Epstein files: A list of people facing consequences over the DOJ's release

The former Prince Andrew was arrested on February 19 on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

In 2010 and 2011, when the former prince was a UK trade envoy, he appeared to forward official reports on his work visits to Epstein, according to emails in the latest batch of documents.

King Charles III, his older brother, said the authorities "have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation."

"The law must take its course," he added.

Photos showed police at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, where Mountbatten-Windsor is said to have been living.

Goldman Sachs' top lawyer turned in her resignation following weeks of scrutiny over her communications with the convicted sex offender. June 30 will be her last day as the Wall Street bank's chief legal officer and general counsel, the bank said on Thursday.

The DOJ's latest tranche of documents showed her offering Epstein advice on his legal troubles, including lawsuits brought by women accusing him of sexual abuse. She gushed over expensive gifts from him, including a $9,350 Hermes handbag, and referred to him in an email as "Uncle Jeffrey."

She has previously said her relationship with the convicted sex offender was "a professional association" and has expressed "regret" over it. In the statement to Business Insider about her resignation, Ruemmler said it was her duty "to put Goldman Sachs' interests first."

The high-powered corporate lawyer resigned as chairman Paul Weiss, calling reports about his relationship with Epstein a "distraction" for the white-show law firm. He also stepped down from the board of trustees of his alma mater, Union College.

The documents include emails showing he worked with Epstein to surveil a woman in a dispute with one of Karp's clients. Business Insider has confirmed that the client was billionaire private equity titan Leon Black, who counted Epstein among his advisors.

Karp also visited Epstein's Manhattan mansion and asked him to help his son get a job with director Woody Allen.

Representatives for Paul Weiss declined to comment beyond their press release announcing Scott Barshay as the law firm's new chair.

London police on February 23 arrested a 72-year-old "former government minister" on suspicion of misconduct in public office following search warrants at two addresses, including Camden. The description matches that of Mandelson.

The police began investigating Mandelson after the DOJ's Epstein files appeared to show him forwarding sensitive government information to the convicted sex offender while serving in senior posts, including as business secretary under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The emails contained information about a proposed tax change, the sale of government assets after the UK financial crisis, and advance notice of a planned European Union bailout of Greece. The records also appear to show financial transfers from Epstein to Mandelson and his husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva.

Mandelson has denied any illegal activity and told The Times of London that his husband accepting the funds from Epstein reflected "a lapse in our collective judgment."

In September 2025, Mandelson was dismissed from his role as the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States after documents about his relationship with Epstein became public. In February 2026, he resigned from the British Labour Party.

Casey Wasserman announced on February 13 that he is selling his talent agency after his name appeared in the Epstein files, sparking a growing fallout.

Soccer player Abby Wambach and singer Chapell Roan earlier said they were parting ways with Wasserman's agency.

Wasserman flew on Epstein's jet with a group of people that included former President Bill Clinton. The files also show Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell exchanging racy and flirtatious emails in 2003, well before police began investigating Epstein, and over a decade before Maxwell's arrest on sex-trafficking charges in 2020.

"Casey - I will be coming back to NY torn late afternoon," Maxwell wrote in one email. "I shall be wearing a tight leather flying suit."

Wasserman said in a statement that he regretted his messages with Maxwell, which took place "long before her horrific crimes came to light" and that he never had any personal or business relationship with Epstein.

Wasserman announced his intentions to sell his agency in a memo to staffers, which the agency shared with Business Insider.

"I'm deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort. It's not fair to you, and it's not fair to the clients and partners we represent so vigorously and care so deeply about," Wasserman wrote. "The pain experienced by the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is unimaginable - and I'm glad, as I'm sure you all are, that those who helped them commit their crimes are rightly being held accountable."

Wasserman wrote that he had "become a distraction."

"That is why I have begun the process of selling the company, an effort that is already underway. During this time, Mike Watts will assume day-to-day control of the business while I devote my full attention to delivering Los Angeles an Olympic Games in 2028 that is worthy of this outstanding city," he wrote.

The CBS News contributor and longevity expert stepped down as the chief science officer of David Protein, a protein bar brand, and is no longer an adviser to the sleep technology company Eight Sleep.

More recently, he stepped down from his role as a CBS News contributor.

In the emails from the mid-2010s, Attia gives Epstein health advice that included crude remarks about women. In one email, he said a woman's genitalia was "low carb."

In a social media post, he denied involvement in any criminal activity and said the emails were "embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible."

The US Commerce Secretary is facing bipartisan calls from lawmakers to resign after emails show he planned a visit to Epstein's island with his family in 2012. Lutnick previously said he served ties with Epstein, his former Manhattan neighbor, after first meeting him in 2005.

"My wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again," Lutnick told the New York Post last year.

Lawmakers asked Lutnick about the discrepancy on Tuesday at a prescheduled Senate hearing over broadband. He testified that he, his wife, and kids were at the island "for an hour" for lunch. The DOJ's files show the two men exchanged calls in 2011 and invested in the same company around the time of the island visit.

The White House has stood by Lutnick, with the Commerce Department saying: "Mr. and Mrs. Lutnick met Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 and had very limited interactions with him over the next 14 years."

In 2013, Tisch, owner of the New York Giants, exchanged numerous emails with Epstein about women, triggering a review by the National Football League.

The emails show Epstein updating Tisch on the women, including their ages, nationalities, and "working girl" status.

After the emails were made public, he said he regretted associating with Epstein and that the women discussed in the emails were adults.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has said the league will review the communications and weigh whether they violate its personal conduct policies.

Thomas Pritzker said on February 16 that he was retiring as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, citing poor judgment over his ties to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding his sex trafficking operation.

In a statement published alongside a letter from Pritzker to the board, he said his responsibility as executive chairman was to "provide good stewardship."

"I exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with them, and there is no excuse for failing to distance myself sooner," the statement said.

The DOJ's files show decades of chummy communications between Pritzker, Epstein, and Maxwell, including after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

"I am meeting Leon for a walk at the louvre at 530 of you are nearby," Pritzker wrote to Epstein in 2012, the files show.

Hyatt said its board appointed President and CEO Mark Hoplamazian as chairman, effective immediately.

A charity chaired by Ferguson — the ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew — shuttered following the Justice Department's document dump. A spokesperson for the foundation, called Sarah's Trust, said the decision was made after "months" of discussion.

The records show Ferguson sent warm emails to Epstein in 2009, when he was imprisoned for soliciting sex from a minor. She referred to him as the "brother I have always wished for" and signed off another email with "love you."

Ferguson previously said she regretted any association with Epstein. Representatives for Ferguson didn't respond to requests for comment.

McSweeney resigned as the chief of staff for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over Mandelson, whom he recommended for the ambassadorship job.

"I advised the prime minister to make that appointment and I take full responsibility for that advice," McSweeney said in a statement upon his resignation on Sunday. "In public life responsibility must be owned when it matters most, not just when it is most convenient. In the circumstances, the only honourable course is to step aside."

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was replaced as chairman and CEO of Dubai-based logistics firm DP World on February 13, after emails between the Emirati executive and Epstein were published by the Justice Department.

DP World, which is owned by Dubai's royal family, is one of the world's largest logistics companies and runs Jebel Ali, the largest port in the Middle East.

The company did not mention bin Sulaymen in its statement announcing a leadership transition, but said that Essa Kazim and Yuvraj Narayan would take on his roles as chairman and CEO, respectively.

Emails published by the Justice Department show that Epstein referred to bin Sulayem as his "close personal friend" in a 2010 email. In an email to Epstein in 2015, bin Sulayem said that a girl he met "two years ago" who went to the American University in Dubai was "the best sex I ever had amazing body."

Representatives at DP World did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Axel announced on February 24 that he would step down from his role as co-director of Columbia University's Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.

In a statement, Axel called his association with Epstein a "serious error in judgment, which I deeply regret."

"I apologize for compromising the trust of my friends, students, and colleagues. I recognize the problems this has caused, and I will work to restore this trust," he wrote.

"What has emerged about Epstein's appalling conduct, the harm that he has caused to so many people, makes my association with him all the more painful and inexcusable."

Columbia University added in a statement: "Dr. Axel made clear that in light of this past association, and the continued fallout from the release of DOJ files, he felt it appropriate to relinquish his position as co-director."

Axel said in his statement that he will "continue to pursue my lab's research at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute," adding that he is "devoted" to the university.

Axel's name appeared numerous times in the most recent release of the Epstein files, which show he was invited to Epstein's island in 2011. A Columbia spokesperson told university newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator, earlier in February that Axel never visited the island.

Børge Brende, the president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, said on February 26 that he would step down from the Davos organizer after the conclusion of an independent investigation into his connections with Epstein.

The former Norwegian foreign minister appeared to attend several business dinners with Epstein and communicated with the disgraced financier over email between 2018-2019, a decade after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, according to emails released by the US Department of Justice in January.

In a statement, WEF co-chairs André Hoffmann and Larry Fink thanked Brende for his contribution to the organization and said that the investigation into his links with Epstein had concluded with "no additional concerns."

When the investigation was launched earlier this month, Brende said in a statement to Reuters that he was "completely unaware of Epstein's past and criminal activities," and that he would have declined any invitations or communications had he known.