How did he generate so much paperwork, traffic and comment? New York financier, mountebank, all purposes conman and dedicated rake that he was, Jeffrey Epstein continues to nag living figures from beyond the grave and place them in a tight spot of bother. His correspondence with these individuals runs into the millions, a figure suggesting his only work in life was being a pimp for pleasure and valet to the rotten.
The press vultures have been feeding most excitedly on the latest carrion released by the US Department of Justice on January 30 in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, comprising some 3.5 million pages with more than 180,000 images and 2,000 videos. “Today’s release marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance,” stated Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Leaving aside Blanche’s perky claim to thoroughbred compliance, those found corresponding or engaging with Epstein have had to qualify any engagement with the late financier as utterly innocent and certainly unconnected to the sexual trafficking arm he operated with the incarcerated Ghislaine Maxwell, herself the daughter of that mighty confidence trickster, serial litigant and press mogul, Robert Maxwell. What did not seem to bother Epstein’s vast network of correspondents, foolish confidants and dissolute playmates was a conviction for soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl in 2008. The sinner always knows best.
The list of the dishonourable is long and impossible to enumerate without expectorating. A handful of rummy specimens will suffice. We have the morally stunted tech brat billionaire Elon Musk discussing travel to Epstein’s properties for reasons of entertainment. “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”, he asks in one yearning inquiry. Musk continued to press the financier for information of any planned parties, claiming that he needed to “let loose”. “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.”
In 2009, despite Epstein serving a prison sentence at the time, the emails reveal the financial provision of a loan to Lord Peter Mandelson’s husband Reinaldo Avila da Silva regarding an osteopathy course. Mandelson, the Mr Fixit of Britain’s New Labour, had his tenure as UK ambassador to Washington terminated once the cloacal gatherings of his association with Epstein proved too hard to ignore.
We find Britain’s founder of Virgin Group, Richard Branson, expressing his pleasure at meeting Epstein before adding “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!” (The company hurriedly tried to dispel any needless assumptions of prurience: “harem” in this case was a reference to three adult members of the Epstein team.)
As is already known, royalty is not exempt from the turd lined trough. Recently deprived of his status as prince for scouring Epstein’s fleshpots with rutting glee, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, known as “The Duke” in the correspondence, is most accommodating to Epstein in emails sent in September 2010. “We could have dinner at Buckingham Palace and lots of privacy,” suggests Epstein. The reply: “Delighted for you to come here to BP [Buckingham Palace]. Come with whomever and I’ll be here free from 1600ish.”
The matter gets even more squalid with Mountbatten-Windsor’s former wife, Sarah Ferguson, calling Epstein the “brother” she “had always wished for.” (The provision of £15,000 to pay off her debts probably helped.) Showing how liberal his house arrest conditions were, Ferguson implies that the pair had lunch. An August 2009 exchange points to a meeting between Epstein and her daughters, Prince Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. “I have never been more touched by a friends [sic] kindness than your compliment to me in front of my girls.”
Showing that the royals of other countries also slid into the honeypot, Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit had extensive contact with Epstein between 2011 and 2014. From what can be gleaned from the correspondence, the financier had made quite an impression, being “soft hearted” and “such a sweetheart.” In one message dated November 1, 2012, the crown princess responds to a message of sheer gibberish discussing the protective facilities of nature and the problems of unnatural products. “You always make me smile,” she reflects. “Because you tickle my brain.”
The timing was most unfortunate for Mette-Marit, as her son, Marius Borg Høiby, is facing 38 criminal charges, including allegations of rape of four women including assault and drug offences. “I showed poor judgment and I deeply regret having had any contact with Epstein,” she said in a statement, conjuring up contrition. “It is simply embarrassing.”
Figures from the world of sports are not exempt. “We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition we discussed movies, philanthropy and investments,” claimed New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, mentioned over 400 times in the files. “I did not take him up on any of his invitations and never went to his island. As we all know, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with.”
To keep Tisch in sporting company is chairman of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, Casey Wasserman. In his case, it was an enduring infatuation with Epstein’s collaborator in vice, Ghislaine. “I think of you all the time,” he says in a charged exchange in 2003. “So what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?” A statement from Wasserman on the matter expressed “regret” for correspondence “which took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light.”
A generous assessment of these files would suggest the sense of sheer beguilement shown by Epstein’s correspondents, who seemed to be playing fools during much of their acquaintanceships. But the cosmic expansiveness of it all at the highest social and political level points to the ethically desiccated nature of the governing classes and their willingness to be depraved and blinded. Operating in the realm of power and influence, these figures have shown themselves to be dunces and cavorters before hedonism’s dance, utterly indifferent to the prospect that they would, eventually, be found out.
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“Operating in the realm of power and influence, these figures have shown themselves to be dunces and cavorters before hedonism’s dance, utterly indifferent to the prospect that they would, eventually, be found out.”
Exactly. And the same applies to all areas of criminality ranging from the mundane and of little significance to the abhorrent and of shattering consequence, such as the genocidal program helmed by the Israeli prime minister as a foil to prevent his jailing per illegal & corrupt behaviours.
OK, time to get serious ….. Let the voters see some of these ”important people” indicted for their crimes against the law so that everybody can confirm that the USA has one legal standard for everybody.
[OK, just kidding ….. in Australia politicians are held to different standards than mere hoi-poli, Anus Failure and the notorious $80 MILLION EMPTY GLASS of MDB water: Sus$san LeyZee and property buying trips at public expense and Beetrooter Joyce for sexual harassment, adultery and alcoholism, to name just a few.]
Lovely little dissertation on all those fuckheads who never imagined that their foibles and transgressions would be front page tabloid news.Oh, woe is them.
We must be nearing the bottom of the barrel…at least I hope so.
Gees cocky, give the Beetrooter a break,he’s only living up to his
extremely low standards, and by joining No Notion, has excelled himself.Be a leadership challenge any day now.
Missed one, guess not central to gross reports, trafficking etc., but familiar with Epstein.
The Guardian 22 Nov ’25
‘Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal’
From the latest Epstein drop* reporting suggests there seems to be far deeper and historical relationships of Epstein with both Israel and Russia, while the *drop seems to follow Wikileaks of hacked DNC emails. The latter is manifested in how details or reporting of the worst by the Trump DOJ is masked by sheer volume of documents….used to attack the centre or Dems, but give GOP & related perps a free pass?
@ Harry Lime: Beetrooter continuously “lives down” to standards lower than a snake’s belly. His 13 years of self-service while representing the NOtional$ in New England is ensuring thatthe region is becoming a genuine, original, authentic 19th century theme park to obscure the fact that the last 60 years has been political representation for the benefit of NOtional$ MPs rather than the regional voters.
The US Department of Justice are saying that they don’t anticipate any further prosecutions beyond that of Ghislaine Maxwell who, at best was a bit player and is now in low security custody.
The facilitator Epstein we are told committed suicide at a time when he was poised to spill the beans and name names in return for a plea deal.
Questions are again being asked about a possible hit-job on Epstein to keep him quiet.
Now it seems that none of the perpetrators will be charges due to lack of evidence, yet we know there are at last forty female victims who were trafficked and allegedly abused who are still seeking justice.
What are we to think of the US justice system ?
What are we to think of the US justice system, Terry Mills somewhat rhetorically asks? I’m certain Terry has a view, if he wishes to express it. Any fair-minded and dispassionate observer of the American justice system can delineate a long-standing nation-wide phenomenon where, to a large extent, those with money, power, influence, contacts in high places, get an easy ride when they cross the boundaries between legal and illegal behaviour.
By contrast, those Americans who exist in the lower fringes of that society, those who are not moneyed, or have powerful friends in high places, or are capable of influencing, or rub shoulders with politicians and lawyers, tend to get the heaviest of books thrown at them when they go astray. American jails are full of poor people, the riff raff, the white trash, Afro-Americans by their thousands… all of them fodder for the prisons-as-profit capitalistic enterprise, businesses for the soulless corporations to reap financial bonanzas out of the suffering and misery of American citizens.
The US justice system deals – not always, but by and large – leniently when it deals with people of wealth, power, privilege, and severely, mercilessly, when it deals with the powerless. It was always thus, and will likely always be.
And re. Epstein’s demise, anyone who believes he suicided is seriously mistaken.
‘A generous assessment of these files would suggest the sense of sheer beguilement shown by Epstein’s correspondents, who seemed to be playing fools during much of their acquaintanceships. But the cosmic expansiveness of it all at the highest social and political level points to the ethically desiccated nature of the governing classes and their willingness to be depraved and blinded. Operating in the realm of power and influence, these figures have shown themselves to be dunces and cavorters before hedonism’s dance, utterly indifferent to the prospect that they would, eventually, be found out.’
A generous and incisive assessment by Mr Kampmark assists in making room for complexities.
Yet I think hedonism is an overgenerous euphemism for good old garden-variety corruption. And while I agree that there would be a smattering of ‘guilelessness’ among the users of the Epstein jacuzzi, whose weaker, flawed selves – their constitutional lack of ethics happily diluted in the daily slosh of business and government – were fatally compromised, it would seem impossible to locate an ounce of integrity in anyone associated with Epstein thus far in the release of these files.
‘Beguilement’ is also an interesting choice of words, approximating various synonyms used to describe the subjective affects of ‘grooming’ by a predator experienced by his or her prey. Yet even for the suckers the public facts emerging by 2014 must have been impossible to ignore, requiring – if not repudiation – the act of not-seeing (blind-sidedness), or ‘compartmentalisation’ (where mental doors are closed against those rooms one does not wish to see into), or blanket ‘denial’ in the face of a politically inconvenient moral dilemma, or maybe just fingers crossed.
Hebephile Epstein’s main game and source of wealth was implicit blackmail. The shiny black spider in his luxe island lair understood corruption and its multiple degrees of freedom. But not everyone was both guileless and a corrupt schmuck as was (seemingly) the gay ex-UK Ambassador Lord Mandelson (why would his husband want three grand from Epstein and via direct dealings?); many who should have known better were lured from the the peripheries into Epstein’s vast business network only to be fatally compromised by careless association with a child trafficker that yielded this mastermind the leverage required for whatever was his lucrative deal of the moment.
There is some evidence that we grown-ups still do not fully grasp the animal cunning, Machiavellian nature of ‘grooming’ – whether it’s in service to the sexual seduction of children or the manipulation of business associates and politicians. My impression of Jeffrey Epstein is that he was a past master of both realms of activity – until suddenly he wasn’t.
All the above, and yet… What about Donnie? He has previously been found in amongst it. But since then, one might easily imagine that his stuff & nonsense is amongst the many thousands of pages missing, and / or that he’s (whilst incessantly dithering) been blanked out.
Even so SCOTUS (a member of which also has associations with corruption), will be minuscule in slow reading, and linguistically strangulated in its considerations and findings.
By which time the orange crumplestilitskin will be rendered to hell’s fire and the not-to-be-mentioned past.
@Clakka
When one considers Netanyahu’s willingness to resort to genocide rather than go to prison for fraud (in light of evidence that the Israeli Government/Intelligence were aware of the attack plan for “over a year”), the idea that after hollowing out the DOJ the Commander-in-Chief might resort to extrajudicial killing sprees to effect a diabolical distraction from the Epstein files would not seem overly conspiratorial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_government_response_to_the_October_7_attacks
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/the-trump-doj-has-collapsed-and-it-aint-pretty
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf
Oops, maybe Epstein is not actually deceased?
Living in Israel so it seems, and there is a school of thought that have had that notion for some time.
Would explain a lot.