FedEx Reportedly Deleted Invoices From Jeffrey Epstein's Shipping Account Showing It Was Used Long After His Death

Jeffrey Epstein died on 10 August 2019 in a federal detention cell in Manhattan. His FedEx account, apparently, did not.

Invoices accessed by The Ditch, an independent investigative outlet based in Ireland, show shipments billed to Epstein's account as recently as May 2024 — nearly five years after his death. The account still listed him as the holder. His former accountant, Bella Klein, was still named as administrator. Nobody had bothered to close it, or if they had, someone reopened it, which is arguably stranger.

Then the invoices were deleted.

Not by hackers or by some rogue employee, as far as anyone can tell. The records were removed from the publicly accessible DOJ dataset shortly after The Ditch flagged them. FedEx has not explained why. The DOJ has not explained why. Both were contacted for comment. Neither responded.

How an Irish Outlet Got Into a Dead Man's FedEx Account

This part is almost comically simple. When the DOJ released 3.5 million pages of Epstein-related documents in late January 2026 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, someone forgot to redact a password. It was Epstein's FedEx login, sitting in plain text inside the published files, and The Ditch found it.

They logged in. The account was live.

Inside were invoices for at least two shipments in 2024. One, dated 20 May, was collected at Gulfstream product support in Savannah, Georgia, and delivered to Plan D LLC in Kennesaw, Georgia. Plan D LLC is — or was — the now-dissolved company that owned and operated Epstein's private jet. A second shipment, on 12 March, went from the same Gulfstream address to Empire Aviation in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Both shipments involve aviation companies. Both were billed to a dead man's account. Who authorised them has not been established. Whether they relate to the jet itself — maintenance, parts, whatever — or to something else is not stated in any public document. The invoices recorded parcel weight, sender, recipient and billing details, which is standard. What is not standard is that the billing name belonged to someone who had been dead for nearly five years at the time of collection.

Mind you, corporate accounts do sometimes outlive their holders. Estates get wound up slowly. Accountants keep systems running. It is possible there is a boring explanation for all of this. But boring explanations do not usually end with the records being quietly scrubbed from a government transparency archive.

FedEx Knew These Records Existed

During the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021, FedEx provided testimony and documentary evidence about Epstein's shipping account. A company witness confirmed that invoices associated with the account had been maintained in FedEx's billing systems going back to the early 2000s. Those invoices were entered as exhibits. They formed part of the prosecution's case.

So FedEx has known for years that this account exists, that it is tied to a convicted sex offender, and that its records carry legal weight. The company's own privacy policy and fraud guidance do not appear to cover the deletion of historical billing records once they have been published in a government archive. Whether FedEx initiated the removal or whether the DOJ did it independently is unclear; neither has said.

What is clear is that the invoices were there, and then they were not, and the timing — shortly after an independent outlet drew attention to them — is the sort of coincidence that makes transparency researchers lose sleep.

The Wider Mess

The Epstein Files release was meant to be comprehensive. The DOJ's Office of Public Affairs said so in January: 3.5 million responsive pages, posted online, available to anyone. Congress had voted for it. The Transparency Act mandated it. The idea was that the public would finally get to see the full documentary record of Epstein's finances, network and operations.

That promise is looking rather thin. Researchers and legal scholars have flagged redactions, missing files and inconsistencies across the dataset. The FedEx deletion is the most concrete example so far — a specific set of records, publicly accessible, independently verified, then removed without explanation — but it sits inside a broader pattern of questions about whether the archive is complete.

Among the contacts listed in Epstein's account address book, The Ditch reported roughly 100 names. They include Maxwell, various business figures, and an ex-Israeli Air Force lieutenant colonel now described as a strategic consultant. The address book alone has generated weeks of headlines and denials. The shipping invoices add a different kind of question: not who Epstein knew, but who was using his infrastructure after he was gone.

Epstein's death was ruled a suicide. Civil suits, estate disputes and requests for further unsealing of DOJ-held archives have continued since. The deleted invoices are, in one sense, a small detail — two parcels, two aviation companies, two dates in 2024. In another sense they are exactly the kind of detail that makes people wonder what else has been quietly removed from a dataset the government promised would be complete.

FedEx and the DOJ were asked to comment. At the time of writing, the parcels have more of a paper trail than the deletion does.