Sometimes a lie is so apparent that it is obscured by its sheer audacity. A ruse so enormous that it defies our conceptualization of facts. In the case of Jeffrey Epstein, there are things about his life which seem to defy who he actually was.

Epstein moved amongst the most wealthy, influential and powerful men and women. Appearing like a rich, slick lothario. Yet, by all accounts, the man himself was dumpy, uncouth, outwardly vulgar and spectacularly stupid.

He had cunning. But his personality oozed qualities more commonly associated with a slumlord who runs a sleazy strip club and cheap brothel. Nothing about him comes across as authentic.

How was a working-class boy from Coney Island, son of a construction labourer and groundskeeper for the New York City Parks Department and a school aide and secretary, able to rise up so rapidly? Why was a man who never completed university hired to teach math and physics at the elite Dalton School on Manhattan’s monied Upper East Side?

Epstein was sacked from Dalton for inappropriate interactions with students and being abysmally bad at teaching. Yet despite this, he was hired by Wall Street executive, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, for the prestigious Bear Stearns. It is as if Epstein “failed up the ladder of success” from there. More on Greenberg later.

Epstein’s “success” has been easily explained away by media figures and influencers as being a classic “rags to riches” tale. But when one examines his life with any seriousness, a stunning mediocrity emerges which defies these fables. Some have noticed that Epstein’s riches mysteriously coincided with Robert Maxwell’s missing fortune. Robert Maxwell is the late father of the infamous Ghislaine.

Maxwell died in bankruptcy and disgrace, allegedly drowning after falling from his yacht. But he had established secret offshore trusts in places like Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Trusts which were beyond the reach of creditors and which reportedly provided his daughter Ghislaine with an inheritance of at least $10 million pounds. But there are other aspects that most likely contributed to the image of Jeffrey Epstein that deserve closer scrutiny.

Now, before I go further, I want to be clear about something. It is unfortunate that there are some who are peddling loathsome antisemitic tropes in reference to the Epstein files. Epstein’s worldview appeared to be far more informed by Zionism, which is a political ideology, than by Judaism, which is a religious and cultural identity. And that is an important distinction. Conflating the two is lazy and misinformed. There are many Jews who are not Zionists and many who are opposed to the ideology. And there are many Zionists who are not Jewish.

But Epstein’s ties to Israel have been well documented, although not widely reported on in mainstream media. He was very close to former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak. And the two joked about Epstein being a Mossad asset.

And thus we return to the man who got Epstein going, the late Alan “Ace” Greenberg. It is well known that Greenberg was an ardent supporter of the Zionist apartheid state. He had donated large sums of money to medical centres and the Israel Museum, and funded the construction of a middle school and sports centre in Gilo, which is an illegal settlement in East Jerusalem, naming them after his mother and father, respectively.

Greenberg likely met Epstein through a connection with the latter’s failed position at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. Epstein was known for schmoozing the wealthy parents of students. And Greenberg had a soft spot for working class men with aspirations to be rich. Even though Epstein was eventually compelled to resign from Bear Stearns due to involvement in insider trading, there is speculation that this opportunity connected him even more with Israel.

Epstein went on to fail upwards at businesses involved in “debt collection” and “hostile corporate takeovers.” He was named in the notorious Towers Financial scandal which bilked investors of nearly $500 million dollars. At the time, it was noted as being the “biggest Ponzi scheme in American history.”

Miraculously, Epstein avoided going to prison. His business partner, Steven Hoffenberg, wasn’t so lucky. Even though Hoffenberg maintained that Epstein was the architect of the scheme. Just two years after the case, Epstein would reinvent himself again and make a stunning comeback.

Here is where Epstein’s life became even more murky, with shadowy connections to figures like Adnan Khashoggi. The cousin of Dodi Fayed (who was killed with Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris) and the uncle of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, this Saudi businessman and arms dealer was known for being the richest man in the world in the 1980s, with a net worth of $4 billion.

Khashoggi lived an extravagant lifestyle, which included a owning 12 palatial estates worldwide, a fleet of private jets (including a DC-8) and a 282-foot superyacht, the Nabila, which he was later forced to sell to Donald Trump due to financial troubles. In 1986, Khashoggi sold his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine (originally named Princess Amar), to Robert Maxwell. He died in 2017.

The most important aspect of Khashoggi was that he was implicated in the Iran-Contra affair. Epstein’s consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group, listed him as a client. Khashoggi was the primary middleman for the U.S. weapons transfers from Israel to Iran that defined the scandal.

British arms dealer, Douglas Leese, apparently mentored Epstein in the early 1980s and introduced him to both Khashoggi and Robert Maxwell. Maxwell was known for having a deep connection with Israeli intelligence, and it is alleged that Epstein was involved in his network, which sought to facilitate Israeli arms sales to Iran and funnel the proceeds through offshore accounts.

Recent revelations from late 2025 seem to indicate that Epstein helped billionaire Leslie Wexner repurpose planes for his retail business which were previously used by Southern Air Transport, a CIA-linked airline used for Iran-Contra arms smuggling.

Epstein’s reported expertise in moving money through offshore accounts was allegedly utilized to facilitate the complicated flow of funds for these arms deals. During the planning of Iran-Contra, Epstein’s close friend Ehud Barak who served as the head of Israeli military intelligence (AMAN) at the time oversaw the logistics for Khashoggi’s shipments to Iran.

None of this is to say with absolute certainty that Jeffrey Epstein worked for Mossad. There is currently no definitive evidence to support that. But his relationship to Ehud Barak, who would go on to become prime minister of Israel, certainly raises legitimate suspicions.

It is worth noting that Barak and his wife visited Epstein’s Caribbean island, frequently stayed in one of Epstein’s Manhattan apartments and was seen visiting his townhouse on multiple occasions.

He was also was implicated in a violent sexual assault alleged by the late Virginia Guiffre who referred to him as “the prime minister.” He was the only prime minister Guiffre ever met. Former Epstein staff allege they saw Barak flying on Epstein’s private plane with young girls.

In a leaked three-hour recording from 2013, Ehud Barak was heard discussing a “selective” immigration strategy for Israel with Jeffrey Epstein. Barak suggested that the state should take in one million Russian immigrants to offset the Indigenous Palestinian population.

Epstein also served as a financial fixer for Barak, promising in a 2013 email to help him make “at least few hundred million” in the private sector. He reportedly facilitated Barak’s connections to tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and his cofounded, mass surveillance company, Palantir.

It is worth noting that Palantir has been heavily complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Through its extensive contracts with the Israeli military, it is largely responsible for providing the country with surveillance and drone technology, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Palantir technology was also used in the terrorist pager attacks Israel carried out in Lebanon in September of 2024, which killed scores of civilians, including children, and injured thousands, some of them with lifelong mutilations, eye loss and brain damage.

Palantir CEO, Alex Carp has been vociferous in his support of the genocidal apartheid state and the company held its first board meeting in Tel Aviv in 2024.

In addition to Epstein’s relationship with Ehud Barak, in 2006 he joined ultra-Zionist lawyer Alan Dershowitz to smear John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt as being antisemitic for their article: “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.” Epstein happily promoted the rebuttal by Dershowitz to all of his wealthy and powerful friends.

Alan Dershowitz, himself, was a key architect of the 2008 federal plea deal in Florida which allowed Epstein to serve only 13 months in a county jail with work-release for soliciting a minor, while granting immunity to unnamed “potential co-conspirators.” He continued to maintain his relationship with Epstein, saying it was predominantly “academic.” Yet he admitted to flying on Epstein’s private plane, staying at his homes, and taking a Lexus for his wife in lieu of legal fees.

In addition to this, the late Virginia Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to Dershowitz for sex on multiple occasions when she was a minor. Dershowitz vehemently denied these claims and Guiffre eventually dropped the lawsuit saying she “may have made a mistake.”

But other unsubstantiated allegations from former Epstein staff have surfaced alleging misconduct by the high profile lawyer. Dershowitz would go on to accuse Guiffre of lying about Andrew Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew). And most of us see how that turned out.

The revelations are monumental. Jeffrey Epstein and the notorious files cannot be separated from the murderous Israeli regime or the political ideology of Zionism. But this is just what we are seeing now, with mainstream media deliberately obscuring the connections and choosing instead to amplify a bigger Russian role.

Without a doubt, Epstein dealt heavily with Russian oligarchs and Vladimir Putin does not have clean hands in any of this. According to recently released emails, he arranged meetings with between Israel and Russian officials during the war in Syria. He also associated and consorted with a wide array of American politicians and billionaires and European aristocracy and royalty.

The idea that Jeffrey Epstein made it to where he was just before he died all by himself is the lie that is being peddled by many politicians and some in the media. It is a lie that is easily exposed. Yet it is being told repeatedly to reduce the urgency of interrogating these questionable ties.

The common markers of these relationships are simple: wealth accumulation for the wealthiest, obtaining and maintaining political power, arms dealing, money laundering and criminal impunity. And Epstein trafficked in all of these things as much, if not more, than he trafficked young girls. There are many villains in this story and they are from many places with many interests.

But despite the silence among Western politicians and legacy media, Jeffrey Epstein’s link to a nation-state that has implemented a decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing and apartheid, ultimately culminating in the genocide the world has witnessed over the last 2+ years, cannot simply be brushed away.

Pointing this out is not bigotry. It is fact. And like the children in the files, the millions of victims of this sinister project deserve far better than being ignored once again.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, February 2026