Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Sprawling Nature Of His Operation (6/17/26)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Mega Edition – Jeffrey Epstein And The Sprawling Nature Of His Operation

Podcast: The Epstein Chronicles
Host: Bobby Capucci
Episode Date: June 17, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this “Mega Edition,” Bobby Capucci explores new revelations and ongoing investigations into Jeffrey Epstein’s vast criminal enterprise. The episode covers the ominous threats faced by investigative journalists, the global reach of Epstein’s network (from Norway and Sweden to France and England), the complicity and failures of institutions, and the recurring presence of elites who continue to evade accountability. Across several focused stories, Capucci delivers insight into the transcontinental scope of Epstein’s operation and the systemic failures that allowed such abuse to persist for decades.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Norwegian Journalists Threatened Over Epstein Reporting

• Source Material: Sputnik News article by Igor Kuznetsov (00:01)
• Norwegian newspaper DN exposed a relationship between Turi Rod Larsson (former UN Secretary General) and Jeffrey Epstein—including money, donations, and debt—which led to Rod Larson’s resignation and international scrutiny.
• After these reports, DN reporters (Gard Olterholm & Tore Gjerstad) received death threats by phone and email, a sign that investigative journalists who get “too close” are targeted with intimidation.

Notable Quote:

“It could be desperation as well, right? People know that these journalists are getting too close. And even if the threats don't have any teeth, just... implying that the threat is there is enough to scare some people off.” —Bobby Capucci (02:05)

• DN’s news editor (Johansen D) emphasized the seriousness:

  “When a threatening person also involves family members, it makes the case extremely serious.” (05:35)

• Capucci strongly condemns harassment, noting productive activism comes from informing the public, not issuing threats (06:46).

2. Deeper Dive: Turi Rod Larsson’s Connection to Epstein and Resulting Scandal

• Key Details: Rod Larsson borrowed $130,000 from Epstein (personal debt) while chairing the International Peace Institute, which also received donations from Epstein-affiliated foundations.
• This type of laundering of “stinky money” through intermediaries was common in Epstein’s network (10:12).

Notable Quote:

“Epstein would play the middleman... That way they wouldn't have the stench of Jeffrey Epstein on them.” (10:12)

• The fallout led to Rod Larson’s resignation and an official investigation by Norway’s Auditor General. Capucci points out how even lackluster investigations tend to turn up new damning details.

3. Epstein’s Elite Connections, Cognitive Dissonance, and Systemic Blindness

• Capucci criticizes how society, the media, and “high society” ignored years of credible allegations about Epstein, pointing to deliberate willful ignorance:

  “If you are engaging in acting like nothing was going on here, like this is all overblown… chances are you're engaging in cognitive dissonance at this point. Because the evidence is there, folks.” (09:19)

• The commentary places blame not only on Epstein’s direct collaborators but on institutions and culture that insulated him.

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4. Epstein’s Royal Connections: Spotlight on Swedish Princess Sofia

• Source Material: Article from The US Sun (16:16)
• New evidence puts Princess Sofia of Sweden (wife of Prince Carl Philip) in Epstein’s orbit, with questions raised about her past in New York’s nightlife as a lingerie model and aspiring actress.
• Leaked emails show her being introduced to Epstein, invited to “Peto Island” and to train as an actress—with the palace now acknowledging contacts, but providing evasive, insufficient answers.

Notable Quote:

“If you know you were hanging out with Epstein, you need to assume that people are going to find out. So you should get ahead of it and let people know what the deal is before we have to drag it out of you.” (16:48)

• Capucci is skeptical of official denials and parallels Sofia’s behavior with Prince Andrew’s, emphasizing the wider pattern of elite “amnesia” and denial.

• The episode asks direct questions unaddressed by the palace:

  • Why did Sofia visit Epstein more than once?
  • What did she see or experience?
  • Why did she remain friends with the businesswoman who connected her to Epstein?

Notable Moment:

“She was at Epstein's house, that she was around, and she ran from it. She never came forward. She waited until she was outed by the emails.” (18:32)

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5. Jean-Luc Brunel: Key Cog in the Human Trafficking Machine

• Source Material: Article from International Business Times (segment start ~38:00)
• Capucci contends that without Jean-Luc Brunel, “there could never have been Jeffrey Epstein” at the level of global trafficking observed.
• Newly released French court documents detail how Brunel turned luxury castles and apartments into sites of systematic abuse, trafficking underage models from Europe to the US.

Notable Quotes:

“Jean Luc Brunel was the linchpin. He was the guy that was bringing these girls to Jeffrey Epstein from all of these far flung locations.” (38:30)

“The 30-page judicial order, dating from 2023 and previously unseen, outlines how underage models were systematically exploited and sometimes sent to the United States for further abuse, raising questions about how such a network could operate with near total impunity.” (41:30)

• The documents describe hidden passageways in French castles, intimidation, and a system that operated for decades under institutional protection.
• Even after Brunel’s suspicious “suicide” in jail, French authorities are reopening investigations—a sign the reckoning may be incomplete.

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6. Institutional Failure and Cover-up in the UK

• Source Material: The Guardian (segment start ~56:00)
• Capucci underscores that Epstein’s UK crimes didn’t happen in a vacuum; multiple red flags were ignored at every level, from police to media to the monarchy.
• BBC documents show Epstein housing alleged victims in London apartments after UK police declined to investigate, with evidence ignored or suppressed to protect elites (notably Prince Andrew).

Notable Quotes:

“Every time something surfaced, every time someone pushed information forward, it didn’t trigger urgency. It triggered containment.” (57:30)

“The system that should have slowed him down instead absorbed the impact and kept him insulated.” (58:09)

• He notes the passage of the “Epstein Files Transparency Act” and new document dumps as catalysts for renewed pressure, but remains skeptical about whether the British establishment will ever genuinely pursue accountability, especially after the Queen’s death.

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7. Broader Themes: The Scope, Resilience, and Accountability of the Epstein Operation

• Capucci reiterates that Epstein’s crime syndicate spanned continents, involved elites in every field, and succeeded due to a culture of silence, intimidation, and institutional complicity.
• The episode closes with an announcement of an upcoming companion podcast focused on Epstein’s European operations, answering increased demand for in-depth coverage abroad.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On journalist intimidation:
  "When you're just commentating on a story... you shouldn't expect stuff like this, right? But I guess they were getting too deep...they must have hit a nerve." (02:00)

• On the “middleman” laundering tactic:
  "It would be his money, but it would go through somebody else. That way they wouldn't have the stench of Jeffrey Epstein on them. But we're hip to that by now." (10:13)

• On elite accountability:
  "If you are engaging in that...like nothing was going on here, like this is all overblown...chances are you're engaging in cognitive dissonance at this point." (09:19)

• On Princess Sofia’s disappearance:
  "She’s out here using the Prince Andrew strategy...she was at Epstein’s house, that she was around, and she ran from it." (18:00–18:32)

• On Jean-Luc Brunel’s importance:
  "Without Jean Luc Brunel, there could have never been Jeffrey Epstein, at least not to the level that we saw. And that's because Jean Luc Brunel was the linchpin." (38:30)

• On systemic failure:
  "He was a known problem that was repeatedly deprioritized. And once that becomes clear, the narrative shifts from failure to tolerance." (58:40)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Introduction & Norwegian journalist threats: 00:01 – 07:54
• Turi Rod Larsson/International Peace Institute revelations: 07:54 – 14:38
• Princess Sofia & Swedish Royal Exposure: 16:16 – ~38:00
• Jean-Luc Brunel & French trafficking ring: ~38:00 – ~56:00
• Epstein’s UK operations & institutional failure: ~56:00 – end

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Style and Tone

• Language/Tone:
  Capucci’s delivery is raw, driven, and deeply skeptical of official explanations. He often speaks directly to listeners—invoking popular culture, humor, and blunt language to stress urgency and frustration with media, elite, and legal failings.

• Approach:
  No-nonsense, evidence-driven, occasionally sarcastic, and always pressing for more transparency and accountability.

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Episode Takeaways

• Epstein’s criminal operations were truly global, spanning the highest levels of politics, royalty, and finance, aided by a pattern of intimidation and institutional neglect.
• Journalists and investigators are still targeted for pushing too deep; the danger and resistance to accountability persist.
• New document dumps and investigations in Europe promise further revelations and potential justice, though skepticism remains about elite influence and the thoroughness of investigations.
• The episode is a forceful call for relentless scrutiny, institutional reform, and public pressure to ensure the scale of Epstein’s abuses—and those complicit—are exposed and prosecuted.

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For more details, articles, and links referenced in this episode, see the episode’s description box.

Transcript

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So like I said, this article is from Sputnik News and the headline Norwegian journalists admit to receiving death threats after Epstein related articles. Again, the author of this article is Igor Kuznetsov. The Norwegian newspaper DN earlier revealed a close relationship between Turi Rod Larsson and Jeffrey Epstein that included money, loans, donations and debt, which ultimately led to Rod Larson's resignation and cast a shadow over the International Peace Institute he had been chairing. As well it should. Another one of these so called institutions that's wrapped up with Jeffrey Epstein. Another one of these so called places where people like this inhabit that has a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Folks, it goes deep. And this is just the stuff that's been uncovered. Imagine all the stuff that has not been uncovered. Imagine all the stuff that nobody even knows about yet. And I am sure there are plenty and plenty and plenty more relationships that Jeffrey Epstein had with people in these sorts of positions that we don't know anything about. And hopefully as this trial continues to get closer and there's more interest in this case, we'll get a little bit more of a deeper dive from the fourth estate and the clowns that inhabit it. After a number of publications about the relationship between disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a Norwegian politician and former UN Secretary General Terry Rod Larsen, DN journalists have received death threats. I mean, really, it's like I don't even understand any of that at this point. The cat is out of the bag. Look, I get it when people are breaking news, like if you're breaking news about a case like this or, or you are breaking news about a case like the Panama Papers or anything that is concerning elite or powerful dangerous people, yeah, that's some dangerous water to be swimming in. But when you're just commentating on a story, when you're just following the story, well, you shouldn't expect stuff like this, right? But I guess they were getting a little too deep. They might have, they must have hit a nerve. They might have gotten to a point where people involved were getting very, very uncomfortable and they thought, hey, you know what, maybe, maybe we'll rattle them out of their tree, maybe we'll scare them a little bit. Let's send them a couple of messages. So it could be desperation as well, right? People know that these journalists are getting too close. And even if the threats don't have any teeth, just the, just, just implying that the threat is there is enough to scare some people off. Journalists Guard Olterholm and Torrey Gerstad said an internal Report they had received several threats by phone and email. I mean, really, by phone and email, huh? Don't people have anything else better to do? I mean, finally, some reporters are digging a little bit deeper in this case

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and they're the ones who are getting the threatening phone calls.

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They're the ones who are getting the threatening messages.

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Funny how that works.

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In one of the telephone conversations, the voice allegedly said, you are an effing

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C. And when I say C, I

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mean the word that you folks over the pond love to use so much. You have people coming after you. One of the emails said before, be prepared. I would be scared if I were you. Another one asked the reporter to send regards to a family member.

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What are they? Roose Bolton?

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The Lannisters send their regards. I mean, we've been through the ringer here, folks. Let's not forget the so called guy dressed up in the ninja outfit out in the bushes in front of Jeffrey Epstein's who was supposedly a Gambino made man. I mean, you know, I've heard a lot of far fetched fairy tales during our covering of this case, but that certainly was a zinger. And this is ringing of the same, in my opinion. I don't know if these threats have any teeth behind them. Obviously you got to take it seriously if you're a reporter, but I would, I would guess that it's probably somebody just trying to throw them off the trail, get them a little scared, have them, you know, focusing on other stories as opposed to this one. There were many phone calls with harassing content and then this email. And when a threatening person also involves family members, it makes the case extremely serious. DN's news editor Johnny Ayanni Johansen D told the news portal Media24. The editor emphasized the seriousness of these threats. All right, hey, look, they would know better than me, right? I'm just some, some moron commentating on the story. You know, maybe these threats are credible. Right? And again, they, they definitely should be taken serious. As in, you know, if you're the person being threatened. I would always take it serious, to be honest with you. You never know. Look, we're in a world where there's. There are extremely damaged people living amongst us. There are extremely broken people, mentally that are sharing our air, that are around us all the time. I mean, just take a look at these people that go on, these murdering sprees, shooters, people that stat, whatever, how, whatever method. And it's quite clear that there are a lot of people that need immediate mental help. We believe that Threats like these are completely unacceptable and something we take very seriously. Working with sharp issues and covering conflict filled issues is demanding in itself. No one should have to endure harassment and threats in connection with the journalistic work you Johansson said.

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Look, I agree with that.

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I, you know, I totally agree with that. Nobody should be harassing anybody. Honestly. Nobody should be sending Maxwell's people a bazillion emails, none of that stuff. You want to talk about it? You know, what's on social media or whatever? Yeah, cool, go for it. But in my humble opinion, I really don't see the point in harassing people and sending email and doing all of that jazz. It doesn't move the needle, right? You want to talk about it, Educate some more people about what's going on? Hell, start a podcast, whatever it may be a blog, whatever it is, but I think that's more of a productive outlet than firing off nasty, snarky emails.

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Threats against journalists are ugly attempts to stop our critical journalism and then it is all the more important that we continue to cover the events the way we would do otherwise. The revelations in this complex case and the consequences they have had are something we are very proud of, she said. And hey, good for you and I'll always stand up and applaud anyone who's willing to take on the so called elite. It takes a lot of courage to get up there and write articles about these people. If it was easy, all of the scoundrels in the American legacy media would be doing it. But again, they can't be bothered. They have better things to do like engage in tribalism. The newspaper string of revelations about the close relationship between Rod Larson and Epstein have had repercussions both in Norway and internationally.

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When we were talking about this originally,

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I knew that this story was going to blow up. I mean, you have an ex head of the UN involved with Epstein. Don't you think this story deserves more play?

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And don't you think when you look

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at the whole big picture and you put all of those pieces together, it's almost impossible not to understand the scope

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of this at this point.

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And if you are engaging in that, you know, acting like nothing was going on here like this is all overblown

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or anything like that.

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Chances are you're engaging in cognitive dissonance at this point. Because the evidence is there, folks. Anyone who's willing to see the evidence in this case, it's right there, laid out for you. Again, this isn't a case that was happening two weeks ago. This has been going on for decades. And there is an ample paper trail to follow if the legacy media is willing to get into the muck. DN earlier established that Rod Larson had borrowed money from the financier pedophile in 2013, and that the New York based International Peace Institute, which he had chaired between 2004 and 2020, received donations from foundations affiliated with Epstein. And we know that hustle already, right? Epstein would play the middleman.

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It would be his money, but it

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would go through somebody else. That way they wouldn't have the stench of Jeffrey Epstein on them. But we're hip to that by now. And Lawrence Lessig, in his op ed over at the Harvard Crimson yesterday, pretty much just admitted the whole entire scam. Furthermore, Rod Larson personally owed Epstein $130,000, which he himself called a serious misjudgment. Again, folks, remember, of all the people in the world that this dude's hanging out with all the rich people in the world, Jeffrey Epstein's the dude. You go and get 130 large from what? Epstein's a loan shark now. He's putting money out on the streets like he's Christopher Moltisanti. Give me a break with this guy. I swear, when people are like, you

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know, if I had a time machine, I'd go back to.

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If I had a time machine, I'd go back to when this moron was teaching at Dalton and I'd out him, then show up with all this evidence. Remember, like back to the Future when Biff showed up with the Sports Almanac? That's what I would do. I'd show up from the future with all of the news clippings and give them to the people at Dalton. Nip this shit right in the bud. I mean, enough is enough already. Following the revelations, Rod Larson resigned as president of ipi and the Office of the Auditor General has opened a full investigation into the Foreign Ministry's relationship with ipi. So again, we have another nation state opening an investigation to people who were involved with Epstein. And you know what happens? Inevitably when these investigations get opened, even when they're piss poor investigations, more is turned up. Look at Leon Black. I know there's people that think that this dude is untouchable. Teflon Don style. But that is not the case. He's in serious jeopardy here, folks. Serious jeopardy. Especially considering that these prosecutors, well, they. They like to go after that big game, don't they? Rod Larson is most known for his role in the negotiations that led to the Oslo Peace accords in the 90s, which were the first ever agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. So for those of you who don't remember, that was some monumental stuff. When that happened. I remember being real young, you know, just a little kid, 12 years old, 13 years old. And I remember when the Oslo Peace Accords were occurring, and it was a move the needle moment. It felt like, right, two bad things just pretty much stayed the same. In 1993, Rod Larson was appointed ambassador and special Advisor for the Middle east peace process to the Norwegian. Norwegian Foreign Minister, and the following year became the United Nations Special Coordinator in the occupied territories.

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It's.

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It makes me feel gross even saying that. The occupied territories, I mean, we're talking about in pal. In Israel, the occupied territories. We talking about Iraq, the occupied territories. I mean, take your pick of countries in the Middle east at this point. This is not the first financial scandal involving Rod Larson. In 1996, Rod Larson resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in the Jaglund Cabinet following revelations about his stock trading as he failed to claim a profit of NOK $600,000. I think their money in Norway is called krollers, I believe. But 600,000 of their dollars in Norway of the NOK is $63,000 in American on his tax return and avoided paying any taxes on it. Of course he did. All of these guys avoid paying their taxes. I'm sure all of you in America

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know what tomorrow is, right?

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That's right. Pay the IRS Day. Everyone's favorite day, isn't it? But if you're rich, yeah, it doesn't matter. No big deal. That's not a day you care about

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because you're so busy using loopholes and

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avoiding your taxes throughout the year that when the time comes to actually pay up, meh, no big deal. You've already got the books cooked. And the loopholes jumped through. However, following his resignation, he returned to the UN and again became Under Secretary General. Convicted sex felon Jeffrey Epstein was charged with human trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors, but died in a prison cell on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Allegedly dozens of women accused him of abusing them as minors. Epstein's partner, an alleged co conspirator fellow all around scuzzbag and child abuser Ghislaine Maxwell currently stands accused of aiding and abetting the abuse o of partaking in that abuse as well. Let's make sure we drive that home at every single opportunity. As for Rod Tory Larson, well, the fun and the questions for you, my friend, have just begun. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y Capucci protonmail.com youm can also find me on Twitter at bo dashbycapucci. All of the links that go with this episode can be found in the description box. To everybody who has donated.

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What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Well, well, well. We have another royal to add to the rolls of Jeffrey Epstein's friends, and this time it comes in the form of a Swedish royal. And that Swedish royal is Princess Sophia and she's the wife of Prince Carl Philip, who is third in line to the Swedish throne. So we're not talking about some minor royal here, whatever that might mean. We're talking about somebody that's in the line of succession, right? Somebody that's very, very close to power and somebody that's never answered for their time with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, look, nobody's saying that she was involved in grooming or bringing girls to Jeffrey Epstein, but she's never explained why she was with him, what she was doing with them, and how she ended up in his orbit. And when you can't or won't answer basic questions, people are going to start filling in the gaps, right? She's not answering because X, Y and Z, she did this, she did that. She, she's somebody who's guilty. And that's why I've said from the beginning that these people should get out ahead of this stuff. If you know you were hanging out with Epstein, you need to assume that people are going to find out. So you should get ahead of it and let people know what the deal is before we have to drag it out of you. But the problem is these people get outed and then they start running, they start hiding, they have amnesia, they act like they have no idea who Jeffrey Epstein was when the truth is relatively apparent to anyone following along. And for me, at this point, if you're going to lie about even knowing the dude, then I have to assume that you're lying about a whole lot. So today we have an article from the US sun and the headline, royal Scandal Royal Princess Curiously vanishes amid Shock. Epstein revelations after the ex lingerie model was invited to Peto Island. This article was authored by Juliana Cruz Lima. The Nobel Prize banquet in the Swedish capital glittered as usual on Wednesday night, but one chair stayed curiously empty. Yeah, she didn't want to answer any questions. Can you imagine the loud ass groan within the Swedish royal family hearing about this shit? Well, that's all we need. Our own version of Prince Andrew, but the female kind. Princess Sophia is no fringe royal. As the wife of Prince Carl Philip, the son of King Carl the 16th Gustav and third line to the Swedish throne, she sits at the heart of the monarchy's public image. She's normally a guaranteed presence at royal showpieces, but was nowhere to be seen at the banquet. The royal court had already announced on November 29 that Sofia would skip the noble gala to look after her 10 month old daughter, Princess Inez. Oh yeah, because I'm sure she doesn't have a gaggle of people to do that. Nannies, wet nurses, or I guess as they call them over there, au pairs. I'm sure there's a whole host of people to take care of the kid. And the reason she didn't show up is because she didn't want to answer questions. That's why she didn't show up, press spokesman Johan Tegel said at the time. Princess Sophia is still looking after Princess Inez, who is still very young. But her unusual absence also comes as explosive new revelations about her past ties to Jeffrey Epstein surfaced this week. And they run from it. The amount of people who run from this is just wild. If you didn't do anything wrong and you just got caught up because you were in the party scene or whatever, people are going to understand that. Especially if it's before he was convicted, people are going to understand, hey, look, there were people around that had nothing to do with his crimes and probably people that had no idea what he was up to. So I have no doubt that there's people out there that were around him that really had no clue as to the scope of what Epstein was. Sure, they thought he was probably weird and they knew he liked younger type girls. But to the level of what he was up to, I highly doubt it. Not for everybody, especially these younger girls. I highly doubt that Jeffrey Epstein had this princess as part of the scheme or the plot. But that's not the point. The point is this woman has known for all these years she was friends with Epstein, that she was at Epstein's house, that she was around and she ran from it. She never Came forward. She waited until she was outed by the emails. And like I said in the opening, when you do that, you leave a lot of room for people to criticize you and to ask what the hell you knew, when you knew it, and why you didn't say anything sooner. Decades old emails and palace admissions appear to now drag her into the global fallout of the Epstein files. According to the German outlet Build, the Swedish court has now publicly acknowledged what had circulated only in whispers. Officials told the newspaper Dagens Nieder. Princess Sofia met the person in question a few times about 20 years ago. A few times. Is it okay? What were you doing there? How were you introduced to him? Why were you there? What did you see? You know, basic questions that all of us would have to answer if we were ever caught up in this kind of. People like her, they just hide. I'm gonna go watch my kid. No big deal. Nobody's gonna press me. She's out here using the Prince Andrew strategy. She was introduced to the person in question several times around 2005. Introduced to the person in question several times. Well, you're introduced one time, and then after that, it becomes a decision, right? Like, I'm not gonna knock somebody. If you're at a party and somebody walks up to you at somebody else's house and they're with Epstein and they're like, hey, this is Jeffrey Epstein, blah, blah, blah, that means you're introduced to them when you go to their house multiple times. A little bit more than being introduced means that you have some kind of relationship. Whether it's, you know, a friendly relationship or something more, I have no idea. But some kind of relationship was present back then. Sophia Helkvist wasn't yet a princess, but a lingerie model, reality TV personality and aspiring actress navigating New York's nightlife. What does that even mean, navigating New York's nightlife? So she was a party girl, a lingerie model, right in Jeffrey Epstein's wheelhouse. Did she ever work for MC Squared? What did she know about Jean Luc Brunel? What did she know about Faith Cates? What did she know about the whole industry? How about Gerald Marie? These are questions she should probably answer. These are questions she probably won't. She was allegedly being promoted into elite circles by businesswoman Barbro en Bomb. Another person that Epstein really had a lot of connections with, 1000%. So this goes a lot deeper than they're letting on. And I think it's a lot more than this woman was just at Jeffrey Epstein's house. What was she doing there, why was she there and what did she do once she got there? Because I highly doubt you were over there for your conversational skill. Newly leaked emails published by non profit site DDoS secrets.com and reported by the Swedish news outlet Dagan Snider reportedly show N bomb pitching her directly at Epstein. This is Sophia, aspiring actress. Maybe you'd like to meet her. Epstein allegedly took the bait. His reply from the Caribbean read, I'm in the Caribbean. Does she want to come for a couple of days? I'll send a ticket. The email suggests he even offered Sophia and a friend acting school placements. Invitations the palace insists were never accepted. I don't know if I believe that. I truly don't know if I believe it. From what we've learned about Prince Andrew and how the royals take care of this, I highly doubt that we're getting the truth from the Swedish royals either. And I think this has the potential to really blow up in the Swedish royal family's face. Bilder reports one of Sofia's alleged encounters with Epstein took place at a dinner party at his Upper east side mansion. Other messages show Epstein assistant chasing N bomb for updates. Jeffrey wonders what really happened with Camilla. Did you tell her she has a ticket to New York anytime she wants? Embalm replied, clarifying Epstein meant Sophia, the little beautiful dark haired girl who had her friend Camila with her. Camilla now says she wants nothing to do with suggestions that they showed interest. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure you just want to hide from it. But guess what? That shit's done. There's no more hiding. The survivors can't hide from what happened to them. Society can't hide from what happened to us. So you're not going to hide for being part of it, Even if it was just a little small part? You're going to have to answer for it. Sorry. No more hiding behind your titles when the comes down. Now that you've been outed, it's time to answer some questions, she told Dagan Snider. Thank God. You know, when the truth has come out. I was 22 years old. It's really unpleasant to think what could have happened. He probably mostly wanted to throw out an offer to show that he could and had power and and money. Officials say the meetings happened before Epstein's 2008 conviction and that Princess Sophia has neither applied for nor attended any form of acting training. Well, okay, cool. Why did you go there multiple times if he was such a creep, if everything was so uncomfortable Why'd you go there multiple times? And also, don't get caught up on the island stuff. That wasn't the only place where people were getting abused. Epstein was abusing people at every property he went to, whether that was in France, whether that was in America, or wherever the. The dude was. So the whole entire island thing's a bit of a red herring. Of course the island was horrible. What was going on down there, Unconscionable. But it's not the only place. So when people are like, well, I never went to the island. Okay, great. What did you see at the house? What did you see at the ranch? What did you see? What did you. When you were elsewhere? Because it's not just the island. But they have not explained why Sophia came into Epstein's orbit in the first place, nor how far her mentor and bomb's role extended. The businesswoman went on to attend Sophia's royal wedding a decade later. So they stayed friends. And you would think that if somebody introduced you to a monster like Epstein, you wouldn't be their friend anymore, right? I know I wouldn't be. If you and I were homies and you invited me to your house and there was some kind of child molester there, and I found out, first of all, I'm probably punching him in the face. Second of all, we're never talking again. And you're going to be lucky I don't punch you in the face. How dare you put me in that situation? How dare you put me around somebody like that? But I guess these royals are built different. I guess they just forgive everybody, right? They really think we're stupid. They think that we're just going to believe any kind of nonsense they throw out and that we're just gonna nod our heads along like a bunch of trained seals and wait for our fish. Well, it's not gonna happen anymore because people are now paying attention, and they understand that this was something more than just a lone predator who was sitting around watching porn and, you know, having these disgusting proclivities. This was a man that was completely connected and a man that was completely locked in when it comes to some of the most powerful people in the world, whether that's in finance, whether that's in academia, or, as we see here, part of a royal family. Because at this point, either you're standing on the side of transparency and accountability, or you're gonna get steamrolled by it. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Without Jean Luc Brunel, there could have never been Jeffrey Epstein, at least not to the level that we saw. And that's because Jean Luc Brunel was the linchpin. He was the guy that was bringing these girls to Jeffrey Epstein from all of these far flung locations, whether it be South America, Eastern Europe, or anywhere in between. And he was not working alone. So when you see people say that Epstein wasn't involved in human trafficking, they're lying to you. And that's because, without a shadow of a doubt, no debate needed, Jean Luc Brunel was providing girls to Jeffrey Epstein. And Jeffrey Epstein, in return, provided girls back to Jean Luc Brunel. And we literally have mountains of evidence pointing to this. But for years, nobody cared. Nobody wanted to look into it. What about when Brunel went to the authorities in 2016, said he was gonna snitch on Epstein, and then what happened? Oh, that's right. He disappeared. Not died, but disappeared off the grid. No more contact with the authorities, no more talk of flipping on Epstein. So my guess is somebody got to him. Hey, Jean Luc, not a good idea. You know who Jeffrey is, you know who his people are, and you know the score. Something along those lines. But whenever you're talking about Jeffrey Epstein and his human trafficking pipeline, it starts and it ends with Jean Luc Bruno. And considering he's been such a key cog in what Epstein has done over the years, does it shock you that he, quote, unquote, took his own life as well, behind bars? And look, I've told you from the beginning that Jean Luc Brunel is the key to taking down Epstein. Nakolaine Maxwell, it was always Jean Luc Brunel. These two men, they were up to no good. And that's putting it lightly. And the amount of damage caused by Jean Luc Brunel, by the people working with them, and by that shitty modeling agency, MC Squared, is just unbelievable. They were literally bringing these girls over here, putting them at that building at E66, and then bringing them to live with Jeffrey Epstein, depending on what he was feeling. And that's not me telling you again. That's from the Maritza Vasquez deposition that she gave in regards to what was going on when the investigation first kicked off. And even with all the information that she gave, with all of the corroborating information, nobody moved on Jean Luc Brunel. And they can't say he wasn't on their radar because we just learned that he was almost a government informant who was Giving information about jeffrey epstein. So in this episode we have an article from international business times and the headline, epstein files reveal french castles used as sex trafficking sites while underage models sent to u. S. For exploitation. This article was authored by chrisnell longino. A chilling new chapter in the epstein saga has emerged as confidential. Court documents reveal the scale of abuse orchestrated in france by jean luc brunel. Far from acting alone, brunel, a close associate of jeffrey epstein, is shown to have run an industrial system of exploitation transforming luxury castles and apartments into sites of abuse. So all those people that have been out here for the last, I don't know, couple of months telling you that epstein was a loan operator just doing this because he was bored and sick, they've lied to you and it's disgusting. And there's people out here that are dying on the hill. Oh, epstein wasn't some kind of human trafficker. That's all just overblown. But the only thing that's overblown is all the hot ass air coming out of their mouths. Because there's no doubt that jeffrey epstein was not only providing but receiving traffic girls, and I mean luxury castles and apartments into sites of abuse. It's like something right out of a horror movie. The 30 page judicial order, dating from 2023 and previously unseen, outlines how underage models were systematically exploited and sometimes sent to the united states for further abuse, Raising questions about how such a network could operate with near total impunity. Well, not really, not when you know the deal, not when you know he was being protected. That was the bone they threw him, right? To be the middleman, to be an asset. They gave him a little leeway to abuse people, but they said to him, look, jeffrey, you got nailed the first time here. We got you out of it, but now you're going to have to get girls from outside the united states. We can't have this happen again. And if it does, we're going to have to burn you as an asset. I mean, doesn't that sound more logical than just the fact that jeffrey epstein was a sick bastard who happened to get lucky and had the government decide they didn't want to go after him? That makes sense to anybody out there. The documents reveal a disturbing logistical operation. From grand castles in normandy to upscale parisian apartments. Properties were specifically used to facilitate predation. Testimony describes how victims were transported to isolated locations where the abuse took place, Often during trips presented as professional modeling assignments. And that was the theme throughout. They get these girls, bring them to America, they'd engage in Immigration fraud to get them to, you know, stay here and then they take their passports and they'd abuse them. Oh sure, they might get a modeling shoot, but they'll also get some trauma that comes along with it after they get abused by whichever one of these scumbags happens to be there. One former model recounted being taken to a small castle and assaulted, describing hidden passageways that allowed Brunel to orchestrate attacks without being seen. That is some blood and cheese type shit from House of the Dragon. Imagine this rotten, disgusting fuck sneaking through some kind of passageway and showing up in your bedroom while you're asleep. These spaces were designed to intimidate, isolate and control, creating an environment in which Brunel's victims felt trapped and powerless. The judicial file details repeated patterns of abuse over decades, painting a systematic picture rather than isolated incidents. Well, that's because they weren't isolated. It was a pattern. It was an enterprise. And it was all done at the behest of Jeffrey Epstein. Brunel's influence extended beyond property ownership into the modeling world. Agencies such as Caron models and and MC2 allegedly served as talent pools where young women's careers were conditioned on submitting to sexual demands. This is something that I've heard time and time again. And when I talk about the girls with no names, this is who I'm talking about, folks. These girls were brought here, exploited and then sent back, or worse, who the fuck knows? And nobody has any idea who any of them are. And I find that very, very concerning. And just because somebody's not from my country doesn't mean I'm not worried about their well being or that they were abused and taken advantage of. Especially if that happened inside of my country. Now it's my problem. And since it's my problem, I'm gonna make it their problem. And until they give us the information that's needed, the problem continues. Aspiring models were groomed, monitored and coerced into compliance under the guise of professional advancement. Confiscated passports, ongoing pressure from powerful figures and a network of international contacts reportedly enabled Brunel to operate without fear of prosecution. For years he was protected by Epstein. Jeffrey's people extended their protection to Brunel as well. This is not that difficult, folks, okay? Not that difficult at all. Especially when you realize that there's trillions of dollars missing from the Pentagon's budget. Where do you think that money went? Think it just disappeared into the air? They're using that to run these black ops that nobody knows about. And that's what Jeffrey Epstein was a CIA Black op, who decided to run it, who put it into play, I don't know. But in my opinion, from everything I've seen, no doubt in my mind, Brunel's death in La Sante prison in February of 2022 effectively ended the legal proceedings against him. But the newly examined court order makes clear that the closure was administrative rather than a reflection of the truth. The 30 page dismissal lists numerous witnesses, complaints and alleged accomplices showing a complex system of abuse spanning more than four decades. Do you believe that? That he killed himself? Brunel? I have my doubts, man. You know, at first I believed it, right? I thought that, you know what, this guy was up against it and he just killed himself. But the more I think about it, the more we go through the information and the more information that becomes available, the less I'm convinced. Experts and advocates argue that this abrupt end to the prosecution leaves unanswered questions about the broader Epstein network in Europe. The French document corroborates similar findings in the United States, emphasizing that Brunel's operations were international in scope and not isolated to Parisian or US locations. Well, who told you that? Seven years ago I just happened to talk to people that knew the dude and they all told me the same thing. Jean Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein were engaging in an international trafficking ring. Following the release of the confidential 2023 court order, French authorities have announced a re examination of the case, signaling that justice may yet extend beyond the fall of a single man. Well, that would be good. Somebody needs to do it. If the US isn't going to do it, somebody has to do it. Chase this down to wherever it ends. The investigation seeks to address the infrastructure that allowed exploitation to become routine. From complicit modeling agencies to high profile international figures implicated by testimony. Judicial sources suggest that revisiting the case could lead to renewed scrutiny of anyone who enabled or turned a blind eye to Brunel's actions. Victims rights groups emphasize that understanding the full network is crucial to preventing future abuses and acknowledging decades of suffering. The Epstein files, now increasingly public, are thus not only a record of criminal behavior, but also a call to uncover the entire system that enabled it. And I think that's what we need to focus on, because if we uncover that and we pull that thread, everything else is going to come into play. And if you really want to get to the bottom of what was going on with Epstein, Jean Luc Brunel is a fantastic place to start. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description Box. What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of. Of the Epstein Chronicles. The long list of crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein in the UK did not happen in a vacuum. That's the comfortable lie that they want to tell you. The one that lets institutions pretend that they were overwhelmed, confused, outpaced by a man who was somehow too elusive to pin down. But when you trace the movements of Jeffrey Epstein through the UK that excuse falls apart almost immediately. He wasn't hiding in the shadows. He wasn't operating off the grid. He was moving through elite social circles, hosting, attending, networking, interfacing with people who are making themselves plugged in to the very systems that are supposed to detect, flag, and act on predatory behavior. And at multiple points along that timeline, concerns were raised. Not rumors, not vague suspicions, actual red flags. Enough to warrant scrutiny, enough to justify intervention. But nothing meaningful happened. No escalation, no sustained pressure. Just a quiet pattern of dismissal that, over time, starts to look less like incompetence and more like a choice. Because here's the part that doesn't sit right when you start lining it all up. Every time something surfaced, every time someone pushed information forward, it didn't trigger urgency. It triggered containment. The response wasn't, we need to look deeper into this. Instead, it was, this doesn't go anywhere. Now, they want to call that a breakdown, but I call it a filter. And filters don't operate randomly. They operate with intent. Whether it was institutional hesitation, fear of reputational damage, deference to wealth and influence, or something even more deliberate, the effect was the same. Epstein and his criminal empire kept moving uninterrupted. The system that should have slowed him down instead absorbed the impact and kept him insulated. And the longer that went on, the harder it becomes to argue that nobody understood what he was. Now, you fast forward to the present, where pieces of the record, emails, testimonies, internal communications. Are starting to surface in greater volume. And what those pieces do is remove the benefit of the doubt. Because they show awareness. They show proximity. They show that Epstein wasn't some unknown quantity drifting through British territory. He was a known problem that was repeatedly deprioritized. And once that becomes clear, the narrative shifts from failure to tolerance. Not because anyone stood up and said, protect them, but because the cumulative effect of inaction did exactly that. When warnings don't lead to action, they become permission. And over the years, that permission hardens into something that looks a lot like policy, even if it was never written down. And that's where this stops being about Epstein alone and starts becoming about institutional accountability. Because if the same name keeps appearing alongside ignored warnings, ignored opportunities, ignored interventions, then you're no longer asking, why didn't they catch him? You're asking, why didn't they want to? And that is a much more uncomfortable question. It forces you to consider whether the cost of acting socially, politically, reputationally was deemed higher than the cost of doing nothing. And if that calculation was made even implicitly, then what you're looking at isn't just a failure of law enforcement or oversight, it's a failure of will. And now that the paper trail is expanding, now that more of these fragments are becoming visible, the pressure shifts. Because you can't keep calling it coincidence when the same outcome repeats itself under different circumstances. You can't keep calling it oversight when the oversight consistently favors the same person. At some point, the pattern demands to be acknowledged for what it is. And what it suggests plainly, is that the system didn't just miss Epstein, it made room for him. Today's article is from the Guardian and the headline, epstein housed alleged victims in London after Met declined to investigate him. This article was authored by Jamie Grierson. Jeffrey Epstein housed some of his alleged abuse victims in flats in London after police in the UK decided against investigating him, according to reports. All by design. I hate to say it, but it's true. The COVID up is vast and the COVID up runs deep. And it's not just contained in America and it's not just contained to London. This is a worldwide cover up that involves so many powerful people that it's almost hard to wrap your head around. And I speculated that the Met killed these investigations back in the day when they were happening, because they wanted to protect Andrew. But what they did was just make things a lot worse, not only for them but but for Andrew too, because it's all a cover up now. And I think that the COVID up in the UK is going to be unraveled. The BBC said it uncovered evidence of four flats in Kensington and Chelsea in receipts, emails and bank records contained within Epstein's files. Six women who stayed in the properties have since accused the late financier of sexually abusing them. The broadcaster said. Well, the broadcaster BBC should have done more at the time, but they were too busy calling everybody who was interested in the story a conspiracy theorist or crazy. Well, who's crazy now? Because all these chickens are coming home to roost. And BBC might be breaking this story right now, but they're about five years too late. And can you imagine if they would have broke this story early and let People know what was going on and let all of you know what was going on. Imagine the anger, imagine the rage. But no, instead they played games, just like here in America. Some of the women, including some from Russia and Eastern Europe, were brought to the UK after the Metropolitan Police decided not to Investigate Virginia Roberts 2015 allegation that she had been a victim of international trafficking to London, the BBC said, all at the Queen's demand. I know people don't want to hear that and I know people love the Queen, but the Queen was involved deeply. She protected Andrew from the very beginning, all the way up until her death. And she knew exactly the kind of monster that Andrew was. But as far as the Met, there's no way that they were ever going to go against the Queen. Certainly not now. Charles, maybe. I don't think that Charles has built up the, you know, rapport or the love with the English people. The Queen was beloved and people were willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. I highly doubt that anybody wants to give Charles the benefit of anything. So maybe this investigation ends up having a different outcome. That would be great. Am I confident that that'll happen? I'm not. Do I hope it will? I do, because it's something like that that could really open the floodgates. And while I think that there's a better chance at that happening now that the Queen is gone, I'm not very confident that it's going to. Roberts was one of Epstein's most high profile accusers, alleging the convicted child sex offender abused and trafficked her. What do you mean accuser? You mean survivor, right? Somebody that was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein's friends. That's what you mean, right? She claimed in a 2021 U. S lawsuit that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor had sex with her at a home in London in 2001 when she was 17 after she had been trafficked by Epstein. Mountbatten Windsor has denied the allegations. The BBC reported various details from the files dated around 2018 and 2019 after Robert's allegation that show Epstein corresponding with women housed in flats in affluent areas of London. And this is something that we reported. How did I know? I listened to the survivors, they were telling us this. And we also had anonymous people talking about it. How the airports in the UK were being used, how there were women being housed in London and how the authorities were just ignoring it. And I remember at the time being called crazy. Well, I guess it's not so crazy anymore, is it? In some of the exchanges seen by the broadcaster. Epstein uses aggressive language after the women apparently complained of the conditions. In one message, he reportedly swears at one woman calling her rude and accuses her of disgusting behavior, saying she was a brat who has yet to accept responsibility. And that's right on brand for Epstein. The guy demean people, talk trash to people and talk down to everybody. And when it comes to these girls, they were a commodity, right? They weren't human. They were just another commodity for Epstein to trade. Another message seen by the BBC reveals pictures of cute models sent to Epstein by one of the women in London. Epstein also reportedly paid for at least five women, many of whom were in the UK on student visas, to study in London. Of course he did. That was a pipeline. That was one of the stopovers and that was his central base when it comes to Europe. Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell obviously love London and they spent a lot of time there. And anybody who thinks that they weren't abusing people while they were there, they're crazy. They most certainly were. And here's another little golden nugget. They were engaged in immigration fraud in the UK just like in the United States. Now that part hasn't been reported yet, but it's coming and I have that on a pretty good source. Millions of documents, images, videos and emails detailing the activities of Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges have been released since December last year, including documents collected as evidence in the criminal case against him and his associates. His associates, huh? You mean Ghislaine Maxwell? No criminal case against anybody else. The files were released after the U. S. House of Representatives passed the Epstein files Transparency act and the Senate unanimously approved it. With Donald Trump signing the bill into law the next day, the Met police have been contacted for comment. Alright, folks, so things are heating up over in the UK and considering just how quickly things are moving over in Europe and how fast the story is expanding, we're going to launch a podcast that deals with Epstein in Europe because I keep getting a lot of messages from people over in Europe who want more coverage of the story. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to launch a companion podcast that deals with Epstein over in Europe and is centered on people like Prince Andrew. So my plan is in the next few days to have that bad boy launched and ready to go. And once that happens, I'll make sure that I link that podcast in the description box. Until then, that's going to do it for this one. 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