JEFF'S CHRISTMAS GRAB BAG

Fake Passports, Taxidermied Dogs, Creepy Art and Redacted Lies

Just in time for Christmas, Trump’s Department of Justice has delivered a supersonic sleigh brimming with Epstein material. The 30,000 documents in Volume Eight are, like the previous seven volumes, out of order, out of context and incompetently redacted. Journalists and armchair theorists will have nothing else to do this holiday week but stay up all night by the light of the screen, wordsearching the documents here while waiting for Santa. At the Freakshow, we don’t have time to giftwrap and deliver each weird shiny thing to your disbelieving eyes. But here are nine items to pique your freak:

ONE The first item on the FBI’s list of evidence to be seized from Epstein’s eight story, 40 room mansion after he was arrested in July 2019? Any and All Taxidermed dogs. We had noticed one of Epstein’s taxidermied dog (see above) in a previous DOJ dump, but we hadn’t given it much thought. Now we learn there were taxidermied dogs - plural -of such interest to the law that they rate above massage and sextoy paraphernalia on the seizure list. We can only assume FBI suspected Jeff of storing contraband in them or maybe those are surveillance cameras behind the eyes?

Bonus for DIY sleuths: Will the owners of these Fidos ever step up?

TWO Speaking of surveillance, the documents include lists of recording cameras recovered from inside the mansion. Naturally, several were found on a nightstand by the bed. There are images of what appear to be a surveillance room equipped with a bank of screens, a console and two swivel chairs. Some visitors and victims had reported the existence of such a room. The FBI never got the disks and hard drives on which these recordings were stored. Some were apparently in the safe, above. They blew open the safe in July 2019, then left the premises to get a warrant to take its contents. When they returned the material was gone. A few days later Epstein’s accountant Richard Kahn showed up with a bag of diamonds, passports and cash. But whereabouts of the recorded material is still not clear.

THREE When the FBI blew open the Epstein mansion safe, they found four passports including at least two American and one Austrian (above) with Jeff’s picture, a Saudi address but the name of an Austrian cement company owner Marius Fortelni who did work in Saudi Arabia. (The fourth, an Israeli passport referenced by former USDNY prosecutor Geoffrey Berman in his book, has never yet appeared in any official document).

FOUR How much ugly art and ghastly interior design can you stuff into a 40 room mansion? The DOJ dump confirms that Epstein, raised in Coney Island squalor, was a man who, as Oscar Wilde put it, knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. But there’s a creepiness that surpasses bad taste and borders the malevolent. Not quite the set for Pier Pasolini’s banned film about the Marquis de Sade, but almost. Look at the above and try to imagine a young trafficked girl from New Jersey or Florida or Kazakhstan, trapped in the labyrinth, with rapists waiting in every room, confronting in shadowy hallway this bronzed boy, disemboweled zebra and photos of gigantic icky insects.

FIVE It turns out that New York prosecutors in 2019 were looking at ten “co-conspirators” including Les Wexner. The Freakshow has previously explored the inexplicable relationship between gnomic Ohio billionaire and dashing global criminal. Wexner is deep into his dotage now, still denying he had any knowledge of or involvement with Epstein’s various activities - despite having given him power of attorney over his billions. The above document and one other indicate that Wexner shared space on a list of people under the email subject heading “co-conspirators” with the depraved Jean Luc Brunel and Ghislaine Maxwell.

SIX Very sad things are glimpsed: Handwritten notes, evidence in police and civil lawsuits, written by or transcribed for girls and women describing their experiences with Epstein. Lost teens lured by luxury and promises: “I wanted to learn languages” “he took me shopping and picked the clothes” then, “he was very controlling” “Ghislaen [sic] very intimidating very cold” and during the “massages” “i was uncomfortable and I froze.” One note is: “raped 4x.” Another wrote that Epstein “thinks monogamous relationships are unhealthy” and took her to Spain to learn how to “build a harem.”

SEVEN Would Trump host a “party for prostitutes” at Mar a Lago? According to this document various people believed that is what was happening at MAL around Christmas 2000. I emailed one of them, but she hasn’t replied.

EIGHT The latest DOJ drop includes two sensational documents guaranteed to attract attention. One is demonstrably fake and the other highly suspicious. Epstein supposedly wrote from prison to convicted pedophile Larry Nassar (how convenient, how perfect, of course he would write to a fellow pedo!). It made headlines yesterday until someone pointed out that it was dated after Epstein’s death. Reporters are still mulling over another document, a report to the FBI that a woman had claimed she was raped by Trump and Epsetin, then died in a suspicious way in Kiefer, Oklahoma. In the era of Trumpocene craziness, a lot of weird shit is true, but it’s still important to beware of too-good-to be-true material. Tossing in lies to then reveal them as fake after they are woven into theories is a tried and true Russian method of increasing distrust in a narrative.

NINE: Essential Jeff, flush with happiness siphoned from eternally redacted women.

Author Note: As the year ends, I am deeply grateful to subscribers, Thank you! I am especially grateful to paying readers. Next week, December 30, I want to give you a gift: A substack live for paying subscribers only with my friend, source and author, attorney, international money laundering expert L. Burke Files. Mr. Files has written an engaging new book called How to Launder Money, to be published next year. He will try to explain the mystery of Jeffrey Epstein’s money, how he got it, what he did with it why so many rich people were willing to hand theirs over. I will post a reminder about time closer to the date.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!