Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Jeffrey Epstein and The Ski Chalet In Vail
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Over at OK Magazine has unearthed some more interesting information, folks.
- 0:06Speaker 1: It looks like Jeffrey Epstein was at least partially an
- 0:11Speaker 1: owner in a ski chalet that sold for $ 24 million
- 0:16Speaker 1: in July. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't
- 0:22Speaker 1: one of the places where Ghislaine Maxwell was said to
- 0:25Speaker 1: be hiding Colorado? No. Was she perhaps at this chalet?
- 0:33Speaker 1: And Laura Menninger, I believe she is also based out
- 0:37Speaker 1: of Colorado as well. So, it would make a lot
- 0:41Speaker 1: of sense that Ghislaine Maxwell might have had access to
- 0:44Speaker 1: this pad, right? This is one hell of a house,
- 0:47Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Some of the pictures here in
- 0:49Speaker 1: the article are pretty smoking. This is the kind of
- 0:52Speaker 1: place somebody like me, who enjoys being outdoors all the time,
- 0:57Speaker 1: would love to live in. And in the location where
- 1:00Speaker 1: it's at, forget it. So the question is, how come
- 1:06Speaker 1: this property isn't listed by the executors of Jeffrey Epstein's estate?
- 1:13Speaker 1: And will that change now that this has been brought
- 1:19Speaker 1: to the forefront here? Now, it's already been sold, obviously.
- 1:23Speaker 1: So my question is, what about the money? Where did
- 1:26Speaker 1: Epstein's portion of this money go to? So let's jump
- 1:30Speaker 1: into this article by OK Magazine and see what Chris
- 1:35Speaker 1: Spargo has dug up for us. Headline, Jeffrey Epstein owned
- 1:41Speaker 1: Colorado ski chalet that sold for $ 24 million in July.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Coincides pretty much with Ghislaine Maxwell going to jail, huh?
- 1:51Speaker 1: Pretty interesting. I guess it's just a coincidence, though. Lots
- 1:54Speaker 1: of those inhabiting this case. The late heiress, Labette Johnson,
- 2:00Speaker 1: named her to her trust before her death. This article
- 2:05Speaker 1: was authored by Chris Spargo. And Labette Johnson is one
- 2:10Speaker 1: of the Johnson & Johnson granddaughters. So she's somebody who
- 2:15Speaker 1: obviously is entrenched in so-called polite society. Woody Johnson is
- 2:23Speaker 1: the ambassador to the United Kingdom. The Johnsons are obviously
- 2:30Speaker 1: a very, very well-to-do family. And it doesn't strike me
- 2:35Speaker 1: as a shock or as odd that someone in the
- 2:39Speaker 1: Johnson family would have been this wrapped up with Epstein, right?
- 2:43Speaker 1: It's just par for the course at this point. Jeffrey
- 2:49Speaker 1: Epstein had a massive real estate empire that included an
- 2:52Speaker 1: apartment in Paris, two islands in the Caribbean, a Palm
- 2:56Speaker 1: Beach mansion, a massive New York townhouse, and a ranch
- 3:01Speaker 1: in New Mexico. But O.K. has obtained paperwork revealing these
- 3:05Speaker 1: were not his only properties. One thing he kept secret
- 3:08Speaker 1: was another, never before disclosed sex chalet. That's a pretty
- 3:14Speaker 1: interesting way to put it, huh? A sex chalet? Now,
- 3:17Speaker 1: we know everywhere Epstein went, he was molesting girls and
- 3:21Speaker 1: young women, and obviously, the question has to be asked now,
- 3:27Speaker 1: that we find out that he has this secret ski chalet.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Were any girls in Colorado involved in this pyramid scheme,
- 3:37Speaker 1: meaning any of these minors that lived close by, or
- 3:40Speaker 1: were they flown in there to be abused? It's, again,
- 3:45Speaker 1: another avenue that we have to travel down. There are
- 3:48Speaker 1: more questions than answers in this case. And while I'm
- 3:52Speaker 1: obviously no expert on these sorts of matters when it
- 3:55Speaker 1: comes to federal cases or anything like this, I mean,
- 4:00Speaker 1: it can't be every single case that just you add
- 4:02Speaker 1: more questions and more questions every time you think you're
- 4:07Speaker 1: getting an answer, right? Because that's certainly what seems to
- 4:10Speaker 1: happen here. Every day we wake up, we'll have a
- 4:13Speaker 1: little bit of a lull in information, maybe a day
- 4:16Speaker 1: or two, and then bam, we learn something new. Bam,
- 4:20Speaker 1: something else comes up that opens up a whole bunch
- 4:23Speaker 1: of new questions. And that's just the way it seems
- 4:25Speaker 1: to go with this case, right? And it's crazy. I've
- 4:29Speaker 1: never seen anything like it. In 1997, Epstein became an
- 4:36Speaker 1: owner of a ski chalet in Vail, Colorado that just
- 4:40Speaker 1: sold this past July for $ 24 million. Now, Vail is
- 4:45Speaker 1: as high-end as it gets when you're talking about ski towns,
- 4:48Speaker 1: ski resorts. And I've been fortunate enough to visit Vail.
- 4:54Speaker 1: And you're talking the upper crust, big-time money. So just
- 5:00Speaker 1: from the pictures alone of this place, it is just
- 5:05Speaker 1: an incredibly beautiful property, no doubt about it. But the
- 5:09Speaker 1: real question is, if this was sold in July and Epstein...
- 5:14Speaker 1: Was at least part owner of it. Where did that
- 5:18Speaker 1: money go? It should go to the trust. And to
- 5:21Speaker 1: the survivors right? I wonder. Who received this money? Was
- 5:28Speaker 1: it his brother? Was it Indyke? Was it Khan? I
- 5:32Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just asking some questions around these parts.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Documents show that the property. Was purchased in 1994. By
- 5:41Speaker 1: Elizabeth Ross Labette Johnson. the great-granddaughter and the co-founder of
- 5:47Speaker 1: Johnson & Johnson. She is one of those rare individuals
- 5:51Speaker 1: who was known to be a client of Epstein, and
- 5:53Speaker 1: a few years into their professional relationship, Epstein got Labette
- 5:58Speaker 1: to make him an owner of her property. So it
- 6:01Speaker 1: just goes for the usual with the Johnsons. I mean,
- 6:05Speaker 1: they own the New York Jets football team, which is
- 6:08Speaker 1: an absolute clown show in a dumpster fire. Terrible judgment
- 6:12Speaker 1: shown there. As far as being football executives. So why
- 6:17Speaker 1: should it shock us that somebody from the Johnson family
- 6:20Speaker 1: would exhibit terrible... Would exhibit terrible show of decision making
- 6:29Speaker 1: by hanging out with somebody like Jeffrey Epstein. And not
- 6:32Speaker 1: only hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, being one of his clients. So...
- 6:38Speaker 1: What do the other Johnsons know? Are anyone else in
- 6:42Speaker 1: the Johnson family aware of what occurred here? Did anybody
- 6:45Speaker 1: else in the Johnson family have any sort of financial
- 6:49Speaker 1: ties to Jeffrey Epstein? Again, this opens up a whole
- 6:55Speaker 1: bunch of different questions. A 1998 property transfer that is
- 7:01Speaker 1: dated May 13th and signed by both Johnson and Epstein
- 7:05Speaker 1: is transfers the property from the heiress to a trust
- 7:08Speaker 1: set up in her name by the pedophile. The document
- 7:12Speaker 1: is only signed by those two individuals, along with the
- 7:16Speaker 1: appropriate notaries and clerks, but none of Labette's heirs. So
- 7:21Speaker 1: Epstein was probably hustling this old lady, right? Probably had
- 7:25Speaker 1: the screws turned to her, turning on that charm real thick,
- 7:29Speaker 1: was probably introduced to her by Les Wexner. And she
- 7:33Speaker 1: thought she was getting herself a hell of a score here.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Somebody that knew how to play the markets. Jeffrey Epstein,
- 7:38Speaker 1: so sharp. Meanwhile, she had no idea, probably, that she's
- 7:43Speaker 1: getting in bed with this bipedal serpent. Then again, maybe
- 7:47Speaker 1: she did, right? If I'm going to continue to be
- 7:50Speaker 1: the cynic that I have become, as we have followed
- 7:53Speaker 1: this case from the beginning, well, then she was probably
- 7:58Speaker 1: another enabler, right? Somebody who knew that Jeffrey Epstein was
- 8:01Speaker 1: a scuzzbag, etc., etc., Or again, maybe Epstein was working
- 8:06Speaker 1: her and scamming her as well. Who knows? The fact
- 8:10Speaker 1: of the matter is this though, this property was not
- 8:14Speaker 1: listed as far as entities owned by Jeffrey Epstein or
- 8:19Speaker 1: properties owned by Jeffrey Epstein. And that means that this
- 8:22Speaker 1: money was directed somewhere and that somewhere is not the
- 8:27Speaker 1: survivor's fund. So I think that is the most important
- 8:30Speaker 1: thing here. The document states that Epstein can convey, encumber, lease,
- 8:36Speaker 1: or otherwise deal with interest in the property. That gave
- 8:40Speaker 1: him the same rights to the chalet as Labette. There
- 8:43Speaker 1: was never a change to that trust before the house
- 8:46Speaker 1: sold this year. And the deed references the owner as
- 8:49Speaker 1: being the trust as created in the May 1998 document.
- 8:54Speaker 1: The deed for the property was signed by Labette's daughter,
- 8:57Speaker 1: Annabelle Thiel, in her capacity as a trustee of the estate.
- 9:03Speaker 1: So it wasn't just old woman Johnson here, huh? She
- 9:08Speaker 1: had her daughter involved. They looked at it. So, OK,
- 9:11Speaker 1: I'm guessing that she wasn't being jobbed by Epstein. She
- 9:14Speaker 1: was just another person who thought that Epstein was a
- 9:17Speaker 1: great guy. Boy, aren't all of these members of so-called
- 9:21Speaker 1: polite society such good people to judge character? It is
- 9:30Speaker 1: unclear if Epstein then received half of the sale from
- 9:33Speaker 1: this home or if he had listed himself as a
- 9:35Speaker 1: grantee to run some sort of financial scheme. Well, I
- 9:39Speaker 1: wouldn't doubt that. I mean, what have we talked about
- 9:42Speaker 1: with the Finson files? We know that Epstein was up
- 9:45Speaker 1: to his neck in money laundering and all sorts of
- 9:48Speaker 1: financial irregularities. So it would be perfectly right in order
- 9:54Speaker 1: with his M.O. for him to do so here. It
- 9:59Speaker 1: is similar to what he had done with Les Wexner
- 10:02Speaker 1: when he inherited his Upper East Side townhouse from the L.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Brands founder. If he was in fact still an owner
- 10:08Speaker 1: of the chalet... then the money would go to his brother,
- 10:11Speaker 1: Mark Epstein, but the government does not seem to be
- 10:14Speaker 1: aware of the property. Well, you know what? Would that
- 10:17Speaker 1: shock you after what we've learned from the Department of
- 10:19Speaker 1: Justice recently? Would it shock you to know that they
- 10:23Speaker 1: did a piss poor job of unearthing all of Epstein's holdings?
- 10:27Speaker 1: And also it goes to exactly what I said would happen.
- 10:31Speaker 1: There is a lot more money buried around Jeffrey Epstein's
- 10:36Speaker 1: world than what was down on paper. That's like looking
- 10:40Speaker 1: at someone's tax returns and saying, oh, yeah, well, his
- 10:43Speaker 1: tax returns are fine, so this person is obviously not
- 10:46Speaker 1: involved in any kind of financial scheming. Well, of course not.
- 10:50Speaker 1: They're not going to report their ill-gotten gains, just like
- 10:53Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein is not going to report all of his finances.
- 10:59Speaker 1: And I guarantee you, Indyk and Khan know more than
- 11:03Speaker 1: they're letting on. Those two idiots should be arrested, in
- 11:06Speaker 1: my opinion, and they both... should be put under oath,
- 11:10Speaker 1: and they should both be facing serious charges for their
- 11:13Speaker 1: role in facilitating all of this. It is one of
- 11:18Speaker 1: two Epstein properties not listed in the breakdown of his
- 11:22Speaker 1: assets provided by his executors to the courts. It is
- 11:25Speaker 1: also worth noting that it was not sold during Labette's
- 11:28Speaker 1: lifetime despite the fact that she stopped going to Vail.
- 11:32Speaker 1: She became increasingly reclusive as she battled Alzheimer's towards the
- 11:36Speaker 1: end of her life, though prior to that, did occasionally
- 11:39Speaker 1: appear at social functions, sometimes on the arm of one-time
- 11:43Speaker 1: boyfriend and Epstein pal, Frederick Fakai. And you'll remember that
- 11:48Speaker 1: guy as one of the hairstylists who owned the salon
- 11:58Speaker 1: where Jeffrey Epstein would send the girls to go get haircuts,
- 12:02Speaker 1: to go get chopped up and to look like the
- 12:05Speaker 1: way he wanted them to look. And to be put
- 12:07Speaker 1: into that nice little cookie cutter ideal that Jeffrey Epstein
- 12:13Speaker 1: loved to go for. I did an article and an
- 12:19Speaker 1: episode about Fakai. And about how he was definitely an
- 12:24Speaker 1: enabler of Jeffrey Epstein. Definitely somebody who has been mentioned
- 12:27Speaker 1: by the survivors, Virginia and others. And he is somebody
- 12:31Speaker 1: who has thus far avoided a lot of attention. but
- 12:35Speaker 1: he really should get some. And I think as we're
- 12:39Speaker 1: moving forward here and we have a couple of those
- 12:42Speaker 1: lulls like I was talking about, maybe we'll go back
- 12:46Speaker 1: and we'll dive deeper into Frederick Fakai and his dealings
- 12:51Speaker 1: with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein because he wasn't just
- 12:55Speaker 1: an outer fringe friend, right? This is somebody who was
- 12:59Speaker 1: close enough that Epstein would send the girls down to
- 13:02Speaker 1: his salon for them to have their makeovers and stuff. So,
- 13:07Speaker 1: I mean, Fakai would have to have been as blind
- 13:10Speaker 1: as a bat to not understand what was going on
- 13:14Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein and all of these young girls. You know,
- 13:17Speaker 1: we're not talking about a guy who's running around looking like,
- 13:20Speaker 1: you know, Brad Pitt in his prime, all right? We're
- 13:25Speaker 1: talking about Jeffrey Epstein's goofy ass, big old eared ass,
- 13:29Speaker 1: no sense of style, no sense of anything. If it
- 13:32Speaker 1: wasn't for the money and the power, forget about it.
- 13:39Speaker 1: As for the property, the Stockton Group described the chalet
- 13:43Speaker 1: as such. A home site chosen by the original investors
- 13:47Speaker 1: of Vail for its unparalleled access to the ski slopes,
- 13:51Speaker 1: unobstructed views of the Gore Range, and pristine natural surroundings.
- 13:56Speaker 1: This home combines timeless luxury with impeccable craftsmanship while absorbing
- 14:01Speaker 1: the incredible history of this premier ski-in, ski-out location. Off
- 14:06Speaker 1: the backyard is the Golden Peak Base Area and Riva
- 14:10Speaker 1: Bon High Speed Quad, a legacy property with unmatched privacy
- 14:15Speaker 1: and proximity to the ski mountain. And again, make sure
- 14:18Speaker 1: you check out the article. It not only has pictures,
- 14:22Speaker 1: but it has the deed that Chris Spargo dug up,
- 14:26Speaker 1: and it's posted here as well. So definitely make sure
- 14:30Speaker 1: you go into the description box, you check out all
- 14:32Speaker 1: of the links, and you click on the link for
- 14:34Speaker 1: OK Magazine and come and check this out because... You'll
- 14:38Speaker 1: be blown away by these pictures if you're not familiar
- 14:40Speaker 1: with Vail especially or ski towns in general. Then you'll
- 14:44Speaker 1: take a look at this and you'll just shake your head.
- 14:46Speaker 1: These people had everything, folks. The world at their feet.
- 14:51Speaker 1: And what did they choose to do with all of
- 14:53Speaker 1: that power and all of that great privilege? It's sad, disgusting,
- 15:02Speaker 1: and gross if you ask me. The 7,738 square foot
- 15:08Speaker 1: home is located on half an acre of land and
- 15:11Speaker 1: has seven bedrooms, seven full bathrooms, multiple fireplaces, an elevator,
- 15:17Speaker 1: and a pool. So Jeffrey Epstein had himself a little
- 15:23Speaker 1: hidey hole in Colorado where Ghislaine Maxwell was said to
- 15:28Speaker 1: be hiding and where Laura Menninger is based. I guess
- 15:33Speaker 1: it's all coincidence though, right? My real guess, though, and
- 15:39Speaker 1: my speculation here is obviously just my opinion, is that
- 15:43Speaker 1: at some point during the time where Ghislaine Maxwell was
- 15:46Speaker 1: on the lam, she spent a little bit of that
- 15:48Speaker 1: time at this Colorado property. That would be my guess.
- 15:53Speaker 1: And that would also be why, in my opinion, it
- 15:56Speaker 1: was sold in July as well. It coincides with Ghislaine
- 16:00Speaker 1: Maxwell heading to prison. Now, where did that money go?
- 16:05Speaker 1: That's the question I leave all of you with as
- 16:08Speaker 1: we sign off this morning here on the Jeffrey Epstein Show.
- 16:13Speaker 1: If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
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- 16:31Speaker 1: of the links that go with this episode are in
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