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On Christmas Day in 2012, at 6:00 in the morning, Jeffrey Epstein, who'd just gotten out of a county jail where he had been serving a 13-month sentence, gets an email out of the blue from one of the richest men in the world. It reads, "I've been working to the edge of sanity this year, and so once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St. Barts or elsewhere and let loose. A peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I'm looking for."
Two months later, he emails Epstein again, asking which night on the island would have the wildest party. In return, Epstein offers to send a helicopter to bring him. That man was Elon Musk. And many years later, now the richest man on Earth, he would tell the world publicly, disgustedly, in his own words, "Epstein tried to get me to go on his island, and I refused."
He wrote, "I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his Lolita Express." But Elon Musk was lying, and he was not alone. For years, the friends of Jeffrey Epstein have been in a battle to prove their innocence. Who had known him only as a rich financier, and who knew his darkest secrets?
"I never went to the island. I never met any women. And although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior."
Who had cut him off after he went to prison the first time, and who came right back to support him after he was released? Who knew exactly what he was and stayed in his inner circle? Anyway, "I did have lunch with him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. I have nothing to hide."
And so now, with three and a half million documents from Epstein's personal computer accounts being released to the public, we finally have an answer to all of these questions. And the answer is: almost everyone stayed around him.
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After he was named as a sex offender in front of the whole world the first time, Jeffrey Epstein's life didn't change much at all. There's a reason why the Epstein case is this case that simply will not die.
"Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years."
Every single time more information is released, the pile of unanswered questions only gets bigger. We now know that the richest man on Earth was begging to visit his island. We know that the former White House legal counsel was flying on his plane. That a former prime minister of Israel appears in the files over 4,000 times.
But even more important than who stayed is why. This isn't the same as people taking a picture with Epstein two times at a New York City party in the early '90s. This is different. We now know exactly who Epstein was close with, who he strategized and planned with, who he shared code words with.
And at the same time, the files also revealed that many of Epstein's crimes were far worse than originally thought. These aren't pieced together from short quotes and photos. These aren't theories. These are their own words in their own emails, exposed by the United States Department of Justice. And what it tells us about the world we live in is something that most of us already knew but couldn't quite prove. That there's a level of wealth and power in the world where the rules simply do not apply. Where you can plead guilty to sex crimes involving a child and then walk out of a private wing of a county jail a year later into a life that didn't change at all.
We now know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the people who shape our laws, run our companies, sit on the boards of our most powerful institutions, invest in the things we eat and the platforms we use to talk to each other. Those people are allowed to look at a man like Jeffrey Epstein, know exactly what he is, and decide that he's not a problem at all. The Epstein files aren't just a record of one man's crimes. They're a mirror held up to the people who control our world. And what it's reflecting is that the system isn't broken. It was built this way. And no one's emails prove it better than the people who fought the hardest to keep them buried in the first place.
But don't take my word for it. Instead, let's look at theirs. Bill Gates. From 1995 to 2017, he was the wealthiest person in the world. Before that, he was also the world's youngest billionaire during the '80s and '90s.
"We're expecting to do just over 100 million this year."
And still today, he's one of the top 10 richest men alive. And it's been known for a long time that Bill Gates and Epstein knew each other well enough for Gates to have flown on Epstein's plane and even have visited his island. Two things that have become this insane albatross around his neck ever since Epstein's death.
When you read through these documents Epstein had prepared for Gates, though, I'll admit it looks like a pretty blatant attempt at blackmail. It's really easy to tell how Epstein knew exactly the reaction he was trying to elicit with every word he wrote. And for that reason, it feels pretty fake.
"To add insult to the injury, you then implore me to please delete the emails regarding your STD. You request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis. You also made it clear to me that I am not to refer to redacted as that is another topic that must remain between the two of us. And in return for all these requests, which I would have done without a second thought, I should continue to provide you the same level of service and dedication that I have done so diligently until you are ready to discard me and our friendship."
And Bill Gates, of course, absolutely denies everything to do with him and Epstein. He has for years, and he still does today. And hey, to be fair to Bill Gates, nothing else in the docs technically corroborates the outlandish claims that Epstein makes in his email. The only problem is that denials only go so far when your own family refuses to stand in your corner. While Bill Gates and his team were outright dismissing the documents as the desperate ramblings of a man who clearly was trying to hold him hostage.
"I never went to the island. I never met any women. And so, you know, the more that comes out, the more clear it'll be uh that although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior."
Melinda Gates had her own story to tell. In a brand new interview on NPR's Wildcard Show, Bill Gates' now ex-wife of 27 years, described the latest Epstein document release as filling her with unbelievable sadness and reminding her of struggles she faced during her marriage. She would say, "I'm able to take my own sadness and look at these young girls and say, 'My God, how did that happen to them? At least for me, I've been able to move on in life, and I hope there's some justice for those now women.'" I don't think it would take a chess grandmaster to figure out what she means by that.
But Bill Gates is only one person in an ever-growing, seemingly endless list of people who stayed in Epstein's life, shamelessly supporting him for years while they knew he was a pedophile the entire time. But Bill Gates wasn't alone. In fact, when it comes to the full picture of Jeffrey Epstein's social life, this is only the tip of the iceberg. And perhaps nobody illustrates that better than the man who spent 2025 loudly demanding the Epstein files be released, only for their release to reveal his own lies.
Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, inventor and leader of companies creating brain computer interfaces, electric cars, rocket ships, and more. He's also a longtime friend of Jeffrey Epstein. On September 25th, 2012, Epstein writes to Elon Musk, "If you find some time, come visit me on my island in the Caribbean. Bring your friend or friends." Musk replies, "Sounds good. We'll try to make it."
For years following his arrest and death, Elon Musk tried desperately to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein. In September of 2025, as the case began to rear its head again, he wrote, "Epstein tried to get me to go on his island, and I refused." But as it would turn out, the truth would be nearly the exact opposite of what he had insisted for so long.
Two months after their first interaction, he emails Jeffrey Epstein to ask which day would have the wildest party on his island. He talks about wanting to let loose and have fun and asks if Epstein has any parties planned because he needs the opposite of a peaceful island experience. In return, Epstein offers to send a helicopter to bring him.
Another email from the fall of 2013 shows Epstein inviting Musk to visit him at his house in New York and meet many interesting people around the time of the UN General Assembly, to which Elon Musk responds with a rant about how busy he is. Before Epstein asks, "Do you think I'm retarded?" Just kidding. "There's no one over 25 and they're all very cute."
Then a year later, around Christmas time again, Elon Musk asks if it's a good time to visit the island. Even later on, they would email to coordinate times for Epstein to come have lunch and tour the SpaceX facilities with Musk. And even after that, they would talk more about Epstein's idea to expand Tesla distribution to Israel.
Elon Musk's public reaction to these emails has been one of complete deflection and denial. However, his public statements do contradict what's in the messages. Elon Musk never refused to visit. In fact, he begged for invitations. He coordinated meetings. He invited himself. All while Epstein was a registered sex offender who just got out of prison three years earlier.
And here's what should really terrify you. While Elon Musk and Bill Gates may have drawn the most attention, perhaps because their hypocrisy is so shocking, perhaps because of their stature as two of the richest men alive, they are ultimately just a few names out of tens of thousands of very powerful people who continued working and socializing with Epstein, even after the whole world knew exactly who and what he was.
Peter Atia, best-selling author, researcher, CBS contributor and ambassador and investor in rapidly growing protein brand David. Overall, charming celebrity doctor, media personality known around the world as an expert on aging and longevity. But when you search his name in the Epstein files, he comes back almost 2,000 times.
In June of 2015, six years after Epstein got out of prison, Atia writes him an email with the subject, "Got a fresh shipment with a now redacted image attached." Epstein replies with his own now redacted image. Atia says, "Please tell me you found that picture online." Epstein confirms that whatever it is in the image belongs to him, to which Atia responds, "The biggest problem with being friends with you is that the life you lead is so outrageous, yet I can't tell a soul."
Over the years, Atia writes to Epstein about going through withdrawal when he wasn't seeing him. They would joke about the macronutrients in women's [ __ ]. Atia would reach out to Epstein and talk about visiting his island. He would write, "Nothing like Little St. James."
I bet their emails even reveal a dark truth from Atia's personal life. In a book he wrote in 2023, Atia shared that in 2017, he had been so selfishly absorbed with his work while on a trip to New York City that he did not go home to be with his family in California after his infant son had a heart attack, ultimately only returning 10 days after it had happened. Meanwhile, he had been emailing with Epstein to organize a meeting during that same week.
Just days after the files were released, Atia wrote in his apology tweet that in November of 2018, he read the Miami Herald investigative article about Epstein and was repulsed and nauseated. But even that was just another lie. In reality, after Epstein's crimes were re-exposed by the Miami Herald in 2018, Atia's correspondence with him only continued. All the way up until the spring of 2019, just before Epstein was arrested, Atia would continue emailing to check up on him. He would ask how he was doing in the wake of the article's release, making sure he was okay and that he wasn't taking it too hard. Clearly, he was not repulsed or nauseated enough to bring their friendship to an end.
This is the pattern that emerges from Epstein's emails over and over and over. Prominent, powerful people knew exactly who he was and what he had done, and then they stayed in his circle. Anyway, Peter Atia is not unique in this. He's not even unusual. Honestly, despite everything I may be able to say about his lies and hypocrisy, he's a pretty minor player because the archive reveals dozens of others. Tech billionaires, Oscar-winning filmmakers, people whose names we know, people whose work we're familiar with and consume, and all of them tell the same story. "We didn't know. We weren't close. And when we did find out, we cut ties immediately." But all of them are lying through their teeth.
And so, the question that just keeps coming back is simple: What the hell was in it for them? Why would these people stand alongside someone who was such a huge risk? And why are they lying about it now? And that tells you not just something about Epstein, but about what these people are. These people who run our companies, shape our politics, and build the technology and culture we consume every day.
In the spring of 2012, Epstein was planning a trip to Paris, and during an email with a friend, he lets it slip that he's going with Woody. Woody, of course, being the four-time Academy Award-winning, world-famous film director with 50 movies to his name, Woody Allen. And then Epstein's friend asks if they're going for the "pile convention," to which Epstein replies, "I think Fel is the plural."
And Woody Allen, besides being a filmmaker, is also the man who began a sexual relationship with and later married his own ex-wife's adopted daughter. Woody Allen goes on to appear in the files 7,000 times. They plan visits to Little St. James and Epstein's ranch in New Mexico. They organized dinners in New York and Paris. Epstein gives him furniture. He coordinates with his wife.
Woody Allen made movies. He has fame, influence, cultural capital. He's a highly respected artist. Really, he's one of the most beloved filmmakers alive. Critics praise his films. Journalists still clamor to talk to him. Actors want to work with him. He's received every award there is. But at the same time, he spent years scheduling visits to Jeffrey Epstein's island. And the fact that he was right there in Epstein's inner circle for years after the conviction, it tells you something that's deeper than just emails. It tells you that Epstein's world wasn't a shadowy conspiracy. It wasn't hidden. It was full of the same people our culture celebrates. His friends were directors with Oscars, scientists who stand on stage and give TED talks and release best-selling books. Politicians who decide our fate. These are the people we've been taught to admire, to trust, and to believe are the good ones in life. But they were all there, and they all knew.
And I think this is where the Epstein story starts to shift under our feet. It's stopped being about him and what he did, and instead, he becomes this virus that spreads to everyone around him until it spreads so far that the entire world starts looking different. Epstein didn't get away with anything because he was clever or even hiding at all. And that makes this not just his crime, but everyone's.
Another person who appears repeatedly in Epstein's emails is Reid Hoffman, a tech entrepreneur from California, who in the year 2000 became the senior VP of business development at PayPal, a position that would make him a millionaire after the company was sold to eBay a few years later. But then, along with other PayPal founders and employees, he became part of the PayPal Mafia, an informal group of former PayPal executives known for their own massive success after they sold PayPal to eBay. This network includes the founders of YouTube, Tesla, Palantir, a firm Yelp, as well as executives from Reddit, Sequoia Capital, Square, and more.
In 2003, he would then co-found LinkedIn and would grow it into becoming the world's biggest business-oriented social media platform, selling it in the end to Microsoft for over $25 billion. Today, Reid Hoffman sits on the board of directors at Microsoft, as well as having sat on the board at OpenAI for several years, among involvement in various other AI ventures with a total net worth in the billions. He also happened to blatantly lie to the whole world about the nature of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2019, after Epstein was first arrested, Hoffman went on record saying that he only ever met with him for the purpose of fundraising for the MIT Media Lab, where he had a position at the time. But it would turn out that that was not true, and he had in fact had many more meetings with Epstein up until less than a year before his arrest, as well as having visited his island for a weekend in the summer of 2014.
In 2015, Hoffman wrote an email to Epstein after news of his involvement with Prince Andrew first hit the news, offering to help manage the negative press coverage online to cover up what they had been accused of. And the PayPal Mafia just keeps showing up in Epstein's inner circle. Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and now even the company's founder himself, Peter Thiel, who also appears in the Epstein Files far more often than he ever admitted on his own.
Peter Thiel, after founding and selling PayPal in the early 2000s, became a central figure in Silicon Valley, but not as an entrepreneur himself. Instead, he began a career in venture capital that would be considered by many a form of political investing. He would fund tech companies that disrupted traditional industries, building up a huge portfolio of companies like Airbnb, Uber, Stripe. He was even the first outside investor in Facebook, giving them $500,000 in exchange for 10% of the company in 2005. Meanwhile, he would advocate for libertarian politics on the side, giving big donations to figures like Ron Paul and more.
But over the years, Peter Thiel's political perspectives shifted dramatically, generating skeptical media attention and a variety of questions around the nature of his influence. Ever since, at various times, Peter Thiel has advocated against women's rights to vote, publicly questioned the viability of democracy itself, called for a hyper-capitalist corporate takeover of world governments, and most recently delivered a series of lectures alleging that the biblical antichrist is publicly emerging right now in the real world from the movement for environmental conservation.
Perhaps most notably though, the one exception to his career of mostly investing and advocating would be, of course, his second company, Palantir. Now worth over $300 billion, Palantir specializes in building intelligence tools for military and police use and has been identified by many as essentially operating like a private surveillance state.
And Peter Thiel appears in the Epstein files over 2,000 times with records showing various lunch events, meetings, and visits throughout the 2010s. And while Peter Thiel would say that his interactions with Epstein were purely a product of Epstein being a quote "crazed networker," records that emerged later would tell a completely different story. Because by 2015, Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein were literally doing business together.
In 2015 and 2016, Epstein invested a total of $40 million in Valor Ventures, a venture capital firm that Thiel had co-founded for funding tech companies outside the typical Silicon Valley bubble. Around that same time, Epstein began pitching that Thiel's funds should invest in an Israeli software company called Carbine that was making emergency communication apps, and they would invest tens of millions of dollars. And in addition to that, the Epstein files revealed that there would be dozens more meetings between Peter Thiel and Jeff Epstein, showing countless invitations and conversations over the years. And despite Peter Thiel diminishing his relationship with Epstein as inconsequential and transactional, they in fact stayed in contact all the way up until just a couple months before Epstein died, far after the world began to take interest in his case yet again.
But as I was going through this part of the files, it started to look like Peter Thiel being dishonest was actually the least interesting part of his relationship with Epstein. Instead, I started asking, how did Epstein get involved with this Israeli company in the first place? Who brought it to him? Who connected him to the Israeli tech world and pushed him to shop it around Silicon Valley? And the answer to that is that this company Carbine, that's today worth over $900 million and deployed all over the world, was co-founded by yet another good friend of Jeffrey Epstein, the former prime minister of Israel itself.
Ehud Barak is a former general in the IDF who was active in Israeli national politics from the late '90s to the early 2010s, serving at different times as the minister of defense, the leader of the Labor Party, the head of the IDF, and at one point even as the country's prime minister, as a successor of Benjamin Netanyahu's first term. He also appears in the Epstein files over 4,000 times.
And looking at their relationship, as revealed by the release of the Epstein archives, we can see a level of connection that goes far beyond casual acquaintance. Because from 2013 to 2017, Barak and Epstein are on record having met at least 40 times. And for some years, they had scheduled appointments every month. Epstein functioned in many ways as Barak's secret advisor, giving financial and business advice, helping expand his network, and acting overall as a kind of sounding board. And even more than just visiting the island, which he also did, back in New York City, Barak and his wife would so frequently stay over at Epstein's Upper East Side apartment that it turned into a running joke for Epstein's staff.
In 2015, Epstein's assistant emails her colleagues to ask, "Jeffree is wondering if we can get faster internet for apartment 11J. Ehud is requesting it. Looks like this is slowly becoming his apartment." And if their social ties were close, their financial entanglements were even deeper.
In 2015, Barak invested $1.5 million in a seed round for Reporty, later rebranded as Carbine, an Israeli emergency communication software startup. And much of the capital for that investment had been given to him directly from Epstein himself. And besides Barak, the only other investor in that initial round was the Israeli Ministry of Economy itself, which contributed $300,000. Basically, Jeffrey Epstein was deeply financially connected to the highest level of Israeli politics.
According to Reason magazine, Epstein used Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including multiple figures in Israeli intelligence and figures in Vladimir Putin's circle. Of course, there is still the question of what Barak knew and when. He has maintained that he had no idea Epstein was involved with underage girls, but leaked emails reported on by Straight Arrow News show that Barak's own aide sent him news articles about Epstein as early as 2011, four years before Epstein invested in Barak's companies.
And so Epstein's relationship with a former prime minister of Israel has raised even further questions about what exactly Epstein's true role in politics may have been. Because as it would turn out, his connection with Barak wasn't just social and wasn't just financial. Not only is he hosting this guy at his house all the time, he's advising him on politics, emailing about how to deal with Iranian nuclear enrichment, pushing ideas about taking military action against Syria. They weren't just friends and business partners. Epstein was exerting influence with a political agenda as well.
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But it doesn't just stop at Ehud Barak. Honestly, he's just the beginning. Howard Lutnick is an American billionaire businessman and now also the United States Secretary of Commerce. A job in the top 10 of the presidential line of succession that's responsible for advising the president on all matters relating to American business and industry. He's also former neighbors with Jeffrey Epstein for many years. And in October of 2025, as the Epstein case began to ramp up once more, Lutnick would vow in public that he had in fact never spoken to or met Epstein after one time in 2005. He even told a story to support his claim.
According to an October 2025 interview with the New York Post, Lutnick said that he had cut ties with Epstein in 2005 when they were neighbors in New York. Lutnick explained to the newspaper that Epstein had given him and his wife a tour of his Manhattan townhouse where he showed off his massage room. Lutnick said that he said to him, "Massage table in the middle of the house. How often do you have a massage?" Lutnick told the Post that Epstein said to him he got a massage every day and then, getting really close to him, told him he gets the right kind of massage. Lutnick told the Post that after leaving Epstein's house, in the six to eight steps it took to get from his house to my house, he and his wife decided that he would never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.
Although in reality, the newly released files showed that Howard Lutnick had lied. In 2012, he also brought his wife and children to Epstein's island for what would be described as a lunch.
"We had lunch on the island. That is true for an hour, and we left with all of my children with my nannies and my wife all together. We were on family vacation. We were not apart to suggest there was anything untoward about that in 2012. I don't I don't recall why we did it."
And even more documents show that they were actually in business together as well. Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of LLCs that agreed on December 28th, 2012, to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising company called Adfin. Epstein and Lutnick's signatures appear on neighboring pages in the contract. The document lists nine shareholders in total. The Epstein archive also shows them emailing each other all the way up until 2018.
This is one of the United States' most senior government officials in office right now today blatantly lying to the world about his connection to the billionaire who was running an industrial-scale child sex trafficking operation while they were in contact with each other. And he didn't just lie about knowing him. He lied about vacationing with him and doing business deals with him for years after the world knew exactly what he was.
And so we're looking at all these entrepreneurs, artists, celebrities, all of these people lying through their teeth about their association with Epstein, lying about how well they knew him or what they did with him. And the craziest part is, we're still not done.
We all know that Prince Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth, was one of Epstein's most loyal associates and has been all but criminally convicted of raping girls with him to the point where even the King of England has put out a statement saying he's ready to cooperate with police against his own brother. In addition to that, there are now photos that have been released of him naked with women and crouching over a woman on a floor in Epstein's house.
But Epstein wasn't just friends with the figurehead prince. There are, in fact, real working English politicians that appear all throughout the files as well. Peter Mandelson, former EU Commissioner, member of Parliament, Labour Cabinet Minister, and UK ambassador to the US, as well as key advisor to Tony Blair, appears throughout the files thousands of times. Epstein's 2003 birthday book, which included the infamous drawing from President Trump, also includes a pretty similar note from Peter Mandelson, which includes quotes about Epstein being his best pal and mentions the interesting friends that Epstein loves to bring around.
But still, it goes even further. They didn't just email each other little giggles and jokes. During this time in Mandelson's career, he was actively in office. And now, with more emails coming out, it's been revealed that he was illegally sending Jeffrey Epstein classified information about developments in UK politics. When writing to Epstein about new tax policies, he pledged to lobby his own government on behalf of an interest in lower taxes for bankers like he and Epstein were working on that together. In 2010, he would give Epstein advanced notice of a 500 billion euro bailout scheduled for the next day. And Epstein's documents also show records of him sending payments nearing $100,000 in value to Mandelson and his husband.
In the aftermath of these documents being released, Mandelson has been branded as having betrayed his country, with London's Metropolitan Police launching a criminal investigation against him for misconduct in office. Essentially, Epstein had people within multiple foreign governments sending him privileged information. A disgraced former prime minister of Israel using Epstein as a shadow diplomat and a fixer across three continents. A sitting British cabinet minister leaking classified economic intelligence to him during the worst financial crisis in Britain's modern history. These are not the relationships of a socialite. These are the relationships of a man who operated at the intersection of money, intelligence, and power.
And somehow, it still goes even deeper than that. Ariane de Rothschild, having married into the Rothschild family in the 1990s, is a French banker and current CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild group, an offshoot of the Rothschild family dynasty that for centuries has dominated banking across Europe, establishing itself as the most influential family-controlled financial institution in the world. Ariane herself is worth an estimated $5 billion. And despite maintaining that she only knew Epstein in the context of her normal work duties, documents revealed that she in fact held dozens of personal meetings with him between 2013 and 2019, paid him a $25 million consulting contract, and also helped him find assistance, which according to many outlets was a code word for prostitutes.
There are many, many other people in positions of power who appear in the Epstein files and add their own pieces to the puzzle. Katherine Rumler is an attorney who, following a decorated career as a federal prosecutor involved in convicting the Enron executives in the early 2000s, served for a while as White House Counsel, the White House's personal lawyer under the Barack Obama presidency. Today, she's the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs. Essentially, she's one of the most powerful lawyers in the world. And when you search her name in the Epstein files, you'll find her corresponding with Epstein dozens of times. Years after his conviction, years after he was a registered sex offender, years after everyone knew what he had done. Their emails, many of which were sent while she was working under the Obama administration, show Epstein arranging for her to fly on his plane, visit his island. It shows him sending her many tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts, making jokes about his penis together. This is a former top lawyer for the president of the US. Someone whose entire career was built on the premise of legal ethical judgment. And she was socializing with a convicted pedophile like it was nothing.
We've reached a point that's almost comical. For years, the curiosity around Epstein seemed like it might be more interesting than the real truth. Like, yeah, he was a file, but you know, that doesn't automatically mean he was running a secret file cabal of baby-killing billionaire freaks. But then his emails came out, and the truth is literally more insane than what people actually imagined in the first place. Epstein was at an almost surreal level of evil. There are things in here that people wouldn't have even made up, like the Rothschild family having Epstein on a retainer, like him talking about being at a pedophile convention with Woody Allen. It just goes on and on and doesn't stop.
Researching this video felt like trying to drink an ocean. Every time I thought I found every person, there would be more. Every time I thought I had found out everything they did, there was more. It makes the Epstein case feel like it might never die. Even now, after the release of 3 million documents, we know that the government holds 2.5 million more that they aren't going to show us. Every time they release anything, we're only left holding more questions than we had before.
We now know who Jeffrey Epstein spent the last 10 years of his life with, who embraced him after his crimes were known. But that isn't the end of the story. It's just the beginning. Because ultimately, just Epstein having rich and powerful friends, that's not really proof of anything. But right now, there are more emails depicting crimes horrific beyond our imagination. Emails that reveal things about our world that are beyond what we thought was possible. There are records available right now that show that the truth about Epstein is far darker than what we had originally even feared.
For decades, our society has been obsessed with the idea of secret elite gatherings where the rich and powerful engage in dark rituals behind closed doors. Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, released in 1999, just weeks after his death, depicted masked aristocrats conducting occult sexual ceremonies in mansions, and we saw it as an exaggerated metaphor. A filmmaker's dream about wealth and depravity pushed to the nightmarish extreme for the sake of storytelling. But now, there's this huge cultural resurgence around the movie because the Epstein files have made it impossible to see things like this as just movies anymore. The masked parties, the trafficked women, the implication that anyone who looks too close will be silenced, the idea that the real world operates on a set of rules that ordinary people are never allowed to see. It's not fiction anymore. If anything, the reality appears like it's probably far worse.
In Eyes Wide Shut, the movie shows one night in one mansion with one group of people, but the Epstein archives show us a system spanning decades, continents, and virtually every pillar of power in the Western world. At the same time, we see how it was operating in plain sight. Because these aren't random rich people we're talking about. These are the people who decide what technology we use, what companies we work for, what laws get passed, what wars we fight, what information we see and what we don't see. The Secretary of Commerce, the richest man on Earth, the founder of LinkedIn, the people building the AI that's going to shape the next century, the people who advise presidents and prime ministers. This is the elite of the elite. There is no one higher than this.
And look, I get it. The government's been telling us for years that there's nothing to see here, that the conspiracies are overblown, that Epstein was just one sick criminal and Maxwell was his only accomplice. The DOJ says they found no co-conspirators. Officials insist that every wild theory or accusation is just paranoia. But then you keep reading, and you find an email from a billionaire in Dubai that says, "I love the torture video." Then another one is full of redacted images with a caption: "Age 11." Then there's another email where they're talking about pizza and grape soda while giggling that no one else can understand. And then you find out that he was doing business with Israeli politicians and British politicians and American politicians and their advisors, Democrats and Republicans, and writing about MSAD and Jewish supremacy and how to get children addicted to video games and how to breed perfect babies and how to make young men disillusioned and believe in extremist politics.
And then you actually look at what's in these files. Not what the government says is in them, but what's actually in there. And it's not just bad. It's not just disturbing. It's enough to make our deepest, darkest conspiracies look like a joke. Every one of the worst, most strange, insane ideas that's been said about Epstein turns out to have real evidence towards its truth. And so, if you think what we've looked at so far is disturbing, if you think the list of rich, influential people who stayed around Epstein after they knew what he was is horrifying, we haven't even gotten to the bad part yet.
What we need to understand now is what they were doing. What Epstein's purpose was. Why he was so valuable that the most powerful people on Earth couldn't walk away. Why the government let him operate for decades. Why his network reached into intelligence agencies and political movements. And why all of this was allowed to happen in plain sight. Because this is how our world really works. This is the level of wealth and power where the rules do not apply.
For decades, our society has been obsessed with the darkness of the upper levels of power. We've written books and made movies speculating what power and control really means and what it really looks like. This isn't just a story from the past. This is a mirror being held up to the present, to the world we live in right now, to the people who control it. And it's going to make you sick.
Online complainant reported she was a victim and witness to a sex trafficking ring at the Trump Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California between 1995 and '96. Complainant reported Ghislaine Maxwell as the madam and broker for sex parties. Clients of whom included Epstein, Robin Leach, and Donald Trump. Complainant reported participating in orgies and that some girls went missing, rumored to have been murdered and buried at the facility. Complainant reported being threatened by Trump's then head of security that if she ever talked of what went on there or who she saw, she would end up as fertilizer for the back nine holes like the other C. That's a real document in the Epstein files.
But of course, just because it's real doesn't make it true. Trump Golf Course in California wasn't open until 2006, 10 years after this story supposedly takes place. The Epstein files, which include over three million images, documents, and videos, also include nearly every single tip the FBI ever received, verified or not, with regards to his case. And if all of them were true, the world right now would be in some really deep [ __ ] like billionaires and presidents having parties on boats where they eat kids type of mythological demonic [ __ ].
One of them reads, "On the yacht, he witnessed babies being dismembered, their intestines removed, and individuals eating the feces from the intestines. He was then raped by George H.W. Bush." But even though many of these tips likely aren't true or even possible, that doesn't mean that the Epstein files still don't call into question everything we think we know about the world we live in today.
And look, a lot of what went viral after these files dropped was fake. The email saying that Epstein invented Bitcoin. Fake. The Fortnite account supposedly proving he was alive in Israel playing video games on his Xbox all day. Fake. AI-generated photos of politicians. Unfortunately, fake. People lost their minds over a bank account that they thought Epstein named after an ancient Jewish demon, but it ended up being a computer glitch. It was supposed to say "balance." And this stuff is crazy and it generates headlines, but at the same time, it buries the truth under a mountain of noise because you don't need crackhead stories about burying girls under a golf course to see that the truth is ultimately even more horrifying than anything that anyone could have made up in the first place.
On September 22nd, 2016, Jeffrey Epstein receives an email with redacted images attached, sent just minutes apart. One is labeled [ __ ], one is labeled girls, and one is labeled age 11. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's not an anonymous tip from someone who's requesting Bitcoin to prove the truth. These are real emails that Epstein was getting and sending, exposed by the US Department of Justice.
But before 2025, the case against Jeffrey Epstein, at least in the public eye, was built primarily on suspicion. The idea that Jeffrey Epstein was part of something much bigger than himself and that other people were involved. It came from two facts. Number one, Jeffrey Epstein was rich, a pedophile, and had a ton of powerful friends. And number two, he was found dead in a jail cell under suspicious circumstances. That alone is something where you don't need to be crazy to hear it and think something's wrong. In fact, you might be crazy if you hear that and don't think something was wrong.
And so, as a result, in the last couple of years, even though the historical political legal narrative was that Epstein worked alone and didn't leave any footprints behind, he still became this symbol of everything wrong with our society. Epstein came to represent corruption. Specifically, the idea that people at the top of society play by a completely different set of rules than the rest of us. That not only did he get away with crimes against humanity under everyone's noses for decades, but before he could even be forced to answer for what he had done, he mysteriously died while he was sitting in a maximum security prison wing. It looked a little too convenient. It looked a little too much like someone wanted the truth to die with him, and that's why it didn't.
And then slowly, very slowly, evidence came out, and it showed us that the truth was even worse than we had suspected. At first, it was small little drawings, notes, inside jokes, small packets of information showing that, hey, Epstein wasn't just really good at hiding being a pedophile. Everyone around him knew it, and they didn't care. And then finally, after years of pressure, 3 million documents from Epstein's computers were released and revealed that it wasn't the case that Epstein ever got away with anything. In reality, he didn't just get away with the crimes he had committed in the first place. He was allowed to keep going and make friends with the world's billionaires, politicians, and thinkers all at the same time.
On Friday, April 24th, 2009, Epstein, still in prison after his 2008 conviction of prostituting minors, emails a friend to say, "Where are you? Are you okay? I loved the torture video." That email would be revealed to have been sent to none other than Sultan Akman bin Salam, CEO of a shipping company called DP World that handles over 70 million shipping containers annually, roughly 10% of shipping traffic in the entire world. His brother, Muhammad bin Zayed, is president of the FIA, the governing body of Formula 1 car racing. Bin Salam also spent years on the board for the Sovereign Wealth Fund in the UAE and is a landowner in Dubai's Palm Islands. He's one of the most powerful and richest people in all of Dubai.
But it goes, of course, even deeper than just emailing each other about torture videos. In 2016, the larger island neighboring Epstein's Little St. James, Great St. James, went up for sale. And Epstein, having already had his bids denied while trying to buy it in the past on account of being a sex offender, made a holding company in Salam's name to purchase the island for $22 million. Other emails between them involved sharing links to porn videos and discussing politics. At one point, Salam would email Epstein to tell him, "The Ukrainian and the Moldavian arrived. Big disappointment that the Moldavian is not as attractive as the picture." This is literal confirmation in writing from a firsthand, first-party involved person that Epstein was trafficking women to different powerful people around the world. Everything they said about Epstein was true. Here he is with a man who controls one of the biggest shipping companies in the world, one of the most powerful men in the Arab world, talking about torture porn while he's in prison, sending him prostitutes, and getting him to help him buy more islands. Epstein was exactly who they said he was. He was doing horrific, disgusting [ __ ] with people who sit at the highest level of power and influence in the world. And the more you read, the worse and worse it gets.
In 2014, someone writes to him, "Thank you for a fun night. Your littlest girl was a little naughty." After US congressmen were allowed to view unredacted Epstein files in a secure context, they would report back that many files that had been redacted were relating to crimes.
Against 15, 14, 10, and even 9-year-old girls. They would also say that they had identified at least six men, one a high-ranking foreign government official, one a prominent public figure, who were all directly involved in Epstein's trafficking activities. There is now undeniable proof that Epstein was doing exactly what everyone suspected he was doing. He was running a ring of pilia with the richest people in the world.
Other files in the Epstein library include an FBI document with a list of underage victims, acknowledgement that Epste was in possession of 14.6 tab of what they called obscene material and countless redactions filed under child sexual abuse material not scanned. But here's what gets me. Those emails, the torture video, the littlest girl, the age 11, these are the ones where they were talking casually, where they aren't hiding anything. But many more of the Epstein emails turn out to contain evidence of stuff that's far worse going on just below the surface. Something that again was before considered a nightmare too disgusting to even be possible.
In 2016, just before Donald Trump won the presidency, a conspiracy theory alleging that prominent Democrat politicians were running a human trafficking operation using seemingly normal food related words like pizza, pasta, and cheese as code for activities linked to child sexual abuse and human trafficking went viral. Following that, people became convinced that Comet Pingpong, a pizza restaurant in Washington DC, was a meeting ground for the satanic ritual abuse that these politicians were allegedly engaged in. The story eventually attracted mainstream media attention, and within a couple of weeks, a 28-year-old man from North Carolina traveled up to DC and began firing an AR-15 at the restaurant, among other violent incidents. In the end, no substantial evidence of the Pizzagate story was ever produced, and the conspiracy is mostly remembered as being a product of the mentally unstable far right.
The craziest fake news of all is something called Pizzagate. People actually believe a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton and her former campaign manager John Podesta ran a child's sex ring at a pizzeria in DC. This is a lie. So, so where did this conspiracy theory start? Apparently, some alt-right folks were combing through Clinton campaign emails hacked by Russia and published by Wikileaks and noticed there seems to be more references to pizza and pizzeras than they had expected, which can only mean one thing, secret sex ring.
But when the Epstein library was released, something strange happened. Because buried in these millions of emails across years of correspondence with countless different people, Epstein and the people around him were essentially speaking in a way that is exactly like what Pizzagate had described. And it's in there over and over again. The word pizza itself appears in the Epstein files over 900 times with countless examples that make it clear they weren't actually talking about food. One email reads, "This is better than a Chinese cookie. Let's go for pizza and grape soda again. No one else can understand. What time do you want to get pizza and grape soda tomorrow? Your pizza is yummy, yummy. Fine asking about a pizza party this weekend."
And it wasn't just pizza. Epstein's staff would receive instructions using air quotes around all sorts of words that clearly had alternate meanings. "J has confirmed he would like you to serve snacks at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday. A Jabbor would like to come see Jeffree today at 1 p.m. He wants snacks. Can you be in charge of snacks? I asked if he wanted lunch and he said no snacks." They're literally distinguishing between the real word and the code word in the same email. The person writing this knows that snacks doesn't mean snacks. They literally clarify that they aren't talking about lunch.
Of course, I'm not necessarily saying that Pizzagate was true. I don't really believe that there were people trafficking little kids out of the basement of a pizza shop. Add on to that the fact that none of the politicians that were accused of being involved in Pizzagate are mentioned in the Epstein files at all. But the core idea, you know, this idea that the historical narrative decided was a joke that powerful people involved in the systemic abuse of children were communicating using words for food as a code. That wasn't crazy at all. In fact, it's exactly what was happening. It's just back then, 10 years ago, they didn't really get right who was doing it.
And pizza is far from the only word that gives credibility to this theory. In fact, there are others that are way more suspicious. For example, Epstein and his staff spend hours talking about his obsession with jerky, how they have to bring it on planes and fly it around the world just to make sure he has enough. Why would someone in Epstein's position in life with his money, his status, and his schedule have time to obsess over beef jerky for hours every week? Why are there emails where Epstein is asking people on his staff how to deal with the frozen white tuna? Jeffrey Epstein was a billionaire. Billionaires are not sitting around worried about how to manage the contents of the dozen different refrigerators at their six different homes.
This is a moment where you have to remember the story of Jeanluke Brunell, the French modeling agent who received millions of dollars from Jeffrey Epstein in 2004 to pay for the launch of a new modeling agency that would go on to run campaigns for some of the biggest retailers in the world, from Nordstrom to Target and Sears and more. While at the same time, Epstein would be quoted as saying he had slept with over 1,000 of Brunell's girls, having had girls from the agency flown to his houses and island from all over the world. American authorities would go on to call Brunell a co-conspirator of Epstein, and he ultimately went into hiding after Epstein's death in 2019 before being arrested by French national police in Paris and hanging himself before he could stand trial. Seeing Epstein write about moving jerky around the world on planes, worrying about where to put all of his frozen white tuna, planning pizza parties with other elites, it's hard not to connect these dots.
Sometimes they didn't hide what they were doing at all. In 2019, on February 14th, Epstein gets an email that says, "The kid couldn't have done bikini wax because her hairs are too short. Next time, sir, I'm already at the dentist waiting for the kid."
Then there was the dentist. In Epstein's emails, the dentist is mentioned almost 2,000 times. He writes about sending other people to the dentist in New York. There was a dentist room on his island featuring masks resembling his friends across the walls. In one email, he writes to someone telling them to send $20,000 to the dentist for redacted. There are emails where Epstein is complaining about a dentist breaking someone's jaw and emails back to him about a nurse piercing someone's genitals and entire body with needles. This stuff is absolutely nightmarish, monstrous [ __ ] And I don't even have time to get into the emails where Epstein would write to bury everything on the island because he didn't want to deal with it. The time that Epstein would instruct his staff to buy a replica of a painting that depicted the killing of kids.
And then there's Jess Staley, who in the early 2010s worked as the CEO of investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. And it was at JP Morgan that he would manage the bank's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein himself, where the story goes that he would protect and advocate for Epste as a client, despite colleagues pointing out multiple times over the years that Epstein should not be a client at the bank. Epste's chief defender at the bank was Jess Staley, a top contender to one day succeed Jaime Diamond as chief executive. Bank officials for more than a decade were anxious about Epste's prolific wire transfers and cash withdrawals. JP Morgan ultimately processed more than $1 billion in transactions for him and warned senior management about his suspicious activities. But on at least four occasions over 5 years, the bank's leaders overrode those objections and continued to serve Epstein. In 2023, JP Morgan would settle for $290 million after a group of almost 200 of Epstein's accusers served them with a lawsuit for having enabled Epstein's crimes knowingly for over 10 years. Attorney Mimi Lee stated in court that Epstein's entire business with JP Morgan and JP Morgan's entire business with Epstein was human trafficking.
By the time it was made public that JP Morgan had essentially enabled Epstein's crimes for a decade, Staley had already gone on to work as the CEO of one of the largest banks in Europe. But his involvement was not completely over. As the release of New Epstein emails showed that Epstein wasn't just his client, he was Epstein's client as well. In 2010, Epstein emails someone about wanting to photograph them in a Snow White costume. Then a month later, Staley writes, "That was fun. Say hi to Snow White." Epstein replies, "What character do you want next?" Staley says, "Beauty and the beast." Separately, someone else emails Epstein to say the Snow White was [ __ ] twice as soon as she put on her costume. Later on, during a civil case against him, a victim identified as Jane Doe 1 alleged that Staley personally observed her as a sex trafficking victim and used aggressive force in his sexual assault of her and told her that he had Epstein's permission to do whatever he wanted to her. Staley has still never been charged with anything.
And even on top of all of this, just absolute horror, the files only continue as we see that again, the government turning a blind eye to Epstein in the years during and after the charges against him resulted in not just a continuation of his crimes, but in him beginning to build a far-reaching political and cultural agenda as well. In 2011, Epstein was introduced by Boris Nicolage, longtime scientific adviser of Bill Gates, to a 23-year-old man named Christopher Pool. Pool at this point was already famous or should I say infamous given that he had already been voted by time as the most influential person of 2008 after founding the anonymous online forum 4chan when he was 15 in 2003. 4chan over the years would become both the internet's most culturally influential and also most horrific platform a breeding ground for the most viral memes and extreme ideologies and even real world violence. Described by some as an incubator for the darkest corners of online culture and politics. Its B board in particular attracted significant media attention when it became a lawless home for the sharing of child porn and other illegal content in the early 2010s.
But Nicolich writes to Epstein, "There is a really cool kid you should meet. He's only 23. Read his bio." Epste replies later that he loved meeting Moot and he calls him Bright. He said, "I drove him home. He's very bright. I liked him a lot." Later on, Nick sends an article about 4chan, writing, "This article describes why I find Moot interesting. The potential for manipulation is huge." And it just so happened that just two days after Christopher Pool met Epstein, 4chan would open up what would become its most famous board of all. Politically incorrect. And of course, it's impossible to know what he said to Moot when they met or how many times they met, although it was confirmed that they would meet up multiple times after their first introduction. But either way, the timing of that initial meeting is curious because Politically Incorrect, or Poll for short, after being launched in October of 2011, would quickly become known as a home for anti-semitism, white nationalism, and even as the ideological origin point for a number of high-profile mass shootings around the world. And it didn't stop there. It would become, in effect, exactly what Nicolage and Epstein thought it could be, a place where the potential for manipulation was huge. a place where anonymous, disaffected young people could be radicalized, organized, and even mobilized. Undoubtedly, Pole is the birthplace of the wave of populist ultraism that has come to dominate the landscape of American politics in the 21st century so far. And over time, Pole's potency and influence has become so large that considering its destabilizing effect on American politics as possibly the project of an intelligence agency has been impossible to ignore. Over the years, various pieces of evidence with uh things like IP leaks showing a huge over representation of users in Israel. It's given credence to the idea that the CIA, the IDF, or the FSB, or something else entirely may have manipulated or even originated the rise of the alt-right in the early 2010s completely on purpose. And Jeffrey Epstein was there at the beginning. And that may just be a coincidence, but it might also be a coincidence in the same way that having a multi-billionaire write 900 emails about ordering cheese pizza for him and his friends while they giggle about no one else understanding their code words is just a coincidence.
But if we're being honest, 4chan, for all of its outsized cultural influence and Epstein's strange involvement, that may have still just been a relatively minor curiosity in Epstein's world. Moot from 4chan is not the only online political personality Epstein would meet with. Steve Bannon is the former chairman of Breitbart News. He was the chief strategist in Donald Trump's White House in 2017. At one point, he was also the vice president of Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that harvested the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users without their consent to build psychographic profiles and microtarget voters with political advertising designed to exploit their individual fears, prejudices, and vulnerabilities. And perhaps most importantly for the purposes of this story, he's also one of the most influential voices in the MAGA movement, the host of the War Room podcast, and the man who arguably did more than any other single person to build the ideological basis of America's far right. And he appears in the Epstein Files almost 2,000 times. Their relationship wasn't casual. It wasn't transactional. It wasn't photos and handshakes at parties. It was by any honest reading of these emails one of the closest and most significant friendships of the last decade of Jeffrey Epstein's life. After meeting in 2017, Epste and Bannon began texting constantly, sharing political intelligence, mocking Donald Trump behind his back, and scheming on how to reshape global politics together. At the same time, Bannon was helping Epstein rehab his PR. They recorded dozens of hours of interviews to help Epstein change his image. He told him, "You're engaging. You're not threatening. You don't look at all creepy."
"Do you think you're the devil himself?"
"No, but I I do have a good mirror."
In April of 2019, Bannon writes to Epstein, "We must counter the narrative that says who traffic in female children to be by the world's most powerful, richest men." This is one of the most influential political operatives alive. The man who came up with Trumpism and designed the right-wing resurgence that dominates politics today. Sitting in Jeffrey Epstein's corner trying to help him fix his image. Even on the very same day Epstein was arrested, his last day alive as a free man, they were texting about meeting up for breakfast to continue their project of making Epstein look better and bring him back into the public eye. The last message reads, "All canled."
There's a lot of content I'm not going to cover in this video, and that's because the Files have become such a powerful, neverending stream of disgust and horror that there's no point in trying to cover all of it. I think at this point, we all get it. The Epstein files made it clear that his crimes were worse than most people imagined. It's worse than the government was willing to admit. The world allowed it to continue when it could have been stopped many times over and that Epstein was not just a pedophile, but somehow more connected to the highest levels of global politics and economics than anyone ever thought.
There are elected politicians walking out of classified briefings right now saying that they saw evidence of crimes against girls as young as nine. There are 14.6 6 terabt of what the FBI called obscene material. There are dozens of folders labeled child sex abuse material not scanned. And it all sits in between Epstein rubbing elbows with the most powerful people alive. And all of this comes from the years of Epstein's life where he was supposedly in hiding, supposedly disgraced by his crimes. All this stuff where Bill Gates and Elon Musk and Peter Teal are meeting up with him. A former prime minister of Israel stayed at his apartment 50 times, helped him invest in companies. Saudi billionaires are helping him buy islands. This was while he was in exile. Barack Obama's White House legal council was flying on his planes, sending him kissy emojis, calling him up to ask for gifts of handbags and shoes. The man who is today the United States Secretary of Commerce right now lied under oath about doing business with Epstein and vacationing on his island with his wife and kids. Then there's the tech billionaires. Almost every person who's now considered one of America's oligarchs, our country's hundred billionaires who wield an outsized influence over politics, they were meeting with Epstein for years while he was supposedly living shamefully in the shadows.
And still, after all of this, after everything we now know, 70 to 80% of the files are still redacted while the US government says there is no more story to tell and that Epstein was never running any kind of organized trafficking operation to begin with. Meanwhile, civil suits against his clients are settled left and right, with dozens of powerful people going into hiding after the Epstein files revealed their crimes against humanity. It is genuinely no wonder that people have started to think Epstein was a spy, that maybe he worked for MSAD or the CIA. The way our government reacts to him today, refusing to prosecute any of his confirmed accompllices, refusing to admit anything happened at all. Not only have they declared there will be no more charges, no more files, no more indictments. At the same time, they also haven't even investigated the site of his massive ranch in New Mexico, where he mysteriously won an $80 million lottery ticket, grew plants that are known for being used to incapacitate sexual assault victims, and hosted New Mexico's governor himself as a house guest. The institutions that are supposedly built to protect us, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the courts, Congress are not just failing to solve this case, they are actively choosing not to. And who else would they do that for besides someone who was benefiting from them? Under what other circumstances would Epstein's mysterious death be covered up? Because if Epstein were just an asset for Democrats or just Republicans or Russians, there would be a massive reward out there for whoever could expose what really happened. But there has been no such expose. So, who else could be protecting the truth about Epstein but the deep state itself?
And then one day I get a phone call from the president in September and he's so mad at me. He's yelling at me. He's angry. He's chewing me out for signing my name on Thomas Massiey's discharge petition to release the Epstein files. Green added, "And I'm trying to tell him, Mr. President, they say you did nothing wrong, but this needs to come out." And we're having this argument and he tells me on the phone call, "Marjgery, my friends will get hurt."
It's not like there isn't precedent for something like this. In the 1950s, the CIA opened a brothel in San Francisco specifically for the purpose of trying to develop mind control drugs. They would bring men off the street, literally just random guys, slip them psychedelic drugs after they were done with the prostitutes, and try to see if they became more easily influenced or controlled as a result. The experiment, of course, did not work. Instead, it just resulted in countless lives ruined and even deaths as American spies would go on to secretly test on American citizens for decades, including with MK Ultra, where they would set up fake research experiments and blast unsuspecting hospital patients with drugs to the point where hundreds of Americans had their brains melted, sometimes permanently, without ever knowing why. And so, the idea that an intelligence agency would allow unthinkably horrible crimes against innocent people as a means to an end is not science fiction. Honestly, it's old news. Of course, we only even know about all of this by accident. The CIA would do their best to destroy all evidence before it was suddenly unexpectedly revealed in the late '7s.
But when I look through stuff like this, I can't help but be reminded of Epstein himself. At 24 years old, Epste got hired at a job he had no business doing by the father of a future United States Attorney General, who at the same time had recently left his job in the OSS, the United States Spy Agency, before the CIA was formed. Then after being fired, Epstein ends up working as a banker at one of the most prestigious firms in New York City before being asked to leave when he got caught for insider trading. After that, he's on record working in some capacity for Adnan Kashigi, the Saudi billionaire arms dealer who was known around the world for being the key player in the Iran Contra scandal, where the US government, specifically the CIA, secretly illegally sold weapons to Iran during an international embargo. It was around this time that numerous people would go on record saying that Epstein had introduced himself to them as a CIA agent. He was also known for having and using multiple passports with different names on all of them.
Later on, he ends up in a long-term relationship with Galain Maxwell, daughter of Robert Maxwell, a man who not only owned hundreds of millions of dollars worth of publishing companies and newspapers, but was also known for having ties to Israeli intelligence to the point where he received an Israeli state funeral attended by the Israeli president, prime minister, and six serving MSAD officers, despite having never been an Israeli citizen himself. But Maxwell would famously suffer a death not dissimilar to Epstein as he mysteriously fell off the side of his boat while sailing around the Canary Islands in the early 90s during a time of financial instability in his business with rumors flying that he had been trying to extort MSAD at the same time. Epstein then magically starts accumulating an unbelievable amount of wealth in public while becoming one of the best connected people in the world at the same time. He's hosting presidents on his private island, flying celebrities around on his private Boeing jumbo jet, meeting the pope, and then even after he gets arrested for soliciting little girls as he somehow doesn't get prosecuted for all of the other evidence the FBI spent years accumulating against him. Ultimately, not even being sentenced to prison, but instead hanging out in a county jail for a few hours a day while he spends the rest of his time in an office taking meetings just as he always had. And even after he gets out of jail and is sent to register as a sex and live out the rest of his life in exile, he only accumulates more influence, meeting with the world's richest men. Somehow getting banks to give him a free pass to keep trafficking even though they knew he was doing it. And meanwhile, on the side, he's exerting his influence over a wide range of political situations and speaking in a form of code so obvious that it all but confirms his sex crimes against children only continued after his first time in jail. And then just weeks after being arrested a second time, before he can ever have his day in court, Epstein is found dead in his cell with evidence on his body that conflicts the official narrative stating he took his own life instead of having been killed by someone else. That is literally the biography of a spy.
And when you add all this together with the way that the US government has refused to offer any account of what Epstein was really doing and who his clients really were, instead putting forward shockingly flimsy deflections and excuses, it starts to look an awful lot like Epste may have never gotten away with anything, but instead was part of a much bigger machine than we currently understand. He was rich for essentially no explainable reason. Has a history going back decades of international spy involvement claiming to be a spy in front of other people. Was given a huge break after he was caught the first time with multiple people involved in his 2006 arrest saying that they were basically told not to pursue the case because of how important he was. And then you add in the fact that he was literally killed the next time they got him.
My point is that the Epstein files aren't just about what one man did. Epstein was a monster. You know, maybe he was eating babies. Maybe he was breeding kids in an underground lab in New Mexico and then we it's okay. He's bad. It was gross. But unfortunately, people like him are a fact of life. Some of them are billionaires. Some of them aren't. And there are a lot of examples of people doing stuff like what he did. I don't know if you guys are familiar with Jimmy Seville, the British radio host.ed hundreds of kids over decades and was never stopped. As horrible as it is, these things happen. And the point of the story is not about the monster. It's about the system that allows it. What really truly disturbs me about this story is how it shows us that we are in a world right now today where a registered sex offender can walk out of prison and then have the richest man on earth begging to visit his island within 2 years. And this is the thing I keep coming back to. It's not about the billionaires or the politicians or the intelligence agencies. It's about us. Because the reason the Epstein case won't die isn't because people are obsessed with conspiracy theories. It's not because people are bored or paranoid or looking for someone to blame. It's because when we were growing up, they told us the world was fair. That if you work hard, good things happen. That the people in charge earned their place and they're there to look out for us. That the system works. That the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice or whatever it is that the [ __ ] lil Reddit people say. And you know, you believe it because you're young and you trust the world you were born into. Why wouldn't you? And then slowly, piece by piece, we start to notice that things don't add up. A billionaire gets a slap on the wrist for something that would put you away for decades. Politicians lie on camera and nothing happens. A corporation poisons a river and they pay a fine that amounts to a Chipotle bowl out of their bank account. And each time we're told it's an exception, that the system isn't perfect, but it works. And then Jeffrey Epstein happens and it shows us the clearest, most undeniable proof that this story that a bunch of crazy people won't shut up about is actually true. There is a level of power where none of the rules apply. where you can do the most evil, depraved, unforgivable things imaginable to the most vulnerable, innocent people on earth and nothing will happen. Not because the system failed, but because the system worked. It did exactly what it was designed to do. Protect the people at the top. And it feels like a violation of our rights. Our rights as people to live in a world where our freedom and liberty are protected. And when people like Epstein are allowed to take people's freedom and liberty away and torture them, them and then get away with it. This is a crime against humanity. And that's why people care. That's why this case doesn't go away. Not because we're fascinated by Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes. He's dead. People care because of what it means for the rest of the world. People care because there are people out there right now today who are still rich beyond measure, still living like kings, free and powerful, who are passing around little girls as young as 9 years old like they were objects. And there has been no justice. They need the outrage to fade. They need you to accept that this is just how it is and there's nothing you can do about it. And maybe they're right. Maybe there isn't anything I can do. I'm just a guy on YouTube. I can't arrest anyone. I can't unseal the files. I can't undo what Jeffrey Epstein did. But I can refuse to shut up about it. I can refuse to let the story die. I can say, "Look at what they did. Look at who knew. Look at who's still walking free. And look at the world we actually live in." They want us to forget. It's our job to make sure that never happens.
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