Roughly six pages from more than 8,500 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee include meeting schedules appearing to show appointments with Bannon and venture capitalist Peter Thiel during Donald Trump’s first term in office.

The documents also mention Musk joining a potential trip to Epstein’s island in 2014.

Prince Andrew also is listed in the documents as a passenger on Epstein’s aircraft, with financial disclosures provided to the committee suggesting evidence of payments from Epstein to an individual listed as “Andrew.”

His appointment with Bannon in 2019 was just months before Epstein was federally charged with trafficking and sexually abusing dozens of minors. Epstein pleaded not guilty and was found dead in a jail cell in New York in August 2019.

His appointment with Bannon in 2019 was just months before Epstein was federally charged with trafficking and sexually abusing dozens of minors. Epstein pleaded not guilty and was found dead in a jail cell in New York in August 2019.

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    If you believe Epstein was an asset of an intelligence agency (perhaps more than one), then why would they waste the money and time on him flying people out that he wasn’t going to blackmail? Like he is the sex blackmail guy, that’s his role for intelligence, there’s no need for him to be around people if he isn’t doing his job and getting sex blackmail from them.

    Similarly, Ray J (who is now claiming to work with the FBI as an informant to take down the Kardashians/Jenners that he says are worse than Diddy and indeed both groups associated a lot with Justin Bieber and others), Ray J has long been said to be a celebrity drug dealer. He was the one who supposedly sold Whitney Houston her drugs, including the night she died. If someone is hanging out with Ray J or partying with Ray J, you’d assume they are doing drugs because that’s his literal job and he just won’t be wasting time not dealing.

    Also, remember that Ray J was who filmed Kim K’s porno, rumored to be released by her mom Kris. Kim used to work for Ray J’s sister Brandi (largely innocent of all this afaik) and stole from her, substantial amounts. And ofc, Kim was married to Kanye, who parades his now partners around like sex slaves and is an open Nazi and hangs out with Candace Owens, a probable Russian asset.

    Who knew that shitty celeb gossip would become so relevant?

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      3 days ago

      Wild! But to your first point, and kinda related to the rest, association is quite enough for blackmail, especially at that level of criminality. :)

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        Yeah that’s something I wasn’t sure about. Is going there incriminating enough on its own? I can’t tell.

        I don’t know how “blooded in” someone would need to be, to be accepted in a space like that. Plenty of epstein associates do seem to have avoided public tarring, so maybe just going there is not incriminating enough. But would people have known then that it might be live-down-able?

        I certainly don’t know.