The Justice Department revealed the identities of dozens of sexual assault victims in the latest Epstein files, including the name of one in an active sex-trafficking trial, a series of errors the agency was still working to correct on Tuesday.
The documents released include an email from a lawyer that inadvertently revealed the name of one of the eight women who have accused Oren and Tal Alexander, and Oren Alexander’s twin brother, Alon Alexander, of sexual assault. Oren and Tal Alexander were once among the highest-earning real estate brokers in the United States.
Prosecutors have withheld the names of all eight victims from the public in the Alexanders’ trial, which is in its second week in a Manhattan federal court.
Lawyers for the brothers argued on Monday that the inclusion of those documents in the millions of Epstein files released on Friday was grounds for a mistrial. The judge denied that request.
It is unclear why the files naming the brothers were included in the latest release by the Justice Department, which on Friday uploaded nearly three million pages of emails and documents.
The Alexander brothers are currently on trial in Manhattan federal court and together face 12 charges of sex trafficking, sex abuse and sexual exploitation, all of which are unrelated to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. The brothers’ alleged victims include six women and two underage girls. The brothers have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
None of the documents provided evidence that the Alexander brothers were involved in Mr. Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. But they did thrust the Alexanders into the discussions involving Mr. Epstein, which worried the defense team.
On Monday, before the jury in the Alexander case was allowed to enter the courtroom, defense lawyers for the brothers argued that the documents had irreparably stained the case.
“The prosecutor’s office itself has branded the defendants with the most toxic association in modern legal history,” said Deanna Paul, a lawyer for Tal Alexander.
Elizabeth Espinosa, an assistant U.S. attorney, told Judge Valerie Caproni in the courtroom on Monday that the documents had been “inadvertently released” by the government.
Ms. Paul and the other lawyers for the brothers argued that jurors could have been influenced by seeing the documents over the weekend in news articles, on social media or after searching the Justice Department’s website, where the Epstein files are publicly available.
But while making their case for a mistrial in open court with news media present, the defense lawyers also revealed something that had not been previously confirmed — at least one of those leaked documents contained the name of a confirmed victim of the brothers, and that woman’s allegation is now the basis for one of the criminal counts the men are charged with. The names of all eight victims described in the brothers’ criminal charges have been withheld from the public.
The Justice Department was supposed to release all of the Epstein files by Dec. 19 but missed its own deadline by more than a month. Friday’s release, which included thousands of videos and hundreds of thousands of photos along with the millions of documents, was chaotic and included a number of unredacted items, including the names of nearly 100 of Mr. Epstein’s victims as well as dozens of unredacted nude images of women and possibly girls.
The email from the lawyer containing the name of the Alexander brothers’ alleged victim has now been redacted on the Justice Department’s website.
The brothers are also mentioned separately in the Epstein files in an allegation of sexual assault against a minor. That allegation was first made to the F.B.I. in 2019; the original intake form appears in the files released on Friday, as does an email from 2025 in which the allegation was forwarded to investigators as part of a compilation of claims.
Though Judge Caproni on Monday denied the defense team’s request for a mistrial, she did agree to question the jury members to ensure they weren’t reading or watching any reporting on the case. Every member of the jury said they had been.
Late Monday night, Judge Caproni also ordered the U.S. government not to release any material from the Epstein files that related to the Alexander brothers until a verdict was issued in their case.
Kate Christobek contributed reporting.
Debra Kamin is an investigative reporter for The Times who covers wealth and power in New York.
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