More than 3 million pages of Epstein files released, reveal he was denied entry into Canada

The young files exhibit that jacob epstein applied for a temporary occupier let that would have allowed him to travel to Canada in 2018 despite his criminal record. 

His request was refused. 

In an email to the Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles, Epstein said he applied for the permit "in connection with my plan to visit Vancouver, BC … to attend the TED 2018 Conference." 

A letter from the consulate dated April 4, 2018, tells Epstein that he is deemed inadmissible to Canada because he had been convicted of at least one crime that would constitute an indictable offence in Canada. 

"While a Temporary Resident Permit is intended to allow entry to Canada in spite of criminal offenses, it can be issued only in exceptional circumstances that might be best described as humanitarian and compassionate, or on occasion, when compelling Canadian interests are served," it says. 

"After a careful and sympathetic review balancing all the factors, I have determined that there are insufficient grounds to merit the issuance of a permit in your case." 

What Blanche described as "a very small portion of the documents collected" are temporarily being withheld because they are subject to a protective order in a civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell.  

He said they are material that a law firm submitted to the Southern District of New York in 2019 under a grand jury subpoena during the criminal investigation into Maxwell. 

Given the protective order, Blanche said the Justice Department decided it would be prudent to seek court permission for it to be released. 

"If that motion is granted, we'll release those materials with appropriate redactions immediately," Blanche said. 

Blanche told reporters on Friday that the document drop includes extensive redactions, noting that information about victims, including medical files, were removed.

Images and videos depicting women — save for Ghislaine Maxwell — were also redacted. 

Finally, sensitive images or materials revealing child sex abuse, injury, physical abuse and/or death were also removed, Blanche said. He added that information that could compromise an ongoing federal investigation was also withheld. 

Trump just wrapped up a 30-minute televised event in the Oval Office, about an executive order to allow an IndyCar race in Washington, D.C., this summer. 

He took questions from reporters for the final 15 minutes of the event. 

Although he spoke about Minneapolis, Iran, a state tax increase in Virginia and his new nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, he did not address any questions on the Epstein files release.  

Liz Stein, another Epstein survivor, said survivors' stories are sometimes lost in the coverage of the high-profile case.

She noted that people who were not involved in the case often comment about it, but "we are the ones who experienced this crime."

A reporter asked Blanche whether he can assure Americans that everything relevant to Trump or other prominent figures and their connections to Epstein was released. 

"We complied with the act," Blanche said. "We did not protect President Trump. We didn't protect anybody."

He said Trump's direction to the Justice Department on releasing the Epstein files was "to be as transparent as we can, and that's exactly what we did." 

For years, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein thought they were the only ones

Hi, this is Holly Cabrera. I’m a journalist in Montreal. 

A reminder that some people could be impacted personally by the news of today's document release.

"Back in 1991, in the U.S., as I understood it, rape was determined by how much you resisted," Michaels said. "Because I froze in that moment and then proceeded to blame myself, because I froze, I thought nobody was going to believe me." 

"For 27 years, I thought I was the only person he had raped," Michaels added. 

Michaels said it took the first four victims coming forward in investigative journalist Julie K. Brown's book Perversion of Justice, published in 2018, for her to recognize that she wasn't at fault for the rape

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This release of documents, videos and other items is a requirement under a law passed in November 2025 by the U.S. Congress, which took effect that month after U.S. President Donald Trump signed it.

The law forced the Justice Department to publicly release all documents related to the Epstein investigation (with some exceptions, including identities of victims, images of child sexual abuse, classified documents and anything needed in ongoing investigations).

It set a deadline of Dec. 19, which the Justice Department only partially met. On that date it released about 12,000 documents. Today's release is an attempt to satisfy the law.

Blanche told the news conference that Friday's release of documents marks the Department of Justice's full compliance with the requirement of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that all relevant material be made public. 

"Today's release marks the end of a very comprehensive documentation, document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance with the act," Blanche said. 

He pushed back at criticism for failing to meet the act's Dec. 19, 2025, deadline to release the material in full. 

"We were careful in our review of millions of pages of documents over the past two months," he said. "I take umbrage at the suggestion, which is totally false, that the attorney general or this department does not take child exploitation or sex trafficking seriously." 

At a news conference in Washington, D.C., U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters that not all of the 2,000 videos and 180,000 images released Friday were made by Epstein or one of his associates. 

"They include large quantities of commercial pornography and images that were seized from Epstein's devices, but which he did not take, or that someone around him did not take," Blanche said. 

"Some of the videos, though, and some of the images do appear to be taken by Mr. Epstein or by others around him," he said. 

Blanche says U.S. Attorneys went through "a rigorous process" to protect victims from violations of privacy in their release.

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