The Epstein List: All the names revealed before Trump and Bondi said there was nothing to see

President Donald Trump has found himself at the center of a MAGA firestorm over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which the Republican pledged to release on the 2024 campaign trail.

Now, after weeks of unrelenting uproar over the Justice Department’s announcement that there was no evidence Epstein had a “client list,” and no further documents in the sex offender’s case would be released, Trump has instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce select grand jury testimony in the case.

It is well documented that Epstein socialized with royalty, politicians and celebrities, with more than 100 names mentioned previously in unredacted court documents released in January 2024.

The names in the court documents released last year, which include Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, were part of a 2015 defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, against the sex offender’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.

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After the Trump administration was deluged with pressure from within MAGA world, the Justice Department announced Tuesday that they intend to meet with Maxwell to ask Epstein’s accomplice: “What do you know?”

Conspiracy theories about Epstein swirled after his death by suicide on August 10, 2019, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in a New York jail cell.

Trump’s MAGA base has been calling for the release of the Epstein files since the president took office. Bondi promised that the public would receive “the full” unredacted files and they were “sitting on [her] desk.” Anger intensified after the botched release of the “Phase 1” files in February, where Bondi handed binders to right-wing influencers at the White House.

They received about 200 pages of files, including a series of flight logs from Epstein’s private jet, a partly redacted “contacts list,” and a fully blacked-out list of “masseuses,” most of which was already in the public domain and previously published during the prosecution of Maxwell in 2021.

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Fury on the right erupted on July 6, when the Justice Department issued a memo that essentially closed the case.

Trump has since attempted to shift the focus away from the Epstein files, instead pushing a conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama “manufactured” the Russia investigation into his 2016 campaign.

But MAGA activists and Democrats, who have seized on the Epstein momentum, are not letting up on their demands for the release of the files.

Over the years, thousands of pages of records in the Epstein case have been released through lawsuits, Epstein’s criminal dockets, public disclosures, and Freedom of Information Act requests.

The documents unsealed by a court in January 2024 contained nearly 1,000 pages of evidence in the lawsuit filed by Giuffre, who died by suicide on April 26 at her home in Neergabby, Australia.

The list includes many of Epstein’s accusers and alleged victims, as well as people with only tangential connections to Epstein who were pulled into the lawsuit against Maxwell.

Being named in these documents does not indicate any wrongdoing related to Epstein or anyone else.

While judges, court staff, and legal representatives are excluded, here are some of the names that do appear in the legal records connected to Epstein: