Newly released Department of Justice documents have pulled back the curtain on the twisted and disturbing Amazon shopping habits of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison cell in 2019.
The digital receipts, covering 2014–2019, include a bizarre mix of children’s clothing, baby items, expensive binoculars, junk food, and other unsettling products — revealing a pattern experts say is emblematic of predatory behavior.
The Jeffrey Epstein files are massive. The U.S. Department of Justice recently released a batch containing over three million documents, and despite the files being online for more than two weeks, journalists and online experts continue to uncover shocking new details almost every day.
Disturbing purchases raise alarms
Now, Jeffrey Epstein’s digital Amazon purchases are in the spotlight.
Among the orders were multiple books tied to controversial or dark themes. Epstein reportedly bought works by Vladimir Nabokov, including Lectures on Literature and Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov’s Prose, alongside the infamous Lolita. He also purchased Justine by Marquis de Sade, known for its shocking content, and Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me, chronicling serial killer Ted Bundy.
The infamous financier, who died by suicide in his New York prison cell in August 2019, purchased hundreds of books over the years, covering everything from philosophy and history to true crime.
His most frequent purchase? Filthy Rich: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by James Patterson. Other titles included multiple biographies on Woody Allen and a series of books about President Trump, including Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House and Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.
Other oddities included a novelty FBI costume, a $129 tuxedo, military-style binoculars, a CPAP machine for sleep, and various health supplements.
He also bought piles of junk food — from Twinkies to Ring Dings — and a staggering nine pairs of binoculars shipped to his homes across New York, West Palm Beach, and Little Saint James Island.
”Really common in predatory profiles”
The receipts show that Epstein ordered clothing for young girls, including school uniforms with pleated skirts and polo tops, and baby items like Gerber sleeper suits and Bright Starts stacking blocks.
Epstein’s disturbing purchases weren’t haphazard, but rather reflected what relational trauma psychologist Desiree Nazarian described to The New York Post as a “map of power.”
She added, “The presence of these child-coded items alongside these sexual tools is so clinically alarming.”
“Everything on this list is really common in predatory profiles,” relational trauma psychologist Desiree Nazarian told New York Post.
“It’s marked by coercion, entitlement, dominance, and control of narrative.”
Members of Congress who recently viewed the unredacted Epstein files described the contents as “preposterous and scandalous.” Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said the documents referenced victims as young as nine.
“You read through these files, and you read about 15-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls. I saw a mention of a nine-year-old girl today. I mean, this is just preposterous and scandalous,” Raskin said.
How to log into Epstein’s Amazon
For those looking to uncover the most shocking details of Jeffrey Epstein’s online purchases, it’s actually possible to explore his Amazon account firsthand. Thanks to the work of the ‘Jmail’ team, a group of coders and digital sleuths, Epstein’s vast digital footprint has been recreated across a series of interactive websites that simulate logging into his personal accounts.
The suite includes several tools:
- Jmail – a replica of Epstein’s Gmail account
- JPhotos – an archive of all released photos, sortable by celebrity
- JDrive – a much more navigable database of the DOJ documents than the official site
- JFlights – tracking every journey made by Epstein’s private jet
- Jamazon – a full recreation of his Amazon purchase history
Jamazon alone contains over 1,000 items Epstein ordered over the years.
The Jmail platform, lauded online for making Epstein’s files far more accessible to the public, has reportedly raised nearly $30,000 in funding.
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