From Elon Musk to the former Prince Andrew, a who's who of powerful men are named in Epstein files
Source: Associated Press
From Elon Musk to the former Prince Andrew, a who’s who of powerful men are named in Epstein files
By PHILIP MARCELO
Updated 10:23 PM EST, January 31, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who’s who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released Friday by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein.
Many have denied having close ties to the late financier, or at least having anything to do with his alleged sexual abuse of girls and young women that led to his arrest on sex trafficking charges.
None have been charged with a crime connected to the investigation. Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019. Yet some of them maintained friendships with Epstein, or developed them anew, even after he became known as a predator of young girls and registered sex offender.
Here’s a primer on some of the notable names in the Epstein files:
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/epstein-trump-musk-andrew-tisch-google-682447e50bf9a3643a36c9b54ccdfa22
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• Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
• Elon Musk
• Richard Branson — offered to help Epstein rehabilitate his image post-conviction
• Steven Tisch — mentioned 400 times
• Casey Wasserman — racy emails with Ghislaine Maxwell
• Ehud Barak — regular contact with Epstein but denies seeing any wrongdoing
• Howard Lutnick
• Sergey Brin — apparently broke off contact after Epstein's 2003 arrest
• Steve Bannon
• Miroslav Lajcak — national security advisor to Slovakian PM — just resigned
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I posted some "open source" intelligence that America2 News did, (July 2025) adding to the Epstein family emails and the Epstein Document Archive.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220810679
Here's what America2 News mapped out.
https://america2.news/we-mapped-jeffrey-epsteins-social-network-heres-what-we-found/
We mapped Jeffrey Epstein's social network. Here's what we found.
We included Epstein's entire, unredacted “black book,” as well as the flight logs for his private jet, the Lolita Express. We also examined several other ancillary networks known to have at least some overlap, including figures adjacent to Iran-Contra, September 11, and Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell. Drawing from a range of sources, we considered 908 potentially related people and organizations, with 2,194 connections between them. After reviewing for accuracy and relevance, we focused on 209 entities (with 642 relationships) as most pertinent.
Importantly, inclusion in our study does not imply guilt — indeed we have included people relevant to the current power struggle ranging from tech executives with no ties to Epstein, to victims. We aimed to reveal the networks currently in conflict, while also tempering speculation about the scope and nature of Epstein's activities. Here's what we learned.
The Epstein and Trump Networks Overlap Significantly
As expected, Epstein's long association with Donald Trump resulted in significant social and business overlap between their networks, a fact which is fast becoming an existential threat to Trump's presidency. Interestingly, Trump appears to have more confirmed affiliations with Israeli-connected interests than Epstein (Netanyahu, Boteach, Kushner family), though Epstein had a well-documented relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
More at the site.
The intent is to show how wide his network was, how it (ahem) intersects and also the methodology used to create the graph.
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