Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, a self-proclaimed billionaire who forged connections to politicians over the years including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, was believed to have sexually abused and trafficked dozens of young women beginning in the 1990s. His case generated too many headline claims that are clickbait unsupported by the underlying articles.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s explanation for socializing with Jeffrey Epstein: "…I run into everybody in New York. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew -- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house.” JD Vance owner, Opus Dei-pal Peter Thiel claims he met Jeffrey Epstein “a few times” in 2014—after Epstein was first convicted on child trafficking charges — to get tax advice.
While it isn’t known which governments he was engaged in espionage on behalf of, it must be abundantly clear that his influence operations were a basic honeypot dangle and blackmail scheme targeting political, tech, economic and academic leaders. Epstein likely gave or sold intelligence he gathered to multiple parties, not just foreign governments. Was Epstein a sexual deviant who shared his predilection with selected acquaintances n a sexual pyramid scheme, or did he record such encounters to blackmail participants, or was this blackmail done on behalf of one or more intelligence agencies? Any competent human intelligence or agent of influence operation should be "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". Sloppy tradecraft has been the predicate of many blown operations, but such incompetence cannot be assumed as a matter of course. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" Amrom Katz, one of the fathers of space reconnaissance, worked in photography for the Air Force and was in charge of photography at the H-bomb test blast on Bikini atoll, before he came to RAND. In one of Amrom's better- known comments, he cautioned against over- confidence — "We never found anything that's been successfully hidden."
Epstein sexually abused more than 30 minor girls in the United States and overseas from between about 1999 and 2007. In concert with paid employees and others - notably Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking in connection with Epstein events - Epstein and others lured vulnerable young girls into a scheme of abuse for Epstein's own sexual gratification and for that of some of his powerful and wealthy friends.
Attracted to teenage girls, Epstein was not a pedophile. Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder when a person sixteen years of age or older is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to children who have not begun puberty (usually under 12 years old). Hebephilia is when adults are mostly or only sexually attracted to people from early puberty until their mid-teenage years (generally between 11 and 14 years). Ephebophilia is when an adult is mostly or only sexually attracted to post-pubescent teenagers—usually those in the age range 15–19. Epstein's youngest sexual partner was reportedly 14 years of age.
After Epstein's arrest in 2019, prosecutors said a search of his townhouse, conducted under a warrant, uncovered evidence of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of nude photographs of “what appeared to be underage girls,” including some photos cataloged on compact discs and kept in a locked safe.
Epstein told one acquaintance that " he was involved in something... described as “national security issues,” which ... involved “blackmail, influence trading, trading information at a level that is very serious and dangerous.” Epstein, who lacked any sort of moral compass, decided to go one step further and compromise influential people by recording them doing things they wouldn’t want made public. All of this is completely unprovable. .... once he got out of jail, in the last 10 years of his life, Epstein bragged to various people, including journalists, that he was advising a whole assortment of foreign leaders who included Vladimir Putin, Mohammed bin Zayed, Mohammed Bin Salman, various African dictators, Israel, the British — and, of course, the Americans.
"He also told several of the same people that he was making a fortune out of arms, drugs, and diamonds...... His name was mentioned as a middleman in both Africa and the Middle East. He was known in the intelligence world as a “hyper-fixer,” somebody who can go between different cultures and networks. ... the same sources who say they know he was some sort of intelligence asset say that he became a liability — which is why, possibly, he lost any “protection” and was arrested. A handful of people I interviewed, including former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky, maintain that this is exactly what happened to Robert Maxwell, which is why, they say, Maxwell was killed. His financial problems were about to make him vulnerable."
Epstein's activities were said to be state-sponsored through his intelligence connections. How did Jeffrey Epstein manage to evade justice for decades? Who enabled him and why? Why were legal officials told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and to back off during his first arrest in the mid-2000s? Some trace the origin of the network behind Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to the merging of organized crime and intelligence networks during World War II. Various scandals, acts of corruption and other crimes throughout the last several decades of American history, many involving sex blackmail, can supposedly be traced back to these same networks, which have influenced some of America's most important institutions for their benefit, and to the detriment of the public.
An investigation by authors Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin and James Robertson, the investigators behind the top-rated true crime podcast, EPSTEIN: DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS, claimed that Epstein was secretly an Israeli intelligence operative. Not just a conspiracy theory, the revelation was bolstered by a world exclusive interview with Epstein's one-time handler for Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel. The man, a former high-ranking official in military intelligence, told the authors how Epstein ran a blackmail enterprise for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians. What's more, the authors reveal the truth of Epstein's connection to Russian intelligence, explaining why Vladimir Putin granted political asylum to a key individual connected to the case — a man who had Epstein's kompromat, or compromising material, in his possession.
“It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Epstein had connections to the [Israeli intelligence community],” says Julie K. Brown, whose book “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story” was released on 20 July 2021. “Robert Maxwell certainly had those kinds of connections, and Epstein had a close relationship with Robert Maxwell,” the 59-year-old American journalist noted. She also points to a number of other murky details: Epstein breaking three bones in his neck before he died, and the fact that the two prison guards who were supposed to be keeping a watchful eye on Epstein in his Manhattan jail cell mysteriously fell asleep at the same time.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 and charged with the sex trafficking of dozens of underage girls, but was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell before he could be brought to trial. His death was ruled a suicide, although this official explanation was met with widespread skepticism, due to his close ties to wealthy and powerful figures, including former US President Bill Clinton, current CIA Director William Burns, and Britain’s Prince Andrew. His death gave rise to the meme “Epstein didn’t kill himself,” which suggested that he was killed to cover up evidence about the powerful people with whom he associated.
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