Even six years after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York cell, there are more questions than ever when it comes to the crimes of the shamed financier and convicted pedophile.
Many of these answers now lie with the incarcerated Ghislaine Maxwell, especially following the deaths of Epstein and prominent accuser, Virginia Giuffre.
President Donald Trump has also been embroiled in the scandal amid accusations that he features in unreleased parts of the Epstein files, as well as ‘birthday book’ correspondence seemingly between the pair and a scandalous email where Epstein says the POTUS 'knew about the girls'.
The President has pulled a spectacular U-turn by promising to release the Epstein files in their entirety, with an overwhelming congressional vote backing up the Commander-in-Chief.
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As well as a number of high-profile names being linked to Epstein, his emails have made for some disturbing but fascinating reading.
While the subject matter surrounding Epstein and his crimes is about as serious as they come, internet pranksters have poked fun at the whole debacle. A new website has popped up and created a virtual Gmail inbox of Epstein's emails.
This comes in the aftermath of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform releasing 20,000 documents from the Epstein estate, which includes emails between him and Maxwell, Steve Bannon, Michael Wolff, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and a slew of text messages. Although none appear to be between Epstein and Trump, many of them allude to or directly mention him.
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The Jmail site lets you peruse Epstein's inbox and scroll through some 2235 emails. While there are mundane ones giving updates on Quora and Flipboard, others include much juicier exchanges with former MIT Media Lab head Joichi Ito, and a mysteriously redacted sender saying, "Miss chatting with you." If you didn't know this was a specialist site, you'd be forgiven for thinking you were accidentally logged into Epstein's actual Gmail – including a grinning picture of the man himself in the corner.
Jmail was the brainchild of serial pranksters Riley Walz and Luke Igel. Igel told WIRED how he took the idea to Walz, with the pair putting it together in a single evening. Jmail was revealed in a simple post on X that read: "We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails.”
Instead of having to scroll through tens of thousands of PDFs, Jmail simplifies things so that you can look for specific people, categorize emails, and even check out what Epstein sent.
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Expanding on how it came to be, Igel told the outlet: "The emails were just so hard to read. It felt like so much of the shock would've come if you saw actual screenshots of the actual inbox, but what you were seeing was these really low quality, poorly scanned PDFs. You have to do a few steps of imagination to remind yourself that this is indeed a real email."
There's also the implication that Epstein was a 'boomer', with an apparently notable shift when he moved from sending emails on a desktop to an iPad alternative.
Igel concluded: "You can see him getting worse at typing as the years go by, as he clearly switches to an iPad. You can see all this kind of boomer behavior which is very familiar behavior of less tech-savvy people."
Happy with the fact that Jmail only took them a few hours to create, Igel implored others to use similar software to make things easier for the world.