Epstein files: Focus should be on his depravity and apparent immunity
Dr Peter Attia is a wellness influencer who has just lost his job at CBS on account of popping up in the Epstein files 1,700 times. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
Dr Peter Attia is a wellness influencer who has just lost his job at CBS on account of popping up in the Epstein files 1,700 times. He’d confirmed in one of his many emails to Epstein that “yes, pussy is indeed low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content though.”
There you have it — pussy, chicken, whatever. All just meat for male consumption. In another email to Attia, Epstein wondered why “women live past reproductive age at all”.
I’ll tell you why, you dead nonce. So they can topple paedophile criminal networks, bring down royalty and expose a billionaire’s club of abusers convinced of their own untouchability. That’s what Julie K Brown, investigative journalist with the and a single parent well past reproductive age, did when she broke the Epstein story; and she did it by focusing on the girls who had been abused. She focused on the victims. Unlike the rest of us, who are too busy gawping at who’s on the list.
Fair enough — seeing Peter ‘Prince of Darkness’ Mandelson being thrown off the roof is indeed delicious, as is seeing sweaty creeps like Andrew Whatshisname being emphatically de-royalled.
Witnessing household name after household name squirming in mealy-mouthed regret, desperate to distance themselves, each one repeating over and over that they simply had no idea. Or worse, offering PR advice, like Branson.
The one that really rankles is Noam Chomsky. A crushing disappointment. Clinton, Gates, Musk, Trump, the decaying pizza that is Steve Bannon — whatever. Sarah Ferguson – of course. Woody Allen — naturally. But Chomsky?
Here's the thing. Epstein was jailed in 2008 for sex crimes against minors. Local police had evidence he had sexually coerced and abused dozens of girls as young as 13 or 14, some of whom testified they had been raped. He was jailed for it. Even then, someone was making calls to stop the investigation, to make it go away.
And all of these big important men who insist they had no idea — did they not have access to Google? If someone you knew was sent to jail, you’d Google it, right?
What we do know is that instead of serving a hefty 20-year sentence — Florida’s penal system is famously harsh — Epstein was granted day release, had special privileges in prison, and was early-released after 13 months of an 18 months sentence. Who made the call? Who was covering for him?
We have been witnessing this gigantic cover-up for the past 20 years — we just didn’t realise it. Trump’s Department of Justice is still sitting on half of the six million documents. Tens of thousands of redactions are protecting the wrong people, as the victims are exposed, retraumatised.
Entire witness interviews have been made unreadable by black ink. Covered up. Most recently, Trump berated a CNN reporter as she asked him about the files, dismissing her question with a version of "quiet piggy" — he told her she wasn’t smiling enough, before shutting her down: “I think it’s really time for the country to get on to something else, now that nothing came out about me.” He actually said that.
We are aware of the names, the files, the plane, the island. We are aware Epstein was a super-wealthy super-connected paedophile who preyed on vulnerable girls, who, with his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, operated a kind of paedophile self-referral scheme where his victims were encouraged to recruit other victims, in return for cash.
Epstein’s immunity seems to stem from being a spy, either for Mossad or Russia or both; as a procurer of very young women for old, powerful men, he then weaponised the sex crimes of these men to use as leverage. Hence the still-unreleased three million files.
Tanya Kozyreva, a journalist in Ukraine, wrote how Epstein “reportedly had contact with Russian officials, and Putin himself. Many of his girls were Russian. Powerful Western elites passed through his orbit. What are the odds this wasn’t a classic Russian kompromat operation — and that Department of Justice is just ignoring the elephant in the room?” For how much longer? Do they think we will get tired of it, move onto the next thing? Bomb somewhere to distract us?"
What do the Russians have on Trump? Did a Russian woman procured by Epstein give Bill Gates the clap in 2013, so that he had to surreptitiously medicate his then wife Melinda with antibiotics, per an Epstein email released on Friday? Is that why she divorced him? (Bill Gates has said the Epstein email is ‘false’.)
“I think we're having a reckoning as a society, right?” Melinda Gates said in an interview with NPR after these latest file releases. “No girl, no girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with all of the various people around him.” She said it was up to the men involved to answer the questions, not her. Correct.
Epstein also met with Ehud Barak, former head of Israel’s military intelligence unit, at least 36 times between 2013 and 2017. In 2016, Barak sent Epstein a birthday card, calling him a “collector of people”, adding: “There is no limit to your curiosity.”
As well as “collecting”, was Epstein responsible for killing? Occupy Democrats posted about allegations of two young girls murdered and buried on Epstein’s New Mexico ranch; the 2019 unsubstantiated email mentions “rough fetish sex” and “Madame G”.
Another file shows a trauma diary written by one victim, where she describes giving birth to Epstein's baby, Ghislaine Maxwell taking the baby away shortly afterwards. The has authenticated the diary and spoken to its author, but there is no trace of a child.
What were Epstein's links to 4Chan, the alt-right site whose meme culture is thought to have helped Trump ascend to power — notes show he met the website's founder just before the /pol forum was set up, that same forum proving massively influential in the US culture wars.
The scale and breadth of this shitshow is overwhelming. Epstein and Mandelson colluding in pressuring Gordon Brown to resign at the peak of the financial crisis? Pressuring the UK treasury on not taxing bankers' bonuses?
You find yourself wondering if the tin-hat conspiracy theorists had, after all, a point — that the global elite are indeed a cabal of paedophilic monsters who are hoarding the world's resources. The focus is all on these monsters, not the victims, not the survivors. Their most well known advocate, Victoria Giuffre, did not survive.
In Julie K Brown’s book, , she outlines the levels of cover up and intimidation involved — from the severed cat head left outside the door of ’s then editor Graydon Carter, who had been about to run an investigative piece on Epstein but then didn’t — to how the actual victims themselves were treated.
Courtney Wild was 14 when she was procured by Epstein. She became involved in his referral scheme for new ‘masseuses’, earning $400 per new underage recruit. By the time she was 17, she was discarded, too old for him.
“Jeffrey Epstein preyed on girls who were homeless and were addicted to drugs,” she told Julie K Brown. “He didn’t victimise girls who were Olympic stars and Hollywood actresses. He victimised people he thought nobody would ever listen to, and he was right.
“I think they were extremely dangerous. I mean we don’t know, really, the lengths that he went to, to intimidate people who tried to expose what he was doing. But we know that there were plenty of people who were afraid and who felt that he was capable of doing really bad things.”
And still, now, it continues to be covered up. Instead of focusing on Epstein’s depravity, why isn’t the focus on the immunity he enjoyed for so long — and the continuing immunity of all the powerful men involved?
Why, indeed.
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