The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book I: Jeffrey Epstein

By Deana Pollard Sacks

On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein became a household name as an international sex trafficker of underage girls, serial sex abuser, and confidant of the most famous, rich, and powerful men in the world.  Barely a month after his arrest, he was reportedly found dead in his prison cell, supposedly by suicide. Numerous investigations are ongoing

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stonebrook Publishing
• Release date: Dec 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781733995832

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PRAISE

Professor Deana Pollard Sacks has written the definitive book about the prominent men who used their power and money to abuse women. The book is meticulously researched and very well written and engaging. It is a stark reminder that decades after the feminist movement began, women are harassed and raped by men like these and those who enable them.

—Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean,

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

"The Godfathers of Sex Abuse exposes the truth about the entertainment industry, dismantles the concept of fame, shines a light on a multibillion-dollar business built on systematic misogyny, and urges people to wake up to the power they hold as citizens for change to help eradicate sexual assault. The book is a part of the #MeToo movement that has affected public discourse about sexual violence."

­—John Brittain, Professor,

University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clark School of Law

In this beautifully written and blunt book, Deana Pollard Sacks makes an excellent case for urgent reform by exposing the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and these men’s many powerful enablers. Sacks is a phenomenal writer and may prove to be one of the premier American authors of our generation.

—Alfred Brophy, Professor Emeritus,

University of Alabama School of Law

An absolute page-turner … documenting the crimes of the rich and famous and the systems that protect them, leaving victims with shattered lives and dreams.

—Martina Cartwright, Professor,

Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Professor Deana Pollard Sacks provides a scathing, detailed account of how rich and powerful perpetrators of rape and sexual assault are able to abuse the legal system and unscrupulously rely on their vast connections in a shameful attempt to escape justice. But with diligent persistence, Sacks gives voice to the voiceless by championing exactly how justice should ultimately prevail over these rapists if we, as a society, remain true to our stated belief that no one is above the law.

—Fred Galves, Professor,

Lincoln Law School of Sacramento

Professor Deana Sacks provides an extremely thought-provoking, powerful, and brave exposé of some of the most powerful sexual predators in the world. As with all her writing, she is direct, bold, and brutally honest.

—Laura L. Westray, J.D.

The Godfathers of Sex Abuse

Deana Pollard Sacks

The Godfathers of Sex Abuse

Book I

Jeffrey Epstein

Deana Pollard Sacks

Stonebrook Publishing

Saint Louis, Missouri

A STONEBROOK PUBLISHING BOOK

©2019 by Deana Pollard Sacks

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DEDICATION

To all the victims who survived—

Channel your pain and sorrow into action.

It will free your soul and keep you young.

To all the reporters who told us the truth—

You are blessed hands and feet.

To all the people who stand up for what is right,

Who do not go along to get along,

Who accept the risks and bravely speak out

And trust that justice will prevail—

It is time to join forces.

CONTENTS

RESEARCH NOTE

INTRODUCTION

JEFFREY EPSTEIN

1: BOYS WILL BE BOYS

2: JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S RISE TO POWER

3: HOW DID JEFFREY EPSTEIN GET SO RICH?

4: THE TALENTED MR. EPSTEIN

5: GHISLAINE MAXWELL

6: MODUS OPERANDI

7: VIRGINIA ROBERTS

8: JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S PERSONAL ASSISTANTS

9: THE LOLITA EXPRESS

10: THE FLORIDA EVIDENCE

11: PRINCE ANDREW

12: THE COVER-UP

13: CALLING IN THE BIG DOGS

14: SNEAKY DEVILS

15: THE SENTENCE

16: POTENTIAL CO-CONSPIRATORS

17: JANE DOE #1 AND JANE DOE #2 V. UNITED STATES

18: THE COWARDLY LABOR SECRETARY

19: EPSTEINGATE

20: JEFFREY EPSTEIN V. BRAD EDWARDS

21: VIRGINIA GIUFFRE V. GHISLAINE MAXWELL

22: ALAN DERSHOWITZ’S TELEVISION RANTS

23: BRAD EDWARDS V. ALAN DERSHOWITZ

24: THE LOLITA EXPRESS, CUBED

25: VIRGINIA GIUFFRE V. ALAN DERSHOWITZ

26: JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S 2019 ARREST

27: JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S REPORTED SUICIDE

28: THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS

29: THE MOTION TO DISMISS EPSTEIN’S 2019 SEX-TRAFFICKING CHARGES

30: #CLINTONBODYCOUNT

31: FAKE NEWS

32: EPSTEIN’S PLAN TO USE HIS DNA TO START A SUPERIOR HUMAN RACE

33: WHAT DOES BILL GATES HAVE TO DO WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN?

34: IS JEFFREY EPSTEIN REALLY DEAD?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

RESEARCH NOTE

The information contained in this book was derived from materials in the public domain, including news articles and videos, talk show videos, online articles, court documents, and books. The author has made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was current and accurate at the time the book went to press.

INTRODUCTION

Did Jeffrey Epstein really commit suicide? (Is he really dead?)

Will Harvey Weinstein go to prison?

How did Bill Cosby get away with it for nearly half a century?

People who knew I was writing this book kept asking me these questions. Here are the short answers:

It’s doubtful. (Hard to say).

He’d better.

Through enormous wealth, unethical lawyers, government complicity, and fake news.

It’s funny how research meanders. In the summer of 2018, I was finally able to sit down to finish a draft of an academic book, Sex Torts, when one sex tort case that I found caught my attention and changed the path of my research.

The case was Cordero v. Epstein. The defendant was Jeffrey Epstein. I had never heard of him. He allegedly lured Ms. Cordero into his home when she was seventeen years old, took off his clothes, and asked her to massage his body. She was afraid and complied. Then, suddenly the defendant began pushing plaintiff’s head toward his penis and demanded oral sex.

The plaintiff also alleged that she was born a male and later became a transgender model. It was unclear whether she self-identified or appeared as a boy or a girl at the time of the alleged assault in 2000. She missed the deadline to file the lawsuit but argued to the court that she was unable to consent legally at the time due to her age, and that she was legally insane at all times set forth herein. If the court accepted her arguments, she would be allowed to continue with her case despite its tardiness.

It struck me that Victoria’s Secret was named as a defendant, as was a man named Les Wexner. This was intriguing. How could sexual assault be attributable to Victoria’s Secret? Was Epstein working there? And who was Les Wexner? The court dismissed the case on limitations grounds, so there were no subsequent court documents.

I looked up the plaintiff online and saw a very attractive woman who resembled one of my favorite actors, Angelina Jolie. Searching Jeffrey Epstein’s name, I discovered his elaborate sex-trafficking ring and the irregular Florida negotiations and bogus plea deal in 2008, orchestrated by Alexander Acosta and Alan Dershowitz—names I knew. Other big names were involved as well: Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Ken Starr, foreign heads of state, billionaires, and one of my other favorite actors, Kevin Spacey.

My curiosity was piqued. There was clearly much more to the story. I set aside the Sex Torts legal research and began investigating Jeffrey Epstein. The details of the various pending cases in which Epstein was a defendant were mind-boggling. How could a man who molested so many underage girls not be in prison? Why had the lawsuit to set aside Epstein’s ridiculously lenient plea deal been on hold for a decade? What on earth was going on here?

I perused the internet, trying to make sense of it all. I broadened the search to include Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, both of whom were also alleged to be rich serial sexual predators who had escaped justice—for decades. The search results raised even more questions: Why do the same lawyers’ and politicians’ names keep popping up in the cases? How did these men manage to keep the sexual assault allegations out of the news for so long? What is the connection between these men (Epstein and Weinstein in particular) and the Democratic Party? What is the Mossad? And how did these men get so filthy rich—to the point of buying their way out of consequences for dozens or hundreds of sex crimes?

I’d never struggled so much to find answers. Facts concerning Jeffrey Epstein were particularly elusive. Matt Stieb probably said it best in late 2019, when he wrote about the newly discovered financial ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates: The hydra of the Epstein scandal—in which each sliver of reporting resolves one question only to raise two or three more unnerving inquiries —keeps growing heads.¹

The cases were so involved, the stories so bizarre, and the unanswered questions so important that I wound up writing an entirely separate book about these three men, for the public: The Godfathers of Sex Abuse. That book then grew so big that it was split into two parts. This is Book I: Jeffrey Epstein. Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby are covered in Book II.

This book’s title derives from the incredibly well-funded, elaborate, sophisticated, and politically connected modus operandi with which Epstein, Weinstein, and Cosby operated. The amount of money these men spent on thwarting the law, beating the legal system, and hiding the truth from the public was unbelievable—tens of millions of dollars.

They paid huge amounts of money to maintain their phony public personas as they created fake news by paying off certain publishers or threatening lawsuits to shut down true stories. At the same time, they hired lawyers, publicists, and reputation managers to shove false information down the public’s throat. The public has been terribly misled for decades.

They were enormous bullies in every sense of the word, and they allegedly even threatened to kill their victims as part of their silencing efforts. One of the politically connected defense lawyers, David Boies, had been called a thug by a journalist, based on the way his politically connected and powerful law firm treated whistleblowers. He and other defense lawyers were operating like the mafia, bullying everyone around them and hiring spies as needed to follow and intimidate victims, witnesses, reporters, and even one chief of police. They largely got their way. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino came to my mind. Epstein, Weinstein, and Cosby were the godfathers of sex abuse. They were untouchable.

Out of the limited, sometimes inaccurate, and confusing data surrounding these cases—and Epstein in particular—one thing became clear: Sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of disempowered people are out of control, and our news media and government have been complicit when the sex abuser has been sufficiently powerful and wealthy. Some of the major players have now been exposed. But the extraordinary secrecy surrounding the proceedings, and the way in which the media have been manipulated to keep the public in the dark, leave many questions still unanswered.

Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and the #MeToo Movement

On October 5, 2017, The New York Times broke the silence about movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s many alleged sexual assaults that occurred over the course of three decades. He was the king of Hollywood, sovereign,² and a force to be reckoned with. His voracious bullying was legendary within the industry, but it was his sex addiction and rape allegations that brought him notoriety. Most people had never heard of him until he was labeled a rapist.

Ten days later, Alyssa Milano posted her famous tweet: If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet. The #MeToo movement took off, as millions of women got online to tell their stories of sexual assault and harassment. Some of them had been silenced for decades and were ready to tell all. Famous men were involved.

The news stories gave the public a window into the world of ubiquitous sexual abuse and insight into how women are coerced into sex, then silenced by their abusers. The enemy emerged not as a few lone rapists, but as a huge network of extraordinarily wealthy men with scores of enablers at the highest levels of government.

Bill Cosby was the first to face a sex crime trial for drugging women and sexually assaulting them. He ultimately landed in prison—where he will probably die.

Jeffrey Epstein, teen sex trafficker extraordinaire, skated by with a ridiculously lenient plea deal that was orchestrated by federal prosecutors and famous defense lawyers. Eleven years later, he was rearrested on July 6, 2019, imprisoned, and reportedly found dead by suicide on August 10, 2019.

The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise—a term that describes the Hollywood and political machinery that helped Harvey Weinstein entice actresses to meet him in private, where he then overpowered and sexually assaulted them—was alive and well for thirty years. He bullied and paid everyone to stay silent for decades. He was finally arrested on May 25, 2018, then released on bail with an ankle monitor. At the time this book went to press, Weinstein was awaiting his criminal trial in New York.

Sexual predators like to hide. They don’t want anyone getting into what they feel is their private business. They also exhibit similar traits that include narcissism, empathy deficits, and cognitive distortion. They have illusions of grandeur and believe they’re above the law. The godfathers are typical sexual predators, except they’re loaded.

Jeffrey Epstein wanted to start a superhuman race—using his sperm to father many babies at the same time from his ranch in New Mexico, which he named Zorro. Harvey Weinstein referred to himself as a famous guy and the fucking sheriff of this fucking lawless piece-of-shit town (New York). Never mind the fact that the vast majority of Americans had never heard of him until he was accused of serial rapes, or the fact that he has never held a law enforcement position. After he admitted to drugging women for sex, Bill Cosby compared himself to martyrs Martin Luther King and Gandhi.

This book, The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book I: Jeffrey Epstein, focuses on Epstein and the many lawsuits that exploded out of his elaborate sex-ring operation. The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book II: Harvey Weinstein & Bill Cosby, will focus on these two master predators. The second book also contains a section, The Penumbras of #MeToo, which discusses the many ways in which women are harassed, bullied, and oppressed based on gender—issues that have yet to be addressed in the #MeToo movement. The underlying psychological causes of sexual assault and bullying are also addressed in the final Penumbras section of Book II.

Ironically, narcissism and other characteristics shared by uber-rich sexual predators actually stem from a deeply felt sense of shame, inadequacy, and unworthiness.³ Narcissism is a coping mechanism to deal with low self-esteem. Sex addiction and sexual bullying are among the many manifestations of men who are in reality sexually insecure.

But Weinstein was spot on with his power claim. All three men behaved like dictators, expecting the justice system to cater to them. They were so rich that they felt entitled to commit sex crimes, like real kings of generations past. They controlled purse strings, which, in turn, controlled virtually everyone around them.

Even those who were supposed to protect the public—certain prosecutors—bent over backward to help them. Hundreds of people either helped them or saw something, but no one was talking. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and state agencies handling sexual harassment complaints were complicit as well, hiding information about sexual misconduct from the public as part of their official policies.

The legal bullying in these cases has been extraordinary. Victim-blaming and victim-shaming have run rampant, as has discrediting victims by manipulating online content and Google search results. The godfathers wallet-whipped plaintiffs’ counsel to try to force dismissals. When all else failed, they entered into nondisclosure agreements with their victims—hush money to hide the evidence and make the cases go away.

One of the biggest problems is that rich men have used their wealth to hide evidence through hush agreements, which makes criminal prosecution difficult because the victims agreed not to talk about what the men did to them. The unwritten rule is that they are entitled to rape as long as they can afford the hush money. Their wealth shields them from criminal penalties such as prison, so they are free to carry on and pay to play the game of sexual assault. The result is forced prostitution, after the fact.

A network of politically connected lawyers—many of whom knew each other for decades or worked at the same law firm—emerged. Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr, Jay Lefkowitz, Alexander Acosta, David Boies, and many other high-profile lawyers have been paid huge amounts of money as the go-to guys to help rich sex abusers avoid consequences, although Boies has taken both sides in the high-profile cases. The biggest power players in the world have been involved, including US presidents. The Clinton Foundation and former Israeli intelligence agents are in the mix. In September of 2019, it was revealed that Bill Gates was connected with Jeffrey Epstein, notwithstanding his denials. The network of enablers is enormous, keeps growing, and includes politicians, celebrity lawyers, and international billionaires. Hundreds of millions of dollars were involved in protecting the sexual predators.

Another twisted truth emerged. Women are everywhere in these stories, but not only as victims. They’re often the culprits and were used to lure other women to their rapists. Like the many female enablers who actively helped Epstein, Weinstein, and Cosby, females today generally play an enormous role in the suppression and abuse of other women in many ways, sexual and nonsexual. Women can also be misogynists, whether intentionally or subconsciously.

When civil liability finally caught up to Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein, their insurance companies paid tens of millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees