It seems that every ten years or so, there will be one or two public cases that shocked the world.
Take the past 30 years as an example, in the 90s, it was the OJ Simpson (O.J. Simpson) wife murder case, everyone knew that he did it, but Simpson spent a lot of money to hire a luxury lawyer team, and finally miraculously exonerated him;
(O.J. Simpson)
In the new millennium, there is no doubt that the 911 incident will permanently change the US defense strategy.
By the 10s, I am afraid it was the death of Jeffrey Epstein.
(Epstein)
Epstein could probably sum it up in one word: "high-end pimp."
He is rumored to have close contacts with celebrities and dignitaries from all over the world, including Clinton, Trump, Prince Andrew, the Kennedy family, and so on...... It is not too much to say that the hand and the eye are all over the sky.
No one knows exactly how he managed this huge network, perhaps because he was willing to throw money away.
He had a private jet, and around 2000, Clinton invited his close friend Kevin Spacey on a trip to Africa, using Epstein's plane.
(Epstein sends Clinton to Africa)
Later, some media checked the flight log of this plane and found that in 2002~2003, Clinton took Epstein's plane many times.
The generosity of private jets is evident in the generosity of private jets that burn dollars for every trip.
In addition, Epstein will donate $20 million a year to a group of scientific research teams, regardless of what they are specifically researching, they are only responsible for throwing money, which can be regarded as a horse bone.
In short, through all these means, Epstein created a mysterious, generous, and well-traveled image of a wealthy man in the eyes of the world.
In 2002, New York magazine wrote a feature on him, calling him a "mysterious multinational financier."
("Jeffrey Epstein: The Mysterious Multinational Financier")
At this time, the outside world didn't know that he was a golden jade.
In fact, he owns a small island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he trades sex.
The girls were all kidnapped by him, and the youngest was only 11~12 years old.
(Epstein often brought eleven or twelve-year-old girls to the island)
In 2005, a woman reported to the Florida police that a wealthy man had molested her stepdaughter, and that the rich man was naturally Epstein.
When the Florida police investigated, they were shocked to find that there were so many victims, far more than this girl.......
At this point, the state police authority was no longer sufficient, and the case was turned over to the FBI.
After several years of investigation, the F.B.I. prepared a 53-page sex indictment for Epstein in 2007 with the intention of keeping him to death.
By 2008, however, only a handful of Epstein's many charges had been settled.
He only needs to spend 13 months in prison, and it's not a federal or state prison, it's a county prison in Florida.
(Epstein in jail)
In prison, he was also given a comfortable office and worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, no different from not being in prison.
There is no doubt that his drill camp in previous years played a big role,
It is said that his island has hidden cameras in order to catch the "guests......
Last year we said that Prince Andrew was kicked out of his royal villa, and Charles didn't treat him very well.
A dignified prince got mixed up to this point because his relationship with Epstein was found out,
A female victim, Virginia Giuffre, sued him again, and he became a royal disgrace.
(Andrew with his arm around Giuffrey)
Andrew refused to admit that he had been to Epstein's island, and survived at the cost of sky-high hush money, and finally saved the last layer of face.
Andrew was stripped of his skin as an accomplice at best, let alone Epstein.
Since this acquittal, the FBI has continued to keep an eye on his every move and finally arrested him in 2019.
He pleaded not guilty, of course, and a lengthy legal battle was about to begin — at least as expected in the United States.
But this time, all expectations fell short.
Because just one month after his arrest, Epstein "hanged himself."
His "suicide" is full of suspicions:
The first is that he is 1.8 meters tall and weighs 84 kilograms, but he hanged himself in a low bunk bed in prison, or a bunk in the lower bunk.
(Epstein's cell where he died)
Secondly, Epstein "committed suicide" once just half a month after he entered prison, but he didn't die.
According to normal procedures, prisons should keep them under strict supervision for suicide.
But on the night of his death, two guards in charge of patrolling unsurprisingly "fell asleep",
The two monitors in front of the cell were also very clever and "malfunctioning.......
After his death, the staff did not protect the scene, but did not hesitate to violate the regulations.
His body was quickly transported to the medical examiner's office, and the evidence was destroyed......
Third, a later autopsy showed that the strangulation marks on his neck were in the center, and if it was a normal hanging, the strangulation marks should have been in the lower jaw.
He also had three fractures in his larynx, especially the Adam's apple and thyroid cartilage.
All this indicates that he was strangled from behind, but the coroner still insisted that he was "hanged".
(Paramedics transport Epstein away)
The death of a person is empty, and his accusation of a crime is also eliminated invisibly - this big case involving countless celebrities and dignitaries has been so unexpectedly closed......
Later, a media poll showed that only 16% of people believed that he committed suicide, 39% were unsure, and 45% believed that he died of murder.
(Poll Results)
It can only be said that the handle in Epstein's hand saved him last time, but this time it killed him.
However, it is precisely because there are too many involved in this case that Epstein's death is not enough to completely cover up the truth.
Because he alone is not enough to run his island for so many years.
Epstein also had an accomplice, named Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman from a family and a British socialite.
Over the years, he has been in close contact with Prince Andrew, who is also likely to be a matchmaker with Maxwell.
(Epstein & Maxwell)
With the fall of Epstein, Maxwell was arrested and currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
And one of the important people who pushed Maxwell to prison was the aforementioned Virginia Giuffrey, who received Andrew's sky-high hush money.
Giuffrey claimed to have been tricked by Maxwell at the age of 17 into becoming Epstein's "traveling masseuse", only to find out that the "massage" was fake and the sex trade was real.
So she was forced to have relationships with Andrew, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, billionaire Glenn Doberman, and others.
(Maxwell is actually standing in the corner of this picture.)
Not surprisingly, the above people all claimed that Giuffrey was lying, but then Andrew still paid hush money, whether it was a lie or not, they knew best in their hearts.
Beginning in 2015, Giuffrey began a legal offensive against Maxwell, Andrew, Epstein and others, and the ending of the latter two has already been told,
The situation is similar on Maxwell's side, and the two sides reached a secret settlement in 2017, with Maxwell reportedly paying her millions of dollars......
But that's not the point — the court has yielded a flood of testimony over the course of Giuffrey's proceedings, and court documents have listed a large number of people linked to the Epstein sex trafficking network.
Perhaps it was these people who put some pressure on them, and some of the documents remained sealed after Giuffrey's reconciliation with Maxwell,
Even if the documents were chosen to be published, they were not named, but were called by code names, until today, six years later.
On the evening of January 3, 2024, the New York court announced that it would make the remaining documents completely public, and the first batch has been released, with 943 pages in full, and more are expected in the next few days......
(Document released by the court)
In total, about 200 names are expected to be released, but it is important to note that the mention of a name does not necessarily mean that the person was necessarily involved in Epstein's sex trafficking, some of which were mentioned in passing during witness testimony, and some of which were real accomplices.
Due to the complexity of this case and the fact that it has lasted so long, it may take a while for us to see the results of the combing.
At present, it seems that there are several well-known figures in the document:
1. Trump.
He can't control his lower body, and it's not a day or two.
Epstein and he have been friends since the 90s.
In 1992, Trump threw a party at Meihu Manor, inviting 28 girls, but they were the only men.......
(Trump invites 28 girls to have fun with Epstein)
(A photo of the two when they were young)
By the time of the Epstein incident in 2005, Trump was keenly aware that he could no longer get too close to him.
So he cut it decisively, so that he was not implicated later.
Rao is so, Trump is still unclear about a female pornographer, and later all of them were picked up......
2. Clinton.
Not to mention this heavyweight, who can make peachy news with Xi during his tenure,
Mixing with Epstein can only be said to smell the same......
(The two took a photo in the past)
While Clinton has always denied that he has been to Epstein's island, Giuffrey insisted in his testimony that he was a VIP of the island:
"There's an important guest for the next feast on the island, the one you and I all know, Bill Clinton. ”
This is actually not a secret, as early as 2011 the Daily Mail reported,
One girl claimed that she had met Clinton twice while working on the island......
(Report of the year)
It's just that Clinton has his hands and eyes all over the sky and has never been caught, and now it can only be said that there is no surprise when it explodes.
III. Michael Jackson.
This one isn't actually that unexpected.
There were a lot of people fighting Epstein, including lawyer Brad Edwards, who had been suing Epstein and his accomplices for years.
In 2020, he published a book detailing that Jackson had visited Epstein's Florida mansion.......
(Edwards' book)
This was confirmed by court documents released this time, with witnesses saying that she had seen Jackson at Epstein's home.
However, she did not give Jackson a "massage" like other guests.
The testimony was not about the island but about his family, and perhaps Epstein didn't know MJ to that extent.
4. David Copperfield.
Yes, the magician......
Epstein's social circle was unbelievably large, and according to Edwards' book, Copperfield was another frequent visitor to Epstein's Florida mansion.
In addition, Copperfield has a small island of his own, near Epstein's, and the two have visited each other......
In 2009, during the legal battle between Edwards and Epstein, Copperfield was suspected of a crime by prosecutors and was summoned once, but was ultimately not convicted.
(Epstein and Copperfield)
Copperfield was not found guilty of Copperfield in the newly released documents, except that the witness mentioned that she had seen Copperfield at Epstein's house and sent staff to ask her if she would like to have dinner with.
She agreed, but Copperfield didn't do anything, but instead performed some magic tricks on her, and asked her cryptically:
"Did you know that some girls can make money by helping people find other girls?"
However, judging from what happened later, Copperfield either did not have a deep relationship with Epstein, or hid it very well, and in short, he was not convicted.......
5. Prince Andrew.
I've actually talked about him many times before, but this time it's just one more.
(Epstein and Andrew)
Around 2001, the Witness lived in Epstein's mansion with Maxwell, Andrew, Giuffrey, and others.
"One day, Maxwell asked me to go upstairs, and we went into a closet and took out a doll, which was a comic image of Prince Andrew, and we brought it down. ”
"There was a little label on the back of the doll that said 'Prince Andrew', and that's when I found out who he was. ”
"The doll was made to resemble him, and Maxwell gave it to him. They decided to take a picture of Giuffrey and Andrew sitting on the couch, the doll on Giuffrey's lap and me sitting on Andrew's lap. ”
"They put the doll's hand on Giuffrey's chest, and Andrew put his hand on mine's chest and just took a picture. ”
The witness claimed that she did not remember who had taken the photographs and that she had not seen them after the meeting.
(In 2000, Andrew and Epstein appeared at the Meihu estate, Trump's lair.)
In short, Andrew took the opportunity to rub oil, which can't be erased......
In addition to the above five people, the names of Leonardo and Bruce Willis actually appear in the document.
At that time, Leonardo had already finished acting in "Titanic" and Willis also acted in "Pulp Fiction", both of which were big names.
But the witnesses had not seen them in person, and there was no evidence that they had been to the island.
It seems that Epstein bragged about his love of bringing celebrities from all walks of life to show off his connections.
At present, it seems that there is no particularly explosive news about this first batch of documents, and most of the information has actually been dug up by various media over the years.
This time it was officially announced through the legal process, and I look forward to whether there will be any surprises in the next few batches......
There is really no one who can still involve so many celebrities in a case that spans more than 20 years.......