Newly revealed financial records and emails show that Jeffrey Epstein secretly rented at least six storage units across the United States, and used paid private investigators to move material between them whenever law enforcement closed in.
Theinvestigation, published by The Telegraphon 22 February 2026, was based on financial records and email correspondence reviewed by the outlet. The findings arrive weeks after the Department of Justice released its second and likely final major tranche of Epstein-related files on 30 January 2026.
The storage unit revelations suggest that a significant volume of material tied to Epstein's activities may sit entirely outside what investigators have so far been able to access, or even locate.
According toThe Telegraph's findings, Epstein leased his first storage unit in 2003 and continued making payments on units across the country until his death on 10 August 2019. The majority were based in Florida, where Epstein maintained his principal residence in Palm Beach. At least one unit was located five minutes from his Manhattan townhouse on East 71st Street, which FBI agents searched extensively following his arrest in July 2019, seizing 33 electronic devices from the property alone.
A separate unit was rented in Manhattan on his behalf by private investigators he retained. Those investigators, The Telegraph reported, were paid tens of thousands of pounds to arrange and maintain the storage arrangements. A photograph taken by a staff member, included in the materials reviewed by The Telegraph, shows one of the units packed floor to ceiling with fans, projectors, cardboard boxes, and an old armchair, suggesting a deliberate clearing-out of properties rather than routine document storage.
The units reportedly housed computers, CDs, and other electronic equipment relocated from Epstein's properties, including items removed from his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands. FBI agents who raided the island following Epstein's 2019 arrest seized 27 electronic devices from the site.
Separately, emails reviewed by The Telegraph show Epstein directing staff to move computers and CDs from Little Saint James into the hidden units, with discussions also referencing the possibility of wiping some of the material in transit.
One email exchange, dating from August 2009, one month after Epstein's release from Palm Beach County Jail, where he had served 13 months of an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution, showed a private investigator informing Epstein thataccuser Virginia Giuffrehad reportedly requested missing.
Another email, written while Epstein was serving that jail sentence in May 2009, showed him requesting an image of an unidentified person. His respondent, named in the records as Riley, replied: '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.'
The revelations fit a pattern of evidence concealment that law enforcement officials close to the case had long suspected but could not confirm. The key figure who raised the alarm earliest, and most publicly, was former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter.
Source: International Business Times UK
