Do the Epstein files reveal that Ellen DeGeneres and hundreds of Hollywood VIPs ate Stanley Kubrick at a satanic ritual? No, that's not true: There are no reports in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice that claim DeGeneres or anyone else ate Hollywood director Kubrick at a satanic ritual. The article does not cite any sources for the claim and does not provide any evidence that such proof exists. The website that published the article is among the most prolific online publishers of fake news.
The claim appeared in a March 11, 2026, article published by The People's Voice titled "Epstein Files: Ellen DeGeneres and Hundreds of Hollywood VIPs Ate Stanley Kubrick at Satanic Ritual" (archived here) which opened:
On a night in March 1999, inside a locked-down mansion in the Hollywood Hills, Ellen DeGeneres stood at the center of a ritual with over a hundred of the industry's most powerful names--actors, studio chiefs, the untouchable elite.
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Epstein Files: Ellen DeGeneres and Hundreds of Hollywood VIPs Ate Stanley Kubrick at Satanic Ritual
On a night in March 1999, inside a locked-down mansion in the Hollywood Hills, Ellen DeGeneres stood at the center of a ritual with over a hundred of the industry's most powerful names--actors, studio chiefs, the untouchable elite.
While the headline claims the information was found in the Epstein files, there is no evidence in the article that anything from the documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice contains evidence that DeGeneres or other Hollywood VIPs ate the Eyes Wide Shut director.
Lead Stories searched the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Epstein files and found 12 results for Kubrick, all of which were news articles with discussions of his movies being mentioned (archived here). There are no mentions of DeGeneres "eating" Kubrick. Here is a screenshot of some of the files that were found in the search:
(Image source: U.S. Department of Justice.)
Lead Stories also searched the phrase "satanic ritual" in the Epstein files and did not find any results about DeGeneres and Kubrick involved in a satanic ritual (archived here). Here is a screenshot of that search:
(Image source: U.S. Department of Justice.)
Had there been information in the Epstein files about DeGeneres eating Kubrick, that would have been major news. Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and did not find any matching news reports.
The People's Voice
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It originally started as YourNewsWire in 2014 and rebranded as NewsPunch in 2017. In 2023 it rebranded itself again to The People's Voice. The People's Voice/NewsPunch/YourNewsWire has published numerous fake news articles in the past, so anything that appears on the site should be taken with a large grain of salt. Its Facebook page, "The People's Voice," lost its verification checkmark, according to a 2018 report from Media Matters For America.
