Epstein files place renewed attention on US authorities' failure to stop him

Files show accuser in 2011 provided extensive account of abuse as questions mount over why action was not taken

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The US embassy in Australia told the country’s national police: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation Miami Field Office (FBI Miami) is assisting the Palm Beach Police Department in Florida with an ongoing investigation into JEFFREY EPSTEIN, a US citizen.”

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FBI documents chronicling this interview also detail menacing actions against this woman. She told federal agents about receiving phone calls from men purporting to be FBI agents seeking information about her knowledge of Epstein.

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The Virgin Islands sued Epstein’s estate in January 2020 stating that flight logs from 2011 to 2019 show that he brought underage girls and young women to his private island “where they were deceptively subjected to sexual servitude, forced to engage in sexual acts and coerced into commercial sexual activity and forced labor”.

“As recent as 2018, air traffic controllers and other airport personnel reported seeing Epstein leave his plane with young girls some of whom appeared to be between the age of 11 and 18 years,” the lawsuit states. The Virgin Islands that “Epstein trafficked and abused these girls, and others, in the Virgin Islands through 2018.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/epstein-files-victim-reports-police-fbi-failures