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The Epstein 20 – There Are Now 20 People Connected To Epstein Who Have Wound Up Dead

A mere 20 people with connections to Epstein have been killed in recent years—the latest was last week.

Sorry, not killed. I meant to say “they chose to take their own lives rather than keep telling the world about the powerful men involved in a horrible sex trafficking enterprise.” Oh, and some of them died from “natural causes” like the highly contagious Rope Around Neck Syndrome or the tragically rare Fall From Tree Disease.

Here’s the list that should be on the front page of every newspaper but isn’t.

  1. Jeffrey Epstein – hanged in jail cell with a mysterious vanishing noose – 2019
  2. Jean-Luc Brunel – French fashion designer and Epstein co-conspirator – also hanged in his jail cell – 2022
  3. Carolyn Andriano – Epstein survivor who gave testimony that helped convict Ghislaine Maxwell – drug overdose – 2023
  4. Virginia Giuffre – The most prominent Epstein victim and accuser – stated publicly she would never take her own life then took her own life – this came months after surviving a bus hitting her – 2025
  5. Daniel Siad – “Modeling scout” who worked extensively with Epstein – was under investigation in France when he had a “heart attack” – 2026
  6. Efrain “Stone” Reyes – Epstein’s final prison cellmate who provided information to authorities – died of “Covid complications” – 2020
  7. Mark Middleton – White House aide to Epstein buddy Bill Clinton – he facilitated several events with Epstein – died from both hanging and shooting himself, which means he either shot himself and then got to work on the hanging or hanged himself and then, while hanging there, shot himself – 2022
  8. Steven Hoffenberg – Business associate who alleged Epstein’s involvement in his Ponzi scheme – 2022
  9. Ken Starr – Epstein’s lawyer during his 2008 plea deal – 2022
  10. Roy Black – Epstein’s other lawyer during his 2008 plea deal – 2025
  11. Umar Dzhabrailov – Russian senator with connections to Epstein – died of Gunshot To Chest Disease – 2026
  12. Simon Andriesz – Banker and whistleblower who revealed business ties between Epstein and Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick – died by tripping and falling into a noose – 2026
  13. Thomas Bowers – Former Deutsche Bank wealth management executive with ties to Epstein – died by hanging – 2019
  14. Steve Bing – Film producer and political donor who reportedly contacted the FBI about Epstein – died by accidentally jumping out of a Los Angeles high-rise – 2020
  15. Valentin Broeksmit – Deutsche Bank whistleblower, possibly had direct information about Epstein’s business transactions – died by fall from a tree… after getting locked in a breezeway… at a middle school he had no connection to… on a Sunday night… when the school wasn’t open… – 2022
  16. Alberto Pinto – Epstein’s interior designer – 2012
  17. Al Seckel – Organized events for Epstein – died after enjoying a long, scenic walk off a 100-foot cliff – 2015
  18. Joseph Recarey – police officer who first built the case against Epstein – died from sleeping at age 50 (reported as complications from sleep apnea) – 2018
  19. Leigh “Skye” Patrick – Epstein survivor – died of an “accidental” overdose – 2018
  20. Annabelle Neilson – Socialite closely tied to Epstein – died of a stroke – 2018

So there you have it—the 20 people with close ties and information on Jeffrey Epstein and his associates who have died in recent years. I left out the few people who were ancient (one was 95 years old) and the people who died before Epstein’s first 2008 arrest. But this list, of course, can’t include other possible victims who died even before they were able to come forward to reveal anything.

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Pedophile President: Trump & Epstein Argued Over Who Would Take 13-year-old’s Virginity, New House Report States

A new Democrat-led House Committee on the Judiciary report released this week sheds more light on President Donald Trump’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Document, entitled “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up,” is based on the accounts of eleven women, five of whom alleged Trump raped or sexually assaulted them in the presence of the disgraced financier. Two of those women were 13-year-old children at the time of the alleged events.

The report portrays both Trump and former United States Special Representative for Global Partnerships Paolo Zampolli as being members of Epstein’s trafficking inner circle, and catalogs how Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) “actively obstructed the Epstein investigation into any co-conspirators” and attempted to block the release of the Epstein Files in order to protect the president.

Even so, Trump’s name still appears roughly 38,000 times in the released Epstein Files, with Epstein himself claiming that he introduced Trump’s future wife Melania to him, and that the pair first had sex aboard his infamous “Lolita Express” jet. Melania was, at the time, a model working for Zampolli’s agency.

A Host of Women Come Forward

Beatrice Keul – In 1993, Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul was in New York City competing in Trump’s American Dream Pageant. It was there that she met both the future president and Jeffrey Epstein. Trump offered to secure her a place at New York University, and for Zampolli to arrange her visa. Epstein, she said, described himself as “Don’s best friend.”

Keul went to a suite in the Plaza Hotel for what she thought was a meeting about NYU. However, upon entering the suite, she said, Trump grabbed her from behind and “brutally” raped her, tearing her dress and caused bleeding and bruising across her body.

“Katie Johnson” – (a pseudonym) alleges in a lawsuit that Trump raped and sexually abused her on multiple occassions in 1994, when she was just 13-years-old. At an Epstein party in New York, she states that she was ordered to strip down to her underwear, massage Epstein, and touch Trump’s penis. Trump and Epstein argued over who would take her virginity, with Epstein getting angry and “violently raping her” when he found out Trump had already done so.

Johnson also alleges that Trump and Epstein threatened to kill her if she went to the authorities, stating “we will make you disappear like [name redacted].”

In a separate complaint, Johnson said that, on another occasion, she pleaded with Trump to wear a condom, to which he struck her in the face and screamed that he “would do whatever he wanted.” After he finished, Johnson claimed that Trump threw money at her and screamed “get a fucking abortion.”

Jane Doe 4 – Another 13-year-old allegedly assaulted by Trump was Jane Doe 4. She told the FBI that, in 1983, she bit Trump while performing oral sex on him, in response to which he hit her in the face. She said that Epstein flew her to New York City on multiple occasions, where she was offered up as “fresh meat” at “intimate gatherings with other, prominent, wealthy men,” where she was “brutally and forcibly battered, assaulted, and raped by these other men.”

Stacey Williams – Williams, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, dated Epstein in the 1990s. While at Trump’s Christmas party at the Plaza Hotel, she said that Trump groped her in front of Epstein. “His hands were all over me. They were on my breasts, they were on my butt, they were on, you know, my hips, up and down,” she said. Epstein berated her for letting Trump touch her.

Jill Harth – Harth alleges that in 1993, Trump bundled her into his daughter’s bedroom at Mar-a-Lago, kissed and groped her, and prevented her from leaving.

Jane Doe 1 – At just 14-years-old, Epstein brought her to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, telling him “this is a good one, huh?” to which Trump responded “Yes.” She described in detail the sexual abuse she received from Epstein and others, but did not name Trump as one of those individuals.

Maria Farmer – Epstein’s former assistant alleges that, while at the financier’s New York City office, Donald Trump marched into the office in an imposing “predatory” manner. Epstein then appeared and told Trump that Farmer was “not for you,” escorting him to another room where Farmer believes another girl was waiting. She also stated that Trump said he “thought she was 16” although she was actually 25 at the time.

“Kate” – Kate (another pseudonym) states that Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell introduced her to Trump, “with the clear understanding that she was available for sex.” This sex, she said, did not happen. However, in 1997, the British tabloid, The Sunday Mirror, ran a story reporting how “America’s best known billionaire Donald Trump has fallen under the spell of a 20-year-old English girl” (Kate). It also noted that Maxwell had “introduced several of her attractive friends” to Trump. The Sunday Mirror was owned by Ghislaine’s father, Robert Maxwell, until his death in 1991.

Obfuscating Reality

Many of these allegations were already publicly available. But the fact that they are appearing in an official government publication is highly significant, especially as the report concludes that “there is more than enough evidence” against Trump and that he “must be investigated and prosecuted.”

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Police Scotland carrying out ‘active inquiries’ into Andrew and Epstein Balmoral visits

Police Scotland is making inquiries into the activities of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell during their time at Balmoral Castle.

The Daily Express reported that the inquiry relates to allegations that women were trafficked to the royal residence in Aberdeenshire.

Sex offender Epstein – who died in 2019 – and Maxwell, who was jailed in 2022 for sex trafficking, are understood to have visited the castle with Mountbatten-Windsor, who has previously denied any wrongdoing.

Police Scotland said inquiries were at “a very early stage” and that it would be inappropriate to comment further.

Representatives of Mountbatten-Windsor have been contacted for comment.

The Royal family traditionally spend summer at Balmoral, where Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022.

Asked about the Express report, a Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We have received information and active inquiries are ongoing but these are at a very early stage.

“All inquiries are evidence led, with the needs of victim survivors at the heart of those inquiries.

“We would never confirm details of ongoing inquiries and it would be inappropriate to comment further.”

In February, the force said it wanted to “speak to anyone with information” about Epstein’s private jet using Edinburgh Airport.

At the time officers said they had not received any reports or complaints in relating to the trip.

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Girl Wins $164 Million Lawsuit from Hotel in Sex-Trafficking Case

A federal court in Georgia has ordered a hotel to pay a female victim $164 million because it allowed a sex trafficking ring to operate on its premises.

The victim, who was 15 at the time of her trafficking, was reportedly held at the Super 8 hotel in College Park, Georgia, in 2020 and 2021, where she was sexually assaulted by her captors and their clients.

“They set up an environment for children to be sold,” said Patrick McDonough, the anonymous victim’s attorney, according to WAGA-TV. “This hotel operator would actually warn the traffickers if the police were coming.”

“Hey, look, if you’re going to turn a blind eye and profit off of children being sold, you’re going to be held accountable,” the attorney added, noting that the girl was held in the hotel for about 120 days.

The federal jury in the case determined that the owner of the hotel chain, Lincoln Bancorp LLC, would have to pay $44 million in compensatory damages and $120 million in punitive damages.

This is not the first hotel that has been held liable for sex trafficking in Georgia. Last year a $40 million verdict was returned against United Inn and Suites in DeKalb County. A woman who was 16 when she was trafficked sued the hotel and won, making it the first hotel in the Peach State to be found civilly liable for sex trafficking.

There are currently three other hotels being sued in civil court for sex trafficking in Georgia.

Georgia is not the only state where hotels are being accused of participating in sex trafficking.

According to the Lawsuit Information Center, there are currently two hotels in New Jersey being sued for cases of sex trafficking. Other cases include hotels in Los Angeles, Ohio, Philadelphia, and more.

Breitbart News has reported several cases of hotel and motel operators being accused of either facilitating or turning a blind eye to sex-trafficking going on in their establishments.

One such incident occurred in Virginia, where an Indian family with the last name of Sharma was arrested for allowing drug and sex trafficking to occur in their Red Carpet Inn hotel in Dumfries.

In another case, federal authorities in Nebraska carried out a series of raids, leading to the arrest of a group of Indian nationals who were allegedly engaged in an elaborate scheme involving sex, labor, and drug trafficking. In addition to multiple businesses owned by the suspected traffickers in Nebraska, the scheme also involved companies in Georgia and Texas.

In yet another case, Kavankumar Patel, an illegal migrant from India, was sentenced to a ten-year prison term for participating in a child sex-trafficking ring in Omaha, Nebraska, the Department of Justice announced.

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Dead Before Questioning: Another Epstein Recruiter Dies in Mysterious Circumstances

Ghislaine Maxwell is serving twenty years in federal prison for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modelling agent accused of supplying Epstein with young women, died in his cell in Paris in 2022 while awaiting trial on charges of raping minors. Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail in 2019. A fourth name emerged from the documents released by the United States Department of Justice. The 68-year-old man, whose name is featured 1,841 times in the DOJ files on Epstein, died before French investigators could question him. Daniel Amar Siad was found dead at his home in Colombes, northwest of Paris, on 20 July 2026.

On 18 February 2026, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened a framework investigation into organised human trafficking and criminal conspiracy in preparation for a crime. It entrusted the inquiry to France’s Central Office for the Repression of Human Trafficking, known as OCRTEH.  Five rape and trafficking complaints had been filed against him since 2022, but Siad had always denied the accusations and said he was ready to face his accusers.

Investigators were expected to interview him. A lawyer for several of the women said he was due to be questioned shortly; Le Parisien reported that some had been assured he would be taken into police custody before the summer. Neither happened.

His death ensured that investigators would never hear his account of the Epstein network with which the documents linked him for years. Ebba Karlsson, the Swedish former model who accused Siad of raping her after luring her to the Côte d’Azur with promises of modelling work, later said she believed he had been “eliminated” because “he had too many connections with powerful people.” The cause of his death had still not been established publicly when this article was completed.

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Kash Patel Defends New FBI Hiring Policy On Bestiality

The process of reforming the Federal Bureau of Investigation (”FBI”) has proven to be a daunting task for its director, Kash Patel, since he took over the United States’ preeminent law enforcement agency. Marred by concerns over his personal conduct, an exodus of thousands of personnel, an ensuing staffing shortfall, and a collapse in public perception largely due to the agency’s handing of the Epstein Files, Patel continues to face inescapable questions over his ability to successfully lead the bureau. The latest instance of this crisis of confidence came following the revelation that the Patel-led FBI has chosen to lift hiring restrictions on applicants for special agent positions who have previously engaged in bestiality.

Changes to the FBI’s hiring policy were discretely initiated on February 28th, 2025, just eight days after Patel was confirmed as its director by the Senate, when the bureau chose to lower the standards it uses when conducting background checks on applicants. Under the new hiring standards, prospective employees would no longer automatically be ruled ineligible for employment if they were found to have engaged in bestiality so long as the act took place before they turned 18 years old. An internal memo circulated on June 16th, 2026, when the new standards went into effect, explained that the change was made in an effort the FBI deemed necessary to implement a hiring policy designed to consider the context of why acts like bestiality were committed by prospective hires instead of rigidly treating the incidences as automatic disqualifiers for employment. Previously, the FBI listed “engagement in prostitution or bestiality” as automatic disqualifiers as part of its hiring requirements for special agents.

Although the change to the FBI’s hiring requirements policy had largely gone unnoticed, it became the subject of intense public scrutiny during testimony from Patel that took place during an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Patel faced pointed questions from bipartisan members of the committee on the decision to relax the FBI’s hiring requirements in such a confounding manner.

Louisiana Republican senator John Kennedy, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, grilled Patel on the decision. “I’m trying to understand why you did this,” Kennedy said to Patel. “We’re having a tough time attracting agents, good quality agents we all can trust….Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked.

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Playboy’s Hugh Hefner Reported Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI After Playmate Claimed She Was Raped and Trafficked by Him

Audra Lynn Christiansen said she was an Epstein survivor.

A lawsuit filed against the FBI for failing to act in response to multiple reports against late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is digging up some unexpected stories.

In one of them, the late Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner allegedly called the Bureau to report Epstein – already a convicted sex offender – after a ‘Playmate’ model told him that she’d been raped and trafficked by him.

Daily Mail reported:

“Audra Lynn Christiansen, a 2003 Playmate, was living with Hefner at the Playboy Mansion when she turned to him for help, claiming that she had been raped by Epstein and trafficked to his wealthy friends.  

She claims that in 2005 she asked Hefner to call the authorities on her behalf due to his celebrity status and connections, hoping that his clout would help her allegations to be taken more seriously.

The allegations are detailed in an amended complaint filed in May in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida.”

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Former Assistant Anoka County Attorney charged for alleged role in sex trafficking operation

A former Assistant Anoka County Attorney is facing 26 charges related to her alleged role in a sex trafficking operation in the Twin Cities area.

Andrea Leigh Sampson, 35, has been charged with 13 counts of promoting prostitution of an individual and 13 counts of receiving profits from prostitution.

Sampson’s arrest comes from an investigation that has been ongoing since 2021 by various law enforcement agencies, including the Minnesota BCA and the Human Trafficking Task Force.

According to court documents, Sampson, along with three others, Frank Reeves, Viktoriya Komonash and Katherine Thomes, are accused of operating or playing a role in a sex trafficking organization in Hennepin County and surrounding areas.

According to court documents, the organization would operate a website called “Minnesota Erotica Personals,” where various women would be “posted” for users to request sexual transactions.

Sampson’s alleged role in the operation was to secure and provide locations where these “transactions” could occur, as well as creating and maintaining multiple LLCs, which court documents claim appeared to have been shell companies to help hide profits coming in from the sex trafficking.

Properties owned by Sampson have allegedly been found to be where some of the women advertised on the website had their photos taken and where some “transactions” occurred.

Court documents stated law enforcement spoke with various women throughout the investigation regarding their experiences with the group and the “Minnesota Erotica Personals” website.

13 of those women were later identified as victims in court documents.

In a statement, Anoka County Attorney Brad Johnson confirmed Sampson was once an assistant attorney with the county, assigned to the office’s Family Law and Civil Division.

According to Johnson, the BCA spoke with top members of the Anoka County Attorney’s Office on Feb. 25, 2026, and informed them it was investigating Johnson.

The Anoka County Attorney’s Office placed Sampson on administrative leave, and her last day of employment was March 9.

Sampson is currently in custody in Hennepin County; her first court date is scheduled for Aug. 17.

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What’s The DOJ HIDING At Epstein’s Zorro Ranch?

New Mexico has had enough of the federal runaround on Jeffrey Epstein’s secrets. On Wednesday the state’s attorney general hauled the Justice Department and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche into federal court, demanding the full, unredacted files that could finally expose what really happened at the predator’s sprawling Zorro Ranch.

Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed the 40-page complaint in Washington, accusing the DOJ of “stonewalling” a legitimate state criminal investigation into trafficking, abuse, and worse on New Mexico soil.

Publicly released Epstein material already contains more than 13,000 references to Zorro Ranch and roughly 5,000 to the state itself. Torrez says the redactions are blocking the identification of victims, witnesses, staff, and members of Epstein’s inner circle who may still face state charges.

“New Mexico has a duty to protect survivors and investigate crimes committed in our state so that perpetrators can be held accountable,” Torrez said.

He continued, “We asked the Department of Justice to cooperate by providing access to records that may be critical to identifying victims, witnesses, and additional criminal conduct at Zorro Ranch. Their delay is actively hurting our criminal investigation and delaying justice Epstein survivors deserve.”

The lawsuit claims New Mexico is one of the few jurisdictions still positioned to deliver any justice. Federal prosecutors never even searched the ranch. Now the state is trying to finish the job and is being blocked at every turn.

Torrez told reporters his office has made at least ten formal requests since reopening the probe in February. Informal outreach was met with promises of cooperation, then instructions to file Touhy requests—only for those to be rejected. A July 14 letter warned that legal action would follow if the materials were not produced by July 31. They were not.

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CBS News Not Airing ‘60 Minutes’ Jeffrey Epstein Story Under Scrutiny

Senator Ron Wyden has questioned why a 60 Minutes interview with now-former correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi on Jeffrey Epstein’s banking practices never aired, adding it had been “suppressed.”

The Oregon Democrat raised the issue in a new Senate Finance Committee report, published on August 4, alleging Deutsche Bank failed to promptly disclose more than $250 million in suspicious Epstein-related transactions.

“It is disappointing that, instead of advancing new facts that would help bring accountability to the men who participated in Epstein’s trafficking operation, the report largely recycles allegations that have already been exhaustively examined by courts and the government,” a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase told Newsweek.

Asked for comment, Wyden’s office pointed Newsweek to page 61 of the report, where it says his taped interview with Alfonsi was intended for a broader 60 Minutes segment on banks and Epstein, adding that it is unclear whether CBS News leadership will allow the broader segment to air following Alfonsi’s departure from the network.

CBS News says the segment simply was not ready before the show’s season ended.

Pushing back against any suggestion that the interview was buried, a spokesperson for the network said in a statement shared with Newsweek via email: “We air pieces when they are ready, and suggesting that an interview is being ‘suppressed’ for any reason is categorically false.”

According to Wyden’s report, “the investigation found significant evidence that JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America violated federal anti-money laundering laws by failing to screen and report Epstein’s suspicious financial transactions in a timely manner.”

A spokesperson for Bank of America told Newsweek: “We take our legal and regulatory obligations seriously and, as we have previously said, the bank did not facilitate wrongdoing.”

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