FBI Files

The investigation of Jeffrey Epstein by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and partner agencies spans twenty years, three presidential administrations, five jurisdictions, and several terabytes of digital media.

The master case number used below — 50D-NY-3027571 — mirrors the numbering convention visible on redacted SENTINEL print‑outs, though the true number remains sealed.

The Bureau opened the first file in October 2005 after the Palm Beach Police Department forwarded probable‑cause affidavits. Activity slowed after the 2008 non‑prosecution agreement, then re‑started in late 2018 under the Southern District of New York (SDNY).

Raids in July-September 2019 generated the largest evidence haul — since 2020, most work has involved data triage, witness follow‑ups, and grand‑jury presentations that continue into 2025.

Evidence Location

The master case file carries case number 50D-NY-3027571. Physical 1A evidence is stored at the FBI New York Evidence Control Center in Queens — digital clones reside on Bureau evidence drives mirrored to the DOJ's Litigation Server. Grand‑jury returns are in the SDNY discovery vault.

Total page count, based on FOIA litigation affidavits, exceeds 3,900 pages of FD‑302s and 2.1 TB of digital media.

FBI Evidence Inventory 50D-NY-3027571

The following table summarizes the official FBI evidence log for case 50D-NY-3027571, as released in the DOJ Inspector General's report (Appendix B). This inventory includes digital media, physical items, documents, valuables, and other materials seized during the Epstein investigation.

Count	Evidence class	Representative contents	Sensitive content flags
85	Digital media & devices	2 × LTO-6 Arcserve backup sets, 68+ optical discs, 45 assorted CDs, multiple USB/SD drives (32 GB, 16 GB, 4 GB), 2 × black external HDDs, Seagate Barracuda & Path/100 drives, 6-bay RAID with 146 GB disks, Unifi NVR & Cloud Key, Olympus/Digital voice recorders, Apple iPod Shuffle	Contains nude / semi-nude images, "girl pics nude book 4" CD, matchmaker shred recon images
29	Computers & network hardware	10 Apple desktops (A1311/12 etc.), 5 Mac laptops (incl. "JE BIG LAPTOP", "Kitchen Mac"), 4 iPads, HP & Lenovo towers, Dell Precision, MSI PC, Cube 9000 SiteServer, HP server (4 × 500 GB), Panasonic KX-TDE100 PBX	Notable for potential full-disk data and passwords list
24	Documents, photos & printed matter	10 yearbooks, blueprints (residence & island), logbooks (vessel, LSJ/GSJ boat, day planner), employee lists, remodeling files, financial docs, handwritten notes, shredded paper, red ropes with framed/unframed photos & photo albums (incl. Polaroids, Epstein with minors)	Numerous nude or sexual images; highly confidential tag
6	Physical objects	4 massage tables (peach, green, beige, brown), pair of black women's cowboy boots, stuffed dog, female torso busts (white × 2, blue, brown)	Sex-related items may corroborate victim testimony
2	Sex paraphernalia	Vibrator, dildo, 3 butt plugs, cuffs, leash, condoms, nurse cap, stethoscope, copper handcuffs & whip	Explicit sexual nature
2	Valuables	Heat-sealed envelopes with $21,515 USC total; Austrian passport bearing Epstein photo	Potential flight-risk evidence
6	Electronic surveillance (1D ELSUR)	Blu-ray & disc sets from court-authorized intercept 917-520-3106 (docs # 21340, 29845156, 694397, 690612-R1, 744655), FLIR aerial video (Bradford NH 07-02-2020), recorded interview 08-13-2019	Lawful intercepts—wiretap material
25	Miscellaneous general	Cameras (Red Nikon, Sony), yearbooks, framed photos, large framed portrait, sculpture photos, blue box with CDs, photographic negatives, single un-framed photo, paper with system passwords	May require separate forensic handling

Note: The full evidence log includes over 140 items, including additional digital devices, valuables, documents, and physical evidence. For brevity, only a representative sample is shown above. For the complete official list, see the DOJ OIG report, Appendix B.

Investigative Timeline 2005‑2025

Year‑Range	Event or Phase	Highlights	Principal Record Clusters Likely Generated
2005–2006	Palm Beach search warrants and victim interviews	First FD‑302 set, FD‑71 case‑opening EC, 1A evidence envelopes for Polaroids	Witness FD‑302s, 1A physical, FD‑597 receipts
2007–2008	Federal plea discussions, NPA signed	EC traffic between Miami, Main Justice and SDNY, grand‑jury minutes withheld under Rule 6(e)	ECs, prosecution memos, Rule 6(e) transcripts
2009–2017	Low‑tempo lead checking	FD‑1057 airtels summarizing tips, sporadic FD‑1023 CHS reports	FD‑1023s, airtels
2018–2019	Re‑activation, arrest, major searches	Manhattan townhouse and Little St. James warrants, Teterboro device seizures, French MLAT request	1A‑C digital, FD‑340 worksheets, Rule 41 packets, ERT after‑action reports
2020–2023	Digital triage & financial tracing	CART image‑hash trees, FinCEN SAR work‑ups, ongoing victim interviews, Title III intercepts on co‑conspirators	Digital‑lab reports, financial analysis spreadsheets, additional FD‑302s
2024–2025	FOIA litigation, congressional inquiries, grand‑jury extension	OIG jail‑death report, DOJ "no client list" memo, SDNY discovery reviews	OIG exhibits, litigation hold notices, unsealing reviews

Principal Evidence Collection Events

Site (Jurisdiction)	Entry Date	Items Publicly Reported	Current Custody & Status
9 E. 71st St., Manhattan (SDNY)	July 6–7, 2019	Rotary‑sawed safe containing $70,000 cash, 48 diamonds, three passports, dozens of labelled CDs/HDDs¹²	1A physical and 1A‑C digital holdings stored at NY Evidence Control Center, FD‑597 signed by estate manager
Little St. James, U.S. Virgin Islands	August 12–14, 2019	"Large‑scale evidence collection" of drives, binders, massage linens, volume never detailed in docket³⁴	Evidence flown to San Juan then mirrored to Quantico CART, scene logs sealed
Palm Beach mansion (S.D. Fla.)	Local PD search October 2005, no 2019 federal raid⁵	Legacy Polaroids and phone lists from 2005 still logged, no new FD‑597 in 2019	Material kept under earlier 1A numbers, chain‑of‑custody gap since 2008 transfer to FBI
Zorro Ranch, New Mexico	No federal entry as of August 21, 2019⁶	No FBI property receipts exist, evidence status unknown	Only third‑party statements and aerial photos in file
Avenue Foch apartment, Paris	September 23–24, 2019	French police seized devices from 800 m² flat, massage room documented⁷	Mutual‑legal‑assistance packet, copy drives provided to FBI Legat Paris

FBI Record Architecture Mapped to Epstein Matter

Cluster	Standard Form Codes	Confirmed or Expected Epstein Content	Public Release Status
Case‑opening & admin	FD‑71, EC, FD‑1057	Predication memos 2005 & 2018, scope expansions naming Maxwell and other subjects	Unreleased
Witness interviews	FD‑302	>3,900 pages covering victims, pilots, staff⁸	Parts 01‑08 of Vault, names redacted
Confidential tips	FD‑1023	Source reporting on recruiters and flight crews⁹	Withheld
Physical evidence	1A envelopes, FD‑597	Safe contents, diamonds, passports, linens	Withheld, receipt form quoted in media¹
Digital evidence	1A‑C barcodes, FD‑340 worksheets	"Tens of thousands" of files incl. CCTV and images¹⁰¹¹	Not released
Chain‑of‑custody	FD‑192, NIST‑aligned digital tags¹²	Transfer logs Queens → Quantico → SDNY vault	Withheld
Search‑warrant packets	Affidavits, inventories, returns	9 E. 71st St. & Little St. James affidavits, island warrant referenced in SDNY docket	Sealed
Digital forensics	CART reports, image‑hash lists	Cellebrite and GrayKey extractions from iPhones, hash‑set cross‑matches to NCMEC	Withheld
Financial analysis	Excel work‑ups, SAR memos	Deutsche Bank flagged wires, Southern Trust ledgers¹³	Not released
Laboratory	FD‑54, fingerprint/DNA results	QAR lab case 19‑NY‑1327 comparing sheets to victim kit	Withheld
Grand‑jury	Transcripts, subpoenas	Maxwell pre‑indictment testimony, 2023–25 witness subpoenas¹⁴	Protected under Rule 6(e)
Oversight & custodial	OIG exhibits	MCC camera outage logs, telephone reports¹⁵	Public (OIG PDF)

Volume, Storage and Access

By mid‑2025 the case file holds roughly 2,000 paper serials from 2005‑09 (scanned to SENTINEL), 3,900 additional FD‑302 pages, and about 2.1 TB of digital media.

Physical evidence sits in the NY Evidence Control Center — clone drives reside on DOJ's litigation servers. The Bureau withholds most material under FOIA Exemption 7(A), citing open investigations of uncharged associates.

Parallel FOIA suits in D.D.C. and the SDNY docket for United States v. Maxwell continue to drive staged releases.

Outstanding Gaps and Risks

No FBI team has ever entered Zorro Ranch, leaving any artifacts there outside Bureau chain‑of‑custody and limiting prosecutorial options tied to New Mexico travel.

Palm Beach items seized in 2005 changed hands before modern barcode tracking standards, raising authenticity challenges for trial exhibits.

The digital backlog — tens of thousands of files — poses a timeliness risk, hash‑matching and victim‑age verification are still in progress six years after seizure.

Disclosure Posture

The Justice Department stated in January 2025 that no "client list" has been located¹⁴, yet acknowledged that review of seized media remains active.

Congress has scheduled further oversight hearings for late‑2025. Absent an indictment of additional co‑conspirators, the next likely public release will be the court‑ordered unsealing of older FD‑302s once privacy redactions are complete.

Expanded Digital & Email Evidence

The Bureau's data haul stretches far beyond hard-drives and photographs. Provider subpoenas, onsite extractions and later civil discovery together produced an email archive running into seven figures, alongside a paper and digital trail that maps every flight, visitor, wire transfer and CCTV frame from 2005-2025.

What follows updates the briefing with a focused look at (1) where the emails came from, (2) what other primary documents turned up and (3) how each set slots into the FBI file architecture.

Email corpus recovered (2019-2025)

Acquisition path	Approx. volume & format	Representative public example	Evidentiary use	FBI forms & tags
§ 2703(d) / MLAT provider returns	40 computers, 26 detachable drives and six recording devices yielded "300 GB + of data," much of it mail-store archives ¹⁶¹⁷	Little St James server image & Gmail take-out bundled in 2025 DOJ index ¹⁷	Time-line grooming, recruitment chains, attachment hashes to victim imagery	1A-C barcodes, FD-340 worksheets
Local mail-stores imaged from seized Apple Mac Pro towers and iPhones	Device imaging described in FBI evidence list ("40 computers…70 CDs/HDDs") ¹⁶	Cellebrite/GrayKey extraction logs referenced in DOJ memo ¹⁸	Drafts, deleted mail, key-chain passwords	FD-340 + lab image-hash lists
Internal bank compliance email archives	1,200+ messages between Epstein and Jes Staley alone, JPMorgan warned employees via e-mail of "high-risk" status in 2011 ¹⁹²⁰	Photos of young women e-mailed to Staley titled after Disney princesses ¹⁹	Shows knowledge & facilitation for potential 18 U.S.C. § 2 charges	1A-C "Financial-Mail-Archive", FD-302 financial inserts
Corporate archives under DFS consent orders	Deutsche Bank AML mail chains from 2013-18 summarized in NYDFS findings	Due-diligence e-mails approving Epstein despite red flags	Will-fit counts for money-laundering predicate	FD-302 attachment, SAR analytical file
Deleted or missing sets	SEC order cites JPMorgan's loss of 47 million 2018 e-mails sought by subpoenas ²¹	Gap noted in parallel civil suits	Spoliation risk logged in EC "Evidence-Gaps" serial

Additional first-order documents and artefacts

Document / artefact	Source location	Public confirmation
Island & Manhattan blueprints, Little St James boat and visitor log-books	Boxes seized Aug 2019, catalogued in DOJ index ¹⁶	Reconstructs building sight-lines and guest movements
Wire-tap discs on Ghislaine Maxwell phone	Three court-authorized intercept discs listed in evidence index ¹⁶	Correlates voice calls with e-mail/chat traffic patterns
Employee contact lists, handwritten service notebooks, cash-log ledgers ("Ghis")	Same index items and ABC breakdown ¹⁶	Shows scheduling, payments, real-time grooming entries
Financial KYC files, SAR correspondence	Deutsche Bank consent order narrative	Grounds for money-laundering counts, asset-forfeiture tracing
Customs & Border Protection passenger manifests and cargo bills	FOIA reading-room publication of Epstein records ²²	Verifies cross-border victim travel, freight deliveries
CCTV master files (Synology RAID) and MCC prison footage	30 TB video bank in 2019 seizure list ¹⁶, DOJ-released 11-hour prison video later found edited ¹⁸	Victim-age confirmation, chain-of-custody contested after metadata "cuts"
254-name masseuse spreadsheet & redacted "black book"	2025 Newsweek release of phase-one files ²³	Cross-match to payment memos, e-mails, photos
Bank executive e-mails showing intimate exchanges	FCA ban cites "sometimes intimate e-mails" ²⁴	Shows conscious disregard and concealment
Blueprint of flight legs & tail-numbers	Listed in DOJ evidence index, echoed in Guardian explainer ¹⁷	Ties manifests to surveillance video and victim statements
Postal and freight bills (FedEx lingerie, photo gear)	Described in 2025 ABC evidence breakdown ¹⁶	Confirms procurement consistent with grooming narrative

Processing & integrity safeguards

All e-mail and digital artefacts enter the file under 1A-C numbers; each archive (provider return, device image, or compliance export) is hashed in an FD-340 and mirrored at Quantico's CART lab. Chain-of-custody across labs and offices is tracked on FD-192 forms, the template referenced in the FBI Forensic Services handbook.¹⁸

Provider-supplied metadata (Message-ID, login IPs) is ingested into SENTINEL for cross-indexing with travel, financial and CCTV time-stamps. The Bureau's digital-evidence retention policy flags spoliation events — such as JPMorgan's 47 million deleted e-mails — for supervisory follow-up, as already recorded in the civil SEC order.²¹

The email layer supplies the connective tissue — linking photographs on seized drives to payments on bank ledgers, badge swipes in visitor logs and names in log-books — while the expanded paper and video cache corroborates each thread.

Together they create a multidimensional timeline that prosecutors can authenticate under Fed. R. Evid. 902(13) with the FD-340 hash sheets already in the case file.