Epstein files feature Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson in released photos
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The U.S. Justice Department on Friday began releasing a long-awaited cache of records from its investigations into the politically explosive case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein -- though much of the material remained heavily redacted.
Among the trove are numerous photographs depicting former U.S. Democratic president Bill Clinton and other luminaries, including Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson, in Epstein’s social circle.
The sweeping blackouts across many of the documents -- combined with tight control over the release by officials in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration -- stoked skepticism over whether this disclosure will silence conspiracy theories of a high-level cover-up.
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton sitting in a hot tub with a person whose face is blurred out in an undated photo released by the U.S. Department of Justices Epstein files dump on Dec. 19, 2025. (U.S. Department of justice)
In one example, seven pages listing 254 masseuses have every name buried beneath thick black bars alongside the note, “redacted to protect potential victim information.”
Even so, the files shed some light on the disgraced financier’s intimate ties to the rich, famous, and powerful -- Trump among them.
At least one file contains dozens of censored images of naked or scantily clad figures. Others show Epstein and companions, their faces obscured, posing with firearms.
Previously unseen photographs include one of a youthful-looking Clinton lounging in a hot tub, part of the image blacked out by a stark rectangle.
In another, Clinton swims alongside a dark-haired woman who appears to be Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. And Maxwell is seen in a separate image with disgraced former prince Andrew, pictured lying across the legs of five people.
A ‘fraction’ of the evidence
The White House wasted no time seizing on Clinton’s appearances.
“Slick Willy! @BillClinton just chillin, without a care in the world. Little did he know...” Communications Director Steven Cheung posted on X.
But Democrats voiced frustration that the release fell far short of what was mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the new federal law requiring the government’s entire case file be posted publicly by Friday, constrained only by legal and victim privacy concerns.
“This set of heavily redacted documents released by the Department of Justice today is just a fraction of the whole body of evidence,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
This undated, redacted photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Mick Jagger, left, and former President Bill Clinton, right, with an unknown person. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP) (Uncredited)
“Simply releasing a mountain of blacked-out pages violates the spirit of transparency and the letter of the law. For example, all 119 pages of one document were completely blacked out.”
Other Democrats in the U.S. Congress said the government had withheld a draft indictment prepared after the financier’s 2019 arrest, which they say would implicate “other rich and powerful men who were on Epstein’s rape island.”
Trump, who once counted his Palm Beach, Florida neighbor as a close friend, spent months trying to block the disclosure of the files on Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
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The Republican U.S. president ultimately bowed to mounting pressure from U.S. Congress -- including members of his own party -- and last month signed the law compelling publication of the materials by Friday.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said several hundred thousand documents would be published on deadline day, with many more to follow in the coming weeks.
Prosecutors retain discretion to withhold material tied to active investigations, and Blanche said files had also been redacted to protect the identities of Epstein’s hundreds of victims.
‘Democrat hoax’
Trump once moved in the same Palm Beach and New York party scene as Epstein, appearing with him at events throughout the 1990s. He severed ties years before Epstein’s 2019 arrest and faces no accusations of wrongdoing in the case.
This redacted photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a framed photograph of Jeffrey Epstein with a person on his lap, documented on Aug. 12, 2019, during a search of his home on Little St. James island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP) (Uncredited)
But his right-wing base has long fixated on the Epstein saga and conspiracy theories alleging the financier ran a sex trafficking ring for the global elite.
On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to release all the files. Yet after returning to office, he dismissed the transparency push as a “Democrat hoax.”
Trump’s Justice Department ignited a political firestorm in July with a memo declaring there would be no further disclosures from the Epstein probe and his fabled “client list” did not exist.
Trump then waged a fight against U.S. Congress’s drive to make the records public before relenting.
Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend, remains the only person convicted in connection with his crimes, and is serving a 20-year sentence for recruiting underage girls for the former teacher and banker, whose death was ruled a suicide.
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, right, speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 12, 2019, before Trump boards Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. and then on to Wisconsin. Trump says Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to step down, move comes in wake of handling of Jeffrey Epstein case. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Andrew Harnik/The Associated Press)
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