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The Monsters – Epstein-Maxwell Saga Further Unravels…

The Monsters – Epstein-Maxwell Saga Further Unfolds

As the Epstein-Maxwell saga continues to unravel, Matthew Steeples looks at the forthcoming fallout for ‘The Monsters’ linked including Prince Andrew, Steve Bannon, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Jes Staley

The rotten rabbit hole that is the Epstein-Maxwell saga seems to never end. Barely a day goes by without new developments or old ones being revisited and in the last week, the prospects of further fallout for linked parties has only grown.

 

Aside from Prince Andrew whingeing and whining via third parties that he has been left “bewildered” and “in despair” after King Charles III cut him off from access to the £650 million ($782 million, €735 million or درهم2.9 billion) estate left by Queen Elizabeth II, the non-sweating ‘bestie’ of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is allegedly also ludicrously proposing a new television interview “telling his side” of the story. An unnamed source last week went as far as to claim now “feels there is little else to lose” and that “nothing is off the table… Andrew has been made to give up his job and now potentially his home.”

 

Turning to Maxwell and her appeal prospects, on Thursday The Guardian’s New York based ‘reporter of courts’ Victoria Bekiempis analysed the mucky madam’s prospects. Bekiempis argued Maxwell “faces [a] hard road in bid to overturn sex-trafficking conviction” with the help of her new lawyer, a representative also of Harvey Weinstein named Arthur L. Aidala.

 

Going further, Bekiempis added:

 

“[Aidala has] said Maxwell was a ‘proxy’ for Epstein who was prosecuted ‘to satisfy public outrage over an unpopular non-prosecution agreement and the death of the person responsible for the crimes’ … [His] comments might have been aimed more at generating sympathetic media coverage than being a predictor of the appeal’s likely success. Maxwell cannot mount an appeal based on her own claims that she was a hapless surrogate for Epstein, or too tired at trial.”

 

“Her legal team will have to argue instead that there were legal errors in proceedings against her that necessitate a verdict reversal, and that is where her bid to have her conviction overturned will succeed or – according to many legal experts – more likely fail.”

 

“‘The likelihood of the second circuit reversing her trial verdict is close to zero,’ said Ron Kuby, a longtime criminal defense attorney with a focus on civil rights. ‘The second circuit tends to uphold almost all criminal convictions as a general matter.’”

 

“In the rare cases the second circuit does reverse a trial court outcome, leading to a new trial, it is typically because prosecutors have over-stretched a legal theory – or because the US supreme court has made a decision that affects proceedings in lower courts, Kuby said.”

 

“‘But Maxwell’s trial was none of that – the Maxwell trial was all very well-plowed legal territory,’ Kuby said. The proceedings against Maxwell – which stemmed from serving as Epstein’s procurer of victims – were not complicated by racketeering counts, nor convoluted bribery charges.”

 

“‘It’s like very, very, very fancy trappings, but fundamentally, it’s the prosecution of a pimp, which is not that complicated,” Kuby said.”

 

“Rachel Fiset, co-founder of Los Angeles firm Zweiback, Fiset & Zalduendo, said she thought a successful appeal was ‘unlikely.’”

 

“While Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, will probably fail in her appeal, there is still a reason for her to try.”

 

“‘She’s looking at a very long sentence, and they are looking at ways to have it overturned, and there are not any options beyond an appeal,’ Fiset said. ‘She doesn’t have very much to lose other than the cost of the appeal.’”

 

“‘It’s not uncommon for people with a lot of means to appeal their conviction in the hopes that it’s overturned. Maxwell has remained very steadfast that she has not committed these crimes and that it’s not her fault, so the appeal is not surprising.’”

 

Elsewhere, interest in Epstein and Maxwell’s involvement with Donald Trump was revived yesterday in Business Insider. In an article titled: “Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump ‘when he realised Trump was a crook,’ according to his brother,” writer Jacob Shamsian quoted the croaked paedophile’s sibling Mark Epstein.

 

Referencing a still to be released video interview between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s disgraced White House advisor Steve Bannon, Shamsian shared:

 

“Mark Epstein told Insider he viewed a clip of the interview, conducted by Trump’s former White House advisor Steve Bannon, after his brother forwarded it to him in the spring of 2019.”

 

“At the time, Bannon was conducting filmed interviews with the now-dead pedophile financier. Bannon sent Jeffrey Epstein a Dropbox link to a clip, which he forwarded to his brother. The link is no longer active, according to Mark.”

 

“‘Jeffrey showed me the link to one of these interviews,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realised Trump was a crook.’”

 

Insider has not been able to independently view the video. Bannon could not be reached for comment.”

 

“For the documentary project, Bannon recorded more than 16 hours of footage, Mark Epstein said. In November of 2018, the Miami Herald ran a series detailing how Jeffrey Epstein secured a secret, lenient plea deal with federal prosecutors in Florida in 2007, even after law enforcement concluded at the time that he had sexually abused more than 30 girls.”

 

“‘Steve Bannon was working with Jeffrey to try to help Jeffrey rehabilitate his reputation,’ Mark Epstein told Insider.”

 

“Bannon and Epstein had become close in 2017, after Bannon left the White House, according to the journalist Michael Wolff. Bannon lived lavishly off Epstein’s vast wealth, using his Paris apartment and butler in 2018.”

 

“Bannon released a trailer in 2021 for his apparent documentary about Epstein, titled The Monsters [subtitled: ‘Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’]. The entire documentary has not yet been released.”

 

“Both Bannon and Trump now have their own legal issues. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has pending criminal charges against Bannon, alleging he participated in a scam nonprofit organization that raised funds to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Trump pardoned Bannon on federal charges for the same scheme before he left office. Bannon’s lawyers in the federal case are suing him for allegedly not paying his bills. Bannon was also found guilty last year of contempt of Congress for defying a House January 6 committee hearing subpoena.”

 

“Trump, for his part, is facing a potential indictment from the Manhattan district attorney’s office for a hush-money scheme ahead of the 2016 election, a rape case headed to trial in April, and a litany of other legal woes.”

 

Turning to the Department of Justice investigation into Epstein’s death, in a separate and rather lengthy article for Business Insider last Thursday, Shamsian observed:


“Jeffrey Epstein’s death in a federal jail was seen as a shocking Justice Department failure. Over three years later, the DOJ inspector general hasn’t released the results of its investigation. Epstein’s accusers – and his brother – still want answers.”

 

“The officials said Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide. Pressed for more detail, they just repeated themselves.”

 

“‘They didn’t give me any information other than ‘After a thorough investigation, we determined it was a suicide,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘It was like I was talking to a f**king robot.’”

 

“The meeting [on 28th October 2019, two months after his brother’s death] was the only time Mark got any answers from the DOJ about his brother’s death. Three years later, he still doesn’t know exactly how Epstein died and why it’s taken the government that long to share its answer to that question.”

 

“Mark Epstein told Insider that even though he’s Jeffrey’s next of kin, he hasn’t been able to obtain certain medical records, including the care reports filled out by EMTs who evaluated his brother’s corpse.”

 

“‘For many people, the death was suspicious, to say the least,’ said Gloria Allred, an attorney who represents 20 of Epstein’s victims. ‘Others have their own conclusions about what happened to Mr Epstein. But the speculation needs to be replaced by facts and evidence.’”

 

“Mark Epstein remains puzzled by the holdup. He’s convinced his brother didn’t kill himself and stands by the conclusions of Baden, who personally observed the four-hour autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein’s body.”

 

“‘We all took it by surprise,’ Mark Epstein told Insider. ‘Nobody thought he was gonna kill himself. Nobody.’”

 

“After losing all [his lavish life on his arrest in 2019], it was possible he found the prospect of life behind bars unappealing, Mark Epstein said. ‘When I first heard that my brother was dead, and found dead from suicide, I just figured, ‘OK, he decided to take himself out,’ he told Insider.”

 

“An Insider poll taken later that fall found nearly half of Americans believed Epstein was murdered.”

 

“When Mark Epstein saw Barr dismiss the possibility of a murder based on his review of security footage outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell tier, he wasn’t remotely satisfied.

 

“What I thought was, this is either a cover-up, or he’s the dumbest f**k on the planet,’ Mark Epstein said.”

 

“To Mark, [Attroney General Bill] Barr’s version of events suggests he came to the conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and then backfilled evidence from there.”

 

“Barr seemed to consider only the possibility that a murderer would have been someone who snuck into the jail. Mark told Insider he was gobsmacked that Barr didn’t seem to consider the possibility that someone else in Jeffrey Epstein’s block of cells killed him.”

 

“Mark Epstein told Insider that he spoke to his brother about once a month in the years before his death. The two caught up over the phone while Jeffrey Epstein was in Paris, the night before he flew to New Jersey and was arrested after his private jet landed.”

 

“Jeffrey Epstein had reasons to stay alive, Mark said. He didn’t leave a suicide note – or at least none that has been reported – and reportedly deposited money into other inmates’ commissary accounts in return for protection. People who spoke with him in the weeks leading up to his death believed he was optimistic about getting the charges dismissed.”

 

“Mark Epstein told Insider he built his wealth independently from his brother, founding a silk-screening business before pivoting to real estate with Ossa Properties, which at one point reportedly owned hundreds of apartments in New York City.

 

“At least one of Mark Epstein’s Upper East Side buildings, however, includes multiple links to his brother. Mark has said he purchased it from the business magnate Leslie Wexner, his brother’s longtime patron. Jeffrey Epstein owned about a dozen apartments in the building, which he used to house at least one of his sex-trafficking victims as well as his private pilots while they were staying in New York, according to testimony at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. Right before Epstein died, his lawyers were preparing to appeal a judge’s decision to deny him bail. They had prepared a bond package valued at $100 million.”

 

“Mark Epstein agreed to guarantee the whole thing, he told Insider, meaning he’d lose that amount of money if his brother tried to flee authorities.”

 

“‘If you get bail, you’re gonna be home for a year – under house arrest, with an ankle bracelet, armed guards, video cameras, whatever the conditions were – but he’ll be in his house,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘So why kill yourself then?’”

 

Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

 

Pictured Top – Steve Bannon’s likely shelved film ‘The Monsters: Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’ would (or will) undoubtedly feature not only the croaked paedophile, but also his lover and co-collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell, his “heartfelt” friend and banker Jes Staley and the ‘bestie’ that came to “end their friendship in December 2010,” Prince Andrew.

 

This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Who is going to “suffer” most next in fallout from Epstein-Maxwell sex trafficking saga given Jes Staley court case, Trump & Clinton revelations & Prince Andrew’s latest tantrums?” He added the hashtags: #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #JesStaley #PrinceAndrew #BillClinton #DonaldTrump #SteveBannon and of the four options listed, by 11:30am on Sunday 12th March, the clear majority of respondents favoured the option that it’ll be worst for the “other famous faces linked” than anyone else.
The trailer for the as-of-yet still unreleased Steve Bannon film ‘The Monsters –Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’ lasts 2:02-minutes. Of the 16 hours of footage, many are still asking: “Where exactly is the film?” in which Bannon allegedly accused Jeffrey Epstein of being a spy even.
Jeffrey Epstein looked at ease whilst being interviewed for a programme subsequently titled ‘The Monsters’ by Steve Bannon. Only a trailer for it has been released thus far (in 2021) and in it in October 2021, the ‘New York Post’ reported that late pedophile stunningly claimed “that he was a “’irm believer and supporter’ of the anti-sexual harassment Time’s Up movement.” Calling him out as a “pervert,” the paper added that he observed: “I made my living from old thinking. But the future is for the way women think. I’ve always believed that women will be, in fact, be able to take over.”
That Steve Bannon supposedly spent around 16 hours recording convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of an attempt to allegedly help “rehabilitate” him at his Lenox Hill ‘Paedo Palace’ – sold subsequently for £36 million in March 2021 – sometime in 2018 speaks volumes as the lack of quality of his moral compass.
Steve Bannon released his trailer for ‘The Monsters’ under the banner of Victory Films. In August 2020, ‘The Wrap’ shared details of “all 19 movies and shows [that he] wrote, directed or produced.” Amongst them were ‘The Indian Runner’ (1991) with Sean Penn, ‘Seinfeld’ (1992), ‘Titus’ with Anthony Hopkins (1999), ‘Reagan: In the Face of Evil’ (2004), ‘Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration’ (2006), ‘Tradition Never Graduates: A Season Inside Notre Dame Football’ (2007), ‘The Chaos Experiment’ with Val Kilmer (2009), ‘Generation Zero’ (2010), ‘Battle for America’ (2010), ‘Fire from the Heartland’ (2010), ‘Sarah Palin: The Undefeated’ (2010), ‘The Hope & the Change’ (2012), ‘District of Corruption’ (2012), ‘Occupy Unmasked’ (2012), ‘Sweetwater’ with January Jones and Ed Harris (2013), ‘Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power’ (2014), ‘Clinton Cash’ (2016), ‘Torchbearer’ (2016) and ‘Trump @ War’ (2018). Other companies and organisations the Norfolk, Virginia born naval officer and investment banker turned media tycoon and political strategist wannabe has been involved in have numbered Bannon & Co. (sold to Société Générale in 1998), ‘Breitbart News,’ IGE, the Government Accountability Institute, The Movement and Cambridge Analytica.
The noxious nonce Ghislaine Maxwell (pictured with her avaricious late mother Betty in 1991) appears incapable of accepting her sentence. Set to attempt to pile yet more misery on her multiple victims, this convicted sex trafficker should be made aware that in 2015 court administration data “indicated that less than 9% of federal appeals in reversals of lower courts,” according to ‘The Guardian’s’ Victoria Bekiempis.
Meanwhile Jeffrey Epstein’s very, very rich brother Mark has again been spreading his thoughts about the demise of the Ponzi scheming paedophile. Mark Epstein is clearly very motivated and in suggesting his late brother believed Donald Trump (pictured with his wife Melania Knauss and Ghislaine Maxwell also) to be a “crook,” he is clearly trying to change the narrative in his own favour.
President Bill Clinton (pictured at the White House with the co-conspirator sex traffickers Epstein and Maxwell on 29th September 1993) faces further woes from the fallout also. Allegations that Clinton and Maxwell had sexual liaisons that became a full-blown affair have abounded, but remain unconfirmed by either party. Equally, Epstein and Clinton travelled together on multiple occasions and clearly shared a mutual liking for young girls also. The former POTUS was most certainly advised about the derelict and deviant actions of the nefarious former taxi driver turned financier, yet conveniently chose to ignore such and to instead accept the dirty devil’s dollar.
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest pals, ‘Snow White’ communicator James Edward Staley (AKA ‘Jes Staley’), faces his own woes with a summons on a third-party complaint from JPMorganChase Bank, N.A. and ‘Jane Doe 1’ in regard to his “activities” with and on behalf of his deceased chum. The late CEO of J. P. Morgan and Barclays – who resides at 930 Park Avenue, Unit GN/6S, New York, NY 10028 with his wife Debbie – is set to go down in history as a total disgrace.
Meanwhile, the Pizza Express loving mate of the facing-a-trial-for-a-£400-million fraud Bernie Ecclestone that is the Duke of York must be called out as utterly nuts if he decides to give another interview. His last, with Emily Maitlis for the BBC, was an utter car crash of total epic proportions. No doubt encouraged by his money grabbing live-in ex-wife, ‘Feckless Fergie’ (AKA ‘Sarah, Duchess of York), and his dimwitted daughters, here is a needy and greedy berk who King Charles III should most definitely just “cancel.”
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