The Jeffrey Epstein case It is not limited solely to the sex scandal involving underage girls, which seems to be the most publicized.But it has also been interpreted as large-scale espionage. Some Western and Hebrew media outlets have echoed this aspect and link the Jewish-American financier, who apparently committed suicide in prison in 2019, to the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. According to this theory, Epstein was gathering compromising information on public figures and influential people in the United States and Europe to pressure them in accordance with Israel's interests. The comments to this effect are so numerous, and perhaps so convincing, that this February Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly denied them.
The information gathered by Epstein, who had made monetary donations to the Israeli army and to Jewish settlers living illegally in the occupied Palestinian territories, could have been used to extort all those who participated in the sex parties that were organized for many years in the Virgin Islands.
Epstein and Israeli intelligence
Epstein's ties to Israel are longstanding, but in 2015 the financier took a further step and invested in Reporty Homeland Security, the company of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. British newspapers published a photograph more than a decade ago of Barak, his face covered by a scarf, entering Epstein's New York residence where parties were held.
Although Ehud Barak has tried to distance himself, he has acknowledged the photograph's authenticity and explained that he was covering his face because it was cold. In recent weeks, more information has been published revealing a close relationship between the two men over many years. Like Netanyahu, Barak denies any connection between Epstein and Mossad.
On August 12, 2019, the New York Times published that Epstein had revealed off the record to a journalist from this newspaper who had "dirty" and compromising information about public figures, information about their sexual inclinations and about their use of recreational drugs. Maria Farmer, one of the victims of the financier's sex trafficking ring, told CBS News in 2019 that Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell had installed video cameras throughout their properties, even in the bathrooms, information corroborated by other witnesses.
Recent investigative reports based on statements by former Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe confirm that Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence. His mission, according to the report, was to gather compromising information on public figures in order to blackmail them. The Times of Israel in 2024.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein's partner and confidante for many years, was convicted by a US court, and this week she refused to testify before Congress. Maxwell has said she will speak "without filters" only if Donald Trump pardons her.The US president is also implicated in sexual activities organized by Epstein with young girls.
Epstein's former partner was sentenced to twenty years in prison for sex trafficking of underage girls and other crimes. Behind bars, Maxwell reportedly converted to Judaism in 2023. Her father was Jewish but her mother was not, and Judaism is transmitted only through the mother. Her father, the magnate Robert Maxwell, died under very strange circumstances in the Canary Islands in 1991. Numerous reports indicate that he worked for Mossad. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, in the occupied sector of Jerusalem.
