Epstein Files Reveal High-Profile Connections: A Closer Look

Sat Dec 20 2025 23:23:33 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

The recently released Epstein documents unveil shocking associations with noted figures across politics, media, and finance, without implying wrongdoing.

The latest release of documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, exceeding 20,000 pages, has highlighted numerous connections to high-profile individuals including former royalty, politicians, and journalists. Notable names such as Donald Trump, Larry Summers, and Michael Wolff emerged in the discussions, some revealing insights into their interactions with the notorious financier. The implications of these findings are significant, although there is a strong emphasis that presence in the documents does not constitute wrongdoing.

US lawmakers have released more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of the disgraced financier and convicted late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Some of the documents mention Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the former prince and brother of King Charles; US President Donald Trump; Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon; and a cast of other characters from the world of media, politics and entertainment, who highlight the extent of Epstein's contact book.

Trump was a friend of Epstein's for years, but the president has said they fell out in about 2004, years before Epstein was first arrested. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

Here are some of the the other names that came up, which does not indicate wrongdoing by any of the parties mentioned.

Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff, 72, is an American journalist and columnist - as well as a prolific author of books on the wealthy and the famous.

The new batch of files related to Jeffrey Epstein shed light on a relationship that appears to indicate a correspondence between Wolff and the late convicted sex offender.

Wolff wrote to Epstein in 2015 to notify him that CNN was planning to ask Trump, as a presidential candidate, about his relationship with Epstein. Epstein replied: If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?

In a separate email from October 2016, days before the US presidential election, Wolff offers Epstein a chance to sit for an interview that could finish Trump.

Larry Summers

The documents include correspondences between Epstein and Larry Summers, who was former Democratic President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary.

In a separate email from late November 2016, just after Trump's election, Summers asked Epstein to spend zero effort on anything about me with Trump.

Kathryn Ruemmler

The House of Representatives Oversight Committee released several email exchanges between Epstein and Kathryn Ruemmler, a lawyer who served as White House counsel during the presidency of Barack Obama.

Peter Thiel

Billionaire investor and on-off Trump supporter Peter Thiel appeared again in the latest Epstein documents. Epstein wrote to Mr Thiel in November 2018 to invite him to visit him in his Caribbean island.

Noam Chomsky

The latest document drop includes more correspondence between the famed linguist Noam Chomsky and Epstein. Some of their conversations turned to the subject of Trump.