'Sex, Lies, and the Epstein Files'

[Joinfortmill]

https://tinabrown.substack.com/p/sex-lies-and-the-epstein-files

My words: Tina Brown, long time Nemesis of Jeffrey Epstein and former Editor of the Daily Beast, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker talks about her efforts to expose Epstein.

There is also a recent interview on The Daily Beast you can access below where she discusses some of this:

Excerpt from "Sex, Lies, and the Epstein Files" (Bold is mine)

'As I reported in my 2022 book The Palace Papers, the haute couture PR warhorse Siegal had memorably phoned me in 2010, when I was editor of The Daily Beast, to ask me to a dinner for Andrew hosted by, yes, Jeffrey Epstein, at which the other guests included Charlie Rose and Woody Allen. “What the fuck is this, Peggy?” I had screamed. “The pedophile’s ball?” She backed off with high-pitched gibbering about “all that Epstein stuff being so overblown.” This incensed me even more, given that I had proudly published multiple searing reports on Epstein’s predations by Conchita Sarnoff, a campaigner against human trafficking...

After a fusillade of legal threats pre-publication, Epstein demanded a face-to-face meeting with me, but dropped that tactic when we insisted this could only happen if everything was on the record.

Fresh Hell readers may remember that I’ve written about the unsettling day when I returned to my Beast office to find Epstein sitting there–I still don’t know how he got past security–and, with a menacing stare, he ordered me to “Just stop!” We did not. But our exposé failed to land with the bombshell impact of Julie Brown’s Miami Herald story in 2018. Back in 2010, Epstein did not have the mythic, dark aura he has assumed today.'

And then there's this:

'Protesting big shots who said they had straight-up business associations with Epstein were sustaining friendships with him long after his first arrest.

Elon Musk on X, September 2025: “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED.”

November 2012, Musk to Epstein: “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

December 2025, New York investor Andrew Farkas stated in the NYT: “The basis of my relationship with Mr. Epstein was our business dealings.”

May 2018, one year before his second arrest, Farkas to Epstein: “As someone who considers himself to be amongst your best friends … I love you … Xoxo.”

Jan 30, 2026, NY Giants co-owner Steve Tisch: “I did not take him [Epstein] up on any of his invitations and never went to his island.” Apparently, he didn’t need to.

April 2013, Tisch to Epstein, about a woman named M: “Curious to know about M … pro or civilian?” Epstein replies that the woman is “civilian, but Russian, and rarely tells the full truth, but fun.” On the same thread, Epstein to Tisch: “Did you contact the great ass fake tit [name redacted] she’s a character, short term, has an older boyfriend going to acting school, a 10 ass.”

And Trump’s stonking rich commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who said in an interview last October that he and his wife had decided in 2005 to “never to be in the same room” as their “gross” former Upper East Side neighbor Epstein, is caught in the new emails inviting himself and his wife to the pedo’s Little St. James Island in 2012.'

[sop]

1. Great essay.

Tina Brown: "Other than making the rictus smiles of their wives and exes tauter than usual, pawing through these emails serves only to reinforce what we already know: that mega-wealth so often erodes a moral compass. Epstein’s appeal was an insidious gift of permission. Girls, tax evasion, private places to play. An underground railway of upper-echelon decadence."

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Keep it coming.

The truth exposes the pedotraitors.