Named in the files

Who the released records name, what the records actually show, and who pays them
Read this first There is no single "Epstein list". There are flight logs, a contact book, unsealed court filings and Justice Department disclosures, and they mean different things. Being named in one of them is not an accusation — a log says someone was on a plane, a contact book says someone held a number. Most people in these records were never accused of anything. Every page here states which document names the person and what it does not allege.

Who is listed: someone an officially released document names, who also holds public office, takes public money, or played a public professional role in the story. A private individual whose number happened to be in a contact book is not listed. The name of a victim is never listed, under any framing.

The record

How a name ends up in these filesWhat a mention proves, what it does not, and a worked example of the differenceThe law that ordered the files releasedWhat the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires, what it forbids, and what is still missingThe messagesWhat the released emails say, searchableWho Congress called inDeposition subpoenas, transcribed interviews and written declarations in the House Oversight inquiryThe court recordThe principal dockets, and where the filings themselves live

Profiles

Peggy SiegalEntertainment publicist and event planner

Called in by Congress

Twelve people the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed or interviewed. A subpoena is a demand for testimony, not an accusation, and the committee did not say why each person was chosen.

William BarrU.S. Attorney General, 1991–93 and 2019–20Alberto GonzalesU.S. Attorney General, 2005–07Jeff SessionsU.S. Attorney General, 2017–18; U.S. Senator for Alabama, 1997–2017Robert MuellerDirector of the FBI, 2001–13; Special Counsel, 2017–19Loretta LynchU.S. Attorney General, 2015–17Eric HolderU.S. Attorney General, 2009–15Merrick GarlandU.S. Attorney General, 2021–25James ComeyDirector of the FBI, 2013–17Hillary ClintonU.S. Secretary of State, 2009–13; U.S. Senator for New York, 2001–09Bill ClintonPresident of the United States, 1993–2001Alexander AcostaU.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida, 2005–09; U.S. Secretary of Labor, 2017–19Ghislaine MaxwellAssociate of Jeffrey Epstein

Claims that appear only on aggregator sites indexing the release are marked unverified on the page and are not presented as fact.

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