The Epstein scandal widens as a Trove of Letters from famous figures published | Jeffrey Epstein
The longtime scandal surrounding the late financier in disgrace and the sex offender condemned Jeffrey Epstein expanded Tuesday after the New York Times published a mine of Previously, letters invisible to Epstein many powerful characters as well as invisible photographs of the interior of his Manhattan manor.
The letters, written in Epstein by a certain number of high -level individuals, would have been compiled as a birthday gift for the 63rd anniversary of Epstein in 2016. Their publication comes in the midst of intense speculation around Donald Trump’s ties with Epstein, which was found dead in a prison in New York in 2019 and had long cultivated a social circle of celebrity of the rich and powerful.
In a letter, the former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak and his wife wrote “there is no limit to your curiosity”.
“You are like a closed book to many of them, but you know everything about everyone,” they wrote, describing Epstein as “a collector of people”.
They continued: “May you enjoy a long and healthy life and all of us, your friends, enjoy your table for many years to come.”
In a letter from filmmaker Woody Allen, Allen remembered Epstein dinners in his townhouse at Upper East Side and described the rallies as “always interesting”. He noted that the parties understood “politicians, scientists, teachers, magicians, comedians, intellectuals, journalists” and “even royalty”.
Allen also described dinners as “well served”: “I say well served-often by a professional house man and just as often by several young women” who, he said, reminded him of “Castle Dracula where Lugosi has three young female vampires who served the place”.
Other editors would have included the billionaire media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman; Noam Chomsky and his wife; Joichi Ito, the former chief of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) media laboratory; Physicist Lawrence M krauss; And the biologist and mathematician of Harvard Martin Nowak.
Allen, Ito, Zuckerman and Nowak did not respond to the requests for comments from the Times. Barak would have refused to comment and Chomsky’s wife responded on his behalf, also refusing to comment. Krauss would have told Times that he did not remember the letter but had attended “several lunches with very interesting discussions” with scientists, authors and others at Epstein.
In addition to the letters, the Times also published photos of the interior of the Manhattan manor with seven floors of Epstein.
In his office, the images show a taxidermié tiger and would have shown a green copy of the first edition of Lolita – the controversial novel of 1955 on the sexual obsession of an average man and the sexual abuse and the rape of a 12 -year -old girl – who, according to Times, was “presented”.
Surveillance cameras can be seen in Epstein’s room and in a neighboring room. In his “massage room”, where many minor victims said that they had been sexually assaulted by Epstein, the Times reports that there were paintings of naked women, lubricant shelves and a large ball and silver chain.
Elsewhere in the house, dozens of framed photographs show that Epstein illustrated alongside the longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20 -year prison sentence for sex traffic. They also imagined Epstein with notable personalities such as Pope John Paul II, Mick Jagger, Elon Musk, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Richard Branson, Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the former adviser to Trump White House, Steve Bannon.
A manager also displayed a dollar note signed by the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, with the message “I was wrong!” What said the time was “perhaps as a payment of a bet”.
Times also reported that the entrance to the house included framed prosthetic eye globes and a suspended sculpture of a woman wearing a wedding dress and grabbing a rope hanging in the central atrium.
According to the Times, a map of Israel drawn on a table which had the signature of the former Israeli Prime Minister Barak was also at home.
Epstein died in federal detention in 2019 pending a trial on federal accusations of sex trafficking. His death was considered to be suicide.
The renewed control in the case of Epstein occurs while Trump and that the members of his administration had repeatedly promised to disclose information related to Epstein surveys.
But in July, the administration reversed the course, and the Ministry of Justice announced that it would not publish any other document or detail concerning the case, which prompted bipartite indignation, including Trump supporters and personalities from the conservative media.
The case of Epstein has long been the subject of countless conspiracy theories, partly because of its links with powerful people. His 2019 suicide has also fueled conspiracy theories for years.
The recent announcement of the Ministry of Justice also rekindled a meticulous examination of Trump’s friendship with Epstein.
In July, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump would have written to Epstein a birthday card as part of a 50th anniversary album organized by Maxwell in 2003.
According to the report, Trump’s letter included a sketch of a naked woman with Trump’s signature. Trump denied the report of the review and continued the defamation newspaper.
About one week layer, the newspaper reported that officials of the Ministry of Justice had informed Trump earlier this year that his name had appeared in Epstein files. The document noted that being mentioned in the files is not a sign of reprehensible acts. Trump’s spokesperson denied the report, calling it “false news”.
Faced with increasing pressure, the Ministry of Justice sent to Todd Blanche, the assistant prosecutor and one of Trump’s former lawyers, to meet Maxwell at the end of July to see if she had “information about anyone who committed crimes against the victims”.
The meeting, which lasted two days, took place behind closed doors. Friday, Maxwell was transferred from a Florida prison in a low -security establishment in Texas.
