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There Is No Epstein List, But We Got Names

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by Nick Bryant
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 - 13:00

Authored by Nick Bryant

On February 21, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk” for review. On February 26, she proclaimed on national television that the “Epstein files” would be released the following day: “What you’re gonna see tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.” But when the highly anticipated tranche of documents was released, her words had been much ado about nothing.  

When the documents provided no new allegations and revelations, Bondi then declared that she had been bamboozled by the FBI’s New York field office. Regardless of how we slice Bondi’s actions, she has to shoulder the blame for the fiasco, because either she lied on national television, or she didn’t diligently review the documents on her “desk.” I’m a charitable person, so I’ll ascribe her actions to incompetence instead of mendacity. 

But then she further tarnished her credibility when she said that now she has a “truckload of evidence” on the Epstein case, and only matters related to “national security” would be redacted from the documents. So, now she has to explain the nexus between the most prolific child trafficker ever acknowledged by US law enforcement and his ilk of child molesters and national security. Peanut butter and jelly are two things that readily meld with each other, but I can’t say that for child molestation and national security. 

I uploaded Epstein’s Black Book on the internet in 2015, and I believe that’s the closest we’ve come to an Epstein List, because the Black Book contains the names of numerous perps. I also uploaded flight logs from Epstein’s various sojourns, which contain the names of perpetrators, too. In fact, I singlehandedly released more information about the Epstein case in 2015 than Bondi released last month. 

In the Epstein List narrative, I’m surmising, Epstein kept a list of his child molesting clients as if he were a travel agent at the Jeffrey Epstein Travel Agency. The List narrative is problematic, because he had their names and numbers in his Black Book.

At best, the Epstein List is wishful thinking. At worst, it’s a contrived meme. 

Now … the news cycle is on to the next bright, shiny object, which is the recently released JFK files. But let’s step back and take a hard look at the Epstein case: I’ll demonstrate that we don’t need the fictitious, vaunted Epstein List to have a list of Epstein perpetrators that’s fully grounded in reality.

According to July 8, 2019, New York Times article, federal authorities seized “hundreds—possibly thousands—of sexually suggestive photographs of girls who appear underage, as well as hand-labeled compact discs with titles like ‘Girl pics nude,’ and, with the names redacted, ‘Young [Name] + [Name].’”Judging by the titles on the discs, Epstein was a purveyor of child rape material. The latter disc named by the New York Times is perhaps an indication of blackmail? Moreover, Business Insider reported that an FBI agent later confessed that “hard drives” were taken from the safe.

I believe that the impounded discs and hard drives would be an unparalleled source for identifying both the perpetrators and victims in the Epstein child trafficking network. If federal authorities are truly committed to justice, then Americans should be given access to the names of the perpetrators on the discs and hard drives. 

Judging by the titles on the discs, Epstein was a purveyor of child rape material. The victims of Epstein’s reportedly massive cache of child rape material need to be identified and helped with the psychological devastation that invariably accompanies being used as fodder for child rape material. It’s a rather peculiar facet of our society that people’s attention is fixated on the names of perpetrators, and, sadly, the destruction of children over the course of 25 years is never mentioned when Epstein is discussed in the media. I think the latter fact is probably the result of grooming by the mainstream media, because I’m not aware of any mainstream media outlets demanding justice for Epstein and his ilk’s numerous victims. The mainstream media has groomed us like a perpetrator grooms a victim. Epstein buddy Woody Allen groomed America for his demented lifestyle with films like Manhattan. 

Got Names?

In a defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, Virginia Giuffre accused the following men of being among her perpetrators: Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, billionaire Glenn Dubin, former senator George Mitchell, scientist Marvin Minsky, and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and billionaire Les. Wexner. The rich and powerful men named by Giuffre issued public denials, and that appeared to be the extent of their fates vis-à-vis federal law enforcement. 

As I mentioned, Epstein’s Black Book is also the source of numerous alleged perpetrators. The prime mover of the Black Book surfacing was Alfredo Rodriquez, a former Epstein house manager. He purloined a copy of Epstein’s contacts, their addresses, and phone numbers before leaving Epstein’s employ in 2005. The Black Book also contains the names of numerous victims. 

In 2009, Rodriquez’s grand plan was to hawk the Black Book to an attorney representing some of Epstein’s victims in civil lawsuits—his fee was $50,000. The attorney in question reported Rodriquez’s hijinks to the FBI, which snared Rodriquez and the Black Book in a sting. The FBI had previously interviewed Rodriquez, but he had said nary a word about the Black Book, so he was charged with federal Obstruction of Justice. Rodriguez received an 18-month sentence for that offense, the same sentence received by his former employer. Rodriguez, however, had to serve his sentence in a federal prison instead of the cush living arrangements his former employer and child molester enjoyed in a county jail. 

The assistant US attorney prosecuting Rodriguez was Ann Marie Villafana, and she did not veer from Justice Department’s pattern of disingenuousness with regards to the Epstein case. Villafana told the judge in Rodriguez’s case that his failure to yield the Black Book was a lost opportunity for the government’s Epstein investigation. But she neglected to mention that the Justice Department didn’t even need the Black Book to prosecute Epstein for pedophilic offenses, because it already possessed a list of 34 victims. But, in actuality, the US attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alexander Acosta, was told to stand down from prosecuting Epstein, because Epstein belonged to “intelligence.” And then there’s the matter of CIA Director William Burns meeting with Epstein “multiple times” when Burns was the deputy secretary of state—after Epstein was a convicted child molester and registered sex offender. A CIA spokesperson offered an extremely disingenuous rationale for Burns’ meetings with Epstein: “The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector.” If you believe that Burns met with Epstein multiple times for financial advice, I’ve got a bargain basement deal for you on a bridge that connects Manhattan and Brooklyn.  

After the FBI busted Rodriguez attempting to peddle the Black Book, one of the arresting agents stated in an affidavit that the Black Book had the “names and contact information of material witnesses…” Rodriguez had also circled several names in the Black Book, but the agent’s FBI affidavit does not delineate if the circled names are material witnesses. The circled names, however, include that of Ghislaine Maxwell and that of Sarah Kellen, two of Epstein’s primary pimps.

Rodriguez also circled the name of Alan Dershowitz for whom Epstein had 11 phone numbers in the Black Book. In January of 2015, Virginia Giuffre named the former Harvard Law School professor and super-star lawyer as a perpetrator in an affidavit filed by her attorneys Brad Edwards and former federal judge Paul Cassell. 

Dershowitz then mounted a scorched earth counteroffensive against Giuffre and her two attorneys, proclaiming that Giuffre was an liar. Dershowitz also declared that Giuffre’s attorneys were deliberately lying and vowed that he wouldn’t “stop until they’re disbarred.” Edwards and Cassell then sued Dershowitz for defamation. Edwards and Cassell ultimately came to a stalemate with Dershowitz. They issued the following statement, and Dershowitz withdrew his defamation suit against him: 

Edwards and Cassell do acknowledge that the public filing in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act case of their client’s allegations against Defendant Dershowitz became a major distraction from the merits of the well-founded Crime Victims’ Rights Act case by causing delay and, as a consequence, turned out to have been a tactical mistake. For that reason, Edwards and Cassell have chosen to withdraw the referenced filing as a condition of settlement.

Dershowitz’s roar was that of a paper tiger full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

As Dershowitz was trading salvoes with Edwards and Cassell, he gave an interview to The American Lawyer in January of 2015, vindicating himself as a perpetrator: “I’ve been married to the same woman for 28 years,” he said. “She goes with me everywhere. People know that I won’t argue a case or give a speech unless my wife travels with me.” 

But Epstein’s flight logs show that Dershowitz accompanied Epstein on a December 1997 flight from Palm Beach to New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, and they were accompanied by one unidentified “female,” as well as a “Hazel,” a “Claire,” and Ghislaine Maxwell. A 2005 flight log shows Epstein and Dershowitz traveling from Massachusetts to Montreal with a “Tatianna,” et al. Dershowitz’s wife is noticeably absent on those flights and others. In the Gawker article I wrote about the flight logs, Dershowitz’s steal-trap mind became rather rusty: 

As for who else was on those flights, Dershowitz couldn’t recall. Hazel? “I don’t know.” Claire? “I have no idea.” Tatianna? “I think that was a woman in her 20s who was Epstein’s girlfriend, but I never flew with her.” The unidentified female? “That could have been my mother.” 

In 2022, Virginia Giuffre said that she “may have made a mistake” when naming Dershowitz as a perpetrator. Her latter statement was surprising in the respect that she had never recanted her earlier statements about her perpetrators, even when she was severely grilled by Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys during the defamation lawsuit that Maxwell launched at Giuffre.    

Rodriguez also circled the name of Jean-Luc Brunel in Epstein’s Black Book, and Epstein had 16 phone numbers for him. Brunel was one of the perpetrators named by Giuffre in her 2015 affidavit. Epstein financed Brunel’s Miami-based modeling agency MC2, and Brunel was a frequent flyer on Epstein’s Lolita Express. Palm Beach County jail logs also show that he visited Epstein 67 times when Epstein was ostensibly confined to the county jail for 13 months. The Daily Beast reported that Brunel, like Epstein, was an ethical eunuch: He has been “accused by former models of drugging and date-raping them, and by former employees of recruiting foreign, underage girls to be pimped out of Epstein’s New York apartments.”

Rodriguez circled the names of Bill Richardson, former New Mexico governor and also President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Energy, and billionaire Glenn Dubin. Epstein had five phone numbers for Richardson and eight for Dubin. Giuffre named both Richardson and Dubin as perpetrators. 

Richardson was a visitor to Zorro Ranch, Epstein’s spread in the rolling hills outside of Santa Fe, where Epstein reportedly had underage girls delivered. Epstein also contributed $100,000 to Richard’s gubernatorial campaigns. When Richardson was the New Mexico governor, Epstein did not have to register as a sex offender in New Mexico, which breached federal law. 

Hedge fund billionaire Glen Dubin had a protracted friendship with Epstein, and his model-turned-medical-doctor wife, Eva Andersson (Dubin), had once dated Epstein. In fact, Rodriguez circled Andersson’s name in the Black Book, too. After Epstein served his 13 months in the pokey, Glenn and Eva Dubin invited him to their home for Thanksgiving in 2009. Prior to that Thanksgiving, Andersson wrote an email to Epstein’s probation officer, stating that she and her husband were “100% comfortable” with Epstein being around their children, including their then-teenage daughter.

Rodriguez also circled the names of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former L Brands potentate and billionaire Les Wexner. Barak and Wexner were also named by Giuffre as perpetrators. Barak frequently lodged at an Upper East Side apartment building owned by Epstein’s brother, and he even visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island—”Orgy Island.” In 2004, Barak received about $2.4 million from a foundation where Epstein was a trustee and major donor. And in 2015, Epstein reportedly invested $1 million in a technology start-up that Barak was launching.

Les Wexner gave Jeffrey Epstein power-of-attorney over his vast empire in 1987. Vanity Fair published a 2021 article about Epstein and Wexner, “The Mogul and the Monster: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Decades-Long Relationship With His Biggest Client,” and the article essentially implied that Wexner gave Epstein the keys to his kingdom, because he was lonely. The reader is probably thinking that there’s no way a sophisticated magazine like Vanity Fair would offer such a disingenuous cover for the relationship between Wexner and Epstein, so I implore readers of this article to read “The Mogul and the Monster.” And if you believe that Wexner gave Epstein power-of-attorney because he was lonely, I’ve got a great deal for you on a bridge.   

Leon Black, billionaire and former CEO of Apollo Global Management, is another glaring example of the media’s Epstein-related disingenuousness. Black shelled out $62.5 million to the US Virgin Islands to be released from claims arising out of the Island’s three-year investigation into the sex trafficking of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein victims accepting settlements from the Epstein Victims Compensation Program had to sign NDAs that stated they would not pursue litigation against additional perpetrators related to the Epstein trafficking network, but some Epstein victims were granted a special dispensation to sue a “handful” of men who “socialized” with Epstein and Black was one of them. Black has also been accused of rape by three women, and one of the women was 16 years old and extremely cognitively challenged at the time; she maintains that Black raped her at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion. The assault reportedly left “her bleeding and sobbing.”

Now here’s where it gets laughable—tragic but laughable: the mainstream media reported that Black gave Epstein $160 million over five years, because Epstein gave him tax advice. An “independent committee” assembled by a Wall Street law firm, Dechert LLP, investigated the transactions. But the independent committee wasn’t so independent, considering that its chairman, Michael Ducey, was given a hefty buyout by Apollo four years earlier. The probe was also assisted by former Apollo outside legal counselor, Paul Weiss, who had previously vetted Epstein’s financial advice to Black. And, of course, the “independent” investigation found no malfeasance regarding Black giving Epstein $160 million. Though Apollo, no doubt, has a battalion of accountants to minimize tax liabilities, the mainstream media reported that the transactions were on the up and up. Apollo announced that Black would retire as CEO but remain chairman of Apollo—whatever that means.

Bill Gates is perhaps one example of the mainstream media neglecting its due diligence. The New York Times reports that Gates and Epstein initially met in 2011, and various media outlets, possibly taking their cue from the Times, have reported that the first meeting between Epstein and Gates was in 2011. But a 2001 article from London’s Evening Standard reports Gates and Epstein had “business links” in the 1990s. I wonder if it’s occurred to the New York Times or other media outlets to resolve the disparity raised by The Evening Standard? 

We Got Names  

Even if there’s no Epstein List—like there’s no Jeffrey Epstein Travel Agency—we nonetheless have lots of names. However, we don’t need names; we need prosecutions. If the federal government is actually committed to arresting the perpetrators in Epstein’s child trafficking network, we have enough names for a fantastic start. 

The Justice Department has a superb tool to prosecute the perpetrators in the Epstein network: The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). A RICO conspiracy is a federal crime that entails indicting individuals for crimes that are part of an organized criminal enterprise. And the Epstein trafficking network was absolutely an organized criminal enterprise.

In the case of the Mafia and RICO, federal prosecutors often indict the small fry crooks of the criminal enterprise on multiple crimes or RICO predicates. When the small fry crooks find themselves staring at decades in prison, if not life, they frequently rollover on their cohorts who are higher on criminal food chain. 

 I can even tell the feds where they should start. A New York Times article from August 29, 2019, names Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff, Adriana Ross, Nadia Marcinkova, and Haley Robson as procurers (pimps) for the Epstein criminal enterprise. The case that put Maxwell in prison was truly a travesty of justice: Two of her indictments were “conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts” and “conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.” Though Maxwell was indicted on two conspiracies, none of her criminal cohorts were indicted, which makes absolutely no sense.

Justice for Epstein’s victims was certainly lost on the miscarriage of justice involving Maxwell, but Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff, Adriana Ross, Nadia Marcinkova, and Haley Robson have been unscathed by federal law enforcement. I’ve come to believe that Robson’s knowledge of Epstein’s network would probably be minimal, but Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff, Adriana Ross, and Nadia Marcinkova have extensive knowledge of Epstein’s criminal enterprise, especially Kellen.

So, if the Justice Department is serious about seeking justice on behalf of Epstein’s victims, I just provided four individuals who should be indicted on multiple RICO predicates and also child sex trafficking, which carries a hefty 15-year to life sentence. When Kellen, Groff, Ross, and Marcinkova are contemplating decades in prison, they will rollover on Epstein network perpetrators in a nano second.

The Justice Department under four presidential administrations – George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joseph Biden – has failed to indict the perpetrators and pimps in Epstein's child sex trafficking network, even though the Justice Department has had the requisite evidence for years. We’ve got the names of victims, pimps, and perpetrators, we just need a modicum of decency from federal law enforcement.

In this article, I’ve given you a list of several people who could be straightaway indicted as Epstein-related child sexual exploitation perpetrators and pimps, and their names have been known for years. But our government hasn’t made an effort prosecute them, so, most likely, it hasn’t made an effort to help the “hundreds” or “thousands” of children who were fodder for Epstein-related child rape material. The media has proven to be superlative at manufacturing salaciousness or disingenuous nonsense about the Epstein perps, but not one mainstream media outlet has screamed for justice in the Epstein case. The fire hydrant is clearly on fire. 

But we the people have the power to reverse the injustices that have been perpetrated against our country’s most vulnerable by demanding a Congressional Commission. Coexisting with a government that covers up child sex trafficking, which is aiding and abetting child sex trafficking, is untenable for us. We would never trust an individual who aids and abets child trafficking, so how can we trust a government that aids and abets child trafficking? Please join Epstein Justice as we trudge the road to restore fundamental decency to our government.

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