Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, during an NBC feature in 1992. Photo / YouTube
More than one million more documents “potentially related” to the Jeffrey Epstein case have been uncovered by Donald Trump’s Administration, which could take weeks to publish.
“We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible,” the US Justice Department announced today NZT.
“Because of the mass volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks.”
It means Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and other high-profile associates of the late paedophile face an agonising wait to see what further embarrassing revelations will emerge from the massive haul of emails, memos, photographs, FBI tips, interviews and court documents.
The releases began last week, but the Trump Administration is under pressure to streamline the process.
The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of Justice that they have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. The DOJ has received these documents from SDNY and the FBI to review…
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) December 24, 2025
Earlier, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate minority leader, accused the White House of breaking the law by failing to meet a December 19 deadline for the full publication of the documents.
He said the process so far had been “full of s***” and accused the department of becoming “Trump’s shill”.
Schumer added: “You’re dribbling [the files] out, and you’re trying to be a cheerleader for Trump.”
Trump’s allies were noticeably quiet this week as the second major tranche of files was published.
After the Administration and supporters spent the weekend highlighting the first drop and the frequent appearances of former President Bill Clinton in the files, the second release raised awkward questions for Trump and his presence on Epstein’s plane.
Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and first-term Trump appointee, said it was a difficult task to manage but that he could not imagine a sloppier way of dealing with it.
From the Attorney-General [Pam Bondi] claiming to have the Epstein “client list” on her desk to leaks about White House strategy meetings and the deputy director of the FBI [Todd Blanche] threatening to resign because of the fallout, a tricky issue had been kept in the headlines, he said.
“This has been an ongoing nightmare soap opera for the Administration, largely of their own making,” said Bartlett.
“It is something of a difficult process. But the reality is that the handling of this has been abysmal.”
Insiders played down the significance.
“This is the sort of thing that plays well on social media and on liberal networks, but most real people have more important things to think about than old allegations that were investigated and rejected at the time,” said one source close to the Trump Administration.
The latest tranche of documents shows investigators had been seeking to contact as many as 10 individuals who they appeared to suggest were potential “co-conspirators” of Epstein.
Federal agents made attempts to contact a number of high-profile individuals in relation to Epstein on July 7, 2019, the day after the paedophile was arrested on sex-trafficking charges.
Newly released emails showed the list included Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s long-term associate, as well as Leslie Wexner, an American billionaire and former chief executive of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie company.
FBI agents also attempted to contact Jean-Luc Brunel, a former French model scout who was found dead in his Paris jail cell in 2022 after being held on suspicion of the rape and trafficking of minors.
A further seven names were redacted.
Wexner was approached for comment.
Lawyers for the financier, who has also previously headed up retailers Abercrombie and Fitch and La Senza, told the BBC that “the assistant US attorney in charge of the Epstein investigation stated at the time that Mr Wexner was neither a co-conspirator nor target”.
“Mr Wexner co-operated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again,” they said.
According to Axios, a US news website, around 750,000 documents have been released so far but a further 700,000 remain.
It said a team of 200 people were working on redacting information in the files, so that they could be published within the next week.
Yesterday, the Justice Department said on its X account that some of the information released online that morning contained “untrue and sensationalist” allegations about the President.
Later, it said a letter purportedly written by Epstein to Larry Nassar, the convicted paedophile, in which Trump was said to share “our love of young, nubile girls”, was fake.
The FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar is FAKE. The fake letter was received by the jail, and flagged for the FBI at the time. The FBI made this conclusion based on the following facts:
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) December 23, 2025
-The writing does not appear to match Jeffrey…
The White House has taken over the DoJ’s X account, offering unusually pointed commentary on the publication of the files.
One of its posts claimed that the department was publishing the files out of a “commitment to transparency”.
But a “community note”, appended by users to the message on X, noted that the Trump Administration had failed to comply with the law mandating the full publication of the files.
Todd Blanche, the US Deputy Attorney-General, accused Schumer of playing politics.
“The Epstein files existed for years and years and years, and you did not hear a peep out of a single Democrat,” he said.
“We’re supposed to believe that lo and behold, all the sudden, out of the blue, Schumer suddenly cares about the Epstein files? That’s the hoax.”
One of the published documents yesterday claimed that Trump had flown on Epstein’s private jet several times, including eight trips between 1993 and 1996.
Last year, the President denied ever having flown on the so-called “Lolita Express”.
An email from an assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York said Trump had been accompanied on one flight by Epstein and one other person – an unidentified 20-year-old woman.
Earlier this month, the New York Times reported claims that Trump once made a pass at a 20-year-old woman on Epstein’s plane in the early 1990s.
It is not clear if the person in the alleged incident was the same as the 20-year-old woman mentioned in the lawyer’s email.
The President was said to have discussed his sex life in detail with Epstein, including once boasting about having intercourse with a woman on a pool table, according to a former Epstein assistant, the newspaper said.
Trump, who was close friends with the disgraced financier until the early 2000s, fought hard against the publication of the Epstein files.
He has called the story a Democrat “hoax” and raised fears that “innocent” people’s reputations could be unfairly tarnished.
In the thousands of documents released so far, nothing has suggested that Trump ever had sex with an underage girl or participated in Epstein’s trafficking operation.
He has long denied any knowledge of his former friend’s crimes, with aides saying they fell out because he realised Epstein was a “creep”.
Among the documents in the Epstein files most keenly awaited are a draft 62-page federal indictment that was mysteriously quashed.
Schumer also noted that the names of 10 Epstein co-conspirators had been redacted from the files, and demanded they be revealed in full.
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