Experts are calling for formal inquiries into potential complicity and oversight failures within the systems that allowed ongoing criminal activities, including how information was handled by authorities.

The released materials highlight the Epstein case, drawing connections to influential figures across politics, finance, academia, and business, and reference Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea for prostitution and his 2019 death in custody ruled a suicide.

The UN panel emphasizes the ongoing impact on survivors, describing their experiences as retraumatization and institutional gaslighting due to limited disclosures and incomplete investigations.

UN experts say Epstein-related documents suggest a global criminal enterprise with acts that could meet the legal definition of crimes against humanity, driven by systemic misogyny, racism, corruption, and dehumanization of women and girls.

There are serious concerns about compliance failures and botched redactions in the released files, which exposed sensitive victim information and retraumatized survivors; more than 1,200 victims are identified in the documents released so far.

The panel urges independent, thorough investigations into both the crimes and how such abuses persisted on a transnational scale.