A Convenient Death
The Mysterious Demise
of Jeffrey Epstein
by Alana Goodman &
Daniel Halper
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The Victims
Preying on the Vulnerable
No, he really had some kind of contempt for women.
A GOOD FRIEND
OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S
I’ve got enough money to get out of anything I ever need.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN
Royal Palm Beach High School in West Palm Beach is twelve miles from Epstein’s waterfront
mansion, but it might as well be a world away. The thin strip of land between the Intracoastal
Waterway and the shimmering white beaches a short walk to the east is the waterfront home to the
elites—the Epsteins, the Trumps, the Bill Gates's, the Tiger Woods's of the world. Cross the giant
bridges under which yachts pass, and you start going inland, where the farther west you get, the more the
surrounding areas are populated by the people who serve the wealthy who live on the beaches and canals.
It was inland where the kids of housemaids, groundskeepers, and law enforcement lived. It was
“ground zero,” as The Palm Beach Post would put it, for Epstein’s sick pyramid scheme.
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“These girls had never even been to Palm Beach island,” the victim attorney Adam Horowitz told the
newspaper. “Some of them were living in trailer parks. This was a whole new world to them.”
Epstein, who himself had to cross the Brooklyn Bridge to begin to rise up in the world, was no
stranger to how people from a lower financial class might react to a made man with a wad of cash. He
would use this power differential to maximize his own pleasure. Those stories are shocking.
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One Sunday in the winter of 2005, a fourteen-year-old girl named Amanda (not her real name) told her
dad she was going shopping with her friend Haley Robson in West Palm Beach. Haley picked up Amanda
at her dad’s house in a red pickup truck. The girls didn’t tell Amanda’s father what they were planning to
do first—stop by the house of Haley’s boss, an “old man” in Palm Beach, to pick up some money.
“The old man’s gonna give us both money so we can go shopping,” Haley reportedly told Amanda.
Amanda had a vague idea that they would have to do something for the money. “I knew something was
wrong, nobody’s just gonna pay you money,” she told police later. But her friend Haley, who was several
years older, had told her only that they would be getting $200 each. To Amanda, who made $6 an hour at
her part-time job at Chick-fil-A, this was a fortune.
In a subsequent police interview, Amanda described the events that followed.
The girls listened to music on the drive, singing along to the radio. They crossed over the bridge to
Palm Beach, past Worth Avenue, the town’s posh bougainvillea- and palm-lined main street with
storefronts advertising Chanel and Louis Vuitton. They followed A1A past the Everglades Club, through
neighborhoods shielded by towering boxwoods, and finally turned onto the narrow cul-de-sac of El Brillo
Way.
Haley’s boss, Jeffrey Epstein, lived in the house at the end of the road, an unadorned, boxy white
mansion with a security gate. The gate opened when the girls drove up, and they were ushered into the
house by one of Epstein’s female assistants.
Haley made herself at home in the kitchen, chatting with Epstein and his house staff. Meanwhile,
Epstein’s female assistant motioned for Amanda to follow her upstairs.
“I thought Haley . . . was gonna get paid in like, you know, private,” Amanda told police later. “So I
went upstairs.”
Epstein’s assistant took her up to the master bathroom, where there was a massage table. She told
Amanda that the fourteen-year-old would be giving Epstein a massage, placed several bottles of lotion on
a nearby table, and then left the room.
After about five minutes, Epstein entered.
“Hi, I’m Jeff,” said the man. Amanda noticed that he had graying hair and a long horsey face. “I’ll be
right back,” he told her. “You can take off your clothes.”
Amanda was uncomfortable. She wondered why Haley had stayed downstairs. She took off her shirt
but kept her bra and pants on. When Epstein came back into the room, wearing a towel, he was noticeably
annoyed.
“No, I meant get naked,” he said sternly. “Take off your pants.” There was an edge to his voice. The
fourteen-year-old took off her pants, but kept her underwear and bra on.
Epstein dropped his towel and lay down naked on the massage table. The girl rubbed lotion on his
shoulders in circles, trying not to look at his hairy back.
“Where do you go to school?” he asked her.
“Wellington High School,” she told him.
“How do you know Haley?” he asked.
“She’s my boyfriend’s cousin,” said Amanda, who had been dating her first boyfriend, Chris (not his
real name), a baseball player at her school, for three weeks. “How do you know Haley?”
“She’s been working for me for a long time,” said Epstein. He paused. “It would feel more
comfortable if you got on my back,” he said.
Amanda looked at his back. There was a thick line of hair running down it to his buttocks. “Gross,”
she thought. She climbed tentatively onto the massage table, putting one knee on either side of him and
kneeling to avoid touching his bare skin with her underwear.
“Sit on me,” he insisted. “Put all your weight on me.”
Mortified, the fourteen-year-old girl did as he told her. She continued to massage his back in circles,
and Epstein started to moan. He turned over onto his back and ordered her to rub his chest while he
groped her hips. She tried not to look down, but she could see he was masturbating.
“I didn’t know what else to do,” she told police later. “I just felt intimidated.”
After what seemed like an eternity, he wiped himself off with a towel. He paid her $300 in cash and
told her to leave her phone number with his assistant.
“You can see yourself out,” he said.
Amanda left the room. Later she would recount wandering through the maze of hallways for a while,
unable to remember how to get back downstairs.
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Haley Robson, Amanda’s friend, recruited multiple underage victims for Epstein for the $200
commission. Robson had started working for Epstein as a teenager and told police that she preferred
bringing new girls to him rather than performing sex acts herself. She said Epstein made it clear that he
was interested only in girls in their teens and very early twenties. Once, when she brought a twenty-three year-old, Epstein told her the woman was “too old.”
Haley wasn’t the only victim who also recruited. “I brought girls I didn’t like and really, frankly, did
not give a shit about,” said one of Epstein’s sixteen-year-old victims in a police interview. “Girls that I
knew were skanks that would do anything. Who, like, girls that would just like suck dick in the bathroom
at school. Like not even people that I was friends with, I’d just hear a rumor about a girl and be like hey I
know a way you can make two hundred dollars.”
Epstein’s house manager, Juan Alessi, recalled seeing more than a hundred women visit Epstein to
give him massages in the years he worked there.
“We have a table—massage table in basically every room, guest room,” said Alessi. He said Epstein
received up to three massages a day, and estimated that the house went through forty or fifty towels each
day and had “gallons” of massage oils and lubricants.
He said he saw sex toys in Epstein’s sink after some of the massages.
“It was a long dick, I think. Rubber thing,” he said.
There were always young women around the house. One, a shy Yugoslavian blond girl named Nadia,
was his live-in “number one girlfriend” in the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century,
according to a police interview with Epstein’s former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez. Epstein claimed
that she was his sex slave and he had purchased her from her parents.
“[Nadia] told me that she came from Yugoslavia when she was, like, fifteen, with Jeffrey,” recalled
one victim named Jennifer (not her real name) in a police interview.
Jennifer was sixteen years old and working at the Hollister store in West Palm Beach, trying to save
money for a camping trip to Maine, when one of her co-workers asked her if she wanted to make some
quick cash.
“You can get a plane ticket in two hours,” the girl told Jennifer, according to a police interview. “We
can go and give this guy a massage, and, um, he’ll pay two hundred dollars for like forty-five minutes or
an hour.”
The sixteen-year-old started going to Epstein’s house regularly to give him “massages” that quickly
morphed into explicit sexual encounters. She told police in an interview, during which she broke down
crying at multiple points, that she was with him “hundreds” of times over a two-year period.
“The way it went was if you worked there for the first like three times, you got paid $200,” said
Jennifer. “After that, if you were persistent and worked all the time, it was on average $300. Sometimes I
got paid $1,000.”
The money “was a lot for a sixteen-year-old girl making six bucks an hour,” she said.
Jennifer said Epstein would offer her additional money for letting him use sex toys on her. He also
paid her to have sex with his girlfriend Nadia.
“Sometimes he got violent,” she recalled. “He pulled my hair a lot harder than it should have been
pulled . . . he would pull it to where it would rip my hair out. It would rip my hair, and then sometimes he
would pick me up and like throw me whichever way he wanted me, and then he would just like use a toy
or like his hand or whatever.”
After some encounters she said it was painful for her to walk because of how aggressive Epstein was
with sex toys.
“He would get really rough and I’d get cut . . . like ripped a little bit,” she said.
Jennifer said she never had sexual intercourse with Epstein and suggested that he might have been
unable to perform sexually.
“[His penis was] really fat at the bottom and skinny at the top where it’s attached. And, he can never
get fully hard, ever,” she said. “I don’t know if that’s some sort of thing that’s wrong with him, but it
definitely was not normal.”
She said she stopped seeing Epstein after two years because her boyfriend asked her to stop. But she
said she did not want to completely sever ties.
“If I called him today he would give me as much money as I asked him for,” she told police. “He
doesn’t know that I hate him the way I do.”
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The number of girls Epstein victimized could be as high as the hundreds, and there are many who have
declined to speak about it publicly. But the most outspoken and now well known is Virginia Roberts
Giuffre, who was one of the first to go public with details about her alleged experiences with Epstein and
his associates.
Giuffre was around seventeen years old working at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach when she met
Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre was a spa attendant at the exclusive club owned by Donald Trump. Her dad,
a well-respected maintenance worker at the resort, had connected her with the job.
“While reading a book about anatomy, Ghislaine Maxwell, met me at the spa, not having an education
or anything behind me, I thought this was a great opportunity to work for her . . . to make some extra
money and learn about massage. So, I went to Jeffrey’s mansion about five or six that afternoon,” Giuffre
has said in a proffer.
2
Her own dad drove her to the Palm Beach mansion, just a mile and a half away. “[Maxwell] led me
upstairs into Jeffrey’s bedroom past Jeffrey’s massage room that has a steam room, shower and massage
table,” she said. “There is actually an extra room that has—that nobody knows about—a kind of secret
room and it’s got a whole bunch of pictures of pornographic literature and sex toys.”
Epstein “was lying naked on top of the massage table.” He dictated what she should do. First “it was
actually a real massage.”
Then, Giuffre alleges, “Ghislaine who had stayed in the room told me to undress and began to take off
my shirt and skirt—that is—my white Mar-a-Lago uniform.” Maxwell then undressed herself.
At this point, the girl was scared. “I was expected to lick his nipples and give him oral sex while he
fondled me and then at the end I was told by Ghislaine to get on top and straddle Jeffrey sexually.”
Laura Goldman, Ghislaine friend, said she believed Ghislaine involvement was less about sex and
more about asserting her position as Epstein’s “main” girlfriend.
“I really, really believe that she was there to tell [the girls], ‘He’s my man.’ She wasn’t there for the
girls,” said Goldman. “She was trying to mark her territory, or domination, or whatever.”
Epstein immediately took a liking to Giuffre. “So you’re a bad girl in a good girl’s body,” he told her,
according to Giuffre 2011 account in the Daily Mail. She said Epstein gifted her an “absolutely
beautiful” Palm Beach pad. But of course there was a catch; she had to be on call. All the time.
She even began traveling with Epstein, according to flight records. She’d stay with him on his trips
and very occasionally in a spare room at his Palm Beach mansion.
So insecure was Epstein about himself that he used to brag to his victims about preying on other
children, said Giuffre. “The worst story I heard directly from his own mouth was about these pretty 12-
year-old girls he had flown in, transported to Palm Beach by somebody else, for his birthday,” Giuffre
said.
“I did see them. I did meet them. Jeffrey bragged after he met them they were 12 years old and flown
over from France because they are really poor over there, and their parents needed the money or
whatever. That was the worst. He was constantly bragging about the girls’ ages or where he got them from
or about their past and how terrible their past was and good he is making it for them,” according to
Giuffre.
Giuffre has said the quality of the massages, though they always ended sexually, was actually
important to Epstein. And in fact, he wanted her to become a better masseuse, so he sent her to Thailand
to improve her skills so that she could then return better able to serve her master.
But Giuffre used the trip to Thailand for something else. Days into her trip she met her future husband
and decided she would never return to Epstein’s servitude. Within a week, they would marry.
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The Perps
Epstein’s sexual abuse of Giuffre also extended to him “lending” her out to his elite circle of friends,
she publicly alleged in media interviews and court documents years after she cut ties with him. In a
2015 Florida district court filing as part of a civil lawsuit against the U.S. government, Giuffre
claimed Epstein “sexually trafficked” her to “politically-connected and financially-powerful people” in
order to “ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to
obtain potential blackmail information.” Giuffre said Ghislaine Maxwell was the “primary co-conspirator
in his sexual abuse and sex trafficking scheme.” Epstein allegedly began trafficking Giuffre to his friends
about two years after they met, she told the Mail on Sunday in her first press interview in 2011.
1
“I would give the massage, I would go home, and the next day when I saw Jeffrey, he would pay me
for what I did,” Giuffre has said.
2 She said Epstein’s only instruction for her was to “treat them like you
treat me.”
“I complied with what he wanted because . . . it was just very mind boggling how I let him have so
much control or power over me,” she has recalled.
Giuffre claimed Epstein used the opportunity to get dirt on various high-profile people. “I always
reported back to Jeffrey about what happened after I provided massages to his friends,” said Giuffre.
“Jeffrey would have a laugh with me a few times about some of their different mannerisms, I guess you
would say, like some of them, one guy had a foot fetish and that was really weird and I mentioned it to
Jeffrey and we had a laugh over it.”
She claimed Epstein relished the fact that he had dirt on his friends. “Lots of people owed him favors
from what he told me. He’s got everybody in his pocket, and he would laugh about how he helps people
for the sole purpose—in the end—to owe him something. That’s why I believe he does so many favors in
the first place.”
According to Giuffre, this included the former president of the United States, who had a relationship
with Epstein. To be clear: Giuffre herself has never made any accusation that she engaged in sexual
activities, or even a non-sensual massage, with Bill Clinton. Yet she distinctly remembers asking Epstein
why Clinton was hanging around.
“Well, he owes me a favor,” Giuffre says Epstein told her.
3 She went on to add, “They’re all in each
other’s pockets.”
—
Epstein did little to hide his interest in young women from friends, neighbors, and household staff. If
anything, he flaunted it.
“At his house [in Palm Beach], there were always more girls than you could count,” said one friend in
an interview. “I always counted like three or four. What they were doing there I couldn’t tell . . . They
weren’t walking around naked, they weren’t making sexual overtures, they were talking . . . They sounded
and looked like college girls.”
He enjoyed bike riding, and sometimes he’d be spotted cycling around Palm Beach with half a dozen
young women trailing after him. The sight no doubt shocked the tiny island’s old-money residents.
But many people wanted in on his victims. And Epstein had done what he could to be able to play
gracious host. By 1998, he had become so monstrously wealthy that his New York City townhome and
Palm Beach mansion were not enough. So he bought an island.
Operating as the sole proprietor of L.S.J. LLC, Epstein purchased Little St. James for $7.95 million. In
due time, it would be widely referred to as Little St. Jeff and then later as Orgy Island or Sex Island or
Pedophile Island.
The seventy-two-acre island is a lovely tropical getaway and, most attractively to its new owner,
completely private. “You can hop off a plane and never see anybody again,” the venture capitalist Arch
Cummin, the former owner, said upon the sale.
4
Onshore, there was a main house, three smaller guesthouses, a separate cottage for staff, and a
helipad. Getting there was made easier by Epstein’s use of his private plane, which he’d fly into St.
Thomas and then take his helicopter over.
The investment apparently paid off. Not only did the island rise significantly in value (it is now
estimated to be worth north of $60 million), but he also picked up a ranch in New Mexico and an
apartment in Paris.
The island and his new properties allowed him to entertain more freely, sharing his victims with those
who might be able to do him a favor.
—
Phone messages eventually recovered by the police hint at some of the people who at the very least knew
of Epstein’s activities. One particularly disturbing memo from September 2005 was a phone message
from Epstein’s close friend Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent.
“[Jean Luc] has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian. She is 2x8 years old. Not blonde.
Lessons are free and you can have 1st today if you call,” said the note.
5
Brunel ran a modeling business with cash provided by Epstein. Giuffre has accused Brunel of
providing underage girls to Epstein as part of his sick sexual pyramid scheme and human trafficking
operation.
“Brunel would offer the girls ‘modeling’ jobs. A lot of the girls came from poor countries or poor
backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money,” Giuffre has said in legal
documents.
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Phone messages, which were scribbled down in a memo pad by Epstein’s staff, were later collected
through trash pulls by police investigators. The memos provide a glimpse into Epstein’s wide circle of
influential contacts.
The media tycoon Mort Zuckerman, the longtime owner of the New York Daily News, called to ask for
“the address of the house to ‘drop by’ tomorrow at 10:45 a.m.,” said one note on January 22, 2005.
There were also messages from the embattled media mogul Harvey Weinstein—“Returning your call”;
Senator George Mitchell—“Return a call”; and Donald Trump.
Trump had a friendship with Epstein in the early days, but it eventually fell apart. In the early 2000s,
Trump banned Epstein from his exclusive Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach after hearing that he had
propositioned a member’s underage daughter.
“It wasn’t only Virginia [Giuffre], which would have been bad enough for Trump. It was a complaint
from a member’s daughter,” said Sam Nunberg, Trump’s 2016 political adviser, in an interview.
Nunberg said he asked Trump for details about his prior relationship with Epstein in 2015, warning
him that it could become a campaign liability.
“Trump told me [Epstein] was a ‘member,’ he was a ‘client.’ Meaning that the extent that Trump was
familiar or hung out with him was because [Epstein] gave him money,” said Nunberg. “He said, ‘I kicked
him out when this stuff became public, and he’s completely banned from my properties. He’s a real
sicko.’”
Not all of the men who left messages seemed to recognize that raping underage girls was the work of a
“sicko.”
David Copperfield, the celebrity magician, left at least ten phone messages with Epstein in January
2005. “I just want to say hello,” read one note. Another simply said, “It’s jackpot.” The two also
appeared to discuss Epstein’s scheduled attendance at one of Copperfield’s shows later that month.
One of Epstein’s alleged victims claimed he persuaded her to fly to Las Vegas with him to see a
performance by a “world-famous” magician when she was just fifteen years old in 2004. She said Epstein
took her backstage to meet the performer. Epstein later sexually assaulted her, she claimed.
“Epstein and/or his agents had arranged for the girls to go backstage and meet the performer, along
with several other young girls whom Epstein had arranged to be there,” said a lawsuit filed by the alleged
victim against Epstein’s estate last November. “For a girl from the Midwest, all of this was like a dream
come true—to be flown around in private jets, to meet a world-famous performer backstage, and to be
among other beautiful girls, almost all of whom were much older than her. She felt like she was being
treated special, and like a grown up.”
Gloria Allred, an attorney for the alleged victim, said she was unable to comment on whether the
magician referenced in the lawsuit was Copperfield.
Epstein would also be pegged as close to other important politicians and academics—Senator George
Mitchell, Governor Bill Richardson, Nobel Prize winners, and Harvard and Princeton professors.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the same victim who has accused Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual
wrongdoing, has claimed that the former Senate majority leader, a Democrat from Maine, sexually abused
her. She described some of the alleged encounters she had with Epstein’s associates in her unpublished
book manuscript that was included in court records as part of a 2015 defamation lawsuit she filed against
Ghislaine Maxwell. In a subsequent court filing, Giuffre’s attorneys described the manuscript as a
“fictionalized account of what happened to her” written as “an act of empowerment and a way of
reframing and taking control over the narrative of her past abuse that haunts her.”
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“My body was put on the banquet menu . . . for a powerful senator, George Mitchell, and another
prominent Nobel Prize winning scientist,” Giuffre wrote in the unpublished book manuscript, where she
retells how Epstein kept her as his sex slave for his pleasure and for his friends. “They would be only
some of the recognizable figures of the high society that became added to my list of clientele.”
Giuffre’s claim against Mitchell, unlike the ones against Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince
Andrew, was made less compelling by the fact that she does not provide the very details that make her
other accusations so believable.
Ironically, and perhaps disastrously, Mitchell had been serving on the board of the compensation fund
of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for victims of sexual abuse by priests,
8 a posting that has been
scrutinized since these allegations emerged.
Mitchell has denied these claims. “I have never met, spoken with, or had any contact with Ms.
Giuffre,” Mitchell told the press in a statement. “In my contacts with Mr. Epstein, I never observed or
suspected any inappropriate conduct with underage girls. I only learned about his actions when they were
reported in the media related to his prosecution in Florida. We have had no further contact.”
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Similar claims by Giuffre were made against the former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, the
modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and the financier Glenn Dubin, whose
wife, Eva Andersson-Dubin, used to date Epstein.
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Most of the accused have denied Giuffre’s allegations. And only Dershowitz, who has never been
known to be silent or reserved about anything, has gone so far as to launch a public rebuttal campaign
with the aim of clearing his name once and for all.
Dershowitz, the Democratic lawyer who more recently defended President Donald Trump in his
impeachment trial on the floor of the Senate in the beginning of 2020, went so far as to publish a book on
just this subject, Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo.
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“It feels terrible. Fifty-five years of public service,” he said in an interview. “I’m eighty-one years
old. I’ll probably spend the rest of my life in and out of court.”
Giuffre said she was forced to have sexual relations with the prominent attorney on multiple
occasions, including in a stretch limousine and on Epstein’s private island.
“One such powerful individual that Epstein forced then-minor [Giuffre] to have sexual relations with
was former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a close friend of Epstein’s and well-known
criminal defense attorney,” said a December 2014 court filing by Giuffre’s attorneys as part of a victims’
rights lawsuit against the government. “Epstein required [Giuffre] to have sexual relations with
Dershowitz on numerous occasions while she was a minor, not only in Florida but also on private planes,
in New York, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to being a participant in the abuse of
Jane Doe #3 and other minors, Dershowitz was an eyewitness to the sexual abuse of many other minors
by Epstein and several of Epstein’s co-conspirators.”
Dershowitz has vehemently denied Giuffre’s allegations and says he never met her. He has released
travel and credit card records disputing that he was in the places she claimed he was when the alleged
encounters occurred. He has also highlighted discrepancies in Giuffre’s accounts that he believes
undermine her credibility; for example, she previously said she was fifteen when she met Epstein, while
employment records indicate she likely met Epstein when she was sixteen or seventeen.
He noted that she also did not claim she had relations with him in a 2011 memoir manuscript that she
pitched to publishers, which included accounts of alleged sexual encounters she had with other associates
of Epstein’s. In the draft, Giuffre also said she went to a dinner party with Bill Clinton on Epstein’s
island, a story that appears to conflict with Secret Service records. Giuffre’s attorneys have said the
manuscript was a “fictionalized account” of her experiences.
The situation has spawned a complicated web of litigation. Giuffre is currently suing Dershowitz for
defamation. Dershowitz, meanwhile, has taken legal action against both her and her attorney David Boies.
He claims Boies persuaded Giuffre to accuse him as part of a wider plot to shake down Epstein’s
benefactor, the billionaire Leslie Wexner, for money.
But Giuffre’s claims would spark years of media attention and provide on-the-record testimony
alleging sexual trafficking of girls. It was a charge that would stick in the court of public opinion, even if
legal proceedings would prove to be far more forgiving.
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How He Got Away the First Time
After he had operated for about a decade with impunity, trouble began to brew for Jeffrey Epstein. In
2005, the Palm Beach County Police Department opened an investigation into Epstein after receiving
a phone call from a concerned stepmother. The concerned parent called the cops, on March 14 of that
year, claiming her stepchild, a fourteen-year-old Royal Palm Beach High student, had been the victim of
molestation.
By October 20, 2005, the investigation had developed to the point where investigators had probable
cause. They executed a search warrant at his residence but were surprised to see that electronic
equipment, like computers, was no longer on the premises. Was the suspected perpetrator given a heads up?
Many inside the police department believe it’s a distinct possibility. Epstein had worked hard to win
the allegiance of local law enforcement, perhaps even enough to get them to look away most of the time.
He had, after all, given $50,000 to the Palm Beach Police Scholarship Fund around 2001. Then, in 2003,
he gave an additional $36,000 to the Town of Palm Beach. And an additional donation on December 14,
2004, of $90,000 to the Palm Beach Police Department for the purchase of equipment.
1
As Palm Beach police finalized their case and prepared to obtain a search warrant for Epstein’s house
in October 2005, Epstein received a late night phone call from a longtime aide to one of his close
associates, Bill Clinton.
Sandy Berger, Clinton’s former national security adviser, left an urgent message for Epstein to call
him back. “Can you call [Berger] at this number between 10 and 10:30 p.m.?” read the memo on October
2, 2005.
There is no indication of what Berger, who passed away in 2015, wanted to discuss that night. The
next morning, when police pulled trash from Epstein’s house—as they had surreptitiously been doing for
months—they found a broken sex toy in the garbage, according to the detectives’ notes.
“Inside of one of the [white garbage bags], I located a broken piece of a hard plastic or clear acrylic
stick, which was shaped with small ridges,” said the notes from the Palm Beach police detectives that
day.
2 “This device is commonly used as a sexual toy which is inserted into the vagina or anus for
stimulation.”
The timing of the call stood out to the victims’ attorneys. In a deposition of Epstein’s assistant Adriana
Ross, one of the victims’ lawyers, Brad Edwards, asked whether Berger tipped Epstein off to the looming
search warrant.
“Berger called the house within three weeks of the search warrant being executed. Did he tip off
Jeffrey Epstein?” asked Edwards.
3 Ross, who was exercising her Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination, refused to answer.
By April 2006, Epstein had hired goons to help him deal with his problem, and potential witnesses
were beginning to feel the heat. The message was clear, one victim’s father would report, relaying the
message he heard to prosecutors: “Those who help him will be compensated, and those who hurt him will
be dealt with.”
4
Epstein’s attorneys besieged prosecutors with documents, including reports on potential drug use by
his underage accusers and the alleged criminal backgrounds of their parents.
Epstein’s legal team even obtained confidential internal reports from one of the girls’ employers,
Victoria’s Secret, the company owned by Epstein’s longtime benefactor, Leslie Wexner, that claimed
the teenager had been fired for theft.
In one letter to the assistant state attorney’s office, Epstein’s lawyers made their intentions clear. His
team was fully prepared to shred his accuser’s reputation in front of the grand jury.
“Thank you for giving Mr. Epstein the opportunity to present information to the Grand Jury. Enclosed
please find background information on [redacted victim’s name] and her family,” the letter read. “You
will find the enclosed information presents [redacted victim] as someone who is untruthful, sexually
active, smokes marijuana, drinks alcohol, and shoplifts regularly.
“Additionally, the information reveals the motive behind the false allegations,” the letter continued.
“Based on Ms. [redacted’s] lack of credibility, we request that you reconsider your decision to present
this matter to the Grand Jury. In support of this request, it is important to acknowledge that Mr. Epstein
does not use drugs or alcohol and has an unequivocal reputation for being truthful; a strict contrast to Ms.
[redacted’s] reputation. I look forward to hearing from you after you have had a chance to review this
information.”
Epstein that month reached a deal with the state attorney of Palm Beach County to plead guilty, which
resulted in the cancellation of the scheduled grand jury. The deal appeared too lenient to the Palm Beach
police chief, Michael Reiter, especially after he caught wind of the fact that Epstein had hired as his
counsel the husband of the top prosecutor in the state attorney’s office. It stank.
In July 2006, a local grand jury convened and heard the testimony of only a single victim, a fourteen year old girl who accused the rich resident of molestation. Epstein was subsequently placed under arrest
but soon freed after posting the measly $3,000 bond.
Reiter was furious. He realized Epstein was circumventing the law and likely to get off with nothing
more than a slap on the wrist. In a rare move, he sent a letter to the victim’s parents letting them know that
he was referring the case to the FBI.
“I do not believe justice has been sufficiently served by the indictment that has been issued,” said
Reiter in the letter. “Therefore, please know that this matter has been referred to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to determine if violations of federal law have occurred.”
Within weeks, the feds took over the case. In almost no time they found three dozen more alleged
victims. The federal prosecutor in charge of the office handling the case was Alexander Acosta, an
attorney formerly in the private practice Kirkland & Ellis.
Epstein meanwhile altered his tactics, hiring lawyers from Acosta’s former law firm to represent him
as he dealt with the feds. They would know Acosta, and maybe, just maybe, they could get him out of the
fix that the FBI had landed him in.
“These were very high-profile lawyers. And they put a lot of pressure
to bear on [Acosta] to work out some kind of a plea agreement, even though at the same time the plea
negotiations were going on, the FBI was uncovering more and more evidence that Epstein’s crimes went
far beyond Palm Beach, that he possibly was operating an international sex trafficking organization, in
which he had recruiters overseas,” the reporter Julie K. Brown, a Miami Herald investigative reporter,
said in an interview with Democracy Now!
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“And so, there were two parallel things going on: the FBI working the case at the same time that Alex
Acosta and his team were trying to make the case go away, so to speak, by negotiating some kind of a plea
bargain.”
When a deal was finally struck between Epstein’s lawyers and Acosta, over a friendly breakfast at a
Miami hotel, the financier was effectively able to shut down the growing investigation. That was the
effect of the non-prosecution agreement, signed September 24, 2007. In exchange, Epstein would avoid
federal charges and agree to prostitution charges with the Palm Beach County state attorney.
The deal was a major victory for Epstein. But he didn’t see it that way, according to his attorney at the
time, Alan Dershowitz.
“If the full extent of his activities were known when he made that deal, I don’t think he would have
gotten that deal,” said Dershowitz.
“He didn’t think I got a good deal for him . . . For a while he complained about the bills and had them
audited by his accountant and stuff like that. Ultimately, we compromised and he never paid me the full
amount he owed me.”
It was true that the prostitution charges would carry a negative stigma for Epstein, but a far less severe
one than child rape and sex trafficking, which is what he almost certainly would have faced had the
Federal Bureau of Investigation been given the leeway to carry on their own investigation to its
conclusion. Besides, the FBI investigation had been rapidly expanding. Agents not only had been
investigating his Florida home but also had been traveling to New York and New Mexico to get a better
handle on the lascivious and illegal activity he had been engaging in at his numerous residences across
America.
So on June 30, 2008, more than three years after the initial complaint from the worried stepmother
was lodged with the local police department, Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to two charges: soliciting a
prostitute and soliciting prostitution of a minor. He was sentenced to eighteen months at the Palm Beach
County jail’s private wing, where minor and low-risk inmates were housed.
But Epstein proved even more crafty, using his influence and money effectively to buy an even more
cushy sentence.
“I visited him once in prison . . . because he needed advice about what level he had to register in New
York [as a sex offender],” said Dershowitz in an interview. “He was very encouraged, optimistic. He’s a
likable guy and everybody in the prison liked him. They got along; everybody was just nice to him. He
didn’t do hard time. But nobody does, if you get that kind of a sentence.”
Another friend who visited him said in an interview that Epstein “actually lived in his own part of the
jail nobody else was in. It was like a luxury jail.”
The work-release program Epstein managed to finagle made the sentence an inconvenience rather than
a severe punishment. It allowed the now admitted sexual predator to go to work for at times fourteen
hours a day. So in the morning he would get picked up by a waiting chauffeur who’d drive him to a Palm
Beach office building. Fourteen hours later, after a full day away at the office, he would be driven back to
jail, where he would spend the night. And believe it or not, he was working overtime, six days a week.
While in jail, Epstein boasted to a friend that he was in negotiations to buy a portion of the Miami
Dolphins from the then owner, Wayne Huizenga, according to an interview. Epstein, who knew and cared
nothing about sports, mused, “I think if you buy them, you worry about hot dog sales.”
The friend also recalled one jail visit that Epstein cut short by telling him, “It’s 4:00 p.m., I’m
expecting a call from Israel, from the prime minister.” At that hour, it would have been nearing midnight in
Tel Aviv.
So sweet was Epstein’s deal that he was able to receive his “massages” even while serving time.
They were carried out at his office, instead of his mansion, though it is believed that they came with all
the benefits of the ones that got him into the joint in the first place.
“It was not for some business arrangement and it was for . . . improper sexual contact,” Brad
Edwards, a lawyer representing accusers, told the Daily Beast.
“He just wasn’t in jail. He only slept there. He was in his office most of the day and what I can tell
you he had visitors, female visitors,” the lawyer told the website.
“They believed they were going there for something other than a sexual purpose. Once there, he used
his perfect master manipulation to turn the situation into something sexual,” said the lawyer.
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And this is why, when Epstein finally did die in jail, so many were inclined to believe he was
murdered. After all, he had a history of beating the courts. And he had powerful presidents and princes in
his pocket who could help him out in a time of need.
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The Prince
Transatlantic Travels with Andrew
Jeffrey’s my friend. Being loyal to your friends is a virtue. And I’m going to be loyal to him.
PRINCE ANDREW
The New York literary agent John Brockman described a scene he once walked in on when he went to
Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion.
“Last time I visited his house (the largest private residence in NYC), I walked in to find him in a
sweatsuit and a British guy in a suit with suspenders, getting foot massages from two young well-dressed
Russian women [one apparently named Irina]. After grilling me for a while about cyber-security, the Brit,
named Andy, was commenting on the Swedish authorities and the charges against Julian Assange,”
Brockman wrote in an email to a client for whom he was trying to facilitate a meeting with his financial
patron, Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Brockman, the Brit named Andy said, “We think they’re liberal in Sweden, but it's more like Northern England as opposed to Southern Europe.
“In Monaco, Albert works 12 hours a day but at 9pm, when he goes out, he does whatever he wants,
and nobody cares. But, if I do it, I’m in big trouble,” the Brit said.
That is when, according to Brockman’s own retelling, he “realized that the recipient of Irina’s foot
massage was his Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.” Prince Andrew has denied this
encounter ever took place.
These are the sorts of stories that seem to follow Prince Andrew wherever he goes. In 2020 a local
attorney general accused the British royal of groping women on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.
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“An employee told me that he saw Prince Andrew on a balcony out at Little St. James groping girls
right out in the open,” the U.S. Virgin Islands prosecutor Denise George said in an interview with Vanity
Fair.
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“He said he remembered walking up to him and saying, ‘Good morning, your Highness,’” the
prosecutor said, retelling the conversation Prince Andrew had with Epstein’s former employee.
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Jeffrey Epstein was exposed. Getting investigated and arrested on child sex crimes revealed to him that he
was vulnerable. Yes, he had effectively been able to minimize damage. Money, power, and friends in the
right places helped. They always did.
But no matter how light the sentence he received, it was humiliating. It was also a hindrance—though
not a complete one—to the three-a-day “massage” routine he demanded. Moreover, it came with various
limitations: public shunning by some, like Bill Clinton, and being legally required to register as a sex
offender.
It was what one might call a learning experience. Though to the public, Epstein was even less contrite.
“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender,’” he told the New York Post in a 2011 interview.
“It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” Epstein added.
He maintained that view until the end. “I just want you to know I’m not a pedophile,” he told a Fox
Business reporter in 2019.
3 “Maybe the only thing worse than being called a pedophile is being called a
hedge fund manager.”
Practically speaking, Epstein’s new status as an admitted sex offender did not mean retreat for him. It
did not mean a sudden change of behavior. Obviously not. No, it meant he had to get smarter, better, and
more intentional.
“Jeffrey knew all of the right people in this game, and trading girls for favors is how he kept in the
circle,” one victim who accused Epstein of sex trafficking has claimed.
So he cozied up to his good friend Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, which would both help him ingratiate himself into the upper echelons of America’s elite and provide a bit of protection from the
prying eyes of a curious public and overzealous law enforcement officers.
“I remember when Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein first became friends,” a source told Vanity Fair.
“Jeffrey had Andrew put on a pair of sweatpants for the first time in his life. He had him wear blue jeans
for the first time. It was Jeffrey who taught Andrew how to relax.”
Relaxation which, for the royal, allegedly came with a captive kid for his own sexual gratification, in exchange for what Epstein wanted.
Epstein and Prince Andrew had one thing in common: they both dated Ghislaine Maxwell. The shared
love would seem unimaginable. A Brooklyn boy of Jewish heritage going out with the same woman once
fancied by a British royal of unimpeachable lineage?
The connection might help explain the closeness of the trio, and also the weirdness.
“I met through his girlfriend back in 1999 who—and I’d known her since she was at university in the
UK and it would be, to some extent, a stretch to say that as it were we were close friends,” Prince
Andrew said in a 2019 interview with the BBC, meant to deal with the fallout of his close relationship
with Epstein.
In fact, a Maxwell friend revealed in an interview that the two were more than friends. Which might
not have been the only fact that the British royal elided.
A letter in defense of Prince Andrew, by his private secretary, Alastair Watson, pegged the start of
their relationship at least half a decade earlier. “The duke has known Mr Epstein since being introduced
to him in the early 1990s. The insinuations and innuendos that have been made in relation to the duke are
without foundation,” Watson wrote in March 2011.
Regardless, Epstein and Prince Andrew were indisputably friends. “I saw him once or twice a year,
perhaps maybe maximum of three times a year,” the duke explained.
So close, indeed, that he’d usually stay at Epstein’s house if it was vacant. “Quite often if I was in the
United States and doing things and if he wasn’t there, he would say, ‘Well, why don’t you come and use
my houses?’ So I said, ‘That’s very kind, thank you very much indeed,’” said the duke.
Indeed, he would at other times stay at Epstein’s home—even if he was in town. The duke claims to
have admired Epstein solely for his intellectual pursuits. “He had the most extraordinary ability to bring
extraordinary people together and that’s the bit that I remember as going to the dinner parties where you
would meet academics, politicians, people from the United Nations, I mean it was a cosmopolitan group
of what I would describe as US eminents,” he told the BBC.
The friendship wasn’t just enjoyed in America. Epstein was a guest of the duke’s at Windsor Castle,
and then they went on a shooting expedition at Sandringham House, the queen’s winter home, in 2000.
Andrew claims he had a keen awareness of the signs of child sex abuse, because he was a patron of
the U.K.’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. “I knew what the things were to
look for but I never saw them,” he said.
But in July 2006, a month after Epstein was arrested for the first time in Palm Beach, Andrew invited
him to his daughter Princess Beatrice’s eighteenth birthday party at Windsor Castle. “I’m afraid, you see
this is the problem is that an awful lot of this was going on in the United States and I wasn’t a party to it
and I knew nothing about it,” he rather unconvincingly now claims.
Because it is now known that when Prince Andrew was aware of Epstein’s predilection for sexually
abusing young girls, it did not prevent the royal from remaining friends with the pervert.
In December 2010, the duke came to New York and stayed at Epstein’s mansion. Epstein was released
from his sweetheart jail sentence nearly a year and a half earlier, in July 2009.
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Friendship was not the only thing binding Epstein and Prince Andrew together. There was also money.
In 2011, the British press revealed that the New York financier had helped the duke’s ex-wife, Sarah
Ferguson, the Duchess of York, with her enormous debts. She had accepted, through her assistant, around
$20,000 (£15,000, to be exact) from Epstein.
The money was delivered in response to a direct appeal from Prince Andrew, the U.K. ’s Telegraph
reported in 2011.
“The convicted paedophile gave £15,000 to the Duchess’s former personal assistant, Johnny
O’Sullivan, after the Duke allegedly made a personal appeal to him to help his former wife with her
financial troubles,” the paper would write in a shocking exposé.
“The Duchess’s spokesman confirmed last night that Epstein, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail
for child sex offences in 2008, paid off part of the £78,000 the Duchess owed Mr O’Sullivan in a ‘private
arrangement’ between the two men.”
The astonishing thing is not so much that a British royal would take a rich financier’s money; it’s that a
royal could be so cheaply bought.
Vanity Fair wrote that the real sum of money received by Ferguson was much, much larger. “The
major reason Andrew hung out with Jeffrey was to get money for Sarah Ferguson,” a source told the
glossy magazine in a 2011 article.
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“Andrew feels responsible for Sarah. She walked away from their divorce with nothing, unlike
Princess Diana, who got millions from Prince Charles. There have been newspaper reports that Sarah got
£15,000 [$24,500] from Jeffrey, but I think that Sarah has actually received hundreds of thousands of
dollars from him,” the source claimed.
The Duchess of York was desperate. She was deeply in debt and needed cash. When she ended her
marriage to the duke in 1996, she reportedly was in the hole £4.2 million.
The queen was reportedly “deeply concerned” about her ex-daughter-in-law’s financial state.
Bankruptcy by a royal, even an ex-royal, had never been claimed before. And it would be deeply
humiliating for the entire family.
Despite being “continually on the verge of financial bankruptcy,” as Ferguson once told Oprah, she has
never had to file for bankruptcy. That’s in part thanks to Epstein, and perhaps much more so than is even
realized.
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Prince Andrew has been accused of sexual misconduct by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who blames Maxwell
for putting her in the situation.
On a visit to England in 2001, Maxwell awoke Giuffre one morning to say, “We’re going shopping for
a new ensemble . . . To go dancing with a Prince of England this evening,” Giuffre has recalled in an
unpublished book she shopped called “The Billionaire’s Playboy Club.”
“What . . . wow!” Giuffre replied, feigning interest and surprise.
All day they shopped as Maxwell prepped the girl for her forced date. “Make sure your [sic] bubbly
and energetic, nobody want’s [sic] a dead horse,” Maxwell commanded. “Who knows where this could
lead for you.”
Giuffre, then seventeen, put on a pink mini-T-shirt to go with her embroidered jeans decorated with
horses. She had a brand-new Burberry handbag to complement her outfit.
She was a nervous wreck. So she popped a Xanax to help keep her cool. Epstein and Maxwell both
teased the kid for her nerves, she recalls.
Finally, at 6:00 p.m., Prince Andrew arrived. They exchanged kisses on the cheeks, and soon the three
adults were shit-talking the royal’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.
The foursome then went to a nearby restaurant for dinner, where they were seated as couples—Jeffrey
and Ghislaine on one side, Prince Andrew and Giuffre on the other. “I remained calm, cool, and
collected, hoping that my nervousness wouldn’t spill out at any given moment,” Giuffre recalls.
Next the party traveled to the exclusive nightclub Tramp. Epstein took his usual place—a chair in the
corner, where he could watch what would happen. Prince Andrew got everyone cocktails, except Epstein,
whom he brought sparkling water, knowing full well that his friend didn’t drink.
“I had the Prince’s upmost attention. Moving his hands across the curves of my body, not to shy away
from the fact that he was in public, he was whispering sweet nothings into my ear and kissing my neck. I
would just giggle not really knowing how to reply to an aging man with a bad smile and terrible moves,”
she recalls. “He was the most incredibly hideous dancer I had ever seen.”
The prince was dripping with sweat after an hour and wanted to go someplace quieter. They returned
to Maxwell’s house, as had been arranged. While back home, Giuffre and Prince Andrew posed for a
photo that would one day become infamous when the Daily Mail published it in 2011. The smirking
prince captured in a private home, with a provocative hand on the girl’s bare midriff, which had been left
exposed between her tiny pink top and her embroidered jeans.
Giuffre started a bath and seductively stripped her clothes, and they kissed as they entered the bath.
“He was adorning my young body, particularly my feet, caressing my toes and licking my arches,” Giuffre
says, remembering that she laughed at the royal’s apparent fetish.
“We dried off from the cold and retired to my bedchambers for the longest ten minutes of my life.
Moments later and without any real emotional attachment, he burst in ecstasy, leaving me to my own
feelings of dismay,” she writes.
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Upon returning to the United States, Giuffre would be paid extra by Epstein for taking such good care
of the prince. Though in private the two laughed at the royal’s fetish.
Nevertheless, Giuffre felt enslaved. The money she earned would be spent on alcohol and pills,
anything to help her mind feel less pain from the continuous experiences she could not escape.
Giuffre has claimed that the next day Ghislaine Maxwell, who herself once dated the duke, praised her
for sexually gratifying the royal. “Ghislaine said, ‘You did a really good job’ and pats me on the back and
says, ‘You made him really happy,’” Giuffre has said.
This wouldn’t be her only encounter with Prince Andrew; she recounts in detail another meetup in
New York City at Epstein’s home.
Prince Andrew denies all of Giuffre claims, telling the BBC in 2019 he has “no recollection of ever
meeting this lady, none whatsoever.”
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His denials caused much snickering, especially in light of the photograph, which has long been
released publicly. Prince Andrew concedes the man in the photo is indeed himself and stops short of
saying that it’s doctored, though he questioned whether that’s his “hand” in the snap.
The royal claims that night he was with his children at Pizza Express, which he remembers nearly two
decades later because it was such an “unusual thing” for him to do.
But the line that resulted in the most ridicule for the royal was this one: “There’s a slight problem with
the sweating because I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I don’t sweat or I didn’t sweat at
the time.”
It did not take long after Prince Andrew’s sweating defense for photographic proof and testimonials to
be published online that would undercut his denials.
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A friend of Prince Andrew’s has said that the royal defended his friendship with Epstein by claiming to be
loyal.
“You cannot have a relationship with Jeffrey. You can’t do these things,” the friend claimed in a Vanity
Fair interview that he told the duke after Epstein’s guilty plea.
“Stop giving me a hard time. You’re such a puritan,” Prince Andrew reportedly told his friend.
A screaming match ensued, and finally Prince Andrew had had enough. “Leave me alone,” the royal
said in a huff. “Jeffrey’s my friend. Being loyal to your friends is a virtue. And I’m going to be loyal to
him.”
But publicly, Prince Andrew tells a much different story. He maintains he visited Epstein in New York
City to break up in 2010. “Look, you’ve been convicted, it would be incompatible for me to be seen with
you,” the duke claims to have told his buddy during a stroll through Central Park.
The problem with that version of events is that it seems implausible. The duke did not simply meet up
with his buddy to deliver the devastating news. No, he once again slept at Epstein’s New York City
mansion, having a four-night slumber party instead of a perfunctory breakup, as if that were even needed.
“I could easily have gone and stayed somewhere else but sheer convenience of being able to get a
hold of the man was . . . I mean he was in and out all over the place. So getting him in one place for a
period of time to actually have a long enough conversation to say look, these are the reasons why I’m not
going to . . . and that happened on the walk,” Prince Andrew rather remarkably now claims.
The royal was “even spotted kissing a glammy brunette on the doorstep,” the New York Post reported
in 2011.
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It was on this visit that Epstein once again tried to use Prince Andrew for his own gain—to help him
get back into the good graces of New York’s media class. He threw a dinner party with Katie Couric,
Charlie Rose, Woody Allen, Chelsea Handler, and George Stephanopoulos all in attendance. Two of
those guests (Rose and Allen) would later face sexual misconduct allegations of their own. The group of
under twenty guests would feast on lasagna. Epstein would entertain wearing his usual jeans, gussied up
with $500 velvet Stubbs & Wootton slippers.
Epstein’s longtime publicist, the New York socialite Peggy Siegal, facilitated the party, according to
reports. “Multiple sources say the event was organized by Siegel, who presented it as an opportunity to
meet the prince at the largest single-family dwelling in New York City. Given that it was less than two
months after Kate Middleton and Prince William’s engagement, interest in the royals was running high,”
The Hollywood Reporter would explain.
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And yet it is a perfect example of Epstein’s opportunism, using his high-profile friends to better his
own standing—by bringing in high-profile media luminaries, who the press now claims were roped into
the meeting under false pretenses.
The personal cost for Prince Andrew would be astronomical. A decade later, after Epstein’s arrest
and subsequent death, he’d be kicked out of Buckingham Palace by his mother, the queen of England.
“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’s work and the valuable
work going on in the many organisations and charities that I am proud to support,” Prince Andrew said in
a 2019 statement after his monumental BBC interview was so roundly roasted.
10 “I continue to
unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein.”
But no matter his relation to the royal family nor Epstein’s death, it may not be over yet for Prince
Andrew. Giuffre has been seeking justice through the American court system for years and will likely
continue to do so. Even the FBI is hot on his heels.
In a bizarre and out-of-character move, American law enforcement authorities made a public plea, of
sorts, to shame the British royal into cooperating with the investigation into Epstein. Indeed, the public
statement was delivered practically on Epstein’s stoop.
“The Southern District of New York and the FBI have contacted Prince Andrew’s attorneys and
requested to interview Prince Andrew, and to date, Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation,” the
Manhattan U.S. attorney, Geoffrey Berman, intoned into the microphone at a press conference.
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The comment was obviously meant to shame the royal into cooperating—a pledge he’d made in that
BBC interview. He “publicly offered, indeed in a press release, to cooperate with law enforcement
investigating the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators,” Berman said.
“Jeffrey Epstein couldn’t have done what he did without the assistance of others,” he added. “And I
can assure you that the investigation is moving forward.”
But for whatever reason Prince Andrew never appeared to be shamed. The public preaching fell on
deaf ears. Perhaps it was because he knew Epstein could not speak from the grave. Others closer to home
might not have been feeling so confident.
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