{"id":650712,"date":"2025-12-23T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/650712\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:35:22","slug":"email-by-a-from-balmoral-asked-ghislaine-maxwell-for-inappropriate-friends-epstein-files-show-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/650712\/","title":{"rendered":"Email by &#8216;A&#8217; from &#8216;Balmoral&#8217; asked Ghislaine Maxwell for &#8216;inappropriate friends&#8217;, Epstein files show &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How we got herepublished at 13:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein sands next to Michael Jackson in front of a red painting of a woman lying down\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20d30ed0-11f0-4022-8577-fc36b67b5c7c.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, US Department of JusticeImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jeffrey Epstein poses for a picture with singer Michael Jackson in files released last week<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">The investigation into Epstein<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jeffrey Epstein reached a plea deal with prosecutors in 2008, after the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Photos of girls were found throughout the house, and he was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor. He escaped a heavy jail sentence as a result of the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eleven years later, he was charged with running a network of underage girls for sex. He died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial and his death was ruled a suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Why are the files being released now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pressure has been building for months from across the political spectrum for more transparency into the investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After initially resisting calls for the files&#8217; release, US President Donald Trump reversed course and urged Republicans to support disclosure of the records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Congress then passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the justice department to release all its investigative material related to Epstein by the end of day on 19 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Partial release of &#8216;the Epstein files\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A large collection of documents, including court and telephone records &#8211; and thousands of images &#8211; was uploaded on Friday night to the US Department of Justice website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s the result of two criminal investigations culminating in the so-called Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was only the partial release of the justice department&#8217;s documents, and many pages were heavily redacted &#8211; with some blacked out in full.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This sparked criticism from victims and lawmakers alike. The White House says the Trump administration is &#8220;the most transparent in history&#8221;, and the justice department says the omissions are necessary to protect victims and for continuing investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How we got herepublished at 13:49 GMT 13:49 GMT Image source, US Department of JusticeImage caption, Jeffrey Epstein&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-650712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115769857495361578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}