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EFTA01712877

Palm Beach Police investigative reports, Johanna Sjoberg interview material, David Copperfield correspondence, law enforcement database research, and sensitive supporting records from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation

Snapshot

Record ID: EFTA01712877
Document range: EFTA01712877 through EFTA01712976
Length: 100 pages
Production: United States Department of Justice, Epstein Files Transparency Act, Data Set 10
Primary date range represented: January 2006 through October 2008, with older historical database entries
Principal originating bodies: Palm Beach Police Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Florida criminal justice systems, Accurint, ChoicePoint, TARGUSinfo, and private email systems
Primary subjects: Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Johanna Sjoberg interview, surveillance follow up, hidden camera review, David Copperfield correspondence, proposed Musha Cay travel, vehicle research, and background checks
Record type: Composite investigative production
Case number visible: Palm Beach Police Department case 1-05-000368
Evidentiary value: High for showing what investigators collected and recorded; mixed for the truth of third party statements and commercial database results
Privacy level: Extremely sensitive. The production contains survivor information, private third party records, juvenile history, addresses, dates of birth, vehicle information, and other personally identifying data that should not be republished.


What Is This Record?

EFTA01712877 is not one self contained report. It is a 100 page segment from a much larger investigative production. The segment begins on page 20 of a 21 page Accurint Law Enforcement Report and ends on page 10 of a different 21 page National Comprehensive Report. The preceding production, EFTA01712777, contains the first 19 pages of the opening Accurint report. The following production, EFTA01712977, begins with page 11 of the closing report.

The central material is a pair of pages from the Palm Beach Police Department investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. Those pages summarize a January 19, 2006 sworn and recorded interview with Johanna Sjoberg, whose name is redacted in this copy but appears in duplicate public copies of the same police narrative. The report describes how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited Sjoberg while she was attending Palm Beach Atlantic College, initially for household work, and how that relationship developed into paid massages for Epstein and people around him.

The production also contains law enforcement research on vehicles and women observed during surveillance, a police review of hidden camera disks, correspondence attributed to David Copperfield, emails about obtaining an expedited passport for proposed travel to Musha Cay, public and commercial database reports, maps, driver and vehicle records, an FBI evidence receipt form, and criminal history material concerning a redacted private individual.

Because the file combines records created for different purposes and at different times, every claim must be tied to its source type. A sworn witness statement, an officer’s narrative, a copied email, a handwritten lead, and a commercial database return do not carry the same evidentiary weight.


Source and Provenance

The displayed page identifiers run consecutively from EFTA01712877 to EFTA01712976. The PDF was released in DOJ Data Set 10 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The DOJ warns that its library includes preexisting redactions and may still contain inadvertently disclosed private or sensitive information. It also warns that image based and handwritten records may not be reliably searchable.

The file preserves several layers of provenance:

LayerEvidence of originWhat it establishes
DOJ productionEFTA identifiers on every pageThese pages were included in the federal disclosure production
Palm Beach PoliceDepartment header, case 1-05-000368, narrative numbers, dates, and officer fieldsThe central interview and surveillance summary came from the local criminal investigation
FBI evidence handlingFD-340 receipt at EFTA01712919Original interview notes were received into federal evidence handling
State recordsFlorida driver, vehicle, criminal history, and jail system formatsInvestigators collected state database material
Commercial researchAccurint, ChoicePoint, and TARGUSinfo headers and disclaimersInvestigators used commercial aggregation tools to develop leads
Email printoutsSender, recipient, subject, date, quoted reply, and attachment fieldsCopies of correspondence were preserved, although native headers are not shown

The file itself does not explain when every page was acquired, who selected the particular sequence, or why several unrelated database searches appear together. The ordering appears investigative rather than narrative.


What the Record Contains

EFTA rangePagesContentsAssessment
EFTA01712877 to EFTA017128782Final pages of an Accurint Law Enforcement Report, including associated addresses and source listContinuation from EFTA01712777
EFTA01712879 to EFTA017128802Routing or separator pagesLittle substantive content
EFTA01712881 to EFTA017128822Palm Beach Police incident report pages 75 and 76Core primary investigative narrative
EFTA01712883 to EFTA0171289210Rental agreement, vehicle and driver records, identity research, handwritten lead materialSupporting research, heavily redacted
EFTA01712893 to EFTA0171290210Emails involving David Copperfield, proposed Musha Cay travel, passport instructions, and follow up correspondenceDocumentary correspondence, authenticity not independently proven by this PDF
EFTA01712903 to EFTA0171291614TARGUSinfo and ChoicePoint reports involving a redacted subjectCommercial lead data
EFTA01712917 to EFTA017129193Routing material and FBI FD-340 evidence receiptChain of custody context
EFTA01712920 to EFTA0171293011Florida person and driver research plus maps of central Florida locationsInvestigative lead development
EFTA01712931 to EFTA0171295020Florida and national criminal history and jail records for a redacted personHighly sensitive, partly historical and partly juvenile material
EFTA01712951 to EFTA0171296414Accurint Law Enforcement ReportCommercial lead data with explicit reliability warnings
EFTA01712965 to EFTA017129662Routing and handwritten materialContext is incomplete
EFTA01712967 to EFTA0171297610First ten pages of a 21 page National Comprehensive Report dated October 7, 2008Continues in EFTA01712977

The page distribution shows why the record should not be summarized as only a Sjoberg interview or only Copperfield correspondence. The police narrative occupies two pages. Most of the production consists of supporting identification, location, vehicle, and background research.


Key Evidence Points

  1. Maxwell recruited Sjoberg at college. The police narrative says Sjoberg told investigators that she met Epstein after Ghislaine Maxwell approached her at Palm Beach Atlantic College. Maxwell offered work at Epstein’s Palm Beach house answering phones and running errands.
  2. The initial work expanded into massages. According to the report, Sjoberg began providing massages to Epstein before she became a licensed massage therapist. She also described giving massages to Nadia Marcinkova and Sarah Kellen, identified in the duplicate report as Epstein’s assistant.
  3. The interview describes sexualized conduct. Sjoberg told police that Epstein directed sexualized activity during massages and that she felt grossed out but continued because she was being paid. The record says she was 23 when she met Epstein. Her reported statement that events were between consenting adults is a witness statement in context, not a legal finding and not a waiver of the coercive implications of payment, employment, gifts, and power imbalance.
  4. Epstein allegedly provided money and benefits. Sjoberg reportedly said Epstein paid her well, covered her Palm Beach Atlantic College tuition, arranged a rental car when her scooter failed, gave other gifts, and referred her to another client. These points are attributed to her police statement. The two report pages do not contain tuition receipts, payment ledgers, or a complete referral record.
  5. Surveillance led investigators to vehicles and women. Police researched vehicles seen at Epstein’s property, including a tan Chevrolet Camaro associated with a young woman. The surrounding pages include a rental agreement, motor vehicle records, driver research, and social media lead development.
  6. Police reviewed disks from hidden cameras. The report says the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Computer Crime Unit extracted video disks. Investigators found only one hidden camera functioning at the relevant time. The report says footage showed Epstein in his office, Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, and unidentified women. It also says poor lighting prevented confirmation of some identities.
  7. Original interview notes entered federal evidence handling. An FD-340 form at EFTA01712919 describes original notes concerning an interview. Much of the identifying information is redacted or difficult to read, so the form should not be assigned to a particular interview without another chain of custody record.
  8. Emails document contact with David Copperfield. A printed August 2007 thread shows a redacted sender writing to Copperfield about a possible Las Vegas visit and a Justin Timberlake concert. Copperfield’s quoted reply says he would like to talk by phone and keep in touch. Another May 2007 email is labeled as from David Copperfield and discusses whether the recipient can obtain a passport within two weeks and whether proof of travel is needed.
  9. The sender was trying to travel to Musha Cay. The quoted email says the sender had lost a passport, wanted to replace it quickly, and increasingly wanted to come to Musha Cay. The sender mentioned a friend who worked in fitness and described ideas for a gym, spa, or salon, including styling and massage work on one of the islands.
  10. The file preserves preparations, not completed travel. Passport Express instructions, sample business travel letters, and follow up requests for proof of departure show active preparation. No issued passport, airline ticket, passenger manifest, immigration record, hotel record, photograph at Musha Cay, or arrival confirmation appears in this 100 page production.
  11. Investigators developed a broad background profile. The remaining records trace addresses, possible relatives, property interests, professional licenses, vehicles, and criminal history for one or more redacted subjects. The commercial reports expressly warn that their data may be incomplete or inaccurate and should not be treated as definitive proof.
  12. A handwritten note contains an unresolved allegation. One page includes a fragment stating that an Epstein guest said a woman was not loyal and did not play the game. The speaker, subject, circumstances, and meaning are not established. It is a lead fragment, not a verified finding.

What the Record Does and Does Not Prove

PropositionStatusReason
Palm Beach Police documented a sworn interview with SjobergSupportedThe incident report gives the interview date, investigative context, and summary; a duplicate public copy supplies the redacted name
Maxwell recruited Sjoberg from Palm Beach Atlantic CollegeSupported as Sjoberg’s reported statementThe police narrative records her account, but the two pages do not independently establish every detail
Epstein paid Sjoberg and provided tuition, a rental car, gifts, and a referralSupported as Sjoberg’s reported statementCorroborating financial records are not included here
Investigators recovered and reviewed hidden camera videoSupportedThe police narrative describes extraction and review of disks
Every person in the footage was positively identifiedNot supportedThe report expressly says poor lighting prevented confirmation of some identities
David Copperfield corresponded with the redacted senderSupported by the produced email copiesThe printouts display his name and replies, but full native email headers and forensic validation are absent
The sender planned or hoped to visit Musha CaySupportedThe emails and passport materials directly discuss the proposed trip
The sender actually traveled to Musha CayNot establishedNo completed travel record appears in this production
Copperfield committed a crimeNot establishedAppearance in correspondence is not proof of criminal conduct. Copperfield has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged with illegal conduct in connection with the matters described by public reporting
The database subjects were involved in Epstein’s crimesNot establishedInvestigators searched them, but search results and association data do not prove participation or knowledge
Every criminal history entry is accurate and belongs to the intended personNot establishedIdentity matching, disposition, expungement, and database error issues remain, and the source systems include cautionary language
The 100 pages form a complete investigative fileFalseBoth the opening and closing reports continue outside this PDF

People and Entities Appearing in the Record

Person or entityRole in this productionEvidentiary caution
Jeffrey EpsteinSubject of the Palm Beach investigation; employer, massage client, and person shown in reviewed office footageAllegations in interview material must be attributed to the witness and police report
Johanna SjobergAdult survivor and sworn interviewee; name restored only through a duplicate public copy of the same reportHer dignity and privacy should take priority over repetition of graphic details
Ghislaine MaxwellIdentified by Sjoberg as the person who approached her at Palm Beach Atlantic College and offered household workThis file records Sjoberg’s account; Maxwell was later convicted in a separate federal prosecution
Sarah KellenIdentified in the duplicate report as Epstein’s assistant, a massage recipient, and a person seen in footagePresence or employment alone does not prove conduct beyond what the report states
Nadia MarcinkovaIdentified as a massage recipient and as appearing in footageThe record does not explain the full context of her presence
Haley RobsonNamed in the duplicate report as a person investigators thought might appear in poor quality footageThe officer expressly withheld positive identification because of poor lighting
David CopperfieldNamed sender or correspondent in printed 2007 emails concerning contact, Las Vegas, passport timing, and possible Musha Cay travelThe emails do not establish criminal conduct or prove that proposed travel occurred
Palm Beach Police DepartmentOriginator of incident report pages 75 and 76 and related surveillance researchThe report summarizes evidence and statements rather than adjudicating them
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Computer Crime UnitExtracted the video disks reviewed by Palm Beach PoliceThe underlying disks are not included here
Federal Bureau of InvestigationEvidence handling reflected in the FD-340 form and federal retention of supporting materialThe form is partly redacted and does not resolve every chain of custody question
Palm Beach Atlantic CollegeLocation of Maxwell’s alleged approach to Sjoberg and institution whose tuition Epstein allegedly paidThe file contains no institutional records confirming payment
Musha CayProposed Bahamian destination discussed in the emailsMentioned travel is not completed travel
Accurint, ChoicePoint, and TARGUSinfoCommercial research platforms used to find addresses, associates, property, licenses, and vehiclesTheir results are leads, not verified findings
Redacted private individualsVehicle owners, possible associates, email participants, relatives, and database subjectsTheir inclusion does not imply wrongdoing

Timeline Significance

DateEvent represented in or relevant to the production
About 2003Based on Sjoberg’s January 2006 statement that she met Epstein three years earlier, Maxwell’s approach and the beginning of household work occurred around this time
January 19, 2006Palm Beach investigators conducted the sworn, recorded interview summarized on pages 75 and 76
January 23, 2006Narrative 36 was entered into the police system
July 25, 2006The displayed police report copy was printed or generated with pages 75 and 76 in the continuing case file
May 2007Emails discuss a lost passport, expedited processing, proof of foreign travel, and a possible visit to Musha Cay
June 11, 2007Several Accurint law enforcement searches in the later part of the production carry this date
August 4, 2007A redacted sender followed up with Copperfield about a possible Las Vegas trip and maintaining contact
May 15, 2008The opening Accurint report was generated; its first 19 pages are in the preceding production
October 7, 2008The closing National Comprehensive Report was generated; it continues in the next production
2025 to 2026DOJ released the material through the Epstein Library under the Epstein Files Transparency Act

This sequence matters because the production mixes a 2006 local police investigation with correspondence and database research collected later. The 2007 emails should not be read as contemporaneous proof of the earlier interview allegations, nor should the 2008 database reports be mistaken for events occurring in 2008.


Related Evidence

The most important related document is the complete Palm Beach Police case report for case 1-05-000368. A publicly searchable duplicate contains the same narrative pages without the name redaction and confirms that the interviewee was Johanna Sjoberg. It also identifies Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, and Haley Robson where this Data Set 10 copy obscures names.

EFTA01712777 is necessary for the beginning of the Accurint report that opens this file. EFTA01712977 is necessary for the remaining eleven pages of the National Comprehensive Report that closes it. Reading only EFTA01712877 produces artificial gaps at both boundaries.

Publicly released deposition material and reporting place Sjoberg and Copperfield in a broader Epstein context. Sjoberg previously testified that she met Copperfield at a dinner at Epstein’s home and that he asked whether she knew girls were being paid to recruit other girls. That testimony is separate from the emails in this production and should not be merged with them as if it were the same event.

Public reporting also describes a separate federal investigation involving an allegation concerning Musha Cay. That investigation ended without charges against Copperfield, who has denied wrongdoing. This context explains why Musha Cay references may have interested investigators, but it does not prove that the redacted email sender traveled there or that the emails themselves document a crime.


Reliability and Limitations

Strongest material: The Palm Beach Police pages have clear institutional headers, a case number, narrative number, interview date, officer attribution fields, and continuity with duplicate copies of the same report. The FD-340 form provides additional evidence that original notes entered federal evidence handling.

Moderate material: The email printouts preserve sender labels, dates, recipients, quoted replies, and attachment information. They are probative copies, but the production lacks full headers, server records, cryptographic verification, and testimony authenticating every message.

Lead material: Accurint, ChoicePoint, TARGUSinfo, driver databases, map searches, and handwritten notes show what investigators examined. They do not by themselves prove identity, association, criminal participation, or the truth of an allegation. Commercial reports may combine people with similar names or outdated addresses.

Redaction limits: Many names and identifiers are blacked out. Some redactions differ from duplicate public copies. A black bar may conceal a survivor, witness, investigator, private third party, address, or account number. It should not be filled by guesswork.

OCR limits: The PDF is image based. Optical character recognition misreads names, dates, and headings. Some handwritten notes remain uncertain and are described conservatively.

Fragment limits: The first and last reports are incomplete within this PDF. The surrounding productions must be consulted before making claims about the full reports.

Selection limits: The presence of a record reveals investigative collection, not why investigators retained it, whether they credited it, or whether it was ultimately used in charging decisions.


Survivor Safety and Privacy Review

This production creates unusual privacy risk because it combines survivor testimony with granular records about private women. It includes or appears to include home addresses, dates of birth, driver information, vehicle identifiers, family associations, professional licenses, criminal history, juvenile information, and social media leads.

This article therefore follows four rules:

  1. It names Sjoberg only because her identity in this exact police narrative is already established by duplicate public records and her public testimony.
  2. It does not reproduce addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, license numbers, Social Security information, vehicle tags, or account data.
  3. It does not name the redacted email sender or the private subjects of the database reports without reliable public identification and a clear public interest.
  4. It summarizes sexual conduct only to the level necessary to explain the evidence, avoiding gratuitous detail.

The phrase consenting adults in the police report should not be used to minimize Sjoberg’s account. The same narrative records disgust, financial dependence, employment, gifts, tuition support, and Epstein’s direction of sexualized conduct. A survivor centered reading preserves her words without turning one phrase into a universal conclusion about consent, harm, or power.


Why This Record Matters

EFTA01712877 documents a pathway repeatedly visible in the Epstein record: recruitment for ordinary work, transition into massage work, sexualized demands, and financial benefits that could deepen dependence. In Sjoberg’s account, the approach began at a college and was framed as answering phones and running errands. The police report then traces how she became a massage provider and received money, tuition support, transportation, gifts, and a client referral.

The file also shows investigators working outward from direct testimony. They checked vehicles seen during surveillance, searched owners and relatives, reviewed social media, examined hidden camera disks, mapped addresses, pulled license and criminal history records, and preserved original notes. This is evidence of investigative method. It is not automatic proof against everyone searched.

The Copperfield correspondence matters because it records direct social contact and concrete preparation for possible international travel. At the same time, the missing completion evidence is equally important. A passport request and an invitation do not prove boarding, arrival, presence, or wrongdoing. The distinction between plan and completed event is central to responsible use of this record.

Finally, the production illustrates why document boundaries matter. A 100 page PDF can look complete while beginning and ending inside longer reports. Any article that ignores adjacent EFTA productions will overstate certainty and omit relevant context.


Fact Check

ClaimFindingConfidence
The PDF has 100 pagesConfirmed by file inspectionHigh
The displayed production runs from EFTA01712877 through EFTA01712976Confirmed from page footersHigh
The file belongs to DOJ Data Set 10Confirmed through the DOJ disclosure index and production metadataHigh
The police pages belong to case 1-05-000368Confirmed on the report headersHigh
The redacted interviewee is Johanna SjobergConfirmed by a duplicate public copy of the same case narrativeHigh
Maxwell approached Sjoberg at Palm Beach Atlantic CollegeConfirmed as Sjoberg’s statement recorded by policeHigh for attribution, not independent proof of every circumstance
Epstein paid tuition and supplied a rental carConfirmed as Sjoberg’s reported statementHigh for attribution, moderate for underlying event
Investigators found one functioning hidden cameraConfirmed in the police narrativeHigh
All people in the video were conclusively identifiedContradicted by the report, which cites poor lighting and uncertaintyHigh
Copperfield sent or participated in the displayed correspondenceSupported by the printouts and quoted repliesModerate to high
The redacted sender obtained a passportNot shownLow
The redacted sender went to Musha CayNot shownLow
The emails prove criminal conduct by CopperfieldNoHigh
The opening Accurint report is complete in this PDFNo, it begins at page 20 of 21High
The closing National Comprehensive Report is complete in this PDFNo, it ends here at page 10 of 21High

Evidence Appearances

Evidence themePrimary pagesCorroboration inside the productionMissing evidence needed for a stronger conclusion
Sjoberg recruitment and massage workEFTA01712881 to EFTA01712882Police case identifiers and duplicate public reportOriginal audio, transcript, and referenced notes
Tuition, gifts, rental car, and referralEFTA01712882Rental documentation follows immediatelyPayment records, tuition ledger, and referral communications
Vehicle surveillanceEFTA01712881 to EFTA01712892Rental agreement, vehicle, driver, and identity recordsSurveillance logs, photographs, and confirmed driver interviews
Hidden camera footageEFTA01712882Officer’s review summaryOriginal disks, extraction report, timestamps, and clearer identification
Copperfield contactEFTA01712893 to EFTA01712902Multiple messages and quoted repliesNative messages, complete headers, custodian testimony, and account records
Proposed Musha Cay tripEFTA01712896 to EFTA01712902Passport instructions and request for proof of departureIssued passport, booking, manifest, immigration entry, photographs, or witness confirmation
Original interview notesEFTA01712919FD-340 evidence receiptLegible file number, originating serial, and matched interview identity
Background and location researchEFTA01712903 to EFTA01712976Multiple independent databases and map searchesVerified identity resolution and source records
Criminal history researchEFTA01712931 to EFTA01712950State and national system returnsCertified dispositions and proof that every return matches the intended person

Questions for Further Research

  1. Where are the original audio recording, transcript, and investigator notes from Sjoberg’s January 19, 2006 interview?
  2. Do tuition records, payment ledgers, rental invoices, or Epstein household accounts corroborate the benefits Sjoberg described?
  3. Where are the original hidden camera disks, forensic extraction report, and full video review log?
  4. Were the unidentified women in the office footage ever reliably identified?
  5. What evidence item and interview does the FD-340 form at EFTA01712919 correspond to?
  6. Are native copies and complete headers available for the Copperfield emails?
  7. Who was the redacted email sender, and can that identity be established without exposing a survivor or private person?
  8. Was a passport actually issued, and did the sender book or complete travel to Musha Cay?
  9. Is there any passenger manifest, immigration record, lodging record, photograph, or witness account placing the sender at Musha Cay?
  10. Why were the 2007 correspondence and the surrounding commercial database reports grouped with the 2006 Palm Beach Police narrative?
  11. Which database subjects were witnesses, possible victims, associates, or merely people whose vehicles or addresses produced a lead?
  12. Were the commercial database matches independently verified before investigators relied on them?
  13. What are the final dispositions for the criminal history entries, and do any concern juvenile or sealed matters that should not have been publicly produced?
  14. What additional context appears in EFTA01712777 and EFTA01712977 beyond the boundary pages reviewed here?
  15. Did investigators ever determine the meaning and source of the handwritten statement about loyalty and playing the game?

Related EpsteinWiki Pages

  • Jeffrey Epstein
  • Ghislaine Maxwell
  • Johanna Sjoberg
  • David Copperfield
  • Sarah Kellen
  • Nadia Marcinkova
  • Haley Robson
  • Palm Beach Police Department Investigation
  • Palm Beach Atlantic College Recruitment
  • Epstein Hidden Camera Evidence
  • Musha Cay
  • EFTA01712777
  • EFTA01712977
  • Epstein Files Transparency Act
  • DOJ Data Set 10

Source List

  1. EFTA01712877, direct evidence PDF
  2. EFTA01712777, preceding production
  3. EFTA01712977, following production
  4. United States Department of Justice, Epstein Library
  5. United States Department of Justice, Data Set 10 files
  6. Palm Beach Police case 1-05-000368, searchable duplicate
  7. The Guardian, David Copperfield contact with Jeffrey Epstein, May 17, 2024
  8. The Guardian, newly released files concerning Epstein and Copperfield, February 2, 2026
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