By Sally Jane Black
Sex trafficker, pedophile, extortionist billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was a typical member of the capitalist class. He died August 10, taking with him secrets that would have exposed the fact that the capitalists that run the United States and much of the world are debauched, violent parasites who prey on children and women. He allegedly committed suicide. Most people believe he was killed given the danger he posed to other members of the ruling class.
Depravity and Extortion
Epstein trafficked girls as young as 14 on one of his private islands, officially called Little St. James, referred to by locals as Pedophile or Orgy Island. Epstein would invite rich men to one of his properties, and he would force young girls he had lured to have sex with them. He would then gather details of these incidents to extort these men and make child pornography. His network of extortion and sexual violence operated on a massive scale for decades, hidden in plain sight.
Epstein had ties to the CIA and the Mossad (Israeli intelligence agency) who counted him as an asset. The sexual extortion Epstein engaged in was useful to both organizations. When Epstein was first convicted of sex crimes in 2007, his intelligence connections kept him immune from any real consequences: he was sentenced to only 13 months in minimum security prison for soliciting sex with a minor.
Epstein owned a money management firm catering to billionaires, including the head of Victoria’s Secret’s parent company L Brands, Les Wexner, who was Epstein’s primary source of money. He also associated with the pro-Israel billionaire’s club called the Mega Group, co-founded by Wexner. It was in one of Wexner’s mansions that Epstein sexually assaulted a woman named Maria Farmer, which Wexner’s security team helped cover up.
Some of his victims were lured from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club. Trump was sued in 2016 by a woman who claimed he and Epstein raped her at one of Epstein’s parties. She later dropped the suit after she received death threats. These accusations were scorned by mainstream, corporate-owned media, which instead attacked the alleged victim. Trump said of Epstein, “[He] likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Reports from accusers also put Bill Clinton on Epstein’s private island at least once. Flight records put Bill Clinton on board Epstein’s private jet—nicknamed the Lolita Express—as many as 26 times.
Epstein invested in a billionaire Glenn Dubin’s hedge fund and helped sell it to super bank JP Morgan. Dubin is one of Epstein’s accused sexual predators. Others in Epstein’s circle include the heir to the Estee Lauder fortune, former Israeli prime ministers, surveillance capitalist Peter Thiel, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, former head of Bear Stearns Alan Greenberg, former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, his defense attorney and accused sexual predator Alan Dershowitz, and billionaire Charles Bronfman.
Hypocrisy
Epstein was not an aberration, as his vast network shows. Their actions flow from the capitalists’ belief that they, as rulers of the majority, can do whatever sick thing they want without penalty. Like most of the super-rich, Epstein had ties to both major capitalist political parties, international governments, and the rest of the ruling class. The ruling class promotes “family values” while living lives of luxury, violence and depravity. At the same time, they vilify LGBTQ people, people of color, migrants, and other working class people, calling them criminals and predators. Workers and oppressed people will only get justice when we finally take these rotten capitalists from power. There will be no place for Epstein or any of his gang in a socialist society built on the foundation of equality and respect for all people.
