The Justice Department on Friday released thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

After years of delay and speculation, the US government has reached the deadline to begin releasing the so-called Epstein files - with “several hundred thousand” to be dropped today.

The files made public on Friday appeared to include only rare mentions of Mr. Trump, but they did feature numerous photographs of people known to have associated with Mr. Epstein, including former Pre...