No less than two of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims had ties to Colorado, together with one lady who was dwelling in a tent together with her canine in Durango when Epstein died in a New York jail cell in 2019.
“She is at present refusing any housin (sic). She has a canine and he or she is unwilling to go away him for any motive. She resides in a tent close to the river in (redacted). As of proper now, that’s the place she needs to be,” a member of the FBI’s Sufferer Providers Division wrote in a Sept. 13, 2019, e mail included in a trove of paperwork newly launched by the U.S. Division of Justice.
That lady can be escorted the next month by a caseworker to the Durango airport so she might fly to Miami, the place she was scheduled to attend an FBI briefing for Epstein’s victims after he died. The FBI workers exchanging emails about her have been involved about her well-being, saying the girl had no cash, had been sober for a 12 months and was touring with a brief paper identification card from Colorado that didn’t embody an image.
“I’m barely involved that Florida might be a set off for her though she’s been working via that pretty properly and appears decided,” an FBI worker wrote on Oct. 12, 2019.
The lady, recognized solely by the initials ML, seems to be one among many victims who have been sexually assaulted and trafficked — usually as youngsters — by Epstein.
Since final 12 months, the Justice Division has uploaded thousands and thousands of paperwork, images and movies to its publicly searchable Epstein Library database, including practically 3 million extra paperwork and 1000’s of images and movies on Jan. 30. The most recent launch got here after Congress in November mandated it underneath strain from the general public and as hypothesis swirls round Epstein’s connections to President Donald Trump and different distinguished folks.
JHB searched the phrase “Colorado” within the recordsdata to get a sampling of Epstein’s ties to the state. The Publish reviewed 1,518 paperwork, together with emails, textual content messages, photos and courtroom filings. The Publish additionally ran the names of distinguished Coloradoans via the database.
Kimbal Musk, a Boulder restaurateur and Elon Musk’s brother, was referenced scores of instances, together with in e mail exchanges with Epstein and his associates about girls and events. Musk has not responded to The Publish’s requests for remark.
Different Coloradans have been talked about as a result of they have been legal professionals representing Epstein’s associates in enterprise or legal issues, or as a result of Epstein’s associates have been looking for to fulfill them for enterprise or political functions.
Looking the paperwork is troublesome for a lot of causes, together with Epstein’s voluminous misspellings and grammatical errors.
The recordsdata are closely redacted, making it troublesome at instances to grasp who’s speaking with whom and to color an entire image of a specific dialog, corresponding to an e mail change in 2013 between Bella Klein, one among Epstein’s accountants, and two different folks as they tried to find out who had been with Epstein in Aspen on April 15 of that 12 months. One individual replied, “I didn’t go to Aspen. Hope this helps.” However the two different folks’s names have been redacted, and the aim of the journey was by no means mentioned.
Many paperwork are duplicated for no obvious motive. The recordsdata additionally embody paperwork which can be of no relevance to Epstein’s crimes, corresponding to emailed ads, newsletters and actual property listings.
Victims’ Colorado ties
No less than two girls who have been prostituted and abused by Epstein and his shoppers had Colorado connections.
Epstein traveled to Aspen through the years, and a not too long ago unsealed grand jury indictment filed in U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of Florida over the abuse of 13 ladies lists a July 4, 2004, flight from Aspen to Palm Seashore as proof in that case. The names of individuals with Epstein on that flight have been redacted.
Along with the girl dwelling in a tent, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an Epstein sufferer who grew to become an outspoken advocate for intercourse trafficking survivors, lived in Colorado at some factors throughout her grownup life.
Giuffre is among the accusers who mentioned she was sexually abused by Britain’s former Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his royal title within the wake of the Epstein scandal. Giuffre died by suicide in 2025, however her brother and sister-in-law, who stay in El Paso County, have continued to push for justice on her behalf.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 for her position in Epstein’s sex-trafficking crimes and is serving a 20-year jail sentence, employed a Denver legislation agency to help in her legal protection. She incessantly wired 1000’s of {dollars} from the Wells Fargo financial institution at 1700 Broadway to pay her authorized charges.
Nonetheless, that agency — Haddon Morgan and Foreman P.C. — sued Maxwell, her brother, Kevin Maxwell, and her husband, Scott Borgerson, in 2022, alleging she didn’t pay $878,000 for his or her work.
The agency acquired a $986,644.03 default judgment in opposition to the Maxwells in December 2022.
Efforts to achieve the agency’s representatives have been unsuccessful, and it’s unclear whether or not the debt was paid.
Most popular vacation spot for the jet set
The Epstein recordsdata paint an image of how Colorado is a most well-liked vacation spot for the jet set as they journey throughout the nation for enterprise and recreation, and the way rich and highly effective folks community with one another, both via monetary investments, actual property, enterprise retreats or philanthropy.
For instance, Barbro Ehnbom, a Swedish-American businesswoman, at the least thrice invited Epstein to fundraisers on behalf of U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat. There was nothing within the Justice Division recordsdata that indicated Epstein ever responded to these invites.
In her emails to Epstein, Ehnbom praised DeGette’s curiosity in science and her position as a congresswoman.
In a 2011 e mail change between Ehnbom and Epstein, she requested Epstein if he deliberate to be in New York for an upcoming “Stem Cell gala” and, in that case, requested if he can be desirous about assembly DeGette.
“She is among the few folks in congress who who has a scientific agenda and he or she is sweet individual — wish to meet her?” Ehnbom wrote.
Epstein didn’t point out DeGette in his reply: “Im nonetheless in paris„ who’s the brazilian„ and the place is my swedish spouse?”
Jack Stelzner, a spokesman for DeGette, mentioned the Denver congresswoman met Ehnbom via her work on biomedical analysis. DeGette was unaware of who Ehnbom was inviting to fundraisers, together with Epstein, he mentioned.
“Congresswoman DeGette was not conscious of her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,” Stelzner mentioned. “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t attend any of these fundraisers.”
In a number of emails and textual content messages, Esptein and his associates mentioned their Colorado holidays and the way they beloved visiting the mountains.
His workers additionally sometimes booked holidays for folks, however it’s unclear who was touring, corresponding to a December 2015 ski journey to Aspen for unidentified ladies — as they have been referred to in an e mail — who have been staying in a lodge and taking classes.
The horror throughout the Epstein saga is what occurred to the teenage ladies and younger girls who have been trapped in his sex-trafficking ring.
Epstein’s 2019 indictment for a sex-trafficking conspiracy mentioned he recruited ladies as younger as 14 to have intercourse acts with him at his properties in Manhattan, Palm Seashore, Florida, and different places. He paid them tons of of {dollars} in money and infrequently paid them to introduce him to associates.
Pursuit of justice
The recordsdata present an image of what the victims’ lives have been like within the fallout of Epstein’s crimes and as they struggled to deal with what had occurred.
In 2015, Guiffre, one among Epstein’s most vocal accusers, was adopted by British media inside a southern Colorado Walmart and wanted the shop’s safety to assist her depart via a again door. And when she and her household returned to their residence in Penrose, they discovered their again door open.
“That they had been taking excessive safety precautions, in order that appeared very uncommon,” Guiffre’s legal professionals wrote in an e mail to U.S. attorneys. “Brad and I imagine that this can be Epstein (or his associates) signaling that VR mustn’t discuss.”
Guiffre, who was at instances recognized as Victoria Rogers, additionally accused Alan Dershowitz, one among Epstein’s legal professionals, of sexual assault. She later withdrew her allegation, however not earlier than an prolonged authorized battle unfolded. Epstein’s authorized staff accused her of “hiding out” in Colorado as they battled over whether or not she would give a deposition in Colorado or Florida.
Guiffre died by suicide on April 25, 2025, in Australia. A posthumous memoir of Guiffre’s expertise — “No one’s Woman: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Preventing for Justice” — was revealed in October.
In November, Guiffre’s brother, Sky Roberts, and his spouse, Amanda Roberts, talked to the media concerning the Epstein recordsdata, saying they wished them launched to deliver justice for his sister and different victims, in line with new stories.
“We’re right here for our group. And this isn’t only a singular second for Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell survivors. It’s for each single survivor, each single person who suffered by the hands of abuse, sexual abuse and trafficking,” Amanda Roberts instructed KKTV 11 in Colorado Springs.
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