The Backstory: The Epstein Rosetta Stone: Money, Sex, and Fraud
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Jeffrey Epstein, millionaire sex offender and friend to presidents and royalty, is back in the news. It seems his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, holds the key to what went on at Epstein’s private retreats with his powerful friends. Attorney Alan Dershowitz calls her the Epstein Rosetta Stone. But her backstory is just as fascinating. Her father, Robert Maxwell, was cut of the same cloth as Epstein. Ambitious and wildly successful . . until they weren’t. Ghislaine’s father and her lover, both died under mysterious circumstances as their lives were collapsing around them.
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| 0:00.0 | The millionaire sex offender and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, |
| 0:05.8 | has been in the news lately. His friendship with business moguls, powerful politicians, |
| 0:11.3 | and even royalty continues to be a topic of discussion six years later. And taking a lot of the |
| 0:17.5 | heat originally directed at him is his former girlfriend turned wingman, who's now |
| 0:22.5 | in prison as well. What does she know and where did she come from? I'm Patty Steele. Gailane Maxwell |
| 0:29.1 | and the two men closest to her were both wildly powerful and both dead under suspicious |
| 0:35.6 | circumstances. That's next on the backstory. |
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