The effort to unseal the 2006 Florida state grand jury records tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s first arrest moved slowly but eventually inched closer to the finish line after years of stalled petitions. A turning point came in 2023 when an appellate court in CA Florida Holdings LLC v. Aronberg ruled that lower courts did have discretion to release grand jury materials under certain conditions — a break from earlier rulings that had kept the records fully sealed. This legal shift paved the way for renewed pressure to disclose the documents, particularly as public outrage over Epstein’s past leniency grew.

Momentum accelerated in early 2024 when Florida lawmakers passed HB 117, a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, that explicitly allowed disclosure of grand jury records in cases involving sexual activity with minors if the subject was deceased. With this statute in place, Palm Beach Circuit Judge Luis Delgado ordered the release of roughly 150 pages of transcripts in July 2024. The disclosure — while still redacted in places — marked the closest the process had come to full transparency, reflecting a slow but steady march toward exposing how the 2006 case against Epstein was handled.


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