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douglas9

(5,817 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:22 AM Feb 2026

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 Feb 2026 OP
The rich and powerful may have thought they destroyed all the evidence? Irish_Dem Feb 2026 #1
Indeed. May panic abound. I just hope honest people are the ones who get to take the evidence LymphocyteLover Feb 2026 #5
Billionaires are trying to figure out how to get the files as we speak? Irish_Dem Feb 2026 #6
K & R democrank Feb 2026 #2
Love to see THIS on Storage Wars! Simeon Salus Feb 2026 #3
This was also my first thought crud Feb 2026 #15
Ditto. n/t Ms. Toad Feb 2026 #21
last year they kept saying there are no files IronLionZion Feb 2026 #4
I bet that was part of Ghislaine's conversation with Cankles's henchman that got her transferred to the country club Scrivener7 Feb 2026 #7
I doubt it. That kind of evidence would get her Bluetus Feb 2026 #17
The "authorities" never raided the lockers, never looked at his ranch, niyad Feb 2026 #8
All true, but I thought the FBI accessed and opened his safe in NYC? confiscating hard drives and discs? Evolve Dammit Feb 2026 #24
Well, I for one, fully expect this DOJ will pursue..... lastlib Feb 2026 #9
I wonder if the family has this stuff. Bluetus Feb 2026 #18
that bitch will eat the files if she has to just to prevent anyone from seeing them nt orleans Feb 2026 #29
If payments stopped in 2019 the storage units would have been liquidated soon after. Gaugamela Feb 2026 #10
I think some of the videos would be considered porn Sanity Claws Feb 2026 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author thesquanderer Feb 2026 #13
It seems likely that Epstein would have given instructions to somebody he trusted Bluetus Feb 2026 #19
Kick dalton99a Feb 2026 #12
Have they checked all the bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago? (n/t) thesquanderer Feb 2026 #14
I think you are correct in your suspicion. usonian Feb 2026 #16
Or Ivanna's casket? wnylib Feb 2026 #27
Whoa.... Sogo Feb 2026 #20
And what happened when the payments stopped? catrose Feb 2026 #22
Watch them try to find and bury (catch and kill) these storage lockers. It is a corrupt cabal after all. Evolve Dammit Feb 2026 #23
Anybody who might have these items in their possession Buddyzbuddy Feb 2026 #25
And a bathroom at Mierda-Lardo? Ocelot II Feb 2026 #26
Dropped off with Putin during Congress members' visit? wnylib Feb 2026 #28

Irish_Dem

(82,781 posts)
1. The rich and powerful may have thought they destroyed all the evidence?
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:39 AM
Feb 2026

Now we are hearing about secret files.

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

LymphocyteLover

(10,307 posts)
5. Indeed. May panic abound. I just hope honest people are the ones who get to take the evidence
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:32 AM
Feb 2026

Simeon Salus

(1,667 posts)
3. Love to see THIS on Storage Wars!
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:59 AM
Feb 2026

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

IronLionZion

(51,640 posts)
4. last year they kept saying there are no files
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:29 AM
Feb 2026

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

(60,247 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, 08:43 AM
Feb 2026

prison.

Which means, I bet Cankles is featured in them.

Bluetus

(3,210 posts)
17. I doubt it. That kind of evidence would get her
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:10 PM
Feb 2026

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

(134,824 posts)
8. The "authorities" never raided the lockers, never looked at his ranch,
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 09:20 AM
Feb 2026

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

(21,832 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, 07:10 PM
Feb 2026

lastlib

(28,748 posts)
9. Well, I for one, fully expect this DOJ will pursue.....
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 09:21 AM
Feb 2026

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



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

Bluetus

(3,210 posts)
18. I wonder if the family has this stuff.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:13 PM
Feb 2026

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

(37,322 posts)
29. that bitch will eat the files if she has to just to prevent anyone from seeing them nt
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:30 PM
Feb 2026

Gaugamela

(3,577 posts)
10. If payments stopped in 2019 the storage units would have been liquidated soon after.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 09:29 AM
Feb 2026

The computers would have been wiped and any documents destroyed.

Sanity Claws

(22,454 posts)
11. I think some of the videos would be considered porn
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 09:47 AM
Feb 2026

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

(3,210 posts)
19. It seems likely that Epstein would have given instructions to somebody he trusted
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:15 PM
Feb 2026

Is that Maxwell? His brother? An attorney?

It seems like somebody is sitting on this.

This is a high-stakes game.

usonian

(26,872 posts)
16. I think you are correct in your suspicion.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:06 AM
Feb 2026

The wealthy are loss-averse.

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

catrose

(5,381 posts)
22. And what happened when the payments stopped?
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:05 PM
Feb 2026

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

Evolve Dammit

(21,832 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, 07:04 PM
Feb 2026

Buddyzbuddy

(2,974 posts)
25. Anybody who might have these items in their possession
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:19 PM
Feb 2026

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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