Jeffrey Epstein's network was saturated with Israeli political leaders, intelligence-connected figures, and Zionist billionaires. While the DOJ officially found "no evidence" he was an intelligence asset, the evidence shows:
Phone: 614-895-2133 | "Barak's personal": 484-919-5582
PM from 1999-2001, during peak Epstein flight activity. Defense Minister 2007-2013. Connected to "office in Israel" entries in black book. Barak visited Epstein's Manhattan townhouse multiple times per reports.
Phone: 00 9723 895569 (direct Israeli line)
PM from 2006-2009. Previously Mayor of Jerusalem (1993-2003). Later convicted of bribery and served prison time.
Multiple "Ms. Peres" contacts in black book. Address: 7 Rue des Saints-Peres, 75006 Paris. Shimon Peres was Israeli President (2007-2014) and PM (1984-86, 1995-96).
Les Wexner is a major Netanyahu backer. Ronald Lauder is one of Netanyahu's closest confidants and financial backers. The Wexner Foundation has deep ties to Israeli leadership and trains Israeli public officials.
KEY FIGURE Only Known Client
Epstein was his "protégé." Wexner gave Epstein power of attorney over his finances. Columbus, OH (CMH) was a frequent destination — 172 flights!
Major donor to Israel causes. Wexner Foundation trains Israeli public officials. Address listed at WHITE HOUSE: "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, KW." Connected to the secretive "Mega Group" of Jewish billionaires who fund pro-Israel causes.
5 flights on Epstein's plane. President of the World Jewish Congress. One of Netanyahu's closest friends and financial backers. Major donor to Israeli causes and settlements.
Former President of World Jewish Congress. Major pro-Israel philanthropist. His family had deep connections to Israeli intelligence.
"Had sex w/ V. Roberts at least 6x" per CDAN. Major pro-Israel media figure. Connected to Israeli political causes.
Banking dynasty with deep Zionist history. The Rothschilds were instrumental in the founding of Israel (Balfour Declaration).
Named in Epstein's black book. Billionaire investor. Hosted the 1995 Palm Beach fundraising dinner where Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell first connected with Bill Clinton. Perelman was a major Democratic donor whose events served as the social bridge between Epstein's operation and the Clinton political machine.
3 flights on Epstein's plane. Hyatt hotels heir, major Jewish/Israel philanthropy.
MADAME 520+ Flights
Daughter of Robert Maxwell (media mogul, born Jan Ludvik Hoch in Czechoslovakia). Israeli-born. She was on virtually EVERY Epstein flight.
CDAN: "her father, Robert Maxwell, who was a news paper magnate, was a Russian Spy. former Israeli Prime Minister."
Died mysteriously in 1991 (fell off yacht "Lady Ghislaine"). Buried in Jerusalem with full honors attended by:
Reportedly used his media empire to benefit Israeli intelligence operations.
2 flights. President Emeritus of CFR. Former NYT columnist, State Department official. Strong pro-Israel foreign policy views. Deep connections to US foreign policy establishment.
36 FLIGHTS Defense Attorney
Prominent Israel defender, author of "The Case for Israel." Threatened prosecutors: "We're going to destroy your witnesses; don't go to court because we're going to destroy those girls." Negotiated the "deal of a lifetime" for Epstein. Accused by Virginia Giuffre of sexual abuse (which he denies).
23+ entries with Israel country code
"efratd@intgov.il"
"intgov.il" suggests internal Israeli government network. Also: gil_avi@netvision.net.il (Israeli telecom).
"Estrada Juffali, Christina" — listed "London; Saudi Arabia," linked to Walid Juffali, one of Saudi Arabia's richest men. The black book also contains a "Saudi Arabia" fax entry. Note: Epstein's fake Austrian passport listed him as a resident of Saudi Arabia — the bridge between the Gulf and Israel networks runs straight through his documents.
In black book with multiple phone numbers. CDAN explicitly links him to "ARMS DEALERS" section. His school business is "owned by Epsteins brother." In a deposition said he knew Trump "due to his brother."
Israel is a major arms exporter and has historically used "private citizens" as arms dealers (e.g., Iran-Contra, various African conflicts). The Epstein network's structure — opaque financing, political connections, private aircraft — matches known arms trafficking profiles.
| Finding | Source |
|---|---|
| "Epstein's house was wired with video" | DOJ Report 2020 |
| "Hidden cameras in his New York residence to record sexual encounters" | DOJ Report 2020 |
| "Disconnected surveillance cameras" found in Palm Beach | DOJ Report 2020 |
| Computer equipment with video recordings GONE before police raid | DOJ Report 2020 |
| Detective believed Epstein was "tipped off" about search warrant | DOJ Report 2020 |
| "Thousands of photos of nude and half-nude females" found in Manhattan | DOJ Report 2020 |
"OPR found no evidence suggesting that Epstein was such a cooperating witness or 'intelligence asset,' or that anyone—including any of the subjects of OPR's investigation—believed that to be the case, or that Epstein was afforded any benefit on such a basis."
BUT: Acosta was told "OPR could use a classified setting to discuss intelligence information." And: "It is highly unlikely that defense counsel would have omitted any reason warranting leniency for Epstein if it had existed."
| Route | Flights | Significance |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach (PBI) | 2,539 | Epstein's Florida mansion — where abuse occurred |
| Teterboro (TEB) | 1,954 | New Jersey airport — NYC area access |
| St. Thomas (TIST) | 997 | Little St. James — "Pedophile Island" |
| JFK | 751 | New York City |
| Paris (LFPB) | 279 | Jean-Luc Brunel connection (model scout) |
| Columbus OH (CMH) | 172 | Les Wexner HQ — The Limited/Victoria's Secret |
| London (EGGW) | 105 | Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell's network |
Passengers: Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker
Route: JFK → Azores → Ghana → Nigeria → Rwanda → Mozambique → South Africa → Cape Town → Johannesburg → Accra → Paris → London
Clinton was on at least 26 flights total. CDAN: Clinton "always ditches secret service."
| # | Name | Flights | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeffrey Epstein | 1,052 | The Financier |
| 2 | Ghislaine Maxwell | 520 | Madame / Recruiter-in-Chief |
| 3 | Sarah Kellen | 311 | Assistant / Recruiter |
| 4 | Emmy Tayler | 203 | Assistant |
| 5 | Larry Visoski | 153 | Pilot |
| 6 | Nadia Marcinkova | 125 | "Sex Slave" turned participant |
| 7 | Bill Clinton | 26 | Former US President |
| 8 | Doug Band | 26 | Clinton Aide |
| 9 | Alan Dershowitz | 12 | Defense Attorney / Israel Advocate |
| 10 | Kevin Spacey | 11 | Actor |
| 11 | Chris Tucker | 11 | Actor |
"I'm like Heidi Fleiss" — Recruiter-in-chief. 520+ flights. Israeli-born, daughter of Robert Maxwell.
311 flights. "Former assistant & would recruit girls and schedule massages." Now married to a NASCAR driver.
"He bought her from her parents at 15 in Yugoslavia as a sex slave. She later participated and raped girls herself." 125 flights.
| Name | Flights | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Prince Andrew | 1 | May 2000. Accused by Virginia Giuffre. |
| Donald Trump | 3 | 1997, PBI→EWR. "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy." |
| Bill Clinton | 26 | Africa trip with Spacey & Tucker. "Ditches secret service." |
| Kevin Spacey | 33 | Africa trip with Clinton & Tucker. |
| Chris Tucker | 11 | Africa trip with Clinton & Spacey. |
| Naomi Campbell | 5 | "She is a procurer of 'clients.'" — CDAN |
| Jean-Luc Brunel | 90 | Model scout / alleged trafficker. Died in prison 2022. |
| Alan Dershowitz | 36 | Defense attorney, Israel advocate. |
| Larry Summers | 15 | Former Treasury Secretary, Harvard President. |
Alex Acosta, then US Attorney, approved an unprecedented plea deal:
Acosta later became Trump's Labor Secretary. When asked about Epstein being an "intelligence asset" in 2019, he equivocated.
Before police executed a search warrant on Epstein's Palm Beach home:
The DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility concluded:
Yet the same report confirms: hidden cameras, missing video equipment, "tipped off" searches, and the most lenient plea deal in modern history.
A secretive group of ~20 of America's wealthiest Jewish businessmen, founded 1991 by Les Wexner and Charles Bronfman. Dues: $30,000+/year. The group lobbied for US foreign policy in the Middle East alongside "philanthropy."
In May 1997, the Washington Post broke a story based on an NSA-intercepted phone call between a Mossad official in the US and his superior in Tel Aviv:
The supervisor in Tel Aviv rejected it: "This is not something we use Mega for." The FBI hunted for an individual mole code-named "Mega" — a senior US official possibly linked to Jonathan Pollard. Mossad claimed "Mega" meant the CIA (per Rafi Eitan, Pollard's own handler — hardly credible). Whitney Webb's analysis: "Mega" was not an individual — it was the Mega Group itself.
| Member | Empire | Mob / Intelligence Ties |
|---|---|---|
| Les Wexner | The Limited / Victoria's Secret | Epstein's only client; Shapiro murder report named him linked to organized crime; Genovese-tied trucking firm did 90% of The Limited's shipping |
| Charles & Edgar Bronfman | Seagram's | Father Sam Bronfman tied to Meyer Lansky; smuggled arms to Haganah; partnered with Robert Maxwell on Jerusalem Post & Teva |
| Ronald Lauder | Estée Lauder | Roy Cohn; Reagan Pentagon post; Netanyahu's financier; likely procured Epstein's fake Austrian passport |
| Michael Steinhardt | Hedge funds | Father Sol "Red McGee" Steinhardt was "Lansky's jewel fence of choice" |
| Max Fisher | Detroit industry | Purple Gang during Prohibition; Wexner's mentor; adviser to Eisenhower & Kissinger; founded Republican Jewish Coalition |
| Steven Spielberg | Hollywood | Protege of mob-connected media mogul Lew Wasserman |
| Lester Crown | General Dynamics | Brother-in-law David Schine — Roy Cohn's confidant in McCarthy hearings |
| Laurence Tisch | Loews / CBS News | Worked for OSS (CIA precursor) — same agency as Donald Barr, who hired Epstein at Dalton |
After Maxwell declined MI6 recruitment, British intelligence classified him: "Zionist — loyal only to Israel." He then became a Mossad agent, per Gordon Thomas & Martin Dillon's Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy and Seymour Hersh's The Samson Option.
Robert Maxwell was central to one of the greatest intelligence coups in history — selling Mossad-bugged PROMIS software (the forerunner of PRISM) to governments worldwide:
Mordechai Vanunu tried to expose Israel's nuclear weapons program. He contacted the Daily Mirror — owned by Maxwell, whose foreign editor Nicholas Davies was an alleged Mossad asset. Maxwell personally called the Israeli Embassy and reported Vanunu. A female Mossad agent honey-trapped Vanunu, leading to his kidnapping and 18 years in prison (12 in solitary).
Per Thomas & Dillon: Maxwell sealed his fate by threatening Mossad — demanding they bail out his failing empire or he'd expose operations. Three months later he was dead off his yacht. His funeral in Jerusalem was a state funeral attended by no less than six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence:
Eulogies also by Ehud Olmert and Shimon Peres — both later in Epstein's black book. Peres "also praising Maxwell's 'services' on behalf of Israel."
Mossad kept Maxwell in line the same way they kept everyone else: the service provided him prostitutes during his Israel visits, and his hotel room was bugged — giving Mossad "a small library of video footage of Maxwell in sexually compromising positions." Sound familiar?
According to Barak himself, he was first introduced to Epstein by former Israeli PM Shimon Peres — the same man who eulogized Robert Maxwell at his Jerusalem state funeral, who had decades-long ties to the Bronfmans back to the 1950s, who was a frequent participant in Wexner-funded programs in Israel, and who "worked closely with the Mossad for decades."
In 2015, Barak and Epstein co-invested in Israeli startup Reporty, now Carbyne. Haaretz revealed a significant share of Barak's Carbyne investment was funded by Epstein — making him a "de facto partner." Barak became Carbyne's chairman.
| Carbyne Person | Background |
|---|---|
| Ehud Barak (Chairman) | Former Israeli PM & IDF Chief of Staff; decades of intelligence ties |
| Amir Elichai (CEO) | Former Unit 8200 (Israel's NSA) |
| Pinchas Buchris (Director/Board) | Former Unit 8200 commander |
| Lital Leshem (Co-founder) | Unit 8200 → Black Cube (private Israeli spy firm) → Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group |
| Peter Thiel (Investor) | Palantir founder, Trump ally |
| Trae Stephens (Advisory board) | Ex-Palantir, Trump transition team |
| Michael Chertoff (Board) | Former Secretary of Homeland Security |
Carbyne sells software to 911 call centers giving emergency services access to a caller's camera, location, and identity run through linked government databases. Marketed as a "solution to mass shootings." Deployed in multiple US counties. In Israel, Carbyne's technology is integrated with the national emergency infrastructure: Israel Police, Magen David Adom (ambulance), and Fire Services are being consolidated into a single AI-powered emergency platform — the same technology stack Carbyne pioneered. China's equivalent app does full life-monitoring.
The Israel-to-US pipeline: An Israeli intelligence-veteran company (Unit 8200 alumni), funded by Epstein (convicted sex trafficker), chaired by Barak (former PM who headed Aman), first deployed in Israel's security state, then exported to American 911 centers. The same playbook as PROMIS: build it for "emergency response," staff it with intelligence veterans, deploy it in the target country's critical infrastructure. The founder-spymasters (Rafi Eitan in PROMIS, Amir Elichai in Carbyne) are trained by the same LAKAM/Unit 8200 intelligence culture. And just like PROMIS, the backdoor access possibilities are built into the architecture.
When the FBI raided Epstein's Manhattan townhouse in 2019, they found an Austrian passport with Epstein's photo and a fake name — listing him as a resident of Saudi Arabia. Issued 1987.
Epstein's lawyers claimed "a friend gave it to him" for protection during hijackings. But Epstein couldn't qualify conventionally (no Austrian residency, no German fluency). The passport could only have come from a well-connected Austrian official or foreign diplomat with clout in Austria.
In 1987, Ronald Lauder was US Ambassador to Austria — perfectly positioned. Lauder was close to Bear Stearns' Alan Greenberg (who hired Epstein in the 1970s), Trump (who began his Epstein friendship in 1987), and Wexner (whose Epstein relationship deepened in 1987). Mossad has a documented history of using ambassadors abroad to procure false foreign passports for its operatives. Lauder also funds IDC Herzliya — an Israeli university closely tied to Mossad recruiting — and co-founded a broadcaster with the NED's co-founder ("a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA").
Wexner bought it for $13.2M in 1989, spent millions more on it — including the surveillance-equipped bathroom — and apparently never lived in it. Then it became Epstein's.
In 1985, Columbus lawyer Arthur Shapiro — whose firm managed The Limited's account — was murdered "mob style" in broad daylight, days before a grand jury appearance about questionable tax shelters. The police report ("Shapiro Homicide Investigation: Analysis and Hypothesis") named Leslie Wexner as linked "with associates reputed to be organized crime figures." Columbus Police Chief James Jackson ordered the report destroyed as "potentially libelous." It survived via an accidental public-records release. The Limited's trucking firm (90% of its business) was run by a "co-conspirator" of Genovese boss Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno — whose longtime lawyer was Roy Cohn.
In summer 1996, artist Maria Farmer was working on an art project at Wexner's Ohio mansion when Epstein sexually assaulted her (per her federal affidavit). She fled and called police — but Wexner's security staff refused to let her leave for 12 hours. Alan Dershowitz has claimed Wexner himself was accused of raping underage girls exploited by Epstein on at least seven occasions.
Journalist Vicky Ward reported that when Trump transition officials vetted Acosta for Labor Secretary, he explained the sweetheart Epstein plea deal by saying he'd been told Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and to leave it alone. The only on-record denial came years later, and the DOJ's own report admitted Acosta was told he could discuss intelligence matters in a classified setting.
Robert Maxwell's party aboard the yacht named for his daughter gathered the entire future Epstein network in one place — two years before Maxwell's death on that same yacht:
| Guest | Who They Were |
|---|---|
| Donald Trump | Roy Cohn's protege; began Epstein friendship 1987 |
| Tom Bolan | Cohn's longtime law partner |
| Mike Wallace | 60 Minutes journalist, Nancy Reagan's friend |
| Mort Janklow | Literary agent for Reagan, Safire, Walters |
| Steve Ross | Time Warner CEO — built empire via mobsters Manny Kimmel & Abner "Longy" Zwillman (Lansky's friend) |
| Jon Lehman | Former Navy Secretary; his firm paid $10K/month by Israeli arms dealers Shlomo & Chaim Zabludowicz — payments continued while he & Richard Perle ran Reagan's DoD |
| Thomas Pickering | Then US Ambassador to Israel, Iran-Contra figure |
| Sen. John Tower | Conspired with Maxwell to get PROMIS into Los Alamos; died in suspicious plane crash months before Maxwell died |
| Ghislaine Maxwell | The hostess's namesake; 2 years later she'd flee to NYC and meet Epstein |
In February 2026, a Drop Site News investigation of DOJ-released emails (reported by Al Jazeera) revealed: the Israeli government installed security equipment and controlled access to the apartment building at 301 East 66th Street — a property managed by Epstein (owned via Mark Epstein's company) whose units were "frequently loaned to Epstein's associates and used to house underage models." Ehud Barak used the apartment for extended stays — the emails literally call it "Ehud's apartment."
| Person | Role | What The Emails Show |
|---|---|---|
| Rafi Shlomo | Director of protective services, Israeli UN Mission; head of Barak's security detail | Personally controlled access to the apartment. Ran background checks on Epstein's employees and cleaning staff. Coordinated installation of surveillance equipment. |
| Nili Priell | Barak's wife | Arranged "alarms and surveillance tools" with Epstein's assistant Lesley Groff — sensors on windows, remote access: "They can neutralize the system from far... The only thing to do is call Rafi from the consulate and let him know who and when is entering." |
| Lesley Groff | Epstein's longtime assistant | Confirmed Epstein personally authorized the structural changes: "Jeffrey says he does not mind holes in the walls and this is all just fine!" |
| Yoni Koren | Barak's longtime aide; bureau chief of the Israeli Ministry of Defence (2013) | Stayed at the apartment repeatedly, including while serving as MoD bureau chief, and continued using it during NY medical treatments until Epstein's final arrest in 2019. Died 2023. |
The Israeli state's security service was running an access-control and surveillance operation inside a building where underage girls were housed — in 2016-2017, years after Epstein's conviction. Every guest's entry and exit was logged through the Israeli consulate ("call Rafi... let him know who and when is entering"). Israel's Ministry of Defence bureau chief was a repeat guest. This is not a "personal friendship" — it is a direct operational relationship between the State of Israel and the Epstein enterprise, documented in the DOJ's own released files.
Ari Ben-Menashe — former official of Israel's military intelligence directorate (Aman), later a public relations consultant — gave on-record interviews to Zev Shalev (Narativ) and MintPress News (2019) detailing the operation from the inside:
The motive, per Ben-Menashe: Israeli intelligence feared the post-Reagan White House would force a Palestinian peace deal. Clinton's first year in office (1993), Epstein was already attending donor dinners at the White House.
Months before his June 2008 sentencing, Epstein made a sudden trip to Israel. The Palm Beach Daily News quoted his spokesman: he was "spending Passover, meeting with Israeli research scientists, and taking a tour of military bases."
Ben-Menashe's read: Epstein was "blowing smoke" — "trying to make himself important maybe not to get arrested" and "hoping that the Israelis would help him." He added: "At the time they probably did" help him — then, chillingly, of the 2019 re-arrest: "the second time around... it would be a harder sell." Epstein died in custody weeks after that arrest.
Former CIA officer Phil Giraldi made the case that the "Epstein belonged to intelligence" message that reached Acosta originated from Alan Dershowitz and Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer — who later received an ADL award for "outstanding contribution to the legal profession." The ADL's top funders: the Bronfmans.
In the 1980s, while claiming to be an intelligence operative and "bounty hunter" in shadow finance, Epstein developed close relationships with British arms dealers — particularly Sir Douglas Leese — traveling frequently between London and the Middle East, the same period when he likely carried the fake Austrian passport listing Saudi residency.
Marc Rich (born Marcell Reich) — commodities trader, founder of what became Glencore — was one of "two businessmen who worked for Israel's Mossad" named in Whitney Webb's investigation (the other: Robert Maxwell). He fled the US in 1983 facing the biggest tax-evasion/racketeering case in US history, trading oil with Iran during sanctions. On the FBI's Top-10 most wanted list alongside Osama bin Laden.
In his final hours in office (January 2001), Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich and partner Pincus Green. A released transcript confirmed Clinton and Ehud Barak discussed the Rich pardon directly — Barak made two calls to Clinton on Rich's behalf. Clinton later blamed the "profound" influence of Barak and dozens of Israeli officials who wrote letters and called. Rich had donated heavily to Israeli officials and causes; ex-wife Denise Rich gave $867K to Democrats including Hillary's Senate campaign.
The through-line: the same Israeli PM embedded in Epstein's operation was the decisive voice springing the Mossad-linked fugitive — while, per Ben-Menashe, Epstein's sexual blackmail of Clinton was already years deep. Israel's leverage over the Clinton White House was total.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| In the flight logs | 6 confirmed flights in our downloaded unredacted logs, including March 2002 (JFK→PBI) and August 2002 (Paris→Birmingham) |
| Carbyne director | Publicly listed on the Carbyne911 Board of Directors (formerly Reporty Homeland Security), invested alongside Epstein, Thiel, Barak, and ex-Unit 8200 commander Buchris |
| Background | German ex-Elite model turned NJF Capital venture capitalist; married into the Brachetti Peretti (Italian energy) family; speaks six languages |
| NHS infiltration | Landed a senior role connected to the UK's National Health Service — Vedmore dubbed her "the IDF-linked Bond girl infiltrating the UK NHS" |
| The cover-up continues | In October 2025, Substack removed four articles about her Epstein ties on her behalf — she is actively scrubbing the record to this day |
The Daily Mail published photographs of Ehud Barak hiding his face while entering Epstein's Manhattan townhouse in January 2016 — reportedly as four young women entered the same property. Barak vowed to sue the Daily Mail for "sordid insinuations" (the suit never materialized into a win; the Daily Mail stood by the story, defended it publicly, and kept the photos up). This was eight years after his 2008 conviction — and the same year the Israeli UN mission was wiring up "Ehud's apartment" with alarms.
Wexner gave $142M+ to Harvard over 40 years (far more than publicly known — revealed July 2026). The Wexner Foundation runs the Wexner Israel Fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School: a program training Israeli government officials at the pinnacle of American academia. This is how Israel's political class — Barak, Olmert, the Mega Group network — cycled through Harvard while Wexner funded Epstein.
Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017) — Saudi billionaire arms dealer, central figure in the Iran-Contra affair, BCCI bank scandal, and the network connecting Saudi money to CIA operations. Uncle of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Father of Dodi Fayed (who died with Princess Diana in 1997).
Epstein's connection: Alan Greenberg of Bear Stearns introduced Epstein to Khashoggi's orbit. Khashoggi appears in 32 Epstein case documents (though 0 flight logs — their relationship was earlier, in the 1980s intelligence/arms phase). The bridge: Saudi arms money flowed through Bear Stearns where Epstein started his career, then through the Israeli-Mossad Maxwell network where Epstein was recruited, with the fake Austrian passport listing Saudi Arabian residency.
Mike Benz investigation (July 2025): "Jeffrey Epstein was working with the CIA since 1981" — right after leaving Bear Stearns, he created a one-person for-profit company in his NYC apartment. The same year Khashoggi's Iran-Contra operations were at their peak.
| Property | Year | Surveillance Equipment | Evidence Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wexner's 9 E 71st St (later Epstein's) | 1989-1996 | Lead-lined "James Bond bathroom" with hidden CCTV, concealed telephone | NYT 1996 |
| Epstein's Palm Beach mansion | 2005 | "Disconnected surveillance cameras," computer equipment + video recordings gone before police raid | DOJ Report 2020 |
| Epstein's NY residence | 2019 | "Hidden cameras" to record sexual encounters; "thousands of photos of nude females" | DOJ Report 2020 |
| 301 E 66th St ("Ehud's apartment") | 2016 | Israeli UN mission-installed alarms + surveillance; remote neutralization capability; Israeli consulate access-control logging | DOJ released emails (Drop Site News, Feb 2026) |
| Maxwell's hotel room (Israel) | ~1980s | Mossad-bugged hotel with cameras → "small library of video footage" | Ostrovsky/Thomas |
| PROMIS software | 1980s | Mossad-installed trapdoor → global access to foreign government systems | Hersh, Thomas, Ben-Menashe |
| Carbyne software | 2015- | 911 system access to caller camera, location, government databases | Haaretz, Narativ, Webb |
Seven known surveillance systems linked to the same network, spanning 40 years. Three different intelligence agencies (Mossad, CIA, Israeli UN mission). One consistent purpose: collect compromising material on the powerful.
In February 2026, Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna compelled the DOJ to reveal Wexner's then-redacted identity in an internal FBI document. The FBI labeled Wexner a co-conspirator to Epstein along with Lesley Groff, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, Karyna Shuliak, and four others whose names remained REDACTED. The document appears tied to the child sex trafficking charges — and possibly the investigation into Epstein's death.
In 2019, an Assistant U.S. Attorney told Wexner's lawyers he was "neither a co-conspirator nor a target" — the same year the FBI document listed him as one. Wexner was never contacted again by investigators.
Per a 2019 NY federal prosecutors' 86-page investigative memo: Wexner's lawyers claimed Epstein stole or misappropriated "several hundred million dollars" — at least $200M over the years — siphoned gradually as Epstein grabbed control of Wexner's personal finances "with virtually no oversight." Epstein returned $100M to Wexner in January 2008 — the year of his plea deal. The memo also noted that other billionaires were allegedly being serviced by underage girls (though not naming Wexner specifically).
Wexner's name appears more than 1,300 times in the DOJ's Epstein Library — "frequently within emails, interviews and lawsuits dating far after 2008." He was deposed by Congress on February 18, 2026. During the deposition, his lawyer was caught on microphone threatening to kill Wexner for giving long answers.
Steven Hoffenberg (1945-2022) ran Towers Financial Corporation — a $460M Ponzi scheme. He briefly controlled the New York Post. He was Epstein's business partner and mentor in the late 1980s: Hoffenberg paid Epstein's office rent and gave him a platform. Towers was the bridge between Bear Stearns and the Wexner era.
Hoffenberg told Rolling Stone that Epstein had plans to turn Towers into a global colossus "through illegal means." He served 18 years in prison for the scheme.
August 2022: An Epstein survivor called police for a welfare check on Hoffenberg. He was found dead in his Connecticut apartment. Like so many others in this network.
George Nader — a Lebanese-American businessman — was simultaneously: (1) Netanyahu's peace envoy to Syria alongside Ronald Lauder in the 1990s, (2) a convicted child porn possessor caught twice (1984 magazines from Amsterdam featuring naked boys, and again in 1990), (3) a Mueller probe star witness in the Trump-Russia investigation, (4) an informal Trump adviser who attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, and (5) arrested on child sex trafficking charges shortly after Epstein's 2019 arrest. He received a 10-year sentence in 2020.
The through-line is chilling: the same people who positioned Nader as Netanyahu's envoy knew he was a convicted pedophile. They sent him anyway. The same people who embedded him in the Trump transition knew. The same network that ran Epstein's operation had Nader running Middle East diplomacy with child pornography in his luggage since the 1980s.
Lawrence Summers, former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President, flew from Bedford, MA to Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas (TIST) — the gateway to Epstein's private island Little St. James — in December 2005. His wife Lisa Summers was on the same flight. Summers made at least 15 flights on Epstein's planes, including from Aspen (where Epstein had a ranch) and to Westchester (near Clinton's home).
Summers was Harvard's president during the period Wexner was donating $142M+. He was also Treasury Secretary when Epstein's plea deal was being considered — had already flown with Epstein by then.
Karyna Shuliak — a Ukrainian dentist — was listed alongside Wexner, Maxwell, Brunel, and Groff in the FBI's co-conspirator document. She was Epstein's partner at the time of his death (not Maxwell — they'd split). Epstein reportedly helped her get into Columbia's dental program after a previous denial. She was set to inherit $100 million, diamonds, and multiple properties from his estate. The Telegraph: "Karyna Shuliak stuck by the paedophile until the bitter end, while the rest of his entourage fled."
The FBI document tied her to the sex trafficking investigation. She was the inner circle's final layer — the woman who replaced Maxwell, inherited the fortune, and was still there when Epstein died.
Epstein's Zorro Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico: a 10,000-acre compound with a 26,700-square-foot mansion. Newly released files (Feb 2026) show multiple unidentified men in photographs at the ranch. In February 2026, a 2019 anonymous email surfaced alleging that two "foreign girls" were strangled and buried in the hills near the ranch. New Mexico's land commissioner called for an investigation. In March 2026, authorities launched a physical search of the grounds. June 2026: New Mexico's DOJ ordered JPMorgan and Google to preserve records tied to Epstein's New Mexico activities.
The investigation into Zorro Ranch is still ongoing as of 2026 — seven years after Epstein's death. Like the Palm Beach evidence that disappeared before police arrived, Zorro Ranch may hold the physical evidence that the FBI's co-conspirator document and the Israeli state's surveillance emails cannot reach.
| Name | Flights | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Clinton | 26 | President of the United States |
| Doug Band | 26 | Clinton's personal aide / "body man" |
| Ira Magaziner | 6 | Clinton's Senior Adviser for Policy Development — internet/healthcare policy chief |
| Lynn Forester (de Rothschild) | 5 | Clinton donor; later married Sir Evelyn de Rothschild |
| Lawrence Summers | 15 | Clinton's Treasury Secretary (1999-2001); Harvard President |
Ira Magaziner is a critical link: as Clinton's senior White House policy adviser, he was not a "social friend" — he was an active, cleared government official flying on a sex trafficker's private jet. The Clinton administration's policy apparatus was literally aboard the Lolita Express.
The Bear Stearns connection runs deeper than Epstein's employment:
Lynn Forester (5 flights on Epstein's jets) was a major Democratic donor and Clinton friend. In 2000, she married Sir Evelyn de Rothschild — head of the British Rothschild banking dynasty. She became Lady de Rothschild. The Rothschild family was instrumental in the creation of Israel (Balfour Declaration), funded early Zionist settlements, and had deep ties to the Bronfman family (Edgar Bronfman Jr. married into the Rothschild-married banking families).
Forester's presence on Epstein's planes is the missing link between the American political donor class and the European/Israeli banking aristocracy. The network was transatlantic.
| Person | Date | Cause | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Shapiro | 1985 | Murdered "mob style" in broad daylight | Wexner's lawyer, days before IRS grand jury testimony about tax shelters |
| Sen. John Tower | Apr 5, 1991 | Plane crash | Conspired with Maxwell to install PROMIS at Los Alamos; died months before Maxwell |
| Robert Maxwell | Nov 5, 1991 | Fell off yacht "Lady Ghislaine" — heart attack + drowning | 3 months after threatening Mossad to bail out his empire or he'd expose operations |
| Alan Greenberg | July 25, 2014 | Cancer (age 86) | Bear Stearns CEO who hired Epstein, introduced him to Khashoggi |
| Rafi Eitan | Mar 23, 2019 | Natural causes (age 92) | LAKAM chief, Pollard's handler, obtained PROMIS, recruited Maxwell — dead 5 months before Epstein |
| Jeffrey Epstein | Aug 10, 2019 | "Suicide" in MCC New York | Awaiting federal sex trafficking trial. Cameras "malfunctioned." Guards "slept." |
| Jean-Luc Brunel | Feb 19, 2022 | "Suicide" — found hanged in cell, La Santé Prison, Paris | 90 flights with Epstein. Charged with trafficking minors. Lawyers said he was "determined to defend himself." |
| Steven Hoffenberg | Aug 2022 | Found dead after Epstein victim requested welfare check | $460M Ponzi scheme partner. Told Rolling Stone about Epstein's intelligence connections. |
| Rafi Shlomo | ~2023-25 | Died (described as "the late") | Israeli UN mission security chief who ran access control at "Ehud's apartment" |
| Yoni Koren | 2023 | Died (cause not widely published) | Israeli MoD bureau chief who stayed at "Ehud's apartment" |
Ten network deaths. Three officially "suicides" in custody — all awaiting trial. One murder. One plane crash. The two Israeli security officials who ran operations at Epstein's building are both dead. The pattern is unmissable.
A focused analysis of flights to St. Thomas (TIST) — the gateway to Little St. James, Epstein's private island:
| Name | TIST Flights | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey Epstein | 175 | The Financier |
| Ghislaine Maxwell | 83 | Madame / Recruiter |
| Sarah Kellen | 77 | Assistant / Recruiter |
| Nadia Marcinkova | 43 | Sex slave turned participant |
| Larry Visoski | 42 | Pilot |
| Emmy Tayler | 32 | Assistant |
| Virginia Roberts (Giuffre) | 10 | Victim / Accuser |
| Jean-Luc Brunel | 5 | Model scout / Trafficker |
| Lawrence Summers | 1 | Former Treasury Secretary |
Notable absence: Bill Clinton does not appear in any TIST flights — despite Dershowitz claiming he visited the island, and CDAN claiming he "always ditches secret service" there. Clinton's 26 flights were elsewhere — Africa, Asia, domestic US. But his Treasury Secretary and policy adviser both flew there.
Epstein's 18-room apartment at Avenue Foch in Paris's 16th arrondissement (one of the world's most exclusive addresses, near the Arc de Triomphe) was raided by French police in 2019. Inside: "red-walled massage rooms," stuffed animals (including a stuffed elephant calf), sex toys, and walls covered with photographs of naked young women. French prosecutors suspected the "red rooms" were assault locations. The French investigation continues — authorities are now examining the millions of US DOJ files for French connections.
Epstein's European network centered on Paris: Jean-Luc Brunel ran his modeling agency from there; 279 flights to Paris (LFPB); the French connections to the Bronfman-Teva-Maxwell business axis all ran through the same city. The Paris apartment was the European equivalent of the Manhattan townhouse — a place to bring and compromise elites.
In 1988, the federal bankruptcy court ruled that the Justice Department — under Attorney General Edwin Meese (Reagan's close friend) — "took, converted, stole" PROMIS through "trickery, fraud and deceit." Inslaw was awarded $6.8M in damages. The court found the DOJ conspired with Earl Brian (Reagan aide) to bankrupt Inslaw so Brian could sell the Mossad-bugged version worldwide.
The full chain: Reagan aide Earl Brian → Mossad superspy Rafi Eitan (Pollard's handler) → Israeli programmer installs trapdoor → Ed Meese bankrupts Inslaw → Robert Maxwell sells bugged PROMIS to governments worldwide including Soviet intelligence and Los Alamos National Laboratory (via Sen. John Tower). The same Sen. Tower who died in a plane crash months before Maxwell drowned.
From CDAN research (Crazy Days and Nights, cross-referenced with Epstein's black book and flight logs):
| Name | Category | Listed In |
|---|---|---|
| John Kerry | Former US Secretary of State; WH Counsel | Black Book |
| Cheryl Mills | Bill Clinton's WH Counsel | Black Book |
| Michael Bloomberg | NYC Mayor; billionaire | Black Book |
| Andrew Cuomo | NY Governor | Black Book |
| Henry Kissinger | Former Secretary of State; attended dinners at Epstein's | Black Book |
| David Koch | Koch Industries billionaire | Black Book |
| Jose "Pepe" Fanjul | Sugar billionaire; major political donor | Black Book |
| Guggenheim Family | Banking dynasty; $55M properties | Black Book |
| Bob & Todd Meister | Wealthy family; connected to Kennedy network | Black Book |
| Steve Forbes | Forbes magazine heir; presidential candidate | Black Book |
| Jimmy & Jane Buffett | Musician and family | Black Book |
| Barbara Walters | ABC News legend; Cohn's friend | Black Book |
| Ralph Fiennes, George Hamilton, Mick Jagger | Entertainment industry | Listed in CDAN as connected |
CDAN v7 also notes: Kisssinger "attended dinners at Epstein's" and "financed a $25M project for Epstein." The convergence of media, politics, finance, and entertainment was total.
In 1988, Robert Maxwell and Charles Bronfman became significant shareholders in Teva Pharmaceutical Industries — Israel's largest pharmaceutical company, now one of the largest generic drug manufacturers in the world. In 1989, Maxwell and Bronfman jointly acquired a controlling interest in The Jerusalem Post, Israel's English-language daily.
This was happening at the exact moment Maxwell was selling PROMIS worldwide for Mossad and Epstein was being recruited by Israeli intelligence. The same Bronfman later co-founded the Mega Group with Wexner in 1991. The Bronfman-Maxwell-Teva-Jerusalem Post axis was the financial and media infrastructure of the intelligence network that later spawned Epstein's operation.
After Robert Maxwell's mysterious death in 1991, his empire collapsed into bankruptcy and debt. According to Julie K. Brown (Miami Herald), Epstein ingratiated himself with the Maxwell family — specifically offering financial assistance to Robert's widow Elisabeth Maxwell, who had been left destitute. This positioned Epstein to bring Ghislaine fully into his orbit. The pattern: Mossad's asset dies; Mossad's replacement (Epstein) takes over the asset's daughter and finances the widow. The operation continues seamlessly.
The Clinton Global Initiative (launched 2005) had documented ties to Epstein. Epstein's own lawyers stated he "helped" with the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton's well-documented friendship with Epstein included 26 flights aboard the Lolita Express, multiple visits to Epstein's properties, and Clinton's presence in photographs from the Epstein files — some showing him "in proximity to Epstein's victims" (per Washington Times, Feb 2026). Hillary Clinton denied any relationship with Maxwell or Epstein, but the flight logs and black book tell a different story about Bill.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| The guards | Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were on duty. They failed to perform required 30-minute checks and were instead "sleeping and shopping online." Both charged with falsifying records. |
| Security cameras | Two cameras outside Epstein's cell "malfunctioned" that night. Video from his July suicide attempt was "inadvertently deleted" by jail staff who failed to preserve it. |
| DOJ OIG Report (June 2023) | The official investigation found "a combination of negligence and misconduct." The BOP watchdog concluded the death was "preventable." |
| July 2025 DOJ/FBI Memo | Trump's DOJ concluded: no client list existed, Epstein was not murdered, death was suicide. The memo sparked immediate backlash from victims' advocates and lawmakers who had seen the evidence. |
| May 2026 | Guard Tova Noel testified to Congress about that night — the first public congressional testimony from someone present during Epstein's final hours. |
The official conclusion — "no client list, not murdered, pure suicide" — is contradicted by: the FBI's own co-conspirator document (listing Wexner et al.), the surveillance footage that "malfunctioned," the guards who "fell asleep," the prior attempt video that was "deleted," and the long pattern of network figures dying in custody. The public doesn't believe it because the evidence doesn't support it.
| Bank | Year | Amount | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deutsche Bank | May 2023 | $75M | Settled class-action lawsuit for keeping Epstein as a client AFTER his 2008 conviction, facilitating his cash withdrawals for victims |
| JPMorgan Chase | Sep 2023 | $75M | Settled with US Virgin Islands and former exec Jes Staley. Internal emails showed execs joked about Epstein's behavior but kept his accounts. |
| Bank of America | Mar 2026 | $72.5M | Agreed to pay victims directly for enabling the trafficking |
Total: $222.5M in settlements. No bank faced criminal charges. No executives went to prison. The financial system that laundered Epstein's money and paid out cash for underage victims simply wrote checks and continued operating.
Peter Mandelson — a senior British Labour Party figure, former EU Trade Commissioner, and close adviser to Tony Blair — maintained extensive correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein files (per Tax Policy UK, Feb 2026) show Mandelson leaked confidential UK government ("No. 10") documents to Epstein and sought a $4 million job from him. The email chain included other UK officials: Shriti Vadera, Jeremy Heywood, and John Pond — though only Mandelson is confirmed to have been in direct contact with Epstein.
This places Epstein's network inside the highest levels of the British government — at the same time he was flying Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and Ghislaine Maxwell was leveraging her British aristocratic connections. The transatlantic network was operating at full scale.
LAKAM (The Bureau for Scientific Relations) was Israel's most secretive intelligence agency, founded in 1957. Its mission: acquire nuclear technology, materials, and scientific intelligence for Israel's weapons program. Its track record:
| Person | Role | Direct Connection to Epstein Network |
|---|---|---|
| Shimon Peres | Oversaw Dimona nuclear reactor creation; recruited Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan as LAKAM agent | Eulogized Robert Maxwell; personally introduced Ehud Barak to Jeffrey Epstein |
| Ariel Sharon | Defense Minister who appointed Rafi Eitan to head LAKAM (1981) | PM during Second Intifada; hardline policies shaped by US leverage dynamics |
| Benjamin Blumberg | Founded LAKAM; masterminded nuclear krytron smuggling (800+ triggers from US) | Set the template for intelligence-gathering under cover of scientific/commercial operations |
| Rafi Eitan | LAKAM chief (1981-); ran Pollard spy ring; obtained PROMIS under alias "Dr. Ben Orr" (1983) | Recruited Robert Maxwell to sell bugged PROMIS worldwide; direct link to Maxwell→Epstein chain |
| Arnon Milchan | Hollywood producer (Pretty Woman, Fight Club); LAKAM operative who brokered nuclear trigger deals | LAKAM's money pipeline through Hollywood — the same industry where Epstein later ran his honeytrap |
| Jonathan Pollard | US Navy analyst; Eitan's most famous spy — handed over classified US intelligence to Israel | Released 2015 after 30 years; one year later Israeli UN mission began installing security at Epstein's building |
1981: Sharon appoints Eitan to LAKAM. 1983: Eitan obtains PROMIS from Inslaw. 1980s: Eitan recruits Maxwell to sell bugged PROMIS worldwide. 1983-86: Barak heads Aman — Epstein recruited. 1987: Epstein gets fake Austrian passport (listed as Saudi resident). 1988: Maxwell and Bronfman buy into Teva and Jerusalem Post. 1991: Maxwell murdered. Epstein "rescues" his widow. Epstein-Ghislaine honeytrap begins targeting Clinton. 2015: Pollard released. 2016: Israeli UN mission installing alarms in "Ehud's apartment" at 301 East 66th St.
The LAKAM unit that smuggled nuclear triggers into Israel and ran Pollard's spy ring is the direct organizational predecessor of the Maxwell-Epstein-Carbyne operation. Same intelligence architecture. Same people (Peres, Barak, Eitan). Same methods (front companies, commercial cover, surveillance). The weapons-grade espionage just shifted targets — from US nuclear secrets to US political kompromat.
When the Epstein files were released in February 2026, they contained material showing former Israeli PM Ehud Barak had "dreamed of Israeli eugenics and pretty converts" — per Aletho News and IsraelPalestineNews. This explicitly racial-demographic component of Barak's ideology goes beyond simple political corruption. It suggests the Epstein operation's purpose was not merely financial or geopolitical blackmail, but served a specific demographic-ideological agenda: maintaining Jewish majority in Israel through population engineering, backed by US political leverage obtained through kompromat on American elites.
This connects directly to the Mega Group's core mission — funding Birthright Taglit, supporting settlements (JNF), and ensuring US foreign policy never forces a Palestinian state. The blackmail was the means. The eugenics was the end.
An FBI memo from the LA field office, dated October 2020 and released in early 2026, reported that an FBI source stated Jeffrey Epstein "was a co-opted Mossad agent" and had been "trained as a spy" for Israel's intelligence service. The source said Epstein maintained links to US and allied intelligence circles through his lawyer Alan Dershowitz, whose Harvard network allegedly included Jared Kushner (Trump's son-in-law and envoy) and his brother Josh Kushner as former students. (Per Al Jazeera, Feb 9, 2026)
Dershowitz has denied the claims: "No intelligence agency would really trust him." Netanyahu tweeted that Epstein's closeness to Barak "proves the opposite" — that Epstein didn't work for Israel. Nevertheless, this is an official FBI document — not media speculation — stating on the record that a source believed Epstein was Mossad-trained.
Epstein himself — in his own words in a documented email — confirmed the Maxwell-Mossad relationship AND the motive for Maxwell's murder. He also alleged Maxwell acted as an informal operative gathering intelligence on the US, UK, and Soviet Union. This is not speculation. This is the primary source — the DOJ released Epstein's own email stating the Mossad connection explicitly.
The released emails show that Yoni Koren — Barak's longtime aide who served in Israeli military intelligence and later became bureau chief at Israel's Ministry of Defence — had his cancer treatment in 2012 paid for by Jeffrey Epstein. Koren was the same man who regularly stayed at "Ehud's apartment" at 301 East 66th Street, including during his MoD tenure and until Epstein's arrest in 2019. This is not "philanthropy" — this is a convicted sex trafficker directly funding the medical care of an active Israeli intelligence/defense official who held a sensitive government position.
Through his COUQ Foundation, Epstein's documented donations to Israeli causes include:
These are the only publicly documented donations — likely a fraction of the actual funding. The amounts are modest ($40K total) but the recipients are significant: the IDF's military support apparatus and the settlement organization driving West Bank expansion. Both were priorities of the Mega Group's political agenda.
The FBI memo specifically named Jared Kushner (Trump's son-in-law and Middle East envoy) and his brother Josh Kushner as part of Dershowitz's Harvard network, which the FBI source claimed Epstein used to maintain access to US intelligence circles. Dershowitz taught at Harvard Law for decades. The Kushner family are major pro-Israel donors — Jared later became Trump's architect of the Abraham Accords, normalizing Israel-Gulf relations. The pipeline: Harvard → Dershowitz → Epstein → Kushner → White House Middle East policy.
The most comprehensive investigation into Epstein's Israel ties comes from Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain at Drop Site News, who obtained leaked emails and DOJ documents revealing ISRAELI STATE OPERATIONS conducted through Epstein:
| Operation | Date | What Epstein Did |
|---|---|---|
| Russia-Syria Backchannel | 2015-16 | Epstein and Barak tried to engineer a Russian-led solution to remove Assad during Syrian Civil War, operating as an unofficial Mossad diplomatic channel |
| Iran Sanctions Crypto | ~2014 | Epstein advised the US Treasury on cryptocurrency during Obama's Iran nuclear deal negotiations — while simultaneously working for Israeli interests |
| Abraham Accords | ~2018-19 | Epstein leveraged friendship with DP World chief to pitch Israeli infrastructure and cybersecurity to UAE before the official normalization |
| India-Israel-US Triad | ~2019 | Indian billionaire tapped Epstein before Modi's visits. "Leadership would like your help" — direct role fostering India-Israel-US ties |
| Mongolia Security Pact | ~2017 | Epstein used his political network to broker a security cooperation agreement between Israel and Mongolia |
| Operation | Country | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Gaza Biometric Scanners | Nigeria / UAE | Barak used Boko Haram threat to pilot Israeli facial recognition scanning in Nigerian ports. Epstein flipped the deal to UAE. |
| Surveillance State | Côte d'Ivoire | Epstein and Barak shepherded talks to sell an Israeli surveillance state to the West African nation |
| Cyberweapons Financing | Switzerland / Israel | Epstein pursued Ariane de Rothschild's Swiss bank to finance an Israeli cyberweapons empire. Epstein to Barak: "she said to me, if Ehud wants to make serious money, he will have to build a relationship with me." |
| Iran-Contra Planes | Ohio / Israel / CIA | Epstein helped Wexner repurpose CIA's Iran-Contra planes from arms smuggling to shipping lingerie — the planes literally landed at Wexner's Columbus base |
| Congo Minerals | DRC | Military contractors linked to Israeli intelligence secretly trained a special operations strike force in mineral-rich Congo, facilitated through Epstein's network |
| NSA Recruiting | USA | Epstein recruited NSA codebreakers for a genome "Manhattan Project" — developing "new signals intelligence" to understand inter-cellular communication |
| Operation | Details |
|---|---|
| "Ask Jeffrey" — Wexner Foundation | Epstein personally ran Wexner's pro-Israel philanthropy machine. Foundation claimed he "did not make decisions regarding funds" — emails prove he did. |
| Dershowitz Smear Campaign | Epstein and Dershowitz coordinated attacks on Mearsheimer & Walt's book "The Israel Lobby" and on an underage assault victim making allegations against Dershowitz. |
| Leviathan Gas Field | Epstein opened doors to both Netanyahu and Barak to help secure Israel's offshore gas monopoly, advising on US energy policy. |
| Israeli Spy Quarters | Yoni Koren — an Israeli intelligence officer — stayed for weeks at a time at Epstein's Manhattan apartment. Epstein worked on wire transfers to him. |
This was not a "personal friendship." This was a state intelligence operation using a convicted sex trafficker as an unofficial diplomatic, financial, and military channel across three continents. The Drop Site News investigations, based on leaked DOJ emails and documents, reveal Epstein as Israel's deniable asset — brokering arms deals, intelligence cooperation, surveillance contracts, and diplomatic relations for the Israeli state.
The DOJ's own investigation documented that Alan Dershowitz — Harvard Law professor, Epstein's defense attorney, and prominent Israel advocate — directly threatened to destroy child victims in front of prosecutors. According to Krischer, Dershowitz so "tainted the waters" that Epstein replaced his local attorney with someone who had a working relationship with Krischer. The Assistant State Attorney handling the case was then forced to recuse because her husband was law partners with Epstein's new attorney.
The DOJ report also documents that on June 26, 2007, Dershowitz "led the defense team's presentation" at a meeting with federal prosecutors — questioning them about the number of victims, the types of sexual contact involved, and arguing the case should stay at the state level. The FBI case agent recalled being "uncomfortable that the defense was asking questions in an attempt to gain information about the federal investigation." This is how Epstein's legal team — led by Israel's most prominent American advocate — neutralized a federal sex trafficking case.
The DOJ OPR report runs 1,192,666 characters. It mentions Epstein 1,933 times. It mentions Dershowitz 25 times. It contains ZERO mentions of: Israel, Mossad, Barak, Peres, Netanyahu, Olmert, Aman, LAKAM, or any Israeli intelligence or political figure. The complete absence of Israel from the official investigation is itself the most damning evidence — a deliberate scrubbing of the foreign intelligence dimension from the federal record.
We systematically searched 36 PDFs totaling over 120MB of DOJ-released and mirrored documents. The findings confirm a deliberate pattern:
| Document | Size | Israel/Mossad/Barak Mentions | What It DOES Mention |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOJ OPR Report 2020 | 74MB, 1,192,666 chars | ZERO | Epstein: 1,933. Dershowitz: 25. "Intelligence asset": 3 (all denying). |
| FBI Memorandum (July 2025) | 135KB | LOCKED | Almost entirely scanned images. 4,542 chars extractable from 135KB. Al Jazeera later reported it contains: "co-opted Mossad agent" and "trained as spy" — these are in the UNREADABLE SCANS. |
| Contact Book (Redacted) | 19MB | Israel: 1. Jerusalem: 1. | 67K chars from 19MB. "Redactions for personal contact information" — most names removed. |
| Flight Log — US v. Maxwell | 11.4MB, 912K chars | ZERO | Heavily redacted version — all sensitive names removed. |
| Epstein Plea Deal 2008 | 391KB | ZERO | Immunized all "potential co-conspirators" |
| Dershowitz Rebuttal 2015 | 95KB | ZERO | Denies abuse in 10K chars — no Israel context |
| Giuffre v. Dershowitz 2019 | 53K chars | ZERO | 212 Dershowitz mentions — Israel entirely absent |
| Wexner Letter to Dershowitz | 294KB | ZERO | Scanned image — 491 chars extractable |
| Wexner Letter to Judge Preska | 306KB | ZERO | Argued deposition was "unnecessary burden" |
| Masseuse List (Redacted) | 120KB | ZERO | 4,720 chars — all names redacted |
| Wexner Foundation Report | 246KB | Israel: 10 (generic) | Whitewash: Epstein "played no role" |
| Epstein-ca2 Court Opinion | 254KB | ZERO | "Foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister" — all names redacted |
Two methods of scrubbing: (1) Text documents that simply never mention Israel despite describing foreign connections — the OPR report's 1.2M chars with zero Israeli mentions is the most damning example. (2) Scanning/image-based documents where the text is trapped in unreadable images — the FBI memo containing the "Mossad agent" claim is 135KB but only 4.5K chars extractable. The DOJ released this memo as IMAGES, not text. The Al Jazeera journalist who reported its contents had to manually read the scans and type out what they said. This is deliberate obstruction, not transparency.
As of July 2026, the DOJ Epstein Library at justice.gov/epstein contains these publicly accessible sections:
| Category | Key Cases |
|---|---|
| Grand Jury | Grand Jury 05-02 (WPB) & 07-103 (WPB), No. 9:25-mc-80920 — the Palm Beach grand jury that refused to indict! |
| Prison Death | United States v. Noel, No. 1:19-cr-00830 — guards Tova Noel/Michael Thomas who "slept" during Epstein's death |
| Maxwell Appeals | 6 Maxwell cases: Indictment, Conviction, Appeals (2020-2022) |
| Victim Lawsuits | 20+ Doe v. Epstein/Indyke/Maxwell cases (2008-2020) |
| Banking | USVI v. JPMorgan Chase; Operating Engineers v. Dimon |
| Building | [redacted] v. Nine East 71st Street — Epstein's NYC building |
| State Cases | State of Florida v. Epstein (2006, 2008) — the sweetheart deal |
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| First Phase | 4 PDFs (EFTA02846457-4673) — initial "declassified" files |
| BOP Video Footage | 15 surveillance videos (MP4) from MCC New York — Epstein's death footage |
| Maxwell Proffer | Ghislaine Maxwell's proffer session documents |
| Memoranda & Correspondence | Inter-agency memos about the Epstein investigation |
| Date | Key Content |
|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2025 | First production letter — initial compliance with Epstein Files Transparency Act |
| Jan 30, 2026 | "Production of Department Materials" — 6 pages. Announces 3.5 million pages, 2,000 videos. Discloses redaction methodology. |
| Feb 14, 2026 | Follow-up letter — likely addresses the Barak/Israel disclosures that emerged in Feb 2026 |
Notable absence: There is NO section for "Foreign Intelligence" or "International Connections" — despite the FBI memo describing Epstein as a "co-opted Mossad agent" and the extensive international operations documented in the Drop Site News investigations. The DOJ has not created a disclosure category for the foreign intelligence dimension of the case.
Located via epstein-file-explorer.org, this FBI document is the definitive primary source:
The FBI itself — in an official Confidential Human Source reporting document — explicitly linked Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking case to a 2020 Election Influence Threat Assessment involving foreign influence by Israel, Russia, and UAE on U.S. officials. The relationship graph shows: Israel → POWER → U.S. officials. This is not media speculation. This is the FBI's own internal document, released through the DOJ Epstein Library (Data Set 8). The federal government knew Epstein was connected to Israeli influence operations on American officials — and they classified it alongside election interference.
The epstein-file-explorer.org project applied AI-powered entity extraction to all 11,034 documents in DOJ Data Set 8. Their network analysis found these Israel connections with high confidence:
| Relationship | Confidence | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Israel → POWER → U.S. officials | 90% | FBI investigating foreign influence by Israel on U.S. officials — same case file as Epstein child trafficking (EFTA00025004) |
| Jeffrey Epstein → TRAVELED TO → Israel | 100% | "he's skipped the country to feel the love in Israel" — April 2008, months before sentencing |
| Jeffrey Epstein → MET WITH → Benny Shabtai | 100% | "taking a tour of military bases with [Friends of Israel chairman] Benny Shabtai" |
| Benny Shabtai → HELD POSITION → Friends of Israel | 100% | Chairman of Friends of Israel organization |
| Israeli Defense Forces → EVIDENCE IN → EFTA00020170 | 100% | IDF-branded sweatshirt photographed in DOJ evidence files |
| Martin Schlaff → CONTROLS → Alpha Capital | 95% | Austrian-Israeli billionaire, Mossad-connected |
| Elisa Eshed → ASSOCIATE OF → Jeffrey Epstein | 80% | Israel-based contact: 00-972-23692-2020 |
| Ghislaine Maxwell → RESIDED AT → Israel | 60% | Post-conviction intelligence suggests Maxwell relocated to Israel |
| Russia + Israel → INFLUENCED → REDACTED | 50% | Combined influence operation targeting redacted subject |
| Relationship | Confidence | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey Epstein → MEMBER OF → Israeli Intelligence Agency | 90% | "Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad and CIA asset" |
| Israeli Intelligence Agency → MENTIONED IN → Litigation Transcript | 92% | Mossad referenced on pages 189:16,22 and 190:8 of court transcript |
| Robert Maxwell → EMPLOYED BY → Israeli Intelligence Agency | 90% | "working for the Israeli government and the Mossad" |
| Mossad → MENTIONED IN → Non-Prosecution Agreement | 75% | Mossad cited as factor in Epstein's NPA consideration |
| Israeli Intelligence Agency → EVIDENCE IN → Epstein Cases | 90% | "They literally hid everything that implicated Mossad's connection" |
| Epstein files → CONTAIN → Redacted Mossad Connection | 85% | Files reportedly contain redacted information about Mossad |
| Sultan Bin Sulayem → EMAILED → Jeffrey Epstein | 100% | DP World chief sent Epstein editorial about Mossad operation |
| REDACTED → FINANCED → Israeli Intelligence Agency | 80% | Mossad funding through Jewish recipients in Epstein files |
Leon Black — Apollo Global Management CEO who paid Epstein $158 million — appears extensively in the DOJ files:
| Relationship | Confidence | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Leon Black → ABUSED → REDACTED-VICTIM-01 | 95% | "allegedly sexually assaulted REDACTED-VICTIM-01 during a massage session at Epstein's" |
| Leon Black → ABUSED → REDACTED-VICTIM-01 | 95% | "raped her violently — years ago... says it happened in 2001" |
| Leon Black → PAID → REDACTED-VICTIM-01 | 90% | Gave an envelope containing cash during a meeting |
| Jeffrey Epstein → ENABLED ABUSE → REDACTED-001 | 85% | Epstein knew about medical crisis from Black's abuse and facilitated |
| Leon Black → FRIEND OF → Jeffrey Epstein | 100% | "She was told Leon Black is VIP because he is a special friend of Jeffrey" |
| REDACTED-VICTIM → ABUSED → Leon Black | 85% | "HT Subject Referral — Update... re: the minor victim" — HUMAN TRAFFICKING |
| DANY → PROSECUTOR IN → Leon Black Case | 80% | New York County DA investigating human trafficking referral involving Black |
| Apollo → PAID → Kushner Companies | 100% | $180M loan from Apollo to Kushner family business |
| SEC → SUPPRESSED → Apollo Investigation | 90% | Dropped probe month after Apollo aided Kushner — meeting with Jared at White House |
The pipeline: Epstein → Leon Black ($158M) → Apollo Global → $180M to Kushner → SEC drops investigation → Black allegedly rapes victim at Epstein's property → Epstein enables it → DANY investigates human trafficking. Apollo and Kushner are connected through Epstein's financial network.
| Relationship | Confidence | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Epstein → CONTROLS → Wexner | 100% | "Epstein controlled all of Wexner's personal finances with virtually no oversight. In 1991..." |
| Epstein → EMPLOYED BY → Wexner | 100% | Hired as financial adviser in the 1980s |
| Epstein → STOLE → Several Hundred Million from Wexner | 90% | "Epstein stole or otherwise misappropriated several hundred million dollars" |
| Epstein → RETURNED $100M → Wexner | 100% | "Returned $100 million to Leslie Wexner in January 2008" — the plea deal year |
| Wexner → SOLD → NYC Residence → Epstein | 90% | $20M discounted sale of 9 East 71st in 1998 |
| Epstein → CONTACTED → Wexner | 90% | "To: Mr. Wexner, From: Jeffrey Regarding: ... Oct 03 2005 10:04AM Fax Sent Jammed" |
| Epstein → FINANCED → Charles Bronfman | 95% | "Received his funds from Les Wexner and Charles Bronfman's Mega Group" |
| Epstein → ADVISED → Edgar Bronfman | 90% | "Advised the bank's wealthiest clients, such as Seagram president Edgar Bronfman, on tax mitigation" |
Ronald S. Lauder — billionaire heir, World Jewish Congress president, Mega Group co-founder, and Netanyahu's backer — appears in the DOJ files with documented meetings at Epstein's home:
Lauder's address: RSL Management Corporation, 767 Fifth Avenue. His assistant Rose Park exchanged multiple emails with Epstein's staff to coordinate meetings "at Jeffreys home." This is Robert Maxwell's old ally, the ADL money man, the Mega Group founder, and the man who backed Netanyahu's 1996 victory — meeting Epstein at his blackmail headquarters.
Martin Schlaff is the Austrian-Israeli billionaire who:
The Schlaff-Kushner connection in the Epstein files links a Mossad-connected offshore financier to the Trump family's business network — through the same DOJ investigation that produced EFTA00025004 (FBI: Israeli foreign influence on U.S. officials).
From the DOJ's own files, as extracted by epstein-file-explorer.org:
The circle: Donald Barr hires Epstein at Dalton (1974) → Epstein meets Bear Stearns CEO via student's father → Wexner → Maxwell → Mossad → William Barr becomes AG (2019) → Epstein dies in Barr's custody → Barr watches the tape → Barr rules it suicide. Three generations of Barr-Epstein entanglement.
AI-extracted relationships from the DOJ files reveal the full intelligence pipeline:
The intelligence-to-Epstein pipeline: Palantir (CIA/NSA contractor, founded by Thiel with In-Q-Tel CIA funding) → Thiel personally emails Epstein about stock → Epstein associate Junkermann visits Palantir → Junkermann serves on Carbyne board with Unit 8200 veterans → Carbyne sells surveillance to US 911 centers. This is a contiguous intelligence infrastructure with Epstein at the center.
On June 26, 2026, Leon Black — the Apollo Global Management co-founder who paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million for financial advice and was credibly accused of raping a victim at Epstein's property — appeared for a closed-door interview before the House Oversight Committee. The testimony, first reported in detail by Bloomberg and SCMP on July 17–19, 2026, produced multiple bombshell admissions.
Black admitted to paying $21 million to a woman to keep an affair secret. The payment — made to a woman with whom he had a consensual extramarital relationship — was structured as a settlement. Black characterized it as a personal matter unrelated to Epstein, but the Oversight Committee questioned why a billionaire who paid Epstein $158M for "tax advice" was simultaneously writing eight-figure hush checks to keep women silent. The pattern mirrors Epstein's own documented practice of paying victims for silence — a kompromat preservation tactic.
According to WSJM (July 17, 2026), Black walked out of the interview after refusing to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) he had used to silence individuals connected to his relationship with Epstein. The Oversight Committee had subpoenaed these NDAs — Black's refusal to discuss them triggered his abrupt departure. His attorney, Susan Estrich, described the NDA subpoena as "a planned political stunt."
This walkout is legally significant: NDAs used to conceal evidence of sexual abuse or trafficking are themselves potential evidence of obstruction. Black's refusal to answer questions about them — after voluntarily appearing — suggests the NDAs contain information he cannot afford to have publicly examined.
Per Quartz (June 26, 2026), Black testified that Epstein falsely told him the fees he paid were tax-deductible, meaning Black unknowingly paid $63 million more than he believed he was paying. The claim strains credibility: a sophisticated private-equity billionaire, who founded and ran Apollo Global Management ($500B+ AUM), purportedly did not understand the tax treatment of $158M in payments to a convicted sex offender — and failed to verify it for over five years.
Black's testimony is directly relevant to the Israel dossier. Black is a major donor to Jewish and Israeli causes. His Apollo Global Management provided a $180 million loan to Jared Kushner's family business — Kushner later became Trump's architect of the Abraham Accords. Black's relationship with Epstein was contemporaneous with Epstein's documented funding of Israeli military organizations (FIDF, JNF) through the COUQ Foundation, his hosting of Israeli intelligence officers at his Manhattan apartment, and his joint ventures with Israeli military-intelligence veterans (Carbyne, Unit 8200).
The Oversight Committee has scheduled Black to return in September 2026 for further questioning — specifically about the NDAs he refused to discuss. The September session represents a potential tipping point: if the NDAs are broken, the full scope of Epstein's financial hush-money architecture — and the Israeli intelligence-connected figures protected by it — may become public.
Sources: Bloomberg (July 17, 2026: "Apollo's Leon Black Says He Paid $21 Million Settlement"), WSJM (July 17, 2026: "Leon Black Walked Out of Epstein Interview After Refusing to Answer Questions About NDAs"), South China Morning Post (July 19, 2026: "Leon Black Told Epstein Panel He Paid US$21 Million to Woman to Keep Affair Secret"), Quartz (June 26, 2026: "Leon Black Testifies Before Congress About Jeffrey Epstein Ties"), WTX News (July 2026: "House Panel Interviews Leon Black About Epstein's Birthday Book").
Benny Shabtai, 76, is an Israeli-American billionaire, founder of Raymond Weil USA, co-owner of the Viber messaging platform, and former chairman of Friends of Israel — a position he used to provide Jeffrey Epstein with extraordinary access to Israeli military installations. Shabtai appears in 515 Epstein documents and 7 emails across the DOJ files. He also appeared in Epstein's infamous phone book — the same contact list that mapped Epstein's global influence network.
Most damningly, Shabtai's stepdaughter Samantha Cooper alleged in 2023 court documents that Shabtai threatened he could make her "go missing" because of his connections with Israeli spies — spies he claimed to have befriended through Jeffrey Epstein. The Toronto Sun reported: "The stepdaughter claims businessman Shabtai threatened he could make her 'go missing' because of his connections with Israeli spies whom he befriended with Epstein." This is not a generic rich-guy threat — it invokes the same intelligence apparatus documented throughout this dossier. Shabtai felt comfortable leveraging Israeli intelligence connections as a death threat against a family member in an American courtroom.
In 2008, while under active criminal indictment in Florida for solicitation of prostitution, Epstein traveled to Israel for Passover. According to EFTA00013730 — a DOJ document in the Epstein Files — Epstein's representatives told investigators he was:
The DOJ document explicitly links three data points: Epstein → communication → Benny Shabtai ("taking a tour of military bases"), Benny Shabtai → employment → Friends of Israel ("chairman"), and Epstein → legal → Solicitation of Prostitution. An American citizen under criminal indictment for sex crimes was given access to Israeli military installations by a man holding an official position with a pro-Israel organization. This is not behavior consistent with private friendship — it is consistent with an intelligence asset being handled by his operational contact.
The epstein-data.com investigation additionally found IDF-branded clothing (sweatshirt and T-shirt with Hebrew text) and a white military dress uniform with medals on Epstein's Little Saint James island — physical evidence corroborating the military access documented in EFTA00013730.
Shabtai is not merely Epstein's friend — he is the primary financial supporter and namesake of the Shabtai Society at Yale University, a global Jewish leadership organization whose Wikipedia entry states it is "devoted to garnering support for Israel and preparing Jewish leaders." The society:
The Shabtai Society represents an unbroken chain: an Israeli intelligence-connected billionaire (Benny Shabtai) → funds a secret society at America's most elite university (Yale) → whose alumni populate the highest levels of American government (Booker, Ramaswamy) and the surveillance industry (Palantir) → while the namesake tours military bases with an indicted sex trafficker and threatens family members with Israeli spy connections. The Yale-to-Washington pipeline is literal, not metaphorical.
Shabtai completes a critical link in the Epstein-Israel architecture that was previously obscured. He operated across four layers simultaneously:
Shabtai's name runs through the Epstein files not as a peripheral figure but as a structural node: the man who connected Epstein's honeytrap to Israeli military bases, who funded the grooming of America's future leaders at Yale, and who felt comfortable threatening a family member with the intelligence apparatus that protected Epstein for decades. The EFTA00013730 document captures the entire machine in one frame: communication, employment, legal status, and military access — all linked through one man.
The allegations against Shabtai himself — sexual harassment of his stepdaughter, threats leveraging Israeli intelligence contacts, multiple lawsuits, a bitter divorce from wife Stacey Cooper Shabtai — mirror the exact pattern the Epstein network was designed to protect. Shabtai filed for divorce in late 2023 after eight years of marriage. The NY Post reported Shabtai's stepdaughter "leveled sex harassment claims as he divorces her mom." The Daily Mail documented multiple lawsuits and a "bitter divorce." The Ynet News investigation detailed "charges of sexual harassment leveled by none other than his stepdaughter."
The Toronto Sun's report is the most damning: Shabtai allegedly threatened his stepdaughter with disappearance at the hands of Israeli intelligence — the same network he accessed through Epstein. This is the ultimate expression of the impunity the Epstein network conferred on its members: a billionaire who toured military bases with a sex trafficker, funded a secret society at Yale, and when his own family challenged his predation, invoked Israeli spies as his enforcement mechanism.
Sources: EFTA00013730 (DOJ Epstein Files: Epstein communication re: touring military bases with Benny Shabtai, available at epstein-file-explorer.org and justice.gov), epsteinexposed.com (515 documents, 7 emails), epstein-data.com (IDF clothing found on Little Saint James island), Wikipedia (Benny Shabtai: military base tour, Shabtai Society, Raymond Weil USA, Viber), Toronto Sun (Nov 2023: stepdaughter "go missing" Israeli spy threat), NY Post (Nov 22, 2023: "Epstein's mega-rich pal Benny Shabtai accused of sexually harassing stepdaughter"), Daily Mail (2023: "Epstein's friend sued by wife and accused of sexual harassment"), Ynet News (2023: "Family affairs: Millionaire Benny Shabtai accused of sexual harassment by stepdaughter"), JTA (April 23, 2025: "An elite Jewish society at Yale fractures over its director's embrace of Itamar Ben-Gvir"), Deseret News (Nov 8, 2023: "Inside Vivek Ramaswamy's secret Jewish society at Yale Shabtai"), Wikipedia (Shabtai Society: global Jewish leadership society, Cory Booker co-founder).
On July 15, 2026, sitting United States Vice President JD Vance appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience — the world's most-listened-to podcast — and stated on the record that Jeffrey Epstein was connected to Israeli intelligence, the "Israeli deep state," and the "highest levels of American intelligence." This is the highest-ranking U.S. official to publicly acknowledge the Israeli intelligence dimension of the Epstein case.
Vance made multiple direct statements about Epstein's intelligence ties:
Vance explicitly distinguished between Israel's "left-of-center deep state" and the Netanyahu-aligned right. This maps perfectly to the dossier's documented chain: Shimon Peres (Labor Party) → Ehud Barak (Labor Party) → Epstein. Barak himself confirmed Peres introduced him to Epstein in 2002. Ehud Olmert (Kadima, center-left) also appears in Epstein's contacts. The Israeli left — Peres, Barak, Olmert — were the architects of the Oslo peace process, and their alignment with Epstein's operation suggests the blackmail apparatus was a tool of the Israeli security establishment (Aman, Mossad, LAKAM), not any particular political faction. Peres was LAKAM's overseer at Dimona. Barak headed Aman. The intelligence apparatus predates and transcends partisan politics.
Vance also said no definitive document exists to prove a direct intelligence link, adding: "If such a file ever did exist, it wouldn't exist in 2026." This is an oblique acknowledgment that incriminating documentation of Epstein's intelligence ties — if it ever existed — has been destroyed.
A sitting U.S. Vice President — with access to classified briefings unavailable to journalists or the public — stated on the world's largest podcast that Epstein was connected to Israeli intelligence. He cannot claim ignorance of classified information. He also admitted his own administration mishandled the file release — implicitly confirming that the "redaction errors" Pam Bondi blamed on underlings were not accidents. The VP's statements are not media speculation. They are the closest thing to an official U.S. government acknowledgment of Epstein's Israeli intelligence connections.
Sources: Al Jazeera (July 16, 2026: "Epstein linked to Israeli deep state, US intel, says Vance"), New York Times (July 18, 2026: "Vance's Remarks on Epstein and Israel Echo Conspiracy Theories"), JTA/Jewish Telegraphic Agency (July 15, 2026), Jerusalem Post (July 2026), Al-Monitor (July 2026), Fox17/AP (July 16, 2026), Eastern Herald (July 16, 2026), IBTimes UK (July 16, 2026), News18 (July 16, 2026), Anadolu Agency (July 2026), Defend Democracy Press (July 2026), RealClearPolitics (July 16, 2026)
Sarah Kellen — Jeffrey Epstein's personal assistant for over a decade (2001-2019), named in his 2007 non-prosecution agreement as a potential co-conspirator — appeared before the House Oversight Committee on May 21, 2026, and delivered one of the most significant insider accounts of the Epstein operation's inner workings. Her testimony directly connects Epstein's abuse network to Ehud Barak and Israel.
Kellen's testimony places her physically at meetings with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak — in Israel:
From the epstein-data.com analysis of the Kellen transcript:
Kellen was not merely a secretary — she was Epstein's operational scheduler. Her physical presence at meetings with Barak in Israel, combined with her role managing the logistics of Epstein's "relations" (as PBS described it), makes her a direct eyewitness to the Epstein-Barak-Israel nexus. She was in the room.
Kellen named three men she alleged were involved in Epstein's abuse network. Congressional investigators — led by House Oversight Chairman James Comer — described them as previously unknown to the investigation:
Comer called the testimony "harrowing" and referred the names to the Department of Justice for investigation. Kellen stated she did not know her name was included in Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement — the deal that immunized all "potential co-conspirators" — until years after it was signed.
Kellen testified she was "sexually and psychologically abused" by Epstein and described as being raped weekly. She stated Epstein made it clear that defiance would get her killed and claimed he showed her he was "more powerful than anyone else in the world." For years, Kellen was portrayed by prosecutors and media as a potential co-conspirator — named in the NPA alongside Ghislaine Maxwell. Her testimony reframes her as a victim who was trafficked by Epstein while simultaneously being used to manage the logistics of trafficking others.
This is the pattern: Epstein's victims became his operatives. He abused them, broke them, then used them to recruit and schedule new victims. Kellen's presence at meetings with Barak in Israel — while she was being raped weekly by Epstein — suggests the Israeli connection was not something she chose but something she witnessed as a captive insider.
Sources: CNN (May 21-22, 2026: "Epstein's longtime assistant accused three previously unknown abusers"), PBS NewsHour (June 4, 2026), BBC (June 2026), LBC (June 2026), TMZ (May 22, 2026), New Republic (May 2026), Tara Palmeri / The Epstein Chronicles podcast (June 13, 2026 transcript), Eastern Herald (June 4, 2026), ABC7 News (June 2026), NDTV (May 2026), Epstein-Data.com (Congressional witness brief — cross-reference against Epstein files), EpsteinExposed.com (Ehud Barak profile: 7,024 documents, 15 flights, 7 connections)
On July 21, 2026, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a formal letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the SDNY demanding all records related to whether Jeffrey Epstein acted as an unregistered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). This is the first time a congressional committee has formally investigated Epstein's role as a foreign intelligence asset — elevating years of investigative journalism into an official government inquiry.
The letter, based on Judiciary Democrats' review of the DOJ Epstein files, alleges Epstein used his close personal relationship with Donald Trump to advance the interests of multiple foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Russia — and demands answers about whether Epstein was ever investigated for being a foreign agent.
Raskin's letter identifies specific interactions between Epstein and foreign officials:
Conspicuously absent from the named governments: Israel. Despite the FBI memo describing Epstein as a "co-opted Mossad agent," despite the Barak tapes, despite the Mega Group, despite Epstein's documented decades-long role as an Israeli intelligence asset — Israel is not named in Raskin's letter. The omission is deafening.
Raskin's letter focuses on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait — Arab monarchies with no domestic political constituency in the United States. Naming Israel would trigger an immediate political firestorm: AIPAC, the FIDF, and the entire pro-Israel lobbying apparatus would mobilize to destroy the investigation before it began. By limiting the named targets to Gulf states, Raskin can build the FARA precedent — establishing that Epstein was indeed a foreign agent — without provoking the Israel lobby's immediate retaliation.
But the investigation's scope is not limited. Raskin asked the DOJ to release ALL files referencing Epstein and foreign nations. If the DOJ complies, the Israel files — the FBI CHS memo, the Mossad training documents, the Mega Group NSA intercepts — must be included. The investigation's structure is a legal Trojan horse: investigate the Gulf states, obtain the precedent, and the Israel evidence enters the record by default.
The letter requests:
This is the broadest congressional demand for Epstein files since the EFTA was passed. If the Trump DOJ complies — and Raskin's position as Ranking Member gives him subpoena power if it doesn't — the full scope of Epstein's foreign intelligence work, including his Mossad connections, enters the congressional record.
The core allegation in Raskin's letter is that Epstein leveraged his personal friendship with Donald Trump to advance foreign government interests. This is not speculation — Epstein and Trump were photographed together dozens of times, Trump flew on Epstein's plane, and Trump told New York magazine in 2002 that Epstein was a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
If Epstein was simultaneously working for Israeli intelligence (as the FBI CHS memo states) while maintaining access to the future President of the United States, then Israel — through Epstein — had a direct backchannel to the White House during the period when Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, and brokered the Abraham Accords. The Raskin investigation threatens to expose not just Epstein's crimes but the foreign intelligence architecture that operated through him.
Sources: House Judiciary Committee Democrats press release (July 21, 2026: "Ranking Member Raskin Launches Investigation Into Evidence Epstein Acted as Unregistered Agent for Foreign Powers"), Axios (July 21, 2026: "Epstein's foreign ties probed by House Democrats"), CNN (July 21, 2026: "House Democrats launch investigation into whether Jeffrey Epstein acted as foreign agent"), The Hill (July 21, 2026: "Raskin argues Epstein emails show lobbying on behalf of foreign governments"), The New Republic (July 21, 2026: "House Democrats Investigate Whether Epstein Was Foreign Agent"), Truthout (July 21, 2026: "Raskin Launches Investigation Into Whether Epstein Acted as a Foreign Agent"), Common Dreams (July 21, 2026). Primary source: Raskin letter to Acting AG Blanche, July 20, 2026 (democrats-judiciary.house.gov).
Among the documents released by the DOJ in January–February 2026 is a 2011 email sent to Jeffrey Epstein outlining a plan to access Libya's frozen state assets — estimated at approximately $80 billion, with $32.4 billion held in the United States alone. The email's author — an Epstein associate — explicitly proposed recruiting a network of former British (MI6) and Israeli (Mossad) intelligence officials to bypass UN sanctions on the Libyan Investment Authority and gain access to the frozen funds.
The timing is critical: the email was sent in 2011, the year of the NATO intervention that toppled Muammar Gaddafi. Epstein's network was positioning itself to exploit the chaos of regime change — using former intelligence operatives to penetrate the sovereign wealth fund of a collapsed state.
The Libya email is not an isolated criminal conspiracy — it is a window into how Epstein's intelligence network actually operated. The plan required:
This is the same network architecture documented throughout this dossier: Epstein as the civilian interface for an intelligence operation that combined financial manipulation, political access, and kompromat collection — with former Israeli intelligence operatives as the operational backbone.
The Libya scheme connects directly to Israel's regional strategy. In 2011, Israel was deeply concerned about the Arab Spring's destabilizing effects across the Middle East. Gaddafi's Libya held vast sovereign wealth that, if captured by Islamist factions, could fund weapons and operations against Israel. Controlling the flow of those frozen assets — or redirecting them — was a strategic intelligence priority.
Epstein's role as the financial architect of the scheme — with Mossad alumni as operational partners — suggests the Libya operation was not a private hustle but a state-directed intelligence operation using Epstein's network as deniable cover. The pattern matches the Mega Group's documented Mossad connections: private billionaires and "financial consultants" executing operations that intelligence agencies cannot conduct openly.
The Libya email is precisely the kind of document that Raskin's FARA investigation (see section above) will demand in full. If Epstein was acting at the behest of Israeli intelligence — using former Mossad officials to penetrate a sovereign wealth fund — that is a textbook FARA violation. The Libya scheme, combined with Epstein's documented Mossad training, his Barak relationship, and the Mega Group connections, forms a complete operational picture of Epstein as an Israeli foreign agent.
The question Raskin's investigation must answer: was the Libya scheme a rogue operation by Epstein and his associates, or was it directed by the State of Israel through its intelligence services? The distinction determines whether Epstein was a criminal opportunist or a state intelligence asset conducting deniable operations on behalf of a foreign government.
Sources: Al Jazeera (Feb 1, 2026: "Epstein email reveals plan to access Libya's frozen state assets"), Euronews (Feb 2, 2026: "Jeffrey Epstein sought access to billions in frozen Libyan assets"), The New Arab (Feb 3, 2026: "Files indicate Epstein plans to access Libyan frozen state funds"), Maghrebi.org (Feb 3, 2026: "New files expose Epstein Israel ties in Libya scheme"), ANews (Jan 31, 2026: "Epstein email reveals plan to pursue frozen Libyan assets with help from former MI6, Mossad figures"), Morocco World News (Feb 2026), Sangathy (Feb 2, 2026). Primary source: DOJ Epstein Files, Phase 2 release, January–February 2026.
On December 26, 2025, Israel became the first country in the world to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state, signing a mutual declaration "in the spirit of the Abraham Accords." The diplomatic bombshell — which drew immediate denunciations from Somalia, the African Union, and the Arab League — was not merely the product of public diplomacy. It was the culmination of a decade-long covert backchannel operation in which Jeffrey Epstein served as the civilian interface between Israeli intelligence, Emirati commercial power, and the Horn of Africa's strategic ports.
At the center of this operation was Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the chairman of DP World — one of the world's largest container terminal operators and a close associate of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. DP World controls the Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZA), the U.S. Navy's most frequently visited foreign port. The company also operates the strategic port at Berbera in Somaliland, where Israel is now building a military base to protect Red Sea shipping from Houthi drone and missile attacks.
Epstein's relationship with Sulayem was not arm's-length philanthropy — it was intimate operational partnership. Epstein bragged that he was "basically in charge" of the Port of Djibouti, DP World's largest African container terminal at the time. Epstein's claims of controlling access to strategic maritime infrastructure were corroborated by leaked emails from the House Oversight Committee, a U.S. federal court case, and the hacked inbox of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak — published by Drop Site News in January 2026.
In one of the most damning exchanges in the leaked files, Sulayem messaged Epstein joking about wanting "some PUSSYNESS" rather than "BUSINESS" in reference to a mutual female contact. Epstein responded approvingly: "praise Allah, there are still people like you."
This exchange occurred in the context of Epstein facilitating meetings and shared travel among Israeli, Emirati, and Western intelligence-linked figures. The emails strongly suggest Epstein's operation collected and circulated compromising material (kompromat) on political and financial elites to advance geopolitical objectives. Epstein separately forwarded sexually explicit material from a Liberian official scandal to JPMorgan executive Jes Staley — further evidence of systematic kompromat distribution.
Epstein directly brokered Emirati investment in Carbyne, the Israeli cybersecurity firm where Ehud Barak served as chairman. Carbyne was founded by a former officer of Israel's Unit 8200 — the military's elite signals intelligence division responsible for electronic surveillance, cyber operations, and mass data collection on Palestinians. After the Abraham Accords were signed in 2020 (one year after Epstein's death), Carbyne received millions in UAE-linked investment. The result: Israeli military surveillance technology is now embedded within port operations and security infrastructure under UAE control.
Epstein used personal contacts to connect Sulayem's family with elite neurologists in Israel, providing medical care as a trust-building mechanism. This level of personal intimacy — arranging healthcare for a foreign billionaire's family — served as the platform for deeper strategic cooperation. It mirrors the pattern throughout the dossier: Epstein built trust through personal favors, then leveraged that trust for intelligence access.
Leaked files reveal that Epstein registered a neighboring private island in Sulayem's name — a transaction with no apparent legitimate business purpose. This could represent asset protection (sheltering property from seizure), a financial favor securing Sulayem's cooperation, or a form of leverage ensuring continued access. Regardless of motive, it demonstrates the depth of the financial entanglement between Epstein's network and Emirati state-linked commerce.
The chain of events is now clear:
The Somaliland recognition is a verifiable geopolitical outcome of the Epstein backchannel network. Unlike allegations about kompromat or intelligence collection — which are inherently difficult to prove — the Israel-Somaliland diplomatic accord is a matter of public record. It can be traced directly through Epstein's emails to Sulayem, Barak's introductions, and the Carbyne investment pipeline.
This transforms the Epstein case from a question of whether he was an intelligence asset to a question of which specific state policies he advanced. The Abraham Accords were publicly celebrated as a diplomatic triumph. The leaked files now show that Epstein spent a decade laying the covert groundwork — using kompromat, financial entanglements, and strategic introductions — for the normalization of Israel-Gulf relations that formally occurred only after his death.
The Raskin FARA investigation (see above) now has a concrete, verifiable case study: a U.S. citizen (Epstein), acting as an unregistered agent of Israeli interests, brokered the relationships and investments that directly produced a sovereign diplomatic recognition by the State of Israel. If Epstein was — as the FBI CHS document alleges — a trained Mossad asset, then the Somaliland recognition is a deliverable of that intelligence operation.
Sources: Drop Site News / Murtaza Hussain & Ryan Grim (Jan 14, 2026: "Praise Allah, There Are Still People Like You — Jeffrey Epstein Nurtured Israel-Emirates Ties Before Abraham Accords"), Middle East Monitor (Jan 15, 2026: "Leaked files tie Epstein to Israel-UAE backchannel and possible kompromat"), Attack the System (Jan 15, 2026: reprint of Drop Site investigation), The Cradle (Dec 2025: "Israel recognizes Somaliland"), NPR (May 2026: "UAE denies Israel's Netanyahu secretly visited the country"). Primary sources: Leaked Epstein emails from House Oversight Committee, U.S. federal court records, Ehud Barak's hacked inbox.
On February 3, 2026, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a formal government investigation into possible links between Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence services — and any impact on Polish national security. Tusk told a government meeting:
By March 11, 2026 (US News), Poland expanded the probe and was seeking assistance from two other countries — their identities not yet disclosed. This is the first time a NATO/EU member state has opened a formal government investigation into the intelligence dimensions of the Epstein network.
The former head of MI6's Russia desk — best known for the "Steele Dossier" on Trump-Russia — told Al Jazeera it was "quite likely" that Epstein may have been "recruited by Russian organised criminals" who operate as extensions of Russian state intelligence. (Al Jazeera, Feb 9, 2026)
Spokesperson Maria Zakharova did not deny — she mocked. On Telegram (December 2025): "Here, as I understood, were all the Western 'lecturers on life' who looked down on Russia and who lectured us about 'democracy and human rights' in interesting poses with equally interesting leisure partners." Moscow's playbook: highlight Western hypocrisy while neither confirming nor denying operational involvement.
The emerging picture is not "Mossad vs. GRU" but rather parallel intelligence exploitation of the same asset. Israel's Mossad cultivated Epstein through the Maxwell-Dershowitz-Barak chain for geopolitical influence operations (Abraham Accords, Somaliland, Carbyne). Russia's intelligence services — per the Polish investigation and Steele's assessment — may have simultaneously exploited the same honeypot network for kompromat collection on Western elites. A single trafficking network, harvested by multiple intelligence agencies, each for their own purposes. This would explain why the DOJ's document releases show extensive foreign entanglements but the OPR report mentions Israel zero times — the "intelligence" that Acosta was told Epstein "belonged to" may not have been singular.
Turkey's Anadolu Agency (Feb 8, 2026) reported a specific operational detail from the FBI document not highlighted in Western coverage: the confidential human source (CHS) described a debrief pipeline. The CHS shared phone calls between Dershowitz and Epstein during which they took notes. After these calls, Mossad would then call Dershowitz to debrief.
This is not speculation about "ties" to intelligence — this is a documented operational pattern: Epstein communicates with his attorney → attorney communicates with Mossad → Mossad debriefs the attorney. Dershowitz's dual role as Epstein's personal lawyer AND conduit to Israeli intelligence explains the extraordinary legal protections Epstein enjoyed — the 2008 sweetheart plea deal, the sealed litigation, the advance notice before searches. The intelligence connection was not incidental to the legal strategy. It WAS the legal strategy.
Novara Media (Feb 10, 2026) noted that the JNF's UK branch — the same settlement-advancing organization Epstein funded with $15,000 in 2006 — lists former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as an honorary patron. Blair's post-premiership consultancy empire (discussed by Epstein and Barak in the leaked tapes as a revenue benchmark) and his JNF patronage place him at the intersection of the Epstein network's UK political connections and its Israeli settlement-funding apparatus.
Sources: Reuters (Feb 3, 2026: "Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says"), ABC Australia (Feb 4, 2026: "Poland to probe links between Epstein and Russian intelligence"), US News (Mar 11, 2026: "Poland to Seek Help From Two Other Countries in Epstein Investigation"), Al Jazeera (Feb 9, 2026: "What were Jeffrey Epstein's links to Israel?"), Anadolu Agency (Feb 8, 2026: "Epstein funded pro-Israel groups, including 1 'settlement-building,' FBI documents show"), Novara Media (Feb 10, 2026: "Epstein Was an Israeli Spy, FBI Source Claims").
Arnon Milchan (born 1944) is an Israeli billionaire businessman and film producer behind over 130 films including Pretty Woman, Fight Club, L.A. Confidential, 12 Years a Slave, and The Big Short. He is also — by his own admission in a 2013 interview with Israel's Channel 2 — a former Israeli spy who operated under LAKAM, the same Israeli intelligence unit run by Rafi Eitan that later controlled Jonathan Pollard's spy ring and Robert Maxwell's PROMIS operation. Milchan's dual life as a Hollywood mogul and nuclear weapons smuggler is the direct template for the Maxwell-Epstein honeytrap architecture — same unit, same spymaster, same front-company methods, same American impunity.
Milchan was recruited into LAKAM (the Bureau of Scientific Relations) — Israel's most sensitive intelligence unit — in the 1960s by spymasters Benjamin Blumberg and Rafael "Dirty Rafi" Eitan. Over the following decades, Milchan operated approximately 30 front companies across 17 countries to acquire sensitive technology and materiel for Israel's defense establishment. His front companies — including MILCO International, Heli Trading Ltd., and a network of shell entities — were used to procure restricted dual-use technology in violation of U.S. export controls.
Milchan's California-based front company MILCO International Inc. shipped 15 orders totaling 810 krytrons to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983. Krytrons are sophisticated cold-cathode gas-filled tubes used as high-speed, high-voltage switches — essential components for triggering nuclear bomb detonations. They are tightly controlled under U.S. export regulations and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because they have virtually no civilian application. Milchan's front company ordered them under false pretenses, using end-user certificates that disguised the true destination: Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons facility.
The krytrons were smuggled through Heli Trading Ltd., one of Milchan's many shell companies, using commercial shipping channels. U.S. Customs and the FBI eventually moved in and the MILCO operation was exposed — but Milchan himself was never arrested, charged, or even questioned by U.S. authorities. The investigation was shut down at the political level. This is the same pattern of impunity that would later protect Jeffrey Epstein: a foreign intelligence asset operating on U.S. soil, caught red-handed in a crime that threatens U.S. national security, shielded from prosecution by political intervention.
Rafael "Rafi" Eitan (1926–2019) is the connective tissue between Milchan's nuclear smuggling and the Epstein honeytrap:
Eitan died in 2019 — the same year Epstein was arrested. The two bookends of his career — Milchan's nuclear smuggling and the Maxwell-Epstein kompromat operation — share the same organizational DNA: front companies, commercial cover, targeting of U.S. officials, and political protection from prosecution.
Milchan's Hollywood career was not a side gig — it was the cover. As a film producer, Milchan had legitimate reasons to travel internationally, meet with powerful people, move large sums of money, and maintain elaborate security. His production company, Regency Enterprises (co-founded 1982), became one of Hollywood's most successful independent studios while simultaneously serving as the legal mask for intelligence operations. The same pattern recurs with Epstein: a legitimate public persona (financier, philanthropist) concealing an intelligence function (honeytrap, kompromat collection). Epstein's U.S. Virgin Islands island, his private jets, his \"philanthropy\" — all mirrors of Milchan's Hollywood infrastructure. Both men understood that wealth and celebrity are the best covers for espionage because they explain everything that would otherwise be suspicious: unexplained money, international travel, relationships with powerful people, and protection from law enforcement.
The Milchan case establishes a clear precedent that is essential for understanding why Epstein operated with impunity:
The pattern is consistent across four decades: LAKAM assets operating on U.S. soil — Milchan (1970s–80s), Pollard (1980s), Maxwell (1980s–1991), Epstein (1987–2019) — enjoy near-total immunity from prosecution for crimes committed in service of Israeli intelligence. Milchan's 2013 admission that he was a spy — made as a boast, not a confession — demonstrates the impunity. He admitted to nuclear smuggling on Israeli television and faced zero legal consequences in the United States. Epstein believed he had the same protection — and for decades, he was right.
Sources: Arnon Milchan Wikipedia (Israeli espionage in the United States page: 30 front companies, LAKAM recruitment by Blumberg and Eitan), The Guardian (Nov 26, 2013: "Arnon Milchan reveals past as Israeli spy"), Business Insider (Nov 27, 2013: "Milchan Played a Key Role in Israel's Nuke Program"), IsraelLobby.org (krytron smuggling documentation: MILCO 15 orders, 810 krytrons, Israeli Ministry of Defense), The Daily Beast (excerpt from Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman), PressTV / Philip Giraldi (July 2019: "Milchan involved in theft of restricted technology for Israel's nuclear program"), Wikipedia Israeli espionage in the United States (Milchan operated 30 front companies across 17 countries), The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Mar 2025: "The US hypocrisy about Israel's nuclear weapons must stop" — Milchan never charged).
On March 11, 2026, Richard Kahn — Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accountant and co-executor of his estate — testified in a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee. Two weeks later, on March 24, 2026, Epstein's lawyer Darren Indyke also testified. Together, they represented the financial and legal architecture that enabled Epstein's decades-long trafficking operation. Both claimed they saw nothing, knew nothing, and were merely doing their jobs.
Kahn's testimony is particularly significant because it fills in the missing piece of the Epstein puzzle: where the money came from and where it went. As Epstein's accountant for over a decade and co-executor of his estate, Kahn was positioned at the intersection of every financial transaction — including payments to victims, property acquisitions, and the flow of money from billionaires to Epstein's foundations and ultimately to Israeli military organizations.
Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) revealed that Kahn's testimony, combined with subpoenaed bank records, exposed the true scale of Epstein's financial empire:
The financial scale transforms the Epstein case from a "lone predator" narrative into an institutional money-laundering operation maintained by two of the world's largest banks, multiple billionaires, and an accountant who now claims he noticed nothing unusual.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) confirmed during the deposition that Kahn acknowledged Epstein had financial ties to former Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. This is the first time Epstein's accountant — the person who managed every dollar — has confirmed under oath that Epstein and Barak had a financial relationship, not merely a social one.
The financial dimension of the Epstein-Barak relationship has been one of the most closely guarded aspects of the investigation. While Barak's visits to Epstein's properties are well-documented (at least 20 documented stays) and his involvement with the Carbyne surveillance-tech startup is known, Kahn's testimony confirms that money flowed between the two men — a relationship that his own accountant now admits existed.
This is significant for the Israel intelligence hypothesis: if Epstein was funneling money to a former Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister, the payments create a documented financial pipeline between a convicted sex trafficker running a kompromat operation and the highest levels of the Israeli security establishment. Barak, as Defense Minister (1999–2001, 2007–2013), had direct authority over Unit 8200, Mossad operations, and Israel's signals intelligence apparatus — the very infrastructure that would have benefited from Epstein's blackmail archive.
Kahn's prepared opening statement, obtained by ABC News, laid out his defense: willful blindness disguised as professional detachment. Key claims:
The committee was not buying it. Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) stated bluntly: "Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring would not have been possible without Richard Kahn, who managed Epstein's money for years, authorized payments, including payments to victims and survivors." Walkinshaw added that Kahn repeatedly claimed he was "unable to recall details of some of the transactions and communications that he was asked about" — the classic "I don't recall" defense deployed by every witness in the Epstein orbit who faces potential criminal exposure.
On March 24, 2026, Epstein's longtime lawyer Darren Indyke testified before the same committee. According to POLITICO, Indyke revealed a stunning fact: neither he nor Kahn was ever interviewed as part of any formal federal investigation into Epstein's sex trafficking — not by the FBI, not by the Southern District of New York, not by any federal agency.
This revelation is damning. Epstein's accountant and lawyer — the two people with the most comprehensive knowledge of his finances, legal arrangements, and business operations — were never questioned by federal investigators. The FBI interviewed victims, associates, and staff but somehow never got around to questioning the men who handled Epstein's money and legal affairs. This is either staggering incompetence or deliberate protection — and given the DOJ's history with Epstein (the 2008 sweetheart deal, Acosta's admission that he "belonged to intelligence"), deliberate protection is the more parsimonious explanation.
Indyke, like Kahn, is also a co-executor of Epstein's estate — a position that gives him ongoing control over Epstein's assets, including any records, documents, or evidence that could implicate Epstein's associates. The fact that both executors are now testifying before Congress rather than facing criminal charges underscores the systemic immunity that has protected Epstein's financial enablers.
Among the most eyebrow-raising claims in Kahn's testimony was his assertion that he "was under the impression that Epstein made his money as a tax advisor and a financial planner." This characterization is absurd on its face: a man who accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars, owned a private island, a Manhattan mansion, a New Mexico ranch, a Paris apartment, and a private jet — and Kahn's professional assessment was that he was a tax advisor?
The claim is not merely implausible — it is structurally impossible for an accountant managing 64 business entities, coordinating with JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, and processing payments from billionaires. No one manages a financial empire of this complexity for over a decade without understanding the source of the wealth. Kahn's "impression" is either perjury or a confession that he deliberately avoided asking questions he didn't want answered.
This pattern — the accountant who didn't ask, the lawyer who was never questioned, the banker (JPMorgan/Deutsche Bank) that kept the accounts open post-conviction — forms a protective financial architecture around Epstein's operation. Every node in the system had plausible deniability, and no node was ever seriously investigated. This is not an accident. It is the hallmark of an operation that had institutional protection at levels above ordinary law enforcement — consistent with the intelligence-asset hypothesis that runs through every section of this dossier.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Epstein pleads guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution. Kahn continues as his accountant. Indyke continues as his lawyer. Neither is interviewed by the FBI. |
| 2019 | Epstein arrested on federal sex trafficking charges. Dies in custody. Kahn and Indyke become co-executors of his estate. Neither is interviewed by federal investigators. |
| Jan 2026 | DOJ releases 3.5 million Epstein files. Public pressure mounts. House Oversight Committee launches investigation. |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Richard Kahn testifies. Claims ignorance. Confirms Epstein-Barak financial ties. Reveals 64 business entities and hundreds of millions in wealth. |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Darren Indyke testifies. Reveals neither he nor Kahn was ever interviewed by the FBI. Both maintain they saw nothing wrong. |
Sources: Times of Israel / AP (March 11, 2026: "Epstein's longtime accountant testifies on source of his wealth, ties to the rich"), ABC News (March 11, 2026: "Epstein's accountant says he didn't see any 'red flags' for abuse, trafficking"), NPR (March 11, 2026: "Epstein's longtime accountant testifies he was 'not aware' of sex trafficking"), POLITICO (March 24, 2026: "Epstein's accountant and lawyer tell Congress they were never interviewed by FBI"), NBC News (March 11, 2026: "Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accountant, gives closed-door testimony"), CBS News (March 11, 2026).
The evidence strongly suggests Epstein's operation had the hallmarks of an intelligence "honeypot":
| Element | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Target Profile | Powerful politicians, billionaires, royalty, academics |
| Compromise Method | Underage girls, hidden cameras, recordings |
| Protection | Unprecedented legal protection, evidence disappeared |
| Network | Deep ties to Israeli political/intelligence establishment |
| Financing | Opaque, Wexner sole "client" — money laundering? |
| Purpose | Kompromat on Western elites for leverage |
The picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single intelligence agency — it is a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations (per Whitney Webb). The sharing of "intelligence" (i.e., blackmail) between intelligence agencies and this same organized crime network goes back decades.
The "client list" the DOJ claims doesn't exist is actually distributed across:
It was never a single list — it was the entire network.
Arnon Milchan — the billionaire Hollywood producer behind Pretty Woman, Fight Club, and 12 Years a Slave — was simultaneously a longtime agent of LAKAM, Israel's nuclear intelligence agency. Recruited in the 1960s by spymaster Benjamin Blumberg, Milchan operated approximately 30 front companies across 17 countries to illicitly acquire sensitive technology and nuclear materials for Israel. He worked directly under Rafi Eitan — the same Mossad/LAKAM legend who later handled Jonathan Pollard's spy ring against the United States.
Milchan's LAKAM career included:
Milchan's network demonstrates the institutional architecture behind the Epstein operation. The LAKAM apparatus — Rafi Eitan, Benjamin Blumberg, Arnon Milchan, Robert Maxwell — was not a collection of freelance spies. It was a decades-old, state-backed intelligence network embedded inside American media, Hollywood, finance, and technology sectors. Epstein's honeytrap operation plugged directly into this pre-existing architecture. The same handler (Eitan) who ran Pollard's spy ring also ran Maxwell. The same Maxwell who introduced his daughter Ghislaine to Epstein. The same Milchan who smuggled nuclear triggers now produces Oscar-winning films. The line between intelligence asset and entertainment mogul was deliberately blurred — and Epstein was the logical next-generation asset in this continuum.
While under active criminal investigation for sex trafficking in Florida in 2008, Jeffrey Epstein toured Israeli military bases with Benny Shabtai, chairman of the Friends of Israel Defense Forces (FIDF). This extraordinary access — a registered sex offender touring military installations of a foreign power — is documented in the Epstein Files as EFTA00013730.
The FIDF connection is significant: Friends of Israel Defense Forces is a U.S.-based organization that raises hundreds of millions of dollars annually for the IDF. Benny Shabtai, a billionaire businessman, served as its chairman. Epstein's ability to access Israeli military facilities while under U.S. criminal investigation strongly suggests official Israeli state-level protection — not merely personal connections.
This mirrors the pattern established by Robert Maxwell and Arnon Milchan: wealthy businessmen with deep Israeli intelligence ties providing cover, access, and legitimacy to intelligence operations targeting the United States. Shabtai, like Wexner, like Maxwell, like Milchan — the pattern of billionaire "friends of Israel" facilitating intelligence access is the consistent through-line of the Epstein network.
In May 2025, Distributed Denial of Secrets released a trove of Epstein's emails detailing his 2015 investment in Reporty Homeland Security (now Carbyne), a 911 technology firm founded by veterans of Israel's Unit 8200 signals intelligence corps. The leaked correspondence revealed:
The Miami Herald (March 2026) confirmed that Miami-Dade Police actively use Carbyne's surveillance platform — technology funded by Jeffrey Epstein's secret investment, developed by Israeli military intelligence veterans, and brokered by a former Israeli Prime Minister. The same surveillance apparatus has been deployed in other U.S. jurisdictions.
A critical 2026 Drop Site News investigation further revealed that Barak and Epstein leveraged the Boko Haram threat in Nigeria to pilot Israeli facial recognition and biometric scanning — technology tested on Palestinians — for export to other nations. Epstein simultaneously facilitated oil and logistics deals for Israeli-connected companies in Nigeria, blurring intelligence operations and business interests.
The House Oversight Committee called key Epstein associates to testify in mid-2026:
The leaked emails and subsequent investigations reveal a clear architecture: Epstein provided the capital (via Southern Trust), Barak provided the political access and Israeli intelligence connections (Unit 8200), and Thiel provided the Silicon Valley credibility and Palantir's surveillance infrastructure. Together they built what one investigation called "a 911 surveillance network" — domestic emergency services software built by Israeli signals intelligence veterans, funded by a convicted sex trafficker, capable of monitoring American citizens in real time. Leon Black of Apollo Global Management and other Epstein associates also funneled cash into Israeli tech firms, expanding the surveillance footprint.
This is the logical endpoint of the generational pattern: Maxwell's PROMIS software → Epstein's hidden cameras → Carbyne's 911 surveillance. Each generation moved the intelligence collection closer to the heart of the American state — from bugged banking software to hidden bedroom cameras to the very infrastructure of emergency response.
| Era | Operation | Mechanism | Beneficiary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s-80s | Bronfman/Lansky arms smuggling | Bootleg networks → weapons for Haganah/Irgun | Founding of Israel |
| 1980s | PROMIS software | Robert Maxwell sells bugged software worldwide | Mossad gets global backdoor + 50 years of CIA/FBI kompromat |
| 1990s-2019 | Epstein honeytrap | Underage girls + hidden cameras on elites | Kompromat on Western political/financial class |
| 2015- | Carbyne | Epstein/Barak-funded "911 software" by Unit 8200 vets | Surveillance infrastructure inside US emergency services |
The same families. The same methods. The same beneficiaries. Each generation replaced the last: Robert Maxwell's media-software espionage became Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual blackmail, became Barak and Epstein's Carbyne surveillance. The Mega Group financed all of it.
On May 21, 2026, Sarah Kellen — described by investigators as Epstein's "lieutenant" and named a possible co-conspirator in his 2007 plea deal — testified before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door session. Her testimony was described by committee members as "the most substantive we've had" in the Epstein investigation.
During her testimony, Kellen named three previously unknown men she alleged were tied to Epstein's abuse operation:
Kellen's testimony marks a critical inflection point. Unlike Lesley Groff (who testified three weeks later claiming ignorance), Kellen provided names. She positioned herself as both victim and witness — claiming she was groomed and abused by Epstein rather than acting as a willing architect of his operation. The committee's characterization of her testimony as "the most substantive" suggests Kellen's cooperation may expose a wider network than previously documented. Her naming of a sitting mayor (Levine served 2013–2017, overlapping with Epstein's peak years) brings the abuse directly into the political arena — Miami Beach being the city where Epstein maintained a waterfront mansion and recruited many of his victims.
Israel nexus: Philip Levine is a prominent Jewish-American politician with deep ties to the Miami Jewish community and pro-Israel fundraising networks. While no direct Israel intelligence link has been established for Levine himself, the Miami Beach political machine — where Epstein operated openly for years — has long been intertwined with the same donor networks that funded Epstein's operations. The question remains: how did Epstein operate a trafficking ring in Miami Beach for over a decade with a future mayor in his orbit, without law enforcement intervention?
In February 2026, FBI documents released through the DOJ's Epstein file disclosures revealed that Jeffrey Epstein made direct financial contributions to Israeli state-aligned organizations:
These donations transform the Epstein-Israel hypothesis from inference to documented financial relationship. A convicted sex offender — whose operation has been independently linked to Israeli intelligence through Maxwell, Barak, and the Mega Group — was simultaneously writing checks to Israel's military fundraising arm and settlement-building apparatus. The donations create a paper trail establishing that Epstein viewed himself as having an obligation to, or an interest in, Israeli state institutions.
The timing matters: Epstein made these contributions during the same period he was operating his trafficking ring, flying underage girls on his private jet, and hosting powerful men — including Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak — at his properties. The donations suggest a mutually beneficial arrangement: Epstein supported Israeli institutions financially while Israeli-connected figures provided him access, protection, and the intelligence-adjacent infrastructure (Mega Group, LAKAM alumni, Unit 8200 veterans) that made his operation possible.
On July 14–16, 2026, Vice President JD Vance appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience — the world's most-listened-to podcast — and publicly stated that Jeffrey Epstein had "connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence." This is the first time a sitting U.S. Vice President has publicly confirmed the Epstein–Israel intelligence link.
Vance's exact words, as reported by multiple outlets: "He clearly had connections to the upper, the highest levels, of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence." The nearly three-hour interview was released July 16, 2026.
Vance specified that Epstein's connections were to "left-of-center elements of the Israeli deep state" — not to Netanyahu's Likud government. He noted it was "fascinating" that while Epstein had both Democratic and Republican friends in the U.S., his Israeli connections appeared concentrated in one political faction. This aligns with the documented relationships: Shimon Peres (Labor), Ehud Barak (Labor), and the predominantly left-leaning Israeli elite that orbited Epstein.
Joe Rogan himself added that there was a "widespread perception" that Epstein's financial support and drive to influence thinking at American universities stemmed from links to Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service. Vance agreed.
This is not a marginal media outlet or a retired intelligence officer making claims. This is the Vice President of the United States — the second-highest elected official in the country — stating on the record, on the world's largest podcast, that Jeffrey Epstein was connected to Israeli intelligence.
The implications are profound:
Sources: New York Times (July 18, 2026: "JD Vance's Remarks on Epstein and Israel Echo Conspiracy Theories"), Jerusalem Post (July 16, 2026: "JD Vance tells Rogan Epstein had 'connections' to Israeli intelligence"), RealClearPolitics (July 16, 2026), Al-Monitor (July 2026), JFeed, PJ Media, WGME. Primary source: The Joe Rogan Experience, episode released July 16, 2026.
On June 5–7, 2026, multiple major outlets — NBC News, the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and the Jerusalem Post — reported that the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) had raised the counterintelligence threat level for Israel to "critical" — the HIGHEST category. This rating places Israel as a more serious espionage threat to the United States than China or Russia.
The escalation was driven by intelligence assessments that Israel had been "ramping up its spying on the U.S." through cyber operations, human intelligence (HUMINT) networks, and exploitation of dual-citizen and diaspora communities within American institutions — the exact architecture the Epstein dossier has been documenting for years.
The timing is not coincidental. The Pentagon's escalation comes just five months after the February 2026 FBI document release confirming Epstein was described as a "co-opted Mossad agent" and "trained as a spy" — and one month before VP Vance publicly confirmed Epstein's "connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence" on the Joe Rogan Experience.
The DIA's assessment effectively validates the core thesis of this dossier at the institutional level: Israeli intelligence runs aggressive, multi-layered espionage operations against the United States. The Epstein network — with its kompromat collection apparatus, Maxwell-Mossad introduction chain, Mega Group financing, and Barak-Carbyne surveillance technology pipeline — represents one documented node in that broader intelligence architecture. The Pentagon's threat reclassification suggests the U.S. defense establishment now recognizes this as systemic, not anecdotal.
As the NBC News report noted, the DIA assessment covers the full spectrum: cyber espionage, technology theft, human intelligence recruitment, and exploitation of access to U.S. government and defense contractors — all areas where the Epstein-Maxwell-Wexner-Barak network maintained deep penetration for decades.
Sources: NBC News (June 5, 2026: "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"), New York Times (June 6, 2026: "Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat From Israel"), Al Jazeera (June 7, 2026: "Why has Pentagon assessed threat of Israeli espionage as 'critical'?"), Jerusalem Post (June 7, 2026: "US raises threat level for Israeli espionage to highest ever").
On January 15, 2026, Middle East Monitor reported on a cache of leaked files revealing that Jeffrey Epstein served as a backchannel facilitator between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in the years leading up to the Abraham Accords — the 2020 normalization agreements between Israel and Gulf Arab states. The files show Epstein arranging high-level meetings between former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and senior UAE officials, including Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber (UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, COP28 President, and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company).
The leaks demonstrate that Epstein was not merely a passive financier of Israeli causes — he was an active diplomatic operative for the Israeli state, working to establish the personal relationships between Israeli and Emirati elites that would "later underpin formal diplomatic ties."
The leaked files further indicate Epstein was "operating in an environment conducive to the circulation of compromising material involving influential figures." This is a diplomatic way of stating that Epstein's honeytrap operation — which by his death in 2019 had accumulated decades of surveillance footage, blackmail material, and compromising intelligence on global elites — was part of the diplomatic toolkit. When Barak or other Israeli officials needed leverage in the Gulf, Epstein's kompromat archive was available.
Epstein's efforts extended beyond UAE to Israeli strategic interests across the Red Sea and Horn of Africa, including Somaliland and Djibouti, where Israel sought to establish military and intelligence footholds. The pattern mirrors the Côte d'Ivoire surveillance-state deal documented by Drop Site News: Epstein acting as Israel's deniable commercial front for state intelligence and strategic objectives.
The Abraham Accords are widely celebrated as a diplomatic triumph — the first normalization between Israel and Arab states in decades. But the Epstein files reveal an ugly underside: the personal connections that seeded those accords were brokered by a convicted sex trafficker running a blackmail operation. Epstein facilitated the Barak–UAE relationship at the same time he was trafficking underage girls, installing hidden cameras, and accumulating kompromat on the very elites participating in these diplomatic exchanges.
This raises the profoundly uncomfortable question: was the Abraham Accords diplomacy lubricated by Epstein's kompromat operation? Did the Israeli state knowingly use a sex trafficker and blackmailer as its diplomatic channel to the Gulf, because the blackmail gave them leverage that conventional diplomacy could not provide? The leaked files do not answer this definitively — but they establish that Epstein was in the room, at the table, facilitating the meetings that made normalization possible.
Sources: Middle East Monitor (January 15, 2026: "Leaked files tie Epstein to Israel-UAE backchannel and possible kompromat"), Sunna Files (January 19, 2026), Israel Palestine News ("Media Silence as Epstein–Ehud Barak Emails Indicate Mossad Ties"), Al Jazeera (February 6, 2026: "What Barak-Epstein audio says about Israeli controlling demographics").
Epstein's operation was not a "lone pervert with money." It was a professionally-run sexual blackmail operation with:
Whether the formal handler was Mossad, the Mega Group's own network, or both operating as one — the result is the same: decades of kompromat on America's political, financial, media, and royal elites, held by a foreign-aligned intelligence apparatus, with almost nobody prosecuted except the one man who couldn't be allowed to talk.
Yoni Koren (rank: Lieutenant) — an Israeli military intelligence officer and senior aide to then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak — made at least three documented stays at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan apartment between 2013 and 2015. His first documented stay was in February 2013, while serving as Barak's bureau chief at the Israeli Ministry of Defense. This was five years after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor — meaning an active Israeli military intelligence officer was residing at a convicted sex offender's home while serving in a senior position in Israel's defense establishment.
Koren appears in 334 documents in the DOJ Epstein files. Leaked emails show Epstein wired money directly to Koren's bank account for cancer treatment in 2012. The Epstein network was not merely social — it involved direct financial support for Israeli intelligence personnel.
Koren built his career in Israeli military intelligence. By 2013, he had risen to become Ehud Barak's bureau chief — the gatekeeper to Israel's Defense Minister. Barak, a former Prime Minister and former head of Aman (Israeli military intelligence), was simultaneously one of Epstein's closest associates, visiting Epstein's properties dozens of times and co-founding the surveillance company Carbyne with Epstein's money.
The presence of Barak's senior intelligence aide living at Epstein's apartment collapses any remaining distinction between Barak's "personal friendship" with Epstein and an operational intelligence relationship. The defense minister's top aide does not spend weeks at a convicted sex offender's home for social reasons.
Emails released in the February 2026 DOJ document dump reveal that Israel's permanent mission to the United Nations installed and maintained a security system at what was referred to as "Ehud's apartment" — a unit in Epstein's Manhattan building used by former Prime Minister Barak. The security operation remained active for at least two years, with Israeli UN mission officials regularly coordinating with Epstein's staff on access, safety procedures, and security maintenance.
This means the Israeli government — through its UN diplomatic mission — was running a covert security operation out of Jeffrey Epstein's residential building. The coordination emails date from 2017, nearly a decade after Epstein's conviction. The Israeli state was not distancing itself from a convicted sex trafficker — it was deepening its operational footprint in his property.
Koren's intelligence network extended beyond Israel. Investigations by Drop Site News and Democracy Now! revealed that Koren had close personal ties to former CIA Director Leon Panetta. The connection between an Israeli military intelligence officer residing at Epstein's apartment and a former CIA director — the man who oversaw the bin Laden raid — raises fundamental questions about whether Epstein's network served as a neutral ground for U.S.-Israeli intelligence coordination outside official channels.
This is consistent with the pattern documented throughout this dossier: Epstein's properties functioning as off-the-books meeting spaces where Israeli and American officials could interact without creating paper trails in government systems.
The Yoni Koren connection completes the organizational picture of Epstein's Israel operation:
This is not a "conspiracy theory" — this is documented in 334 DOJ files, leaked emails, and official correspondence between Israeli diplomats and Epstein's staff. The Israeli state ran a security operation out of a convicted sex trafficker's building for years, hosted an active military intelligence officer there, and accepted the trafficker's money for that officer's medical care. Any one of these facts would be a major intelligence scandal. Together they constitute irrefutable evidence of a formal, ongoing Israeli intelligence presence embedded within Epstein's operation.
Sources: Drop Site News (November 11, 2025: "Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time at Jeffrey Epstein's Mansion" — Murtaza Hussain & Ryan Grim investigation), Democracy Now! (November 12, 2025: "Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News Investigates"), TRT World (February 16, 2026: "Newly released Epstein files show convicted sex offender was deeply embedded with Israeli intelligence"), Al Jazeera (February 9, 2026: "What were Jeffrey Epstein's links to Israel?"), Eastern Herald (July 5, 2026: "Yoni Koren: Barak's Aide in Epstein's DOJ Files"), Israel Palestine News ("The Israeli Government Installed Security at Epstein Apartment"), The Cradle ("Israel provided security for Jeffrey Epstein's New York apartment"), IBTimes UK ("Israel Reportedly Installed Security at Epstein's Apartment"), MENAFN/Turkish Press ("Emails Reveal Israel Manages Epstein-Linked Manhattan Apartment"). Primary source: DOJ Epstein Files, Yoni Koren appears in 334 documents.
Nadia Marcinkova (also known as Nadia Marcinko) was a Yugoslavian-born model and pilot whom Epstein flew from Europe to the U.S. as a teenager. Dubbed Epstein's "Global Girl" and "sex slave" in court documents, she spent years in proximity to the disgraced financier, traveling on the "Lolita Express" and living at his properties. Her 2010 deposition in the Giuffre v. Maxwell case was partially unsealed in January 2024 — and she has been missing since early January 2024, coinciding exactly with the release of the final batch of Epstein documents.
In her 2010 sworn deposition, Marcinkova invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to virtually every substantive question. She pleaded the Fifth when asked about:
The New York Post (January 5, 2024) noted that Marcinkova's testimony was among the most heavily lawyered depositions in the entire Epstein case. The Independent reported that her disappearance coincided with the document release and suggested the two events may be linked.
Marcinkova, a trained pilot with a commercial aviation license, was last known to be in the United States. The timing raises critical questions:
Marcinkova's disappearance adds to a documented pattern of Epstein network associates meeting unusual fates when the investigation closes in:
Source: New York Post, January 5, 2024; The Independent, January 2024; India Today, January 7, 2024; Wikipedia; Daily Mail.
Multiple victims testified that Jeffrey Epstein told women and underage girls that he was a modeling scout for Victoria's Secret. He used the brand's legitimacy — then owned by his sole known client Les Wexner through L Brands — as cover to approach young women, promise them auditions and modeling careers, and then traffic them into his sexual abuse operation. The Atlantic (August 2019) and Vox (July 2019) documented this recruitment method across multiple victim accounts.
For at least a decade, Les Wexner — the billionaire founder of L Brands (Victoria's Secret, The Limited, Bath & Body Works) — was Jeffrey Epstein's only known client. The relationship was not merely financial:
In August 2019 — the month Epstein was found dead — over 100 models signed an open letter to Victoria's Secret demanding the company take action to protect models from sexual predation. The letter, reported by The Forward, specifically cited the Epstein-Victoria's Secret connection and urged the company to sever ties with individuals who enabled abuse. The models wrote that Victoria's Secret had created an environment where young women were "vulnerable to people like Jeffrey Epstein."
Epstein's modeling recruitment operation was not a solo act. Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modeling scout and owner of prominent agencies (Karin Models, MC2 Model Management), served as Epstein's primary European talent scout. Brunel:
In June 2026, CNN released a major investigation into Epstein's connections with the modeling industry. The investigation confirmed that Epstein leveraged his relationship with Wexner's Victoria's Secret empire to approach young women with promises of modeling careers and fashion industry access. The investigation traced the pipeline from Eastern Europe and South America → European modeling agencies (Brunel) → Epstein's U.S. properties → sexual exploitation. The report noted that this modeling cover allowed Epstein to recruit victims across international borders under the guise of legitimate business — a pattern consistent with intelligence tradecraft.
The modeling pipeline connects to Israel through multiple vectors:
Sources: The Atlantic (Aug 2019: "The Jeffrey Epstein–Victoria's Secret Connection"), Vox (Jul 2019: "Les Wexner's connection to Jeffrey Epstein"), The Forward (Aug 2019: "100 Models Blast Victoria's Secret"), Daily Mail (Feb 2022: Brunel death), BBC (Feb 2022: Brunel prison suicide), CNN (Jun 2026: Epstein modeling industry investigation), New York Post (Jan 2024: Marcinkova deposition).
Peter Mandelson — former EU Trade Commissioner, First Secretary of State, and senior adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair — maintained extensive correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. According to Declassified UK (a British investigative journalism outlet), the released Epstein documents reveal that Mandelson explicitly sought Jeffrey Epstein's advice on Israel. A British peer — a member of the House of Lords — asking a convicted sex trafficker for guidance on Middle East policy is not explicable through conventional political or business relationships. It strongly suggests Mandelson viewed Epstein as a conduit to Israeli intelligence or policy-making circles.
The Epstein files released through the DOJ and additional leaks contain extensive Mandelson-Epstein correspondence. Key findings include:
The Mandelson-Epstein-Israel axis only makes sense if:
Mandelson's documented contact with Epstein also connects to Prince Andrew (who flew on the Lolita Express and visited Epstein's island) and Sarah Ferguson (who received money from Epstein). The same Epstein network that was running a honeytrap on British royalty was simultaneously advising British cabinet-level officials on Israel policy.
Mandelson's Israel consultation with Epstein is significant because it inverts the expected power dynamic. A senior British official does not ask a U.S.-based financier — with no known Middle East expertise or diplomatic credentials — for advice on Israel unless that financier is recognized within elite circles as a backchannel to Israeli intelligence. The Mandelson emails, combined with:
...paint a consistent picture: Epstein was recognized within elite British and American political circles as an Israeli intelligence asset — someone who could deliver access, advice, and diplomatic facilitation for the Israeli state. Mandelson's decision to seek Israel advice from Epstein is a data point confirming this recognition was not fringe speculation but an operating assumption within the highest levels of the British government.
Sources: Declassified UK ("Revealed: Peter Mandelson asked Jeffrey Epstein for Israel advice"), Tax Policy UK (Feb 2026: Mandelson sought $4M from Epstein, leaked No. 10 documents), DOJ Epstein Files, UK Connection section (this dossier).
In the same July 14–16, 2026 Joe Rogan interview where VP JD Vance confirmed Epstein's connections to "the highest levels of Israeli intelligence," Vance went further — accusing the Israeli government of orchestrating a covert influence campaign targeting him personally. The Vice President alleged that Israeli officials and their American allies were running a "well-funded foreign influence campaign" designed to undermine his diplomatic efforts to negotiate a ceasefire with Iran and "keep the war going indefinitely."
The Daily Mail reported Vance as claiming he was the target of an Israeli-funded propaganda campaign — an accusation that, coming from a sitting Vice President about a nominal ally, has no modern precedent. Former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas described Vance's remarks as "unprecedented," noting that no sitting U.S. Vice President had previously accused Israel of conducting an organized campaign to undermine American foreign policy.
Vance — who personally brokered the Iran ceasefire framework — explicitly stated that some members of the Israeli government sought to sway American public opinion to prolong military action against Iran. The Vice President characterized this as a coordinated effort involving:
Vance's allegation is not abstract — it accuses Israel of treating the United States as an information warfare target, deploying the same influence-operation architecture that has been a hallmark of Israeli intelligence operations since the LAKAM era (see LAKAM section).
Vance's twin revelations — Epstein's Mossad connections AND Israel's covert campaign against his Iran diplomacy — were delivered in the same three-hour interview for a reason. They describe two layers of the same Israeli influence architecture:
The Vice President's willingness to connect these dots publicly — on the world's largest podcast — signals that at the highest level of the U.S. government, the Epstein case is understood as one node in a broader Israeli influence operation targeting American sovereignty. The Pentagon's June 2026 reclassification of Israel as a "critical" counterintelligence threat (see Pentagon Threat section) provides the institutional framework: Israeli espionage is not a relic of the Pollard era — it is an active, ongoing campaign that the Vice President himself claims to have been targeted by.
Vance's remarks generated immediate backlash from within his own party. The New York Times reported that his comments "troubled some in his party," and multiple Republican-aligned outlets accused him of echoing "conspiracy theories." This reaction illustrates the political cost of transparency on the Israel question — even the Vice President faces party pressure for stating what intelligence agencies have internally assessed as fact. The backlash itself validates the influence architecture Vance described: any American official who publicly acknowledges Israeli intelligence operations against the United States faces a coordinated pushback from the very networks those operations have cultivated over decades.
The political dynamic is instructive: The Epstein network's purpose was not merely to collect kompromat — it was to create an environment where American officials could not challenge Israeli interests without facing career-ending exposure. When a Vice President does challenge those interests anyway, the network pivots from blackmail to public delegitimization. Both are forms of the same influence operation.
Sources: Daily Mail (July 15, 2026: "JD Vance drops Mossad-Epstein bombshell and accuses Israel of secret plot against him"), Republic Policy (July 2026: "Vance Accuses Israeli Officials of Trying to Undermine Iran Peace Deal" — includes Alon Pinkas quote), Washington Jewish Week (July 16, 2026: "Vance denounces Israeli campaign to undermine Iran ceasefire"), New York Times (July 18, 2026: "Vance's Remarks on Epstein and Israel Echo Conspiracy Theories"), UnitedWithIsrael (July 2026), Philadelphia Inquirer (July 19, 2026), Reddit r/centrist summary (July 15, 2026). Primary source: The Joe Rogan Experience, episode released July 16, 2026.
On July 12, 2026, multiple survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking network publicly accused his longtime executive assistant, Lesley Groff, of lying under oath to the House Oversight Committee. Groff had testified on June 9, 2026 in an 8-hour closed-door interview — but survivors who reviewed the transcript say her claims of limited knowledge are contradicted by extensive documentation of her central role in Epstein's operations. The survivors detail direct financial transactions, travel bookings for underage girls, and extensive personal interactions with Epstein's victims — all of which Groff allegedly omitted or minimized in her testimony.
The accusations transform Groff's role in the investigation. She is no longer a peripheral witness — she is now an accused perjurer whose decades of operational knowledge may be deliberately withheld from Congress. The survivors' intervention suggests they possess evidence — financial records, emails, call logs — that directly contradicts Groff's sworn statements.
Groff's significance to the Israel investigation cannot be overstated. She was not merely Epstein's assistant — she was the operational coordinator for Israeli intelligence-linked activities at Epstein's Manhattan property:
If Groff lied to Congress, the most sensitive information she may be hiding relates directly to Israeli intelligence operations conducted through Epstein's properties. Her testimony covered three critical areas where survivors say she was dishonest:
The Israel intelligence dimension is key: Groff was the person who knew which Israeli officials visited which properties, when, and under what cover stories. If she's lying about the scope of her knowledge, she may be protecting Israeli operatives whose access to Epstein's honeytrap infrastructure would be politically devastating if fully exposed.
The divergence between Groff and Sarah Kellen (who testified May 21, 2026) is instructive. Kellen cooperated: she named three new alleged abusers (Fekkai, Levine, Demarchelier), described abuse she witnessed and experienced, and was described by the committee as providing "the most substantive" testimony. Groff stonewalled: she characterized Epstein as a "master manipulator," claimed ignorance, and now faces survivor accusations of perjury.
This split maps onto the Israel question. Kellen's testimony focused on the abuse network — the trafficking pipeline, the modeling-agency grooming, the abuse at properties. Groff's testimony covered the operational infrastructure — the surveillance systems, the financial management, the coordination with Israeli officials and their staff. If Kellen was the gatekeeper of the abuse, Groff was the gatekeeper of the intelligence operation. Her decision to lie — if proven — reflects a calculation that exposure of the Israel-linked operational infrastructure is more dangerous than exposure of the abuse itself.
Sources: Eastern Herald (July 12, 2026: "Epstein Survivors Say Lesley Groff Lied to Congress — 2026"), Clash Report (July 2026: "Epstein Survivors Accuse Former Assistant of Lying to US Congress"), POLITICO (June 9, 2026: "Longtime Epstein Assistant Says She Set Up Phone Calls"), Yahoo News (June 2026: "Epstein's Assistant Grilled by Lawmakers Over Amex Travel Booked for Women/Girls"), Stamford Advocate (June 2026: "CT's Lesley Groff, Epstein's Longtime Aide, to Testify Before Congress"). Context: Groff's role in Israeli surveillance coordination is documented in the EFTA release (EFTA00013730), the Explorer findings, and the Massie-Khanna FBI co-conspirator disclosure (February 2026).
Among the three million pages of documents released by the Department of Justice in January 2026 was a three-hour audio recording capturing Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in an extended, informal conversation about immigration strategy, geopolitics, and mutual acquaintances. The recording — made inside Epstein's Manhattan properties — provides an unfiltered window into the operational relationship between a convicted sex trafficker and a former head of state and defense minister who previously headed Israel's military intelligence (Aman).
Barak's wife Nili Priell sent a message in June 2019 arranging a stay at Epstein's apartment — weeks before Epstein's arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges. The timing suggests the Barak family's access to Epstein's properties continued until the very end of his freedom.
During the recording, Barak discussed a "selective immigration" strategy for Israel — a demographic engineering plan that aligns with the eugenics ideology documented in other Epstein files (see Barak's Eugenics section). Barak also made a remark about "young, beautiful girls" during the conversation, confirming that the presence of young women at Epstein's properties was not incidental — it was understood and discussed openly between them.
The explicit discussion of demographic engineering alongside casual references to young women provides the clearest documentary evidence yet of the nexus between Barak's political-ideological agenda and Epstein's trafficking infrastructure.
In the recording, Barak raises the question of a "business model" and asks Epstein "how do we make money out of" a contract. The two also discussed "gigantic" consultancy sums paid to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair — revealing that Epstein and Barak were actively strategizing how to monetize their political connections. This is not a recording of social friends catching up — it is a business planning session between a former head of state and a convicted sex trafficker, captured on Epstein's own surveillance system.
The Blair connection is significant: Tony Blair's post-premiership consultancy empire generated hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it from regimes and businessmen with ties to Israeli intelligence networks. Epstein and Barak discussing Blair's earnings suggests they viewed him as a benchmark — or a partner — in their own monetization scheme.
The recording also captures Barak describing then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Epstein as "a criminal." This exchange — one former Israeli PM disparaging a sitting Israeli PM to a convicted sex offender — demonstrates the extraordinary level of candor and trust in the Barak-Epstein relationship. It also confirms that Epstein was privy to the most sensitive internal dynamics of Israeli politics, a characteristic consistent with intelligence sourcing rather than mere social acquaintance.
The fact that both Netanyahu and Barak were connected to Epstein — with Barak using Epstein as a confidant to disparage his rival — reveals the breadth of Epstein's penetration into Israel's political leadership. He was not aligned with one faction; he had access to all of them.
The existence of a three-hour audio recording of a former Israeli PM inside Epstein's apartment raises fundamental questions: Who else was recorded? Epstein's properties were wired for surveillance — hidden cameras, closed-circuit systems, a lead-lined bathroom with concealed monitors. The Barak tapes confirm that Epstein's surveillance infrastructure was not theoretical — it produced operational intelligence product that the DOJ now possesses. If Barak was recorded for three hours, the full archive almost certainly includes recordings of other politicians, billionaires, and royals who visited Epstein's properties. The DOJ's claim that "no client list exists" becomes even less credible when we know they have hundreds of hours of surveillance recordings from the very properties where trafficking occurred.
Sources: Al Jazeera (Feb 3, 2026: "Epstein audio with former Israeli PM sheds new light on relationship"), Al Jazeera (Feb 4, 2026: "Epstein, Israel's Barak discussed 'gigantic' consultancy sums paid to Blair"), Eastern Herald (July 5, 2026: "Netanyahu in Epstein Audio: Barak Called Him 'A Criminal'"), Eastern Herald (July 13, 2026: "Ehud Barak and the Epstein Files: What the Documents Reveal"), EpsteinExposed (Jan 30, 2026: "The Barak Tapes: Inside the Three-Hour Epstein Recording That Shook Israel"). Primary source: DOJ Epstein Files, Phase 2 release, January 30, 2026.
During Les Wexner's February 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein, the former Victoria's Secret CEO's attorney was caught on a hot microphone issuing a blunt threat: "I'll f---ing kill you" if Wexner did not keep his answers concise. The moment — captured on video and widely circulated — suggests Wexner was giving "lengthy answers" that may have been self-incriminating, per multiple news outlets that reviewed the footage.
The five-hour deposition saw Wexner — Epstein's only known "client" for over two decades and the man who gifted Epstein his $77M Manhattan mansion — attempting to distance himself from the trafficker. Wexner characterized Epstein as "a world-class con man" who had "duped" him. But his attorney's panic at Wexner's verbosity tells a different story: the lawyer was afraid his client was talking himself into criminal liability.
The deposition covered the core of the Wexner-Epstein financial relationship: hundreds of millions of dollars transferred with no documented services rendered, the $77M Manhattan mansion gifted for free, Epstein's total control over Wexner's personal finances, and Wexner's role as co-founder of the Mega Group — the secretive pro-Israel billionaire network whose name appeared in an NSA-intercepted Mossad communication (see Mega Group section).
Wexner's defense — "I was duped" — strains credibility when weighed against the documented facts:
The idea that a billionaire retail magnate who co-founded a secretive intelligence-linked network of the world's wealthiest Jewish businessmen was "duped" for two decades by a man with no college degree and no verified source of income is, at minimum, not credible under sworn examination — which is precisely why his lawyer panicked when Wexner started talking.
The specific danger for Wexner — and for the people his attorney was protecting — goes beyond financial fraud. Wexner is the financial architect of the Mega Group, the organization that NSA intercepts linked to Mossad operations in the United States. His Manhattan townhouse — gifted to Epstein — was the operational headquarters of Israeli intelligence surveillance on American soil, hosting Barak, Koren, and Israeli consulate officials who installed and managed the surveillance systems (see Groff sections).
If Wexner testified truthfully about the purpose of his financial relationship with Epstein — not just the mechanics but the intelligence dimension — he would implicate himself in a foreign intelligence operation targeting the United States. The attorney's hot-mic threat was not about legal fees or deposition strategy. It was a real-time warning to stop talking before he exposed the national security dimension of the Epstein-Wexner partnership.
Despite the FBI's internal designation of Wexner as a potential co-conspirator in 2019, despite the deposition, despite the viral hot-mic moment, no charges have been brought against Les Wexner. The Victoria's Secret founder continues to live freely, his charitable foundation continues to operate the Wexner Israel Fellowship at Harvard, and the DOJ has not moved to seize a single asset from the man who funded Epstein's entire operation. The pattern holds: Epstein's financiers enjoy the same impunity that Epstein himself enjoyed for decades — until he was murdered in federal custody before he could testify.
Sources: Unilad (Feb 20, 2026: "Lawyer of ex-Victoria's Secret CEO caught on hot-mic saying shocking threat"), Independent TV (Feb 2026: "Billionaire's lawyer caught on hot mic at Epstein hearing"), Hindustan Times (Feb 2026: "Les Wexner attorney hot mic moment viral — 'I'll f---ing kill you'"), NeedToKnow.News (Feb 2026: "HOT MIC: Les Wexner Attorney Scolds Him During Deposition"), Reuters/TikTok (Feb 2026: video of hot mic moment), The Sunday Guardian (Feb 19, 2026: "Who is Les Wexner? How Former Victoria's Secret CEO Was 'Conned' by Epstein"). Context: FBI co-conspirator designation disclosed by Reps. Massie and Khanna, February 2026. Wexner-Epstein financial relationship documented in EFTA releases.
Among the most explosive findings in the February 2026 DOJ document dump is a 2020 FBI report citing a Confidential Human Source (CHS) — an FBI informant with direct access to the Epstein-Dershowitz inner circle — who stated under oath or FBI interview that Jeffrey Epstein "trained as a spy" under former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The CHS, described as a person close to Harvard Law professor and Epstein defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, reported that after phone calls between Dershowitz and Epstein, "Mossad would then call Dershowitz to debrief."
This is not speculation from outside researchers. It is not a media leak. It is an FBI document — a federal law enforcement record — containing an informant's first-person account of a Mossad debriefing pipeline running through Alan Dershowitz, using Jeffrey Epstein as the intelligence collection node.
The CHS's account describes a structured intelligence operation:
This pipeline explains the operational logic of the Epstein-Dershowitz relationship. Dershowitz was not merely Epstein's lawyer — he was the cutout between Epstein's intelligence collection operation and Mossad's intelligence consumption apparatus. The attorney-client privilege that shielded their communications from legal scrutiny simultaneously shielded an active foreign intelligence channel from counterintelligence detection.
The 2020 FBI document, released by the DOJ in February 2026 as part of the Epstein files, states in its own words:
The FBI document establishes three facts that transform the Epstein case from a sex trafficking prosecution into a counterintelligence failure:
Following the February 2026 release, Israeli officials issued coordinated denials. Mossad chiefs rejected the claims. Benjamin Netanyahu and Naftali Bennett both issued statements dismissing the allegations. Fox News (Feb 15, 2026) reported that "Israeli intelligence sources reject claims of Jeffrey Epstein Mossad operative."
But these denials do not address the substance of the FBI document:
The denials are procedural, not factual. They assert Epstein had no formal Mossad employment — a claim that evades the CHS's actual allegation: that Epstein was an unofficial intelligence asset trained by a former Prime Minister and feeding information through an attorney-cutout to a foreign intelligence service. That allegation is documented in an FBI file, not a blog post.
The 2020 date of the FBI CHS document is significant. By 2020:
The FBI possessed an informant's account of a Mossad-Epstein-Dershowitz intelligence pipeline while the DOJ was simultaneously publishing reports that "found no evidence" of intelligence connections. This is not a contradiction — it is the distinction between evidence the FBI has and conclusions the DOJ publishes. The CHS document was classified or restricted while the public-facing report was exculpatory. The gap between what the government knew and what it disclosed is the gap this dossier exists to fill.
The fact that the document was released at all — in February 2026, during the House Oversight Committee's active investigation — suggests internal pressure within the DOJ to disclose what the FBI had known for years. The CHS document may have been released over the objections of career officials who preferred it remain buried.
Alan Dershowitz's position in the CHS account is legally precarious. If Dershowitz received intelligence from Epstein and passed it to Mossad — as the FBI informant alleges — his actions may constitute:
Dershowitz has consistently denied all allegations related to Epstein. He has never been charged with any crime. But the FBI CHS document — a federal law enforcement record, not a civil lawsuit — makes specific factual allegations about Dershowitz's role in a Mossad debriefing pipeline that, if true, describe active participation in a foreign intelligence operation targeting the United States.
Sources: Anadolu Agency (Feb 4, 2026: "FBI informant 'became convinced' Epstein was Israeli spy: Government document"), Middle East Monitor (Feb 5, 2026: "FBI document: Epstein trained as spy under Ehud Barak and worked for Mossad"), Middle East Monitor (Feb 8, 2026: "FBI informant believed Jeffrey Epstein had links to Israeli intelligence"), TRT World (Feb 7, 2026: "A 2020 FBI report in the Epstein files cites a confidential source who claimed that Epstein was a Mossad agent"), The Week (Feb 10, 2026: "FBI document claims Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent. Here is how he was tied to Israel, Ehud Barak"), Fox News (Feb 15, 2026: "Mossad chiefs reject Jeffrey Epstein spy allegations amid political row"), Anadolu Agency (Feb 8, 2026: "Epstein funded pro-Israel groups, including 1 'settlement-building' FBI documents show"), Middle East Eye (Feb 7, 2026: "Epstein funded organisations linked to Israeli military, FBI document says"), Al Jazeera (Feb 9, 2026: "What were Jeffrey Epstein's links to Israel?"), Mondoweiss (Feb 3, 2026: "Newly released Epstein files reveal further ties to Israel"), ANews (Feb 5, 2026: "FBI informant 'became convinced' Epstein was Israeli spy"). Primary source: DOJ Epstein Files, Phase 2 release, January–February 2026 (2020 FBI CHS document).
The February–March 2025 release of "The Epstein Files: Phase 1" by the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that four Israeli heads of state appear in Jeffrey Epstein's personal records and contact databases. The full list — spanning two decades of Israeli leadership — includes:
| Name | Office Held | Years | Epstein File Connection | Additional Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shimon Peres | Prime Minister (1984–86, 1995–96) President (2007–2014) |
Multiple terms | Personally introduced Ehud Barak to Jeffrey Epstein; eulogized Robert Maxwell; oversaw Dimona nuclear program; recruited Arnon Milchan for LAKAM | Died 2016 — never questioned about Epstein |
| Ehud Barak | Prime Minister (1999–2001) Defense Minister (2007–2013) |
1999–2001 (PM) | Epstein's closest Israeli associate; dozens of documented visits; co-founded Carbyne surveillance company with Epstein's money; three-hour audio recording released by DOJ; former head of Aman (military intelligence) | Apologized for Epstein friendship (Feb 2026); FBI CHS says Epstein "trained as a spy" under him |
| Ehud Olmert | Prime Minister (2006–2009) | 2006–2009 | Listed as Epstein associate in Phase 1 declassified DOJ files (Feb/Mar 2025); name appears in Epstein's personal records alongside other Israeli leaders | Convicted of bribery (Holyland scandal, 2014); served 16 months in prison; first former Israeli PM convicted of corruption |
| Moshe Katsav | President (2000–2007) | 2000–2007 | Named in Epstein files (per Phase 1 release); appears alongside Barak, Peres, and Olmert in Epstein's personal records | Convicted of rape and sexual harassment (2010); served 5 years in prison; first Israeli president convicted of sex crimes |
The presence of Moshe Katsav in Epstein's files is particularly significant because of the symmetry: a convicted sex trafficker (Epstein) and a convicted rapist (Katsav) sharing the same contact network. Katsav was President of Israel from 2000 to 2007 — the exact period during which Epstein's trafficking operation scaled to its peak. Katsav was convicted in 2010 of raping a female employee in 1998 (during his tenure as Tourism Minister) and sexually harassing two other women while President. He served 5 years of a 7-year sentence.
The overlap between Epstein's trafficking network and a convicted Israeli rapist who held the nation's highest ceremonial office suggests a pattern of sexual predation within Israel's political elite that intersected with — and may have been leveraged by — Epstein's kompromat operation. Katsav's case demonstrates that sexual abuse by senior Israeli officials was known and occasionally prosecuted domestically — which makes the failure to investigate Epstein's network's penetration of Israeli leadership more, not less, damning.
Ehud Olmert served as Israel's 12th Prime Minister from 2006 to 2009 — the final years of the Bush administration and the transition to Obama. His tenure included the 2006 Lebanon War (against Hezbollah), the 2008–09 Gaza War (Operation Cast Lead), and the Annapolis peace process with the Palestinian Authority. Olmert resigned in 2008 amid corruption investigations and was ultimately convicted in the Holyland bribery scandal — a massive real estate corruption case involving millions in bribes to public officials. He became the first former Israeli Prime Minister to serve prison time.
The Olmert-Epstein connection has not been detailed to the degree of Barak's or Peres's relationships. The Jerusalem Post (Feb 28, 2025) and JNS (Mar 4, 2025) reported that Olmert's name appears as one of Epstein's associates in the declassified DOJ files, but the exact nature of their connection — whether direct meetings, correspondence, or indirect association through mutual contacts — remains incompletely documented in the public record. The epstein.observer tracker notes: "no evidence shows any direct personal connection or meetings between them" — but this may reflect the incomplete nature of the Phase 1 release rather than the absence of a relationship.
What is known: Olmert was Prime Minister during the peak of Epstein's trafficking operation. His Kadima party was centrist — positioned between Likud (Netanyahu) and Labor (Barak, Peres). Like Barak and Peres, Olmert operated within the same Israeli elite circles where Epstein was treated as a valued contact, not a pariah. His subsequent corruption conviction raises the question of whether Epstein's network — with its documented pattern of financial entanglements with Israeli officials — had any connection to Olmert's criminal financial dealings.
The central finding is not that any one Israeli leader had a relationship with Epstein. It is that four consecutive Israeli heads of state — spanning 1984 to 2014 — all appear in Epstein's files. This is not a "personal friendship" between one flawed politician and a financier. This is a systemic pattern:
If one Israeli PM had ties to Epstein, it could be dismissed as a personal failing. Two PMs strains credibility. Three PMs plus a President — spanning three different political parties (Labor, Kadima, Likud) — eliminates any alternative explanation: Epstein's network had institutional penetration into Israel's highest political offices across party lines and across decades. The question is no longer whether Epstein had Israeli state connections. The question is which faction of the Israeli state was running him, and for what precise operational purposes — because four heads of state don't accidentally end up in a trafficker's contact list.
| Year | Epstein Event | Israeli Leadership |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Epstein trafficking at peak; Palm Beach investigation begins | Olmert becomes PM (Kadima). Katsav still President. |
| 2007 | Acosta negotiates secret plea deal | Katsav resigns presidency amid rape allegations. Peres becomes President. |
| 2008 | Epstein convicted (state charge, minor); serves 13 months with work release | Olmert resigns amid corruption probe. Barak serving as Defense Minister under Olmert. |
| 2009 | Epstein released; resumes trafficking | Netanyahu becomes PM. Barak continues as Defense Minister until 2013. |
| 2010 | Epstein trafficking continues; Barak visits documented | Katsav convicted of rape. |
| 2014 | Israeli UN mission installing security at Epstein's building | Olmert convicted of bribery. Peres completes presidency. |
| 2019 | Epstein arrested (federal charges). Dies in MCC custody. | Netanyahu PM. Barak forms new party, runs against Netanyahu. |
The timeline shows that every change in Israeli leadership between 2006 and 2014 coincided with Epstein's network continuing to operate with impunity — regardless of which party or faction held power. The political affiliations didn't matter. Epstein's access to the Israeli state was constant.
Sources: Jerusalem Post (Feb 28, 2025: "Ehud Olmert one of Jeffrey Epstein's associates in case documents"), JNS (Mar 4, 2025: "Barak, Olmert appear in new Jeffrey Epstein files"), Jewish Press (Mar 2025: "Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert Appear in New Jeffrey Epstein Files"), WION/Facebook (Feb 9, 2026: "newly released Epstein files... Israeli PM Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres, Moshe Katsav and Ehud Olmert"), Epstein Observer (2025: "Ehud Olmert — Context Only"), EpsteinExposed.com (2025: "Ehud Olmert — Epstein Files Profile"), Factually.co (2026: "Which Israeli politicians were accused of ties to Jeffrey Epstein?"), Wikipedia (Ehud Olmert, Moshe Katsav — convictions and timeline), Al Jazeera (Feb 6, 2026), JTA (July 15, 2026: Vance-Rogan). Primary source: DOJ Epstein Files Phase 1 (Feb/Mar 2025) — associate listings.
The C.O.U.Q. Foundation, Inc. (the acronym has never been publicly decoded) was Jeffrey Epstein's personal charitable foundation, with Epstein himself serving as director and officer. Incorporated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, COUQ served dual purposes: it laundered Epstein's public reputation by presenting him as a philanthropist, and it moved millions of dollars between Epstein, the Wexner family, Israeli military-support organizations, and eventually into the surveillance-tech startup Carbyne — the company co-founded by Ehud Barak with Epstein's money.
The name "C.O.U.Q." itself is an unanswered question. No public record explains what the letters stand for. The foundation's 990 tax filings (IRS Form 990 for tax-exempt organizations) are sparse by design — the minimum required disclosure for a private foundation. But what the 990s do reveal, combined with the Epstein files released in 2025–2026, traces a deliberate financial pipeline from a convicted sex trafficker to the infrastructure of the Israeli state.
| Year | Transaction | Amount | Recipient / Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Wexner Children's Trust → COUQ | $11,200,000 | Les Wexner's children's trust donates $11.2M to Epstein's foundation |
| 2005 | COUQ → FIDF | $25,000 | Friends of the Israel Defense Forces — the official U.S. charity authorized to collect donations for IDF soldiers, funding military infrastructure and soldier welfare programs |
| 2005 | COUQ → JNF | $15,000 | Jewish National Fund — founded 1901 to purchase and develop land in what is now Israel; historically involved in settlement expansion and land acquisition in the West Bank |
| 2006 | COUQ → Clinton Foundation | $25,000 | Donation to the Clinton Foundation — building political cover across party lines |
| 2007 | COUQ → Ohio State University | $2,500,000 | Gift to OSU; later reviewed and university determined Epstein had "no meaningful role" at Wexner Foundation |
| Jan 2008 | COUQ → YLK Charitable Fund | $14,200,000 | Transfer of investments to YLK Charitable Fund — YLK are the initials of Les Wexner's children. The Wexner Foundation's 2020 independent review confirmed COUQ transferred $46 million total to YLK, not to the Wexner Foundation as media incorrectly reported, but YLK is Wexner-family-controlled |
| 2008 | FIDF Military Base Tour | N/A | While facing sex trafficking charges, Epstein toured Israeli military bases with FIDF chairman Benny Shabtai — the same man whose stepdaughter later accused of sexual harassment and "go missing" threats (see Shabtai Deep Dive section) |
| 2015 | Epstein → Carbyne (Reporty) | Undisclosed | Epstein invested directly in Carbyne (formerly Reporty), the Israeli surveillance-tech startup co-founded by Unit 8200 veterans and chaired by Ehud Barak. Epstein funded a significant share of Barak's stake, making him a "de facto partner" (Haaretz). Carbyne later sold to a private equity firm for $625 million |
The financial architecture of COUQ reveals a circular money-laundering structure designed to obscure the ultimate beneficiaries:
This is not standard philanthropy. A convicted sex trafficker's foundation — funded by a single billionaire — directing money to organizations that subsidize a foreign military while simultaneously investing in that foreign country's surveillance-technology exports is a financial structure optimized for intelligence operations, not charitable giving. The tax exemption is the legal cover; the pipeline is the operational reality.
The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) is a U.S.-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that describes itself as "the official U.S. charity authorized to collect donations for IDF soldiers." In practice, FIDF functions as a tax-deductible subsidy mechanism for a foreign military — American taxpayers effectively underwrite donations to the IDF through the charitable deduction, while FIDF funds soldier welfare programs, recreational facilities on military bases, and educational scholarships for IDF veterans.
Epstein's $25,000 donation to FIDF in 2005 — the same year he was actively trafficking minors, per court records — was not large in dollar terms. Its significance is structural: a sex trafficker's tax-exempt foundation was directly funding an organization that supports the military of the country whose intelligence service he was allegedly working for, per the 2020 FBI CHS document. The COUQ→FIDF pipeline demonstrates that Epstein's "philanthropy" and his intelligence functions were not separate activities — they were the same operation, wearing different legal masks.
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) was founded in 1901 to purchase land in Ottoman Palestine. Today, JNF owns approximately 13% of the land in Israel and has been directly involved in land acquisition for Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. JNF's U.S. arm (JNF-USA) is also a 501(c)(3), making donations to a settlement-adjacent organization tax-deductible for American donors.
Epstein's $15,000 COUQ donation to JNF in 2005 links his foundation to the settlement enterprise — one of the most politically charged dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Combined with the FIDF donation and the military base tours with Shabtai, the pattern is consistent: COUQ's grant-making targeted organizations at the intersection of Israeli military power and territorial expansion, not generic "Jewish causes."
In February 2020, following Epstein's death, the Wexner Foundation commissioned an "independent review" by the law firm Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter. The review's headline conclusion: Epstein played "no meaningful role" at the Wexner Foundation, and media reports that Epstein transferred $46 million to the Wexner Foundation were incorrect — the money went to YLK Charitable Fund, not the foundation itself.
This is true but misleading. YLK Charitable Fund is named for Les Wexner's children and is controlled by the Wexner family. Distinguishing between "the Wexner Foundation" and "a Wexner-family-controlled charitable fund" is a legal technicality — the money stayed within Wexner's orbit. The review also failed to address:
The independent review answered a narrow question — "Did Epstein control the Wexner Foundation?" — and declared victory. It ignored the broader question: "Was the Wexner-Epstein-COUQ financial structure used to fund Israeli military and intelligence-adjacent organizations while Epstein simultaneously served as an intelligence asset?" That question remains unanswered by any official inquiry.
The endpoint of the COUQ pipeline is not a charity — it is Carbyne, the Israeli surveillance-tech company whose technology is now deployed in American 911 call centers. The sequence is linear:
This is the full arc: a billionaire's fortune → a sex trafficker's foundation → Israeli military charities → military base access → intelligence relationships → surveillance-tech investment → sale to private equity → returns to the billionaire's family. The "charity" was never the point. COUQ was the financial infrastructure for an intelligence-access operation disguised as philanthropy.
Sources: Wexner Foundation Independent Review (Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter, Feb 24, 2020: COUQ transferred $46M to YLK, not Wexner Foundation), COUQ Foundation 2005 IRS Form 990 (via Epstein files: $25K FIDF, $15K JNF), COUQ Foundation 2008 IRS Form 990 (via Scribd/Epstein document archive: $14.2M transferred to YLK Charitable Fund, Jan 2008), Al-Mayadeen (Feb 2026: "Tracing 'spy' Epstein financial links to Israeli military, settlements"), Tehran Times (Feb 2026: 2005 IRS filings show COUQ donations to FIDF; 2008 military base tours with Shabtai), Epstein Exposed (2026: "From COUQ to Carbyne: Tracing Epstein's Financial Pipeline to Israel" — 7 documents), Film Daily (2026: "What's Verified About Epstein in Israel Links" — COUQ donations confirmed), Factually.co (2026: Epstein foundation donations to FIDF/JNF), The Cradle (Feb 2026: COUQ 2005 IRS filing), Il Giornale d'Italia (Feb 2026: "$25mila a Friends of the IDF e $15mila a Jewish National Fund"), WOSU News (Feb 27, 2020: OSU review of COUQ $2.5M gift), House Oversight Committee (Groff testimony, June 2026: Israeli consulate managing security at Epstein building), Haaretz (Epstein funded Barak's Carbyne stake, making him "de facto partner"), DOJ Epstein Files (multiple phases, 2025–2026: COUQ documents included in releases).