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After President Donald Trump denied the existence of his signature in a birthday book assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, the House Oversight Committee has released the entirety of the 238-page book. Not only does it contain a creepy illustration and signature by his friend Trump (which he has denied is his), the book is loaded with awful writings and illustrations as well as many pages of pictures of naked women. Here are some of the worst ideas from the convicted sex criminal and his famous friends.
The book includes a photo of Epstein at Mar-a-Lago holding up an oversize check selling a “fully depreciated” woman to Trump for $22,500. The man next to Epstein in the picture is Joel Pashcow, a longtime member of Mar-a-Lago who appears in the Epstein flight logs many times.
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According to the New York Times, the woman whose face is redacted dated both Epstein and Trump, and she may have been one of Epstein’s victims:
The woman, whose name is also redacted in the files released by the House Oversight Committee, was a European socialite then in her 20s, according to two people familiar with the original photo. She had briefly dated both Mr. Epstein and Mr. Trump around that time, according to court transcripts and a person close to Mr. Epstein. The birthday book entry appears to be a reference to the competition between the two men for the woman’s affections.
The nature of the woman’s relationship with Mr. Epstein is murky. The New York Times is not naming her because she may have been one of his victims.
A lawyer for the woman said she knew Mr. Epstein in “a professional capacity” when she was a student but severed ties with him in 1997. She did not know anything about the letter or its “derogatory content,” the lawyer added. …
The woman in the photograph was mentioned in the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s former girlfriend who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring to sexually traffic minors. An employee of Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Epstein testified that the pair “felt like a couple.”
One drawing from an unnamed friend shows Epstein handing out candy to three young girls, who are then massaging him while he is naked 20 years later. “What a great country!” it reads.
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William Elkus, a venture capitalist with early stakes in PayPal and Yahoo, wrote a letter to Epstein recounting their trip to Iowa. “It’s no secret that Jeffrey appreciates beautiful women,” he wrote. “But not many people know that he can create them out of thin air.” Elkus wrote that they were in Iowa together in 1988, where it was hard to “tell the difference between the girls and the hogs.” He said Epstein was able to find a “spectacular tall blonde” there to spend time with, and he even wondered if “Jeffrey arranged the whole episode through some long distance escort service.” (Elkus told the New York Times his note was a joke meant to emphasize Epstein’s “charisma.”)
Epstein’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz made a fake magazine cover called Vanity Unfair featuring teasers about Epstein being Jack the Ripper, funding Al Qaeda, and dating Nicole Kidman.
“As a birthday gift to you, I managed to obtain an early version,” Dershowitz wrote. In a statement to CNN, the lawyer said he did not remember doing this.
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In a letter to “Degenerate I,” one of Epstein’s friends describes his two-decade relationship traveling the world with this “mischievous, mysterious lad.”
“So many girls, so little time,” he writes, signing the letter “Degenerate II.”
Former Bear Stearns banker Elliot Wolk recalled meeting Epstein in the 1970s when he joined the bank and was “running an account for Bob Maxwell,” the suspected spy and father of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was later convicted of trafficking girls for Epstein. “Was that when you first discovered the Maxwell teen-age daughter,” Wolk writes.
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The book is full of quips about how much sex Epstein had and his nonstop desire to have more. One of the stranger entries is from an unnamed contributor who wrote that he’d “agonized long and hard about what to write.” Instead of writing anything, he just attached pictures of lions and zebras having sex. These pictures, he wrote, “seemed more appropriate than anything I could put in words.” Another friend, signed “Leslie,” wrote that he “wanted to get you what you want,” so he just drew a sketch of a woman’s breasts.
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President Trump has denied that he wrote a poem in the book that features his signature mimicking a woman’s pubic hair. House Oversight chair James Comer has said he does not intend, for now, to investigate the matter further. “The president says he did not sign it,” Comer said Tuesday. “So I take the president at his word.” Trump’s allies also say the signature is fake, despite evidence suggesting otherwise.
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This post has been updated.
Matt Stieb
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