Extract from Ellie Leonard’s ‘Panicked’ Substack, as she continues to work through recently released Epstein related material:
1/10/2015 4:02 PM – 6:42 PM
The following email conversation, dated 1/10 – 1/11, was forwarded by Ghislaine Maxwell to Jeffrey Epstein.
GM: I am out of my depth to understanding defamation and other local hazards and don’t want to end up in a law suit aimed at me from anyone if I can help it. Apparently even saying [REDACTED but assumed is Virginia Giuffre] is a lier has hazard! I have never been in a suit criminal or civil and want it to stay that way. The U.S. lawyers for the Jane Does are filling additional discovery motions and if I speak I open my self to being part of discovery apparently. I am trying to stay out of litigation and not have to employ lawyers for years as I get lost in US legal nightmare. I stand no legal risk currently on these old charges and civil suits against Jeffrey We need to consult with US lawyers on any statement I make and the complaints too Perhaps we make a statement of the legal risk of saying anything for potential defamation or something that prevents a full and frank detailed rebuttal + the press not being the place for that? Regardless, Philip plse call Jeffrey lawyer and see what you can understand from him and pehaps craft something in conjunction with him? Either way I think you need to speak to him to understand my risk so you can help me understand it – too may cooks in the kitchen and I can’t make good decisions. Plse reach out to him today + I have already suffered such a terrible and painful loss over the last few days that I can’t even see what life after press he’ll even looks like – statements that don’t address all just lead to more questions..what is my relationship to Clinton ? Andrew on and on. Let’s rest till Monday. I need head space.
Philip Barden, Attorney: All I am back on line now. I see the statement didn’t go. Monday? Maybe tomorrow? I will speak to Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer but JE has a conflict with you and will want your silence as whilst you are being attacked there is less heat on him. Either [REDACTED but assumed is Virginia Giuffre] IS LYING OR NOT. If we let her lie without challenge then the lies become the reality and that may lead you to facing investigation. These are serious allegations and In the UK prosecuting people who face allegations of sex abuse is now common place and a lot of resources are focused on this. We can’t sit back and let you be a conspirator by silence. Your are not guilty and must follow Dershowtiz line. He is a leading lawyer and he hasn’t followed the don’t say anything for fear of litigation. He has rightly called [REDACTED] bluff and shouted his innocence. You have to stand up and deny the allegations or be branded guilty by association and that may lead to other investigations and worse. I feel I am going around in circles. I know what is right to do and that is to shout your innocence. Try and get some rest. Call me tomorrow if you want anytime. Speak to Deshowitz. Don’t allay yourself to JE as that is not the way to go. Best Philip
Ross Gow, PR: Had Geordie on the phone half a dozen times today. He would have give us a better hearing than most I figure. Strongly believe saying nothing is the wrong thing – especially as Dershowitz has a big piece coming in The Times on Monday. Rest up and speak Monday. Best Ross
1/11/2015 5:27 AM
Philip Barden, Attorney: Saying nothing is reputational suicide. Even if [REDACTED] is discredited by [REDACTED] people will know JE paid her off and believe G was complicate absent and credible denial. Now it is reported that G engaged in direct abuse – as I feared would happen. Next reports to the authorities will be made. It is necessary from a litigation, investigatory and reputational reason to issue a cogent denial. I can see why JE doesn’t want this as it may not suit him but he is already toast.
1/21/2015 12:01 PM
The following is a statement written by Jeffrey Epstein for Ghislaine Maxwell, as noted in the second-to-last sentence, where he incorrectly says “you” instead of “I.”
JE: ”Since JE was charged in 2007 for solicitation of a prostitute I have been the target of outright lies, innuendo, slander, defamation and salacious gossip and harassment; headlines made up of quotes I have never given, statements I have never made, trips with people to places I have never been, holidays with people I have never met, false allegations of impropriety and offensive behavior that I abhor and have never been party to, witness to events that I have never seen, living off trust funds that i have never ever had, party to stories that have changed materially both in time and place and event depending on what paper you read, and the list goes on.
I have never been a party to any criminal action pertaining to JE
For the record: At the time of Jeffrey’s plea I was in a very long-term committed relationship with another man and no longer working with Jeffrey. Whilst I remained on friendly terms with him up until is plea, , I have had limited contact since
Every story in the press innuendo and comment has been taken from civil depositions against JE, which were settled many years ago. None of the depositions were ever subject to cross examination , not one. any standard of truth and were used for those who claimed they were victims to receive financial payment to be shared between them and their lawyers. One firm created and sold fake cases against Mr. Epstein — the firm subsequently imploded and the Rothstein, the owner of the firm was sent to jail for 50 years for his crime. The lawyer who is currently representing Virginia was his partner. need I say morel
These so called ‘new revelations’ stem from an alleged diary from VR that reads like the memoirs she is purporting to be selling. Also perhaps pertinent – in a previous complaint against others, her claims were rejected by police “due to.. VR ..lack of credibility
The new interest in this old settled case results from lawyers representing some of JE victims filed a suit against the US government not JE . They contend that the Us govt violated their rights.
The document and deal that JE negotiated with the government was given to the lawyers 6 years ago and is a public document.
I am not part of, nor did you have anything to do with, JE plea bargain.
I have never seen the proceedings nor any of the depositions.”
1/24/2015 1:22 PM
GM: I would appreciate it if shelley would come out and say she was your g’friend – I think she was from end 99 to 2002
2009 Rothstein ‘scandal’:
Rothstein, Epstein scandals converge with sex offender claiming he was used in swindle
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, seen here at a 2019 press conference after the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has been the most vocal and litigious of all of Epstein’s alleged victims.AP
Why become a lawyer? ‘My uncle who lived in the Australian outback advised that I should get a professional qualification, just in case I did not make it in my punk band or as a footballer. How wise he was.’
Career high: ‘Representing Dennis Hutchings and many other military veterans who secured the peace in Northern Ireland and now suffer never-ending investigations and threats of prosecution. I hope this will be brought to an end by the passing of the Troubles Bill.’
Conman, convict, paedophile and a life terminated in circumstances of purported suicide. The list for Jeffrey E. Epstein, figure of cosmic social and political influence in the United States, is long. Trafficking in female flesh for his extensive client list, lubricated by his lover Ghislaine Maxwell, tends to be the crowning feature of most discussions about his sordid legacy. Another shrouded aspect has been neglected.
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Of interest here is the correspondence between Epstein and Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, himself a devoted apologist for Israeli causes. During the first week of April 2006 Dershowitz, who also acted for Epstein in criminal matters, passed on several drafts of his article “Debunking the Newest – and Oldest – Jewish Conspiracy” to the financier. That tatty, travesty of a piece accused Walt and Mearsheimer of putting together “little more than a compilation of old, false, and authoritatively discredited charges dressed up in academic garb”, incarnating in modern form the conspiratorial tract The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
After Epstein’s warm congratulations for the libellous effort, the question of how best to distribute the piece comes to the fore. To a query from Dershowitz’s email address sent by an assistant regarding progress on the matter, Epstein replies: “yes I’ve started.” Here, the vital entrails of the Lobby become clear: Epstein’s relationship with Harvard (donor of sums over $9 million between 1998 and 2008); Epstein as trustee and president of the family financial office of retail mogul and philanthropist Leslie Wexner, himself a donor of almost $20 million to the Kennedy School between 2000 and 2006 via a foundation bearing his name and responsible for a scholar program for visiting Israeli government officials to study a one-year Master’s degree.
Because while you’re being pulled into that distraction, behind the scenes the real work is happening — the scrubbing, the burying, the cover-up. The real crime isn’t what’s being talked about on TV. The real crime is what they don’t want you looking at: the Epstein files.
After speaking with several of my sources, I can tell you this plainly: Stephen Miller and the Project 2025 leadership are in full damage-control mode. The push right now is to shift the narrative at all costs — away from the Epstein files, away from accountability, and away from what is being scrubbed and buried behind closed doors. That is why you’re seeing coordinated theatrics not just in Venezuela, but escalating threats and noise around Cuba, Greenland, Canada, and beyond. This is not coincidence. It’s a flood-the-zone strategy — overwhelm the media, fracture attention, and keep the public chasing new crises while the real cover-up continues. My sources are clear: the urgency inside Trump’s orbit isn’t about policy or security — it’s about distraction, because the Epstein files are the one thing they cannot survive if fully exposed.
And while the world argues, while Americans are divided, while families, parties, and institutions are torn apart, Trump keeps moving. That division is not a side effect. It’s the strategy.
Which brings me to the most important point in this letter.
The most powerful weapon we have right now is the Epstein files.
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917
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