40 Photos Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Infamous 'Sex Ranch'

We are now getting a real look at the. inside and outside of the alleged. nightmare property where Jeffrey Epstein. is accused of abusing and trafficking. females, [music] his notorious Zorro. Ranch in New Mexico, currently under. state investigation by the way, with. allegations of sexual abuse and now even. homicide. We have these photos that have. now surfaced which give you a better. sense of what this [music] property. looked like and how it may match up to. the allegations. Welcome to Sidebar, presented by Law & Crime. I'm [music].

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something? Now, the reason I'm talking. about this is because we have photos of. the Zorro Ranch and its layout. KOAT. News out in Albuquerque did a whole. piece on this. We also got our hands on. this Zorro Ranch insurance report that. gives us more details and more photos. And again, I want to go over this. property in detail. But first, context. Why does it matter? Well, if you've been. following our reporting, there is a. sinister spotlight on this former. property of Jeffrey Epstein's. The New.

Mexico Department of Justice has. launched an investigation into the Zorro. Ranch and it was reported that. investigators even began a search of it. Now, this is parallel to another. investigation that is being done by. state lawmakers. I'll talk a little bit. more about that later on. But you see, not only have there been allegations of. sexual abuse at this property, but there. was a chilling accusation in the newly. released Epstein files about homicides, about bodies being buried in the hills. outside the property. And when you talk.

photos, even before I get into these. shots of the property, look at these. from the files, okay? Look at how young. these females are seemingly on the. property. I say females cuz I don't know. the exact age. And I'm going to get more. into the accusations in a minute, but. look, you have another shot of a young. female. Take a closer look at the photos. of this 7,600 acre property located 30. miles south of Santa Fe, nestled in this. isolated area on the outskirts of. Stanley, New Mexico. That seclusion is. key here. I'll talk about that more,

too. But look, you have this picture of. the rear view of the house with pillars, this one of the side room, this great. room. Look how gaudy this is. Look how. expensive this is. The office. We always. talk a lot about Jeffrey Epstein's. offices. Here you have a shot of a. female in the office. I mean, you really. get a sense of how grand this space is. Look at the interior shots. Swimming. pool, garage, you have the accompanying. ranch barns. It's so expansive, all. these units. A bunkhouse, the firehouse.

complete with a fire truck and a water. tanker, pretty unbelievable to say the. least. There's a lodge, too, a log. cabin, a pole barn which appears to have. large trucks, tractors, construction. equipment stored in it. It was reported. that visitors thought this place looked. like an amusement park. You know, Epstein's accuser, Annie Farmer, said. she was quote really glad that there is. this renewed attention on Zorro, telling. the I paper out in the UK, "When I was. there, the thing that struck me was that. it was like a world unto itself.". Renowned accuser, the late Virginia.

Giuffre, in her memoir said the Zorro. Ranch was like Disneyland with quote. manicured grounds and gurgling. fountains, a tennis court and a grass. airstrip and hangar. The main house. being what she dubbed Epstein's castle. And it was reported that Epstein had. hosted a lot of people there, hosted. celebrities at this property like. reportedly director Woody Allen, social. critic Noam Chomsky, that Epstein would. visit this property multiple times a. year. KOAT reports that former Prince. Andrew had visited the Zorro Ranch, too,

but we just couldn't independently. verify that. But this is interesting. when you look at the ranch manager home. and office. Take a look at this because. we've talked about the ranch manager. There are a number of emails concerning. the ranch manager in the files, you. know, upkeep of the property and all. that. But look at this. Got to call this. out. So, apparently the FBI interviewed. the Epstein ranch manager. Take a look. Redacted and his wife, redacted, have. been managing the Zorro Ranch for. Jeffrey for approximately 4 years. There. are five to six full-time staff at the. ranch as well as some seasonal.

employees. Epstein spends approximately. 50 days a year at the ranch during his. downtime, mostly in the summer. In the. summer, Epstein generally spends two to. three weeks at a time at the ranch and. is shuttled around by helicopter. The. last time Epstein was at the ranch was. Thanksgiving 2006. Remember, this is an. interview from back in the day. Epstein. normally flies into either Albuquerque. or Santa Fe and is driven to the ranch. Very little notice is given before. Epstein flies to the ranch, usually 24. to 48 hours. Epstein usually brings his. personal assistant, redacted, his. bodyguard, friends, personal trainer,

and sometimes his masseuses. The. masseuses are not normally flown to the. ranch but are hired by redacted and. redacted. Redacted keeps the financial. records and usually arranges the. massages. The names of the masseuses are. obtained from 10,000 Waves Day Spa or by. referrals. Redacted said that the. masseuses are all checked out and that. they are professionals who are licensed. massage therapists. There have been. approximately five different therapists. used in the past. Redacted said redacted. could provide the names of the. therapists and the amounts paid to them,

but that we needed to go to the office. to meet with her. Upon arriving at the. office and greeting redacted, redacted. received a phone call from the quote. main office that told him they were no. longer allowed to speak with us. The. interview was immediately ended. By the. way, whenever you talk about massages, there was always the main narrative that. Epstein used massages as a way to begin. the sexual abuse of young women and. girls. But again, there's more photos, there's stables, things like that. I.

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these buildings are so isolated. All of. that land. There's a line in the report. that kind of shows that. The insurance. report says the replacement cost of your. home takes into account the following. factors, the added difficulty of getting. materials to your property. Again, because it's not near anything. It's. alone. And actually, to show you some photos of. how big and expansive this property is, look at this background of this photo of. Epstein in the desert or this photo of. the opening to the ranch. I think this.

one does a really good job of seeing it. You have this aerial shot. Pretty. incredible. Now, why does that expansive. nature of the property matter? Well, there was an email from November 2019. and appears to be directed to an Edward. Aragon. According to KOAT 4, he's a. local radio host. The other names are. redacted, but it says, "Edward, this is. sensitive, so it'll be the first and. last email depending on your discretion. You can choose to take it or trash it, but this comes from a person that has. been there and seen it all. It's a. former staff at the Zorro." The material. below was taken from Jeffrey Epstein's.

home as my insurance in case of future. litigation against Epstein. Sorry, no. questions. What is damning about Jeffrey Epstein is. yet to be written. Did you know. somewhere in the hills outside the. Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on. orders of Jeffrey and Madam G, seemingly. meaning Ghislaine Maxwell. Both died by. strangulation during rough fetish sex. And there appear to be links to. purported sex videos in this email. including one that says, "Sex video with. minor." Quote, "Please arrange for one.

Bitcoin by 6:00 p.m. EDT today, Thursday, 11/22/19, to the BTC wallet address, redacted. The. USB will be sent anonymously to your. attention by overnight courier upon. receipt of the funds. You have my. assurance, this is exclusive, never. shared before. No attorneys, no samples, no questions. Please confirm ASAP." Now, Aragon said he got this message. anonymously. He sent the email to the. FBI, which is why it was in the Epstein. files that were released from the DOJ. He indicated he didn't end up paying. this person, which when you think of one.

Bitcoin was reportedly worth $8,000 at. the time, indicated that while he spoke. to an FBI agent, apparently never heard. anything back about what happened or the. status of the investigation. And to be. clear, we couldn't find more. corroborating evidence of a homicide. We. don't know if these allegations are true. or if true, when this would have. happened. But apparently, again, this. claim is being taken seriously. There's. a new renewed investigation. There's a. search of this property. And when you. look at this property in general and the. way it looks in these photos, it is very. much how it's described by the accusers.

So, based on the schematics that were. obtained by KOAT, you have a ground. floor that had areas like a gallery, a. courtyard, a dining room, a mud room, a. garage, library, upper library, office, breakfast room. We're talking 18,000. square feet. Second floor, bedrooms, bathrooms, terrace, open courtyard. The. basement had an exercise room, a massage. room, jacuzzi, laundry, mechanical. rooms, a lot of places, a lot of things. to do. Now, a little history lesson.

here. So, Epstein bought this property. in 1993 from the family of the then New. Mexico Governor Bruce King. Purchased. the leases from the state or assumed the. leases from the state to get the wider. surrounding area and essentially get. more privacy. You know, apparently the. closest neighbors were miles away. The. nearest city was Santa Fe, 30 miles. north. And apparently Epstein, you know, when he assumed these leases that were. originally for grazing purposes, by all. accounts, he never used this property. for agricultural purposes. Epstein told.

the Albuquerque Tribune in 1995, "I. think New Mexico is the prettiest, most. spectacular state by a long shot. It's. just a normal home." Actually, in the. Epstein files, when Epstein sat down for. that interview with Steve Bannon, remember this was part of potentially. producing a documentary or film that. would have rehabilitated Epstein's. image, he talks at one point about the. property, why he decided to get it, New. Mexico. So, why did I buy a ranch in New. Mexico 1993? So, that's gives you some. sense. I would have funded it in 1990.

Uh. Los Alamos, which was the high-energy lab up in New. Mexico, was losing all its scientists. And Los Alamos it was where Oppenheimer. were the were the a lot of the the. nuclear weapons program, the bomb. >> That's where the Manhattan Project. >> Manhattan Project was. >> Yes. at Los Alamos, and you bought your. property out in New Mexico to be near. that? >> Yes, because the scientists were going. to be they cut the funding for. high-energy physics.

But the people who worked in Los Alamos. would still be in the Santa Fe area. And. I wanted to see if we could build tools. so others smarter than me could help. investigate it. >> And that was the beginning of your. concept of the Santa Fe Institute. Yes. And Santa Fe Institute was founded to do. study in this type of of can you can. these areas of strange things be. described by some form of mathematics? By the way, it's maybe not the easiest. place to upkeep cuz you look at this. email from back in 2012 by a redacted,

seemingly former employee. It says, quote, "Mr. Epstein, I do hereby resign. my position here at Zorro Ranch. effective today. I can no longer do the. job for you here. I have worked and done. my best all these years and I'm tired, sick of, frustrated, and exhausted from. trying to take care of this ranch with. such obstacles. The treatment I have. received has been unjust, unfair, and. downright disconcerting to me. I will no. longer take it as there are other people. that feel my job for you is not worthy. and replaceable and treat me with. disrespect. It has been said that it is.

easier to replace and start over, so. they can have their wish and rule your. ranch without me. I would appreciate it. if you paid me the rest of my vacation. that I have not taken. It is attached. I. will leave the company vehicle and keys. here on ranch and can be reached by. email. Thank you." No idea what that was. about, but that's something. So, the. question now is what allegedly happened. there, aside from those allegations of, you know, bodies being buried, what. happened there? Well, as you're seeing. from these pictures, there were females. on this property. And it was alleged. that Epstein would fly in females to the.

ranch to hang out and allegedly be. sexually assaulted on this secluded. property. That he would entice these. people with either money or jobs or. connections or just a fun vacation. Listen to this account from what I. believe was testimony in connection with. Epstein's federal sex trafficking. charges, that case out in New York City. Quote, "Um in 2004, when I was 15 years. old, I flew on Jeffrey Epstein's plane. to Zorro Ranch, where I was sexually. molested by him for many hours. What I. remember most vividly was him explaining.

to me how beneficial the experience was. for me and how much he was helping me to. grow. I remember feeling so small and. powerless, especially after he. positioned me by laying me on his floor. so that I was confronted by all the. framed photographs on his dresser of him. smiling with wealthy celebrities and. politicians. I first identified with. this feeling the night after I was. molested by Epstein, when another girl. and I took out two of his eight TVs and. raced them across the mesa. I crashed. mine and expressed my concern to the. other girl of getting in trouble, which.

she replied to me, 'Don't worry, no one. gets in trouble for anything here.'". Now, according to NBC News, at least 10. alleged victims claim that Epstein. sexually groomed and abused them at. Zorro. You listen to this account from. an accuser at Ghislaine Maxwell's. criminal trial. Remember, she was. convicted of sex trafficking charges and. was ultimately sentenced to 20 years in. prison. Quote, "Approximately how old. were you when you traveled to New. Mexico? 15 or 16. Who went with you on. that trip? Jeffrey and Ghislaine. Where.

did you spend most of your time on the. trip to New Mexico with Maxwell and. Epstein? At Epstein's house, which was a. ranch. What do you remember about the. ranch that you visited on that trip? I. just remember that it was this giant. ranch sort of in the middle of nowhere, and it seemed very empty on the. interior, meaning there wasn't really. any other people around. When you were. at the ranch in New Mexico, where did. you spend most of your time? In the. guest bedroom that was assigned to me. And she was later asked, "During that. trip to New Mexico, was your bedroom in. the same building as Epstein and. Maxwell's bedrooms?" Yes. So, again,

anytime I'm talking about the accounts, remember the photos I just showed you, you do wonder is that on the second. floor like I mentioned when you look at. the schematics. Then it goes on to say, quote, "On that trip in New Mexico, was. there ever a time when someone came into. your room?" Yes. Can you describe to the. jury what you remember about that? I. just remember someone at one point just. came into the room and said, 'Jeffrey. wants to see you' and then escorted me. to see him. When that person came into. your room and told you that he wanted to. see you, how did you feel?

I just, as usual, felt like my heart. sink into my stomach, you know? And why. was your heart sinking into your. stomach? Because I did not want to go. see him. What's the next thing you remember about. that? I just remember being led to his. bedroom and, you know, the same thing. would happen. I mentioned Annie Farmer. before who testified at Maxwell's trial. She said she was taken to that ranch and. said, quote, "It was a large a large. piece of property in New Mexico, so kind. of a desert landscape, and there were. different sections. And there was one. that had like an old movie set, like a.

western movie set on it. And there was a. portion where we were staying where. there's a small residence. Another. experience after we were back at the. residence was that it was decided that I. would learn how to give Epstein a foot. massage. Maxwell wanted to show me how. to rub his feet, and so that was. something I should learn how to do. And. so she sat and held one of his feet and. then instructed me to hold his other. foot and showed me how to rub it. Where. were you when this took place? In the. same little area. There was a I think it. was kind of like a den-type room, and. yeah.

Was this back at the ranch? Back at the. ranch. So, again, you look at the. interior of the property, you look at. the blueprints, and you think about. where this could have been. Quote, "What. did Epstein do while you were rubbing. his feet? He seemed, you know, to be. enjoying it. He sort of made like. groaning noises like he was it felt good. to him. How did you feel while you were rubbing. his feet? I felt very uncomfortable. And she would. go on to testify how Maxwell groped her, and Epstein at one point would jump into. her bed and try to cuddle with her. You. look at this from a court filing in the.

Epstein files from accuser Virginia. Giuffre. Quote, "To illustrate my. connection to these places, I include. four photographs taken of me in New. Mexico. The first one is a museum in. Santa Fe, New Mexico. We'd gone. sightseeing for the day. Epstein took. this picture of me. I was approximately. 17 at the time, judging from the looks. of it. At the end of the day, we. returned to Epstein's Zorro Ranch. Second picture is me on one of Epstein's. horses on the ranch in New Mexico. The. following two are from wintertime in New. Mexico." And there are accompanying. photos that appear to match up to what. we just showed you, accompanied by the.

following allegation. Quote, "I also had. sex with Dershowitz at Epstein's Zorro. Ranch in New Mexico in the massage room. off of the indoor pool area, which was. still being painted." Now, Giuffre had. claimed multiple times in court. paperwork that she'd been forced to have. sex with Alan Dershowitz, the attorney, at Epstein's various properties, but. Dershowitz adamantly denied that, actually filed a lawsuit against Giuffre. for defamation. They agreed to drop the. case. Giuffre had said publicly that she. might have been mistaken about whether. it was actually Dershowitz. But Giuffre.

had also claimed at one point that she. was sent to New Mexico to have sex with. former New Mexico Governor Bill. Richardson, and even though he admitted. he visited the ranch, he denied those. allegations. And also, we can't forget. this, that in the Epstein files, there. was a disturbing New York Times article. from back in 2019 called Jeffrey Epstein. hoped to seed human race with his DNA, which alleged that Epstein told people. he wanted to impregnate women and have. them give birth to his babies on the. Zorro Ranch. That was actually included. in the Epstein files release, it was.

part of the SDNY news clippings. And. there was also this material how Epstein. had this apparent interest with. eugenics. Now, here's the problem. The. reporting indicates that there wasn't a. full and proper investigation. Remember, Epstein took that sweetheart deal in. Florida back in 2008 where he pled. guilty to state sex crimes charges. involving procuring a minor for. prostitution, but he avoided more. serious federal charges at the time. And. in New Mexico, he was able to. successfully fight having to register as. a sex offender. This is according to. KOAT. And New Mexico apparently didn't.

even establish a human trafficking law. until 2008. No charges have been filed. against anybody in connection with the. Zorro Ranch. But after Epstein was. arrested in 2019 on federal sex. trafficking of minors charges in New. York City, you had then New Mexico. attorney Hector Balderas, who started an. investigation into the Zorro Ranch. You. had land commissioner Stephanie Garcia. Richard who canceled the ranch lease. Garcia Richard had said, "This land was. no doubt used to protect the privacy of.

Epstein and his co-conspirators." But it. would only be a few months after. launching that investigation that. Balderas was reportedly told by the. United States Department of Justice to. pause the probe. Balderas told NBC that. he was looking into possible connections. to different states, identified. potential suspects, plural there, suspects, so not just Epstein and. Maxwell. That there was apparently. evidence of child sex trafficking, that. it was being gathered, that there were. records being found establishing an. illegal enterprise. But the reason he. was apparently told to stand down is.

because the New York prosecutors thought. that this probe may interfere with what. they were doing. And Balderas said that. his office sent a letter to the feds in. 2020 requesting that they seize the. ranch, that they use the proceeds to pay. out the victims, but claims he never got. a response back. And Balderas told NBC, quote, "They essentially gutted our. ability to aggressively seek justice for. victims." Now, the ranch would. eventually get sold to Texas businessman. and politician Don Huffines in 2023. But. now, after the files released from the.

Epstein Files Transparency Act, we now. have two parallel investigations. So, one is a truth commission that was set. up by New Mexico state lawmakers, and. another is an investigation by the New. Mexico Department of Justice. So, one's. kind of a criminal investigation, one is. whether or not there needs to be a. change in the law. As I mentioned, the. property was searched for the first time. since I believe 2019. And by the way, while the Huffines family had plans to. turn this property into a Christian. retreat, they were ordered to stop. construction at this site in January,

and they have announced that they have. been fully cooperating with the. investigations, including allowing the. search on that property. But by the way, at the time of this recording, it's not. even clear if they found anything. It's. also difficult to say what may be found. or used to corroborate the accounts of. accusers considering so many years in. the past, what is left there, what. forensic materials left there, what's. also switched hands. And by the way, in. terms of the bodies, I did a whole. episode on the difficulties of. excavating human remains, what could be. there, what evidence could be there. You. can go check it out. But KSFR reported.

that this past weekend you had state. representative Tara Lujan who joined. protesters who are demanding. transparency about this investigation. They were all outside the Zorro Ranch. She said, "My heart is beating outside. of me right now, but it's nothing. compared to what our victims have gone. through and what they continue to go. through. We have to change the future. Silence has never served any of us, and. it will never serve us." US. Representative Melanie Stansbury told. the Around the Roundhouse, the New. Mexicans political podcast, "The. allegations at the ranch are serious. We.

know that girls were trafficked there. for decades. He had an air landing strip. on the property, and part of his pattern. of abuse is that he had girls who. traveled with him. They would kind of be. companions to him and Ghislaine Maxwell. on regular basis, and so he brought many. of those girls to New Mexico." So, there. you have it, just another aspect to this. property. We'll keep a very careful eye. on what happens next there. [music]. That's all we have for you right now on. Sidebar. Thank you so much for joining. us. As always, please subscribe on. YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you should get your podcast. You can also check us out on NBC's. Peacock if you want to follow me, X,

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