of pages and videos via a cumbersome Google Drive, leaving it to readers and viewers to decipher new and interesting tidbits on their own.