Mapping Epstein's Network: How We Built a Database of 1,400 Connections

The headlines about Jeffrey Epstein tend to revolve around individual names. A former president on a flight manifest. A prince in a photograph. A billionaire at a dinner party. But focusing on any single name misses the larger picture. The real story of the Epstein case is the network -- how hundreds of people intersected across flights, court documents, emails, and physical locations over the course of two decades.

That is what we set out to map. Over the past several months, we have catalogued every publicly available record from the Epstein case files into a single, searchable database. The result is the most comprehensive public index of the case: 1,400 persons of interest, connected through thousands of overlapping data points drawn entirely from the public record.

This post explains how we built it, what the data reveals, and how you can use it.

The Scale of the Data

The Epstein case has generated an extraordinary volume of public records. Court filings from multiple jurisdictions, federal investigations, FOIA releases, depositions, flight manifests, and a leaked address book have collectively produced tens of thousands of pages of material. We have organized all of it into structured, searchable records.

Beyond those headline numbers, the database includes approximately 2,700 emails, 55 locations with GPS coordinates, 88 timeline events, 259 person headshots sourced from Wikidata and public archives, and 92 evidence photographs from the House Oversight Committee's December 2025 release. At build time, the site generates roughly 16,600 static pages -- one for every person, document, flight, email, location, and event in the system.

Every record is cross-linked. A person's profile page shows their flights, the documents where they are named, their connections to other individuals, and any emails or photos associated with them. The database is not a collection of isolated facts; it is a web.

How Connections Are Computed

Transparency about methodology matters. When we say two people are "connected," we mean something specific and verifiable. Connections in our database are computed from four overlapping data sources.

Co-flights. If two people appear on the same flight manifest, that is a documented connection. They were physically in the same aircraft on the same day. The more flights they share, the stronger the co-flight relationship.

Co-documents. If two people are named in the same court filing, deposition, or government release, that creates a co-document connection. This could mean they were both discussed in testimony, both named as parties, or both referenced in the same investigative record.

Direct connections. Some relationships are established through reporting, testimony, or court findings -- for example, an employer-employee relationship, a documented friendship, or a role identified by prosecutors. These are entered manually based on verified sources.

Black book entries. Epstein's physical address book, which became public through court proceedings, contains contact information for hundreds of individuals. An entry in the book establishes that Epstein had the person's contact details, though it does not by itself establish the nature of the relationship.

What a connection does not mean: it does not imply that two people knew each other personally, that they were aware of each other's presence in a document, or that either party engaged in wrongdoing. The database records overlap in the public record. Interpretation is left to the researcher.

The Inner Circle

The connection data makes the structure of Epstein's operation visible. A small group of individuals appears across nearly every data source, with co-flight and co-document counts that dwarf everyone else in the database.

Ghislaine Maxwell sits at the center of the network by every measure. She appears on 400 of the 500 documented flights -- 80% of the total -- and is named in more court documents than any other individual besides Epstein himself. Her connections to other persons in the database are both the most numerous and the strongest.

Sarah Kellen, identified in federal non-prosecution agreements as a co-conspirator, was Epstein's primary scheduler and personal assistant. Her 338 flights and 28 co-flights with Maxwell reflect a daily operational role. Nadia Marcinkova, with 110 flights, rounds out the inner operational circle that prosecutors would later describe as the infrastructure of Epstein's activities.

The public figures in the table above have lower flight counts but notably high co-document numbers. Prince Andrew's 45 co-documents with Maxwell -- despite only 3 shared flights -- reflect the extensive litigation surrounding Virginia Giuffre's civil claims. Alan Dershowitz's 40 co-documents stem from both his role as Epstein's defense attorney and his own involvement in related civil proceedings.

Person Categories

The 1,400 persons in the database span a wide range of relationships to the case. We categorize each person based on their primary public role to make the directory easier to navigate.

• Associates (1,052) -- The largest category by far. This includes anyone with a documented connection to Epstein or Maxwell who does not fit a more specific category: staff members, acquaintances, contacts from the black book, and individuals named in court filings.
• Business Leaders (113) -- Executives and entrepreneurs, including Leslie Wexner, Bill Gates, and Jes Staley.
• Celebrities (62) -- Public figures from entertainment, media, and the arts.
• Other (48) -- Individuals who do not fit standard categories.
• Socialites (34) -- Figures from international high society, many connected through Maxwell's social circle.
• Legal Professionals (34) -- Attorneys, judges, and law enforcement officials involved in the various proceedings.
• Politicians (28) -- Elected officials and government figures, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
• Academics (19) -- University professors and researchers.
• Royalty (8) -- Members of royal families, including Prince Andrew.
• Military/Intelligence (2) -- Individuals with documented backgrounds in military or intelligence services.

You can browse and filter all 1,400 persons at /persons, with search, category filtering, pagination, and a toggle to show only individuals with photos.

The Network Graph

Raw numbers tell part of the story. The other part becomes visible when you see the connections spatially. Our interactive network graph renders the relationships between persons as a force-directed D3.js visualization.

Nodes represent persons. Edges represent connections between them, with line thickness corresponding to connection strength. The layout is computed by a physics simulation: people with more and stronger connections are pulled closer together, while those with fewer links drift to the periphery.

What emerges is a clear cluster structure. The densest cluster forms around Epstein, Maxwell, Kellen, and Marcinkova -- the operational core. Secondary clusters branch outward: one around the legal proceedings (attorneys, accusers, judges), another around the political connections, another around the business and finance world.

The graph is interactive. You can click on any node to highlight that person's direct connections, zoom into clusters, and follow edges to see what types of records connect two individuals. It is one of the most effective ways to explore the shape of the network as a whole rather than one person at a time. Try it at /network.

Cross-Referencing: Finding Hidden Patterns

One of the most powerful research tools on the site is the cross-reference tool. It lets you query across multiple data sources simultaneously to find individuals who appear in overlapping contexts.

For example: which persons appear in both the flight logs and the Giuffre v. Maxwell court filings? That intersection -- people who were physically on Epstein's aircraft and who are also named in one of the most significant civil cases -- produces a focused list of individuals whose connections to the case are documented in multiple independent sources.

You can cross-reference across documents, flights, connections, and the black book. The tool surfaces patterns that are not visible when browsing a single data source in isolation. An individual who appears in three different flight manifests, two court filings, and the address book presents a very different picture than someone mentioned once in a deposition transcript.

The cross-reference tool is at /cross-reference. It is designed for researchers who already have a question in mind and want to find the data that answers it.

The Black Book

Epstein's physical address book -- sometimes called the "black book" -- became public through court proceedings and has been one of the most widely discussed artifacts of the case. It contains names, phone numbers, and addresses for hundreds of individuals.

The book proves that Epstein had contact information for the people listed in it. It does not, on its own, prove the nature or depth of those relationships. Some entries include detailed notes and multiple phone numbers, suggesting regular contact. Others are bare entries that could reflect anything from a close friendship to a single business interaction.

We have indexed every identifiable entry and linked them to the corresponding person profiles in our database. You can browse and search the black book entries at /black-book, or filter the persons directory to show only individuals who appear in the book.

How You Can Use This Database

We built this site to be a practical research tool. Here is a summary of what is available and where to find it.

Every person, document, flight, and email has its own detail page with full cross-references. If you are researching a specific individual, start at their person page -- it aggregates everything the database knows about them in one place.

Contributing and Corrections

This project is built on public records and open-source principles. The data is only as good as its sources, and we are committed to getting it right.

If you find an error -- a misidentified person, an incorrect flight date, a broken link between records -- we want to know. Corrections are reviewed and applied promptly. We are also actively looking for additional public records that have not yet been indexed, particularly documents from state-level investigations and international proceedings.

The database is updated regularly as new documents are released by the DOJ and other agencies. Our automated monitoring checks for new releases on a weekly basis, and significant updates are announced on this blog.