Epstein case: 3 million pages leaked. Trump, Musk and Gates are also involved

Moreover, it appears that the current US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick invited Epstein to a fundraiser he was organising for the Democrat Hillary Clinton. Lutnick was Epstein's neighbour in New York and in the past recounted that he and his wife had visited the former financier's home in 2005 and was disgusted by the massage room he was shown.

The documents also reveal a detail about the last days of Epstein's life. His cellmate in New York, Efrain Reyes, begged him not to take his own life in the space they shared. Reyes had been transferred to another prison the day before Epstein's death, who was told by his companion not to hang himself in their cell. "I don't want to wake up and find you dead," he allegedly told him, according to CNN reports. 'Don't worry, I'll never cause you any trouble,' Epstein had replied to him.

In some of the emails contained in the publications and dated 2013, Epstein sends himself messages written from the perspective of Boris Nikolic, Bill Gates' top-advisor at the time. In the texts, which appear to be drafts intended for Gates, Nikolic announces his resignation from the Gates Foundation and claims to be in the middle of a marital quarrel between the Microsoft founder and his wife Melinda. "In my role as his right-hand man, I was asked and wrongly agreed to participate in things that ranged from the morally inappropriate, to the ethically improper, and was repeatedly asked to do things that approached and potentially exceeded the legal limit," the email reads.

Another revelation sent by Epstein to himself and written from Nikolic's point of view concerns Gates' alleged involvement in sexual acts with Russian girls. Among the shock messages contained in the published pages, one also reads: 'You begged me to delete emails about your sexually transmitted disease, your request to provide you with antibiotics to give to Melinda on the sly, and the description of your penis.

These statements about Gates have not been verified and are part of a huge amount of documents published by the authorities.

The Justice Department released tens of thousands of pages of documents just before Christmas, including photographs, interview transcripts, call logs, and court documents. Those records included previously published flight logs showing that Donald Trump flew on Epstein's private jet in the 1990s, before the two went their separate ways, and several photographs of former President Bill Clinton. Neither Trump nor Clinton have been publicly charged with crimes in connection with Epstein, and both have said they did not know the billionaire was abusing underage girls.

Also published last month were transcripts of testimony from FBI agents who reported several young women who said they were paid to perform sexual acts with Epstein.

In 2008 and 2009, Epstein served prison sentences in Florida after pleading guilty to soliciting sexual services from underage girls. At the time, investigators gathered evidence that Epstein had sexually abused underage girls in his Palm Beach home, but the US attorney's office agreed not to prosecute him in exchange for his plea of guilty to misdemeanours.

In 2021, a federal jury in New York convicted Maxwell of sex trafficking on charges of helping to recruit some of Epstein's underage victims. He is currently serving a 20-year sentence in a prison camp in Texas, although he continues to plead innocent.

US prosecutors have never charged anyone else in the investigation of Epstein's abuse, but one of the victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, claimed that when she was 17 and 18 years old, the American financier had involved her in sexual encounters with numerous well-known politicians, business tycoons and academics. All have denied her allegations.

Among those accused by Giuffre is Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom, now stripped of his royal titles after his involvement in the scandal. Andrea denied having had sexual relations with Giuffre and closed her case with a settlement for an undisclosed sum.

Giuffre died by suicide last year on her farm in Western Australia at the age of 41.