The Epstein Files Part 7
Never never never give up
The determination of a few in power to bury the Epstein Files will fail. There is zero fatigue in the public sphere regarding the pursuit of justice in the Epstein/Maxwell child sex trafficking ring.
The abuse and rape of children by the most powerful men in the world went on for decades, and when the law finally got involved in 2005, Epstein slipped the noose on a single charge of solicitation and spent evenings in a prison cell yet freely roamed the outside world during the day as though he were innocent. He abused children by day and rested in prison at night—on our dime.
We now understand that US Attorney Alexander Acosta engaged in legal chicanery in 2005 and did not do his job. He pursued a plea deal for Epstein after being presented with a 60 count federal indictment against Epstein drafted by Assistant US Attorney A. Marie Villafaña. Interesting that when it comes to the Epstein Files, women’s voices are silenced, even on the prosecutorial side, after copious investigative work. It is a reflection of how the victims were treated, or a better word, ignored. Thanks to the pathetic Acosta, Epstein was set free by the justice department to abuse more children and ruin more lives.
Epstein’s partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, is in prison for her sex trafficking crimes done in service to Epstein, though there is plenty of evidence and first hand accounts that she too, sexually abused the children. Some say she ended up in prison because she’s a woman. In truth, she took the rap because she committed the crimes and was convicted. She deserves to rot in prison.
Every day there is a new revelation. The American people, regardless of their political affiliation, agree that there is more work to be done to bring the guilty to justice. We want to read the files in totality and have a right to do so. We want the free press to examine the files in totality.
It doesn’t help that the accused men are incredibly wealthy and wield much power in the business world, entertainment, communication, higher education and in government. The oligarch class knows how to buy favors, bury stories, and run for cover. The Epstein Files pose a threat and expose their vulnerability to prosecution. Of course, these creeps have everything to lose if convicted in a court of law, including their shirts. Their futures along with the financial health of the institutions they represent are at stake. You can’t run a hedge fund or an Ivy League university from a prison cell. They are shaking in their boots because the evidence in the Epstein Files is clear: there’s a record of their involvement—in their own words, with dates, times and disgusting details, including descriptions of the children they sexually assaulted.
Ghislaine Maxwell went on the hunt for children to offer up to Epstein (mostly female, though we don’t have the full files, so we don’t know as of yet how many male children were abused). Maxwell groomed the children and delivered them to Epstein, who sexually abused them and, in turn, placed the children in further harm’s way with the entitled rich.
Imagine the diabolical nature of a devil who roams the world looking for children in pain, only to put them in harm’s way again and again because she knows that the child believes she deserves it and has no place to turn.
Perhaps the most heinous aspect of the exploitation of children by Maxwell was her determination to objectify children in poverty. The victims were children who were poor and had previously been sexually abused. This information was gleaned by Maxwell when she “interviewed” them. She knew that the children were desperate and broken before she trafficked them to Epstein. Let’s think about this. Imagine the diabolical nature of a devil who roams the world looking for children in pain, only to put them in harm’s way again and again because she knows that the child believes she deserves it and has no place to turn.
I think of those children placed in dark rooms with tech titans, royal princes, bankers, professors, academics, high ranking cabinet members of our government and all manner past and present of elected politicians. How frightened the children must have been as they were repeatedly sexually abused and humiliated. Imagine their fear as they were eventually thrown away when they aged out of this sick crime ring.
New York Magazine, shame on you! As if redemption can be bought poolside by a barefoot publicist in a sundress.
Peggy Siegel, the movie flack, while traveling abroad, sent Epstein an email asking if he would like her to bring him a child from Africa. A child! From Africa! She knew what was going on and did nothing to stop it. In fact, she encouraged Epstein in the sexual abuse of children! There’s no pleading ignorance. There’s no excuse! Her emails are in the partially released files! And she is one of thousands on the inside of this thing! What did Siegel do when the emails were revealed? She hired a publicist and did a photo spread in New York Magazine to clean up her image. New York Magazine, shame on you! As if redemption can be bought poolside by a barefoot publicist in a sundress. God help us! This woman is beneath contempt!
It’s not only Siegel who fawned over Epstein. Whatever paltry professional connections and fees she got out of him, I hope it was worth it. Professional people, groveling before Epstein, when they knew of his 2005 conviction will shock you. To read the Epstein Files is to watch the systematic selling of one’s soul for admission to Epstein’s power dinners replete with bad food (ask Woody Allen) and worse company.
Men, educated men, learned, lucky, and powerful, who might have used their talent, connections and influence for, I don’t know—projects like clean water, world peace, cleaning up the environment, women’s health, literacy, equality, building up public schools, affordable housing, a cancer cure, you get the picture—instead, chose to use their power for the deviant sexual exploitation of a frightened child in a dark room. Epstein and Maxwell operated a foolproof system whereby the rich can buy their way out of anything, accountable to no one. To date, not one of these tycoon customers of Epstein has been indicted for their crimes against children.
Epstein’s island, ranch, Florida mansion, and fancy Manhattan townhouse were destinations of torture for children. The Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, a site of depraved criminal activity by Epstein, was supported by JPMorgan Chase and Google among others. The tech companies and banks have been ordered to lock down records involving Epstein for fear the corporations would destroy evidence. Aren’t there standards within these companies whereby they have a commitment to abide by laws? Shouldn’t they want to run their companies ethically? Shouldn’t we as consumers demand it?
The roots of this crime ring are deep, a diabolical scheme that blossomed over decades. It is difficult to comprehend the layers of the criminal activity and exploitation of innocent children and the men involved in it. And yet, the fat cats and tech geniuses get richer and richer, and farther and farther from prosecution as the revelations come into the light. It is almost a cosmic joke, and would be, if they had not engaged in illicit, illegal sexual activity with our children.
A friend of mine recently said, “Hell doesn’t await us—this world is hell.” And I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know that the children who were sex trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell were in hell. They lived as prisoners in forced servitude to old, rich men who abused their bodies with contempt. We would have to ask doctors and therapists why any man would do such a heinous thing, finding his own sexual pleasure in a child’s pain. Today, the more important question is why, if we know this happened—and we do, would anyone hide the facts to protect the bastards who did this evil to the children? Why do they continue to deflect and deny? There are signs of hope. The irrefutable truth in the partially released files is just the beginning of the landslide. The resignations are coming—fast and furiously.
I am in awe of the survivors—all of them, now adult women—who are determined to live and have careers and families and lead productive lives. They are articulate in ways no writer of fiction could invent. They remember details of their internment with Epstein and Maxwell, along with the names and faces of the powerful men who exploited them in those dark rooms. They survived the worst, and now they offer their experiences to us to make certain we join them to prevent the further exploitation of any child. They show up on Capitol Hill. They talk to journalists. They write books, speak to groups, help to free other trafficked children, and offer all they know to put the pieces of this scheme together so that the American people understand what happened and all they endured. They are the heroes in the story, and they have not yet been protected by our legal system. Their basic rights have not been honored. We the people can insist on justice for the victims. The American government is our voice. If we choose to disengage, then Epstein and Maxwell win. We can not let that happen.
Attorney General Todd Blanche believes we are idiots. He changes his mind every five minutes about the Epstein Files and acts like we are a nuisance for insisting on the full release.
The gaslighting by the current Department of Justice in regards to the release of the Epstein Files has risen to the level of an art form. Attorney General Todd Blanche believes we are idiots. He changes his mind every five minutes about the Epstein Files and acts like we are a nuisance for insisting on the full release. We are a step ahead of every con this guy is trying to run, and yet, as of today he says he can’t release the files in totality because the victims names appear in the files. Is he kidding? Where was he when the victims were exposed in the first, sloppy partial release? He is now using the victims in his scheme to keep justice from them in order to protect whom exactly? How ironic! How disgusting!
The partial release of the files in February of 2026 included redacted names of rich men (their reputations were protected!) as they exposed the identities of victims, with photographs (!) that have caused them further harm. Now, suddenly, the current AG is worried about protecting the victims? This is his latest excuse (scam) to keep us from reading the files in full. Mr. Blanche conspired with his predecessor, the unprofessional, rude and inept Ms. Bondi to keep the files hidden. When she got canned, she threw Blanche under the bus, blaming him for their joint ineptitude. I can’t help but think those two deserve each other. Despite their lack of loyalty to one another and their lack of professionalism on the job, it worked out well for Blanche as he replaced Bondi. Talk about a circular firing squad of two with pop guns! Those knuckleheads were put in charge of our justice system, where intelligence, empathy, compassion and an understanding of the law are necessary to do their jobs. They have failed us in every regard.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act was passed nearly one year ago. Mr. Blanche should stop stonewalling, diverting and pretending we don’t understand what he is up to. He is protecting the entitled rich and powerful and not we the people, and certainly not the children. Allow us, the American people, decide who is guilty in this sex trafficking ring. Our representatives voted 427 to one to release the Epstein Files on November 25, 2025. The president signed the bill into law! It’s time to enact the law and obey the will of the people.
Please continue to spread the word to release the files. Write to the Department of Justice and insist that they release the files.
The files available to Americans so far (read them here) are filled with damning evidence, the descriptions of dates, times, and follow-up emails of the men who participated in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. First Lady Melania Trump, in her press conference, called for justice for the victims. Mrs. Trump is the only person, besides Representatives Massie, Green, Kanna, et al. that has come forward in defense of the victims. If Mr. Blanche were smart, he’d have a meeting with the First Lady and let her advise him on how to seek justice for the children.
Every day that we are prevented from reading the Epstein Files in total is a day we have participated in the ongoing abuse and sex trafficking of children. Mr. Blanche, your job is to protect the innocent, not to invent legal mumbo jumbo and schemes to protect the criminal rich. You took an oath. Honor it. We pay your salary. You are there to seek justice for us, the American people. Stop protecting the wealthy and connected at the expense of the victims.
When I was growing up in Appalachia, there was an old expression, “You’re either fer me, or agin me.” We are for justice for the victims in the Epstein crime ring. We are against the bastards that abused our children.
There are signs that we’ve got these bums on the run. Plenty of resignations by men on powerful corporate boards! Billionaires changing their stories and slinking off into the shadows to hide in shame! Spiritual gurus, including that clown Deepak Chopra, have all but disappeared. Not soon enough for that phonus bolonus! Health “expert” Peter Attia has lost his lucrative network deal and has crawled back under the rocks in Canada from whence he came. May they hang their heads in shame and hide as we bring the victims and their truth into the light.
Further Reading
Adriana Trigiani Substack: The Epstein Files
The Wall Street Journal: Epstein Files Fallout: 50 Famous Names and High-Profile Exits
The Wall Street Journal: JPMorgan, Google Records Sought in Probe Into Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch
NBC News: Congress passes bill to force the release of the Epstein Files
BBC: ‘He liked the fear in our eyes,’ Epstein survivors tell BBC
Katie Couric and Julie Brown Substack Live: Epstein Files Latest with Julie K. Brown
New York Times: See Who Has Faced Fallout From the Epstein Files
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
I recently read Virginia Giuffre's memoir: Nobody's Girl. And after, Gisele Pelicot’s memoir, Hymn to life. We owe them at least our time to hearing / reading their stories, and of course, so much more than that. There's a documentary in all you have superbly captured here. I hope your circles of influence find a way to "tell the world." May we all do so in nonstop fashion. This is a stain on everything we are.
Thank you for using your ability and courage to share this, AT.