“You were 21 years old when you first encountered Epstein. Is that right?”
She nodded.
I was talking to Lisa Phillips, one of the hard-charging “survivors” who defiantly seized the spotlight at last week’s highly eventful Epstein Press Conference outside the Capitol in Washington, DC.
“So are you asserting that you were ‘groomed’ by Epstein as an adult?” I asked.
“I was an adult. You could say that, yeah.”
“Well, 21 is an adult, right? So you were groomed as an adult?”
“Yes,” she said. “Many people are groomed as adults.”
“Doesn’t the notion of grooming typically refer to children who are groomed by predatory adults?” I asked.
“You can be groomed at any age,” she said.
“At any age?” I asked.
“Absolutely,” she said. “People are groomed all the time.”
“OK,” I said.
Phillips had just announced, to raucous applause, that she and other “survivors” were going to create their own private “list” of Epstein-affiliated perpetrators, given that the official “list” some had assumed must exist has not been forthcoming. Phillips noted, however, that this exciting new list would be compiled “confidentially” — meaning anyone who’d been hoping for some dramatic name-dropping revelations that day must’ve been disappointed.
According to Congressman Thomas Massie, co-organizer of the Epstein Press Conference along with Congressman Ro Khanna, names were not yet being named because the downtrodden “survivors” feared “they would be sued into homelessness” if they went public with their accusations. Why these “survivors,” most of whom had already availed themselves of high-powered legal representation by the likes of Bradley Edwards and David Boies, would not simply sue these alleged unnamed perpetrators — whereupon they’d be shielded from defamation liability under the litigation privilege — was not explained by Massie. I would have loved to ask relentless “victim” lawyer Bradley Edwards, who’d been designated emcee of the Press Conference, to share his thoughts on the matter, but as you might have heard, I got forcibly ejected by Capitol Police for the crime of asking a question that the unruly mob of “survivors” and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t like.
Given that Massie and others were warning that “survivors” would face imminent destitution and “homelessness” if they publicly named the names they claim to have identified, I thought I would ask Lisa Phillips if she received any money from the various Epstein-related settlement funds, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, that became available after Epstein’s death in August 2019. Happily, she confirmed to me that she did in fact receive a payout from the JP Morgan settlement (totaling $290 million) — but when I asked what amount she got, she shot back, “I’m not gonna tell you that!”
“Why not?” I asked. No answer. At this point, some unidentified PR handler of hers interjected, saying, “We’re gonna sneak you away. We need to give you a rest.” And with that, poof — she was gone!
More than likely, whatever amount Phillips did receive would have been more than enough to avoid any sudden infliction of “homelessness.” Indeed, her living arrangements are undoubtedly quite comfortable. Especially considering the payout she received was tax-free, thanks to how these settlement programs were generously structured. With the following abstruse but magical language — though unparsable to the average reader — recipients of the JP Morgan settlement, such as Phillips, as well as the Deutsche Bank settlement ($75 million), and the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program ($125 million), were granted a glorious gift from the IRS — their lucrative haul would not need to be classified as taxable income:
The Parties agree that any compensation to Class Members pursuant to this Settlement is for a personal physical injury and personal physical sickness resulting from alleged misconduct and emotional distress attributable to such personal physical injuries and personal physical sickness. The Parties and the Escrow Agent agree to treat the Qualified Settlement Fund as being at all times a “qualified settlement fund” within the meaning of Treas. Reg. § 1.468B-1 (26 C.F.R. § 1.468B-1), and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
A detail that tends to get conspicuously obscured from public attention is that these self-proclaimed “adult grooming victims” of Epstein were expressly made eligible for massive settlement payouts, despite having been over 18 at the time of their claimed victimization. All they had to do was assert that they engaged in sexual contact as a result of a “false promise,” or some other nebulous form of “coercion” — and then their claims were not even adjudicated in any kind of adversarial process. Simply claiming they were “groomed” would fit the bill here.
By way of context, please note that a 2017 article in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence says that “the term grooming generally refers to specific techniques used by some child molesters to gain access to and control of their child victims.” However, this once-standard definition of “grooming” appears to have been steadily overturned in the wake of MeToo, with the concept of “adult sexual grooming” now introduced into the “cultural conversation” — a curious trend, which has certainly been capitalized on by the self-proclaimed Epstein “survivors,” such as Ms. Phillips, who style themselves as on the cutting edge of this “cultural conversation” through their “fierce” podcast endeavors and so forth:
Here is Lisa Phillips being heinously sex-trafficked, on her all-expenses-paid trip to Epstein’s luxury estate in the US Virgin Islands:
Phillips while enslaved in sex-trafficking captivity:
The torture continues:
And here’s the magazine cover-shoot she somehow managed to steel herself for while brutally imprisoned on the island:
Above photos courtesy of Fox News, with whom Phillips shared her harrowing story in October 2024.
Lisa Phillips’ date of birth is seemingly January 14, 1977, which means she would’ve been 23 years old at the time of her photo-shoot victimization for the September 2000 issue of Health & Fitness magazine. This is odd, because she’s been claiming she was 21 years old when she first encountered Epstein — apparently having calculated that 21 could be considered young enough in today’s political, cultural, and legal climate to get her vaguely lumped in with child-sex crime victims — a highly profitable prospect for her, should it work. And evidently it’s worked like a charm! Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene now say they are going to courageously read off Lisa Phillips’ newly-invented “list” of Epstein wrongdoers on the floor of the House of Representatives, where they’d be immunized by the Constitution’s “Speech or Debate Clause,” just in case they end up defaming anybody. Which seems rather likely. In generations past, the “Speech or Debate Clause” was used for tasks like reading the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional record. In 2025, it’s on track to be used to make sex crime accusations on behalf of “adult grooming victim” Lisa Phillips. Awesome stuff.
So what exactly does Lisa claim happened to her sexually with Jeffrey Epstein? Thankfully she launched her “empowering” podcast in 2024, so we can get all the juicy details straight from the horse’s mouth.
In 2000, Lisa was a successful model. “I was living the life I had always dreamed of, shooting movies, tons of TV commercials, and reveling in the excitement of the industry,” she says. She had moved to New York City, where her career continued to blossom: “I worked consistently with a great agency, flying to exotic locations for shoots, attending the best parties and living a fulfilling, joyous life.” Then one day her agent contacted her about doing a magazine photoshoot in the British Virgin Islands. She eagerly agreed. During one of her off days, a friend invited her to sail over to Jeffrey Epstein’s place in the US Virgin Islands. (Of course, every aspect of this paradise getaway was being paid for by others.)
So she arrives at Epstein’s island, and quickly discovers that she really, really likes Jeffrey:
He gave me life changing advice — making me feel safe, heard, seen. And most importantly, I felt understood. He told me that I was a remarkable person, and that he felt like I was powerful and I had a lot to achieve in this world. It was something I had never heard from a man before. I had always felt the opposite for men, but I believed his words, and I thought, “Wow, I’m so lucky to have met this incredible person.”
Later that night, she’s invited by another woman to join her in paying a visit to Jeffrey’s private quarters. She agrees. The two women arrive, and there Jeffrey is, naked in a towel — ready for one of his pathologically frequent massages. The other woman takes her top off, and urges Lisa to do the same. Lisa does so. Both women begin to perform a topless massage, while Jeffrey makes small-talk. “This is how grooming confuses the victim,” Lisa remarks on the podcast, with the benefit of 20+ years’ hindsight. “He eased into this abuse.”
“After a little while,” Lisa says, “it wasn’t really playful anymore. The energy shifted. Things started to hurt, and he ended up sexually assaulting me in the room that night.” Lisa doesn’t specify what this alleged “sexual assault” precisely consisted of, or how it is that she only came to realize she’d been sexually assaulted 19 years later, after Epstein’s death, when the settlement money spigot began to open.
Here’s how she explained her epiphany to Fox News, of all places:
“It took me many years to get to this point,” Phillips, now a model scout and agent in Los Angeles, told Fox News Digital. “I struggled with the confusion of what happened to me years ago.”
“But as soon as I started speaking to other survivors, I started realizing that my story from so many years ago was the same as those — both the underage girls from Florida and the older girls that were 18-25,” she shared.
Apparently it was by talking to “other survivors” that she discovered her “story” of survival as a 23-year-old professional model was “the same” as child sex-crime victims? OK. 😂
Lisa’s fellow “adult grooming survivor,” Teresa Helm, has a similar “story.” Helm claims she was “groomed” by Ghislaine Maxwell and sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein in 2002, when she was a 22-year-old massage therapy student. But it took her 17 years to realize Epstein had victimized her, after she watched a YouTube video in 2019. Now she’s a “lived-experience expert” at some NGO. Naturally, therefore, Teresa was also present at the DC Press Conference, and I was able to briefly interview her — at least after her mistrustful PR minder had badgered me to announce “who I was with,” to which I dutifully obliged.
“So you were an adult when you first met Epstein,” I asked. “Is that right?”
“I was a young adult, yes,” Teresa replied. “Twenty-two.”
“So your allegations have no bearing on the child-sex trafficking allegations,” I said. “Is that right?”
“I don’t know what you mean by that,” she said.
“Well, when a lot of people think of the Epstein controversy or issue, they think of a child-sex trafficking ring,” I said. “But your allegations really have no bearing on that. Is that right?”
“I actually don’t know,” she said. “There are several different — more things can be true at the same time. There are massive child sex trafficking operations. There is Epstein who included children in his sex—”
I interjected: “But you didn’t have any direct experience with that? The child part.”
“I was 22,” she said.
“Right. So you were an adult,” I said.
Then the PR handler jumped in. “I think she spoke to it,” this woman said, terminating the interview.
“Who are you?” I asked the PR woman.
“I manage her story-telling,” the handler said.
“In what capacity do you work for her?” I asked.
“Who are you?” she asked me, getting slightly indignant.
“Michael Tracey,” I said. “I just told you who I am.”
Eventually, this woman was willing to reveal that she was Dawn Schneider of Schneider Group Media, and she represents Teresa. (Does every single one of these “Epstein Survivors” have a personal PR operation?) “Dawn is a trained advocate and a curator of reputation,” an explanatory bio reads. “Schneider Group Media’s selective and signature work is story-telling through uniquely created and placed narratives that are leaders in media where expertise, facts, events, ideas and opinion-making meet.” It’s hilarious that anyone would actually pay Dawn to write car-crash sentences like this one for them. But evidently Teresa has the cash to spare. Though we don’t know the total amount of money she got from the various settlement funds, lawyer Sigrid McCawley of Boies Schiller confirmed in a filing that Teresa “submitted her claim to the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program on June 26, 2020.” Beyond that, the settlement payouts were set up to be both “confidential” and “non-adversarial,” so we’ll just have to guess what her total haul was. I would’ve loved to ask Teresa how much tax-free cash she collected, but I guess her “story-teller” Dawn swooped in at just the right moment. And wouldn’t you know it, Ms. Schneider had previously worked as the PR person for the Boies Schiller law firm. Oh, the stories she must have to tell!
In fairness, it really must take quite a lot of story-telling creativity to successfully conflate these “adult grooming victims” with bonafide child-sex predation — because the latter is of course what the public has been primed to assume these “Epstein Survivors” must have endured, since they’re being endlessly trotted out by their PR handlers for dopey network TV interviews, dopey documentaries, dopey podcasts, and now, dopey press conferences in front of the US Capitol. Meanwhile, journalists have almost universally decided that their proper role in this story is to simply serve as another PR vehicle for the purported “survivors” — if only so they can get in their daily quota of cheap shots against Donald Trump. Certainly, 99% of journalists would never dream of rigorously investigating the claims of “survivors,” or god forbid clarifying for readers and viewers that a large portion of these “survivors” do not even claim that they were ever involved in any sort of pedophilia operation. Distinguishing the “adult grooming victims” from actual children would be seen as deeply offensive, and probably bring unwanted attention to the journalist’s possibly foul motives. (ARE YOU DEFENDING PEDOS? ARE YOU DEFENDING EPSTEIN? HOLY SHIT, ARE YOU DEFENDING TRUMP?) So instead, we get these constant unchallenged claims from people like Thomas Massie, who says he is “convinced” that there must be “hundreds of victims” — although he can’t say who they are, or what happened to them.
Hey, I’m just asking questions here — but is there any chance we might be able to get a tally of how many Epstein “victims” were adults at the time of their claimed victimization? Rather than, you know, helpless children? Wouldn’t that be nice to know, given the vague public perception that “hundreds” or even “thousands” of children have been sexually victimized in a mass pedophilia ring? Because to just kind of leave that hanging out there is bound to be a source of indefinite mass hysteria. People say they want more “Epstein Files” — and I agree! But the Khanna/Massie bill expressly allows the government to continue concealing a huge universe of Epstein-related records, so long as Pam Bondi can claim they may contain “personally identifiable information of victims” — which for some reason means the records must be kept secret forever. How are we ever supposed to get a clear accounting of the “over one thousand victims” the FBI and DOJ claim were “harmed” by Epstein, if the co-sponsors of the literal “Epstein Files Transparency Act” are going out of their way to authorize the head of the DOJ to conceal those files in perpetuity?!? The whole thing is absurd.
Wouldn’t it be useful to figure out how many of the total alleged “victims” are in fact “adult grooming survivors” like Lisa Phillips, who now just get to hang around all day, living on their tax-free settlement money, while they maybe record a few podcasts on the side to “Educate and Empower” the “Survivor Community” — whatever the hell that is?
Here was Lisa at the Capitol on September 3, fittingly captured by Getty Images photographer Andrew Harnik standing solemnly beside a sign that reads, “These Were NOT Young Women, They Were CHILDREN!”
Well, in Lisa’s case, that SIGN happens to be FACTUALLY INACCURATE! So too for numerous other “victims” showcased at the Epstein Press Conference, who went out of their way to elide their real “victimhood” story — presumably because they don’t mind everyone assuming they must’ve been victims of pedophilic predation, which they most certainly were not. But the conflations are rampant, and virtually never corrected. Ro Khanna declared today on This Week With George Stephanopoulos: “I want to just say this is not a political issue. This has nothing to do with Donald Trump. This is a moral issue. It’s about standing with survivors. It’s about protecting children.” I assume George Stephanopoulos is probably not a regular reader of this Substack, because he displayed zero inclination to probe the statement any further. Ro Khanna should know better, though — I’ve talked to him. I’ve also talked to Massie. I guess they just don’t care. They just want to ride whatever weird political wave they think it is that they’re riding.
Thankfully, at least some of these adult “survivors” have been admirably forthcoming about their lavish settlement awards. Juliette Bryant — who claims she was kidnapped by Epstein when she was a 20-year-old model — initiated a friendly correspondence with me via DM a few weeks ago. My interest in Juliette’s story was first sparked when I noticed her making the rounds on edgy alt-media podcasts, recalling how she once witnessed Epstein transform into a reptilian creature, and then found herself abducted by UFOs. In our DM exchange, she said she wanted to perform an astrology reading on me, having learned of my unusual birthdate (8/8/88). So I happily obliged, and it was amusing enough; Juliette offered many interesting insights into what my future might hold. She also told me she received $1.15 million from the JP Morgan settlement, having been represented in that claim by Bradley Edwards, the orchestrator of the big Epstein Press Conference (who blew off my question). Juliette additionally received $900,000 from the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, having been represented in that claim by mega-lawyer David Boies. Over $2 million tax-free is not a bad nest egg for Juliette, who now resides in her native South Africa with her five dogs, three cats, and six-year-old son.
“I didn’t tell Boies about shapeshifting and ufo,” Juliette told me. “I didn’t feel safe telling them about it… I didn’t trust them… They had me analysed… By 4 professionals for 6 hours.” Apparently the “analysis” she says was performed on her at David Boies’ direction was no barrier to obtaining the desired settlement payout. Juliette also told me she’ll soon be signing on with the lawsuit demanding $600 million from US taxpayers to avenge Maria Farmer, the profound basket case whose interactions with various online media personalities over the years has played an outsized, under-examined role in propagating online Epstein mythology.
When right-wing MeToo tough-guy Darryl Cooper — who seems to be roughly as emotionally stable as Juliette and Maria — went on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, he touchingly proclaimed how “it took a lot of courage for these girls to come out” and speak their truths. Because, Cooper explained: “These people were terrifying. Ghislaine Maxwell would tell them when they tried to get away that, you know, how easy it is to get rid of a girl like you.”
The only “girl” known to have said anything like this is Maria Farmer, who would’ve been 26-years-old at the time of the purported Maxwell threat, which she almost certainly hallucinated to begin with — just as she’s hallucinated an extraordinary volume of other fantastical, unhinged claims. “It’s just unfortunate that all the Jewish people I met also happen to be pedophiles,” Maria told Whitney Webb in a lengthy 2020 interview. “That run the world economy, you know. So it gives you, like, a bad taste in your mouth.” Apparently persuaded by these insights, Whitney Webb for a time went around uncritically parroting Maria Farmer’s delusional takes as though she were just repeating proven facts — at least until 2022, when Maria started accusing Whitney of being responsible for the murder of a random chef in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Neither Juliette Bryant nor Maria Farmer appeared to make it to the DC Press Conference last week, but they would’ve fit right in with the overall psychological vibe. (Maria’s sister Annie — the “hand-holding” trauma victim — did show up, and swiftly determined she did NOT want to talk to me.)
Where charlatans like Darryl Cooper and Whitney Webb fully unite with the “mainstream media,” which they’d otherwise probably claim to revile, is in their unwavering credulity toward these purported adult “survivors” of Epstein. On TV segment after TV segment this week, PR-approved “survivors” such as Lisa Phillips, Chauntae Davies, Liz Stein, Marijke Chartouni, and others were presented to the public as though they must’ve been child sex-crime victims — when in reality they were adult women in their 20s who somehow decided years after the fact, coincidentally around the same time that big settlement $ started to flow, that they had been grievously “trafficked” by Epstein and/or Maxwell.
ABC News, September 3, 2025:
NBC News, September 2, 2025:
Let’s just run through a few of these featured “Survivors” very briefly:
Lisa Phillips, we’ve been over.
Chauntae Davies, who spoke at the Press Conference and sat for this latest round of TV interviews, was a 22-year-old aspiring actress and “trainee massage therapist” in Los Angeles when she claims she was introduced to Ghislaine Maxwell. She subsequently did accompany Epstein, Maxwell, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, and others on a 2002 trip to Africa. In 2020, she said, “President Clinton was a perfect gentleman during the trip and I saw absolutely no foul play involving him.” In 2015, when Gawker published her name as having been listed in Epstein and Maxwell’s so-called “Little Black Book,” Davies rebuked the fraudulent journalist Nick Bryant, and denied she was any kind of victim: “I really am not interested in being slandered in the media for having known this person [Epstein] a time ago,” Davies said. She was 36 years old when she issued this denial.
Davies stayed in Epstein’s orbit (and was well-compensated financially) for approximately four years in the early-to-mid 2000s. She became a “softcore porn actress,” Gawker wrote, landing a role as “lingerie model” in a direct-to-video movie called “Exposed.”
Then, by 2019, after Epstein was dead and the settlement money floodgates opened, Davies started claiming she had been groomed and raped by Epstein. She cooperated with the FBI and the New Mexico Attorney General’s office — a boon to her chances for bigger settlement payouts. “What led me to finally come forward,” Davies explained at age 40, was that she would keep getting offered “the job of a lifetime” — but then it would “be retracted because of my connection to Jeffrey Epstein.”
Now, in 2025, Davies has started claiming she is “fearful” because Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a federal prison facility located two hours away from Davies’ home. She proclaimed at the Press Conference that she is a “survivor of decades of pain, trauma, and betrayal” at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell. Asked what she’s trying to achieve with her new foray into political advocacy, Davies said, “Not having to live my life immersed in this trauma every single day.” It seems rather doubtful that the passage of some legislation is going to achieve that goal.
Liz Stein, who’s been appearing on CNN as a professional “Epstein Survivor,” claims to have first encountered Epstein and Maxwell in 1994, when she was 21 years old. But for the next 25 years, she apparently had no clue she was “sex trafficked.” It was only after Epstein’s 2019 arrest that she somehow realized she’d been “sex trafficked.”
Stein appears to be totally crazy, and it’s impossible to discern what actually went on with her. According to a 2022 profile by a movie review website (???), Stein was at some point “bedbound for a year and had to undergo therapy for her physical and emotional distress. However, she found some peace from her lifelong trauma when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for his crimes in 2019, followed by Ghislaine’s arraignment in 2020.” Stein told the AP in 2022, “I feel like I’ve been in jail for almost three decades… And it’s more than time for me and the other victims to be free of that prison that we’ve been in.”
Stein’s 2023 lawsuit against Epstein’s estate, filed under New York’s brilliantly crafted and totally-not-unconstitutional “Adult Survivors Act,” makes a variety of wild claims. (The very fact of Stein filing this lawsuit in 2023 would seem to imply that she was rejected from the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, which had closed out in 2021. And if you were rejected from that program, you must really have problems. Because anyone who could conjure even the most tenuous connection to Epstein pretty much had their claims accepted without a second thought. It is possible, therefore, that Stein is just a 100% delusional person.)
Stein claims in her lawsuit that she was “violently punished and her anus was penetrated with a weapon for resisting sexual abuse at Epstein’s Florida residence.”
She claims she was impregnated by an unnamed “abuser,” and Ghislaine Maxwell forced her to get an abortion.
She claims that “one day a person showed up at her apartment to install cable and delivered a message from Epstein and Maxwell to the effect that they were still watching her and would find her.”
She claims that due to events she says occurred from approximately 1993 to 1995, by 2023 she continued to suffer “emotional distress, mental anguish, embarrassment, and humiliation. She has had several nervous breakdowns for which hospitalization was necessary. For years she was suicidal and attempted attempted suicide several times.” A 2024 book called The Lasting Harm claims Stein “was hospitalized around thirty times” and “in long-term inpatient psychiatric care.”
The lawsuit was “discontinued” in 2024.
Stein now works as a “Survivor Mentor” for one of the phony baloney “trafficking awareness” NGOs that sponsored the Survivor Rally held before the Epstein Press Conference in DC.
Marijke Chartouni said this week that she was “recruited” to see Epstein in 2000 by a female friend, and had “buried” that memory for nearly 19 years, until Epstein’s 2019 arrest. In 2021, she told Tara Palmeri she was 20 years old at the time of the purported incident, and vaguely accused both Epstein and the female friend, 21-year-old Rina Oh, of sexually assaulting her. Oh vehemently denies the accusation. This convoluted encounter was Chartouni’s only ever interaction with Epstein. Still, the “unburial” of her memory resulted in her receiving a payment of unknown quantity from the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program. On her NBC News interview last week, Chartouni declared “the government has failed us” because the FBI did not adequately respond to nutcase Maria Farmer’s supposed FBI complaint in 1996, when Farmer was 26 years old; Farmer later tried to claim she had reported an unintelligible pedophile conspiracy involving the “Jewish mafia,” Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and God knows what else. The government would’ve failed if they had taken that woman seriously. Chartouni also opined in opposition to clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, despite never claiming to have even met Maxwell.
Sorry to be crass, but it really does seem like a lot of this stuff is ultimately about former models, escorts, “massage therapists,” aspiring “actresses,” aspiring “artists,” and other such females being able to find a new line of work in their 40s, when the services they once provided are no longer in demand. They can make “Survivor” their new identity, enter a sisterhood of fellow “Survivors,” potentially obtain millions of dollars, be showered with sympathy and accolades, receive speaking/TV/podcast/book opportunities, get a second NGO career as a sex-trafficking “awareness” activist — whatever that may be — and now even enter the political arena, where they enjoy the unusual benefit of never being asked a critical question by anyone about anything, as evidenced by my having been tossed out of the DC Press Conference.
Even before I was ejected by Capitol Police on the orders of Marjorie Taylor Greene — because she didn’t like the content of the question I asked — palpable discontent had already been visibly brewing at my presence. One woman, who refused to identify herself, had grabbed hold of my dangling press badge and wouldn’t let go — declaring that I must leave the premises, because she apparently observed me trying to ask “survivors” unacceptable questions. Journalist Tara Palmeri stuck her phone in my face and demanded to know why I was Aggressively Questioning Survivors. She also did that obnoxious little routine of snidely asking “who I was with,” as though she wanted to expose that I had no legitimate media affiliation and no legitimate purpose to be there. This is usually something flustered PR operatives do, but Tara apparently also embraces the tactic, which makes sense given that she clearly sees her journalistic role as performing loyal PR on behalf of the benighted multi-millionaire “survivors.” Regardless, I was happy to answer her obnoxious “who are you with” needling. “Substack,” I told her. “Just like you, Tara.”
Unsurprisingly, I spotted Tara giving a nice big hug to Sky Roberts and Danny Wilson, the brother and half-brother of Virginia Roberts Giuffre. I guess we can surmise who Tara’s “source” probably was when she reported on the closed-door meeting between Epstein Survivors, Inc. and the House Oversight Committee. Even if her secret “source” wasn’t either of these media-touring, weeping, estate-contesting siblings, that just means it must’ve been some other lawyer or “survivor” whom Tara regards it as her journalistic duty to uncritically amplify.
In closing, one thing this whole Press Conference really reinforced is that All Roads Really Do Lead To (the allegedly deceased) Virginia Roberts Giuffre. I will explain in my next article why I say “allegedly deceased.” No, I am not asserting that Virginia Roberts Giuffre is alive. But I’ve had a minion filing records requests in Australia for any government documents that could independently corroborate her death, and the requests keep getting rebuffed. Given her years-long pattern of extreme, chronic fabrications, you’d have to be a moron to take anything this woman ever said or did at face value — especially without any independent corroborating evidence. I also talked to her tightly PR-managed siblings about their probate dispute in Australia over her multi-multi-million dollar estate, so stay tuned for that, as well as other goodies.
Virginia is being beatified in real-time, and it’s insane. Speaker after speaker paid homage to her as though she’s the modern Joan of Arc or something. Extortionist lawyer and FBI informant Bradley Edwards declared her “an American hero.” This is lunacy, and someone has to pump the brakes — so what the hell, I guess I’ll do it. That will most likely be my next article (soon). If you enjoyed this one, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription. Thanks!
An astonishing, hilarious, and very very entertaining pice to read. Thank you. (Yes, I know the Epstein crazy also undermines civil rights rights and pollutes with brain dead conspiracism the political discussion we truly need to have about this matter, but for now, I’m happy to be gifted such a fun read).
Big money for telling unchallenged "stories" about Epstein seems to be drawing some $MeToo scammers out of the woodwork, unsurprisingly. I remember Giuffre saying she'd been in a traffic accident in Australia and would 100% be dead very soon, then having the police deny that story, and finally Giuffre commiting "suicide" not too long after that. Very strange stuff, certainly worthy of some actual journalistic inquiry.