Angela: We've obtained a new Jeffrey Epstein address book,
one that no one has ever seen before.
John: Jeffrey Epstein got away with what he got away with
because of who was in his address book.
What's interesting for us about this book
is a new cast of characters who we didn't
previously know had interactions with
or did business with him.
Angela: Our first thought was to just do whatever
we could to verify that it was real.
(phone ringing)
Man: Hello?
We've obtained a copy of an address book
that we believe belonged to Jeffrey Epstein,
and your name and contact information
are listed in the book.
Woman: Hello?
John: I'm a reporter for Insider.
I'm just calling everybody who's in this address book,
who has not previously been publicly
associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
We needed to make sure it was a real artifact
that really represented something
about Jeffrey Epstein and his connections to people.
The story is not one that sounds exactly believable.
Someone dropped Jeffrey Epstein's address book
in the '90s, and it now belongs to some guy
who lives on a farm in Vermont.
Christopher Helali: I'm very careful not to put my fingerprints on the book,
not to put any sort of DNA or hair or anything like that.
My name is Christopher Helali.
Where should I look?
I currently live on my wife's farm.
As a student of national security issues,
imperialism, I was fascinated by the Jeffrey Epstein case.
There are names that are highlighted,
and I think one of the most notable
highlighted names is former president Donald Trump.
My name is Denise Ondayko.
Ta-da.
And I believe I found the book sometime in the '90s.
Walking along Fifth Avenue,
and I just noticed a small black book on the sidewalk.
Angela: So you're pretty sure that
it was somewhere between 54th --
Denise: Yes, it could have been here or there.
Angela: We have spoken extensively with Denise,
and we found her story to be credible.
Denise: I saw the book, picked it up, glanced through it.
Damn.
It was filled with names like Kennedy,
Rockefeller, Trump, etc.
And it was like, whoa, this is bizarre.
So I kept it for the New York City artifact that it was.
Angela: Did you know who Jeffrey Epstein was at the time?
No.
When I rediscovered the book last year,
it was like, holy s---, it's Jeffrey Epstein.
Newscaster: The Manhattan billionaire arrested
yesterday on federal sex trafficking charges.
Newscaster: With accusations from indecent exposure
to inappropriate touching to rape.
I went to tips at New York Times.
I sent something to Rachel Maddow.
I just figured nobody was interested.
Come the end of November,
I really needed brakes for my car,
and I didn't have enough money.
And I thought, what the hell?
You know, f--- you, Jeffrey Epstein.
You paid for my brakes.
So I put it on eBay.
Christopher: It was right there for everybody to see.
Most people would think it's a fake or a forgery.
I took the risk.
When I received the book in the mail,
my heart was nearly jumping out of my chest.
You know, I felt like Indiana Jones.
It's a dark book.
It's a book that I think has a lot of suffering behind it.
A lot of pain. A lot of evil, some would say.
I felt that it was important for people
to see who Epstein knew
and what sort of network of power was behind him.
Right now, I'm packaging the book for forensic analysis.
Handing it off to a team of journalists.
If it comes back and it's not authentic,
it's a pretty awesome forgery, I have to say.
One of the moments in the public
waking up to the magnitude of his crimes
was the publication in 2015 of an address book
belonging to Jeffrey Epstein.
And what was stunning about it
was it contained the names of Donald Trump
and Mick Jagger, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton.
And it sort of woke people up to the fact that
this was a guy who had access to the halls of power.
Angela: Our reporting also found about 220 new names
that didn't appear in this other address book.
John: If someone were to concoct a fake book
to trick journalists, they would start
by taking those names from the other public
little black book and putting them in this one.
So we start by sort of correlating the names,
and then we just started calling people in the book
whose names have not been previously
associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
Elena: Hello?
Hi, I am trying to reach Elena Kiam.
Elena: This is she.
Hi, I'm calling for Suzanne Ircha.
Would you be able to connect me with her?
Woman: Sorry, who?
I'm trying to reach Joan Severance.
Woman: We don't currently represent Joan.
Operator: The number you've dialed is not in service.
I'm trying to reach Michael Cutlip.
Michael: This is he.
Elena Barmakova.
Man: Who's calling?
I'm working on a story about an address book ...
... that we believe belonged to Jeffrey Epstein.
Do you mind if I'm recording this call?
Woman: I do mind.
OK, give me one second.
Man: I haven't seen or spoken to Jeffrey
since the late '90s.
For them to say, "Yes, I knew him in the '90s"
gives credence to the idea that the book is real.
It's not the case that everybody
who was in his address book
was an enabler of Jeffrey Epstein.
It's more adding to the body of knowledge
to keep chipping away at the mystery.
She was not interested in speaking.
Angela: These are some of the prominent names we reached out to.
None of them had ever been publicly
associated with Epstein before.
John: Suzanne Ircha, Melania Trump's best friend.
She later married Woody Johnson,
who now owns the New York Jets.
Angela: Carl Icahn, special advisor to Donald Trump
during his presidency.
John: Cristina Greeven, the wife of Christopher Cuomo.
Angela: Jill Harth accused
Donald Trump of sexual assault.
John: Steven Rattner led Barack Obama's
efforts to resuscitate Detroit.
Angela: Marty Peretz, longtime mentor
to former Vice President Al Gore.
Les Gelb was a legendary New York Times columnist.
Sandy Warner was the chairman
and CEO of JPMorgan until 2000.
Billionaire John Catsimatidis,
who told us that he offered Epstein a ride
and Epstein sent him a 3-foot bottle
of champagne in thanks.
And this just goes to show that in the 1990s,
he was sort of cultivating a much larger orbit
that we can see evidenced later on.
Angela: Hi Dennis. Dennis: How are you doing?
Angela: Good, how are you?
John: We also engaged the services of a forensic examiner
who's familiar with authenticating documents.
I was cautious because I didn't want
to cross over into an area that the FBI was investigating.
My name is Dennis Ryan,
and I'm a forensic document examiner.
I'm confident that the book is probably circa 1995 to 2000.
One of the factors was the Gestetner imprint
that's on the velobind.
Their organization was certainly
out of production by 1998 to 2000.
It would be very difficult to make up
a book with that imprint.
The most important thing is the change in the area code.
So here's Donald Trump's entry in the 1990s address book.
You can see that his Palm Beach phone numbers
feature a 407 area code.
Now, if we look at Trump's entry
in the address book from the early 2000s,
you can see that he has the same
phone numbers listed for Palm Beach,
but with a different area code, 561.
And that area code was introduced in 1996.
Jeffrey Epstein is still such a mystery
over a year after he's died.
Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is dead.
Newscaster: Jeffrey Epstein's attorney's questioning
whether his death was a suicide.
I think my biggest takeaway is that
Epstein had an extremely large sphere of influence,
and we're not even sure about the true extent of it.
John: I think this book elaborates on that
in a different era, different time,
and with some different people that
we didn't know were a part of that circle
that eventually became a part of the reason
that Jeffrey Epstein could get away
with raping and abusing women and girls.
And I think it's important to keep in mind
how power is able to avoid accountability,
and the more we can remember
what Epstein's actions represent,
the more we can prevent people
from escaping accountability now and in the future.
Denise: What a weird turn of events.
How serendipitous the whole thing has played out.
Unbelievable.
I just remember having that thought,
should I keep this?
If it was a heavy something or other,
I probably would have tossed it.
Christopher: I think it's a interesting story, you know.
One book with the FBI, one book on the farm.
It's fascinating.