New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- WASHINGTON - New Mexico has an 8,000-acre property called Zorro Ranch. At least ten women and girls say they were groomed or sexually assaulted there by Jeffrey Epstein or his associates. When Epstein died in federal custody in August 2019, FBI agents had never searched it. The records documenting what federal investigators knew about Zorro Ranch, and what they chose not to pursue, are part of what is now called the Epstein Files.

The shorthand refers to government documents accumulated over decades of federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier who pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges in Florida and was charged again in 2019 with federal sex trafficking in the Southern District ...