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An FBI memo had the names of 1000 victims and the Epstein victim fund + BoA settled with many victims. As far as I know we don’t have a large sample size of victim testimonies publicly available, but Virginia Giuffre is one person who claimed to have been trafficked while underage to multiple men. I don’t think many women want to be publicly known as a trafficking victim.
It's his network that leads me to believe in a "centrally managed blackmail syndicate". Epstein starts to be funded carte blanche in 1991 by a man named Les Wexner. Who is he? He ran the two most important Jewish organizations in America, the Wexner Foundation (intended to create “elite commandos” and a “cadre of Jewish lay leaders”), and the Mega Group. The Mega Group was the centrally-managed decision-making body of America's Jewish philanthropic and influence organizations. When the World Jewish Congress, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the United Jewish Communities (then endowed in the billions annually), and other orgs were allocating their money and influence to benefit Israel and the Jews, the heads would meet in secret at the Mega Group. And the head of this group was Les Wexner.
So Wexner starts funding Epstein in 1991, the same year he starts to chair this secret meeting of Jewish billionaires which decides how to allocate most of Jewry's billions of dollars toward various causes (they are responsible for Birthright, rescuing / refunding Hillel, the emigration of Soviet Jews, etc). This should already raise alarm bells. Why is someone whose raisin d’etre is the Jewish people funding Jeffrey Epstein carte blanche, with power of attorney and gifted properties? He better have a really, really good reason. Surely he has a good reason?
No, he does not. He has the worst reason ever. He says the reason is that he’s a putz. He says Epstein took advantage of him. His own head of security at the limited, Jerry Merritt, told Vanity Fair that he warned Wexner about Epstein for years, yet Wexner handed off $400 million dollars anyway. “The person that the Rothschilds rely on to efficiently allocate their dollars was being robbed by a con artist” is a quite unlikely story. It is such a bad argument that Wexner apologists will argue instead that Wex was gay for Epstein, and this is why he gave him millions. This is a better argument, but still ridiculous. We know that Wexner had previously dated a woman who converted to Judaism and changed her last name to Cohen, and this was never publicized but a scoop from a journalist, so it wasn’t a “velvet marriage” arrangement. And a gay billionaire who owns apparel stores in the 80s and 90s does not have to rely on a 38yo Jeffrey Epstein to satisfy his lusts. There’s no evidence Epstein ever trafficked boys afaik, and Wexner is now married with three three kids. So what did Wexner get from Epstein's services? There was never an answer. All five of Epstein’s funders, all five Jewish, can’t really provide an answer as to why they funded Epstein. Two of them have accusations from victims, but the other three do not.
The emails we now have about the Epstein-Wexner dealings are very suspicious, and do hint to something else:
Wexner, after learning of Epstein’s guilty plea, tells Epstein ‘you broke your number one rule: always be careful.’ To this, Epstein replied ‘no excuse.’ https://www.theohioregister.com/house-oversight-committee-votes-to-subpoena-les-wexner/ . This is not what you write to someone who stole 100 million dollars from you. This is what a mob boss says to a goon who failed.
Epstein was worried when Dershowitz was talking too much about Wexner’s involvement, which they wanted kept secret.
Epstein’s emails have a draft note that seems to talk about “gang stuff for over 15 years” with Les, which is how long Les funded Epstein (16 years): https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2026-02-06/epstein-wrote-draft-message-to-les-wexner-about-gang-stuff-and-debts-the-two-owed-each-other?_amp=true
Other email drafts contain “never ever did anything without informing Les” and “would never give him up”
other emails indicating that Epstein continued to be involved in Wexner’s philanthropy post-conviction
There’s a lot more evidence that is laborious to get into: Epstein being best friends with Israel’s former military intelligence head, having dozens of meetings with him; Epstein’s accomplice being the daughter of a long-rumored spy; Epstein negotiating on Israel’s behalf with Ehud Barak in two separate security dealings; Epstein ghostwriting Barak’s pro-Israel op-Ed’s and helping Dershowitz crush Mearsheimer’s “the Israel Lobby” book; John Schindler a former NSA Analyst concluding that the Mega group had involvement; John Kiriakou’s confidence that Epstein was aligned with Israel; NSA / CIA / FBI security briefs which considered Israel a leading threat in “influence” and espionage operations.
What’s interesting is that his Jewish associates trust him with money and projects after a conviction in which he — they want us to believe — stole 100 million from Wexner. Surely they all knew this, and Wexner had the influence to absolutely crush Epstein. This tells us that the money really wan’t stolen, but was utilized in some important way. So what was it?
And we know this from an article that tiptoes around how Wexner was probably very deep in the closet due to being so close to, and so managed by, his mother. It's even alluded to in the story, that being still single at his age, people wonder if he's gay.
We do know Epstein was very charming, very plausible, and had a knack of making connections with people in a position to help his career along. Being a combination wealth plus social manager for Wexner, as well as fellow Jewish, and a charming younger man who was easy to get along with all helped there. Wexner liked running back to Ohio, where he felt most comfortable, and that left Epstein in New York handling affairs for him.
That's the secret behind scams and cons. In hindsight, the victim and everyone else asks "how could I have fallen for that?" but at the time, it's all so normal-appearing that questions aren't asked, or if they are, the explanation is so plausible it shuts down doubt. Epstein is not the only scandal Wexner's name has been attached to; there's a sex abuse scandal with Ohio State University.
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I think you kind of answer your own questions here.
It seems like Wexner, who was bankrolling all of these other organizations. Or, at least, helping them to get bankrolled by donors. Chucked $400m of his own money to Epstein as his grey market lead. Moving money, having the shady conversations with important folks all over the world that you want to have stay out of the press etc.
I don't think it's that shocking? "Fixers" have existed at the outskirts of legitimate organizations forever. Sure, they don't often get $400m, but, whatever, maybe Wexner just didn't care or wanted enough slush on Epstein's books in case something big came around?
The more I learn about all of this, the more and more apparent it becomes that Epstein was a charming middle man who liked to party. He eventually crossed lines for which he was convicted and then, realizing the party was over, killed himself. That's a story that's been repeated a million times. I think the difference is in scale here, not in kind.
But there’s no evidence that Epstein did do any deals as a middle-man between Wexner and other players throughout the 90s. The others who gave their money to Epstein (eg Rothschild, Black, Zuckerman) are already inside the fold of Jewish philanthropy. He would tell people he represented wealthy clients, but he didn’t, only Wexner and then the others later on. As perhaps the single most important person in the world of Jewish philanthropy, already presiding over a consortium of billions (12) which later expanded to 50 megarich individuals (hence Mega), and able to keep that a perfect secret for six years, it doesn’t read like Wexner needed help with capital investment. He had more than enough.
What we know about Epstein is that he went around partying with girls and trying to get close with important and wealthy people. According to Eric Weinstein who had met him, he seemed like an idiot who kept trying to bring the conversation back to girls and sex. In his interview with Steve Bannon he mentions he bought Zorro Ranch because it was close to retired nuclear scientists. This reads like a guy collecting influence and kompromat on behalf of Wexner, if not on behalf of the whole Mega Ecosystem.
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Giuffre is actually not a credible source. In fact, there are accusations, levelled by another victim, of Giuffre (adult at the time) herself being an Epstein recruiter. She also retracted 8 years of very detailed claims of sexual activity with Dershowitz.
I don't have much to say on the shady dealings between Epstein and Wexner, could it plausibly theoretically be the case that a creepy pervy bigshot was trafficking underage girls to another creepy pervy bigshot? Perhaps, or maybe Epstein "simply" knew where the bodies were.
It's not really credible, as Coffee nodded to, that Les Wexner owner of Abercrombie and Fitch at the peak of its nudie magazine catalog and bags needed Jeff Epstein to get teenagers to sleep with him.
Nor is it all that credible that Les just handed Epstein a billion dollars for no real reason.
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Ok, what about that memo and the settlements? If he's right, it's a bit more than just Giuffre?
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I don't have a link handy, but I've also seen allegations that at least some of the victims, due to traumatic imprinting and lack of other options, ended up working for Maxwell to recruit other girls. If that's true, they may be reluctant to testify for fear of legal repercussions.
If prosecutors wanted their testimony, they would grant immunity. We've had literal murderers granted immunity by prosecutors so they could go after the real big fish in mafia/drug ring investigations.
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