Avec la correspondance d'Epstein, une plongée dans les cercles de pouvoir
Among these documents made public on Wednesday by a parliamentary committee, is an electronic correspondence spanning about ten years, between 2009 and 2019, the year the wealthy financier committed suicide in prison.
An exchange of emails confirms that contact between Epstein and Andrew, who was stripped of his royal titles at the end of October, was not definitively broken off at the end of 2010, as claimed by the brother of King Charles III.
A few months later, on March 4, 2011, Epstein forwarded to Andrew a message received from a British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, with a series of questions about the emerging case addressed to Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier's former partner, who has since been sentenced to twenty years in prison for sexual exploitation.
"What? I don't know anything about it. What are you going to say?", worries the son of Queen Elizabeth II.
"I asked G's (Ghislaine Maxwell's) lawyers to send a letter. (...) It's so salacious and ridiculous that I don't really know what to say," Epstein replied.
"Please ensure that any statement or legal document clearly establishes that I am NOT involved and that I knew and know NOTHING about all these allegations," Andrew insists. "I can't take this situation anymore."
In 2018, Epstein maintained a substantial correspondence with Steve Bannon, one of the main ideologues of the Trump movement. In total, there were about sixty emails.
In July, Epstein offered to help Bannon spread his ultraconservative ideology in Europe.
"If you want to get involved, you're going to have to put in the time. Europe from a distance doesn't work. (It's) a lot, a lot of face-to-face meetings and handshakes," the wealthy financier advises him.
"It's doable but time-consuming," he continued. "We can arrange one-on-one meetings for you with many leaders. You would need to stay eight to ten days and return within two weeks."
"I agree 100%. How do I do that?" Bannon asks. "I'm available to discuss it," Epstein replies.
"How's the wealthy and dissolute life going?" Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton who became president of Harvard in the 2000s, asked him on October 27, 2017.
"When we meet, I will try to fascinate you with crazy stories about Washington!!!" Epstein joked.
"DjT (Donald Trump) is the luckiest guy in the world in terms of opposition, economy, etc.," Larry Summers remarked, asking his interlocutor to "NOT REPEAT".
From a conference he attended, "the general viewpoint is that Donald is a clown, increasingly dangerous in foreign policy," the economist noted.
"Trump - borderline crazy," Epstein wrote in turn in December 2018.
Their exchanges continued until 2019.
International politicians also appear in the email correspondence, such as former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, in 2013 and 2015, or former French minister Jack Lang, in 2017 and 2018.
The first exchanges with Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House advisor under Barack Obama until 2014 and lawyer, date back to the same year, the most recent to 2019.
"I'm going on stage. The first part of my presentation is about Trump," she told Epstein in May 2016.
"Swindler, that sums it up," he replies.
"I know how crooked Donald is," he wrote to him in August 2018.
A few months later, in December, "maybe you should tell your Democratic friends that treating Trump like a mafia godfather is ignoring the fact that he has extremely dangerous power," Epstein said.
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