At the center of the drama is the so-called "client list" — a purported document containing names of people, likely many of them powerful, to whom the late Palm Beach financier is said to have provided underage girls for sex. Moreover, the speculation is that Epstein used the list to extort and blackmail people.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said it is not unusual for a minute to be missing from security footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell, saying this happens when the video will “reset.” Bondi provided clarifications on the Department of Justice concluding its Epstein investigation,