Have a Jeffrey Epstein question? Ask Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown
The fallout from the Trump administration’s July decision not to release documents from the government’s investigation into deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has led to public outcry and created divisions within the Republican Party.
Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown first exposed how Epstein was able to get away with sexually abusing hundreds of girls with minimal consequences in her Perversion of Justice investigation. Her reporting on the sweetheart deal federal prosecutors gave Epstein, who counted President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and British royal Prince Andrew among his friends, led the Southern District of New York to bring new charges against the financier in 2019. He died in federal custody soon after, in what has been ruled a suicide.
Epstein’s accomplice and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested the following year and convicted in 2021 for her role in recruiting girls for Epstein and participating in their abuse in at least one instance. She’s now serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee.
Since then, Epstein’s network of powerful friends — some of whom were accused of partaking in his sexual abuse — and Epstein’s death itself have been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories.
With many of Trump’s supporters demanding answers, the U.S. Department of Justice is moving to release testimony from the grand jury that indicted Epstein in 2019. A top Justice Department official is also meeting with Maxwell to see if she can provide more information. The U.S. House Oversight Committee is also set to meet with Maxwell next month.
There’s no one who knows the Epstein story better than Brown, who will be answering reader questions to help separate fact from fiction in a story that has captured the public’s attention like no other.
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