作者：迈克尔·威廉姆斯、艾琳·格雷夫
23分钟前
发布时间：2026年2月9日，美国东部时间晚上9:26
去年，当司法部面临越来越大的公布爱泼斯坦相关文件的压力时，FBI员工正在整理一份被某人描述为“低俗”的对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦圈子内男性的指控，并制作了一份包含调查文件中“知名人士”名单的演示文稿。
这份21页的演示文稿——与超过300万份爱泼斯坦文件一同公布——概述了针对已故性犯罪者、其死亡以及长期同伙吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦（因儿童性交易罪被定罪）的多项联邦调查。
其中一页列出了十几个名字，并指出“大量”匿名举报发送到了FBI的举报热线。一些举报包括性不当行为的指控，而其他举报则不涉及刑事犯罪指控，只是表明与爱泼斯坦有关联。
所列男性包括唐纳德·特朗普总统、前总统比尔·克林顿和安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎，他们均被指与爱泼斯坦有关联，并否认对他们此前指控的不当行为有罪。
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FBI员工整理爱泼斯坦文件中最具爆炸性指控的努力发生在去年，当时公众对特朗普政府决定拒绝公布更多文件的反应日益强烈。此外，FBI在去年8月整理了一份与特朗普有关的性侵犯指控清单——其中许多指控似乎来自未经证实的举报。
最终，国会在11月通过了一项法律，要求透明化并公布所有文件，迫使特朗普政府采取行动。
演示文稿中不清楚是否对任何指控采取了核实步骤。司法部副部长托德·布兰奇本月早些时候告诉CNN，司法部没有计划根据爱泼斯坦文件提出额外指控，称文件中没有需要新起诉的内容。
CNN已联系司法部。FBI拒绝置评。
特朗普政府高级官员去年年初曾大肆宣传爱泼斯坦文件及一份据称的“客户名单”的发布——自2019年爱泼斯坦去世以来，包括特朗普支持者在内的各方一直对此翘首以盼。
司法部长帕姆·邦迪最初在去年2月表示，一份客户名单就在她的办公桌上——尽管政府称她指的是其他文件。当月晚些时候，她向一群右翼影响者提供了标有“爱泼斯坦文件：第一阶段”的活页夹，结果发现里面包含与该性犯罪者相关的已公开文件。
[图片说明：2025年10月7日，美国司法部长帕姆·邦迪在华盛顿特区国会山哈特参议院办公楼举行的参议院司法委员会听证会上作证。]
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由于缺乏新细节，邦迪承诺会发布更多文件。
但据CNN此前报道，政府大约在2025年5月开始收回承诺——正是同月邦迪在一次会议上告诉特朗普，他的名字出现在文件中。
这引发了强烈反弹，而司法部在7月7日发布的一份无署名备忘录中称，没有所谓的客户名单，且爱泼斯坦于2019年自杀身亡——这一结论削弱了相反的阴谋论。当时一位官员告诉CNN，司法部不计划就此事发布任何新文件。
三天后，一封标题为“对2025年7月10日主任电话的回应”的电子邮件详细说明了从爱泼斯坦设备中恢复的材料、查获的证据物品以及受害者报告中是否指控他人有性不当行为。简短总结表明，至少有四五名爱泼斯坦的受害者指控了未具名男性对其进行性虐待，但这些案件因“没有足够证据对这些人进行联邦指控”而移交给了地方执法部门。
7月晚些时候的一封电子邮件中，FBI的一名人员被要求撰写关于针对13人的“低俗陈述”的摘要，包括特朗普、克林顿、蒙巴顿-温莎、亿万富翁莱昂·布莱克和前电影大亨哈维·韦恩斯坦。
提供的简短陈述包括针对特朗普的新披露但未经证实的性侵犯指控细节，以及针对韦恩斯坦和布莱克的类似指控。
电子邮件列表的部分内容被纳入21页的演示文稿中，该演示文稿包含FBI儿童剥削和人口贩卖工作队的标志。
根据幻灯片上列出的日期，该演示文稿创建于2025年7月中旬之后。它展示了针对爱泼斯坦的各种州和联邦调查的时间表、爱泼斯坦与麦克斯韦之间的金融交易细节，以及参加“认罪”会议（与检察官会面，可在此陈述在刑事案件中能提供的证据或证词）的人员名单。
对于置评请求，白宫援引了司法部上个月发布的一份新闻稿，称发布的文件包含“针对特朗普总统的不实和耸人听闻的指控，这些指控是在2020年大选前提交给FBI的”。
“需要明确的是，这些指控毫无根据且虚假，”新闻稿称，“如果这些指控有一丝可信度，它们肯定会在之前就被用来攻击特朗普总统。”
特朗普从未被执法部门指控与爱泼斯坦有关的不当行为。
布莱克的律师在一份声明中表示，布莱克与爱泼斯坦的关系仅涉及业务往来，“绝对没有事实依据”。布莱克于2021年因与爱泼斯坦的关系而离开私人股本公司阿波罗全球管理的管理职位。
“布莱克先生要求对他与爱泼斯坦的关系进行独立调查。德彻特律师事务所调查并审查了超过6万份文件，采访了20多人，结论是布莱克先生为爱泼斯坦支付了遗产规划和税务咨询费用，且他不知道爱泼斯坦的犯罪活动，”律师苏珊·埃斯特里奇写道。
“针对布莱克先生的三项民事诉讼中，一项已被驳回，另一项已撤诉，第三项目前正面临终止诉讼的制裁动议。针对布莱克先生的所有指控均毫无事实依据，”埃斯特里奇说。
克林顿和蒙巴顿-温莎的代表尚未回应置评请求。
韦恩斯坦目前正在监禁中，等待在纽约就性侵犯指控进行第三次审判，此前他在洛杉矶因类似指控被定罪。
“这是一份未经证实的FBI举报，不是调查结果，不是宣誓证词，也不是任何事情的证据。韦恩斯坦先生否认文中描述的行为，”韦恩斯坦发言人朱达·恩格尔迈尔在给CNN的声明中说。
“这些录入文件的存在正是为了让任何人都可以举报任何事情——包括与多年来在公共领域流传的指控高度相似的故事。在高调公布文件期间，举报热线中出现一个听起来熟悉的叙述并不意味着它是真实的、经过检验的或得到证实的，”他补充道。
[图片说明：2022年12月25日，安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎（前安德鲁王子）在诺福克桑德灵厄姆圣玛丽 Magdalene教堂参加英国王室传统圣诞礼拜时的反应。]
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克林顿否认与爱泼斯坦有关的不当行为指控。他定于本月晚些时候作为众议院对爱泼斯坦调查的一部分出席证词，并推动将证词公开。
“我不会坐视不理，让共和党人利用我作为他们害怕的‘秘密法庭’的道具，”克林顿上周在X平台（原推特）上发文称。“如果他们想要答案，就让我们停止玩弄政治把戏，用正确的方式来做：在公开听证会上，让美国人民亲眼看到这到底是怎么回事。”
蒙巴顿-温莎（即去年因与爱泼斯坦的友谊而被剥夺王室头衔的前安德鲁王子）尚未回应最新文件发布的置评请求。
As pressure mounted to release Epstein files, FBI employees compiled allegations against other men
By Michael Williams, Aileen Graef
23 min ago
PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2026, 9:26 PM ET
As the Justice Department faced mounting pressure to release the Epstein files last year, FBI employees were compiling what one described as “salacious” allegations against men in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit and putting together a presentation that included a list of “prominent names” in the investigative files.
The 21-slide presentation — released with more than 3 million documents in the Epstein files — outlines the various federal investigations into the late convicted sex offender, his death and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of child sex trafficking.
One slide lists a dozen names and notes that “numerous” tips were made anonymously to the FBI’s tip line. Some of the tips included claims of sexual misconduct, while others were not allegations of criminal conduct but rather indicated an association with Epstein.
The men listed, including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, have been known to have associations with Epstein and have denied wrongdoing regarding previous allegations against them.
Former US President Bill Clinton speaks on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 21, 2024.
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Efforts by FBI employees to compile some of the most explosive claims contained in the Epstein files took place as public backlash mounted last year over the Trump administration’s decision to shut the door on releasing more documents. Separately, the FBI compiled a list of sexual assault allegations related to Trump this past August — many of which appear to have come from unverified tips.
Eventually, Congress passed a law in November demanding transparency and the release of all documents, forcing the Trump administration to act.
It’s not clear from the presentation what steps had been taken to verify any of the allegations. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told CNN earlier this month that the Department of Justice has no plans to bring additional charges related to Epstein, saying there was nothing in the files to warrant new prosecutions.
CNN has reached out to the DOJ. The FBI declined to comment.
Top Trump administration officials early last year hyped the release of the Epstein files and a purported “client list,” which has been long sought since Epstein’s death in 2019, including by Trump’s base.
Attorney General Pam Bondi initially said last February that a client list was sitting on her desk — though the administration said she was referring to other documents. Later that month, she gave a group of rightwing influencers binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1,” which turned out to contain already publicized documents related to the sex offender.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, on October 7, 2025.
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Under pressure because of the lack of new details, Bondi promised more documents would be released.
But the administration began backtracking, CNN previously reported, sometime around May 2025 — the same month that Bondi told Trump in a meeting that his name was included in the files.
This sparked backlash that intensified after the DOJ said on July 7 in an unsigned memo that it had concluded there was no client list and that Epstein had died in 2019 by suicide — undercutting conspiracy theories to the contrary. The department did not plan to release any new documents on the matter, an official told CNN at the time.
Three days later an email with the subject line “Response to 07/10/2025 Director’s call” broke down material recovered on Epstein’s devices, evidence items seized, and victims’ reports as to whether they had accused others of sexual misconduct. The short summary indicates at least four or five of Epstein’s victims had accused unnamed men of sexually abusing them, but that the cases were referred to local law enforcement because “there was not enough evidence to federally charge these individuals.”
In an email later in July, a person at the FBI was asked to write summaries of “salacious statements” made about 13 people, including Trump, Clinton, Mountbatten-Windsor, billionaire Leon Black, and ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Among the short statements provided were details of newly disclosed but unverified claims of sexual assault made against Trump, along with similar claims against Weinstein and Black.
Portions of the emailed list were included in the 21-page presentation that included the logo of the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
The presentation was created sometime after mid-July 2025, given dates listed in the slides. It featured a timeline of various state and federal investigations into Epstein, details about financial transactions between Epstein and Maxwell, and a list of people who attended “proffer” sessions – meetings with prosecutors in which a person can lay out what evidence or testimony they could provide in a criminal case.
In response to a request for comment, the White House referred to a press release issued by the Justice Department last month that said the released documents contain “untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.”
Leon Black, chairman and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 1, 2018.
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“To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false,” the press release said, “and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
Trump has never been accused by law enforcement of wrongdoing related to Epstein.
An attorney for Black, who stepped away from running the private equity firm Apollo Global Management in 2021 over his ties to Epstein, said in a statement that there was “absolutely no truth” to the allegations and maintained their relationship was only business related.
“Mr. Black asked for an independent investigation of his relationship with Epstein. The Dechert law firm investigated and reviewed more than 60,000 documents, interviewed more than 20 people and concluded that Mr. Black paid Epstein for estate planning and tax advice and that he had no awareness of Epstein’s criminal activities,” lawyer Susan Estrich wrote.
“Of the three civil lawsuits filed against Mr. Black, one has been dismissed, the other withdrawn and the other is currently facing a case terminating motion for sanctions. There is absolutely no truth to any of the allegations against Mr. Black,” Estrich said.
Representatives for Clinton and Mountbatten-Windsor have not responded to a request for comment.
Weinstein is incarcerated, awaiting a third trial in New York on charges of sexual assault after having already been convicted of similar charges in Los Angeles.
“This is an unverified FBI tip, not a finding, not sworn testimony, and not evidence of anything. Mr. Weinstein denies the conduct described,” Juda Engelmayer, spokesperson for Weinstein, said in a statement to CNN.
“These intake documents exist precisely so anyone can call in anything — including stories that closely resemble allegations that have been in the public domain for years. The fact that a familiar-sounding narrative appears in a tip line during a high-profile document release does not make it true, tested, or corroborated,” he added.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor reacts as he arrives for the Royal Family’s traditional Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, on December 25, 2022.
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Clinton has denied accusations of wrongdoing related to Epstein. He’s scheduled to appear in a deposition as part of the House’s probe into Epstein later this month – and has pushed for that testimony to be made public.
“I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared,” Clinton said in a post to X last week. “If they want answers, let’s stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing, where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about.”
Mountbatten-Windsor – the former Prince Andrew who was stripped of his royal title last year over his friendship with Epstein – has not responded to the latest file release.