Kino.ai co-founders Luke Igel and Riley Walz released a clone of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail account to help build clarity after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released over 20,000 documents from the disgraced financier.
The website, Jmail, has now gone viral as the public has repeatedly demanded transparency and justice for the rich and powerful involved in his illegal activities.
Launched on Friday, the website amassed 18.4 million views as of Tuesday.
Igel, understanding the complexity of understanding how the mass of documents connected, told Rolling Stone he had the idea to build the clone to help make the information accessible and mirror Epstein’s personal messages.
“My friend was talking about all this stuff he was finding,” Igel said. “And I found it impressive he’d been able to infer that from these very hard to read PDFs. I found that they were hard to read as emails.”
The emails included were sent from April 14, 2009, until to July 14, 2019, and include everything from Quora Digest emails to redacted names.
“The Epstein case has always felt very Lovecraftian, very True Detective, where it’s driven all the best people insane because there’s just too much information and it feels like puncturing holes in reality every single time news comes out,” Igel explained. “Even with this recent set of data, it doesn’t feel like the full story is being revealed. If anything, it feels like a series of red herrings and a series of shockingly human moments.”
Impact felt after Epstein emails released to the public
The publication of the emails has led to numerous stirs. Among the most notable so far, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers stepped down from positions at Harvard University and the OpenAI board last Wednesday after his connection to Epstein was made public.
Summers continued to stay in touch with Epstein after his 2008 conviction, the documents revealed, even asking him at one point for relationship advice.