Jeffrey Epstein ordered staff to install hidden cameras in his home after being told “the Russians may come in handy”, The Telegraph can disclose.
Emails released in the latest tranche of Epstein files confirm for the first time that the paedophile made secret recordings in his property empire.
Epstein asked Larry Visoski, his pilot, to buy “three motion-detected hidden cameras, that record”.
Show us the films!
We’re living in a global kleptocracy
Two scandals have dominated the American culture wars of recent years, usually assigned to opposite teams. There was the liberal obsession with Russiagate — the idea that Donald Trump was a foreign asset and the Republic was under external attack from Russian agents and bots. Meanwhile, the Right fixated upon the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as proof that a paedophilic cabal ran the world and global elites were predatory monsters. Each side tended to treat the other’s scandal as a distraction or hoax.
The 3.5 million pages released last week by the Department of Justice confirm that these are, in fact, the same story. Treating Russiagate as a case of isolated foreign interference or the Epstein revelations as a story of individual depravity are limiting and, strange as it sounds, comforting frames because they give each side a convenient villain.
You could say that Jeffrey Epstein short-changed himself by not reading up on his favourite pastime of prostitution.
He could have saved himself a lot of trouble had he known that while prostitution is illegal in every US state, it is legal in parts of Nevada, a state which justifies its brothels as continuity with their roots in 19th Century mining towns and as an example of ‘economic diversification’ – an unusual application of DEI.
Or he might have tried buying young women in Canada where, in the usual way of Canadian half measures, selling sex isn’t illegal though buying it usually is.
Why should liars, frauds, pedophiles, and evil perverts rule over us?
Governments habitually lie. They lie so often that it is peculiar for governments to claim “authority” on anything other than falsehood. Before the Gutenberg press and general literacy, “authorities” announced self-serving lies in the public square. With the arrival of newsprint, “authorities” disseminated State propaganda as daily news. Radio and television revolutionized the mass manipulation of minds. The adoption of the personal computer, the rise of the Internet, the commercialization of pocket computers posing as handheld phones, and the sticky web of an ever-growing social media complex have made it possible for government “authorities” to reach inside every human brain and squish it into compliance. AI-powered machines now manufacture and disseminate lies faster than human-powered governments ever could.
Casey Wasserman was in Italy for the Winter Olympics, scheduled to make a presentation to the International Olympic Committee on the progress of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Peter Attia, the longevity doctor with cult followers and a bestselling book, was days into a new role as a CBS News contributor. And Brett Ratner was promoting “Melania,” his documentary about the first lady—his first film since 2017, when six women accused him of sexual misconduct.
All three men had reached—or returned to—the pinnacle of their industries in February 2026. And all three, it turned out, had secrets in the Epstein files.
I feel sorry for her.
@BillGates is a sneaky little fucker pic.twitter.com/5GkFsuNdsU
— Bandanna Banana 🍌 (@bandannacapital) February 3, 2026
Poor Starmer. Finding himself accused of looking the other way during one grooming gang scandal might be attributed to misfortune. But two? That seems, at the very least, like carelessness. As the furore deepens around new revelations on the favours traded between Labour peer Peter Mandelson, and paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, opposition MPs are calling for a Cabinet Office investigation. What did Starmer know, when he picked Mandelson as US Ambassador?
But the Epstein horror show has more in common with Britain’s rape gang scandal than just Starmer’s apparent wish to avoid grasping any awkward nettles. Both involved the grooming and trafficking of vulnerable girls. Both convened a close-knit network of depraved insiders, some bonded by sexual degeneracy and linked through a host of further personal and economic ties. Both have a way of bubbling to the surface at intervals, triggering horror and disgust, then disappearing off the front pages again.
A corrupt man in a corrupt cultural elite.
Back after Epstein’s death, I said that the truth died with him. The Epstein case long ago became a political pinata that dishonest people play with. And after the latest round of Epstein games, what we know is most of what we already knew.
Unlike Dickens’s famous miser, they’ve spent billions on philanthropy—but ignored the disastrous effects their efforts have had on poor and working-class people.
In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce soul-searching in some readers: the wealthy businessmen indifferent to the plight of the poor. And in some ways, he succeeded—the book was an instant best-seller and helped popularize philanthropy during the Christmas season. But the basic problem hasn’t gone away.
We still have Scrooges this holiday season, and the wealthiest of them—George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, and Tom Steyer—have inflicted far more suffering on the poor than Scrooge ever did to Bob Cratchit and the working class of his day. These billionaires may not seem like Scrooges, given their extensive philanthropy, but that’s only because most readers today don’t understand exactly where the original Scrooge went wrong.
Younger Canadians are generally less trusting than older people, according to a recent survey conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies.
Atlantic Canadians are the most trusting in general (71 per cent), while British Columbians are least trusting (51 per cent), says Jack Jedwab, president of the association.
“For several years we’ve been monitoring evolving rates of trust in peoples, nations and institutions,” Jedwab explains. With heightened degrees of polarization, especially along ideological lines, he says it’s vital to understand the extent this is accompanied by a breakdown in trust between people and within communities.
It was one of the big set-pieces in Washington in 2019.
All eyes were on Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who was testifying to a US House of Representatives committee about his former boss.
A Democratic member of the committee, Stacey Plaskett, was preparing to question Cohen and was seen on camera texting someone on her phone.
This week, the public found out the identity of the other person in that exchange – the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
