In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s death in 2019, the FBI conducted searches of his infamous properties worldwide. However, there remains a question mark over one location.

The bureau has not disclosed whether its agents inspected Epstein’s expansive New Mexico estate, known as Zorro Ranch.

This property is alleged to have been the backdrop for heinous acts, including sexual assault and homicide, as revealed in the Epstein files.

Documents from the Department of Justice suggest that Epstein might have orchestrated the burial of two foreign women near the ranch, following their tragic deaths by strangulation during alleged sexual encounters.

This chilling information was conveyed via an encrypted email from someone claiming to be a former employee at Zorro Ranch. This message, sent to Eddy Aragon on November 21, 2019, eventually found its way to the FBI.

An email containing this information was sent from an encrypted address of a person claiming to have worked for Epstein at Zorro to a man named Eddy Aragon on November 21, 2019, before it was forwarded to the FBI.

A wall of silence 

When the Daily Mail asked the FBI on Monday whether it ever searched the notorious ranch residence, a bureau spokesman declined to comment.

The agency’s field office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment. 

The FBI has also declined to answer the pressing question when asked by other outlets, raising questions about whether the New Mexico residence was ever investigated. 

‘Edward, This is sensitive, so it will be the first and last email depending on your discretion.’ 

‘You can choose to take it or trash it but this comes from a person that has been there and seen it all, as a former staff at the Zorro,’ the email states. 

‘What is damning about Jeffrey Epstein is yet to be written.’ 

‘Did you know somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G? Both died by strangulation during [expletive].’ 

The sender also included links to videos which claimed to show Epstein having sexual intercourse with minors, [expletive] with young girls.

The 2019 FBI failure 

They then demanded a payment of one Bitcoin in return for the video and information.

The email was forwarded to the FBI just three months after Epstein died while being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.

Nearly half a dozen victims have alleged they were abused at the ranch.  

Months after Epstein’s death in federal custody in August 2019, the ranch had not been scoured by the FBI, according to a recently released email. 

According to a December 2019 email released by the DoJ, a prosecutor relayed to one of Epstein’s estate co-executors that authorities had ‘not searched the New Mexico property.’ 

Now local authorities are calling for a new probe into the email and its grizzly allegations.

New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard has called on the DoJ and the New Mexico Department of Justice to probe the claim that two were killed and buried at Zorro. 

‘I’m horrified when I learned something new, especially when I learned that state land could have been used, could have been involved in some of these monstrous activities,’ she said in a local news interview. 

From Governor King to Shuliak 

New Mexico’s Chief Deputy Attorney General, James Grayson, released a statement noting how the claims are ‘unsubstantiated,’ but that his office will seek to find the truth. 

‘We will work to obtain the original, unredacted emails and any underlying files, as access to complete and authentic materials is critical to our assessment and planning,’ Grayson said.

‘These circumstances raise significant concerns regarding the reliability, authenticity, and credibility of the claims.’

‘Notwithstanding those concerns, we are prepared to review and assess any verifiable information should it be provided through appropriate and lawful means.’

Documents released as part of the Epstein files also show that Epstein intended to leave his Zorro estate to his Belarusian girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak.

Epstein bought Zorro Ranch in 1993 from Bruce King, a former three-time New Mexico governor.

The 13 square miles of high desert include a 26,700sq ft luxury estate, guest lodges, staff dwellings and several outbuildings.

It also has a firehouse, horse stables, a seven-bay heated garage, a greenhouse to grow fresh produce, a cattle grazing operation and private air strip, a hangar and a helipad. 

More discreet than the Island 

Epstein used Zorro Ranch as an isolated getaway and playground for VIP guests who were able to come and go more discreetly than they could even to Little St James, his private Caribbean island off St Thomas.

Civil filings claim that the compound hosted the former Prince Andrew, who was accused by Virginia Giuffre, who produced photographs and written statements showing she visited the compound during the time she was trafficked as a teenager between 2000 and 2002.

Epstein owned the property until his death. His estate listed it in 2021 for $27.5 million.

That price was later dropped to $18 million, and the ranch was sold for an undisclosed price in 2023 to a limited liability corporation that renamed the property the San Rafael Ranch.

The owner was shrouded in secrecy until recently, when it was revealed that Donald Huffines, a former Republican state senator from Dallas, purchased the property.

It is unclear how much the Huffines wound up spending, but a spokesman for the family insisted to the New Mexican that proceeds went to Epstein’s victims.

‘Four years after Mr Epstein’s death, the Huffines family purchased property in New Mexico listed at public auction, whose proceeds benefited his victims,’ spokesman Allen Blakemore said.

‘Prior to the listing auction, they had never visited the property.’

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Report: Mysterious figure who purchased Epstein’s Zorro Ranch revealed to be Texas politician 

The mysterious figure who purchased disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling New Mexico estate where multiple survivors said they were sexually abused has been revealed as a Republican firebrand running to be Texas’ new comptroller. 

Donald Huffines, a former Republican state senator from Dallas, purchased the notorious Zorro Ranch in southern Santa Fe County in 2023 – four years after Epstein was found dead at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. 

The secluded desert ranch – which includes a 26,7000-square-foot mansion – had been listed for sale in July 2021 for $27.5 million, but a published report said the sale price had dropped to $18 million. 

It is unclear how much the Huffines wound up spending to purchase the land, but a spokesperson for the family insisted to the New Mexican that proceeds went to Epstein’s victims. 

‘Four years after Mr. Epstein’s death, the Huffines family purchased property in New Mexico listed at public auction, whose proceeds benefited his victims,’ spokesperson Allen Blakemore said. 

‘Prior to the listing auction, they had never visited the property.’ After the sale went through, the Huffines petitioned to lower the ranch’s assessed value, arguing in part that the ‘notoriety’ of the property and the final sales price justified a lower valuation, according to documents obtained by the New Mexican. 

The Santa Fe County assessor ultimately agreed, with court records showing that in December 2024, he determined the value of the property to be $13.4 million for fiscal year 2023 – and not the $21.1 million it was initially assessed at. 

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