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Inside Epstein’s Attempt to Influence Mortimer Zuckerman’s Personal Affairs · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. As much as I despise Jeffrey Epstein, as
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  much as he sickens me, as much as I think
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  that he was an absolute disgusting piece of garbage, there's
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  no denying that he was charismatic, and there's no denying
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  that he had a way of attracting people into his orbit,
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  and a lot of those people had a whole lot
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  of money. So I'll never sit here and tell you
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  that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't a con man. He was one
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  of the best to do it. But unlike the vast
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  majority of con men, Jeffrey Epstein was playing the long
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  con and he had a long term game plan that
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  he was carrying out, and that game plan included collecting
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  billionaires at every turn. And one of those billionaires was
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  Mortimer Zuckerman. Now we've talked about mister Zuckerman several times
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  on the podcast previously, and if you recall, he was
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  getting dragged into the lawsuit between Dershowitz and Virginia Roberts.
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  Now that never went anywhere, considering that Virginia and Dershowitz
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  came to an agreement, but Mortimer has been somebody that's
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  been a close friend to Jeffrey Epstein for a very
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  very long time. So it does not shock me to
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  find out that Jeffrey Epstein was trying to get Mortimer
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  to give up control of his affairs. Now, Jeffrey Epstein
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  said that he was giving that advice because Mortimer was
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  declining right He was having a mental and physical decline,
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  and Jeffrey Epstein wanted him to take care of his
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  affairs before that decline slipped even further. However, it wasn't
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  because Jeffrey Epstein was a nice guy and he cared
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  about Mortimer. He wanted to get his hands on some
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  of that dough. So today we have an article from
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  Al Jazeera and the headline Epstein urged media mogul to
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  give up control of affairs, citing health. This article was
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  authored by John Power. Jeffrey Epstein urged Canadian American media
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  and real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman to relinquish control of
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  his financial affairs over what he claimed was the magnates
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  potentially dangerous cognitive impairment. According to files released by the
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  United States Department of Justice, While Epstein's business ties with Zuckerman,
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  now eighty eight years old, have been a matter of
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  public record for over two decades. The file suggests that
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  the late sex offender also served as a confidant with
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  access to the most intimate details of the billionaire moguls
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  personal life. Well, that's what he did. That's what Jeffrey
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  Epstein's function was. Once he weaseled his way in, he
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  was there and there was no rooting him out because
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  once he was there, he acted like the parasite he was.
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  He leached on and he started bleeding people dry. And
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  that was Jeffrey Epstein's m O time and time again.
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  And having all this money, all this access to all
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  this wealth from people like Mortimer and people like Les
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  Wexner and people like Leon Black, it gave Jeffrey Epstein
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  great power. Right when you're controlling that amount of money,
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  when you're able to make decisions for people like Leon
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  Black and mister Mortimer Zuckerman, that certainly gives you a
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  level of financial ability that most people can never even
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  dream about. And if you don't think Jeffrey Epstein was
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  making a bag while he was doing whatever scumbaggery he
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  was doing for these people, you're crazy. He was getting
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  his cut. And we're not talking about the usual banker's cut.
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  We're talking about a criminality cut, right, probably anywhere from
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  twenty five to forty percent. When you're trying to stash
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  money and you're trying to hide money, that's how it
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  works out right. You think people like Epstein are just
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  going to bundle that for free. Oh yeah, here's the
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  homie hookup. He doesn't have any homies. He never did.
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  It's always been about Jeffrey Epstein, and I've been trying
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  to tell people that for a long time. After meeting
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  with Zuckerman and the Norwegian diplomat Terry Rod Larsen in
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  October of twenty fifteen, Epstein wrote an email urging the
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  tycoon to enter a guardianship or a conservatorship for his
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  own protection. Epstein told Zuckerman, the owner and publisher of
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  US News and World, to report that the mogul had
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  requested his help during their meeting several days earlier, but
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  that he might not remember or is it Epstein making
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  a move, knows that this guy is losing his marbles
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  and says to himself, you know what, this is an
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  easy way to pick up another thirty forty to fifty
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  hundred million, whatever it might be. Because remember again, Jeffrey
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  Epstein has no friends, and just like any shark in
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  the water, when they smell blood, a feeding frenzy occurs,
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  and that most certainly is the case for people like
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  Epstein when it comes to money. Your friends, including me,
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  are very concerned that your cognitive impairment has now reached
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  a serious and potentially dangerous level. Their serious concern for
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  your financial, emotional, physical, and psychological safety. Epstein wrote, using
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  his typically idiosyncratic approach to spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Well,
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  that's a nice way of saying that Jeffrey Epstein typed
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  like a tween. I mean he wanted to be around
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  a bunch of teenagers. Is anybody shocked at his grammar?
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  Looks like a teenager was the one that was in
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  charge of writing the email. Nobody should be shocked by that.
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  And again there's this big myth that Jeffrey Epstein was
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  some kind of genius. He most certainly was not. He
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  was a snake oil salesman, a huckster, a manipulator, a cheater,
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  a liar. A genius certainly not that Epstein suggested that Zuckerman,
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  Grant Rod Larsen, Zuckerman's nephews, and anyone else you trust
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  authority to manage his affairs, warning that his remarkable abilities
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  were no longer enough to protect him. I'm aware that
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  your condition makes you prone to suspicion, but that being said,
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  the future predictable decline will be an ever increasing danger,
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  Epstein wrote, the concerned predator, putting on his nurse's hat. Meanwhile,
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  what he really means is turn your money over to
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  me so I can pill for it. Admitting you have
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  a problem will take courage and determination. Zuckerman, who previously
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  owned The Atlantic and the New York Deli News, appeared
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  to take Epstein's advice seriously, thanking him for his thoughtfulness
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  and French, and asking for recommendations for a lawyer with
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  experience in such matters. Imagine turning to Jeffrey Epstein for
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  any kind of advice whatsoever. Like you have your own kids,
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  you have people around you, but it's Jeffrey Epstein you're
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  relying on. I just don't understand. I truly don't get it.
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  It's one of the most confusing things in this whole,
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  entire disgusting ball of shit. Like, you have all this
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  access to the best people in the world when it
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  comes to tax advice, of state planning, whatever, but you
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  choose to go to Jeffrey Epstein. You choose to associate
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  with a man who's already been convicted of crimes against miners,
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  Like make it make sense. And look, I'm not saying
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  that people can't be duped. They most certainly can. But
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  when you know what somebody is, you know what they've done,
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  you can't come off and say, oh, well, I had
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  no idea. I didn't know he was a predator. I
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  didn't know he was an evil man. And it's not
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  like this stuff was hidden like nobody reported on it.
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  It was reported on a lot, and everybody knew what
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  Jeffrey Epstein was. And all these people that were in
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  his circle that tryum bullshit about that, they really are repugnant.
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  And it's one of the main reasons I don't care
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  about their reputations. I really don't give a flying fuck
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  about any of their reputations. All these people that have
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  been hiding from this, running from it, knew about it
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  but kept it secret. Now that you've been outed, I
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  should care about you. Well, maybe you should have cared
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  about those survivors. Maybe you should have cared that Jeffrey
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  Epstein and his band of bank robbers were stealing from
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  all of us. So I really don't care about their
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  reputations being put on blast. They should be put on blast,
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  and if they can explain themselves, they should. But the
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  problem is most of these people they can't explain themselves,
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  and that's why they ran from it for so long.
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  Zuckerman suggested the two men meet after he from an
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  upcoming trip to San Francisco, but Epstein advised him to
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  cancel the trip and said the mogul had told him
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  about his travel plans on four separate occasions. I know
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  you don't remember each time. Mort you need a guardian,
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  Epstein wrote, you should choose one now while your judgment
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  peaks through the haze. Waiting too long will mean most
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  likely accord imposed solution, not fun. Epstein also discussed Zuckerman's
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  health with his nephew, Eric Gertler, advising the relative to
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  oversee the sale of the businessman's stocks, art collection, helicopter
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  and plane. Well, I'm sure that Jeffrey Epstein was gonna
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  benefit one way or the other from that stuff being
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  sold off again. There is not an altruistic bone in
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  this dude's body. Everything's about Epstein, Everything's transactional, and everything
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  is parasitic. My expertise is the financial take any other
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  suggestion as merely transmitting from other skilled in this terrible situation.
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  Epstein wrote to Gertler, who is the current executive chairman
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  of US News and World Report, in one email. It's
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  not clear of Zuckerman followed Epstein's advice to pass over
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  control of his affairs. Zuckerman announced that he would step
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  down as chairman of the Boston Properties, one of the
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  largest real estate investment trusts in the US, about six
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  months after his correspondence with Epstein. Well, he probably took
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  his advice, and I'm sure that the people around him,
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  his nephew whoever, saw the decline, so I have no
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  doubt that they took Epstein's advice. What I'm shocked by
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  is that Epstein didn't weasel his way in and get
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  the keys to the kingdom. That's what I'm shocked by.
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  Zuckerman did not cite any health issues at the time
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  and kept the title to chairman at the company, which
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  he co founded in nineteen seventy his philanthropic organizations, the
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  Zuckerman Institute and Zuckerman's STEM Leadership Program, and Gertler did
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  not reply to Alja's Zra's request for a comment. Zuckerman's
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  relationship with Epstein, who died in twenty nineteen while awaiting
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  trial on sex trafficking charges, occasionally made headlines during the
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  early two thousands, before Epstein's two thousand and eight conviction
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  for soliciting a minor for prostitution. In two thousand and three,
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  Zuckerman partnered with Epstein and several other prominent businessmen, including
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  the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in an unsuccessful bid
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  to buy New York Magazine. The two teamed up again
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  the following year to invest twenty five million in the
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  short lived relaunch of the entertainment in gossip magazine Radar.
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  And We've talked about the New York Magazine bid plenty
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  of times. Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and mort Zuckerman. Are
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  we calling that Predators Inc? LLC? Or something like holy shit,
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  I'm surprised that Jimmy Saville wasn't part of that team.
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  Investigative files released by the US Department of Justice in
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  January showed that the late financier viewed Zuckerman as a
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  client and close associate, as well as a business partner.
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  In twenty thirteen, Epstein drew up a twenty one million
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  dollar proposal to provide Zuckerman with analyzing, evaluating, planning, and
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  other services relating to the passing of his estate. According
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  to emails in the files, and that's what Epstein really
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  was doing. That's what his money maker was, if you will,
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  the thing that got him in the door. He knew
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  how to move money, he knew how to hide it,
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  and he knew how to make sure you didn't have
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  to claim it. And that's what opened the door for
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  Epstein into this world. Epstein also pressured Zuckerman to alter
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  coverage of his alleged sexual abuse of girls in the
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  New York Daili News, suggesting a proposed answer to questions
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  put to him by the newspaper in two thousand and nine.
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  Zuckerman owned the New York Daily News at the time.
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  You know, the whole entire media was in on it. It's
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  laughable when the legacy media talks about how nobody knew
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  about this, nobody had any idea what Epstein was. Yo.
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  If my dumbass knew, I promise you people in those
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  newsrooms they knew too. The difference is they didn't care,
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  And if I'm keeping it a buck, I don't think
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  they care now either, not about the whole story. They
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  care about making their political points, they care about trying
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  to use it as a cudgel. But do they care
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  about the story overall? I have my doubts, But as
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  far as Zuckerman goes, there's no doubt that there was
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  a deep relationship between him and Jeffrey Epstein, and what
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  was speculation previously about how deep those ties ran has
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  now been confirmed by the emails in the files, and
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  I think it just shows you once again how deep
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  the tentacles of Jeffrey Epstein reached, and just how many
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  powerful people were affording with them and in some cases
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  enabling them. And folks, we've only begun to scratch the surface,
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  So like usual, we're going to continue swimming through the
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  muck looking for that clarity. All the information that goes
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