As the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks take the field at Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl LX, the spectacle unfolding on the gridiron is competing with a very different kind of drama — one playing out in federal document dumps, VIP party rooms, and the corridors of political ambition. For the NFL’s crown jewel event, the cloud hanging over it this year isn’t about deflated footballs or referee calls. It’s about the man who controls the halftime stage, the names surfacing in the Epstein files, and a Super Bowl weekend party circuit where billionaires, politicians, and hip-hop moguls are mixing in ways that demand scrutiny.
The Files That Won’t Go Away
On January 31, the Department of Justice released its largest batch yet from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation — more than 3 million pages of documents, 2,000 videos, and roughly 180,000 images, all made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law by President Trump in November 2025.
Buried in the avalanche of material was a name that would reverberate through Super Bowl week: Shawn Corey Carter — better known as Jay-Z.
...And somewhere in the DOJ’s 3 million pages of documents, an FBI file, – a reminder that the intersection of fame, money, and access has consequences that outlast any Super Bowl.
The game will end tonight. The questions won’t.
