One of the perks of being rich is being able to pay people to do things for you.
Right? Well,
Jeffrey Epstein seems like one of those rich perverts who didn't notice the
help. But they saw, they heard, and now they're talking.
And speaking of talking, if we haven't met I'm Amy, with True Crime Recaps.
Every Sunday and Wednesday, we're here recapping crimes in half the time.
So you can get caught up without being sucked in.
And when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,
there is no end to the rabbit hole you can go down.
Every day ut seems some new,
awful detail comes out about this case that just makes my jaw drop.
And today you're going to hear a few of the most jaw-dropping confessions from
Epstein's pilots, his Butler, the chef,
and those people unlucky enough to find their way onto his private Island.
The Lolita Express.
That's what those in the know called Epstein's infamous Boeing 727.
Now, according to reports, it was packed for his pleasure.
The floors were padded. It was stocked with monogrammed tissues,
wet wipes and bottles of baby lotion.
It could hold up to 29 passengers.
Some of the more well known people to fly it's friendly skies include Bill
Clinton, Prince Andrew, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker,
and Naomi Campbell. But of course,
none of them say they knew anything about any underage girls.
Prosecutors allege the plane was used to fly sex trafficking victims between his
mansions in New York, New Mexico, Paris,
the US Virgin islands and Palm Beach. Surprisingly,
one of Epstein's longtime pilots, his chief pilot,
admits he did know there were minors on board, but he insists,
he didn't know what was happening to them while he was in the cockpit.
And back in 2009, Epstein's other pilot, his second in command,
testified that he saw Epstein,
Prince Andrew and a 17 year old Virginia Roberts flying to Epstein's
private Island.
It's also been revealed that Bill Clinton earned quite a few more frequent flyer
points than was previously reported.
It was known that he'd taken 11 trips on the private jet,
but according to new records found by Foxnews.com,
that number is actually closer to 26.
Five of those may have been without a secret service detail.
But the 2009 flight logs, as detailed and incriminating as they were,
those didn't even include flights piloted by his chief pilot,
according to what the victims lawyers told the Mirror.
That guy flew Epstein around the world for 20 years. So, you know,
he has seen some shhhh. The US Virgin islands, Attorney General,
Denise George knows that too. In mid-September,
she sued Epstein's estate saying the Lolita Express was a critical part of
Epstein's sex trafficking ring.
And it led to 22 counts of aggravated rape child abuse, neglect,
human trafficking, forced labor and prostitution on the Island too.
To support those allegations she subpoenaed flight logs from Jet
Aviation Holdings from 1998 until Epstein's suicide in 2019.
And here's the request that's really sparking panic.
She wants all complaints or reports of potentially suspicious
conduct and any personal notes written by the pilots plus
names and contact information for all of those who interacted with
or observed Epstein or any passengers connected to him.
That's according to the Mirror.
This new subpoena will get logs from that chief pilot and those will make the
documents provided by the second in command look like a Post-It note.
"There is a panic among many of the rich and famous," says an unnamed legall
source interviewed by the Mirror. Today,
the infamous Lolita express sits abandoned beside a runway in
Georgia. That carpet, bedding, furniture, appliances,
and wet wipes are molding inside.
The owner of the ramp that it's sitting on said this to the Daily Mail.
"As a father of two daughters I'm not real thrilled with having it here,
but I guess an airplane is just an airplane.
Somebody needs to come and do something with it,
or it needs to be scrapped because it's just going to sit here and keep
deteriorating." Welcome to Epstein's Island.
This 75 acre private Island in the US Virgin islands is known by a
few other less pleasant names. Pedophile Island,
Orgy Island, Sin Island.
It's so isolated there's only two ways on and off. Helicopter or boat.
And if you were one of the unlucky little girls to find yourself there,
you couldn't even call for help.
Epstein had his own cell network installed so he could monitor communications,
even shutting it down and cutting you off completely if he wanted to.
One victim tried to swim off the Island,
she claimed she'd been raped three times a day for five months. She said,
"a shark would have been my best friend at this point.
I didn't even think about it. It was just get,
get me away." But his security team caught her immediately,
which led to her believing that she's probably being monitored 24 hours a day,
which is right in line with what Virginia Roberts has said about the cameras in
his other houses, monitoring the bathrooms, the bedrooms, the toilets,
the showers, literally everything.
The entire operation was a blackmail scheme.
And there's no reason to suspect that the Island was any different.
It had a main house, three guest cottages, a caretaker's cottage,
a helipad, a dock, and over 70 employees,
every single one of them paid to stay quiet about what went on there.
And get this. Alongside the normal buildings you might expect,
the Island has a lot of stranger features.
There's an underground movie theater he could get to from his living room,
Girls gone wild was a favorite.
There was a separate library with 90,000 books, a Japanese bathhouse,
god if that thing could talk.
Secluded outdoor massage tables and a bizarre temple that no one has said
what exactly it was used for. Although yeah,
there've been a few guesses and I'm sure you've got a theory. I know I do.
According to insider.com,
a piano tuner was in the building and thought it must be a music room because
Epstein was a classically trained pianist. Penis?
Other staff thought it might be a recording studio because it had soundproof
walls. Horrifying.
But then why is it so far away from all the other buildings?
According to the builder, it locks from the outside, not the inside.
So very disturbing feature don't you agree?
Because that means people can't get in unless they have a key,
but people also can't get out. Then two guys from wearechange.org,
snuck onto the Island to get a better look.
The door is painted on. Um, and I have to say about the temple, you know,
he was a billionaire I say was, he's probably still alive, but he is,
or was a billionaire that seemed like the cheapest little temple I've ever seen.
Like, why would you just paint?
Like I could have built that myself for about 5,000 bucks I think,
and the dome flew off and there was no hole underneath the dome,
which is what you would have if you had a true dome.
So it almost looked like a Hollywood set actually.
That's exactly what it looked like. Yeah. Uh,
and it's important to note that the dome flew off during a recent hurricane
here. So the, so the situation here has definitely been changing.
The most interesting things that I personally found were these like little
satanic gargoyles, uh,
with horns on their heads that were all over the property that were very creepy.
I also found a chair that was completely made out of horns and looked like some
kind of animal hide that was very creepy and kind of very weird to look at it.
Yeah.
And as if it couldn't get any weirder,
along with all the creepy statues on the Island,
there are sculptures of lifesize cows and the staff were ordered to
move them to new random places every day. In 2017,
Epstein paid 17 million to buy the nearest Island. It's called Greater St.
James. He said he was planning to build another compound there, which you know,
he probably was,
but insiders say he bought the Island to keep Little St James even more secluded
and private. Authorities couldn't use Greater St.
James to spy on him if he owned it and his victims,
couldn't try swimming there to escape. Horrifying. Attorney General,
Denise George filed lawsuits trying to seize both islands and other assets,
saying that the Island was the main headquarters, if you will,
for an international sex trafficking scheme. According to the complaint,
between 2001 and 2019 Epstein landed his private jet on the main
islands and then took a private helicopter or boat to his Island.
Airport workers say they often saw him surrounded by girls,
some that looked as young as 11.
Many of them often dressed to look like flight attendants or, you know,
flight crew to disguise them. But he was a generous tipper,
which helped convince a lot of people to stay quiet.
It's shocking and also like not shocking what he was able to get away with.
And remember Epstein was a registered sex offender in Florida,
but he was still free to fly anywhere, live where he wanted.
He had multiple passports, some under different names, according to Buzzfeed.
Epstein renewed his sex offender registration with the Virgin islands government
every year, but authorities couldn't really check in on him.
The article says that at his last verification in July, 2018,
he allegedly refused to permit investigators and US marshals to get past the
dock because he claimed that that was his front door.
Epstein trusted his butler to keep his secrets for 15
years. But you know what they say.
Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
On August 10th, 2019 Epstein, the biggest secret keeper of them all,
suddenly ended up committing suicide. Um, so I can't say it without,
I can't say it without rolling my eyes. And his butler has plenty to share.
In an interview with the Mirror he claims Prince Andrew was a regular guest at
Epstein's Palm Beach House of Sin.
And he absolutely got daily massages from Epstein's under aged harem,
as the New York post called them. The butler, wasn't just an eyewitness,
but he says he personally set up Andrew's massage tables and he agrees with the
FBI that the Prince needs to stop trying to deny it and start talking.
He said, quote, "maybe he has something to hide. I don't know.
I don't know." Prince Andrew's people says,
of course the Prince got daily massages, it's a luxury.
Yeah. Who doesn't love a daily massage.
You were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender. Right.
It was a convenient place to stay.
And I admit fully that, that, that,
that my judgment was probably colored by my,
um, tendency to be too honorable. Okay.
And your strength.
But that definitely wasn't you getting a foot massage from a Russian girl at
Jeffrey Epstein's. Yeah.
No. No, thanks. I don't want to be part of your sex.
Festival. It might seem a funny way to break off a friendship,
a four day house party of sorts with a dinner.
It's an odd way to break up.
I've put is that that's a very, um, stark way of putting it. Yes,
you're absolutely right.
She was very specific about that night.
She described dancing with you and you profusely sweating
and that she went on to have both possibly slight with, with,
with.
With, with the sweating. Um,
because I have a peculiar
medical condition, which is that I don't sweat, um,
or I didn't sweat at the time. And that was, Oh shoot, yes.
I didn't sweat at the time because I, um,
had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands
war when I was shot at. Uh, and I simply, it, it was,
it was, it was, it was, it was, it was,
it was almost impossible for me to sweat.
She provided a photo of the two of you together.
Your arm was around her waist. Yes. You've seen the photo.
How do you explain that? I can't.
According to the butler, Prince Andrew really liked daily massages.
He spent weeks as a guest in the Palm Beach house,
which as the butler described it, had pictures of young naked girls, objects,
and ornaments all over the house.
He also describes Ghislaine as the devil and claims,
he was the one that had to clean up after her. As he told the New York Post,
"I would find sex toys in her sink. I took it as a perversion, not an abuse.
I used to put my gloves on and pick it up and wash it.
Galane knows more than anyone. Whole days she spent recruiting girls.
I was driving. I wish I had known what for.
I would stop at a massage parlor and she would go in and take business cards.
One time she had me drive to Mar-a-Lago looking for girls.
And that's when she found Virginia. That is Virginia Roberts Giuffre,
One of Epstein and Ghislaine's most vocal accusers.
According to the housekeeper, Ghislaine often said she hated Epstein,
but couldn't, or wouldn't leave him.
Now check out the recap Chris did on Ghislaine's father and tell us if you think
her daddy issues kept her with Jeffrey.
And the butler says he was also the money man for the girls.
As he told the New York Post, I used to go to the bank, withdraw $10,000.
I'd pay them out of petty cash and fill out a receipt.
I wish I'd known what they were really being paid for.
Jeffrey swore them to secrecy, threatening them if they ever told. Today,
Adam Perry Lang is a celebrity chef and owner of APL.
It's a Hollywood restaurant funded by Jimmy Kimmel and Joel McHale.
But 20 years ago, he was cooking for Jeffrey Epstein and his guests.
According to an interview she did with the podcast, Broken Seeking Justice,
Virginia Giuffre says the girls were forced to stick to ridiculous extreme diets
to stay skinny and underdeveloped like little girls.
A typical dinner was something like shaved salmon with vegetables,
but no carbs ever. And if anyone broke the rules Ghislaine would punish them.
Virginia and chef Adam found that one out the hard way.
She says she and the chef were friends and they'd have secret late night pizza
and beer parties until control freak Ghislaine caught them and they were both
punished and banned from communicating after that.
Adam is being named in court documents because he was a regular passenger on
Epstein's private jet between 2000 and 2001. I'm sure he was there cooking,
and Adam says "his role was limited to meal preparation.
He was unaware of the depraved behavior and has great sympathy and admiration
for the brave women who have come forward." The level of debauchery we have seen
in this case.
That rich and powerful sense of entitlement that they have a right to use and
abuse these girls and probably boys and that no one can or will stop them.
It's infuriating.
And every one of Jeffrey Epstein's workers has said they didn't know what was
going on behind closed doors. And maybe they didn't,
but there is one who says she did. And she found out the hard way.
Maria Farmer met Ghislaine and Epstein 24 years ago when she was a graduate
student at the New York Academy of Art.
Epstein hired her to work for him as an art consultant and painter after
buying this painting, she did for her thesis project.
Wonder why he liked it? She's also his first accuser.
"I'm painting these beautiful survivors. These women.
Maria Farmer met Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in the
mid 1990s when Epstein asked the 25 year old art student to work for him,
Maria Farmer in a lawsuit alleges while she was working the front door
at Epstein's townhouse.
She started seeing things that concerned her involving Epstein and
Ghislaine Maxwell.
Ghislaine Maxwell would go out on these drives to procure
models. She would say, these are the nublies. I need the nublies.
That was her word. She would bring them to Jeffrey Epstein's mansion.
Farmer says Maxwell told her they were simply auditioning young girls for
modeling jobs.
I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what was wrong.
According to her lawsuit,
Farmer says her experience with Maxwell and Epstein took a dark turn when they
sexually assaulted her.
I remember being in a lot of pain. I remember having some bruises.
They didn't get my clothes off. They tried. The way I'd been treated,
made it very clear to me there's something else going on.
Farmer says she was so alarmed that she reported Epstein and Maxwell to the FBI.
If the FBI had listened to me in 1996,
there would have been no more victims. But if you ask Virginia,
everybody who went into Jeffery's houses knew what was going on.
You couldn't even be a pizza delivery boy,
and walk into one of his places and not know what was going on.
There were naked pictures everywhere, young girls, everywhere.
As she said to the Broken Seeking Justice podcast, reporter Julie K. Brown.
"Old dude, not married.
It's not too hard to put two and two together." Thanks for letting me catch you
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