I tried to get magazines to publish the black book. And of course, I wanted to write some articles on the black book. And no one wanted to touch it. And finally, Gawker said that they would publish the black book. And by that time, I had flight logs, too. So in 2015, Gawker and I published both the black book and also the flight log. So I was the first guy to publish the flight logs, too. And I wrote a couple of articles about it since then. 

— Nick Bryant, The Epstein Coverup: A Journalist’s Theory
Source

In a media landscape eager to distance itself from accountability, it took years before any major outlet dared to publish Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book — a disturbing roster of the powerful, the protected, and the connected.

Despite repeated attempts to have it covered by mainstream magazines, only Gawker agreed to publish it — and even then, only after journalist Nick Bryant had secured the infamous flight logs as well.

In 2015, Bryant and Gawker became the first to publish both the black book and the flight manifests — a defining moment in the public exposure of Epstein’s network.

📂 Where to find them today:

1. The Black Book
    - Originally published by Gawker:
    https://gawker.com/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-1681370768
    - Archived PDF mirror by Nick Bryant:
    https://nickbryantnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/blackbookredacted.pdf
2. The Black Book New location
   – https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black- book-redacted.pdf
   – https://ia903203.us.archive.org/22/items/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-unredacted_202006/Jeffrey%20Epstein%27s%20Little%20Black%20Book%20unredacted.pdf
3. The Flight Logs
    - Also released via Bryant and court documents (e.g., Virginia Giuffre’s cases)
    - Partial logs can be found here:
    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-epstein-flight-manifests
    - Full logs published in various parts by journalists & FOIA releases — Bryant compiled them further

Cite: The Epstein Coverup: A Journalist’s Theory – WhoWhatWhy , https://extragoodshit.phlap.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-Epstein-Coverup-A-Journalists-Theory-WhoWhatWhy1.html

🧾 Summary of our Insight:

• 95 pages, 2,879 entries = compact enough to fit into a standard A5 or A4 notebook, especially in staff-maintained form.
• It’s more like a Rolodex-style working directory, not a private logbook of crimes or leverage.
• The value lies almost entirely in:
  • Names
  • Connections
  • Patterns (when cross-referenced)

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