Episode 281 - Jeffrey Epstein: Along Came a Spider - Part 1

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The story of Jeffrey Epstein – the billionaire financier with an industrial-scale web of child abuse implicating some of the most powerful people in the world – sounds like some half-baked conspiracy theory. But it’s all true. And to answer the question of how he went from humble origins to sex-trafficking minors over to his private island, we have to start at the very beginning.

So, who exactly was Jeffrey Epstein? How did socialite and media heiress Ghislaine Maxwell accelerate his ambitions? And how the hell did they keep getting away with it?

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0:15.2	I'm Hannah. I'm Thruti. And we sound tired, even though it is actually
0:20.5	2023 now as you listen to this. We are still in the past. Yes. We're getting ahead of the game. Happy New Year, though. Happy New Year. Yeah.
0:27.7	I hope your New Year's were pressure-free and fun as they never are. But it is January 2023.
0:35.0	For all of you. For us, it's still December. And we are scheming to get out of the office and into pajamas with wine and fire.
0:43.8	That is my entire plan. But that's not the reason for the season when you're listening. It's January, it may be
0:50.5	you're a little bit hungover still. Who knows. But we're here to perk you up. Exactly.
0:56.1	Today we are telling the story of a billionaire financier who sat atop an international pyramid scheme of child exploitation.
1:05.2	It took place over decades, involved hundreds of victims and implicated some of the most powerful people in the world
1:12.2	from business moguls to US presidents and British royalty.
1:17.5	It sounds like some half-baked sensationist conspiracy theory being furiously typed up on a black website in neon green font
1:23.8	by some tinfoil-happ maniac screaming, Peterfile Island. And it would sound insane.
1:30.1	If it wasn't all true. How did Jeffrey Epstein go from humble beginnings to Megapeto Numerouno?
1:40.2	Just how extensive was his web of abuse? And how did he evade justice time and time again?
1:48.6	And what happened in that J.O. Cell in 2019? He's not dead.
1:54.3	To answer those questions, we have to start in Coney Island, New York, in 1953.
2:02.2	Seymour and Pauline Epstein had been married for just over a year when they welcomed Jeffrey Edward
2:08.5	Epstein into the world. When Seymour returned from fighting in the Second World War, the family moved
2:15.3	into an apartment in Seagate, a fenced off residential district on Coney Island.
2:20.8	For the uninitiated, Coney Island is an area of New York City in the southwest of Brooklyn.
2:27.4	It's where New Yorkers go for beaches, amusement rides and walks on the pier.
2:31.4	Yes, it's like in uptown girl. Is it Dakota Fanning and Brittany Murphy in uptown girl and they go to Coney Island?
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