US lawmakers have released more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of the disgraced financier and convicted late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Some of the documents mention Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the former prince and brother of King Charles; US President Donald Trump; Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon; and a cast of other characters from the world of media, politics, and entertainment, who highlight the extent of Epstein's contact book.

Trump was a friend of Epstein's for years, but the president has said they fell out in about 2004, years before Epstein was first arrested. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

Here are some of the other names that came up, which does not indicate wrongdoing by any of the parties mentioned.

Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff, 72, is an American journalist and columnist - as well as a prolific author of books on the wealthy and the famous.

Fire and Fury, the first of several books spanning Trump's first stint as US president, came out in 2018, with descriptions of a dysfunctional White House and salacious details about the US commander-in-chief. Trump said it was full of lies.

The new batch of files related to Jeffrey Epstein shed light on a relationship that appears to indicate a correspondence between Wolff and the late convicted sex offender.

Attention has focused particularly on one of the emails, in which Wolff appears to give Epstein advice in relation to Trump, as Trump was campaigning for the White House for the first time.

Wolff wrote to Epstein in 2015 to notify him that CNN was planning to ask Trump, as a presidential candidate, about his relationship with Epstein.

Epstein replied: If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?

The two go on to discuss a strategy, with Wolff writing: I think you should let him hang himself. In a separate email from October 2016, days before the US presidential election, Wolff offers Epstein a chance to sit for an interview that could finish Trump.

In response to the release in a video posted to Instagram, Wolff said: Some of those emails are between Epstein and me, with Epstein discussing his relationship with Donald Trump.

I have been trying to talk about this story for a very long time now, he added.

Larry Summers

The documents include correspondences between Epstein and Larry Summers, who was former Democratic President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary. It had been previously reported that the two men knew each other.

The emails indicate the two met for dinner frequently, with Epstein often trying to connect Summers to prominent global figures. At one point, in July 2018, Epstein proposed a meeting with the presidnt [sic] of united nations, interesting person for you.

A spokesperson for Summers declined to comment but referred the BBC to past statements by Summers. A representative told the Wall Street Journal in 2023 that the former official deeply regrets being in contact with Epstein after his conviction.

Kathryn Ruemmler

The House of Representatives Oversight Committee released several email exchanges between Epstein and Kathryn Ruemmler, a lawyer who served as White House counsel during the presidency of Barack Obama.

In August 2018, Ms Ruemmler and Epstein discussed hush-money payments made by Trump to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election - an issue over which Trump was later convicted of falsifying business records. Trump denies allegations that he had an affair with Daniels.

In a phone interview, Ms Siegal told the BBC she had never passed Epstein's request to Huffington. I did not call Ariana, she said. Huffington used to publish my writing and there's no reason in the world I would jeopardise that relationship, Ms Siegal added.

Meanwhile, Huffington told Politico she was was never contacted and never sent a reporter.