TO THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM AND THE NEW MEXICO HOUSE SPECIAL INVESTIGATORY COMMITTEE:
We, the undersigned, call upon the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the New Mexico House Special Investigatory Committee, commonly known as the Epstein Truth Commission, to subpoena and preserve every recording, transcript, note, photograph, communication, and related record held by journalist Michael Wolff and Stephen K. Bannon concerning Jeffrey Epstein.
Michael Wolff has publicly stated that he recorded approximately 100 hours of interviews with Jeffrey Epstein across more than 30 sessions. Most reportedly occurred inside Epstein’s Manhattan residence, with additional interviews in Paris and other locations. Only fragments of these recordings have been made public.
Stephen Bannon reportedly recorded approximately 15 hours of video interviews with Epstein in 2019. According to published accounts, the footage was created while Bannon was helping Epstein prepare for a possible public reputation campaign. Only limited portions of this material have surfaced.
Together, these recordings may represent one of the largest collections of Epstein’s own statements outside the possession of law enforcement. They could contain information concerning Epstein’s trafficking network, financial relationships, political contacts, legal strategies, reputation management efforts, alleged enablers, and activities connected to his properties, including Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.
These records must not remain dependent upon the decisions of private individuals, publishers, media organizations, estates, attorneys, or commercial platforms. They are potentially significant evidence in active investigations involving public corruption, institutional failures, trafficking, and the protection of powerful people.
EVIDENCE THAT THESE RECORDINGS EXIST
Michael Wolff stated in a published interview that he possesses close to 100 hours of recorded conversations with Jeffrey Epstein from more than 30 sessions. Wolff said most of the sessions occurred at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, with others taking place in restaurants and at Epstein’s Paris residence.
Source: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/20/the-wolff-epstein-tapes/
The official congressional website of Representative Robert Garcia reported that Stephen Bannon possessed approximately 15 hours of unreleased video footage of Epstein. The recordings were reportedly created while Bannon was preparing Epstein for a possible public rehabilitation campaign.
The Epstein document archive identifies federal record EFTA00037236, which discusses a mock interview video involving Bannon and Epstein. According to the record, investigators attempted to locate the video but found that it had disappeared before they could review it. This makes the immediate preservation of every remaining original, copy, excerpt, transcript, and storage device even more urgent.
Source: https://epstein-data.com/reports/overview/FINAL_INVESTIGATION_REPORT.html
The Wolff and Epstein email archive also documents communications concerning media projects, interviews, and Wolff’s introduction of Epstein to Bannon. These records provide additional evidence that the recordings were part of a broader effort to manage Epstein’s public reputation.
Source: https://epstein-data.com/wolff/
WHAT WE ARE DEMANDING
We call upon both investigative bodies to issue immediate preservation demands followed by lawful subpoenas requiring Michael Wolff and Stephen Bannon to produce every complete and unedited audio or video recording of Jeffrey Epstein.
The subpoenas should include every copy, excerpt, clip, compilation, transcript, and partial transcript created from those recordings.
They should include all handwritten, typed, digital, or dictated notes concerning Epstein or the interviews.
They should include all emails, text messages, encrypted messages, letters, calendars, scheduling records, and other communications relating to Epstein, the interviews, or the planned use of the recordings.
They should include communications with Epstein’s attorneys, employees, representatives, public relations advisers, publishers, producers, political figures, and members of the media concerning the recordings.
They should include all available metadata showing when and where the recordings were created, copied, edited, transferred, accessed, or deleted.
They should identify every person, company, attorney, publisher, platform, or storage provider that received or retained copies of the recordings.
They should include documentation describing any material that has been lost, destroyed, deleted, damaged, withheld, sold, transferred, or placed under a contractual restriction.
Investigators should obtain forensically preserved copies of relevant devices, drives, cloud accounts, and storage media when necessary to authenticate or recover the records.
Wolff and Bannon should also provide sworn testimony concerning the creation, custody, completeness, editing, distribution, and preservation of this material.
WHY BOTH INVESTIGATIVE BODIES MUST ACT
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is already conducting an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, their associates, and the federal government’s handling of the case. The Committee has used its authority to obtain records and compel testimony from individuals connected to Epstein.
The New Mexico House resolution creating the Special Investigatory Committee authorizes the committee to conduct hearings, compel witnesses, administer oaths, and issue subpoenas while investigating Zorro Ranch, possible criminal activity, public corruption, institutional failures, and threats to public confidence.
The New Mexico committee should determine whether either collection contains information about Epstein’s activities at Zorro Ranch, travel to New Mexico, recruitment or transportation of victims, relationships with New Mexico officials or institutions, or efforts to conceal or manage allegations connected to the state.
The House Oversight Committee should examine the complete collections for evidence relevant to its broader federal investigation, including information concerning Epstein’s contacts, alleged facilitators, government treatment, financial arrangements, reputation campaign, and communications before his 2019 arrest and death.
PRESERVE THE EVIDENCE FIRST
Any claim of journalistic, contractual, constitutional, or other privilege should be addressed through established legal procedures. It should not prevent the immediate preservation of potentially important evidence.
The committees can protect legitimate journalistic interests while still requiring the preservation and confidential production of records. Any public disclosure must include careful protections for survivors, victims, witnesses, and people whose appearance in a recording does not establish wrongdoing.
Survivor identities, medical information, explicit material, and identifying details must be protected. Those safeguards cannot become an excuse to conceal the conduct of powerful adults, institutions, or government officials.
THE PUBLIC RECORD CANNOT DEPEND ON PRIVATE GATEKEEPERS
Jeffrey Epstein spent decades surrounding himself with wealthy, politically connected, and professionally influential people. He also devoted enormous effort to managing his reputation and controlling what the public knew about him.
Private recordings containing Epstein’s own words could help investigators test timelines, identify previously undisclosed witnesses, compare his statements with documentary evidence, and understand who assisted his attempts to rehabilitate his image.
The public should not have to wait for another selectively edited podcast, documentary, book, political project, or media exclusive to learn what Epstein said.
We demand that Chairman James Comer, Ranking Member Robert Garcia, and the members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform act immediately.
We further demand that Chair Andrea Romero and committee members Marianna Anaya, Andrea Reeb, and William A. Hall II use the New Mexico committee’s subpoena authority before its mandate expires.
Issue the preservation demands. Subpoena the complete collections. Authenticate the evidence. Protect survivors. Release all material that can lawfully and responsibly be made public.
The Epstein record belongs in the hands of investigators, not hidden in private archives.
Petition sponsored by EpsteinWiki and The Butterfly Bureau
