HOUSE OVERSIGHT 000258: Jeffrey Epstein Black Phone Book (Unredacted)

PostedSeptember 15, 2026

UpdatedSeptember 15, 2026

ByEpsteinWiki

A 99-page House production of an address directory associated with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, including court exhibit covers, handwritten preliminary pages, alphabetical contacts, household infrastructure, travel and security resources, and location-specific massage lists.

Snapshot

Field	Detail
House identifier	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000258 through HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000356
House release date	September 8, 2025
Producing party	Estate of Jeffrey Epstein, responding to an August 25, 2025 House Oversight Committee subpoena
House bundle label	Request No. 8
Total House pages	99
Directory pagination	97 internally numbered pages, plus two federal-court exhibit covers
Earlier court case	Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 1:15-cv-07433-LAP, Southern District of New York
Court filing date shown on the scan	February 26, 2016
Court filing components	Document 36-12, Exhibit 10 Part 2, followed by Document 36-11, Exhibit 10 Part 1
Apparent directory period	Approximately 2004 to 2005, with important authentication and dating limits
Document type	Household and personal telephone/address directory, not a flight log, visitor log, call log, or proven client list
Major evidentiary value	Shows how names, offices, residences, staff, services, travel, security, medical resources, and massage contacts were organized in a directory associated with the Epstein-Maxwell household
Major evidentiary limit	An entry alone does not prove a meeting, call, trip, payment, friendship, knowledge of abuse, or criminal conduct
Privacy rule for this article	The source is linked, but telephone numbers, private addresses, emails, access details, and survivor-identifying information are not republished

The complete House sequence begins at HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000258 and ends at HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000356. The title uses the House release’s common description, “unredacted,” but the article does not reproduce the directory’s exposed personal contact data.

What This Document Is

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT 000258 is a scan of a telephone and address directory associated with Jeffrey Epstein’s households. It contains far more than prominent names. Its pages combine people, couples, relatives, assistants, offices, household employees, businesses, transportation providers, airlines, hotels, restaurants, physicians, emergency resources, security contacts, property information, and geographically organized massage contacts.

The most accurate short description is therefore a working household contact directory. The directory can help researchers identify who or what was recorded, how contact information was grouped, which intermediaries appeared beneath principal entries, and which operational categories mattered to the household. It cannot, standing alone, establish whether a number was current, who supplied it, whether anyone used it, how often contact occurred, or why an entry was retained.

The House Oversight Committee release says the estate produced records pursuant to Chairman James Comer’s August 25, 2025 subpoena. Congress did not create the black book, verify every entry, or originate the court exhibit. The committee became a later custodian and publisher of a copy already embedded in earlier litigation.

How the 99-Page House File Is Assembled

The file is not arranged in the intuitive order. Part 2 comes first, followed by Part 1. This reversal is essential when matching an older page reference to a House Bates number.

House Bates range	Pages in range	Court component	Directory content
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000258	1	Document 36-12 cover	“EXHIBIT 10 PART 2”
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000259 to HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000306	48	Document 36-12	Internally numbered pages 50 through 97
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000307	1	Document 36-11 cover	“EXHIBIT 10 PART 1”
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000308 to HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000312	5	Document 36-11	Handwritten pages 1 through 5, marked confidential
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000313 to HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000356	44	Document 36-11	Printed pages 6 through 49

This produces an exact total of 99 House pages: 97 numbered directory pages and two court covers. It also explains why a researcher who jumps forward from HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000258 encounters printed page 50, not page 1.

Bates conversion chart

If the visible directory page is	Find it at
1 through 5	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000307 plus the visible page number
6 through 49	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000307 plus the visible page number
50 through 97	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000209 plus the visible page number

Examples: visible page 74 is HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000283, visible page 85 is HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000294, and visible page 96 is HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000305.

Older websites may use scan-image numbers rather than the printed page numbers. Some omit preliminary handwritten pages or covers. A page citation from a secondary index should never be converted mechanically without checking the actual House leaf.

Page-Level Content Map

The following chart describes representative sections without reproducing private contact details. It is a map of function, not a complete name index.

House page	Visible directory page	Representative content	Why it matters
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000258	Cover	Exhibit 10 Part 2	Establishes the civil-case filing wrapper and the reversed assembly order
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000259	50	Alphabetical personal and business entries	Shows continuation of the printed directory rather than the start of a new book
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000282	73	Island logistics and a location-specific massage category	Connects the directory’s social entries to Little Saint James operations
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000283	74	Alphabetical entries including Ehud Barak, plus adjacent operational contacts	Illustrates how a public figure could appear on the same leaf as routine household and travel information
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000294	85	Alphabetical entries including Donald Trump and Trump Organization-linked contacts	Documents an entry and associated contact structure, not conduct
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000295	86	Multiple Les Wexner-related entries and other contacts	Shows repeated personal, office, family, and organizational contact pathways
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000296	87	Jeffrey Epstein contact blocks, property or household references, businesses, and services	Demonstrates that the book doubled as an operating directory
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000297	88	United Kingdom travel, transport, household resources, “Massage – UK,” and a Ghislaine Maxwell entry	Shows geographic and functional grouping beyond ordinary alphabetical contacts
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000298	89	Medical providers and health resources	Demonstrates the breadth of household administration
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000299	90	Palm Beach services, drivers, businesses, health resources, and Epstein contact information	Provides a local operations layer for the Palm Beach residence
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000300	91	“Massage – Florida” list and other Palm Beach operational contacts	One of the most investigation-relevant category pages, requiring heightened survivor privacy
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000301	92	Security, government, travel, and logistical contacts	Indicates that access, protection, and movement were treated as directory functions
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000302	93	International and travel resources	Helps reconstruct the household’s logistical network, but not actual trips
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000303	94	Travel agents, charter resources, airlines, and related services	A lead index for comparison with invoices, calendars, and flight records
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000304	95	Airline and travel-company information	Records available resources, not proof that a particular booking occurred
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000305	96	Epstein property contacts, Bill Richardson entry, “Massage – New Mexico,” and regional resources	Connects the directory’s New Mexico operating layer with both public and private contacts
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000306	97	Hotels, restaurants, services, and “Massage – California”	Confirms that geographically labeled massage contacts extended beyond Florida
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000307	Cover	Exhibit 10 Part 1	Marks the start of the second component in the House-assembled PDF
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000308 to HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000312	1-5	Handwritten entries and preliminary notes marked confidential	These pages distinguish the civil photocopy from the later criminal-trial exhibit described by Maxwell’s defense
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000313	6	Beginning of the printed portion in Part 1	Establishes the transition from handwritten preliminaries to the main typeset directory
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000356	49	Final Part 1 printed leaf	Immediately precedes page 50, which appears near the beginning of the House file

The Directory’s Four Evidence Layers

Layer	What appears	What it can support	What it cannot support alone
Social and public network	Individuals, couples, families, public figures, friends, businesspeople, and professionals	A name or contact pathway was recorded	A close relationship, meeting, approval, knowledge, or crime
Gatekeepers and intermediaries	Assistants, offices, secretaries, drivers, household employees, and related contacts beneath principal entries	How access might have been routed	That the principal personally communicated with Epstein
Household operations	Properties, vendors, doctors, restaurants, hotels, airlines, security, emergency resources, and travel agents	The infrastructure used to run multiple residences and frequent travel	That any listed service was used on a particular date
Recruitment-relevant categories	Location-specific massage headings and first-name-only entries	A structured pool of massage contacts existed within the same operational directory	Age, victim status, recruitment history, abuse, or criminal responsibility without corroboration

The fourth layer is especially important. Survivors described “massage” appointments as a recurring gateway through which Epstein sexually abused girls and young women. The presence of location-specific massage sections therefore has clear investigative significance. But the book does not reliably identify every person’s age, circumstances, or role. A listed individual may have been a survivor, a legitimate therapist, a recruiter, an employee, a referral, or someone inaccurately or incompletely recorded. Publication should never convert that uncertainty into an accusation.

The Handwritten Pages and Annotations

The first five internally numbered pages are handwritten and marked confidential. Throughout the printed section, the scan also contains circles, boxes, arrows, marginal notes, and tab-like blocks. These markings have generated some of the most repeated claims about the black book.

They must be handled with precision.

Investigative reporting described approximately 50 circled names as people Alfredo Rodriguez supposedly considered potential “material witnesses.” Vanity Fair’s 2019 interview with Nick Bryant reported that history and identified several prominent examples. That is a reported account of what the marks were said to mean, not a judicial finding that Rodriguez made every mark or that every circled person witnessed a crime.

The strongest legal caution comes from the December 9, 2021 memorandum opinion admitting Government Exhibit 52 in United States v. Maxwell. Judge Alison Nathan wrote that Juan Alessi could not explain the Post-it notes and pencil markings. The court offered to instruct the jury that the handwritten markings could not be considered because they had not been authenticated.

Marking claim	Status
Some entries are visibly circled or boxed	Directly observable in the House scan
Secondary reporting attributed the circles to Rodriguez and described them as witness designations	Reported, but not independently established for every mark
The court authenticated the handwritten annotations	False. The court expressly distinguished the unauthenticated markings
A circle proves the named person committed wrongdoing	False
A circle proves the named person witnessed a particular offense	Not established

Researchers should describe a mark visually: “the entry is circled in the scan.” They should not silently transform it into “the FBI marked,” “Rodriguez identified,” “Epstein flagged,” or “the court confirmed” unless a separate source proves that attribution.

Provenance and Custody Timeline

Date	Event	Evidentiary significance
Approximately 2004-2005	The directory version appears to have been created or maintained during this period	The dating is approximate. In later briefing, Maxwell’s defense quoted her civil deposition answers referring to “2004, 2005,” while she denied knowing who created the document
2009	Federal authorities investigated former Epstein household manager Alfredo Rodriguez after he tried to sell an address book he had previously denied possessing	Establishes a law-enforcement custody path and a separate obstruction case
June 2010	Rodriguez received an 18-month federal sentence for attempting to sell incriminating evidence	Confirmed in contemporaneous Wall Street Journal reporting
Approximately 2012	Investigative journalist Nick Bryant obtained a copy after federal authorities had acquired the book	Bryant later became the principal publisher and public interpreter of the scan
January 2015	Gawker published a redacted version with Bryant’s reporting	Brought the directory and its prominent entries into wide public circulation
February 26, 2016	Exhibit 10 Parts 1 and 2 were filed in Giuffre v. Maxwell as Documents 36-11 and 36-12	This is the court wrapper reproduced in the House file
July 9, 2020	An unredacted copy was uploaded to the Internet Archive	The archive item demonstrates that an unredacted scan was public years before the House release
December 2021	A related directory, Government Exhibit 52, was litigated and admitted in United States v. Maxwell	The ruling provides the best public judicial analysis of authentication, relevance, hearsay, and annotation limits
September 8, 2025	The House Oversight Committee released records produced by Epstein’s estate	The book received House Bates numbers and an official congressional release context, but it was not newly discovered

This timeline prevents two common mistakes. First, the House did not uncover a never-before-seen book in 2025. Second, public availability is not the same as an unbroken, fully documented chain of custody for every page and handwritten mark.

The Rodriguez Obstruction Case

Alfredo Rodriguez was a former employee in Epstein’s Palm Beach household. Federal records and reporting describe him as having retained an address book and related information, denied possessing it, and later attempted to sell it for $50,000. The FBI obtained the material through an undercover operation, and Rodriguez was prosecuted for obstruction.

Relevant Epstein Data records include EFTA00108732, concerning the FBI obstruction investigation; EFTA00608045, concerning a confidential-witness meeting linked to Rodriguez and the proposed sale; and EFTA00728180, concerning the attempted sale. EFTA00174673 is a later FBI source-reporting record about online circulation of an unredacted version.

These records should be read alongside, not replaced by, later summaries. They address different moments in the book’s history: acquisition, attempted sale, federal investigation, and later internet distribution.

Rodriguez’s conduct complicates, but does not erase, the document’s evidentiary value. Attempting to sell the material created an obvious financial motive and chain-of-custody issue. At the same time, federal authorities treated the material as evidence, and a court later found sufficient authentication for a related version under the comparatively low threshold of Federal Rule of Evidence 901.

Civil Exhibit Versus Criminal-Trial Exhibit

The House scan should not be casually described as identical in every respect to the directory admitted as Government Exhibit 52 at Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal trial.

In a December 8, 2021 defense letter concerning GX 52, Maxwell’s attorneys argued that the photocopies used in her 2016 civil deposition were not the same thing as the bound criminal-trial exhibit. The defense said the civil photocopy included several handwritten pages that were not in GX 52. It also argued that the book Alessi remembered from the household was much thicker than the trial exhibit and that neither Alessi nor Maxwell could identify the creator of that particular version.

The next day, Judge Nathan rejected the defense’s authentication and hearsay objections. Her ruling did not find that every version, page, number, or handwritten note was true. It found that Alessi’s long familiarity with the household directories, their physical format, their organization, and many of their entries met Rule 901’s minimal authentication threshold for GX 52.

Question	Civil exhibit reproduced by the House	GX 52 in the criminal trial
Form described in the record	Photocopies filed as Exhibit 10 Parts 1 and 2	A bound volume offered by the government
Handwritten preliminary pages	Present in the House scan	Defense said those pages were absent from GX 52
Authentication challenge	Context appears in the civil record and later criminal briefing	Decided by Judge Nathan on December 9, 2021
Result	Public court exhibit and later House production	Admitted over defense objections
Safe conclusion	A civil-litigation copy of a directory associated with the household	A related directory met the trial court’s threshold for admission

The distinction matters because researchers sometimes cite the 2021 admission ruling as if it authenticated every handwritten page in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT 000258. It did not.

What Juan Alessi’s Testimony Established

Juan Alessi worked at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence from 1990 until December 2002. According to the court’s 2021 opinion, he remembered Epstein and Maxwell maintaining telephone directories in multiple locations throughout the residence. He first recalled seeing them in approximately 1995 or 1996, and said updated versions appeared once or twice a year.

The household manual corroborated the operational role of the books. It directed that copies of “JE and GM telephone directories” be kept beside telephones other than those in guest rooms. Alessi described the directories as hard-bound, blue or black, roughly the size of a large telephone book, and organized alphabetically with friends, family, and business contacts.

He also recognized a Palm Beach massage page and many names in GX 52. He testified that the format, cover, binding, and layout were consistent with the household directories he knew.

His testimony did not establish that he watched the specific version being created, knew who typed every entry, could account for the book’s custody after it left the house, or could explain later pencil and Post-it annotations. Those gaps went to evidentiary weight rather than admissibility.

What the 2021 Court Actually Ruled

The court’s opinion supplies a disciplined framework for interpreting the House scan.

Issue	Court’s ruling	Practical implication for EpsteinWiki
Authentication	Alessi’s familiarity with recurring household directories and GX 52’s distinctive characteristics satisfied Rule 901	The related trial exhibit could be treated as what the government claimed it was, subject to challenges about weight
Chain of custody	Gaps did not automatically bar admission	Do not claim a perfect custody history; disclose the gaps
Hearsay	The directory was not admitted to prove that every name or number was accurate	Do not cite an entry as conclusive proof of identity, ownership, or communication
Relevance	The book could show a link between Maxwell and listed names or numbers and show how information was organized	Use it as network and administrative evidence, then seek corroboration
Handwritten markings	Not authenticated; limiting instruction was available	Do not treat circles, boxes, arrows, or notes as proven statements by a known author

The ruling is narrower and more useful than sensational claims. It validates the directory as potentially probative organizational evidence while placing clear limits on the truth of its individual contents.

Prominent Entries: How to Report Them Responsibly

The House scan includes contact entries associated with numerous public figures. Representative leaves include Ehud Barak on HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000283, Donald Trump and Trump Organization-linked contacts on HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000294, multiple Les Wexner-related entries on HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000295, and Bill Richardson on HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000305.

Those examples show why the black book attracts public attention, but the correct conclusion remains limited: the directory records contact information under those names. The surrounding entries demonstrate that principal names often sit beside offices, relatives, assistants, vendors, and institutional contacts. A multi-number entry may reflect administrative breadth rather than repeated direct communication.

Evidence statement	Responsible wording
A public figure has a visible entry	“The name appears in the address directory associated with the Epstein-Maxwell household.”
An entry contains multiple numbers	“The entry records several personal, office, household, or intermediary contact pathways.”
An entry is circled	“The entry is circled in the scan; the author and meaning of the mark are not authenticated.”
A name also appears in another record	Identify the second record, date, conduct, and source separately
No corroborating record has been found	Say that the book alone does not establish contact or conduct

For background on individual relationships, use dedicated biographies such as EpsteinWiki’s pages on Donald J. Trump, Les Wexner, Ghislaine Maxwell, and other named people. The biography should synthesize independent evidence. The black-book article should explain the document.

The Massage Sections and Survivor-Centered Interpretation

The most consequential parts of the directory are not the celebrity entries. They are the operational categories that can be compared with survivor testimony, employee testimony, police reports, message pads, calendars, payment records, and flight or property evidence.

The House scan contains geographically labeled massage sections tied to the island, the United Kingdom, Florida, New Mexico, and California. Representative source pages include HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000282, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000297, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000300, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000305, and HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000306.

Location label	House page	Investigative use	Required caution
Island	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000282	Compare with Little Saint James staffing, travel, visitor, and witness records	Do not infer age or victim status from an entry
United Kingdom	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000297	Compare with London calendars, travel records, messages, and testimony	A local number is not proof of an appointment or meeting
Florida	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000300	Compare with Palm Beach police records, appointment books, recruitment testimony, and payment evidence	Many entries may concern survivors or private people; do not republish contact data
New Mexico	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000305	Compare with Zorro Ranch records, travel, staff accounts, and regional investigations	The list does not establish who traveled to the ranch or what occurred there
California	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000306	Compare with dated travel, calendars, messages, and witness accounts	Location labels may be broad and undated

Survivor-centered reporting avoids two opposite failures. It does not minimize the organized massage system documented across the case record. It also does not expose or accuse every woman whose name or first name appears under a massage heading. The right approach is to preserve the structural evidence while protecting individuals until role, age, identity, and context are established through reliable corroboration.

Network Evidence Versus Proof of Conduct

The directory is strongest as a lead-generating network artifact. Its value increases when another dated record independently documents action.

Combined evidence	What the combination may show
Black-book entry + telephone message	A recorded contact pathway and a documented attempted or completed call
Black-book entry + calendar appointment	A contact pathway and a scheduled interaction, still subject to whether the meeting occurred
Black-book entry + flight log	Contact-directory inclusion and recorded aircraft travel
Black-book entry + property visitor record	Directory inclusion and a documented visit or access event
Black-book entry + email chain	Directory inclusion plus the content, participants, and timing of communication
Black-book entry + payment record	Directory inclusion plus a documented financial transaction
Black-book entry + sworn testimony	Directory inclusion plus a witness’s account, evaluated for personal knowledge and credibility
Black-book entry alone	Only that the entry appears in the directory copy

This is the same research logic used in EpsteinWiki’s guide to mapping the Epstein network and its Epstein Black Book digital search guide. The independent EpsteinsBlackBook.com index can help locate spellings and page leads, but its OCR and volunteer transcription must be checked against the source scan.

The index says it extracts 1,971 names from 95 scanned pages. That figure should not be presented as 1,971 unique people personally known by Epstein. It can include assistants, family members, businesses, duplicate or variant entries, first-name-only contacts, and OCR errors.

Why This Is Not a “Client List”

Calling the black book a client list is inaccurate and prejudicial.

A client list would ordinarily identify people who purchased or received a defined service. This directory does not label its prominent contacts as clients, distinguish lawful professional relationships from social contacts, identify purchasers of sexual access, or attach transactions to names. It includes service providers, family contacts, hotels, doctors, airlines, restaurants, household workers, emergency information, and the Epstein and Maxwell households themselves.

Document	What it records	What it does not automatically prove
Black book	Stored contact information and organizational categories	Communication, travel, payment, visit, crime, or client status
Flight log	Recorded aircraft movements and passenger notations	Purpose of travel or conduct at a destination
Calendar	Scheduled activity	That every scheduled event occurred
Message pad	A caller, intended recipient, and often a brief message	The truth of the caller’s statement or a returned call
Financial record	A transfer, payment, balance, or account event	The full purpose of the transaction without context
Sworn testimony	A witness’s account under oath	Automatic truth; testimony remains subject to knowledge, credibility, corroboration, and contradiction

The black book may help identify leads concerning social access, household administration, recruitment, or movement. It is not itself a verdict about any listed person.

“Unredacted” Does Not Mean Complete or Self-Authenticating

The word “unredacted” describes the exposure of contact details that earlier publishers had obscured. It does not guarantee completeness, accuracy, or a perfect reproduction of every historical directory version.

The scan contains poor contrast, sideways pages, overlays, handwritten material, and blocks or tabs that obscure portions of some leaves. Some entries are abbreviated, misspelled, duplicated, or attached to organizations and intermediaries. The directory itself was reportedly one version in a series updated over time.

Researchers should therefore distinguish four questions:

Visibility: Can the text be read on the scan?
Transcription: Has the name or number been copied accurately?
Authentication: Is the page part of the directory version claimed?
Meaning: What does the entry establish when compared with other evidence?

“Unredacted” answers only part of the first question.

Privacy, Doxxing, and Publication Standards

The source exposes telephone numbers, private residential addresses, email addresses, assistants, family members, access information, and people who may be survivors. Some data may still identify living people or may have been reassigned to unrelated users.

EpsteinWiki should link the official evidence while declining to reproduce unnecessary personal information. A direct source link allows verification without turning an explanatory article into a searchable doxxing index.

Publish	Do not republish without a compelling, documented reason
Bates number and source link	Personal telephone numbers
Public figure’s name when relevant	Private home addresses
Organization or public office context	Personal email addresses
Category heading such as “Massage – Florida”	Survivor-identifying or first-name-only contact details
General description of entry structure	Security codes, access instructions, or sensitive household details
Corroborated public-interest finding	Information about uninvolved private people

The DOJ’s court-record repository for Giuffre v. Maxwell carries a broader warning that high-volume releases may inadvertently include non-public personal information. That caution is directly applicable here.

Comparison With the 1997 Address Book

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT 000258 should not be confused with a different Epstein address book reportedly dated October 1997 and publicly reported in 2021.

Feature	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT 000258 book	Reported 1997 book
Common public description	The “little black book” associated with Rodriguez	The “other black book”
Apparent period	Approximately 2004-2005	Dated October 1997 in the reported copy
House Bates range	HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_000258-000356	Not this Bates sequence
Size in this release	97 numbered directory pages plus two covers	Reported as a smaller book with hundreds of entries
Public history	Rodriguez investigation, civil litigation, online publication, Maxwell trial litigation, House estate release	Separately located and reported years later
Research rule	Cite this exact House leaf	Cite the separate book and its own provenance

Business Insider’s report on the 1997 book describes that distinct artifact. Combining the two books can create false chronology and false claims of repetition.

Reliability Assessment

Component	Reliability assessment	Reason
House Bates sequence	High	Directly visible, continuous range from 000258 through 000356
Federal-court filing wrappers	High	Case number, document number, filing date, exhibit part, and court pagination are printed on the scan
Visible printed category headings	High	Directly observable, subject to scan legibility
Exact transcription of every entry	Variable	Sideways pages, low contrast, abbreviations, handwriting, and dense typography create error risk
Association with recurring Epstein-Maxwell household directories	Strong but qualified	Supported by Alessi’s testimony and the 2021 admission ruling for related GX 52
Exact creator and creation date	Unresolved	Maxwell denied knowledge; Alessi did not witness creation of the particular version
Complete chain of custody	Incomplete	Rodriguez’s retention and attempted sale, multiple copies, and later litigation leave documented gaps
Handwritten marks and circles	Low unless separately corroborated	The criminal court did not authenticate them
Meaning of an individual entry	Limited	Inclusion establishes a directory entry, not the nature or extent of a relationship
Secondary searchable index	Useful finding aid	Fast and searchable, but subject to OCR, volunteer transcription, duplicate counting, and page-number differences

Common Errors to Avoid

Calling every listed person a client, participant, accomplice, or witness.
Treating the House release as the first public appearance of the unredacted scan.
Assuming Congress created or authenticated the underlying directory.
Ignoring that Part 2 precedes Part 1 in the House PDF.
Converting an older website’s scan page directly into a House Bates number without visual confirmation.
Treating every phone number as a personal direct line.
Treating multiple numbers as proof of frequent communication.
Attributing every circle or handwritten note to Rodriguez, the FBI, Epstein, or Maxwell.
Assuming a massage-category entry identifies a perpetrator, recruiter, victim, or licensed therapist.
Republishing private contact data when a Bates link and description are sufficient.
Merging this book with the separate 1997 address book.
Using OCR text as the final authority when the scan can be inspected.

Research Workflow

Step	Action	Output
1	Identify the visible name, organization, or category in a finding aid	Candidate page
2	Open the actual House Bates leaf	Verified visual entry
3	Record whether the item is a principal entry, subordinate contact, organization, service, or category heading	Entry type
4	Note circles, boxes, or handwriting descriptively without attributing them	Marking observation
5	Search alternate spellings, assistants, companies, and locations	Identity resolution
6	Check calendars, emails, messages, flights, payments, visitor records, and testimony	Independent corroboration
7	Establish dates and distinguish scheduled activity from completed activity	Chronology
8	Check for denials, disputes, settlements, charges, acquittals, or judicial findings	Fair context
9	Remove unnecessary personal data and protect survivors and private people	Publication-safe draft
10	State only the narrowest conclusion supported by the combined evidence	Final claim

Questions That Still Need Answers

Who created this particular directory version, on what date, and from which earlier database or address-book versions?
Which staff members supplied, typed, corrected, or removed entries?
What do the handwritten symbols, circles, boxes, arrows, and letter codes mean, and who made each one?
Which pages or entries, if any, changed between the civil exhibit, the Rodriguez copy, GX 52, and later public scans?
Is there a documented page-by-page chain of custody from the Palm Beach household to Rodriguez, the FBI, civil litigants, prosecutors, the estate, and Congress?
Which numbers were direct personal lines, and which belonged to offices, assistants, public switchboards, residences, or service companies?
Which entries can be corroborated by dated messages, emails, calendars, flights, payments, visitor records, or testimony?
When were the location-specific massage lists created, and who maintained them?
Which people in massage sections were minors at the relevant time, survivors, legitimate therapists, recruiters, employees, or unrelated contacts?
Were the lists used across all Epstein properties, or were some categories copied forward without current use?
How many distinct household directory versions existed, and where are the others?
Did the House receive native files, databases, metadata, or only this scanned court copy?
Did the estate provide a production log explaining the record’s origin and custody?
Which entries correspond to public figures only through staff or institutional intermediaries?
What additional corroborating records remain withheld, sealed, missing, or not yet indexed?

Fact Check

Claim checked	Evidence	Conclusion
The House file contains 99 pages	Inclusive Bates count from 000258 through 000356	Verified
It contains 97 numbered directory pages and two covers	Direct visual review of the complete file	Verified
Part 2 comes before Part 1	HOUSE 000258 is Part 2; HOUSE 000307 is Part 1	Verified
The scan was filed in Giuffre v. Maxwell on February 26, 2016	Court headers on Documents 36-11 and 36-12	Verified
The House created the underlying book	Court history and earlier public copies	False
The estate produced records under an August 25, 2025 subpoena	House Oversight release	Verified as the committee’s statement
The unredacted book first became public in September 2025	Internet Archive item added July 9, 2020 and earlier circulation history	False
Rodriguez tried to sell incriminating material for $50,000	FBI-linked records and established reporting	Supported
Rodriguez received an 18-month federal sentence	Contemporaneous Wall Street Journal report	Verified
A related directory was admitted at Maxwell’s criminal trial	December 9, 2021 memorandum opinion	Verified
The court found every name and number accurate	The court admitted GX 52 for a non-hearsay linking and organizational purpose	False
The court authenticated the handwritten markings	The court said the markings could not be considered if a limiting instruction was requested	False
The civil photocopy and GX 52 were identical	Defense briefing identified differences, including handwritten pages	Not established and specifically disputed
The House book contains geographically labeled massage lists	Direct review of HOUSE 000282, 000297, 000300, 000305, and 000306	Verified
The book is a proven list of criminal clients	Contents and court treatment	False
Every person in the book met Epstein	The directory alone	Not established
A name’s appearance proves wrongdoing	The directory alone	False

Fact checked through September 15, 2026. Later releases, court orders, corrected scans, or authenticated custody records may change parts of the analysis.

Key Takeaways

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT 000258 is a 99-page congressional production of an older court exhibit, not a book created by Congress.
The file contains 97 numbered directory pages and two exhibit covers.
The House PDF is reversed by exhibit part: pages 50-97 appear before pages 1-49.
The directory is a broad household operating tool, not merely a celebrity contact list.
Its entries cover people, assistants, businesses, properties, travel, medicine, security, services, and location-specific massage contacts.
The massage sections are structurally important evidence, but individual names require privacy protection and independent role verification.
A black-book entry shows that contact information was recorded. It does not prove contact, travel, payment, knowledge, abuse, or criminal conduct.
The book is not a proven client list.
The 2021 Maxwell trial ruling authenticated a related directory for a limited evidentiary purpose, not every fact or annotation in the House scan.
The handwritten markings were not authenticated by the criminal court.
The civil photocopy appears to include handwritten pages that Maxwell’s defense said were absent from GX 52.
The unredacted scan was publicly archived years before the House’s September 2025 release.
Searchable black-book indexes are useful finding aids but must be checked against the actual Bates page.
The source should be linked without republishing unnecessary personal information.
The directory becomes more probative only when combined with dated messages, calendars, flights, financial records, visitor records, emails, or testimony.

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