- Jeffrey Epstein’s 2003 238-page “birthday book,” depicted lurid sexual content, and evidence of bar mitzvah performances, and a 1985 Israel trip.
- This article explores Epstein’s link to powerful, influential Zionists. It showcases his ties with Mossad.
Links to Mossad
A 2020 memo was part of an FBI investigation into domestic or foreign influence over the US electoral process. It draws on information from a confidential human source (CHS). The document appears within a large cache of Epstein-related files released by the US Justice Department.
“CHS advised Chabad is doing everything they can to co-opt the Trump presidency,” the memo states, referring to Trump’s first term. Chabad-Lubavitch is a religious Jewish sect founded in Russia. It has grown to about 90,000 members. Its messianic, ultra-Orthodox ideology has repeatedly been linked to hardline settler colonial violence in Palestine.
The memo identifies Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a supporter of the group. It says he is a key force within Trump’s inner circle.
It also claims Epstein worked with US and foreign intelligence. “CHS became convinced Epstein was a co-opted Mossad Agent,” the memo states, citing prior FBI reporting. “Epstein was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, and trained as a spy under him,” it adds.
Epstein and Barak had a decade-long relationship. Barak, who previously held a senior role in Israeli military intelligence, visited Epstein’s New York townhouse more than 30 times between 2013 and 2017. In one email, Epstein wrote to Barak, “you should make clear that i dont work for mossad. :)” Barak replied, “You or I?” Epstein responded, “that I dont :).”
The memo links these claims to Epstein’s 2008 plea deal. It describes an alleged conversation involving Epstein’s lawyer, pro-Israeli academic Alan Derschowitz, and federal prosecutor Alex Acosta. Acosta was told Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” The FBI files also state that, according to CHS, Derschowitz had “been co-opted by Mossad and subscribed to their mission.”
Jewish Upbringing and Links to Powerful Jewish Zionists
In 2003, Ghislaine Maxwell, then Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend, assembled a 238-page tribute for his fiftieth birthday. The so-called birthday book, now released to the House Oversight Committee by Epstein’s estate, is unsettling and disturbing: packed with crude drawings of women, accounts of sexual conquests, and messages from powerful friends who appeared to admire, rather than condemn his predation.
The book records his Jewish name, Yudel, playing an accordion at a bar mitzvah, it details a family trip to Israel in 1985.
The book portrays a man whose Jewishness, while never central publicly, was woven through his life and social circles. In later years, these circles included prominent Jewish Zionists figures such as Leslie Wexner and Alan M. Dershowitz, both of whom contributed letters. A note signed “Leslie” features a drawing of breasts below the words, “I wanted to get you what you want.”
Born in 1953 to Jewish immigrant parents Seymour and Paula Epstein, he was raised in Sea Gate, a predominately Jewish, middle-class community at the tip of Coney Island. His home was across from the Kneses Israel synagogue.
His mother recalled Epstein playing the accordion and performing at his bar mitzvah and that of his “uncle Lenny.” A photo in the birthday book shows him playing at the Aaron Brown bar mitzvah. A brief note from his father records a 1985 trip to Israel, including stays at the Plaza in Tel Aviv and the King David in Jerusalem, “where my son Jeff hired a limo to take us around.”
By then, Epstein had founded Intercontinental Assets Group, a consulting firm he described as a high-level bounty-hunting operation. He traveled widely, claimed Mossad ties, and worked with contractors, financiers, and Zionist media mogul Robert Maxwell.
Letters from Jewish childhood friends recall Sea Gate camaraderie. One describes Epstein’s antics at a Jewish singles weekend in the Catskills: setting a room on fire, throwing food, and impersonating a rabbi to lure a girl close, giving a chance to “touch her b**bs.”
Tributes and connections to powerful Jewish Zionist figures include Wexner, a major donor to Israel and founder of L Brands. Wexner held longstanding ties with Epstein. In the birthday book, Dershowitz joked that Epstein persuaded Vanity Fair to shift an article from Epstein to Bill Clinton. Leon Black signs “Love and Kisses,” likening Epstein to Hemingway’s fisherman. Black had given $158 million to the convicted sex offender and pedophile. Black, an American Jew, is reported to have also have given $1.25 million to Zionist indoctrination program Birthright.
Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire real estate investor and former owner of the New York Daily News, was associated with Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s. This was both through business partnerships and social circles. Zuckerman has donated over a hundred million dollars towards Israel causes.
Henry Rosovsky, the late Harvard Jewish economist and Hillel supporter whose name and a handwritten note appear in the birthday book, was a long‑time leader in Jewish academic life and helped advance Jewish student institutions like Rosovsky Hall.
Links to Victoria’s Secret
In a 2019 New York Times exposé titled “How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth and Women,” investigative journalists have found that during the 1990s, Epstein acted as an adviser to Les Wexner, the chief executive of Victoria’s Secret, a role Wexner held until stepping down in 2020. While working in that capacity, Epstein reportedly presented himself as a recruiter for the brand, a tactic that gave him access to young models.
Multiple reports state that Epstein raped several Victoria’s Secret models, including Alicia Arden and Maria Farmer.
Epstein and Wexner were introduced in the mid-to-late 1980s by insurance executive Robert Meister. According to The New York Times, Wexner later granted Epstein sweeping authority, allowing him “to borrow money on his behalf, to sign his tax returns, to hire people, and to make acquisitions.” Documentary reporting has further highlighted the extent of Epstein’s financial and business influence over Wexner, as well as Epstein’s professional dealings with Victoria’s Secret executive Ed Razek.
