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Filed to: JEFFREY EPSTEIN
Donald Trump, Courtney Love, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak,
and uber-lawyer Alan Dershowitz may have been identified by a butler
as potential "material witnesses" to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's crimes against young girls, according to a copy of Epstein's
little black book obtained by Gawker.
Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s
Sex Jet
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the " Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned …
An annotated copy of the address book, which also contains entries for
- Alec Baldwin,
- Ralph Fiennes,
- Griffin Dunne,
- New York Post gossip Richard Johnson,
- Ted Kennedy,
- David Koch,
- filmmaker Andrew Jarecki,
and all manner of other people you might expect a billionaire to know, turned up in court proceedings after Epstein's former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez tried to sell it in 2009.
About 50 of the entries, including those of many of Epstein's suspected victims and accomplices as well as Trump, Love, Barak, Dershowitz, and others, were circled by Rodriguez. (The existence of the book has been previously reported by the Daily Mail.
Gawker is publishing it in full here for the first time; we have redacted addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and the last names of individuals who may have been underage victims.)
According to an FBI affidavit, Rodriguez described the address
book and the information contained within it as the "Holy Grail"
or "Golden Nugget" to unraveling Epstein's sprawling child-sex
network.
But despite having been subpoenaed for everything he
had on his former boss, Rodriguez didn't share it with the FBI
or Palm Beach Police Department detectives investigating Epstein.
Instead, he tried to make a $50,000 score by covertly peddling
the black book to one of the attorneys launching lawsuits at
Epstein on behalf of his victims.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein?
Click here for our primer about the billionaire pedophile.
he plot backfired when the attorney reported Rodriguez to the
FBI, and he was promptly charged with obstruction of justice.
But not before he had, according to the FBI affidavit laying out
the crime, marked up the book and an accompanying notepad
with "handwritten notes" that contained "information material
to the underlying investigation that would have been extremely
useful in investigating and prosecuting the case, including the
names and contact information of material witnesses and
additional victims."
Rodriguez, who spent 18 months in prison, died in December
after a long illness and never spoke out about the address book,
so the precise significance of the names he circled remains fuzzy.
But the FBI's case against him makes clear that Rodriguez
regarded the address book as crucial to understanding Epstein's
crimes; during a conversation with an undercover FBI agent
posing as a potential buyer, he "discussed in detail the information
contained in the book, and identified important information" to
the agent.
In addition to the names above, as well as scores of apparent
underage victims in Florida, New Mexico, California, Paris, and
the United Kingdom listed under the rubric of "massage," the
circled entries include:
Some of the circled entries include additional notes—one address
in New York City, for instance, is marked as an "apt. for models,"
and two names bear the marking "witness."
Asked why Rodriguez might have circled his name, Alan
Dershowitz told Gawker, "I've never seen the book and I have no
idea what it means. I was neither a victim nor a material witness—
I never witnessed any crimes or participated in any crimes, and I
can prove it."
Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's alleged victims, has claimed in
repeated court filings that Epstein instructed her to have sex with
Dershowitz on several occasions, charges that Dershowitz
categorically denies.
Trump, through a spokesperson, said, "Mr. Trump only knew
Mr. Epstein as Mr. Trump owns the hottest and most luxurious
club in Palm Beach, [redacted], and Mr. Epstein would go there
on occasion."Although Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew have been mentioned
in connection with Epstein's sordid deeds, their names aren't circled
in the black book. But Epstein did have 21 contact numbers and
various email addresses for Clinton, as well as several contact
numbers for the prince.
Nick Bryant is the author of The Franklin Scandal, the true story of a nationwide
pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful, and the
co-author of Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail,
which will be published in March.
Additional reporting by J.K. Trotter. If you have information to share about Epstein's activities,
please email tips@gawker.com
Top image by Jim Cooke, photos via AP.
Here is the address book:
book and the information contained within it as the "Holy Grail"
or "Golden Nugget" to unraveling Epstein's sprawling child-sex
network.
But despite having been subpoenaed for everything he
had on his former boss, Rodriguez didn't share it with the FBI
or Palm Beach Police Department detectives investigating Epstein.
Instead, he tried to make a $50,000 score by covertly peddling
the black book to one of the attorneys launching lawsuits at
Epstein on behalf of his victims.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein?
Click here for our primer about the billionaire pedophile.
he plot backfired when the attorney reported Rodriguez to the
FBI, and he was promptly charged with obstruction of justice.
But not before he had, according to the FBI affidavit laying out
the crime, marked up the book and an accompanying notepad
with "handwritten notes" that contained "information material
to the underlying investigation that would have been extremely
useful in investigating and prosecuting the case, including the
names and contact information of material witnesses and
additional victims."
Rodriguez, who spent 18 months in prison, died in December
after a long illness and never spoke out about the address book,
so the precise significance of the names he circled remains fuzzy.
But the FBI's case against him makes clear that Rodriguez
regarded the address book as crucial to understanding Epstein's
crimes; during a conversation with an undercover FBI agent
posing as a potential buyer, he "discussed in detail the information
contained in the book, and identified important information" to
the agent.
In addition to the names above, as well as scores of apparent
underage victims in Florida, New Mexico, California, Paris, and
the United Kingdom listed under the rubric of "massage," the
circled entries include:
- Billionaire Leslie Wexner
- Former New Mexico Governor Bruce King
- Former New Mexico Governor and Democratic presidential hopeful
Bill Richardson - Peter Soros, the nephew of George Soros
- Former Miss Sweden and socialite New York City doctor Eva
Andersson Dubin
Some of the circled entries include additional notes—one address
in New York City, for instance, is marked as an "apt. for models,"
and two names bear the marking "witness."
Asked why Rodriguez might have circled his name, Alan
Dershowitz told Gawker, "I've never seen the book and I have no
idea what it means. I was neither a victim nor a material witness—
I never witnessed any crimes or participated in any crimes, and I
can prove it."
Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's alleged victims, has claimed in
repeated court filings that Epstein instructed her to have sex with
Dershowitz on several occasions, charges that Dershowitz
categorically denies.
Trump, through a spokesperson, said, "Mr. Trump only knew
Mr. Epstein as Mr. Trump owns the hottest and most luxurious
club in Palm Beach, [redacted], and Mr. Epstein would go there
on occasion."Although Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew have been mentioned
in connection with Epstein's sordid deeds, their names aren't circled
in the black book. But Epstein did have 21 contact numbers and
various email addresses for Clinton, as well as several contact
numbers for the prince.
Nick Bryant is the author of The Franklin Scandal, the true story of a nationwide
pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful, and the
co-author of Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail,
which will be published in March.
Additional reporting by J.K. Trotter. If you have information to share about Epstein's activities,
please email tips@gawker.com
Top image by Jim Cooke, photos via AP.
Here is the address book:
All aboard the 'Lolita Express':
Flight logs reveal the many trips Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz took on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's private jet with anonymous women
- Flight logs for Jeffrey Epstein's private plane dubbed the 'Lolita Express' were published for the first time on Thursday
- They show that former President Bill Clinton boarded the plane with women believed to have been involved in creating underage sex slave ring
- Alleged victim Virginia Roberts says she was recruited as a slave when she was 15, and that she was forced to have sex with both Prince Andrew and Harvard law profession Alan Dershowitz
- The latter, she says, molested her mid-flight on the private jet
- Both the Duke of York and Dershowitz have fiercely denied their involvement in the ring
23 January 2015
Just released flight records show Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has been flying with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on the financier's private jet dubbed the 'Lolita Express' since as early as 1997, despite public statements that they were only acquaintances.
The high-profile lawyer has been distancing himself from Epstein ever since a young woman named Virginia Roberts filed a lawsuit claiming she was recruited to work as a 'sex slave' for Epstein when she was just 15, naming both Dershowitz and Prince Andrew as two of her molesters.
The flight records, obtained by Gawker, also show former President Bill Clinton rode on Epstein's jet at least 11 times, and often with two of Epstein's female associates believed to have provided the dozens of underage girls to their boss and his well-connected friends.
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Passengers: Newly-released flight logs show Harvard law profession Alan Dershowitz (left) and former President Bill Clinton (right) flew several times on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's private plane
Claims: Virginia Roberts says she was recruited to work as a sex slave for Epstein when she was just 15, and has named Dershowitz and Prince Andrew as two of the men she was forced to have sex with. Roberts pictured with the Duke of York
Lolita express: Epstein's Boeing 727 on the ground at Basingstoke Airport in August 2012. He used it to fly Bill Clinton between a string of destinations. Picture from airport-data. com
According to court documents, Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly found and groomed the underage girls to pimp out to Epstein and his friends. Kellen received immunity for her part in the ring during Epstein's court case in the mid-2000s, while Maxwell was never charged and has furiously denied involvement.
In court filings, Roberts maintains that she never had sexual relations with Clinton - or knew of him taking an interest in any of Epstein's other 'massage' girls - though he was sometimes present on the banker's private Caribbean island during her years of work.
On Thursday, Dershowitz appeared on the Today show to emphatically deny claims he had sex with then-underage Roberts, saying she was 'making the whole thing up'.
'I was never in the presence of a single underage woman,' he said. 'I never saw [Epstein] doing anything improper. I was not a witness. I was not a participant. And I will prove it.'
On Wednesday, Roberts lodged fresh documents in Florida detailing the alleged abuse she suffered at the Duke of York's hands, including how she had an orgy with him and eight other young girls.
Flight logs from August 2002 show Bill Clinton aboard the plane with Kevin Spacey and Charles Tucker
They apparently took a trip together from JFK airport with Jeffrey Epstein ('JE') and Ghislaine Maxwell ('GM')
Flying solo: Another log shows Dershowitz on the plane - without his wife - on two journeys in 2005
The prominent lawyer is again seen in the log flying with Epstein in October 1998 - again, without his wife
But on Thursday, Dershowitz said that, while Roberts claims she had sex with him at Epstein's Caribbean Island and his New Mexico ranch, he had only ever been there briefly with his wife and daughter.
He claims that the third accusation - that he had sex with Roberts on a private plane - is false and that flight manifests will prove he was never aboard the plane with her.
'I've ever seen her and I've never met her,' he insisted. 'She is categorically lying and making the whole thing up... This is Pinocchio's nose growing longer and longer.'
He insisted that his relationship with Epstein had been entirely 'academic' and that he had only ever met with him in the presence of dignitaries and professors. He told the American Lawyer that reports that the two were 'chummy' were 'a total bum rap'.
While Epstein did donate to Dershowitz's university in 2003, flight records show that their familiarity goes all the way back to December 1997 when the lawyer first rode on his jet from Palm Beach, Florida to New Jersey's Teterboro Airport with Epstein's gal-pal Maxwell and a slew of woman identified without their last names on the flight log.
Their names were simply jotted down as 'Hazel', 'Claire' and one other anonymous 'female'.
Long-distance: Epstein's private jet can cross the Atlantic without refueling, which allowed him to use it to fly Bill Clinton around Africa
A log from March 1998 shows that Epstein met Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Fegurson and their kids
In February 2002, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's plane with model Naomi Campbell, according to the log
When confronted with the flight information by Gawker, Dershowitz admitted that he had known Epstein since 1997 and rode on the banker's jet to attend Limited Brands CEO Les Wexner's 60th birthday.
And the ride up to Wexner's birthday wasn't just a one off thing. The logs show Dershowitz continued to fly on Epstein's plane including a October 1998 flight from Massachusetts to New Jersey and a 1999 trip from New Jersey to Martha's Vineyard.
A 2005 jaunt from Massachusetts to Montreal shows Dershowitz traveled with Epstein, a woman named 'Tatianna' and others.
Despite telling Gawker that he has a 'very clear, unequivocal recollection' of never being on a plane with 'young women' he has a hard time explaining who the single-named females are who scatter the flight logs.
He said he doesn't know who 'Hazel' or 'Claire' were, and that 'Tatianna' may have been a twenty-something woman who was friends with Epstein's girlfriend, but that he never flew with her.
And he also finds it hard to explain why his wife doesn't appear to join him on the flights, who he publicly said accompanies him nearly everywhere in statements issued in the wake of the lawsuit.
Young: Virginia Roberts (left) is currently in the middle of a high-profile lawsuit against Epstein (right)
'She travels with me all over. On occasion, she's working or travels separately. I travel with her almost all the time, not all the time,' he told Gawker. 'I have a very clear, unequivocal recollection that I was never on a plane with any young women, period.'
It should be noted though that flight records are kept by pilots mostly to keep time, and could contain inaccuracies as to passengers.
Further discrediting Dershowitz's claim not to be close with Epstein is a Vanity Fair story from 2003 in which he says that he would stand by Epstein, even if he filed for bankruptcy.
'Absolutely. I would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas,' he told the magazine.
He responded to the Vanity Fair quote, telling Gawker: 'He was a friend with whom I talked about ideas. We never discussed women or his social life.'
Also revealed in the flight logs was the fact that former President Clinton road on Epstein's jet at least 11 times between 2002 to 2004, and was sometimes accompanied by Maxwell and Kellen.
Lashing out: Lawyer Alan Dershowitz appeared on the Today show on Thursday to slam claims that he had sex with Roberts
Support: Dershowitz (left) previously said that his wife Carolyn (right) accompanies him everywhere but she is not seen on the flight manifests released today
No allegations have been leveled at Clinton. His name has been mentioned in the recent scandal, because he vacationed on Epstein's private island during the years when the sex crimes where thought to have occurred. Roberts maintains that she never saw Clinton do anything wrong or even appear to know about the underage girls.
He was a friend with whom I talked about ideas. We never discussed women or his social life
Alan Dershowitz to Gawker
He appears to have flown on Epstein's flight with several curious women including an young actress who used to work in soft-core porn.
Clinton booked Epstein's jet for a 2002 anti-poverty and anti-AIDS tour of Africa with friends Chris Tucker, billion Ron Burkle, friend Gayle Smith and actor Kevin Spacey.
Joining them for five days of the week-long tour were Maxwell, Kellen and a woman identified as Chauntae Davies.
Davies is also one of some 160 women whose contact information he kept in a handful of cities across the world, all listed as massuers. Though prosecutors believe some of the women on the list may have been underage prostitutes, Davies was 23 at the time and has not been accused of any crime. Her LinkedIn page shows an expertise in Swedish massage.
Davies has since achieved some success as an actress with a role on HBO's Enlightened, but previously worked as a 'lingerie model' in a film produced by a soft-core porn company.
Old friends: Prince Andrew came under fire after he was pictured with Epstein following his prison term in 2011
She refused to comment when asked by Gawker what she did on the Africa trip.
'I really am not interested in being slandered in the media for having known this person a time ago. Some of the things being said are not things I have information on,' Davies said.
At Davos on Thursday, Prince Andrew made his first public appearance and refused to discuss the claims.
The palace previously issued a vehement denial on Prince Andrew's behalf.
'It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts,' a spokesperson said. 'The allegations made are false and without any foundation.'
Roberts called the denial 'false and hurtful to me'.
Roberts claims she had sex with the Prince, a former friend of Epstein, in New York, London and the U.S.Virgin Islands while she was a 'sex slave'. Buckingham Palace has denied all allegations.
In the documents, she said her lawyers had served a letter on the Duke last week requesting he answer questions – but he 'refused' to accept it.
She also described the alleged abuse in new and startling detail.
She claimed Prince Andrew correctly guessed she was just 17 when he met her, and how she was instructed to give him anything he wanted.
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His police bodyguards left her alone with him the first time they had sex, she said.
'Epstein made me have sex with Prince Andrew several times,' she said. 'I had sex with him three times, including one orgy. I knew he was a member of the British Royal Family, but I just called him 'Andy.'
After they had sex, she was paid $15,000, she said.
Prince Andrew's decision to pursue legal action - he has the right to sue his accuser - will depend on whether the Palace is willing to subject him to depositions about his private life.
Dershowitz has also filed a motion in federal court to enter in a lawsuit brought against the U.S. government by his accuser and other women who say Epstein sexually abused them.
The court has yet to decide whether to grant his motion.
The two lawyers representing Jane Doe #3, former federal judge Paul Cassell and Florida plaintiffs attorney Bradley Edwards, have now filed counter-defamation charges against Dershowitz.
In an earlier article, he explained that this will subject them and their client to sworn depositions. If they repeat the charges under oath, and if they are untrue, they will be subject to prosecution for perjury.
In a previous statement to DailyMail.com, Mr Cassell said that he and Mr Edwards would not be responding to 'specific claims of indignation by anyone'.
Anger: Dershowitz slammed his accuser's lawyers, Brad Edwards (left) and Paul Cassell (right), for naming him in the lawsuit. He claims that they failed to carry out proper investigations - which they have denied
'We have been informed of Mr Dershowitz's threats based on the factual allegations we have made in our recent filing,' he said in a statement.
'We carefully investigate all of the allegations in our pleadings before presenting them... We would be pleased to consider any sworn testimony and documentary evidence Mr Dershowitz would like to provide which he contends would refute any of our allegations.'
Finally, Dershowitz has also challenged his accuser to file formal rape charges against him. If she were to file a false rape charge, she would be committing a crime. She has not done so.
It comes a week after Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson slammed reports that he had sex with an underage girl as 'salacious lies' and defended him as a 'humongously good man'.
In a passionate rebuttal on the Today show last Tuesday, the Duchess of York said that she was standing by 'my best friend and my best ex-husband ever' amid the allegations.
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WHAT IS THE LOLITA EXPRESS?
EPSTEIN'S INFAMOUS SEX PLANE INCLUDED VIPS LIKE BILL CLINTON
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday. The billionaire faces federal prosecution in the Southern District of New York, accused of trafficking dozens of minors in New York and Florida. Epstein allegedly molested girls as young as 14 years-old and offered money to victims to recruit other young girls for his sexual assaults, using paid massages as the pretense for what the criminal indictment against Epstein describes as a "vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit."
In encounters described in the criminal indictment, Epstein would bring his underage victims to a room with a massage table, have them undress, then escalate physical contact with the girls, first groping, then assaulting them with sex toys while he masturbated. According to the U.S. Attorney's office, Epstein often assaulted underage victims on a daily basis between 2002 and 2005.
While the Epstein indictment is confined to sexual assaults of minors at Epstein's eight-story mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side and his Palm Beach estate, previous civil suits and other disclosures allege Epstein raped and trafficked underage women at his 51,000 square foot ranch in New Mexico and his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Little Saint James—sometimes called "Orgy Island" or the "Island of Sin" after reports of orgies with underage teenagers, or descriptions from victims of being passed off to Epstein's famous friends.
Epstein's alleged sex trafficking and serial sexual assault was enabled by a fleet of private planes. In many years, Epstein logged 600 hours or more of flight time. While private Gulfstream jets have become standard issue for billionaires, Epstein sought something grander. In addition to his black Gulfstream, private helicopter and twin-engine Cessna 421, Epstein also owns a Boeing 727-200—a passenger jet with a seating capacity of nearly 200, modified for private use, including a Bloomberg terminal that lets him conduct much of his finance work while airborne. Locals dubbed Epstein's 727 the "Lolita Express" due to the frequent arrival of apparently underage women to Little Saint James, a nod to the Vladimir Nabokov novel about a middle-aged literature professor who justifies the repeated rape and sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl.
Women allegedly assaulted by Epstein, or pawned off to his socialite friends, have described underage sex parties on the Lolita Express as organized by socialite and Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who settled out of court with Epstein in 2017, worked at Mar-a-Lago before describing the coercion that lead her to become Epstein's alleged sex slave, beginning at the age of 16. Roberts alleges that Epstein directed her to have sex with Prince Andrew (there is a photograph of them together) and other friends and associates of Epstein.
Before the Lolita Express had its nickname, Epstein drew the attention of the media by hosting former president Bill Clinton, along with actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, on a 2002 tour of Africa with stops in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda and Mozambique associated with work for the Clinton Foundation. Afterwards, Epstein described Clinton as "the world's greatest politician." Clinton offered a similarly glowing appraisal of Epstein in the same New York Magazine article featuring Trump's famous quote regarding Epstein's predilection for girls "on the younger side."
In 2015, Gawker released the flight logbooks for Epstein's Gulfstream and the Lolita Express 727. Bill Clinton is among the prominent people listed in the flight logs, having took several trips on the Lolita Express with a softcore porn actress listed under "massages" in Epstein's address book, also published by Gawker.
Clinton shared eleven flights aboard the Lolita Express with Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen, who has been accused in court filings of recruiting young girls, acting as a pimp on Epstein's behalf.
On multiple flights, additional women, listed in the flight logs by their first name or the simple descriptor "female," joined Clinton aboard Epstein's plane.
A statement released by Clinton's office acknowledges only the African tour:
Clinton shared eleven flights aboard the Lolita Express with Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen, who has been accused in court filings of recruiting young girls, acting as a pimp on Epstein's behalf.
On multiple flights, additional women, listed in the flight logs by their first name or the simple descriptor "female," joined Clinton aboard Epstein's plane.
A statement released by Clinton's office acknowledges only the African tour:
Clinton was far from the only high profile person to appear in the flight logs. Other people who have taken trips on the plane include former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, billionaire Ron Burkle, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz, model Naomi Campbell and high profile scientists like Steven Pinker.
Federal prosecutors have urged witnesses to activity aboard the Lolita Express to step forward.
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Epstein Claims Immunity; Prosecutors Say "Extremely Concerning" Images Seized
Update4: In a second Monday hearing, Epstein's attorneys have argued that he has immunity under a 2008 plea deal. As we noted earlier, however, the new case includes additional alleged victims who weren't covered by Epstein's non-prosecution agreement, according to Bloomberg.
"There are some women who now feel they need to come forward. I hope more do. it takes a lot of courage understandably," Miami Herald Investigative Reporter Julie K. Brown said in a statement to CNN, adding "They were taken advantage of by someone who knew how to prey upon them and groom them to do things he wanted them to do."
His attorneys have also argued that the images seized in a raid of his Manhattan mansion are "ancient" and show consenting adults.
Prosecutors, on the other hand, say that the images are "extremely concerning."
Epstein's bail hearing has been rescheduled to July 15.
Update3: Epstein pleaded not guilty during his Monday arraignment. His lawyer has asked the judge to set aside any decision on granting bail for three days while Epstein remains in custody, and has called the case "essentially a do-over" on "ancient stuff."
The hearing has adjourned until Thursday the 11th.
Update2: According to OANN's Jack Posobiec, Epstein is willing to cooperate with the investigation, including giving up the names of those who engaged in sex with underage girls, in exchange for a maximum sentence not to exceed five years.
SCOOP: Epstein's lawyer has already made a proffer to SDNY. Epstein will agree to cooperate with the investigation, including giving up the names of individuals that paid for activities with underage girls in exchange for a maximum sentence not to exceed 5 years - @OANN
In a Monday bail memorandum letter to Judge Henry Pittman of the Southern District of New York, prosecutors said there was an "extraordinary risk of flight, particularly given the defendant's exorbitant wealth, his ownership of and access to private planes capable of international travel, and his significant international ties."
Also noted was the potential for Epstein to "attempt to pressure and intimidate witnesses and potential witnesses in this case, including victims and their families, and otherwise attempt to obstruct justice."
"As a result, he poses both an acute danger to the community, including some of its most vulnerable members, and a significant risk of flight."
As the defendant acknowledged in his most recent New York State sex offender registration, he has six residences, including two in the U.S. Virgin Islands (including his own private island), and one each in Palm Beach, Florida; Paris, France; New York, New York; and Stanley, New Mexico. The most recent estimated value of the defendant’s New York City mansion alone is more than $77 million. The most recent tax-assessed value of the defendant’s Palm Beach estate is more than $12 million. The defendant’s primary residence is a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a place where any sort of meaningful supervision would be all but impossible.Moreover, the defendant has access to innumerable means to flee. His sex registration documentation of “current vehicles” lists no fewer than 15 motor vehicles, including seven Chevrolet Suburbans, a cargo van, a Range Rover, a Mercedez-Benz sedan, a Cadillac Escalade, and a Hummer II. These cars are registered in various states and territories including the Virgin Islands, New York, Florida, and New Mexico. The defendant also has access to two private jets, giving him the ability to leave the country secretly and on a moment’s notice and to go virtually anywhere he wants to travel. He is a very frequent international traveler and regularly travels to and from the United States by private plane. In particular, between January 1, 2018, and the present, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has logged approximately more than 20 flights in which Epstein was traveling to or from a foreign country. Indeed, he was arrested at Teterboro Airport arriving on just such a private international flight after having spent approximately three weeks abroad. Extensive international travel of this nature further demonstrates a significant risk of flight.
More on the photographs found during the raid this weekend
Finally, despite having been previously convicted of a sex offense involving an underage victim, the defendant has continued to maintain a vast trove of lewd photographs of young-looking women or girls in his Manhattan mansion. In a search of the New York Residence on the night of his arrest, on July 6-7, 2019, pursuant to judicially-authorized warrants, law enforcement officers discovered not only specific evidence consistent with victim recollections of the inside of the mansion, further strengthening the evidence of the conduct charged in the Indictment, but also at least hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of sexually suggestive photographs of fully- or partially nude females. While these items were only seized this weekend and are still being reviewed, some of the nude or partially-nude photographs appear to be of underage girls, including at least one girl who, according to her counsel, was underage at the time the relevant photographs were taken. Additionally, some of the photographs referenced herein were discovered in a locked safe, in which law enforcement officers also found compact discs with hand-written labels including the following: “Young [Name] + [Name],” “Misc nudes 1,” and “Girl pics nude.” The defendant, a registered sex offender, is not reformed, he is not chastened, he is not repentant;6 rather, he is a continuing danger to the community and an individual who faces devastating evidence supporting deeply serious charges.
Update: Prosecutors alleged during a Monday morning press conference that they discovered nude photos of underage girls during a raid at Epstein's Manhattan mansion.
Prosecutors told reporters that they will seek Epstein's detention pending trial due to flight risk, and that the case was "assisted by some excellent investigative journalism," likely in reference to the Miami Herald's ongoing coverage of Epstein.
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Prosecutors unsealed an indictment against billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, revealing two counts of child molestation involving "dozens of minor girls" as young as 14 between 2002 and 2005 in New York and Florida, according to Bloomberg.
Of note, this is separate from last week's order by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that documents in a defamation lawsuit against Epstein be made public, which may contain the names of high-level individuals.
The case was unsealed early Monday in Manhattan federal court, where Epstein is slated to make an appearance and will likely seek release on bail. Prosecutors have scheduled an 11 a.m. press conference to discuss the case.
According to the indictment, Epstein "sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan... and Palm Beach," per ABC7.
"EPSTEIN intentionally sought out minors and knew that many of his victims were in fact under the age of 18, including because, in some instances, minor victims expressly told him their age," according to the indictment.
Epstein, 66, was arrested on Saturday at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, after arriving from France on a private flight, according to the New York Times.
According to the indictment, he "created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit in locations including New York and Palm Beach" using victims and employees as recruiters.
Epstein directed "Employee-1" to arrange for young victims to meet him at his NY residence.
"Employee-1" may be Ghislaine Maxwell - the target of @Cernovich successful motion to unseal.
She may be indicted as well.
In 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty to procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution, serving just 13 months in a Florida state prison after cutting a sweetheart deal with current labor secretary, and then US Attorney, Alex Acosta.
The Miami Herald last year published a series of articles reporting that the top federal prosecutor in southern Florida at the time, Alex Acosta, worked with Epstein’s lawyers to fashion the deal. Acosta, now the U.S. labor secretary, violated federal law when he failed to clear the federal non-prosecution agreement with many of Epstein’s alleged victims, a federal judge ruled in February.The Herald said it found about 60 victims. -Bloomberg
"Local victims have said that when they were 14, 15 years old they brought 25, 30 girls to him. That’s just one person," said attorney Bradley Edwards, who represented one of Epstein's accusers - and noted that President Trump was the only person linked to Epstein who cooperated with his investigation.
"Nobody has really had the opportunity or ability to see how deep this goes in any other jurisdiction," Edwards added.
According to Bloomberg, the new case includes additional alleged victims who weren't covered by Epstein's non-prosecution agreement. He is alleged to have committed these crimes in Manhattan.
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Jeffrey Epstein Again Disappears From View, but What About Mossad?
Epstein: The Maxwell Connection (by George Galloway)
George Galloway
was a member of the British Parliament for nearly 30 years. He presents TV and radio shows (including on RT). He is a film-maker, writer and a renowned orator.
21 Aug, 2019
As Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell appears to have fallen off the face of the Earth, it’s little remembered in the media how I fought a long war against her father Robert and the part I played in his downfall.
It would be scarcely worth recalling at this distance if it did not shed light, or rather a cloud of suspicion, over Maxwell’s favourite child Ghislaine, now at the centre of a dark and fascinating story as bizarre as any which enveloped her late father.
I first met Robert Maxwell when he was an enormously powerful and fiercely intimidating media mogul in the early 1980s. It was in the green room of the BBC’s then flagship program Question Time, hosted by Sir Robin Day – then the doyen of BBC grandees.
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“Ah, Mr Galway (sic),” boomed Mr Maxwell, “the PLO man.” At which point he punched me so hard in the solar plexus I doubled over, tears in my eyes. As was the wont of the British establishment at the time, my fellow participants and Sir Robin himself averted their eyes and pretended not to see.
At the time and for nearly a decade, I was closely associated with the then-British satirical magazine Private Eye, writing regularly and providing stories and leads for others, regularly attending the legendary Private Eye lunches at the Soho waterie The Coach and Horses, presided over by the founder and editor of the magazine, Richard Ingrams.
About a year after Maxwell striking his first blow, I submitted a story to Private Eye which, embellished by others, was published and upon which he sued and fought an epic court battle with us. He won.
Although the editor Richard Ingrams spent a night in the cells for refusing to name me as the source, it was soon obvious to Maxwell that it was me and we began a war of attrition which lasted until his death.
In October of 1991, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and celebrity journalist Seymour Hersh caused to be delivered to my home late one Saturday night a file of papers, a synopsis of a book he had written in which he made serious allegations against Maxwell. So fearsome was Maxwell’s power at the time, he had obtained pre-publication injunctions against anyone publishing any word of it, against anyone printing it, against anyone distributing it, against anyone selling it. In Britain, the Hersh book did not exist.
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But I – as a member of the British Parliament – enjoyed the ancient right of legal privilege on anything I said in the Parliament or published on the Order Paper. Moreover, so could anyone else reporting fairly anything I said or wrote there. And so I did.
Inter-alia I accused Maxwell of being a thief, of stealing his own employee’s pension funds, of being an agent of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, and of betraying the whereabouts in London of the brave Israeli Jewish whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, causing him to be kidnapped, drugged, and delivered, his jaws wired like Hannibal Lector to ensure his silence, to Israel where he eventually served decades in solitary confinement and even now is not free to talk or travel.
My allegations exploded like a nuclear bomb in the life of Robert Maxwell.
He ordered his journalistic minions (whose pensions he had stolen) to “Piss all over Galloway” and micturate they promptly did.
On the front page of all SIX of his national newspapers, they called me “a jackal” of “scavenging in the dung-heap” a “friend of Arab terrorists” (“Ah, Mr Galway (sic) the PLO man”) and above all of having lied and lied about their proprietor.
Within weeks, the missing pensions were exposed, Maxwell was dead, having fallen, jumped, or been pushed off the back of his yacht – the Lady Ghislaine – off the Canary islands, and Maxwell was given a full Israeli-state funeral on the Mount of Olives presided over by the Israeli president, prime minister and no less than seven former and serving heads of the Mossad. In the eulogy, tribute was paid to the “extraordinary service” Mr Maxwell had given to Israel. The full story of which exact “services” he had provided were buried with him in Jerusalem.
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The fateful yacht was called the Lady Ghislaine because his daughter was his favourite child (other daughters were available) and she was his favourite child for a reason. Of all her siblings, Ghislaine Maxwell was the one who was most like him.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s father’s body was lost to the deep and murky waters of international intrigue. Where she will turn up is as yet unknown. What “extraordinary service” she performed and for whom equally remains to be seen.
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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/466983-ghislaine-robert-maxwell-epstein/
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/466983-ghislaine-robert-maxwell-epstein/
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Jeffrey Epstein Again Disappears From View, but What About Mossad?
I have long argued that pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was clearly an intelligence agent and that he was most likely working for the Israeli external service Mossad. My belief was based on the nature of his activity, which suggested that he was able to blackmail important Americans using the sex tapes that he had been able to make at his Manhattan mansion. Put that together with the existence of his fake Austrian passport, as well as former Miami federal attorney Alexander Acosta’s comments and it would seem that an intelligence connection is a sine qua non.
Acosta was particularly damning. When asked “Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” he replied “…that I had just one meeting on the Epstein case.” He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told to back off,” that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.”
The answers to those remaining questions about Epstein are still lacking even though he is gone, but one fears that the authorities will be disinclined to further investigate a dead man. It appears that no one in the various investigative agencies or the mainstream media has been interested in what Acosta meant, even though it would be simple enough to ask him. Who told him to back off? And how did they explain it? And then there is Epstein’s Austrian passport. Was the document fake or real, with a real name and photo substitution or alternation of both picture and name? How did he get it? Austrian passports are highly desirable in intelligence circles because the country is neutral and its holders can travel just about everywhere without a visa.
What Epstein did and how he did it was an intelligence operation in support of Mossad. There is no other viable explanation for his filming of prominent politicians and celebrities having sex with young girls. Recruiting and running American movers and shakers like Bill Clinton, with his 26 trips on the Lolita Express, former Governor Bill Richardson, or former Senator George Mitchell are precisely the types of “agents of influence” that the Mossad would seek to coerce or even blackmail into cooperation.
Other compelling evidence for a Mossad connection came from Epstein’s relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, who reportedly served as his key procurer of young girls. Ghislaine is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who died or possibly was assassinated in mysterious circumstances in 1991. Maxwell was an Anglo-Jewish businessman, very cosmopolitan in profile, like Epstein, a multi-millionaire who was very controversial with what were regarded as ongoing ties to Mossad. After his death, he was given a state funeral by Israel in which six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence listened while Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized: “He has done more for Israel than can today be said.”
Israel and high-profile Jewish players also have continued to turn up like bad pennies in the Epstein case, but no one seems to be interested in pursuing that angle. Epstein clearly had contact with former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak and Epstein patrol Les Wexner also had close ties to the Jewish state and its government.
And now, finally more evidence of the relationship has surfaced even though the mainstream media appears to have lost all interest in the subject. A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has inter alia made the claim that Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was from the beginning an Israel intelligence operation involving the entrapment of powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and also abroad.
In an interview with Zev Shalev, former CBS News executive producer, the retired senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, Ari Ben-Menashe, claimed not only to have first met Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged procuress, Ghislaine Maxwell, in the 1980s, but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence prior to that time.
Ben-Menashe, was himself involved in the notorious Iran-Contra arms deals. He claimed that he had been introduced to Jeffrey Epstein by Robert Maxwell in the mid-1980s while Maxwell’s and Ben-Menashe’s were themselves working on Iran-Contra “…he [Maxwell] wanted us to accept him [Epstein] as part of our group …. I’m not denying that we were at the time a group that it was Nick Davies [Foreign Editor of the Maxwell-Owned Daily Mirror], it was Maxwell, it was myself and our team from Israel, we were doing what we were doing.” Ben-Menashe’s account has been corroborated independently by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, describing how Maxwell, Davies and Ben-Menashe arranged the transfer and sale of military equipment and weapons from Israel to Iran on behalf of Mossad and the CIA during that time period.
Ben-Menashe, who would have absolutely nothing to gain by lying, described how Maxwell stated during the introduction that “your Israeli bosses have already approved” of Epstein. Maxwell was involved in an major intelligence network in Israel “which included the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon…” and was well placed to know that of which he spoke.
Will the three simultaneous investigations currently taking place even seek to ask the right questions now that the target of the investigation is gone and the new Ben-Menashe information has surfaced? Given the high stakes in the game, quite likely there will be a cover-up both of how Epstein lived and how he died and, most importantly, whom he worked for. Unfortunately, but predictably, the media and the inside the Beltway chattering class have lost interest in the story and we the public will most likely never learn what Epstein was all about. Just another instance of Israel spying on the United States…ho hum.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/17/jeffrey-epstein-again-disappears-from-view-but-what-about-mossad/
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https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/17/jeffrey-epstein-again-disappears-from-view-but-what-about-mossad/
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