{"id":193500,"date":"2019-08-20T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193500"},"modified":"2019-08-24T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T05:38:12","slug":"epstein-the-pedophile-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193500","title":{"rendered":"Epstein: The Pedophile Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

By James Patterson — <\/em>August 20, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
Abridged by Lasha Darkmoon from a much longer article published in the Saturday edition of <\/strong>The Daily Mail,<\/strong><\/em> 17 August 2019, pp. 28-30. Brief comments and an endnote providing an update by LD have been added to this graphic account of daily life in Epstein\u2019s house of horrors.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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\u201cI had been hearing hair-raising stories about Jeffrey Epstein for a couple of years. I wondered why it had taken so long for the Palm Beach police to catch up with him. And, once they did, why he had served so little jail time. Those were the obvious questions, but there were others: How had Epstein made his money, possibly billions? No one seemed to know.\u201d \u2014 James Patterson<\/strong><\/h5>\n
James Patterson (pictured<\/a><\/span>), one of the world\u2019s most successful authors whose novels regularly top the best-seller charts, happens to live half a mile from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s home in Palm Beach, Florida. Over the years Patterson had become fascinated and appalled in equal measure by Epstein and determined to investigate just how and why so many young women found their way to his home on a secluded street. This is the deeply disturbing story of what he discovered . . .\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Late one afternoon,<\/strong> while taking a leisurely stroll on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a friend of mine named Tim Malloy ran into a trim, silver-haired neighbour of ours from Palm Beach in Florida.<\/h5>\n
The man was walking down Madison Avenue, and several things about him were striking. For one thing, he was wearing slippers. Expensive, embroidered, monogrammed slippers. But slippers all the same.<\/h5>\n
For another, he was accompanied by two exceptionally attractive women. As the man half shuffled, half walked down the avenue, the women walked slightly behind him, as if they were attendants or staff.<\/h5>\n
The threesome turned onto 71st Street and headed toward an enormous townhouse \u2014 a house that was almost a fortress with a 15ft front door. (Here is a picture of Epstein\u2019s impressive townhouse<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in Madison Avenue, NY)<\/h5>\n
Like our neighbour\u2019s slippers, the house had a monogram: raised brass letters that spelled out \u2018J. E\u2019.<\/h5>\n
The initials belonged to Jeffrey Epstein, a staggeringly rich and powerful man who was also a registered sex offender with a strong taste for teenage girls. Not just 16 and 17-year-olds, but younger girls as well.<\/h5>\n
Epstein was alleged to have abused dozens of adolescent girls. He\u2019d done a bit of prison time for his crimes. A bit of time. And now here he was, out in the world again.<\/h5>\n
Accompanied by two beautiful young women.<\/h5>\n
I had been hearing hair-raising stories about Jeffrey Epstein for a couple of years. I wondered why it had taken so long for the Palm Beach police to catch up with him.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
And, once they did, why he had served so little jail time.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Those were the obvious questions, but there were others: How had Epstein made his money, possibly billions? No one seemed to know.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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We did know that Epstein liked to get massages<\/strong> from two, even three, young women every day, in his Palm Beach mansion or wherever else he was in the world. But who were these girls? Where had they come from? How did they find their way to his home?<\/h5>\n
Stirred by that sighting of Epstein up in New York, Tim Malloy and I began to investigate. We partnered with John Connolly, a tough, no-nonsense journalist who had once been a cop with the NYPD and had been following the Epstein story for close to ten years. And we began to put the pieces together.<\/h5>\n
We were never in any doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was guilty. The question is, what exactly was he guilty of?<\/h5>\n
There was no way of guessing from the exterior of his Palm Beach home at 358 El Brillo Way. Built in the Fifties by a run-of-the-mill architect, it has none of the elegance of neighbouring properties. It\u2019s big, with a large swimming pool: that\u2019s the most you can say for it. It\u2019s totally bland.<\/h5>\n
But it\u2019s the last house on a dead-end block, and this makes it secluded.<\/h5>\n
Beyond the gate, past the guard and through a side door to the kitchen, the house ceases to be nondescript. A wide, winding staircase leads to a hallway lined with photographs of young naked women. It leads to his bedroom, and a closet where many more photos are stored: erotic pictures featuring women who have been brought to this house.<\/h5>\n
How the girls were lured here is something I wanted to understand, as our investigation got under way. One of the first clues is tucked away in a police report from March 2005. A girl of 14 got into a fight at school with another pupil who called her a \u2018whore\u2019.<\/h5>\n
Let\u2019s call this girl Mary. Like about a third of the children at this Florida county high school, she\u2019s from a Hispanic background. Her parents are poor Cuban immigrants. Mary qualifies for free school lunches.<\/h5>\n
But when she is sent to the principal\u2019s office, Mary is found to have $300 in her purse. The notes are all $20 bills. Alarmed, the head teacher calls her parents and asks: \u2018Is Mary selling drugs?\u2019 Her family can\u2019t believe that, but the school needs to know what\u2019s going on. So they send for the psychologist. And then Mary starts talking.<\/h5>\n
The story she tells is so sickening that the school staff have no hesitation in calling the police. In a high, halting voice, speaking through tears, Mary tells Palm Beach police officer Michele Pagan that she was taken to Epstein\u2019s house. She won\u2019t say who took her, or why she agreed to go. But she is adamant about what happened when she was led upstairs.<\/h5>\n
\u2018This white-haired guy came into the room. Wearing only a towel around his waist. He took off the towel. And then he was all naked and he lay face down on the massage table.\u2019<\/h5>\n
In a stern voice, the man ordered the young girl to remove her jeans and sit astride his back in her panties, with her buttocks against his. Then he pleasured himself. Afterwards, he produced a purple sex toy and touched Mary with it. For this she was paid $300.<\/h5>\n
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Six months later<\/strong>, a young woman was arrested for possession of a small amount of marijuana. Let\u2019s call her Alison: it\u2019s not her real name. She, too, has a disturbing story to tell about 358 El Brillo Way. It began at the clothes store Hollister in Wellington Green mall, where Alison was working for six bucks an hour as an assistant, aged 16.<\/h5>\n
Another of the girls told her she could earn $200, just for giving an old guy a massage in his home.<\/h5>\n
\u2018She said that he wanted cute girls, so I looked cute, did my best. Like, this guy\u2019s not going to pay you for not letting him cop a feel or nothing. I wasn\u2019t naive enough to think that.\u2019<\/h5>\n
She was introduced to a woman who called herself Sarah. Alison thought Sarah was some sort of live-in personal assistant. Later, she revised that opinion. Sarah seemed to be a willing sex slave.<\/h5>\n
The \u2018old guy\u2019 demanded a massage, and cajoled Alison into stripping to her underwear and allowing him to grope her. Afterwards, she agreed to return: \u2018$300 for 40 minutes, that was a lot.\u2019<\/h5>\n
Alison insists that she always refused to have full sex with Epstein. On one occasion when he did force himself on her, holding her head down on the massage table she screamed \u2018no!\u2019 and he stopped.<\/h5>\n
In any case, she claimed, her abuser rarely wanted conventional sex. Perhaps that was because his genitals were apparently deformed.<\/h5>\n
One witness later described Epstein\u2019s penis as \u2018egg-shaped\u2019, but Alison was more specific: \u2018He\u2019s circumcised, and he has some sort of birth defect. [His penis is] really weirdly shaped, like a teardrop, like a drop of water . . . \u2019<\/h5>\n
Epstein rarely asked consent before committing some new violation.<\/h5>\n
As Alison consented to ever more depraved sex acts, Epstein\u2019s rewards became more lavish. \u2018He used to tell me I was his favourite. I\u2019d go over there and there\u2019d be a bag of Victoria\u2019s Secret underwear, like $1,500 worth. I got a plane ticket once. I got a car, I got Christmas bonuses, I got movie tickets. He wanted me to come and live with him as a girlfriend, sex slave, whatever you want to call it.\u2019<\/h5>\n
She began to bring other schoolgirls to visit him. \u2018I brought girls I didn\u2019t like and, frankly, did not give a f*** about. Girls that I knew would do anything. I\u2019d just hear a rumour about a girl and be like, \u201cHey, I know a way you can make $200.\u201d I would tell them flat out, like, \u201cThis is what you\u2019ve got to do. Are you cool with this? \u2019Cause I\u2019m not gonna take you if you\u2019re not.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Epstein\u2019s demands became violent, picking Alison up by her ponytails and throwing her against the wall before sexually assaulting her. \u2018I mean, there\u2019s been nights I left there barely able to walk.\u2019<\/h5>\n
She visited regularly for two years but eventually became so scared that she handed the car back and broke off contact. She was still at high school.<\/h5>\n
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In October 2005<\/strong>, police decided they had enough evidence to get a search warrant for 358 El Brillo Way. Guns drawn, they walk up the winding stairs to the second floor.<\/h5>\n
They see a pink-and-green couch described by many of the witnesses, and many photos of naked girls on the walls.<\/h5>\n
Epstein\u2019s house has a strangely antiseptic quality. Some of the bedrooms look almost like doctors\u2019 offices. In one bathroom, there\u2019s a massage table as well as stands holding strange equipment.<\/h5>\n
In a wood-coloured armoire beside Epstein\u2019s bed, they see a bottle of peach-flavoured lubricant. In the bathroom, there are soaps shaped like penises and vaginas, bottles of Mango Mist, more lubricant and boxes of tampons. It\u2019s as if Epstein was so accustomed to the sex toys, the lubricants, the bizarre equipment and the photographs of naked, underage girls that he saw nothing wrong in them.<\/h5>\n
The officers find receipts for books bought on Amazon, such as SlaveCraft: Roadmaps For Erotic Servitude<\/em>.<\/h5>\n
With additional evidence from a manservant at the house, Alfredo Rodriguez, police were eventually able to charge Epstein, to his disbelief, with sex offences against minors.<\/h5>\n
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Three years later<\/strong>, after a long court battle, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but served only one day in the notorious Palm Beach County Main Detention Center \u2014 known locally as the Gun Club. After spending the night in the relative comfort of the prison infirmary, he was transferred to the Palm Beach County Central Detention Center. Despite its almost identical name, this jail is smaller and much safer. Epstein was given his own cell and allowed to pay for his own security guard.<\/h5>\n
He was allowed any number of visits from his \u2018sex slaves\u2019. Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, who ran the jail, commented: \u2018Let\u2019s just say he didn\u2019t think he belonged there.\u2019<\/h5>\n
And in only 13 months, he was out.<\/h5>\n
Where this power and wealth came from is still a mystery. Epstein claimed to be a financial adviser who specialised in helping billionaires avoid tax.\u00a0But even if this is how he acquired his wealth, or even if the story is only partly true, his path to riches is far from clear.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
However Epstein accumulated his wealth, within a few years he was able to buy his own island \u2014 Little St James, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands. He dubbed it St Jeff\u2019s.<\/h5>\n
LD: It was here in his hedonistic sex paradise in the sun, with topless lolitas lounging by the swimming pool and cavorting naked in the lush gardens, that Epstein\u2019s elite A-lister friends and enablers came to visit him. No questions asked about the source of his fabulous wealth and why so many scantily clad nymphettes were constantly to be seen flitting around the grounds like gorgeous butterflies. Donald Trump was particularly lavish in his praise (picture quote<\/span><\/a>) of his good friend Jeffrey. See update at the end of this article for more details. [LD]\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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\u00a0<\/strong>FRIENDS\u00a0 IN\u00a0 HIGH\u00a0 PLACES<\/strong>
\n(Prince Andrew and Woody Allen\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>
\nshould have been included in the above picture gallery)<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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It was while he was serving his short spell in jail<\/strong> that a woman filed a civil lawsuit against him, the first stage in his long downfall. It took ten years, and ended with his apparent suicide in a prison cell, a disgraced man with no hope of ever being released.<\/h5>\n
That woman was named Virginia Roberts<\/strong>, and she was a teenager earning about $9 an hour as a changing room assistant at Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort, when a woman approached her and asked if she was interested in becoming a massage therapist.<\/h5>\n
Later that day, her father drove her to 358 El Brillo Way. He left, after being assured a car would bring his 15-year-old daughter home. Virginia (pictured here as a teenager<\/span><\/a><\/strong>) was led upstairs to a spa room equipped with a shower and a massage table. Jeffrey Epstein was lying on it, naked.<\/h5>\n
A woman removed her own top to demonstrate Epstein\u2019s preferred massage technique, rubbing her breasts over his body. Virginia did as she was asked, and was then ordered to strip naked. The assault quickly escalated. Virginia was battered, sexually attacked and subjected to abuse. At the end of the two-hour encounter, she was paid \u2018hundreds of dollars\u2019 and told she had \u2018lots of potential\u2019.<\/h5>\n
A naturally compliant and docile girl, Virginia returned to the house whenever she was asked.<\/h5>\n
Virginia said she saw Epstein having sex with underage girls on a daily basis. So it would be very surprising if people who stayed with him in his houses were unaware of it.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
He also told her he went out of his way to procure girls for powerful friends. \u2018Epstein specifically told me this was so they would \u201cowe him\u201d, they would be \u201cin his pocket,\u201d and he would \u201chave something on them\u201d. I understood that Epstein thought he could get leniency if he was ever caught doing anything illegal, or that he could escape trouble altogether.\u2019<\/strong><\/h5>\n
He did not escape trouble. It caught up with him, lethally.<\/h5>\n

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Jeffrey Epstein soiled all the lives of the underage girls he abused. But he didn\u2019t see it that way. Shortly before his first jail term, he gave a boastful interview to the<\/strong> New York Magazine<\/strong><\/em>. When the interviewer asked whether he saw himself as a modern-day Icarus, the Greek hero who fell to earth after flying too close to the sun, Epstein smirked: \u2018Did Icarus like massages?\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Sourced from the Daily Mail<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Adapted from Filthy Rich: The Shocking True Story Of Jeffrey Epstein<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/strong> by James Patterson with John Connolly and Tim Malloy, published by Little, Brown in the U.S. and available in the UK through Amazon.<\/h5>\n
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UPDATE by LD:<\/strong> It is possible to argue that both Trump and Prince Andrew, as their supporters would like us to believe, are spotlessly innocent of any inappropriate behaviour with underage girls; however, that they have nevertheless been recklessly indiscreet for not distancing themselves earlier from Epstein\u2019s sex circus. Trump has managed to put some distance between himself and Epstein recently, but two other figures have not fared quite so well: Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton. The former American president is beginning to look particularly vulnerable and sleazy.<\/h5>\n
First, Prince Andrew. Association with the perverted Epstein can only be justified if one can say, \u201cI had no idea the man was a pervert. With hindsight, I would have given Epstein a wide berth if I\u2019d known he was a pedophile.\u201d Unfortunately, Prince Andrew cannot say this. He continued to hobnob with Epstein long after Epstein had been outed as a pedophile\u00a0 and convicted for his sex crimes.\u00a0 It has recently come to light that Prince Andrew visited Epstein at his home in New York in 2010\u2014two years after<\/em> Epstein had been convicted of sex with a child.<\/h5>\n
\u201cTwo years after Epstein was convicted of sex with a child,\u201d the Daily Mail<\/em> discloses in a report today,\u00a0 \u201cAndrew was \u2018guest of honour\u2019 at a dinner at Epstein\u2019s New York mansion.\u201d<\/h5>\n
So here is a member of the British royal family who is quite brazenly associating with a convicted pedophile, a notorious jailbird well acquainted with the inside of a prison cell.\u00a0 Andrew entertained this sex criminal\u00a0 at three of the Queen\u2019s homes: Windsor Castle, Sandringham and Balmoral, the Scottish castle (here pictured<\/span><\/a><\/strong>). It\u2019s hard to see how such a man can convincingly claim to be a paragon of virtue. But Andrew is backed to the hilt by Buckingham Palace which has given him a clean bill of health.<\/h5>\n
\u201cAny suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue,\u201d a spokesman for the Palace informs us magisterially.<\/h5>\n
Bill Clinton seems to have landed himself even deeper in the doo-doo than Trump and Prince Andrew. Bill has a lot of explaining to do. The Daily Mail<\/em> reports today:<\/h5>\n
Visitors to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s \u2018House of Horrors\u2019 were confronted by \u2018creepy\u2019 interior decor, including artificial eyeballs and a portrait of Bill Clinton in a [woman\u2019s] dress.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The entry foyer to the Manhattan mansion, where Prince Andrew is standing in the video, was decorated with fake eyeballs. Even more bizarre is a portrait of former US president Clinton\u2014a friend of Epstein\u2014in heels and the infamous stained blue dress worn by Monica Lewinsky when she performed a sex act on him.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
(Scroll down to \u2018Inside the House of Horrors<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u2018<\/h5>\n
My own cynical view, for what it\u2019s worth, is that none of these elite overlords will ever face justice. They are above the law. The law applies only to us lesser mortals.\u00a0 Plus \u00e7a change,\u00a0plus c\u2019est la m\u00eame chose<\/em>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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