New files that belonged to Jeffrey Epstein have emerged that exposed the deceased sex trafficker’s connection to top officials, celebrities, and even royalty.
Epstein’s private calendars and emails were obtained by the Daily Mail and the files lift the lid on the late pedophile’s close links to several powerful elites.
The hundreds of pages in the files reveal that Epstein kept close relationships with high-profile individuals after he had been convicted of child sex crimes.
On June 30, 2008, Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison for raping underage girls.
He served 13 months of his sentence and was registered as a sex offender in the high-publicized case.
However, he remained in contact with his high-profile friends, despite being a convicted child sex offender.
The documents also disclosed that Epstein seemed to know personal details about the marriage of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda.
Per the records, he also rolled out the red carpet for Gates and Melinda at a dinner to persuade him to take part in a $100 million per person fund for the financial elite.
Behind the scenes, however, Epstein schemed with JP Morgan that the fund would allow Gates to have “access to higher quality people without upsetting his marriage.”
Jes Staley, who was head of JPMorgan in the early 2010s, met Epstein 31 times in five years.
On four of those occasions, Epstein’s schedulers were told to have “wine” ready for him as soon as he arrived, which is believed to have been a possible codeword for something else.
Epstein was also great friends with filmmaker Woody Allen as the files include them having shared walks, private screenings, and dinners.
They even appeared to have spent a New Year together at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.
Just like his notorious “Black Book” of contacts, the schedules contain personal numbers and email addresses that allowed him to access his associates whenever he wanted.
Epstein also had numerous dinners with the magician David Blaine and the sex offender even had a reminder of the latter’s birthday on his calendar.
As he sought to rehabilitate his image, Epstein was scheduled to see personalities including Irina Shayk, Chris Rock, Wendi Murdoch, and Richard Branson.
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel, early Facebook investor Sean Parker, artist Jeff Koons, JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, and music industry executive Tommy Mottola, who used to be married to Mariah Carey, were also among those who appear in the documents.
The files were handed over by Epstein’s estate to the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, during its investigation into his sex trafficking operation.
Epstein owned two private islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
One was frequently cited by victims as a key place where sex abuse occurred and was dubbed “Pedophile Island” by authorities and locals due to the number of underage girls and older men who traveled to and from the luxury island.
Epstein was found dead in his New York City jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges.
Perhaps one of the most high-profile personalities involved with Epstein was Britain’s Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, the live-in ex-wife of Prince Andrew.
According to the uncovered documents, she met with him while under house arrest in 2010 as his calendars from March of that year include a schedule for Ferguson.
The calendar includes a note next to the appointment from Epstein saying: “Duchess anytime.”
News site PerthNow reported that the duchess’ relationship with the financier went back to at least April 1998.
This date was highlighted by an entry on the flight logs for his private jet when Epstein met Ferguson at Nassau Airport in the Bahamas.
The logs stated that she traveled with her children, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
Ferguson had divorced Andrew two years earlier, but the two remained close friends and still live together today.
Also, the files suggested that the convicted pedophile knew intimate details of the former couple’s finances and even bragged about it while touting himself to JP Morgan.
During that time, Ferguson had $5.5 million in debts.
But in July 2011, she said they had been paid off thanks to the intervention of Prince Andrew.
Epstein even chipped in $17,000 for the amount owed to her personal assistant at the time.
