GUILTY: Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Prince Andrew

By C. Rice, PPEmpire

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WHO WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN?

Jeffrey Epstein was a New York-based financier with high-profile ties to the world's ultra-wealthy and powerful. Accused of sexually abusing many underage girls, Epstein was finally caught and charged for soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida in 2008 and became a registered sex offender. Of his 18-month prison sentence, he served 13 months. In July 2019, Epstein was arrested again — this time on federal charges of sex-trafficking minors. While awaiting trial, he was found dead in his jail cell on August 10, 2019. The medical examiner concluded his death was by suicide, but a separate investigation prompted by Epstein's family suggests he may have been murdered. READ MORE: 10 Facts That Will Make You Believe Jeffrey Epstein Was Murdered (ListVerse)

WHY HASN'T ANYONE FROM JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S BLACK BOOK BEEN ARRESTED YET?

Legal action against Epstein’s alleged associates has been confined to civil lawsuits by victims and attorneys general, despite the evidence available for criminal prosecutions, such as Epstein’s little black book, photos and videos of underage victims and the testimonies in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.

Sources:

Epstein's Little Black Book

Epstein's Private Jet's Flight Manifests

Nude Photos of Girls Seized From Jeffrey Epstein Mansion

The scandal waiting to explode is why law enforcement has ignored this ever-growing sex trafficking ring. We need an explanation for why people are not being charged and prosecuted. Is this an instance of classic influence peddling corruption in law enforcement? Why no action? The silence is now deafening.

I don't know why the entire country is not protesting over this obvious scandal of protecting the rich and powerful.

TheDailyBeast: When Maria Farmer worked for Jeffrey Epstein in 1996, she saw girls in school uniforms visit the financier’s Manhattan townhouse, and encountered binders with photographs of teens and young women at his mansion in Palm Beach.

At the time, Farmer told The Daily Beast, Epstein’s then-girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell claimed these young visitors and photographs were related to “modeling” jobs for Limited Brands, owned by Epstein’s billionaire client Les Wexner.

A lawyer for Farmer sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz demanding an inquiry into the FBI’s “failure to seriously investigate” Epstein and Maxwell.

The 15-page document, reviewed by The Daily Beast, raises questions about why the feds seem to have given Epstein a “hall pass” for one of the largest sex-trafficking and child sex abuse material (CSAM) conspiracies in recent memory.

Epstein had reportedly provided underage girls and young women to his powerful friends and installed vast surveillance systems throughout his properties in New York, Palm Beach, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

“For many years, the public has been asking for a reckoning by the FBI and the United States government for its clear dereliction of duty to serve and protect the American people against the Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy,” wrote Freeman, adding, “However, we are aware of no investigation of the FBI and certainly no public disclosure or explanation.”

Farmer says that she’d warned the FBI about Epstein’s graphic images nearly three decades ago when she contacted them about his sexual abuse.

Freeman’s letter states Farmer “reported to the FBI that Epstein, and perhaps others, appeared to be engaged in the production, possession, and distribution of sexually suggestive or exploitative images of children that could constitute CSAM.” READ MORE: Nude Photos of Girls Seized From Jeffrey Epstein Mansion

The FBI knew that Epstein had illicit recordings of children, according to a 2020 report by the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which examined Epstein’s plea agreement and lack of notification to victims.

The document reveals that then-assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña told OPR that “the FBI had information that Epstein used hidden cameras in his New York residence to record his sexual encounters, and one victim told agents that Epstein’s assistant photographed her in the nude.” Villafaña and other witnesses also told OPR that Epstein’s computers “might have contained child pornography.” OPR’s report noted, “The interstate transmission of child pornography was a separate, and serious, federal crime that could have changed the entire complexion of the case against Epstein.”

Ghislaine once reportedly told a friend, Christina Oxenberg, “Jeffrey and I have everyone on videotape.”

Independent: Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's girlfriend briefly discussed Epstein's hidden cameras and sex tapes with CBS News 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen, also making clear that there were tapes of both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. The conversation took place in 2016 and she reportedly told Rosen that, given Trump’s involvement in the upcoming election, she would not release any information derived from the tapes relating to Clinton until after the election and she would only do so while also exposing Trump. Up until now, she has done neither.

Esquire: Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich focuses on the most important figures in the Jeffrey Epstein saga—sexual assault survivors. But it also tells stories of the late multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender’s ties to some of the most influential men in the world. And though there were plenty of big names in Epstein’s little black book, he at one point counted two presidents among his friends: Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

Here’s what we know...

“In those days, if you didn’t know Trump and you didn’t know Epstein, you were a nobody,” famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, who’s served as a lawyer for both men, told The New York Times. 

The same Times article told of a party the future president hosted at his Mar-a-Lago club in 1992. The guest list? Epstein, Trump, and 28 “calendar girl” competition contestants. Ten years later, Trump told New York Magazine that he’d known Epstein for 15 years. “Terrific guy,” said Trump. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Trump’s name appears on the flight log for Epstein’s plane, and Epstein’s brother claimed that Trump flew on the aircraft “numerous times”

Given Epstein’s illegal behavior was an open secret, which Trump may have participated in, you seem to have Trump expressly praising a pedophile, and then promoting the government official who helped prevent Epstein from receiving real justice for his crimes.

When the allegations against Epstein became national news in 2019, Trump distanced himself from the convicted sex offender, saying that he “was not a fan” of the disgraced financier and eventually banned him from Mar-a-Lago.

And it does seem to be true that the two had a falling out in the years following that now-infamous New York Magazine quote. The Washington Post reported that in 2004 the two men each tried to buy the same Palm Beach mansion. Trump eventually won the auction, and later sold the home for more than twice the $41.35 million he spent on it. But the Post reported that the competition over the beachfront property spelled the end of Trump and Epstein’s friendship.

In 2005, a Florida woman told police that her stepdaughter had been molested by a rich local man. That tip led to an investigation by Palm Beach police and the FBI that uncovered multiple alleged victims who told of a “sexual pyramid scheme” in which girls were hired to recruit other young women to be molested, with victim counts numbering in the dozens.

Epstein victim Maria Farmer claims Ivana Trump, President Trump’s ex-wife, frequently accompanied Ghislaine Maxwell when she went to recruit pre-teen girls for Epstein.

When Jeffrey Epstein found out in 2005 that he was being investigated by police for the sexual abuse of underage girls, he called Alan Dershowitz.

Attorney Alan Dershowitz, credited with helping Epstein get the notorious plea deal in Florida in 2008, flew on his former client’s plane several times between 1998 and 2005. 

Dershowitz freely admits that he visited Epstein’s Little Saint James Island, the criminal sanctuary of Jeffrey Epstein.

HillTV noted that December 2000 travel records found on Epstein's plane mentioned a "massage" that was scheduled for "AD."

In shades of “I did not inhale,” Alan Dershowitz admitted he got a massage at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion but insists he kept his underwear on and never saw an underage girl there.

A local news report from WPLG about Dershowitz at the Epstein mansion shows Dershowitz stating emphatically, “I never saw an underage woman” at Epstein’s mansion. But it also shows a transcript of Epstein’s former butler’s sworn testimony stating Dershowitz had been there when “young ladies” were around.

The deposition documents suggest Dershowitz procured Epstein’s controversial deal in order to provide immunity for himself against rape allegations.

“I had sexual intercourse with Dershowitz at least six times,’’ Giuffre wrote in a 2015 court affidavit, per the Miami Herald. “The first time was when I was about 16, early on in my servitude to Epstein and it continued until I was 19.”

In 1997, Dershowitz argued against statutory rape laws, saying the age of consent should be 15.

In 2007, Epstein was indicted on sexual abuse charges that could have garnered him a life sentence. But instead, then-Miami US attorney Alexander Acosta cut Epstein a deal that found the financier of pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in exchange for serving just 13 months in Palm Beach county jail. He was allowed to leave the jail for 12 hours a day almost every day of the week under a work release program that was supposed to exclude sex offenders.

“Acosta can talk until he's blue in the face about what they had and what they couldn't do,” Joe Berlinger, director of Netflix docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, told Esquire. “but it was an unprecedented, unheard of sweetheart deal.”

That deal would catch up with Acosta, who eventually became President Trump’s labor secretary, more than a decade later. Amid outrage over the leniency of the deal granted Epstein, Acosta stepped down from his cabinet position in 2019.

Newsweek: As labor secretary, Acosta attempted to cut funding to a program intended to combat human trafficking by 80 percent and then went to Congress in an attempt to further cut the fund.

It is worth noting that Les Wexner, who set up Jeffrey Epstein in various homes - including the largest private mansion in all of New York City which he gave to Epstein for the princely sum of $1 (and which already included surveillance cameras as per a 1996 article in The New York Times) was a major political contributor to the Bush family. As recently as 2015 Wexner cut a check in the amount of $500,000.00 to Jeb Bush who was a candidate in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Wexner’s wife, Abigail, made similar contributions to the Bush family.

President George W. Bush appointed Les Wexner, the longest-running CEO of a Fortune 500 company, founder of The Limited, owner of Victoria's Secret and Jeffrey Epstein's only known/admitted client, to serve in the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008.

Epstein victim Maria Farmer, says Les Wexner was part of the elite sex ring.

Wexner and many other wealthy “clients” of Jeffrey Epstein have taken great pains to develop sophisticated PR strategies aimed at keeping their reputations unscathed from the continuing fallout in the Epstein case. Wexner and others, such as Bill Gates, have pursued a narrative where all bad deeds are attributed to the now conveniently dead Jeffrey Epstein, while his enablers, accomplices, and close associate were merely duped by Epstein’s charisma or manipulated by his wiles. Many of these individuals, however, and particularly Les Wexner, clearly have something to hide.

George W. Bush's White House directed U.S. Attorney of Florida, Alexander Acosta not to prosecute Epstein's co-conspirators to protect Prince Andrew on behalf of the British government, then the U.S.’s closest ally in the Iraq war.

During the negotiations over the deal, Epstein supplemented his team with former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr and Jay Lefkowitz, who had served in the administrations of former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Lefkowitz and Starr had each worked previously with Acosta when he was a junior associate at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.

2007 - Epstein's lawyers met with Miami's top federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta, who would later become the Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration. They secretly negotiate the 'deal of a lifetime'.

Former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter said that in a secretive and rushed hearing, Acosta granted Epstein a non-prosecution deal that allowed Epstein to serve only 13 months in county jail in exchange for pleading guilty to two counts of prostitution. Epstein and his alleged co-conspirators were granted immunity, and Epstein's prison sentence wasn't really one at all: he was allowed to leave the building and go to work six days a week.

Attorney for Epstein's accusers, Jack Scarola said that Acosta's plea agreement was "inexplicable" to him. "In 45 years of practice, I've never heard of anyone entering into a plea agreement that not only granted immunity to the target of the investigation, but handed out get-out-of-jail-free cards to every one of that person’s co-conspirators."

PRINCE ANDREW'S GOVERNMENT FILES WILL REMAIN SECRET UNTIL 2065

Newsweek: Files relating to Prince Andrew's trips as a U.K. trade envoy will be kept secret by the British government until 2065, sparking allegations that officials "want to sweep it all under the carpet" from anti-monarchy campaigners.

The Duke of York quit public life in disgrace over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after a car-crash November 2019 interview.

He also settled a lawsuit in which Virginia Giuffre said she was forced to have sex with the royal in London, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell while she was a trafficking victim. Andrew denied the allegations but paid her an undisclosed sum.

Ordinarily, government documents are declassified after 20 years, meaning any files held by the Foreign Office at the time of the allegations against Andrew would already be in line for release.

Andrew told journalist Emily Maitlis during his 2019 BBC interview he had stayed overnight in Epstein's home in order to break up their friendship.

However, documents disclosed during a lawsuit between the U.S. Virgin Islands Government and JP Morgan bank show Epstein and Andrew appear to have discussed a possible oil investment at the time.

The court filing, disclosed by The Mail on Sunday in July 2023, read: "On December 2, 2010, Jeffrey Epstein forwards an email to Staley from Prince Andrew with an inquiry the Prince received from Aria Petroleum looking for a $200m working capital line.

AUTHORITIES PROTECTED PRINCE ANDREW FROM EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION, BOOK SAYS

Geoffrey Berman, the powerful US attorney for the Southern District of New York was removed from his post at the weekend by Attorney General William Barr.

Berman is a Republican. He volunteered on Trump’s 2016 campaign and was once a law partner of Giuliani. He is also a former editor of the Stanford Law Review.

Berman accused the Duke of York of repeatedly refusing requests for interviews as part of his investigation into Epstein's co-conspirators. The Duke claims he has offered to help the US Department of Justice as a witness three times.

Now victims' lawyer Spencer Kuvin has called Berman's removal from office "highly suspect" and speculated that President Donald Trump or one of his staff may have asked Berman to stop investigating the Duke, then fired him after he refused.

TheGuardian: British authorities protected Prince Andrew from US prosecutors investigating his relationship with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new book by a US attorney who led the investigation in New York.

Andrew, Berman writes, “stated publicly that he would co-operate with the investigation, and we intended to give him a chance to make good on his word”.

But though the prince “kept publicly saying that he was co-operating in the Epstein investigation”, Berman writes, that “was not true”.

Berman says “an endless email exchange” made it “clear we were getting the run-around” from lawyers who did not want the prince to talk to the SDNY about Epstein.

“He was not going to sit down with us,” Berman writes, “despite assuring the public that he was ready, willing and able to cooperate.”

Berman says a comment he made to reporters in January 2020, that Andrew had provided “zero cooperation”, brought the prince’s lawyers back to the table. But no interview ensued.

In 2009, Barr joined the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, the same law firm that represented Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 which ended in a no-prosecution.

The deal was made between Acosta, who previously worked at Kirkland & Ellis, and was the Miami U.S. attorney at the time, and Kirkland & Ellis senior partner Jay Lefkowitz, along with colleagues Kenneth Starr, Gerald Lefcourt, and Alan Dershowitz. Court records show Kirkland & Ellis continued to represented Epstein through 2011, while Barr worked at the firm.

Narativ: Involvement in Iran-Contra raises new questions about Attorney General Bill Barr’s continued oversight of the Epstein case. Why? Because Barr played a significant role in the Iran-Contra cover-up.

During his first stint as A.G. under President George HW Bush, Barr sided with the President and granted clemency to Reagan administration officials who participated in the scandal. As prosecutor James J. Brosnahan characterized him, “If you want a presidential cover-up, Barr is your guy.”

We also know that President Trump has a very close relationship with the British Prime Minister and there have been requests that have been made in the past by president Trump to back off international prosecutions.

President Donald Trump claimed that he didn’t know Prince Andrew, Duke of York, even though photos show they’ve known each other since at least 2000.

Photos of the two men rubbing shoulders at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort on February 12, 2000 (one of which is pictured above) suggest otherwise, as do multiple photos of them together as recently as this June during Trump’s state visit to the U.K.

The above photo, taken on Feb. 12, 2000, is one of several taken that night authentically depicting (from left to right) Trump, his future wife Melania Trump (Melania Knavs at the time), Epstein, and his longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who was also later charged with and convicted of sex trafficking underage girls.

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump is famously quoted as saying of Epstein in an interview for New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

Another photo by the same photography company captures the two men three years earlier in 1997, also at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.

On July 9, 2019, the day after Epstein appeared in court for the second time on charges of sexual abuse of underage girls, Trump told reporters: "I had a falling out a long time ago with him. I don't think I've spoken to him in 15 years." He continued, "I was not a fan of his."

NBCNews: One of the four women who say they were “groomed” for sex by Ghislaine Maxwell testified that the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein took her to meet Donald Trump when she was just 14. 

Testifying at Maxwell’s trial in New York City, the woman, who is being identified by the pseudonym Jane, said on cross-examination that she met the future president in the 1990s at Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Jane also acknowledged that in 1998, she took part in a Miss Teen USA beauty pageant that was associated with Trump. It wasn’t immediately clear whether that was before or after the meeting at Mar-a-Lago.

Epstein’s longtime pilot, Larry Visoski, testified that he remembers meeting Jane on one of his flights but that he didn’t know she was a minor.

The flights became the focus of intense media scrutiny after it was discovered that Andrew and other boldface names, like former President Bill Clinton and Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz, took trips on his planes.

Jane revealed that she crossed paths with Trump a day after she testified in graphic detail that Maxwell trained her how to “massage” and sexually satisfy Epstein.

Jane also testified that she was regularly abused by Epstein and took part in orgies that included both Maxwell and Epstein at Epstein’s palatial homes in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York City and on his New Mexico ranch.

VanityFair: Trump spent plenty of time with Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein. In fact, he fit in quite well with them. Arrivistes all—be it Epstein’s Coney Island, Trump’s Queens, or Robert Maxwell’s Eastern European shtetl—they had all come from the wrong side of the tracks. And at some point in their lives, Robert Maxwell, Trump, and Epstein all had ties to foreign intelligence agencies, arms dealers, and the sex trade.

It was a world of unimaginable decadence. The epicenter of the operation was Epstein’s enormously opulent Upper East Side townhouse. As a dwelling, it was less a home than a deliberately, extravagantly staged showcase, a calculated spectacle that declared to the world that Epstein, a college dropout from a middle-class Brooklyn family, had been embraced securely in the bosom of the powers that be.

Epstein and Maxwell invited him everywhere—and Trump reciprocated. At one highly selective party in 1992 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, The New York Times reported, no fewer than 28 attractive young women were flown in to participate in a calendar-girl competition as entertainment. The organizer, George Houraney, who ran American Dream Enterprise, a small Florida company that staged a calendar-girl contest and other events, was appalled to learn that there were only two male guests—Trump and Epstein.

“Donald, this is supposed to be a party with VIPs,” Houraney told Trump, according to the Times. “You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein? … I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls.”

Trump was often the center of Maxwell’s attention, and women who entered Trump’s orbit sometimes ended up being associated with both Trump and Epstein, spending part of their time living in a Trump Tower condo and part in Florida, at Mar-a-Lago or one of Epstein’s homes.

Among them was Russian model and beauty-pageant contestant Anna Malova, whose journey from the world of beauty pageants and modeling to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and Epstein’s island retreat is highly suggestive in terms of how Epstein and his associates began manipulating young women.

In the early ’90s, before coming to the United States, Malova had placed well in a number of beauty pageants—coming in second in Miss Russia 1993 and winning the 1994 Miss Baltic Sea title later that year. In 1995 she left Moscow, spent six weeks learning English in St. Petersburg (Florida, not Russia), and was profiled in The Tampa Tribune as “reigning Miss Russia.” And before long, she met Donald Trump. Notwithstanding the fact that Trump was still married to his second wife, Marla Maples, Anna moved into a 30th-floor condo in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

There, according to an item in the New York Post, her lavish accommodations were taken care of “courtesy of an unidentified sugar daddy.” Not long afterward, in October 1996, Trump bought three beauty pageants from ITT Corp.: Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA.

A little more than a year later, in 1998, Malova competed in the Miss Universe pageant representing Russia. According to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Malova “faltered badly” when she was asked to compare Russia’s television and culture with Ghana’s. Malova was stumped. “She pulled a Chernobyl,” one observer told the outlet. “She’s history.”

Malova made the finals anyway, but, as New York magazine noticed, there was an anomaly in the very fact she had even entered the pageant. “Oddly, Anna Malova was allowed to compete in this year’s Miss Universe pageant [1998] even though she was Miss Russia in 1995,” the magazine reported. “According to beauty-world sources, it’s not a coincidence that the stunning Slav, who wound up a finalist in last month’s event, is a friend of Donald Trump, co-owner of the event. Did the Donald pull a few strings on an old friend’s behalf? … While the Miss Universe camp insists Malova won the Russian event honestly, Malova’s agent says, ‘I don’t think she was Miss Russia this year. She was Miss Russia several years ago.’”

In the meantime, however, she spent time with both Trump and Epstein. Flight logs released by a federal judge in New York in 2019 showed that in February 1999, Malova, then 27, flew on board Epstein’s Gulfstream, the so-called Lolita Express, with Maxwell and Prince Andrew, from Epstein’s Little St. James (a.k.a. “Pedophile Island”) back to Florida.

Over the next two decades, Malova cut an erratic figure. She was arrested in 2010 on charges of criminal possession of narcotics, forgery, and criminal impersonation of a physician. She also appeared in gossip columns as the love interest of men ranging from comedian Garry Shandling to hedge fund billionaire George Soros, more than 40 years her senior.

Malova wasn’t the only woman who spent time with both Trump and Epstein. In 1997, Trump, who had just separated from Maples, was photographed with Maxwell at Ford Models’ 50th-anniversary party, where he ogled models throughout the evening.

At another event that year, according to the Sunday Mail, Trump, then 50, seemed to fall for a friend of Maxwell’s, 20-year-old London model Anouska De Georgiou, and flew her and Maxwell to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend, after which he installed De Georgiou in “one of Donald’s many apartments” in New York.

But before long, De Georgiou told NBC News, she was being flown to Epstein’s homes all over the world. More than 20 years later, in 2019, De Georgiou’s court testimony was cited in British tabloid The Sun, which alleged that she had been abused by Epstein when she was “young and idealistic.”

“Jeffrey Epstein manipulated me, corrupted me, and sexually assaulted me,” she said, adding that the abuse was “devaluing beyond measure” and “lasted several years.”

John Casablancas, the late modeling agent, who married a 17-year-old when he was 50, would have known, having used his stature in the modeling business to indulge in similar activities with young girls at a Look of the Year modeling competition at the New York Plaza Hotel, with his friend Donald Trump, then the hotel’s owner. Trump was closely involved with the contest, in which the average age was 15, and, according to The Guardian, several of the models said that they were required by their agency to have dinner with Trump and Casablancas.

According to a sworn deposition in 2010 by MC2 bookkeeper Maritza Vasquez, Epstein wanted MC2 to use the same system of incentives that drove “model scouts” and models at Trump Model Management, the modeling agency Trump had founded as T Models in 1999. (Trump Model Management discontinued operations in 2017.)

As the Epstein operation chugged along, Trump, who had married three models—Ivana, Marla, and Melania—was very much part of Epstein’s picture. According to court records, message pads confiscated from Epstein’s home showed that Trump called Epstein’s West Palm Beach mansion a number of times.

Asked under oath in a September 2016 deposition whether he ever socialized with Trump in the presence of girls under the age of 18, Epstein punted. Rather than answer the questions, he took the Fifth.

Trump Model Management allegedly indulged in many of the dubious practices that MC2 did, such as violating immigration laws and illegally employing young foreign girls. Three former Trump models, all noncitizens of the U.S., told Mother Jones in 2016 that Trump Model Management profited by using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not allow them to work here. And two of the former models said that Trump’s agency suggested they lie on customs forms about where they planned to live. All of which meant they were perpetually scared of getting caught and pretty much at the mercy of the agency.

All of which was ironic indeed, given Trump’s hard-line immigration policies as president and his assertions that undocumented immigrants are taking American jobs.

JPMorgan Chase has been accused of knowing and allowing the now-deceased Epstein to create shell companies to run his alleged sex trafficking operation – which included payoffs to set up a fake marriage for green card schemes to keep his stable of reported victims on American soil.

“At least 20 individuals paid through JP Morgan accounts were victims of trafficking and sexual assault in Little St. James, New York, and/or other Epstein properties,” the lawsuit stated.

“These women were trafficked and abused during different intervals between at least 2003 and July 2019, when Epstein was arrested and jailed, and these women received payments, typically multiple payments, between 2003 and 2013 in excess of $1 million collectively.”

In February 2000, Trump staged a pro-am tennis tournament at Mar-a-Lago and appeared with Epstein, Maxwell, and his latest girlfriend, Melania Knauss, whom Epstein claimed to have introduced to Trump. Epstein’s claim was reported in The New York Times, which noted that “while Mr. Trump has dismissed the relationship, Mr. Epstein, since the election, has played it up, claiming to people that he was the one who introduced Mr. Trump to his third wife, Melania Trump, though neither of the Trumps has ever mentioned Mr. Epstein playing a role in their meeting.”

But in 2004, after a friendship of roughly 17 years, Trump and Epstein had a serious falling-out when Epstein sought to buy a spectacular oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach called Maison de l’Amitié (“House of Friendship”) that was being sold out of a bankruptcy auction. The property, a nearly 62,000-square-foot neoclassical palace, had once been owned by Les Wexner, the billionaire retailer who was so close to Epstein.

Epstein had his heart set on the house, but he planned to make at least one major renovation project once he bought it: He wanted to relocate the swimming pool, and he brought Trump to the property to give him advice on how to do it.

But before the sale was finalized, Epstein was horrified to see that Trump, who was still underwater financially from his Atlantic City bankruptcies, outbid him with an offer of more than $41 million for the property. The purchase was financed by Deutsche Bank, which was already holding dubious loans for Trump.

Epstein was apoplectic and became even more enraged when Trump soon thereafter put the house up for sale for $125 million. Finally, Trump sold the house to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for a reported $96 million in 2008—never having lived there—and Epstein threatened to sue him. The two men never spoke again.

From then on, whenever Epstein’s name was mentioned to Trump, the whole tenor of the conversation instantly changed. And that wasn’t the end of it. In 2005, the Palm Beach Police Department began investigating Epstein’s relationship to the young women around him. According to someone who knew him, Epstein believed Trump got the police to investigate him in retaliation for threatening to sue.

Their friendship frayed beyond repair, Epstein became less discreet as the keeper of Trump’s secrets and was not averse to showing off potentially compromising photos of him and Trump. An associate of Epstein’s who asked not to be identified told me that Epstein showed him one photo of Trump with a topless young girl. In another, the source said, Trump is with two young girls who are said to be laughing as they point out what appears to be a wet spot in an unfortunate location on his pants. The description of the photo suggested that it was a semen stain—but the photos have never been released.

Newsweek: It is only fair to point out the fact that he traveled on Epstein's Lolita Express seven times. It is also fair to point out that Trump lied about the number of times he traveled on that plane," Ian Miles Cheong wrote in a viral tweet that has been viewed more than 300,000 times.

Roger Stone, a longtime Trump ally, weighed in on these connections during a recent appearance on Lindell TV. He said Trump only visited Epstein's Palm Beach, Florida, residence once, and added that he "told the traveling security guard, 'Wow, what a nice guy Jeffrey Epstein is, letting all the kids in the neighborhood swim in his pool."

"Reportedly, Trump left the Epstein residence after only 15 minutes because he was uncomfortable with the mix of younger women and the limited number of men," Stone said.

Although Stone tried to downplay the ties between the two, they for years ran in similar social circles. Newsweek previously reported that records show Trump boarded Epstein's plane, which allegedly flew underage girls to his properties, seven times, though no evidence of wrongdoing has been presented.

Stone continued to defend Trump in a Substack post, titled "Trump & Epstein: The Recycled Smear." He acknowledged that Trump knew Epstein, but dismissed claims that the former president took multiple flights on Epstein's plane.

CNN: Jeffrey Epstein’s former pilot testified in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial that a who’s who of powerful men, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, flew aboard Epstein’s private plane.

He said he kept passenger manifests and flight logs for every flight he flew and would drop off the records to Epstein’s office every so often without keeping copies for himself. READ MORE: Who Flew on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Lolita Express' Plane?

Law&Crime: A New York Times report took a deeper look into the relationship between the two and provided insight into what Trump may have known about Epstein’s sexual predilection for underage girls.

Trump first appears in Epstein’s flight logs in April 1993. Months later, he took two trips on Epstein’s plane around the time Trump’s daughter Tiffany Trump was born. Trump, along with Epstein, Maxwell, and others, flew from Palm Beach, Florida to Teterboro, New Jersey, on Oct. 11 and Oct. 17, 1993; Tiffany was born in Palm Beach on Oct. 13, 1993.

Tiffany, along with her mother Marla Maples (whom Trump wed in December 1993 and divorced in 1999), were guests on Epstein’s plane in May 1994.

The next year, on August 13, 1995, Trump and his son Eric Trump flew on Epstein’s plane, again from Palm Beach to Teterboro.

Trump appears to have hitched a ride from Florida to the tristate area on Jan. 5, 1997, joining Epstein, Maxwell, and others on a flight from Palm Beach to Newark, N.J.

A handwritten entry in the flight logs shows a trip that Trump and the Dubins took from the Palm Beach International Airport to the Newark Liberty International Airport.

The other named passengers, besides Trump and the Dubins, are Jeffrey Epstein ("JE"), Ghislaine Maxwell ("GM"), Mark Epstein, and someone identified as "Didler" or "Didier." The date of flight is listed as January 5, 1997. The log lists the model of the plane as a Gulfstream II, under the tail number N908JE. READ MORE: Trump took several trips on Epstein’s jet: flight logs (Daily News)

BusinessInsider: In 1999, a 15-year-old locker room attendant working at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort said she was approached by Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell to give Epstein a massage, plaintiff Virginia Giuffre alleged in a 2015 civil suit. She's alleging it was an attempt at recruiting her into "sexual slavery".

Message pads investigators seized from Epstein's Palm Beach home indicate that Trump called Epstein twice in November 2004.

In 2007, Trump reportedly banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after he was accused of sexually assaulting a girl at the club, according to court papers filed in 2011.

In 2008, Epstein avoided a federal prosecution and served a short jail term after he signed a secret plea with Alexander Acosta, then US attorney of Florida's Southern District. In 2017, Trump chose Acosta to be his labor secretary.

In 2018, Trump nominated William Barr to be his new attorney general. In his confirmation hearing, Barr said he might recuse himself on Epstein, because he served as counsel at Washington, D.C. law firm Kirkland & Ellis, where Acosta worked with Epstein's attorney Jay Lefkowitz.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on July 9, Trump said he knew Epstein "like everybody in Palm Beach knew him." He continued: "I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don't think I have spoken with him for 15 years. I was not a fan. A long time ago. I'd say maybe 15 years. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you. I was not a fan of his."

People: Author Michael Wolff's latest book Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency alleges that former President Donald Trump, fearing that Ghislaine Maxwell would link him to Jeffrey Epstein's "sex-abuse scandal," mulled pardoning the financier's companion in the final weeks of his presidency.

Former Jeffrey Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz lobbied then-President Donald Trump to pardon madam Ghislaine Maxwell before she could face trial, according to a report.

In excerpts from the book published Monday, Wolff, 67, alleges that Trump, 75, took "sudden interest" in Maxwell when discussing who to pardon near the end of his tenure. 

An excerpt from Wolff's book reads: "One 'oh, s---' moment involved [Trump's] sudden interest in Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein now facing years in prison over allegations of her role in the Epstein sex-abuse scandal. Trump had tried hard to downplay his own long relationship with Epstein."

"'Has she said anything about me?' [Trump] openly wondered. 'Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?'" the excerpt continues.

Wolff further alleges that Trump ultimately didn't issue a pardon to Maxwell, and was dissuaded from doing so when informed that the federal move could trigger individual states to pursue her prosecution.

TheGuardian: At an Oval Office meeting in July 2020, Donald Trump asked aides if Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who had been arrested on sex trafficking charges, had named him among influential contacts she might count upon to protect her.

According to a new book by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, Trump asked “campaign advisers … ‘You see that article in the [New York] Post today that mentioned me?’

“He kept going, to silence. ‘She say anything about me?’”

Epstein was convicted and sentenced in Florida in 2008, on state prostitution charges. He was arrested again in July 2019, on sex-trafficking charges. He died in prison in New York a month later. READ MORE: I Know Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein

BusinessInsider: Jeffrey Epstein said in an unaired interview that he distanced himself from former President Donald Trump after realizing Trump was "a crook," according to his brother, Mark Epstein.

Mark Epstein told Insider he viewed a clip of the interview, conducted by Trump's former White House advisor Steve Bannon, after his brother forwarded it to him in the spring of 2019.

"Jeffrey showed me the link to one of these interviews," Mark Epstein said. "And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook."

Bannon and Epstein had become close in 2017, after Bannon left the White House, according to the journalist Michael Wolff. Bannon lived lavishly off Epstein's vast wealth, using his Paris apartment and butler in 2018.

Vox: Trump praised Epstein, dated their social relationship as beginning around 1987, said they shared a taste for “beautiful” women, and specifically noted that Epstein liked women “on the younger side.”

At some point around the time of Epstein’s legal problems, the friendship appears to have ended. Trump has spread the story that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago for making sexual advances to a masseuse. However, the New York Times reported that by some accounts the two men only fell out “after a failed business arrangement between them.” The Washington Post reports that they were rival bidders for the same Palm Beach estate (Trump won).

In 2009, Brad Edwards, an attorney who has represented various Epstein victims, had Trump served with a subpoena for testimony in a case against Epstein.

But Edwards is not alleging any wrongdoing from Trump; rather, the opposite. He said in a recent interview that he had served subpoenas on many connected people in 2009, and that Trump was “the only person who picked up the phone and said, ‘Let’s just talk. I’ll give you as much time as you want.’”

Edwards added that Trump “was very helpful, in the information that he gave,” calling it “good information that checked out and that helped us.” And, he said, Trump “gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever.”

An anonymous woman sued Trump in 2016, claiming that in 1994, he violently raped her at an orgy hosted by Epstein. She said she was 13 years old at the time, and accused Epstein of raping her as well. She first filed suit in California under the name “Katie Johnson,” and when it was thrown out there for technical reasons, she filed it in New York under “Jane Doe.”

She ended up withdrawing her lawsuit days before the 2016 election; her attorney Lisa Bloom said it was because she was getting death threats.

Cosmopolitan: While it's not known exactly when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump met, it's clear the pair shared a lengthy friendship. In a 2002 New York Magazine article on Epstein, Trump was quoted as saying: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years," and various footage of the pair partying in 1992 at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate confirms it was a friendship that spanned decades.

Multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein is believed to have purchased his Palm Beach property in 1990, paying nearly $2.5 million for the 8000-square-foot house (which came complete with five bedrooms, more than 7 bathrooms, and a pool). It was in this very house where the allegations against Epstein began, after the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl reported him to the police because the teen was found with $300 in cash on her at school and claimed she had earned it by massaging him.

Trump, meanwhile, owned the adjacent property - his famed Mar-a-Lago estate. The businessman purchased the sprawling, 128-room mansion for $5 million in 1985, and a decade later, in 1995, turned it into a private club containing a 20,000-square-foot ballroom.

Despite Trump's background as a businessman, and Epstein's in finance, it's not thought that the pair shared a professional relationship. In fact, the New York Times reports Jeffrey Epstein wasn't even a paying member of Mar-a-Lago, but instead attended numerous times as "a guest of a guest".

The friendship between Epstein and Trump wasn't to last, however. Speaking in July 2019, just days after Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sex trafficking, Donald Trump was eager to clarify that the pair were no longer friends - and hadn't been for quite some time.

"I had a falling out with him," said the President. "I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you."

In 2004, another Palm Beach property came up for grabs - an oceanfront mansion ironically called Maison de l’Amitie, or the House of Friendship. The property was being sold as a result of its previous owner Abe Gosman's bankruptcy, and according to a Washington Post report, both Epstein and Trump were keen to get their hands on it.

"It was something like, Donald saying,'You don’t want to do a deal with him, he doesn’t have the money,' while Epstein was saying: 'Donald is all talk. He doesn’t have the money'," recalled Joseph Luzinski, who was the trustee in the case. "They both really wanted it," he told the Post.

What ensued was an outright bidding war between the two men - and their legal parties - for the estate, which Trump had described as "the finest piece of land in Florida and probably the U.S."

SheKnows: In the new political tell-all American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery, excerpted by Vanity Fair, journalist Craig Unger claims that Trump’s time with Epstein was particularly well-documented — with one source describing two NSFW photos of Trump with young girls that Epstein had definitely held onto. READ MORE: Nude Photos of Girls Seized From Jeffrey Epstein Mansion

But Unger’s new source adds even more visceral detail to years of reporting on Epstein and Trump’s alleged predilection for rounding up and raping young girls. By 2008, Epstein and Trump’s friendship was no more — they’d fallen out over a real estate deal and animosity had only grown in the years since. Unger’s source says that, as a result, Epstein began showing off “potentially incriminating” photos he’d held onto of Trump with young women.

With the sheer number of sources who have come forward about Epstein’s criminal behavior over the years and his subsequent conviction on sex trafficking charges, we have no choice but to accept that these atrocities were a reality of Epstein’s life. He abused and sex trafficked young girls, forcing them into prostitution; he did it for years, and he did it fairly openly. There is very little possibility that those who socialized with him were unaware, and even less possibility in the case of Donald Trump, who himself faces a number of rape allegations and has specifically attested to discussing women with Epstein.

Politico: People who know those involved said Epstein’s connections to two U.S. presidents ran through one bubbly British heiress: Ghislaine Maxwell.

Maxwell, who has denied accusations made in civil suits of aiding and participating in Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors, has been among the financier’s closest associates. Unlike Epstein, she comes from a rarefied background that gave her entrée to the rich and powerful.