The Justice Department will soon release an additional 3.5 million pages of investigative material related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including roughly 2,000 videos and more than 180,000 images, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday.
Blanche announced the disclosure at a news conference, describing it as part of the department’s effort to comply with a law passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump late last year requiring broad transparency around the Epstein investigations.
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According to Blanche, the material spans decades of federal investigative work and includes evidence seized from the deceased financier’s devices as well as files gathered from other sources during multiple inquiries.
“They include large quantities of commercial pornography and images that were seized from Epstein’s devices, but which he did not take, or that someone around him did not take,” Blanche said.
He added, however, that some of the content appears to have been created by Epstein himself or by people in his immediate orbit.
“Some of the videos, though, and some of the images do appear to be taken by Mr. Epstein or by others, or around him,” Blanche said.
The forthcoming release also includes internal DOJ documentation explaining how the agency reviewed the materials and determined what could legally be made public. Blanche said the department is transmitting a letter to Congress alongside the disclosures, as well as internal protocols detailing the review process.
“We are also releasing today a letter we are transmitting to Congress and various internal protocols associated with our review,” Blanche said. Those materials, he added, will outline the “legal basis” for any redactions or withholdings.
The announcement follows an initial release that started in December 2025 in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The department released hundreds of thousands of documents via a public portal at the time, but stressed that more documents would be coming in the weeks ahead.
Blanche emphasized that DOJ personnel and the FBI have been working “full time” for weeks to process the massive volume of records, videos, and images ahead of the release.
The deputy attorney general sought to preempt claims that the government was withholding explosive material from the public, particularly on national security grounds.
“Congress, in their wisdom, allowed us to withhold documents if there were ongoing criminal investigations,” Blanche said, noting that this is one of the limited statutory grounds for withholding records under the law.
He stressed, however, that the department is not sitting on a cache of classified or politically sensitive Epstein files.
“There’s not some tranche of super secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we were withholding,” Blanche said. “We’re actually not withholding anything based upon national security.”
Blanche also said the department is not invoking national security or foreign policy concerns to justify redactions, despite the law allowing such exemptions.
“Although the act allows for withholding for items necessary to keep secrets in the interest of national security or foreign policy, no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis,” he said.
Additionally, Blanche said there are no new details in the tranche of evidence to point to other men connected to the late sex offender who abused women alongside him.
“If we had information … about men who abused women, we would prosecute them,” Blanche said. “If we learn about information and evidence that allows us to prosecute them, we will … but I don’t think the public is going to uncover men within the Epstein files that abused women. Unfortunately.”
Some materials will nonetheless remain undisclosed for other reasons permitted under the statute. Blanche said any content depicting death, physical abuse, or bodily injury will not be released.
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“Anything that depicts or contains images of death, physical abuse or injury also [is] not produced,” Blanche said.
Epstein, a longtime political and financial power broker, was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019 and died later that year in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial, a death that was ruled a suicide but has remained the subject of intense public skepticism.