About

This site explores connections between people who appear in photographs from the Epstein Library dataset released by the U.S. Department of Justice.

It was created by Decoherence Media, a small nonprofit newsroom that uses open-source and data-driven methods to investigate authoritarian movements. For more information, read our guide or watch our video about the project.

The graph view on the homepage is an interactive network: nodes are people, and edges connect people who appear together in the same photograph. Node size indicates how many different people a given person appears in photos with, and node colors indicate that person's category.

Data processing used facial recognition (AWS Rekognition) with manual verification, network layout was computed with Gephi and visualized with D3.js.

Content Policy

Victim privacy is a priority for this project. People marked as victims are anonymized as "Victim 1", "Victim 2", etc, and their real names are not displayed.

Images that contain victims never served by this website, including as node and edge preview images. Victim nodes are kept in the network so the overall structure remains visible, but the image content associated with victims is not shown.

Images containing nudity (reviewed manually and with AWS Rekognition's DetectModerationLabels) are never served.

Individuals who only appear in photographs as a minor (based on estimated age and publicly available information) are not identified.

Help Us

If you have a tip for a name we don't have yet, please submit it via our "New name" form.
If we've made a mistake, for example giving someone the wrong name or including images of a victim, please let us know by filling out our "Correction" form.
If you're a journalist, researcher, or organization interested in using our data or collaborating, contact us on our contact page.
All of the code for this project—the processing pipeline, backend, and this website—is open-sourced on our GitHub page.
Decoherence Media is a small team of journalists, and this project has taken us a lot of time and effort. If you value this work, please consider supporting us with a donation.

More information

To learn more about Jeffrey Epstein and his network, see these links:

Disclaimer

This website uses facial recognition to identify by name people who appear in images released by the Department of Justice and House Oversight Committee as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Inclusion in this website does not in any way imply that any person identified had or has knowledge of, or participated in, any of Jeffrey Epstein's misconduct or crimes, and Decoherence Media makes no claims regarding the nature of connection with Epstein or between any of the individuals.