Epstein’s Butler Arrested For Stealing Jeffrey’s Address Book, Billions In It He Never Made It
Alfredo Rodriguez copied a 97-page correspondence from Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion. It had more than 1,500 names of the most powerful people in the world. He called it “The Holy Grail.” For trying to sell it for $50,000, he was sentenced to 18 months in state prison. That’s farther than Epstein himself ever worked. The billionaires, politicians, and celebrities listed in the book have never been charged with anything.
What Rodriguez Sees Inside the Mansion
Rodriguez served as Epstein’s housekeeper and butler from 2004 to 2005. Meanwhile, he saw a steady stream of young girls coming to a place called “massages,” which he understood as sexual in nature. Epstein had two of these sessions a day, usually involving children.
Rodriguez described the operation as “a human ATM,” keeping at least $2,000 in cash to pay the girls $200 to $300 after each visit. She cleaned up after the session, including wiping and storing the sex toys. He saw girls under the age of 10 naked sitting by the pool. He noted that the girls were eating like high schoolers, eating “tons of cereal and milk.” Everything about the surgery was normal inside that house.
In a 2006 deposition in a civil lawsuit brought by Epstein’s victims, Rodriguez testified that he saw pornographic images on Epstein’s computer of 12- or 13-year-old girls, many of them wearing braces. He initially estimated them at 16 or 17, but when pressed, admitted they were younger than that. His testimony confirms what dozens of victims have described.
The Black Book
Fearing that Epstein might make him “disappear,” Rodriguez secretly copied the contact letter before leaving his job. It contained the names and phone numbers, emails, and addresses of prominent people from politics, business, entertainment, and royalty, including house numbers, private jets, and islands. Rodriguez himself circled 38 names that he believed to be the most important to the network.
The letter was more than a list of contacts. It also contained large names of potential victims and witnesses, as well as secret notes, stars, and arrows added by Epstein’s staff. Rodriguez described it as the key to understanding the scope of what Epstein was doing with young girls.
It’s worth noting that being listed in the book does not imply involvement in Epstein’s crimes. Most of the 1,500 names were not allegedly related to abuse.
The FBI Sting
Rodriguez was interviewed by the FBI in early January 2007 but did not speak about the letter. He failed to answer it even though he was served with the summons.
In November 2009, at a Boca Raton hotel, Rodriguez tried to sell the book for $50,000 to a person he believed to be a lawyer representing Epstein’s victims. It was an FBI sting. A 46-minute video of the transaction, recently released in a DOJ document dump, shows Rodriguez discussing the book’s contents and Epstein’s work in detail.
He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and was sentenced on April 1, 2012, by US District Judge Kenneth Marra to 18 months in federal prison. Her defense revealed the financial fallout from her relationship with Epstein. The sentence was on top of the 13 months Epstein served on his federal charges in 2008, when Epstein was granted work-release privileges.
Why Can’t He Just Turn It Around?
The obvious question is why Rodriguez did not give the letter to the FBI when they interviewed him in 2007 or when he was served with the subpoenas. The answer is probably a combination of things.
His defense revealed that he suffered financial losses after working for Epstein. He needed money, he had something important, and he tried to get it. That’s the version the prosecutor was running on.
But in 2009, Rodriguez was watching the show defend Epstein in real time. Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, brokered by then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, gave him only 13 months of federal charges with work-release rights and included a non-prosecution agreement that protected his unnamed accomplices. If the justice system has already failed so badly, why did Rodriguez trust the FBI with the most important evidence he had?
Rodriguez himself described the letter as “insurance” against Epstein, implying that he believed holding onto it gave him personal protection. Changing it meant losing that ability and possibly making yourself a target without showing anything about it.
What the conspiracy reads is that Rodriguez believed the letter would be buried if he gave it to law enforcement, and that selling it to a victim advocate was actually the most likely way to see the light of day.
Ironically, all of these explanations can be true at the same time.
Rodriguez Died Before Full Story Came Out
Rodriguez was released in mid-2013. Soon after, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare cancer linked to asbestos exposure. He died on December 28, 2014, at the age of 60, in a Miami hospital. Some reports say he died in prison, but he had been released about 18 months before he passed.
His death is one of more than a dozen among people connected to Epstein since the scandal broke. There is no evidence linking his death to foul play, although it has fueled speculation among conspiracy theorists.
The black book Rodriguez risked everything to save was first published by Gawker in 2015 and has since been analyzed in books, court filings, and investigative reports. Recent DOJ releases in 2025 and 2026 included unredacted Epstein files, ruling interviews about witnesses like Rodriguez and what they knew. His story is one of the clearest examples of how people who are close to the evidence face more painful consequences than people who are close to the crime.
