Federal records and emails show Jeffrey Epstein rented at least six storage units across the country to stash computers, photos, hard drives, and files, and some of those lockers may never have been found by authorities.
Jeffrey Epstein kept a scattering of storage units for more than a decade, most in Florida and others near his New York mansion and New Mexico ranch. He paid thousands over the years, and investigators now face a messy trail of items that may never have been fully cataloged or seized.
Documents built from credit card records and Department of Justice releases lay out a detailed timeline of leases and payments tied to storage facilities. Records show Epstein began leasing one locker at Uncle Bob’s in Florida in 2003, paying $374.13 per month until March 2015, with smaller payments continuing into 2016.
He also paid $140 per month for a Royal Palm Beach location until 2019 and in 2010 asked others to rent a unit in New York at around $500 per month. One Florida unit used between 2009 and 2011 was open 24 hours and big enough to hold vehicles, which suggests the holdings went beyond shoeboxes and photo albums.
Credit card entries point to a private detective agency receiving $38,500 from January to May 2010, and emails from that period reveal how items were handled. An August 2009 message from a representative of that agency lays out a troubling casualness about evidence custody:
“Over the weekend I learned that plaintiff’s counsel are looking to get from me the computers and paperwork I took from Jeff’s house prior to the Search Warrant.”
The same representative then asked where materials locked in storage should go, treating seized items like logistics rather than legal evidence. That message continues with a question about routing and safekeeping tied to Epstein’s lawyer Darren Indyke:
“I have them locked in storage and would like to know what to do with them. They are no longer needed in the criminal case, I assume. Is it possible to give you these items for your review and safekeeping or give it to Darren Indyke or back to Jeff, etc.?”
The tone is striking: computers and paperwork removed before a search warrant, discussed as inventory to move rather than as items needing a preserved chain of custody. Those exchanges raise hard questions about who knew what and when, and whether procedures meant to protect evidence were followed.
Former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told NBC that during a 2005 search, Epstein’s place “had been cleaned up.” The storage network maps onto that suspicion: pull material off site, stash it in rented lockers under third-party names, and keep it out of reach when investigators arrive.
A 2009 email thread captures the system in microcosm, exactly the kind of casual storage reference that looks damning in retrospect. Epstein wrote that an associate was “going to send me a copy of [redacted’s] picture,” and the reply confirmed files were in storage.
“I thought I had a copy of it on my computer but it is in storage with everything else. I will get it out next time I go to the storage unit.”
Photographs, hard drives, and files appear to have been moved into anonymous lockers while federal investigators continued to probe properties for years. Staff photos from a unit in 2012 show furniture and boxes in a cluttered space, and images from 2019 raids depict other units linked to the network.
Documents also point to interest in a “secret storage unit” near his New Mexico ranch, and it is notable that Epstein owned five properties in the United States and France while still keeping a parallel stash of off-site material. That duplication suggests intentional separation of certain records from his residences.
What happened to those units after Epstein died by suicide in 2019 is still unclear, and state law complicates the trail. Under Florida law, storage facility owners can auction off abandoned materials after 90 days without payment, which opens many painful possibilities for how evidence may have been handled.
Hard drives, photographs, and documents potentially tied to crimes could have been auctioned to strangers, destroyed by operators, picked up by associates, or left untouched in a locker somewhere. None of those outcomes is acceptable.
This case is always been about much more than one man’s crimes; it’s about the systems that let him operate and evade full accountability. Add to the roundup the plea deal, the jail circumstances, the obscured client lists, and now a network of storage units where evidence sat, possibly beyond the reach of warrants.
The core question that should trouble officials is simple and direct: How many of those six units did you actually find? The Telegraph’s investigation suggests the answer may not be all of them.
Epstein is dead. His victims are still here. And somewhere in America, a storage locker may still hold evidence that could name the people who helped him.
