Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling Zorro Ranch has long been reported to have served as one of his private playgrounds for sexual abuse and trafficking.
From looking to carry out human experiments, create a super-race breeding facility using his DNA, and even allegedly burying the bodies of girls who had been strangled to death during ‘rough, fetish sex’, victims have long said the property in New Mexico has been overlooked by authorities.
The 7,500-acre estate, also referred to as the Playboy Ranch, has come under intense recent scrutiny after it made thousands of appearances in the disturbing Epstein files, released by the US Department of Justice on January 30.
Investigators previously searched Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach homes, his island, and even his Paris apartment. But no formal raid is believed to have ever taken place at Zorro Ranch.
This is despite allegations that the paedophile had planned to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at the ranch and had three computer rooms the ‘size of houses’ where he would spy on his famous guests.
On multiple occasions beginning in the early 2000s, Epstein allegedly told scientists and businessmen about his ambitions to use the enormous property as a base where women would be inseminated with his sperm and give birth to his babies.
It was also alleged that Epstein’s disturbing goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at Zorro Ranch.
He is said to have based his idea on accounts of the Repository for Germinal Choice, which was to be stocked with the sperm of Nobel laureates who wanted to strengthen the human gene pool.
Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling Zorro Ranch (pictured) has long been reported to have served as one of his private playgrounds for sexual abuse and trafficking
Jeffrey Epstein ordered the burial of two ‘foreign girls’ near his ranch after they were strangled to death during ‘rough, fetish sex’, a person claiming to be a former worker has alleged
Pictured: The master bedroom of Jeffrey Epstein’s mysterious New Mexico ranch
This massive chandelier is one of the many furnishings that once belonged in Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch
In November last year, witnesses claimed the disgraced financier had used the secluded compound to then physically conduct nonconsensual medical procedures to advance his alleged interest in selective breeding.
‘We have people coming forward saying they were drugged, had sex organs and sperm harvested from their bodies, and woke up around medical equipment not knowing where they were or what happened to them,’ New Mexico state Representative Andrea Romero told the Daily Mail.
Romero is now one of several lawmakers calling for a state ‘truth commission’ to investigate potential sexual and medical abuses on the isolated ranch.
As far-fetched as they may sound, the chilling accounts echo long-circulating claims about Epstein’s obsession with eugenics and his desire to engineer genetically ‘superior’ children.
Epstein used Zorro Ranch as an isolated getaway and playground for VIP guests who were able to come and go more discreetly than they could even to Little St James, his private Caribbean island off St Thomas.
Civil filings claim that the compound hosted the former Prince Andrew, who was accused by Virginia Giuffre, who produced photographs and written statements showing she visited the compound during the time she was trafficked as a teenager between 2000 and 2002.
‘My job was to entertain him endlessly, whether that meant having to bestow him my body during an erotic massage or simply take him horseback riding,’ Giuffre wrote in an unpublished manuscript called The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, which was contained in unsealed court documents in 2019.
Mountbatten-Windsor has not publicly acknowledged visiting Zorro and has consistently denied Giuffre’s abuse allegations.
There have been unverified claims by contractors and journalists that Bill Clinton and other prominent figures, including Woody Allen and Noam Chomsky, also spent time on the property.
There is no suggestion that they were aware of the alleged wrongdoing by Epstein
Maria Farmer, a former employee of Epstein, said she and her younger sister Annie visited Zorro Ranch in 1996 under the guise of an art commission.
Farmer alleged she was sexually assaulted by Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, who in 2021 was found guilty of child sex trafficking and is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison.
Annie said she was 15 when flown to the property and directed by Epstein and Maxwell to take off all her clothes and get on a massage table.’
Farmer also claimed that the ranch housed three huge computer rooms, which were ‘bigger than houses’ to spy on Epstein’s elite roster of guests.
‘All of Epstein’s residences had these mechanical rooms and tunnel systems. I know this because Epstein told me,’ Farmer told The Sun in 2021.
The library in Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch
Pictured: The dining room in Epstein’s Zorro Ranch which included an airstrip, antique railroad car and train tracks
The 7,500-acre estate, also referred to as the Playboy Ranch, has come under intense recent scrutiny after it made thousands of appearances in the disturbing Epstein files, released by the US Department of Justice on January 30
Epstein used Zorro Ranch as an isolated getaway and playground for VIP guests who were able to come and go more discreetly than they could even to Little St James, his private Caribbean island off St Thomas
‘These rooms were enormous – bigger than houses. I have no idea why anyone needs so many computers in one room.
All of Epstein’s estates had ‘pinhole cameras’ used to record everything, that were invisible to the naked eye unless you were looking right at them, Farmer said.
In 2021, an Albuquerque radio station host revealed that an architect and former IT contractor who worked on Epstein’s internet communications and security from 1999 to 2007 had called in to tell all on the mysterious property.
The architect had even provided inside photographs of the ranch and revealed other unusual features of Epstein’s estate.
One such feature, which the architect told the host, Aragon, was something he would never forget – a six-foot naked portrait of Ghislaine Maxwell holding a gold dagger that had been hung in the basement elevator hallway.
The portrait of Maxwell – with her legs reportedly spread – was the first thing that any guests or victims would see on their way down to the basement and pool areas.
This, the radio host said, was designed to intimidate the victims being brought to the ranch for Epstein.
Aragon also said that the plans reveal the ranch had an unusual number of bedrooms – just four – which, for a house over 33,000sq ft in size, seems like a small amount.
‘These plans give us a firmer idea of what was going on at the ranch,’ Aragon said.
‘All of that in the basement feels more like a dungeon with the nebulous mechanical rooms,’ he added.
The plans showed that Epstein’s master bedroom takes up most of the space on the first floor, while on the same level, there were two relatively tiny en-suite bedrooms and a fourth ‘staff bedroom’ on the first floor.
Every room – from the closets to the bathrooms – appeared to have a ‘vestibule’, which Aragon suggested were holding area for the women before they visited Epstein.
‘The maze of rooms, doors, vestibules, waiting areas, and doors, there’s no doubt were used to maximum effect to trap and contain the victims until they were needed for Epstein’s rituals,’ Aragon said.
‘There appears to be no escape. Can you imagine how that would feel for young teenage girls? They must have felt so hopeless and vulnerable.’
More recently, it has been alleged that Epstein had ordered two ‘foreign girls’ who had been strangled to death during ‘rough, fetish sex’ to be buried near the ranch, according to an email released in the latest Epstein files.
The three-level main house was designed by Alberto Pinto and includes a gym, a large indoor pool, a library and a living room
There are also equestrian facilities, which include an eight-stall barn with a tack room, an arena for equestrian activities and an exterior-gated horse run
Zorro Ranch, one of the properties of financier Jeffrey Epstein, is seen in an aerial view near Stanley, New Mexico
The email, sent by a person claiming to have worked for Epstein, also includes links purporting to show the late paedophile engaging in sex with underage girls.
The correspondence, first sent to a man named Eddy Aragon on November 21, 2019, before being forwarded to the FBI, was released as part of three million documents from the Epstein files.
In the email, titled ‘Confidential: Jeffrey Epstein’, the person, whose name has been redacted, claimed to have ‘been there and seen it all, as a former staff at the Zorro.’
They alleged the girls were buried on the orders of Epstein and ‘Madam G’, believed to be Ghislaine Maxwell, at Zorro Ranch.
In the email, they wrote: ‘Edward. This is sensitive, so it will be the first and last email depending on your discretion.
‘You can choose to take it or trash it, but this comes from a person that has been there and seen it all, as a former staff at the Zorro.
‘The material below was taken from Jeffrey Epstein home as my insurance in case of future litigation against Epstein. SORRY NO QUESTIONS.
They added: ‘What is damning about Jeffrey Epstein is yet to be written. Did you know somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G? Both died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex.’
The sender also included links to videos that claimed to show Epstein having sex with minors, threesomes, and sex with underage girls.
The email was forwarded to the FBI just three months after Epstein died while being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.
A former police officer who patrolled the area around the ranch for 15 years also told the FBI he was worried that evidence was being destroyed on the estate, as seen in a document.
The document, dated July 19, 2019, just days after Epstein’s arrest, was an FBI report log that included details of a call taken from a retired New Mexico State police officer, whose name has been redacted.
The former cop said he noticed the barn had a chimney and a ‘sally port’ – a secure entryway with multiple doors, set up so only one could be opened at a time.
A report of the call reads: ‘The property which is on Zorro Ranch Road, Stanley, NM, his recently had a large barn constructed.
‘The barn is suspicious as there is a garage door that appears to be a sally port, and there is a chimney.
‘[Redacted name] is concerned the property could potentially have an incinerator concealed within the barn.
‘An old 1970s mobile home was recently put right behind the barn, which believes does not follow Santa Fe County regulations.
‘[Redacted name] explained that there is a lot of security for the properties including cameras, sally ports, and other security measures.
The email, sent on November 21, 2019 to Eddy Aragon, was forward to the FBI
The person who sent the email alleged the girls were buried on the orders of Epstein and ‘Madam G’, believed to be Ghislaine Maxwell
‘[Redacted name] explained that the barn that was constructed doesn’t look like a barn you would use for ranching.
‘[Redacted name] wanted to report the information to the FBI because he is concerned evidence could be destroyed here.’
The ex-officer also told the FBI there had been ‘a lot of high-profile people seen frequently’ at the ranch.
According to the report, the retired policeman said he had heard ‘rumours’ about Epstein using the property for ‘recruiting girls to visit’.
The ex-cop’s call to the FBI came just days after Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges on July 6, 2019, and weeks before his death on August 10.
New Mexico’s attorney general has now reopened the investigation into Epstein´s former Zorro Ranch.
Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office said last week that the decision was made after reviewing information recently released by the US Justice Department.
Although New Mexico´s initial case was closed in 2019 at the request of federal prosecutors in New York, state prosecutors say now that ‘revelations outlined in the previously sealed FBI files warrant further examination.’
The New Mexico Department of Justice said special agents and prosecutors at the agency will be seeking immediate access to the complete, unredacted federal case file and intend to work with other law enforcement partners, as well as a new truth commission established by state lawmakers to look into activities at the ranch.
‘As with any potential criminal matter, we will follow the facts wherever they lead, carefully evaluate jurisdictional considerations, and take appropriate investigative action, including the collection and preservation of any relevant evidence that remains available,’ the New Mexico Department of Justice said in a statement.
Documents released as part of the Epstein files also show the paedophile financier intended to leave his Zorro estate to his Belarusian girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak.
Epstein bought Zorro Ranch in 1993 from Bruce King, a former three-time New Mexico governor.
The 13 square miles of high desert include a 26,700-square-foot luxury hacienda, guest lodges and staff dwellings, several outbuildings, a firehouse, horse stables, a seven-bay heated garage, a greenhouse to grow fresh produce, a cattle grazing operation, and a private airstrip, hangar, and helipad.
Epstein owned the property until he died in a New York federal prison. His estate listed it in 2021 for $27.5million.
That price was later dropped to $18 million, and the ranch was sold for an undisclosed price in 2023 to a limited liability corporation that renamed the property the San Rafael Ranch, but whose owner is shrouded in secrecy.
