Who were the other men in the Epstein files? This is the FBI's own list

After the Justice Department shut the door on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files in July 2025, FBI agents worked on drafts of a 21-page presentation of all the evidence the FBI had gathered in the case, including a summary of allegations against 11 men.

There’s no evidence that Epstein, a New York financier who sexually assaulted and trafficked hundreds of girls and young women over two decades, kept his own “client list” of men.

But documents not previously made public show the FBI had compiled its own list of accusations against prominent men based largely on uncorroborated tips and interviews the DOJ had compiled since Epstein’s 2019 arrest.

Among the names on the list: President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, private-equity investor Leon Black, L Brands founder Les Wexner, banker Jes Staley and others.

“Can you write me a sentence or two for the below are the salacious statements made against the individuals in the file,” an unidentified individual wrote in a July 24, 2025, email alongside the list of men. The presentation appears to have been compiled by task forces at the FBI and New York Police Department.

The list was arranged into a detailed PowerPoint published among millions of pages of Epstein-related documents released by the Department of Justice in January. While the list was included in a presentation about Epstein, not all of the referenced activity is necessarily illegal, and it’s not clear that the men were connected explicitly with Epstein’s crimes.

But it does give the public an inside look at an investigation that spanned nearly two decades and three presidential administrations.

A version of the PowerPoint was sent to FBI Director Kash Patel on Aug. 7, 2025 — a month before he told Congress the agency had no evidence to prosecute other men in connection with Epstein’s crimes. The hearing became tense as representatives pressed him on this point.

“Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to besides himself?” said Sen. John Neely Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican.

“Himself. There is no credible information. None. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday, that he trafficked to other individuals,” Patel said. “The information we have, again, is limited.”

The claims contained in the presentation include rape, attending orgies and money laundering, according to emails and documents released by the DOJ as part of the Epstein files.

The PowerPoint has some parallels to another document also not previously made public: an 86-page prosecution memo sent to U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman on Dec. 19, 2019, titled “Investigation into Potential Co-Conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein.”

The prosecution memo was also published with the DOJ documents — but appears to have since been removed from the agency’s website after The Miami Herald published this story.

Lawyers for the men accused in the files, or the men themselves, denied the accusations in the files, which have placed them under public scrutiny. Five could not be reached for comment, but have previously denied any wrongdoing.

It is unclear the extent to which the FBI investigated any of them.

Some appear to be secondhand rumors, like a woman who claims she was invited to an orgy with Clinton. The former president recently agreed to testify before Congress.

“I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared,” Clinton wrote on social media. “If they want answers, let’s stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing, where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about.”

The White House and Department of Justice have denied any credibility to the claims against Trump. Many of the accusations were called into the FBI’s hotline or relayed secondhand.

One woman, who said she was abused by Epstein, told the FBI a 13-year-old friend of hers was forced by Trump to perform oral sex in the 1980s. The woman was referred to the FBI’s Washington office, according to the tip sheet. It is unclear if the agency spoke with the friend as well.

“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the DOJ said in a Jan. 30 statement. “To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”

Despite receiving hundreds of tips — and interviewing dozens of possible witnesses and victims — the Justice Department has not charged anyone else in connection with Epstein’s crimes besides Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.

The FBI identified more than 90 victims, according to the PowerPoint. More than 290 tips related to Epstein and others associated with him were called into the FBI, and of that number, 52 were anonymous. Agents followed up on 239 tips and made “secondary contact” with 27 people.

At least two men — Wexner and Staley — were listed as being “referred to state,” according to notes on one version of the slides. The document doesn’t indicate what that means.

Wexner’s attorney conducted a proffer interview with federal prosecutors in 2019, his lawyer told The Miami Herald. A proffer is a formal, often voluntary, statement made by a defense attorney to prosecutors outlining what evidence or testimony his or her client can provide — often in exchange for immunity or a plea bargain.

“The Assistant U.S. Attorney told Mr. Wexner’s legal counsel in 2019 that Mr. Wexner was neither a co-conspirator nor target in any respect,” Thomas Davies, a legal representative for Wexner, told the Herald in an emailed statement. “Mr. Wexner cooperated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again.”

Wexner, who is the former CEO of Victoria’s Secret and hired Epstein as a financial adviser, is not accused of wrongdoing in the slides, but of having sex with Epstein — a rumor both he and Epstein previously denied.

Staley is accused of getting a massage from a woman at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan, forcing “her hands to his crotch” and having “rough sex” with her. Lawyers for the banker did not respond to requests for comments.

The people who levied accusations against the men all have their names redacted.

Elsewhere in the files are detailed interview notes and statements from alleged victims and other people claiming to have information. The Herald was unable to locate an interview record, often called a 302, for the woman making the accusation against Trump.

What the DOJ knew

It was prosecution memo was produced by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and provides an even more detailed overview of other interviews conducted by the New York State Attorney’s Office and the FBI with victims, witnesses and people associated with Epstein.

The memo includes statements by 24 women who say they were abused by Epstein as minors and 14 who say they were abused as adults. It also mentions three other women, at least two of whom were Epstein’s assistants (whose names are redacted).

In many cases, Justice Department investigators were able to independently confirm that the victims they interviewed were recruited by Epstein or someone working for Epstein.

One of the women told prosecutors that Epstein directed her to give massages to two men in 2011 or 2012, according to the memo, when she was about 20. She said she was told to give Black a massage, and he tried to sexually assault her — but she ran out of the room. She then said she was directed to give Staley, a former CEO at Barclays and a longtime friend of Epstein, a massage at Epstein’s New York mansion.

She told investigators that she “tried to give him an ordinary massage but he forced (her) to touch his genitals and then raped (her),” the prosecution memo said.

A spokesperson for the FBI declined to answer questions about whether any of the men were investigated — saying the “FBI would not comment on investigative details or specific steps taken, as is standard practice” — but stated that Patel’s comments in the September hearing were “100% accurate.”

Critics say that because the documents are so heavily redacted, it’s impossible to know whether the FBI did its due diligence with investigating the tips.

“Because of the release of the files we are now understanding that this is one of the biggest coverups in history,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act in July 2025, in an emailed statement to the Herald.

“We learned that the DOJ and FBI knew so much more about Epstein’s circle and their crimes and even considered charging co-conspirators but didn’t. We need to understand why they chose not to and hold them accountable.”

In some documents, it’s apparent that redacted images or names were of individuals being investigated as co-conspirators of Epstein. Asked about redacted images of six people apparently linked to an email about Epstein “co-conspirators,” a DOJ spokesperson told the Herald that women and victims had been redacted.

“The photos would have been redacted because they were of victims or unidentified females (who we erred on the side of presuming were victims),” said Emily Covington in an emailed statement to the Herald. “Some victims were first considered co-conspirators. So that would explain why an email referencing co-conspirators would have pictures redacted attached.”

The prosecution memo also lists a number of proffers by attorneys representing several of the suspected co-conspirators.

Mimi Rocah, a former district attorney and prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, said it appears that prosecutors didn’t have enough evidence to charge the clients whose attorneys provided statements.

“A proffer is an attorney comes in and says, ‘This is what my client would say if they cooperated’,” Rocah said. “The problem is once you do it, unless you have enough evidence and plan to charge the people you want to cooperate, you don’t have any leverage over these people.

“There’s a difference between knowing someone did something bad and being able to charge the crime.”

Some of the accusations are rumors or claims that the men attended orgies.

But within the files are emails suggestive of sex trafficking or sexual arrangements, where recipients who do not appear to be victims have been blacked out. There are emails of Epstein offering to introduce women to unidentified individuals and of people offering to introduce him to young women.

On Fox News, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked if there is “any chance” of further prosecutions.

“I’ll never say no, and we will always investigate any evidence of misconduct, but as you know, it is not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein,” he said. “It’s not a crime to email with Epstein. Some of these men may have done horrible things, and if we have evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will.”

‘So the answer is no one?’

Since Epstein’s death in 2019, more than 100 survivors have received settlements from his estate. DOJ officials have estimated that he sexually abused more than 1,000 victims.

Survivors have filed civil lawsuits against some of the high-profile men for rape and abuse in connection to Epstein’s crimes. Maxwell, who filed a habeas corpus petition to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, says she found evidence that 25 alleged Epstein associates made “secret settlements” with accusers — and that four alleged co-conspirators were never charged.

Some lawmakers are skeptical of the DOJ’s conclusion that there is insufficient evidence to charge anyone else with participating or helping Epstein commit his crimes.

During the Sept. 16 hearing, multiple members of Congress pressed Patel on this point, not accepting his initial answers.

“So the answer is no one?” Sen. Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, repeated in the exchange.

“For the information that we have,” Patel said. “In the case file.”

Survivors of Epstein’s abuse have offered publicly to compile their own list of names. In the hearing, Patel said the agency welcomed further information.

Epstein was first arrested in 2006 after a 14-year-old girl told police that she had been molested at his Palm Beach mansion. The case was taken over by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida. Epstein hired a team of aggressive, high-profile lawyers, who worked with prosecutors to limit the punishment Epstein faced.

He was given federal immunity in return for pleading guilty in state court to two solicitation charges. He served 13 months in a county jail, where he was free to leave for 12 hours a day, six days a week to work at a nearby office, and one-year of house arrest in Palm Beach.

In 2019, he was arrested on sex-trafficking charges in New York following the publication of a Herald investigation, “Perversion of Justice.” The series included interviews with victims who described how Epstein had masterminded a Ponzi-like scheme in which he used underprivileged high-school girls to recruit more than 100 victims.

In August 2019, while awaiting trial, he was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging. Maxwell was arrested a year later and convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges. She is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.

Interviews with victims

The files make clear that victims repeatedly came forward to the FBI. The PowerPoint said some of the tips came from interviews also included in the files.

In one interview that the Herald located, a woman said she remembered hearing a story about Epstein introducing a woman (whose name is redacted) to Trump. Epstein said, “Isn’t this a good one?” according to an interview. Trump responded “yes.” It notes that “(name redacted) learned about this interaction later on.”

It is unclear if the woman allegedly introduced to Trump was directly interviewed by the FBI or the story was only relayed secondhand.

Weinstein — a former film producer who is a convicted sex offender and whose downfall ignited the #MeToo movement about sexual assault — is accused of sexual assault in the files. In one of the instances, a woman states that Epstein had directed her to give Weinstein a massage.

Representatives for Weinstein did not respond to requests for comments. Weinstein is in jail for convictions in separate cases of rape and sexual assault.

In other instances, women allege that they were directed by Epstein or Maxwell to give massages to Glenn Dubin, Staley and Black. Another said she gave lawyer Alan Dershowitz a massage on Epstein’s plane. The massages for Dubin and Dershowitz are not described as becoming sexual — but Black and Staley are accused of rape. Dubin and Staley could not be immediately reached for comments.

Dershowitz — who was part of Epstein’s legal team in his 2006 Florida case — spoke to reporters on the phone. He animatedly denied the allegation that states he received a massage while on Epstein’s plane.

“I welcome an investigation, which would result in the criminal prosecution of the liar who falsely accused me,” he said. “I have the right to know the name of my false accuser.”

Black has faced three lawsuits related to allegations of sexual misconduct — one dismissed, one withdrawn and another ongoing.

An attorney for Black, Susan Estrich, said: “There is absolutely no truth to any of the allegations against Mr. Black.”

In the PowerPoint, a woman is noted as stating that Epstein told her to give Black a massage while he was naked, and another woman was forced to perform oral sex. Another allegation, from someone whose name is redacted, stated that Black raped her numerous times and “sex trafficked her.” Because the name in the second allegation is redacted, it is unclear if it is the same woman who made the first accusation, or a second.

An interview located in the files shows one woman made accusations against Staley and Black, saying Epstein directed her to massage them in or around 2011 or 2012.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — the brother of King Charles III of the United Kingdom — was stripped of his royal title as Prince Andrew and evicted from his royal residence this past year amid resurfaced details of his relationship with Epstein and Maxwell.

The PowerPoint includes a statement from a woman whose name is redacted and who said Maxwell told her “to make Prince Andrew happy by doing ‘exact same things to him that she did for Epstein because he is good friends with Maxwell.’ ”

The statement matches that of Virginia Giuffre — one of the most famous victims of Epstein’s abuse. She described the years she was sex-trafficked by Epstein as a minor in a memoir that was published in October called “Nobody’s Girl.”

Giuffre died by suicide the April before her book was published.

In the book, and publicly before its publication, Giuffre described meeting the prince and being directed by Maxwell to have sex with him in 2001 when she was 17. A photo was taken of her meeting the prince. Representatives for Mountbatten-Windsor could not be immediately reached for comments.

Former President Clinton is only referenced in the slide once — when someone, who is noted as not being a victim in the Epstein case, claimed she was “invited to an orgy with Clinton but did not attend.”

“There is no truth to this claim, the Department of Justice has stated plainly that it is false,” Angel Urena, a representative for Clinton, told the Herald in a statement.

In 2002, Clinton traveled internationally with Epstein on his private jet for a trip that Clinton described as part of a fact-finding AIDS mission in support of the Clinton Foundation.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are expected to testify before Congress after receiving a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee. They have asked that the testimony be made public.

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is also mentioned by someone who reported that he made money via “Ponzi schemes and money laundering.” The Herald located a related tip, which seems to make a series of uncorroborated claims — and does not directly connect Lutnick to Epstein.

Lutnick lived next door to Epstein in New York in Upper Manhattan and previously said he refused a tour of Epstein’s mansion in 2005 because he and his wife were revolted by Epstein.

Emails show in 2012, however, that he made plans to have lunch with Epstein on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

“This is nothing more than a failing attempt by the legacy media to distract from the administration’s accomplishments including securing Trillions of dollars in investment, delivering historic trade deals and fighting for the American worker,” a spokesperson for the Department of Commerce told the Herald via email.

“Secretary Lutnick had limited interactions with Mr. Epstein in the presence of his wife and has never been accused of wrongdoing.”

William Barr — who served as attorney general under then-President George H.W. Bush and in Trump’s first administration —is mentioned in the PowerPoint. According to the document, a tip was called into the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center noting that “Barr and Black were present during abuses,” apparently referencing Leon Black.

Barr testified before the House Oversight Committee about the investigation on Aug. 18, 2025, and noted in preliminary questions that he never met Epstein or Maxwell to his knowledge.

Other versions of the PowerPoint list, shared in emails, included additional names, such as French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel.

Brunel died in prison by suicide in 2022 while under investigation for sex-trafficking girls to Epstein. Brunel is described on the list as being frequently seen with Epstein and visiting Epstein’s island off the coast of St. Thomas.

But women have come forward with accusations of rape against Brunel, most recently former model Thysia Huisman in an essay in The Times of London in which she describes meeting Brunel and Epstein as a young model.

Her testimony — included in the files released last month — was shared with U.S. investigators by French authorities in July 2020, along with that of other women who testified that they were raped by Brunel.

A letter signed by prosecutor Barthélémy Hennuyer in the Minors’ Section of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office requested any information that U.S. authorities had on Brunel, Maxwell and five other individuals whose names were redacted in DOJ files.

A memo from December 2020 shows authorities were aware of the French investigation and requests for information, but it is unclear whether U.S. authorities responded.

(Miami Herald reporter Shirsho Dasgupta contributed to this report.)