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We have a saying: money can make ghosts grind.
Most of the time, money does allow people to buy everything they want, and sometimes it can also allow some people to do whatever they want and escape the law.
Jeffrey Epstein was one of them.
There are business giants such as Bill Gates, who is divorcing; there are successive presidents of the United States, such as Clinton and Trump; and even princes and aristocrats, such as Prince Andrew, the son of the Queen of England; and Hollywood director Woody Allen and producer Harvey Weinstein.
Trump once said: "I've known Jeff for 15 years, he's amazing, he even likes beautiful women as much as I do, especially younger beauties." ”
However, now that Trump's intestines are remorseful, he should want to smoke his own big mouth.
As more and more women came forward to accuse Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire's true colors were torn apart: He not only sexually assaulted hundreds of women, but also pimped them, and sold those girls to the pleasures of high-society elites.
In the Netflix documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Dirty Fortune, they interviewed victims and investigators to expose the ugly face of the first pimp in high society.
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Jeffrey Epstein was born on Coney Island in New York, USA, where he was Jewish and whose father worked in the Garden Bureau.
He is said to have had excellent grades, skipping two grades in high school, but dropped out after only two years of study at Cooper Union College.
No one knows why he dropped out of school, but it was such a person who did not get a degree, but he mixed into Dalton College in New York as a professor and mixed well.
In 1976, Epstein came to Wall Street through the introduction of the students' parents and entered the Bear Stearns Company. Here, Epstein quickly got started, he was very clever, all the way through the barriers, successive promotions, and finally got a stake in the company.
However, he is also a bottomless man, unscrupulous for money, and finally the company discovers that Epstein has used the reimbursement account to defraud a large amount of money, and he is kicked out of the company.
But soon, Epstein found his next home, a bigger financial company.
In 1986, Stephen Haefenberg, then president of TASS Financial, hired Epstein, who was interested in Epstein's fraud:
"He's attractive to us because we're doing Ponzi schemes and he knows Wall Street very well and he can do well in this syndicate."
Stephen Holfenberg says Epstein has a great skill in controlling the people he meets and then using his charm to manipulate them.
Epstein became a fraud partner for Steven Haffenberg, who manipulated stock prices and illegally traded stocks, using fake financial statements to inflate the company's value and attract new investors, involving $460 million.
Eventually, Steven Hoffenberg, president, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. However, he did not confess to Epstein because Epstein threatened to discredit Steven Houfenberg.
Steven Hoffenberg said that you can't imagine how much control Epstein had, that he would manipulate people with extreme means, and that everything he did was for money and women:
"I regret meeting Jeffrey Epstein, a man I've had for over 30 years. Without me, he wouldn't be the billionaire he is today, and those poor girls wouldn't have been raped. ”
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Salvaging a sum in a Ponzi scheme and finally being able to get away with it made Epstein even more rampant.
While Steven Hoffenberg was reflecting in a federal prison, Epstein had found a new employer, billionaire Les Vaxner, the owner of Victoria's Secret.
Les Vaxner delegated full authority over financial matters to Epstein. However, many people believe that Les vaxes did this not out of trust, but because he may have been caught by Epstein.
With Les Vaxner's money, Epstein invested everywhere.
During his administration (1991-2006), he completed more than $1.3 billion in stock transactions. However, in 2007 Les Vaquesna abruptly suspended his cooperation with Epstein and severed contact.
Later, Les Vaxna publicly stated that he had found that Epstein had stolen at least $46 million from him, and possibly more, but Les Vaxna did not sue Epstein.
Epstein not only made a huge fortune from Les Vaxna, he also used Leswax's reputation to falsely claim to be a "Victoria's Secret" star scout in order to approach various women and find opportunities to sexually assault them.
Alicia Auden is a model and actress and victim of Epstein's sexual assault case.
In the documentary, she recounts her experience:
When Alicia first entered the industry, her work was very unsuccessful, and one day, her friend told her that Epstein could put her on the "Victoria's Secret" catalog, which made Alicia ecstatic.
Later, friends ask Alicia to meet Epstein at the Schuttle Hotel in Santa Monica, California, only to be in the room, and Epstein asks Alicia to take off her clothes, saying that he wants to see what she looks like in her underwear, and then starts to rub her body.
Alicia ran out of the room crying, and she drove to the Santa Monica police station to report the crime, but no one investigated the matter.
Alicia wasn't the first victim of a sexual assault.
In 2003, the Palm Beach County Police Department received a report from Epstein's neighbors that there were many young girls in their family, and the police rushed to the scene to question the girls, and they replied that they were just going to Epstein's office and that nothing had happened.
The matter was closed.
It wasn't until 2005 that the Palm Beach County Police Department received a call from a parent saying that she had found more than $300 in cash on her stepdaughter, and after questioning, she learned that she had given Epstein a massage.
The parent then came to the police station with his stepdaughter, and the police learned that Epstein had sexually assaulted the girl under the pretext of taking a massage.
The police immediately launched an investigation and found more female victims, but how did these girls know Epstein? And who brought them to Epstein's Palm Beach mansion?
The Palm Beach County Police Department monitored Epstein, and as the investigation progressed, they discovered that it was Epstein's wife, Hirien Maxwell, who was manipulating the girls behind the scenes.
Hirayn Maxwell's father was originally a newspaper publisher, but he was also a fraudster who defrauded banks of hundreds of millions of dollars and died. After his father's death, he lost his economic backbone and Hiraine's world collapsed.
In New York, Hiraine met Epstein, an upper-class man who longed to continue living a beautiful life, a man who loved money as much as his life, and the two hit it off and entered the palace of marriage.
Since then, Hirain Maxwell has become Epstein's right hand man, responsible for recruiting sexual assault targets for him, and she tries to approach some schoolgirls and lure them to Epstein's villa on the pretext of making pocket money by massaging them.
Hayley Robertson was one of the victims, and before she met Epstein, she was sexually assaulted by a man, and since then she has been giving herself up. Her classmates introduced her to Epstein, saying he would get $200 for a massage.
During the massage, Epstein began to use his hands and feet on Hayley, but was resisted by Hayley. Then Epstein said to Hayley, if you have other friends, bring them here and I'll give you $200.
Hayley agreed, and she worked for Epstein for a year, taking 24 girls to give Epstein a massage.
There are many more girls like Hayley, who lure their friends into taking them to Epstein's mansion and then receiving $200 in payment.
In October 2005, after a decade of tracking and investigating Epstein, the Palm Beach County Police Department finally obtained a warrant for a search warrant for Epstein's mansion. However, they found that the house had been cleared.
Not only that, but state prosecutors chose to ignore the vast amount of evidence and the victims of sexual assault, and prepared to prosecute Epstein on the charge of abetting prostitution, and Epstein was released on bail a few hours after his arrest.
The Palm Beach County Police Chief was furious and went straight to the FBI and asked them to help investigate the case.
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In July 2006, the FBI took over the case, and as the investigation unfolded, they found more jaw-dropping shady scenes and more victims, far beyond what they had imagined.
In addition to the mansion in Palm Beach, Epstein also built a mansion on St. James's Island in the United States, which is very private and cannot be visited by paparazzi, which is the best place to "have fun".
Epstein not only played there himself, but also brought many powerful people with him.
Sarah Rantham met Epstein in 2006 when she met a girl named Natalie at a bar, and when Natalie learned that Sarah had just arrived in New York to look for a job, she said she knew a philanthropist who could help Sarah achieve her dreams.
In this way, Natalie introduces Sarah to Epstein, who says that he can help Sarah pay her tuition and send her to the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Sarah believes it.
Later, Natalie persuaded Sarah to go to Epstein's private island with her.
Sarah, who had never been to a private plane or to a private island, was thrilled to board Epstein's plane, only to be shocked on the plane, and Epstein actually made love to a girl in front of everyone.
What Sarah didn't expect was that it would be a nightmare trip for her.
"From the first day I went to the island, the sexual abuse started and Natalia called and said he asked me to go to his room where there was a massage bed and he let me go up and he raped me."
After being sexually assaulted by Epstein, Sarah tried to escape, and she sneaked out without anyone noticing, found a remote place, and wanted to swim away from the island, but soon Epstein arrived with people.
It was then that she realized that the island was full of cameras and that Epstein had been monitoring her every move.
Steve Scully, an engineer hired by Epstein, recalls in the documentary that he worked on the island from 1999 to 2006, responsible for telecommunications and data equipment there.
Every other month, guests come to the island, and they are all powerful people, such as Alan Deshowitz, who served as a defense lawyer for Simpson's wife murder case, who was also Epstein's lawyer and later successfully exonerated Epstein.
In addition, Steve met Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.
He had bumped into Prince Andrew sitting by the pool with a girl who was wearing no top.
The girl, Virginia Roberts Gifley, also appeared in the documentary and recounted her sexual assault by Prince Andrew.
Virginia met Prince Drew at Epstein's house in London on March 10, 2001, and Epstein's wife, Hirain, invited Virginia to tea, and Prince Andrew suddenly arrived.
Then they went to the Trump nightclub in London to dance, and then back at Epstein's house, Virginia took out her small camera and asked Epstein to take a picture with Prince Andrew, and also to take a picture of Hirayn.
As a result, after the photo was taken, it was in the house that Prince Andrew sexually assaulted Virginia.
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In May 2008, nearly two years after the Palm Beach County Police Department referred Epstein's sexual assault case to the FBI.
During that time, the FBI found 35 to 40 victims willing to testify, and prepared a 53-page indictment, along with plenty of information and evidence that would allow Epstein to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Unexpectedly, however, in court on June 30, Epstein suddenly confessed guilt, and his legal team reached an agreement with the prosecutor's office that Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison for instigating prostitution, but the sexual assault was ignored.
It has to be said that this is a victory for money, and Epstein paid for everything.
After entering the prison, Epstein received special care, he had a separate room, and the door of the cell was open, there was a television in the room, and the food was cooked exclusively for him.
It didn't take long for Epstein's lawyer to successfully apply for a job outside of prison, and he had 6 days a week to go out and spend 12 hours a day outside before returning to prison.
In 2009, After serving just 13 months in prison, Epstein was released from prison, but he needed to be held in prison for 12 months at his home in Palm Beach.
However, private investigator Mike Fisten found that Epstein hid in the car almost every day and quietly went out.
But every time Mike Fisten reported the matter to the Probation Office, he would reply, "What do you want us to do?" He's a celebrity."
In 2010, after Epstein was freed, he went to New York, where the first thing he did was throw a party and invited a lot of celebrities to his house, including Prince Andrew and the big director Woody Allen.
Subsequently, Epstein began to do philanthropy, and he generously donated money to various academic research institutions, which were very popular everywhere he went. Who would have thought that after going to prison, he would be more popular.
Can he really be lawless above the law?
In 2017, Hollywood entertainment mogul Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault by multiple women, and actress Alyssa Milano launched the "Me Too" campaign on social platforms, calling on women who have been sexually assaulted or harassed to stand up.
Subsequently, many women who had been sexually assaulted came forward to accuse their sexual assault.
This incident quickly fermented in the United States, more and more hypocrisy was revealed, and the Epstein temperament case was also dug up by the media, making the case once again attract attention.
Because of the sheer impact of the "Me Too" movement, the FBI and U.S. attorneys reopened their investigation into Epstein in 2019, spending three months questioning victims related to the case.
As a result, more and more victims came forward and reached out to the FBI.
On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, 66, was arrested at Tatmboro Airport in New Jersey.
Subsequently, the FBI searched a house in Epstein and found several large bags of photographs of girls he had sexually assaulted or sold to celebrities for pleasure.
In July 2019, in court, Epstein's lawyers said Epstein was willing to come up with $500 million to get bail, but prosecutors came up with new evidence, a fake passport found at Epstein's home, that proved he wanted to escape.
On August 10, 2019, Epstein hanged himself in a metropolitan prison in New York.
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After Epstein was accused in 2019, perhaps fearing the powerful influence of the "Me Too" movement, many celebrities who had once called him brothers and sisters began to draw a line with him, saying that they were not familiar with Epstein.
Trump even said, "I fell out with him a long time ago, we haven't spoken for about 15 years, I don't like him."
Bill Clinton also denied having been to Epstein's private island, but was soon punched in the face, and according to flight records, he not only went there, but also 26 times.
In most cases, money is indeed omnipotent, and it can even reverse black and white.
However, we still have an old saying that good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil; it is not that the hour has not yet come, and many unrighteous deeds will kill themselves.
Finally, why were Epstein and his wife, Hirain, able to fool hundreds of women?
After watching the stories told by these victims who appeared in the documentary, although they came from different backgrounds and living environments, they all had one characteristic: greed and cheapness.
$200 massage once, this kind of pie in the sky thing, not in vain, not picked up. Or believing that Epstein would fund them to achieve their dreams, they could struggle for a few few years less.
But as the saying goes, there is no free lunch in the world, and this tempting pie will often make us pay a greater price.
Therefore, when encountering such a "good thing", please choose carefully.
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