Jeffrey Epstein stashed secret files in storage units across US that may include unseen evidence: report

The recent revelation that Jeffrey Epstein secretly stashed computers, photographs, and other equipment in storage units scattered across the US has sent shockwaves through the public. According to a new report, financial records and emails reviewed by The Telegraph show that the dead pedophile rented at least six storage lockers nationwide, some as early as 2003, and paid for them until 2019, the year he died by suicide in lock-up.

The storage units were used to house items from Epstein’s homes, including computers and CDs from his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James. Search warrants, which were part of the tranche of 3 million Epstein-related documents released by the Justice Department, revealed that US authorities possibly never raided the storage spaces and could contain never-before-seen evidence in the sex trafficking case.

Emails reviewed by the publication further showed that Epstein had private detectives move materials out of his homes into the storage facilities before authorities could execute search warrants at his residences. The convicted sex offender made regular payments to multiple facilities, including one near his Palm Beach mansion, according to credit card statements discovered by the outlet.

Additional files revealed that Epstein’s private investigators were instructed to rent a Manhattan storage unit on the disgraced financier’s behalf and were paid tens of thousands of dollars to do so. In August 2009, a month after his release from jail on a child sex crime conviction, the financier was emailed by a private investigator who informed him that Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre had requested missing computer material.

Giuffre, Epstein’s most vocal victim who tragically took her own life in April, had filed a civil lawsuit alleging Epstein sexually abused her while she was a minor and trafficked her internationally. The email also stated that the computer drives in the storage unit had been copied, or “cloned,” though it’s unknown what happened to the copies.

Emails in the file dump also indicated that Epstein instructed private investigators to remove computers from his Florida home after he was allegedly tipped off about a police raid in the mid-2000s. His staff also discussed transporting some computers and CDs from his private island to the units and wiping them. Some of the material in the units could predate the earliest material in the Epstein files released by the DOJ. The shocking revelation of Epstein’s elaborate efforts to hide incriminating evidence has only added to the mystery surrounding his criminal activities.