Events at Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch

UpdatedSeptember 28, 2026

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Snapshot

Zorro Ranch hosted private visits, dinners, scientific discussions, a wedding, a birthday gathering and routine recreational activities during Jeffrey Epstein’s ownership. It was also the setting of reported abuse, injuries, emergency calls and a substantial burglary. Since Epstein’s death, the property has seen trespass incidents, protests and a law enforcement search.

This is an event history, so a person enters the timeline only when a record or attributable witness places them at the ranch. A flight into Albuquerque, an invitation to Zorro or a conference held elsewhere does not establish an event on the property.

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission interim report Interim Report is particularly useful for separating Santa Fe Institute conferences from hospitality at Epstein’s ranch. The Epstein Data ranch investigation Epstein Files brings together witness interviews and property records.

Key takeaways

A wedding happened at Zorro Ranch on June 3, 2017.
A birthday gathering happened there, according to a photo contact sheet, but its date and celebrant are unidentified.
Scientists visited and met at the ranch. One August 2013 calendar schedules a lunch or dinner involving Martin Nowak, Ed Boyden and Joshua Cooper Ramo. The calendar is evidence of a scheduled meal; it is not by itself proof that everyone attended.
The 2012 Science of the Cities conference was held at the Santa Fe Institute. Epstein’s staff discussed people staying at the ranch during that conference. It should not be renamed a “Zorro Ranch conference.”
Paleontologist Jack Horner visited and examined the ranch’s fossil bearing terrain in 2012. His later thank-you establishes that the visit occurred. My previous article incorrectly treated his trip as merely a booking.
The August 2018 incident was a major break-in, involving a cut fence, entry into buildings and theft of a gun safe reported to contain dozens of firearms. My previous description understated it.

Parties, celebrations and private meals

When	Event	Evidence and limits
Summer 1995	Artists’ dinner. Maria Farmer and other former New York Academy of Art students described attending a dinner at the ranch involving Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Eileen Guggenheim. Participants described uncomfortable games or tests and discussion of an art commission.	The event rests on participant accounts. The exact date and complete attendance list remain unknown.
Date unknown	Twenty-ninth birthday gathering. A photo contact sheet titled “29th bday at Zorro” depicts an indoor gathering and outdoor target shooting.	EFTA00245679 identifies the sheet. Its available description does not establish who turned twenty-nine, the date, or whether shooting and the indoor gathering occurred on the same day.
August 11, 2013, scheduled	Science and business lunch or dinner. Epstein’s ranch calendar lists a 2 p.m. meal with Joshua Cooper Ramo, Martin Nowak and Ed Boyden.	EFTA00284739 records the scheduled meal alongside Nowak and Boyden’s Albuquerque arrival. A calendar entry does not independently verify final attendance. Ramo separately acknowledged one ranch lunch in 2014, so his confirmed lunch should not automatically be identified with this 2013 entry.
2014, precise date unknown	Joshua Cooper Ramo’s confirmed lunch. Ramo said he visited once for lunch with professors from MIT and Harvard.	His account confirms a ranch meal and the institutional affiliations of other guests, but does not name every attendee or supply an exact date.
March 20, 2015	Lunch with Noam and Valeria Chomsky. Correspondence and Valeria Chomsky’s account support their visit and meal at the ranch.	A separate remark by Epstein about being in Santa Fe “with Chomsky and group” does not establish the full group’s names or an additional ranch gathering.
June 3, 2017	Wedding of Taylor Visoski and Brendan Cusack. Epstein hosted the wedding for his pilot’s daughter. Ranch staff expected a busy weekend of festivities.	EFTA02216515 explicitly describes the large wedding and its date. Related planning correspondence concerns the celebration. An engagement reported at the ranch must not be counted as a second wedding.

The dinner, birthday and wedding are three different types of gathering. There is no basis to combine them into one event or assume that every photograph of guests depicts a party.

Visits, scientific discussions and ranch activities

When	Event	Evidence and limits
Approximately 1999–2008	Repeated visits by a local reflexologist. The practitioner estimated roughly thirty trips to provide treatments, mainly to Maxwell. On one occasion the practitioner said they saw several young women escorted through the house; on another, they taught a young woman reflexology.	EFTA00090036 records the witness’s FBI interview. It describes distinct remembered occasions but supplies no dates for most of them. The witness did not say they observed abuse during the women’s arrival.
Thanksgiving 2006	Epstein’s stay. Ranch managers recalled this visit during their February 2007 interview.	EFTA00269597 provides the recollection.
November 2009	Jes Staley’s visit. Staley later stated that he visited the ranch once during that month.	His statement does not establish every person present or every activity during the stay.
July 16–18, 2010	Terry Kafka’s stay. Arrangements and a later thank-you support a completed ranch visit.	EFTA02409985 is part of the relevant correspondence.
By August 15, 2010	Eduardo Teodorani-Fabbri and another guest at the ranch. Epstein described them as being there with him.	EFTA01982388 is stronger evidence of presence than the earlier travel plans.
August 2012	Jack Horner’s ranch visit and fossil exploration. The paleontologist subsequently thanked Epstein for the invitation and described seeing Cretaceous sediments and the old railroad. Reporting based on the correspondence describes a fossil search.	EFTA02680513 is the follow-up record. Horner’s separate request for support for a seminar in Bozeman does not place that seminar at Zorro.
August 12, 2012	Frédéric Chaslin’s visit. He thanked Epstein the next day for opening the ranch to him.	EFTA01873343 confirms a completed visit.
August 2012, completion uncertain	Proposed visit by Santa Fe Institute scientist Geoffrey West. Staff scheduled him to see Epstein at the ranch, and West’s assistant later requested directions.	EFTA02163874 documents the plan. The identified messages do not conclusively show that he arrived, so this is a lead rather than a confirmed visit.
August 2013, completion uncertain	Martin Nowak and Ed Boyden’s planned stay and meal. Epstein’s calendar marks ranch days, their expected arrival on August 11, and the meal with Ramo.	EFTA00284739 is a detailed schedule. It establishes arrangements, while leaving actual attendance at the scheduled meal to be corroborated.
October 2013	Warren Eisenstein’s visit. Ranch scheduling and his subsequent thanks support a completed stay.	EFTA02576075 is the follow-up message.
June 5, 2017	Bruce and Marsha Moskowitz’s visit following the wedding. Their stay was moved to follow the festivities, and subsequent correspondence thanks Epstein for the ranch visit.	EFTA02216515 shows the rescheduling and arrival arrangements.

Epstein’s pilot Larry Visoski testified that he visited Zorro about five or six times a year during his employment. EFTA00068582 supports that recurring pattern, but it cannot be converted into a list of individually dated trips. The 2007 ranch-manager interview similarly estimated that Epstein spent about fifty days per year there, commonly in stretches of two or three weeks.

Conferences and organized intellectual events

No named scientific conference has been established as having taken place at Zorro Ranch in the records reviewed here. That does not mean scientists never gathered there. It means a ranch visit, meal or overnight stay must not be promoted into a conference without an agenda, sessions or other evidence of an event at that venue.

Conference or proposal	Relationship to the ranch
Science of the Cities, July 15–16, 2012	This was a Santa Fe Institute conference. Epstein’s assistant asked about people staying at the ranch during it. EFTA00659273 establishes the hospitality question, not that the conference sessions moved to Zorro.
Jack Horner’s dinosaur research seminar	Horner discussed Epstein’s possible support for a seminar in Bozeman, Montana. His Zorro visit and fossil exploration were separate events.
2006 Confronting Gravity and 2011 Mindshift	These gatherings were associated with the Virgin Islands, not Zorro Ranch.
2014 deception gathering proposals	The records reviewed do not establish a deception conference held at Zorro Ranch.
Scientific lunches and meetings at Zorro	The August 2013 scheduled meal and Ramo’s confirmed 2014 lunch show the ranch serving as a meeting venue. They should be called lunches or meetings unless further evidence identifies a formal conference.

The commission’s account of Santa Fe Institute connections Interim Report makes this venue distinction explicit. An invitation to Murray Gell-Mann’s birthday celebration at the Institute likewise does not establish a birthday party for him at Zorro.

Accidents, emergencies, crimes and police visits

When	Event at Zorro Ranch	Evidence and limits
September 17, 2002	Four-wheeler accident. An unidentified male was reported injured.	The emergency account does not establish his identity or that a crime occurred.
February 8, 2007	FBI interview on site. Agents spoke with the ranch managers in a guesthouse. The interview ended after a call from Epstein’s “main office” instructed them to stop speaking.	EFTA00269597 documents a visit and interview, not a search of the property.
July 21, 2008	Horse-riding accident. A call reported that a sixteen-year-old had been thrown and had back and pelvic pain.	The public emergency account does not identify the minor. It should not be assigned to a named survivor by speculation.
May 1, 2015	Two 911 hang-ups. Staff reportedly explained them as telephone testing.	The explanation is attributed to staff; the calls do not establish an ambulance transport.
February 16, 2016	911 hang-up and follow-up. The call prompted a police response or inquiry.	EFTA02473035 does not establish why the call disconnected.
Late August 2018	Break-in and major gun theft. Intruders reportedly cut the perimeter fence, entered several buildings and removed a large safe from a garage. The safe was believed to hold roughly thirty to forty firearms; other property was also reported missing. State Police investigated.	EFTA01026490 concerns the inquiry and inventory. Initial estimates of what the safe held are not proof of the precise final loss or the intruders’ identities.

A discussion of purchasing equipped ambulances is not an ambulance incident at the ranch. Nothing cited here establishes that one was delivered or stationed there.

Survivor accounts of events at the ranch

When	Reported event	Status
1996	Annie Farmer described her visit and Maxwell’s conduct in New Mexico. Federal charging documents identify alleged grooming at Epstein’s New Mexico residence, including an unsolicited massage.	EFTA01659394 and EFTA01659462 set out the prosecution’s allegations. A movie outing and shopping during the trip occurred away from the ranch.
Approximately 2001 and other dates	Virginia Giuffre described visits and alleged abuse associated with the ranch. Photographs also place her at its entrance.	Her statements must be cited for each specific allegation. Presence at the property does not establish misconduct by every other person mentioned in connection with it.
2004	A survivor stated that Epstein sexually molested her at Zorro Ranch when she was fifteen.	EFTA00019994 records her sentencing statement. Multiple copies of that statement describe one reported incident, not several.
Dates unresolved	Massage therapist Rachel Benavidez described working at the ranch and alleged sexual abuse by Epstein.	Her account supports reported on-site experiences without supplying a reliable date for each encounter.
Approximately 1999–2001, disputed detail	A former housekeeper described a three-day visit by Prince Andrew, reportedly while Epstein was absent.	This is an attributed former employee account, with uncertain timing and disputed or unverified accompanying details. It should not be silently converted into a precisely dated, independently documented stay.

The commission’s interim report www.nmlegis.gov describes additional allegations. A complete incident index will require the underlying statements and dates, including records the commission is still seeking.

Events after Epstein’s death

When	Event at the property
May 2020	A security alarm and trespass report concerned people entering the property.
June 16, 2020	Security reported an attempted break-in at a storage container. A sheriff’s deputy arrested two people. EFTA00129048 describes the incident in a later FBI report.
2020, claimed date	A person later said they entered the ranch and photographed ground features they believed looked like graves. The claimed visit and interpretation have not been independently verified.
February 2026	A reported threat at the gate and a stolen security camera led to law enforcement contacts.
March 2026	Advocates and relatives of a survivor gathered near the ranch entrance to call for answers. This was a roadside gathering, not an event hosted inside the ranch.
March 9–10, 2026	New Mexico investigators searched the property with State Police and specialist search resources. The interim commission report says the search had not confirmed human remains.

Evidence boundary

The released material does not provide a complete social calendar, guest book or incident log for the ranch. It establishes more activity than the earlier version showed, including Horner’s completed fossil visit, science related meals and hospitality, and the scale of the 2018 break-in. It does not establish that a named conference, secret laboratory, bunker or reported burial operated there.

To add another person or gathering to this timeline, the decisive question is: Which record places the event at Zorro Ranch, rather than merely placing someone in New Mexico or inviting them to visit?

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