Jeffrey Epstein
description: an American financier and convicted sex offender. He gained infamy for his involvement in criminal activities related to sexual exploitation.
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Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal That Undid Him, and All the Justice That Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein
by James Patterson, John Connolly and Tim Malloy · 10 Oct 2016 · 234pp · 63,844 words
about the author, visit JamesPatterson.com, or find him on Facebook. Interviewer: “It’s the Icarus story—someone who flies too close to the sun.” Jeffrey Epstein: “Did Icarus like massages?” —New York City, 2007 AUTHOR’S NOTE Late one afternoon, while taking a leisurely stroll on the Upper East Side
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police investigation—an affidavit for probable cause, filed by the Palm Beach PD—and, finally, the arrest and conviction of the home’s owner, Jeffrey Epstein. CHAPTER 2 Jeffrey Epstein: February 2005 Jeffrey’s morning routine is precise and unvarying. First he spends twenty-five minutes in silence, visualizing the day ahead as he
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Instead of copping to a misdemeanor, she becomes another Jane Doe in the case that Chief Reiter’s colleague, Detective Joe Recarey, is building against Jeffrey Epstein. The story Alison ends up telling is extremely disturbing. Like Mary, she says, she was recruited in high school. She tells cops that Epstein
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Epstein’s servants. CHAPTER 19 Detective Recarey, Probable-Cause Affidavit: May 2006 On November 21, 2005 I interviewed Jose [sic] Alessi, a former houseman for Jeffrey Epstein. Alessi stated he was employed for eleven years with Mr. Epstein, from approximately 1993 through 2004. Alessi stated he was the house manager, driver and
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massage. On January 4, 2006 I interviewed another former houseman, Mr. Alfredo Rodriguez. During a sworn taped statement, Mr. Rodriguez stated he was employed by Jeffrey Epstein for approximately six months, from November 2004 through May of 2005. His responsibilities as house manager included being the butler, chauffeur, chef, houseman [and to
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intercourse either with his penis or digitally with [names redacted], who were minors at the time this occurred, there is sufficient probable cause to charge Jeffrey Epstein with four counts of Unlawful Sexual Activity with a Minor, in violation of Florida State Statute 794.05(1), a second degree felony. As
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with Lewd and Lascivious Molestation, in violation of Florida State Statute 800.04 (5), a second degree felony. PART II The Man CHAPTER 20 Jeffrey Epstein: 1953–1969 Jeffrey Epstein’s mother, Paula, was the daughter of Max and Lena Stolofsky, who arrived in the United States as Lithuanian refugees. Relatives on that side
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special. While they hung out on the beach, Epstein played the piano. Did homework. Worked on his prized stamp collection. Innocent times. CHAPTER 21 Jeffrey Epstein: 1969–1976 It’s the height of the Vietnam War. Students collide with college administrators. Hippies collide with hard hats. Kids with long hair collide
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a promotion. The world was full of beautiful women. But for Epstein, friendship seemed to be a far more precious commodity. CHAPTER 26 Jeffrey Epstein: 1984 How did Jeffrey Epstein make all his money? Epstein would tell stories over the years about monies recovered from slippery characters. Sometimes, friends and former associates would say
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. A college dropout, like Epstein. One thing Hoffenberg wanted was respect. The other was someone who was familiar with Wall Street’s inner workings. Jeffrey Epstein, who had traded options for Bear Stearns, fit the bill. Hoffenberg began paying twenty-five thousand dollars per month for Epstein’s expertise as a
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turned out that Wexner and Epstein would get along perfectly well. CHAPTER 29 Ghislaine Maxwell: 1991 Robert Meister was not the only friend who helped Jeffrey Epstein, the boy from Coney Island, on his way up the social ladder. There was also Ghislaine Maxwell, a wealthy heiress from the United Kingdom
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papers, Maxwell has vehemently denied any involvement with Virginia, with any other young woman Epstein was involved with, or with any criminal activities committed by Jeffrey Epstein. In a 2016 answer to a defamation lawsuit brought by Roberts, Maxwell called the allegations fabricated for financial gain.) The case of Nadia Bjorlin, who
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girls rent, presumably to live as underage prostitutes in the condos.” “I strongly deny having participated, neither directly nor indirectly, in the actions Mr. Jeffrey Epstein is being accused of,” Brunel would say. “I strongly deny having committed any illicit act or any wrongdoing in the course of my work as
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a scouter or model agencies manager. I have exercised with the utmost ethical standard for almost forty years.” According to Brunel, his association with Jeffrey Epstein ended up having a strong negative impact on his reputation and business. Several photographers refused to work with him. Other agencies, such as Modilinos
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Model Management, curtailed their relationships with Brunel. And in 2015, Brunel filed his own civil lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein, denying that he had any role in Epstein’s illegal activities, alleging that Epstein had obstructed justice by telling him to avoid having his deposition
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Battery.” But Epstein was never charged in the incident. “The Santa Monica Police Department discounted every one of [Alicia’s] allegations of improper conduct by Jeffrey Epstein and they took no action on this 1997 complaint,” Epstein’s West Palm Beach attorney, Jack Goldberger, told the Palm Beach Post in 2010. “
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the magazine’s offices, Carter saw a man standing in the reception area. The man was motionless. He’d been waiting for Carter. It was Jeffrey Epstein. Nonplussed, Carter invited him into his office. Epstein denied the claims involving underage women. No criminal charges had been filed. And so Vanity Fair
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s use of, and means of obtaining, oxycodone and hydrocodone. (A few years after Limbaugh’s arrest, which coincided with Chief Reiter’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the talk-show host settled with prosecutors, agreed to submit to random drug testing, and gave up his firearms permit.) Krischer himself, however, had
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CHAPTER 50 Jane Doe: February 2008 As a result of the non-prosecution agreement, a fifty-three-count indictment that federal prosecutors had prepared against Jeffrey Epstein—one that claimed he’d abused dozens of underage women—never was filed. But as far as lawyers representing Epstein’s victims were concerned, the
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against the government would not allow for monetary recovery of any sort (including lawyers’ fees). But he also knew that if the government, urged by Jeffrey Epstein, had entered into a contract that improperly or illegally violated the rights of Epstein’s victims, then that contract, by nature, would have been
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As a result of this encounter with Epstein, Jane experienced confusion, shame, humiliation and embarrassment, and has suffered severe psychological and emotional injuries. CHAPTER 51 Jeffrey Epstein: June 30, 2008 On June 30, 2008, more than three years after the start of Officer Pagan’s investigation into his dealings with underage girls
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incarceration, Epstein had set up an e-mail alert. From then on, his automatic reply would read “On vacation.” PART V Incarceration CHAPTER 52 Jeffrey Epstein: June 30, 2008 The Palm Beach County Main Detention Center is on the west side of Lake Worth Lagoon, which separates West Palm Beach from
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served as U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 2005 through 2009. Over the past weeks, I have read much regarding Mr. Jeffrey Epstein. Some appears true, some appears distorted. I thought it appropriate to provide some background, with two caveats: (i) under Justice Department guidelines, I cannot
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trial and assessed the likelihood of success. Respectfully, R. Alexander Acosta Former U.S. Attorney Southern District of Florida PART VI Aftermath CHAPTER 56 Jeffrey Epstein: July 2009 Jeffrey Epstein walks out of the Stockade on July 21, 2009, having served less than thirteen months of his eighteen-month sentence. One of the concessions
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submit a report to law enforcement officers. Epstein is also prohibited from accessing pornography on the Internet and using social networking for sexual purposes. For Jeffrey Epstein, there will be no Bangbros, Tinder, or Swingles.com. There will be lawsuits. Six weeks before probation ends, he settles with seven women who
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financial, banking, and trading industries were characterized by their very detachment from day-to-day concerns such as morality, ethics, and appearances? As for Jeffrey Epstein, one question that might be worth asking is, if he’s in fact a narcissist and megalomaniac, could he actually believe that he’s innocent
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fair, well, how would we know who the real winners are? CHAPTER 59 Anna Salter: November 2015 Why do powerful men do the things that Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew have been accused of doing? Dr. Anna Salter studies child sex offenders professionally. Educated at Harvard, with a graduate degree in
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clinical psychology, she spoke, with the benefit of hindsight, about Jeffrey Epstein and others like him from her office in Madison, Wisconsin. “Consider a car,” says Dr. Salter. “There’s a motor, and there are brakes.
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get away with it. Too often, they’re right.” On the other hand, Dr. Salter believes that certain conditions, such as the ones exhibited by Jeffrey Epstein, might be an inborn character trait. Personality can be influenced, sometimes quite heavily, by genetics. “Virtually no one believes anymore that humans are born
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bad about harming someone. “Rules don’t apply to them because they are exceptional. They are sure they won’t get caught.” CHAPTER 60 Jeffrey Epstein: July 2010 Jeffrey Epstein was done with jail, but he wasn’t done settling suits brought by his victims. Under the conditions of his non-prosecution agreement, he
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deny the existence of an ongoing investigation. One of Epstein’s lawyers told the Daily Beast that he had no knowledge of such an investigation. “Jeffrey Epstein has fully complied with all state and federal requirements that arise from the prior proceedings in Palm Beach,” Jack Goldberger said. “There are no
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launched a website, JeffreyEpsteinScience.com, that featured blog posts such as “Conversations with Jeffrey Epstein,” “The Value of Quantum Computation to Jeffrey Epstein,” “Why Evolutionary Biology Intrigues Jeffrey Epstein,” and “An Understanding of Theoretical Physics from Jeffrey Epstein.” The latter post began: “This is where Jeffrey Epstein takes you to the very cutting edge of the frontiers of knowledge to
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Epstein, Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova are both asked about Prince Andrew’s relations with Epstein. “Would you agree with me that Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein used to share underaged girls for sexual relations?” Kellen is asked. “On the instructions of my lawyer,” Kellen replies, “I must invoke my Fifth
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CHAPTER 65 Alan Dershowitz: October 2015 About fifteen minutes into the ripped-from-the-headlines episode of Law & Order: SVU that was inspired by the Jeffrey Epstein saga, the plot takes an interesting turn: before officers have a chance to arrest him, Jordan, the character modeled on Epstein, shows up at SVU
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to Dershowitz, Brad Edwards pressured Virginia Roberts into identifying Dershowitz as one her assailants. Dershowitz said that Edwards did this so that they could blackmail Jeffrey Epstein’s patron Leslie Wexner for one billion dollars. Roberts lied about him, Dershowitz maintained, to give Wexner an idea of what would happen to him
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to do was make sure that the waters stayed muddy. The more complicated things seemed to be, the better they were for Dershowitz. Thanks to Jeffrey Epstein’s actions, and the endlessly complicated cycle of suits and countersuits those actions inspired, those waters were very muddy indeed. CODA Scott Rothstein On
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the accusations of sexual misconduct against Dershowitz. For Alan Dershowitz, the long nightmare he’d had to endure as a result of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein finally seemed to be over. Ghislaine Maxwell Trying to put her troubles with Epstein behind her, Ghislaine Maxwell took up a new calling. “She
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so today. Through her lawyer, Maxwell says she’s had no connection to any criminal misconduct involving Virginia Roberts (or any other young woman) and Jeffrey Epstein. She claims that Virginia’s story about her experience as a “sex slave” has changed, significantly, over time—that with each telling, Virginia adds
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and Families. Despite his continued involvement with local law enforcement, he hasn’t spoken to Michael Reiter in years. Bradley Edwards In December of 2009, Jeffrey Epstein filed suit, under Florida’s RICO act, against Scott Rothstein, the jailed Ponzi king; Bradley Edwards, the lawyer who’d worked, briefly, in Rothstein
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discovered by a modeling agency and immersed into the marketing and advertising world as a spokesperson and international fashion model.” There is no mention of Jeffrey Epstein. But on her YouTube channel, Marcinko appears in the cockpit of a Gulfstream II that looks very much like Epstein’s Gulfstream, sitting beside
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business.” Brunel had gone on prescription drugs—Prozac, Rivotril—as a result. The fashion world had frozen him out, he said, after his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein had become public. It had become impossible for him to find the “fresh faces” he needed for his agency, MC2. Brunel acknowledged Epstein’s
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s reporter was told, “Jean-Luc is not in town; he’s in South America.” Brunel’s agency, MC2, is still in business. Jeffrey Epstein As of this writing, Jeffrey Epstein continues to entertain young women at his Manhattan town house. EPILOGUE When John Connolly, Tim Malloy, and I began work on this book
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Secret Angels party at Laura Belle club in New York City on April 8, 1997 (Marina Garnier) Virginia Roberts, age fifteen; photo reportedly taken by Jeffrey Epstein in New York City (Virginia Roberts Affidavit, US District Southern Court of Florida) (L to R) Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts, and Ghislaine Maxwell; photo
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at the 2005 Wall Street concert series benefiting Wall Street Rising, at Cipriani in New York City, March 15, 2005. (Joe Shildhorn / Patrick McMullen) Jeffrey Epstein, photographed with Adrianna Ross, attending the launch of Radar magazine held at the Hotel QT in New York City, May 2005 (Neil Rasmus / Patrick-McMullan
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.com / Sipa Press) 2008 Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office booking photo of Jeffrey Epstein (Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office) The Stockade, where Epstein served his sentence, photographed here in 2006, was located at 673 Fairgrounds Road in West
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Palm Beach courthouse in June 2008 to enter a plea nearly two years after being charged (Uma Sanghvi / The Palm Beach Post / ZUMAPRESS.com) Jeffrey Epstein’s entry in the National Sex Offender Registry (National Sex Offender Registry) Epstein’s Little Saint James island, U.S. Virgin Islands: a privately owned
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
by Sarah Kendzior · 6 Apr 2020
age that Ivanka was that year. Jane Doe’s claim was consistent with verifiable facts from the court case against convicted billionaire underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, for whom Jane Doe was forced to work. In 2002, Trump told New York magazine that he had known Epstein, a financier with a mysterious
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past, for fifteen years and thought he was a “terrific guy.”5 The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era, and one that may clear up a lot of incongruities if it is ever fully told. But it
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from this New York profile below is typical of Epstein coverage, deviating only in that it admits outright that the story was guided by Rubenstein: Jeffrey Epstein is under indictment for sex crimes in Palm Beach, Florida, and I’d expected that when he came into the office of PR guru Howard
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Donald Trump accountable, I ask again: What was Donald Trump doing in the summer of 1994? Excerpts of “Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, complaint in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York,” give us one possibility:25 7. Plaintiff [Jane Doe] was subject
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to attend a series of parties, with other similarly situated minor females, held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Jeffrey Epstein. At least four of the parties were attended by Defendant Trump. Exhs. A and B. On information and belief, by this time in 1994, Defendant
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death, Ghislaine Maxwell took Robert’s place in international high society, becoming a socialite in New York City. Sometime in the early 1990s, she met Jeffrey Epstein and began working for him as a madam, procuring underage girls from around the world and trapping them in sexual slavery. In 2019, a newly
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Sater’s and the FBI’s agendas. Trump tends to flaunt his criminal associations along with his dictatorial ties. He bragged about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and hit the town with scumbag aficionado Roy Cohn. As president, he pardoned notorious criminals like Joe Arpaio and Scooter Libby and cultivated friendships with
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-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house. 4. Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth (New York: Regan Arts, 2016), 125. 5. Landon Thomas, “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,” New York, October 28, 2002, http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/#. 6. Shane Croucher
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, “Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Finds Hyoid Neck Bone Break, Expert Says It Raises Questions About Strangulation: Report,” Newsweek, August 15, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-neck-hyoid-bone-broken-suicide-homicide-1454457. 7. Katie Benner and Danielle Ivory
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, “Jeffrey Epstein Death: 2 Guards Slept Through Checks and Falsified Records,” New York Times, August 13, 2019, https://www.nytimes
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.com/2019/08/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-jail-officers.html. 8. Julie K. Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member Gave a Serial Sex Abuser the Deal of a Lifetime,” Miami Herald,
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Outer Space,” Spectator, April 3, 2019, https://spectator.us/donald-barr-science-fiction/. 10. Rebecca Klein, “Jeffrey Epstein Was Their Teacher. He Became a Monster,” Huffington Post, July 12, 2019, https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/jeffrey-epstein-math-science-students-memories-194803928.html. 11. Norman Vanamee, “Who is Les Wexner, the Billionaire Former Client
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of Jeffrey Epstein?,” Town & Country, July 10, 2019, https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28350600/jeffrey-epstein-les-wexner-connection-money/. 12. “Wexner Analysis: Israeli Communication Priorities 2003,” Harvard University, http://wilsonweb.physics.harvard.edu/HUMANRIGHTS
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Forces to Work for Jewish Philanthropy,” Wall Street Journal, May 4, 1998, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB894240270899870000. 13. Rachel Sandler, “Report: Leslie Wexner Says Jeffrey Epstein ‘Misappropriated’ At Least $46 Million from Him,” Forbes, August 7, 2019, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/08/07/leslie-wexner-says-jeffery-epstein
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His Dirty Money Through Deutsche Bank,” Vanity Fair, July 23, 2019, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-deutsche-bank. 16. Julie K. Brown, “For years, Jeffrey Epstein Abused Teen Girls, Police Say. A Timeline of His Case,” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article221404845.html; Julie
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Jail to His Manhattan Mansion,” Miami Herald, July 11, 2019, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article232551882.html. 17. Paul Lewis and Jon Swaine, “Jeffrey Epstein: Inside the Decade of Scandal Entangling Prince Andrew,” The Guardian, January 10, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10
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/jeffrey-epstein-decade-scandal-prince-andrew. 18. Stephen Rex Brown, “Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Sues Alan Dershowitz as New Sex Trafficking Victim Reveals Herself,” Boston Herald, April 17, 2019, https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/04
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/17/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-sues-alan-dershowitz-as-new-sex-trafficking-victim-reveals-herself/. 19. Bridget Read, “Epstein Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Insists He Has a ‘Perfect, Perfect’ Sex
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’s Mansion,” Crooks and Liars (blog), July 10, 2019, https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/alan-dershowitz-i-kept-my-underwear-during. 20. Lewis and Swaine, “Jeffrey Epstein: Inside the Decade of Scandal”; Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member.” 21. Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member.” 22. Landon Thomas Jr., “Financier
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://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/01epstein.html. 23. Alexandra Wolfe, “Katie Couric, Woody Allen: Jeffrey Epstein’s Society Friends Close Ranks,” Daily Beast, April 1, 2011, https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks. 24. Philip Weiss, “The Fantasist,” New York, December 7, 2007, nymag.com
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-woman-accusing-trump-child-rape-break-silence-article-1.2855631. 28. Clive Irving, “Ghislaine Maxwell’s Father Was a Dark and Mysterious Figure, Just Like Jeffrey Epstein,” Daily Beast, July 13, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-maxwells-father-was-a-dark-and-mysterious-figure-just-like
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-jeffrey-epstein?ref=scroll. 29. Robert Verkaik, “The Mystery of Maxwell’s Death,” The Independent, March 10, 2006, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-
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Publishers, 2003), 37–45. 37. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 36. 38. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 174. 39. “Jeffrey Epstein v. Bradley Edwards et al.,” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1509483-exhibits-stm-undisputed-facts-part1.html#document/p606 percent20//. 40. Ben Schreckinger and Daniel
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Trump and the Clintons,” Politico Magazine, July 21, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/21/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-1424120. 41. Rosie Perper, “The Mysterious Foreign Passport Found in Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion Was Used to Enter at Least 4 Countries in the 1980s, Prosecutors Say,” Business Insider, July 18, 2019, https
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://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-saudi-austria-foreign-passport-1980s-2019-7. 42. Vicky Ward, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight,” Daily Beast, July 9, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com
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/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight. 43. Erik Larson, “Epstein Saga Enters New Phase. Will Anyone Else Be Ensnared?,” Bloomberg, July 21,
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-call-her-his-protector-and-procurer-is-ghislaine-maxwell-now-prosecutors-target/2019/08/11/7af5968a-bbbd-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html. 48. Leah Simpson, “Jeffrey Epstein’s ex Ghislaine Maxwell gave elementary children a presentation about the ocean in January but the Massachusetts school had ‘no knowledge’ of her connection to
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Mail, August 17, 2019, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7366333/Ghislaine-Maxwell-guest-speaker-elementary-school-January-gave-presentation-ocean.html; Yaron Steinbuch, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Gal Pal Ghislaine Maxwell Lying Low at Massachusetts Mansion,” New York Post, August 14, 2019, https://nypost.com/2019/08/14
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/jeffrey-epsteins-gal-pal-ghislaine-maxwell-laying-low-at-massachusetts-mansion/. 49. Vanessa Grigoriadis, “They’re Nothing, These Girls,” Vanity Fair, August 12, 2019, https://www.vanityfair.
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autocracy bankruptcies of call for Russia to obtain Clinton emails Celebrity Apprentice divorce from Ivana on Ferguson uprising Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein John Barron alias May 2017 interview with Lester Holt media coverage of and Miss Universe pageant 1996 visit to Moscow nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) used by
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words
wealthy. And American philanthropy has always had a particularly rich tradition of scandal and controversy. In recent years, we’ve learned that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used charitable donations to build a network of influence that immunized him from public scrutiny. The Sackler family, whose profiteering from the sales of OxyContin
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over workplace misconduct, both at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, and who made the unthinkable decision to associate his charitable enterprise with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. We’ll find that no matter how egregious Gates’s missteps, and no matter how robust our so-called cancel culture, Bill Gates remains largely
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But had we paid attention, we could have learned this lesson years earlier. 2 Women There are few real-life villains who compare to financier Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was found dead in his jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking of minors. His day in court was
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he met that same year—a meeting organized by Bill Gates. Gates was one of numerous wealthy and powerful men who made their way into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit—a kind of elite boys’ club that also included public figures like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Donald Trump. Epstein’s death
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a sociopathic con man. “One of the questions that I hear repeatedly is: How on earth could someone like Gates ever have been exposed to Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted as a sex offender,” journalist Vicky Ward has asked, reporting her theories in Rolling Stone and Town and Country and on
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world’s most powerful philanthropist, turned up contradiction after contradiction. Most obviously: Why would one of the richest men in the world need help from Jeffrey Epstein to raise money? And how could Gates possibly have been duped into believing that Epstein was a good philanthropic partner? Bill Gates has an army
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of people working to keep his reputation sterling and his person free from harm. By the time he met Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2010s, Epstein was a known felon and a registered sex offender—and someone whose misdeeds had also been widely profiled in the
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Melinda French Gates herself publicly stated that she immediately saw Epstein for who he was and made her feelings known to Bill. “I also met Jeffrey Epstein—exactly one time,” she said in a 2022 interview. “Because I wanted to see who this man was. And I regretted it from the second
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or when they imagine the rules don’t apply to them—which could be seen as the ties that bind men like Epstein and Gates. Jeffrey Epstein, like Bill Gates, was superrich. When he died, the financier’s estate was valued at $577 million. He also left a legacy of philanthropic
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WHILE visiting New York City shortly after finishing her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas, Melanie Walker was having tea at the Plaza Hotel. Jeffrey Epstein also happened to be at the hotel, with Donald Trump, and the two men made a point of introducing themselves to Walker, half their age
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position managing the foundation’s endowment. The far-ranging allegations of sexism and sexual misconduct surrounding Bill Gates force us to reexamine his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. While the leading explanations for his connection to Epstein are that it was innocently directed at philanthropy or self-servingly organized around a lobbying campaign
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arguing that we shouldn’t give Epstein’s cohorts, including Bill Gates, any benefit of the doubt. If someone spent any amount of time with Jeffrey Epstein, at a minimum they saw him physically touching girls in provocative ways and rather gleefully showing off his ability to do so. More than likely
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allegations that hound the foundation. And recipients of this money could be seen as laundering Bill Gates’s reputation. Philanthropic giving was also one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most important accomplices and enablers. Davidson says Epstein’s vast, decades-long grooming operation would not have been possible without his charitable giving. “
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women working at Microsoft? What about the Gates Foundation’s money manager, Michael Larson? What about the Gates Foundation’s yearslong, still-unclear relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? What about Epstein’s countless victims? And what about the Gates Foundation’s wholesale failure to address these issues internally? Should the foundation be a
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change directions. He abruptly stepped down from the foundation’s board of trustees in 2021 amid several high-profile scandals—Bill Gates’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, allegations of misconduct with female employees, and the foundation’s botched management of Covid-19. Does Buffett really want to continue to trust his
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Gates Foundation, which sits on its hands as its founder faces an extraordinary range of allegations of misconduct, including a yearslong still-unexplained relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Is it appropriate for this man’s foundation to be one of the world’s leading funders of work on women’s empowerment? Should Bill
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Global Health,” Global Public Health, October 22, 2021: 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1987502. CHAPTER 2: WOMEN Epstein was found dead: “Jeffrey Epstein: Financier Found Dead in New York Prison Cell,” BBC News, August 10, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49306032. facing a potential
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David Klepper and Jim Mustian, “Epstein: How He Died and What It Means for His Accusers,” AP News, August 11, 2019, https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-ap-top-news-florida-new-york-fl-state-wire-b76666895e674991a6782d77b726d085. soliciting prostitution: Julie K. Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member Gave a Serial Sex
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co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-prince-andrew-prison-b2267523.html. “philanthropy as a tool to worm his way”: Vicky Ward, “How Jeffrey Epstein Used Philanthropy to Worm His Way into Powerful Circles,” Town and Country, July 15, 2021, https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a37025814/chasing
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-ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-vicky-ward-new-podcast/. JPMorgan Chase: Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” someone whose misdeeds: Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member Gave a Serial
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the Deal of a Lifetime”; Paul Harris, “Prince Andrew’s Link to Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Taints Royalty in US,” Observer, March 13, 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/mar/13/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein; Conchita Sarnoff and Aitken Lee, “Jeffrey Epstein: How the Hedge Fund Mogul Pedophile Got Off Easy,” Daily Beast, March 25
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, 2011, https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/03/25/jeffrey-epstein-how-the-billionaire-pedophile-got-off-easy; Landon Thomas Jr., “Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case,” New York Times, July 1, 2008, https://www.nytimes
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at 2:30, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/melinda-french-gates-bill-gates/. foundation staff also saw Epstein: Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” the same age as some of Epstein’s victims: Gates’s eldest daughter was born in 1996, making her a
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Savannah Guthrie, NBC News, 1:45, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T87-aGadwM. as late as 2017: Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” may permanently change the direction: “Melinda French Gates on Painful Divorce, Current Relationship with Bill Gates and Taking a ‘Different
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York Times, July 7, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/business/bill-gates-melinda-gates-divorce-foundation.html. When he died: Edward Helmore, “Jeffrey Epstein Signed New Will to Shield $577M Fortune Days Before Death,” Guardian, August 22, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/22
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/jeffrey-epstein-trust-fund-will-damages. in the early 2000s: Michael Gold, “Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein: How Are They Connected?,” New York Times, July 9, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/nyregion
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July 8, 2019, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/epstein-lawyer-claimed-alleged-pedophile-223701676.html. includes Larry Summers: Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” “impetus for this gift”: Ronan Farrow, “How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with
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Yorker, September 6, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein. his network of VIPs: “A Timeline of the Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Scandal,” AP News, June 28, 2022, https://apnews.com/article/epstein-maxwell-timeline-b9f15710fabb72e8581c71e94acf513e. “I was never at
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www.wsj.com/articles/the-mind-of-bill-gates-revealed-on-netflix-11568107801. Epstein’s plane to Palm Beach: Chris Sparo, “Bill Gates Flew with Jeffrey Epstein on the Lolita Express in 2013,” Daily Mail Online, August 12, 2019, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7350469/Bill-Gates-flew
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0:50, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnKQ4tzg7ow. “beautiful young woman”: Stewart, “NYT: Bill Gates Repeatedly Met with Jeffrey Epstein,” 2:25. Gates’s failing marriage: Lachlan Cartwright and Kate Briquelet, “Jeffrey Epstein Gave Bill Gates Advice on How to End ‘Toxic’ Marriage, Sources Say,” Daily Beast, May 16, 2021, https://www.thedailybeast
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staffer-says. International Peace Institute: Tore Gjerstad and Gard Oterholm, “Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein Met with Nobel Committee Chair,” DN Magasinet, October 2, 2020, https://www.dn.no/magasinet/dokumentar/jeffrey-epstein/thorbjorn-jagland/terje-rod-larsen/bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein-met-with-nobel-committee-chair/2-1-885834. “assessing the companions”: Gjerstad and
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Oterholm, “Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein Met with Nobel Committee Chair.” “or campaigned for it”: Gjerstad and Oterholm, “
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Bill Gates Fund UN-Affiliated Think Tank Projects,” DN Magasinet, October 4, 2020, https://www.dn.no/politikk/terje-rod-larsen/bill-gates/jeffrey-epstein/behind-the-scenes-how-jeffrey-epstein-helped-billionaire-bill-gates-fund-un-affiliated-think-tank-projects/2-1-885697. “Pakistan and Afghanistan”: Gjerstad and Oterholm, “Behind the Scenes.”
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University of Texas: Vicky Ward, “What Was the Real Relationship Between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates?,” Rolling Stone (blog), August 3, 2021, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-connection-1206453/; Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” Victoria’s Secret: Ward, “What Was
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the Real Relationship Between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates?” It was an offer Epstein might: Gabriel Sherman, “The
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-long-relationship-with-his-biggest-client. Epstein hired her as his science adviser: Ward, “What Was the Real Relationship Between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates?”; Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” senior program officer: Melanie Walker, personal website, Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/
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20210713221706/https://www.melaniewalkermd.com/copy-of-connecting-information; Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” Nikolic, who appears to play: Flitter and Stewart, ““Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” a co-inventor: “Micromolded or 3-D Printed Pulsatile Release Vaccine
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://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650664/000104746916009534/a2226902zs-1.htm; “Team,” Biomatics Capital, https://biomaticscapital.com/team/; Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past”; “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Crossovers Dump $120 Million into Editas Medicine to Advance Genome Editing,” BioSpace, August 10, 2015,
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Despite His Past.” After the meeting: Tara Palmeri, “The Women Who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein,” Politico Magazine, May 14, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/14/jeffrey-epstein-investigation-women-487157. “shocked” to have been named an executor: Neil Weinberg, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Executor Is Ex-Science Adviser to Bill Gates,” Bloomberg, August 19
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hour-executor-is-ex-science-adviser-to-bill-gates. “he started to retaliate”: Ward, “What Was the Real Relationship Between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates?”; Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past.” foundation lost confidence in him and walked away: Flitter and Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with
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unnamed source saying that “Nikolic waxed enthusiastic about Epstein’s financial advice,” though Nikolic told Bloomberg that he had no business ties with Epstein. Weinberg, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Executor Is Ex-Science Adviser to Bill Gates.” Apollo Global Management: Tim Schwab, “Will the Gates Foundation’s Board Ever Hold Bill Accountable?,” Nation
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thenation.com/article/society/gates-foundation-board-accountability/. sweetheart plea deal: Annie Karni, Eileen Sullivan, and Noam Scheiber, “Acosta to Resign as Labor Secretary over Jeffrey Epstein Plea Deal,” New York Times, July 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/us/politics/acosta-resigns-trump.html. Note: Donald Trump had
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with men, not women: Flitter and Goldstein, “Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior.” impunity was built on blackmail: Daniel Bates, “EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein Had Surveillance Cameras Hidden Throughout His Properties Worldwide in a ‘Blackmail Scheme’ to Extort His Powerful Friends, Victims Tell New Netflix Doc About the Pedophile
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,” Daily Mail, May 27, 2020, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8361607/Jeffrey-Epsteins-surveillance-cameras-blackmail-scheme-extort-powerful-friends.html. found hidden cameras in two locations: Andrew Marra, “The Man Who Had Everything
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Homes, Elite Friends and, Investigators Say, Underage Girls,” Palm Beach Post, July 11, 2019, https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2006/08/14/had-everything-jeffrey-epstein-craved-big-homes-elite-friends-and-investigators-say-underage-girls/4712721007/. He tweeted a thread on Twitter: Adam Davidson’s Twitter thread, available at https
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
a half-zip sweater, the left arm of which is emblazoned with the American flag. On his feet are velvet slippers.1 This man is Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, social parasite, poseur, and pariah who died by his own hand in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019. A month
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Peace Prize for Bill or the Gates Foundation.” The unofficial campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize may have been one reason why Gates met with Jeffrey Epstein at least once in 2013, according to media reports. Between 2011 and 2014, the Gates Foundation ran a highly visible campaign about its polio-related
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foundation—whose influence, size and practices had already invited criticism—took an even bigger hit to its reputation when the news emerged, just weeks after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell, that Gates had met with the convicted sex offender and pedophile several times. Gates clarified that he
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to giving at least half their wealth back to society during their lifetimes or in their wills and urging other billionaires to do the same, Jeffrey Epstein saw a way to make money. Two years earlier, the registered sex offender had pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution, including from an underage girl, following
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to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in your inbox. Notes Introduction 1. Emily Flitter and James B. Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past,” October 12, 2019, The New York Times. 2. Bill Gates, “The Day I Knew What I Wanted to Do for
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Gates,” The New York Times, June 22, 2005. 15. Tore Gjerstad and Gard Oterholm, “Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein Met with Nobel Committee Chair,” DNMagasinet, October 2, 2020. Also see: Khadeeja Safdar and Emily Glazer, “Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-founder’s Affair with Russian Bridge Player,” The Wall
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Street Journal, May 21, 2023. Also see: Kate Briquelet, “Bill Gates Thought Jeffrey Epstein Was His Ticket to a Nobel Prize,” The Daily Beast, May
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18, 2021. Also: Emails of Jeffrey Epstein obtained under Freedom of Information Request by The New York Times regarding the lawsuit by the U
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., “Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe into Prior Relationship with Staffer,” The Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2021. 22. Khadeeja Safdar and Emily Glazer, “Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder’s Affair with Russian Bridge Player, The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2023. 23. Matthew Haag
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, 2016. Chapter 9: Cancel Bill 1. Ronan Farrow, “How an Elite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,” The New Yorker, September 6, 2019. 2. Brian Schwartz, “Years After Serving Jail Time, Jeffrey Epstein Found a Way to Meet with Microsoft’s Bill Gates to Discuss Philanthropy,” CNBC, August 14, 2019. 3
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. Also see: Robert M. Braceras, Jennifer L. Chunias, and Kevin P. Martin, “Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,” Goodwin Procter LLP, January 10, 2020. 4. Michelle G. Kurilla, “Harvard Asked Its Lawyers to Review the
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
, when it admitted to possessing secret video evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena. Yet perhaps nothing better captured this dynamic than the life and crimes of Jeffrey Epstein—a billionaire financier whose story suggested there was no way to ever know the truth about elites’ lives. For decades, Epstein was a ghost. Despite
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#MeToo and other social phenomena, connecting them to cosmic alignments like “a new moon in Scorpio.” In 2019, New York City astrology students pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s chart, noting that he “had his sun in Aquarius and his moon in Aries, so he was used to having his way.” One student
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anthem. Meanwhile, another unlikely hit—Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond”—mined economic frustration with raw, folky populism. The song took aim at Jeffrey Epstein (looking out for “minors on an island somewhere”) and food stamp recipients (“God, if you’re five foot three and you’re 300 pounds / taxes
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://fortune.com/2022/05/19/inventing-anna-anna-delvey-billy-mcfarland-martin-shkreli-friends. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Rockefeller University: Landon Thomas Jr. “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,” New York Magazine, October 28, 2002, https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT his
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-a-lawyers-call-and-a-5-figure-donation-how-media-fell-short-on-epstei. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “It is even said”: Thomas, “Jeffrey Epstein.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT stormed their offices: Folkenflik, “A Dead Cat.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT severed cat’s head: Folkenflik, “A
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.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT allegations about the abuse: Folkenflik, “A Dead Cat.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “on his cell phone”: Thomas, “Jeffrey Epstein.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “He couldn’t really”: Michael E. Hartmann, “In Distancing Himself from Epstein, Pinker Offers Insight into Relationship Between Some
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-between-some-givers-and-smart-set. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “If you actually really”: Andrew Rice, “The Jeffrey Epstein Mystery Roundtable,” Intelligencer, December 16, 2021, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/jeffrey-epstein-unanswered-questions.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT lenient plea deal: Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker, “Justice Dept
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.: ‘Poor Judgment’ Used in Epstein Plea Deal,” Associated Press, November 12, 2020, https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-florida-e2a4431f7319afd037023d9a586aa291. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT believe it was murder: John Gage, “Majority Believe Epstein Was Murdered ‘Because He Knew Too Much’: Poll
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’s Suicide Resulted from ‘Perfect Storm of Screw-Ups,’ ” New York Times, November 22, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/nyregion/william-barr-jeffrey-epstein-suicide-investigation.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “lifestyle is very different”: Emily Flitter and James B. Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with
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Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past,” New York Times, October 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “referring only to the unique décor”: Flitter
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
than twenty years later, I recalled my encounter with these thinkers as I read the magazine stories about the fall of serial underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and the various scientists he funded in his efforts to revive the practice of eugenics and seed hundreds of women with his own sperm. Photos
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funders could sup port ethically questionable research agendas and personal relationships. Funders, scientists, and royals end up with better excuses to stay at one of Jeffrey Epstein’s properties; Israeli and U.S. intelligence services get surveillance assets and backdoor technologies; and the Davos elite get to explore “solutions” for their own
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death (transhumanism) or for global inequality (eugenics). Do just a little reading on any of these initiatives and you see names like felons Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Michael Milken alongside those of royals like Princes Charles and Andrew, tech founders like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, politicians like Bill
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abuse and ritual murder. Or that they harvest a psychedelic fluid called Adrenochrome from the children’s blood and consume it to enhance their power. Jeffrey Epstein’s shenanigans notwithstanding, I thought we all understood that most of this stuff about politicians wasn’t literally true. Rather, Q’s child abuse narrative
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God After God (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 168–71. 57 seed hundreds of women : James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race with His DNA,” New York Times, July 31, 2019, https:// www .nytimes .com /2019 /07 /31 /business
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/jeffrey -epstein -eugenics .html. 57 Lolita Express : Julia La Roche, “Jeffrey Epstein Attended the ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ and Now His Presence Has Been Scrubbed,” Yahoo! Finance, July 15, 2019, https:// www .yahoo .com /now
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-photos -sarah -kellen -173443481 .html. 58 impregnate twenty women at a time : Stewart, Goldstein, and Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race with His DNA.” 58 freeze his head and penis : Bess Levin, “Jeffrey Epstein Wanted to Have His Penis Frozen and ‘Brought Back to Life in the Future,’ ” Vanity Fair , July
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31, 2019, https:// www .vanityfair .com /news /2019 /07 /jeffrey -epstein -transhumanism -cryonics. 58 attributed to : These quotes appear in Bacon’s posthumously published Masculus Partus Temporum , (The Masculine Birth of Time , 1603), which some scholars
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more, see Whitney Webb, One Nation Under Blackmail (Chicago: Trine Day, 2022); Whitney Webb, “The Cover-Up Continues: The Truth About Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Jeffrey Epstein,” Unlimited Hangout , July 24, 2021, https:// unlimitedhangout .com /2021 /05 /investigative -reports /the -cover -up -continues -the -truth -about -bill -gates -microsoft -and
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-jeffrey -epstein /. 140 “at the forefront” : Steven Levy, “Bill Gates and President Bill Clinton on the NSA, Safe Sex, and American Exceptionalism,” Wired , November 12, 2013. 141
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. 141 Do just a little reading : Emily Flitter and James B. Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past,” New York Times , October 12, 2019, https:// www .nytimes .com /2019 /10 /12 /business /jeffrey -epstein -bill -gates .html; Tom Sykes, “Prince Andrew Was ‘Given’ ‘Beautiful Young Neurosurgeon’ by Epstein, Says
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Ex-Housekeeper,” The Daily Beast , November 22, 2019, https:// www .thedailybeast .com /prince -andrew -was -given -beautiful -young -neurosurgeon -by -jeffrey -epstein -says -ex -housekeeper; Kate Briquelet, “Melinda Gates Warned
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Bill About Jeffrey Epstein,” The Daily Beast , May 7, 2021; Humanity+, “Humanity+ Clarification of Epstein Donation,” accessed August 10, 2021, https:// web .archive .org
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’s Plan to Save the Oceans?,” The New York Times , August 14, 2019, https:// www .nytimes .com /2019 /08 /14 /style /ghislaine -maxwell -terramar -boats -jeffrey -epstein .html. 141 For this global oligarchy : Amy Julia Harris, Frances Robles, Mike Baker, and William Rashbaum, “How a Ring of Women Allegedly Recruited Girls for
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Jeffrey Epstein,” New York Times , August 29, 2019, https:// www .nytimes .com /2019 /08 /29 /nyregion /jeffrey -epstein -ghislaine -maxwell .html. 141 Bill Gates has employed this logic : “Bill Gates Buys Big on a Farmland Shopping
Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
by James Ball · 19 Jul 2023 · 317pp · 87,048 words
normal families struggled through first a pandemic and then a global economic crisis. People also saw reports of elite crime rings based on sexual violence. Jeffrey Epstein, one of the leaders of such a criminal enterprise, had an air of credibility having been photographed with the Clintons, Trumps, celebrities and politicians around
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a lifetime’s work. There is also the challenging truth that elite rings centred around the worst of crimes, such as child abuse, do exist: Jeffrey Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial for running just such a ring,14 while his consort Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on five counts for serving
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dating back for decades, only finally being brought down and eventually convicted of rape and sexual assault as a result of the #MeToo movement.1 Jeffrey Epstein, as mentioned earlier, ran an international sex trafficking network that enabled both him and his wealthy friends to sleep with minors – typically teenage girls – for
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court even ordered the company to be split up as a monopoly (which was overturned on appeal).16 On a personal level, Gates met with Jeffrey Epstein ‘many times’, all after Epstein had been convicted for a sexual offence, though Gates has never been accused of involvement in criminal activity.17 Gates
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actually only fully identified itself as such a few days later, but posed as such an insider from the get-go. 4. Daniel Bates, ‘EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein’s access to the Clinton White House laid bare’, www.dailymail.co.uk, 2 December 2021. 5. There are many accounts of such incidents, but
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Project Looking Glass with David Wilcock’, https://rumble.com/vjt4oh-stargate-and-project-looking-glass-with-david-wilcock.html, 13 July 2021. 14. Gabriela Saldivia, ‘Jeffrey Epstein Dead By Apparent Suicide At Manhattan Jail’, www.npr.org, 10 August 2019. 15. Victoria Bekiempis, ‘Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty in sex-trafficking trial’, www
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’, www.wired.com, 7 August 2012. 16. Aditi, ‘Abuse Of Dominance: The Microsoft Cases’, www.lawctopus.com, 29 August 2014. 17. ‘Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past’, www.nytimes.com, 12 October 2019. 18. Lisa Kim, ‘Bill Gates Was Warned About “Inappropriate” Emails to a Female Employee
Palace Coup: The Billionaire Brawl Over the Bankrupt Caesars Gaming Empire
by Sujeet Indap and Max Frumes · 16 Mar 2021 · 362pp · 116,497 words
financial success, the headlines had been less kind for Leon Black. Black in 2018 and 2019 had admitted to having ties with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who had been convicted of sex crimes in 2008 and who was later arrested in 2019 on federal charges of sexually abusing girls. Epstein who
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Black seeks to reassure investors over Epstein ties.” Financial Times, August 1, 2019. Goldstein, Matthew and Jessica Silver-Greenberg. “Leon Black Plays Down Ties to Jeffrey Epstein but Is Silent on 2011 Deal.” New York Times, August 1, 2019. Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russian Interference with 2016 Elections, references to Leon
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a Leveraged Loan and Exposed Market’s Woes.” Bloomberg News, October 7, 2020. “Goldstein, Matthew, Steve Eder and David Enrich. “The Billionaire Who Stood by Jeffrey Epstein.” New York Times, October 12, 2020” “Vandevelde, Mark. “Leon Black on Epstein links: ‘Any suggestion of blackmail is… untrue’” Financial Times, October 29, 2020. About
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words
to feel like they’re saving the world.”166 * * * One of MIRI’s wealthy donors shared their interest in the intersection of eugenics and transhumanism: Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein wanted to use eugenics to build better people, “improving” the human race.167 As a means to that end, Epstein took inspiration from the
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put on a movie…,” Thread Reader, July 1, 2022, https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1542755798169686017. 166 Gebru interview. 167 Luke Darby, “Private Jets, Parties and Eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein’s Bizarre World of Scientists,” The Guardian, August 19, 2019, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenics
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-jeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists. 168 Janet Maslin, “A Bizarre Tale of the Rise and Fall of an Elitist Sperm Bank,” New York Times, June 2,
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/books/a-bizarre-tale-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-elitist-sperm-bank.html. 169 James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race with His DNA,” New York Times, July 31, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business
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Links to Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought,” BuzzFeed News, August 26, 2019, www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-science-donations-apologies-statements. 171 “A Timeline of the Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Scandal,” AP, June 28, 2022, https://apnews.com/article/epstein-maxwell-timeline-b9f15710fabb72e8581c71e94acf513e. 172 “Wynne,” “An Open Letter to
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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was thirteen years old and newly arrived in New York City to pursue modeling work, she’d been offered money to attend parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire investor, and attended by Trump. Hair-curling allegations of sexual violence followed: the lawsuit contended that the plaintiff and other minors were forced
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-04642, United States District Court Southern District of New York, complaint filed on June 20, 2016. 8 close friends with Donald Trump: Landon Thomas Jr., “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,” New York, October 28, 2002. 9 widespread allegations that Epstein sexually abused minors: Julie K. Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet
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