Collaborative investigation
of the Epstein files.

Thousands of pages of court documents are public record. Epstein Studio gives the crowd the tools to go through them together.

How it works

1
Browse

Search, sort, or pick a random PDF from the indexed collection.

2
Annotate

Pin annotations on any page. Add notes, text overlays, and directional arrows.

3
Discuss

Every annotation has its own thread. Comment, reply, and share findings.

4
Surface

Vote on annotations and documents. The most promising leads rise to the top.

Why this exists

Redacted court filings, flight logs, and deposition transcripts related to Jeffrey Epstein have been released to the public across multiple document dumps. The volume is massive and the documents are difficult to parse alone.

This tool exists so people can work through them together — marking up pages, flagging names and connections, and building a shared understanding of what the documents contain. No speculation, just the documents.

Current status

Stage Public Beta
Datasets Datasets 1-12
Source Open Source

Request a feature

Got an idea for how to make this tool better? Submit it below and it will be tracked as a GitHub issue.

Contribute

As a researcher

Create an anonymous ID, pick a document, and start annotating. Every contribution is visible to the community.

Participate

As a developer

The codebase is open source. Fork it, improve it, or host your own instance with a different dataset.

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