With Jeffrey Epstein dead of what’s being called a “suicide” is leaving many extremely skeptical given the potential dirt the New York City billionaire had on some pretty high profile individuals as he awaited trial for a child sex trafficking ring.
That roll-a-dex of high-profile contacts is now being put under an even bigger microscope all things considered. Especially since the World will now never get to hear Esptein’s testimony in a Federal Courthouse.
So who were those contacts? Well as much as some out there will try to turn this into something political and partisan the fact of the matter is Epstein’s ‘little black book’ transcended both the right and the left with plenty of prominent figures on both sides. It’s also important to note that anyone named below doesn’t necessarily mean they were involved in the nefarious activities the NYC Financer has become known for. I’m sure however some of these individuals though will continue to be a focus as investigations into the sex ring and
Donald Trump
Despite the President of the United States trying to distance himself from Epstein over the course of the past few months, Trump’s connection to the Billionaire isn’t deniable.
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York in a 2002 profile of Epstein. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
That quote has gotten plenty of attention in recent weeks, even as Trump has tried to claim that he barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because he “sexually assaulted an underage girl at the club.” That claim has never been confirmed.
Beyond that though, Trump and Epstein lived right near each other in Palm Beach and often paled around in the same social groups. According to records, Trump flew on Epstein’s plane dubbed the “Lolita Express” four years ago and called Epstein on two separate occasions in November of 2004 according to message pads seized from Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.
There are also allegations that Trump assaulted women on Epstein’s property. One such alleged incident took place in 1994 at Epstein’s NYC mansion when an anonymous California woman accused Trump of raping her when she was 13. These claims came out during the 2016 election and the woman went as far as filing a lawsuit against Trump which was eventually dropped as then-candidate Trump denied the accusations.
Bill Clinton
Last month former President Bill Clinton says he took four trips on Epstein’s Private Jet in 2003 and 2004 as the traveled to Europe, Asia and Africa. Clinton also stated this summer that he knew nothing of Epstein’s “terrible crimes” and that they hadn’t talked in almost a decade.
There is however plenty of speculation whether or not that decade lapse in their communication is actually true. Alleged Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre also claimed in a 2015 affidavit that Clinton visited the NYC Billionaire’s private Island something that the former POTUS denies and is something that has never been confirmed.
In the early
Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz was named by two separate accusers who allege that they were “directed” and trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with the Harvard Law professor emeritus. Giuffre also stated that she was recruited to be a masseuse for Epstein and later coherced into having sex with Dershowitz among other high profile men.
Prior to his death, Epstein along with Ghislaine Maxwell was sued by Sarah Ransome who says she was trafficked by the pair and later directed to have sex with Dershowitz.
The Law Professor has denied any wrong doing.
Ghislaine Maxwell
Epstein’s one-time girlfriend and madam, Maxwell is also the daughter the late British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell. The former British socialite has also been accused of recruiting underage girls who would eventually be subjected to sex slavery within Epstein’s being, accusations she’s denied.
Prince Andrew
The third child of Queen Elizabeth was most recently the center of the latest set of court documents unsealed that alleges the British Royal groped a woman on the couch of Epstein’s Manhattan apartment back in 2001. The woman who goes by the name Johanna Sjoberg in the court documents stated, “I just remember someone suggesting a photo, and they told us to go get on the couch. And so Andrew and Virginia sat on the couch, and they put the puppet, the puppet on her lap. “And so then I sat on Andrew’s lap, and I believe
Giuffre has also said she was coherced into having sex with Prince Andrew which also included an orgy with other underage teen girls and the British Royal.
Mort Zuckerman
Media mogul Mort Zuckerman was a guy whose relationship with Epstein looks to be purely business. The New York media mogul who owns the New York Daily News and the Atlantic tried to start a new gossip magazine called Radar back in 2004. Epstein’s involvement in the project seemed to be just as an investor which took roughly $10 million in funds to get the first issue off the ground. However, when Zuckerman became aware of Epstein’s transgressions he halted the project with the New York Financer and Radar ceased operations not long after.
Tom Barrack
Tom Barrack’s name first became a more prominent fixture amongst Epstein’s circle when Michael Wolff in his book Fire and Fury reported that Barrack, Donald Trump
Woody Allen
It seems only fitting that an infamous pedophile like Woody Allen would be connected in some way to Jeffrey Epstein. Well, that’s exactly what we have here as the Movie Director was in attendance for a dinner party for Prince Andrew at Epstein’s home in 2010 and was seen again with the NYC Billionaire in 2013.
And aside from being accused of sexually assaulting his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was just 7-years-old, Allen has also been accused by Babi Christina Engelhardt, a former personal assistant to Epstein, of having an eight year relationship with him. Now as innocent as that may sound, the relationship was said to have begun with Engelhardt was just 16 and Allen 41.
Bill Barr
Although the Attorney General hasn’t been named as a participant in trafficking charges against Epstein, Barr has been a prominent fixture with saga surrounding the Billionaire. After Epstein flunked out of college, it was Barr’s father who got the Financer a job to teach math at the Dalton School in the 1970s. Barr also served as a lawyer at the Kirkland and Ellis, the law firm who represented Epstein when he got that sweetheart deal in Florida back in 2008.
It was because of Barr’s involvement with Kirkland and Ellis that the AG recused himself from the recent Federal review of
Barr though didn’t recuse himself from the recent Federal investigation into the Epstein child sex trafficking. The AG was also reportedly ‘furious’ over Epstein’s death in Federal custody and order the Department of Justice Inspector General to open an investigation into the details surrounding Epstein’s apparent suicide.
Larry Summers
The former Harvard President and Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration, Summer’s connection to Epstein seems to have been mostly business. Summers was the one that persuaded Epstein to put his name on the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamic after the NYC Billionaire gave $30 million to Harvard for the project.
Summers though had his name appear on the “Lolita Express” flight logs which really doesn’t mean anything offhand, especially since Summers’ name hasn’t been mentioned when it comes to anything regarding the sexual misconduct allegations against Epstein.
Ken Starr
Ken Starr’s connection to Epstein truly shows just how small of a World the Epstein circle actually was. Starr — who became prominent when he was the independent counsel investigating Clinton during the 90’s — also worked on the legal team for Epstein who scored that incredibly lenient deal back in 2008.
Stephen Hawking
The late physicist Stephen Hawking was said to have been a visitor on Epstein’s “pedophile island” which again doesn’t necessarily mean the Professor partook any anything nefarious. According to the Telegraph, Epstein did fund a boat cruise and submarine tour for Hawking where the Billionaire requested that the submarine be modified to accommodate the famous Physicist.
Hawking also appeared in a picture attending Epstein’s Little Great St. James Island for a barbecue back in 2006.
Lawrence Krauss
Krauss — a former Arizona State theoretical physicist — was forced to retire from his position at the University in 2018 due to multiple sexual-misconduct allegations. Although it’s not clear if any of those sexual-misconduct allegations involved Epstein, their connection primarily revolved around the Financier’s donations to ASU and the two hosting a conference of Nobel laureates in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2012.
Then there was this quote Krauss gave the Daily Beast defending Epstein in 2011:
If anything, the unfortunate period [Epstein] suffered has caused him to really think about what he wants to do with his money and his time, and support knowledge. Jeffrey has surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women but they’re not as young as the ones that were claimed. As a
Leslie Wexner
Wexner, the 81-year-old CEO of L Brands which owns Victoria’s Secret and Bed Bath and Beyond first came into contact with Epstein when he used his money management firm back in the early 1990s.
Wexner was also at a time the owner fo the 71st Street mansion that Epstein purchased from the L Brands CEO back in 1998 for a reported price tag of $0. It was also at the mansion that some of Epstein’s crimes took place. Additionally, the 71st Street mansion was also the residence that authorities found child pornography earlier this summer.
Roger Schank
A former Northwestern University professor, Schank was one of the individuals who visited Epstein in jail back in 2008. He was also the chief learning officer at Trump University which was recently busted for fraud.
Steven Pinker
Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker reportedly traveled on the “Lolita Express” in 2002 according to flight logs. There was also this picture of Pinker with Epstein and Krauss at a dinner back in 2014.
Harvey Weinstein
Weinstein (who obviously has his own set of problems revolving around sexual misconduct — to say the very least) was once connected to Epstein when he was part of a group that was looking to purchase New York Magazine in 2003. That group included Mort Zuckerman, Michael Wolff, TV personality and businessman Donny Deutsch, billionaire Nelson Peltz, Jeffrey Epstein, and Weinstein. That’s pretty much the extent of Weinstein’s involvement with Epstein despite the two sharing a pretty nefarious commonality between the two of them.
📓 The “little black book”
In 2015 the now-defunct Gawker Media obtained a copy of Epstein’s little black book that contained all his contacts. Gawker published the book in PDF form which you can view below.
jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted-3Among the names listed in the book who weren’t previously mentioned include:
- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
- Courtney Love
- Alec Baldwin
- Ralph Fiennes
- Griffin Dunne
- New York Post gossip Richard Johnson
- Ted Kennedy
- David Koch
- Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki
- Kevin Spacey – Flew on the “Lolita Express”
- Chris Tucker – Flew on the “Lolita Express”
There were also a number of underage victims in Florida, New Mexico, California, Paris, and the United Kingdom listed under the rubric of “massage” according to Gawker. Those entries included:
- Billionaire Leslie Wexner
- Former New Mexico Governor Bruce King
- Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson
- Peter Soros, the nephew of George Soros
- Former Miss Sweden and socialite New York City doctor Eva Andersson Dubin
Previously it was mentioned that there was a high profile dinner party hosted by Epstein for Prince Andrew. That guest list included the likes of:
- Katie Couric
- George Stephanopoulos
- Chelsea Handler
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin
- Magician David Blaine
- Former British Cabinet member Peter Mandelson
- Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
Obviously just because you ended up in Epstein’s book doesn’t mean you were involved in any of the child sex trafficking he was eventually investigated for before his death. And although the criminal case against him is now over due to his “suicide”, the civil litigation against his estate will continue and it’s assumed some (including some previously mentioned) could still have plenty to worry about.
