Fortnite Developer Epic Games says an account some people believed was linked to Jeffrey Epstein is a “hoax.” In response to X, the developer writes: “The current owner of the Fortnite account has changed his username” to “littlestjeff1”, an alias found in several YouTube email receipts in the Epstein files.
The email suggests that “littlestjeff1” may have been linked to Epstein’s YouTube account, prompting online detectives to look for the username on other platforms. Users later discovered the account “littlestjeff1” on Fortnitealong with an email from 2019 that mentions buying VBucks v Fortnite — although the sender and recipient are redacted. Online player databases showed that the account “littlestjeff1” was active Fortnitewhich supports conspiracy theories that Epstein is still alive.
But Epic Games has since refuted those claims, stating that a Fortnite the player changed his name “after revealing littlestjeff1 as a YouTube name”. Added to this is the company Fortnite trackers where people have discovered an alias “only show your current name, no previous changes” and that they have “no record” of Epstein’s email addresses listed in the files.
“Someone was having fun renaming their Fortnite account, but it’s recent and not linked to the email addresses in the archive,” says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney on X.