New Mexico lawmakers approve 'Truth Commission' to probe Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch activities

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Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:31 UTC

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Multiple women have claimed they were abused at Epstein's Zorro Ranch when they were under 18 years old.

New Mexico lawmakers have approved a comprehensive investigation to reveal the total extent of activities at the Zorro Ranch. The New Mexico House, on Monday, in a bipartisan vote, established a "Truth Commission" to "fill in the gaps" in the horrific allegations of crime and abuse against girls and women at the Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe.

"We have heard years of allegations and rumours about Epstein's activities in New Mexico, but unfortunately, federal investigations have failed to put together an official record," said Rep Andrea Romero. The lawmakers are urging locals to testify. The so-called "Truth Commission", comprised of four lawmakers are planning to question state officials who were aware or participated in the mishappenings at the 7,500-acre sprawling property. The $2.5 million investigation poses a threat to two former Democratic Governors and an Attorney General. They had ties to the late sex trafficker Epstein, who supposedly died of "suicide" in 2019.

The New Mexico ranch was the location where Annie Farmer was flown from out of state and groomed for abuse by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. The Ranch, located 50 miles away from Santa Fe, is sparsely populated, establishing a pattern of isolation that the victims were subjected to.

The New Mexico Justice Department sent a letter to the federal officials on February 13, in response to the seeking unredacted copies of the anonymous 2019 email to a local radio host saying that "foreign girls" died of strangulation at Zorro Ranch.

New Mexico DOJ Chief of Staff Lauren Rodriguez said:

"While we have not yet received a response to our letter sent last Friday, we are reviewing all appropriate avenues to investigate the allegations raised, as well as any additional ones that may emerge."

A New York Times report in July 2019 claimed that the Ranch was at the centre of Epstein's obsession with eugenics, transhumanism and cryogenics. He once mentioned to impregante 20 girls simultaneously at the Zorro Ranch. His messages to the Florida Sex Offenders office following his conviction prove that Epstein used the Ranch as an extended retreat between 2009 and 2015.

"He was basically doing anything he wanted in this state without any accountability whatsoever," said Rep Andrea Romero. The "Truth Commission" is likely to start its fact-finding mission on Tuesday and produce its first report by mid-July and final report by the end of 2026.

Comment: Zorro Ranch you are being probed:

With a $2.5 million budget approved by unanimous vote of the legislature, a "truth commission" of Democrats and Republicans will head up the probe into potential criminal activity on the 7,600-acre property that features both a 26,700-square-foot mansion and guest houses. Legislators are urging victims to come forward, but multiple accusations of sexual misconduct at the ranch have already been made. For example:

• Annie Farmer, who testified at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, said Maxwell gave her a nude massage there when Farmer was 16 years old -- and that, the next morning, Epstein entered her bed and "pressed his body" into hers.
• A victim identifed as "Jane" testified that she was taken to the ranch and abused when she was only 14 years old. "I just remember someone, at one point, just came into [my] room and said: 'Jeffrey wants to see you,' and then escorted me to see him."
• The late Virginia Giuffre claimed to have been abused at the ranch, and that Epstein partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell instructed her to "massage" former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson there -- with "massage" mutually understood to mean sexual intimacy.
• A Santa Fe massage therapist accused Epstein of sexually abusing her at the ranch.

The most disturbing but least-substantiated claim was made anonymously -- an email in the possession of the DOJ said two females were buried in the hills near the ranch. Last week, the New Mexico Chief of Criminal Affairs asked the DOJ to give his department "immediate access to a complete, unredacted version of file EFTA01250229" along with forensic information associated with the email and any DOJ documents associated with it.

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Are two sex-strangulation victims buried in these hills?

According to the Albuquerque Journal, the email was sent to a local radio host in 2019, written by someone claiming to be a former worker at the ranch. The author claimed that Epstein and Maxwell ordered the bodies of two foreign girls to be buried in the hills. The girls were said to have been killed "by strangulation during rough fetish sex."

The new probe is expected to look beyond the wrongdoing of Epstein and Maxwell, with the potential to identify other participants in devious activities -- and those who looked the other way. "Many of the survivors had experiences in New Mexico, and as we've learned, there were local politicians and other people that were aware of what was happening in New Mexico," said Sigrid McCawley, an attorney whose firm has represented hundreds of Epstein accusers.

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Annie Farmer testified she was abused at Zorro Ranch at age 16

Epstein bought the property in 1993 and owned it until he 'died' in a New York prison cell. In 2023, Epstein's estate sold the ranch to the family of Don Huffines, a former Texas state senator and current Republican candidate for state comptroller. The property has been renamed San Rafael Ranch, and the Huffines family says it plans to transform the ranch into a Christian retreat.

In another document from the Epstein dump, a victim writes a coded diary where she describes being a 'human incubator' who was forced to give birth to a child that was taken from her.

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They may want to start with an exorcism.