MEGA-THREAD: Jeffrey Epstein dramas

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This thread is for any article directly related to Jeffrey Epstein and the controversy surrounding his "Sex trafficking" scheme, which might've been part of a blackmailing ring involving the CIA, FBI, and Mossad.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s latest accuser says he raped her at 15

https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/jeffrey-e ... her-at-15/

Another one of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims has come forward, saying the billionaire pedophile raped her at age 15 at his multimillion-dollar Manhattan townhouse.

Jennifer Araoz was a fresh-faced 14-year-old when she was recruited to become part of Epstein’s harem of underage victims, she told NBC News.

What started off as mostly nude massages escalated into rape, she said.

“He raped me, forcefully raped me,” Araoz, now 32, told the network. “He knew exactly what he was doing.”

Araoz’s nightmare began in 2001, when a woman in her 20s approached her outside her high school, The Talent Unlimited, on the Upper East Side and chatted her up about her upbringing, her family and their finances.

“I was kind of a lost kid and she sensed it,” Araoz said.

Soon, the woman introduced the teen to Epstein at his East 71st Street townhouse, where she opened up to the much older financier about wanting to become a Broadway actress and how her dad had died of AIDS when she was 12.

Epstein told her that the teen “very lucky to have met somebody like him” and “that he could really help me,” she recalled.

One day, Epstein took Araoz on a tour of his $77 million home — leading her to what he called his “favorite room in the house,” she recalled.

It was the massage room — equipped with a table on the floor and a photo of a nude woman on the wall.

For a year, Araoz said, she was brainwashed into giving Epstein massages while wearing only her underwear. He would masturbate until he finished — and then leave her $300.

But in 2002, Araoz claimed, Epstein told her to remove her underwear because he wanted to “try something a little bit different.”

“Why don’t you do the massage on top of me?” he asked, before raping her.

“It was very aggressive, it was forceful,” she recalled. “I was terrified, and I was telling him to stop. ‘Please stop.’”

She said she never returned to his home after that day — but that the trauma of her last encounter with Epstein took a toll on her. She dropped out of school to avoid going to his neighborhood and suffered from anxiety and panic attacks.

“I kind of hated myself for it,” Araoz said. “I was like, ‘I’m stupid, I should have known better. I’m a bad kid.’”

“I basically just tried to forget about it and live my life,” she said.

Asked why she never went to authorities, Araoz said she was scared.

“I was so young that I was worried that somehow I would get in trouble,” she said. “I was really frightened of Epstein. He knew a lot of powerful people and I didn’t know what he could do to me, and I wasn’t sure that anyone could protect me.”

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New Epstein accuser sues estate and calls on Prince Andrew to share information

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... 15-lawsuit

A woman who claims Jeffrey Epstein committed a “vicious, prolonged sexual assault” against her when she was 15 has called on Prince Andrew to come forward with information about the convicted sex offender.

The new accuser, who identifies herself as “Jane Doe 15”, appealed to the Duke of York at a press conference on Monday, where she and the lawyer Gloria Allred announced her lawsuit against Epstein’s estate. She is one of about a dozen women suing the late financier’s estate for alleged sexual abuses.

“Prince Andrew, and any others that are close to Epstein, should come forward and give a statement under oath on what information they have,” Jane Doe 15 said.

Allred said that she had called upon Andrew to “voluntarily meet with the FBI and prosecutors who are investigating this criminal case in New York, and also to provide his deposition under oath”.

Their entreaty comes in the wake of a bombshell BBC Newsnight interview in which Andrew was pressed on his friendship with Epstein – who killed himself in a Manhattan jail several months ago following his arrest on sex trafficking charges.

Andrew claims he met Epstein through Ghislaine Maxwell – the daughter of the media baron Robert Maxwell – who has been accused of serving as Epstein’s procurer. Virginia Giuffre has claimed that Epstein flew her to London on his private jet around 2001, when she was 17 years old. After dining and dancing, Giuffre and the prince had a sexual encounter at Maxwell’s Belgravia home, she has alleged. Andrew denies the claim. Maxwell has also emphatically denied wrongdoing.

She said that after she returned home from New Mexico, an Epstein assistant invited her to his Virgin Islands home. She claimed the assistant said Andrew would be among the guests and added that she declined the invitation.

“Epstein took my sexual innocence,” the woman said during the presser.

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Jeffrey Epstein Getting Sued by a 15-Year-Old Girl He had Illicit Sex With!

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/30/jeffrey ... njury.html

A day before Jeffrey Epstein, an accused child sex trafficker, was found mysteriously injured in his jail cell, the wealthy financier was served legal documents detailing a woman’s claims that he raped her in his New York City mansion when she was just 15 years old.

The accuser, Jennifer Araoz, plans to sue Epstein next month for claims of sexual assault, battery and rape, which she alleges he started committing when she was a New York high school student in 2001, according to a court filing earlier this month.

But first, Araoz is asking a judge to order Epstein to submit to a deposition, where he can be asked by Araoz’s lawyers the identity of a female “recruiter”who allegedly conspired with him to identify her “as a potential sexual abuse victim” and “facilitated the grooming” of Araoz.

“Upon identification of the recruiter, she will be added as a defendant to” Araoz’s planned suit against Epstein, the filing says. “Further, the recruiter possesses critical evidence of [Araoz’s] sexual assault claims.”

Araoz’s lawyers also are asking the judge to require that Epstein produce records showing who was employed by him from 2000 through 2003, and to turn over logs of “everyone who entered or exited his” Upper East Side townhouse during that same time frame.

A New York City Sheriff’s Office official gave Epstein — a former friend of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton — copies of that request and related documents on July 22 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, according to an affidavit filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Epstein, 66, has been held in that federal jail in lower Manhattan since early July, when he was arrested on child sex trafficking charges.

A day after he was given the court documents, Epstein was found injured and semi-conscious on the floor of his cell, with marks on his neck. He then was was put on suicide watch.

Authorities do not know if he tried to commit suicide, staged a suicide attempt, or was assaulted by another inmate at that federal facility, where Epstein was being held in a special unit used to protect prisoners from others in the general population.

Daniel Kaiser, a lawyer for the now 32-year-old Araoz, said, “Jennifer endured unspeakable abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and his enablers, who robbed her of a piece of her childhood.”

“She brought this action to hold those responsible accountable and deliver a simple message: she’s not afraid anymore,” Kaiser said.

Epstein’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.

Araoz is not one of the women who federal prosecutors have claimed in their pending criminal case were sexually abused as underage girls by Epstein. She shared her allegations in an exclusive interview with NBC News published July 10, the same day she filed her petition in Manhattan Supreme Court, according to that court docket.

Her planned lawsuit is on hold until at least Aug. 14, the date on which a new law, the New York Child Victims Act, will go into effect.

That law will open a one-year window for victims of child sexual abuse of any age to file lawsuits for conduct that occurred beyond the current statute of limitations.

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https://www.highly-respected.com/p/critical-pedo-theory

The Trump administration told the country last week that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and didn’t have a blackmail list, outraging MAGA in the process. Several Trump supporters firmly believe the government covered up Epstein’s misdeeds and they demand the truth. The issue has caused more discontent within MAGA than any other subject.

This issue is important to much of the Right due to the belief in “Critical Pedo Theory.” This notion imagines that the world is ruled by a pedophile cabal and “systemic pedophilia” is inherent to the current order. These elite pedos are evil by nature, which is why they use space lasers to cause forest fires and wield their weather machine against red states. These right-wingers hoped Trump would battle the cabal as president. QAnoners thought he did so in his first term, clinging to fake news stories about the admin secretly arresting and executing prominent child molesters.

The Epstein announcement came as a shock. Here’s their leader telling them that a core element of their worldview isn’t true. Rather than follow Trump’s advice and move on, they’re up in arms, with some threatening to ditch MAGA altogether. It illustrates how fundamental CPT is to a large cohort of conservatives. Trump bombing Iran and implying he may be open to some form of amnesty didn’t elicit anywhere near this kind of backlash from his base. For a significant number of Trump voters, the pedo cabal matters more than anything else.

Critical Pedo Theory emerged in the mid-2010s. It gained credence as a response to the Left. For years, liberals would condemn right-wingers as racists. Racism is one of the great taboos in American society. The other is pedophilia, so right-wingers began calling leftists kid diddlers to defang racism accusations. The Right’s embrace of conspiratorial populism transformed this rhetoric into CPT. Conservatives were no longer just calling the Left pedos to defend against racism smears–they now concocted an entire worldview centered on pedo cabals. Pizzagate and QAnon soon followed.

The Left’s own worldview is animated by a different conspiratorial force. Wokeness, critical race theory, and other left-wing ideas imagine that America is built on inherent and systemic discrimination against non-whites, women, and gays. This problem calls for radical solutions and a purge of the nation’s alleged sins. Leftists will blame systemic racism for the high-arrest rates for blacks, Daniel Penny’s exoneration, food deserts, and many other issues. A prominent Democrat can’t deny it. Joe Biden’s base would’ve flipped out if the former president claimed the DOJ found no evidence of systemic discrimination and that America was never racist. Such blasphemy would undermine the Left’s worldview.

While the Right at times challenges the Left’s depiction of racism, the Left shares the Right’s moral revulsion towards pedophilia. This makes CPT even more potent than CRT. When conservatives hear racism accusations from the woke, they will often roll their eyes and dismiss it. No leftist will roll their eyes at pedophile accusations. The vile crime horrifies them just as much as racism does. Their only options are to deny the accused is a pedophile or to disavow the accused. CPT gives moral power to the Right that it otherwise wouldn’t have. The Left often claims a monopoly over moral policing. It determines what’s racist, sexist, anti-democratic, and who is a “good decent person.” Pedo accusations allows the Right to effect a judo move and take some of that power.

A critical tenet of CPT is the belief that the Left will eventually try to legalize sex with minors. This became a common belief among conservatives following the legalization of gay marriage. It was feared the Left may take up pederasty normalization as its next cause.

The good news is that pedophilia has not been normalized. The country is more revolted by the practice than ever before. Pedophiles are the one group where it’s socially acceptable to publicly fantasize murdering. “Kill your local pedophile” is a popular t-shirt. Videos of older men getting lured into fake meetups with teens and beaten up are devoured on YouTube and TikTok. Age gap relationship hysteria demonstrates the strength of the taboo around pedophilia. Women now call men who date younger women pedophiles, despite both parties being adults, because they know it’s the worst label one can receive. They hope it will shame men into dating women their own age. No one wants to publicly defend pedophiles. In the 2010s, it could be argued it was worse to be known as a racist than a pedo. Today, it’s clearly much worse to be known as a pedo–and that’s a good thing.

CPT explains why Angel Studios, a conservative-ish film company, has done so many films on human trafficking. Its biggest success, Sound of Freedom, featured a former government agent going around rescuing kids from the implied clutches of the pedo cabal. CPT even inspired some of the Right’s immigration restriction, with fears that illegal migrant kids were being delivered to the cabal becoming a frequent criticism of Joe Biden’s open borders. CPT, of course, inspired QAnon. Q may be dead, but its spirit still animates the Right.

CPT isn’t just limited to the Right anymore. It now influences a great deal of internet content in general. Many brocasters entertain the notion that we are ruled by a pedo cabal. Some left-wing influencers also believe it. It’s an idea that regularly goes viral on TikTok and other platforms. Unlike CRT, which is the creation of academia, CPT is the product of the people.

It’s an appealing notion to populists. Anti-establishment types want to portray the elites as evil. What better way to do that than to claim they’re all diddling kids? It also reinforces populist grievances. These people can argue that the only way to succeed in this corrupt system is to molest kids. That’s why it’s right to dispute the meritocracy and look at the elites with suspicion. These powerful folks didn’t get in that position due to merit–they got there through pederasty. It makes grievances against the elites seem more principled.

CPT offers a compelling narrative of contemporary America. The internet, with its fascination for conspiracy theories and anti-establishment posturing, can’t resist it. Many Americans want to believe we are ruled by pedos. They want to think we’re ruled by the most evil people imaginable and these scumbags try to hide their dark secrets from the world. But the people are finally learning about this forbidden truth and waking up. Jeffrey Epstein allegedly proves it, as does the government covering up his crimes. They want the dead financier’s list, which they believe includes much of Congress. The idea that it might bring the whole system down makes it even more attractive. That’s what these populists want and believe we deserve. The fact that the release of just one document can have such a revolutionary impact further cements the appeal of CPT.

There’s basically no way to correct the new faiths created by the internet. CPT will remain a powerful part of the Right. It may even start to influence the Left as well.

Trump’s only hope for retaining these followers is banking on people’s short attention spans. MAGA will eventually move on to other subjects and forgive or forget about Trump not releasing the alleged Epstein list. But nothing can convince them that there is no pedophile cabal ruling the world. It’s fundamental to the conspiratorial populist’s belief system. Trying to persuade them is like trying to convince a devout Christian that there is no Hell.

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America.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ep ... elemetry=1

Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein accomplice and convicted sex trafficker, has been banned from training service puppies at the prison camp in Texas where she was transferred last week, according to a report.

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“We do not allow anyone whose crime involves abuse towards minors or animals – including any crime of a sexual nature,” Mazzoni said.

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She added that the restriction was in place to protect the young dogs involved, explaining: “Those are crimes against the vulnerable, and you’re putting them with a puppy who is vulnerable.”

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But how is it gonna deal with the revelation of Trump being one?

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As they’re doing now: Minimise, ignore, deny, and/or cope.

An example: https://xcancel.com/thiss_youu/status/1 ... 4238257283

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But how is it gonna deal with the revelation of Trump being one?

By having Maxwell testify he’s innocent.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... -curiosity

According to sources who helped create the album, Clinton wrote: "It's reassuring isn't it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends."

Representatives for the former President declined to address the message when contacted by the WSJ, instead referencing an earlier statement which said Clinton severed ties with Epstein more than 10 years before his 2019 arrest.

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A House panel has now voted in favour of subpoenaing both Bill and Hillary Clinton over their Epstein connections.

The controversial birthday book is also said to have included a message from Trump saying he and Epstein shared "certain things in common", with the addition: "Enigmas never age."