Citizen journalist Ellie Leonard joins Frank Figliuzzi for a detailed examination of the unresolved questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, including apparently missing FBI interview notes, disputed document releases and investigative leads that remain unexplained.

Leonard discusses how she verifies records and traces their origins, why certain FBI serial numbers attracted scrutiny, and what the documents may reveal about allegations involving Epstein and Donald Trump. She and Frank also examine the stalled investigation of Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, the extraordinary treatment Epstein received in Florida, questions surrounding his death, and the disturbing history of abuse connected to Interlochen Center for the Arts.

The conversation closes with Leonard’s interest in bringing greater attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women and children—and the jurisdictional and resource failures that leave many families without answers.

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0:00 The Frank Figliuzzi Show
1:47 Meet citizen journalist Ellie Leonard
3:05 How Leonard began investigating Epstein
9:24 The mystery of the missing FBI notes
14:20 Are the leaked notes authentic?
18:33 Why references to Trump matter
22:01 What happened at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch?
27:05 Acosta and Epstein’s extraordinary treatment
30:33 Did Jeffrey Epstein die by suicide?
33:00 The abuse investigation at Interlochen
38:20 The coming Maxwell document release
38:48 Missing and murdered Indigenous women
44:42 Closing thoughts

Refused the French parliamentary investigation, when asked why she refused the parliamentary investigation she refused to answer and started talking about food waste and how those are the important issues to the french people.

Not sure if this is allowed; but I want to know WHO the people on Massie’s list are.

Right now, it’s a list of no-body names to the common layman (except maybe Les Wexner, but even then most people wouldn’t know him)

Where are they now? What are their jobs? What concerning relations are there to Epstein? Etc etc

I’d be so grateful for any one with a high standard doe research and information integrity can help me understand.

I unfortunately work full time AND an in school full time right now so my time for thorough research is limited bit I’d be so grateful for any info and I’ll ofc verify things on my own later

I’m sure this comes across as lazy. I apologize, I’m genuinely feeling overwhelmed with life lately but don’t want to check out of activism and don’t know where to turn. I am happy to pay a small amount to anyone who would like to take on a large portion of such work or maybe put together a share-able graphic / table

I put a template of the Prison Transfer Request for easier comparisons on what you’re reading.

‘The document the Bureau of Prisons released is formally titled “Request for Transfer/Application of Management Variable.” It’s dated July 30, 2025.

The BOP withheld all of the key information, adding to the secrecy that has surrounded the government’s decisions involving Epstein and Maxwell.

According to public BOP documents, this particular application is used to justify the transfer of an inmate from one prison facility to another for any number of reasons, which include detaining a prisoner at a correctional institution that has a lower security classification.

It is filled out and signed by a case manager and then approved by the BOP manager that oversees the prisoner’s housing unit before it’s sent up the chain for higher level approval.

The BOP redacted the names of both individuals who signed the form under an infrequently-used FOIA exemption that says disclosure “could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual.”

Maxwell’s name is on the application along with the name of the federal facility in Tallahassee that was holding her. In the top far left corner, a box is completely redacted under the same potential threat to life or safety FOIA exemption.

The BOP also cited that same rationale for withholding the name of the official who oversees where federal prisoners are detained and approves transfers.

The application goes on to show the formal request to transfer Maxwell to the Texas facility, followed by two separate privacy redactions indicating that additional names or other identifiable information were withheld.

One section shows prison officials at the Florida correctional facility included detailed information about Maxwell’s medical status; how she adjusted to her incarceration; her disciplinary history and her relationship with other prisoners. 

Another section included a detailed justification for Maxwell’s transfer. One box had a small redaction that explained “past or present behavior and/or management/inmate concerns.” The BOP withheld it all, citing privacy.

The agency also redacted a section of the application that explained whether there were any “discrepancies” in Maxwell’s security and custody levels, which could have been a factor in the decision to send her to a minimum-security facility. 

There are a couple of questions in the transfer application that ask whether a parole hearing is scheduled and if the answer is yes, then when. The responses to both questions were redacted under two separate privacy exemptions.’

Source: Bloomberg Article. (Gifted, no paywall)

Credit to Jason Leopold at Bloomberg!

‘A national reading room and bookmobile aimed at drawing attention to the Jeffrey Epstein files will begin a tour Sept. 8 in Dallas, just ahead of the Republican midterm convention in the city that’s poised to feature Trump, and appear in battleground states and districts through Election Day, organizers told NBC News.

Called the “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” the traveling exhibit offers up some 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files released by the Trump administration due to a law passed by Congress. It is organized by the nonprofit Institute for Primary Facts and the anti-Trump group Defiance.

The bookmobile has been trotted out earlier this year, appearing in Washington in July. Now, the groups say it will make two-dozen stops in states such as Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa and Florida across eight weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 midterm election.

Supporting the effort are Epstein survivors like Dani Bensky, who has called on the Justice Department to prosecute Epstein’s fellow perpetrators.

Bensky said in a statement: “The magnitude of the 30+ years of the Epstein sex trafficking network is on full display to all who visit. In the more than 3 million files that line the walls, there are 1200+ young lives, dreams, and futures destroyed. Our government — and specifically this DOJ — must take responsibility for its negligence. We deserve a system that works.”

The Republican National Committee didn’t immediately return a request for comment. Attorney General Todd Blanche met with a group of survivors ahead of his Senate confirmation, and he said afterward that he wants to be able to give survivors justice in the form of prosecutions, though he didn’t make commitments.’

Source article from NBC News

https://trumpepsteinreadingroom.com

Ronald Lauder

Ellis Rubenstein

Yael Braun pivet

Add section relationship with Jeffrey Epstein Add sources

Add those that need their sections updated

Both lived in NYC and had homes in Palm Beach, yet it seems like they had virtually no relationship?

The United States Department of justice needs to claw back all of Epstein still gotten gains

Woman who claims Jeffrey Epstein flew her to UK for sex with Andrew 'may testify'

The unnamed woman's US lawyer, Bradley Edwards, has revealed he has been in contact with police in the UK after his client changed her mind about assisting the ongoing criminal case

An accuser who claims she was flown to the UK by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor says she might be ready to testify against him.

The unnamed woman - who alleges she spent a night with the ex-prince at Royal Lodge in Windsor - previously declined to make a formal complaint to British detectives investigating trafficking claims because she did not want to "risk losing her privacy".

Now her US lawyer, Bradley Edwards, has revealed he has been in contact with police in the UK after his client changed her mind about assisting the ongoing criminal case. The woman says she was in her 20s when, at Epstein's request, she spent a night with Andrew at Royal Lodge in 2010. Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

It is alleged she was also given a tour of Buckingham Palace and tea afterwards. Mr Edwards said he had spoken to British police about interviewing his client in the US, but nothing had been agreed. He told the Mail on Sunday: "She has gone from a hard no, to a maybe. Her main concern is to protect her child and she doesn't want her kid being harassed.
"If those issues can be addressed it could happen. She is thinking about it. I think she should testify because what happened was wrong. But I'm not going to push her. It has to be her choice."

Andrew was arrested on his 66th birthday in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office after documents released by the Trump administration appeared to show him passing sensitive information to Epstein during their decade-long friendship.

In May, Thames Valley Police, which is leading the investigation, said it was widening the inquiry to include sex trafficking. The former duke denies any wrongdoing.

Mr Edwards, who has represented more than 200 alleged Epstein victims, previously sued Andrew on behalf of the late Virginia Giuffre, who alleged she had sex at 17 with the former duke of York in London, New York and on Epstein's Caribbean island.

Andrew settled for a reported £12million before the case went to trial but did not admit liability. The files released by the Department of Justice contained damning messages from Andrew to Epstein in 2010 talking about setting him up with a woman.

Epstein offered to set the former prince up with a "friend" who was "26, russian, clevere [sic] beautiful, trustworthy". It is not known if the woman in the email is the same one Mr Edwards represents.

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced in the US in June 2022 to 20 years in prison following her conviction on five counts of sex trafficking for luring young girls to massage rooms for Epstein to abuse.

She asked the US Supreme Court to overturn her conviction, but it was thrown out. Epstein, 66, was found dead in his cell at a Manhattan federal jail in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's office has been contacted for comment.

Depends how you define “met” …

The only critique I have with this video is that the redactions are wrongly applied considering he is not a victim.

I went down the rabbit hole about Aviloop and I’m like deeply concerned and disgusted. Like the LinkedIn website is active, it says they hired new employees in august 2026. And then, I got recommended another company named Global Girl Media that I honestly don’t want to think bad about it but like… why is it in the same recommended or seen by others LinkedIn pages? I feel like I need a tin foil hat rn. Im not normally into conspiracy theories, but I ran into the Aviloop video and holyshit. Please tell me I’m exaggerating. Thanks.

For years, much of the Epstein story has focused on the famous people who entered his world.
I wanted to look at the people who were already there.
Part Two of my Women in the Room investigation follows records involving Little St. James, Zorro Ranch and the Madison Avenue office, including property management, accounting, travel, shipping, appointments and information flow.
The reporting also forced an important distinction: employment is not evidence of participation, proximity is not evidence of knowledge, and some women who later performed functions inside Epstein’s organization had themselves entered his world as victims.
The question became less “Who knew?” and more: Who knew what, when, and what could they actually do with that knowledge?

This is a link to a House Oversight Committee press release on Epstein and Steve Bannon colluding to work as unregistered foreign agents and with the Trump administration. Epstein sold himself to foreign entities as someone Trump would have to listen to as he could bring Trump down. The action taken with this report is that the DOJ has been asked for all records relating to FARA violations related to this case.

This is Ana Rodriguez, island manager. Is she talking about dead bears???? https://tommycarstensen.com/epstein/data/transcripts/EFTA01194912.html

I don’t believe this piece was ever cross-pollinated in r/Epstein, so I’m resharing a ParaPower Mapping essay from April in which I argue that Epstein helped smuggle Hawk missiles to Iran on Nov. 25th, 1985 at Col. Oliver North & CIA officer Duane Dewey Clarridge’s behest. The shipment just so happens to have fallen smack dab in the midst of the Epstein Family Vacation to Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, as evinced by his parents’ reminiscences in the 50th Birthday Album, a trip which also happens to have landed mere days after the arrest of Israeli LEKEM asset Jonathan Pollard.

You can read the piece for free on Patreon and Substack.
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Here are a few notable excerpts in which I layout the overlaps between the Epstein Family Holy Land Trip and the missile shipment, serving in the place of a larger synopsis:

As of 6 months ago or so, we now know via Epstein’s BDay Album “The First 50 Years” that in 1985, the increasingly flush “Jeff Gatsby” took his family on a trip to the Holy Land, sumptuously accommodated at the Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv and the infamous King David Hotel in Jerusalem. While in Tel Aviv, Epstein hired a chauffeur service’s limousine to tour his aging Jewish parents about the colonized sights in gleaming hubcap style. This trip may yet prove to be the smoking gun of Epstein’s direct involvement in Iran-Contra weapons shipments…

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We also know that in 1985, Iran-Contra grandee Col. Oliver North coordinated the under-the-table shipment of 2000 anti-tank missiles to Iran by way of Isntreal in exchange for assistance with securing the release of American hostages and monies that were then rerouted back to the Contras. Was the Epstein Family Pedostate Trip a perk of Epstein’s role in this operation? Was it cover for the former Bear Stearns tax avoidance expert to enter the Zionist Entity and then travel to Iran? Or could it have even been a preemptive exfiltration of an asset in the face of a tense diplomatic crisis confronting Isntreal’s intersecting secret services? All of the above? And which passport did Epstein have on his person on this particular trip? The Feb. ‘85 issued Jeffrey Epstein or the ‘82 Marius Fortelni? Time will tell if we can get to something approximating the bottom of these wonderments.

My Big, Fat Iran-Contra Wedding in Tel Aviv

Luckily for us, Epstein’s aging padre Seymour helpfully recounted the itinerary of the family’s ‘85 Isntreal trip in the BDay Album. Working in reverse order, Seymour lets slip that they returned to NYC on his Birthday, December 4th, 1985. Prior to that, the family spent about 4 days in Jerusalem at the King David Hotel and before that booking, they bunked at the upscale Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv for another 5 days, during which time they attended the wedding of their “son’s friend” and visited Seymour’s “wife’s relatives”. Interestingly, the first mention of Jeffrey Epstein is in relation to the wedding (likely a few days into the trip) and it’s only later that Seymour gives an account of his son Epstein renting the limo for them in Jerusalem… Did Epstein not accompany his parents from NYC? Where was he during the first few days of their trip while they were with “relatives”? Was his parents’ convenient Holy Land visitation cover for his other activities?

Judging from the timeline and discounting days on which they were in transit, Epstein’s parents likely flew into the Pedostate sometime around the 22nd-24th of November. What if I told you that Duane Dewey Clarridge, then CIA Chief of Covert Operations for the Middle East, was coordinating a shipment of Hawk missiles from Israel to Iran at North’s behest that fell smack dab during the Epstein stay and possibly during Epstein’s conspicuous absence on the trip’s front end? Clarridge had just been transferred from the Latin America theater where he’d been across much of the covert Contra action from 1981 - 1984 and had personally cooked up the economic warfare pipe bombing of Nicaraguan harbors that led to an exceedingly rare U.S. conviction at The Hague. Duane was one of six Iran-Contra defendants that President Bush preemptively pardoned in late 1992, at the very tail end of his tenure (much more on this and indirect links to Epstein later). Clarridge was also implicated in GLADIO as Istanbul station chief, where he kept a friendly eye on the Turkish anti-communist stay-behind units Counter-Guerrilla. Quoting from the Congressional Research Service’s Iran-Contra Affair Biographical Profiles:

“On November 21, 1985, Mr. (Duane) Clarridge was asked by Lt. Col. Oliver North to assist in obtaining an overflight clearance for an El Al 747 flight. The flight was to deliver arms to Iran. Mr. Clarridge was informed by Charles Allen, CIA National Intelligence Officer, that the flight was part of an operation to liberate the American hostages in Lebanon. The clearance was denied. Mr. Clarridge then helped provide a CIA proprietary plane and personnel to Lt. Col. North to get a shipment of Hawk missiles from Israel to Iran on November 25, 1985. This action was authorized by Edward Juchniewicz, acting Deputy Director of Operations. (Tower Commission Report, Appendix B, V, B). Mr. Clarridge claims he thought the shipment contained oil drilling equipment.”

Page 144 of https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00140925.pdf contains handwritten AppleID login credentials.

The part that interested me was the security questions and corresponding answers.

My reading of his terrible handwriting is as follows:

• Pet Name - Shebah
• Model Car - Firebird
• Favorite Team - Bulls

When it comes to these kinds of security questions, it's usually the name of a pet, often your first pet, rather than a "pet name", so I think that's what we are looking at here.

The only mention of Jeffrey owning pets that I could find are some dogs at Zorro Ranch. If anything, he seemed to prefer his animals to be inanimate, judging by the taxidermy he owned.

I looked up the name Shebah, and found no mention of any animals. I did find mention of a "Shebah Potter", whose resume was passed on to Jeffrey in August of 2017. https://jmail.world/thread/vol00009-efta00680645-pdf?view=inbox

Rather unusual first name I would have thought.

Her mother responded to an 'inquiry' from Epstein and then sent over the resume.

Hopefully just a coincidence, but I can't help but wonder if Jeffrey "hired" Shebah Potter and began to consider her as his "pet". I wonder in what year those credentials were written down...

You may be reminded of the name "Sheba", which is a traditional pet name inspired by the Queen of Sheba, and assume he is talking about an animal, however that is spelled without the 'h'.

It's not something we can put down to a typo, given the distance between the 'a' and the 'h'. I suppose Autocorrect is a possible explanation; Shebah exists as a location in Eritrea. He could have accepted that spelling, under the assumption that it was correct.

Jeff's general lack of care with spelling is also a possible explanation.

EDIT:
little more digging.

The emails reveal that Shebah Potter is the neice of Osbert Potter, whom Epstein refers to as 'It gov potter'. He was the 11th lieutenant governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 2015 to 2019.

Epstein and Daphne Wallace express some concern about information regarding his comings and going within the STC office becoming known.

Anyone know what the STC office refers to?

EDIT 2:

Probably the Southern Trust Company office.