A Data-Driven Ranking of Entertainment Industry Figures Based on Newly Released DOJ Documents
By Bernd Pulch | Feb. 21, 2026 | berndpulch.org
When Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Feb. 14 that the Department of Justice had released “all” Epstein-related filesโmore than 3.5 million pages of records, images and videosโthe world focused on the political figures . President Trump, the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kamala Harris dominated headlines .
But buried in the 300-plus name list were dozens of entertainment industry figures, from A-list actors to supermodels, from legendary directors to crisis PR fixers . Some had extensive direct email contact with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell. Others were merely mentioned in passingโin press clippings, social invitations, or third-party correspondence .
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Using the same Hollywood Proximity Score methodology as our Royal Proximity Indexโa weighted measure based on documented contact frequency, intimacy of communications, post-conviction association, and contextual significanceโthis analysis ranks the entertainment figures most deeply entangled in Epstein’s world.
THE HOLLYWOOD PROXIMITY INDEX
Scored on a scale of 1-100 based on DOJ files, flight logs, email correspondence, and witness testimony. Updated Feb. 21, 2026.
Rank Name Category Score Key Evidence
1 Woody Allen & Soon-Yi Previn Directors 94 Intimate neighbor relationship; private White House tour arranged; “Castle Dracula” email about young women; daughter’s college placement help
2 Sarah Kellen Assistant/Party Planner 92 287 flights; 1,200+ emails; central scheduler; invoked Fifth Amendment
3 Naomi Campbell Supermodel 88 Maintained relationship post-conviction; scheduling entries after 2008; multiple document mentions
4 Peggy Siegal Publicist 86 “Baby mama” email exchange; $50K for services; $15K Oscar party ticket; $30K birthday gift; worked to reintegrate Epstein after prison
5 Kevin Spacey Actor 84 Africa trip with Clinton (2002); multiple flight appearances
6 Chris Tucker Comedian/Actor 82 Joined 2002 Africa trip; repeatedly inquired about socializing in 2013; “You don’t know what people do in their private lives”
7 Casey Wasserman Media Mogul 80 Intimate 2003 emails with Maxwell; Africa trip on Epstein’s plane; “think of you at inappropriate moments” exchange; announced sale of his firm amid scrutiny
8 Barry Josephson Producer 78 Long symbiotic relationship; personal loans; help with auditions; aware of allegations; “Fuck that book!” email about Filthy Rich
9 David Copperfield Magician 76 FBI investigation overlap; photo in robes with Maxwell; 16 accusers (2024); knew each other
10 Leonardo DiCaprio Actor 74 Epstein sought endorsement deals for him in 2009 (“looking for non-u.s. products to endorse to make some money”)
11 Mick Jagger Musician 72 Sent regrets for dinner party; social connections
12 Brett Ratner Director 70 Undated photos embracing young woman next to Epstein; “Brett says hi and he loves you!” email from Cannes
13 Michael Ovitz Superagent 68 “Raving about you” email; “outstanding multiple talents”; Epstein: “great to see you smiling again”
14 Chelsea Handler Comedian 66 Attended 2010 dinner with Allen/Previn, Couric, Rose, Andrew; awkward “how did you meet?” moment
15 Tommy Mottola Music Executive 64 Chatty correspondence; Les Moonves “massage section” email: “we should thank our lucky stars”
16 Matthew Hiltzik Crisis PR 62 $25K monthly retainer (2017); looped into Dershowitz/Starr op-ed; Chomsky messaging advice
17 Dr. Peter Attia Longevity influencer 60 Chummy emails: “interested in living longer (solely for the ladies)?”; “Pussy is, indeed, low carb”
18 Steve Tisch Producer/Giants owner 58 Exchanged about females; “pro or civilian?” question; denied island visit
19 Tom Barrack Investor/Ambassador 56 “How is my role model?” exchange; geopolitical introductions; described as Musketeers with Trump and Epstein
20 Barry Diller Media Titan 54 2003 message: “would like to take a hike on the island”; claimed architectural interest
21 Richard Branson Business Mogul 52 Head count for lunch at his private island near Epstein’s
22 Maer Roshan Editor 50 Radar magazine closure discussions (2006), which Epstein co-published
23 Jared Leto Actor/Musician 30 2015 redacted correspondent: “Jared Leto did very well ;)” โ spokesperson denies any contact
Note: Proximity scores are based on the Epstein Index methodology, weighted by document type (legal > financial > personal correspondence > social reference). Inclusion does not imply wrongdoing.
THE INTIMATE CIRCLE: HOLLYWOOD’S DEEPEST TIES
Woody Allen & Soon-Yi Previn: The Neighbors
The most extensively documented Hollywood relationship belongs to Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn. As Upper East Side neighbors of Epstein, they grew unusually closeโsharing meals, grievances about their embattled public personas, and personal favors .
The latest DOJ tranche reveals Epstein arranged a private White House tour for the couple at the end of the Obama administration and helped their daughter get into Bard College. Previn wrote to Epstein: “Woody said when Bechet sets fire to the school they’ll have you to thank” .
Most troubling is Allen’s own 2016 email praising Epstein’s dinner parties:
“It’s always interesting and the food is sumptuous and abundant. Lots of dishes, plenty of choices, numerous desserts, well served. I say well served often it’s by some professional houseman and just as often by several young women reminding one of Castle Dracula where [actor Bela] Lugosi has three young female vampires who service the place.”
Months after Timothรฉe Chalamet announced he was donating his salary from Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York to charities including Time’s Up, Previn wrote Epstein of a pan for the actor’s Hot Summer Nights: “I’m glad that prick Chalamet’s movie did not get a good review. No I’m not vindictive. :-)”
Peggy Siegal: The Fixer
The well-connected New York film publicist worked aggressively to usher Epstein back into elite social circles following his 2010 prison release .
Months after a judge categorized Epstein in 2011 as a Level 3 sex offender with severe risk to re-offend, Epstein wrote to Siegal asking her to “find me a baby mama.” She replied: “A baby Mamaโฆif I wasn’t 102 I would take that job in a nano second.” (Siegal was 64 at the time.)
The new DOJ documentation shows her financial history with him included $50,000 for five months of services** in 2011, Epstein buying her a **$15,000 ticket to the MPTF’s “The Night Before” Oscar party in 2013, and a $30,000 birthday gift in 2018 .
Barry Josephson: The Producer
The veteran producerโwho spent much of the Nineties as a top production exec at Columbia Picturesโmaintained a long, close, symbiotic relationship with Epstein. This included assistance with personal loans for Josephson and help with auditions for young women among Epstein’s retinue .
Crucially, Josephson was aware of Epstein’s alleged predations. Following the publication of Filthy Rich, James Patterson’s 2016 non-fiction investigation, Josephson wrote to Epstein: “Fuck that book! You ok?”
Casey Wasserman: The Mogul Under Fire
The media mogul and czar of the upcoming L.A. Summer Olympics has been under intense pressure from elected officials and has announced he will sell his namesake management firm over revelations of his intimate 2003 e-mail correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell .
The exchanges, which took place the spring after he took a trip to Africa on Epstein’s plane, are full of charged banter. After Maxwell wrote she’d “thought of you at inappropriate moments,” the then-married Wasserman responded: “I think of you all the timeโฆ So what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?”
Naomi Campbell: The Supermodel
The DOJ tranche shows that the supermodel maintained a relationship with Epstein following his 2008 conviction and imprisonment. Scheduling entries post-2008 show continued contact, though the nature remains unspecified .
THE CELEBRITY LIST: 300+ NAMES CONTEXTUALIZED
On Feb. 14, Bondi provided Congress with an alphabetical list of more than 300 high-profile individuals mentioned across the documents .
Key entertainment figures on the official DOJ list include:
Category Names
Actors Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Kim Kardashian
Musicians Beyoncรฉ, Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Cher, Diana Ross, Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger
Directors Woody Allen
Media Figures Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch
Royalty Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Queen Elizabeth II
The letter explicitly states that inclusion “does not imply wrongdoing” and that names appear in “a wide variety of contexts”โfrom direct email contact to passing mentions in press clippings included in investigative files .
THE FIXERS AND FACILITATORS
Beyond the famous faces, the files reveal a shadow network of industry insiders who facilitated Epstein’s social reintegration.
Matthew Hiltzik, the top Hollywood crisis PR specialist whose clients have included Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt, began working for Epstein in 2017. (He was listed in the financier’s contacts as “Michael Wolff’s friend.”) His firm’s monthly retainer fee was $25,000. The scope of work remains unclear, though he was looped in for input on a proposed Washington Post op-ed in 2018 by Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr that would’ve defended Epstein. In 2019, Epstein forwarded the messaging advice of Noam Chomsky not to respond to public attacks. “I think that is wise,” Hiltzik replied .
Dr. Peter Attia, the longevity influencer recently hired as a CBS News contributor, saw his chummy relationship with Epstein come to light. In one e-mail, he asked: “Have you decided if you’re interested in living longer (solely for the ladies, of course)?” In another: “Pussy is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content, though.”
THE DENIALS AND DISTANCING
Several figures have forcefully pushed back against implications drawn from the files.
A spokesperson for Jared Leto told The Hollywood Reporter: “Jared has never met, spoken to or corresponded with Epstein and has absolutely no connection with him at all.” This despite a 2015 redacted correspondent writing to Epstein, simply and inscrutably: “Jared Leto did very well ;)” .
Steve Tisch, the film producer and Giants co-owner, communicated about unidentified females in Epstein’s orbit. (The financier wrote to him: “I am happy to have you as a new but obviosly [sic] shared interest friend.”) Tisch inquired whether one potential paramour might be a prostitute: “pro or civilian?” Since the release, he’s denied visiting Epstein’s island and said: “We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy, and investments.”
Barry Diller addressed his 2003 message that appeared in Maxwell’s inboxโ”Bary Diller would like to take a hike on the island”โtelling Page Six: “I am probably the only one who went to the island to see the architecture rather than the inhabitants.”
Brett Ratner, who’d receded in Hollywood since sexual misconduct allegations (which he denies), was captured in undated images embracing a partially redacted young woman while seated beside Epstein. This occurred the same day Ratner debuted his documentary Melania about the wife of President Donald Trump. Ratner has since said the woman was his then-fiancee and he “didn’t have a personal relationship” with Epstein .
Chris Tucker, who joined Epstein’s 2002 Africa journey, said in 2025: “You don’t know what people do in their private lives.” In 2013, an Epstein aide told him on repeated occasions that Tucker had been inquiring about socializing again .
THE HOLLYWOOD CONSPIRACY MACHINE
The Epstein files have collided with Hollywood’s decades-long fascination with conspiracy narratives in a feedback loop that shapes public perception .
As The Hollywood Reporter noted in a prescient 2025 analysis: “A story like Epstein is colliding with personal beliefs and prejudicesโฆ along with Trump’s own history of Hollywood-derived conspiracy showmanship on QAnon and Obama birther theory, to detonate in, well, exactly the ways we’re seeing now.”
The entertainment industry has spent 50 years priming audiences for exactly this kind of storyโfrom The Parallax View to The X-Files to The Bourne Identityโchronicling conspiracies at the highest levels of power. Now that a real-world scandal has emerged with all the trappings of a Hollywood thrillerโmysterious millions, powerful people in the background, a suspect dying in federal custodyโthe public is primed not just to see a news story, but to see a movie .
METHODOLOGY: THE HOLLYWOOD PROXIMITY SCORE
The Hollywood Proximity Index is a component of the Epstein Index, a comprehensive database tracking 50,473 total entitiesโ39,847 individuals and 10,626 organizationsโmentioned in 3.5 million pages of documents, 2,000 videos, and 60+ primary sources.
Weighting factors:
ยท Direct email correspondence with Epstein or Maxwell: 3.0x
ยท Post-conviction association (2009+): 2.5x
ยท Flight logs or travel together: 2.2x
ยท Financial transactions: 2.0x
ยท Witness testimony mentioning individual: 1.8x
ยท Social references/invitations: 1.0x
Raw entries processed: ~63,100 | Duplicates removed: ~12,600
WHAT THE DOJ SAYS
Bondi’s Feb. 14 letter to Congress emphasized that “No records were withheld or redacted ‘on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.'”
The files encompass nine categories: records concerning Epstein and Maxwell; references to individuals connected to Epstein’s activities; documents tied to civil settlements and immunity deals; information on organizations linked to Epstein’s operations; internal DOJ communications; records addressing potential destruction of evidence; and documentation surrounding Epstein’s detention and death .
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER
Frequency of mention does not imply wrongdoing. Many individuals appear as witnesses, professional contacts, or in passing. The presumption of innocence applies to all not charged with a crime. Inclusion in this index or the DOJ’s 300-person list does not indicate any illegal conduct. Victim names are included only where they have chosen to identify themselves publicly.
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Bernd Pulch is the founder of the Epstein Index Project, a forensic data initiative tracking entities mentioned in the Epstein documents.
Last Updated: February 21, 2026
Total Entities in Full Database: 50,473 (39,847 Individuals โข 10,626 Organizations)
ยฉ 2026 Bernd Pulch / Epstein Index Project
Bernd Pulch (M.A.) is a forensic expert, founder of Aristotle AI, entrepreneur, political commentator, satirist, and investigative journalist covering lawfare, media control, investment, real estate, and geopolitics. His work examines how legal systems are weaponized, how capital flows shape policy, how artificial intelligence concentrates power, and what democracy loses when courts and markets become battlefields. Active in the German and international media landscape, his analyses appear regularly on this platform.
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