"I AM JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND I'M A HEDONIST" - Epstein speaks from beyond the grave as second unpublished statement unearthed

I've found another draft statement written by Jeffrey. Buried deep within the case files, it again corroborates the findings of my six-year investigation.

“These women, most of whom worked in local massage parlors and strip clubs, came to my house to give massages, often with a happy ending, sometimes more,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote in one of the statements he’d intended to release to the press (against the advice of his lawyers and his PR guy).

“I am a John. I have used sex workers,” he wrote in another.

“Some of those women turned out to be underage”.

The draft statements were written around 2011, at a time when Epstein’s case was receiving renewed press attention, mostly after one of Epstein’s former ‘girlfriends’, Virginia Giuffre, sold her story to the Daily Mail, in which she claimed she’d had sex with Prince Andrew on multiple occasions.

Those allegations have since been debunked (I’ll be covering them over the next few instalments of my ongoing series, Everything Epstein), but they nevertheless piled considerable pressure onto Epstein, who had hoped he’d be able to move on from the scandal following his brief imprisonment in the mid-2000s.

From what I have unearthed so far, Epstein was becoming increasingly frustrated with Michael Sitrick, whom he’d hired to manage his PR.

Sitrick, in Epstein’s eyes, wasn’t being reactionary enough to defamatory and inaccurate statements being reported in the press and media. He also felt that the public were being misled about the circumstances surrounding his first arrest and conviction (you can read the true, startling story behind that arrest by clicking the article below).

Seeing his pals targeted by journalists with unsubstantiated smears, insinuations and guilt-by-accusation, Epstein decided to take matters into his own hands.

He contacted his friend, the now-infamous former politician Peter Mandelson.

“Peter said a statement needs to be drafted,” Epstein wrote in an email to Ghislaine Maxwell on March 6th, 2011.

In the email, he included what amounted to just one long skeleton paragraph:

“I am not attempting to justify my past behavior. I have paid a price, I have served a jail term, and I continue to pay a heavy price as do friends and acquaintances of mine who have no involvement in my story. It is important to point out what is really going on here. The lawyers that represented many of these girls are currently in jail. They maliciously and malevolently exaggerated the actions and behaviors, and created false complaints in an attempt to get money. Scott Rothstein manufactured, fabricated, and sold wild allegations about my behavior and past. Brad Edwards was a partner in Rothsteinds firm. Many if not all of the newspapers involved in printing many of these wild and salacious stories are offering money in return for a quote. I believe that the adage of ‘Why let a good story get in the way of the truth’ applies in this case.”

Epstein wrote the statements with help fro his former friend Peter Mandelson.

Over the proceeding days and weeks, in his typical writing style (riddled with typos, misspellings and grammatical errors) Epstein continued to add to the draft statement.

The below version, that I found over the weekend and that hasn’t been published elsewhere until now, appears to be one of his earliest. I include it here in full, unedited (Note: Epstein wrote ‘TK’ in some parts of the document, for figures, names and dates he was uncertain of and needed to later clarify):

“I am Jeffrey Epstein. For twelve years I have been the subject of greater and lesser media attention. In that time, I have never before spoken publicly. This was in part because I did not recognize the person portrayed in the media: I know who I was, the media did not. I believed that I could at least reclaim my privacy, if not my good name, by being private. That, obviously, is not the case.

So, now, reluctantly, let me try to overcome the media’s version of me and tell you a little about myself and my circumstance…

I am a successful investor and have devoted a significant amount of the money I’ve made to scientific and medical research. I am also an unmarried man and have openly devoted a significant part of my life to sexual adventure. I am a pleasure seeker, a hedonist. I chose not to lead a convention, monogamous, domestic life. I have also frequently paid for sex…