Listen to this articleMuch of the Jeffrey Epstein document trove released by the US Justice Department has been blacked out. Even so, the files shed some light on the disgraced financier's intimate ties to the rich, famous and powerful -- Trump among them. But Democrats voiced frustration that the release fell far short of what was mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the government's entire case file by Friday, constrained only by legal and victim privacy concerns. "Simply releasing a mountain of blacked-out pages violates the spirit of transparency and the letter of the law. Maxwell, 63, is serving a 20-year sentence for recruiting underage girls for Epstein, whose death was ruled a suicide.

Source: Bangkok Post December 20, 2025 14:20 UTC