Jeffrey Epstein Files and Associates

Newly released DOJ Epstein files depict Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as having closer ties to Jeffrey Epstein than he previously acknowledged — including an hour‑long 2011 meeting at Epstein’s home, a roughly hour‑long family lunch on Epstein’s private island in 2012, emails and documents linking them as 2012 signatories, a 2015 email appearing to invite Epstein to a fundraiser, a 2017 $50,000 donation in Lutnick’s honor, and emails involving a nanny — contradicting earlier claims he severed ties after 2005. Those revelations have prompted bipartisan calls for his resignation and demands for documents, even as the White House and Commerce defend him, say he’s not implicated in criminal wrongdoing, and assert he remains supported.