Western publications are commenting this morning on the publication of the files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, BTA reported.
"The publication of these photos comes after government lawyers have been frantically trying for weeks to meet the requirements of the "Epstein" Files Transparency Act, according to which there was a deadline of December 2025 for the declassification of all materials," writes the "New York Times". The publication notes that "the deletion of information in places seems chaotic and contradictory – in some documents, a person's name is hidden, while in a duplicate file elsewhere, the same name is public".
One of the emails mentions "a list of Epstein victims", but then dozens of names remain revealed, except for one, which has been deleted. The newspaper added that some of the victims have expressed outrage that their information has been made public, while the names of influential figures are protected.
"The documents are dotted with references to Donald Trump, who was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein until the early 2000s. Although Trump has repeatedly said that the two were not close, they were connected by their interest in young women," the "New York Times" emphasizes. Using a search tool "New York Times" has identified more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 mentions of Trump, his wife, the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and other related words and phrases.
The Washington Post is focusing on the upcoming Winter Olympics in Italy. The first days of the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina were supposed to be triumphant for Casey Wasserman, chairman of the Los Angeles 2028 organizing committee, the newspaper wrote. He was supposed to make a presentation to the International Olympic Committee to mark the progress of preparations for the upcoming Olympics and to promote the Los Angeles Games during his stay in Milan.
"Instead, he and Olympic leaders are trying to downplay the content of emails that Wasserman exchanged 23 years ago with Ghislaine Maxwell. They were revealed in the latest batch of documents in the "Epstein" case, "Washington Post" notes.
Another American newspaper – – "Wall Street Journal" writes that the Department of Justice has revealed the names of dozens of victims of Jeffrey Epstein, including many of them who never publicly revealed their identities or were minors at the time of the abuse by the criminal.
A check of the full names of 47 victims has found that the identities of 43 of them were not redacted in the documents, according to an analysis by the publication. The full names of some of the women appear more than 100 times in the published files, according to the check by the American newspaper.
The British newspaper –The Telegraph" The paper reported that the vast amount of documents also hinted at "a darker connection to Russia: that Epstein may have been a long-time agent working for Moscow."
Among the files released were 1,056 documents mentioning Vladimir Putin and more than 9,000 referring to Moscow, the paper said. It said the documents suggested that Epstein had meetings with the Russian president – even after the American financier was convicted in 2008 of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Some analysts have suggested that the recruitment of girls from Russia indicates that Epstein may have run a classic "compromise" operation – luring influential businessmen, media moguls, statesmen and politicians into sexual encounters with women, which were then recorded for the purpose of blackmail, the British newspaper emphasizes.
Another British newspaper - – "Financial Times", writes that Lord Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States, told Jeffrey Epstein in 2009 that the head of the company "JPMorgan" should "slightly threaten" the British finance minister over the government's proposed tax on bankers' bonuses. At the time, Mandelson held the post of business and trade secretary.
The revelations increase pressure on Mandelson after the "Financial Times" reported that he received 75,000 British pounds (86,524 euros) from Epstein. His husband, Reinaldo da Silva, also received money from the financier convicted of sex crimes.