Reading convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s emails has become a whole lot easier.
The viral website Jmail took all the Epstein estate emails released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and turned them into a cloned Gmail account for jeevacation@gmail.com.
The committee published more than 20,000 documents from the estate of the disgraced financier amid rallying cries to release the Epstein files.
Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, is now the center of political intrigue as Americans scour his correspondence for evidence or innuendo about his rich and powerful friends.
Jmail is the brainchild of Luke Igel and Riley Walz, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence video editing tool Kino AI and a serial website creator, respectively.
Mr. Igel’s gears started turning while he was discussing Epstein’s emails with friends. He told Rolling Stone that he realized the documents were hard to read and contextualize. He thought these emails revealed Epstein’s daily habits: emailing everyone he knew on his iPad or BlackBerry. Creating a Gmail look-alike site represented just that.
He called Mr. Walz, and the site was completed within five hours. It was launched two days later, on Friday, and quickly gained traction. As of Tuesday, the site had more than 18.4 million views.
Jmail was designed to resemble a clone of Epstein’s Gmail, but with a touch of flair. A hat hangs off the logo, and clicking on the Epstein profile picture reads, “Hi Jeffrey!”
The emails, dated from April 14, 2009, to July 14, 2019, include Quora Digest documents and messages with names redacted. Emails can be searched by keywords, or a dice icon can take the viewer to a random page of emails. The sidebar allows viewers to sort by Inbox, Starred, Sent and a list of people who corresponded with Epstein.
Many of the documents released were email correspondence from people such as Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, political strategist Steve Bannon and journalist Michael Wolff.
Plenty of high-profile political figures have found themselves in hot water because of email exchanges with the deceased financier. They include House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, New York Democrat; Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands; LinkedIn founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman; and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, who resigned from Harvard amid a university inquiry into his relationship with Epstein.
Many emails refer to President Trump, but he was never part of the email chains. Mr. Trump recently initiated a Justice Department investigation of Democrats’ relationships with Epstein, including former President Bill Clinton. Attorney General Pam Bondi said she ordered a top federal prosecutor to lead the investigation.
Everyone who has been linked to Epstein has denied wrongdoing.
The House committee released the Epstein estate documents through a Google Drive folder, which includes thousands of files.
More files are set to be made public. Congress passed legislation last week to force the release of the files, and Mr. Trump signed it into law.
Jmail may not be permanently complete. If and when more Epstein emails are released, Jmail may add them to the more than 2,235 messages it already features.
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