All posts tagged "Epstein"

Jeffrey Epstein refused to release his photos of President Donald Trump with young women at his home because he feared for his own life, an author claims.

Trump biographer Michael Wolff made the claim on Tuesday's episode of "Inside Trump's Head," where he and co-host Joanna Coles went back over a column Wolff recently wrote on Substack about Epstein's fears.

Coles read aloud a passage in which Wolff recounted pressing Epstein to go public about his "great friend."...

Charleen Richard, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, said being escorted out of President Donald Trump's Dallas convention made her and the others "feel like criminals," even though they had done nothing but walk in with valid passes alongside a reporter asking about the Epstein files.

Richard and fellow survivor Marijke Chartouni were among three survivors who accompanied independent journalist Tara Palmeri into the Republican midterm convention on Thursday, only to be removed roughly 35 minutes after arriving.

"We were there for about 45 minutes before we were escorted out," Chartouni said in a recording posted to X. "We were separated."...

Two Epstein survivors say Fox News refuses to book them even as they insist their fight against sex trafficking "is not political."

Speaking with lawyer and journalist Katie Phang on a Wednesday clip from her "Katie Phang News" podcast, Epstein survivors Liz Stein and Dani Bensky said right-leaning outlets have shut them out as their Redacted Reading Room tour moves through Dallas and toward other battleground states. Bensky said the exclusion has been near-total.

"We haven't been able to get on right-leaning media at all ever," Bensky said. "Newsmax had us on a couple of times, but other than that, like, Fox will not have us."...

Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang unloaded on billionaire Leon Black after the Jeffrey Epstein associate sued Congress rather than testify.

On Thursday, Black filed a 28-page complaint in federal court in Washington just hours before he was due back before the House Oversight Committee for a "continuation of his questioning," Phang explained.

In a Thursday episode of her podcast, Phang said the "billionaire buddy of Jeffrey Epstein" was supposed to "roll up today" and instead ran to court to block two subpoenas that House Oversight Chair James Comer served on him in June....

A lawyer suing the Department of Justice described the "crazy two hours" that could spill "millions" of Epstein files.

During an interview on the podcast "Legal AF," Public Integrity Project lawyer Brendan Ballou spoke about the DOJ's lawyer trying to defend redactions of the Epstein files against a lawsuit brought by lawyer and journalist Katie Phang.

"It was a shocking sort of experience for me, having been at the Department of Justice, to see the argument that they were making," Ballou said. "They didn't seem to have a plan for the hearing or for what the judge's questions were going to be, sort of basic questions about the case."...

A reporter flagged that President Donald Trump was filmed for 36 hours at a party with Jeffrey Epstein after a clip resurfaced.

According to reporting by Tommy Christopher on The Jim Acosta Show Substack, only a minute of the 1992 footage has ever been released, and what happened to the rest of the tapes is unknown. Christopher described the full footage as potentially "devastating" if it's ever found.

Christopher also noted that the footage resurfaced as Trump's Department of Justice was fighting a lawsuit by lawyer and journalist Katie Phang over its redactions of the Epstein files. Some of the redactions involve already damning allegations of Trump, including that he assaulted a teenage girl during a New York area encounter facilitated by Epstein....