Thousands of long-awaited Jeffrey Epstein files released after months of public outcry

This move set a 30-day countdown for the US justice department (DoJ) to publish them.

Thousands of files have been released, however, the DoJ has not published all of the documents it holds.

Many of the files have been heavily redacted to protect the identities of victims.

One of the released images shows Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor laughing as he lies across the laps of five women.

Behind them is Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's associate.

The pair were previously pictured together with the late Virginia Giuffre, who accused the former prince of rape.

He has always denied any wrongdoing and his appearance in images does not suggest any wrongdoing.

Elsewhere in the trove of unearthed files is an image of former US President Bill Clinton, who was seen side-by-side with the sex predator.

Another image shows him making use of what appears to be the paedophile financier’s swimming pool with Maxwell.

Maxwell is also spotted visiting 10 Downing Street, with an image showing her outside the Prime Minister’s office.

According to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, no directive has been put forward to ensure President Trump’s name is removed from the files.

He told ABC: “There’s no effort to hold back because there’s the name Donald J Trump, or anybody else’s name - Bill Clinton’s name, Reid Hoffman’s name.

“There’s no effort to hold back or not hold back because of that. President Trump has certainly said from the beginning that he expects all files that can be released to be released.

“That’s exactly what we’re doing.”

Mr Trump has always denied any wrongdoing, and being name in the files does not indicate any wrongdoing.

He is named in a contact book in the files in an image of a heavily redacted list.

The Justice Department stressed one of their main priorities was to protect the victims.

“All reasonable efforts have been made to review and redact personal information”, they said, regarding victims and private individuals.

It adds: “That said, because of the volume of information involved, this website may nevertheless contain information that inadvertently includes non-public personally identifiable information or other sensitive content, to include matters of a sexual nature.”

Mr Blanche said over 1,200 victims and their families were found while reviewing the files.

He said more pages will be released in the coming weeks as the DoJ continues to make pages publishable by ensuring they do not infringe the safety of victims.

Victims of Epstein, Democrats and many of Trump’s own supporters have long campaigned for the files’ release.

They are hopeful many of the financier’s links to the rich and powerful will be exposed.