2026-06-19T06:02:30-0400 / https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-whats-missing/
美国司法部根据《爱泼斯坦档案透明度法案》公布了超过300万页文件后，幸存者、维权人士和国会议员迅速对一处明显差异提出质疑：司法部曾表示其在调查期间收集了超过600万份材料，但仅公布了其中一半。
美国司法部对CBS新闻表示，其“已公布了《爱泼斯坦档案透明度法案》要求的所有文件”，并坚称未公布的300万份文件要么是重复内容、与爱泼斯坦无关，要么受法律特权保护。
但有关重要文件仍被扣留的担忧持续存在。与此同时，美国政府问责局近日宣布，应多名国会议员的要求，将就已公布文件中的信息涂黑情况展开调查。
众议院监督委员会最高民主党议员罗伯特·加西亚表示，如果存在重复文件，“好吧，那没问题，让我们看看它们。”他补充道：“我认为人们需要明白的是……我们不确定这300万份文件里有什么。”
CBS新闻不仅对已披露的内容进行了分析，还对看似缺失的文件进行了排查。尽管现有材料数量空前，但围绕爱泼斯坦的活动、他的通信、针对他的联邦调查以及他在狱中死亡的相关情况，公开记录仍存在诸多空白。
我们的审查发现，多个领域的重要问题仍未得到解答，或相关文件似乎仍未公布。
删节问题
《爱泼斯坦档案透明度法案》仅为扣留信息或删去姓名提供了有限的理由，其主要目的是保护受害者。该法案明确将“名誉损害或政治敏感性”排除在删节理由之外。然而在许多情况下，知名人士的姓名被删去，而受害者的姓名却未被处理。
部分删节似乎难以找到合理依据。例如，在爱泼斯坦向史蒂夫·班农发送一篇文章链接的短信中，一张早已在网上公开的照片里，班农的脸部被涂黑了。
美国司法部在爱泼斯坦档案中删去了史蒂夫·班农的照片。 美国司法部
在其他案例中，爱泼斯坦的商业联系人和熟人的姓名似乎在没有符合该法案条款的明显理由的情况下被删去。
爱泼斯坦档案中的许多邮件的发件人或收件人姓名被删去。 美国司法部
另一个被广泛提及的案例是，一封落款为“爱你，梅拉尼娅”的2002年邮件，其发件人和收件人的完整姓名及邮箱均被删去。今年4月，第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普承认曾与吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦交换邮件，并在一份声明中表示，这“无非是随意的通信。我对她邮件的礼貌回复不过是一封微不足道的便条”。
爱泼斯坦档案中一封落款为“爱你，梅拉尼娅”的邮件，其发件人和收件人姓名被删去。 美国司法部
《爱泼斯坦档案透明度法案》要求美国司法部为每一处删节提供理由。该法案允许扣留“显然构成对个人隐私的无理侵犯”的信息，但同时规定所有删节都必须附带一份在《联邦公报》上公布并提交给国会的书面说明。美国司法部并未试图回应具体的删节问题，仅发表了一份笼统的声明，称其删节工作“符合该法案”。
国会议员有机会审查被删节的材料，但这一过程耗时漫长，部分议员抱怨他们的检索工作受到了司法部的监控。
在CBS新闻就这些删节问题联系司法部置评后，班农的照片和其中两封邮件被悄悄解除了删节。其中一封邮件解除删节后显示，发件人是英国前外交官彼得·曼德尔森，他于今年早些时候因涉嫌不当处理敏感政府文件被捕，英国广播公司报道称他对此予以否认。曼德尔森表示，他对与爱泼斯坦的友谊感到后悔，并称从未目睹过犯罪活动。
在CBS新闻联系司法部后，这封英国前外交官彼得·曼德尔森写给杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的邮件的姓名被解除了删节。 美国司法部
邮件通信空白
美国司法部公布了数百万份爱泼斯坦的邮件。其中几乎所有邮件都来自他2008年入狱前后创建的一个邮箱：jeevacation@gmail.com。
爱泼斯坦档案中缺失了他其他早期账户的邮件，包括约2万封来自爱泼斯坦jeeproject@yahoo.com账户的邮件，这些邮件此前曾被黑客获取，后来由非营利组织“分布式拒绝隐私”归档。目前尚不清楚司法部是否曾获取过这些邮件。
部分较旧的邮件确实出现在似乎是从吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦的账户或其他渠道获取的记录中，但司法部公布的文件中缺失了爱泼斯坦的大部分早期通信。
然而，一批文件引发了人们对司法部所掌握内容的质疑：一组2000年代初的邮件截图，来自爱泼斯坦的littlestjeff@yahoo.com邮箱（指代他的小岛圣詹姆斯岛）——值得注意的是，这段时间爱泼斯坦与唐纳德·特朗普保持联系，两人通过纽约和棕榈滩的社交圈相识。这些记录中的发件人和收件人字段被大量删节。特朗普曾多次声称自己从未使用过电子邮件，但这些通信可能会提及爱泼斯坦与特朗普及其他人的关系。这段时间也是爱泼斯坦被发现招募未成年女孩进行性按摩的时期，很可能是调查人员高度关注的时间段。
特朗普一直否认与爱泼斯坦有关的任何不当行为。
尽管司法部显然能够访问爱泼斯坦的收件箱，但该账户中仅有少量邮件被纳入公布的档案。
联邦调查局内部通信
公布的文件中包含大量美国司法部和联邦调查局的内部通信。参与这些通信的许多司法部和联邦调查局官员的姓名被删去，使得难以重建谁对关键调查行动负责。
爱泼斯坦档案中一封联邦调查局官员姓名被删去的邮件。 美国司法部
缺失的邮件附件
档案中的众多邮件提及了附件文件，但这些附件似乎并未被纳入公布内容。
其中一个案例涉及从爱泼斯坦位于新墨西哥州的佐罗牧场财产中被盗的约30支枪支。2018年8月，一名员工给爱泼斯坦发送了一份名为“ZMC_-_Gun_Inventory.pdf”的文件，其中包含这些武器的信息，包括它们的序列号。根据CBS新闻获取的新墨西哥州警方报告，在这起盗窃案调查期间，这些序列号被 withheld（未向调查人员提供）。CBS新闻在公布的档案中未能找到任何包含枪支序列号的文件。
即便附件可能已被公布，将其与原发邮件对应起来也几乎不可能：美国司法部将原始文件名替换为了自己的文档编号系统，使得难以确定此类附件是否在档案的其他部分存在，或某份文件最初附属于哪封邮件。
美国禁毒署调查
档案中的一份引人注目的文件是由有组织犯罪缉毒特遣部队融合中心制作的69页报告，该报告将爱泼斯坦和其他14人列为美国禁毒署一项针对涉嫌与摇头丸或氯胺酮贩运相关的洗钱活动调查的目标。
如此规模的调查很可能会产生大量记录，包括调查报告、邮件和财务分析。但这些材料均未被公布。
杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（右）以及一份2015年美国禁毒署备忘录的封面页，该备忘录将他列为15名调查目标之一。 美国司法部公布的文件
美国禁毒署拒绝了CBS新闻根据《信息自由法》索取相关记录的请求，也拒绝了俄勒冈州参议员罗恩·怀登寻求有关该调查更多信息的请求，该参议员办公室对CBS新闻表示。
其他机构和调查
《华盛顿邮报》此前的报道显示，爱泼斯坦曾在1990年代针对塔沃斯金融公司（一家臭名昭著的庞氏骗局）的调查中被提及，但从未被指控犯罪。尽管该调查由司法部开展，但相关文件并未被纳入公布的档案。
要求公布爱泼斯坦档案的法律有一个显著局限：它仅适用于司法部。其他机构可能持有与爱泼斯坦相关的文件，但并未公布。
这份美国禁毒署调查的文件显示了三项单独的移民和海关执法局调查，其中两项在2015年报告发布时已结案，另一项被列为待办。但隶属于国土安全部的移民和海关执法局不受《爱泼斯坦档案透明度法案》约束。国务院、财政部、中央情报局或美国国家安全局等其他政府机构也同样不受该法案约束，这些机构在过去几十年里可能收集了有关爱泼斯坦的材料。（爱泼斯坦凭借其遍布全球的政治和商业人脉，曾怀疑美国情报机构是否有关于他的档案。）
索引问题
CBS新闻花费数周时间分析了司法部在吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦刑事案件中向其提供的文件索引。媒体此前曾利用该索引找出三份失踪的联邦调查局面谈记录（即302表格），其中记录了特工们从爱泼斯坦指控者处听到的有关特朗普的说法。
该索引用贝茨编号——一种常见的法律文件索引系统——对记录进行编目。根据CBS新闻的分析，该索引中列出的约5000份文件中，超过70%无法通过分配的文档编号在公布的档案中检索到。
美国司法部对CBS新闻表示，许多缺失的条目可能被认定为重复文件，因此被排除在公布内容之外。通过包括证人面谈日期和文件描述在内的上下文线索，部分文件可以在其他地方找到，但许多文件无法做到这一点。
其中一个案例涉及一名名为约瑟夫·阿尔瓦雷斯，又名“吉普赛·吉塔”的人。此前据报道，一名爱泼斯坦的幸存者指认阿尔瓦雷斯是将她介绍给吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦的人。阿尔瓦雷斯于2021年去世。
爱泼斯坦档案中包含与约瑟夫·阿尔瓦雷斯（又名“吉普赛·吉塔”）相关的这些照片。 美国司法部
CBS新闻未能在索引中找到与阿尔瓦雷斯相关的8份文件中的4份。在现存的文件中，一份是阿尔瓦雷斯与特朗普的合影，一份是阿尔瓦雷斯的名片，还有两份是大袋现金的照片。四份缺失的文件被列为“阿尔瓦雷斯资产报告”、“阿尔瓦雷斯执法报告”、“阿尔瓦雷斯联系卡报告”和“[被删节的]脸书截图”。从现有文件中无法得知为何这些照片被纳入案件档案。
按摩预约通信
最引人注目的缺失内容之一，是爱泼斯坦去世前几年与按摩预约相关的通信。
众所周知，爱泼斯坦每天会接受多次按摩，他将这种方式作为招募和剥削年轻女性和女孩的手段。2005年当局搜查他在棕榈滩的住所时，调查人员发现了数百条来自女性和女孩的信息，他们称这些信息涉及按摩预约的安排。
爱泼斯坦档案中一些关于按摩预约的记录。 美国司法部 / CBS新闻对姓名和电话号码进行了删节
但公布的档案中几乎没有关于2009年他出狱后如何安排预约的通信内容。
信号加密消息
爱泼斯坦经常鼓励同伙使用加密通讯应用Signal进行沟通。
本次公布的档案中未包含任何Signal消息，有可能是调查人员未能获取到这些内容。
显然曾使用Signal与爱泼斯坦通信的人包括科技投资者彼得·蒂尔和房地产投资者托马斯·巴拉克。巴拉克是特朗普的长期好友，目前担任美国驻土耳其大使和伊拉克问题特使。蒂尔和巴拉克都参与了特朗普2016年的总统竞选活动。两人均未被指控在爱泼斯坦案中有任何不当行为。
可疑活动报告
记录了爱泼斯坦被金融机构标记的数百万美元交易的可疑活动报告曾被公布，随后被撤回，之后又以完全删节的形式重新公布。这些报告来自财政部，但被用于司法部对爱泼斯坦和麦克斯韦罪行的调查。
左图为一份关于爱泼斯坦金融交易的可疑活动报告。右图为美国司法部将该表格下架，之后以完全删节的形式重新公布。 美国司法部
监狱监控视频
爱泼斯坦档案中的一份文件显示，美国司法部拥有大都会惩教中心147台摄像头在爱泼斯坦死亡前后24小时内的 footage，总数据量超过8太字节。内部文件显示，这段视频并未揭示任何重要信息，“因为特殊住房单元的摄像头……当时并未启用”。即便如此，根据法律规定，这些视频本应被公布。
2019年7月23日，也就是爱泼斯坦疑似首次尝试自杀的当晚的视频也同样缺失。
诉讼和听证会
独立记者凯蒂·庞目前正在起诉美国司法部，要求其提供多处删节的理由并公布更多文件。根据前司法部长帕姆·邦迪的说法，其副手、现任代理司法部长托德·布兰奇负责处理爱泼斯坦档案的删节和公布工作。
众议院监督与政府改革委员会已要求布兰奇出席委员会会议，就这一过程回答相关问题。
What’s missing from the Epstein files? Questions persist about unexplained redactions, missing documents, email gaps
2026-06-19T06:02:30-0400 / https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-whats-missing/
When the Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, survivors, advocates and lawmakers quickly raised questions about an apparent discrepancy: the DOJ had said it collected more than 6 million pages of material during its investigation but was only releasing half that number.
The Justice Department tells CBS News it “has released every document required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” and maintains that those unreleased 3 million documents were either duplicative, unrelated to Epstein or protected by legal privilege.
But concerns persist about evidence that important documents are still being withheld. At the same time, the Government Accountability Office recently announced it was launching an investigation into the way documents that were released had information blacked out. That move comes at the request of several members of Congress.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, says that if there are duplicates, “OK, that’s fine, let’s see them.” He adds, “I think what people need to understand is … we’re not sure what’s in the 3 million.”
CBS News has analyzed the archive not only for what has been disclosed, but also for documents that appear to be absent. Despite the unprecedented volume of material now available, it’s apparent that many gaps remain in the public record surrounding Epstein’s activities, his communication, the federal investigations into him and the circumstances surrounding his death behind bars.
Our review identified several areas where important questions remain unanswered or documents appear to remain unreleased.
Redaction issues
The Epstein Files Transparency Act provides only limited grounds for withholding information or redacting names. Its primary purpose is to protect victims. The bill specifically excluded “reputational harm, or political sensitivity” as a reason for redacting. Yet in many instances prominent individuals’ names were redacted while victims’ names were not.
Some redactions seem difficult to justify. In one example, a text where Epstein sent Steve Bannon a link to an article, Bannon’s face was blacked out in a photo that had already been publicly posted online.
The DOJ redacted a photo of Steve Bannon in the Epstein files. U.S. Department of Justice
Elsewhere, the names of business contacts and acquaintances of Epstein appear to have been redacted without an obvious reason under the terms of the law.
Many emails contained in the Epstein files had senders’ or recipients’ names redacted. U.S. Department of Justice
In another widely cited example, a 2002 email with the signoff “Love, Melania” had the full name and email of the sender and receiver redacted. In April, first lady Melania Trump acknowledged having exchanged emails with Ghislaine Maxwell, saying in a statement that it “cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence. My polite reply to her email doesn’t amount to anything more than a trivial note.”
A 2002 email in the Epstein files signed “Love, Melania,” with the sender’s and receiver’s names redacted. U.S. Department of Justice
The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the DOJ to provide a justification for every redaction. It permits withholding information that “would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy,” but also states that all redactions must be accompanied by a written justification published in the Federal Register and submitted to Congress. The Department of Justice has made no attempt to address specific redactions and instead issued a general statement saying its redactions were “[c]onsistent with the Act.”
Members of Congress have been given the opportunity to review redacted material, but the process is time consuming and some have complained their searches are being monitored by the DOJ.
After CBS News reached out to the DOJ for comment on these redactions, the photo of Bannon and two of the emails were quietly un-redacted. After one of those was un-redacted, it revealed the sender was former U.K. diplomat Peter Mandelson, who was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of mishandling sensitive government documents, which BBC News reports he denies. Mandelson has said he regrets his friendship with Epstein and says he never witnessed criminal activity.
After CBS News reached out to the DOJ, the name on this email from former British diplomat Peter Mandelson to Jeffrey Epstein was un-redacted. U.S. Department of Justice
A gap in email communications
The DOJ released millions of Epstein’s emails. Nearly all originate from an email account he created around the time he went to jail in 2008: jeevacation@gmail.com.
Missing from the Epstein files are emails from his other, earlier accounts, including approximately 20,000 messages from Epstein’s jeeproject@yahoo.com account, which were previously obtained by hackers and later archived by the nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets. It’s unclear if the DOJ itself ever obtained those emails.
Some older email messages do appear in records apparently obtained from Ghislaine Maxwell’s accounts or other sources, but the DOJ’s release is missing most of Epstein’s earliest communications.
However, a batch of documents raises questions about what the DOJ does have; a series of screengrab images of Epstein’s inbox for an email account littlestjeff@yahoo.com (a reference to his island, Little St. James) from the early 2000s — notably a period of time when Epstein was in touch with Donald Trump, whom he knew through New York and Palm Beach social circles. The sender and recipient fields on those records are heavily redacted. Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed he has never used email, but those communications could potentially have references to Epstein’s relationship with Mr. Trump and others. This was also the period in which Epstein was found to have been recruiting underage girls for sexual massages, and would likely have been of high interest to investigators.
Mr. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
Despite the DOJ apparently having access to Epstein’s inbox, only a handful of emails from that account were included in the release.
Internal FBI communications
The release includes a substantial amount of internal DOJ and FBI correspondence. The names of many DOJ and FBI officials involved in those communications have been redacted, making it difficult to reconstruct who was responsible for key investigative actions.
An email in the Epstein files with names of FBI officials redacted. U.S. Department of Justice
Missing email attachments
Numerous emails in the archive reference attached documents that do not appear to have been included in the release.
One example concerns the theft of approximately 30 firearms from Epstein’s Zorro Ranch property in New Mexico. In August 2018, an employee emailed Epstein a file titled “ZMC-_Gun_Inventory.pdf,”_ which contained information about the weapons, including their serial numbers. According to a New Mexico State Police report obtained by CBS News, those serial numbers were withheld from investigators during the theft investigation. CBS News was unable to locate any document containing firearm serial numbers in the released archive.
Even where attachments may have been released, linking them back to the emails from which they originated is nearly impossible; the DOJ replaced original file names with its own document numbering system, making it difficult to determine whether such attachments were included elsewhere in the archive, or which email a file may have been originally attached to.
The DEA investigation
One notable document in the files is a 69-page report produced by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Fusion Center identifying Epstein and 14 others as targets of a DEA investigation into alleged money laundering connected to ecstasy or ketamine trafficking.
An investigation of that scope would likely have generated substantial records, including investigative reports, emails and financial analyses. None of that material was released.
Jeffrey Epstein, at right, and the cover page of a 2015 Drug Enforcement Administration memo listing him as one of 15 people targeted in an investigation. Document released by Department of Justice
The DEA denied CBS News’ requests for related records under the Freedom of Information Act and also declined a request from Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden seeking additional information about the investigation, the senator’s office told CBS News.
Other agencies and investigations
Previous reporting by the Washington Post revealed that Epstein had been named in an investigation in the 1990s into Towers Financial, a notorious Ponzi scheme, but was never charged. Documents related to that investigation were not included in the release despite it having been conducted by the DOJ.
One notable limitation of the law requiring the Epstein files’ release is that it only applies to the DOJ. Other agencies may have documents relating to Epstein that they have not released.
The document about the DEA investigation revealed three separate Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations, two of which had already been closed by the time of the 2015 report and one that was listed as pending. But ICE, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Neither are other government agencies including the State Department, Treasury Department, CIA or NSA, which may have collected material on Epstein over the past several decades. (With his global network of political and business contacts, Epstein himself wondered if U.S. intelligence had files on him.)
Index issues
CBS News spent weeks analyzing indexes of files provided to Ghislaine Maxwell by the DOJ during her criminal case. This same index had been used previously by media outlets to identify three missing FBI interview records, known as 302s, in which agents documented what they were told by Epstein accusers who made claims about Mr. Trump.
This index used a Bates numbering — a common legal document indexing system — to catalog records. More than 70% of the roughly 5,000 documents listed in the index could not be located through searches of the released archive using their assigned document numbers, according to a CBS News analysis.
The DOJ told CBS News that many of the missing entries may have been identified as duplicates, and therefore were excluded from publication. Using contextual clues, including witness interview dates and document descriptions, some files could be located elsewhere, but for many that was not possible.
One example involves an individual named Joseph Alvarez, also known as “Gypsy Gita.” Gita had previously reportedly been named by one Epstein survivor as someone who introduced her to Ghislaine Maxwell. Alvarez died in 2021.
The Epstein files include these photos related to Joseph Alvarez, also known as “Gypsy Gita.” U.S. Department of Justice
CBS News was unable to locate four of eight documents associated with Alvarez in the index. Of the documents that were present, one was a picture of Alvarez with Mr. Trump, one was Alvarez’ business card and two were photographs of large bags of cash. The four missing documents were listed as “alvarez asset report,” “alvarez law enforcement report,” “alvarez contact card report” and “screenshot of [redacted] facebook.” It’s unclear from the documents why these photos were included in the case files.
Massage scheduling communications
One of the most conspicuous absences is communication relating to the scheduling of massages in the years prior to Epstein’s death.
Epstein was known to have multiple massages each day, a practice that he used as a mechanism for recruiting and exploiting young women and girls. When authorities searched his Palm Beach residence in 2005, investigators found hundreds of messages from women and girls that they said referred to the scheduling of massage appointments.
A few of the notes from the Epstein files about scheduling massages. U.S. Department of Justice / Names and phone numbers redacted by CBS News
Yet the released archive contains little correspondence about how appointments were arranged after his release from jail in 2009.
Signal messages
Epstein frequently encouraged associates to communicate using the encrypted messaging app Signal.
No Signal messages have been included in the release; it is possible that investigators were unable to obtain them.
Among those who apparently used Signal to communicate with Epstein were technology investor Peter Thiel and real estate investor Thomas Barrack. Barrack, a longtime friend of Mr. Trump, is now U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Iraq. Both Thiel and Barrack were involved in Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. They have not been accused of any wrongdoing in the Epstein case.
Suspicious activity reports
Suspicious activity reports, which document millions of dollars in transactions made by Epstein that were flagged by financial institutions, were released, retracted and then re-released in an entirely redacted form. They originated from the Treasury Department but were used in the DOJ’s investigation of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s crimes.
At left, a suspicious activity report on Epstein’s financial transactions. At right, the DOJ took the form down and then re-released it with the contents entirely redacted. U.S. Department of Justice
Prison videos
One document from the Epstein files revealed that the DOJ had footage from 147 cameras from the Metropolitan Correctional Center covering a 24-hour period before and after Epstein died, totaling over 8 terabytes of data. The internal documents indicate that the footage does not reveal anything significant “since the cameras in the Special Housing Unit … were not active at the time.” Even so, by law, those videos should have been released.
Also missing are videos from July 23, 2019, the night Epstein apparently first tried to take his life.
Lawsuits and hearings
The independent journalist Katie Phang is currently suing the Department of Justice to force it to provide justifications for many of the redactions and release additional documents. According to former Attorney General Pam Bondi, her deputy and now Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was responsible for handling the redaction and release of the Epstein files.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has requested that Blanche appear before the committee and answer questions about that process.
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