Jeffrey Epstein

New revelations about the disgraced peer’s chutzpah - and his payoff demands - again call into question the prime minister’s judgement

Tarnished by Iraq and Mandelson – but two new books show they made millions of lives better

He drew other men towards him and trapped them in a state of complicity. But the cynical use of young women as tools to achieve power is nothing new

The problem is that the secret international network of powerful men that Epstein created around himself will only convince the paranoid fantasists they were on to something

The magazine's columnists seem to want to muddy the story which has already led to two high-profile arrests

The Epstein revelations have provoked fury around the world. That anger could spell the end of the ‘Epstein class’. But it could also have much darker consequences

Failings of the past mean the final test of King Charles’s reign will be damage control

The arrest of a prince will inevitably capture the world’s attention. But his disgrace is really just a distraction from the deeper story and the more uncomfortable lessons

She supported Trump, the January 6 riots and spouted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now she’s renounced the president and appears on liberal chat shows – but is her conversion all it appears?

I find it hard to think he didn’t hear and see things that made him feel he had to get Epstein out of his life

The paedophile fixer’s depraved, narcissistic, super-rich circle have come to believe that they are beyond mortality and morals

The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstein

Viciously abused by her father, Ghislaine Maxwell made the horrible mistake of falling for a sexual predator

The party's treasurer appears a number of times in the documents released by the US Department of Justice

People in autocratic and chaotic countries believe in their governments more than we do in ours - it’s about feeling that your children will be better off

Kubrick made elite depravity look operatic. The Epstein files show the real thing as vile and vacuous

Editor-at-large Alastair Campbell on the reaction to the Mandelson affair, the calls for Starmer to go, and what happens to this government - and the United Kingdom - next

Somewhere along the line people got the idea that the state was the enemy of the people. But that’s dead wrong and the government needs to prove it

The boys’ club inside No 10 has brought the government to the edge of disaster. It’s time to sweep all that away

Links to Putin, Bannon and Thiel deserve further investigation

In a major essay, a historian of contemporary Russia describes the deep networks of global power and political corruption that Epstein exploited to make his fortune

The Prince of Darkness has spoken to the Times about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and why he was just "too trusting"

The revelations go far beyond a paedophile's vile exploitation - and explain why so many hate the super-rich elites

As more disturbing details emerge from the Epstein files, the scandal is returning to the door of No 10

Documents just released by the US Department of Justice showed relations between the pair were more extensive than previously thought

The pain she suffered at the hands of powerful men was ultimately too much to bear, but 2025 will be remembered as the year of her vengeance

One of Robert Fico’s political allies was in close contact with Epstein – it may be one scandal too many for the Bratislava government

I'm always shocked to my core when I remember that only relatively few people consistently care about rape and sexual assault

Jeffrey Epstein knew “how dirty Donald is”. It is becoming increasingly difficult for Trump to hide it from his core supporters

A royal focus on money-making took attention away from what should have been their top priority - dealing with a scandal