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Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    Anywhere to get the documents?

    Clinton, trump. Kimmell according to Aron Rodgers.

    Will get interesting.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,696 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Love the way the MAGA crowd are throwing out names as if everyone didn’t see all the pictures of Trump and Epstein together for years



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I imagine it will all be very dull - Rich and powerful people in fraternising together shocker.

    Q Anon adjacent right wingers will be getting excited about Clinton and other democrats, deranged anti-Trumpers will be pointing in his direction, and for most, life will carry on as usual.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    Its explosive to be fair. Given the crimes Epstein commited.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,696 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Wasn't Epstien arrested on Trumps watch, do you honeslty belive it would have happened if he was involved?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    İf the Irish element hinted at by Drunkmonkey is true I'll be all ears.

    Otherwise it seems there's just too much plausible deniability - "Yes, I was on the island, no, there were no underage girls present, we discussed business and went swimming". İt'll all blow over quickly I imagine. Mind you, I'll be reading if anything explosive does emerge.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,892 ✭✭✭silliussoddius




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,285 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Prince Andrew accuser apparently mentions Stephen Hawking in a very risky situation


    I really hope that one's not true in any way shape or form.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 675 ✭✭✭LilacNails


    Michael Jackson mentioned but didn't get a 'massage'



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Alan Dershowitz mentioned as having sex with a 13 year old, he also helped set up the immunity agreement in Florida for Epstein (and himself).





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,380 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    This is what these disgusting antics are all about - leverage for Epstein, Maxwell and whoever their handlers are.

    At the time this happened people were blue in the face from shouting about Dershowitz and this dodgy deal, but it happened anyways because the public's opinion doesn't really matter here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    It’s all a very light breeze in a teacup at this stage- what information did people think would be released? We’ve heard all the stories that people have told to date - while there’s a huge amount of conspiracy, the main abuse throughout all of this appears to be coming from Epstein.

    Ive absolutely no faith in what Guiffre says considering she wrongly accused two other people and at this stage, as much as I think Prince Andrew is a maroon, I’m inclined to believe it less likely now that he had sex with her.

    Guilt-by association seems to be the biggest crime here



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Not really- there’s nothing new there that we didn’t know already - it’s been covered ad nauseum by the tabloids time and time again had you cared to read it over the last 3 years-I’m not going to be swayed by some idiot conspiracist on Twitter posting his idiot views either



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Str8outtaWuhan


    Hawking involved in an orgy according to one girl #metoo #believeher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    From what I'm reading Trump barely shows up and doesn't get accused of anything in particular. Clinton does get mentioned and there's definitely an implication. Andrew and Dershowitz are the most blatantly clear.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭Carlito Brigantes Tale


    Looks like the rumours about Clinton where true then, "liking them young".

    Disgusting individual.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Yeah, you might want to read a bit more carefully before jumping in with both feet. The only evidence we have of that such a claim was advanced is from Epstein himself, in a 2015 email to Maxwell. Epstein wasn't a girl, and I doubt that the #believerher maxim is intended to apply to male perpetrators.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    Please please please don't get your news from Twitter on this issue.

    Just take some time and read a proper article on a proper news website.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,880 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Jimmy Kimmel has denied it and threatened to sue Rodgers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭randd1


    I suppose there is an obvious question relating to the mention of Stephen Hawking.

    How?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,074 ✭✭✭brickster69


    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Sorry but am I missing something here? Where’s all the “Hollywood” names and what they were alleged to have done? I’m not seeing it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    DM has a quote from Jeffrey's brother Mark Epstein:

    'Here's a direct quote: "If I said what I know about both candidates, they'd have to cancel the election." That's what Jeffrey told me in 2016.'

    Re. the rumours about Prof. Stephen Hawking, well, Epstein himself sent emails denying anything salacious.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    Nothing (so far, anyway).

    That tweet is from a Fox News host who's trying to push his own agenda against the 'elites', and he knows full well that most people won't bother their holes to actually read anything for themselves. Going by this thread, he's right.

    As for the 'nervous laughter', Ricky Gervais was making jokes about paedophiles and a guy who had killed himself. Maybe they just didn't think it was funny.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Epstein was a massive snob, a celebrity fanboy and an inveterate namedropper. While he certainly used his wealth to court celebrities, he was also well-known in his own circle for claiming or implying an association with celebrities that, in fact, he had never met, or for claiming or hinting at knowledge about celebrities which, in fact, he did not have.

    In short, Epstein himself is a massively unreliable witness about who he knew, and what he knew about them. By all means treat with the utmost respect what Epstein's victims say that they themselves experienced or witnessed. But anything that Epstein said, or anything that his victims or associates report him as having said, needs to be taken with a very large grain of salt.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Does that include Epstein defending Stephen Hawking when he stated that he (Hawking) never participated in an orgy?

    Also I wouldn’t be too quick on believing EVERYTHING certain victims have said - there’s a few people accused of having sex with Guiffre for example where she has backtracked later



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    I'm not sure if I'd put much belief in that. Epstein most likely engaged in plenty of bullshit peddling too or equally his brother could be bullshit peddling. I'd put a lot more credibility in what was stated to authorities.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    The only reference I have seen where Epstein talks about this, he wasn't defending Hawking; he was defending himself. And it was in an email to Maxwell which, when he wrote it, he presumably did not expect would ever become public.

    Basically, so far as I know all we have is Epstein (who we must treat as unreliable) saying that there are claims circulating that Hawking was involved in "an underage orgy". Epstein doesn't say who makes that claim. Epstein implies, without actually stating, that he believes the claim is untrue. All this is in a private email from Epstein to Maxwell but, given Epstein's reputation, that doesn't necessarily mean that what he says should be treated as reliable.

    I accept that some of the allegations made about Epstein may be false or exaggerated. But I take claims made by victims far more seriously than anything said by Epstein himself, who has deep-seated psychological motivates for saying or implying that he knows disreputable things about famous people, and obvious personal motivations for saying the opposite.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    I take your point wholeheartedly about Epstein's reliability but still, considering it was a private email, it looks more likely than not to be a genuine statement - without over analysing it that is.

    My main point is that there’s been a hell of a lot of hot air about Epstein over the last number of years; how he had the good and the great in his pocket; cameras all over his house capturing dozens or hundreds (depending on what rag you read) of famous people in compromising positions- the reality is a whole lot tamer than that and this latest “hype” just shows how little evidence there is of widespread abuse of underage or indeed of age girls, by famous people other than by Epstein himself.

    It’s as if a name is mentioned in these files and people go oh look, x person is mentioned, he must be a pedo- without even reading the context in which they’re mentioned. And often there’s very little to go on anyway to form any clear view either way

    I was expecting a list of CEOs of companies and other similar industry leaders and all sorts of accusations but this naming has been quite a non event so far.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,365 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    I’m inclined to believe it less likely now that he had sex with her.

    So the queen gave her 10 million for the craic?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    It’s very possible- 96% of civil claims in America of this nature are settled in advance of going to full court hearing -you could have many reasons why you wish to settle- the only real “evidence” in this case besides Guiffres testimony was a photo taken in Maxwells London flat of Andrew and Guiffre - Andrew had previously denied being upstairs there and denied ever meeting Guiffre- that photo essentially put paid to that statement - it was game over for him - a judge based on probability would have sided with Guiffre- paying out whatever sum doesn’t legally assume guilt - court of public opinion obviously may differ - but I can see why Andrew was forced to settle, mainly due to the Queens upcoming coronation but also because Andrew taking the stand would not have been pretty.

    Whether he had sex with her or not will never be fully determined unless new damning evidence or a confession from him is forthcoming- neither are likely- after that believe what you want- a settlement “proves” nothing but is quite damning in the court of public opinion and it obviously means game over for his royal career and rightfully so -neither you nor I can be proved right or wrong in our view so don’t bother trying with your catchy outy quoting of my posts - I’m immune to that lark at this stage



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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Surely they can exhume Hawking and download the details off his hard drive as evidence?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Just to be clear about Stephen Hawking, here's the mention of him in the document:

    From: jeffrey E. <jeevaccation@gmail.com>

    Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 10:03 AM

    To: Gmax


    you can issue a reward to any of virginias friends acquaionts family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false the strongest is the clinton dinner, and the new version in the virgin isalnds that stven hawking partica-ted in an underage orgy 


    (this is the email in it's entirety, verbatim from the documents, spelling mistakes and all.)

    There's also another mention of him, where Ms. Giuffre is requested to provide the original copies of any photos or video that she has of herself and a number of listed people, which includes Stephen Hawking. In response, Ms. Giuffre's representatives object to the request, on the grounds that she alleges that it is Jeffrey Epstein that has the media, not her.

    It seems some people had the idea that the "Epstein List" was a document with "People I knew who had sex with children" at the top, and then a list of all their favourite "liberals" in alphabetical order below it. It's clearly not like that, and many people are "mentioned" in various contexts that don't amount to an allegation of wrongdoing at all.

    Edit: there's a PDF version of the document here that's easy to search: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24253239/1324-epstein-documents-943-pages.pdf



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Even if they could, you could argue that his hard drive was hacked before burial 🤪



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,664 ✭✭✭crusd


    In the frenzied fantasies of Maga/ Q-Anon world. Ignoring that Trump is actually on it and Mar-a-lago frequently on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,365 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    How many of those cases are settled with a payment of 10 million?

    What you are saying here is Andy is the real victim, he just so happened to be Besties with a prolific rapist and trafficker of young women?

    Guilt by association.

    Poor fella, can't sweat either.

    If it was just all lies I wonder why his mother stripped him of all his titles. Strange that, it's almost like his own family don't believe him.

    the only real “evidence” in this case besides Guiffres testimony was a photo taken in Maxwells London flat of Andrew and Guiffre - Andrew had previously denied being upstairs there and denied ever meeting Guiffre

    Apart from the other witness and the photo evidence yeah it sounds like they never met.

    😂



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    The word "Trump" is mentioned 4 times in the documents (that I can find - there's an image on the previous page of this thread of another mention, but I can't find that text in my search, But even still, it doesn't imply any wrongdoing). One of those mentions is in relation to one of his casinos, and not to him personally. There's no indication that he was in the casino at the time. Here's the 4 mentions:

    Q. And you said that you recall landing in Atlantic City. Did you go into Atlantic City?

    A. Yes, went to one of Trump's casinos.

    Q. Did you actually go into the casino itself?

    A. Yes.


    Q. How did it come to be that you were in a casino in Atlantic City?

    A. We, as we were flying, Jeffrey said, Why don't you go sit in the cockpit to check out the landing? So we were sitting there, and the pilots told me to go back and tell him that we can't land in New York and that we were going to have to land in Atlantic City. Jeffrey said, Great, we'll call up Trump and we'll go to -- I don't recall the name of the casino, but -- we'll go to the casino.


    Q. Did any of the guests for whom you gave a massage mention that they expected something sexual?

    A. No.

    Q. Did they ask you to engage in sexual contact and you refused?

    MS. McCAWLEY: Objection.

    THE WITNESS: No.

    BY MS. MENNINGER:

    Q. Marvin Minsky?

    A. I don't know that.

    Q. George Lucas?

    A. No.

    Q. Donald Trump?

    A. No.

    Q. Did you ever massage Donald Trump?

    A. No.

    People really need to temper their expectations about what a "mention" in these documents actually means.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    This reminds me of that time when the lunatics all convinced themselves that Donald Trump was going to bring down the international conspiracy of paedophiles (on a very specific date, 2021?), and the date came and went and it was never mentioned again.

    These files just seem like a lot of very dull documents, the sort that you would see in discovery of any civil suit. Even Epstein saying that Bill Clinton "likes em young" is hardly news when we knew he had an affair with an intern while president.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,696 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Lewinsky was 21, Clinton was 49. A comment like that might be true but doesn't mean what he liked was under age and there's nothing in the files to suggest otherwise from what I can see. There's one part where it suggests they were trying to set him up with two 17yr olds but he didn't fall for it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭mikewebber




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭Carlito Brigantes Tale




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,664 ✭✭✭crusd


    The point is Maga / Qanon are working themselves into a frenzy about names they have imagined are in the documents but aren't while ignoring what is actually there.

    The Irish conspiracy fringe appears to be worknig themselves into a frenzy about the fact that Epstein appears to have attended an event in Dubln that a prominent Irish music star also attended. There is wild speculation about Irish elites that were also at it and all part of the "ring". In their ludicrous minds the idea that someone may have once been in the same room as Epstein automatically means pedo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Thanks for posting that - was beginning to think I was participating in a conspiracy forum the way some posters have added 2 and 2 and got 47



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    professor Stephen hawking gets mentioned as taken part in an orgy .

    Get the feeling alot of names were added for shock value



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,146 ✭✭✭volchitsa


    The claim of Ireland being more culturally conservative compared to the US would be quite hard to argue these days. That sounds to me more like a Muslim country TBF.

    Uncivil to the President (24 hour forum ban)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,439 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    what a fcuking horrible human being, and the cnut never got what he deserved!



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