Jeffrey Epstein was a financier and convicted sex offender whose network spanned the worlds of finance, politics, academia and celebrity.
Recently, the US Department of Justice released what is now known as the Epstein Files. There are over three million pages, over 2,000 videos, and over 180,000 images, so far, including flight logs, emails, court filings and internal notes detailing his activities and connections.
Two rounds of document releases have so far painted an incredibly repulsive picture of sexual exploitation, trafficking and elite complicity. Some of the highlights include US President Donald Trump, who is mentioned in over 38,000 references, with the most serious allegation being a withdrawn 2016 federal lawsuit accusing him of raping a 13-year-old girl at Epstein’s Manhattan residence.
Silicon Valley billionaires, including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page, appearing hundreds of times. There are also emails and exchanges suggesting an international political network involving countries such as Israel, India and Russia.
All of this is merely scratching the surface of the Epstein files. To try and make sense of it all, BFM speaks to Peter Beattie, a political economist and political psychologist from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
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