Legal disclaimer: This article is based solely on documents released in the federal EFTA (Electronic Filing and Text Archive) production, made public through litigation, supplemented by the archive's entity index. All facts are drawn from those documents. This article does not assert guilt, wrongdoing, or criminal conduct on the part of any individual. Language such as "documents indicate," "records show," and "alleged" reflects the evidentiary basis and does not constitute a legal conclusion. Minors are not identified in this reporting.
Michael Wolff, the journalist and author, appears in more than 2,090 records in the InvArchives repository under the archive's entity index. The documents span an October 2011 email about "redoing the pages" and focusing "on Google," years of recurring breakfast, lunch, coffee, and tea invitations to Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse arranged through Epstein's assistant, a 2016 email chain forwarding a book-publishing non-disclosure agreement, typewritten excerpts from one of Wolff's own books preserved among Epstein's files, and correspondence continuing into January 2019 — months before Epstein's July 2019 arrest.
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The earliest correspondence identified in the archive dates to October 2011. An email sent to Epstein's jeevacation@gmail.com address and to Wolff, copied to Epstein, came from a correspondent identified as Ian Osborne. "Michael is right," Osborne wrote. "Should Michael and I circulate an outline and then have a call later this week to discuss? In the interests of time we should aim to do sooner rather than later. As part of redoing the pages, we also need to focus on Google" (Email from Ian Osborne re: Re:). The document does not specify what "pages" were being redone or what project Osborne, Wolff, and Epstein were discussing.
For roughly six years, records show Wolff was a recurring visitor to Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, with meetings arranged through Epstein's assistant, Lesley Groff. An August 2012 message advised Epstein simply, "Michael Wolff is HERE!!" (Alert: Michael Wolff is HERE). A February 2012 note confirmed "Michael Wolff will come see you for breakfast at 9am on Thursday Feb. 16th" (Breakfast Confirmation, Feb. 2012), and a July 2013 exchange saw Wolff offered "a quick cup of coffee in the house at 1:00" ahead of a downtown meeting (Coffee Scheduling, July 2013).
By December 2015, the scheduling emails specify the address directly: "Lets do 3pm! Jeffrey's home: 9 East 71st street between 5th and Madison" (Scheduling Email, Dec. 3, 2015), followed the next day by a reconfirmation — "we will see you here at Jeffrey's home at 3:45 today! 9 East 71st Street" (Reconfirmation, Dec. 4, 2015). A January 2015 chain confirms an 8 a.m. breakfast at the same address (Breakfast Confirmation, Jan. 2015), and further scheduling threads recur through February 2016, December 2016, and July 2017, each arranged around Epstein's midday availability (Scheduling Email, Feb. 2016; Lunch Scheduling, Dec. 2016; Scheduling Email, July 2017).
A February 2014 Google Calendar reminder sent to Lesley Groff reads, "Richard Wurman wants Michael Wolff's phone number," referencing Wurman, the architect and information-design figure who founded the TED conference (Calendar Reminder: Richard Wurman, Feb. 2014). An April 2016 internal alert instructed staff to "remind JE to call Michael Wolff and Steve Hanson when he walks in" (Alert re: Wolff and Hanson, April 2016), grouping Wolff with another contact in Epstein's circle.
Epstein's typed daily schedules repeatedly place a Wolff appointment on the same calendar day as entries for other prominent contacts. A May 2012 schedule lists "9:00 Breakfast with Michael Wolff" and, later that day, "7:30. Woody Allen dinner" (Schedule, May 9, 2012). A September 2014 schedule lists a "12:30pm LUNCH w/Michael Wolff" followed by "TBD Dinner w/Tim Zagat" (Schedule, Sept. 10, 2014). A single December 2016 schedule lists, in sequence, a "7:45am BREAKFAST w/Leon Botstein," an "8:30am TENTATIVE Appt w/Leon Black," and a "12:00pm LUNCH w/Michael Wolf[f]" (Schedule, Dec. 14, 2016). A December 2012 message lists "12:00 Lunch with Leon Botstein" followed by the note "Trying to organize Michael Wolff for today" (Schedule Email, Dec. 10, 2012). An October 2013 scheduling message asks whether it is "ok to move Michael Wolff to 10am and fit in Leon Black from 8:30-10" the same morning (Scheduling Alert, Oct. 22, 2013), and a May 2017 schedule similarly pairs "TBD Leon Black" with a "12:30pm LUNCH w/Michael Wolff and Juleanna Glover" (Schedule, May 4, 2017).
These entries establish only that appointments involving Wolff and appointments involving Black, Allen, Zagat, and Botstein appear on the same daily schedules prepared for Epstein — not that Wolff met, interacted with, or was even aware of the other individuals' visits. None of the documents reviewed for this article place Wolff in the same room as Black, Allen, Zagat, or Botstein.
An August 2016 email chain shows Wolff forwarding to Epstein a message from a publishing-industry contact, Erinn McGrath, who wrote: "Thanks for signing this NDA, Michael — we will let you know once we're able to send you a copy of the manuscript," in a thread with the subject line "James Patterson" (NDA Confirmation Email, Aug. 2016; Forwarded NDA Email, Aug. 2016). The documents do not explain why the exchange, which concerns a manuscript-access agreement tied to author James Patterson, was forwarded to Epstein.
Separately, the archive preserves typewritten pages from Siege: Trump Under Fire, Wolff's 2019 book on the Trump administration, beginning with its table of contents — "Bullseye," "The Do-Over," "Lawyers," "Robert Mueller," and further chapters — found among Epstein's files and bearing EFTA production stamps (Siege: Trump Under Fire, Table of Contents).
The most recent scheduling correspondence identified in the archive is dated January 4, 2019 — roughly six months before Epstein's arrest. In it, Wolff and a scheduler go back and forth over a lunch date, eventually settling on a different plan: "Ok, lets pencil in 5pm tea?" to which Wolff replies, "Sounds good" (Scheduling Email, Jan. 4, 2019; Scheduling Thread, Jan. 2–4, 2019).
Taken together, the records in the InvArchives repository depict Wolff as a long-running contact of Epstein's, with recurring in-person meetings at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse arranged over roughly six years, an unexplained 2011 email about "redoing the pages" and Google, a forwarded book-publishing NDA, and scheduling correspondence extending into the first half of 2019. None of the records reviewed for this article allege wrongdoing by Wolff, and the documents do not specify the substance or purpose of most of the meetings described.
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