"He has a teacher for you to teach you to speak Russian. She's 2x8 years old and not blonde. The lessons are free, and you can have your first one today if you call." This is a message from Jean-Luc Brunel to Jeffrey Epstein on April 1, 2005. The message was jotted down in a notebook by one of the people who worked for the American magnate at the time. Brunel was the director of a French modeling agency and committed suicide in 2022 while awaiting trial for child sex trafficking. At the time he left this phone message, he was a close friend of Epstein and had become one of his main pimps: he not only provided him with models but also underage girls. And he did so with the impunity of being able to leave a phone message like this, leaving a written trail. In fact, the documents declassified by the U.S. Department of Justice contain hundreds of notes that Epstein's employees made of the calls he received and couldn't answer. Some are very explicit. However, no one did anything.

Since the advent of globalization and the financialization of the economy, the few people who truly matter have vanished from reality, acquiring an ethereal quality. They are no longer earthly; their numbers are dwindling, and we cannot place them anywhere in particular. Large landowners, the wealthy of yesteryear, operated in specific locations. This was the case in the 19th and for much of the 20th centuries. Industrialists and financiers had a homeland; they identified with a culture, territory, and people. They wanted to be part of a community and be recognized as its most prominent members. Whether industrialists, financiers, or rentiers, the ruling classes, while continuing to exploit their contemporaries as much as possible, had limits and made certain gestures, precisely to be recognized as patrons or benefactors. They wanted to distinguish themselves, but they asserted their belonging by leaving traces of being from a specific place. In Catalonia, there exists a large bourgeoisie that, in other times, wanted to be respected, recognized, and valued, even though its main business was the slave trade. The Botín family, who amass their fortunes through banking across the globe, are careful to maintain a privileged relationship with Santander, the city that lends its name to their business. Their attempt to remain grounded in reality didn't necessarily make things fairer, but it did mitigate inequality somewhat, acknowledge its existence, and foster a connection with the people and the region, even if they always looked down upon them.

The U.S. Department of Justice has declassified new documents related to the Epstein case. These include FBI files containing a woman's accusation against President Donald Trump. According to the documents released early this morning, Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1980s when she was between 13 and 15 years old. In 2019, the woman told federal agents that Jeffrey Epstein took her "off the island" of Little Saint James to "New York or New Jersey," where she was introduced to someone "with a lot of money" who "was Donald Trump." There, in the presence of other people whom the woman could not identify, the current U.S. president allegedly sexually assaulted her. "Let me show you how little girls should behave," the victim recounts Trump saying before taking her to a room. There, according to her testimony, he began sexually assaulting her, but when she, then a teenager, resisted, Trump hit her and had her taken away.

We read in the ARA that Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of Prince Charles's brother, has "taken refuge" in a luxury clinic "with treatments valued at €15,000 a day, staying in a penthouse overlooking a lake and enjoying a chauffeur and private chef." Let's just say that this "getaway" coincides with the publication of a 2011 email in which it's clear she wasn't distancing herself from Jeffrey Epstein, even after it was already known that he was a pedophile. It's worth mentioning that, a little further down in the newspaper, there's another story about this man's friends. Stephen Hawking, the astrophysicist, apparently also went to the infamous island of horrors and had (I can't quite imagine how) contact with minors.

The tentacles of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, convicted of sex trafficking and murder in prison in 2019, are far-reaching. Norwegian Borge Brende, president and CEO of the World Economic Forum in Davos (WEF), which annually brings together the world's economic and political elite, resigned on Thursday due to his relationship with the billionaire. The decision by the former Norwegian Foreign Minister comes a few weeks after the Forum commissioned an independent investigation into his relationship with Epstein. Brende, who became WEF president in 2017, took this step following revelations by the U.S. Department of Justice showing that the Norwegian had three business dinners with Epstein. This documentation also demonstrated that he had communicated with the disgraced financier via email and text messages.

The name of scientist Stephen Hawking appears nearly 250 times throughout the thousands of documents belonging to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, published by the U.S. Department of Justice. These files do not prove that Hawking committed any criminal activity, but they do confirm once again a minimal connection between the British scientist and the American financier. This information, which had already been published, was reported on Wednesday by the newspaper. Daily Mail A photograph from Epstein's archives has surfaced, showing Hawking smiling and surrounded by two women in bikinis. The published files do not specify when or where the photograph was taken. However, it is known that the astrophysicist visited the island of Saint Thomas and Epstein's private island, Little Saint James, in 2006 to participate in a conference with twenty other scientists. According to a post on the Jeffrey Epstein Foundation blog, the purpose of the meeting on the island was "to discuss, relax on the beach, and hold a retreat." At the time, the magnate was already under investigation for sex crimes but had not yet been convicted. Beyond the image published by the Daily Mail, In two photographs that had already been released previously, Hawking appears, on the one hand, taking a submarine ride around the tycoon's private island and, on the other, with several diners around a table.

In an unprecedented debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the brother of the King of England, former Prince Andrew, was described as "rude, arrogant, and spoiled" by Labour MP and Secretary of State for Business Chris Bryant. The harsh words in the Westminster Parliament reflect a break with a nearly sacred convention in British politics, according to which any criticism of immediate members of the royal family has always been avoided.

New police operation in the UK targeting Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia and corruption ring. Just four days after the seismic event. arrest of Andrew Mountbatten WindsorPeter Mandelson, brother of King Charles III, the former Labour minister and former British ambassador to the United States, was also arrested Monday afternoon at his home in Camden, north London. Three plainclothes officers, equipped with body cameras, escorted him to the police station. at a police station to be questioned by Metropolitan Police officers.

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has taken refuge at the prestigious Paracelsus Recovery Clinic in Zurich after details emerged about her friendship with convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein. Ferguson, 66, has not appeared in public since the christening of her granddaughter Athenea, held on December 12 at St. James's Palace. According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, Ferguson was admitted to the luxury clinic for several weeks, with treatments valued at 15,000 euros per day, staying in a penthouse overlooking a lake and enjoying a private chauffeur and chef. Her escape from the UK coincides with the publication of an email from 2011 demonstrating that she had continued to maintain contact with Epstein once the tycoon had already been accused of having sexual relations with minors.

The nightmare for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and by extension for the British royal family, is far from over. Thames Valley Police officers resumed searching one of the three properties shortly after 8:00 a.m. local time this Friday. Yesterday, at the time of the arrest of the brother of King Charles IIIThey began to rummage through the property. The task will be lengthy because the house known as Royal Lodge has 32 rooms. Many doors to open and drawers to empty. The investigation could last for months before the former prince's legal fate is decided. What is already known is that the search will continue until Monday.

Police entered Sandringham Palace in Norfolk, England, and arrested former Prince Andreu for alleged misconduct. Apparently, he was sending confidential reports to Jeffrey Epstein, who surely appreciated it wholeheartedly, allegedly. He is also being investigated for the pedophile's transport of a twenty-year-old girl to the UK "for the purpose of having a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor," we read in the ARA.

"The law must take its course." Reading Charles III of England's statement on his brother's arrest brings to mind Juan Carlos I referring to his son-in-law with that famous, hypocritical phrase, later disproven by reality: "Justice is equal for all." Perhaps from now on, justice will be a little more equal, because the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is a pebble making waves in the global pond of the untouchables. It is the rule of law venturing into uncharted territory: the written and unwritten privileges of the British monarchy. Andrew detained at the police station is like Cinderella's carriage turning into a pumpkin pulled by mice.

Before January 30, when the more than 3.5 million files from the Epstein caseIt was believed – and it was no small thing – that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's connection with the pedophile It was all about parties and sex orgies exploiting and raping women—in some cases minors—according to the victims themselves, who had been recruited by the financier's former partner, Ghislaine Maxwell.

It is highly recommended that you read journalistic work What Albert Llimós and Cesc Maideu have done in this newspaper with Epstein's files: they have immersed themselves in the magma of power, pimping, sexual obsessions, money, and international connections and brought order to it. This allows us to grasp not only the magnitude but also the significance of an empire of filth like the one Jeffrey Epstein ruled with an iron fist in a velvet glove. Epstein and his grateful subjects, rich and powerful people on both sides of the Atlantic, never tired of praising and thanking Epstein for everything he gave them. "I miss you," "We love you very much," "You are a very important part of my life," and other similar expressions are common in the emails Epstein received from them. VIPs from all over the world who had grown accustomed to her services. From banking and fashion magnates to princesses of European monarchies, as well as the wives of Woody Allen and the linguist and intellectual Noam Chomsky.

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.

In a heated appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi faced harsh criticism from Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday. The opposition accused her of corruption, negligence, and of turning the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) into a political tool for President Donald Trump's vendetta. Bondi, for her part, asserted that Trump is the most transparent president in the country's history for having released the documents about the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Something good can come from something bad, provided there's some luck. That's the small consolation the British government and crown can take for the moment after the various events that have shaken London in the last 72 hours. On the one hand, the crisis that has been taken on by the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmerwhich nearly ended his leadership and has left him in political intensive care. Furthermore, the extraordinary statements that Charles III and Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton have made public regarding with the Epstein affair and the increasingly dirty stain spreading over Andreu Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of the king, uncle of the heir to the throne and, until a few months ago, also a prince (title he was stripped of last year).

Ghislaine Maxwell's videoconference appearance Monday before the U.S. House Oversight Committee ended without any revelations but with unanimous condemnation from Democratic members of Congress. Maxwell is using her silence to negotiate a "clemency measure" with President Donald Trump, said Robert Garcia, a representative from California, at a press conference following the failed testimony. "Looking robotic," in the words of Suhas Subramanyam, a congressman from Virginia, Maxwell systematically invoked the Fifth Amendment—which allows an accused person to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination—by not answering any of the questions posed to her. According to the lawmakers, this is not "an ordinary legal defense strategy, but a direct message to the White House."

The Florida Attorney General's office acted deliberately to favor the interests of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to an analysis by the ARA of a tiny fraction of the 3.5 million files in the case. made public by the United States Department of Justice January 30th.

For years, Jeffrey Epstein was part of an exclusive world. A world of money, private jets, prestigious universities, foundations, political connections, and a shared belief that certain questions—the uncomfortable ones—are impolite. Convicted of sex crimes, Epstein wasn't expelled from that universe. The crime was simply ignored.