Pranksters recreated a working version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail inbox


Last week the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has released 20,000 documents from the estate of registered sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. It included thousands of emails sent between Epstein and high-profile people such as Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, political strategist Steve Bannon, journalist Michael Wolff and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, as well as revealing text messages. Many of them allude to or directly refer to President Donald Trump.

Now you can browse all those emails just like you would on your own Gmail account.

Jmail is a site that looks a lot like Gmail, except that the logo has a top hat and the profile picture in the top right corner is a grinning Epstein. (Click on it and it says “Hi Jeffrey!”) The inbox lets you click through thousands of emails, formatted to look exactly like a regular message in your inbox. In the sidebar you can sort by Inbox, Yesterday and Sent. In Gmail, a bottom sidebar section reads Labels and separates emails by category. In Jmail, it’s a list of people who corresponded with Epstein.

The site was created by serial prankster Riley Walz and Luke Igel, co-founder of an AI video editing tool called Kino AI. Igel tells WIRED that he pitched the idea to Walz — something Walz confirms — and then the two of them put the site together with Cursor in a single evening. Walz revealed Jmail in an X post, writing: “We cloned Gmail, except you’re logged in as Epstein and can see his emails.”

Jmail is a much more readable way to read the vast cache of emails released from the Epstein estate than sifting through tens of thousands of PDFs on a Google Drive. One of its useful features is that it revamps Gmail’s star feature, allowing users to flag emails they consider important and then rank them based on how many people do them. By default, the inbox lists the emails in order of recency; the community star feature is a way to surface what people see as more important emails.

“The emails were just so hard to read,” says Igel. “It felt like so much of the shock would have been if you had seen actual screenshots of the actual inbox, but what you saw were these very low quality, poorly scanned PDFs. You have to take a few leaps of imagination to remind yourself that this is indeed a real email.”

Being able to see these emails in a more familiar, readable format makes it much easier to follow threads and back-and-forth, but also reveals strange things about Epstein’s communications. Igel says there is a noticeable increase in typos and sporadic formatting when Epstein switches from a computer keyboard to a touchscreen device in the early 2010s.

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