Analysis | 'No n*ggers': Racism ran through dead paedophile Epstein’s world, newly released files show
Court records and FBI files detail racist language and biological thinking across Epstein’s network
Editor’s note: This article quotes racist language as it appears in court records and FBI interview notes. The slur has been partially obscured to reduce harm while preserving the accuracy of the record.
Race played an explicit and repeated role in how girls were selected within Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse network, newly released court records, FBI interview notes and private correspondence indicate.
Other documents linked to the dead paedophile and his circle contain overtly racist language, racialised discussions about Black people, plus plans to run tests on African and Jamaican people.
This aspect of the record has received little to no attention in mainstream reporting on Epstein’s abuse. Black Current News has examined it through analysis of the released files.
On 30 January 2026, US authorities released a tranche of material connected to Epstein, amounting to around three million pages, including approximately 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
The material references several high-profile figures, prompting renewed scrutiny of individuals including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Peter Mandelson, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Bill Gates.
There is no indication that appearing in the documents is proof of wrongdoing; many of those named have denied committing any crimes in relation to Epstein.
In sworn testimony before a federal grand jury, a teenage victim - a girl - who’s understood to have been recruited by Epstein and later pressured to find other victims for him to abuse told investigators that she had “made a mistake” by bringing a Black girl to his Palm Beach home.
According to her account, Epstein refused to allow the girl to perform a massage, though he still paid $200 “for her time”.
He said he was “not interested in Black girls” and added that he “wasn’t a racist”.
The testimony forms part of material gathered during the federal investigation into Epstein’s conduct in the mid-2000s.
The witness, who was a minor at the time, described how Epstein instructed her to bring girls of a particular appearance and reacted negatively when she failed to do so.
Federal Bureau of Investigation interview records compiled in later years describe similar instructions.
In a July 2019 interview, a victim told agents that Epstein demanded “young fresh meat girls” and explicitly instructed her: “Don’t bring me any n*ggers.”
The statement is recorded verbatim in the interview notes, taken in the presence of the victim’s attorney.
The same interview describes how the victim, fearing further abuse, contemplated finding other girls for Epstein in an attempt to protect herself, before ultimately refusing to do so.
In a separate email sent from Epstein’s own account, he wrote: “black girls are all horrible f*cks.”
Other FBI interview records describe Epstein expressing a preference for “short, little, white girls” and rejecting girls who were Black or had tattoos.
Recruiters said they were expected to understand and enforce these criteria when sourcing girls.
The records do not suggest that Epstein targeted Black girls as victims, nor do they describe any trafficking pipeline involving Caribbean or African communities.
Alongside the abuse testimony, emails released by the US Department of Justice on Monday also reveal how race appeared in private correspondence linked to Epstein’s wider intellectual and social circle.
In an email dated April 2015, the evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, who had previously received financial support from Epstein, proposed a research project involving X-ray imaging of Nigerian women’s lower spines and hips to measure curvature, which he implied was associated with both successful childbirth and sexual attractiveness.
In the same email, Trivers used the phrase “cock up botty” when discussing these women - a lewd and, in this context, disrespectful Jamaican patois expression referring to ample buttocks.
Trivers has longstanding personal ties to Jamaica, hence the patois: he spent around 13 years living on and off on the island, owns property there and has reportedly been married twice to Jamaican women.
Trivers also wrote that Nigerian women “have the shortest inter-birth interval of any women”, referring to the average time between one birth and the next.
Trivers, a white American man now in his early 80s, used this claim within a broader theory of sexual selection, suggesting that more frequent childbirth would be associated, in his view, with stronger reproductive pressures on the body and more pronounced spinal and pelvic curvature.
On that basis, he proposed Nigerian women as an ideal test group for studying this trait, suggesting that X-rays should be taken before any genetic research was undertaken.
The email does not indicate that such a study was ever carried out, nor does it identify any participants.
It does, however, raise questions about what access Epstein, Trivers and his associates may have believed they had to carry out such testing on Black women.
An emphasis on physical measurements reappears elsewhere in the archive, including in correspondence relating to elite Jamaican athletes.
In a 2013 email exchange about a proposed study in Jamaica, the evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers wrote that “Usain and Shelley Ann” were “unlikely” to take part because they were often off the island, though he suggested they might be curious “to have their knees measured”.
In a later email dated 2014, Trivers wrote that he planned to measure “at least 73 elite sprinters in Kingston, including Shelley Ann Fraser (Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce)”, with the stated aim of creating “the world’s first elite human sample” for genetic analysis.
Other Epstein-linked correspondence released in the same tranche includes emails containing overt racial slurs referring to Black people, without additional context or explanation.
Other correspondence shows racist assumptions being dressed up as health considerations.
In one email exchange, a woman is described as unsuitable after allegedly having sex with a Black man, with the claim justified “from a health point of view” and accompanied by the assertion: “I’m not racist but statistics don’t lie.”
Beyond the specific examples cited, a review of the released archive shows dozens of documents in which racist slurs - typically the n-word - are attributed either to Epstein himself or appear in correspondence involving people around him.
The documents vary in form, ranging from emails to interview notes and are not tied to a single incident or allegation.
Taken together, the records point to a consistent pattern.
Within Epstein’s abuse network, race functioned as a racial filter, enforced through recruiters and articulated in explicitly racist terms.
In parallel, private correspondence linked to his wider circle reveals racialised thinking about Black bodies, framed through the language of biology, measurement and reproduction and echoing traditions of colonial racial hierarchy, scientific racism and eugenic thinking that reduced Black people to biological traits rather than recognised them as individuals.
Epstein died in a New York jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
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Hmm. Unsurprising. Who wrote The Bell Curve? The fixation on our intellect and bodies is tedious.
We have P Diddy to contend with… so no bullet dodged really.. just thankful we weren’t exploited in 2 fronts.. so while I appreciate the ‘why’ most black people can only be glad that yes.. ‘we dodged that bullet.. 1 down.. 1000s to go.. 🙏🏾