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- The Justice Department's Epstein files have a wide blast radius.
- Goldman's top lawyer resigned, marking the highest-profile fallout over the most recent DOJ release.
- Here are the people dealing with consequences over the DOJ's January 30 Epstein files.
The blast radius keeps widening.
The Justice Department's release of over 3 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents has led to a fresh wave of backlash for people associated with the pedophile financier, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
The documents have revealed friendly communications with Epstein, even after his 2008 conviction for sex offenses. Some of the people who've experienced fallout exchanged crude messages about women, shared government secrets, or had a more expansive relationship with him than previously known. One high-profile entertainment industry executive said he wanted to see Ghislaine Maxwell in "bondage gear" — well before any public accusation that she facilitated Epstein's sex-trafficking operation.
It's not the first time the vast trove of documents, broadly known as the Epstein files, has had consequences for his associates. Last fall, the release of tens of thousands of Epstein's emails by the House Oversight Committee led to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being stripped of his title as a British royal. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers took a leave from his teaching duties at Harvard University while the school investigates; he also resigned from OpenAI's board.
Here are 10 people who've experienced consequences following the Justice Department's January 30 data dump. None of the people featured in this story has been accused of participating in Epstein's sex-trafficking scheme.