Epstein Files

Billionaire Les Wexner is pleased Harvard decided to keep his name on two prominent spaces at its Kennedy School ... though he says the outcome was never really in doubt.

Responding to the recent push to strip his name from the school's main building and the Wexner-Sunshine Lobby amid his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Wexner said ... "I would have been shocked that a rational organization -- which I believe Harvard is -- could come to what I would consider the wrong conclusion."

The decision was announced by Kennedy School Dean Jeremy M. Weinstein, who told affiliates the effort to remove Wexner's name was ultimately blocked by "the University's legal obligations." As for what those obligations might be? Wexner says he's not sure.

"The Real Housewives of New York City" star Sai De Silva appears to be stirring the pot yet again ... posting -- and then quickly deleting -- a cryptic message that seems to be another shot at Carole Radziwill.

In the now-deleted Instagram Story, Sai shared a glam chair selfie alongside the caption, "Just out here asking the questions that everyone wants to know..."

Now, sure, it could've been about anything ... but the timing is raising eyebrows. As TMZ we first reported, Sai and Carole clashed throughout the upcoming season after Sai brought up Carole's name appearing in the Jeffrey Epstein files, as well as her past association with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Carole Radziwill got into it with Sai De Silva while filming the upcoming season of "The Real Housewives of New York" ... and it's all because Sai brought up Carole's name being included in the Jeffrey Epstein files ... TMZ has learned.

Sources connected to production tell TMZ ... Sai made it a point to bring up Carole's name being in the infamous Epstein Files and her past ties to Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Carole addressed her ties to Ghislaine in an interview with The New York Times back in March, saying ... "Imagine knowing someone… and then they turn out to be, like, a monster."

Our sources tell us Sai and Carole beefed throughout the season … after Sai decided to grill Carole about the Epstein Files … telling people she felt the need to speak up because she has children. 

Ghislaine is also the photographer who snapped Carole's author photo for her 2005 memoir. 

Meghan McCain is taking a flamethrower to her former co-hosts on "The View" ... unloading on the panel after their interview with Vice President J.D. Vance.

In a scorching X post Tuesday, the former co-host didn't hold back, saying her biggest takeaway from the interview was just how "sh**** and undisciplined the hosts STILL ARE."

Peep the all-caps message she wrote for emphasis ... making it crystal clear she doesn't think much has changed since her time at the table. And she was far from finished.

Jeffrey Epstein fashioned multiple nooses in jail -- after asking how to make one -- before taking his own life while imprisoned at New York City's Metropolitan Correctional Center.

This new information surrounding the late, disgraced financier comes from a new report by The New York Times ... which spoke to over 40 inmates, jail employees, federal officials, and more officers associated with Epstein's controversial death. The report tries to answer some of the biggest questions surrounding his suicide.

Epstein exhibited patterns showing he idealized killing himself, the report shows.

For instance, one of his former cellmates, Nicholas Tartaglione, told the outlet he abruptly asked him one day, "How do you make a noose?" Tartaglione also claimed he once found a noose hidden under Epstein's mattress.

Vice President J.D. Vance says he thinks it's really weird Jeffrey Epstein was hanging around some of the richest, most powerful people in the world ... a group he says does not include his boss, President Donald Trump.

The Veep appeared on "The View" Tuesday morning ... sharing his favorite Epstein conspiracy theories ... and revealing which ones he just doesn't buy.

Vance says it's weird how a convicted pedophile had some very famous friends ... but he says Epstein's relationship to Trump is being twisted. The two used to hang out before the pair had a falling out.

Bill Gates says he wasn't friends with Jeffrey Epstein ... and he claims the convicted pedophile tried to get close to him by using his extramarital affair against him.

The tech mogul testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee about his relationship with the disgraced financier ... and he tried to put some distance between them -- claiming he never went to Epstein's island, ranch or Florida home, according to a testimony transcript he posted online.

Bill also said he had no interest in developing a personal relationship with Epstein.

The billionaire testified Epstein "had become aware of sensitive information about my personal life, including the fact that I had been unfaithful in my marriage" ... and, after the two stopped speaking in 2014, Bill said Epstein attempted to use this knowledge to reopen the relationship.

Rep. Nancy Mace's bid to become South Carolina's next governor is officially over after the outspoken Republican failed to land an endorsement from President Trump and survive a GOP primary ... and she says the Epstein Files were a factor in her defeat.

Mace conceded the race Tuesday night less than 2 hours after polls closed. She ended up in 5th place with only 12% of the vote, while Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette advanced to a runoff against state Attorney General Alan Wilson.

Mace, the first Republican woman from South Carolina elected to Congress, was once a top contender in the race for governor ... but a series of scandals and lack of support for Trump doomed her.

She also blamed backlash from her push to release the Epstein Files ... but said she had no regrets about her work in Congress.

It's Lesley Groff's turn to testify in a Congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's crimes ... and it sounds like his former assistant said she never saw the late pedophile do anything illegal.

Groff appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday to begin her testimony, and a source familiar with the matter told MS NOW that Groff told the committee ... "I never saw anything improper."

The report said Groff's been answering questions, but sometimes responds by saying she doesn't know or doesn't remember.

Jeffrey Epstein "sexually and psychologically" abused his former assistant for over a decade ... at least that's what she told a House oversight committee investigating the late pedophile's crimes.

According to the transcript of Sarah Kellen's interview with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform May 21 ... she claimed Epstein groomed, abused, controlled, and manipulated her "until I could no longer tell which thoughts were mine and which were his."

Sarah told the Committee she didn't even get her first paycheck from the disgraced financier until she agreed to "submit to his sexual abuse."

The orange figure seen near Jeffrey Epstein's cell the night he died in a federal lockup in 2019 will remain a mystery, at least for now, after a former correction officer testified that the strange shape was not her in surveillance footage.

Last month, Tova Noel testified in front of the House Oversight Committee that she was NOT the mysterious figure climbing a flight of stairs to Epstein's tier inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in NYC on August 9, 2019, the night before Epstein died.

Epstein's body was found inside his cell in the Special Housing Unit, and the NYC Medical Examiner ruled his death a suicide. But conspiracy theories persist to this day that the pedophile financier -- who was awaiting trial for child sex trafficking -- was murdered. 

Former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has clearly seen better days ... he just emerged for a rare public sighting with a massive shiner splashed across his face.

Check out the photos ... Andrew was seen driving around the Sandringham Estate in the United Kingdom on Thursday with what appeared to be a large purple mark covering much of the right side of his face.

Unclear how Andrew ended up with a huge bruise here ... but it looks painful as hell.

Bill Gates' public persona looks like it's taking a huge hit ... and it sounds like it's all because of his association with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In an exposé about Bill's carefully crafted image and the way it appears to be cracking, The Wall Street Journal reports Bill's standing is falling in public and in business as he gears up to testifying before Congress in the Epstein investigation.

Bill reportedly has a bunch of staffers tasked with carefully crafting him to come off like Mr. Rogers -- they test out wardrobe choices on a custom mannequin -- but it's all going to waste now that his ties to Epstein and some affairs with Russian women have been revealed.

Nancy Mace says she knew pursuing the infamous Epstein Files could cost her in the next election ... but she had to try anyway.

The congresswoman took to X on Friday to acknowledge President Donald Trump endorsed her opponent, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in the South Carolina gubernatorial race ... and, while he's not in her corner, she didn't go directly after POTUS.

She says she has tremendous respect for Trump ... but adds the state and system is corrupt -- and his choice for governor is part of that corruption.