Epstein Exposed

JPMorgan kept Jeffrey Epstein as a client for fifteen years, five of them after he pleaded guilty to a sex crime. Deutsche Bank took him on the year JPMorgan let him go. And the biggest alarms about his money went off only after he was arrested, or dead.

This is the first episode of the Epstein Exposed podcast. Each episode takes one paper trail from the Epstein files and follows it all the way through. This one runs about eleven minutes, and every document in it is linked below, free to read on EpsteinExposed.com.

In this episode

* $1.1 billion, flagged after the fact. Treasury records count 4,725 wires involving Epstein and his associates from 2003 to 2019, worth $1.08 billion. According to Sen. Ron Wyden's staff, JPMorgan reported them in a single suspicious activity report, filed after Epstein died. BNY Mellon flagged 270 wires worth about $378 million after his July 2019 arrest.

* JPMorgan's fifteen years. Epstein banked there from 1998 to 2013. In 2023 the bank paid $290 million to settle with survivors and $75 million to settle with the U.S. Virgin Islands, without admitting liability.

* Deutsche Bank and the $7 million wire. New York regulators fined the bank $150 million in 2020, in part for failing to monitor Epstein's accounts. Its own statement shows a single $7,000,000 wire on January 4, 2019, which settled Brad Edwards's lawsuit against Epstein. We told that story in The $7 Million Apology.

* Leon Black's payments. $15 million on February 15, 2013 and $16.5 million that May, both into Southern Trust's account at JPMorgan. A review by the law firm Dechert put Black's payments to Epstein at $158 million and called the advice legitimate. Black denies any wrongdoing. In September, the House held him in contempt of Congress.

* How the money moved. $36 million through the Haze Trust's accounts in a single day in 2017, and about $58 million from one of Epstein's companies, Jeepers Inc., into his own Deutsche Bank accounts between 2013 and 2019.

Chapters

* 0:00 Fifteen million dollars from Leon Black

* 0:35 Introduction

* 1:33 $1.1 billion, flagged after the fact

* 3:02 JPMorgan's fifteen years

* 4:22 Deutsche Bank and the $7 million wire

* 6:07 Leon Black's payments

* 7:47 How the money moved inside Epstein's world

* 9:07 What a wire does and doesn't prove

* 9:29 The takeaway

The documents

All free to read and search on EpsteinExposed.com.

* Leon Black's $15,000,000 wire to Southern Trust, February 15, 2013 (JPMorgan statement), and the wire detail

* The second wire, $16,500,000, May 24, 2013

* Sen. Wyden's letter on the Treasury records: 4,725 wires totaling $1.08 billion, 2003 to 2019

* Deutsche Bank statement showing the $7,000,000 wire, January 4, 2019, and the settlement agreement

* Court exhibit: the Haze Trust's $36,000,000 transfer and the Jeepers transfers, with the Deutsche Bank statement

* The money map and wire ledger, built on Randall Scott's open-source ledger

Further reading

* NYDFS consent order: Deutsche Bank's $150 million penalty (July 2020)

* Sen. Wyden's letter to BNY Mellon (January 2026)

* Wyden's report on Wall Street banks and Epstein (August 2026)

* JPMorgan's $290 million survivors' settlement and $75 million Virgin Islands settlement (2023)

* Deutsche Bank's $75 million survivors' settlement (May 2023)

* Bank of America's $72.5 million survivors' settlement (March 2026)

* The Dechert review of Leon Black's payments (January 2021)

* Leon Black held in contempt of Congress (September 2026)

Read the full $7 million story: Part 1, The $7 Million Apology and Part 2, The Apology He Never Gave.

About this episode

A wire shows that money moved, not why. Apart from Epstein, no one named in this episode has been charged with a crime connected to him. Leon Black denies any wrongdoing. The banks named here settled without admitting liability. We never name survivors.

The voices on this show are AI-generated. The people behind Epstein Exposed work under pen names because of threats, so the host is a digital presenter rather than one of us. Every script is written from primary court and government documents, linked above, and reviewed by a human editor before release.

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Each episode of the Epstein Exposed podcast takes one paper trail from the Epstein files and follows it all the way through, with every document linked in the show notes and free to read on EpsteinExposed.com.

Episode 1, The Banks That Kept Epstein, arrives Tuesday, October 27: how JPMorgan kept Epstein as a client for fifteen years, how Deutsche Bank took him next, and why the biggest red flags were filed only after he was arrested, or dead.

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The voices on this show are AI-generated. The people behind Epstein Exposed work under pen names because of threats, so the host is a digital presenter rather than one of us. Every script is written from primary court and government documents and reviewed by a human editor before release.

Subscribe free to get every episode and investigation. Epstein Exposed is reader-funded.