In February and March 2026, social media users speculated about an email in Jeffrey Epstein's federal case files, essentially suggesting the message — which allegedly was sent in 2023 — proved the late sex offender was still alive. The sender, Karyna Shuliak, Epstein's last girlfriend prior to his 2019 death, requested "Amy's books" be sent for him to read on his private Caribbean island of Little St. James.
For example, on March 10, X user @iamufohunter posted (archived) a screenshot of the email with the caption, "🚨 Epstien died in 2019 right ? Then what is this mail doing in 2023. 🤔" Other X users also shared screenshots of the email.
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In the screenshots, the date and time were displayed as Sept. 11, 2023, at 12:00 a.m. The subject line read, "FedEx for JE." The recipient's name did not appear, indicating the Justice Department redacted the name. The body of the email, containing grammatical errors and a reference to Little St. James, read, "Jeffrey wants you to fedex on of the Amy's books to LSJ. Can you give me a c=ll please, I'll explain Thank you!"
In short, Shuliak did not send the email in 2023, nor did the message prove Epstein was still alive. As explained below, this rumor involved a simple parsing error, meaning software used by the owners of a third-party website inaccurately analyzed the text of the original email.
Snopes contacted @iamufohunter for details of the research process used. In response, the user said only, "Its litrally written there in the email 2023."
Finding the truth about the email
Jmail — the host of the third-party, Gmail-style Jmail.world website, which also contains archives of Epstein's case files — displayed (archived) an incorrectly parsed send date that did not appear in the original email hosted elsewhere. The Jmail website has no affiliation with the U.S. Justice Department's official Epstein files library.
The original email showed only the day of the week as Monday and "Septem" for September, with the rest of the date and time redacted.
A second email, which the Justice Department hosted in four files, displayed the date and time as
This information suggested Shuliak most likely sent her email on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, nearly five years before Epstein's death.
Jmail featured a handful of other inaccurately parsed emails or replies from Shuliak displaying erroneous send dates years after Epstein's 2019 death. For example, one Jmail-hosted email (archived) supposedly documented Shuliak emailing Epstein on Oct. 1, 2022, "Just saw this at the airport…" However, the original Justice Department-hosted email displayed the actual send date: Oct. 15, 2016.
We sent an direct message on X to the owner or owners of Jmail to ask about the in-question email, including if they could comment on Jmail-hosted documents containing parsing errors. We will update this article if we receive further information.
For further reading, we previously investigated another Epstein files email about a November 2013 party and "a dozen one-year-olds."