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The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files?

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All these years later, the list of prominent people who were somehow connected to Jeffrey Epstein continues to grow — including some whose ties to the notorious sex trafficker and longtime hobnobber were not previously known. In 2019, New York published an exhaustive list of Epstein’s alleged high-society contacts, according to public documents available at the time. Below, we’ve adapted and expanded that list to include the many more names and details that have emerged in the various Epstein files, including his private schedules, his infamous birthday book, the recently released documents and files via the House Oversight Committee, and more. (Inclusion on this list only means the person has been linked to Epstein, not that they were necessarily involved in or aware of his crimes.)

From our 2019 guide:

Epstein kept a photo of his friend Allen, the sexual pariah, on his wall and was photographed walking with him on the Upper East Side. They had more than a neighborhood in common. For years before his relationship with Mia Farrow, Allen had carried on with a 16-year-old girl he’d met at Elaine’s named Babi Christina Engelhardt. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she wondered if she was the inspiration for Manhattan, Allen’s 1979 movie about a man in his 40s who dates a high-school student, which was nominated for two Academy Awards. Engelhardt had sex with Allen more than 100 times, she says, sometimes with Farrow. “The whole thing was a game that was being operated solely by Woody so we never quite knew where we stood,” she said. Engelhardt went on to become Epstein’s assistant.

Listed as a contributor to Epstein’s birthday book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

As our guide noted in 2019:

Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and her husband, billionaire hedge-funder Glenn Dubin, had Epstein over for Thanksgiving dinner in 2009, telling his probation officer they were “100 percent comfortable” with his being around their teenage daughter, Insider reported. She also created a foundation so Epstein could donate to her breast-cancer charity without attaching his name. “The Dubins are horrified by the new allegations against Jeffrey Epstein,” they said in a statement. “Had they been aware of the vile and unspeakable conduct described in these new allegations, they would have cut off all ties and certainly never have allowed their children to be in his presence.”

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Per our 2019 guide:

A onetime White House intern who climbed his way to being Bill Clinton’s bag carrier, body man, fixer, and all-purpose gatekeeper, Band arranged for the former president to travel to Africa on Epstein’s 727 in 2002. Band would go on to help his boss found the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, a choice platform from which he launched his own lucrative favor-trading corporate-advisory firm, Teneo. Throughout that time, he took a number of trips on Epstein’s plane and attended parties at his townhouse. Band resigned from his position at CGI in 2012; leaked emails later showed Band and Chelsea Clinton trading accusations of conflicts of interest in a war of influence over her parents. More recently, Band’s been teaching a “Public Service” class at NYU.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Baldwin has denied knowing Epstein.

Bannon and Epstein regularly corresponded in 2018 and 2019, as the Washington Post reports:

Bannon’s phone number and email address are redacted from the newly released files, but the messages include hyperlinks to media appearances and interviews he gave. In one exchange, Epstein suggests that a woman he is connected with will contact the email recipient. The person responds: “Oh ‘the next future ex-mrs. bannon.’” Bannon spent much of spring 2019 in Europe, and Epstein frequently offered to send a private jet or charter a plane to ferry Bannon to meet him in Paris. Bannon appears to have stayed overnight at Epstein’s home in spring 2019, the messages show.


In early 2018, Epstein began referring to Bannon as a friend in emails. Bannon regularly sent him links to his media appearances, and Epstein would offer feedback.

The longtime Israeli politician was a regular guest of Epstein’s at his Upper East Side townhouse from 2013 to 2017, meeting with the financier monthly for large stretches of that time. He also flew on Epstein’s jet and exchanged numerous emails with him.

From our 2019 guide:

Barr was ousted shortly before Epstein, 21 and without a college degree, showed up for his first day of work teaching math and physics at the Manhattan’s elite Dalton School in the early 1970s. Barr announced his resignation soon after, in February 1974: “He was disliked by the faculty, he was highly controversial, he hadn’t raised much money, he was very conservative,” said the board’s chairman. Barr’s leadership style was described as “authoritarian” and “undemocratic” at the time. Memorably, several former students told the New York Times that Epstein was overly familiar with teenage girls at the school. Donald’s son William would intersect with Epstein’s orbit while serving as a counsel at Kirkland and Ellis in 2009. The law firm secured Epstein his obscenely lenient 2007 non-prosecution deal, which the Justice Department is now reviewing. In July, Barr the son refused to recuse himself from the ongoing Epstein investigation.

The staunch Trump ally was friends with Epstein and the former president back when they were close in South Florida in the 1980s. Epstein apparently tried to revive the connection in 2016 after Trump cinched the Republican nomination. In August of that year, Epstein schedule a lunch with Barrack, who was an informal adviser to the Trump campaign at the time. Barrack was also invited to Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse in September 2016 with Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin and Woody Allen.

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Names found in Epstein’s black book.

As we noted in our 2019 guide:

A wealthy executive whose family established the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, Berkman was sued in 2014 by his administrative assistant, who said she was forced to read emails Berkman had sent to a colleague containing “pictures of random and unsuspecting women on the street” — that is, creepshots. (The suit was settled.)

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Birley owned the club where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had their first date.

Name found in Epstein’s black book — listed as Debbie.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Yes, those Bismarcks.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

From our 2019 guide:

He’s perhaps best known for being sentenced to 42 months in prison for fraud, then writing a book about Trump and receiving a pardon. Vicky Ward, who profiled Epstein for Vanity Fair in 2003, said Epstein heavily leaned on Black, who is her ex-husband’s uncle (and was her ex-husband’s then-boss), to try to exert his influence on Ward.

The private-equity giant’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who he paid tens of millions of dollars to, eventually lead to Black stepping down as CEO of Apollo and to his departure from his position as chairman of the Museum of Modern Art. Black contributed a poem to the birthday book. Their emails have also come out, including one in which Epstein writes: “Leon, As you are well aware, There is little I won’t do for you, or at least try to do as a friend, and a great deal that I have already done (both known and some things that will need to remain unknown).” Black has denied having any awareness of Epstein’s crimes.

Per our 2019 guide:

The trial attorney and legal analyst’s client roster has included Justin Bieber, Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, and Rush Limbaugh. Black is perhaps best known for representing William Kennedy Smith against rape charges in Palm Beach in 1991. (The Kennedy nephew was acquitted.) In 2005, Black played the “managing partner” on NBC’s The Law Firm, a knockoff of The Apprentice for up-and-coming lawyers.

Name found in Epstein’s black book. They also emailed.

Blaine put on a private show for Epstein’s dinner guests in 2003, doing card tricks for the likes of Sergey Brin, Mort Zuckerman, and Bill Clinton aide Doug Band. The dinner was organized by Ghislaine Maxwell and included a group of young women who were introduced as Victoria’s Secret models. Included in the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee is one from Blaine supporting a visa application for an “amazing fashion model.”

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

As we noted in our 2019 guide:

Epstein had at least one meeting with the sultan when he traveled to Brunei in 2002 with Bill Clinton. Bolkiah and his brother are famous for their lavish spending, including a collection of 2,500 cars and a $1.5 billion palace. Bolkiah was once sued by Miss USA 1997, who claimed she had been held as a sex slave. The suit was dismissed on the grounds that Bolkiah had sovereign immunity.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The chairman and founder of Investindustrial was a key character in the Paradise Papers international tax-shelter scandal.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Described by Social Life magazine as the “ambassador of the all-important Hamptons polo culture,” Borrico is known for hosting polo matches at his estate in Water Mill.

Epstein’s private schedules from 2013 to 2017 had roughly two dozen meetings scheduled with Botstein over the four years covered in the documents, mostly at his townhouse. Regarding his relationship with Epstein, Botstein told the Wall Street Journal he was only interested in Epstein’s money: “I was an unsuccessful fundraiser and actually the object of a little bit of sadism on his part in dangling philanthropic support.”

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Bourke went to prison for a scheme to bribe government officials in Azerbaijan.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Her clients have included Matt Lauer and the Crown Prince and Princess of Greece.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Like Epstein, Branson enjoys entertaining on a private island.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

A friend of Trump, a convicted card cheat, and an accused Formula 1 race fixer, Briatore was a longtime fugitive in the Virgin Islands.

According to a court filing, Epstein advised Brin from 2004 to 2007, including guidance on how to set up a tax shelter — a tax-saving trust for Brin’s kids called a grantor-retained annuity trust, or GRAT — with bankers at JPMorgan Chase. Brin had become a client of the bank in 2004 following a referral from Epstein and subsequently held more than $4 billion in accounts there. The Wall Street Journal notes that Epstein helped billionaire and Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black set up a similar tax shelter. Epstein’s relationship with Brin came to light in an August 2023 court filing by the U.S. Virgin Islands in its civil suit against JPMorgan over the bank’s relationship with Epstein.

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The former Warner Music Group CEO, son of the late Seagram’s CEO Edgar Bronfman Sr., is related to the NXIVM-sex-cult Bronfmans. His son has a child with pop star M.I.A.

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log. He also contributed to Epstein’s birthday book.

Per our 2019 guide:

Brunel was accused in court testimony of having used his agency to supply Epstein with girls. (He was not charged.) He also has a long history of allegations that he had abused his fashion-world position. In 1988, he was the subject of a 60 Minutes investigation alleging that he and a fellow agent sexually assaulted nearly two dozen models. He denied the claims but later told Model author Michael Gross, “You get laid tonight with a model, is that a crime?” In 2005, Brunel co-founded the Mc2 modeling agency; Epstein invested $1 million, according to a 2010 deposition.

Brunel killed himself in 2020 while in a Paris jail awaiting trial on charges of raping and trafficking minors.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

As we noted in our 2019 guide:

In 2003, Buck met Maxwell at a fashion party at a New York City boutique. Buck had recently moved on from her seven-year tenure as the editor of Paris Vogue and was writing for its American counterpart and living in New Mexico. She was a lifelong resident of a rarefied social world. Maxwell, a regular on that particular circuit, quickly made a connection. “Oh, Jeffrey’s got a ranch in Santa Fe, blah blah blah,” Buck recently remembered their conversation going. She gave Maxwell her Santa Fe number and later asked a friend about Epstein and New Mexico. “His ranch?” the friend replied. “As we say in Texas, all hat, no cattle.”

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Burkle took what were described as humanitarian trips to Africa with Bill Clinton on Epstein’s private Boeing 727. According to a 2008 Vanity Fair feature about the former president, “Burkle’s usual means of transport is the custom-converted Boeing 757 that Clinton calls ‘Ron Air’ and that Burkle’s own circle of young aides privately refer to as ‘Air Fuck One.’ ”

According to his private documents, Epstein had three scheduled meetings in 2014 with Burns, who was at that point the deputy secretary of State in the Obama administration. They met both in Washington, D.C., and New York.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Per our 2019 guide:

During a custody battle with ex Uma Thurman, her lawyer asked Busson, a prominent hedge-funder, if he had ever said he was “addicted to prostitutes.” (He said no.)

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

An investor in Uber, Calacanis was a fixture in the early-aughts New York tech scene as the founder and editor of Silicon Alley Reporter. (“I can’t tell you how many propositions I get, it’s absolutely insane,” he told the Observer in 2000.) In 2014, Vice awarded him Most Offensive Tweet of the Year for describing as racist the idea of white privilege.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the model’s name was in Epstein’s schedules after 2008, and that one of Epstein’s accusers said that she was approached by one of Epstein’s associates at a 2010 Campbell event in Paris and told that Epstein knew Campbell and could help her modeling career.

Names found in Epstein’s black book.

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