Search Epstein’s Emails in the Most Unnerving Way Possible

Are you curious about the recently released emails of Jeffrey Epstein but don’t feel like clicking through thousands of cumbersome files? There’s now a way to search Epstein’s inbox in a much easier way. And it’s both interesting and creepy at the same time.

It’s called Jmail.world and it’s a project by Riley Walz and Luke Igel. They’ve built a tool that might best be described as Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator ’25. At least that’s how The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel puts it. And it feels like an apt description.

Basically it looks like Gmail and it has many of the same features. And while it’s a clever way to present the tens of thousands of documents released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, it’s a very odd feeling to essentially be placed in the late sex trafficker’s shoes.

“The problem was that the PDFs that the above pointed to were hard to read, so we felt putting it in a familiar form with shareable links and easy to screenshot views would be helpful for people. We also wanted to focus on just the emails in that drop,” Igel told Gizmodo over email.

Idel is the co-founder of Kino, an AI video assistant that allows users to index massive amounts of video. Idel says he previously worked at SpaceX, NASA, and was an undergrad at MIT. And he built this tool with Riley Walz, who has done a number of clever projects in the past.

“Riley and I knocked this out in a few hours Wednesday night using Cursor,” Igel told Gizmodo. “This is our first real coding project together! Riley has done so much amazing stuff like this in the past as you know.”

Igel tells Gizmodo it’s “pretty much all” of the emails from the latest batch released by Congress. So while it’s an interesting project, don’t necessarily assume it’s comprehensive. But it’s still an interesting way to browse the inbox of a truly heinous man.

These emails aren’t the “Epstein files” that everyone has been clamoring for over the past few years. Those are files still held by the Department of Justice, though Congress has passed a law requiring their release. The question is whether they’ll ever see the light of day. President Trump ordered a new investigation into Epstein’s ties to powerful Democrats so many people worry that DOJ will say they can’t release any files because there’s an ongoing investigation. But time will tell.