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On January 30th, 2026, the Department of
Justice released hundreds of gigabytes
of material related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Buried within that data dump were some
2,000 videos that had never been
released. And while they're technically
public, they are stored in a way that
makes them very hard to find or browse.
The public then has two choices.
download hundreds of gigabytes of data
or click through hundreds of web pages
one by one. I did both. The vast
majority of the videos, and by far the
most revealing ones, live in data set
10. These are videos seized from
Epstein's devices, footage he recorded
himself, received from others, or
downloaded from the internet. Taken
together, they paint the most vivid
picture yet of Jeffrey Epstein's dark
world. his lavish lifestyle and
worldview, his mannerisms and quirks,
his sense of humor and sense of
impunity. We've published all 14 hours
of this footage, excluding only obvious
duplicates, audio only files, and fully
redacted videos that contain neither
sound nor image. You can watch them
yourself. As I watched hours and hours
of this footage, here's what stood out
to me. These are the first unredacted
videos in data set 10. The ID page of
Epstein's passport issued on March 8th,
2019. Then the endorsement page of that
passport. It reads in part, "The bearer
was convicted of a sex offense against a
minor." Then comes a sleek 10-minute
drone reel of Epstein's two private
islands in the US Virgin Islands, Little
St. James and Great St. James, produced
by the architectural firm overseeing
their redesign in 2018.
And then this 7-second clip.
>> Watch together. These first few files
inadvertently deliver a blunt message.
Epstein may have been a convicted sex
offender, but he was also obscenely
rich. Many of the videos in the set
showcase the luxury lifestyle. manicured
island alleyways glowing in the morning
sun. Meals at high-end restaurants,
parties on the yachts and private jets.
One nearly 38 minute VHS tape of
Abstein's Island looks like something
out of the succession opening credits.
And it carries the same unease. Because
no matter how glossy the footage looks,
you can never quite forget that what
you're watching is a potential crime
scene in progress. Partly because
whenever women appear on camera, their
faces and often their bodies are
obscured by black squares.
>> Tell us what you'll be learning today.
>> Yay.
>> Exactly.
>> Some videos appear to be ones Epstein
sent. $100 bills fanned out in a hand,
glittering jewelry, and what looks like
explicit videos of himself. Far more
appear to be videos sent back to him.
Young women dancing or sitting or lying
down in bed, their bodies obscured by
black squares with naked limbs
occasionally slipping into view. A large
brown teddy bear sits on the bed of one
young woman whose videos recur
throughout the data set. Those videos
are extremely difficult to watch. More
disturbing still are the occasional
moments, more often than you'd think,
when the redaction fails, when a girl's
face is visible for a few frames or even
for an entire clip. Another set of
videos filmed by Epstein himself offers
a clearer look at how he treated women.
>> Look, look a little happier. Smile when
you smile like that. Go ahead. Just want
you smile. It's okay.
>> Look at me like you love me. In one
clip, he seems to urge a girl to do
something she's clearly uncomfortable
with.
>> Just think about it.
>> In later clips, she appears to be
shaking her head. But perhaps the most
disturbing videos are those that without
context look almost innocent, like this
one of a young girl in a candy store
picking out jelly beans. Or this one,
which would look wholesome were the
girl's face not redacted. One clip shows
a toddler, possibly even an infant,
making noises as the voice behind the
camera, which sounds like Epstein's coos
and touches the child.
>> Hello, Tootsie.
>> One fully unredacted video shot from
above shows a toddler in a white t-shirt
and shorts walking down the steps.
Combined with videos showing a paternity
test on Epstein's desk, the question
that lingers in my mind is, who is this
child, and why is he here? In some
videos, Epstein appears on camera with
his potential victims. They dance, they
laugh. In one clip, he chases someone
around a white marble kitchen island.
In another clip, Epstein seems to lift a
girl's shirt mid video. She protests
weakly before giving up. The video has
no sound.
Then there are videos that appear
accidental. Epstein posing with
well-known figures who seem to think
they're being photographed, like this
one outside the Louvre with former
French culture minister Jack Lang, or
this one on a private jet seated across
from psychologist Steven Pinker. There's
also a whole cluster of videos featuring
new age guru Deepac Chopra,
self-recorded monologues about the
nature of consciousness and universe and
reality.
>> You evoke the universe in every act of
perception.
You are the universe.
>> Another category includes videos Epstein
appears to have downloaded. One is a
lowresolution Spanish subtitled version
of the hot crazy women matrix video in
which a man named Dana Mcccleen charts
women on axis of hot and crazy.
>> Hot is as usual measured from 0 to 10.
We're all familiar with that.
Crazy is measured from 4 to 10 because
of course there's no such thing as a
woman who's not at least a four crazy.
>> There is a 4-minute animation of a
bicyclist writing through the musical
notation of Beethovven's fifth symphony.
A folks news segment anchored by Tucker
Carlson about John Balden. A Britain's
Got Talent clip featuring a talking dog
named Wendy.
>> Come on. Hey, say something.
>> No.
>> And then there's porn. A lot of porn.
The sheer volume of these videos is
revealing in and of itself. So are the
watermarks in the corners of the screen.
The only visible part of those clips
towards the end of the first batch of
videos in data set 10 is a nearly
two-hour interview between Epstein and
Steve Bannon reportedly filmed for a
sympathetic documentary. The
conversation drifts through philosophy,
economics, science, and Epstein's ascent
to elite institutions. One of the wilder
and most revealing exchanges comes at
the very end when Bannon challenges
Epstein on whether institutions should
accept money from a tier one sexual
predator.
>> Tier one.
>> You're tier tier one's the highest and
worst.
>> No, I'm the lowest.
>> You're the lowest. Okay. Tier one.
You're the lowest. Um but a criminal.
>> Yes.
>> Epstein defends his philanthropy by
arguing that the recipients like mothers
of children receiving polio vaccines in
Pakistan would not care about the source
of the funds. And that's where it gets
truly bizarre.
>> I think if you told him I told him the
devil the devil himself
>> the devil himself said, "I'm going to
exchange some dollars for you to your
child's life."
>> Do you think you're the devil himself?
>> No, but I I do have a good mirror.
>> It's a serious question. Do you do you
think you're the devil himself?
>> I know. Why would you say that?
>> Because you have all the attributes.
You're incredibly smart. You remember
the devil? Somebody knows what the the
devil's brilliant. You read Milton's You
read Milton's Paradise Lost.
>> No, the devil scares me.
>> None of these videos reveal a new
Epstein. They reveal the same one over
and over again, operating in plain
sight, insulated by wealth, surrounded
by enablers, and confident that the
videos, like everything else, belong to
him. You can watch the full videos of
data set 10 at dfp.com.