Epstein files not to be released in entirety, US deputy attorney general says

Jeffrey Epstein with his then partner Ghislaine Maxwell (US Department of Justice/PA)

Files on disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein will not be released in their entirety before the legal deadline, the US deputy attorney general has said.

Todd Blanche said “several hundred thousand” documents from the so-called “Epstein files” will be released on Friday, but said the need to protect the sex offender’s victims meant thousands more would be released over the coming weeks.