Jeffrey Epstein was arrested twice, the first in 2005 and the second in 2019, when he committed suicide (Reuters)

A case named after the American billionaire and businessman Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of running a prostitution network, exploiting his homes and an island he owned to commit sexual crimes against underage girls (13-17) and recruiting others to expand his network.

The case became public in 2005 when Epstein was tried on charges of engaging in prostitution with a minor, and documents were revealed proving his involvement, along with American and international political and artistic figures, in a network of prostitution and exploitation of minors.

Although he committed suicide after his second arrest in 2019, the case remained active after him, and caused an uproar in American society.

Jeffrey Epstein

American billionaire and businessman Jeffrey Epstein was born in New York in 1953. He worked in several professions, including teaching and investment banking, and was known for his closeness to many stars and politicians.

He is considered one of the figures who has a wide network of relationships with the elite of American society, and was known for his closeness to former President Donald Trump, who once described Epstein as a "wonderful man."

From his home that he bought in 1990 in Palm Beach, Florida, the local police began their investigation into Epstein after receiving complaints from his neighbors who noticed that young girls were constantly coming to his house.

The police immediately noticed the strength of his influence and the fear that made many of the girls refuse to testify, so they worked secretly for years to try to choose the most appropriate time to search his house, and then arrest him. The investigators felt that they were being watched around the clock, and they found that their trash was also being searched, which forced the investigation team to change its strategy and the mechanism for saving its data to catch him.

US authorities suspended Epstein in 2005 on charges of sexually exploiting a minor under 14 years old, and using illegal services for dozens of minors at his home in Florida.

Although several girls testified about Epstein and his friends assaulting them, the court only confirmed that one assault occurred in 2008, and he was only accused of “inciting prostitution,” and sentenced him to 13 months, after he reached an agreement with the public prosecution that protected him from further investigations.

One of the defendants in the Epstein case is lawyer Alan Dershowitz (right), who defended Israel against the South African lawsuit (Getty)

Under the agreement, Epstein admitted that he arranged meetings for his clients with underage girls for the purpose of having sex, and he received reduced conditions in prison during his detention, and he was even allowed to go to his home in Palm Beach several hours a day.

Alexander Costa was the one who approved the deal as the Attorney General of Florida at the time. He resigned from his job as Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration at the time after new accusations emerged against Epstein, and he was blamed for his leniency at a time when Epstein could have been arrested and his series of crimes could have been stopped at that time.

The Epstein case returned to circulation after an article published by the American newspaper "Miami Herald" in which it referred to Epstein's victims, and to those involved in reducing the sentence against him, such as Costa. Federal prosecutors resurveilled him and investigated the case, and they discovered that he was running a prostitution ring. He was arrested from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey in 6th July 2019.

Two days later, he was charged with sexual exploitation of minors and conspiracy to engage in sexual trafficking of minors, charges that carry a penalty of up to 45 years in prison. Prosecution documents say that he was trafficking in minors, subjecting them to sexual slavery, and introducing them to rich, world-famous figures.

After hearing his statements, a Manhattan court sentenced him to “detention without bail,” and on August 10, 2019, Epstein was found dead in his cell following an injury to his neck. Due to the expansion of the prostitution network and its access to prominent individuals, some believed that he had been killed to cover up those involved. With him, but the police later announced that he had committed suicide.

Ghailine Maxwell, accused of being Epstein's partner in the underage prostitution network (social networking sites)

Guylaine Maxwell...the partner in the case

Ghilaine Maxwell, the daughter of the Jewish Robert Maxwell, the British media personality and founder of Pergamon Publishing House, holds British, American, and French citizenship, and is considered a celebrity in American society. She was linked to the case as a friend of Epstein, and was accused of being his partner in the prostitution network after Virginia Giuffre (a victim and the main plaintiff against Epstein) sued her. ) Defamation suit.

Maxwell was involved in the case by engaging in several activities that contributed to expanding the prostitution network, recruiting girls for sexual slavery, and giving sums to girls who brought others for “massage services,” which they later discovered were for another purpose. She was offering money to friends of the victim, Virginia Giuffre, to refute her and the other victims’ statements in order to exonerate those involved.

Maxwell was arrested in July 2021, sentenced to 20 years in prison and a fine of $750,000 in 2022, and convicted of 5 charges, including securing underage girls for prostitution for Epstein and his friends.

Julie Brown, author of the book “Perversion of Justice: The Story of Jeffrey Epstein,” says that the relationship between Epstein and the Maxwell family began in the 1980s. While Maxwell’s father was on the verge of bankruptcy, Epstein helped him by hiding his money in offshore bank accounts, and from that time his relationship with the Jewish family began. British, and this is how he met their ninth daughter, “Guillaine”.

The victims: Virginia Giuffre (right) and Joanna Sjoberg (agencies)

The victim is Virginia Giuffre

Among the many victims, and despite the refusal of many, one girl dared to file a lawsuit against Epstein and his partner Maxwell in 2015, accusing them of assaulting and sexually exploiting her - since she was 17 years old - and arranging sexual encounters with “kings, politicians, academics, prominent businessmen and others.” The wealthy people - all of whom denied involvement - including Britain's Prince Andrew and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz (defending Israel at the International Court of Justice against accusations of genocide in Gaza).

Virginia Giuffre says that Maxwell was the one who arranged for the girls - including Virginia - to work to provide “massage services” in a health product in exchange for $200, and took them to Epstein’s house, but she and the other girls did not expect that the massage services would turn into sexual exploitation, and she accused the FBI. By covering up these practices.

Virginia Giuffre and her lawyer on their way to the hearing against Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 (Reuters)

Virgina was not the only one to file a lawsuit against Epstein and his accomplice, many girls followed suit under assumed names, which ultimately led to Maxwell's 2022 conviction for trafficking girls for sex.

In addition to Virginia Giuffre, Joanna Sjoberg provided a lot of evidence of the involvement of a number of prominent figures with Epstein, and accused Prince Andrew of assaulting her three times in 2001 at Epstein’s home in London, New York, and Little St. James Island. The prince was stripped of his titles following this case, which he settled with the victim and was not tried, as he paid her $13 million.

On the other hand, the prince also settled the case that Virginia Giuffre filed against him in 2022, in which she accused him of mistreating her when she was a teenager, but he denied meeting the girl, despite the spread of a photo documenting their meeting, and he denied any other accusations, and in return he did not deny his relationship with Epstein, and said: His lawyer said: “Prince Andrew regrets his association with Epstein, and praises the courage of Ms. Virginia Giuffre and the other survivors in defending themselves and others.”

Epstein's Island is called "Pedophilia Island" due to its use in prostitution of children and minors (Getty)

Epstein Island...one of the places

Epstein's Island is located in the Caribbean Sea among a number of US Virgin Islands off the coast of St. Thomas. Its original name is "Little St. James." For American society, it is the home of conspiracy theories circulating locally, so they gave it several names by which it became famous, including "Pedophilia Island" (child prostitution). "Orgy Island" and "Pleasure Island".

Its area is 75 acres, and includes reserves and orchards. During World War I, the United States of America bought it from Denmark to prevent it from being used as a base for German submarines. The matter developed until it became private property and a haven for those fleeing the tax.

The island was owned by billionaire Epstein (20 years old), and he resided there most of the time. He was trying to build a good reputation in the Virgin Islands through his generous donations to government officials, educational institutions, and his shares in companies there, but he did not succeed in that, as his bad reputation was spreading locally.

Epstein's island was mentioned in the criminal complaint filed against him as being "the perfect hideout and haven for the sexual trafficking of underage girls, the practice of sexual slavery, and the abuse of children."

The lawsuit documents also stated that Epstein and his associates sought to avoid detection of their activities in the Virgin Islands, hide from federal law enforcement, and prevent their young victims, young women and girls, from leaving freely and escaping abuse, as confirmed by several young women who attempted to escape while being transported to the island.

A “Private Property” sign on Epstein’s island, which investigators were unable to search until his death in 2019 (Getty)

CBS News quoted girls and children who were unable to escape, saying that the only way out was by helicopter or boat, and the authorities were not even allowed to enter the island when they tried to do so while Epstein was alive, because the entire island was private property.

“Pedophilia Island” was not the only property that Epstein owned, nor was it the only place to which the finger of blame was pointed. He owned another island and luxurious homes and palaces, which were among the places referred to in the prostitution network, but what made the island receive the most attention is Its privacy and the difficulty of getting in and out of it, in addition to documenting the visits of politicians and international celebrities to it, with the presence of several closed buildings, one of which is in the form of a “temple” around which many rumors have been raised accusing Epstein and his accomplices of exploiting him in “sexual assault rituals and parties.”

Prosecutor Denise George, who took over the lawsuit brought over Epstein's estate after his death, said that the island was "a place to hide his criminal activity," and that his power and wealth gave him the ability to cover up his criminal activities, and she indicated that he was transporting girls by two helicopters from the island of St. Thomas to His island.

Two days after Epstein's suicide, FBI agents raided the island in search of any evidence related to the case. The island was then sold for half its price in May 2023 to an investor who would turn it into a luxury resort.

Documents reveal many

Among more than 190 pieces of evidence and more than 3,000 papers, the names of those involved and contributors to this network lie, thanks to the defamation lawsuit filed by the victim, Virginia Giuffre, in 2015, but it was not fully revealed to the public, but rather it was revealed in stages, according to the orders issued by the court.

In 2019, the first two thousand pages of the case files were revealed, and this was followed by the announcement of the rest of the parts in the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and early 2024, which activists rumored were published at this specific time to divert American public opinion from interest in the humanitarian situation inside the country. Gaza Strip, due to the Israeli aggression that began in October 2023.

The documents not only identified those involved, but also included the names of individuals whom Epstein and his partner may have hired to serve them, but whom the court did not bring any charges against, including former US President Bill Clinton, who the documents say used Epstein’s personal plane 4 times.

Jeffrey Epstein started the prostitution network from his home in Palm Beach, Florida, and from there the police began pursuing him (Getty)

In late 2023, the judge supervising the case ordered the publication of the third batch of documents related to the lawsuit, which included the names of prominent politicians and others, waiting for new statements and evidence to appear against them supporting the allegations mentioned in the documents.

Not all names were mentioned in the context of the accusation, but it documented the existence of a relationship between Epstein and the aforementioned figures, such as former US President Donald Trump and the late American singer Michael Jackson, as the documents confirmed their visit to Epstein’s house, but without directing clear accusations linking them to the prostitution network.

The documents were interviews conducted by investigators with those accused in the case, such as Maxwell, and other figures accused of being part of the prostitution network team, in addition to recorded video testimonies, some of which were from Tijuan Alessi, Epstein’s housekeeper in Florida, and others who resided in his house.

Alessi said that she saw British Prince Andrew and his wife Sarah Ferguson, and that he stayed for weeks in the house, and received a daily “massage service.” Alfredo Rodriguez, Epstein’s bodyguard, also stated that he repeatedly delivered money from Epstein to “high school girls and those who help in recruiting.” the girls".

The documents that were revealed included 150 pages of telephone messages written by an employee of Epstein, which included the names of people who denied their relationship with Epstein’s business activity, stressing that the relationship between them was within the framework of managing their own money and receiving advice in this regard.

The names mentioned in the Epstein case documents include (from right) Clinton, Trump, Hawking, and Copperfield (agencies)

Names revealed in the documents

Jean-Luc Brunel, a close friend of Epstein, was found dead in a French prison in 2022 while being investigated by the French authorities. He was accused of helping to recruit underage women and girls for Epstein, and it was also alleged that he raped and assaulted women.

Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico, documents stated that he visited Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, and the victim, Virginia Giuffre, said that she had been directed to provide him a "massage service" previously, but he described the accusation as "completely false" and denied meeting her.

The victim, Sjoberg, said she had dinner with magician David Copperfield at Epstein's house, and said he asked her "if she knew girls were getting paid to find other girls," but he was not charged.

Among the charges brought against Epstein after his second arrest were sexual trafficking of minors and conspiracy to traffic them (Getty)

Spoberg said she met Michael Jackson at Epstein's home in Palm Beach. But she did not provide him with any “massage services,” and no charges were brought against him.

The name of the late physicist Steve Hawking was mentioned in an email that Epstein sent to Maxwell in 2015, and the email stated that Hawking participated in group sex parties with underage girls.

Spoberg said she had not met Bill Clinton, but testified that Epstein told her that “Clinton likes them young,” apparently referring to girls. While Giuffre had previously stated that Clinton and Epstein had a close relationship, she did not accuse him of any illegal action.

But according to prosecution documents, Clinton threatened Vanity magazine if it published an article alleging that Epstein established a prostitution ring. In the same documents, Giuffre also claimed that Clinton had full knowledge of the prostitution ring run by Epstein.

Netanyahu (left) demanded an investigation with Barak about the ongoing relationship between him and Epstein and to what extent it had reached (Getty)

Epstein and the Mossad

The case documents also linked Epstein to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as they had commercial cooperation. Epstein contributed financially to projects for Barak, which made him accused of involvement in the case.

Ehud Barak did not deny his connection to Epstein, but he denied his knowledge of the prostitution network or Epstein’s practices in general, but Benjamin Netanyahu - Barak’s rival - took advantage of this issue immediately after Epstein’s arrest, and demanded an investigation into Barak, especially after the latter formed a party for the purpose of running for elections.

Among Netanyahu's demands was a criminal investigation into Barak's personal and business relationships with those involved in the prostitution network, and his companies were immediately audited amid questions about the source of his wealth.

Ghilaine Maxwell served as Epstein's right-hand man in expanding the prostitution network and collecting and trafficking girls (Getty)

Barak denied everything that was rumored about his involvement in the prostitution network led by Epstein, and defended his business relationship with him, stressing that the limits of their relationship did not go beyond that, and stated that he was not the only one who maintained his relationship with him after his arrest, and confirmed the existence of a partnership between Epstein and prominent American politicians, saying “If the American regime itself did not classify him as an undesirable person, how can he expect me to notice his actions?”

This strengthened the issue of Epstein’s connection to the Jewish Maxwell family, beginning with the father, Robert, and later with the daughter, Gaylene, as Epstein had previously supported Robert when he was on the verge of bankruptcy. Julie Brown confirmed this, saying, “It is not unlikely that Epstein had a relationship with the Mossad,” and pointed out the similarities in the circumstances of the death between Epstein and Robert in 1991, as it is locally rumored that they were assassinated by the Mossad, despite the confirmation of the former’s suicide and the latter’s death by drowning due to an accidental fall.

On the other hand, former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe claimed in his interview with Russia Today that Epstein and Maxwell's father were Israeli agents, and that everything that was rumored and said was with the aim of collecting intelligence information from prominent figures for the Mossad and blackmailing it.

Menashe said that British Prince Andrew was also used as an intermediary to bring prominent figures to Epstein, and that Barack was aware of everything that was happening. Former US Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta also confirmed that Epstein was working for Israeli intelligence.

Source: American press