Jeffrey Epstein
Appearance

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 - August 10, 2019) was an American financier and registered sex offender.
Quotes
[edit]2002–2003
[edit]- I invest in people — be it politics or science. It's what I do.
- Quoted in Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery By Landon Thomas Jr., New York magazine (October 28, 2002).
- I started at Bear Stearns in 1976. Bear Stearns never had any training program. There was no course to begin. Alan Greenberg said he wanted me to learn each area of the business. So he thought the best place for me to start would be on the floor of the American Stock Exchange and then later move up to the trading desk and learn all the different areas of the firm including the margin department. He was amazing.
- From an interview with David Bank (January 2003), as quoted in "The Epstein Tapes: Unearthed Recordings From His Private Island", Bloomberg News (August 14, 2019).
- I realize what I am. I’m very comfortable in my own skin. I’m not a helicopter pilot. What I’m really free to do is I feel free to follow my own personality. As we discussed yesterday, I can’t be totally wacko in what I do. It affects lots of other people who will get angry with what I do because then it affects me again. But on my own island or on my own ranch, I can think the thoughts I want to think. I can do the work I want to do and I’m free to explore as I see fit.
- From an interview with David Bank (January 2003), as quoted in "The Epstein Tapes: Unearthed Recordings From His Private Island", Bloomberg News (August 14, 2019). See also: on Bloomberg Markets and Finance, YouTube channel
- It attracted me because I thought it would be a different class of students I hadn't come across before, this was going to be the flip-side
- From an interview with David Bank (January 2003), as quoted in "The Epstein Tapes: Unearthed Recordings From His Private Island", Bloomberg News (August 14, 2019). See also: on Bloomberg Markets and Finance, YouTube channel
2011-2019
[edit]- [I] want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump. [Victim 1] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.
- Email to Ghislaine Maxwell (April 2, 2011), as cited in "Jeffrey Epstein said Trump "knew about the girls" in 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, House Democrats allege", CBS News (12 November 2025).
- Orthographical error in the original source. CBS News reported White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the Democrats of selective leaks to "create a fake narrative" to harm the president. According to Leavitt, the unnamed victim in the emails is Virginia Giuffre, who died in April 2025 and did not accuse Trump of improper conduct.
- I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.
- Jeffrey Epstein on Donald Trump in interview with Michael Wolff in 2017. Epstein Tapes: "I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend" on Daily Beast YouTube channel
- [On Donald Trump] He’s charming. In a devious way, he’s charming. To some extent it’s a typical tragedy where he believes his own bulls---. He has delusions of grandiosity, then he takes it on board.
- He’s a horrible human being. He does nasty things to his best friends, best friends’ wives, anyone who he first tries to gain their trust and uses it to do bad things to them.
- Interviewed by Michael Wolff on audio tape in 2017, quoted in "Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: ‘I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend’" U.S. House of Representatives Document Repository (February 27, 2025)
- Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever.. [O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop.
- On Trump, to Michael Wolff in an email (January 31, 2019), as cited in "Jeffrey Epstein said Trump "knew about the girls" in 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, House Democrats allege", CBS News (12 November 2025).
- The two periods before "[O]f course" should not be read as ellipsis.
- I just want you to know I’m not a pedophile. … Maybe the only thing worse than being called a pedophile is being called a hedge fund manager.
- As quoted by Charlie Gasparino in "Jeffrey Epstein before he died", FOXBusiness (August 13, 2019).
- Still hanging around.
- Jeffrey Epstein's last message August 9th, 2019 through his lawyer to Michael Wolff in response to asking how he was. Jeffrey Epstein's Final Eerie Note Sent Before He Passed Away: Wolff | The Daily Beast Podcast Clip
- Dear L.N. as you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good Luck! We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein.
- Letter by Jeffrey Epstein to sex offender Larry Nassar dated August 13, 2025, 3 days after Epstein's death "Epstein Claimed Trump 'Shares Our Love' In Letter To Larry Nassar", WBZ NewsRadio (December 23, 2025)
Quotes about Jeffrey Epstein
[edit]2002–2015
[edit]- I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.
- Donald Trump, cited in Landon Thomas Jr. "Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery", New York magazine (October 28, 2002).
- [CNN in an interviews with Trump was thought to be about to ask about his association with Epstein] I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.
- Michael Wolff email to Epstein (December 15, 2015), as cited in "Jeffrey Epstein said Trump "knew about the girls" in 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, House Democrats allege", CBS News (12 November 2025).
2018–2019
[edit]- 2005 March: A 14-year-old girl and her parents report that Jeffrey Epstein molested her at a mansion in Palm Beach. She said a female acquaintance and classmate at Royal Palm Beach High School had taken her to the house to give him a massage in exchange for money. April: Palm Beach police begin trash pulls at Epstein’s home, discovering a telephone message for Epstein with the girl’s name on it, and a time that matched the time that she told police she was there. They find the names and phone numbers of other girls on message slips in his trash. October... Investigators begin interviewing more girls, as well as Epstein’s butlers, who tell them that Epstein had frequent visits from girls throughout the day.... 2006 May: Police sign a probable cause affidavit charging Epstein and two of his assistants with multiple counts of unlawful sex acts with a minor.... June: The grand jury, after hearing from only one girl, returns an indictment of one count of solicitation of prostitution. The charge does not reflect that the victim in question and others were minors. July: ... Lawyers discuss a deferred prosecution in which Epstein would enter a pretrial intervention program and serve no jail time. After pressure from the Palm Beach police chief, the FBI opens a federal investigation
- Julie K Brown, "For years, Jeffrey Epstein abused teen girls, police say. A timeline of his case" Miami Herald [paywalled source] (November 28, 2018).
- Q Two questions, please. With regard to Jeffrey Epstein, did you have any suspicions that he was molesting young women, underaged women?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven't spoken to him in many, many years. But I had — I didn't have no idea. - THE PRESIDENT: I was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein. And you watched people yesterday saying that I threw him out of a club. I didn't want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago. It shows you one thing: that I have good taste.
Now, other people, they went all over with him. They went to his island. They went all over the place. He was very well known in Palm Beach. His island — whatever his island was, wherever it is — I was never there. Find out the people that went to the island.- Donald Trump "Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure", Whitehouse.gov website (July 12, 2019).
- At the time Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned.
2021–2025
[edit]- I wanted to do a story on sex trafficking, but every time I googled Florida and sex trafficking, a story about Jeffrey Epstein came up.
- Julie K Brown quoted in "Meet Julie K Brown, the woman who brought down Jeffrey Epstein" by Andrew Anthony in The Observer (July 25, 2021)
- A not untypical case was Courtney Wild, a straight-A student with a troubled family history, who says she was sexually abused countless times by Epstein and others in his entourage beginning at the age of 14. ... As she tells Brown: “Jeffrey Epstein preyed on girls who were homeless and were addicted to drugs. He didn’t victimise girls who were Olympic stars and Hollywood actresses. He victimised people he thought nobody would ever listen to, and he was right.
- Andrew Anthony, "Meet Julie K Brown, the woman who brought down Jeffrey Epstein" The Observer (July 25, 2021).
- He was never a big factor in terms of life.
- 'Trump calls Epstein controversy a "Hoax" and "bulls***," denouncing "weaklings" in GOP' CBS News (July 16, 2025)
- The Epstein story is a window into the moral bankruptcy, hedonism and greed of the ruling class. This crosses political lines. It is the common denominator between Democratic politicians, such as Bill Clinton, philanthropists, such as Bill Gates, the billionaire class, and Trump. They are one class of predators and grifters. It is not only girls and women they exploit, but all of us.
- Chris Hedges, Trump, Epstein and the Deep State. Scheerpost. July 13, 2025.
