New Mexico Reopens Epstein Ranch Probe

New Mexico officials have reopened a criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling Zorro Ranch, a remote 7,500-acre estate south of Santa Fe, more than six years after federal prosecutors halted the state's initial probe into alleged sex trafficking there. The move, announced in February 2026, follows the Justice Department's release of over three million pages of Epstein-related files the previous month, which included previously undisclosed details about the property's dark history.

The ranch, purchased by Epstein in 1993 from the family of former Governor Bruce King, served as one of his most isolated retreats. Victims, including Virginia Giuffre and Annie Farmer, have alleged that Epstein trafficked and abused underage girls there. Giuffre claimed in court documents that encounters involving Epstein and associates occurred at the ranch in 2001, when she was 17. Farmer, who visited in 1996 at age 16, described the property as a self-contained world far from outside help, where Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pressured her into massages that turned abusive. Epstein reportedly envisioned the site as a base for genetic experiments, including seeding a new human race...