{"id":38084,"date":"2025-12-20T23:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/jeffrey-epstein-files-latest-new-files-including-transcripts-released-by-department-of-justice-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:49:48","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-files-latest-new-files-including-transcripts-released-by-department-of-justice-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/jeffrey-epstein-files-latest-new-files-including-transcripts-released-by-department-of-justice-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein files latest: New files, including transcripts, released by Department of Justice on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agency hit with legal threats and scathing outrage after Friday release includes limited, heavily redacted trove<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/20\/epstein-files-release-strategy-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Analysis: Trickle release signals move to bury Trump ties<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/gallery\/2025\/dec\/19\/new-photos-from-epstein-files-release\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photos from the first batch of Epstein files<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A book titled Massage for Dummies was seen among the partial files released yesterday by the Department of Justice. It is mentioned as one of the \u201cgifts\u201d Epstein gave to a \u201cgirl\u201d whose name is redacted.<\/p>\n<p>Various reports say Epstein would often request massages from his victims \u2013 for both himself and others in his circle.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the documents in the data dump were heavily redacted, with text blacked out so it was impossible to read. Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, said: \u201cWhat they have released is clearly incomplete and appears to be over-redacted to boot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documents extensively featured photos of former president Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and appeared to include few if any photos of Trump or documents mentioning him, despite Trump and Epstein\u2019s well-publicised friendship in the 1990s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/20\/jeffrey-epstein-files-released-donald-trump-latest-news-photos-updates-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency hit with legal threats and scathing outrage after Friday release includes limited, heavily redacted trove Analysis: Trickle release signals move to bury Trump ties Photos from the first batch of Epstein files A book titled Massage for Dummies was seen among the partial files released yesterday by the Department of Justice. It is mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:15:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}