The first trove of names on Jeffrey Epstein's contact list contains no surprises and assumes no guilt or shame just for being on the contact list.
New Jeffrey Epstein contact list includes Alec Baldwin, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger and RFK Jr.’s mom
The Justice Department on Thursday evening released a long-awaited trove of documents related to notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, including his contact list, flight logs and a list of evidence the government amassed against him.
But the much-hyped, roughly 200-page document dump provided no big revelations, instead listing celebrities and politicians who were already known to have palled around with the notorious pedophile.
Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed a witness told her that the FBI Field Office in New York has thousands of pages worth of outstanding documents and demanded the bureau fork over that material so that she can disclose it to the public.
Among the famous names in Epstein’s contact list released by the Department of Justice Thursday: Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, actor Alec Baldwin, Ethel Kennedy (the mother of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, supermodel Naomi Campbell and rocker Courtney Love.
Others include Harvey Weinstein’s brother Bob Weinstein, industrialist David Koch, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), actor Ralph Fiennes, Kerry Kennedy, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, John Kerry, actor Dustin Hoffman, businessman Jon Huntsman, Ivana Trump, Ivanka Trump, and model Liz Hurley. President Trump’s name was not in the contact list.
The list is not “a client list,” but includes names of people on Epstein’s vast contact list.
While the names on the contact list were revealed, their addresses and contact information were redacted.
The vast majority of names on the list — if not all of them — had been previously reported in the years of lawsuits and document leaks in the case.
In addition to the contact list, the DOJ released a redacted list of the masseuses, whose names were blacked out because they were victims. There were 254 names on that list.
Also in the binder were Epstein’s “Lolita Express” private jet flight logs — which have previously been made public with redactions. One section of the binder was completely redacted as it contained the names of Epstein’s victims.
The logs showed pilot David Rodgers’ signature for the flights. Rodgers has previously testified in court about what he witnessed during his time flying Epstein around.
Two copies of Epstein’s “little black book” had already been made public with 349 names of associates from the 1990s. One copy went up for auction.
A source who reviewed a binder containing the first tranche of information — called “phase one” — said Thursday’s release would likely be a “disappointment” for anyone hoping for bombshell revelations about any potential damning ties of high-profile politicians and business leaders to the sick sex trafficker.
It was not immediately known if there would be further Epstein-related information dumps, but the binder’s name implied there could be additional “phases.”
“Now what’s interesting is we’re all waiting for bombshells,” podcaster Liz Wheeler told followers in a livestream on X. “We’re all waiting for juicy stuff. And that’s not what’s in this binder. That’s not what’s in this binder at all. And that’s exactly how the attorney general presented it to us.”
“It’s fine to feel frustrated,” she added. “You should feel frustrated.”
Critics such as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who leads a House GOP task force on government transparency, quickly demanded more information.
“I nor the task force were given or reviewed the Epstein documents being released today … A NY Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein’s phonebook,” Luna tweeted.
“THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment. GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
Bondi has given the FBI a deadline of Friday to cough up the outstanding material.
“The first phase of files released today sheds light on Epstein’s extensive network and begins to provide the public with long overdue accountability,” she said in a public statement.
FBI Director Kash Patel vowed “there will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned” and that anyone “who undermines this will be swiftly pursued.”
“If records have been hidden, we will uncover them,” he added. “And we will bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the American people as it should be.”
Epstein’s notorious “little black book” first came to light in a 2009 court case and was then publicized by the since-defunct site Gawker in 2015.
That book, dated 2004 and 2005, had notable entries including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jagger, Prince Andrew, Andrew Cuomo, Baldwin, singer Jimmy Buffet, Koch and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
The book containing Epstein’s contacts from the ’90s surfaced years later and contained 349 names, 221 of which weren’t in the book released in 2015, including President Trump, billionaire New York businessman John Catsimatidis and Melania Trump’s best friend and co-owner of the New York Jets Suzanne Ircha.
Other names included billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, Chris Cuomo’s wife Cristina Greeven, ex-Playboy CEO Christie Hefner and Marty Peretz, ex-New Republic publisher and former political mentor to Al Gore.
No one listed is accused of any wrongdoing tied to Epstein.
Is it just me, or did Epstein like to invite people who were uglier than he?
The book from the ’90s was found on Fifth Avenue in the East Village by a woman who auctioned it off on eBay for $425 to Vermont social studies teacher Christopher Helali. Helali is putting the book on auction in March with hopes it’ll fetch as much as $50,000.
The multimillionaire sex offender pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to child prostitution crimes and was given a hush-hush sweetheart plea deal that only saw him serve 13 months in jail on a cushy work-release program.
He was arrested again by prosecutors in Manhattan on sex-trafficking charges and hanged himself in a Lower Manhattan lockup while he was awaiting trial.
His right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, was later convicted in the same sex-trafficking case and is serving 20 years behind bars.
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