Epstein's Inner Circle Normalised His Sex Crimes — Because They're All Guilty of Abuse

The Epstein Files reveal how sexual abuse sits hand in glove with capitalist exploitation

The latest publication of the Epstein files has set the internet, and the political realm, ablaze. The files are an archive of grotesque horrors, from sex trafficking to eugenics. They reveal a professionally organised circuit of elite sex abuse, coercion and intimidation of vulnerable young women and children. They also show how that abuse sits hand in glove with a system of capitalist exploitation; these men were swapping young women to abuse while they were swapping insider training, and setting up their next victims while setting up regime changes. The violence was endless, and the perpetrators shockingly brazen. As Epstein said himself in one email: “Guilty is a verdict - not an emotion I understand”.

Members of the elite from every which industry seem to be ensnared in this data dump. It looks like the celebrated left-wing academic Noam Chomsky has lived long enough to witness the death of his own mythology, after he claimed in an email advising Epstein on how to navigate the press surrounding renewed interest in his sex crimes that the #MeToo movement was merely “hysteria“. Wealthy spiritual guru to the stars, Deepak Chopra, was also attracted to Epstein’s lifestyle, encouraging him to visit with women, stating in one email: “God is a construct. Cute girls are real.” In the UK, ex-Prince Andrew is once again refusing to comment, this time about new photos of him on all fours over a young girl lying on the ground. And the revelations about ex-Lord Peter Mandelson’s close relationship with Epstein, even after his criminal conviction of soliciting sex from minors, is threatening to topple the British government—even despite establishment press outlet, The Times magazine, going into overdrive to wash Mandelson’s image as a regretful fool on their Sunday morning cover.

I’ve spent a couple of sleepless nights digging through the Epstein files and been dsigusted by both the depraved actions and the entitlement of Epstein and his circle, most of whom quite clearly knew about his abuse of children. The elite who benefited from their relationships with Epstein didn’t merely look the other way. They actively encouraged and normalised the abuse. Some participated.

Sadly, it isn’t surprising that some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world, and their cohorts of administrators who support them, found the sexual abuse of girls an acceptable fact of Epstein’s lifestyle. In fact, this is the very thesis of my book, HER BODY, OUR CHOICE, which will be out early next year: Violence against women is a consequence of violence against Earth’s body. When Earth is understood only as a resource to be plundered, so, too, are our bodies.

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