Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox

Last week, the The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has released 20,000 documents relating to the estate of disgraced registered sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. They included thousands of emails sent between Epstein and high-profile people like Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, political strategist Steve Bannon, journalist Michael Wolff and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, as well as revealing text messages. Many of them allude to or directly reference President Donald Trump.

Now you can browse all those emails just like you would on your own Gmail account.

Jmail is a website that looks a lot like Gmail, except there’s a little hat hanging from the logo and the profile picture in the upper right corner is a smiling Epstein. (Click it and it says “Hi Jeffrey!”) Inbox lets you click through thousands of emails, formatted to look exactly like a regular message in your inbox. In the sidebar, you can sort by Inbox, Favorites and Sent. In Gmail, a lower section of the sidebar reads labels and separates emails by category. In Jmail this is a list of people who corresponded with Epstein.

The site was created by serial prankster Riley Walz and Luke Igel, co-founder of an AI video editing tool called Kino AI. Igel tells WIRED that he brought the idea to Walz — which Walz confirms — and they then built the website with Cursor in a single night. Walz revealed Jmail in an X article, writing: “We cloned Gmail, except you are logged in as Epstein and can see his emails. »

Jmail is a much more readable way to navigate the huge cache of emails released by the Epstein estate than parsing tens of thousands of PDFs on a Google Drive. Among its useful features, it revamps Gmail’s core functionality, allowing users to flag emails they consider important and then sort them based on how many people are reporting them. By default, the Inbox lists emails in order of recency; The Community Featured feature is a way to surface what people consider to be more important emails.

“The emails were so hard to read,” Igel says. “It was like you saw real screenshots of the actual inbox, but what you saw were very low quality, poorly scanned PDFs. You have to take some imaginative leaps to remember that this is indeed a real email.”

Being able to see these emails in a more familiar, readable format makes it much easier to follow the threads and back-and-forths, but also reveals some strange things about Epstein’s communications. Igel says there was a noticeable increase in typos and sporadic formatting when Epstein moved from a desktop keyboard to a touchscreen device in the early 2010s.