As President Donald Trump strives to dominate the United States and the entire globe, the ground under his feet is being eroded out by the explosive Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal.
I had lunch at Epstein’s palatial New York City house on E 71st street. I met him and the crème de la crème of New York’s Jewish real estate society. With me were two of Canada’s media celebrities.
I was brought to the luncheon to renew my relations with Epstein’s British girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, whom I had known socially in New York for some years. Maxwell was then giving lessons to her lady society friends on how to give good sex. As an accomplished lothario, I was invited to amuse the naughty Miss Maxwell but never had a chance to do so.
As I’ve previously said on Australian TV, I was offered a “massage” soon after arriving at Epstein’s house. To me, a veteran of Cold War Moscow and the Mideast, I was astounded by such a brazen attempt at blackmail. “How stupid do they think we are?”, I asked. In Moscow, we used to joke about the so-called “swallows” sent by KGB to entrap journalists and diplomats. I asked the KGB boys for 8x10 prints to send to my friends.
I’ve also known Adnan Khashoggi’s chief female seductress, AN, who was reportedly involved with the Epstein cabal. And, of course, about Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine’s notorious father. Robert, a Czech communist agent who became a British press baron. He also worked for Israel’s Mossad intel agency until murdered in 1991.
So what, I wondered, was Epstein up to by offering New York’s great and good intimate massages? At lunch that day were most of the really big names in New York real estate, financial moguls and a prominent lawyer who defended Epstein.
Where, we all wondered, did his huge wealth come from? Epstein began as a humble tutor at New York’s Dalton School, a rival to my own New York school, Collegiate. Epstein soon joined a leading Wall Street firm and rocketed up to wealth and prominence, reportedly amassing a $500 million fortune. He worked with prominent millionaires earning further large sums. For even New York’s fast money, this was too much, too fast - and incredible.
In fact, the entire Epstein story is unbelievable - both his life and his death. It’s now become a political scandal royal, though President Trump, an old friend of Epstein, has not yet been fully ensnared. But his name has already been sullied. Teenage hookers are found on the fringes of high society: just think of France’s “Ballet Bleu” and “Ballet Rose” scandals in the late 1950’s with older politicians frolicking with young girls - and then boys.
Or the Washington scandals where it was reported that an Israeli-made telephone system installed in the White House was used to compromise President Clinton’s sexual escapades. I covered this story. The Epstein scandal flows from the Clinton “compromat” scandal.
It appears to this veteran specialist in espionage and black ops that the Epstein imbroglio was a well-defined foreign intelligence operation based in New York City to blackmail and coerce prominent movers and shakers. It worked brilliantly until it didn’t.
Many prominent New Yorkers were ensnared in this simple but effective plot. Mostly older men who had forgotten the fun of sex in their lifeless marriages. More heads will likely roll. As prostitutes like to say, these were the high and mighty thinking with their 7-inch brains.
Why does the US allow and fund Israel’s far right government to massacre hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and attack Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen? The answer seems obvious though we have no hard proof yet. Trump must be wondering how he was about to seize control of the earth when an obscure former tutor from Brooklyn thwarted his chances.
Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2025 reprint with permission of author