The Never Ending Saga of the Epstein Sex Scandal

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The biggest sex scandal (so far) of the 21st Century is the one involving the mysterious financier Jeffrey Epstein, his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell and the many purported victims of the two, especially his number 1 accuser, Virginia Giuffre.

Epstein was convicted on state charges of paying one or more underage girls for sex in 2008 and spent 13 months in custody. After his release Epstein apparently continued his main interests in life: networking with many famous people, making lots of money in somewhat mysterious ways and receiving paid massages (and occasionally more) from young, attractive women, some of whom may have been under the age of consent and some of whom were clearly consenting adults. Since Epstein committed suicide in jail after he was charged with various sex offenses, he was never tried and convicted in court. Thus it's hard to know exactly what bad things he did in the years after his first conviction.

However his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, was charged, tried and convicted of "sex trafficking" because, according to the Feds, she helped Epstein recruit women for his sexual escapades.

With the conviction and sentencing of Maxwell in 2021-22, I thought the case was over and done, but really the fun was just beginning. There were a few reasons that the case refused to die, especially because: vulturous lawyers like David Boies saw a chance to make millions in civil court from Epstein's estate and any individual or institution (such as banks or the British monarchy) that was somehow linked to Epstein; the media and the public loved to write and read about all kinds of conspiracy theories involving Epstein and his wide network of friends and acquaintances; and politicians used the case and the voluminous court documents ("files") generated in cases involving Epstein, Maxwell and their accusers as a political football. Both Democrats and Republicans have endlessly accused each other of failing to properly release "everything" related to the case. Many files have been released but no one is satisfied.

Epstein and Maxwell's main accuser is Virginia Giuffre who got spectacularly rich from the proceeds of various monetary awards she received from various sources sued by her lawyers. Giuffre committed suicide in April 2025, but she is now lying (oops, I meant speaking) to the world from her grave with this week's publication of her memoir. So, in brief, that's why the Epstein/Maxwell case is back in the news.

I have always been somewhat skeptical of some of the most outrageous charges against Epstein and Maxwell. I certainly agree that Epstein was guilty as charged in his first case. I think he probably did some illegal things after his release but without another trial and very little public, credible evidence, it's hard to know just how bad an actor he was. Maxwell was convicted but I thought her trial was tainted by the desire of the public to see someone get convicted for Epstein's alleged crimes after his suicide.

The media and the public have always been extremely anti Epstein and Maxwell and extremely sympathetic to Epstein's alleged victims. It is hard to find any reporter or writer who will express even a little skepticism about any of the details of the Epstein/Maxwell saga. However, with the release of the Giuffre book, I came across an independent journalist named Michael Tracey who has written about Epstein/Maxwell and their accusers. He has published some articles on his Substack and elsewhere. I found them enlightening since Tracey has followed the cases closely and done some careful research that calls into question the credibility of some of the chief accusers of Epstein and Maxwell.

We Need To Talk About Virginia

“Virginia Roberts Giuffre is an American hero,” proclaimed Bradley Edwards, the pioneering Florida plaintiff’s attorney, who has made a career out of representing every “victim” of Jeffrey Epstein he can possibly manifest, by suing every individual or entity he can possibly identify.

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...Given that Virginia Roberts Giuffre admitted, in 2022, that she had spent nearly a decade falsely accusing a prominent individual of graphic sex crimes, why should she now be seen by the public as remotely credible? And moreover, why should Edwards be seen as remotely credible, in his capacity as a political and legal advocate making demands on behalf of purported “Survivors”? I didn’t actually ask that second question, although I would have liked to. The first question was enough to get me booted by Capitol Police, after Marjorie Taylor Greene and a mob of “Survivors” riled themselves into a vindictive frenzy. But really: Edwards was representing Virginia Roberts Giuffre (henceforth referred to as the notorious “VRG”) at the time she made these sensational claims against Alan Dershowitz, and representing her when she recanted them. So what credibility do either of them have?

I almost want to bracket the whole Dershowitz ordeal, because I’m well aware that people are chronically incapable of separating out whatever feelings they might have about Dershowitz on wholly unrelated issues. So please, let it be known that the chronic fabrications and serial unreliability of Virginia Roberts Giuffre can be more than amply established even if one were to simply forget the whole Dershowitz thing ever happened. Even though it would be an absurd thing to arbitrarily forget: VRG described in the most lurid detail, under multiple depositions, the nature of the sex acts to which Dershowitz had allegedly subjected her. This included elucidating his ejaculation habits, his preferred methods of receiving pleasure, the physical characteristics of his naked body, his expressions of arousal, and so forth. Then, eventually, she had to admit she made the whole thing up. Or to put it technically, she “may have made a mistake” in identifying him as the culprit of these crimes, which is how the statement her lawyers ultimately drafted for her was worded. So yes, it would be extremely strange to just forget about all this, especially if we’re supposed to be evaluating the credibility of someone whose scandalous accusations continue to stoke political upheaval in multiple countries, including at this very moment, even after (what we’re told) was her untimely death in April 2025. And with the release this week of her new “memoir,” yet another PR campaign has been orchestrated to canonize the tales of VRG.

These Professional Epstein "Survivors" Claim They Were "Groomed" as Adults!

“You were 21 years old when you first encountered Epstein.

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“You were 21 years old when you first encountered Epstein. Is that right?”

She nodded.

I was talking to Lisa Phillips, one of the hard-charging “survivors” who defiantly seized the spotlight at last week’s highly eventful Epstein Press Conference outside the Capitol in Washington, DC.

“So are you asserting that you were ‘groomed’ by Epstein as an adult?” I asked.

“I was an adult. You could say that, yeah.”

“Well, 21 is an adult, right? So you were groomed as an adult?”

“Yes,” she said. “Many people are groomed as adults.”

“Doesn’t the notion of grooming typically refer to children who are groomed by predatory adults?” I asked.

“You can be groomed at any age,” she said.

“At any age?” I asked.

“Absolutely,” she said. “People are groomed all the time.”

“OK,” I said.

Has anyone actually bothered to look into the "victims" who were paraded around at the Epstein Press Conference?

After I was forcibly ejected yesterday from the Epstein “Survivors” Press Conference in front of the US Capitol, I meandered along the perimeter, waiting to see if I’d be able to get back in.

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Among the purported “victims” present yesterday was Annie Farmer — one of the four government-identified “victims” (out of what we’re told is “over a thousand”) who was called to testify at the 2021 criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. Over the course of that trial, Judge Alison Nathan, who was otherwise preposterously pro-prosecution, found herself compelled to instruct jurors that they were not to regard anything Annie Farmer claimed happened to her as “illegal sexual activity.” Recall, when she spoke to the FBI in 2006 and 2020, Annie Farmer never alleged anything that occurred to her during her purported encounters with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell was “sexualized.” Her tune changed when the Epstein Victims Compensation Program got established, and millions of dollars became available. That’s when she told the settlement fund’s mediator that she considered alleged acts such as “hand-holding” to be “sexual abuse.”

Annie Farmer — now a “licensed psychologist” specializing in “trauma” — also appears to have appointed herself as an all-purpose spokeswoman for the growing social network of alleged Epstein “victims.” And she’s been making lots of media appearances lately, under the professional moniker of “Survivor.” Which is a bit odd. You’d think “Dr. Farmer” would maybe want to be identified by her self-publicized professional title, “licensed psychologist.” But it seems “Epstein Survivor” is more lucrative. “I am not currently accepting new clients,” her website says.

Annie’s lunatic older sister, Maria Farmer, was not present in DC yesterday from what I could tell, but Annie made sure to carry on her sister’s crackpot legacy. “Why was my sister’s 1996 FBI report — why was nothing done at that time?” Annie asked yesterday. “I think for those of us, seeing so many people that have been harmed since that time, I can’t tell you how heartbreaking that is. To think, this didn’t have to happen.” Let’s remember, Maria Farmer claims she called the NYPD, then the FBI, in 1996 to report some kind of pedophilic conspiracy going on in Ohio which she claimed involved Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and the “Jewish mafia.” She claims to have been given multiple cancers by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and possibly also Trump and/or Clinton. She claims to have had some sort of divine epiphany that allowed her to realize Epstein and Maxwell were “pedophiles” — after voluntarily climbing into bed with them, at age 26. At which point she claims she was “raped” of her “sanity.” To redress these profound wrongs, Maria Farmer has now filed a brand new lawsuit, circa May 2025, demanding $600 million from US taxpayers to compensate her for the “complex PTSD, debilitating fatigue, chronic illness,” and myriad other conditions she claims to have endured for the past 30 years. I wonder if Annie Farmer gave Maria the PTSD diagnosis?