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New website lets public browse Jeffrey Epstein emails like Gmail inbox
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- Jmail replicates Gmail to allow public browsing of Epstein’s released emails.
- Emails include correspondence with high-profile figures and references to Donald Trump.
- The site makes thousands of documents easier to read compared to scanned PDFs.
A new website called Jmail allows users to browse thousands of emails released from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a format that mimics a real Gmail inbox.
The emails, released last week by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, include correspondence with high-profile figures such as Ghislaine Maxwell, Steve Bannon, journalist Michael Wolff, and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, with some messages referencing US President Donald Trump.
Jmail, created by Riley Walz and Luke Igel, cofounder of AI video editing tool Kino AI, replicates Gmail’s interface, complete with an inbox, starred messages, sent items, and a sidebar listing Epstein’s contacts. Users can flag emails as important, with the community-ranking feature highlighting messages deemed most significant by other viewers. Walz described the project as “cloning Gmail, except you’re logged in as Epstein and can see his emails.”
Igel said the website provides a far more readable way to explore the documents compared to parsing tens of thousands of poorly scanned PDFs. He noted the emails reveal interesting insights, such as noticeable changes in Epstein’s typing quality when he switched from desktop to touchscreen devices in the early 2010s.
“You can see all this kind of boomer behavior which is very familiar behavior of less tech-savvy people,” Igel said.
The simplicity and accessibility of Jmail have made it a unique tool for anyone wanting to study the Epstein correspondence in detail.
“This only took us a few hours,” Igel said. “I think other people should do similar things where a little bit of new software can make a lot of these things that are happening in the world easier to understand.”
