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.

Early Life 

Biography: Epstein was born on January 20, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Pauline, worked part-time as a school aide, and his father, Seymour, was a groundskeeper for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Epstein, along with his younger brother Mark, were raised in a middle-class environment.

Remarkably bright, Epstein skipped two grades and graduated from Brooklyn's Lafayette High School at the age of 16. Although he enrolled at Cooper Union and later at New York University in the early 1970s, he never received degrees at either school.

Still, Epstein got a job teaching calculus and physics at the Dalton School, an Upper East Side prep school, in 1974. He was hired by then- headmaster Donald Barr - the father of former Attorney General, William Barr. However, his employment was short-lived — he was fired two years later for "poor performance."

AG Bill Barr has additional ties to Epstein as he previously practiced law for Kirkland & Ellis, a law firm which reportedly represented Epstein during the 2008 Palm Beach, FL investigation. 

Finance Career

Before Epstein left his teaching job at the Dalton School, he was able to make an important connection with one of his student's parents, Alan Greenberg, the CEO of Bear Stearns. Impressed by Epstein's acuity with numbers, Greenberg gave him an assistant job at Bear Stearns in 1976 and from there, Epstein quickly climbed the ladder, eventually advising some of the company's wealthiest clients.

Students remember Epstein telling them that his relationship with Lynne Greenberg, the daughter of Bear Stearns chairman Alan “Ace” Greenberg, helped Epstein secure his first Wall Street job. It has also been reported that Epstein curried favor with Greenberg after tutoring the banker’s son.

He was reportedly asked to leave Bear Sterns for unknown reasons in 1981 but remained close with Mr Greenberg and his successor Jimmy Cayne.

In 1981 Epstein left Bear Stearns and established his own financial consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc (IAG) in which he helped clients recover embezzled money and also assisted clients who were embezzlers. It was around this time, he began telling friends and colleagues that he worked as an intelligence agent, a claim that has never been verified. 

In 1987 Epstein began consulting for a collection agency called Tower Financial Corporation, which ended up being a half a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Epstein was said to be one of the masterminds behind the scheme, but he ended up getting away unscathed, leaving Tower a few years before it fell apart in 1993.

WPBF: "I'm the guy who introduced him to Les Wexner," Robert Meister said.

At the time, Meister was vice chairman of insurance giant Aon and the broker for billionaire Les Wexner of L Brands, which owned Victoria's Secret.

Jeffrey Epstein gave Meister a handgun for his birthday after they’d just met.

In 1988 Epstein set up J. Epstein & Company (which would later be renamed Financial Trust Company), a financial management firm that purportedly only served billionaires. It was during this time he became the financial advisor to billionaire Leslie Wexner, who was the CEO of L Brands, Abercrombie & Fitch, Express, Inc. and Victoria's Secret. Starting in the mid-1990s, he moved his company to the U.S. Virgin Islands to avoid paying taxes.

Les Wexner is listed in Epstein's black book on page 81.

Epstein recorded 16 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

Epstein became Wexner's financial manager in 1987. Wexner purchased the New York property, the Herbert N. Straus House, in 1989 and later sold it to Epstein for one dollar, in the mid-1990s following his marriage to Abigail. In July 1991, Wexner granted Epstein power of attorney and also instated him as a trustee on the board of the Wexner Foundation.

Wexner has been accused of failing to take action when complaints were raised against Epstein, including after executives of L Brands reported (in the mid-1990s) that Epstein was abusing his power and connection to Wexner by posing as a recruiter of Victoria's Secret models. The artist Maria Farmer contacted local and federal authorities about an assault she allegedly endured by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell while working as an artist-in-residence on Wexner's Ohio property in 1996. Within a year of Farmer's complaint, the actress Alicia Arden filed a police report in Los Angeles detailing that Epstein had misrepresented himself as a recruiter for Victoria's Secret prior to another alleged assault.

In early 2006, Epstein was charged in Florida with "multiple counts of molestation and unlawful sexual activity with a minor." The New York Times reported that it was 18 months after the charges were raised that Wexner cut his ties to Epstein.

President George W. Bush appointed Wexner 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. 

It is worth noting that Leslie 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.

In the early 2000s, Epstein expanded his portfolio to include financing media companies, developing securities funding and investing in hedge funds and startups. He also created his own nonprofit, the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, to donate millions to institutions like Harvard University. 

DailyMail: The retail titan behind Victoria's Secret has accused the financier Jeffrey Epstein of misappropriating 'vast sums' of his fortune while managing his personal finances more than a decade ago.

Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner said in a letter that he recovered 'some of the funds' but severed ties with Epstein in 2007 as sexual abuse allegations first surfaced against him in Florida.

The letter was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which put the amount of misappropriated money at more than $46 million.

It's unclear whether Wexner reported the allegations to law enforcement.

MiddleEastEye: Media reports and court documents have unearthed new details about the 66-year-old financier's life, including his ties to the Middle East, notably to figures in Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Epstein’s now infamous “black book”, which was photocopied by a former butler and made public in 2015, lists several prominent Middle Eastern business contacts.

Yariv Zghoul is listed in Epstein's black book on page 59.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and no addresses under this name.

Notable names in the address book included Israeli venture capitalist Yariv Zghoul; Syrian-Saudi financier Wafic Said; British-Lebanese CEO Amado Fakhre, who spent two years in prison in Cuba over alleged corruption; and Saudi businessman Amr al-Dabbagh.

Arnado & Jasmine Fakhre is listed in Epstein's black book on page 18.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and 1 address under this name.

In August 2018, the New York Times columnist James B. Stewart paid Epstein a visit at the latter’s residence in Manhattan.

The writer was investigating links between the sketchy financier and Elon Musk, who had fallen afoul of the Securities and Exchange Commission over a Tweet announcing he had secured funding to take Telsa private. Musk elaborated in a blog post that the money would come from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which had already obtained a near 5% stake in the company.

New York Times journalist James Stewart wrote that Epstein told him that “he’d spoken to the Saudis about possibly investing in Tesla”, the company owned by Elon Musk.

He didn't elaborate about which Saudis or other specifics, according to Stewart.

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund invested $2bn in Tesla.  

The Financial Times (FT) reported that the Saudis had built a 4.9 per cent stake, making it one of Tesla’s top-five shareholders. Minutes after the FT revealed that investment, Mr Musk tweeted he was close to arranging a buyout of Tesla, precipitating a months-long crisis that resulted in civil charges from US regulators.

The Tesla chief later claimed the Saudis had been ready to back his buyout plan, giving him the confidence to declare he had “funding secured”. However, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Mr Musk with making “false and misleading statements”, leading to a settlement in which he paid a personal fine of $20m and agreed to step down as chairman. 

BusinessInsider: Elon Musk's lawyers are trying to force Saudi Arabia's top wealth manager to testify in upcoming litigation over a now-infamous tweet in which the Tesla CEO said he was considering taking the EV manufacturer private.

Tesla's legal team subpoenaed Private Investment Fund governor Yasir al-Rumayyan on December 19, according to documents filed – with a San Francisco court case set to start later this month.

Investors suing Musk say that the world's second-richest man manipulated Tesla's share price in 2018 when he claimed that he had "funding secured" to take the company private at $420 a share.

That deal never happened, with Tesla remaining publicly listed and trading at $108.10 a share as of Tuesday's closing bell.

PIF is a sovereign wealth fund – meaning that it invests on behalf of Saudi Arabia's government. It manages around $620 billion worth of assets, according to its most recent annual report.

Musk has since claimed publicly and in court documents that he had a handshake deal for the fund to provide the necessary cash for Tesla to delist from the S&P 500.

Previous court filings released in April 2022 showed that Musk slammed al-Rumayyan via text message after Bloomberg reported that the two parties were merely "in talks" over a potential Tesla buyout.

"I read the article. It is weak sauce and still makes me sound like a liar. It is filled with equivocation and in no way indicates the strong interest you conveyed in person," Musk texted al-Rumayyan in August 2018.

"Let's see the numbers and get our people to meet and discuss. We cannot approve something that we don't have sufficient information on," al-Rumayyan responded.

A year before his suspected suicide, Epstein boasted of his ties to powerful Saudi leaders, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the New York Times reported. 

Epstein's address book had listings for a “Saud, Prince Solman” - widely believed to be MBS’s father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz - and MBS’s cousin and former Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

Bandar Prince is listed in Epstein's black book on page 69.

Epstein recorded 1 phone number and 1 address under this name.

Among the Saudi entries in Epstein’s address book – maintained by his staff, stolen by his butler, and then seized by the FBI – was Prince Salman of the ruling Saud dynasty. Two US numbers were listed: one with a Washington, DC area code, and another corresponding to northern Virginia, just outside the capital.

Solman is listed in Epstein's black book on page 49.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and no addresses under this name.

It is likely in reference to the current King Salman, who at the time of the butler’s tenure (2004-05) was a prince. Salman’s son, the current de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman, was a teenager at the time.

Mohammed Jameel is listed in Epstein's black book on page 29.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and no addresses under this name.

However, the Saudi connection appears to have transcended generations.

The sudden rise of MBS, who is seen as Saudi Arabia's de-facto ruler, has been marked by controversy - most notably the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.

The Daily Beast reported in July that the FBI found an expired Austrian passport for Epstein - along with piles of cash and dozens of diamonds - in a safe at his Manhattan mansion.

The expired passport had Epstein's photo, a fake name and Saudi address.

Before Jeffrey Epstein met Donald Trump, 1987, Epstein, though a Jew and not allowed in Saudi Arabia under any normal legal circumstances according to law, lived in that country. Epstein was even issued a Saudi passport under a non-Jewish name but with Epstein’s photo.

Epstein’s black book included a short section labelled Israel that contained contact information for two former prime ministers, Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, as well as several other individuals with Israeli government email addresses.

Ehud Olmert is listed in Epstein's black book on page 68.

Epstein recorded 3 phone numbers and no addresses under this name.

According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Epstein and Barak partnered in 2015 - long after Epstein was convicted as a sex offender - to fund Reporty Homeland Security, a startup chaired by Barak and now renamed Carbyne.

Haaretz has also reported that Barak allegedly received millions from the Wexner Foundation, the philanthropic organisation of well-known Epstein-associate Les Wexner.

Ehud Barak is listed in Epstein's black book on page 69, page 95.

Epstein recorded 7 phone numbers and no addresses under this name.

Barak, as former Israeli leader, also has deep ties to Israeli intelligence. The former general faced charges of war crimes, but escaped arrest due to diplomatic immunity. But even Barak is only the tip of the iceberg.

Michael Chertoff, who ran Homeland Security under former president George W. Bush, serves on Carbyne’s advisory board. Chertoff wrote the Patriot Act, which authorised sweeping digital surveillance of Americans.

Peter Thiel, one of the founders of Paypal, Facebook and Palantir, is also a Carbyne investor.

Thiel is an avid Trump supporter, and is heavily invested in military and intelligence companies. Thiel’s Palantir is described as making use of “war on terror tools to track American citizens”.

Today, Carbyne is in the process of expanding in the United States. The firm hired LSN Partners to lobby for the Build Back Better Act and the potential $500 million in subsidies for 911 call center updates therein, according to public disclosures required by the Lobbying Registration Act.

The LSN lobbyists listed on its disclosure forms include Tom Quinn, a former legislative director for then-Rep. Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.), and José Fuentes, a former communications director for USAID and former staffer for the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Defense.

Epstein did visit Israel in 2008, almost moving permanently to avoid jail time. He decided against it, however, facing 13 months in jail, before being released on July 22, 2009. 

Neighbors in a New York Apartment building owned by Epstein’s brother said that Barak was a “frequent presence” in the building, The Daily Beast reported.

Residents told the outlet that they knew when the politician was in the building because there were “flashy cars” outside and his security detail in the lobby.

A resident told the outlet they were in the elevator with Hebrew-speaking security guards and another said she regularly saw a guard posted outside an 11th-floor apartment. Another resident said they saw a security detail in the lobby on at least a dozen occasions.

Asked about his stays by The Daily Beast, Barak said: “Despite the fact that there was no wrongdoing on my part, and that there is not even the faintest suspicion of wrongdoing on my part, I’m not going to address these questions because in the current political environment in Israel, the mere fact of my response to such a question is churned up as spin in the political game.

“As a former prime minister I’m accompanied by bodyguards everywhere I go,” he added.

Barak confirmed it was him in the photos, and has admitted to visiting Epstein’s mansions and private Caribbean island, but insists he never attended parties of a sexual nature there.

The 2000s: Epstein continues to invest millions in various funds, including $57 million into the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage hedge fund - a fund found to be leveraged 17:1 and a ticking time bomb that would eventually factor into Bear Stearns collapse in the financial crisis of 2008.

TheNewYorkTimes: When compliance officers at JPMorgan Chase conducted a sweep of their wealthy clients a decade ago, they recommended that the bank cut its ties to the financier Jeffrey E. Epstein because his accounts posed unacceptable legal and reputational risks.

Yet Mr. Epstein, who had been charged with sex crimes and pleaded guilty in 2008 to solicitation of prostitution, remained a JPMorgan client until 2013.

The main reason, according to six former senior executives and other bank employees familiar with the matter, was that Mary C. Erdoes, one of JPMorgan’s highest-ranking executives, intervened to keep him as a client.

Part of her rationale was that Mr. Epstein played a lucrative role recruiting new customers to JPMorgan’s private-banking division, which caters to ultrawealthy people and families, the six employees said. That made him an especially coveted client.

James E. Staley, who ran the bank’s asset-management division, which included the private bank, from 2001 to 2009, built JPMorgan’s relationship with Mr. Epstein.

Jes Staley is listed in Epstein's black book on page 79.

Epstein recorded 8 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

During that period, Mr. Epstein introduced Mr. Staley to dozens of wealthy people who became valuable customers of the private bank, a person with knowledge of the relationship told The Times.

Mr. Epstein, had loyal allies at JPMorgan. While he was incarcerated in 2008 and 2009, Mr. Staley visited him at the Palm Beach, Fla., office, where a judge had permitted Mr. Epstein to spend time during his sentence.

In 2009, Mr. Staley was promoted to lead JPMorgan’s investment bank. His successor as head of the asset-management business was Ms. Erdoes, regarded by her colleagues as an expert at wooing wealthy customers.

That December, a hedge fund run by Bernard L. Madoff was revealed to be a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. JPMorgan had served as Mr. Madoff’s primary bank for more than two decades, a role that prosecutors later said had enabled him to “launder billions of dollars.”

Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ordered JPMorgan to review its client roster to make sure that customers were not violating laws or depositing tainted funds at the bank, according to four of the former bank employees.

Presented with the compliance officers’ recommendation that Mr. Epstein be kicked out of the bank, Ms. Erdoes protested that he was a valuable client, according to the six former employees, some of whom were senior executives with direct knowledge of the events. Losing Mr. Epstein would mean potentially losing connections to other lucrative clients, she warned.

Four of the former employees said that they were under the impression Ms. Erdoes was acting in the interests of Mr. Staley, who maintained a strong relationship with Mr. Epstein.

The dispute over whether to jettison Mr. Epstein grew so heated that it became widely known in the bank’s executive suites, three of the former employees said.

Ms. Erdoes ultimately prevailed. A compliance officer left the bank after losing the battle, the three employees said.

In January 2013, regulators were unhappy with JPMorgan’s progress in weeding out potentially bad actors, and the comptroller of the currency’s office publicly ordered the bank to improve its processes for detecting money laundering and rigorously scrutinizing customers.

Later that year, Mr. Staley left JPMorgan and joined a hedge fund. Around that time, JPMorgan cut its ties to Mr. Epstein.

After being expelled by JPMorgan, Mr. Epstein moved his business to Deutsche Bank, where he opened dozens of accounts. Compliance officers at the German bank raised concerns about Mr. Epstein and transactions that they regarded as suspicious, and they tried to get the bank to end its relationship with him. Executives overruled their concerns.

Deutsche Bank stopped doing business with Mr. Epstein in June 2019.

Ms. Erdoes, who joined JPMorgan in 1996, remains in charge of the asset-management division, which has more than $2 trillion in assets. She also has a seat on JPMorgan’s powerful operating committee.

Time: Barclays chief executive James Staley is one of the few high profile executives to lose their job due to links with the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Staley announced his departure from the bank Monday, following an investigation.

Barclays said in its statement that “the investigation makes no findings that Mr. Staley saw, or was aware of, any of Mr. Epstein’s alleged crimes,” but said “the board is disappointed at this outcome. Mr Staley has run the Barclays Group successfully since December 2015 with real commitment and skill.”

See No Evil, JPMorgan ‘blind eye’ to Jeffrey Epstein

TheHill: The U.S. Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit against banking giant JPMorgan Chase, accusing the Wall Street corporation of turning a “blind eye” toward the conduct of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George said in a complaint filed in a Manhattan District Court that JPMorgan Chase facilitated the trafficking of minors for sexual abuse at the hands of Epstein.

The lawsuit was filed in a Manhattan District Court by Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George who said the bank of knowingly “provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid.”

“Upon information and belief, JP Morgan turned a blind eye to evidence of human trafficking over more than a decade because of Epstein’s own financial footprint,”

Separate lawsuits were filed by two anonymous women last month who have also alleged JPMorgan and another banking giant, Deutsche Bank, enabled and benefitted from Epstein’s abusive conduct.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Virgin Islands announced a $105 million settlement against the estate of Epstein and 10 affiliated entities.

The attorney general said JPMorgan Chase was “indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise.”

JPMorgan Involved in Epstein Sex Ring

TheDailyBeast: At the end of December, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan over the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. She was terminated days later.

“Between 2008 and 2012, Staley exchanged approximately 1,200 emails with Epstein from his JP Morgan email account,” states a newly-unredacted portion of the filing. “These communications show a close personal relationship and ‘profound’ friendship between the two men and even suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. They also reveal that Staley corresponded with Epstein while Epstein was incarcerated and visited Epstein’s Virgin Islands residence on multiple occasions.”

In 2021, the Financial Times reported that U.S. financial regulators had examined Epstein and Staley’s emails, some of which included the cryptic words “snow white.” At the time, a lawyer for Staley told the press, “We wish to make it expressly clear that our client had no involvement in any of the alleged crimes committed by Mr. Epstein, and code words were never used by Mr. Staley in any communications with Mr. Epstein, ever.”

The lawsuit alleges that “Epstein paid more than $600,0000 to Jane Doe 1, a woman who—according to news reports contained in JP Morgan’s due diligence reports—Epstein purchased at the age of 14.”

In the lawsuit, Epstein and his inner circle also are accused of withdrawing large sums of cash and making 95 foreign remittances with no known payee. 

CFR & Trilateral Commission

Epstein was also part of two of the most powerful organizations of the world: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Both of these entities gather the world elite to decide the policies that shape the world as we know it.

The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller. Epstein was also on the board of Rockefeller University.

David Rockefeller is listed in Epstein's black book on page 78.

Epstein recorded 4 phone numbers and 1 address under this name.

Leon Black, one of the billionaire cofounders of Apollo Global Management, the publicly traded private-equity and investment firm with around $350 billion under management. According to Bloomberg, Black has a net worth of nearly $10 billion.

Leon Black is listed in Epstein's black book on page 70.

Epstein recorded 5 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

In 2012, Black took a yacht from a family vacation in the Caribbean to go to a cookout at Epstein’s Virgin Islands home.

As previously reported by The Post, Epstein was listed as a director on the board of Leon Black’s charity, the Black Family Foundation, between 2001 and 2012. READ MORE: Leon Black flew model to Florida to have sex with Jeffrey Epstein, lawsuit claims

An investigation by Apollo’s board of directors revealed Black paid Epstein $158 million in fees and services, loaned him over $30 million and made a $10 million donation to Epstein’s charity before the two cut off their relationship in 2018 over a “fee dispute.” READ MORE: Leon Black Claims 'Extortion’ By Russian Model: The Latest Scandal Plaguing The Epstein-Linked Billionaire, Explained

VanityFair: Black paid Epstein $158 million for advice on issues including tax, estate planning, and structuring that, saved Black between $1 billion and $2 billion. Somehow, we are supposed to believe that Jeffrey Epstein, a college dropout who taught math for about two years at the Dalton School, on the Upper East Side, and then worked at Bear Stearns before being fired, is responsible for between 10% and 20% of Black’s net worth. (Even by Wall Street standards, the fees Black agreed to pay Epstein were preposterous. “You could buy a law firm for what Leon agreed to pay Epstein,” a retired CEO told me.) READ MORE: Billionaire Leon Black Accused Of Raping Woman In Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Townhouse In New Court Filings

Leon Black is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Murder Money Trail Leads To Billionaire David Koch—Who Then Quickly Dies

David Koch is listed in Epstein's black book on page 31.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and no addresses under this name.

According to The Daily Mail: Epstein was invited to a party at David Koch’s house in September, 2010 – just months after Epstein had been released from prison.

Jeffrey Epstein hobnobbed with high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, banking, Hollywood and philanthropy at a Hamptons party just two months after his release by the state of Florida for soliciting a minor.

Among those guests were two men who currently serve in President Trump’s cabinet and his most trusted legal adviser.

CBSNews: Trump began surrounding himself with cabinet members and advisors closely knitted to the Kochs. Vice president elect Mike Pence, White House Counsel Don McGahn and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, for example, are all connected to the Kochs in various ways.

Koch is responsible for getting many Congressional Republicans elected.

David, helped bankroll and shape 2010′s conservative Tea Party movement and founded the hugely influential conservative organization Americans for Prosperity in 2004. 

APICCIANO: Koch is listed by Forbes as the 15th richest man in the U.S., and is worth some $45 billion. Koch Industries’ PAC and employees contributed $2.8 million to GOP candidates during the 2020 political cycle, noted the Journal.

The brothers were revealed as the powerful stealth engineers of a radical right movement in the U.S. in the ground-breaking 2016 book “Dark Money,” by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer. The Kochs funded ultra-conservative think tanks, peppered universities with hundreds of rightwing academics and used their wealth to boost an army of conservative politicians into office.

The family money also bankrolls the American Legislative Exchange Council which pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state legislatures across the nation. And Koch plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls.

Trump pulled the US from the Paris agreement, because the Koch network of funders spent an estimated $1 billion telling the Republican Party what to do, over the last few election cycles. Charles D. and David H. Koch, the Kansas-based billionaires run a chain of refineries (which can process 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day) as well as a subsidiary that owns or operates 4,000 miles of pipelines that move crude oil.

TruthOut: The head of the EPA is the person responsible for protecting our air, land, and water. Trump chose Scott Pruitt, a longtime ally of the fossil fuel industry, to lead that agency. Pruitt is known for his unusually close ties to the that industry, which are extensive even by Republican Party standards.

As Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Pruitt sued the agency he now runs many times. A CMD review of Pruitt’s emails showed that he allowed the industry to write the comments that he filed with federal agencies. The Koch Brothers’ network of shell “advocacy groups,” which CMD has analyzed at length, turned out in force to support Pruitt’s nomination.

Other Trump cabinet appointees are also closely allied with the fossil-fuel industry, including Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross, Transportation Sec. Elaine Chao, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and of course Rex Tillerson, who led Exxon for years.

The fossil-fuel connection runs deep in the Trump Administration. The Sabin Center analyzed lower-level appointments in agencies responsible for energy, the environment and natural resources. It found that more than half of those appointed “appear(ed) to lack expertise and/or experience” related to their new responsibilities, while more than one-quarter “had close ties to the fossil fuel industry.”

With Trump’s pullout from the Paris agreement, the US becomes one of only three nations that is not part of that agreement. One of the other two, Nicaragua, wants a stronger agreement. The other is Syria, which is in the middle of a catastrophic civil war.

With the help of the Koch Brothers, Trump and the Republican Party have “moved in the opposite direction from virtually the rest of the world,” wrote Jane Mayer.

It’s time the world began to hold them to account.

Famous Friends 

“Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich, famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it. He also claimed to know a great deal about these people, some of it potentially damaging or embarrassing, including details about their supposed sexual proclivities and recreational drug use,” said New York Times columnist James B. Stewart.

Blessed by the Pope, Epstein and Maxwell are both smiling and gazing into the eyes of Pope John Paul II, who led the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005.

Epstein lived a jet setter's life and mingled with the world's elite, which included President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Kevin Spacey, Alan Dershowitz, President Donald Trump and Prince Andrew — the last of whom has been mired in controversy ever since a young woman (who was procured by Epstein) told the media she was forced to have sexual relations multiple times with the prince when she was a teenager, starting in 1999.

Alan Dershowitz is listed in Epstein's black book on page 71.

Epstein recorded 10 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

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 to record their sexual activities as a means of blackmail.

NewYorkPost: Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged teenage “sex slave” claims she was ordered to sleep with powerful men — including a former US senator, the former governor of New Mexico, a prominent hedge fund manager and a late longtime MIT professor.

The identities of the men were revealed in some 2,000 documents unsealed in Manhattan federal court related to Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a deposition, Virginia Louise Giuffre (née Roberts; born August 9, 1983) claimed she was trafficked to MIT professor Marvin Minsky, who died in 2016 at age 88, as well as former Maine Sen. George Mitchell, ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and money manager Glenn Dubin, whose wife, Eva, is an ex-girlfriend of Epstein’s.

George Mitchell is listed in Epstein's black book on page 76.

Epstein recorded 12 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

Bill Richardson is listed in Epstein's black book on page 91.

Epstein recorded 4 phone numbers and no addresses under this name.

She also claimed to have had sexual relations with Jean Luc Brunel, a modeling agency honcho credited with discovering Christy Turlington and Milla Jovovich.

Jean-Luc Brunel is listed in Epstein's black book on page 8, page 95.

Epstein recorded 9 phone numbers and 3 addresses under this name.

7News: February 2022 Paris police are investigating the death of the agent, Jean-Luc Brunel, the prosecutor’s office said.

A modeling agent who was close to disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his French jail cell, where he was being held in an investigation into the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

TheGuardian: Brunel and Epstein are thought to have met for the first time in the 1980s through the British socialite and now convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, but their relationship seems to have deepened in the late 1990s. According to flight logs, between 2000 and 2005 Brunel took at least two dozen trips on Epstein’s private jet – the so-called “Lolita Express”. Only a handful of people, including Maxwell, appear more often. In 2005, Brunel transformed Karin’s US division into a new agency called MC2, with financial help from Epstein, opening offices in New York and Miami. Epstein and MC2 denied they had any business relationship, but in a sworn statement in 2010, MC2’s former bookkeeper, Maritza Vasquez, said Epstein had guaranteed a $1m line of credit for the company and directly paid for the visas of models brought to the US to work for it.

Vasquez said Brunel and models as young as 13 lived in apartments controlled by Epstein on East 66th Street in Manhattan. Epstein didn’t charge rent, but Brunel billed the models $1,000 a month, Vasquez said. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s accusers, alleged in a 2014 court filing that the system was a cover for sex trafficking. Brunel “would offer the girls ‘modelling’ jobs”, the document read.

Giuffre has previously claimed that she had sex with Prince Andrew and noted attorney Alan Dershowitz.

“I had sexual intercourse with Dershowitz at least six times,’’ Roberts 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.”

The court docs also detail disturbing allegations against Maxwell, the daughter of late publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell.

BusinessInsider: Giuffre's memoir was included in evidence as part of her since-settled lawsuit against Maxwell. Giuffre describes Maxwell as an integral part of Epstein's sex ring and describes her as actively recruiting and grooming underage girls to meet Epstein's sexual needs. But Giuffre also alleges that Maxwell herself participated in sex acts (page 25), and played a key role in manipulating the girls.

Giuffre was also an eye-witness to many guests passing through Epstein's social orbit, including then-presidential candidate Al Gore and President Bill Clinton. Giuffre describes Gore as dedicated to his wife (page 109), but didn't say the same for Clinton. Though she didn't have a sexual relationship with Clinton, Giuffre said she saw him with two young women while on Epstein's island (page 110).

Eva Andersson-Dubin the former Miss Sweden was a longtime girlfriend of Epstein’s who stayed close with him even after they broke up. When she gave birth to her daughter Celina, Epstein was the godfather.

Eva Andersson is listed in Epstein's black book on page 69.

Epstein recorded 15 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

Of course, Andersson-Dubin married hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin instead, who’s Celina’s father. But Epstein’s obsession switched from Andersson-Dubin to Celina. He would tell associates that if he ever were to marry, it would be Celina. Even in 2014, she was added as a beneficiary to Epstein’s trusts. Keep in mind Celina was only 19 in 2014. 

Glen Dubin is listed in Epstein's black book on page 15.

Epstein recorded 8 phone numbers and 3 addresses under this name.

A house manager for Dubin’s wife, Eva, testified that a 15-year-old girl told him that Maxwell tried to “force her to have sex with Epstein through threats” and swiped her passport to hold her hostage.

The girl was distressed, the worker — Rinaldo Rizzo — recalled, and “sat in the stool exactly the way the girls that I mentioned to you sat at Jeffrey’s house, with no expression and with their head down.”

The girl told him she had just been “on an island” and didn’t know how she got to Dubin’s house.

“She said, ‘They asked me for sex; I said no,'” Rizzo told lawyers.

He later added, “She was shaking uncontrollably.”

Giuffre’s 2015 suit eventually settled outside of court.

Giuffre has been described as Epstein’s underage “sex slave,” and claims she was even sex-trafficked to Prince Andrew – whom she subsequently sued, and then settled with for an estimated $12 million in February.

DailyMail: One of Jeffrey Epstein's victims has claimed that he did make sex tapes of his wealthy friends – and not only has she seen them, she's made copies.

According to Palm Beach County Deputy Sheriff John Mark Dougan “They weren’t tapes so much as DVDs. I don’t know if these were footages or not, but every bedroom in Epstein’s houses had multiple cameras in them. He used to keep records of everybody. He used to store everything. So the Palm Beach Police Department, they knew that there were thousands and thousands of these DVDs. Except… Now, this is very interesting. When they went to search for them, they were gone.”

Dougan continues: “It’s not really a question of who would have had access. The question you should be asking is: Who had knowledge that the search was coming? And the answer to that is the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Sarah Ransome's newly released deposition has rekindled allegations that top attorney Alan Dershowitz was involved in the abuse of underage girls.

Ransome claimed in the deposition taken as part of a lawsuit that Virginia Giuffre filed against Epstein's one-time girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell that she has seen footage of two of Epstein's associates having sex with a female victim.

Independent: “Jeffrey then walked in the room,” Ms Ransome testified. “He started masturbating under his clothes. He put his hand in his trousers. A few minutes later Alan walked in the room. He started undressing, he got on the bed with [Redacted] and myself, and we basically had a three-way sexual interaction.”

She said she "just tried to get it done as soon as possible to get out of there," calling the incident a "traumatic experience." She described Mr Dershowitz as "pasty-skinned" and "wrinkly" in the court documents.

Ransome goes on to claim that footage she saw will 'haunt me for the rest of my life' and that the faces of the two men were clearly visible. She does not identify those men.

Ransome even claims to have copies which she has stored at several secure locations around Europe and says she fears retaliation by Epstein even though he is dead.

Ransome, who was born in South Africa and moved to Scotland aged 14, was lured into Epstein's web by one of his recruiters after coming to New York to become a model.

Epstein claimed he had connections at FIT, the New York fashion college, and Ransome says he 'used my education as a way for me to trade my soul to the devil and become a sex slave to pay for my studies'.

Ransome writes: 'I will be more than willing to swear under oath and testify in court over these sex tapes….it will break your heart into a million tiny pieces when you watch this footage.'

When police raided Epstein's mansion in 2019 they found dozens of tapes of girls in a twisted library the disgraced financier kept.

NYPost: The cache of evidence, released as part of Maxwell’s federal sex-trafficking trial, reveals what FBI agents discovered, which included a trove of discs that give a glimpse into their jet-setting lives together.

A few days after his Aug. 10 death, FBI agents and NYPD officials raided Little St. James, which locals told authorities they had nicknamed “Pedophile Island.”

Maxwell appeared to have admitted the tapes existed after being tricked by a journalist for the TV show 60 Minutes, telling him: 'I don't know where they are'.

Ghislaine briefly discussed the 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.

Charlie Rose has been accused by 34 women of sexual misconduct spanning three decades.

Charlie Rose is listed in Epstein's black book on page 47.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and 1 address under this name.

Epstein made recommendations for Rose, giving him the names and phone numbers of five women he thought the anchor should hire as assistants.

One woman was described as “world’s most perfect assistant she used to work for Harvey Weinstein he’s lucky if he can get her.”

Rose hired three of the women Epstein recommended.

One of the women said she didn’t know Epstein recommended her. “I was being offered up for abuse,” said the woman, who was later one of 34 other women to accuse Rose of sexual harassment.

Rose, who also worked as a journalist and host for CBS News, was suspended indefinitely in 2017 after the allegations were made public. In a statement, Rose said, “I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior.” He was later fired.

Now 77, Rose remains out of work in the media world.

In 2020, Harvard found that the university accepted more than $9 million from Epstein during the decade leading up to his 2008 sex crimes conviction in Florida state court, but barred him from making further donations after that point.

It concluded that Epstein visited the Cambridge, Mass., campus more than 40 times after his conviction, including as recently as 2018. Martin Nowak, a Harvard professor who had close ties to Epstein and who allegedly gave him an office on campus, was disciplined by the school.

Martin Nowak is listed in Epstein's black book on page 77.

Epstein recorded 4 phone numbers and 1 address under this name.

The visits by Epstein stopped after other researchers complained to Nowak about Epstein’s presence, investigators said.

Although most of the funding from Epstein had been spent by last year, the school said it donated the remaining $200,000 to groups that support victims of sex trafficking and assault.

Other universities have also faced scrutiny over their ties to Epstein, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The former director of MIT’s famous Media Lab, Joi Ito, resigned in 2019 amid uproar over his financial connections to Epstein. He issued a public apology and vowed to raise money for victims of trafficking.

During his time as director at MIT Media Lab, Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ito worked with Epstein to secure anonymous donations. A New Yorker exposé in Septmeber 2019 published emails between Epstein and Ito which showed the director knew the financier was convicted of soliciting underage girls for prostitution, and yet allowed Epstein to make donations through his foundations, thereby hiding Epstein’s involvement.

TheDailyBeast: In July 2006, Epstein and Maxwell were snapped grinning with Weinstein at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle. The Victorian-themed bash came just days before Epstein was indicted for soliciting minor girls for prostitution in Palm Beach, Florida.

Weinstein was in a tuxedo, Maxwell in a plumed mask, and Epstein in a formal white U.S. Navy SEAL uniform, with service ribbons and medals.

Jeffrey Epstein used his connections to Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to impress young women, and even helped one victim land a role in a horror movie produced by a Weinstein-owned company.

Chauntae Davies was recruited into Epstein’s trafficking ring in 2001, when she was a 21-year-old massage-therapy student in California. She says the perverted financier groomed and sexually abused her for years before she escaped in 2005.

Davies’ time in Epstein’s world included a 2002 humanitarian trip to Africa with former President Bill Clinton on the money-manager’s private jet. Actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey were along for the ride.

But Epstein also introduced Davies to Weinstein, who allegedly got her an audition for Feast, a 2005 film about a remote Texas tavern fending off monsters. Davies played a character identified only as “Drunk Girl,” according to IMDb.

Epstein once counted the producer (and now convicted sex offender) as a friend, allegedly inviting him to his Paris apartment, posing with him at the 18th birthday party of Prince Andrew’s daughter Beatrice, and apparently invoking the producer’s name to show off around his victims hoping for a big break.

Weinstein and Epstein also shared certain high-profile connections, like power publicist Peggy Siegal and former President Clinton. And in 2003, the men were part of an investor group, which included media mogul Mort Zuckerman and Cablevision CEO James Dolan, bent on buying New York magazine.

Epstein once accused Weinstein of attempting to sexually assault one of his “favorite girls,” apparently leading to the end of the creepy duo’s friendship. Edwards, who has represented victims of Epstein for 12 years, says this alleged encounter occurred in the financier’s home in France.

In Relentless Pursuit (to be published March 31 by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster), Edwards writes, “I heard various versions of this story from others, including years later from Epstein himself, who referred to Harvey as a pig.

At another point in his book, Edwards notes that Epstein allegedly introduced at least one young victim to Weinstein, as well as Donald Trump, to impress her and remind her “of all that he could continue to do for her in the future.”

Indeed, when Palm Beach police investigated Epstein for sex trafficking in 2005, they discovered message pads in his trash that highlighted missed calls from pals including Donald Trump, illusionist David Copperfield (listed as “Magic David”), and French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel.

Epstein listed three Miramax executives in his Little Black Book: Poster, former spokesman Andrew Stengel, and Harvey’s brother, Bob. 

Meryl Poster is listed in Epstein's black book on page 44.

Epstein recorded 3 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

Bob Weinstein is listed in Epstein's black book on page 57.

Epstein recorded 1 phone number and no addresses under this name.

Andrew Stengel is listed in Epstein's black book on page 51.

Epstein recorded 3 phone numbers and 1 address under this name.

BusinessInsider: Epstein even posed as a recruiter for Victoria's Secret to get close to girls in order to eventually abuse them, several women said in lawsuits. Carolyn Andriano, who testified in Maxwell's 2021 sex-trafficking trial, described getting lingerie from Victoria's Secret in the mail during a period of time when Epstein serially raped her. Another accuser, who testified with the pseudonym Jane, described going shopping at one of the company's stores with Epstein and Maxwell and buying underwear.

"He said, 'Well, you know, I know everybody. I know all the agents. I know all the photographers. I know the owner of Victoria's Secret,'" Jane testified, quoting Epstein. "'So I can make things happen, but you just have to be ready for it.'"

That troubled executives at the company, which used talent agencies to scout models. Wexner was alerted by executives and reportedly said he would handle the issue, but Epstein’s involvement in trying to attract models continued.

ABCNews: A pair of aspiring models have both publicly described disturbing encounters with Epstein, having being lured into a private meeting with him after he portrayed himself as a talent scout for Wexner’s flagship brand, Victoria’s Secret.

In an interview with ABC News, Alicia Arden said she met Epstein at a hotel in Santa Monica, California, in 1997, believing that Epstein could help get her photo in the Victoria’s Secret catalog. When she arrived at his hotel room, Arden said, Epstein groped her.

“He was putting his hands on my hips and my buttocks and saying, ‘Let me manhandle you,” Arden told ABC News. “So I got extremely terrified of that.”

Arden left the hotel room and later filed a report of sexual battery with the Santa Monica Police Department, one of the earliest known reports against Epstein for abusive behavior. The police, however, do not appear to have pursued the matter.

ABC News reached out to the Santa Monica Police Department about Arden’s case, but did not receive a response.

Elisabetta Tai told a similar story to New York Post last year. In 2004, she said, her booking agent set up a meeting with Epstein at his Upper East Side mansion, and she visited Epstein’s home under the impression that he was in “charge of Victoria’s Secret” and could get her into the company’s catalog.

While at Epstein’s home, Tai told the Post, Epstein stripped naked and handed her a vibrator. She threw it at his head, she said, and then left.

TheSun: Alexander Djerassi, son of Maxwell’s sister Isabel, served as 'chief of staff' in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs from May 2011 to June 2012 while Clinton was Secretary of State.

Alexander Djerassi is listed in Epstein's black book on page 36.

Epstein recorded 1 phone number and 1 address under this name.

Alexander Djerassi is listed as a way to get in contact with Isabel Maxwell.

Before joining the State Department - where he also worked as a 'special assistant' from 2009 - Djerassi served as policy associate for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign when she lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama.

The Yale and Princeton graduate also returned as 'national security policy planner' for Clinton's failed 2016 presidential run.

Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, visited Jeffrey Epstein at the convicted pedophile’s Paris apartment in the fall of 2018, an ex-butler who worked at Epstein’s posh digs claims.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon coached convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for a "60 Minutes" interview months before he was arrested on child sex trafficking charges, according to a passage from a new book by Michael Wolff first reported by The New York Times' Ben Smith.

Bannon conducted more than a dozen hours of practice interviews with Epstein in 2019, aimed at making the latter appear less "creepy" ahead of the interview — which ultimately never happened — according to Wolff's forthcoming book "Too Famous." Wolff is best known for his recent trilogy of books on the Trump administration, "Fire and Fury," "Siege" and "Landslide."

Bannon, who led former President Donald Trump's first campaign and briefly served as his chief White House strategist before being fired, in part because of critical comments he made to Wolff, encouraged Epstein to speak to "60 Minutes" and recorded more than 15 hours of practice interviews with him at his Manhattan estate, according to Wolff.

Bannon interviewed Epstein while giving him tips, such as urging him to avoid looking at the camera so he doesn't come across as "stupid" and "advising him not to share his racist theories on how Black people learn," according to the report. Bannon reportedly also told Epstein to "stick to his message, which is that he is not a pedophile."

"You're engaging, you're not threatening, you're natural, you're friendly, you don't look at all creepy, you're a sympathetic figure," Bannon told Epstein toward the end of the session, according to interview transcripts obtained by Wolff.

Michael Wolff, who regularly writes about disgraced powerful figures, has his own extensive ties to Epstein. In 2003, the Times reported that Wolff organized a bid to buy New York magazine with investors that included Epstein as well as disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Wolff later continued to see Epstein at his office, New York reported in 2007. Wolff told the outlet at the time that he had first met Epstein in the late '90s, recalling how the millionaire was followed around by "three teenage girls" who were "not his daughters." In fact, it appears that Wolff coached Epstein himself when the millionaire first faced charges before his 2005 guilty plea.

LawAndCrime: Investigators with the French police searched the Paris apartment formerly occupied by Epstein in connection with allegations that the infamous sex offender sexually abused and trafficked women and girls prior to his death by suicide in August, according to France 24. French prosecutors last month opened a preliminary investigation into Epstein’s alleged rape of minors.

A former butler to dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spoke to a French news channel and said that Epstein courted some famous guests at his Paris apartment, including former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew and Bill and Melinda Gates.

Time: In an investigation carried out by the New York Times in 2019, it was revealed that Gates had met with Epstein on multiple occasions from 2011, when Gates was still chairman of Microsoft, including at Epstein’s mansion. Epstein also spoke with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and JP Morgan Chase about a proposed multibillion-dollar charitable fund.

The emails between Ito and Epstein showed that Gates was “directed by Epstein” to donate $2 million to the research lab in October 2014, six years after Epstein was found guilty of soliciting prostitution from a minor.

Gates also met with Epstein in New York in 2013, and flew on one of his private planes to Palm Beach, Business Insider previously reported. 

TheSun: Bill Gates reportedly asked Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to end his “toxic” marriage with wife Melinda amid reports of his alleged affair.

It was also reported Gates “had an affair with a female staffer" and “asked employees out while he was married".

Board members are said to have carried out an investigation into the billionaire’s romantic relationship with a Microsoft engineer in late 2019 after she claimed in a letter she had a sexual relationship with Gates for a number of years.

NYPost: Bill Gates courted Jeffrey Epstein in the twisted belief the well-connected pedophile could help him get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Gates joined Epstein in a trip to Europe in March 2013, according to Dagens Næringsliv, Norway’s largest business newspaper.

The pair visited the Strasbourg home of Thorbjorn Jagland, who at the time was chair of the committee which awards the Peace Prize, the paper noted, saying Gates was being touted as a recipient at the time.

Gates “thought that Jeffrey would be able to help him, that he would know the right people, or some kind of way to massage things, so he could get the Nobel Peace Prize, which is what Bill wants more than anything else in the world.”

In a 2019 interview with the Wall Street Journal, months after Epstein’s death, Bill Gates denied that he’d ever been particularly close to the sex offender.

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 Leslie Wexner, clearly have something to hide.

We also have found evidence on Prince Andrew through one of [Epstein's] employees. We all know about Prince Andrew's disastrous BBC interview. We were with his accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, two days later. She was devastated by what she felt was his mistruth and not owning up to anything at all. Then we spoke with an employee who worked for Epstein, who positively ID'd Prince Andrew as the one that he saw groping Virginia Roberts [while she was topless on Epstein's private island in the Virgin Islands]. The FBI came and interviewed him shortly after [Epstein's] death and showed him dozens and dozens of pictures, and he said, "That's absolutely [her], I'm 100 percent sure that's the girl." So I think that's a new revelation that isn't going to go over well for him.

According to a July 22 article from NY Magazine's Intelligencer, a number of royals and royal connections were among Epstein's contacts. That includes Prince Andrew's then-wife, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York; and Charles Althorp, Princess Diana's brother. According to Intelligencer, all three were named in Epstein's black book; Ferguson and Prince Andrew were also named in his private jet log.

Charlie Althorp is listed in Epstein's black book on page 1.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and no addresses under this name.

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.

Donald Trump is listed in Epstein's black book on page 80.

Epstein recorded 10 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

The first spate of mainstream news stories picked only low-hanging fruit. The usual suspects.

That sex slaves were being recruited at Mar-a-Lago didn’t seem to register.

Sex Ring Covered-Up

One of the main storylines of the Jeffrey Epstein criminal rampage is how the media whitewashed his crimes and behavior for so long. Some of the most powerful names in the media during the period he was operating were not only known to Epstein, but they considered him a friend.

Jeffrey Epstein was a multi millionaire who had political and business ties to some of the most rich and powerful people in the world. From businessmen to politicians at the highest levels, Epstein broke bread with them all. Yet for years the media and the rest of high society looked the other way and ignored his behavior as multiple women came forward with allegations of abuse. Even after he was convicted and subsequently received a sweetheart deal those same so called elites welcomed him back with open arms. Now after his death and the arrest of Maxwell, the real story is starting to come together and the curtain has begun to be drawn back and what it has revealed is truly disturbing.

Independent: ABC News anchor Amy Robach, in a leaked video, bitterly complained: “I’ve had the story for three years. I’ve had this interview with [Epstein accuser] Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air.”

In the video, she says she was threatened by the UK’s royal family, who threatened to cut off their ability to cover their family if Prince Andrew’s secrets came out. And other networks have since corroborated that, in 2015, Epstein’s lawyers contacted them and asked them to keep the story from reaching the news.

CBSNews: Annie Farmer told jurors that she accepted an invitation to Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 1996 with the hopes that Maxwell and the financier would help her with academic endeavors. She said Maxwell's presence made her believe that she would be safe with Epstein. Instead, Farmer said Maxwell massaged her upper breast and Epstein climbed into bed with her without her permission.

Farmer’s story was cut from Vanity Fair writer Vicky Ward’s 2003 profile of Epstein. Ward has claimed editor Graydon Carter bowed to pressure from Epstein, but Carter says Ward’s sourcing at the time didn’t meet the magazine’s legal standards.

EW: Clinton did come out saying, after [Epstein's] death even, that he had never been on any of his properties, and we did find that to be untrue based on our reporting.

While there are undeniable links between Trump and Epstein, the relationship between Bill Clinton and Epstein is much more involved. Flight records show that Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane at least 26 times to about a dozen international locations. Flight logs did not list any secret service detail for five flights. Epstein was also involved in some of Clinton’s projects: He was a heavy donator of the Clinton Foundation. According to attorney Gerald B. Lefcourt, Epstein was also “part of the original group that conceived of the Clinton Global Initiative”.

Doug Bands (Office of William J. Clinton) is listed in Epstein's black book on page 4.

Epstein recorded 5 phone numbers and 3 addresses under this name.

In addition to his work launching the Clinton Global Iniative, Epstein also donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2006 through his own personal charity, according to the Daily Beast. That donation came after Epstein developed a close personal relationship with Bill Clinton during a month-long trip to Africa in 2002.

Trump's labor secretary Alex Acosta played an important role in ending the investigation against Epstein. In 2008, as a U.S. attorney in South Florida, Acosta brokered a plea agreement with Epstein that allowed him to escape serious punishment for earlier allegations of sexual misconduct.

Pedo-Island 

With his business operations set up in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Epstein bought an adjacent 72-acre island called Little St. James for just shy of $8 million in 1998. Some of the youngest girls who were trafficked onto the island were said to be 11 years old. Epstein continued to bring underage girls to the island as recently as 2018—a decade after he was forced to register as a convicted sex offender—and authorities did nothing to stop him.

BusinessInsider: A lawsuit has also shined light on Epstein's connection to former U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. John P. de Jongh while he was in office.

Gov. John P. de Jongh's wife Cecile de Jongh served on the board of Epstein's Financial Trust Co. for most of her husband's time in office, Business Insider's Becky Peterson and John Cook reported. Cecile de Jongh held the titles of secretary and vice president in her decade-long tenure with the company, even staying on board after Epstein was first charged with sexual assault in 2007.

Cecile is listed in Epstein's black book on page 67.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and 1 address under this name.

Prosecutors in the US Virgin Islands alleged that Epstein was trafficking women and children through the US territory during that same time, as stated in a January lawsuit. The lawsuit describes one 15-year-old victim who was "forced into sexual acts with Epstein and others and then attempted to escape by swimming off the Little St. James island."

Clinton is making headlines after the files have shown that Giuffre said that she once saw the former president on Epstein's island with "two young girls."

Guiffre said: "You know, I remember asking Jeffrey what's Bill Clinton doing here [on Epstein's island] kind of thing, and he laughed it off and said well he owes me favors."

"He told me a long time ago that everyone owes him favors. They're all in each other's pockets."

VanityFair: Two employees who worked at the local airstrip on St. Thomas tell Vanity Fair that they witnessed Epstein boarding his private plane on multiple occasions in the company of girls who appeared to be under the age of consent. According to the employees, the girls arrived with Epstein aboard one of his two Gulfstream jets. Between January 2018 and June 2019, previously published flight records show, the jets were airborne at least one out of every three days. They stopped all over the world, sometimes for only a few hours at a time: Paris, London, Slovakia, Mexico, Morocco. When they left St. Thomas, the employees say, they returned to airports near Epstein’s homes in Palm Beach and New York City.

“On multiple occasions I saw Epstein exit his helicopter, stand on the tarmac in full view of my tower, and board his private jet with children—female children,” says a former air traffic controller at the airstrip who asked to remain anonymous. “One incident in particular really stands out in my mind, because the girls were just so young. They couldn’t have been over 16. Epstein looked very angry and hurled his jacket at one of them.

“There’d be girls that look like they could be in high school,” the employee recalls. “They looked very young. They were always wearing college sweatshirts. It seemed like camouflage, that’s the best way to put it.”

“I could see him with my own eyes,” the employee says. “I compared it to seeing a serial killer in broad daylight. I called it the face of evil.”

“The fact that young girls were getting out of his helicopter and getting into his plane, it was like he was flaunting it,” the employee says. “But it was said that he always tipped really well, so everyone overlooked it.”

In fact, it appears that local authorities did nothing to investigate Epstein’s repeated trips with young girls—let alone intervene—despite the fact that he was listed on the island’s registry of sex offenders. Chief William Harvey, a veteran of the Virgin Islands police department, tells Vanity Fair that he does not know who Epstein is, and is unaware of any investigation into him. Sammuel Sanes, a former senator for the Virgin Islands, says he is unaware of any special precautions taken by law enforcement to track the arrivals and departures of Epstein’s jet on St. Thomas, or the movements of his helicopter to and from his private island.

“My colleagues and I definitely talked about how we didn’t understand how this guy was still allowed to be around children,” says the former air traffic controller. “We didn’t say anything because we figured law enforcement was doing their job. I have to say that that is regrettable, but we really didn’t even know who to tell, or if anyone really cared.”

Lolita Express 

USAToday: Jeffrey Epstein’s globe-trotting life of luxury and alleged sex trafficking traveled through an unlikely hub: Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.

Epstein’s global transportation network was a corporate airport carved from a New Jersey swamp. His planes, which ranged from a Cessna to a Gulf Stream jet to a Boeing 727, recorded at least 730 flights to and from Teterboro between 1995 and 2013, according to flight logs.

Beginning in 1995 and continuing for several years, Epstein flew regularly to Columbus, Ohio, home to billionaire executive Leslie Wexner.

Epstein was arrested July 6 at Teterboro Airport after flying from Paris.

Epstein's pilots included Lawrence Visoski, Bill Hammond, Pete Rathgeb, Gary Roxburgh, David Rodgers and Bill Murphy.

“Teterboro is really an airport for the rich and famous,” said Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of the New York-based Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. “The customers there are very privileged, and can pull strings that can lead to confidentiality.”

The flight logs unsealed by a federal court judge Aug. 9 list 82 trips to and from Teterboro by Sarah Kellen and 48 trips by Nadia Marcinkova.

According to the flight logs, Maxwell flew hundreds of times on Epstein’s Boeing 727, a former commercial airliner coined the Lolita Express by news tabloids, a nickname based on Vladimir Nobokov’s novel about a middle-aged professor who repeatedly rapes a 12-year-old girl.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild’s brother Ken owned and operated a private terminal at Teterboro airport in New Jersey under the name Million Air.

Evelyn De Rothschild is listed in Epstein's black book on page 48.

Epstein recorded 2 phone numbers and 1 address under this name.

Van Nuys – Million Air is listed in Epstein's black book on page 77.

Epstein recorded 1 phone number and no addresses under this name.

The floors of his private 727 jet are padded. This was ostensibly to make it easy to have sex on the floors while flying at high altitudes.

Sarah Ransome, a South African model living in the US said in a deposition that she had to watch Epstein have sex with a woman in the back of the plane. The woman’s name was redacted from the filings.

She said that Epstein was "in his bed on the plane, having open sex with [redacted] for everyone to see, on display … [redacted] was straddling Jeffrey for quite some time. I watched them both ejaculate with each other. They were having quite a good time together."

She said there was no partition or door separating the bed from the rest of plane, "so you can quite easily have sex and show the whole plane," she said.

"Which is how it’s designed, I’m guessing," she added.

Unsealed flight logs show that Trump was on Epstein's private jet 

BusinessInsider: Newly unsealed flight logs show that President Donald Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet along with the billionaire couple Glenn and Eva Dubin.

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)

Former President Donald Trump took at least seven trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s “Lolita Express” private plane — far more than was previously known, according to newly released flight logs.

Epstein’s personal little black book, which was leaked by an employee in 2009, contained 10 phone numbers for Trump, his wife, Melania, and several people who worked for him. READ MORE: Jeffrey Epstein Cover-Up

Court filings show that Clinton traveled on Epstein’s private plane the “Lolita Express,” 26 times. Clinton allegedly flew with a softcore porn actress listed under "massages" in Epstein's address book. Maxwell was also a guest at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.

Who Flew on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Lolita Express' Plane?

• Donald J. Trump
• Bill Clinton
• Leslie “Les” Wexner
• Kevin Spacey
• Chris Tucker
• Chris Camaros
• Bill Gates
• Bill Hammond
• Bill Murphy
• Prince Andrew
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Violinist Itzhak Perlman
• U.S. Sen. John Glenn
• Former Senate majority leader George Mitchell
• Steven Pinker
• Larry Summers
• Hotelier Thomas Pritzker
• Ghislaine Maxwell
• Naomi Campbell
• Paula Epstein
• Alan Dershowitz
• Clare Hazell
• Ehud Barak
• Sarah Kellen
• Ed Tuttle
• Cindy Lopez
• Alberto Pinto
• Linda Pinto
• Cocoa Brown
• Mats Alexander
• Steve Sherman
• Jessica Bauer
• Laura Hames
• Frederic Fekkai
• Alexander Fekkai
• Isering Yangkey
• Julie Concebaugh
• Greg Carpenter
• Greg Holburt
• Pete Rathgeb
• Julian Borees
• Melissa Stahl
• Andrea Mitrovich
• Ryan Dionne
• Secret Service (4)
• Frederique Todd
• Todd Meistor
• Gary Roxburgh
• Chauntae Davies
• Michael Liffman
• Michael Durberry
• Susan Hamblin
• Valdson Cotrin
• Joel Pashcow
• Lauren Pashcow
• Bob Breslen
• Brent Tindall
• Doug Band
• Vick Lambro
• Tom Payette
• Celina Dubin
• Eva Dubin
• Glenn Dubin
• Jordan Dubin
• Maya Dubin
• Nadia Marcinkova
• Teala Davies
• Larry Morrison
• Larry Visoski
• Jean-Luc Brunel
• Dana Burns
• Tatiana Kovylina
• Igor Zinoviev
• Adriana Mucinska
• Mark Tagoya
• Juan Molyneux
• Adam PerryLang
• Fleur PerryLang
• Shannon Healy
• Victoria Hazell
• Clare Hazell-Iveagh
• Mandy Ellison
• Shelly Harrison
• Shelley Lewis
• Sophie Biddle
• Audrey Raimbault
• Emmy Tayler
• Kelly Spamm
• Ricardo Legoretta
• Banu Koluk-Koylu
• Gwendolyn Beck
• Lynn Forester
• Sean Koo
• Pete Rotholg
• Kristy Rodgers
• Patsy Rodgers
• Alyssa Holders
• Dan Maran
• Nick Simmonds
• Virginia Roberts
• Patrick Ochin
• Magale Blachou
• Deborah Amselen
• Juliette Bryant
• Dean Ramon
• Chauntae Davies
• Aline Weber
• Nina Keita
• Tiffany Gramza
• Gwendolyn Beck
• Glen Dixon
• Freya Wissing
• Melinda Luntz
• Leticia Birkholder
• Michelle Birkholder
• Christina Estrada
• Peter Marino
• Elizabeth Johnson
• Audrey Blaise
• Ricardo Legoretta
• Inca Doerrig
• Doug Schoettle
• Sherrie Crape
• Jim Cayne
• Patricia Cayne
• Margaret Whippet
• Warren Whippet
• Warren Spector
• Chori Krove
• Melanie Starves
• Craig Adams
• Lynn Fontanella
• Ralph Ellison
• Henry Rosovsky
• Rhonda Sherer
• Francois Verenia
• Gary Blackwell
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• Cristalle Wasche
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• Daniel Dennet
• Nina Zagat
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• Geraldine Layborne
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• Spencer Barnette
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• Gayle Smith
• Ron Durkle
• Casey Wasserman
• Laura Wasserman
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• Diane Fleetwood
• Suetlana Griaznovc
• Evelyn Boulet
• Lisa Andrew
• Laura Andrew
• Jim Dowd
• Alex Resnick
• Tatiana Kovylina
• Rebecca White
• Anna Molova
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• Sheridan Gibson
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• Edwina Simmonds
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• Barry Massion
• George Goyer
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• Vor Holding
• Alexia Wallert
• Ricardo Legoretta
• Mike Donovan
• Jonathan Mano
• Heather Mitchell
• Paul Mellon
• Oliver Sachs
• Phillipe Mugnier
• Francois Verenia

Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet flew to Riyadh on the eve of the 2016 election

Insider reported that Jeffrey Epstein's private jet was spotted over the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Election Day 2016.

Two people of note were in Riyadh at roughly the same time.

• The first person is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, who at the time served as the kingdom's Minister of Defense and Second Deputy Prime Minister. On November 8, the state-owned Saudi Press Agency reported that bin Salman, also known as MBS, and his father, the Saudi king, bestowed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., with the Order of King Abdulaziz, a civilian award for distinguished service to Saudi Arabia.
• The second person is Jeff Bezos, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Amazon. On November 9, the day Epstein's jet returned to Paris, MBS held an unrelated meeting with Bezos, several Amazon executives, and two Saudi ministers.

Wikipedia: Joseph Francis Dunford Jr.(born December 23, 1955) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general, who served as the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2015, until September 30, 2019.

As of February 10, 2020, Dunford joined the board of directors at Lockheed Martin, serving on the Classified Business and Security Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He is also on the board of a New York private equity firm, following a path taken by other prominent retired 4-star officers, such as David Petraeus (who went to work for the global investment firm KKR) and Ray Odierno (who became a senior advisor at JPMorgan Chase). In May 2022, he joined the board of directors at Satellogic, an Argentine satellite company.

One noteworthy attribute that Epstein and his apparent friend MBS share is a history of being accused of blackmail. In January, Bezos' chief of security accused the Saudi kingdom of gaining unauthorized access to Bezos' personal messages and photos. According to The Daily Beast, the Saudis planned to blackmail Bezos, who purchased The Washington Post in 2013, as punishment for his paper's aggressive coverage of their own columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, whom Saudi agents assassinated in Istanbul.

NYPost: The Persian Gulf monarch commonly known as MBS in November 2018 sent a cryptic WhatsApp message that appeared to allude to Bezos having marital problems, a forensic audit of the Amazon CEO’s phone revealed.

“Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License agreement,” read the text, which was superimposed over a photo of a brunette bearing a resemblance to Sanchez. “In the end you have to ignore everything and click I agree.”

Two months later, Bezos revealed he was in talks to divorce MacKenzie Bezos, his wife of 25 years. Hours later, the National Enquirer revealed it had been investigating Bezos’ affair with TV news reporter Sanchez, along with a slew of steamy text exchanges and photos that included naked selfies of Bezos.

MBS sent a second, possibly more chilling message on Feb. 14, after Bezos was briefed by phone about a Saudi-led online campaign against him, according to the audit report by Washington-based FTI Consulting — a copy of which was obtained by tech blog Motherboard.

“Jeff all what you hear or told to it’s not true and it’s matter of time tell you know the truth,” the typo-riddled message read. “There is nothing against you or amazon from me or Saudi Arabia.”

FTI investigators found the hair-raising messages after scouring the world’s richest man’s iPhone X for two days. They failed to find malware on the device, but did find a suspicious May 1, 2018 video that “appears to be an Arabic language promotional film about telecommunications.”

After Bezos received the video on WhatsApp, the data getting pulled from Bezos’ iPhone “jumped by approximately 29,000 percent,” according to the report, from an average of 430KB per day to 126MB per day. The torrent continued for months.

Bezos and MBS had only met and exchanged numbers a month before the video was sent, at a dinner in Los Angeles in April 2018, according to the FTI audit.

The report speculated that the hack of Bezos’ phone was tied to reporting in the Washington Post, which Bezos owns, about MBS’s alleged role in the killing of its political columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

“The Saudi regime is known to use phone spyware against its adversaries,” the report said. “The Saudi regime was by all accounts very concerned about Jamal Khashoggi and The Washington Post at the time the encrypted video file was sent to Bezos,” it wrote.

Baby Ranch 

A believer in eugenics and transhumanism, Epstein bought a ranch near Stanley, New Mexico, where he intended to "seed the human race with his DNA" by inseminating at least 20 women, so reported an August 2019 article in the New York Times.

Other unconventional ideas Epstein adopted included his desire to freeze his head and penis, believing that genetic technology could bring them back to life someday.

Florida — Palm Beach

NewYorkPost: The Florida mansion in Palm Beach where prosecutors say Epstein sexually abused underage girls and women for many years was demolished in April after developer Todd Michael Glaser bought the site for $18.5 million in March.

Glaser had announced from the onset of his purchase his plans to demolish the property.

Located at 358 El Brillo Way, the funds from the sale have been allocated to the victims’ compensation program to make payments to Epstein’s victims.

“I only got involved in the sale of Jeffrey Epstein’s residence to ensure it would be wiped off the map of Palm Beach,” Lawrence Moens, who represented the listing, told the Palm Beach Daily News at the time.

Bloodyelbow: During his time at a Palm Beach County jail, Epstein was visited by a cast of characters that included a college friend to former President Bill Clinton, as well as Russian mixed martial artist and former UFC fighter Igor Zinoviev.

When authorities began investigated Epstein well over a decade ago, he used private investigators to uncover dirt on his accusers, and later assembled a team of powerful lawyers (including Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz) to defend his case. It also appears he used a mixed martial arts fighter to intimidate the victims.

According to a report in the Palm Beach Daily News, which focused on Epstein being a “model prisoner” during his stint in prison in 2008-09, several of the victims’s attorneys claimed that Epstein was harassing the young women who filed civil suits against him.

Igor Zinoviev isn't as well known to modern Mixed Martial Arts fans due to his career ending in 1998, long before the sport broke through to the mainstream. However, he has a different reason for being known by the general populace. Following his loss to Frank Shamrock at UFC 16, Zinoviev spent some time working for Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex trafficker who recently died in prison.

Zinoviev was the one who drove Epstein to and from the Palm Beach jail where he served his 13-month sentence in 2008 after being allowed out on work release.

He also drove Epstein to various appointments in Palm Beach, flew on his plane to New York and the Virgin Islands and trained him in weightlifting and body combat. Zinoviev said he stayed in Epstein's guesthouse when they were in Palm Beach. 

As someone who spent time as Epstein's bodyguard, trainer, and driver, Zinoviev was asked about his previous employer during a phone interview with New York Magazine. The former UFC fighter had originally conducted an interview with M.L. Nestel back in 2015.

Zinoviev claims that Epstein was being warned every time law enforcement were on the way to his house.

During the recent interview, Zinoviev said it wasn't smart to ask about Epstein's ties to local Florida police and warned that the reporter could get himself into 'big trouble'. "That’s the American way."

New York — Manhattan 

Jeffrey Epstein acquired Wexner's mansion at 9 E. 71st St., considered Manhattan’s largest. The New York Times reported that Epstein declared it to be his property in a 1996 interview. According to Bloomberg, which cited one anonymous source familiar with the matter, Wexner sold the home in 1998 to a company affiliated with Epstein. Public records show the title transfer was not made until 2011, for no money. 

Before Epstein received the townhouse, Wexner appears to have used the residence for some unconventional purposes, noted in a 1996 New York Times article on the then-Wexner-owned residence, which included a bathroom reminiscent of James Bond movies: hidden beneath a stairway, lined with lead to provide shelter from attack and supplied with closed-circuit television screens and a telephone, both concealed in a cabinet beneath the sink. The Times article does not speculate as to the purpose of this equipment, though the allusion to famous fictional super spy James Bond suggests that it may have been used to snoop on guests or conduct electronic surveillance.

The 1996 Times article also noted that, after Wexner bought the residence for $13.2 million in 1989, he spent millions more decorating and furnishing the home, including the addition of the electronic equipment in the ‘James Bond’ bathroom, only to apparently never live in it. The Times, which interviewed Epstein for the piece, quoted him as saying that ‘Les never spent more than two months there.’ Epstein told the Times, which identified Epstein as Wexner’s ‘protege and one of his financial advisers,’ that the house, by that time, already belonged to him.”

Epstein’s New York townhouse — where the late pedophile once kept nude photos of girls, creepy taxidermy and a bizarre painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress — was sold for a little under $50 million in March.

The home located at 9 E. 71st St., and Epstein’s estate attorney, Bennet Moskowitz, revealed previously in court proceedings that the cash from the sale would be used to replenish the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Fund.

The 28,000-square-foot neoclassical townhouse first hit the market in July for nearly $90 million, but the price was cut shortly thereafter.

The entrance hall in his Manhattan townhouse is festooned with rows and rows of prosthetic eyeballs that had originally been made for English soldiers injured in battle.

A document discovered by the feds on a hard drive in Epstein’s townhouse detailed his intimate relationship with Maxwell, FBI digital forensic examiner Stephen Flatley testified in Manhattan federal court. The file was created on a desktop by someone logged in as the user “GMax” on Oct. 14, 2002.

“Jeffrey and Ghislaine have been together as a couple for the last 11 years,” the note started. “They are, contrary to what people think, rarely apart, I almost always see them together.”

The duo was described as “thick as thieves,” with the file noting, “they compliment each other really well.”

The document went on to describe the British socialite as “highly intelligent and great company with a ready smile and an infectious laugh” who puts people at ease.

“Jeffrey and Ghislaine share many mutual interests and they have a lot of fun together,” it continued. “On top of being partner’s [sic] they are also best of friends,” it said.

The FBI raided the home in July, where they uncovered a 'vast trove' of hundreds or even thousands of lewd photographs of young women or girls.

CBSNews: Court documents from 2011 reveal Epstein controlled several apartments in a building just blocks from his $77 million New York townhouse and allegedly housed "underage girls from all over the world."

NYPost: A battalion of lawyers, pilots and models who worked for Epstein stayed at a doorman highrise in Manhattan — the epicenter of the Epstein empire — in apartments controlled by him and his real estate investor brother Mark, public records show.

Many of the units at 301 East 66th St. were owned by a New York shell company registered in Columbus, Ohio, the home base of Victoria’s Secret owner and Epstein’s billionaire benefactor Leslie Wexner, according to records.

Girls recruited as models from around the world were brought to the US and the building by MC2, a modeling company run by Epstein pal Jean-Luc Brunel. The company was financed by Epstein beginning in 2003, court papers show.

In 2005, Brunel called Epstein and left a message that “he is sending him a 16-year-old Russian girl for purposes of sex,” the court papers say.

Lesley Groff, another former assistant coordinated travel arrangements with young girls and scheduled massage sessions for her boss. Groff was paid $200,000 a year, received a Mercedes E320 and the services of a nanny after the birth of her child, the New York Times reported.

ABCNews: Juan Alessi, a former house manager for Epstein, told the court that over a 10-year period, Maxwell brought more than 100 young women that she called “massage therapists” to Epstein’s home. He said that when he cleaned up after them, he found vibrators and sex toys on the massage table.

Alessi testified that he saw people who would come in to give Epstein massages, and that "98% of them were females." He added that Epstein took a majority of his massages in his bathroom -- attached to Epstein's master bedroom -- which Alessi said was shared with Maxwell.

"I remember finding a large dildo. It looked like a huge man's penis with two heads," which he said he returned to a wicker basket in Maxwell's bathroom, which is where he said it he was told to put it.

In addition to his secretaries, Epstein worked with his longtime lawyer Darren Indyke, who occupied a two-bedroom apartment at the East 66th Street building between May 2000 and February 2009, public records show.

Indyke’s apartment was owned by Ossa Properties, a firm controlled by Mark Epstein.

New Mexico — South of Santa Fe

The New Mexico ranch where Jeffrey Epstein allegedly trafficked several women has been on the market for the past six months without any offers.

Known as “Zorro Ranch,” it went up for sale in July for $27.5 million, two years after Epstein’s death.

Property records show Epstein purchased the ranch in 1993 from Gary King, who served as New Mexico’s 30th attorney general at the time. The purchase consisted of private and leased federal lands.

After heightened allegations resurfaced against Epstein in 2019 concerning his involvement with underage girls, the state land commissioner ended the grazing deal with him.

Made up of 7,600 acres, the compound is located south of Sante Fe.

Epstein reportedly had plans to turn the compound into a baby-making factory where he would inseminate victims.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has been one of the women to come forward accusing Epstein of rape, was pictured (above) at the ranch.

Giuffre has claimed Epstein asked her to be a surrogate when she was just 18, with his alleged procurer Ghislaine Maxwell also in on the plan.

‘They said I would have to sign a contract relinquishing rights to the child and consenting to Jeffrey having as many relationships as he liked,’ said Giuffre, who was told she would get a mansion in exchange for her services. She added: ‘It was a smack in the face.’

The ranch includes a three-story, four-bedroom main house, a nearby caretaker’s residence, horse stables, a firehouse and a yurt. There is also a grass airstrip and hangar for when Epstein would fly in on his private plane.

Photos obtained by DailyMail.com show a staircase leading downstairs, as a former contractor claims the convicted pedophile built a 1,000 sq ft underground ‘strip-club’ for entertaining his VIP guests with teenage girls.

A source claimed security cameras were secretly fitted in every room and recorded the behavior of the rich and famous, which explains why he and his ‘fixer’ Ghislaine Maxwell apparently felt ‘untouchable’.

Pictures from inside the main house show a ‘party shower’ for up to eight people with four shelves full of toiletries and oils. The indoor bathing area has a large pool, hot tub and a framed shower behind it.

“The proceeds from the sale are expected to be used for the estate’s regular administration, including its payment as necessary of taxes, creditors and claimants,” Daniel H. Weiner, who represents Epstein’s estate, told The Post.

Epstein also had a Paris estate that went up for sale last month for $13.5 million.

As The Daily Beast previously reported, Farmer says she was sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell in 1996, when she was 26 and working at the Ohio mansion of former Limited Brands Chairman Les Wexner. Epstein and Maxwell are also accused of sexually abusing her 15-year-old sister, Annie, at Epstein’s New Mexico compound.

CBSNews: Annie Farmer told jurors last year that she accepted an invitation to Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 1996 with the hopes that Maxwell and the financier would help her with academic endeavors. She said Maxwell's presence made her believe that she would be safe with Epstein. Instead, Farmer said Maxwell massaged her upper breast and Epstein climbed into bed with her without her permission. 

According to The Cut, the main reason why prosecutors are interesting in talking to Emmy Tayler is that she once worked as Ghislaine Maxwell's assistant.

"At that point, I met Emmy Taylor (sic), and she took me up to Jeffrey’s bathroom and he was present,” Sjoberg said in a deposition. “And her and I both massaged Jeffrey. She was showing me how to massage. And then she — he took — he got off the table, she got on the table. She took off her clothes, got on the table, and then he was showing me moves that he liked. And then I took my clothes off. They asked me to get on the table so I could feel it. Then they both massaged me," reads the court documents, according to The New York Post.

According to The Mirror, prosecutors believe that Emmy Tayler was one of the people who was involved in the procurement of underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein. The outlet reports that her "home base" was the so-called Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.

Prince Andrew's Ex Lady Victoria Hervey Believes Jeffrey Epstein Had A Role In 9/11

RadarOnline: Prince Andrew’s ex-lover Lady Victoria Hervey recently took to social media to reveal a whole slew of different conspiracy theories, including her claim that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein knew about 9/11 before it happened, and even suggests that the attacks on 9/11 were an inside job.

According to Lady Victoria’s Instagram Story on Thursday, not only did Epstein know about the September 11th attacks on the Twin Towers before they happened, but he even allegedly bought plane tickets “as souvenirs” of the horrifying and heartbreaking national tragedy.

Victoria Harvey is listed in Epstein's black book on page 25.

Epstein recorded 1 phone number and no addresses under this name.

"And while I'm here I may as well let out some other thoughts," Hervey wrote on her Instagram Story at the end of January. "That Virginia Roberts is a complete wh--e. She was no innocent girl."

“At 15 she ended up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning," she continued. "She's just a ghetto opportunity whose seriously mixed up."

Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms dealer, sold superyacht to Trump

SydneyMorningHerald: Adnan Khashoggi, a flamboyant Saudi arms trader who rose to spectacular wealth in the 1970s owned the world's largest yacht – used in a James Bond film was later sold to Donald J. Trump.

Khashoggi was an important middleman in the arms deals behind the Iran-contra scandal, the Reagan administration's clandestine scheme to sell arms to Iran in exchange for the release of Iranian hostages and then to divert the proceeds to Nicaraguan rebels. And he was accused several times of paying bribes or illegal commissions. In 1988, he was arrested in Switzerland and accused of concealing funds in the bankruptcy of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. After three months in jail, he was extradited to the United States, tried and acquitted.

Two years later, a federal grand jury in New York indicted Khashoggi and Imelda Marcos, for whom he had sheltered assets including four commercial buildings in Manhattan and paintings by Rubens and El Greco, on charges of fraud and racketeering. Both were acquitted.

Adnan Khashoggi, who died in 2017, was Jamal Khashoggi’s cousin; their grandfathers were brothers in the holy city of Medina. Jamal Khashoggi knew his older cousin from family gatherings over the years and showed up for his burial in Medina four years ago, even while expressing nothing but disdain for his grotesque sybaritic lifestyle.

Khashoggi was the emissary of the king. And so he would kick back some of the commissions from the American companies directly to the king, as well as to the Saudi defense minister and princes. And everyone was happy. The king was happy, he got his money, Khashoggi got his cut. … The spectacular wealth, the display, the parties, all attracted business. And it was like bees around honey. It was really an incredible episode in history.

The fear of disrupting that arms-for-oil money flow was ultimately a major factor in persuading the Trump White House not to impose any price on the Saudis for the gruesome murder of Adnan’s cousin Jamal, who at the time of his death was a columnist for the Global Opinions section of the Washington Post.

Trump himself made that painfully clear when he cited giant Saudi arms purchases as his chief reason for not imposing any sanctions on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman even after the CIA concluded he had authorized the operation that killed the journalist inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018.

As with much else with Trump, such positions were taken against the backdrop of business deals between him and various Saudi moguls that began with Adnan Khashoggi. In 1991, Trump — envious of the Saudi mogul’s lifestyle — arranged to buy his yacht, the Nabila, for $29 million, touting it on the David Letterman show as “probably the greatest yacht ever built. It's really been kind of a great investment.” (Trump renamed it the Princess, apparently after his daughter Ivanka.)

But not that great an investment. Three years later, when Trump was facing bankruptcy over his floundering Atlantic City casinos, he was bailed out by yet another Saudi mogul — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal — who bought the yacht from him for $20 million. Although he may have taken a bath on the boat, the sale was the start of a gushing Saudi spigot to the Trump Organization that continued for years.

Wealthy Saudis pumped millions into his company coffers, buying up apartments in Trump buildings, at least as much as, if not more than, Russian oligarchs did. In 2001, three months before the 9/11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals, the Saudi government plunked down $4.5 million to purchase the entire 45th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan, eventually turning it into the offices of the country’s United Nations mission.

"Saudi Arabia, and I get along great with all of them, they buy apartments from me, they spend $40 million, $50 million,” Trump declared at a 2015 campaign rally in Mobile, Ala. “They spend so much money. Am I going to dislike them? I love them.”

Donald Trump found himself in financial trouble as the real estate market in New York tanked. The three casinos in Atlantic City, like other Trump assets, were under threat from lenders. It was only with the assistance and assurance of Wilbur L. Ross Jr., senior managing director of Rothschild Inc. that Trump was allowed to keep the casinos and rebuild his threatened empire.”

This was detailed in a Bloomberg article from March 22, 1992.

The same Wilbur L. Ross, still Jacob Rothschild’s right hand man, came out in support of Trump’s nomination in March 2016, also reported by Bloomberg.

Donald Trump landed on his feet when ironically the real estate market in New York turned and his wealth increased dramatically once more. From there the Trump Empire continued to roll forward and eventually expanded its brand into the realm of reality television, the newest method of socioeconomic and cultural engineering.

For those wondering, Wilbur L. Ross Jr. spent 24 years at the New York office of Rothschild Inc. In the late 1990’s he started a $200 million fund at Rothschild Inc. to invest in distressed assets.

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. is a millionaire investor who spent a quarter century working as a bankruptcy restructuring advisor for Rothschild Investments. In the early 1990s, he helped a struggling casino magnate—Donald Trump, whose Atlantic City properties were bankrupt and whose net worth was estimated at negative $1.4 billion (Trump held that it was positive $1.5 billion)—to hold onto his stake in the Taj Mahal and keep his name on the sign. “The Trump name added value to the casino,” Ross, then senior managing director at Rothschild, told Bloomberg in 1992.

On November 30, 2016, Trump’s transition team confirmed reports that Ross, 79, had been tapped for secretary of commerce. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 27. Ross took on a dizzying array of responsibilities at the Commerce Department, including running the Census Bureau, the National Weather Service and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

In November 2017, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung dumped over 13 million leaked files, dubbed the Paradise Papers, which disclosed the financial interests of world politicians, leaders and celebrities. Documents showed alleged ties between Ross and Russia.

Defying Congress, Trump sets $8 billion-plus in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE

Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from Congress to complete the sale of over $8 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

Trump’s administration also announced that it was sending 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East, which it described as an effort to bolster defenses against Iran against what it sees as a threat of potential attack.

Saudi Arabia is America’s top weapons buyer, and the world’s largest arms importer. Between 2015 and 2019, Riyadh imported 73% of its arms from Washington, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

The kingdom accounted for 25% of U.S. arms exports from 2015 to 2019, an uptick compared with 7.4% between 2010 to 2014, according to the report.

In March 2018, Trump praised Saudi Arabia’s defense acquisitions as he met with the nation’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed at the White House — and pushed for even more.

“Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation, and they’re going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully, in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world,” Trump said at the time.

“There’s nobody that even comes close to us in terms of technology and the quality of the equipment, and Saudi Arabia appreciates that,” he added.

Widely overlooked but not forgotten were the leaked memos at the time exposing the simplest of all deals struck by his son-in-law with MBS, essentially promising to make him the Crown Prince for acknowledging the state of Israel and the deal to come with regard to the Palestinians. And as a cherry on the top of the pact, Kushner even threw in some incendiary intelligence from the CIA which showed MBS a list of all his enemies who were plotting against him.

State Department IG fired by Trump was investigating Saudi arms sale that bypassed Congress

The State Department internal watchdog who was fired by President Donald Trump had nearly completed an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s approval of a multibillion-dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia, NBC News reported.

Investigators in Congress believe that probe contributed to Trump’s decision – on Pompeo’s recommendation – to remove State Department Inspector General Steve Linick from his post, two congressional officials told NBC.

Pompeo confirmed that he asked Trump to fire Linick because his work was “undermining” the department’s mission, but did not elaborate on any specific details. The nation’s top diplomat said in a telephone interview with The Washington Post that Linick’s dismissal was not retaliation by the administration.

“I went to the president and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn’t performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to, that was additive for the State Department, very consistent with what the statute says he’s supposed to be doing,” Pompeo said, adding that he did not know Linick was investigating him.

The Cover-Up: Gay Blackmail: Epstein was Killed to Protect MBS and Kushner

TheIntercept: Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman ousted his cousin, then-Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, and took his place as next in line to the throne, upending the established line of succession. In the months that followed, the President’s Daily Brief contained information on Saudi Arabia’s evolving political situation, including a handful of names of royal family members opposed to the crown prince’s power grab, according to the former White House official and two U.S. government officials with knowledge of the report.

In late October, Jared Kushner made an unannounced trip to Riyadh, catching some intelligence officials off guard. “The two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. several nights, swapping stories and planning strategy,” the Washington Post’s David Ignatius reported at the time.

On November 4, a week after Kushner returned to the U.S., the crown prince, known in official Washington by his initials MBS, launched what he called an anti-corruption crackdown.

On November 6, two days after the detentions in the Ritz began, Trump took to Twitter to defend the crackdown:

....Some of those they are harshly treating have been “milking” their country for years! -DTrump

Sources have told DailyMail.com that the prince – known by his initials MBS – has been boasting about his close relationship with the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, and the intelligence which he has told his circle Kushner passed to him.

The crackdown on 'corruption' in the Saudi kingdom was led by MBS and began in November, days after he had met Kushner for talks in Riyadh.

It saw allegations of torture as hundreds were rounded up, including princes from rival parts of the Saudi royal family and some of the country's wealthiest businessmen.

DailyMail.com revealed a photograph showing the detainees sleeping on the floor of a ballroom at the Riyadh Ritz Carlton, and disclosed that some had been tortured.

The Riyadh source said: 'They sat for several hours together. They literally laid out the future map of the entire region, that's why they stayed up to the early hours of the morning from the afternoon before.'

MBS bragged to his closest regional ally, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed – the de facto joint ruler of the United Arab Emirates - and others that Kushner was 'in his pocket,' a source told The Intercept.

The Washington Post reported this week that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster “expressed early concern that Kushner was freelancing U.S. foreign policy.”

They Literally Laid Out the Future Map of the Entire Region...

The Yinon Plan refers to an article published in February 1982 in the Hebrew journal Kivunim ("Directions") entitled 'A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s'. The article was penned by Oded Yinon, reputedly a former advisor to Ariel Sharon, a former senior official with the Israeli Foreign Ministry and journalist for The Jerusalem Post.

It is cited as an early example of characterizing political projects in the Middle East in terms of a logic of sectarian divisions. It has played a role in both conflict resolution analysis by scholars who regard it as having influenced the formulation of policies adopted by the American administration under George W. Bush, and also in conspiracy theories according to which the article either predicted or planned major political events in the Middle East since the 1980s, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrowing of Saddam Hussein, the Syrian Civil War and the rise of the Islamic State. Conspiracy theories further claim that the plan was introduced to the US by members of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in administration and that it was adopted by the Bush administration following 9/11 (claimed to be a Mossad false flag) with the goal of furthering US interests in the region, while simultaneously advancing the alleged Jewish dream of Greater Israel "from the Nile to the Euphrates".

Israel Shahak in the foreword to his translation interpreted the plan as both a fantasy and a faithful reflection of the strategy being developed by Ariel Sharon and Rafael Eitan, and drew parallels with both the geopolitical ideas that flourished in Germany from 1890 to 1933, later adopted by Hitler and applied to Eastern Europe, and modern American neoconservative thinking, which influenced Yinon, to gather from the sources cited in his notes.

In 2017, Ted Becker, former Walter Meyer Professor of Law at New York University and Brian Polkinghorn, distinguished professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury University, argued that Yinon's plan was adopted and refined in a 1996 policy document entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, written by a research group at the Israeli-affiliated Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in Washington. The group was directed by Richard Perle, who, some years later, became one of the key figures in the formulation of the Iraq War strategy adopted during the administration of George W. Bush in 2003.

Both Becker and Polkinhorn admit that avowed enemies of Israel in the Middle East take the sequence of events—Israel's occupation of the West Bank, the Golan Heights, its encirclement of Gaza, the invasion of Lebanon, its bombing of Iraq, airstrikes in Syria and its attempts at containing Iran's nuclear capacities—when read in the light of the Yinon Plan and the Clean break analysis, to be proof that Israel is engaged in a modern version of The Great Game, with the backing of Zionist currents in the American neoconservative and Christian fundamentalist movements. They also conclude that Likud Party appears to have implemented both plans.

The empire builders — weren’t going to take a back seat. They had a plan. It wasn’t even a secret plan. It was published on the internet and in political journals as the Project for the New American Century, and in books such as The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski.

To get an insight into how ruthless and brazen the neocons became during the George W. years, just watch this video of General Wesley Clarke talking about the war plans circulating in the Pentagon, orders handed down from the White House.

Seven countries, Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, then finally Iran — this list should sound very familiar — all targeted for overthrow.

It was exactly what Dwight Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address as president:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.”

The strategy of the warmongers was simple. If you don’t have an enemy, create enemies. If you don’t have a war, start one or two or as many as you can handle at any given time. There are always some bad people out there. But the list of enemies even included former friends. We used to give Osama bin Laden millions in military aid. We funded Saddam Hussein, even provided him with chemical weapons so he could gas his own people. We had a black site deal with Syria and used to hire their security guys to torture people. We hated Gaddafi, then we were okay with Gaddafi, then we hated him again and had him killed. We loved Russia during the 90s when our capitalists were looting the country. Now we hate them. So we overthrew the legitimate government of Ukraine to drive a wedge between Russia and Europe. Putin is a new Hitler! The neocons do whatever it takes to panic the American public and fire up the war machine.

To get us to go along with their self-serving and sociopathic agendas, they lied to us, took hundreds of billions — trillions — of our tax dollars under completely false pretenses, then wasted our money buying military junk we don’t need to fight wars that never had to have happened.

Why MBS really gave Kushner $2 billion

AlMayadeen: Details surfaced regarding a $2 billion investment secured by Jared Kushner by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF).

The New York Times highlighted that the PIF agreed to invest twice as much with Kushner as it did with former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin who was seeking a new fund.

Kushner and his allies may have been a critical part of blocking US government support for the cousin of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN).

Allegedly, Kushner and his allies told the Saudi King Salman and MBS about a so-called coup d'etat in the Kingdom that would render MBN to take power and achieve regime change.

Kushner had previously been prevented from receiving a top-level security clearance, and sources familiar with the incident say it was due to his meddling in Saudi affairs.

MBN was afterward arrested in 2020 and there has been no word of him since. His chief aide, Saad bin Khalid Al-Jabri, fled to Canada.

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer, believes it very likely that Kushner was "paid off" for warning the Saudi royals about MBN. The view has been shared by other intelligence community sources according to the investigative journalist.

The Times said Trump's son-in-law also "helped broker $110 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia over 10 years," and protected the Saudi regime from congressional outrage over the murder of Khashoggi and the war on Yemen.

Jared Kushner's Deal with Saudi Arabia Is Corrupt

MSNBC: The newly reported deal looks quite a lot like MBS wanted to return the favor for all the political back-scratching. Here’s what makes it feel so obvious: It’s a bad deal for MBS financially. Kushner is inexperienced in private equity (and had a middling record in real estate), and the seriousness of his new outfit was questionable. So questionable, in fact, that when MBS’s vetted the funds tied to Kushner’s firm, a screening panel expressed concerns about the wisdom of such an investment after finding a bunch of major problems.

But MBS overruled the screening panel and went ahead with the investment anyway, and it appears to be the main source of investment for Kushner’s outfit, according to the Times. Strikingly, it’s twice the amount that was invested in the fund of another Trump official, former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, around the same time, despite the fact that Mnuchin is a highly successful investor.

One cannot rule out that MBS views it as a down payment as well. If Trump were to return to the White House, MBS has proven a willingness to pay handsomely for cushy treatment.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is investing billions to aid Donald Trump's 2024 political comeback according to a new editorial by The Washington Post.

Conviction and Arrests

MiamiHerald: Epstein gave $50,000 to the Palm Beach Police Scholarship Fund, which offers tuition help to the children of law officers. This was followed by an Oct. 16, 2003, donation to the Town of Palm Beach for $36,000.

Finally, Epstein donated $90,000 to the Palm Beach Police Department on Dec. 14, 2004 — just a few months before the initial police investigation into his conduct began.

In 2005 the parents of a 14-year-old girl told authorities in Palm Beach, Florida, that Epstein had sexually abused their daughter. Although the investigation eventually uncovered dozens of young women and minors who had allegedly been sexually abused by Epstein, he was ultimately charged on just two counts: soliciting a minor for prostitution and procuring minors for prostitution.

NYPost: Jeffrey Epstein knew so much about the Palm Beach Police Department as it investigated him back in 2005, that he may have had someone inside tipping him off, the former police chief said.

The notorious pedophile multi-millionaire had somehow received advance warning of a search warrant, the ex-police chief, Michael Reiter, told Dateline NBC.

“The place had been cleaned up,” Reiter recalled, noting that a computer that would have stored all of his Palm Beach mansion’s video surveillance had vanished.

“And all the wires were left hanging there,” Reiter said.

TheGuardian: Ken Starr, the lawyer who hounded Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, waged a “scorched-earth” legal campaign to persuade federal prosecutors to drop a sex-trafficking case against the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein relating to the abuse of multiple underaged girls, according to a new book.

In Perversion of Justice the Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown writes about Starr’s role in securing the secret 2008 sweetheart deal that granted Epstein effective immunity from federal prosecution. The author, who is credited with blowing open the cover-up, calls Starr a “fixer” who “used his political connections in the White House to get the Justice Department to review Epstein’s case”.

The book says that emails and letters sent by Starr and Epstein’s then criminal defense lawyer Jay Lefkowitz show that the duo were “campaigning to pressure the Justice Department to drop the case”. Starr had been brought into “center stage” of Epstein’s legal team because of his connections in Washington to the Bush administration.

Starr later served as a member of Trump’s legal team in the former president’s first impeachment trial over dealings with Ukraine.

Cutting a "sweetheart deal" with Florida authorities, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to the felony prostitution charges. In 2008 he served 13 of his 18-month sentence in prison with a generous work release and was ordered to pay three dozen of his victims in restitution and register his name on the sex offender rolls.

In 2007, Epstein sought to protect his closest aides, including Maxwell, when he negotiated his non-prosecution agreement for himself and “potential co-conspirators.” The agreement ensured that none of the women who worked as his enablers would be criminally charged. The federal immunity was negotiated with former Miami federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta, who became President Trump’s Secretary of Labor. 

(Pictured above) Nadia Marcinkova, Lesley Groff, Sarah Kellen and Adriana Ross were named in Epstein’s 2008 plea agreement as ‘potential co-conspirators’. 

As part of his 2008 non-prosecution agreement with former prosecutor Alexander Acosta, Epstein secured immunity for the four women. 

Nadia, the alleged former sex slave, is now a pilot. She operates under the name Fly Global Girl and has an impressive social media following.

As part of a deposition for a civil case against Epstein in 2010, she refused to answer questions about his alleged illegal actions, repeatedly pleading the fifth when asked what she knew. 

Former model Adriana Ross who worked for Epstein in 2002 in Florida, allegedly arranging some of the ‘massages’ where the alleged abuse took place, refused to speak against him in 2010 civil proceedings and is now a ghost. 

All of the assistants made more than $200,000-a-year. 

Police reports say, one victim recalled Kellen and Maxwell instructing her on how to please their perverted boss.

Others claimed the pair had warned them not to speak out about what was going on.

In a slew of civil lawsuits, Kellen was referred to “an assistant to Ghislaine”, her second in command and even her “lieutenant”.

Story Cowles, the former boyfriend of alleged Epstein recruiter Sarah Kellen worked for Epstein for several years in Palm Beach and New York.

Prison records obtained by DailyMail.com showed he visited Epstein almost every single day prior to his being granted work release.

According to CNBC: “No one visited Epstein more than Story Cowles, who was reportedly his personal assistant. Cowles visited Epstein nearly 130 times.”

One of Epstein’s household staff told the court in 2008, Story was present during a visit to Epstein’s Palm Beach house by the disgraced French model agent, Jean-Luc Brunel.

CBSNews: October 2008: Epstein begins work release from jail. According to the Miami Herald, this includes the prisoner being "picked up by his private driver six days a week and transported to an office in West Palm Beach, where he accepts visitors for up to 12 hours a day" before returning to jail at night. The Washington Post reported Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and once deputies allowed him to travel unsupervised in Palm Beach for four hours.

CBSNews: In an interview with our West Palm Beach affiliate WPEC-TV, a former Florida corrections worker said Epstein was "treated like a celebrity" during his 13-month stint in a county jail after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution. She claims his cell was regularly left unlocked and she saw him move freely through the dormitory area — sometimes completely naked — without repercussions.

It was later revealed that Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida at the time, felt he had no choice but to offer the lenient deal to Epstein, because according to Acosta, he was told the financier was secretly working for the government.

Acosta gave a press conference in which he falsely tried to shift the blame for that decision onto state attorneys. 

AlterNet: But according to a new in-depth analysis by the Washington Post, there are plenty of real reasons why, back in 2008, Acosta was unwilling to prosecute what FBI agents thought was a slam-dunk case.

To begin with, noted the Post, author Conchita Sarnoff, who documented the Epstein case in "TrafficKing," said that "Acosta told her a few years after Epstein's dream team of prominent defense lawyers persuaded him to sign a non-prosecution deal ending the federal pursuit that 'he felt incapable of going up against those eight powerful attorneys. He felt his career was at stake.'"

Acosta and his office were well aware that Epstein's legal team was lying — the girls he was recruiting were in fact underage, and what was taking place at his parties was something a lot worse than "massages." They just feared going after him in court and against his "army of legal superstars."

CNN: The Herald investigation said Acosta gave Epstein the “deal of a lifetime” despite a federal investigation identifying 36 underage victims. The agreement, the Herald said, “essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe” and further granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators” in the case.

Brad Edwards, an attorney who represented several of Epstein’s victims, said that when he served Trump with a subpoena in the case against Epstein in 2009, 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. I’ll tell you what you need to know.'” Edwards said Trump “was very helpful in the information that he gave and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever.” Edwards continued, saying Trump offered “good information that checked out and that helped us.”

“Letting a well-connected billionaire get away with child rape and international sex trafficking isn’t ‘poor judgment — it is a disgusting failure,” Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said in a statement released on Thursday. “Americans ought to be enraged … Epstein should be rotting behind bars today, but the Justice Department failed Epstein’s victims at every turn.” 

READ MORE: FBI wanted to arrest Epstein at Virgin Islands beauty pageant months before plea deal cut (NBC News)

In 2018 Brown published a three-part exposé in the Miami Herald that lifted the lid on the “non-prosecution agreement” that had been reached covering up Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. The reporter managed to identify 80 potential victims, some as young as 13.

Following Brown’s exposé, a judge ruled that the secret agreement was illegal, opening up the possibility of a renewed federal prosecution.

Epstein wasn't untouchable. His luck ran out in July 2019 when authorities in Florida arrested him for suspicion of sex trafficking minors.

Pleading not guilty, he was denied bail and sent to the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City to await trial.

Covered-Up Epstein Confesses, Offers to Testify:

Salon: Epstein's lawyer has made a proffer to the prosecutors: Epstein will agree to cooperate with the investigation, including giving up the names of individuals that paid for activities with underage girls in exchange for a maximum sentence not to exceed 5 years.

The alleged 'sex slave' has previously recounted how she found herself being shuttled around the world and raped by men three times her age in court papers after she met Ghislaine Maxwell.

DailyMail: 'Epstein had promised me a lot, and I knew if I left I would be in big trouble. I also knew that I was a witness to a lot of illegal and very bad behavior by Epstein and his friends,' stated one filing.

'If I left Epstein, he knew all kinds of powerful people. He could have had me killed or abducted, and I always knew he was capable of that if I did not obey him. He let me know that he knew many people in high places... I was very scared, particularly since I was a teenager.'

'When I was with him, Epstein had sex with underage girls on a daily basis. His interest in this kind of sex was obvious to the people around him,' she also stated.

'The activities were so obvious and bold that anyone spending any significant time at one of Epstein's residences would have clearly been aware of what was going on.'

The millionaire was taken into custody at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport after his private jet landed from Paris.

On the same day, federal agents raided his $77 million Manhattan townhouse where they uncovered hundreds of photographs of naked minors.

Prosecutors claim Epstein sexually exploited dozens of underage teenagers, some as young as 14, at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005.

They allege the businessman was 'well aware that many of the victims were minors.'

The girls were paid hundreds of dollars in cash to massage him, perform sexual acts and to recruit other girls, prosecutors allege.

They say Epstein had an army of recruiters, often not much older than their targets, who would approach vulnerable teens. 

1999 - Virginia Roberts Giuffre is allegedly recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell to became Epstein's 'sex slave,' at 15. She also claimed that he forced her to have sex with his friend Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth.

2002 - Trump tells New York Magazine that his friend Epstein 'likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.'

2005 - A 14-year-old girl tells police that Epstein molested her at his Palm Beach mansion.

May 2006 - Epstein and two of his associates are charged with multiple counts of unlawful sex acts with a minor. State attorney of the time Barry Krischer, referred the case to a grand jury who heard from just two of the 12 girls law enforcement had gathered as potential witnesses. They returned just one single count of soliciting prostitution.

July 2006 - The case is referred to the FBI by the Florida Palm Beach police who were unhappy with how the case was handled.

2007 - Epstein's lawyers meet 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'.

June 2008 - After pleading guilty to two prostitution charges, the millionaire was sentenced to 18 months in a low-security prison in exchange for prosecutors ending their investigation into his sex acts with minors and give him immunity from future prosecution related to those charges. In reality, Epstein was able to work from his office six days a week while supposedly incarcerated at the jail.

July 2008 - Accusers learned of the deal for the first time.

July 2009 - Epstein is released from jail five months early.

January 2015: Accuser Virginia Roberts files papers saying Epstein forced her to have sex with members of his social set while she was just 16 years old. A federal judge blocks her claim, but a follow-up lawsuit against another person involved in the accusation is settled in June 2017 for an undisclosed sum.

Feb. 16, 2017: President Donald Trump announces Alexander Acosta as his nominee for U.S. labor secretary.

July 2018 - The Miami Herald publishes investigative journalist Julie K. Brown's exposé on Epstein's long history of alleged sexual abuse and news of the 'deal of a lifetime' after Acosta was made Labor Secretary.

December 2018: A defamation suit by attorney Bradley Edwards against Epstein is settled out of court one day into the trial, with Epstein apologizing and agreeing to other confidential terms. Nearly 2,000 pages of records around the case would remain sealed until a federal appeals court judge in New York ordered them opened in mid-2019.

February 2019 - The justice department opens an internal review into Epstein's plea deal.

February 2019: A judge rules that then-U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta did violate the Crime Victims' Rights Act by not informing Epstein's victims about the plea deal in Florida 11 years earlier.

July 7, 2019 - Epstein is arrested after his private jet lands at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport from Paris. At the same time, federal agents break into his Manhattan townhouse where they uncovered hundreds of photographs of naked minors.

July 8, 2019 - Epstein is charged with sex trafficking charges which detail how he created a network of underage girls in Florida and New York, paying girls as young as 14 to provide 'massages and sex acts.' The charges carry a sentence of up to 45 years in prison.

July 11, 2019 - More than a dozen women, not previously known to law enforcement, came forward to accuse him of sex abuse.

After Epstein was arrested, a law enforcement search of his Upper East Side apartment reportedly revealed compact discs in a locked safe labeled "Young [Name] + [Name]."

July 28, 2019 A mysterious foreign passport found in Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion had been used to travel to multiple countries in the 1980s, federal prosecutors said.

It was found in a locked safe along with $70,000 in cash and 48 loose diamonds, prosecutors said.

They added that the cash and the loose diamonds found in the safe supported the notion that Epstein was prepared "to leave the jurisdiction at a moment's notice," according to NBC News. 

July 24, 2019 - Epstein was found unconscious in his cell after an apparent suicide attempt. He was moved to suicide watch at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

August 9, 2019 - More than 2,000 documents are unsealed which reveal the lurid allegations against Epstein in detail.

August 10, 2019 - Epstein is found dead in his cell.

Death 

On July 23, 2019, Epstein was discovered with neck injuries in his cell and was placed on suicide watch.

Epstein denied that he’d ever attempted suicide. Instead, he claimed that he’d been beaten half-way to death by his cellmate, a former police officer named Nicholas Tartaglione. READ MORE: 10 Facts That Will Make You Believe Jeffrey Epstein Was Murdered (ListVerse)

READ MORE: Feds no longer seeking death penalty against ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione

Epstein's body was discovered in his jail cell at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center on the morning of August 10, 2019. The circumstances surrounding his death were arguably suspicious: the guards had reportedly fallen asleep while on duty and failed to check on Epstein at the appointed times and the cameras monitoring his jail cell were not working.

TPM: News of Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent death by suicide ended up on 4Chan, an internet messaging board replete with right-wing trolls, so far in advance of the official statement that the FDNY had to look into the posting to determine if an employee had preemptively shared the news.

According to Buzzfeed News, the FDNY said after a review that none of their staff is to blame. Some are speculating that the poster was a medic or other first responder on the scene, as the description included specific details of officials’ attempts to resuscitate Epstein after he allegedly hanged himself.

“[D]ont ask me how I know, but Epstein died an hour ago from hanging, cardiac arrest. Screencap this,” read the post, accompanied by an image of right-wing mascot Pepe the Frog. It was another 38 minutes before ABC News became the first major outlet to break the story.

The New York City medical examiner concluded Epstein committed suicide by hanging. Autopsy results showed that various neck bones were broken and among them, the hyoid bone, which is more commonly broken in homicidal strangulation cases.

Dissatisfied with the circumstances that led to the medical examiner's conclusion, Esptein's family hired their own pathologist who believed the evidence suggested he was more likely murdered.

“No way,” an ex-inmate of the facility told the New York Post nearly as soon as the story broke. Suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the ex-inmate claims, is effectively impossible.

“Could he have done it from the bed? No sir. There’s a steel frame, but you can’t move it. There’s no light fixture. There’s no bars,” the inmate says. “They don’t give you enough in there that could successfully create an instrument of death.”

The statistics back up the claim. In the past 21 years, the prison has only seen one other successful suicide. 

How is that the #1 criminal defendant at the New York Metropolitan Corrections Center (that houses Bernie Madoff, Paul Manafort, and even the notorious drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman) is allowed to simply hang himself? Did a six foot tall man really hang himself from the top bunk with a bed sheet in the kneeling position? I’m now hearing reports that one of the guards was a “substitute”. 

DailyMail: Photos of Jeffrey Epstein's body being wheeled into hospital moments before he was pronounced dead have emerged as it is revealed corrections officers had not checked on the pedophile for several hours before he hanged himself in his New York jail cell.

The disgraced financier was wearing an orange jumpsuit and what appeared to be a brace around his neck when he was pushed on a gurney into the New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan hospital on Saturday morning.

Paramedics appeared to be trying to revive ashen-faced Epstein with CPR after he was found hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan on Saturday morning.

It has since emerged that Epstein had been left alone in his cell without being checked on for hours - despite guards being required to look in on him every 30 minutes, sources told the Washington Post.

The 66-year-old should have had a cellmate but the inmate scheduled to move in with him was mysteriously transferred on Friday just hours before he killed himself.

Investigators are still looking into why Epstein, who had previously been on suicide watch, did not receive a new cellmate and how he was left alone and unmonitored.

The former financier, 66, was found hanging in his prison cell shortly before 7am and was rushed to nearby New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The news of the delay to the autopsy results comes after a source told the New York Post there was no video of the moment he died in his jail cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Cameras are said to film the doors to each cell which would show anyone who entered or exited, but they do not point inside.

The two prison guards who failed to follow procedure and check on prisoners every 30 minutes were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages around the time of Epstein's apparent suicide, a prison source said.

The prison official said that the Metropolitan Correctional Center's Special Housing Unit was staffed with one guard working a fifth-straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime. 

The decision to remove Epstein, who was possibly the most high-profile inmate in the federal jail system, from suicide watch has both baffled former wardens and veterans of the federal prison system alike.

Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after he was found a little over two weeks ago with bruising on his neck but he was taken off the watch at the end of July and therefore wasn't on it at the time of his death, the source said.

A separate source revealed to DailyMail.com that Epstein actually told prison guards and fellow inmates that he believed someone had tried to kill him in the weeks before his death. 

The insider, who had seen the disgraced financier on several occasions during his incarceration at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, also claims that the normally reserved Epstein seemed to be in good spirits.

'There was no indication that he might try to take his own life,' the source told DailyMail.com

Preet Bharara, a former Manhattan-based U.S. attorney, explained that guards generally remove any prisoner placed on suicide watch from the Special Housing Unit where Epstein was housed. The unit separates inmates such as accused sex offenders from the general population for their protection.

'So it seems that Epstein was in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) but not recently on suicide watch, which according to BOP's Suicide Prevention Program, requires removal from the SHU,' he tweeted.

Bharara said he was dumbfounded, adding: 'It's possible Epstein was placed on suicide watch for some time and then returned to the SHU, prematurely. DOJ says FBI is investigating. Public deserves answers.

'There will both an FBI investigation + Inspector General investigation into Epstein's death.'

'For them to pull him off suicide watch is shocking,' Cameron Lindsay, a former warden, told NBC News.

'For someone this high-profile, with these allegations and this many victims, who has had a suicide attempt in the last few weeks, you can take absolutely no chances. You leave him on suicide watch until he's out of there.'

Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse wrote a letter to Barr, telling him 'heads must roll'.

'The Department of Justice failed, and today Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators think they might have just gotten one last sweetheart deal,' the senator said. 'Every single person in the Justice Department — from your Main Justice headquarters staff all the way to the night-shift jailer — knew that this man was a suicide risk, and that his dark secrets couldn't be allowed to die with him.

Jennifer Araoz, who accused Epstein of raping her in his Manhattan mansion when she was 15 years old, said: 'We have to live with the scars of his actions for the rest of our lives, while he will never face the consequences of the crimes he committed the pain and trauma he caused so many people,' she said.

'Epstein is gone, but justice must still be served. I hope the authorities will pursue and prosecute his accomplices and enablers, and ensure redress for his victims.'

Araoz's attorney, Kimberly Lerner, said: 'There's a whole network that enabled him and allowed this to happen. It's time that everyone who was a part of this be held accountable.'

Virginia Roberts Giuffre alleged in a 2016 deposition that she was a teenager when she was forced to have sex with George Mitchell, a former Senate Majority leader who represented Maine from 1980-95, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Prince Andrew, Duke of York. 

Claire McCaskill, a former Democratic Senator, said: 'Something stinks to high heaven. How does someone on suicide watch hang himself with no intervention? Impossible. Unless...'

Some internet users observed that the New York prison where he died was under the watch of Attorney General William Barr, who was chosen to head the Justice Department by Donald Trump, once an associate of Epstein.

Another extraordinary theory was that Epstein was assassinated by Saudi officials.

One tweet read: 'The murder of Jeffrey Epstein is the most blatant display of the power of the deep state I've seen since the CIA killed JFK.' 

EW: And then when the cameras didn't work, and the employees fell asleep, and when the camera that did work, that film disappeared.

Jail CCTV erased by 'technical errors' (BBC) There were two separate cameras that should have caught anything happening in Epstein’s cell—and both simultaneously malfunctioned on the night he died.

At an August 27 hearing, Epstein defense attorney Reid Weingarten expressed "significant doubts" that Epstein's death was due to suicide. According to Weingarten, when attorneys met with their client shortly before his death, "we did not see a despairing, despondent, suicidal person"

Epstein's brother, Mark, has rejected the possibility of Jeffrey's suicide, claiming, "I could see if he got a life sentence, I could then see him taking himself out, but he had a bail hearing coming up." He also claimed his "life may also be in danger."

When Epstein died he was worth $577,672,654, according to a will signed just two days before his death.

Shrieking heard from Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell the morning he died

CBSNews: On the morning of Jeffrey Epstein's death there was shouting and shrieking from his jail cell, a source familiar with the situation told CBS News. Corrections officers attempted to revive him while saying "breathe, Epstein, breathe."

One of Epstein's guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the night he died was reportedly not a regular corrections officer.

The Washington Post reported that broken bones in his neck were more consistent with homicidal strangulation than a suicide by hanging.

US Attorney General William Barr, who previously recused himself from an investigation into Florida’s handling of the Epstein plea deal because he worked at the law firm representing the sex offender at the time, will now oversee the investigation into Epstein’s untimely death. READ MORE: Disturbing evidence in Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy points to his murder: pathologist (NY Post)

Documentary: 'Filthy Rich' 

In May 2020 Netflix released the four-hour documentary series Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, which examines the lengthy list of alleged misdeeds and conspiracy theories surrounding the financier and features interviews with many of his accusers. According to director Lisa Bryant, filming began in 2018, with the project taking on additional urgency following Epstein's arrest and death the following summer.

"It really exposes how the American justice system is broken, and it was really built for power and political gain," Bryant told EW. "We wanted people to see that and be angry about it, and hopefully that can provoke change."

The attorneys got on board right away. They felt the press has done such a bad job in the past, and Epstein and his powerful team have done such a great job of keeping it away from the press, shutting the press down. We were not going to be shut down.

We took great precautions in the beginning because he was still alive. We worked with a secret server. We had cameras in our room. We had to safeguard our media because his people are known for hacking computers. Some of these people who were associated closely were helping him cover up and get away with these crimes and didn't want the media to report on it. We'd seen it happened to other outlets, and we weren't going to let it happen to us.

It is interesting since the trailers came out that we've received some interesting letters, some threatening letters from people who are involved in the case, warning not to defame them. They don't even know if they are in it. So it's interesting how the high-powered people are still trying to influence the media here. And it's not gonna happen.

Dershowitz, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump and a member of the latter’s impeachment defense team, went on a media blitz against a recent Netflix series on the Epstein case, saying he only went to the convicted sex offender’s island once, before he was suspected of wrongdoing, and it was with his wife and daughter.

Arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell

On July 2, 2020, Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and ex-girlfriend of Epstein's, was arrested by the FBI in Bradford, New Hampshire. She was charged with six counts including transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and perjury. “Maxwell enticed minor girls, got them to trust her, then delivered them into the trap that she and Epstein had set for them,” Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said. She pleaded not guilty and was denied bail later that month.

Trump told reporters “I just wish her well, frankly” when asked whether he believes Maxwell will turn in “powerful men” after pleading not guilty to sex crime and perjury charges.

Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, was sentenced last month to 20 years in federal prison for procuring young girls in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

Maxwell’s late father, Robert Maxwell, was rumored to have had ties with the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.

According to journalists Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper, who wrote a book about Epstein called "A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein", Maxwell was actually the reason why Clinton was associating with Epstein.

The book alleged that Clinton and Maxwell were having an affair. It said that Clinton visited her Manhattan home numerous times and the pair were even spotted dining out together.

Newsweek: Maxwell and Clinton traveled on a private jet owned by billionaire Ron Burkle, as part of the former president's work with the Clinton Foundation.

The British socialite joined the former president on a visit to the Taj Mahal.

Maxwell and Clinton reportedly grew closer after a trip to China in February 2005.

Maxwell was a guest at Chelsea Clinton's wedding in July 2010.

A former aide to the president, Doug Band, told Vanity Fair that he tried to ban Maxwell from any future events in October 2011, but said Clinton was resistant to the idea.

BusinessInsider: At a November 18 court conference, US District Judge Loretta Preska announced she would unseal the identities of eight "Does" trying to stay anonymous in a long-running lawsuit between Ghislaine Maxwell, the pal of Jeffrey Epstein who's been convicted of sex trafficking, and Virginia Giuffre, their most prominent accuser.

The exception, Preska said, was "Doe 183," whom she identified as someone with ties to Epstein and whose name appeared repeatedly in Maxwell's criminal trial.

"That Doe's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been a subject of intense media coverage, and Doe 183's name has appeared in numerous places in unsealed portions of Ms. Maxwell's criminal trial transcript," Preska said. "In the court's view, there's no reason to redact Doe 183 from the documents."

But, Preska noted, Doe 183 wanted to appeal her ruling. So, she said, their name would remain secret for now.

The most prominent among the accusers is Virginia Giuffre, who sued Maxwell in 2015. The case produced thousands of pages of depositions, flight logs, emails, an unpublished memoir, and other evidence — almost all under seal.

Pundits have widely speculated that the Does are rich and powerful associates of Epstein who were complicit in the sex trafficking and abuse of girls.

Eva Andersson Dubin, who dated Epstein in the 1980s, testified in Maxwell's defense during her trial.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who masqueraded as a socialite while facilitating the international child sex trafficking ring of her former associate Jeffrey Epstein, has reportedly hired Harvey Weinstein’s appeals lawyer in an attempt to overturn her 2021 conviction, per Page Six.

Maxwell’s new attorney Arthur L. Aidala filed papers to represent her on Friday. He claimed Maxwell — who was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking and transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts and three related conspiracy charges — was “mistreated.”

“She did not get a fair trial,” said Aidala, “the judge ignored the many claims of malnourishment, living with vermin in her cell, lack of sleep, and overall deplorable conditions. There were also issues regarding lack of access to her lawyers. This is all in violation of her… rights.”

Clinton associate with Epstein ties found hanging from tree with shotgun blast in ‘suicide’

Mark Middleton, the presidential advisor who introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Clinton, was found dead by hanging using a cheap extension cord … with a gunshot wound to his chest. His death was deemed a suicide. A few months prior, a woman linked to Middleton was found dead using a similar extension cord. There’s something sinister happening here.

In 1994, the Clinton campaign asked Middleton to seek out funds from Les Wexner, and his money manager Jeffrey Epstein.

The Daily Mail reported it learned through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that Epstein visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times. The Daily Mail reported Middleton admitted Epstein into the White House on seven of those 17 known visits. 

Middleton’s family told authorities he had been depressed, but that Middleton did not leave a suicide note.

Several individuals close to Epstein also died in mysterious circumstances. For instance, in 2020, Hollywood producer Steve Bing (who was close with Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton) died after falling off the 27th floor of his apartment building. While the official cause of death is “suicide,” some claim that he was killed in “Russian-mafia style” because he knew too much.

Jean-Luc Brunel – the fashion agent who procured over 1,000 girls for Epstein – was found dead in his jail cell. Again, the official cause of death has been deemed suicide. 

On May 7th, 2022, Middleton died suddenly at age 59. He was found hanging from a tree with a cheap Dollar Store-type extension cord around his neck and a gunshot wound to his chest. According to authorities, Middleton trespassed on Heifer Ranch (about 30 miles from his house) and used a table to construct makeshift gallows.

Mark Middleton is listed in Epstein's black book on page 76.

Epstein recorded 11 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.

'Surviving Jeffrey Epstein'

Lifetime's two-night special Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, which premiered August 9 at 8/7c, investigated the billionaire New York financier who is alleged to have used his connections to the rich and famous to shield his predatory behavior with young girls. Revealing how Epstein set up a pseudo-sexual Ponzi scheme to bring in underaged girls, the doc delved into the aftermath the survivors are experiencing with no justice to be served.

Judge orders charges dropped against Epstein jail guards

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge ordered charges dropped against two Bureau of Prisons guards who admitted falsifying records after Jeffrey Epstein took his own life in jail over two years ago.

The guards — Tova Noel and Michael Thomas — had agreed to deferred prosecution deals last May that required them to admit their guilt with the understanding that charges in a federal indictment would be dismissed if they followed the rules of their agreement for six months. They also were required to do 100 hours of community service.

In court papers, prosecutors said Noel and Thomas were at their desks just 15 feet (4.5 meters) from Epstein’s cell as they shopped online for furniture and motorcycles and failed to make required rounds every 30 minutes. The indictment alleged that both appeared to have fallen asleep for one two-hour stretch.

In a release, attorney Jason Foy said that Noel, his client, had provided the government with “truthful insight into the toxic culture, subpar training, staffing shortages, and dysfunctional management of the now closed Metropolitan Correctional Center. In exchange for Ms. Noel’s cooperation, all charges against her were dismissed.”

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Sources:

Epstein's Little Black Book

FBI Files Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein's Private Jet's Flight Manifests

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• National Sexual Assault Hotline. Call 800-656-4673 for 24/7 guidance and support.
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• RAINN’s international resources. View their resources for sexual assault.

The nonprofit organization End Violence Against Women International began the national Start By Believing Campaign in 2011, to promote positive responses to sexual assault survivors who disclose. As the campaign’s name suggests, a statement of belief can have a huge impact on sexual assault survivors, and can influence their decision whether or not to disclose their sexual assault again. Start By Believing also provides more tips on what to say and what not to say when someone confides in you they’ve been sexually assaulted.

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