TLDR
Zorro Ranch in Stanley, New Mexico received approximately 29 third-party FedEx shipments billed to Epstein's account — more than any other destination. The ranch also served as the origin point for a shipment addressed to a deliberate pseudonym, "JEANNE JAME DOE," sent to Financial Trust Company in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Property
Jeffrey Epstein acquired Zorro Ranch in 1993 for $12 million, held through Zorro Trust and Cypress Inc. (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026a). The 10,000-acre property near Stanley, New Mexico — roughly 35 miles southeast of Santa Fe — was the most geographically isolated of Epstein's properties. Unlike the Manhattan townhouse or the Palm Beach residence, Zorro Ranch sits in rural desert terrain where the nearest commercial airport is Albuquerque, approximately 50 miles away.
That isolation makes the shipping records significant. When someone at a remote ranch needs supplies, equipment, or documents, the shipping log creates a record of operational activity that might otherwise leave no trace.
29 Third-Party Shipments
FedEx invoice records from 2000 through 2005 show approximately 29 third-party shipments billed to Epstein's account with destinations in Stanley, New Mexico (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026b). This makes Zorro Ranch the top third-party destination by volume in the FedEx corpus. The shipments include packages from multiple senders, in varying weights, using Albuquerque as the routing hub.
The OCR (optical character recognition — the technology that converts scanned document images into searchable text) quality on these records is notably poor. Stanley, New Mexico appears in the database as STANELY, STAULEY, and even SAME — reflecting the severe degradation that FedEx invoice scans produce when processed through text-recognition software. These OCR variants were resolved through the name cleanup process, but they illustrate why raw text searches of the corpus can miss legitimate matches (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026d).
The Gordon Family
Karen L. Gordon (appearing in records as K L GORDON) emerges as a significant figure in the Zorro Ranch shipping network. She sent a 40-pound package from West Palm Beach, Florida to Stanley, New Mexico in September 2003, with the reference field "310323/CHRIS 0/6202700." The weight and cross-state routing suggest operational supplies rather than correspondence (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026b).
More notably, on January 12, 2004, K L Gordon sent an envelope from Albuquerque (the nearest FedEx hub to Zorro Ranch) to "JEANNE JAME DOE" at Financial Trust Company in St. Thomas, USVI (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026b). This is the pseudonym shipment that connects Zorro Ranch to the USVI trust administration office — a deliberate feminized "Jane Doe" variant for Jeanne Brennan, confirmed by matching company, address, suite number, and the signer at the receiving end: Alfredo Rodriguez, rendered in FedEx OCR as A.RODEGUZ.
Brice Gordon also appears as a recipient at Stanley, New Mexico, suggesting multiple Gordon family members served as staff or residents at the ranch (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026b).
Zorro Development Corp
The entity Zorro Development Corp received five or more shipments as a named recipient at the Stanley, New Mexico address. The OCR variants are extensive — ZORRO, ZOHO, ZONO, and ZOTTO DEVELOPMENT CORP all appear in the records (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026b). This entity handled the property's operational logistics and appears to have managed the physical infrastructure of the ranch.
Sam Scanlon also sent at least one shipment from Zorro Ranch with reference "52170," adding another name to the roster of individuals who used Epstein's FedEx billing account from the New Mexico property (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026b).
The Pseudonym Connection
The "JEANNE JAME DOE" shipment is the single most significant FedEx record involving Zorro Ranch. It creates a direct logistics connection between the New Mexico property and Financial Trust Company at 6100 Red Hook Quarter B3, St. Thomas — the same USVI address where seven Epstein entities were registered. The use of a pseudonym for what would otherwise be routine inter-office correspondence raises an obvious question: why would someone sending an envelope between two Epstein-controlled locations use a fake name?
The answer may lie in the nature of Financial Trust Company's operations and the desire to create distance between the ranch and the trust administration office in any shipping record. Whatever the reason, the pseudonym did not survive systematic analysis of the FedEx corpus — the matching company, address, suite, and signer resolved the identity to Jeanne Brennan (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026b).
Current Status
The Zorro Ranch property was sold by the estate in 2023 to the Huffines family through San Rafael Ranch LLC for an undisclosed amount. New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez reopened a criminal investigation into activities at the ranch based on previously sealed FBI files, with a $2 million budget and a report due in July 2026 (PAPER TRAIL Project, 2026a).
The shipping records captured in the FedEx corpus cover only 2000 through October 2005. Whatever was shipped to or from Zorro Ranch after that date is not in this dataset.
References
PAPER TRAIL Project. (2026a). Zorro Ranch acquisition and NM AG investigation [Corroboration report, Section 6]. CORROBORATION_REPORT.md.
PAPER TRAIL Project. (2026b). FedEx third-party shipment analysis: Zorro Ranch destination, K L Gordon pseudonym shipment, and "JEANNE JAME DOE" resolution [Research file]. fedex_third_party_analysis.md.
PAPER TRAIL Project. (2026d). FedEx name cleanup process [Database script]. Script 16d.
Source documents: EFTA01316701.pdf (p. 6), EFTA01312627.pdf (p. 6). DOJ Data Set 10.