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Major Democrat donor Brad Karp stepped down Wednesday from his role as chairman of Paul Weiss after newly released emails revealed close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
While the firm did not provide a reason for his departure, Karp said in a statement that “recent reporting has created a distraction and has placed a focus on me that is not in the best interests of the firm.”
“Leading Paul, Weiss for the past 18 years has been the honor of my professional life,” Karp stated.
When Big Tech sugar daddy Reid Hoffman isn’t trying to explain his past adventures with the late-serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he’s busy pumping cash into the campaign coffers of liberal hypocrites.
The LinkedIn co-founder over the past four years has written more than $1.8 million in checks to the Welcome PAC, a so-called “dark money” funding machine for Democrat candidates. And Hoffman’s generosity is feeding the campaigns of “moderate” Democrats like California’s Adam Gray, Michigan’s Kristen McDonald Rivet, and other left-leaning candidates facing tight midterm races.
Mona Juul, the Norwegian ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, was reportedly exempted from work responsibilities following the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Epstein seemingly bequeathed a sum of $10 million dollars to Juul’s children, the Straits Times reported, citing local media.
Included in the files was The 1953 Trust, a 32 page document outlining over 40 beneficiaries. The document refers to separate $5 million bequeathments to Edward Roed Larsen and Emma Roed Larsen, who appear to be her two children.
The document was dated Aug. 8, 2019, and Epstein died Aug. 10, 2019.
The Grammy Awards show on Sunday night was a total disgrace.
In addition to the disgusting anti-American comments from singer Billie Eilish, the host of the evening, failed former Daily Show host Trevor Noah, made an inappropriate joke about Trump and the infamous Epstein Island.
Trevor Noah told a HiLaRiOuS joke about Trump and Epstein Island at the Grammys last night. 🥴
When asked about the allegations laid forth in the documents released, Gates said they weren’t true.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spoken out after the Department of Justice released a massive number of documents in the case of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, in which Epstein claimed that Gates had wanted to get antibiotics to give to his then-wife without her noticing, and that Gates had allegedly gotten STDs from “Russian girls.”
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that he was aware that his mentor and former Ambassador to the United States, Lord Mandelson, had a relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, but claimed that he was misled over the extent of the ties.
Taking to the dispatch box on Wednesday afternoon as he fights for his political life, Prime Minister Starmer attempted to shift blame for the disastrous decision to appoint veteran former Tony Blair spin doctor Lord Peter ‘Prince of Darkness’ Mandelson as his ambassador to Washington.
Prince Andrew’s fall from royalty continues.
Prince Andrew, now referred to as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after his royal title was revoked, is leaving his royal residence after new details from the latest Epstein Files revealed he had a closer relationship with Epstein than he has led the public to believe.
One of the most disturbing release in the drop were photos of Andrew hunched over a woman lying on the floor.
Take a look at the photos here:
Prince Andrew’s Fresh Pics Are Absolutely Damning
Prince Andrew crouched over a woman on the floor, big grin, zero shame.
These fresh Epstein file photos just surfaced and they’re brutal.
How are you going to spin your way out of this one now, Andrew?
Playing a game of… pic.twitter.com/SYSLXgTEjp
— Queen Natalie (@TheNorfolkLion) January 31, 2026
The Department of Justice made about 3 million pages worth of documents relating to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein available on Friday.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the latest tranche of documents was winnowed from about 6 million due to personally identifying information of victims, medical files, child pornography images, and any images showing death or abuse, according to ABC News.
The documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
“We comply with the act, and there is no ‘protect President Trump.’ We didn’t protect or not protect anybody,” Blanche said.
Former President Bill Clinton and his failed presidential candidate wife, Hillary Clinton, have agreed to testify before Congress after being threatened with contempt charges.
The Clintons previously issued a defiant statement accusing the administration of using the apparatus of government to punish their political enemies, but they changed their tune Monday.
‘The former President and former Secretary of State will be there. They look forward to setting a precedent that applies to everyone.’
President Donald Trump said Monday that he is considering legal action against comedian Trevor Noah, the host of the 2026 Grammy Awards, after Noah made false remarks during the broadcast linking Trump to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
During Sunday night’s ceremony, Noah joked that Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland stemmed from his alleged inability to visit Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
Noah appeared to be referring to Friday’s release of millions of Epstein Files.
The files were released under congressional legislation, which Trump signed into law.
U.K. Labour peer Peter Mandelson has resigned from the Labour Party over his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer has indicated that he may be stripped of his “lord” title.
Mandelson appeared in the latest release of the Epstein files, prompting an investigation into his conduct while serving under former U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown in 2009.
President Trump may have had the misfortune of being one of the few people taking in the Grammy Awards last night, and frankly, he didn’t like what he saw. He posted his thoughts in a late-night screed on Truth Social.
A 2014 email exchange between Plaskett and Epstein’s former executive assistant, Lesley Groff, reveals Plaskett accepted an invitation to the island.
Virgin Islands Democratic Delegate Stacey Plaskett is alleged to have been a visitor to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, according to Epstein-related documents recently released by the Department of Justice.
A massive new release of Department of Justice (DOJ) records tied to Jeffrey Epstein is sending shockwaves through elite circles, and billionaire Bill Gates appears to be scrambling after being directly implicated in a series of deeply disturbing allegations.
As Slay News previously reported, the millions of pages released Friday include emails in which Epstein makes salacious claims that Gates begged him to obtain antibiotics so he could secretly dose his wife to conceal sexually transmitted diseases he allegedly contracted from “Russian girls.”
According to the DOJ-released files, Epstein discussed helping Gates obtain drugs “in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls,” as well as facilitating illicit relationships with married women.
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Monday defended President Donald Trump’s administration handling of files about deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on his first episode of “The Dan Bongino Show” since leaving the bureau.
After Axios reported on July 6 that a Department of Justice (DOJ) memo found that Epstein had left no “client list” and that there was no evidence of foul play in his death, many Trump supporters criticized the administration. However, Bongino suggested on his show that the administration could not have handled the Epstein files better.
The latest release of the Epstein files includes a 2013 email from the disgraced financier and sex predator to himself about the Microsoft co-founder in which Epstein claims Gates caught an STD after “sex with Russians girls” and wanted to slip antibiotics to his wife instead of telling her. Gates insists the claims are “completely false.”
In the 2013 email — written seemingly in the voice of one of Gates’ top advisers, Boris Nikolic, but sent only to Epstein himself — the disgraced financier and convicted sex predator wrote that the Microsoft co-founder was trying “to get drugs in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls.”
U.S. Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett privately referred to Jeffrey Epstein as her “friend” and shared him exclusive, non-public details about her legislative work, according to newly released text messages that undercut her public claims about the nature of their relationship.
In a Sept. 24, 2018, message, Plaskett thanked Epstein, a longtime campaign donor and Virgin Islands resident, for his “support” and asked whether it would be “presumptuous” of her to “consider you a friend.”
“Privileged to be called friend,” Epstein replied. He was arrested 10 months later on federal charges accusing him of trafficking dozens of women and girls for sex. He died by suicide in jail on Aug. 10, 2019.
The latest release of the Jeffrey Epstein Files has detonated an explosive political firestorm in the United Kingdom, after newly disclosed emails exposed disturbing conversations between the convicted child predator and the UK’s former Ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, one of Britain’s most powerful Labour Party figures and a longtime anti-Trump operative.
The emails, released as part of the newest tranche of Justice Department records, show Epstein joking with Lord Mandelson about marrying into the British royal family.
It has been 9,133 days since William Jefferson Clinton was president.
In that time, the World Trade Center has fallen. The first mass-produced product with WiFi, Apple’s iBook, was less than two years old at the time. Broadband internet was rare outside of college campuses. Real smartphones were years away. Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator who had, just four years prior, transitioned from being a “community organizer.”
George W. Bush was replacing Clinton, thanks in part to third-party candidates who took away votes from Democratic nominee Al Gore. One of them wasn’t businessman Donald Trump, who had considered a Reform Party run but decided against it. Liberals and conservatives alike, of course, thought that the possibility itself was silly, and thank heavens it didn’t have to be entertained anymore.
The House Oversight Committee has voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas related to the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
The GOP-controlled committee advanced the contempt resolutions against the Clintons for a full House vote, which should take place within weeks.
Several Democrat lawmakers joined Republicans to vote in favor of the contempt resolutions.
“Today was a big day for accountability,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said.
A federal judge has shut down an effort by two anti-Trump House lawmakers to force the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to immediately release all remaining files related to Jeffrey Epstein, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction to intervene.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a seven-page decision rejecting a request from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to participate in the closed criminal case of Ghislaine Maxwell as amici curiae, or “friends of the court.”
Khanna and Massie had asked Engelmayer to appoint a special master to oversee the DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), a law they authored and that was signed by President Donald Trump last year.
The House Oversight Committee issued deposition subpoenas on Aug. 5 to failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton requiring their testimony “related to horrific crimes perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein.”
Evidently the Clintons didn’t feel that they should be held to the same standard to which Democrats previously held President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon and current trade adviser Peter Navarro, who were both jailed for defying subpoenas issued by the Jan. 6 committee.
‘The Clintons were legally required to appear and instead responded to our good-faith negotiations with defiance.’
After repeated warnings that the Clintons risked criminal exposure by failing to comply with the subpoenas, the committee advanced two resolutions on Wednesday recommending that the House of Representatives find them in contempt of Congress.
Former President Bill Clinton is famous for his tendency to parse words, but when it comes to the Epstein files, he’d rather not say anything at all.
The one-time Democrat wunderkind and his entitled wife, Hillary, have been repeated no-shows at the House Oversight Committee, which had subpoenaed the pair to deliver depositions on what they knew about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and when they knew it.
Former President Bill Clinton — who famously palled around with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — refused to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday.
Clinton was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee for closed-door testimony in regards to the House’s probe into Epstein but never showed. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said “not a single Democrat” showed up to the deposition either.
Following Clinton’s no-show, Comer said, “We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee … to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress.”
More than two weeks after the December 19 deadline to release records tied to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the Department of Justice (DOJ) says it is still working through a vast backlog of unreleased material.
The DOJ acknowledges that millions of documents remain under review.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York, the department disclosed that:
“There are more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review.”
Former President Bill Clinton defied a House Republican committee’s subpoena Tuesday in an escalating battle over Congress’s handling of an investigation of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer threatened the former president with a contempt prosecution, while Clinton accused the Republican of mounting a partisan campaign to hide, rather than reveal, the truth about Epstein and his powerful connections.
Clinton failed to appear at a deposition for Comer’s panel Tuesday. Instead, the former president posted a letter to the chairman on social media denouncing his investigation and condemning him for resisting successful legislation to force disclosure of Justice Department files on Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
“If the government didn’t do all it could to investigate and prosecute these crimes, for whatever reason, that should be the focus of your work – to learn why and to prevent that from happening ever again. There is no evidence that you are doing so,” Clinton wrote in a letter co-signed by his wife, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has also been subpoenaed by the panel.
One of the lawmakers behind a new law mandating the release of the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files said he is giving the Justice Department until Friday to comply, while warning there will be consequences if it does not.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law last month by President Donald Trump, “calls for the release, publicly, of these files,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told NBC News.
Khanna said the Justice Department has not responded to inquiries about when or how the records will be released but pointed to DOJ’s recent move to unseal grand jury materials as a sign officials may be trying to comply.
The law requires the department to make the files public by Dec. 19.
Khanna said the material could expose how Epstein wielded influence and intimidation.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Monday set new January deposition dates for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, warning that continued refusal to testify in Congress’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation will trigger immediate contempt of Congress proceedings.
In a sharply worded letter sent to the Clintons’ attorney, David Kendall of Williams & Connolly, Comer rejected arguments that the former officials should be excused from appearing and accused their legal team of mischaracterizing the scope of the investigation while obstructing efforts to schedule testimony.
“The Committee has chosen the date of January 13, 2026, for the deposition of President Clinton and January 14, 2026, for the deposition of Secretary Clinton,” Comer wrote. “If your clients do not comply with these new dates, the Committee will move immediately to contempt proceedings.”
After the nearly unanimous passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act last month, many have wondered what other files and information have yet to be disclosed amid the heated controversy over the Epstein files.
A federal judge in Florida just ordered the release of grand jury documents from an old case against Epstein, defying past orders not to release them.
US District Judge Rodney Smith argued that a recent law now takes precedence over the rules that prohibited past disclosure.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith has ordered the release of grand jury transcripts related to investigations from 2005 and 2007 involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Judge Rodney Smith of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, granted the Department of Justice’s request to release the grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s trial.
Smith agreed to the request due to the Epstein Files Transparency Act of 2025.
In its instant motion, the Government argues that the newly enacted Act overrides Rule 6(e)’s prohibition on the public disclosure of the grand jury transcripts in this matter. In support of its position, the Government cites Savage Services Corp. v. United States for the proposition “that more recent or specific statutes should prevail over older or more general ones.” 25 F.4th 925, 933 (11th Cir. 2022) (quoting Tug Allie-B, Inc. v. United States, 273 F.3d 936, 941 (11th Cir. 2001)). The Act applies to unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Consequently, the later-enacted and specific language of the Act trumps Rule 6’s prohibition on disclosure. Accordingly, it is
ORDERED that United States’ Expedited Motion to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts and Modify Protective Order [DE 6] is GRANTED.