Overview
- Stewart said his name appears only in a 2015 email pitch from producer Barry Josephson to Jeffrey Epstein proposing that “somebody like Jon Stewart” narrate a Woody Allen project, stressing he had no involvement beyond the reference.
- On The Daily Show, he used humor to address the mention and argued the DOJ’s rollout was “running interference” that benefits President Donald Trump.
- The Justice Department has released more than 3 million pages from its Epstein trove after identifying roughly 6 million pages as potentially responsive, with many documents heavily redacted, according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
- Survivors and advocates say the disclosure is incomplete and that some files exposed survivors’ identities while shielding alleged abusers, and they are seeking answers from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ahead of a scheduled House Judiciary appearance on Feb. 11.
- Searches of the DOJ’s public Epstein Library return multiple results for “Jon Stewart,” including links to Daily Show clips in Epstein’s inbox, and reporters caution that name mentions alone do not indicate wrongdoing.