We Tracked Every Visitor to Epstein Island | WIRED

Even in death, the secrets of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his infamous private island remain tightly guarded. But in 2024 WIRED conducted an investigation uncovering the data of mobile devices belonging to almost 200 of his visitors. How strong was the data? So precise that we followed visitor's movements to and from Epstein Island to within centimeters—tracking their countries, neighborhoods, and even buildings of origin. This is Epstein Island’s Secret Data: On The Grid.



Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Constantine Economides
Editor: Matthew Colby
Host: Dhruv Mehrotra
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Camera Operator: Vincent Cota
Sound Mixer: Michael Guggino
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds


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[aggressivelyzoe]

hey, maybe lawmakers will start caring about data privacy now that it’s clear they could be exposed for being the creeps they are

[tehphoebus]

I hope Wired is hiring private security for their employees covering this story.

[Myke]

Murder a CEO? Nationwide manhunt.

Ruin the lives of countless poors? Crickets

[andrews]

6:23 for a minute I thought this was the most diabolical VPN ad I’ve ever seen

[kevindexterpattee]

The title of this video should be: "We tracked every visitor to Epstein and named none of them".

[nolangoldberger]

I want more. Like a 3 hour show on this. Wired knows way more than what we’re hearing.

[toastedregret]

The fact we still dont have the list should tell us something has critically gone wrong with our justice system....

[PathfireNeon]

Government won’t release the list, but wired can literally track the cellphones that visit the island. Leave it to a bunch of nerds to finally distribute justice…

[MNCH_]

Props to WIRED for shedding light on such a dark chapter. The deeper you dig into stories like this, the clearer it becomes: the powerful need accountability as much as anyone else. 👏

[Mrcheesebumble]

Some very wealthy people are sweating right now. Good.

[MissBananaYT]

The plane being called Lolita Express is actually sickening.

[jooleebilly]

Funny how no "authorities" looked into this even though they queried the maps. It's almost like someone looked into it, delivered the info, and then it was buried.

[heavenwaits]

5:20 i was gonna be mad about not fully exposing names in the video but that’s actually very responsible reporting, i hope it’s followed up soon

[Iloveyoursoul]

These days Youtube content trumps live television when it comes to investigative journalism...

[wreyy]

I find it crazy that he named his plane LOLITA 💀

[mercurusblastomus]

Everyone that visited that Island should be under investigation.

[gtleshow]

Chilling how technology can uncover the movements of nearly 200 visitors down to the centimeter. This level of precision really makes you think about privacy, ethics, and just how much of our lives are being tracked.

[TomSherwood-zl]

Somewhere some guy is shtting himself saying aw jeez all I did was go there to fix the air conditioner.

[ThousandDollarSparkler]

it’s so surreal to see one of those red dots in the weird random general location you live when there’s no major city within like 2-3 hours of you in any location

[rileyspencer]

They should have leaked it to wikileaks instead of wired. Now we'll never get the coordinates or a map, just more smoke.