Reading convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s emails just became a whole lot easier.
The viral website Jmail took all of 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.
More than 20,000 documents from the estate of the disgraced financier were released by the committee 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 cofounder of artificial intelligence video editing tool Kino AI and a serial website creator, respectively.
Mr. Igel’s gears started turning when discussing Epstein’s emails with friends, realizing it was hard to read and contextualize, he told Rolling Stone. He thought that these emails showed Epstein’s daily habits: emailing everyone he knows on his iPad or Blackberry. Creating a Gmail-look-alike site represented just that.
He called up Mr. Walz on Wednesday night, and within five hours, the site was done. Two days later, it launched and has been gaining traction ever since.
Jmail was made to look like a clone of Epstein’s Gmail, except with a little flair; a hat hangs off the logo, and clicking on the Epstein profile picture reads, “Hi Jeffrey!”
The emails from April 14, 2009, to July 14, 2019, include everything from Quora Digest emails to redacted names. 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 the likes of Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, political strategist Steve Bannon and journalist Michael Wolff.
Plenty of high-profile political figures have found themselves in hot water due to email exchanges with the deceased financer: House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York; U.S. Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett; LinkedIn founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman; and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers — the latter of whom resigned from Harvard amid a University probe 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 documents.
More files are now set to be made public after Congress passed legislation last week to force the release of the files, and Mr. Trump signed it into law.
But Jmail may not be permanently done. If and when more Epstein emails are released, Jmail may include more than the 2,235 emails it already features.
• Mary McCue Bell can be reached at mbell@washingtontimes.com.
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