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Process today by diving in to the article that Tara Palmeri put out in Politico a few days ago. Now, this is a very long article and it goes into detail about Jeffrey Epstein and how his whole entire operation basically could not have been what it was without the help of the females around him. And when you think about sex trafficking, obviously you automatically think about these scuzzbag dudes that are engaged in it, right? That's the obvious choice. Those are the obvious people to take a look at. And more times than not, it is some scuzzbag dude that's running the show. Well, according to reports, roughly 39% of people involved in human trafficking are women. And it just seems more dastardly to me, more draconian, when a woman is involved in something like this. Because what happens is these women build trust with these girls or other women, they bring them in to the Nexus and before you know it, you're caught up in the web. And it's a lot easier for these girls, these women, to trust somebody prim and polished like, say, Ghislaine Maxwell, as opposed to some brutish ass dude who isn't educated or schooled or anything like that. So you get this false sense of security with somebody like Elaine Maxwell or with a woman in general. Right. And these women in turn use that trust to end up bringing these girls into the fold. And from there, it becomes the nightmare that we have seen time and time again reported on by these survivors. So Tara Palmeri did a fantastic job with this piece. It's super long, so we're gonna do it in a couple of parts. But I've been meaning to get to this the last few days, and I told you last weekend that we were going to get to it, but I wanted to make sure that I had the time to sit down and really hammer it out. Like I said, it's pretty extensive. And instead of doing it all as one long episode, I'm gonna break it down into a few parts here. So with that said, let's jump in to this article by Tara Palmeri over at the Politico headline, the Women who Enable Jeffrey Epstein. It was a crisp, gray day in January 2020 when I stepped out of my Uber onto what looked like industrial wasteland, a concrete scape dotted with smokestacks and graffitied shipping containers. I pushed through the glass door of an old brick factory and found myself inside the pristine walls of the Manna Contemporary Art Center. In the lobby, I waited until a petite woman with jet black hair walked in with her Yorkshire terrier, Mosey. This was Rena O. And she had asked me to meet her in the studio space in Jersey City, New Jersey where she paints and sculpts. Now, Rena oh was allegedly one of Jeffrey Epstein's recruiters. You have Virginia who came out and spoke on Rena O. And you also have Marzeek also who came out and spoke about Rena and her involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, Rena has her side of the story as well, right? Saying that she was a victim, this, that, the other thing, and certainly trying to set it up as somebody who was being abused by Epstein, and that is why she was engaging in abuse as well. Now, if I believe that story, well, that's a completely different conversation. But I'll just leave it to you like this. I believe what Virginia has to say. And until some evidence is provided to show me differently, I'm going to go with what we have compiled throughout the years here. And I'm going to have to say that Virginia and the survivors, their story has done nothing but ring true this whole entire time. So when you have people like Rena oh who try and act like that they weren't part of Jeffrey Epstein's operation, it takes a lot of evidence to prove that, right? A recurring subject of her art is Jeffrey Epstein, the well connected financier who died in a New York jail cell in 2019, allegedly while being held on sex trafficking charges. Oh's studio featured an oil painting of Epstein's friend, the Joe Exotic of the Windsor family, AKA Prince Andrew as Bacchus, the God of wine. And next to it, a painting of a nude Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been charged with recruiting underage girls for Epstein Holden, the forbidden fruit in what O calls the Garden of Sin. The tone of her paintings was neither critical nor celebratory, just strange. And I could definitely see that this Rena O lady definitely comes off as rather odd. From the articles that I've read and from the quotes that we've seen from her, she Certainly strikes me as quite the odd duck. No doubt about it. And, you know, with what Virginia had to say and others, it's. It's hard, right, to believe anything that comes out of these people's mouths. O's fascination with Epstein is not abstract. She knew him personally as someone who was in a romantic relationship with Epstein. That came to include finding other women for him to meet. Although O had never spoken to the press or to the authorities, she was willing to share her story with me for a podcast I was working on about Epstein called Seeking Justice. I wanted to understand what it was like to be part of his circle and why she had done it. Now, again, Tara Palmeri is the one who really brought this stuff to the forefront here. And of all the people who have jumped into the sphere with podcasts and stories and latched their names onto the case and all of that stuff, Tara Palmeri has been one of the best and the brightest, in my opinion. She has done a fantastic job covering this story, digging deeper, and unearthing things that other folks weren't willing to talk about or weren't able to find. And the way she brought it all together on her podcast, Broken, was absolutely phenomenal. So I think that throughout this whole case, Tara Palmeri has been an absolute asset. And this situation with her unearthing the Rena O portion of this just more fantastic work by her and her team. O, now 42, told me she had met Epstein in 2000. She was 21 at the time and living in the New York suburbs with her parents when a friend introduced her to a man who would become what O described as a rich, older boyfriend. And again, I don't know if I buy the whole boyfriend thing. Right. Jeffrey Epstein had side pieces. Jeffrey Epstein had what he would consider playthings. Rena oh, as his girlfriend. Yeah, I'm not buying it. I found myself a really great art patron who's going to buy artwork from me. She initially thought Epstein even offered to pay for her to attend classes at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and for a time, secured a studio for her in SoHo. Now, I'm not saying she didn't have anything to do with Epstein. We know that's the case. But again, everybody's the hero in their own story, right? So as far as calling her his girlfriend, probably a stretch, in my opinion. Could be wrong, right? Maybe. Maybe she was. But Epstein is not that kind of guy. He wanted to have a bunch of girls around him, right? A bunch of younger ladies around him, and he certainly had a type Of. But it soon became clear Epstein wasn't just a boyfriend or a benefactor. The whole thing got really sketchy when he started asking me, are there any cute girls in your class that you can bring over here? O told me O might have been creeped out, but she complied with the requests. She told me she introduced three young adult women to Epstein. Boy, isn't that nice? Isn't that fantastic? So no matter what, Rena O, you brought three girls into Epstein's sphere. Fact. Okay? No matter how you want to spin that, no matter how you want to talk about that, that's a fact. It's also a fact that you didn't go to the police after Epstein was arrested or anything like that. So the question becomes, why not? Why wouldn't you come forward and speak on what you know? And that goes for all of these people that were in Epstein's sphere. All, like we talk about all the time here. These people should be falling all over themselves to speak with the authorities. Two of Epstein's accusers, In fact, say, oh did more than that. Margique Chartuni, a friend whom oh introduced to Epstein when she was 20, told me she was sexually assaulted by both O and Epstein in her first and only encounter with him. Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's most vocal survivors, who says she was recruited into Epstein's orbit by Maxwell, also accuses OH of violence. So you have two very solid people right there, right? Virginia and Margie talking about how O was involved in this abuse with Epstein. So you have two very credible survivors, very credible witnesses saying that she did this stuff. And the only thing going against what they have to say is what O says herself. So really, like most of this case, it comes down to who do you believe? Who do you think is more credible? For me, rather obvious where I fall here. In a draft of a memoir filed as evidence in a defamation lawsuit, Roberts wrote that O loved bondage, whipping, hitting and cunning her sex partner with little sharp knives until they subdued to her punishment in agonizing pain. In an interview, Robert showed me a scar on her upper thigh that she said came from one of these sex acts. She was 17 at the time. So, look, that is some straight up disturbing type of shit, right? Again, whatever people want to do with consenting adults in their bedroom or in private, hey, that's not my business. If you want to go get yourself a weed whacker and you and your partner are into whacking each other in the stomach with it, hey, I don't give a shit. Do whatever you want. Man, not my business. But when you're doing this to people who don't want it done to them, children, people under 18, hell, adults even, then you and I, well, we got a problem. We certainly have a problem in that case and what occurred here with Epstein and allegedly this Rena lady is absolutely stomach turning. It's not bad enough, right, that you have to sexually assault somebody? It's not bad enough that you have to rape somebody. But no, now I'm going to torture you and abuse you by cutting you with a knife for a sharp object.
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What in the hell is wrong with somebody? Who would want to do that? When I asked Roberts, when I asked about Robert's allegation, oh said she had met Roberts, but she called the accusation a complete fabricated lie. As for the incident with Chartuni, O acknowledged that a sexual encounter took place. But in another interview after our Jersey City meeting, she told me she did not attack. I'm sorry. I didn't know what was going to happen. If you had a bad experience, you know, you had a bad experience. But I was not abusive, oh said in later interviews, O blamed Epstein for manipulating her and said she believes Epstein abused her too in the same encounter with Chartoony. And ultimately, this is going to be the excuse from a lot of these women who are involved with Epstein, right? Oh, well, I was being abused, too. I was being abused, too. So I abused in turn. That's not gonna cut it for me, though. Once you're an adult, you're an adult. And if these women would have went to the police afterwards, then it would be. This would be a whole different story. But they didn't. They kept it to themselves. They kept it secret. They didn't come forward to help other survivors. So now how can you expect anyone to trust what you have to say now that your back's up against the wall, now that you've been called out for your part in this, now you want to play the victim? I'm sorry, but I don't think that's gonna work. Ultimately. Oh. Said the women she brought to Epstein wanted to meet him and that she did not know what would happen once she introduced them. Still, Shartouni and Roberts say they believe O was complicit in the abuse they suffered. And I have to agree. Right. I have to agree with that. O was getting paid in a studio, all sorts of extras, all sorts of benefits, and her job was to bring girls to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, this is what Virginia and Marjique have alleged, and this is what the evidence has proven time and time again. So for Rena to attempt to set herself up as a victim here, I just don't see how that's going to pan out. Jeffrey Epstein has become a near universal villain in the public eye. Dozens of women, some of whom were as young as 14 at the time, have accused him of molesting them over two decades, primarily in the 1990s and 2000s in Florida, New York, and New Mexico, as well as on his private Caribbean island. A number of powerful men, from Britain's Prince Andrew to lawyer Allen. I kept my underpants on Dershowitz. Have been accused in court documents of having sex with a young woman. Epstein introduced them to allegations both men deny. One male associate of Epstein's has been charged in France. That's Jean Luc Brunel. Other influential men were friends with Epstein or accepted his money. Yet after reporting on Epstein for months and speaking to associates like, oh, I came to a realization. Beyond these men exists a group of women, possibly even larger, who helped keep Epstein's massive sex trafficking operation running for more than 20 years. And this is an ongoing theme with the Jeffrey Epstein organization. That's why it was a brilliant setup when we're talking in criminal terms. He had all of these women, these unassuming women, young, bit older, educated, working for him to bring all of this together and to have all of these girls brought to him. And it worked perfectly because nobody suspected that these women would be in on it. These other girls, these survivors, trusted them. And in turn, had that trust smashed and shattered and their whole, entire lives thrown off course because these women working with Jeffrey Epstein.
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brought them in to the viper's den. Dozens of these women worked for Epstein formally or informally. If you think of this group as a pyramid. At the top sits Matt Maxwell, a longtime Epstein employee and confidant who now stands accused of recruiting minors for Epstein and and sex trafficking a 14 year old girl, charges she denies. Below her were women Epstein employed as assistants who allegedly scheduled and managed dozens of minors for Epstein to abuse. There were also women like OH who brought friends to meet Epstein and received gifts or access to his wealth. Now folks, how in the hell is that not a RICO case? How can you tell me this is not a criminal conspiracy that is being run as an enterprise? 100%, that's what it is. We know that Maxwell was the lieutenant and underneath her was the core four. And then came all of these other ladies. That, my friends, is a criminal conspiracy. That my friends warrants RICO charges for everybody involved. Somehow we have yet to see those charges materialize. Though. These women aren't household names. Well, to you folks they are. And to the rest of the world they should be. There is no reason why I have spent every single day, every single day folks since October 1st of 2019 talking about this story while the legacy media is out there playing touch ass and engaging in tribalism. All these names should be household names, even for people following Epstein's story. But his survivors say they were key to grooming and deceiving them and allowing Epstein to operate with impunity. In fact, most of Epstein's survivors were introduced to him through other women, according to the 12 survivors I've spoken with over the past year and a half, as well as dozens of allegations in court and in the media. Often survivors say it was the women around Epstein who tried to make them feel comfortable, as if what they were experiencing was normal or harmless. And you add to that that these girls came from backgrounds that were riddled with broken homes, problems, drugs, abuse, and they have no idea what the upper crust of society is or how they live. They think this shit is normal. Oh, this is how they live. Oh, this is what rich people do. Meanwhile, it's not the case. And the working poor, all of us compared to them, are nothing but chattel to be used, abused and discarded at their will. Be it in some foreign war, or if they're just deciding to abuse your children here in the States. Once Epstein began to face Legal scrutiny. Other women made it easier for him to rehabilitate himself and re emerge with his power and social cachet largely intact. Two women served as the lead prosecutors on his case when he was first facing charges in 2006 and were closely involved in crafting his federal non prosecution agreement, plea deal and lenient sentence. For those without deep knowledge of the case and Epstein's short incarceration of 13 months in a county jail could be read as a signal that whatever crime he had committed, it wasn't that bad. After his release, a number of female socialites and professionals helped to welcome Epstein, by then a registered sex offender, back into so called elite circles. His abuse then continued, court documents assert, because remember folks, the only crime that you can commit when you're in one of these elite circles, these so called elite circles is being broke. If you're poor, that is the worst crime you could possibly ever commit in the eyes of these people. You can molest people, you, whatever you want, doesn't matter as long as you have dough, as long as you can be seen as an asset financially. Besides that, you are nothing to these people. To point this out is not to excuse any of the men or prestigious institutions, universities, banks, funds that also help to protect Epstein. Nor is it meant to hold women to a higher standard. But as a woman myself, I have been struck by the sheer number of women around Epstein. And many of the survivors I've spoken with say they feel especially betrayed by those who violated the unspoken rule that women protect other women, especially minors. And I always thought that that was an unspoken rule, right. I never ever ever ever in my mind thought that women were this involved in human trafficking. But after all of the stuff that we have uncovered here, all of the articles we have covered, it's quite obvious now that women unfortunately play a central role in situations like this. This dynamic is becoming more complicated as survivors seek money from a compensation fund set up by Epstein's estate. The fund, designed by lawyers involved in other high profile cases of survivor compensation, including 9 11, has received more than 175 claims since last summer and paid out more than 67 million to an unspecified number of individuals. So we know that the, the compensation fund has been paying out money. Now is it paying out a proper amount to these ladies? I don't know. Right. Nobody's come out and talked about it or anything like that. I'm sure they all have to sign non disclosures about the amount and stuff.
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But there's guaranteed. A lot of these women who were working as recruiters for Epstein have themselves set up where they think they're going to get money from this compensation fund as they try and posit themselves as actual victims. It's a murky case. Right. There's a lot of gray area here, and I'm certainly not qualified to hammer all of that out. Who's a victim, who's not? Well, we'll have to leave that up to the courts. Right now we can have our opinions for sure. And for me, the guideline that I go by is what have the actual survivors come out and said, the people that they have named as people who have abused them, I believe them point blank, period. So, Rena o and all of these other ladies who are now coming out and saying that they were also abused by Epstein or victimized by Epstein, where were you when the first arrest happened? Why didn't you come forward and tell the police and the investigators, yeah, what's going on here? This is bad, even worse than you imagine because you were still benefiting. So again, if you were named by one of these survivors, then I. My opinion is that you're somebody that should be investigated. Among those who have sought or received restitution are women like Chartuni who were purely victims of Epstein's predation, but also women whose cases are more complex, those who both introduced other women to Epstein and who say they were abused by him. Epstein wielded his power, wealth and age over women who were both victims and victimizers. And he worked to convert the former into the latter, leaning on the women he lured in to find more adult naa teenage women for him. And that's why the core four is the most important piece here, in my opinion. If you bring the core four to justice, then they're certainly going to talk about the other people who are working underneath them. Right? Nop. Nobody wants to go down alone when it comes to this kind of thing. And these women who were working with Jeffrey Epstein, these women who were working as recruiters for Jeffrey Epstein, and these women who are now trying to set themselves up as victims, well, the number one question should be where were you after the first arrest when Epstein could have really been put up to dry? O, in fact also has applied for restitution and is being represented by the same victims rights lawyer as Chartoony. Again, a lot of these lawyers folks are not good people, I'll say that till the cows come home. I am not a fan of lawyers in most respects. A lot of them are money grubbing and a lot of them don't really care about what's going on. They just want to get paid. Now that's not all the lawyers in this case. Right, but that's certainly something that I have noticed with lawyers just in general and you see it in this case as well. In an email to Politico, OH characterized Epstein's offers of tuition and the Soho studio as tools of his prolonged and repeated sexual abuse. Or let me play devil's advocate, those were payments for a job well done. She brought other girls in and her payment was the school, was the, the, the housing and all of the extras that went along with it. So let's not act like she wasn't being paid for this while it was happening. Now when we want a Monday morning quarterback it she's gonna try and say that that was part of the abuse. Alright, well look, I guess we'll let the courts figure that out. You don't know what's happening to you. O told me in one of our interviews, Epstein eventually dumped her after she refused to meet some of his friends for dinner. I was lied to and I was used, she said. And unlike many, many people, I walked away. Oh, give me a break. You walked away. According to you, you were dumped, whatever that means. Again, I don't believe that she was his girlfriend ever, okay? A plaything, perhaps one of his low level associates. Definitely girlfriend, yeah. Hard pressed to believe that. And to be honest with you, I'm hard pressed to believe any of Rena oh's story. That's my personal opinion. She might be telling the truth, folks, but the old gut is telling me differently. And so far in this case, my spidey sense has been pretty much right on. So I'll continue to go with my gut. That's backed up by the evidence as opposed to what somebody who is being pointed to as a recruiter has to say. Now again folks, look, just my opinion, right, doesn't mean that, you know, it's, it's the, the, the tabernacle truth. Take my opinion. Like I always say in a buck 50 down to the corner store and you can get yourself a coffee. More than three years into the MeToo movement, the Epstein saga offers an extreme and still evolving example of how complex questions of responsibility can get in cases of sexual abuse. In Epstein's world, women both were survivors of a hostile environment and sometimes also reaped the benefits of their association with him. Or worse still, exactly how Jeffrey Epstein got away with years of abuse remains an open question. One many of his survivors are still working, and to expose answering it requires understanding the complicated motivations and actions of the many women around him. Folks, that will complete part one of this very informative, very long piece by Tara Palmeri. Now, part program, we're gonna jump right in to part two of the Women who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein. An article authored by Tara Palmeri and put out by Politico. Lady of the house. Of all of Epstein's female associates, Ghislaine Maxwell, a beguiling woman with a posh British accent, held the most power. Her involvement with Epstein has been detailed in media reports and court documents, including as part of a defamation lawsuit Roberts filed against Maxwell in 2015. But employees of Epstein's painted a fuller picture in interviews. And this is where we get our profile of Ghislaine Maxwell, right? Not the nonsense that her legal team puts out of her being a loving stepmother and a cherished friend while she might be those things as well, the fact of the matter is these girls who have come out on record speaking about Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell's involvement with Epstein and Maxwell herself and her behavior, well, they've all come out and said the same thing, that Maxwell was a key component of what Jeffrey Epstein had going on. She wasn't just some underling. She wasn't just some associate. She was right there in a leadership role with Jeffrey Epstein. 1A and 1B. And all of these assistants and women and others who were involved in the grooming process, they were all checking in with Ghislaine Maxwell. Do you think she didn't earn the moniker lady of the House? Everything went through her. She was the key cog, folks. You know, like, when you want to go speak to the president, you gotta get through the Chief of Staff. That's. That was Ghislaine Maxwell's role, but at the same time, not only the gatekeeper, but right alongside Jeffrey Epstein, hand in hand. According to all of these girls helping with the abuse, Epstein and Maxwell connected in 1991, after the mysterious death of Maxwell's father, media mogul Robert Maxwell. At first, they were just dating. See, even that I don't even know if I believe that they were dating at all, folks. Now, they might have been, right? There might have been a bit of a spark between them when they first met. But I've always held the opinion that this was never something that just happened, you know, organically. They were put together. Her pops had a specific reason in mind and they just, you know, they complemented each other well. And the, oh, this is my girlfriend. That's a good cover story, right? Gets people on their, on their heels, you know, oh, this is a couple. They're not, you know, engaging in any sort of weird behavior. So just another level of the COVID story. And of course, when you get to Jeffrey Epstein's age, people start asking questions, why, you're a single dude, what's wrong with you? Why don't you have kids? Where's your girlfriend? Where's your wife? You know, all of those kinds of questions. So it would behoove Jeffrey Epstein to pal around with some Bo Some, some well spoken, posh British lady on his arm, right? According to court documents. Excuse me. In 1999, Epstein began paying Maxwell to manage his various properties and staff. According to court documents, Epstein had assaulted three girls prior to 1991. But survivors and staff say Maxwell's entry into his life marked a turning point. That before long, he was sexually abusing as many as three girls per day. So we can't overlook the impact Ghislaine Maxwell had on Jeffrey Epstein overall. We're not just talking about, you know, his enhanced Persona with Ghislaine Maxwell with him, but his predation increased exponentially. This when she came into his life. So should we just overlook that these people, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, were like the perfect duo of arch criminals from a comic book.
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In February of last year, I sat down with Roberts and Juana Lessi, Epstein's former houseman who worked for him from 1991 to 2002. We met at Alessi's home in Florida, a mini mansion on a golf course just miles away. From Epstein's own Palm beach mansion. Must be nice, all these people living in mansions and shit. I don't know about where you folks are at, but where I live here in Las Vegas, the housing market is insane right now. You have people in bidding wars and all sorts of other wild shit. So how does the houseman end up living in some mansion? Good on him, right? Maybe some decent money management, but shit, maybe I'm in the wrong business. The reunion between Roberts and Alessi seemed heartfelt. They hadn't spoken since she was a teenager and here she was on his doorstep, a grown woman with three children. They embraced and then stepped into his home where they sat on his tufted couch and recounted how Maxwell had recruited her for Epstein. Now that must have been a wild experience for Virginia, right? Showing up Juana Lesi's house, somebody you haven't seen since you were a teenager, somebody who was a part of your life when things were pretty, pretty rough on you. And then to have everything come full circle and be able to sit down with this person again while you're there with Tara Palmeri looking for justice, it must have been almost a surreal experience for her. Alessi, who had not previously spoken to the media about Epstein, told me that one day in 2000 he was driving Maxwell around Palm beach, where Epstein owned one of several homes, to find teenage girls. A regular occurrence. I mean, I don't even understand. Look, it's great that Juana Lesi is talking now and stuff, but how in the world do you think it's okay to drive around with Ghislaine Maxwell and look to pick up young girls around Palm Beach? There has to be a reckoning for people. And these people like Juana Lessi, I would think, and I would hope that the FBI are speaking with them. But it just goes to show you how many people were in Jeffrey Epstein's atmosphere, how many people let this stuff occur because they feared him for whatever reason, they feared their reprisals or more sinister. Some of these people were just fellow travelers, folks. Maxwell spotted the 16 year old Roberts from the street at former President Donald Trump's beach club, Mar a Lago, where Roberts worked at the spa and demanded that Alessi pull over. He waited in the convertible, sweating, while Maxwell went into the club and persuaded Roberts to work as Epstein's traveling masseuse. It was an enterprise, Alessi said. Yeah, no shit. A criminal enterprise. And furthermore, all of this nonsense about, oh, it was a massage, it was a for, you know, they were being, acting as a masseuse. This, that, the other thing. When you have the kind of money Jeffrey Epstein has, you know, the people that Jeffrey Epstein knows, you have those connections, do you really go and send your house lady out trolling the streets for 16 year olds to come over and give you a massage? Or do you pay the top industry professional who has honed their craft for years and years and years and who is well respected amongst the other upper crust of the elite? We all know the answer to that. When you have big money like that, you go and get the best massage. The people, you know, whoever, the, the, the, the massage, the masseuse who' the Lakers, right? Something like that. You don't send Ghislaine Maxwell out to troll the streets over to Mar a Lago to find some little 16 year old girl to abuse, to bring over to touch your disgusting ass, hairy chested, gross ass, disgusting looking boss. That's not normal behavior. And the fact that Alessi calls it an enterprise, that's just the cherry on top of we all know that this is a criminal enterprise. We all know that this is Rico worthy. Roberts told me she thought she had landed a dream job. Later that night, she says her father dropped her off at Epstein's house for what she and other survivors have called the audition. I mean, it's chilling to think about Virginia's father dropping her off there for this interview, this audition, and then all of this unfolds afterwards. Imagine the burden her father must have. I can't even imagine what it would be like to know that you delivered your daughter basically to the den of this disgusting serpent. Now obviously nobody knew, right, who expected this, this lady with this high society British accent was going to deliver you to this monster. Nobody knew, right? Nobody understood as far as Virginia and these other girl, these other young girls thought this was their break. They were finally going to get a little chance to see how the other side lived and instead they showed up and had those dreams crushed into dust under the heels of this sick bastard and Ghislaine Maxwell. Roberts has said in court documents and interviews that Maxwell escorted her up the stairs to Epstein's room where what began as a massage turned into Maxwell and Epstein coercing Roberts into sex acts. In court documents and in interviews, other survivors too have said Maxwell participated in their abuse and sometimes photographed it. So again, we know that there was a large amount of photographs taken, we know that there was videos taken and we know that Maxwell loved to take these pictures and photographs of these girls, according to them. So my question is, are these pictures going to be used as evidence in this trial. We know that there are explosive pictures according to both parties. My question is, how far are those pictures going to go to send Maxwell up the river? Because if there's pictures of her with minors, it's a wrap, folks. It's, it's, it's a foregone conclusion that this party is over for her and that the baloney sandwich train is just beginning. Maxwell came across as self possessed, her confidence, almost putting those around her at ease. And you've all met people like that, right? Someone who's charismatic, very confident, seems like they got the world by the oysters. We've all met people like that. And we've also met people who are very good at faking the funk, at making pretend that they're nice people, you know, wearing the face of a good person, only to see that face crack and reveal the true horror story beneath it. And that's what happened with somebody like Maxwell, right? They put on a good air of appearance. When you first meet them, they. They make you comfortable around them, they get you thinking that this is the way things go. And then before you know it, you're in the clutches of a disgusting, sick, depraved lunatic. Maria Farmer, 51, worked for Epstein and Maxwell in the 1990s, helping Epstein acquire art and greeting guests at his Manhattan townhouse. She wrote in a 2019 affidavit. She met Epstein at an art show where some of her work was on display. She told me that each day when the bells chimed at the nearby prep school, Maxwell would call her to call her town car before she was leaving the house. She would get like all hysterical and go, I need to get new biles. Farmer recalled in an interview. She said Maxwell would bring her Yorkshire terrier, Max, and they would circle the East 70s. When Maxwell spotted a teen, she would order the driver to pull over. And that sure does sound about right. According to what Juanalesi says was going on. According to Juanalesi, he was doing the driving in Palm Beach. So why would they change their M.O. in New York? Once again, Maria's story ringing true. These people had a MO they had a plan. They knew what they were doing, they knew what worked. They had success doing it elsewhere. Why would they change it in New York City? Especially down in Manhattan, where there's prep schools everywhere. You have Central park, you have Columbus, you name it. Manhattan is the perfect hunting ground for these people. At the time, Maxwell and Epstein posed as model scouts. According to Farmer, it wasn't that far fetched. Victoria's Secret owner Les the Crypt Keeper Wexner was Epstein's client and friend. But Epstein managed Wexner's money, not talent. Ghislaine would say, you know, oh, I've got to get a model. Gotta get a Victoria's Secret model. Farmer said I was dumb enough to believe it. I believed it until I didn't. She saw girls arriving at Epstein's home. She wrote in the affidavit filed on behalf of one of Epstein's survivors. And she told me they usually left distressed. I mean, I. I can't even imagine. Honestly, I can't. I am so glad that I grew up the way I grew up. You learn to be skeptical of people real, real fast when you grow up in the inner city, folks. You learn not to buy what mother effers are selling real early in the inner city, folks. And you understand that everybody has a lick, everybody has a hustle. The idea is to recognize what that hustle is, what that lick is, and either A, get the hell out of the way if it's going to be disastrous, or B, hell, you might want to get in on that lick. That's the way it works. So I can't even, I can't even imagine. So for me, growing up, where I grew up, forget it. I'm skeptical of everything and of everybody. So I am just, again, I'm thankful that I grew up in the inner city because the life lessons you learn growing up like that are just so valuable later on in life when you're dealing with scuzz bags or people trying to hustle you or, you know, any of that jazz.
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Farmer has her own story about Maxwell as well. In her affidavit, she accused Maxwell and Epstein of sexually assaulting her in 1996. Afterwards, she wrote, they threatened her and cut her off from art related opportunities. She said her career and life were ruined. And look, let's be real. Maria has been very clear with her story and what she has talked about in regards to Jeffrey Epstein. I've had Maria on the podcast twice. You can go and Check out those interviews with her here on the podcast. She's been on way bigger platforms, you know, with Whitney Webb and other people. So if you're interested in finding those interviews with Maria here on my show or elsewhere, they are very accessible. Maxwell and Epstein's relationship eventually shifted from romantic to practical again. I think that it was practical the whole time. I don't think romance ever played a part at all. She remained on his payroll and continued to work for him even after they broke up again. Could be part of that cover story. Look, that's just my assumption I'm working on. Right, but it could be part of that cover story with them being, you know, oh, we're together but now we're broke up and you know how it works. In 2000, Epstein gave her a two million dollar townhouse on the Upper east side. Along the way, she reportedly introduced him to many of the influential people. His Rolodex. So it definitely was a two pronged assault with Epstein and Maxwell. Right. It would be Maxwell to open up the doors with her Oxford education. We know that the brutish ass Epstein couldn't have done that. So it was her to open up the doors with that Oxford education, getting people comfortable with her, you know, oh, this is Robert Maxwell's daughter. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So that opened the door for the social circles for Epstein. Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell was able to piggyback on Epstein's wealth. Right. It was all part of the plan, in my opinion. And when you look at everything, you look at Ghislaine Maxwell's dad and Jeffrey Epstein and how all of this came about. It's hard not to think that there was more here than just, oh, boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy and girl fall in love. We don't have an Upper west side love story here, folks. What we have is something more like the show, the Americans. In my opinion, to date, Maxwell is the only one of Epstein's associates who has faced criminal charges in the United States. And that's an absolute travesty, right? A dereliction of justice, A dereliction of duty. And the federal courts, the, the, the justice system, they should all be ashamed of themselves. All of these people who participated should be facing RICO charges right now. Why is R. Kelly facing RICO charges but not Jeffrey Epstein's people? Why is Keith Ray Neary and the dirtbags from NXIVM facing RICO charges but not the remnants of Epstein's criminal organization? What's the difference? What makes Ghislaine Maxwell so special? What makes The Jeffrey Epstein criminal enterprise so special. On July 2, she was arrested by the Southern District of New York on six charges relating to conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors, as well as perjury for sworn statements made as part of Robert's lawsuit, which ended in a settlement. And it's funny too, because Maxwell's, you know, peoples, they like to come out and say, well, Maxwell has never even been found guilty in a civil suit. Well, that's because she settled out of court, okay? I mean, do you think we're stupid? We know what it means, okay? We know what all of that means. She wasn't found culpable or liable in the civil suit because it never got to that point because she and her lawyers understood her goose was cooked. So you might as well just come out of the pocket now and save everybody the trouble. In March, she faced new charges of sex trafficking a minor for Epstein and paying her. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty and now is awaiting her trial, which is scheduled for November. So you see why her legal team went so hard in the paint on the bail situation, right? You see why they were going so hard to get her bailed out. They knew that they were going to have to ask for this continuation. They knew that this trial was going to get bumped back and they expected more charges. Come on, you mean to tell me they didn't expect a superseded indictment? And if that's the case, and her lawyers weren't prepared for that, or they weren't expecting that, maybe it's time to find some new lawyers. Because anyone with a brain in their head can take a look at the evidence here and see that there was a ton of it and that your client is going to be hard pressed to find any defense, any ground that is defensible, because her position right now is untenable, folks. There is no way from where I'm sitting that she can beat these charges. The evidence is a mile high. As part of her statement sent to Politico just before the newer charges came out, her brother Ian Maxwell said, Ghislaine is looking forward to a fair trial where she fully expects to be exonerated. Um, alright, I mean, I guess that has to be kind of the outlook you have if you're Maxwell or her family at this point, right? You can't just be sitting there saying, oh, yeah, well, that's it, that's it. She's, she's going to jail. You know the saying, right? In for a penny, in for a pound. And that's what the Maxwell family. That's where they're at at this point. They've thrown their chips down on the table. They're all in with defending their family member. And I don't know if it's simply to try and protect the family name for whatever that's worth, or if they truly believe that she's innocent. You never know what to believe with people like this, what their motivations are. This isn't like a loving family, like what we come from. Right. You know, hanging out with your dad growing up, maybe holding the flashlight for him. Well, he's, you know, working on the car engine, helping him paint the house, whatever it is. This is not the same thing the way that they grew up. So I don't, you know, I find it hard to believe that there is some kind of, like, deep familial, Familial family bond here where it's, it's, it's keeping them locked together arm in arm as they defend Ghislaine here. According to her brother, they really didn't have a relationship through all of those years. So how does he or the rest of the family know what she was up to, know what her and Jeffrey Epstein were up to? They don't. All they're going on is what she's telling them. And I think they're going to be in for a quite the rude awakening in November. And I mean, with the money that they're paying for that legal team, you'd expect some results, right? If you were Maxwell and her family, the meter is running. You got to expect those lawyers are costing thousands of dollars per hour. Then you have to add on the experts. Then you add on the experts who check the experts work, and you know how it goes. Before you know it, you're talking millions and millions of dollars to fight a federal case. So we know that Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team is loving this. And the longer this goes, the more drawn out it is, the better off they are. Right. Meanwhile, you got Maxwell, who is basically rotting away right now in that jail cell and paying out money hand over fist for what I believe is just an eventuality at this point. There's no stopping the train that's coming down these tracks, folks, from where I'm sitting, the evidence is clear. And that's just the evidence that we have. Can you imagine what they have behind the scenes to paste onto this? Lady, I can't even begin to think about how much evidence has been compiled over the years. The question really becomes, like usual, how far and how hard are the prosecutors going to go, in my opinion, they need to go all the way. This is not a case to half step. This is not a case to give a little bit of breathing room to the defendant. This is a throw the book at them, toss away the key and bury them under the prison once convicted kind of case. And I hope that's what the prosecutors are angling for, and I hope when they show up into that courtroom, when this trial starts, that they got a lot of bulldog in them. I don't want no half stepping. I don't want no nonsense. I want the federal government at its finest scumbaggery levels every trick in the book, I want them to use it. Every single underhanded tactic that they use against poor people every single day in the federal court system, I want them to use those same tactics against Maxwell. Those are the rules, right? Of course. I want those rules all changed. That's a different topic, however. But the rules that we have right here in front of us, well, those are the rules that are going to govern this game. Ghislaine Maxwell and all of your rich friends, all of your buddies, all of your powerful allies who put these rules on the books mainly to screw poor people. Well, now you're about to get a little taste. And it sure seems like you don't like the shit sandwich. There's no dispute among Epstein survivors about the role they believe Maxwell played. Some even told me they feel more betrayed by Maxwell than by Epstein because she was the one who recruited them in the first place. Yeah, I mean, you gotta imagine the broken trust. You got somebody who is supposedly trustworthy, who comes off as like this really educated, well spoken person. And then you have these girls from broken, disadvantaged backgrounds, from homes where, you know, the parents are struggling just to keep their head above water. They meet this lady and all of a sudden they're like, wow, we made it. This is our big chance we're getting. We have a chance to make some money here. You know, two or three hundred bucks doesn't sound like a lot of money to us, but to these girls, that's a ton of dough. That's what their parents were making in a week. You mean to tell me you're gonna give me 300 bucks to come give this guy a massage? Hell, I'm in. And when you have somebody like Ghislaine Maxwell assuing your feelings, massaging the way you feel about things, guiding you towards Jeffrey Epstein's web, telling you that it's normal, oh, this is okay. This is how the other could the other side Lives. This is what rich people do. How are these young girls supposed to know any better? They don't have the life experience to rely on. They can't just pull it out of their toolbox and say, oh, I've seen this situation before. I know exactly what's going on. So I could totally see why these girls would feel way more betrayed by Ghislaine Maxwell and why a lot of these survivors want Maxwell to face the maximum amount of justice that's possible. Put yourself in their shoes.
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She would be able to figure out what it was that a possible survivor wanted or needed. Robert said. And because she looked like a nice Mary Poppins figure, you kind of trusted her. And that all goes to it, right? 100%. Somebody is well spoken. Somebody comes off as if they're from the upper crust. They act like, you know, with an air of authority. It's easy for people who've never been around that to be sucked in by that scam, by that plot, by that ploy. Maxwell was a snake oil salesman, folks. She was good at her trade. For all of her scumbaggery, for all of her nonsense, she had the charisma that was needed for somebody in her role in this kind of criminal operation. She would suck them in, make them calm, and then Epstein would come in for the kill. And then afterwards, Maxwell would cruise right back in, or in some cases, like some of these girls alleged, be there at the same time and helping with the abuse. And then afterwards, she'd come in with her pretty words, her flowery language, her Mary Poppins like attitude and massage, everything and let the girls know, oh, this is just the way it goes. That's what we do here. And then once that happened, the first time they were sucked in and the cycle began. She could care less about who we were, what happened to us in the past, Roberts continued, as long as it benefited her. And I think that's the most. I shouldn't even say most. The best way to explain Ghislaine Maxwell and the rest of these people, they don't care about you. They don't care about your kids, your children, your life, your goals, your dreams, none of it. They care about consolidating power. They care about moving their plots down the field. And for the most part, we're just in the way. If we're not there to wash their dishes or drive their cars or clip their lawn or give them a haircut or cook their food or any other menial position that you could imagine, then we're just in their way. Or we're extra mouths to feed that need to be sent to some endless war. And that's how they look at people on the grand scale, never mind on the micro, on the one on one. When we're talking about girls like this that Ghislaine Maxwell is attempting to groom, attempting to bring into Jeffrey Epstein's web. Maxwell played a huge part in what went on here, folks. And all of these survivors that have come out and said it, all of the evidence that has been presented thus far and all of the evidence that has yet to be brought out in the public, well, all of that is going to be brought forward come November. And Ghislaine Maxwell, her legal team and those defending her are going to look pretty stupid, in my opinion. All right, folks, that concludes part two of the political article by Tara Paul Mary about the women who enabled Jeffrey Epstein. In part three, we're going to dive into the assistance and we're going to talk about the girls, women who I have coined the Core 4. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U C c I@protonmail.com youm can also find me on Twitter at Bobby Capucci. All of the links that go with this episode can be found in the description box.
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Host: Bobby Capucci
Date: May 9, 2026
Episode Theme:
A detailed exploration of how four key women enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, with a focus on complicity, betrayal, and the disturbing role of female enablers. Drawing on Tara Palmeri’s extensive Politico reporting, Bobby breaks down the personalities, allegations, and broader criminal enterprise, examining the critical yet under-reported role of women as both victims and perpetrators.
Bobby Capucci sets out to analyze Tara Palmeri’s Politico article, "The Women Who Enable Jeffrey Epstein," in a multi-part deep dive. In Parts 1 and 2, he brings listeners through Palmeri’s investigative work on how Epstein’s network thrived because of key female associates that recruited, enabled, and normalized abuse—looking at figures ranging from lesser-known recruiters to Ghislaine Maxwell.
Bobby Capucci’s tone is fiery, blunt, and frequently irreverent, using streetwise analogies (“scuzzbag dudes,” “snake oil salesman,” “the Mary Poppins act”) and combative commentary. He maintains a clear allegiance with survivors and often frames events in terms of the larger class and justice struggle between ordinary people and the elite circles protecting Epstein.
This mega episode of The Epstein Chronicles lays bare how the Epstein operation depended on a web of women who, for a variety of reasons, helped lure, groom, and normalize abuse for more than two decades. Through the lens of survivor testimonies, investigative journalism, and Bobby’s relentless analysis, the episode exposes an under-discussed aspect of Epstein’s criminal enterprise and demands both further accountability and broader public awareness. The next episode promises to focus on Epstein’s "core four" key assistants, further mapping the architecture of his exploitation machine.
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