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February 7, 2026- by Steven Greer
I spent a few minutes coaching Grok to write me a short article summarizing Jeffrey Epstein‘s life. It’s so obvious that he was created by William Barr’s father, who was CIA before William Barr was CIA. They spotted Epstein as a useful idiot way back in the 1980s.
There’s no other explanation for how Epstein, with no college degree, got a job at Bear Stearns. He was bad at all of these jobs, like teaching math or trying to be a Wall Street trader, because he kept getting fired.
Epstein was the creation of a collaboration between the CIA and Mossad. That’s how Epstein got in with Bear Stearns, Les Wexner, etc.
Of note, Grok gets little credit for this summary below. It took my knowledge to coach it how to write this.
Grok:
Jeffrey Epstein was born on January 20, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in the Sea Gate area of Coney Island. His parents were Seymour Epstein, a groundskeeper for New York City Parks, and Pauline Stolofsky, a homemaker who later worked as a school aide. Both were children of European Jewish immigrants, and many relatives perished in the Holocaust.
Epstein was fully American with no Israeli citizenship. He had one younger brother, Mark Epstein, who became a New York property developer. Jeffrey himself never married and had no children.
He skipped two grades and finished high school at 16. He studied physics at Cooper Union from 1969 to 1971, then transferred to NYU’s Courant Institute but left without a degree around 1974.
At age 21, in September 1974, Epstein began teaching math and physics at the elite Dalton School in Manhattan despite having no college degree or teaching credentials. Donald Barr, the headmaster until early 1974, was known for hiring unconventional staff and had served in the OSS (World War II precursor to the CIA) during his youth, though no evidence shows later CIA involvement. His son, William Barr, worked briefly as a CIA analyst in the 1970s before entering law. Epstein taught at Dalton until June 1976, when he was dismissed for poor performance.
Through Dalton connections, he met Alan “Ace” Greenberg, CEO of Bear Stearns, whose children attended the school. Greenberg hired Epstein in 1976 as a junior assistant on the trading floor. Epstein’s math skills helped him rise quickly; he became a limited partner by 1980. He left Bear Stearns in 1981 after an internal investigation involving résumé issues and expenses. He then founded his own firm, J. Epstein & Co., focusing on managing money for ultra-wealthy clients.
His relationship with Les Wexner began in the late 1980s in Columbus, Ohio. Wexner, founder of The Limited Inc. (which owned Victoria’s Secret), made Epstein his money manager around 1986–1987 and granted him power of attorney in 1991. Epstein allegedly used this connection to pose as a Victoria’s Secret recruiter, approaching young models. In 1997 he groped Alicia Arden during a fake audition, and other aspiring models reported similar incidents in the 1990s.
Wexner purchased the New York mansion at 9 East 71st Street in 1989 for $13.2 million. Epstein moved in around 1995–1996, and the title transferred to him in 1998 as an effective gift. The seven-story home later became associated with allegations of abuse.
Epstein first associated with Donald Trump around 1987 in New York and Palm Beach social circles. They socialized frequently in the late 1980s and 1990s, partied together at Mar-a-Lago in 1992 with young women, and attended events such as a 1997 Victoria’s Secret party. Their friendship continued into the early 2000s but ended around 2004–2007, reportedly over a real estate dispute.
Epstein’s prostitution and blackmail operation began in the early 1990s, with court documents pointing to activity by 1994 involving Ghislaine Maxwell as his primary associate. He targeted vulnerable American teenage girls from troubled homes, mostly in Florida, using a pyramid-style recruitment scheme. Girls were lured from high schools, malls, or spas with promises of cash for “massages” that turned sexual. Victims were then paid extra to recruit friends. Maxwell groomed, transported, and scheduled the girls; she was later convicted in 2021 for sex trafficking. Associates such as Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova also helped with recruitment and logistics.
Many parents did little to intervene. The girls often came from unstable homes marked by addiction, poverty, or abuse; some parents were absent or the children were in foster care. A few families reported incidents, as in the 2005 Palm Beach case, but others ignored warnings or accepted money. Fear, neglect, and manipulation kept most silent despite allegations of coercion, rape, and torture.
In March 2005 a 14-year-old girl and her parents reported to Palm Beach Police that she had been paid $300 for a “massage” at Epstein’s mansion that became sexual. The investigation revealed dozens of underage victims. Detectives led by Joseph Recarey conducted interviews, surveillance, and a search warrant, uncovering evidence of widespread abuse and preparing multiple felony charges.
Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer downplayed the case by sending it to a grand jury, which returned only a single count of solicitation of prostitution. Frustrated, Police Chief Michael Reiter referred the matter to the FBI in 2006.
Federal involvement followed under U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta in the Southern District of Florida. Acosta prepared a strong indictment but negotiated a controversial 2007 non-prosecution agreement. Epstein pleaded guilty to two state charges and served 13 months in a lenient county jail with extensive work release. During 2017 vetting for his Trump administration role, Acosta said he backed off after being told Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to leave it alone—an implication of CIA involvement that he later avoided confirming. A 2020 DOJ review found no misconduct but criticized his judgment.
After his July 2009 release, Epstein, now a registered sex offender, rebuilt his image through philanthropy and elite networking. He attracted billionaires such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Evan Williams, academics like Noam Chomsky, political figures including Steve Bannon and Peter Mandelson, and royals such as Prince Andrew, who sought favors like access to a Paris apartment. These connections lasted nearly a decade.
He offered insights on U.S. figures and attempted to arrange meetings with Vladimir Putin through intermediaries. Released DOJ files show thousands of Russia references in his emails. In 2018, amid Russiagate scrutiny of Trump, Epstein suggested relaying messages to Putin via Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, claiming prior discussions with Russia’s UN ambassador had helped him understand Trump and positioning himself as a potential backchannel.
Ehud Barak, Israel’s former Prime Minister and Defense Minister, had a documented close relationship with Epstein starting around 2003, visiting his Manhattan townhouse dozens of times (often 30+ between 2013 and 2017), staying there frequently, flying on his plane at least once, and corresponding on business and politics, as confirmed in unsealed Epstein files and photos from his estate. Barak denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, describing the association as legitimate networking. Persistent but unproven allegations in the files and source reports claim Epstein had ties to Israeli intelligence (Mossad), including claims he was a “co-opted Mossad agent” trained under Barak or relayed information through intermediaries like Alan Dershowitz, though no official evidence confirms Epstein worked for Mossad.
At Zorro Ranch in New Mexico—a 7,500-acre property with a private airstrip and helipad—survivors like Virginia Giuffre described continuing coercive sex and massages involving Epstein and Maxwell, with underage girls present. Figures such as former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson met him there into the late 2010s. Investigations noted the site, but no local charges were filed.
On Little St. James (Epstein Island) in the U.S. Virgin Islands, witnesses reported seeing underage girls transported as late as 2018–2019. Frequent flights and helicopter transfers normalized their presence, often disguised in college sweatshirts. Accusers alleged ongoing sexual abuse and trafficking with minimal local intervention despite his sex offender status.
Epstein’s elite associations continued until a 2018 Miami Herald series revived scrutiny of the lenient Florida deal. This led federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, under U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman during the Trump administration, to reopen the case. Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019, at Teterboro Airport upon returning from Paris on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy involving dozens of victims from 2002 to 2005.
The timing raised suspicions given Epstein’s past ties to Trump and Acosta’s earlier role, though SDNY pursued the case independently amid widespread public outcry. Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary shortly afterward.
Epstein died in federal custody on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. The official ruling was suicide by hanging, but the circumstances—including broken cameras, removed cellmate, and guards failing checks—sparked widespread conspiracy theories and questions about foul play.