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by Kevin Alfred Strom
BACK IN 1999, the maverick Jewish director Stanley
Kubrick — who once famously said that “Adolf Hitler got almost everything
right” — produced his last film,
Eyes Wide Shut,
a chilling look into a secret society of elitists and wealthy men, many of
them obvious Jews, using young White women as sex slaves on a massive scale,
and corrupting or killing anyone who found out about it. Fast forward to
today, and the Jeffrey Epstein case proves that the reality of the cynical
sexual use of naive, trusting young White girls — many of them little more
than children — by Jewish money-men and the politicians they corrupt goes
far, far beyond anything shown us in Kubrick’s film.
A recent court filing tells us that Epstein bought, trafficked, and traded sexual favors from at least dozens of bought-and-paid-for young females, all of them White girls as far as is known, and some of them as young as 12, and passed them around to his wealthy Jewish friends, like uber-Zionist lawyer Alan Dershowitz and others. He also reportedly gave access to these sex slaves to corrupt White politicians, including former President Bill Clinton, Senator George Mitchell, and Britain’s Prince Andrew. Need I add that the mansion where these trysts took place is well-equipped with video cameras in every room?
Jeffrey Epstein is a 61-year-old Jewish financier. Though he claims to come from a middle-class family, by his twenties he was a partner in the Wall Street firm Bear Stearns, advising the wealthy on “tax strategies.” A few years later he had his own company and a reputed net worth of over $2 billion, and bragged that he only took on billionaires for clients. Other traders remarked how curious it was that Epstein was almost invisible on the Street and that his actual trading activities were unknown and unwitnessed. His only known client was the owner of The Limited and Victoria’s Secret and big GOP/Mitt Romney donor, Leslie Wexner — also a Jew. All his other clients were, according to Epstein himself, “secret.”
Epstein lives in a nine-story, 51,000-square-foot former private school, what Vanity Fair calls “New York’s largest private residence” — and, if you’ve been to New York City, you know that’s really saying something. And that’s not all. He also lives part time in what is said to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico — an $18 million, 7,500-acre ranch. He also spends time at his $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, Florida — where he periodically, and wisely as we shall see, makes $100,000 donations to the police department. And he has a fleet of aircraft, including a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter, and even his very own Boeing 727. He also owns his own private 70-acre island: Little St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he and his powerful friends like to have their private “fun.”
Epstein was amazingly open about what he was doing. According to witnesses, his mansions were decorated with nude photographs he’d taken of his young victims, and such photos were also routinely seen scattered across the desks in his offices. Servants testified how they were required to set up multiple “massage tables” daily, complete with “sex toys” and lubricants — for the sexual “massages” that Epstein demanded from the teen girls procured for him. Even Donald Trump — one of Jeffrey’s non-Jewish friends — joked about Epstein’s predilections and how much “fun” it was to visit him.
In 2005 and 2006, the Palm Beach police department received a complaint from the parents of a 14-year-old girl — who had been repeatedly absent from home on the pretext that she was “shopping” — that Jeffrey Epstein had been employing her, and many other underage girls, for sexual purposes.
Investigators eventually elicited testimony from literally dozens of young girls that Epstein was requiring them to provide not only so-called “massages” but actual sexual intercourse. “The more you do, the more you get paid,” stated one of Epstein’s procurers, according to the Probable Cause Warrant filed against him in 2006. Epstein usually employed female procurers, who would meet the victims at school or sports events or other venues, befriend them, and lure them to one of Epstein’s estates with promises of money, learning the “legitimate massage” trade, and enjoying the “jet set” lifestyle. Once they were in the presence of Epstein, they were “sternly told” to remove their clothes and the “massages” immediately became sexual and escalated from there, according to witnesses. One procurer brought a 23-year-old to Epstein, but he rejected her “services,” stating that she was “too old.” Most of the girls were stated to be between 13 and 16, with a few as old as 18. For his birthday one year, Epstein was provided with three 12-year-old French girls, flown across the Atlantic just for the occasion. Witnesses stated that another Jew, Epstein’s former girlfriend and daughter of UK Jewish media mogul Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, was Jeffrey’s chief procurer and constant companion. According to testimony, Maxwell even stripped and instructed the watching teens on how to properly perform sex acts on Epstein.
The honest police officers in Palm Beach who investigated this case were aghast at the result of their months-long investigation. The case against Epstein was absolutely air-tight: Witnesses abounded — young witnesses with no financial motivation whatsoever — to charge Jeffrey Epstein with hundreds of counts of child rape, child molestation, unlawful sexual intercourse, corruption of minors, and much, much more. The potential sentences for the crimes involved would have staggering, involving centuries upon centuries. But the state of Florida, higher-ups among law enforcement (remember those $100,000 donations?) including especially State’s Attorney Barry Krischer [ See Barry Krischer, the ( probable )Jewish Prosecutor Who Let Jeffrey Epstein Get Away National Vanguard or Judas Watch ], and the US Justice Department stepped in and sabotaged the case against Epstein. Why?
Former special prosecutor Ken Starr, a White man married to a Jew [ Another Starr shines bright: Meet Baylor's first lady, Alice Starr - the former Alice Mendell, a Jewish girl from Mamaroneck, N.Y. ] and one of Epstein’s private attorneys, is one reason. Ultra Zionist lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz is another. Both were part of Epstein’s huge legal “dream team,” who descended on Palm Beach like the Wicked Witch’s monkeys descended on Oz. According to published records, this “team” hired private investigators to look into the personal lives of detectives and prosecutors and other local officials, and began “jerking them around” and threatening them with unpleasant consequences if they continued to pursue charges against Epstein. Dershowitz — one of Israel’s biggest defenders in the media — as it happens is one of Epstein’s closest friends, and according to new testimony was present during sex orgies on Epstein’s private island and jets. At least one White teen girl, Virginia Roberts, was forced by Epstein to have sex with the troll-like, reptilian-looking Dershowitz on numerous occasions. Dershowitz was no doubt highly motivated to stop this case in its tracks.
In 2006, the same US Justice Department that falsely prosecuted David Duke, Chester Doles, Matt Hale, myself and many other White advocates at around the same time, also stepped in on the Jeffrey Epstein case. But they did not step in to prosecute this Jewish abuser and raper of teenage White girls. They stepped in to stop his prosecution. Secret proceedings — I thought secret legal proceedings were supposed to be against the law in the United States — took place which are still under seal. The end result was called, believe it or not, a “Non-Prosecution Agreement” under which Epstein’s associates, procurers, and powerful Wall Street, Buckingham Palace, and Washington DC friends were not to be charged at all, and all charges against Epstein would be dropped, except one local charge of soliciting one minor for prostitution. Under the agreement, Epstein would be sentenced to 18 months and would serve 13 — but not in an ordinary hellhole jail or prison, but a special VIP suite set up for him and at which many of his procurers and young female associates visited him daily. And he would be required to be in his so-called “jail cell” essentially only while he was sleeping — from 10PM to 6AM. At all other times, he was perfectly free to live at his estate as he always had, and his whereabouts and activities were not monitored.
When Epstein’s papers, trash, journals, and other records were investigated it was discovered that he had numerous guests and contacts among the rich and powerful. He had no fewer than 21 different contact numbers for Bill Clinton, who a witness saw offered the “services” of two twin teen brunettes (who he reportedly turned down) at one of the many romps at Epstein’s estates that Clinton attended. Epstein had some 16 different ways to contact Britain’s Prince Andrew, who remained a loyal Epstein associate even after his conviction, and who, according to affidavits filed recently, was repeatedly “given” the forced sexual services of a 17-year-old White girl — the same one that Epstein forced to have sex with fellow Jew Dershowitz. Britain’s very powerful and very Jewish “Lord” Mandelson had no fewer than ten entries in Epstein’s contact book. Many other luminaries of the Anglo-American establishment were there too, along with Israeli leader Ehud Barak.
One investigator was told by independent writer Robert Morrow that considering Bill Clinton’s “deep history as a rapist and serial sexual predator the odds of Bill not being pandered underage girls by Epstein would be like one in one million. And the counter-reply …was that it was more like one in one billion that Clinton was not being pandered underage girls.” Clinton took 17 trips with Epstein, ten of them to what journalists are now calling Pedophile Island.
Another close Epstein associate is another probable Jew, Jean Luc Brunel — who has been accused of drugging and sexually abusing White teenage girls used by his modeling agency. [ See Prince Andrew's accuser under fire after suit tossed - NY Daily News98 ] Epstein paid Brunel $1 million for his modeling agency which, according to published reports, “was really designed to funnel in underage girls for sex by Epstein.” In Michael Gross’ 1995 book Model we read “Jean-Luc is considered a danger… Owning Karin's was a dream for a playboy. His problem is that he knows exactly what girls in trouble are looking for. He’s always been on the edge of the system. …Jean-Luc likes drugs and silent rape. It excites him.” Former sex slave Virginia Roberts states that, just as with Dershowitz, she was “forced to have sex with Brunel and was forced to watch Brunel having sexual acts with dozens of underage girls.”
One mother relates that Epstein and his procurers were especially on the lookout for vulnerable teen girls who could be easily manipulated. The girl, a teenage actress aged 13, who had recently lost her father, received notes asking her to “meet with” Epstein.
And it’s all a very Jewish thing, and it’s not just me and other critics of the Jewish establishment who are saying that. Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, a major pro-Israel pundit in the controlled media, has rallied, as he puts it, “all Jews” to defend Epstein associate Alan Dershowitz, citing ethnic loyalty and loyalty to Israel as the main reason. Boteach wrote that Dershowitz is “a man of sterling character who has been a champion of the Jewish people and Israel his entire life… We are all mindful of women who are victims of sexual crimes and they must, of course, be protected. But the reputations of individuals who have devoted their lives to the greater good deserve consideration as well.”
Dershowitz himself, always hyper-aggressive, has really popped a blood vessel now that his friend Epstein is back in the news. Enraged by the fact that the “Non-Prosecution Agreement” he negotiated has been essentially nullified by a lawsuit filed by some of Epstein’s former sex slaves — one of the whom, Virginia Roberts, is the one who says she was forced to have sex with Dershowitz when she was 17 — Dershowitz appeared on CNN in an obviously agitated mood, calling the woman a “serial liar” and “serial prostitute,” threatening to have her lawyers disbarred, and even raving about the teenager “meeting the queen,” a claim she never made. The visibly shaken Dershowitz even made a possibly revealing Freudian slip about halfway through the interview, saying his own affidavit would “categorically deny the truth.” Watch it and see for yourself.
One of Epstein’s sex slaves reportedly asked Epstein at one of his “parties” why Bill Clinton was there, and was told “He owes me some favors.” This is a key insight. Just as an uncensored look at Jewish Hollywood reveals the sexual abuse of Whites — male and female — by Jews, as I discussed in my program “The Evil Fun House,” so also the Epstein case reveals how the Jewish-dominated West really operates at the highest level. Undreamed of riches, stolen from hard-working Americans by corrupt politicians, Jewish bankers, and Jewish Wall Street tricksters, is used to buy the actual sexual slavery of young White women and girls, whose “favors” are then essentially sold for real political favors and special treatment by powerful Jews. When the favor-trading negotiations don’t go the way the Jews want, there’s always the video recordings of the politician’s or judges’ last few visits to the east bedroom to hold over his head. This is way American “democracy” really works. This is the real world. And these are just a tiny few of the things that Jeffrey Epstein has done — the few he’s actually been caught doing. And Jeffrey Epstein is just a tiny part of the very sick, very corrupt, Jewish-led System that currently rules the Western world. Uncovering Jeffrey Epstein is like uncovering one termite tunnel in one floorboard of a whole rotted city filled with termites and about to collapse in on itself. Let’s never forget that. Let’s not return to our lives as usual. Let’s never rest until Jeffrey Epstein and his cronies and friends and fellow tribesmen are removed from power over us — forever.
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Jeffrey Epstein inside the decade of scandal entangling Prince Andrew
ex Guardian
The
desperate woman who telephoned Detective Michele Pagan of the Palm Beach
police declined to give her name and would not leave a call-back number. But
she had some information that she had to tell someone.
Her stepdaughter, a 14-year-old pupil at Royal Palm Beach high school, had told a friend that she’d had sex with a middle-aged man who gave her money.
The man was said to have a long face and bushy eyebrows and he lived in a big house at the end of a dead-end street. His name was Jeff. A teacher found $300 in the 14-year-old’s purse.
Jeffrey Epstein: inside the decade of scandal entangling
Prince Andrew
How a telephone call set off a cascade of FBI
investigations, secret plea deals and lawsuits from Palm
Beach, Florida, to Buckingham Palace as questions
resurface over whether the disgraced financier used his
wealth and power to elude justice
The
desperate woman who telephoned Detective Michele Pagan of
the Palm Beach police declined to give her name and would
not leave a call-back number. But she had some information
that she had to tell someone.
Her stepdaughter, a 14-year-old pupil at Royal Palm Beach high school, had told a friend that she’d had sex with a middle-aged man who gave her money.
The man was said to have long face and bushy eyebrows and he lived in a big house at the end of a dead-end street. His name was Jeff. A teacher found $300 in the 14-year-old’s purse.
That call to police – made 10 years ago this March – soon led Florida detectives to 358 El Brillo Way, a mansion owned by Jeffrey Epstein, one of America’s wealthiest hedge fund tycoons.
A decade later, the cascade of FBI investigations, secret plea deals and lawsuits which followed that telephone call would be felt 4,000 miles away, behind the gates of Buckingham Palace.
The connecting thread was Epstein, now 61, a convicted sex offender and one-time friend of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The allegation: that Epstein forced another of his teenage victims into sexual encounters with Andrew on three separate occasions.
The accusation, contained in a court filing first reported by the Guardian and Politico, has become headline news across the world this week, even as it was forcefully and repeatedly denied by the Palace.
It has thrown a spotlight on Andrew’s relationship with Epstein and resurfaced questions over whether the disgraced financier used his extraordinary wealth and power to elude justice.
There is no suggestion Andrew ever encountered the 14-year-old – referred to in police incident reports as ‘SG’ – whose stepmother’s call to police triggered the initial investigation into Epstein in 2005.
SG told detectives that Epstein had made her remove her clothes and give him a massage while he masturbated, according to a police report.
Within weeks the FBI was listening to Epstein’s calls, rifling through his trash and searching for other potential victims. They eventually identified around 40.
Assistant US attorney Ann Marie Villafaña relayed a summary of the investigation to Epstein’s counsel in an letter in 2007.
“Mr Epstein, through his assistants, would recruit underage females to travel to his home in Palm Beach to engage in lewd conduct in exchange for money,” it said. She added that some of the girls were expected to strip naked and give massages to Epstein while he masturbated, while others had full intercourse with the financier.
“Some of those victims went to Mr Epstein’s home only once,” Villafaña’s letter added. “Some went there as many as 100 times or more.”
One of those girls, referred to by police as AH, told detectives she was recruited by an associate of Epstein who overheard her tell a friend in a clothing store that she could not afford a holiday.
The erotic massages, in her case, also led to Epstein asking her to engage sexually with an eastern European woman, Nada Marcinkova – a female member of his entourage allegedly bought from her parents in eastern Europe as a teenager – while he watched.
AH told detectives of her reluctance to go further than erotic massages with Epstein, who she said gave her $1,000 and a car. However, she recounted one incident during which Epstein “bent me over the table and put himself in me” without her permission. AH said Epstein stopped after she screamed ‘no’, but she was so sore after the incident that she had difficulty walking to her car.
When police eventually raided Epstein’s mansion, they discovered one of AH’s high school transcripts along with a container of peach flavoured “Joy Jelly” lubricant and Amazon receipts for explicit books such as Slave Craft: Roadmap For Erotic Servitude Principles.
There were dozens of stories from potential victims like AH and SG. An attorney who advised Epstein at the time said prosecutors did not believe AH to be credible.
But the accounts from around 40 Florida girls who said they were molested by Epstein were numerous and overlapping.
Despite this, the US government eventually agreed to allow Epstein to plead guilty to just one count of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl under Florida state law. In the end, he served just 13 months of an 18-month jail sentence.
The circumstances that led up to that secret plea agreement have proved an enduring controversy. Epstein agreed not to contest civil claims brought by the 40 women identified by the FBI, but escaped a prosecution that could have seen him jailed for the rest of his life.
Prosecutors agreed not to bring far more serious federal charges against Epstein, and not to charge “potential co-conspirators”, including Marcinova and three other named individuals.
Clearly, prosecutors had questions about the credibility of some of the teenage witnesses – doubts that were exacerbated when Epstein’s lawyers and private investigators dug up dirt on their Myspace and Facebook pages.
Yet Michael Reiter, the former Palm Beach police chief, believed Epstein had received “very unusual” treatment in the deal, negotiated between officials in the US Department of Justice and a fleet of the best lawyers money could buy.
However in a six-year legal battle, which is still ongoing, lawyers for some of those victims are challenging the plea agreement, which they say was negotiated without their knowledge and therefore violated their rights as victims.
At the very least, documents released through litigation suggest prosecutors cooperated with Epstein’s lawyers to keep the deal under wraps.
Using her personal Gmail account, for example, Villafaña proposed to one of Epstein’s lawyers that they could file associated legal papers in a different jurisdiction, a move she said “will hopefully cut the press coverage significantly”. Villafaña declined to comment on that email this week.
Epstein’s adversaries have long suspected that the hedge fund manager somehow used his influence to lobby for a “sweetheart” deal with prosecutors that protected him and his associates from serving significant jail time.
No evidence has been publicly unearthed to substantiate that theory, although Epstein’s private contacts book, seized by police, leaves no doubt he was once supremely well-connected.
There is no suggestion any of the individuals named in the book participated in or knew of Epstein’s abuse of minors, or were involved in any effort to pressure prosecutors.
But Epstein’s contacts book – seen by the Guardian – reads like a directory of the world’s global elite.
Under the letter B alone are listed Tony Blair, Michael Bloomberg, and Richard Branson. Elsewhere there are multiple contacts – typically at offices, homes, and via aides’ mobile phones – for Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Dustin Hoffman, Naomi Campbell, and dozens of other A-listers.
The name that appears on page 31, opposite an entry for Formula 1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, looks innocuous alongside the directory of world-renowned figures. Epstein had 16 separate telephone numbers listed for this particular friend: Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.
The Prince Andrew connectionOf all Epstein’s glamorous and influential friends, none has had their reputation as tarnished by their association with the disgraced financier as badly as the Queen’s second son.
The prince’s relationship with the playboy hedge fund manager had for years been cited as evidence of his poor judgment and it contributed, three years ago, to the termination of Andrew’s cherished role as an official UK trade envoy.
Andrew and Epstein made curious acquaintances. While Andrew benefited from the privilege bestowed by a British royal title, Epstein’s ascent is a classic American success story.
He was born in a rough Brooklyn neighbourhood, and never obtained a college degree. In 1976, he was plucked from a seemingly ordinary life as a mathematics teacher at a Manhattan private school in 1976 and given a job at the investment bank Bear Stearns.
Within six years he was working on his own, managing the portfolios of an exclusive – and secret – club of plutocrats said to only include billionaires. The scale of Epstein’s own net worth has long been a mystery, although the financier made little effort to conceal how he was spending his fortune.
Epstein became a major philanthropist, spending millions on science projects at Harvard University, and was famous for his extravagant parties. He was a modern-day Great Gatsby, enjoying bringing together film stars, property magnates and political leaders.
Andrew reportedly met Epstein in the 1990s after being introduced by Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the media mogul Robert Maxwell who, at the time, was the financier’s girlfriend.
The friendship returned to haunt Andrew this week courtesy of one the dozens of women the FBI identified as one Epstein’s potential victims: Virginia Roberts. Like dozens of the other teenagers, Roberts sued Epstein; the civil claim she lodged in a Florida court six years ago told a familiar story of exploitation.
Roberts was working for $9 an hour as a changing room assistant at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago beach club, where her father was a maintenance manager, when she claims she was recruited to work as a masseuse for Epstein. She claims the invitation came courtesy of Maxwell. It was 1998, and Roberts was 15 years old.
Her civil suit, in which Roberts is referred to as Jane Doe 102, alleged that Ghislaine Maxwell, now 53, and Epstein quickly began grooming her for sex. Despite being told by Epstein, on the cusp of her 16th birthday, that “he would soon have to trade her in because she was getting too old”, Roberts alleged she was thrust into a life of sexual servitude that lasted until 2002, when she fled to Thailand aged 19.
But in one important way Roberts’ allegations differ from those of many of the other Florida teenage girls who say they were victims of Epstein. Her lawsuit states that she was co-opted into Epstein’s inner-circle, flown by private jet to his ranch in New Mexico, his Caribbean island, and his 51,000-square-foot mansion in New York, reputedly the largest residence in Manhattan.
During the four years she claimed to have been a fixture in Epstein’s hedonistic world, she claimed she saw Epstein and his close associates abuse women from across the world, including three French 12-year-olds who she alleged were sent to him as a birthday present. That lawsuit did not identify any alleged perpetrators other than Maxwell and Epstein.
But Roberts’ lawsuit did imply there was more to her story. One elliptical reference alleged that Epstein “required” her to be sexually exploited by “politicians, academicians, businessmen”. These men were described in the document as Epstein’s “adult male peers, including royalty”. Epstein and Roberts settled the lawsuit out of court, with Epstein paying Roberts – just as he paid a series of other girls who were suing him – an undisclosed sum in compensation.
Her cryptic allegation about “royalty” may never have been clarified were it not for the 13-page document submitted to Florida’s southern district last week.
That court filing related to the long-running lawsuit in which lawyers for some of the victims are challenging Epstein’s controversial plea deal. It was being brought by two women, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2. Roberts’s lawyers wanted her and another woman – listed as Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4 – to be added as new plaintiffs.
The document briefly argued the case – and summarised the two women’s allegations. That summary elaborated on the claims that Roberts had made, in her 2009 lawsuit, about being loaned out by Epstein to rich and powerful men.
The court filing alleged that Epstein forced Roberts “to have sexual relations” on three separate occasions with “a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew (a/k/a Duke of York)”. The encounters are alleged to have happened in New York, at Maxwell’s London home and in the US Virgin Islands as part of an “orgy with numerous other under-aged girls”.
Referred to as a “minor” in the document, Roberts is understood to have been aged 17 at the time she alleges the encounters took place. Epstein allegedly instructed Roberts “to give the prince whatever he required” and report back on the details of “the sexual abuse”.
“Epstein’s purposes in ‘lending’ Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain,” the document alleged, “as well as to obtain potential blackmail information”.
Strenuous denialsThe Guardian contacted Buckingham Palace on Thursday last week, a day before it intended to publish its first article about the allegations about Andrew. That evening a Palace spokesperson emailed a reporter, declining the opportunity to respond. “The Royal Household would never comment on an ongoing legal matter,” she said.
After the Guardian published the article, however, there was a dramatic reversal from the Palace, which issued the first in what turned out to be a flurry of statements forcefully denying the allegations as “categorically untrue”.
The Palace later again denied “any form of sexual contact or relationship” between Andrew and Roberts, adding: “The allegations made are false and without any foundation.”
Maxwell also dismissed the allegations, which she said were “not new and have been fully responded to and shown to be untrue”. The statement released on her behalf added: “Ghislaine Maxwell’s original response to the lies and defamatory claims remains the same.”
Yet by then British newspapers were delving back into the story, republishing interviews Roberts had given in 2011 in which she detailed her encounters with Andrew but stopped short of alleging sexual contact.
The stories were accompanied by a photograph, said to have been taken in 2001 at Maxwell’s London home, where Roberts alleged her first sexual encounter with the prince occurred. The image showed Andrew grinning with his arm around the 17-year-old’s midriff; Maxwell, also smiling, is in the background.
That image raises obvious questions for Andrew. Yet the strength of the denials issued by the Palace this week has not been matched by a willingness to address the details of the allegations made by Roberts. The Palace has declined to say, for example, why Andrew was in the company of a 17-year-old masseuse working for Epstein at Maxwell’s home.
The Palace also refuses to answer questions about Andrew’s friendship with Epstein, or confirm the several occasions the two men appear to have partied together.
Those reported encounters between Epstein and Andrew, some of which appear to be corroborated by flight logs for Epstein’s private planes, which have been reviewed by the Guardian, stretch back more than a decade. They include parties at Windsor Castle and Sandringham, the Queen’s Norfolk estate, an exclusive dinner in St Tropez and a holiday in Thailand when Andrew was pictured on a yacht surrounded by topless women.
Indeed, the Palace has never offered a public explanation for Andrew’s most controversial meeting with Epstein, which occurred in New York in 2011. That was two years after Epstein had been released from prison. He was, by then, a registered sex offender, and though some celebrities were still willing to be seen with him, he’d been abandoned by many of the more influential figures he previously called his friends.
Andrew’s face-to-face meeting with Epstein might have remained secret had the pair not decided to go for a stroll in Central Park, where they were photographed by a tabloid newspaper.
Court cases
In the seven days since Roberts’s allegations were made
public, pressure has mounted on Andrew to provide a more
detailed explanation of the extent and nature of his
friendship with Epstein.
That is partly because of the strategy adopted by another prominent figure, Harvard lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who faced similar accusations from Roberts in the same court filing.
Dershowitz’s denials were just as emphatic as those emanating from the Palace. But they were also considerably more detailed. Dershowitz also submitted himself to questioning from journalists – including five telephone conversations with the Guardian – and vowed to fight the allegations in court.
By Tuesday he had launched a legal bid to formally strike the “outrageous and impertinent” claims about him containing in court filing, promised imminent defamation proceedings against Roberts and her lawyers, in both US and English courts, and submitted a sworn affidavit denying the accusations.
Attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz discusses allegations of sex with an underage girl levelled against him, during an interview at his home in Miami Beach. Photograph: Andrew Innerarity/Reuters“If they’re innocent, they should do what I’m doing,” Dershowitz told the Guardian when asked if others accused by Roberts should follow suit. “You can’t do what I’m doing unless you’re 100% certain of your innocence.”
Dershowitz quickly added that someone in Andrew’s position may be innocent and decide it “would be undignified to respond” in the same way.
Yet the aggressive legal strategy adopted by Dershowitz, a renowned criminal attorney who once served on the legal team advising OJ Simpson – who has occasionally written opinion pieces for the Guardian – raises the stakes for all involved.
Roberts’ lawyers appear willing to meet Dershowitz head on, filing their own, counter-defamation suit against the Harvard lawyer. Both sides are on a collision course, apparently determined to see the dispute resolved in court.
That opens the possibility that Roberts – and, perhaps, Andrew – could be called as witnesses.
It is just one of several civil proceedings that could results in Roberts taking the stand. Her lawyers are believed to be considering whether to submit a criminal complaint in the US Virgin Islands or London, a move that could trigger a fresh criminal investigation.
French model scoutThere was one name in Roberts’ court filing that escaped the public attention heaped on others: Jean Luc Brunel.
Brunel, who is French and in his 60s, is the co-founder of MC2 Model Management, a Miami-based modelling agency with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. A well-known model scout since the 1970s, Brunel is credited with launching the careers of Milla Jovovich, Christy Turlington and Sharon Stone.
But his career has sometimes been marred by controversy. A CBS 60 Minutes documentary once accused Brunel of sexually exploiting young women, an allegation he denied.
But Brunel’s close friendship with Epstein has never been in doubt. The model scout’s name appears frequently in the flight logs kept for Epstein’s private jets and prison records show he visited Epstein 67 times when he was in jail.
The 30 December court filing relaying Roberts’ allegations, however, went further than the innuendo previously that has occasionally surrounded Brunel’s friendship with Epstein. It explicitly alleged that Epstein was effectively exploiting Brunel’s access to young women for the purposes of sex trafficking.
“He would bring young girls (ranging to ages as young as twelve) to the United States for sexual purposes and farm them out to his friends, especially Epstein,” the filing states. “Brunel would offer the girls ‘modeling’ jobs. Many of the girls came from poor countries or impoverished backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money.”
Roberts alleged she was forced to have sex with Brunel, too, and was made to “observe” the French model scout engaging in “sexual acts with dozens of underage girls”.
The Guardian made repeated attempts to contact Brunel to afford him them the opportunity to respond to the allegations of impropriety, including those contained in the 30 December court filing. He did not respond.
Unimaginable luxury
Whatever the truth of the allegations, Epstein’s
friendship with Brunel certainly gave him access to the
glamorous world of international modelling.
It chimed with Epstein’s reputation, cultivated through the early 2000s, as an international playboy with an intercontinental property portfolio, his own personal Gulfstream II and Boeing 727, a profile in Vanity Fair, and an apparently loyal coterie of beautiful young women that skirted the line.
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Donald Trump told New York magazine in October 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
However, when it came to female associates, the evidence now suggests Epstein cultivated two separate spheres that rarely overlapped.
One – restricted to a small group of women co-opted as permanent fixtures in Epstein’s entourage – was rooted in that world of almost unimaginable luxury.
The other comprised working-class Palm Beach teenagers who told police they were enticed into giving massages and sometimes more at Epstein’s mansion with the promise of cash.
Lawyers for SG, the 14-year-old whose stepmother initially triggered the investigation into Epstein, for example, accused Epstein in a lawsuit of cynically seeking out “economically disadvantaged underage girls” who would be “less likely to complain to authorities or have credibility if allegations of improper conduct were made”.
Conflicting accounts
The story SG told police back in 2005 became grimly
familiar. A rebellious type hailing from Palm Beach’s
grittier west side, she told detectives she was recruited by
Haley Robson, an 18-year-old working for Epstein.
Robson, one of the four named “potential co-conspirators” who were shielded from prosecution under Epstein’s plea agreement, told police she was “like a Heidi Fleiss”, the notorious Hollywood “madam” who claimed to procure women for rich and influential men in the movie industry.
Teenagers told police that after being transported to the mansion by Robson, they were met by another aide, Sarah Kellen, another named “potential co-conspirator” in the plea deal. A chef would often make them something to eat. Then, after being led by Kellen past walls adorned by pictures of naked women, they would arrive at an upstairs room where paid-for massages would allegedly descend into sexual abuse.
Approached on the telephone this week, Robson declined to discuss what she called “all the Epstein stuff”. “I’ve moved past all that,” she said. “I have a child now. I’m not interested in speaking about it.”
Guy Fronstin, an attorney for Epstein, told police during the 2005 investigation that there had been a horrible misunderstanding. His client was simply “passionate about massages”, Fronstin said, pointing to a $100,000 donation to the Florida state ballet to pay for massage therapy. “The massages are therapeutic and spiritually sound for him,” Fronstin said. “That is why he has had many massages.”
That explanation stood in contrast to the account of Alfredo Rodriguez, a former housekeeper at the Palm Beach mansion, who told police that “he felt there was a lot more going on than just massages” given the cleanup operation that typically awaited him afterwards.
Rodriguez’s credibility as a witness was undermined after he was convicted for trying to sell a stolen copy of Epstein’s contact book to lawyers for some of the young girls.
Prior to that, he had described Epstein’s guests as “very young” and explained how he was ordered to keep at least $2,000 in cash on him at all times to pay for Epstein’s twice-daily massages. He felt like a “human ATM”, he told police. Rodriguez said he once had to deliver a dozen red roses to AG at school.
Epstein showed a different level of reward to the few who were permitted access to his inner circle.
If Roberts’ allegations are to believed, she was one of them. Another was Johanna Sjoberg, who alleges she was also recruited by Maxwell, when she was a student in Palm Beach, and became captivated by the luxurious lifestyle.
“I made a pact with the devil in exchange for excitement and glamour,” Sjoberg told an interviewer in 2007.
Like Roberts, Sjoberg spoke of being persuaded to progress from a routine massage to more intimate activity. She said Epstein flew her to the Caribbean retreat, advising there would be “sex stuff” going on.
Sjoberg, who was already in her early 20s and said she was surprised at allegations involving Epstein and underage girls, later visited his New York mansion. “I didn’t grow up poor,” she said, “but I realised there was more money there than I could ever have imagined.”
Epstein’s flight logs show that he took frequent trips to the island with named girls such as Roberts and Sjoberg. According to one account provided by Roberts, Sjoberg was present during her second encounter with Andrew, in New York.
Roberts and Sjoberg are both crucial witnesses in the whole saga. The pair are among the very few one of the few alleged Palm Beach victims to cross over into Epstein’s other world, a place where his chosen women were ferried around the world in the company of presidents and princes.
Sjoberg, now 35 and running a beauty salon, declined this week to talk further about her experiences.
Roberts is now 30, a mother of three, and married. Since the contents of her lawyers’ court filing was made public last week, she is believed to have gone into hiding in Colorado.
Her only public statement about the affair was the one she issued to the Guardian after Maxwell, Dershowitz and the Andrew issued their fervent denials.
“I am looking forward to vindicating my rights as an innocent victim and pursuing all available recourse,” she said. “I’m not going to be bullied back into silence.”
To contact the authors of this story email paul.lewis@theguardian.com or jon.swaine@theguardian.com
Jeffrey Epstein ex Wiki
Jeffrey Edward Epstein (born January
20, 1953) is an American financier and
registered
sex offender in the United States.[1]
He worked at
Bear Stearns early in his career and then formed his own firm, J.
Epstein & Co. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of
soliciting an
underage girl for prostitution, for which he served 13 months in prison.[2]
He lives in the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
Early life
Epstein was born in
Brooklyn,
New York, to a middle-class Jewish family. His father worked for New York
City's parks.[3]
Epstein attended Lafayette High School. He attended classes at Cooper Union from 1969 to 1971 and later at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. He left without a degree.
CareerEpstein taught calculus and physics at the Dalton School in Manhattan, New York from 1973 to 1975.[4] Among his students was a son of Alan C. Greenberg, chairman of Bear Stearns.[3]
In 1976, Epstein started work as an options trader at Bear Stearns,[4] where he worked in the special products division, advising high-net-worth clients on tax strategies.[4] Proving successful in his financial career, in 1980 Epstein became a partner at Bear Stearns.[4]
In 1982, Epstein founded his own financial management firm, J. Epstein & Co., managing the assets of clients with more than US$1 billion in net worth. In 1987, Leslie Wexner, founder and chairman of Ohio-based The Limited chain of women's clothing stores, became a well-known client.[4] Wexner acquired Abercrombie & Fitch the following year. In 1992 he converted a private school in New York's Upper East Side into an enormous residence. Epstein later bought that property, in the wealthiest part of Manhattan. In 1996, Epstein changed the name of his firm to the Financial Trust Company and, for tax advantages, based it on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.[4]
In 2003, Epstein bid to acquire New York magazine. Other bidders were advertising executive Donny Deutsch, investor Nelson Peltz, media mogul and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, who had the New York Daily News, and film producer Harvey Weinstein. They were ultimately outbid by Bruce Wasserstein, a longtime Wall Street investor, who paid $55 million.[5]
In 2004, Epstein and Zuckerman committed up to $25 million to finance Radar, a celebrity and pop culture magazine founded by Maer Roshan. Epstein and Zuckerman were equal partners in the venture. Roshan, as its editor-in-chief, retained a small ownership stake.[6[6]
ResidencesEpstein's New York home is reputedly the largest private residence in Manhattan;[7] it previously housed the Birch Wathen Lenox School. The 50,000-square-foot (4,600-square-metre), 9-story mansion is just off Fifth Avenue and overlooks the Frick Collection. The financier's other properties include a villa in Palm Beach, Florida; an apartment in Paris; a 10,000-acre ranch with a hilltop mansion in Stanley, New Mexico;[8][9] and a private island near St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands called Little Saint James that includes a mansion and guest houses. Science philanthropy
In 2000 he established the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, which funds science research and education. Prior to 2003, Epstein's foundation funded Martin Nowak's research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In May 2003, Epstein established the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University with a $30 million gift to the university.[10] Under the direction of Martin Nowak, the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics is a graduate department that studies the evolution of molecular biology with the use of mathematics, focusing on diseases such as cancer, HIV and other viruses.
The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has also funded genetic research leading towards advances in such fields as Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, colitis and Crohn's disease. Epstein has given funds to the American Cancer Society, for projects such as circulating tumor cell technology, a blood test to identify genetic mutations to anti-inhibitor cancer drugs.[12]
Through such philanthropy, Epstein has associated with many well-known scientific figures, such as Gerald Edelman, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Lawrence Krauss, Lee Smolin and Gregory Benford.[4][13][14] In 2006, Epstein's foundations sponsored a conference on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands with Hawking, Krauss, and Nobel laureates Gerard 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, covering such topics as unified gravity theory, neuroscience, the origins of language and global threats to the Earth.[14]
The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has backed research into artificial intelligence; it had been supporting Marvin Minsky at MIT (until his death) and is supporting Ben Goertzel in Hong Kong.[15][16]
The extent of Epstein's claimed philanthropy is unknown. This foundation fails to disclose information which other charities routinely disclose. Concerns have been raised over this lack of transparency, and in 2015 the New York Attorney General has reported as trying to get information.
Criminal proceedings
In March 2005, a woman contacted
Palm Beach, Florida police and alleged that her 14-year-old stepdaughter
had been taken to Jeffrey Epstein's mansion by an older girl. There she was
paid $300 to strip and massage Epstein.[9]
She had undressed, but left the encounter wearing her underwear.[18]
Police started an 11-month undercover investigation of Epstein, followed by a search of his home. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
also became involved in the investigation.[7] Subsequently, the police alleged that Epstein had paid several escorts to perform sexual acts on him. Interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, a high school transcript, and other items they found in Epstein's trash and home allegedly showed that some of the girls involved were under 18.[19] The police search of Epstein's home found large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house, some of whom the police had interviewed in the course of their investigation.[18]
The International Business Times reported that papers filed in a 2006 lawsuit alleged that Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his property to record sexual activity with underage girls by prominent people for criminal purposes such as blackmail.[20] Epstein allegedly "loaned" girls to powerful people to ingratiate himself with them and also to gain possible blackmail information.[7] In 2015, evidence came to light that one of the powerful men at Epstein's mansion may have been Prince Andrew of the UK.[7]
A former employee told the police that Epstein would receive massages three times a day.[18] Eventually the FBI received accounts from about 40 girls whose allegations of molestation by Epstein included overlapping details.[7]
The Guardian said, "Despite this, the US government eventually agreed to allow Epstein to plead guilty to just one count of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl under Florida state law. ... Epstein agreed not to contest civil claims brought by the 40 women identified by the FBI, but escaped a prosecution that could have seen him jailed for the rest of his life. ... Prosecutors agreed not to bring far more serious federal charges against Epstein, and not to charge “potential co-conspirators”, including four named individuals."[7]
In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed a probable cause affidavit saying that Epstein should be charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one molestation count.[18]
His team of defense lawyers included Gerald Lefcourt, Alan Dershowitz and later Ken Starr.[9] Epstein passed a polygraph test in which he was asked whether he knew of the underage status of the girls.[21]
After the federal government agreed to charging Epstein on one count under state law, the prosecution convened a grand jury. Former chief of Palm Beach police Michael Reiter later wrote to State Attorney Barry Krischer to complain of the state's "highly unusual" conduct and asked him to remove himself from the case.[9] The grand jury returned a single charge of felony solicitation of prostitution,[22] to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2006.
SentencingIn June 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a single state charge of soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14,[24] he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He served 13 months before being released. At release, he was registered in New York State as a level three (high risk of re-offense) sex offender, a lifelong designation.[25][26]
Reactions
After the accusations became public, several persons and institutions returned donations which they had received from Epstein, including Eliot Spitzer, Bill Richardson,[11] and the Palm Beach Police Department.[19] Harvard University announced that it would not return any money.[11] Various charitable donations that Epstein had made to finance children's education were also questioned.[24]
On June 18, 2010, Epstein's former house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, was sentenced to 18 months incarceration after being convicted on an obstruction charge for failing to turn over to police, and subsequently trying to sell, a journal in which he had recorded Epstein's activities. FBI Special Agent Christina Pryor reviewed the material and agreed it was information "that would have been extremely useful in investigating and prosecuting the case, including names and contact information of material witnesses and additional victims".
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In a separate case, on April 7, 2015, Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that the allegations made by Virginia Roberts against Prince Andrew had no bearing on a current (and long running) lawsuit by alleged victims seeking to reopen Epstein's non-prosecution plea agreement with the federal government; he ordered it to be struck from the record.[29] There was an effort to add Roberts and another woman as plaintiffs to that case. Judge Marra made no ruling as to whether claims by Roberts are true or false.[30] Marra specifically said that Roberts may later give evidence when the case comes to court.[31]
Civil proceedingsOn February 6, 2008, an anonymous Virginia woman filed a $50 million civil lawsuit[32] in federal court against Epstein, alleging that when she was a 16-year-old minor in 2004–2005, she was "recruited to give Epstein a massage". She claims she was taken to his mansion, where he exposed himself and had sexual intercourse with her, and paid her $200 immediately afterward.
All other lawsuits were settled by Epstein out of court.[35] Epstein has made many out-of-court settlements with alleged victims and, as of January 2015, some cases remain open.[34]
A December 30, 2014, federal civil suit was filed in Florida against the United States for violations of the Crime Victims' Rights Act by the Department of Justice's agreement to Epstein's limited 2008 plea; the suit also accuses Alan Dershowitz of sexually abusing a minor provided by Epstein.[36] (See Two Jane Does v. United States.) The allegations against Dershowitz were stricken by the judge and eliminated from the case because he said they were outside the intent of the suit to re-open the plea agreement.[29][37] A document filed in court alleges that Epstein ran a "sexual abuse ring", and lent underage girls to "prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders".[38]
Virginia Roberts lawsuitsIn January 2015, a 31-year-old American woman, Virginia Roberts, alleged in a sworn affidavit that at the age of 17, she had been held as a sex slave by Epstein. She further alleged that he had trafficked her to several people, including Prince Andrew and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. Roberts also claimed that Epstein and others had physically and sexually abused her.[39]
Roberts alleged that the FBI may have been involved in a cover-up.[40] She said she had served as Epstein's sex slave from 1999 to 2002 and had recruited other under-age girls.[41] Prince Andrew, Epstein and Dershowitz all denied having had sex with Roberts. Dershowitz took legal action over the allegations.[42][43][44] A diary purported to belong to Roberts was published online.[45][46] Epstein made a settlement with Roberts out of court, as he did in several other lawsuits.[7]
The BBC television series Panorama planned an investigation of the scandal.[47] As of 2016 these claims had not been tested in any law court.[48]
Personal lifeIn September 2002, Epstein flew Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa in his private Boeing 727, known as the "Lolita Express". Flight records show Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's plane 26 times.[4][49]
Epstein is also a longtime friend of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and has partied with celebrities such as Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, and Woody Allen.
Barry E Krischer
ex Judas Watch
QUOTE
As Chief Prosecutor, Krischer had made his reputation
with a zero-tolerance policy of prosecuting juveniles as adults. But after
Epstein had abused underage girls, Krischer, according to the detective on
the case, ignored police efforts to charge him with four counts of unlawful
sexual activity with a minor and instead the billionaire abuser was indicted
only on a minor charge of solicitation of prostitution. Interviews with over
a dozen girls and witnesses were ignored...........
Krischer remains active in child welfare issues through his work with the
Children’s Home Society, Palm Beach County Alliance, Children’s Services
Council, and the Department of Children and Families.
UNQUOTE
Protecting children? Yes, unless they are
Epstein's
victims.
