jeffrey-epstein
Unredacted court filings have shed more light on the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and former Barclays executive Jes Staley. According to the Guardian, the newly unsealed documents allege Staley exchanged more than 1,200 emails with the convicted pedophile between 2008 and 2012. Some of those conversations included cryptic references to Disney characters, such as Snow White and […]
Ghislaine Maxwell has suffered another legal blow. According to CNBC, the 60-year-old socialite lost her bid for a new trial in connection to the Jeffrey Epstein sex crime case. The news comes about three months after Maxwell was found guilty of helping Epstein recruit and groom underage girls for sexual abuse. She was ultimately convicted on five federal charges, including […]
Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean islands have hit the market for $125 million. According the Wall Street Journal, the properties include the 160-plus-acre Great St. James and the 72-acre Little St. James, located near St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The late financier reportedly purchased the latter—widely known as “Pedophile Island” and “Orgy Island”—in 1998 for around $8 million. […]
Jean-Luc Brunel, a modeling agent who scouted young girls for Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell. The New York Times reports Brunel, 75, was found hanged by his bedsheets in his cell around 1:30 a.m. local time at La Sante Prison in Paris. Although the Paris prosecutor’s office would not confirm if Brunel killed […]
A man who worked for decades as a pilot for Jeffrey Epstein testified this week that he saw a number of high-profile figures on the late convicted sex offender’s private plane, including former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. During the ongoing sex trafficking trial of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who has pleaded not guilty […]
On the first day of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex-trafficking ring, federal prosecutors argued that the British socialite groomed teenage girls for him in “a pyramid scheme of abuse.” “She was in on it from the start,” Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz told jurors, per AP. “The defendant and Epstein lured their victims with a […]
ABC News has learned that an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Monday against Prince Andrew, accusing the Duke of York of sexually abusing her on several occasions when she was under the age of 18. Virginia Roberts Giuffre is accusing Andrew of sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and seeks unspecified […]
Donald Trump reportedly took a “sudden interest” in Ghislaine Maxwell when discussing who he should pardon during his final weeks in office. According to Michael Wolff’s new book, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, the former POTUS had expressed concern that Maxwell would drag him into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse scandal. Maxwell, a 59-year-old heiress and socialite, was […]
Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, former Jeffrey Epstein associate, argue that several counts in her several indictments should be dropped and say she’s in a “similar situation” to Bill Cosby. In a Friday court filing, Maxwell’s lawyers say the 59-year-old accused of recruiting teenage girls for Epstein through the mid-’90s to the mid-’00s, was under a nonprosecution agreement when she was charged. […]
Two prison guards assigned to keep watch on Jeffrey Epstein the night he died in his jail cell have admitted they falsified records. The Associated Press reports that the two Bureau of Prisons workers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, will not face time behind bars despite allegations they slept and browsed the internet instead of […]
