DOJ releases 3M Epstein files, withholds about 200,000 pages as privileged

The Justice Department said Friday it is concluding its Jeffrey Epstein data dump by releasing roughly 3 million new files while withholding or redacting about 200,000 pages that it deems privileged, according to a letter to Congress and remarks from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Three new tranches of material were posted on the DOJ website, and Blanche said they include about 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, with additional files to be posted throughout the day. In total the department said some 3.5 million files will be made public in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed in November.

The department said roughly 200,000 pages will be withheld or redacted under privileges such as attorney-client, deliberative-process, and work-product protections. Blanche also said the DOJ is not withholding material for national-security or foreign-policy reasons and that it would withhold anything that would jeopardize an active investigation, though he did not say whether one exists.

Blanche told reporters the newly released files do not contain information that would justify charging additional people in connection with Epstein, who killed himself in jail while awaiting trial on sex‑trafficking charges in 2019.

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