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douglas9

(5,744 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:22 AM 16 hrs ago

Exclusive: Epstein hid secret files in storage units across US

Jeffrey Epstein hid computers and photographs from United States authorities in secret storage lockers across the country, The Telegraph can reveal.

Documents uncovered by this newspaper show the paedophile paid private detectives to remove equipment from his Florida home in an apparent attempt to prevent investigators from finding it.

The documents also show that he rented six storage units across the US and used them to house items from his properties, including computers from Little Saint James, his private island in the Caribbean.

He leased at least one unit from 2003, when he was part of a Florida social set that included Donald Trump. Credit card receipts obtained by The Telegraph show regular storage payments continued until 2019, the year of his death.

Search warrants reviewed by The Telegraph suggest US authorities never raided the lockers, raising the possibility that they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Mandelson.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/22/jeffrey-epstein-secret-files-storage-units-united-states/

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Exclusive: Epstein hid secret files in storage units across US (Original Post) douglas9 16 hrs ago OP
The rich and powerful may have thought they destroyed all the evidence? Irish_Dem 16 hrs ago #1
Indeed. May panic abound. I just hope honest people are the ones who get to take the evidence LymphocyteLover 15 hrs ago #5
Billionaires are trying to figure out how to get the files as we speak? Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #6
K & R democrank 15 hrs ago #2
Love to see THIS on Storage Wars! Simeon Salus 15 hrs ago #3
This was also my first thought crud 12 hrs ago #15
Ditto. n/t Ms. Toad 8 hrs ago #21
last year they kept saying there are no files IronLionZion 15 hrs ago #4
I bet that was part of Ghislaine's conversation with Cankles's henchman that got her transferred to the country club Scrivener7 15 hrs ago #7
I doubt it. That kind of evidence would get her Bluetus 9 hrs ago #17
The "authorities" never raided the lockers, never looked at his ranch, niyad 14 hrs ago #8
All true, but I thought the FBI accessed and opened his safe in NYC? confiscating hard drives and discs? Evolve Dammit 4 hrs ago #24
Well, I for one, fully expect this DOJ will pursue..... lastlib 14 hrs ago #9
I wonder if the family has this stuff. Bluetus 9 hrs ago #18
that bitch will eat the files if she has to just to prevent anyone from seeing them nt orleans 17 min ago #29
If payments stopped in 2019 the storage units would have been liquidated soon after. Gaugamela 14 hrs ago #10
I think some of the videos would be considered porn Sanity Claws 14 hrs ago #11
This message was self-deleted by its author thesquanderer 13 hrs ago #13
It seems likely that Epstein would have given instructions to somebody he trusted Bluetus 9 hrs ago #19
Kick dalton99a 13 hrs ago #12
Have they checked all the bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago? (n/t) thesquanderer 13 hrs ago #14
I think you are correct in your suspicion. usonian 12 hrs ago #16
Or Ivanna's casket? wnylib 3 hrs ago #27
Whoa.... Sogo 8 hrs ago #20
And what happened when the payments stopped? catrose 5 hrs ago #22
Watch them try to find and bury (catch and kill) these storage lockers. It is a corrupt cabal after all. Evolve Dammit 4 hrs ago #23
Anybody who might have these items in their possession Buddyzbuddy 4 hrs ago #25
And a bathroom at Mierda-Lardo? Ocelot II 3 hrs ago #26
Dropped off with Putin during Congress members' visit? wnylib 3 hrs ago #28

Irish_Dem

(80,611 posts)
1. The rich and powerful may have thought they destroyed all the evidence?
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:39 AM
16 hrs ago

Now we are hearing about secret files.

I hope some of the rich SOBs are a bit nervous this morning.

LymphocyteLover

(9,658 posts)
5. Indeed. May panic abound. I just hope honest people are the ones who get to take the evidence
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:32 AM
15 hrs ago

Simeon Salus

(1,617 posts)
3. Love to see THIS on Storage Wars!
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:59 AM
15 hrs ago

It would be such a tragedy if this accidentally made it onto television where it can't be unseen.

IronLionZion

(51,066 posts)
4. last year they kept saying there are no files
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:29 AM
15 hrs ago

yet we keep finding out about tons of files.

They said there is no "list". Yet we have seen tons of names listed and some have faced career consequences in other countries.

The Dow is under 50,000 so we better get those files before it goes above 50,000 again.

Scrivener7

(59,137 posts)
7. I bet that was part of Ghislaine's conversation with Cankles's henchman that got her transferred to the country club
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:43 AM
15 hrs ago

prison.

Which means, I bet Cankles is featured in them.

Bluetus

(2,585 posts)
17. I doubt it. That kind of evidence would get her
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:10 PM
9 hrs ago

either completely released with a fortune in hand, or killed.

I don't understand why she is still "incarcerated" if you want to call it that.

niyad

(131,111 posts)
8. The "authorities" never raided the lockers, never looked at his ranch,
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:20 AM
14 hrs ago

ignored his Paris place, missed the "secret" room/safe in his NY place, etc., etc., etc. One would think it was done on purpose. Either that, or we were paying some of the most incompetent people in those departments ever. No writer of fiction could have ever gotten away with such a cast of incompetent assholes. No editor would have passed it. Fiction has to at least touch plausible reality.

Evolve Dammit

(21,684 posts)
24. All true, but I thought the FBI accessed and opened his safe in NYC? confiscating hard drives and discs?
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:10 PM
4 hrs ago

lastlib

(27,917 posts)
9. Well, I for one, fully expect this DOJ will pursue.....
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:21 AM
14 hrs ago

getting search warrants for those lockers, like yesterday, right?



OTOH, EvaBlondi may want to get that evidence so she can further conceal it......

Bluetus

(2,585 posts)
18. I wonder if the family has this stuff.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:13 PM
9 hrs ago

They have been very quiet.

Obviously Epstein would have given the access to SOMEBODY, as his own personal protection (which didn't really work out for him.

orleans

(36,799 posts)
29. that bitch will eat the files if she has to just to prevent anyone from seeing them nt
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:30 PM
17 min ago

Gaugamela

(3,417 posts)
10. If payments stopped in 2019 the storage units would have been liquidated soon after.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:29 AM
14 hrs ago

The computers would have been wiped and any documents destroyed.

Sanity Claws

(22,393 posts)
11. I think some of the videos would be considered porn
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:47 AM
14 hrs ago

Depending on the person who got the videos, they might have been reported as child porn to local authorities, not that they did anything about it.

Response to Gaugamela (Reply #10)

Bluetus

(2,585 posts)
19. It seems likely that Epstein would have given instructions to somebody he trusted
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:15 PM
9 hrs ago

Is that Maxwell? His brother? An attorney?

It seems like somebody is sitting on this.

This is a high-stakes game.

usonian

(24,386 posts)
16. I think you are correct in your suspicion.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:06 AM
12 hrs ago

The wealthy are loss-averse.

Orange Julius has plenty to lose, as do a boatload of billionaires.

catrose

(5,355 posts)
22. And what happened when the payments stopped?
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 05:05 PM
5 hrs ago

Did someone pick up the stuff or was it left for the storage company to deal with?

Evolve Dammit

(21,684 posts)
23. Watch them try to find and bury (catch and kill) these storage lockers. It is a corrupt cabal after all.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:04 PM
4 hrs ago

Buddyzbuddy

(2,383 posts)
25. Anybody who might have these items in their possession
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:19 PM
4 hrs ago

might consider their life in danger or see the potential of being very rich. Neither of which are encouraging to those seeking justice.

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