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Newly released Epstein files show the FBI interviewed New Zealand property manager Brice Gordon at Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch in 2007, where he and his wife Karen managed several of Epstein’s properties.
Among them was Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, a remote compound alleged to be a location where Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell abused and trafficked female victims. The Gordons are not accused of any criminal wrongdoing.
An FBI electronic communication included in the latest tranche of unsealed Epstein documents confirms that Gordon was interviewed by federal investigators at Zorro Ranch in August 2007. Those notes are missing from the material released by the US Department of Justice, leaving a gap in the public record.
There is no public record of the ranch being raided by the FBI. A 2019 inquiry by the state’s then attorney-general did not result in charges.
State Representative Andrea Romero says she is leading a temporary “truth commission” to examine Epstein’s New Mexico activities.
Romero told NZ media that the Gordons would be considered “people of interest” for the commission and could be subpoenaed to testify about their time managing the property and what they may know. She described the couple’s absence from public view since Epstein’s death as “alarming”.
Zorro Ranch, which local law enforcement once dubbed the “Playboy Mansion of Santa Fe”, has long been alleged to be central to Epstein’s abuse network.
