Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published
Source: The Guardian
Tue 5 Aug 2025 12.47 EDT
Last modified on Tue 5 Aug 2025 13.45 EDT
The long-running scandal surrounding the disgraced late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein broadened on Tuesday after the New York Times published a trove of previously unseen letters to Epstein from numerous powerful figures as well as unseen photographs from inside his Manhattan mansion.
The letters, written to Epstein by a number of high-profile individuals, were reportedly compiled as a birthday gift for Epstein’s 63rd birthday in 2016. Their publication comes amid intense speculation around Donald Trump’s ties to Epstein, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 and had long cultivated a celebrity social circle of the rich and powerful.
In one letter, former prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak and his wife wrote “there is no limit to your curiosity.” “You are like a closed book to many of them but you know everything about everyone,” they wrote, describing Epstein as “A COLLECTOR OF PEOPLE”. They continued: “May you enjoy long and healthy life and may all of us, your friends, enjoy your table for many more years to come.”
In a letter from film-maker Woody Allen, Allen reminisced about Epstein’s dinner parties at his Upper East Side townhouse and described the gatherings as “always interesting”. He noted that the parties included “politicians, scientists, teachers, magicians, comedians, intellectuals, journalists” and “even royalty”. Allen also described the dinners as “well served”: “I say well served – often it’s by some professional houseman and just as often by several young women” who he said reminded him of “Castle Dracula where Lugosi has three young female vampires who service the place.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/jeffrey-epstein-letters-photos
Link to NYT article - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/jeffrey-epstein-mansion-photos.html
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Not surprised at all, of course, but still I need some brain bleach…
But to plan it would mean you'd have to have it all in one place at once, and then you'd have to have a planner coordinate the actual drip drip drip.
Yesterday I tried to post something I saw at Bluesky but I couldn't get it posted. It was by Medvedev. He told Trump they had a trove of info on him and there is no reason he should expect they would not be releasing such info.
The whole section on "my wife" Soon-Yi training and badgering and bullying Epstein into providing a proper meal (at one point it was a Chinese buffet) is maximum creep zone and reads like it is something else being "served," not food.
Extremely disturbing.
Also, what the fuck is up with Noam Chomsky being buddy-buddy with this guy? 
... as a surprise for his 63rd birthday party. Who did the selecting, and who put the letters in the book?
It was Ghislaine Maxwell. Yes I believe this is meaningful.
