Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. As much as I despise Jeffrey Epstein, as
much as he sickens me, as much as I think
that he was an absolute disgusting piece of garbage, there's
no denying that he was charismatic, and there's no denying
that he had a way of attracting people into his orbit,
and a lot of those people had a whole lot
of money. So I'll never sit here and tell you
that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't a con man. He was one
of the best to do it. But unlike the vast
majority of con men, Jeffrey Epstein was playing the long
con and he had a long term game plan that
he was carrying out, and that game plan included collecting
billionaires at every turn. And one of those billionaires was
Mortimer Zuckerman. Now we've talked about mister Zuckerman several times
on the podcast previously, and if you recall, he was
getting dragged into the lawsuit between Dershowitz and Virginia Roberts.
Now that never went anywhere, considering that Virginia and Dershowitz
came to an agreement, but Mortimer has been somebody that's
been a close friend to Jeffrey Epstein for a very
very long time. So it does not shock me to
find out that Jeffrey Epstein was trying to get Mortimer
to give up control of his affairs. Now, Jeffrey Epstein
said that he was giving that advice because Mortimer was
declining right He was having a mental and physical decline,
and Jeffrey Epstein wanted him to take care of his
affairs before that decline slipped even further. However, it wasn't
because Jeffrey Epstein was a nice guy and he cared
about Mortimer. He wanted to get his hands on some
of that dough. So today we have an article from
Al Jazeera and the headline Epstein urged media mogul to
give up control of affairs, citing health. This article was
authored by John Power. Jeffrey Epstein urged Canadian American media
and real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman to relinquish control of
his financial affairs over what he claimed was the magnates
potentially dangerous cognitive impairment. According to files released by the
United States Department of Justice, While Epstein's business ties with Zuckerman,
now eighty eight years old, have been a matter of
public record for over two decades. The file suggests that
the late sex offender also served as a confidant with
access to the most intimate details of the billionaire moguls
personal life. Well, that's what he did. That's what Jeffrey
Epstein's function was. Once he weaseled his way in, he
was there and there was no rooting him out because
once he was there, he acted like the parasite he was.
He leached on and he started bleeding people dry. And
that was Jeffrey Epstein's m O time and time again.
And having all this money, all this access to all
this wealth from people like Mortimer and people like Les
Wexner and people like Leon Black, it gave Jeffrey Epstein
great power. Right when you're controlling that amount of money,
when you're able to make decisions for people like Leon
Black and mister Mortimer Zuckerman, that certainly gives you a
level of financial ability that most people can never even
dream about. And if you don't think Jeffrey Epstein was
making a bag while he was doing whatever scumbaggery he
was doing for these people, you're crazy. He was getting
his cut. And we're not talking about the usual banker's cut.
We're talking about a criminality cut, right, probably anywhere from
twenty five to forty percent. When you're trying to stash
money and you're trying to hide money, that's how it
works out right. You think people like Epstein are just
going to bundle that for free. Oh yeah, here's the
homie hookup. He doesn't have any homies. He never did.
It's always been about Jeffrey Epstein, and I've been trying
to tell people that for a long time. After meeting
with Zuckerman and the Norwegian diplomat Terry Rod Larsen in
October of twenty fifteen, Epstein wrote an email urging the
tycoon to enter a guardianship or a conservatorship for his
own protection. Epstein told Zuckerman, the owner and publisher of
US News and World, to report that the mogul had
requested his help during their meeting several days earlier, but
that he might not remember or is it Epstein making
a move, knows that this guy is losing his marbles
and says to himself, you know what, this is an
easy way to pick up another thirty forty to fifty
hundred million, whatever it might be. Because remember again, Jeffrey
Epstein has no friends, and just like any shark in
the water, when they smell blood, a feeding frenzy occurs,
and that most certainly is the case for people like
Epstein when it comes to money. Your friends, including me,
are very concerned that your cognitive impairment has now reached
a serious and potentially dangerous level. Their serious concern for
your financial, emotional, physical, and psychological safety. Epstein wrote, using
his typically idiosyncratic approach to spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Well,
that's a nice way of saying that Jeffrey Epstein typed
like a tween. I mean he wanted to be around
a bunch of teenagers. Is anybody shocked at his grammar?
Looks like a teenager was the one that was in
charge of writing the email. Nobody should be shocked by that.
And again there's this big myth that Jeffrey Epstein was
some kind of genius. He most certainly was not. He
was a snake oil salesman, a huckster, a manipulator, a cheater,
a liar. A genius certainly not that Epstein suggested that Zuckerman,
Grant Rod Larsen, Zuckerman's nephews, and anyone else you trust
authority to manage his affairs, warning that his remarkable abilities
were no longer enough to protect him. I'm aware that
your condition makes you prone to suspicion, but that being said,
the future predictable decline will be an ever increasing danger,
Epstein wrote, the concerned predator, putting on his nurse's hat. Meanwhile,
what he really means is turn your money over to
me so I can pill for it. Admitting you have
a problem will take courage and determination. Zuckerman, who previously
owned The Atlantic and the New York Deli News, appeared
to take Epstein's advice seriously, thanking him for his thoughtfulness
and French, and asking for recommendations for a lawyer with
experience in such matters. Imagine turning to Jeffrey Epstein for
any kind of advice whatsoever. Like you have your own kids,
you have people around you, but it's Jeffrey Epstein you're
relying on. I just don't understand. I truly don't get it.
It's one of the most confusing things in this whole,
entire disgusting ball of shit. Like, you have all this
access to the best people in the world when it
comes to tax advice, of state planning, whatever, but you
choose to go to Jeffrey Epstein. You choose to associate
with a man who's already been convicted of crimes against miners,
Like make it make sense. And look, I'm not saying
that people can't be duped. They most certainly can. But
when you know what somebody is, you know what they've done,
you can't come off and say, oh, well, I had
no idea. I didn't know he was a predator. I
didn't know he was an evil man. And it's not
like this stuff was hidden like nobody reported on it.
It was reported on a lot, and everybody knew what
Jeffrey Epstein was. And all these people that were in
his circle that tryum bullshit about that, they really are repugnant.
And it's one of the main reasons I don't care
about their reputations. I really don't give a flying fuck
about any of their reputations. All these people that have
been hiding from this, running from it, knew about it
but kept it secret. Now that you've been outed, I
should care about you. Well, maybe you should have cared
about those survivors. Maybe you should have cared that Jeffrey
Epstein and his band of bank robbers were stealing from
all of us. So I really don't care about their
reputations being put on blast. They should be put on blast,
and if they can explain themselves, they should. But the
problem is most of these people they can't explain themselves,
and that's why they ran from it for so long.
Zuckerman suggested the two men meet after he from an
upcoming trip to San Francisco, but Epstein advised him to
cancel the trip and said the mogul had told him
about his travel plans on four separate occasions. I know
you don't remember each time. Mort you need a guardian,
Epstein wrote, you should choose one now while your judgment
peaks through the haze. Waiting too long will mean most
likely accord imposed solution, not fun. Epstein also discussed Zuckerman's
health with his nephew, Eric Gertler, advising the relative to
oversee the sale of the businessman's stocks, art collection, helicopter
and plane. Well, I'm sure that Jeffrey Epstein was gonna
benefit one way or the other from that stuff being
sold off again. There is not an altruistic bone in
this dude's body. Everything's about Epstein, Everything's transactional, and everything
is parasitic. My expertise is the financial take any other
suggestion as merely transmitting from other skilled in this terrible situation.
Epstein wrote to Gertler, who is the current executive chairman
of US News and World Report, in one email. It's
not clear of Zuckerman followed Epstein's advice to pass over
control of his affairs. Zuckerman announced that he would step
down as chairman of the Boston Properties, one of the
largest real estate investment trusts in the US, about six
months after his correspondence with Epstein. Well, he probably took
his advice, and I'm sure that the people around him,
his nephew whoever, saw the decline, so I have no
doubt that they took Epstein's advice. What I'm shocked by
is that Epstein didn't weasel his way in and get
the keys to the kingdom. That's what I'm shocked by.
Zuckerman did not cite any health issues at the time
and kept the title to chairman at the company, which
he co founded in nineteen seventy his philanthropic organizations, the
Zuckerman Institute and Zuckerman's STEM Leadership Program, and Gertler did
not reply to Alja's Zra's request for a comment. Zuckerman's
relationship with Epstein, who died in twenty nineteen while awaiting
trial on sex trafficking charges, occasionally made headlines during the
early two thousands, before Epstein's two thousand and eight conviction
for soliciting a minor for prostitution. In two thousand and three,
Zuckerman partnered with Epstein and several other prominent businessmen, including
the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in an unsuccessful bid
to buy New York Magazine. The two teamed up again
the following year to invest twenty five million in the
short lived relaunch of the entertainment in gossip magazine Radar.
And We've talked about the New York Magazine bid plenty
of times. Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and mort Zuckerman. Are
we calling that Predators Inc? LLC? Or something like holy shit,
I'm surprised that Jimmy Saville wasn't part of that team.
Investigative files released by the US Department of Justice in
January showed that the late financier viewed Zuckerman as a
client and close associate, as well as a business partner.
In twenty thirteen, Epstein drew up a twenty one million
dollar proposal to provide Zuckerman with analyzing, evaluating, planning, and
other services relating to the passing of his estate. According
to emails in the files, and that's what Epstein really
was doing. That's what his money maker was, if you will,
the thing that got him in the door. He knew
how to move money, he knew how to hide it,
and he knew how to make sure you didn't have
to claim it. And that's what opened the door for
Epstein into this world. Epstein also pressured Zuckerman to alter
coverage of his alleged sexual abuse of girls in the
New York Daili News, suggesting a proposed answer to questions
put to him by the newspaper in two thousand and nine.
Zuckerman owned the New York Daily News at the time.
You know, the whole entire media was in on it. It's
laughable when the legacy media talks about how nobody knew
about this, nobody had any idea what Epstein was. Yo.
If my dumbass knew, I promise you people in those
newsrooms they knew too. The difference is they didn't care,
And if I'm keeping it a buck, I don't think
they care now either, not about the whole story. They
care about making their political points, they care about trying
to use it as a cudgel. But do they care
about the story overall? I have my doubts, But as
far as Zuckerman goes, there's no doubt that there was
a deep relationship between him and Jeffrey Epstein, and what
was speculation previously about how deep those ties ran has
now been confirmed by the emails in the files, and
I think it just shows you once again how deep
the tentacles of Jeffrey Epstein reached, and just how many
powerful people were affording with them and in some cases
enabling them. And folks, we've only begun to scratch the surface,
So like usual, we're going to continue swimming through the
muck looking for that clarity. All the information that goes
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