Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Shockingly Extensive Gaming History
Buried in the Justice Department’s three million pages of Epstein documents is an unexpected subplot: Jeffrey Epstein was a gambler.
Not casual either. The files – released on January 30 as part of a wide-ranging DOJ disclosure – paint a portrait of a convicted sex offender who maintained an active presence on multiple gaming platforms for years, who corresponded with some of the video game industry’s most powerful executives about monetizing children, and whose username is now at the center of a viral conspiracy theory alleging that he is still alive and gaming. Fortnite of Israel. (RELATED: Prince Andrew’s Epstein Nightmare Is Even Worse)
The saga begins with Xbox Live.
Documents show that Epstein received a “Welcome to Xbox Live” email on October 31, 2012. He had been a registered sex offender since 2008, and Microsoft had joined New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s “Operation: Game Over” initiative to purge sex offenders from online gaming platforms six months earlier, in April 2012.
Despite this, Epstein’s account remained active for approximately 14 months.
On December 19, 2013, Microsoft finally pulled the plug. An automated enforcement email sent to Epstein’s “jeevacation@gmail.com” address cited “harassment, threats, and/or abuse toward other players,” describing the conduct as “severe, repeated, and/or excessive.” A follow-up email the same day provided the real explanation: “This action is based on the New York Attorney General’s partnership with Microsoft and other online gaming companies to remove New York registered sex offenders from online gaming services to minimize risk to others, especially children.” »
The ban was related to the policy of the New York Attorney General’s partnership with Microsoft and other gaming companies to remove New York-registered sex offenders from online gaming services. pic.twitter.com/gVaF5T97jy
-Tom Warren (@tomwarren) January 30, 2026
The ban did not end Epstein’s relationship with Xbox. In July 2014, he emailed an associate: “Do we have an Xbox 360 Kinect? In 2016, another post talked about buying an Xbox as a birthday present for a boy. And in 2019, someone associated with the account filed complaints about a mysterious $25.24 Xbox fee.
But the Xbox ban is, in truth, the least peculiar gaming revelation on record. That distinction belongs to Epstein’s apparent relationship with Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard – the publisher behind Call of Duty And World of Warcraftand among the most formidable money printing operations the video game industry has ever produced.
Kotick’s name appears nearly 300 times in the Epstein files. The two men exchanged more than a dozen emails, Kotaku reported, starting in 2012. Epstein’s itinerary for November 2012 included a dinner with Kotick in New York. “Bobby Kotick came over last night…he’s awesome,” Epstein wrote to Faith Kates, co-founder of Next Model Management, in November 2012. In December 2012, Kotick told Epstein that he “wished [sic] Could have stopped on the island’ after a Caribbean vacation.
The correspondence continued until May 2013, when Epstein forwarded Kotick a long, ragged email — written by Pablos Holman, who describes himself as a “hacker inventing and building new technology” — proposing, in essence, that video games replace traditional education by appealing to the baser instincts of fifth-grade boys.
The details were striking. A door in a video game could open to reveal “a sexy princess with big breasts and a thong” to motivate children to learn Japanese. “Edutainment is for pussies,” Holman observed. “We need educational subversion!” »
Kotick responded: “Prize
Epstein forwarded Kotick’s response to Holman, who replied: “I’m all for indoctrinating children into an economy. You have to love the way his [e]An example of “real world rewards” is “virtual items in games”.
The exchange took place on May 3, 2013, a few weeks after Activision rolled out its first-ever microtransactions in Call of Duty: Black Ops IIForbes reported at the time. Black Ops II was the first Call of Duty title to feature microtransactions, a revenue model that has since generated billions in the gaming industry and drawn persistent criticism for targeting younger gamers.
To be clear: Nothing in the files suggests that Epstein was personally developing the monetization strategy at Activision headquarters. Kotick and Holman made the proposal.
Then there is 4chan.
In May 2017, Epstein emailed his girlfriend Karyna Shuliak a link to a 4chan thread featuring pornographic animations of characters from Five Nights at Freddy’sa popular horror video game franchise. The subject line simply said: “amazing animations.” The content, made in Source Filmmaker, was verified by Kotaku via DOJ files and 4chan archives.
This image is circulating, you can check the content via 4chan archives and the latest version by email. No, but it wasn’t a joke either, it was 100% serious. We are in hell.
[image or embed]– James Galizio (@theswweet.myatproto.social) January 30, 2026 at 8:19 p.m.
The files also show a $25.95 purchase of Fortnite V-Bucks on May 7, 2019 – approximately three months before Epstein died in federal custody. The V-Bucks are Fortnite in-game currency, used primarily to purchase character outfits. The purchase was linked to the username “littlestjeff1,” which was also listed on a YouTube subscription receipt in the files.
Since we apparently now live in a reality where the most bizarre possibility is what is real, we must inform you that Jeffrey Epstein’s Fortnite account has been active in Israel on multiple occasions in the last year alone. pic.twitter.com/MVGQ6ErZda
– Dissident Media (@DissidentMedia) February 5, 2026
This username has since become the center of a vast internet conspiracy. Once this surfaced, armchair detectives typed “littlestjeff1” into every public tracker they could find. What came back was a Fortnite account under that handle showing gaming stats through Chapter 5 Season 1 — years after Epstein’s documented death in August 2019. Screenshots circulated claiming the account showed recent logins from Israel. The same handle would have appeared on Rocket League.
Both profiles went dark almost immediately after the screenshots began circulating, and an archived page of the Fortnite the statistics were also allegedly erased – pouring fuel on speculation that Epstein faked his death and was still alive, playing from the Levant.
Maybe Jeffrey Epstein is still alive.
In the Epstein files there is a receipt from YouTube where his username is littlestjeff1.
If you search for this account on Fortnite Tracker you can see that there is an account with that name and the Epstein files show that he purchased V-Bucks.… pic.twitter.com/6oRK92whpl
-Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) February 5, 2026
A more boring but potentially more likely explanation: the DOJ inadvertently exposed Epstein’s login credentials, and anonymous internet users—needing no greater motive than garden-variety opportunism—helped themselves to a dead man. Fortnite account.
The revelation that history’s most notorious sex trafficker was also, apparently, a gamer has provided the Internet with two weeks’ worth of material so far, and the excitement shows no signs of abating.
One detail makes the whole story even stranger. In August 2019, days after Epstein’s death, a Twitter user named Jules posted: “I don’t know what his gamertag is, but Jeffrey Epstein had an Xbox Live account. » The tweet went largely unnoticed for more than six years – until the Epstein files proved him right and the post went viral.
The gaming industry has not commented. Kotick, who left Activision Blizzard in 2023 after the company was acquired by Microsoft for $70 billion, did not publicly respond to emails.
