Santa Fe, New Mexico — State investigators began searching a secluded New Mexico ranch on Monday where financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein once hosted guests amid allegations that the property may have been used for the sexual assault and sex trafficking of young women.
State Attorney Raul Torrez’s office announced that the search was being conducted in cooperation with the current owners of the farm.
Torrez last month Re-opening the investigation into the farm. The initial case in New Mexico was closed in 2019 at the request of federal prosecutors in New York, and state prosecutors now say that “the findings described in the previously sealed FBI files require further examination.”
Epstein bought the sprawling estate Zorro’s farm In Stanley, New Mexico, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Santa Fe, in 1993 former Democratic Governor Bruce King built a hilltop mansion with a private amphitheater.
The property was sold by Epstein’s company in 2023 — with the proceeds going toward creditors — to the family of Don Huffines, the Texas comptroller candidate who won the Republican primary last week.
“The New Mexico Department of Justice appreciates the cooperation of current property owners,” the agency said in a statement. Prosecutors will continue to keep the public appropriately informed, support survivors, and follow the facts wherever they lead.
Additionally, New Mexico lawmakers created a new commission to do just that Consider past activities on the farm.
Epstein himself committed suicide in a Manhattan prison while awaiting trial in 2019 on charges of sexually assaulting and trafficking dozens of underage girls.
Epstein never faced charges in New Mexico, but the state attorney general’s office said in 2019 She confirmed that she had conducted an interview Potential victims who visited Epstein’s ranch.