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The release of millions of files related to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has roiled politics, business and academia in the United States and abroad, touching off a reckoning for some of the powerful figures who once associated with the disgraced financier.

It’s marked an inflection point in a decades-long saga that has stretched from Florida and New York City to New Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — and continued despite Mr. Epstein’s death in a Manhattan jail in 2019.