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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump is part of that and Epstein was just one of the many. It never stopped.

[–] KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago

Trump and Epstein both are the symptom of their plague, not the cause.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

The Franklin incident happened in 88 and the last witness to get wacked was about a year before the first reports of Epstein. Has the same blackmail the rich and powerful scheme and a CIA connection

[–] ExtraPartsLeft@piefed.zip 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I find it hard to believe "the next Jeffrey" isn't already out there.

[–] KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago

I'm 100% certain there is. It's possible Epstein was the only host of billionaire sex parties at the time, but you can't convince me that the rich oligarchs who run the world didn't rape another child after Epstein's arrest. They're serial predators in every way; the own yachts and private planes and ranches and private islands of their own. No chance they lost the taste for human trafficking after one man got arrested.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

If you consider he and Maxwell are both high value Israeli assets that probably have(had) body doubles it's not so weird... Because he's probably alive in Tel Aviv sorting and labling 20TB of CSAM

[–] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

The next Jeffrey has already been in position for 7 years

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Someone who knows the next Ghislaine I guess.

She was a vital element of their procurement process:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/epstein-files-victim-grooming/106179662

They were a team, both wealthy, both with access to money, both pedophiles. They would both groom children into normalizing sex.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ivana helped too. She and Ghislaine would go out trolling and bring back “piles of kids” to Jeffy’s apartment.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you have a source for that? It's absolutely believable but I haven't seen or heard it mentioned before and think that would be a big revelation if it had come out in court or the files.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, although it's a pain to get to - it's part of a two-video interview series (it's a phone interview too which makes it worse) with Maria Farmer, one of the known Epstein victims. The transcript is the best way to get through it but because its auto-transcribed it's pretty terrible to read, still this part is absolutely clear. I'll see if I can find it, I posted it in the c/epsteinfiles comm earlier.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah here we go:

43:35

Gillan had offices then because when I was with them by 1995 they were full

43:41

time she was full time what she called the lady of the house and she was full time getting children for him full time

43:49

I mean full time and the other person who was always going around with her this is really weird Donald Trump's

43:55

ex-wife Ivana was always in the car with her I mean one stantly no one not one news

44:01

organization will mention that I wanted on a truck to explain herself a big old

44:06

cow explain yourself why were you going out acquiring children with this woman that they'd come back and there'd be a pile of kids

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you. I went looking and was surprised (not shocked) to find as much as I did considering I'd not heard anything previously.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER




ok, sorry for that

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

Who will be the next Jeffrey?

will be?

Bold to assume he hasn't been replaced already.