A mobile tour featuring printouts of the released files on Jeffery Epstein will be making a stop in Columbus in early October.
The temporary Columbus exhibit will be at the Sanctuary on Neil Oct. 8 through 11. Attendees can reserve 20-minute entry times online at trumpepsteinreadingroom.com.
Admission is free. The non-profit Institute for Primary Facts that is organizing the tour also accepts donations.
Columbus is one of dozens of stops on a national tour, but one of five cities to feature an off-site reading room location – other locations feature a mobile exhibit on a bookmobile.
The bookmobile has already made a dozen stops around the Midwest, including in Parma, with upcoming stops also planned around the Northeast. Other cities will also be
announced in the future, according to the website.
The reading room features each released page of the Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes – that’s 17,000 pounds of paper, according to the organization.
Epstein sexually abused dozens of underage girls, as young as 14, and created a network of women in a sex trafficking ring.
The organization also states on its website that survivors deserve the truth – “they are the ones it was taken from.”
“The rest of us deserve something different and less personal: a country where a person who does this to a child is punished, and where being rich enough and connected enough does not change that.”
The Justice Department began releasing files on its investigation of the former financier Epstein in late 2025. Epstein died in his jail cell while in federal custody awaiting a sex trafficking trial in 2019 in what investigators ruled a suicide.
How is Les Wexner mentioned in the Epstein files?
Local billionaire Les Wexner is mentioned often in the files, including as a potential “co-conspirator” to Epstein’s crimes.
Wexner has said that Epstein conned him and that he did not have any knowledge of Epstein’s sex abuses and crimes.
Dozens of high-profile figures – including President Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Elon Musk – also appear to varying extents in the files, such as in personal correspondence and flight logs.
Epstein and Wexner met in the 1980s. Epstein managed Wexner’s money and at one point held his power of attorney starting in the 1990s, The Dispatch has previously reported, but Wexner distanced himself from Epstein in 2007 amid charges of soliciting sex from a minor in Florida.
Wexner made a crude contribution to Epstein’s 2003 birthday book featuring a drawing of a woman’s breasts.
“Dear Jeffery, I wanted to get you what you want, so here it is…” he wrote above the sketch, then signed the page with “your friend Leslie.” The book also include a photo with Epstein, Wexner and someone else who has been redacted.
Although Wexner previously said that he cut off Epstein in the fall of 2007, leaked files in November 2025 showed that Wexner reached out to him four days before his guilty plea in 2008.
Abigail Wexner, Les Wexner’s wife, found that Epstein had stolen hundreds of millions of dollars over multiple years after taking over the family’s finances, according to an investigative memo released by the DOJ earlier this year. He repaid the Wexners $100 million in January 2008.
Anna Lynn Winfrey is a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch. She can be reached at awinfrey@dispatch.com.
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