Questions persist about how Jeffrey Epstein, who once moved among the world's elite, was able to avoid federal prosecution for so long. A timeline suggests some answers.

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday reminded Fox News viewers of a name that’s rarely heard on the right-wing network: Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender who was once close with President Donald Trump.

During Mr. Trump's first term, his labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned following criticism of his handling of Epstein's 2008 plea deal when he was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Epstein served 13 months in a jail work-release program after he was originally accused of sexually abusing dozens of girls and young women.

The Wall Street Journal has also published an article alleging that Trump was among prominent figures named in the Epstein files.

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday declined to release additional grand jury documents from the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first roadblock in the Justice Department’s efforts to quell the public backlash over the handling of the case.

Newly surfaced photos reveal for the first time that Jeffrey Epstein was a guest at President Donald Trump’s star-studded wedding to Marla Maples in 1993. The now-notorious pedophile was caught in the background of a picture taken of radio personality Howard Stern,

The Republican-led House of Representatives shut down early for its summer break to avoid Jeffrey Epstein motions.The Senate GOP has been in see-no-evil mode the past week over the controversy swirling around the seemingly vanished “client list” of the high-flying financier and convicted pedophile who once palled around with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton among many other power players.

By 2017, Jeffrey Epstein was a social pariah. Even his right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, attempted to reinvent herself as a charity boss and was careful to no longer be pictured with the convicted sex offender.