The Justice Department has released more than 3 million pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (nearly 3.5 million by its own count), though it said it had collected more than 6 million. The department told CBS News it “has released every document required” by the law and that the unreleased material is duplicative, unrelated to Epstein or protected by legal privilege. A CBS News review published June 19, 2026, looked at what appears to be missing.
Nearly all of the released emails come from jeevacation@gmail.com, an account Epstein created around the time he went to jail in 2008. A batch of documents shows screengrabs of the inbox of littlestjeff@yahoo.com (a reference to his island, Little St. James) from the early 2000s, “notably a period of time when Epstein was in touch with Donald Trump,” CBS reported, with the sender and recipient fields heavily redacted. “Despite the DOJ apparently having access to Epstein's inbox, only a handful of emails from that account were included in the release.” CBS also found missing about 20,000 messages from Epstein's jeeproject@yahoo.com account, previously obtained by hackers, though “it's unclear if the DOJ itself ever obtained those emails”; little correspondence about scheduling massages after his 2009 release from jail; and prison surveillance footage.
Trump has consistently denied wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and has said he has never used email. A White House spokesperson told CBS that he has “been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein.” Separately, the Government Accountability Office and the Justice Department's inspector general have opened reviews of the department's handling of the files and its redactions. The gaps fit a documented pattern of disputes over what the department has released (see Blanche Goes on Fox News and Redefines 2.5 Million Unreleased Epstein Pages as 'Not Epstein Files' While 15 Survivors Push Back, A NYT Investigation Details a White House Situation Room Meltdown Over the Epstein Files, With 'Empty Gesture' Plans to Appease the Base).
Correction (October 2, 2026): This entry quoted the early 2000s as “the time when Epstein was most in touch with Donald Trump” and attributed the description to CBS. That wording is The New Republic's; CBS said only that it was a period when Epstein “was in touch with” Trump. The entry also implied the department withheld the 20,000 jeeproject@yahoo.com messages; CBS says it is unclear whether the department ever had them. The title, which said the department “held back” the account, was narrowed to what CBS found, and an unsourced claim that the gaps deepen questions about shielding the president was removed.