Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Tue 5 Aug 2025 12.47 EDT
Last modified on Tue 5 Aug 2025 13.45 EDT


The long-running scandal surrounding the disgraced late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein broadened on Tuesday after the New York Times published a trove of previously unseen letters to Epstein from numerous powerful figures as well as unseen photographs from inside his Manhattan mansion.

The letters, written to Epstein by a number of high-profile individuals, were reportedly compiled as a birthday gift for Epstein’s 63rd birthday in 2016. Their publication comes amid intense speculation around Donald Trump’s ties to Epstein, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 and had long cultivated a celebrity social circle of the rich and powerful.

In one letter, former prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak and his wife wrote “there is no limit to your curiosity.” “You are like a closed book to many of them but you know everything about everyone,” they wrote, describing Epstein as “A COLLECTOR OF PEOPLE”. They continued: “May you enjoy long and healthy life and may all of us, your friends, enjoy your table for many more years to come.”

In a letter from film-maker Woody Allen, Allen reminisced about Epstein’s dinner parties at his Upper East Side townhouse and described the gatherings as “always interesting”. He noted that the parties included “politicians, scientists, teachers, magicians, comedians, intellectuals, journalists” and “even royalty”. Allen also described the dinners as “well served”: “I say well served – often it’s by some professional houseman and just as often by several young women” who he said reminded him of “Castle Dracula where Lugosi has three young female vampires who service the place.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/jeffrey-epstein-letters-photos

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Link to NYT article - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/jeffrey-epstein-mansion-photos.html

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[twodogsbarking]

1. I am guessing the list will include names that make one say "I'm not surprised, I alway thought he was a creep".

Excluding Trump. He is a self-proclaimed creep and proud of it.

[Shipwack]

2. I got a major case of the "icks" from that Woody Allen quote

Not surprised at all, of course, but still I need some brain bleach…

[twodogsbarking]

21. He could win a prize for creepiest but the competion will have experience too.

ewe
ewe
yuk
gross
look away.

[VeryProgressive]

24. Associations

Just because many people were at parties with the guy doesn't mean that they were involved or knew about his illegal activities. Guilt by association can be a little too easy for some people.

[Metaphorical]

29. Actually I think guilt by association is perfectly valid here

Epstein did this for a long time, and after a short while, that kind of reputation gets around. I have no doubt that it snared a few Democrats (Bill Clinton being an obvious one), and frankly he's effectively been retired for a long time. The problem is that people still associate with him after that reputation began to circulate. At some point, you have to start asking whether this association was an indictment of character.

[3catwoman3]

28. Woody Allen is completely disgusting.

[Deuxcents]

3. Are these letters and photos a planned drip, drip to keep this cover up alive?

[h2ebits]

6. Works for me. . . .

[WiVoter]

8. Me Too

And maybe to counter the release of the so-called audio of the bullshit interview with Maxwell & the deputy AG.

[h2ebits]

25. It is currently my mission to keep the Epstein sh**storm alive.

If we keep it rolling, perhaps it will help to bring down this Administration and its henchmen and women.

[NJCher]

14. There is so much to it

But to plan it would mean you'd have to have it all in one place at once, and then you'd have to have a planner coordinate the actual drip drip drip.

Yesterday I tried to post something I saw at Bluesky but I couldn't get it posted. It was by Medvedev. He told Trump they had a trove of info on him and there is no reason he should expect they would not be releasing such info.

[travelingthrulife]

33. Hope so. So many people have seen this evidence now, leakage should be unavoidable.

[Prairie Gates]

4. The Woody Allen letter reads like coded pedophile stuff

The whole section on "my wife" Soon-Yi training and badgering and bullying Epstein into providing a proper meal (at one point it was a Chinese buffet) is maximum creep zone and reads like it is something else being "served," not food.

Extremely disturbing.

Also, what the fuck is up with Noam Chomsky being buddy-buddy with this guy?

[travelingthrulife]

34. Noam Chomsky just came for the conversation...just kidding, who knows?

Epstein collected people. Sounds like he would have really interesting parties not including the girls. Intellectuals Night. They might not have needed the girls.

[Uncle Joe]

5. I would be curious as to how the map of Israel is depicted in Epstein's Mansion?

Is it as the one that Netanyahu held up in 2024?

Thanks for the thread BumRushDaShow

[FadedMullet]

7. Maybe it's just me, but I find a list of guests to a dinner party that includes "magicians"' a bit creepy in and of itse

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I expect they may be referring to this guy

[FadedMullet]

19. Yes. Yes indeed. A perfect example. That Blaine dude too.

[IcyPeas]

22. In 1991 he judged the same modeling contest as trump: see this article:

There have been accusations against him. Search for his name.

https://archive.ph/Z99xW


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[BumRushDaShow]

23. And his most recent issue was pretty prominently in the news (thanks to #metoo)

‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’: magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

I expect the cases are ongoing -

Las Vegas illusionist David Copperfield facing multiple sexual misconduct allegations

Birds of a feather...

[FadedMullet]

30. There you go. Creepy magicians. Like I said.

[Pachamama]

31. I need to take a shower after reading this article

Follow the money and connect the dots…..

This is all so much bigger than any of us can really get a grasp and the number of people who participated.

And am I the only one who gets in cry creeped out seeing that picture of the orange Pedo with Ivanka?

[BoRaGard]

10. You can expect a sternly worded letter

from the Magic Anti-Defecation Unit.

[h2ebits]

26. LOL

[Grins]

12. Meaningless.

You got letters. So what? Someone wrote a simple letter about a dinner. Proves nothing.

Stick to fact-finding of his criminality.
Show me the evidence that Epstein provided young teen girls to TRUMP!
Show me the evidence Trump - repeatedly - raped those girls.

Then prosecute him!

[hookaleft]

13. It is the drip friend that matters

keeping the story alive

[FakeNoose]

15. The letters were written by carefully-chosen friends of Jeffrey Epstein

... as a surprise for his 63rd birthday party. Who did the selecting, and who put the letters in the book?
It was Ghislaine Maxwell. Yes I believe this is meaningful.

[JHB]

18. Have you learned nothing over the past four decades? Keep him in the slimelight.

Prepare the way. Work the audience until we do have something with teeth.

Perception is half the fight, maybe more so. Trump would never have been in office without the decades-long smear campaign against Bill and Hillary Clinton.

[h2ebits]

27. +1000

And a big smile on my face as I post everything I can find about Epstein and Trump onto my Facebook page as "public"

[BaronChocula]

16. Not that I'm on anyone's A-list but

I'm the type of person who is easily skeeved out by most people. I have a supersensitive grossometer. I'm happily just not that social so I'm intrigued at how people with images to protect are so easily taken in by others just because they have lots of money and a little charm. That to me is a red flag.

[red dog 1]

17. The second time Woody Allen & Soon-Yi went to Epstein's for dinner, Soon-Yi said:

"There is going to be more food, isn't there?"

(There was hardly any food at all the first time they were invited to dinner at Epstein's)

[Kid Berwyn]

32. They like the skinny look.

Something about appearances…

[republianmushroom]

20. The party is getting larger.

[AntiFascist]

35. "enjoy your table"..."you know everything about everyone"...hmmm! n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. Anyone surprised about Woody Allen?

[LudwigPastorius]

37. I'm sort of surprised Bannon was a member of his pack.

I wouldn't think a slovenly, malodorous drunk would be welcome at his soirees.

I guess he was probably more of a client than an acquaintance.