The Justice Department posted more than 800,000 records, including emails with Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick, Steve Tisch and Bill Gates.

The more than 3 million files that were released reveal how business titans looked the other way at the convicted sex offender's history.

The Epstein files are a lot, and that’s before we get to Trump’s appearances in them. They present such a sprawling, sordid, sometimes inchoate scandal that it can be difficult to understand exactly what they tell us, except that the guy had a lot of powerful friends.

Though the commerce secretary has called his interactions with Epstein as "limited," the two were in business together four years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea.

Stephen Colbert became the latest late-night host to discover that he’s in the Epstein files—in his case, because he was receiving an unlikely compliment. “I got a little curious and did a little searching to see if I was in the files,

The exchange was among the latest release of files from the US government's investigation into Epstein.

Those under fire include ex-ambassador Peter Mandelson and former Prince Andrew.

A US government statement announcing the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has surfaced in newly released Justice Department files with a date that appears to precede the time he was officially found dead inside his New York prison cell, once again fuelling questions around the circumstances of his death.