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An undated photo of Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County, as included in the Department of Justice files released in January. Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on sex trafficking charges. He died in jail that August.

A photo of the Zorro Ranch "Great Room" within a 2015 risk management report by an insurance company is included in the Justice Department's Epstein Files.

The photo, included in a recent Department of Justice photo album release of Zorro images, appears to show two girls or women posing in the New Mexico desert.

Photos of Zorro Ranch in southern Santa Fe County recently released by the U.S. Justice Department provide a look inside the tightly guarded gates of the late Jeffrey Epstein's remote compound.

Epstein purchased the ranch in 1993 from the family of former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King and built a 26,700-square-foot mansion described in reports at the time as twice as large as the next largest home in the county.

"He apparently is a private man who has sworn his ranch employees to secrecy," The New Mexican wrote in 1995.

David King, a former state treasurer and Bruce King's nephew, told The New Mexican in 1995, as construction of the mansion was underway, "He's building what you want as a heavenly ranch."

Epstein later told Vanity Fair that Zorro Ranch made his seven-story, 40-room Manhattan mansion “look like a shack.”

An undated photo of Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County, as included in the Department of Justice files released in January. Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on sex trafficking charges. He died in jail that August.

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The Zorro Ranch pool appeared in a 2015 risk management report found in the Justice Department's file release.

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Near the ranch entrance was Ranch Central, a small village with 10 structures, including a seven-bay heated garage, the ranch office, a firehouse and the property’s original adobe residence that was later expanded, according to the 2021 listing.

Zorro Ranch also had a three-bedroom lodge and off-the-grid log cabin as well as a 4,400-foot airstrip with an aircraft hangar and helipad.

The Zorro Ranch office, as of a 2015 risk management report included in the Justice Department files.

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Shooting range at Zorro Ranch.

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Ranch managers in recently released Justice Department files referred to a shooting range on the property. Several photos in the files show people outside what appears to be the ranch shooting arrows and guns.

Two girls or women, whose faces are redacted, are pictured in an undated photo in front of a vintage Santa Fe caboose on Zorro Ranch.

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A photo inside what appears to be the office of Epstein's Zorro Ranch, included in recently released federal files.

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Epstein placed a vintage Santa Fe caboose on his property, possibly on land he was leasing from the state for ranching. In 2004, a New Mexico State Land Office investigator noted Epstein was in the process of placing a railroad car on a site that "might encumber state land," but whether the caboose would be on state property was "not a matter of great concern," he wrote in the memo, found in the Justice Department files.

Epstein placed a vintage Santa Fe caboose on or near state land he was leasing, according to recently released files.

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Epstein placed a vintage Santa Fe caboose on or near state land he was leasing, according to recently released files.

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Undated photos in the Justice Department files show Epstein and others posing at the vintage Santa Fe caboose, and emails mention guests to Zorro visiting the caboose in subsequent years.

According to a 2015 assessment included in the files, the "living area" of Epstein's property was 22,700 square feet with a basement of 6,490 square feet.

Jeffrey Epstein poses next to a vintage Santa Fe caboose on his Zorro Ranch property, in an undated photo.

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The photo, included in a recent Department of Justice photo album release of Zorro images, appears to show two girls or women posing in the New Mexico desert.

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Epstein's Zorro Ranch office.

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A risk management report from 2015 included in the Justice Department files shows the rear view of the Zorro mansion.

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Ristras hang in the garage at Zorro Ranch, according to a photo included in a 2015 insurance risk assessment report.

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The 2015 insurance risk assessment report of Zorro Ranch listed a firehouse as among the structures in Epstein's compound.

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A photo of the Zorro Ranch "Great Room" within a 2015 risk management report by an insurance company is included in the Justice Department's Epstein Files.

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An unknown person poses outside Zorro Ranch in a redacted, undated Department of Justice photo.

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One of several guesthouses on Zorro Ranch is pictured in Department of Justice files.