Re: Jeffrey Epstein and His Successors
Re: Jeffrey Epstein and His Successors
Why we have the flamboyant playboy to thank for gay marriage.
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We began this Substack several years ago by talking about Jeffrey Epstein, a figure I knew from my stint working for Alan Dershowitz in high school. The tragedy of life is that you can never quite be reflective when you’re living it but now nearly twenty years later I can put it together.
I’ve never believed Virginia Giuffre’s story and there’s little in the newest tranche Epstein files to change much of my assessment of the state of play.
Still the news hook does provide an opportunity to expound upon my own views about what was really going on in the Epstein world. Giuffre’s stories always strained credulity. It’s telling how the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell involves behavior from the 1990s and not the Giuffre story. She apparently recanted her claims against Alan Dershowitz in 2022.
From whence does Giuffre hail? She always struck me as part of that Mormon network and indeed the aunt who allegedly raised Giuffre is LDS. She’s described in 2015 Daily Mail as “Carol Roberts Kess, a devout Mormon who helped raise [Giuffre].”
There’s always these sort of fights between the Israelis and the Mormons over dominance particularly in Utah and Las Vegas. We’ve already discussed Deseret so there’s no need to expand upon it here but suffice it to say it continues to play a role in our politics not least among the Mormons who are involved in the day to day running of the Republican Party.
The moral panic over sex trafficking is often a cover for different mafias and their relationship to sex trafficking.
Disgraced Utah attorney general Sean Reyes believed Giuffre’s story and many of his Mormon political allies seemed only too excited about it. Reyes and I essentially stopped talking when I learned about his personal corruption and after I told him that I doubted some of what was going on at the law firm of Pottinger and Edwards — the firm representing Giuffre — was on the up and up. In any event Giuffre’s settled the suit in 2017. Reyes has since gotten in trouble for his ties to fake sex trafficking organizations like Operation Underground Railroad which were covers for sex trafficking and announced his resignation at the end of his term.
What began as a legal shakedown led to a counterintelligence operation and a cleaning up of compromised companies which Epstein commandeered and exploited. These were not small companies but the backbone of the American financial and technical system — companies like Chase and ultimately Microsoft.
The way Epstein’s hustle worked is that he worked with some compromised billionaire who, in turn, would acquire companies he had an interest in. This is, incidentally, why anti-trust policies are a national security matter.
The best example I know of here is Reid Hoffman’s LinkedIn whose company was acquired by Bill Gates’s Microsoft in 2017. Interestingly this acquisition took place at precisely the same time that Epstein wrote to Gates saying that Epstein knew about his extramarital affair with a Russian bridge player. Of course Epstein held LinkedIn shares.
The Reid Hoffman and Jeffrey Epstein connection is woefully understudied. Conventional analysis requires you to see Epstein as villain but what if it’s the reverse? What if Hoffman isn’t “one of the good ones” but in fact an abuse victim and conduit of Chinese cash into America? We also know that the boorish billionaire Bill Ackman threatened MIT over his Israeli wife Neri Oxman’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Might Hoffman have done likewise? How likely was MIT to come to any negative conclusions about a billionaire would be donor?
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Sure enough there’s this photo.
In the world of tabloids there’s often a publication of fake photos.
(Part of the reason I oppose generative AI is precisely this problem of bullshit.)
I spoke with some British intelligence friends about this subject and they agreed that the boys at the Met had concluded that the photo was fake. So, too, thinks Ghislaine Maxwell who told people from her jail cell that the photo was fake.
The Prince Andrew photo seemed like an orgy of evidence and in fact I told Alan Dershowitz as much at the time. I even wrote an email to Ghislaine Maxwell going through the problems with that photo. I never heard back. At the time I came under intense pressure from Russian trolls online — no doubt because Epstein played in the Russian sphere as well as in the Israeli one.
Curiously in the email and document dump there’s evidence that Maxwell and Epstein thought Giuffre was totally lying. These are not the sorts of emails you send when you think you’re guilty and to be honest it is a bit hard to imagine the late Stephen Hawking going to an orgy.
For another I’ve come to believe the gay Epstein story. (Or at least polymorphous perverse.) Might there actually be a gay cabal of powerful men who trade favors? There’s a lot of compelling evidence that Leslie Wexner was gay. Might that be “Victoria’s Secret” after all? Who best to objectify — and exploit — girls and young women than gay men who have little use for them?
My own dalliances have more or less convinced that this gay blackmail world is very real.
Thor Halvorsssen, who knew Epstein, to say nothing of Peter Thiel. Isn’t it weird that Thiel bought the house of the NXIVM cult—the very same NXIVM cult that was tied into Thor Halvorssen? These circles aren’t very large. The Bronfman sisters — now in jail for their NXIVM activities — attended Halvorssen’s Human Rights Foundation events in Norway.
Thiel once asked me about Thor Halvorssen and I said, without flinching, that Thor ran a sexual blackmail operation. I know as I was targeted by just such an operation and about which I’ve written previously. For his part Halvorssen would brag about turning straight men and he had a number of connections, among them the aforementioned Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell along with various Latin American criminal presidents.
Through Halvorssen I met Barre Seid, the Chisraeli oligarch who backed Leonard Leo’s judicial takeover to the tune of $1.6B+. Thor was also an investor in Wickr — the compromising secret messaging ap which just shut down. Do you know of any intelligence services which might want access to a secret messaging app marketed at human rights figures?
Years later Thiel speculated that Clinton wanted Epstein to blackmail him. This seems a little too clever by half and was likely introduced to Thiel by hasbara propagandists and limited hangouts like Eric Weinstein.
I suspect that Kevin Spacey’s character — Mel Profitt — in the crime dama Wiseguy was based on Epstein and Maxwell. (Profitt is the head of an international criminal enterprise and in love with his sister, Susan.) Spacey and Epstein purportedly knew each other for a long time — if the New York Magazine from 2002 is to be believed.
Here’s another interesting piece of information as well — the relationship with Trump.
It’s rather challenging being a gay man. You can be thrown out onto the street. Gay marriage made that a bit more challenging.
For what it's worth I've come to see both these paintings as a form of bragging about Israeli operations against U.S. presidents: September 11th and Monica Lewinsky are both distraction operations designed not to have us investigate organized crime & condition settlements.
We are still left with Joe Biden who famously endorsed gay marriage before Barack Obama, in part on national security grounds.
President Biden has another opportunity to break the blackmailers if he would only seize it.
His son Hunter provides that opportunity.
Are you really going to make me say it? Fine: Bill Burns, who met with Epstein, was Epstein’s handler. This is precisely why Burns became head of the CIA and Epstein, murdered by Bill Barr, died a hero recompromising America’s oligarchs who were picked off left, right, and center. Epstein was about transitioning America’s oligarchs into foundations — a deep state priority so as to mitigate the billionaires’ disruptive wealth.
People are not ready for the “Epstein as hero and murdered by Bill Barr and Netanyahu” narrative. Did you know that Barr allowed his likely murderer — Nicholas Tartaglione — to avoid the death penalty? Did you know that Tartaglione and Ghislaine Maxwell had the same attorney — Bobbi Sternheim?
The gay angle on Epstein's work is a bit hard to suss but consider the very close relationship with Blairite Peter Mandelson whose own homosexuality was an open secret in British Labour politics.
Here’s the Spectator:
Back in June, the FT published the contents of an internal JP Morgan report which laid bare the extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s contact with Peter Mandelson that describes repeated meetings between the disgraced financier and the politician he knew as ‘Petie’. It suggests that in June 2009, when he was Gordon Brown’s Business Secretary, Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s lavish townhouse in Manhattan, while the financier was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
And here’s the photo of Mandelson and Epstein celebrating the convicted sex offender’s birthday at Epstein’s Paris flat.
The two men vacationed together and even dressed one another — a queer thing indeed. But I suppose there are many queer things about Epstein.
Nowadays we’re a bit freer — we can talk about anything we want except how Epstein made his money and the intelligence and criminal networks which enabled him.
Nobody would countenance the systematic abuse of children — as an abuse survivor myself I’m uniquely aware, unfortunately — but states have long used deemed sexual eccentrics, even monsters. They don’t have families — at least in a conventional sense — but they are willing to go the distance. Obsession is often used for the state—and harnessed.
Epstein had at least one male victim, this didn't get a ton of publicity:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-21/epstein-accused-of-sexual-abuse-by-male-teen-intern-in-lawsuit