Overview
- The Justice Department released more than three million additional pages of Epstein‑related records, along with over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
- An Oct. 21, 2009 email from publicist Peggy Siegal describes an after‑party at Ghislaine Maxwell’s Manhattan townhouse and lists attendees including Mira Nair, Bill Clinton and Jeff Bezos.
- The newly released documents do not allege criminal conduct by those named, and there is no reference to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the files.
- Associated Press, PolitiFact and Lead Stories verified that widely shared images purporting to show a young Mamdani with Epstein were generated by AI, traced to a parody X account and flagged by SynthID watermarks.
- Videos posted on social media show a small group heckling Mamdani outside Gracie Mansion; outlets reported the gathering after Nair’s mention surfaced in the DOJ release.