Jeffrey Epstein’s brother doesn’t believe the disgraced financier made blackmail sex videos to extort powerful acquaintances, but said he did tell him plenty of gossip about them over the years.
“This is just an opinion; I never really believed they existed,” Mark Epstein, 69, the sex offender’s younger brother, told The Post.
“Jeffrey was buying islands in the Virgin Islands. He had his own private 727. [jet]. Do you think he needed to make money through extortion? Mark said.
“He knew how to make money in the financial world. He knew all the dirty tricks. When he was on Wall Street, he learned all the tricks before Wall Street was cleaned up.”
Epstein rose through the banking ranks at Bearn Stearns in the late 1970s, before founding his own Wall Street consulting firm in the early 1980s, which he used to break into the world of major financial players and forge powerful connections.
Since his arrest, death, and exposure of his elaborate sex trafficking ring in 2019, theories have been put forward alleging that Epstein secretly filmed powerful men in compromising positions at his New York City home and other properties, and then used the tapes to extort money or favors. them.
Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly even acknowledged the existence of such tapes, specifically those of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, in a 2016 meeting with former 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen.
Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in 2019, according to authorities, a story his brother Mark Epstein does not believe. AP Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side home, where he allegedly made tapes of blackmailing powerful men. KAT/SplashNews.com
Mark Epstein does not believe such claims.
“I think you could argue that I knew Jeff better than anyone, and some of these stories seem far-fetched,” he said.
“There was no extensive camera system in the New York House,” he said, explaining that beyond basic security cameras, he was not aware of any hidden surveillance devices in the luxurious Upper East Side home.
What we know about Jeffrey Epstein’s list of 170 associates
- Documents were released Wednesday naming 170 associates of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The list included Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield, Stephen Hawking, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former President Bill Clinton, who one Epstein victim said “likes young women, meaning girls.”
- Disgraced royal Prince Andrew, a known friend of Epstein, was named in the documents and was previously sued by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who accused Andrew of sexual misconduct toward her. According to an expert on the royal family, the Firm “will stand by” the Duke of York “no matter what happens.”
- Epstein’s former lawyer and friend Alan Dershowitz defended associates of the late billionaire sex offender, saying: “None of us knew about his private life that he kept secret.” Dershowitz, who is on the list, added that no one should be automatically convicted in the court of public opinion simply for appearing in court documents.
- Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told The Post that the former business mogul said he could have altered the 2016 election because of what he knew about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: “Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said the what I know about both candidates, they would have to cancel the elections. That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.”
- Only a few of the 170 names and their relationships with Epstein have been made public. The rest of the documents will likely become public records over the next week.
Stay up to date with The Post’s live blog on the revelations about Epstein associates revealed in the newly released documents here.
“They told me that there were no cameras in the house, like spy cameras. But… I wasn’t there,” she admitted.
No such tapes have ever come to light, and neither Clinton nor Trump have been charged with Epstein-related crimes.
Mark Epstein believes many of the theories surrounding his older brother Jeffrey are “exaggerated”
Both men’s names appeared numerous times in the first round of newly disclosed Epstein-related lawsuit documents released Wednesday.
Clinton’s name appears at least 73 times in the records, while Trump appears four times.
Both men are known to have associated with Epstein and flown on his private jet, later known as the “Lolita Express” for its alleged use in trafficking underage girls, in the 1990s and early 2000s.
What we know about Jeffrey Epstein’s list of 170 associates
- Documents were released Wednesday naming 170 associates of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The list included Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield, Stephen Hawking, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former President Bill Clinton, who, according to one Epstein victim, “likes young women, meaning girls.”
- Disgraced royal Prince Andrew, a known friend of Epstein, was named in the documents and was previously sued by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who accused Andrew of sexual misconduct toward her. According to an expert on the royal family, the Firm “will stand by” the Duke of York “no matter what happens.”
- Epstein’s former lawyer and friend Alan Dershowitz defended associates of the late billionaire sex offender, saying: “None of us knew about his private life that he kept secret.” Dershowitz, who is on the list, added that no one should be automatically convicted in the court of public opinion simply for appearing in court documents.
- Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told The Post that the former business mogul said he could have altered the 2016 election because of what he knew about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: “Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said the what I know about both candidates, they would have to cancel the elections. That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.”
- Only a few of the 170 names and their relationships with Epstein have been made public. The rest of the documents will likely become public records over the next week.
Stay up to date with The Post’s live blog on the revelations about Epstein associates revealed in the newly released documents here.
“I was actually on the plane with Donald Trump and my brother,” Epstein recalled. “Back then, I flew regularly with my brother,” he said, noting that it was a normal flight in which nothing untoward happened.
President Bill Clinton meets with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a visit to the White House in 1993. President William J. Clinton/MEGA Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2000. Getty Images
However, Mark admitted that his brother was a known gossip and provided him with a long list of salacious anecdotes about the high, powerful, rich and famous in society.
“Jeffrey used to tell me when something interesting happened, or, particularly, something funny, because he could share it with me and he knew it wouldn’t go anywhere,” she said, adding that he didn’t want to “smear me.” anyone” leaking stories.
Although he does not believe in any widespread conspiracy about his brother’s business dealings, Mark, who noted that he “did not receive a dime from Jeffrey’s estate” after his death, is convinced that his death was not a suicide as officials have reported. .
“I’m not here to defend him. What he did was wrong. But that’s not my concern. My concern is that my brother was murdered,” he said.
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