<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-epstein-died-because-incompetence-not-daily-wire">Jeffrey Epstein</a> confidant and alleged madam <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epsteins-ghislaine-maxwell-will-get-highest-security-available-report-says">Ghislaine Maxwell</a> allegedly boasted of having videos of at least two U.S. politicians having sex with underage girls, a friend of the duo – a former jewel thief – told British tabloid <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12091701/epstein-maxwell-people-sex-under-age-girls/">The Sun</a> last week.
The source, the author of “Sex and the Serial Killer,&#8221; who writes under the pseudonym William Steel, claims he helped the couple obtain jewelry for the girls they groomed and also had sex with Maxwell, whom he described as a &#8220;nymphomaniac,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/ghislaine-maxwell-allegedly-filmed-politicians-with-underage-girls/">New York Post</a>.
“It was mostly tennis bracelets, charm bracelets, women’s Piaget watches,” Steel said, regarding the hot goods he allegedly provided to Epstein and Maxwell.
Steel claims the duo tried to impress him by boasting of intimate knowledge and showing him videos that included high profile figures engaged in sex and orgies.
The reformed thief says he&#8217;s handed over all information he has to authorities and is willing to testify against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-and-his-alleged-madam-ghislaine-maxwell-exchanged-20-million-over-5-years">Maxwell</a>, who was arrested earlier this month and charged with sex-trafficking of minors.
&#8220;Steel, who claims he once swiped computer discs from the couple and sent the discs to authorities, did not reveal the identities of the people he says he saw in the videos,&#8221; the Post noted. Steel revealed Maxwell did &#8220;everything and anything in bed,&#8221; but said the alleged madam never touched anyone underage.
“I was forced to watch <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/07/ghislaine-maxwell-allegedly-has-video-footage-of-prince-andrew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">their videos</a> because they were trying to impress me,” the author said. “They wanted to convince me of their power and who they held in their grip. I saw videos of very powerful people — celebrities, world figures — in those videos having sex, threesomes, even orgies with minors.”
According to Steel, Maxwell, who dated Epstein at one time, told him that she knew that Epstein would be &#8220;the death&#8221; of her.
“She said to me that she often thought she needed to do something about Epstein, telling me, ‘He is going to be the death of me,&#8217;” Steel relayed to The Sun.
Apparently, the author added, Maxwell had an escape plan if she were to ever be caught, which she dubbed the &#8220;Polanski plan” after filmmaker Roman Polanski, who fled the U.S. for France after being convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
“She told me about her Polanski plan where she would flee to France because they couldn’t extradite her,” he allegedly recalled.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeffrey-epsteins-confidant-ghislaine-maxwell-transferred-to-ny-prison">Fox News</a>, “Prosecutors alleged that Maxwell, between 1994-1997, ‘assisted, facilitated and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom and ultimately abuse victims known to Maxwell and Epstein to be under the age of 18.’ They added, ‘Moreover, in an effort to conceal her crimes, Maxwell repeatedly lied when questioned about her conduct, including in relation to some of the minor victims… when providing testimony under oath in 2016.'&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epsteins-ghislaine-maxwell-will-get-highest-security-available-report-says">Epstein’s Ghislaine Maxwell Will Get Highest Security Available, Report Says</a>
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Ghislaine Maxwell Allegedly Has Video Of U.S. Politicians Having Sex With Underage Girls, Former Friend Says

Jeffrey Epstein

According to a law enforcement source, the security team assigned to Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime friend and alleged madam for Jeffrey Epstein who was moved on Monday to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, a federal prison, will be the highest-level security available.
“She’ll be shadowed by prison officers every time she leaves her cell and a surveillance camera will be trained on her cell, according to the source,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/prison-officials-want-to-avoid-ghislaine-maxwell-suicide/">the New York Post</a> reported. The source added, “They want to make sure she’ll stand trial,” pointing out that the Bureau of Prisons wants to avoid another “black eye.”
Maxwell’s bail hearing is currently pending after she was arrested last week and charged with sex-trafficking of minors, the same charge Epstein faced before he allegedly committed suicide in a Lower Manhattan jail cell.
An alleged victim of Epstein and Maxwell claimed that she was a young teenager when Maxwell performed “sexualized massages” with her and Epstein. The Post stated, “During the abuse, Maxwell and the teen engaged in sex acts with Epstein after the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/03/ghislaine-maxwell-groomed-young-epstein-assistant-lawsuit/">pair had groomed the girl</a> and normalized sexual abuse to her, according to authorities. In a similar scheme in London, Maxwell befriended another teen in the early 1990s and pushed the girl to give Epstein massages, prosecutors said.”
“Prosecutors alleged that Maxwell, between 1994-1997, ‘assisted, facilitated and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom and ultimately abuse victims known to Maxwell and Epstein to be under the age of 18.’ They added, ‘Moreover, in an effort to conceal her crimes, Maxwell repeatedly lied when questioned about her conduct, including in relation to some of the minor victims&#8230; when providing testimony under oath in 2016,’” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeffrey-epsteins-confidant-ghislaine-maxwell-transferred-to-ny-prison">Fox News</a> reported.
Epstein’s alleged suicide was contested after his death; forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who saw Epstein’s autopsy, <a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/01/05/jeffrey-epstein-murder-60-minutes/">told</a> CBS’ “60 Minutes,” “There were fractures of the left, the right thyroid cartilage and the left hyoid bone. I have never seen three fractures like this in a suicidal hanging. Sometimes there’s a fracture of the hyoid bone or a fracture of the thyroid cartilage … very unusual to have two, not three, and going over, over a thousand jail hangings and suicides in the New York state prisons over the past forty, fifty years, no one had three fractures.”
The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office, which asserted that Epstein indeed committed suicide, took issue with Baden’s supposition, saying that fractures of the hyoid bone and cartilage could be seen in suicides and homicides.
Two weeks before Epstein’s death, he was placed on <a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/11/19/jeffrey-epstein-correction-officers-could-face-charges/">suicide watch</a> after bruises were discovered on his neck. Roughly a week before his death, he was taken off suicide watch and moved into a high-security housing unit, where correction officers were supposed to check on him every 30 minutes.
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Epstein’s Ghislaine Maxwell Will Get Highest Security Available, Report Says

Prison

The following is satirical. 
A team of crack medical experts have produced a preliminary report declaring that Ghislaine Maxwell will have committed suicide when she is found hanging dead in her cell.
Miss Maxwell was arrested by the FBI after the FBI discovered that now that they weren’t spying on Republican political candidates for Barack Obama, they had a lot of time on their hands and might as well do something sort of fun like catching criminals.
So they charged Miss Maxwell with procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in a manner remarkably similar to the manner in which Miss Maxwell will have killed herself when she kills herself.
The team of crack medical experts who filed the report is the same team of cracks who recently declared that people who attended massive protests with riots and looting would not contract or spread the Chinese Flu if their cause was just, their hearts were true, and they really needed a 400-dollar pair of sneakers.
The cracks reached their conclusion by combining the report of a virtual autopsy on the soon-to-be-deceased Miss Maxwell with an Excel Spreadsheet charting how much money you can make as a CNN commentator if you’re willing to talk absolute drivel.
According to the crack findings, Miss Maxwell will have told several unnamed people she was depressed and thinking of ending it all, which should allay any suspicions arising from the fact that the video cameras tracking her cell will only play back old episodes of Madam Secretary and the fact that the entire shift of prison guards witnessed nothing because they had left the building to attend the prison’s first annual Vince Foster Memorial Bocce Ball tournament.
A spokesman for the team of crack medical experts, crack expert Dr. Harvey Crack, told CNN — for a small fee — that the crack experts had released the crack preliminary report to stave off any insane conservative conspiracy theories linking Miss Maxwell’s death to all the other people murdered by the Clintons.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sports-leagues-announce-theyll-change-games-to-insure-they-dont-offend-audience-theyll-no-longer-have-satire">Sports Leagues Announce They’ll Change Games To Ensure They Don’t Offend Audience They’ll No Longer Have</a>

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Medical Experts Declare Ghislaine Maxwell Will Have Committed Suicide When She Commits Suicide [Satire]

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Over the course of five years, deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged &#8220;Madam,&#8221; Ghislaine Maxwell, exchanged $20 million in financial attractions.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/us/ghislaine-maxwell-mysterious-financial-dealings-jeffrey-epstein/index.html">reported</a> that the funds were discovered as federal prosecutors closed in on arresting Maxwell for her role in allegedly procuring underage girls for Epstein. The mysterious financial transactions “add a new layer to the mysterious financial complexities underpinning the larger Epstein saga,” the outlet reported. More from CNN:
<blockquote>The financial relationship between Epstein, the late multimillionaire whose sources of wealth remain largely murky, and Maxwell, the British socialite whose newspaper tycoon father died just before being implicated in a massive pension fraud scandal, has long been difficult to decipher.
The two ran in the rarefied world of billionaire bankers and society figures, but it was unclear how either came to have the means to support such a lifestyle.</blockquote>
While announcing the charges against Maxwell, federal prosecutors explained that for five years starting in 2007, more than $20 million was exchanged between the socialite and Epstein’s bank accounts, with sums going in both directions.
Prosecutors wrote in their filings against Maxwell that the socialite’s “financial resources appear to be substantial, and her numerous accounts and substantial money movements render her total financial picture opaque and indeterminate, even upon a review of bank records available to the Government,&#8221; rendering her a flight risk.
The FBI arrested Maxwell on Thursday at the New Hampshire home where she was hiding out, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fbi-arrests-jeffrey-epstein-confidante-ghislaine-maxwell-report-says">reported</a>. Maxwell is alleged to have procured girls as young as 14 for Epstein to sexually abuse and to have groomed the young girls for Epstein. She was charged with two counts of Conspiracy to Entice Minors to Travel to Engage in Illegal Sex Acts, two counts of Conspiracy to Transport Minors with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity, and two counts of Perjury.
“In particular, from at least in or about 1994, up to and including at least in or about 1997, MAXWELL assisted, facilitated, and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims known to MAXWELL and Epstein to be under the age of 18,” prosecutors alleged in the indictment against Maxwell. “As a part and in furtherance of their scheme to abuse minor victims, GHISLAINE MAXWELL, the defendant, and Jeffrey Epstein enticed and caused minor victims to travel to Epstein’s residences in different states, which MAXWELL knew and intended would result in their grooming for and subjection to sexual abuse.”
The allegations of perjury pertain to a deposition Maxwell gave in 2016 as part of a civil case. She is accused of lying in multiple questions, including:
<blockquote>Question: Did Jeffrey Epstein have a scheme to recruit underage girls for sexual massages? If you know.
Maxwell: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Question: List all the people under the age of 18 that you interacted with at any of Jeffrey’s properties?
Maxwell: I’m not aware of anybody that I interacted with, other than obviously [the plaintiff] who was 17 at this point.</blockquote>
Maxwell is also alleged to have lied during the following questions:
<blockquote>Question: Were you aware of the presence of sex toys or devices used in sexual activities in Mr. Epstein’s Palm Beach house?
Maxwell: No, not that I recall. …
Question: Do you know whether Mr. Epstein possessed sex toys or devices used in sexual activities?
Maxwell: No.
Question: Other than yourself and the blond and brunette that you have identified as having been involved in three-way sexual activities, with whom did Mr. Epstein have sexual activities?
Maxwell: I wasn’t aware that he was having sexual activities with anyone when I was with him other than myself.
Question: I want to be sure that I’m clear. Is it your testimony that in the 1990s and 2000s, you were not aware that Mr. Epstein was having sexual activities with anyone other than yourself and the blond and brunette on those few occasions when they were involved with you?
Maxwell: That is my testimony, that is correct.
…
Question: Is it your testimony that you’ve never given anybody a massage?
Maxwell: I have not given anyone a massage.
Question: You never gave Mr. Epstein a massage, is that your testimony?
Maxwell: That is my testimony.
Question: You never gave [Minor Victim-2] a massage is your testimony?
Maxwell: I never gave [Minor Victim-2] a massage.</blockquote>
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Jeffrey Epstein And His Alleged ‘Madam,’ Ghislaine Maxwell, Exchanged $20 Million Over 5 Years

The Justice Department unsealed six criminal charges that Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell is facing after the FBI arrested her on Thursday morning.
The unsealed indictment shows that Maxwell faces two counts of Conspiracy to Entice Minors to Travel to Engage in Illegal Sex Acts, two counts of Conspiracy to Transport Minors with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity, and two counts of Perjury.
&#8220;In particular, from at least in or about 1994, up to and including at least in or about 1997, MAXWELL assisted, facilitated, and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims known to MAXWELL and Epstein to be under the age of 18,&#8221; prosecutors alleged in the indictment. &#8220;As a part and in furtherance of their scheme to abuse minor victims, GHISLAINE MAXWELL, the defendant, and Jeffrey Epstein enticed and caused minor victims to travel to Epstein&#8217;s residences in different states, which MAXWELL knew and intended would result in their grooming for and subjection to sexual abuse.&#8221;
Prosecutors allege that Maxwell recruited and groomed Epstein&#8217;s underage victims by asking the victims personal questions about their lives and taking them out to the movies or shopping in order to build relationships with them. Maxwell then allegedly used the trust and rapport that she had developed with each minor to transition the relationship into meeting the Epstein&#8217;s sexual desires.
Maxwell and Epstein &#8220;and others known and unknown, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other to commit an offense against the United States, to wit, transportation of minors,&#8221; the indictment said. Maxwell and Epstein &#8220;and others known and unknown, would and did, knowingly transport an individual who had not attained the age of 18 in interstate and foreign commerce, with intent that the individual engage in sexual activity for which a person can be charged with a criminal offense.&#8221;
Regarding the perjury charges, the indictment says that Maxwell &#8220;knowingly made false material declarations&#8221; to the U.S. government in sworn testimony in an alleged attempt to conceal her actions.
The perjury charges stem from a 2016 deposition that she gave in a civil case in Manhattan federal court that was tied to accusations made against Epstein.
In reference to the first perjury charge, the indictment highlighted the following answers that Maxwell gave to questions that are alleged to be lies:
<blockquote>Question: Did Jeffrey Epstein have a scheme to recruit underage girls for sexual massages? If you know.
Maxwell: I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about.
Question: List all the people under the age of 18 that you interacted with at any of Jeffrey&#8217;s properties?
Maxwell: I&#8217;m not aware of anybody that I interacted with, other than obviously [the plaintiff] who was 17 at this point.</blockquote>
In reference to the second perjury charge, the indictment highlighted the following answers that Maxwell gave to questions that are alleged to be lies:
<blockquote>Question: Were you aware of the presence of sex toys or devices used in sexual activities in Mr. Epstein&#8217;s Palm Beach house?
Maxwell: No, not that I recall. &#8230;
Question: Do you know whether Mr. Epstein possessed sex toys or devices used in sexual activities?
Maxwell: No.
Question: Other than yourself and the blond and brunette that you have identified as having been involved in three-way sexual activities, with whom did Mr. Epstein have sexual activities?
Maxwell: I wasn&#8217;t aware that he was having sexual activities with anyone when I was with him other than myself.
Question: I want to be sure that I&#8217;m clear. Is it your testimony that in the 1990s and 2000s, you were not aware that Mr. Epstein was having sexual activities with anyone other than yourself and the blond and brunette on those few occasions when they were involved with you?
Maxwell: That is my testimony, that is correct.
&#8230;
Question: Is it your testimony that you&#8217;ve never given anybody a massage?
Maxwell: I have not given anyone a massage.
Question: You never gave Mr. Epstein a massage, is that your testimony?
Maxwell: That is my testimony.
Question: You never gave [Minor Victim-2] a massage is your testimony?
Maxwell: I never gave [Minor Victim-2] a massage.</blockquote>
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Charges Against Jeffrey Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Unsealed

Sex Trafficking

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reportedly arrested British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was a confidante of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and allegedly served as a madam for his sex trafficking enterprise.
&#8220;She was arrested in New Hampshire on Epstein-related charges and is expected to appear in a federal court later today,&#8221; NBC New York <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ghislaine-maxwell-arrested-jeffrey-epstein-aide/2495762/?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">reported</a>. &#8220;She was also alleged to have helped Epstein groom teen girls for sex with the rich and powerful. One of those teens, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, leveled that charge against Maxwell in a 2015 defamation suit.&#8221;
Epstein was arrested during the first week of July last year after a federal judge had ruled earlier in the year that federal prosecutors &#8220;broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein,&#8221; The Miami Herald <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article226577419.html">reported</a>.
The deal involved a 2008 plea deal where he pled guilty to &#8220;one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution of a minor under the age of 18,&#8221; CBS New York <a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/08/10/timeline-of-the-life-and-crimes-of-jeffrey-epstein/">reported</a>, adding the Epstein was &#8220;given a sentence of 18 months in jail plus a year of community service.&#8221;
The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking dozens of minor girls. Epstein was later found dead in his jail cell a month later on August 10. His death was ruled a suicide, a claim that has widely been scrutinized.
Epstein once <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303">referred</a> to Maxwell as his &#8220;best friend.&#8221;
Laura Goldman, a friend of Maxwell&#8217;s, <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10589347/ghislaine-maxwell-dirt-powerful-people-epstein/">told</a> The Sun last year that Maxwell believes that she can evade prosecution because she apparently has &#8220;dirt&#8221; on powerful people.
&#8220;Ghislaine and her sister Isabel remain totally convinced that she&#8217;ll escape any criminal convictions and will eventually clear the family name and return to high society once the dust has settled,&#8221; Goldman said. &#8220;She has wealthy connections who hide her and even pay some legal fees. She can stay out of the public eye as long as she wants.&#8221;
&#8220;Ghislaine is so confident that she&#8217;ll be back that she&#8217;s still texting friends in different social circles while she&#8217;s in hiding,&#8221; Goldman continued. &#8220;She&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t think that she did anything wrong. She obviously has some serious dirt on someone to be so sure of herself in the circumstances.&#8221;
This is a breaking news story, refresh the page for updates.
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FBI Arrests Jeffrey Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, Report Says

The Department of Justice has requested an interview with Prince Andrew in connection with an alleged sex trafficking ring run by the financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell last year while awaiting trial for rape and sexual abuse charges. Prince Andrew was a longtime acquaintance of the financier and has been accused of sexually abusing girls trafficked by Epstein.
The DOJ asked to interview the Duke of York through a mutual legal assistance treaty request, used between countries seeking help with criminal investigations, sources familiar with the request told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/uk/prince-andrew-us-doj-epstein-investigation-gbr-intl/index.html">CNN</a>.
Prince Andrew’s attorneys issued a lengthy statement to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/prince-andrew-us-investigation-jeffrey-epstein-attorneys">Fox News</a> saying that the prince has never been a “target” of the DOJ’s investigation into Epstein’s accomplices.
“To date, we have chosen not to make any public statement regarding our discussions with the US Department of Justice (DOJ),” London-based law firm Blackfords LLP said. “Our commitment to confidentiality is not only regarded as best practice in the UK but is also intended to respect the DOJ’s commitment to confidentiality, as set out in its own rules as they apply to discussion with potential witnesses.”
“As the public record indicates the DOJ has been actively investigating Mr. Epstein and other targets for more than 16 years, yet the first time they requested the Duke’s help was on 2nd January 2020,” the law firm continued. “Importantly, the DOJ advised us that the Duke is not and has never been a ‘target’ of their criminal investigations into Epstein and that they sought his confidential, voluntary cooperation. In the course of these discussions, we asked the DOJ to confirm that our co-operation and any interview arrangements would remain confidential, in accordance with the ordinary rules that apply to voluntary co-operation with the DOJ.”
“We were given an unequivocal assurance that our discussions and the interview process would remain confidential,” the firm said. “The Duke of York has on at least three occasions this year offered his assistance as a witness to the DOJ. Unfortunately, the DOJ has reacted to the first two offers by breaching their own confidentiality rules and claiming that the Duke has offered zero cooperation. In doing so, they are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.”
U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman, who is leading the investigation into Epstein’s sex ring, has said multiple times that the Duke of York has rebuffed all requests from the DOJ seeking assistance with its investigation, despite Prince Andrew’s public statements to the contrary.
“Today, Prince Andrew yet again sought to falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to cooperate with an ongoing federal criminal investigation into sex trafficking and related offenses committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, even though the Prince has not given and interview to federal authorities, has repeatedly declined our request to schedule such an interview, and nearly four months ago informed us unequivocally – through the very same council who issued today’s release – that he would not come in for an interview,” Berman said in a statement on Monday. “If Prince Andrew is, in fact, serious about cooperating with the ongoing federal investigation, our doors remain open, and we await word of when we should expect him.”
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Prince Andrew has <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a28804844/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-friendship-mistake-buckingham-palace/">denied</a> allegations that he took part in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme and said that continuing his associations with Epstein were “a mistake and an error” after the dead financier was convicted of soliciting sex from an underage girl in 2008.
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Report: DOJ Wants Britain To Hand Over Prince Andrew For Questions On Epstein

Justice Department officials filed a formal request, Monday, demanding that Britain&#8217;s Prince Andrew, who was known to be a close friend of convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein, submit to questioning in their investigation of Epstein&#8217;s global sex assault and sex trafficking ring.
&#8220;The request, made under a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, or MLAT, is similar to a subpoena in this case for Prince Andrew&#8217;s testimony,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/prosecutors-formally-request-talk-prince-andrew-epstein-investigation-n1227146">NBC News reported Monday</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s a rare move to seek an interview like this through MLAT, officials say, and it&#8217;s focused on making sure the investigation is as thorough as possible.&#8221;
The request was submitted to the United Kingdom&#8217;s Home Office, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/uk/prince-andrew-us-doj-epstein-investigation-gbr-intl/index.html">CNN added</a>, the department of the U.K. government responsible for security matters.
The Department of Justice says that, despite public claims to the contrary, Prince Andrew has been unwilling to answer investigators&#8217; questions about his relationship with Epstein and Epstein&#8217;s one-time girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is suspected of helping to run Epstein&#8217;s global sex trafficking ring. Prince Andrew admitted that he was friends with Epstein and Maxwell in a disastrous interview with the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Newsnight.&#8221;
Questions also remain as to whether Prince Andrew participated in Epstein&#8217;s notorious parties, where Epstein paired rich and famous men with young girls. Prince Andrew denies any involvement with the operation. The DOJ said Monday that the Prince is not a target in their probe.
&#8220;Federal investigators have been trying for months to speak with the Duke of York, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and a longtime friend of Epstein&#8217;s who has been accused by one woman of sexual abuse,&#8221; NBC News reported Monday, explaining the DOJ&#8217;s decision to issue a subpoena to Prince Andrew.
Prince Andrew&#8217;s legal team fired back at the DOJ, claiming &#8220;that the DOJ reacted to the first two offers of assistance by breaching its own confidentiality rules and claiming that Prince Andrew has offered zero cooperation.&#8221;
The team insists that Prince Andrew has offered to serve as a witness and answer questions. “Far from our client acting above the law, as has been implied by press briefings in the U.S., he is being treated by a lower standard than might reasonably be expected for any other citizen,&#8221; the team added. “In [issuing the statement, the DOJ] are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.&#8221;
Investigators have had difficulty piecing together the elements of Epstein&#8217;s operation. Epstein himself committed suicide in jail last year after being hit with a new round of sex crimes charges. Maxwell, who knew more about Epstein&#8217;s operation than perhaps any other individual, went into hiding after Epstein&#8217;s death. Before disappearing, she also denied any involvement in Epstein&#8217;s operation, though at least one civil lawsuit, filed in 2009, alleges that Maxwell was Epstein&#8217;s partner and was directly involved in identifying and grooming girls for his ring.
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DOJ Issues Official Demand To Prince Andrew: Speak With Us About Epstein

According to a forthcoming book, former President Bill Clinton had a romantic affair with Ghislaine Maxwell, a British-born socialite and former girlfriend to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In &#8220;A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein,” authors Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper claim Clinton was around Epstein, who committed suicide this past summer, to be close to Maxwell, not to sleep with underaged girls.
The socialite, a former girlfriend of Epstein, is accused of helping to procure underaged girls for her ex and even engaging in the sexual abuse herself.
&#8220;Clinton was allegedly carrying on an affair with at least one woman in Epstein’s orbit, but she was well over the age of consent,&#8221; an expert from the book reportedly says, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/27/book-claims-bill-clinton-had-an-affair-with-ghislaine-maxwell/">New York Post</a>. &#8220;Ghislaine Maxwell, a constant presence at the ex- president’s side during these trips, was the primary reason Clinton let Epstein ferry him around the world.&#8221;
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<blockquote>“[Bill] and Ghislaine were getting it on,” a source who witnessed the relationship said in an interview. “That’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/07/21/ghislaine-maxwell-brought-bill-clinton-to-jeffrey-epstein-report/">why he was around Epstein</a>—to be with her.”
The source explained that reporters have been missing the point about the Clinton- Epstein relationship by focusing on Epstein’s sex crimes. “[Clinton’s] stupid but not an idiot,” the source says, dismissing the idea that the ex- president was sexually involved with children.
Clinton’s primary interest in Epstein was the woman he once dated and who allegedly helped procure her ex-boyfriend’s future victims.</blockquote>
Clinton and Maxwell were reportedly together in the States, and not just overseas.
&#8220;It continued in New York City, where Clinton on multiple occasions visited Maxwell’s own private townhome at 116 East Sixty-fifth Street, an $11 million pad that runs a touch below seven thousand square feet, much more modest than Epstein’s palatial townhome a few blocks north,&#8221; the book claimed, the Post reported.
In 2002, the former president and Maxwell &#8220;were spotted dining together at the Madison Avenue Italian mainstay Nello, according to a 2002 New York magazine article, which described Maxwell as a &#8216;man-eater&#8217; in the same paragraph. When Clinton went stag to a New York education charity gala in late 2001 — Hillary declined to attend — Maxwell was reportedly at his side,&#8221; the report added.
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According to Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, Clinton visited Little Saint James Island, also known as &#8220;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-orgy-island-tourist-attraction-photos-2019-8">Orgy Island</a>,&#8221; though the accuser says she&#8217;d never seen the former president engage in any sexual acts.
“I have seen reports saying or implying that I had sex with former president Bill Clinton on Little Saint James Island,” Giuffre reportedly said, per court documents. “<a href="https://pagesix.com/2015/01/24/sex-slave-claims-bill-clinton-visited-epsteins-orgy-island">Former president Bill Clinton was present on the island</a> at a time when I was also present on the island, but I have never had sexual relations with Clinton, nor have I ever claimed to have such relations. I have never seen him have sexual relations with anyone.”
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As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/perverted-pyramid-scheme-new-jeffrey-epstein-documentary-reveals-he-allegedly-paid-women-to-bring-him-more-victims">The Daily Wire</a>, &#8220;Maxwell won’t have to answer questions as part of a civil suit against her just yet. Her attorneys successfully argued that the civil suit should wait until after the criminal investigation into Maxwell’s complicity with Epstein was complete.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/perverted-pyramid-scheme-new-jeffrey-epstein-documentary-reveals-he-allegedly-paid-women-to-bring-him-more-victims">‘Perverted Pyramid Scheme’: New Jeffrey Epstein Documentary Reveals He Allegedly Paid Women To Bring Him More Victims</a>
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

Bill Clinton Had Affair With Woman Who Allegedly Procured Underage Girls For Jeffrey Epstein, New Book Claims

A new documentary claims convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid his young female victims to find him new victims.
The four-part docuseries, “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” will premiere on Netflix starting Wednesday. A new trailer revealed the alarming information, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/24/epstein-ran-pyramid-scheme-to-get-ever-revolving-door-of-girls/">reported</a>. A voiceover says Epstein offered his young victims cash to bring him new victims in an “ever-revolving door of girls.”
“These girls brought other girls too,” the voiceover said.
The Post referred to it as “a perverted pyramid scheme” and reported that Haley Robson spoke to filmmakers about the payments. The Sun <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11695491/netflix-epstein-filthy-rich-pyramid-girls-recruit/">reported</a> that Robson told filmmakers she rebuffed Epstein’s advances, but he said he would pay her $200 to bring some of her friends over to meet him. She estimated that she recruited about 24 underage girls to visit Epstein, mostly her friends and classmates.
“It’s a trade. And it goes on and on and on,” Robson said in the trailer.
More from The Sun:
<blockquote>Prosecutors said he amassed a “vast network” of girls as young as 14 who he would lure to his homes and sexually abuse.
The documentary goes into detail about how Epstein was able to lure girls to abuse and hears from victims who say they were paid to recruit other victims.
It details how a pattern emerged of one friend recruiting two friends who in turn recruited another two friends.
Attorney Brad Edwards represents victim Courtney Wild, who he met after the FBI started investigating Epstein, and started building a case against the sex offender.</blockquote>
Edwards explained in the documentary that he and his team created a flow chart of all Epstein’s victims. He said it took 30 days to complete but even then they suspect it could be five times larger than what was initially created.
&#8220;We had to prove that this pyramid of underage girls in Palm Beach was true,&#8221; Edwards said. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t start from just a random underage girl walking into the house.&#8221;
Epstein committed suicide in prison last August. His close friend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been accused of procuring underage girls for the multimillionaire and even sexually abusing them. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeffrey-epsteins-madam-wont-have-to-answer-questions-about-allegedly-sexual-battery-of-a-minor-yet">reported</a>, Maxwell won’t have to answer questions as part of a civil suit against her just yet. Her attorneys successfully argued that the civil suit should wait until after the criminal investigation into Maxwell’s complicity with Epstein was complete.
The Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/22/ghislaine-maxwell-searched-trailer-parks-for-epsteins-girls/">reported</a> over the weekend that Maxwell allegedly “trolled trailer parks to find girls for pedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein to fuel his insatiable sexual appetite,” according o Prince Andrew’s cousin. The cousin made the claims as part of different Epstein documentary set to air Monday on Investigation Discovery.
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‘Perverted Pyramid Scheme’: New Jeffrey Epstein Documentary Reveals He Allegedly Paid Women To Bring Him More Victims

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The woman accused of procuring underage women for deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein won’t have to submit to questioning as part of a civil suit alleging she participated in the sexual battery of a teen girl.
ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-agrees-delay-testimony-jeffrey-epstein-confidant-ghislaine/story?id=70843577">reported</a> that Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys requested her questioning be postponed “because of an ongoing federal criminal investigation into Epstein&#8217;s alleged co-conspirators and because a victims&#8217; compensation fund proposed by Epstein&#8217;s estate is said to be nearing final approval.”
&#8220;I&#8217;m permitting her not to respond to [written questions] and not to have her deposition,&#8221; Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman said in her ruling. &#8220;Not forever, but at least long enough to let us know whether the claims process is likely to go forward.&#8221;
The civil suit against Maxwell came from one of Epstein’s alleged victims, Annie Farmer, who said she was “recruited and groomed by Epstein and Maxwell in 1996, and that Maxwell sexually assaulted her at Epstein&#8217;s New Mexico ranch when Farmer was 16,” ABC reported.
&#8220;Annie was extremely distressed and afraid. She was a child in a massive ranch in New Mexico, away from her family in Arizona, and isolated from any source of help. She was alone with Epstein and Maxwell,&#8221; Farmer&#8217;s lawsuit said.
Farmer’s attorney, according to ABC, argued against the delay because it was uncertain how long the criminal investigation would take.
&#8220;We have no indication of any time frame with respect to &#8230; how long that investigation could go on,&#8221; said attorney Sigrid McCawley, who represents Farmer and four other women suing Epstein’s estate. &#8220;And to not be able to get discovery and ask Miss Maxwell questions &#8230; that puts us in handcuffs with respect to being able to establish our claims.&#8221;
Magistrate Freeman addressed the concerns by saying she had “no desire to have this drag out.&#8221; ABC reported that Freeman wanted an update on the investigation in mid-June.
Maxwell, according to the outlet, has not been seen in public in months.
Maxwell’s attorney wrote in a letter to court that the British socialite “absolutely denies that she participated in this or any other sexual abuse or trafficking or assault, and no court, judge or jury has ever determined that she has.”
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-madam-is-planning-a-tv-interview-to-tell-her-side-of-the-story">reported</a> in December, Maxwell was planning to give a TV interview to tell her side of the story. The interview never happened. It was reported in January that Maxwell apparently believed she could avoid prosecution by revealing “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epsteins-madam-apparently-thinks-she-can-avoid-prosecution-because-she-has-serious-dirt-on-powerful-people">serious dirt</a>” on powerful people. At the time, one of Maxwell’s friends <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10589347/ghislaine-maxwell-dirt-powerful-people-epstein/">told The Sun</a> that the British socialite had so much dirt on rich and powerful people she thinks she can return to her party lifestyle after “the dust has settled.”
“The Brit socialite, accused of procuring underaged girls for billionaire paedophile Epstein, remains ‘totally convinced’ that she can stay in hiding and eventually clear her name,” the outlet reported.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Madam Won’t Have To Answer Questions About Allegedly Sexual Battery Of A Minor – Yet

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The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is far from over.
Yes, the disgraced billionaire allegedly took his own life last year while awaiting trial on numerous counts of sexually abusing minors.
That corrosive legacy lives on in the faces of his victims, some of whom speak out in the Netflix docuseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.” These women – hardened, angry, and eager for justice – forge the heart of the four-part series.
The saga reminds us of some uncomfortable truths about wealth and power in our society, but it doesn’t push much beyond what we already know. The series repeatedly attacks former Trump labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, a key figure in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-labor-sec-alexander-acosta-helped-epstein-plea-deal-2019-7">slapping Epstein on the proverbial wrist.</a>
It’s a drubbing he may richly deserve.
Other targets include liberal legal eagle Alan Dershowitz, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, and longtime Epstein partner Ghislaine Maxwell. How she isn’t rotting in jail after the revelations here is astounding.
Still, the documentary pulls some punches, from glossing over President Bill Clinton’s time on Epstein’s <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-lolita-express.html">“Lolita Express”</a> to the people above Acosta who may be just as guilty as he.
The first two minutes of “Filthy Rich” are all you really need to see. Epstein, with a calmness born from arrogance, repeatedly pleads the Fifth during a 2010 deposition. An unseen interrogator asks, over and again, if he ever solicited sex from minors in various parts of the globe.
Sickening. Nauseating. And the worst part is obvious. He knows he’ll wiggle out of this trap, and he’s right.
We then meet the women lured into Epstein’s web. They all share similar stories, “graduating” from Epstein’s $200-a-session masseuse to his sexual plaything. The women come across as reasonable, credible. It helps that they share details of Epstein’s lair that match the physical descriptions.
Plus, the Epstein method rarely changed, even if it involved the girls themselves inviting their school chums into his clutches.
The tone here is somber, appropriately enough, with the kind of slick production values worthy of a Netflix production. The victims’ crush of stories is, after a while, unnecessary. Still, they’re allowed to tell their story, and that’s important.
Epstein’s powerful friends proves a secondary narrative, from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump. The series treads oh, so lightly on the Clinton connections while repeatedly showing images of Epstein and Trump. Given the sorry state of liberal media bias, the tilt here is restrained but unmistakable.
We learn little about Clinton’s Epstein ties until late in the series. Then, we re-learn how flight logs show Clinton flew with Epstein 26 times. More damning? An Epstein employee stationed at the billionaire’s remote island recalls seeing the former president there.
Team Clinton shared a dramatically different version of his Epstein ties, including a denial that the former president ever set foot on said island.
In short, they lied.
It’s the kind of detail a documentary should dig deeper into, but that doesn’t happen here. Doesn’t the creative team behind the series remember Clinton’s appetites and how much he risked to feed them over time?
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The series does confirm sexual abuse allegations against Prince Andrew, even including his<a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a29835327/prince-andrew-bbc-interview-jeffrey-epstein-disaster/"> train wreck interview</a> on the subject last November.
We also meet an Epstein employee who says he saw the Duke of York aggressively fondling an underage girl on the billionaire’s island.
Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer, is accused by one of Epstein’s victims of assaulting her, too. He offers a full-throated denial of the charges. It’s a mesmerizing sequence, whether you believe him or not.
Early in the series we meet a Vanity Fair journalist with an early scoop on Epstein’s predatory behavior. The story seems solid, if not stunning, with two sisters sharing how the financier repeatedly abused them. It’s enough to bring anyone down, even a billionaire with endless connections.
Right?
Carter, a major force in magazine journalism, spiked it for legal reasons. His explanation echoes what journalists heard for years while trying to report on<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/weinstein-stain-entertainment-journalism/"> film producer Harvey Weinstein</a>.
Just ask <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/business/media/ronan-farrow-weinstein-producer.html">Ronan Farrow.</a>
It all smells like a cover up, down to the threats Carter received during the investigation, including a cat’s head appearing on his property. Carter later said they <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/epstein-used-bullet-dead-cat-to-intimidate-graydon-carter.html">didn’t influence</a> his decision not to publish journalist Vicky Ward’s story.
So what did?
“Filthy Rich” bounces back and forth in time, using a spinning calendar visual to ground each turn. That gives the series plenty of ways to attack Acosta and tie him to Trump.
We’re also told, oh so briefly, that the ridiculous plea deal Epstein secured had to be approved by the U.S. Attorney General at the time – circa 2008. Is that accurate? What other key players were part of this process? The docuseries lasts roughly four hours but leaves no time for these details.
Acosta may be guilty as sin, but it’s clear he didn’t act alone.
More importantly, that slap on the wrist proved even more farcical than at face value. Epstein freely left prison during his 13-month incarceration, and the documentary shows he flouted the parole rules once he gained his freedom.
Money. Power. Influence. It’s gross and deserves to be spotlighted. For the most part, “Filthy Rich” does a meticulous job of just that.
The fourth and final installment shows how the Epstein case overlapped with the budding MeToo movement. The filmmakers couldn’t predict that the feminist revolution would crash and burn to save Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
That’s a documentary for another day, although one Hollywood would never make.
Also left out of “Filthy Rich” are the glitterati, from <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks">Katie Couric to George Stephanopoulos</a>, who partied with Epstein after he was officially registered as a sex offender. Still, the series wraps on a beautiful note, empowering Epstein’s victims to write their own endings.
“Epstein did not act alone … there are so many of them out there. None of them have been held accountable,” one victim says of the late billionaire’s enablers and fellow abusers. “The monsters are still out there, and they’re still abusing other people. Why they have not been named and shamed yet is beyond me.”
She’s right. The full story of Jeffrey Epstein hasn’t been told, and it may never happen. It’s chilling to see how Epstein’s power, his sphere of influence, didn’t die with him.
“Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” debuts on Netflix Nov. 27.
A version of this article appears on <a href="http://HollywoodInToto.com">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.

Netflix’s ‘Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich’ Lets His Victims Speak

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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta <a href="http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201913843.pdf">has ruled</a> that the government did not violate the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, which allows for victims of crimes to confer with the United States attorney about a case, when federal prosecutors struck a plea deal with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 without notifying his accusers. 
Judge Kevin Newsom argued in the 2-1 ruling that while he did not like the decision he reached, he concluded that there was no legal basis for accuser Courtney Wild’s petition arguing that the plea deal violated her rights. 
“Despite our sympathy for Ms. Wild and others like her, who suffered unspeakable horror at Epstein’s hands, only to be left in the dark — and, so it seems, affirmatively misled — by government lawyers, we find ourselves constrained to deny her petition,” said Newsom in the ruling. 
Concerning the legal basis for the decision, Newsom writes in the ruling that the Crime Victims’ Rights Act does not apply until criminal charges have been formally filed. 
“Because the government never filed charges or otherwise commenced criminal proceedings against Epstein, the CVRA was never triggered,” said Newsom. “It’s not a result we like, but it’s the result we think the law requires.”
As <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html">The Miami Herald</a> reported nearly two years ago, federal prosecutors negotiated a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein’s lawyer in 2007, a deal that tossed a 53-page indictment prosecutors had assembled after identifying 36 underage accusers.
Under the terms of the deal, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two charges of prostitution. Prosecutors agreed to grant immunity to Epstein’s co-conspirators, and not notify his accusers about the agreement. 
Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 of an apparent suicide, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges. The <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article242000331.html">Miami Herald</a> reports that Wild’s petition to the 11th Circuit Court was filed with the hope of removing the non-prosecution agreement for Epstein’s 2008 co-conspirators. 
Paul Cassell, an attorney for Wilds, told the news agency that they will seek an appeal: “We strongly disagree with today’s ruling, which leaves victims like Ms. Wild without any remedy, even for victims like her who have been ‘affirmatively misled’ by federal prosecutors.”
Judge Newsom also acknowledges that the ruling doesn’t prevent future secret deals, but says that the court can only “hope” prosecutors stop doing them. 
“Under our reading, the CVRA will not prevent federal prosecutors from negotiating ‘secret’ plea and nonprosecution agreements, without ever notifying or conferring with victims, provided that they do so before instituting criminal proceedings,” he writes. 
“We can only hope that in light of the protections provided by other statutes — and even more so in the wake of the public outcry over federal prosecutors’ handling of the Epstein case — they will not do so,” writes Newsom. 
Judge Frank M. Hall, in the lone dissenting opinion, pushed back against the majority, arguing that there was no such provision in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act requiring official charges to be filed before the rights kick in. 
“The Majority crafts a bright-line, blanket restriction on the statute: the CVRA grants crime victims no rights whatsoever unless and until a formal indictment is filed in a court,” writes Hall. “There is no textual basis for the bright-line, post-indictment only restriction the Majority adds to the statute. Rather, the Majority’s contorted statutory interpretation materially revises the statute’s plain text and guts victims’ rights under the CVRA.”
The dissenting judge notes that throughout the Epstein investigation, prosecutors sent letters to identified victims explaining their rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. Hall later writes that during the plea deal negotiations, prosecutors “repeatedly told Epstein’s attorneys that it had CVRA obligations to notify and confer with the victims about the NPA and upcoming events.”

Jeffrey Epstein Appears In Manhattan Federal Court On Sex Trafficking Charges

Court Rules Against Epstein Accuser, Acknowledges ‘Secret’ Deals May Continue

The woman at the center of the rape allegations against deceased multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein told her lawyer that the “final straw” for her was when Epstein and his madam/girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell asked the then 19-year-old to act as a surrogate mother for their child.
The allegation appears in a new book from Bradley Edwards, the attorney for Epstein’s most prominent accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. In an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8138821/Virginia-Roberts-fled-Epstein-Ghislaine-Maxwell-asked-surrogate-baby.html">excerpt</a> published by The Daily Mail, Edwards explains how Giuffre met Maxwell and Epstein and became a “sex slave” to the rich and powerful. Giuffre was reading a book about massage technique – considering it for a career – while sitting outside President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida where she worked when she was 16. Trump banned Epstein from the resort over his treatment of young girls.
While reading the book, Maxwell approached Giuffre (then Roberts) and offered to teach her how to perform massages and asked her to come work for her billionaire friend, who turned out to be Epstein. Giuffre, who had a troubled childhood, was excited by the offer, but quickly became upset when she says she was sexually assaulted upon meeting Epstein. Giuffre was distraught, but Maxwell and Epstein acted so casually that the young woman thought this was just how the rich and powerful behaved. She was paid for her “massage” session with Epstein – more money than she had ever seen – and agreed to keep working for the multimillionaire.
Giuffre was soon farmed out to Epstein’s wealthy friends, including, she says, Prince Andrew of the Royal Family. She was taught how to perform sexual favors for these wealthy individuals and traveled the world with Epstein.
Edwards wrote that when he met Giuffre he believed she was the key to taking down Epstein, since her years and travels with the now-convicted predator meant she knew the “structure of his organization.”
Edwards also wrote that after years of traveling the world as one of Epstein’s underage sex slaves, Maxwell and the millionaire asked Giuffre to bear a child for them.
“At the age of 19, when she had been involved in the sex cult for over two years, Epstein and Maxwell came up with a proposal that turned her stomach: they wanted her to carry his baby,” Edwards wrote. “They told Virginia she would be taken care of for the rest of her life if she would agree to give Epstein and Maxwell a child, although there were some strings attached. In particular, she would have to sign a contract agreeing that the baby was not her own, but the legal child of Epstein and Maxwell.”
“It was the final straw. She couldn’t bear the thought of Epstein and Maxwell raising her child. She knew she had to escape,” Edwards added.
Giuffre, Edwards wrote, escaped Epstein and Maxwell while in Thailand, where Epstein allegedly asked Giuffre to find a young girl for the millionaire. Instead, Giuffre found a man in town who “fell in love with her and promised to take care of her.”
“She married him days later, hopped on a plane with him to Australia, and never looked back,” Edwards wrote. “She hid in Australia for nearly ten years, during which time she had three children.”
Epstein was found hanging in his cell on August 10, 2019 after being taken off suicide watch.

Epstein Maxwell

Woman Who Accused Jeffrey Epstein Of Rape Says Millionaire And His Madam Asked Her To Have Surrogate Baby

More troubling details have emerged about the previously secret non-prosecution agreement in Florida eleven years ago involving financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead of apparent suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in August after being charged with child sex trafficking.
According to an exclusive report by <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-florida-feds-knew-york-victim-epstein-indictment/story?id=69088738">ABC News</a> published Thursday, FBI and federal prosecutors in Florida were aware of a key witness whose testimony helped lead to Epstein&#8217;s arrest last summer, but the Florida prosecutors worked out the controversial deal with Epstein before she was able to testify.
&#8220;A woman whose allegations of childhood sex abuse in New York were central to last year&#8217;s indictment of Jeffrey Epstein was questioned by the FBI and subpoenaed for testimony by federal prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago in connection with the first federal investigation into Epstein&#8217;s alleged child sex trafficking, according to court documents and multiple sources familiar with the events,&#8221; ABC News reports.
&#8220;But the woman, who was 19 at the time of her initial contact with federal agents in 2008, did not appear before a grand jury in West Palm Beach, as the subpoena commanded,&#8221; the report continues. &#8220;Before her testimony could be secured, Epstein cemented a controversial and once-secret non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Miami by pleading guilty to two state prostitution charges for which he was sentenced to 18 months in a county jail.&#8221;
As a Florida-based attorney who represented three of Epstein&#8217;s alleged victims in the original Florida investigation told ABC, the young woman&#8217;s testimony could have dramatically altered the situation eleven years ago, blowing open the case by providing evidence of his alleged multi-state child sex abuse network.
&#8220;I certainly think with the FBI&#8217;s capabilities, even back then, that they could have unraveled the entire network from New York to Paris to New Mexico,&#8221; West Palm Beach attorney Spencer Kuvin told the network. &#8220;The potential was always there. [The government] shut this thing down and pled this thing out before going through and talking to probably more than half of the women that were involved in this whole thing. Had they conducted a full investigation and taken their time, this would&#8217;ve been a whole different story.&#8221;
Having reached the initially secret, widely criticized agreement with Epstein, however, Florida prosecutors called off the subpoena for the pivotal New York witness, halted the investigation and suspended the grand jury.
&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until nearly 11 years later, when federal prosecutors in New York quietly opened a new investigation into Epstein, that the woman was again contacted by authorities seeking details of her alleged years-long sexual abuse by the multi-millionaire financier,&#8221; ABC explains. &#8220;Identified in last year’s indictment as &#8216;Minor-Victim 1,&#8217; she is the only alleged victim from New York whose allegations are specifically detailed in the charges, a strong indicator of her importance to the investigation.&#8221; (<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-florida-feds-knew-york-victim-epstein-indictment/story?id=69088738">Read the full ABC report here.</a>)
Epstein&#8217;s initial case and his jail cell death have continued to spark controversy and conspiracy theories, the late-financier&#8217;s name repeatedly appearing not only in viral headlines and social media posts but in multiple lawsuits from alleged victims now more than seven months since his demise.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/awful-lawsuit-claims-jeffrey-epstein-trafficked-girls-as-young-as-eleven-years-old">Lawsuit Claims Jeffrey Epstein Trafficked Girls As Young As Eleven Years Old</a>

Jeffrey Epstein Protesters

Feds Knew 11 Years Ago About Epstein Key Witness Who Could’ve Changed Everything

As the British royal family faces intense media scrutiny, Prince Andrew is reportedly being &#8220;uncooperative&#8221; with investigators regarding his relationship with convicted billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Since Epstein allegedly committed suicide in his jail cell late last year, the FBI and other law agencies have been seeking to interview the Duke of York, but he has been largely unresponsive.
&#8220;U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman told reporters Monday that federal prosecutors have not heard back from Andrew,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/prince-andrew-epstein-fbi-law-enforcement">Fox Business</a>. &#8220;Despite their request to interview him, the duke has &#8216;provided zero cooperation&#8217; in their efforts, Berman said, at a news conference outside Epstein’s New York mansion.&#8221;
Berman added that Epstein &#8220;couldn’t have done what he did without the assistance of others, and I can assure you that the investigation is moving forward.&#8221;
The news of Prince Andrew&#8217;s lack of cooperation directly contradicts his past statements indicating he would cooperate with investigators following Epstein&#8217;s death. This past November, the Duke of York even <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/jeffrey-epstein-prince-andrew-stepping-away-royal-duties" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced</a> he would be stepping back from his public duties.
&#8220;It has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a major disruption to my family&#8217;s work,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I continue to unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein.&#8221;
Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed in a 2015 lawsuit that Epstein recruited her to have sex with his powerful friends when she was just 15 years old, alleging that one of her sexual encounters with Prince Andrew occurred when she was just 17. Though a photograph she provided shows the British royal with his arm around her waist at the time, it’s not clear if the meeting was a brief encounter. Prince Andrew has denied all the charges against him.
“I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,” said Andrew in a public interview that media experts agree was disastrous. “I stayed with him and that’s [something] I kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the royal family and we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and I let the side down, simple as that.”
“I have absolutely no memory of that photograph,” the prince insisted. “I’m afraid to say that I don’t believe that photograph was taken in the way that has been suggested.”
During the interview on the BBC, Prince Andrew did himself no favors when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-andrew-says-his-tendency-to-be-too-honorable-made-him-pal-around-with-jeffrey-epstein">blamed his friendship</a> with Epstein on his “honor.”
“The problem was the fact that once he had been convicted I stayed with him,” the Duke of York said. “That’s the bit I kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the Royal Family and we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and I let the side down, simple as that.”
Prince Andrew went on to describe Epstein’s home as a “convenient place to stay” despite Epstein being a convicted sex offender.
Virginia has since called Prince Andrew a &#8220;liar&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-prince-andrews-accuser-responds-to-his-denials-he-knows-what-happened">while demanding</a> he come clean with the truth. “He knows what happened; I know what happened, and there’s only one of us telling the truth,” Virginia told the BBC in an interview.
Andrew&#8217;s former protection officer, however, recently told <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-andrew-had-visits-ghislaine-21360358" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Mirror</a> that he predicts the Duke of York will face absolutely nothing over his involvement with Epstein.
“Even if the FBI request information from the Royal Protection Command, they will get a big fat no,&#8221; Paul Page told the outlet. “They’re not going to get any documentation from the British police in terms of Prince Andrew’s movements or anything else.&#8221;

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REPORT: Prince Andrew Being ‘Uncooperative’ In Epstein Probe

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is under criminal investigation by the FBI over her connections with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, reportedly had her personal emails hacked and potentially damaging information about high profile people linked to Epstein&#8217;s sex trafficking case could become public.
&#8220;The revelation was made in a letter filed by the British socialite&#8217;s lawyers in the defamation case brought against her by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Guiffre,&#8221; The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7919155/Ghislaine-Maxwells-personal-emails-HACKED-leaked.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The letter was sent by Maxwell&#8217;s attorney, Ty Gee, on December 5 to New York federal court Judge Loretta A. Preska but made public last week. The letter addresses the materials that should remain sealed or redacted in the case.&#8221;
The letter states that documents that had been released to the public by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in August did not thoroughly redact private information which allegedly led to the hack. The letter stated:
<blockquote>Despite the Second Circuit&#8217;s best efforts, it made serious mistakes. For example, it redacted a non-party&#8217;s name in one location but not another; so the media immediately gained access to that name.
As another example, it redacted Ms. Maxwell&#8217;s email address (which linked to her own domain name) in one location but not another; shortly afterward hackers breached the host computer.</blockquote>
The Mail speculated that &#8220;the email security breach means that 58-year-old Maxwell&#8217;s emails could be sold or leaked to the public and potentially reveal more details about individuals connected to Epstein.&#8221;
Another British publication, The Telegraph, <a href="https://outline.com/Nba8Xd">reported</a> that there was even speculation that a &#8220;a rogue state&#8221; may have been behind the hack.
The Telegraph also noted that her attorneys in the U.S. were fighting to prevent the release of over 8,500 additional documents that are &#8220;said to contain damaging new sex claims about Epstein’s vast network of celebrity friends.&#8221;
&#8220;It appears from her email address, which the Telegraph is choosing not to publish, that Ms Maxwell had set up her own secret mail server rather than entrusting her messages to major providers like Google or Yahoo. The server appears to have been run through a New York-based website registered under the name Jennifer Turner, an apparent pseudonym,&#8221; The Telegraph reported. &#8220;Running a personal server can offer added legal protection against handover requests from law enforcement, but it can also leave emails more vulnerable to hackers.&#8221;
In late December, Reuters first <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jeffrey-epstein-investigation/exclusive-fbi-investigating-british-socialite-and-others-who-facilitated-epstein-idUSKBN1YV0VB">reported</a> that the FBI had opened a criminal investigation into Maxwell:
<blockquote>The FBI is investigating British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and several other people linked to U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation.
They said a principal focus of the FBI’s investigation is Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein, and other “people who facilitated” Epstein’s allegedly illegal behavior.</blockquote>
Maxwell reportedly has so much &#8220;dirt&#8221; on high profile people that she &#8220;believes she will escape prosecution and return to her high society party life once &#8216;the dust has settled&#8217;, according to a pal of Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s alleged madam,&#8221; The Sun <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10589347/ghislaine-maxwell-dirt-powerful-people-epstein/">reported</a>.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Emails Hacked, Damaging Info On Famous People Linked To Epstein Sex Trafficking Case Could Be Released, Report Says

According to a forensic pathologist, photos of the late Jeffrey Epstein’s eyes after his death reveal burst capillaries, indicating that Epstein was strangled to death.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7894685/The-burst-capillaries-Epsteins-eyeballs-pathologists-say-suggests-murder.html">The Daily Mail</a> obtained clips from an appearance on a Dr. Oz special by forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden that will air on Thursday. Baden, who was present during Epstein’s autopsy, suggested that the fact that the autopsy showed Epstein with burst capillaries and pale lower legs, rather than purple or blueish legs, indicated he did not hang himself.
&#8220;In a hanging, the arteries and the blood vessels, the veins are both clogged off and the person is pale. The face is pale,&#8221; Baden explained.
Dr. Oz responded, &#8220;It suffocates you, no blood goes up there.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s right,&#8221; said Baden. &#8220;No blood coming in or out&#8230;. with a manual strangulation, there’s a backup of a pressure and the little capillaries can rupture and they’re best seen in the eye.&#8221;
Speaking of Epstein’s legs, Baden opined, “The blood settles after we die. The so-called lividity, if you’re hanging, the lividity is on the lower part on the legs. These would be like maroon/purple, front and back and they aren&#8217;t.&#8221;
Baden questioned the ruling given over Epstein’s death, asserting: &#8220;The initial death certificate was issued at the time of the autopsy, it&#8217;s pending further study, getting more information. Five days later it was changed to hanging suicide and one of the things the family wishes to know, the estate wishes to know is, what was that additional information that caused them to change it when five months later and the family still doesn&#8217;t know what happened to in the first encounter and what happened to him when he was found dead.&#8221;
“Is that unusual, that you have a five-month gap?” Oz asked.
“It&#8217;s very unusual, especially in a prison situation,&#8221; replied Baden.
Baden said the supposed noose that Epstein allegedly used to kill himself didn’t fit with the facts.
“Doesn&#8217;t follow the furrow, number one. Number two, there&#8217;s no evidence that there&#8217;s any blood or tissue on any of the part of the loop. Most of all, this little area shows a pattern that wouldn&#8217;t be made by this smooth surface of the sheet that was torn to make the noose,” said Baden, adding, “The problem I think why we&#8217;re here today, five months later, is that there&#8217;s been a total lack of transparency in what happened to Epstein.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-epstein-suicide-attempt-footage-no-longer-exists-after-jail-saves-wrong-video">The Daily Wire</a> reported last week:
<blockquote>Prosecutors on Thursday told a judge overseeing the trial of Epstein’s former cellmate, accused murderer Nicholas Tartaglione, that surveillance footage of the hallway during Epstein’s failed alleged suicide attempt “no longer exists” because of “technical errors,” according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/a104be68ede71c99f26c4e765d244e0e">Associated Press</a>. Last December, prosecutors believed they had found the footage after announcing only a day before that they had actually lost it, as previously reported by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-missing-prison-video-from-jeffrey-epsteins-suicide-attempt-has-been-found-prosecutors-say?itm_source=parsely-api">Daily Wire</a>.
According to AP, &#8220;the revelation came despite assurances that prosecutors made that jail officials were preserving the footage at the request of a defense attorney for Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer who shared a cell with Epstein in July” at the time of his first —and failed —alleged suicide attempt. The <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/in-stunning-reversal-prosecutors-now-say-footage-of-epstein-suicide-attempt-no-longer-exists/">National Review  </a>reports that prosecutors explained that the footage “captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located because the preserved video did not show corrections officers responding to any of the cells seen on the video.”</blockquote>

Jeffrey Epstein Appears In Court For Bail Hearing Over Sex Trafficking Charges

Pathologist Shows Photos Of Epstein’s Eyes, Claims Epstein Was Strangled

A shocking new lawsuit claims that New York financier Jeffrey Epstein trafficked girls as young as eleven and twelve years old for his perverted pals, and may have been an active abuser and trafficker as recently as 2018.
Epstein, a convicted sex offender, killed himself in a Manhattan jail late last year as he awaited trial on a host of Federal charges, including claims that he trafficked and sexually abused minor children. Those charges, though, only covered incidents that took place before 2005.
The new claim, filed in court on Wednesday, &#8220;significantly expands&#8221; on an already active case against Epstein, filed by the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands, seeking forefieture of Epstien&#8217;s several estates and the &#8220;dissolution of numerous shell companies he established in the territory that officials have said acted as fronts for his sex trafficking enterprise,&#8221; per the New York Times. It includes new evidence, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-virgin-islands.html">the NYT also reports</a>, that suggests Epstein may have been running his &#8220;pedophile ring,&#8221; centered out of the Virgin Islands, well into the 2010s and, perhaps, as recently as 2018.
&#8220;New evidence shows Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked hundreds of young women and girls on his private Caribbean island,&#8221; according to the NYT. Epstein &#8220;was bringing girls as young as 11 and 12 to his secluded estate in the Virgin Islands, known as Little Saint James, and kept a computerized database to track the availability and movements of women and girls, the lawsuit said.&#8221;
The Virgin Islands, the lawsuit says, was the &#8220;nexus&#8221; of Epstein&#8217;s operation and, based on new evidence, was used for years to coordinate Epstein&#8217;s activities and those of his sex trafficking ring. Attorney general Denise N. George wants to reclaim the property Epstein used as his headquarters, sell the assets, and redirect the funds to women who were victimized as part of Epstein&#8217;s horrific program.
George&#8217;s office went above and beyond the work of American Federal prosecutors, the NYT says, acting on existing evidence, consolidating open cases, investigating claims, and, eventually, piecing together the bones of an alleged criminal enterprise extending to all corners of the globe &#8212; not just New York and Florida, where Federal investigators concentrated their efforts.
“Epstein clearly used the Virgin Islands and his residence in the U.S. Virgin Islands at Little Saint James as a way to be able to conceal and to be able to expand his activity here,” George said in a statement released after the lawsuit was filed.
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“We will not remain complacent, and we will enforce our laws whatever way we can,” George added. “It doesn’t matter the social status of the person. It’s that the laws apply equally.”
Epstein&#8217;s assets in the Virgin Islands could total more than $500 million, though it still remains to be seen whether the Virgin Islands can recover. So far, there&#8217;s no concrete plan to redistribute Epstein&#8217;s wealth to his allged victims, but that&#8217;s what George plans to do with the money if she&#8217;s able to seize and sell Epstein&#8217;s two estates and pull money from his shell corporations.
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Although Epstein is dead, a number of questions remain about how he conducted his business, and Federal agents anticipate further charges, perhaps against several of Epstein&#8217;s &#8220;clients&#8221; and his alleged madam, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. Recent reports suggest that big names, like Britian&#8217;s Prince Andrew and former president Bill Clinton could be named in the Federal government&#8217;s trove of documents related to the Epstein case, but a New York judge ruled last week that those documents will remain under seal.
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AWFUL: Lawsuit Claims Jeffrey Epstein Trafficked Girls As Young As Eleven Years Old

More than five months after his death behind bars, Jeffrey Epstein continues to spark controversy — and legal battles. On Monday, Lawrence Lessig, a prominent law professor at Harvard University, filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts against The New York Times for publishing what he describes as &#8220;clickbait defamation&#8221; against him in an Epstein-focused story.
On Sept. 14, just over a month after Epstein was found dead in his prison cell by self-strangulation after being charged with sex trafficking of minors, The New York Times published a story on Epstein&#8217;s donations to M.I.T. titled, &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/business/lessig-epstein-ito-mit.html">A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret.</a>&#8221; The story, which offers &#8220;a conversation with Lawrence Lessig about Jeffrey Epstein, M.I.T. and reputation laundering,&#8221; begins:
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It is hard to defend soliciting donations from the <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-investigation.html">convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein</a>. But Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor, has been trying.
Mr. Lessig is a friend of Joichi Ito, who <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/business/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joichi-ito.html">resigned</a> as the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, as well as from the boards of The New York Times Company and other organizations, after it was revealed that he had courted money from Mr. Epstein and worked to hide it. Mr. Ito also traveled twice to <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/business/jeffrey-epstein-island.html">Mr. Epstein’s Caribbean island home</a>.
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The Times then provides a summary of Lessig&#8217;s &#8220;doubling down&#8221; on his supposed defense of taking money from Epstein:
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Mr. Lessig signed a letter in support of Mr. Ito, and then published <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://medium.com/@lessig/on-joi-and-mit-3cb422fe5ae7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a 3,500-word essay</a> on the subject. He argued that in an ideal world, no institution should take money from people like Mr. Epstein, but that in reality, much of the money that props up universities and other elite institutions comes from troubling sources.
Mr. Lessig suggested that donors to places like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be organized in four buckets, ranging from “people like Tom Hanks or Taylor Swift — people who are wealthy and whose wealth comes from nothing but doing good” — to “entities and people whose wealth comes from clearly wrongful or harmful or immoral behavior.” Mr. Lessig, who noted that he was a childhood victim of sexual abuse, also argued that the act of veiling Mr. Epstein’s contributions was good, because it avoided “whitewashing” his reputation.
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Now, as reported by <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/13/harvard-law-professor-sues-new-york-times-over-jeffrey-epstein-story/4457147002/">USA Today</a>, Lessig is accusing the Times of deliberately distorting what he said about donations from the likes of Epstein, publishing a &#8220;sensationalized, false and defamatory &#8216;clickbait&#8217; headline and lede&#8221; that presents the &#8220;direct opposite&#8221; of what he actually argued.
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Today I sued the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>: <a href="https://t.co/tXEXgzcD9w">https://t.co/tXEXgzcD9w</a>
&mdash; Lessig (@lessig) <a href="https://twitter.com/lessig/status/1216746210226135041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Lessig&#8217;s lawsuit states that &#8220;within hours&#8221; of the publication of the story, the professor &#8220;became associated with the notoriety surrounding the Epstein scandal, and the community that quietly or silently tolerated such monstrosity.&#8221; The story, Lessig contends, is a clear case of defamation, as he explains at length in a blogpost on <a href="https://medium.com/@lessig/on-suing-the-times-9f66f3dd9063">Medium</a> posted Monday.
The Times&#8217; title and lede for the article on his discussion about the Epstein donation scandal, Lessig writes in the blogpost, &#8220;are false.&#8221; After pointing out passages from his original post, including where he states clearly that &#8220;it was a mistake to take this money, even if anonymous,&#8221; Lessig writes:
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My essay was clearly not “defend[ing] soliciting donations” from Epstein. My essay said—repeatedly—that such soliciting was a “mistake.” And more importantly, it was a mistake because of the kind of harm it would trigger in both victims and women generally. &#8230; I did not defend taking money from Epstein. I didn’t say it was ok to take money from Epstein “if in secret.” I said it was wrong to take Epstein’s money, “even if anonymous.” The assertion—in the tweeted headline and lede—to the contrary is thus flatly false.
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&#8220;I love the Times,&#8221; Lessig writes. &#8220;I know that journalism is hard, and deadlines are short. So I when I asked the Times to correct these two false and defamatory statements, I fully expected they would, and I fully expected that would be the end of it. And I so I was astonished when they not only refused to fix the mistake, but doubled down on the absurdity of their justifications.&#8221;
The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/13/us/ap-us-times-lawsuit-epstein-1st-ld-writethru.html">responded</a> Monday to Lessig&#8217;s lawsuit by declaring that it will defend against his claim &#8220;vigorously.&#8221;
“When Professor Lessig contacted The Times to complain about the story, senior editors reviewed his complaint and were satisfied that the story accurately reflected his statements,&#8221; said Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha. &#8220;We plan to defend against the claim vigorously.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-epstein-suicide-attempt-footage-no-longer-exists-after-jail-saves-wrong-video">Alleged Epstein Suicide Attempt Footage ‘No Longer Exists’ After Jail Saves Wrong Video</a>

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