The U.S. Department of Justice dropped a bombshell on Friday, releasing a new tranche of materials tied to the sex-trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Published on the DOJ’s website under the “Epstein Library,” the newly disclosed files include never-before-seen photographs that are already ricocheting across social media and media outlets.
Among the newly published materials are never-before-seen photographs showing Bill Clinton in a hot tub and swimming with an unidentified woman.
The individual’s face is heavily redacted, which means she is either a sex-trafficking victim and/or a minor.
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Another image also set the internet ablaze after a sweatshirt bearing the logo of the Israel Defense Forces was reportedly found inside Epstein’s closet.
Moletom das Forças de Defesa de Israel (IDF) aparece em foto nos arquivos de Jeffrey Epstein divulgados hoje. pic.twitter.com/FUckhBKlGz
— République (@republiqueBRA) December 19, 2025
In an August interview on The Telegraph podcast “The Daily T,” Epstein's former attorney Alan Dershowitz told host Tim Stanley that Jeffrey Epstein had purchased an IDF shirt.
The remarks followed the outlet’s publication of a 2019 photograph showing Epstein alongside Valdson Vieira Cotrin aboard his private jet.
Provided exclusively to The Telegraph, the image may be among the last taken of the disgraced financier and depicts him wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt.
I think this is the last known photo of Epstein before he was arrested on his private jet in 2019.
He’s wearing an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sweatshirt, The Telegraph reports…. pic.twitter.com/WYczuCAUw5
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) August 8, 2025
Dershowitz said at the time:
"I was with Jeffrey Epstein. I was literally with him, walking in the Shook, when he bought that T-shirt. I was in Israel writing a book, and he called me. He was in Paris, and he said, “I’ve never been to Israel. I want to come for the day. Would you arrange a lunch with some of Israel’s most prominent people—intellectuals?”
So I arranged a lunch at the Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem with a justice of the Supreme Court and a couple of professors. Then we took a walk in the Shook, and he bought an IDF T-shirt. He wore it. He wore it very proudly."
Earlier this year, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson publicly challenged the official narrative surrounding Epstein’s operation, arguing that the scale, protection, and impunity Epstein enjoyed could not be explained without intelligence involvement.
“No one has ever gotten to the bottom of that because no one has ever tried. And moreover, it’s extremely obvious to anyone who watches that this guy had direct connections to a foreign government. Now, no one’s allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty,” Carlson said.
Carlson added that discussion of Israeli involvement has been treated as taboo, despite mounting circumstantial indicators.
“There is nothing wrong with saying that,” Carlson continued. “There is nothing hateful about saying that. There’s nothing anti-Semitic about saying. There’s nothing even anti-Israel about saying that.”
Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou has also said Epstein displayed classic hallmarks of an intelligence asset. Even
Alan Dershowitz, a prominent Israel defender and former Epstein attorney, has acknowledged that it is possible Epstein was exploited by Israeli intelligence, though he has denied knowing such a relationship existed.
"It's possible.. Israeli intelligence used him. He flew to Israel.. Had lunch with prominent Israelis."
Epstein’s Former Lawyer Alan Dershowitz claims Epstein may have been working with Mossad, Says he dined with him alongside high-ranking Israeli officials:
"It's possible.. Israeli intelligence used him. He flew to Israel.. Had lunch with prominent Israelis." pic.twitter.com/GyHP5tXT9m
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 20, 2025
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reacted furiously to Carlson and others’ accusations on social media.
“The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” Bennett wrote. “Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel.”
Bennett then slammed those making the accusation as ‘liars’ who are engaging in slander against his country.
“Epstein never worked for the Mossad,” he continued. “This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending they know things they don’t.”
“They just make things up, say it with confidence, and these lies stick, because it’s Israel. There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore.”
But conservative journalist and former Fox News host Megyn Kelly pointed out several issues with Bennett’s denial. First, former Trump Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, who granted Epstein a sweetheart plea deal, admitted that Epstein was an intel agent.
According to Kelly, the only two countries that made sense were America and Israel.
Acosta also told the Trump transition team that Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and was told to “leave it alone.”
"The U.S. Attny who spiked the case, Alex Acosta, is on record as saying Epstein was an intel agent and he was told to get rid of the prosecution. If Epstein was an agent it was clearly either for the U.S. or Israel - both deny it (what would you expect them to say?). He had multiple (odd) Israeli connections. This denial is meaningless.
Acosta later told DOJ’s Office of Prof. Respon. that he did not have any info Epstein was an intel asset, which contrasted w/earlier reporting that he told the Trump transition team Epstein “belonged to intelligence” & had been ordered to “leave it alone.” Also that he’d “been told” to back off. Main Justice was the one who approved the Epstein plea deal & would have been the only one who could have told Acosta to stand down on the prosecution, so there is reason to Q whether DOJ’s OPR earnestly sought and got truthful answers from Acosta when it “investigated” in 2020 after Epstein died & a huge controversy erupted."
Also when Acosta was asked, at a press conference in 2019 about the reporting that he’d allegedly said Epstein was an asset & he’d been told to stand down on the case (which let’s remember - he did), his pathetic non-denial denial was a classic example of deception. Go look.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) July 14, 2025
