A fresh batch of Jeffrey Epstein–related documents have landed, and tucked inside the millions of pages are a handful of familiar Australian names. The references range from diary notes and party guest lists to stray mentions in other people’s emails.
Here, we’ve pulled together a running list of the Australians who show up in the files so far, what the documents actually say about them, and how they’ve responded as their names have entered the spotlight.
Kevin Rudd
Former prime minister and current Australian ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd is referenced several times in the cache, mostly in connection with proposed social events in New York in the mid‑2010s. The documents include an entry for a Sunday lunch at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse on 8 June 2014, where Rudd is listed among the guests, and an email in which Epstein tells his assistant to serve “non vegetarian food, as now Kevin Rudd is also coming”, before messaging Japanese tech investor Joi Ito to say “Kevin Rudd might also stop by former prime minister austrailia” [sic].
Other material shows a planned 28 September 2015 dinner with Mongolia’s then president, where a contact named Camilla texts to say “Kevin Rudd has also asked if he can bring his wife and son. Would that be ok?”, and a February 2016 email from former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland telling Epstein that “Kevin Rudd, a friend of both of us just left my house”.
Rudd’s office has said the references show attempts by mutual acquaintances to engineer an introduction that never actually happened, and has stressed there is “no evidence of any direct contact between Jeffrey Epstein and either Dr Rudd or his office”. It also said Rudd “has no reason to believe that he ever met with Jeffrey Epstein at any time”, and has flagged possible legal action over any defamatory claims about a personal relationship.
Katherine Keating
Katherine Keating, the daughter of former prime minister Paul Keating, has been linked to Epstein’s social circle since a 2011 video surfaced of her leaving his New York home while then‑Prince Andrew stood in the doorway. The new documents add detail to that connection, including emails from prominent publicist Peggy Siegal asking Epstein for Keating’s email address ahead of a meeting with Vanity Fair writer Edward Klein, saying Keating would attend and “say great things about Andrew” because “she knows him [Andrew] well and wants to make sure Ed writes positive things. I will let her do all the talking”.
Other emails reported in Australian coverage show Epstein sending Keating a note reading “andrew forrest australian iron ore”, apparently to check whether she knew mining billionaire Andrew Forrest. Keating replied that Forrest was a friend and that she had “spent a week in Dubai with him last year”, and Epstein responded that a J.P. Morgan contact had described Forrest as “great”.
Separate correspondence previously reported also records Keating offering to bring her younger sister to a lunch with Epstein and filmmaker Woody Allen after Epstein told her the director liked “pretty women”.
In an emailed statement carried by multiple outlets, Keating has said her dealings with Epstein’s office reflected her effort to meet “reputable and major leaders of American business, to open career opportunities of a kind I would not otherwise have had”, and that she had “absolutely no other reason to have anything to do with Epstein”. She specifically denied ever having an inappropriate interaction with him and said she had “never witnessed inappropriate behaviour and had absolutely no knowledge of the criminal conduct that has since come to light”.
Andrew Forrest
Fortescue Metals Group founder Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest is mentioned only briefly, and entirely in someone else’s correspondence. In the May 2011 email Keating received from Epstein, he wrote “andrew forrest australian iron ore”, seemingly as a prompt about the Perth‑based billionaire. As mentioned earlier, Keating replied that Forrest was a friend and that she had spent a week in Dubai with him the previous year, before passing on that a J.P. Morgan contact had told Epstein Forrest was “great”.
Forrest is not accused of any wrongdoing, and his name surfaces only in that short exchange at the time of writing.
Clive Palmer
Mining billionaire and United Australia Party founder Clive Palmer appears in a set of text messages between Epstein and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, sent around the 2019 Australian federal election. In one exchange dated 20 May 2019, Bannon claims he had Palmer bankroll a major advertising push during the campaign, writing that he “had Clive Palmer do the $60m anti China and anti climate change ads” in reference to the saturation ad blitz that ran alongside Palmer’s own tilt at parliament.
Since the messages became public, Palmer has pushed back on that characterisation and on his name being in the files at all. He has said he received a single late‑night call from Bannon during the 2019 campaign, recalling: “I picked up the phone and this fellow said, ‘It’s Steve Bannon here.’ I said, ‘Hello, Steve, are you a member of our party?’… ‘No, I’m calling from the United States.’” Palmer has maintained that his advertising was already in motion and that he had no association with Epstein, while a representative told the ABC that he “has never spoken to Bannon”, and the broadcaster reported it had found no evidence Palmer had ever met or communicated with either Bannon or Epstein.
What happens next?
The current document release has already triggered political questions in the US and fresh scrutiny of Epstein’s links to public figures worldwide, and lawyers and journalists are still working through the files. As more material is analysed, additional Australian names — or further context surrounding those already identified — may come to light. We’ll continue to update this article with any new details and responses as they emerge.
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