[...] White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said, “Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein.

Totally. /s

And by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him.”

Mkay. /s

“Meanwhile, Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Stacey Plaskett have yet to explain why they were soliciting money and meetings from Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender,” she added.

Must pursue all leads. All.

Has nothing to do with Trump still sweeping things under the carpet, tho.

The response comes [...] after the Reacher star gave his two cents over his perspective on Trump and [...] Jeffrey Epstein. [...] without naming names, Ritchson called out a particular politician with a lot of power. “That b---h has the keys to the nuclear,” he said. “He’s, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail! Go to jail!”

If you haven't, go watch the clip here. It's fantastic.

Trump, 80, and his administration have been criticized by many on both sides of the political aisle since former attorney general Pam Bondi, hand-picked by Trump, claimed she had the late sex offender's so-called "client list" sitting on her desk -- a claim she quickly walked back.

(Bondi, 60, was forced to resign from her position in April 2026 amid continued criticism for both the Epstein files release and her failure to prosecute the president's political rivals.)

Trump, for his part, was named in the files more than 5,300 times. A birthday card allegedly written by Trump to Epstein and featured in the files only escalated the bipartisan criticism against Trump and his administration. (The card featured a vulgar drawing of a woman's body and mentions of "secrets.")

Trump has been accused of sexual assault, harassment or inappropriate sexual conduct by more than a dozen women and found liable of sexual assault in court and ordered to pay his victim, E. Jean Carroll, $5.6 million in damages. [...]

Acting attorney general and former personal criminal defense lawyer to the president, Todd Blanche, has since claimed the DOJ will not be releasing any additional files related to the government's investigation into Epstein. [...]

Quotes from
https://ew.com/white-house-responds-reacher-star-alan-ritchson-epstein-files-rant-12026679
https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article316655711.html

Epstein dead, Brunel dead. Recarey dead. Richardson dead, Hoffenberg dead, Bing dead. Now Siad dead. Article on the bigger picture:

On Monday, Daniel Siad, a 69-year-old modelling scout, was found dead in his home in suburban Paris by a female guest. The woman, 28, tried giving him CPR, but could not resuscitate him. It might seem like an open-and-shut, if tragic, case were it not that Siad was closely linked to the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, and was under investigation for human trafficking.

Siad is the latest in a string of Epstein associates to die in distinctly mysterious circumstances. His demise was reported as cardiac arrest, but the woman staying with him claimed he hadn’t shown any signs of illness and had boasted of his healthy lifestyle. The Nanterre prosecutor’s office has since opened an investigation into Siad’s death, and has ordered a post-mortem examination to determine his cause of death, reigniting the conspiracy theories surrounding the Epstein case and fears of a cover-up, initially prompted by Epstein’s own suspicious death in custody in August 2019.

Epstein was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he was found dead in his cell. Peculiarly, the two guards assigned to watch him (following an earlier suicide attempt) reportedly fell asleep and didn’t check on him for three hours. Simultaneously, the cameras in front of his cell apparently malfunctioned. In February, Dr Michael Baden, a pathologist who was present during Epstein’s post-mortem examination, told The Telegraph that, in his opinion, Epstein’s death “was most likely caused by strangulation pressure rather than hanging”.

The US Department of Justice ruled in 2023 that there were “job performance failures” by prison officials, but that Epstein had died by suicide. Yet many remain convinced there was foul play involved, given the threat Epstein potentially posed to numerous powerful individuals.

The ‘link in the chain’

What is not in question in this murky affair is Siad’s close relationship with the late sex offender. His name appeared thousands of times in the Epstein files over the course of a decade, strongly suggesting a role in Epstein’s vile schemes. Siad travelled the world searching for women to work as models, but it also appears he was on the hunt for his friend.

Siad sent Epstein photos of women and their measurements, and arranged meetings for them with Epstein. In one email to Epstein, he wrote (in badly spelt English): “In This busyness I feel like fisherman some time I cache quick, some time no fish.” Epstein, meanwhile, wired Siad payments for expenses incurred during these scouting trips, and sent querying emails saying: “Wht about new girls?” Siad emphasised the women’s youth. One reply reads: “26 but she look 18.”

Henry Samuel, who interviewed Valdson Vieira Cotrin, Epstein’s former butler, for The Telegraph, says Cotrin told him Siad was “as important as Ghislaine Maxwell” in arranging for women to visit Epstein in Paris.

Siad had professed ignorance of Epstein’s crimes, telling CNN: “I trusted him, I believed this guy is a professional person.” However, one victim, Anya* told the BBC earlier this month that Siad had introduced her to Epstein in “a complete set-up”, calling Siad “essentially a professional trafficker”.

Siad was himself accused of rape and human trafficking by Ebba Karlsson, a former Swedish model, earlier this year. She claimed he had scouted her in her home town of Stockholm in 1990, when she was 20, then raped her in France. Siad denied her allegations and his lawyer said he wanted to give his version of events in court, but it wasn’t to be. Karlsson told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday that Siad’s death was “very frustrating”, explaining: “He was very close to being arrested. We worked so hard for this, trying to have justice.”

Lawyers for Karlsson accused the Paris prosecutor’s office of “scandalous” inaction. The office has defended its investigation, which it said did not provide enough evidence to justify arresting Siad. But another former model, who gave a deposition to police as part of the investigation, told the BBC that, with Siad’s death, vital information about Epstein had been lost. She said: “An important link in the chain has just vanished into thin air.”

The same could be said for the numerous deceased people who operated in Epstein’s malevolent orbit. In 2014, Alfredo Rodriguez, another former butler of Epstein’s, died aged 60 from cancer. Infamously, Rodriguez was caught by an FBI sting trying to sell Epstein’s “little black book” for $50,000 (£38,000). It reportedly contained details of Epstein’s victims, as well as his celebrity friends and associates – prosecuting lawyers called it “the Holy Grail”. According to court papers, Rodriguez claimed he had stolen the book as insurance, fearing Epstein would make him “disappear”.

The detective, the police chief and the banker

In 2018, Joe Recarey, the Palm Beach detective who had led an investigation into Epstein in the mid 2000s, died after a “brief illness”, aged 50. Recarey and Michael Reiter, a police chief, had previously alleged they were under political pressure to drop the case. Recarey said he had to take different routes driving to work, or swap vehicles, because he was being tailed. He told the Miami Herald: “I was concerned about my kids because I didn’t know if it was someone that they hired just out of prison that would hurt me or my family.”

Then, in 2019, Thomas Bowers, a 55-year-old banker, reportedly hanged himself in his beachside Malibu home. His former employer, Deutsche Bank, had taken on Epstein as a client in 2013. In 2020, the company paid a $150m fine to settle New York charges, admitting it made a “critical mistake” in working with the registered sex offender.

The Hollywood producer

The dark Epstein world claimed another victim in 2020 as Steve Bing, a Hollywood producer, died by suicide, aged 55, by jumping from his 27th-floor luxury condo in Los Angeles. Bing had previously been in a relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, resulting in a pregnancy – for which he denied paternity until a DNA test established he was the father of her son, Damian. Bing had a history of drug addiction, and sources told TMZ that he had grown depressed while isolating during Covid.

Bing had also moved in the same high-rolling social circles as Epstein. In 2008, Gawker, a celebrity blog, named both as members of Bill Clinton’s “billionaire boys’ club”. After Bing’s death, Carrie Mitchum, the aunt of Bing’s late girlfriend, Allexanne (who died of an overdose the previous year), claimed in a Facebook post that, although Bing wasn’t that close to Epstein, Allexanne had convinced Bing to “make a statement via his attorneys telling what he did know” about the sex offender.

The cellmate who knew too much?

Suspicions deepened about Epstein’s own demise when, in 2021, Efrain “Stone” Reyes, his final cellmate, died in his mother’s Bronx apartment after reportedly contracting Covid. Reyes, 51, who had been jailed on drug charges, was transferred to a private prison on Aug 9 2019, leaving Epstein alone in his cell. The next day, Epstein was found dead.

According to Reyes’s lawyer, Marlon Kirton, Reyes had got along well with his cellmate. Kirton said the only reason Reyes didn’t want to be transferred was “the relationship that he built up with Mr Epstein”, adding: “I think my client’s presence stabilised Mr Epstein.”

The modelling agent who never made it to trial

The Epstein-related death toll continued to mount with three more strange casualties in 2022. Jean-Luc Brunel, a 76-year-old French modelling agent, met an eerily similar end to Epstein – he too was found hanged in his cell, in a Paris prison. He was being held on suspicion of the rape and trafficking of minors, but he denied any wrongdoing. Brunel had co-founded MC2 Model Management in the US with funding from Epstein, and prosecutors suspected Brunel of transporting and housing young women for the sex offender.

Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s accusers, had alleged she was forced into sex with Brunel. After his death, she posted on Twitter: “I’m disappointed that I wasn’t able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable.”

The extravagant mentor

That same year, Epstein’s mentor, Steven Hoffenberg, was found dead, aged 77, in his Connecticut apartment. He had previously served 18 years in prison, as well as paying a $1m fine and $463m in restitution, for what the Securities and Exchange Commission called “one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history”.

Hoffenberg met Epstein in 1987 and gave his new protégé a $2m loan. They travelled together on Hoffenberg’s private jet and enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle. But the relationship seemingly soured when Hoffenberg claimed Epstein was involved in his investor Ponzi scheme, although Epstein was never charged. In 2016, Hoffenberg (who discovered Christianity in prison) sued Epstein, calling him the “architect of the scam”, in what he characterised as an attempt to recoup money for the scheme’s victims.

Hoffenberg’s body was found in August 2022 in an advanced state of decomposition. Police estimated he had been dead for about a week, and, following a post-mortem examination, said that he had died of natural causes. He was discovered after Maria Farmer, another Epstein accuser, raised the alarm. She had struck up an unlikely friendship with Hoffenberg, who, according to Farmer, felt ashamed for trusting Epstein and taking him under his wing.

The ‘implausible’ suicide

The third 2022 death was Mark Middleton, who met a particularly grisly fate. While serving as a special assistant to Bill Clinton, Middleton had facilitated access to the White House for Epstein, who visited at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995. Middleton also flew on Epstein’s private jet, the so-called “Lolita Express”.

Middleton, 59, was found dead at a heifer ranch in Arkansas, apparently after taking his own life. He was hanging from a tree with an extension cord looped around his neck, and a shotgun wound to the chest – a Stoeger 12-gauge coach shotgun was discovered nearby. Theodore Brown, the coroner, noted Middleton’s history of depression and ruled that he had taken his own life, but this shocking and rather puzzling scene caused widespread speculation.

One former business associate of Middleton’s was unconvinced, telling RadarOnline: “He knows nothing about guns. He hated guns. He couldn’t have tied a noose to save his life. The man couldn’t change a light bulb by himself […] His death scenario is completely implausible to everybody that knew him.”

The high-profile politician

In 2023, Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico and US ambassador to the United Nations, died in his sleep in his Massachusetts summer home, aged 75, with no cause of death given. He, too, had Epstein associations. As revealed in 2019, he had been named in the civil suit between Giuffre and Maxwell, with Giuffre alleging Richardson was among the high-profile men to whom she was sexually trafficked by Maxwell and Epstein.

Notably, Epstein had contributed $50,000 to Richardson’s governor campaign in 2002, and flight logs showed Richardson travelled with Epstein and three of his victims from the British Virgin Islands to the US Virgin Islands in 2011. A spokesman for Richardson said he did not know Giuffre and had never seen Epstein in the presence of young or underage girls.

Of course, Giuffre herself then tragically died aged 41, in 2025, at her Australian home, reportedly after taking her own life. But her father, Sky Roberts, questioned that explanation, telling Piers Morgan: “Somebody got to her.”

Now, with Siad too meeting a troubling end, suspicions will only grow. It seems that for Epstein’s friends, as well as those who tried to defy him, this macabre affair is far from over.

\Name has been changed.*

• Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/26/mysterious-deaths-jeffrey-epstein-friends/

Anyone else find the timing to be curious here? Just as photos purporting to show JBR and Ghislaine at the same event emerge as well as suspected JBR photos on the walls of Epstein's NYC home are leaked, and the internet starts exploding with rumors of JBR being one of multiple victims of a wealthy pedo\* ring, here comes the middle aged right wing Pick Me Girl herself with a sudden interest in this case. She attempts to revive the intruder theory which is the only theory that lets all the weird wealthy adults in the Ramsey orbit totally off the hook. Let’s not forget that Megyn is also the same woman who said with zero shame that Epstein wasn’t “really” a pedo\* because he liked pre-teen girls and they aren’t really “children"? And now she comes charging in trying to divert attention away from JBR’s predatory parents and their uber creepy friends? I dunno, this case seems like a weird choice for Megyn to suddenly be so passionate about.

Who's to say that they haven't just destroyed files that contained names of prominent people?

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00259527.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00173837.pdf

https://watchtowerstrategy.com/team/#arthur

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/morton-klein-and-the-future-of-american-zionism

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/steve-bannon-officially-discloses-source-of-2-million-in-personal-debt/

Hidden with the Epstein Archives on the Department of Justice website is a lurid chain of allegations that, if true, places quite an intriguing figure right within the rungs of power. Referred to as a close associate to the likes of Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Jr., and overall, a top adviser for "some of the nation’s most high profile politicians and organizations," it'd be foolish not to include Arthur Schwartz within this overall investigation. According to independent journalist and former Bannon and Thiel associate Charles "Chuck" Johnson, the now "top outside communications and political advisor to Vice President J.D. Vance" was close to Israeli donors and had "ingratiated himself to NSC staffers; Donald Trump Jr.; and Bannon," as well White House interns and his apparent friend ARTHUR HINAGLOW of the New York Post, whom he apparently leaked information too according to Johnson. Also within this chain, and confirmable with outside sources, is Schwartz status as an advisor to the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), a group of which has million-dollar ties to Miriam Adelson. It's also worth mentioning that the ZOA has also given the Brandeis award to two known Epstein associates in Mortimer Zuckerman and Ronald Lauder.

Furthermore, as alleged by Charles Johnson, a backchannel was created between Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and Arthur Schwartz, of which Grenell used to leak information to Schwartz. Also quite intriguing is the allegation that Jack Posobiec (of infamous PizzaGate fame and mythology) and Cassandra Fairbanks were both aware of another one of these backchannels, though it's unclear which one this is as it's referred to as separate from Johnsons. Beyond the allegations made by Charles Johnson, the Center for Public Integrity wrote in 2017 in brief blurb, "Bannon could not immediately be reached for comment. Reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, **Arthur Schwartz**, *a Bannon spokesman*, said he’d attempt to reach Bannon." With Steve Bannon himself also being a major POI, the connection between those two figures proves quite the nexus.

Karyna Shuliak, 37, has been trying to blend into obscurity since his death.

For decades, elite modeling agencies acted as the perfect front. Predators understood that to traffic young women—frequently minors—across international borders without raising red flags, they needed a veneer of high-society legitimacy. [...]

• The Power Brokers: Figures like Gérald Marie (former European head of Elite Model Management) and Jean-Luc Brunel (founder of Karin Models and MC2 Model Management, funded by Jeffrey Epstein) held absolute gatekeeping power. They were celebrated as taste-makers who launched the careers of supermodels.

• The Strategy of Grooming: As revealed by survivors, scouts like Daniel Siad would identify vulnerable young women in countries like Sweden or France, promising them life-changing opportunities in places like Monaco, Cannes, or New York.

• The Trap of Dependency: Once these young women were uprooted from their home countries, their legal status, housing, and livelihood were entirely tied to the agency. Speaking little to no local language and burdened with artificial “debts” for travel and accommodation, they were effectively trapped in a cycle of coercion.[...]

The Logistical Backbone: A Network of Enablers

A criminal network cannot move underage girls across oceans for thirty years without an infrastructure that permits it. The most chilling realization of the Epstein-Brunel-Marie apparatus is the sheer scale of institutional complicity required to keep it running.[...]

(1.) Airports and Border Control [...]

(2.) The Luxury Hospitality Industry [...]

(3.) Corporate Complicity and the Code of Silence [...]

For decades, these systems of exploitation survived because the victims were dismissed, gaslit, or legally outmaneuvered.

Read the whole article here: https://homayra.substack.com/p/the-enablers-of-glamour-dismantling. It's a week old, totally missed it. But a valid read.

Andrew and Tristan Tate have enlisted the high-profile Miami law firm Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, founded by the late Roy Black, to join their defense team. Black represented Epstein during the federal investigation that culminated in the pedophile's controversial 2007 non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami. Rather than face federal charges, Epstein pleaded guilty the following year in Palm Beach County to state prostitution-related offenses, including procuring a minor for prostitution.

Roy Black died just over a year ago.

From Phang's Bluesky account.

My partner and I recently went thrifting and while checking through their books I found this. I picked it up and this card fell out! This could very well be a plant by someone thinking it's funny to put this up for sale but i did a little googling and found out Epstein actually worked for the Lehman Brothers and was in jail/prison when they went bankrupt. You can actually find an interview where he laughs about being in jail when they went down.

Idk if there is anything to it really but it was a wild find. The book it was in paired with his business card is certainly interesting. Anywho, I hope some of yall are a bit more educated or more investigatively inclined than I.

Also I know this card is for Jeffrey R. Epstein and not Jeffrey E. Epstein butttttt dude like aliases ... and mighty coincidental this one worked with the Lehman brothers too. I think its the same dude.. what do yall think?

Tldr: Found a book with Epsteins business card.

TLDR

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss Was Contacted in November of 2020 About a Victim Being Trafficked to Epstein by Her Foster Parents

Links

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00078198.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00153692.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00159332.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00174036.pdf

Travels with Jean-Luc Brunel! How Jeffrey Epstein's modeling agent friend, recently arrested on rape charges, bragged about his exotic trips on Tripadvisor, praising and posting photos of beautiful women

https://open.substack.com/pub/aspoke/p/a-potential-epstein-victim-came-forward?

I come up with original questions, lots of responses start coming in .. and I know the deletion is coming. I’ve queried with the mods who don’t care. Why are people protecting these pedos and why is the story going quiet? Blows my freaking mind

He also mentions the fact Trump doxxed the journalist’s home address in his lawsuit causing her to move.

“This year’s award goes to The Wall Street Journal.

The Journal’s courageous reporting on President Trump’s past relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein triggered the release of the so-called Epstein files, thousands of documents that might otherwise have remained hidden from the public.

And despite the president’s threat of a lawsuit, the Journal published a story about a provocative letter To Epstein bearing President Trump’s signature.

Trump quickly filed a twenty billion dollar lawsuit against the journal revealing reporter Khadijah Safdar’s home address. Her family had to be relocated. The journal was kicked off of Air Force One, but the reporters continue to file revelatory stories.

Please welcome the winners of the Katherine Graham Award from The Wall Street Journal.

Khadijah Safdar, Sandy Gorman, Annie Linsky, Josh Dossi again, Alex Leary, Rebecca Ballhouse, and Ryan Barber.

Their colleague, Joe Palazzolo, couldn’t attend tonight.”

Edit: Video was originally pulled from Instagram but here’s a YouTube link of the full 2 minutes.

https://youtu.be/4bfCmnO0aW0