Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges for soliciting prostitution and soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, but was hit with additional federal charges in 2019 before his death.

The federal investigations happened under Bush and Trump, not Obama or Biden. And Comey wasn’t even in government at the time.

Here’s what to know about the disturbing facts and unsubstantiated suspicions that make Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender, a politically potent obsession.

A photo authentically depicts Donald Trump and financier Jeffrey Epstein together in 1997. In July 2025, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration faced pressure to release court documents about Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, an image resurfaced online supposedly showing the president and Epstein together in the late '90s.

Donald Trump’s past ties with Jeffrey Epstein are under scrutiny after the US president slammed a Wall Street Journal report that he sent a lewd letter to the infamous sex offender as “fake news.” AFP looks at the pair’s relationship as the Trump administration also faces demands to release all government files on Epstein’s alleged crimes and his death.

Ron DeSantis has not said much into press conference microphones in the wake of pressure on the right to have the Donald Trump administration release the Jeffrey Epstein files, but he’s offering some commentary on social media.

From Jeffrey Epstein's 2005 case to his death in a New York jail cell in 2019, the crazy twists and turns in his bizarre sex crimes case in Florida.

Despite recent claims by President Donald Trump that former Biden officials doctored files related to Jeffrey Epstein, many of the documents -- including those mentioning Trump and several prominent Democrats -- have been public for years.

One of the few people who could confirm if there is or ever was a list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients is imprisoned in Florida's capital city.

Donald Trump reportedly ended his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein because the latter was “a creep,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the New York Times in a lengthy report published Saturday — not due to the pair’s real estate dispute over a Palm Beach mansion they both wanted to buy, the story that was previously reported in 2019.