Snow White: The Unfair Tale

Jes Staley, Disney code names, wire transfers, and JPMorgan’s private bank chief

Published on Mon, Mar 10, 2026 | Last updated Mon, Mar 10, 2026 UTC, 5,281 words | 21 min read | Revision: 4

The Transparency Files are a series of articles based on the publicly released Epstein Files.

[Trigger warning: this article details allegations of rape and sexual assault, including coded language used to refer to victims. Government documents quoted throughout.]

Jes Staley ran JPMorgan’s private bank — the division that manages money for the world’s wealthiest people. He shows up 10,132 times across 6,950 files in the Epstein corpus. 2,820 financial documents. $3.72 billion in associated financial amounts. 444 messages across dedicated email threads. Every major dataset: DS9 (4,592 mentions across 3,066 files), DS10 (3,698 mentions across 2,550 files), DS11 (1,817 mentions across 1,321 files), DS1-DS8 (25 mentions across 13 files).

This is not a peripheral figure. This is a structural component of the machine.

Staley’s ego network: 10 strongest connections by document co-occurrence. Solid dark edges indicate strong links; dashed lines mark weaker associations. Edge thickness proportional to co-occurrence frequency.

Jes Staley, CEO of Barclays (2015-2021), formerly head of JPMorgan Private Bank. Photo: Government of India, GODL-India.

The Code

Document: EFTA02410253 (archive) Dataset: DS11 (Epstein’s personal email archive) From: Jes Staley (JPMorgan corporate email) To: Jeffrey Epstein Date: Friday, July 9, 2010 – Saturday, July 10, 2010

The exchange:

Staley: “Maybe they’re tracking u?? That was fun. Say hi to Snow White.”

Epstein: “what character would you like next”

Staley: “Beauty and the Beast”

Epstein: “well one side is availble” (sic)

The “Snow White” email exchange, sent from Staley’s JPMorgan corporate account (EFTA02410253 (archive), DS11)

Read it again. Staley names a specific woman using a Disney character. Epstein responds like he’s running a menu. Staley picks his next character. Epstein checks availability — like stock.

The fourth message — “well one side is availble” — appears in EFTA00029432 (Removed by DOJ) (archive), the JPMorgan Chase production to SDNY (DS1-DS8, marked “Confidential Treatment Requested by JPMorgan Chase, JPM-SDNY-00000951”). Epstein sent it at 3:27 PM (15:27) on Saturday, July 10 — roughly an hour after Staley’s “Beauty and the Beast.” This message does not appear in the DS11 version, Epstein’s personal email archive. The bank’s compliance files preserved what Epstein’s own records did not. Think about that.

And this went through JPMorgan’s corporate infrastructure. Corporate servers. Corporate compliance filters. Every single one of those systems failed to flag a conversation where a senior executive was ordering women by Disney character name from a convicted sex offender.

Not Just Code Names

The Snow White exchange gets the attention because of the Disney euphemism. But it wasn’t even the most direct communication between these two.

Document: EFTA00029430 (Removed by DOJ) (archive) Dataset: DS1-DS8 (JPMorgan-SDNY production, JPM-SDNY-00000928) Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Staley: “Is she free tonight?”

Epstein: “call me”

Staley: “I’m w A”

No code names. No Disney characters. Just the CEO of JPMorgan’s investment bank asking a convicted sex offender if an unnamed woman is available tonight. Three weeks before the Snow White exchange.

Then the pictures. The USVI complaint (EFTA00145666 (Removed by DOJ) (torrent)) documents that on Friday, December 5, 2009, Epstein emailed Staley a picture of a young woman. Staley’s response: “don’t tell me a French wine.” Epstein replied: “always thoughts of alcohol.” On Saturday, December 20, 2009, Epstein sent another email — blank except for a picture of a young woman. No commentary needed. No commentary given.

Same-Day Corroboration

Document: EFTA02410216 (archive) Dataset: DS11 From: “Selena P” To: Jeffrey Epstein Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 12:36 AM (00:36)

“the snow white was f..ed twice as soon as she put her costume))”

Same-day corroboration: “Selena P” reports the sexual assault of “the snow white” (EFTA02410216 (archive), DS11)

Hours later. Same night. Same code name. After midnight, a separate person reports to Epstein that “the snow white” was sexually assaulted the moment she put on her costume.

Staley asks to “say hi to Snow White” and requests his next “character.” That same night, someone else tells Epstein the snow white was assaulted. This is not ambiguous. “Snow White” is a code name for a specific person in a specific role. And the role involves being raped.

This same-day corroboration has not been previously reported.

Who Is Selena P?

The article could stop here — a witness corroborated the assault. But the corpus tells a bigger story.

“Selena P” is a Svetlana — EFTA02408352 (archive) shows Epstein addressing her by her full name. There are 44 emails from her in DS11, spanning October 2009 through January 2011. She wasn’t a bystander who witnessed an assault. She was an operative in the recruitment infrastructure.

The emails show it plainly:

Recruiting (EFTA02418005 (archive), Tuesday, October 12, 2010): Subject line: “kristina 21.” The body: “my brothers recent girlfriend, but he is not jealous… he said great body.” A photo attached. She was sourcing women through her brother’s social circle, reducing them to a name, age, and body description — a catalogue entry.

Handler coaching (EFTA02427672 (archive), Sunday, March 28, 2010): Subject: “SOS!” Selena P is on a plane with an unnamed wealthy man who is pressuring her sexually. She texts Epstein for instructions: “what excuses can i make?” Epstein coaches her: “tell him if he thinks you are like the other girls, you are willing to go home now.” “The other girls.” A system.

Control (EFTA02414636 (archive), Monday, November 15, 2010): “thank you for letting me come back… i will do everything to win back the trust. i know that i failed the trust of the family cause of my crazy eating habits.” Epstein’s response: “You will have to apologize to the others re lying.” She calls Epstein’s circle “the family.” She blames herself for “crazy eating habits” — the same body control documented in other victim accounts. Gratitude for being allowed back. Apology rituals. Institutional abuse language.

Selena P reported the Snow White assault. But she wasn’t reporting a crime she’d witnessed. She was filing an operational update with her handler.

The Allegations

Three separate institutional pathways have documented accusations of sexual violence against Jes Staley. All three ended the same way.

Track 1: The SDNY Prosecution Memo (2019)

Document: EFTA02731082 (torrent) Dataset: DS12 Date: Thursday, December 19, 2019 Classification: Privileged Prosecution Memorandum (Attorney Work Product / Deliberative Process), Confidential, Subject to Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)

The SDNY prosecution memo — the same document that details allegations against Leon Black — contains two victim accounts naming Jes Staley.

The Staley–Epstein–Black web. Both Staley and Black are named in the same SDNY prosecution memo. Shared intermediaries — Darren Indyke, Lesley Groff, Ghislaine Maxwell — connect the financial and operational layers. Strong connections shown as dark solid lines; weaker links dashed.

First victim (in or around 2011-2012):

“Epstein instructed [victim] to provide a massage to Jes Staley in Epstein’s New York residence… he forced [her] to touch his genitals and then raped [her]. Afterwards, [victim] complained to Epstein, who said he left it to [victim] and Staley to decide whether to engage in sex.”

SDNY prosecution memo: victim account of rape by Jes Staley at Epstein’s New York residence (EFTA02731082 (torrent), p.33, DS12)

A woman reports being raped, and Epstein’s response is to call it a mutual decision. That’s not a denial. That’s a man who’s done this so many times he has a script for the complaints.

Second victim:

“[Victim] recalled Epstein asking her to massage Leon Black and Jes Staley, both of whom engaged in sexual contact with her against her will during the massages. Moreover, according to [victim], when she complained to Epstein about the sexual contact, he laughed and told [her] that it was up to her whether to engage in sex during those massages.”

Two victims. Two separate incidents. Same address: 9 East 71st Street. Same pattern: Epstein sends the victim to give a “massage” to a powerful man. The powerful man rapes her. And when both victims complained, Epstein gave them the same answer — it was their choice. The first victim was told it was “left to” her and Staley. The second time, Epstein laughed.

Footnote 61 of the prosecution memo:

“These productions include messages exchanged between Jes Staley and Epstein around the period when [victim] recalled being [rape]d by Staley”

The prosecutors matched the Staley-Epstein emails to the period of the rapes. They had the coded language and the assault evidence, and they knew both were happening at the same time.

Note: the word “raped” is partially obscured in the document — the OCR shows a gap followed by the letter d. In context, no other word fits. The bracketed reconstruction reflects the source material faithfully.

The internal DOJ reaction is in the corpus too. EFTA00029358 (Removed by DOJ) (archive) (DS1-DS8), an internal SDNY email from Sunday, December 14, 2019: “Don’t know if you caught this but one of the non/minor Epstein victims alleges that Jes Staley (reads in memo as ‘Jess Daily’) raped her during a massage. P. 31.” The OCR garbled his name. The humans reading it didn’t.

Track 2: The FBI Guardian Complaint (2021)

Documents: EFTA00090717 (archive), EFTA00090718 (archive) Dataset: DS9 Form: FBI FD-71A Guardian Complaint Form + Incident Summary & Workflow Case ID: 50D-NY-3027571 (EPSTEIN, JEFFREY; CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING)

“Two women, one located in New York City and one located elsewhere, have made accusations against Jes Staley, the CEO of Barclays Bank, of violent rape. One of the women believes that she spoke to the FBI with these accusations previously.”

FBI FD-71A Guardian Complaint Form: “Accusations of Rape and human trafficking” (EFTA00090717 (archive), DS9)

Filed by an attorney serving as outside counsel for the USVI Attorney General. The complaint also alleges that “Epstein’s attorney and accountant were aware of the activities occurring and were helping in perpetuating the crimes being committed by covering them up.”

The language is stronger than the prosecution memo: “violent rape.” Two accusers, not one. And one of them had already told the FBI before.

The workflow log (EFTA00090718 (archive)) shows what happened next:

A violent rape complaint. Filed under a case classified “CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING.” And the FBI routed it to the Health Care Fraud Unit — the team that investigates Medicare billing schemes. It ended up there because the USVI attorney happened to know an HCFU agent from an unrelated case. The complaint sat in that unit for 23 days before anyone noticed it didn’t belong.

At the New York Office, it bounced through three squads in four days. The pre-assessment note reads: “I believe you already spoke to this FBI SSA about this allegation.” They already knew. Their own records confirm prior contact from one of the victims.

On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, a detective conferred with an Assistant U.S. Attorney about the complaint. Five days later, on Monday, October 18, the complaint was closed as “Information Only.” A federal prosecutor was consulted. The answer was still nothing.

Fourteen days later, on Monday, November 1, 2021, Staley resigned as CEO of Barclays.

Track 3: The Manhattan DA Investigation (2021-2023)

Documents: EFTA02731662 (torrent), EFTA02731737 (torrent) Dataset: DS12 Date range: Friday, October 29, 2021 – Tuesday, July 4, 2023

This is the accusation pathway that hasn’t been reported at all.

A 20-page internal FBI/DANY email chain documents a new victim — approximately 37 years old in 2023, meaning she was recruited at around 17 in 2001 or 2002. The recruitment path: a female handler introduced her to Ghislaine Maxwell through what was presented as “an apprentice program.” The handler drove her from Virginia to Epstein’s townhouse in New York for “massages.”

The victim identified Leon Black by name and described the assault in detail. She also described being trafficked to Palm Beach, St. Thomas, and New York.

The DANY assessment, documented in the chain:

“DANY do not doubt her allegations against JE and LB. They believe she was also abused by Staley.”

Her civil attorney, Jeanne Christensen (via Adam Horowitz), was pursuing claims against “Black/Staley.” The FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking unit was contacted. SDNY and DANY were “deconflicting” their investigations.

The chain spans nearly two years. The last entry is Tuesday, July 4, 2023. No charges followed.

Three separate investigation tracks. Three different victim groups. The SDNY prosecution memo (2019). The FBI Guardian complaint (2021). The Manhattan DA investigation (2021-2023). Every one of them documented. Every one of them closed without consequence or accountability.

This is the Epstein pattern. In 2005, Epstein got wind of the Palm Beach investigation before the search warrant was executed — that’s in the corpus (EFTA02729219 (archive)): “After word of the investigation got back to Epstein, through his girls, police served a search warrant.” Police Chief Michael Reiter ran an 11-month investigation, found probable cause for unlawful sex acts with a minor. State Attorney Barry Krischer fought the prosecution so hard that Reiter accused him in writing of giving the case “highly unusual” treatment (EFTA02729525 (archive)). When Reiter escalated to the feds, the result was Alex Acosta’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement — a deal that shielded co-conspirators, was hidden from victims, and let Epstein serve 13 months with daily work release.

We can’t prove from these documents that Staley knew about any of these complaints. Here’s what we can prove: three separate accusation pathways were opened, all three were closed without criminal charges, and the subject resigned from Barclays 14 days after the Guardian complaint was closed. Not fired. Resigned. By all reporting, it was negotiated — he left on his own terms.

Today, as of this writing, he’s still a free man, yet to face any justice.

The Bank

Document: EFTA00145666 (Removed by DOJ) (torrent) Dataset: DS10 Document type: USVI v. JPMorgan Second Amended Complaint

Between 2008 and 2012, Staley and Epstein exchanged approximately 1,200 emails through JPMorgan’s corporate email system. Not a personal Gmail account. Not encrypted messaging. These went through JPMorgan’s servers, through JPMorgan’s compliance filters, and sat on JPMorgan’s systems. The “Snow White” exchange was one of them.

When human trafficking allegations against Epstein surfaced, JPMorgan “tasked Staley to discuss the human trafficking allegations with Epstein.” Staley’s report back to the bank: Epstein “replied there was no truth to the allegations, no evidence and was not expecting any problems.” Case closed. The bank assigned the employee with the closest personal relationship to Epstein — the same man later named in rape allegations — to investigate whether Epstein was trafficking women. And took Epstein’s word for it.

JPMorgan also processed wire transfers from Epstein-linked accounts to “a woman with an Eastern European surname”:

The second wire has additional context the USVI complaint spells out: between August 27 and 29, Staley told Epstein he’d be in London in a week. Epstein asked if he “would need anything.” Staley replied: “Yep.” Three days later, Epstein wired $3,000 to the same woman. “Would you need anything?” “Yep.” And then a wire transfer.

The bank also served as the venue for Epstein’s direct intervention in JPMorgan’s own investment operations. On Thursday, May 6, 2010, Epstein emailed Staley complaining about losing $6 million in two weeks on positions placed by the GIO group (Global Investment Opportunities). Staley’s response: “I’m talking to them now” (EFTA02425565 (archive)). The CEO of JPMorgan’s investment bank, personally intervening in an investment unit at a convicted sex offender’s complaint about his portfolio.

The bank processed the wire transfers. The bank processed the 1,200 emails. The bank assigned the suspect to investigate his own client. The bank let a convicted sex offender direct its investment operations by phone. And the bank kept Epstein as a customer. JPMorgan later paid $365 million in settlements — $75 million to the USVI for trafficking claims, $290 million to Epstein’s victims. That’s what getting caught costs when you’re a bank.

The Intimacy

What makes the Staley-Epstein relationship distinct in the corpus isn’t just the allegations. It’s the depth. These are not transactional emails between a banker and a client. They are love letters between men who know exactly what they’re doing and do it anyway.

Document: EFTA00029429 (Removed by DOJ) (archive) Dataset: DS1-DS8 (JPMorgan-SDNY production, JPM-SDNY-00000550) Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009

Staley: “I realize the danger in sending this email. But it was great to be able, today, to give you, in New York City, a long heartfelt, hug. To my friend, Thanks. Jes”

Epstein: “We are going to have fun”

Staley names the risk. “I realize the danger.” He knows this email, sent through JPMorgan’s corporate system, is a liability. He knows Epstein is a convicted sex offender. He sends it anyway. Staley almost sounds like a user who’s grateful to his dealer, and believes his dealer is his best friend.

Document: EFTA00145666 (Removed by DOJ) (torrent) Dataset: DS10 (USVI complaint, quoting Staley’s emails) Date: Sunday, November 1, 2009

“So when all hell breaks lo[o]se, and the world is crumbling, I will come here, and be at peace. Presently, I’m in the hot tub with a glass of white wine. This is an amazing place. Truly amazing. Next time, we’re here together. I owe you much. And I deeply appreciate our friendship. I have few so profound.”

He wrote this from Little St. James. Epstein’s private island. The one where it all happened. One year after Epstein’s conviction, while Epstein was still a client of Staley’s bank. Not “I owe you much” for financial advice. “I have few so profound.”

Document: EFTA00029435 (Removed by DOJ) (archive) Dataset: DS1-DS8 (JPMorgan-SDNY production, JPM-SDNY-00001262) Date: Friday, December 31, 2010, 12:53 AM (00:53)

“Happy new year. It nice to have u free. Much to come. Please know that I am an friend forever. You are very special. Knowing u, I will toast to the two of us, tomorrow night.”

New Year’s Eve 2010. “Nice to have u free.” Two years after Epstein’s conviction. The CEO of JPMorgan’s investment bank, toasting a convicted sex offender’s freedom. “I am a friend forever.”

The Network

Document: EFTA02135031 (torrent) Dataset: DS10 Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013

A logistics email to Epstein’s Paris driver, Valdson Cotri:

“Jes Staley, friend of Jeffrey’s will be coming to paris… Jeffrey has offered you to drive him wherever he needs to go during his stay.”

This is from June 2013 — months after Staley left JPMorgan and after the bank terminated Epstein’s accounts. Epstein still sent his personal driver to Paris for Staley. Not a car service. His driver. Unlimited availability. The personal relationship didn’t just survive the institutional severance. It intensified.

Document: EFTA02403789 (archive) Dataset: DS11 Date: Monday, November 11, 2013

Lesley Groff, Epstein’s executive assistant, to Epstein:

“Jes Staley has completed his transatlantic sailing trip! Rosa called to ask if you might be able to give Jes a ride back home from the carribean either tomorrow or Wed.”

November 2013. Staley is in the Caribbean after a sailing trip. His assistant calls Epstein’s assistant to ask for a ride home on the plane. Ten months after leaving JPMorgan, and Staley is still calling Epstein for transport.

Document: EFTA01755870 (torrent) Dataset: DS10 Date: Thu-Sun, September 26-29, 2013

Epstein to Olivier Colom at Edmond de Rothschild bank:

“you can meet with jes staley, advisor to ny fed. good friend.”

A convicted sex offender introducing a Federal Reserve advisor to the Rothschilds. As a “good friend.” The same email thread has Epstein pitching Larry Summers as a board candidate: “Larry is the smartest of the bunch. it would be very good for you.” Epstein was brokering senior appointments at European private banks, using Staley’s institutional credibility to open doors he couldn’t walk through after his conviction.

Document: EFTA02661567 (archive) Dataset: DS11 Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Epstein to Alexa Staley — Jes Staley’s daughter:

“can you ask your father his opinion of veronique Weill she wants to join rothschild”

Alexa: “He thinks she is great and is a big fan of hers. Good recommendation for rothschild.”

February 2017. Two years into Staley’s tenure as Barclays CEO. Epstein is using Staley’s daughter as a back-channel to obtain her father’s opinions for personnel decisions at Rothschild. This isn’t a relationship that faded after Staley left JPMorgan. It deepened. It pulled in family. In April 2015, Staley had forwarded Epstein a link to his daughter Alexa’s talk at Bowdoin College with the note: “This is what you helped to make happen” (EFTA02501956 (archive)). Staley credited Epstein with enabling his daughter’s career. And then his daughter became Epstein’s intermediary.

Document: EFTA00029434 (Removed by DOJ) (archive) Dataset: DS1-DS8 (JPMorgan-SDNY production, JPM-SDNY-00001091) Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Epstein to Staley:

“prince Andrew would like much more to represent casanov in china than tim collins”

Epstein relaying Prince Andrew’s commercial preferences directly to the CEO of JPMorgan’s investment bank. A convicted sex offender serving as go-between for the British royal family and Wall Street.

The Trusts

The institutional entanglement went beyond emails and favours. Staley was woven into Epstein’s legal and financial architecture.

In January 2012, Epstein named Staley as trustee of his personal trusts alongside Darren Indyke and Andrew Farkas (EFTA01266357 (torrent)). SDNY prosecutors flagged this: “Also interesting to see that Staley appears to be an executor or backup executor from 2012-18” (EFTA00076006 (archive)). In the same email, the prosecutors noted something else: the trust structure was frozen from 2001 to October 2012 — “for the full time period covering the prior investigation and his state prosecution — which is itself somewhat interesting.” They also flagged Larry Summers and Kathryn Ruemmler — Obama’s White House Counsel — as notable names in the estate documents.

One significant detail: EFTA01266357 (torrent) states that “Jes Staley never executed the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement.” He was named but never signed. Whether he declined, was never asked to sign, or simply let it lapse — the corpus doesn’t say.

In May 2015, Staley was named trustee of the Jeffrey E. Epstein 2014 Trust alongside Darren Indyke and David Mitchell (EFTA00082266 (archive); EFTA01266357 (torrent)). By this point, Staley was about to become CEO of Barclays.

Event Confluence

Part 1: Three lanes — career, evidence, institutional response. The Snow White exchange happens in 2010. Institutional response: zero.

Part 2: The nine-year gap between the Snow White exchange (2010) and any institutional action (2019) is the quiet part.

What’s New Here

The “Snow White” exchange has been reported before. The Barclays resignation. The USVI complaint. The $365 million. All public.

Here’s what hasn’t been:

1. The same-day corroboration — EFTA02410216 (archive): “Selena P” reports “the snow white” was sexually assaulted the same night Staley used the code name. Not a coincidence. Not an ambiguous nickname. A documented code name with same-day evidence of sexual violence.

2. Selena P’s operational role — 44 emails in DS11 reveal her as a recruiter sourcing women through her brother’s social circle, a handler coached by Epstein in real time, and a subject of his control (body monitoring, apology rituals, “the family”). She wasn’t a witness. She was an operative.

3. The prosecution memo’s temporal link — Footnote 61 of EFTA02731082 (torrent) explicitly connects the Staley-Epstein emails to the period of the rapes. The prosecutors had the coded language and the assault evidence and knew they were contemporaneous.

4. The third investigation track — EFTA02731662 (torrent): a DANY/FBI investigation spanning 2021-2023, documenting a new victim recruited at approximately 17, with DANY concluding: “They believe she was also abused by Staley.” Three institutional pathways, three victim groups, same outcome.

5. “Is she free tonight?” — EFTA00029430 (Removed by DOJ) (archive): more direct than the Snow White exchange. No code names. A sitting bank CEO asking a convicted sex offender about a woman’s availability.

6. “I realize the danger” — EFTA00029429 (Removed by DOJ) (archive): Staley explicitly acknowledging the compromising nature of the relationship on JPMorgan’s corporate email. He knew the risk. He proceeded.

7. The Alexa Staley back-channel — EFTA02661567 (archive) and EFTA02501956 (archive): the relationship extended to the next generation. Staley credited Epstein with his daughter’s success; his daughter then served as Epstein’s intermediary for Rothschild personnel decisions. As late as 2017.

8. The full corpus scale — 10,132 mentions across 6,950 files. 2,820 financial documents. The most documented banker in the entire Epstein Files.

9. The Guardian workflow — EFTA00090718 (archive): the FBI’s internal trail on the 2021 rape complaint. 23 days misrouted to Health Care Fraud. An AUSA consulted. A note confirming they already knew. Closed as “Information Only” — 14 days before Staley walked away from Barclays. Same pattern as Palm Beach: complaints about powerful men enter the system. Nothing comes out.

Previously litigated but underreported:

1. The Rothschild introduction and Larry Summers pitch — EFTA01755870 (torrent): a convicted sex offender brokering senior appointments at European private banks, using Staley as his entry point.

2. The Paris chauffeur and Caribbean plane ride — EFTA02135031 (torrent), EFTA02403789 (archive): the logistical infrastructure Epstein provided continued after Staley left JPMorgan. Driver, plane, network. The personal relationship didn’t end when the banking relationship did. It deepened.

Source Documents

All documents referenced are from the Epstein Files Transparency Act corpus, released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday, January 30, 2026.

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The Transparency Files are a series of articles based on the publicly released Epstein Files.