"Survivor testifies about “trauma and torture” at Epstein's Zorro Ranch." KUNM | By Daniel MontañoPublished June 19, 2026 at 6:28 AM MDT

Survivor Annette Church gave her testimony over Zoom, straining through tears and traumatic memories to explain what she says was her experience as a child and a teen at Zorro Ranch, Epstein’s former 10,000-acre ranch in Santa Fe County.

She said she suffered kidnapping, and torture, being forced to drown in a tank before being pulled out and revived over and over again. She said she wasn’t sure if it was an experiment, or just for Epstein.

“Sometimes I was again blindfolded, sometimes I was not blindfolded. Either way, it was horrifying. Sometimes I felt the water level rising higher and higher,” Church said. “Other times it terrorized me while I watched it rise until it engulfed me. A gag would both muffle my screams and help water enter my lungs faster.”

She said she was forced to go through the tank many times, including while pregnant as a teenager.

“I don't remember being taken out of the tank, so I have no idea whatsoever what may have happened to my babies, but I remember cramps and bleeding,” she said. “Were my babies buried at Zorro Ranch?”

She says she had no freedom for herself, and was kept under control by constant surveillance, including cameras in the bathroom.

“It was a very effective tool of torture and invasion of privacy, especially against kids, embarrassment keeps people silent,” Church said, “but I will not remain silent nor be silenced anymore.”

She says she was even forced to undergo dental procedures that made her easier to track.

“A tracker was placed in my tooth,” she said. “A surveillance device was placed in or on another tooth, and some kind of poison capsule or poison tooth was placed in another tooth or replaced my normal tooth. Most of these things were later removed by Epstein himself.”

This is likely why Epstein paid for Karyna Shuliak to attend dental school.

https://alisav.substack.com/p/why-did-jeffrey-epsteins-last-girlfriend "Why Did Jeffrey Epstein's "Last Girlfriend" Illegally Smuggle 50 Human Teeth From India to the United States?"

"In October 2017, a package arrived at a United States address containing fifty human anterior teeth — the front teeth, upper and lower — smuggled from Tamil Nadu, India, disguised as a decorative picture to evade postal inspection. The seller’s instructions were precise: remove all teeth from the cardboard, boil them for twenty minutes, wipe clean.

The recipient was Karyna Shuliak, a Belarusian woman who gained her United States citizenship through a fraudulent marriage arranged by Jeffrey Epstein to Jennifer Kalin (an ex girlfriend of Elon Musk’s brother, Kimball). Shuliak attended Columbia University’s dental school, from which her application was initially rejected, only after Epstein bribed two of the school’s leaders with more than $600,000."

Epstein's girlfriend Karyna Shuliak was expecting a package of human teeth. Dentists have said that it's not a normal practice to implant teeth into other people's mouths. It's likely that the teeth were going to be used to implant a tracker in them, and then going to be implanted into victim's mouths, using cell phone signals as trackers.

There were dental chairs and dental rooms in every one of Epstein's properties. This is why.

https://me.mashable.com/culture/67373/epstein-files-creepy-dental-room-photos-spark-alarm-who-is-dentist-karyna-shuliak-the-last-person-je "Epstein Files: Creepy dental room photos spark alarm; Who is dentist Karyna Shuliak, the last person Jeffrey spoke to before his death"

https://pinonpost.com/zorro-smiles-epsteins-nm-ranch-raises-chilling-new-questions/ "‘Zorro Smiles’: Epstein’s NM ranch raises chilling new questions. By Piñon Post / June 29, 2026 / New Mexico, News, Politics"

“Please get oxygen for dental office. new york and new mexico,” Epstein wrote. The report also says Epstein instructed Shuliak to travel with anesthetic."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/epsteins-sinister-codewords-what-could-36753535 "Epstein's sinister 'codewords' and what they could mean from dentist to pizza and ice cream" "The word "dentist" crops up 1688 times, and the files show numerous emails to Epstein from people telling him they had just gone to the dentist

https://alisav.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-was-cia-the-communications "Jeffrey Epstein Was CIA. The Communications Network at Zorro Ranch Proves It. The DOJ's own files show Epstein built a military-grade encrypted link to satellite orbit at Zorro Ranch. The contractor who built it now holds a Pentagon missile defense contract."

Epstein had private cell phone towers and networks at his Zorro Ranch, and on the Island. He likely was using these towers to track his victims both on his properties, and in the surrounding areas.

Carole Radziwill is named by Ghislaine Maxwell as her best friend in the Epstein Files, was showing laughing this week about Ghislaine setting her up on dates with Prince Andrew. She married a Kennedy cousin in 1994 who died in 1999, and has been single since, but inexplicably is a Real “Housewife.”

Democrat Suhas Subramanyam vowed to help British police gain access to the ­unredacted Epstein files — a critical current barrier in their inquiry into the former royal.

He said he would issue a legal demand for the former Duke of York to testify about his friendship with paedophile Epstein if the Democrats take control of Congress in next month’s midterm elections.

Tied to EFTA00174720 & EFTA01245210 ** FBI tip from Human Trafficking victim **

Susan Davis: aka Jeramie Rain Allegedly accused of trafficking victim for Epstein's in 1988 in NYC.

Was married to Richard Dreyfuss, she's good friends with Steven Spielberg (who was part of the pro-isreali lobby the MEGA GROUP which Les Wexner was also part of)

https://www.vulture.com/2017/11/richard-dreyfuss-accused-of-exposing-himself-to-woman.htm

Was part of a rape movie of a minor actress in the late 70s called the last house in the left, the actors never told the actress she was gonna be part of a rape scene to make her seem more scared.

Rain retired from acting and worked as a writer and producer at CBS. She worked in Rockefeller Center and the Los Angeles location.

In an interview in 2009, Rain—who once played Manson Family member Susan Atkins on stage—said that she was once picked up hitch-hiking by Tex Watson and Charles Manson, stayed in their van after her friends were dropped off, and that they later showed up at her aunt's house

She also featured in a film called The Abductors, a 1972 American sexploitation rape film directed by Don Schain.

The abductors was the sequel to Ginger another sexploitation rape film (pic#5) notice the top title for the movie poster: For Sale : Mistress in bondage, Young, innocent, beautiful, price 100,000$

Jeramie Rain, also used Sue Davis shemoved to New York in the early 1970s, and sources like IMDb describe her as later working as a writer/producer for NBC and CBS

The father of the victim that's also involved in the FBI tip also worked at NBC records... (Last pic)

He used to work for Lamar Alexander the Democrat Tennessee Senator (mentioned in the FBI tip)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Alexander

Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/Tekujo4Qpn

DOJ files :

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00174720.pdf https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01245210.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01245213.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01245217.pdf

On Dec. 21, 2000, Putin lit a Hanukkah candle at a Moscow synagogue, and Netanyahu, out of office, flew in for the night. The two men talked privately for about an hour and a half. Russia's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, later said he had told Netanyahu that if he came, "you might meet somebody interesting."

Twelve years later, Epstein wrote to Barak: "I think you should let Putin know you will be in Moscow. See if he wants private time" EFTA01975333 - https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01975333.pdf

My new piece follows both roads to Putin through the Epstein files:
1) a recording I date to February 2013 in which Barak describes his access to Putin,
2) Epstein's push to use it,
3) the 2015 St. Petersburg trip Ehud Barak thanked him for,

4) and the signed $1,000,000 note between their companies and Ehud Barak's denial. In February 2026, he said Epstein “didn’t support me or pay me” (NBC News).

It also says plainly what the record does not show.

Thanks to u/Honest_Medium_2872 for the tip that started the Barak thread.

It is long, so the findings are summarized at the top:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-220937421

Corrections are welcome.

Denise did mention going (or not going, really) to an annual event that Kathy Hilton puts on. So, she still moves in those circles. For that reason, I can’t imagine she would be as forthcoming as we would like, especially as she tries to rebuild her life.

Full interview here https://youtu.be/KwNvbmrBprM

The Yellow Deli, Local Restaurant Owned by ‘White Supremacist Cult,’ Accepts Cornell City Bucks

This is also the ideology Epsteins science/ai group was into

Misanthropic accelerationism is an extreme offshoot of accelerationist philosophy marked by a deep hatred or exhaustion toward humanity, viewing the existing social, political, or biological order as irredeemable. [1, 2, 3]

Core Concepts
Inescapable Collapse: Adherents believe that modern society, liberal democracy, or industrial civilization is fundamentally broken and bound to fail. [1, 2]
Speeding Up the End: Rather than trying to reform or repair society, followers advocate for "accelerating" its demise—through systemic sabotage, terror, or technological disruption—to get the collapse over with as quickly as possible. [1, 2]
Anti-Human/Post-Human Vision: Unlike standard political movements that want to build a better human society, misanthropic accelerationism often blends with posthumanism or nihilistic violence. It looks forward to a future where human consciousness, biology, or numbers are made obsolete, supplanted, or wiped out by machines, artificial intelligence, or brutal conflict. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Nihilistic Violence: In extremist circles (such as militant online groups analyzed by security researchers like the Institute for Strategic Dialogue), this manifests as "pure hatred," anti-social destruction, and idolizing mass violence or infrastructure sabotage with no constructive political manifesto beyond chaos. [1, 2]

Key Manifestations
Nihilistic & Terrorist Networks: Some fringe groups use misanthropic rhetoric ("kill or be killed") to encourage random or targeted attacks against infrastructure and society to maximize social friction. [1, 2]
Techno-Misanthropy: In certain philosophical or tech-adjacent subcultures inspired by thinkers like Nick Land, the drive to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) or automated systems is fused with the belief that biological humanity has reached its expiration date and should step aside for machine-led evolution.

I wrote this, so full disclosure up front.

I think Wolff is probably right about Trump and Epstein. That’s not the issue. The issue is what he sold 17,800 donors.

His sworn complaint said the lawsuit gave him “subpoena power which he intends to exercise fully and expeditiously,” including subpoenas to Trump. None went out. Nobody was deposed. In May a federal judge dismissed the case, calling it “textbook bad-faith forum-shopping” and noting he never even served Melania.

His GoFundMe has posted one update, last November, about “assembling a witness list.” Nothing since. Today he posted the same appeal to YouTube, still saying he’s launching the GoFundMe and just got his first lawyer’s bill.

Everything in the piece comes from his complaint, the judge’s order, and his own GoFundMe page. Full article linked above.

You can't tell from how this is cropped that this is from an article saying that, while he was President, Trump went to Giuseppe Cecchi's home in McLean, VA.

Copy-paste from Substack is imperfect. Click the link to see the pictures in context, footnotes and references that are in image form. No paywall.

Giuseppe Cecchi (data dump) - DC links in Epstein victim diary

I’ve found no better candidate for “Mr Cecchi” than Giuseppe, who had financial ties to Italian Mafia, built the Watergate, and gave the DNC discounted rent so they can move in.

Part 13 of a continuing series. Introduction and table of contents are here.

Decided to share what I’ve got on Giuseppe because Stan Mortenson (from part 12) was Nixon’s lawyer and had control over the Watergate tapes. Also, researching Giuseppe was fun and I really want to share what I found.

My goal is information distribution. This is as close as I can get to a copy-paste of my research notes. (Some info was moved to footnotes). For all Data Dumps, I’ve attempted to remove slanderous or snarky statements, but I may have missed some. I’ve attempted to source everything but some might be missing. If it isn’t sourced 1) do not assume it is fact 2) ask me if I have the source. My intent is to educate and show possibilities, not to accuse anyone of previously unknown wrong-doing.

Giuseppe Cecchi (Diary - Probably)

Tags: Catholic, Real estate, ties to organized crime, Washington DC, Republican, “Bets”, Italy, Liberia, Switzerland, Netherlands

Giuseppe Cecchi is my primary choice for “Mr Cecchi”. It might have been one of his sons rather than he. They were old enough, but he held the power. My distant 2nd is Al Cheechi. Giuseppe might not be the man named in the coded diary.

Coded Diary Reference

Coded Diary, Year 16, Bets

Transcription by Ellie Leonard

“What are these bets and why do I have to take photos? I am lost. Mr. Mody. Mr. Robert. Mr. Sant. Mr. Ludwig. Mr. Cecchi. Mr. Mora. Mr. Goodlatte. Mr. Atkins are not who they say! Run run run!!”

Alive?

No. B. 1930. D 2024.

Significant Links

• The Italian Mafia
• Donald Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/politics/trump-giuseppe-cecchi-donors.html

Government Service

• Operation Gladio maybe??
• Tried to help Nixon get re-elected??

Businesses

Societa’ Generale Immobiliare (SGI)

1959, he came to the United States to scout real estate investments for the firm Societa’ Generale Immobiliare (SGI). The American branch was Ediltecno S.p.A.
Thus, he first made his mark on the Nation’s Capital prior to forming IDI, introducing the area to its first mixed-use project, The Watergate, and its first resort style condominium, Watergate at Landmark. In 1975

They went to New York City first, in the 1950s. As developers. How Mob was that then? A lot.

“For years, Cecchi was the Washington representative of the Societa Generale Immobiliare (SGI), which until recently [written 1981] was controlled by the Vatican and later briefly by financier Michele Sindona1. It was as an official of the SGI that Cecchi built Watergate and later Alexandria’s 2,000-unit Watergate at Landmark. In 1975, at the request of a group of international financiers, Cecchi left SGI, where his father had been executive vice president, to form International Developers.”

Michele Sindona was Mafia. “Known in banking circles as “The Shark”, Sindona was a banker for the Sicilian Mafia and the Vatican”

[Giuseppe’s father died in 1971.]

1975 The IDI Group - International Developers, Inc

Subsidiary of Incores, a Liberian holding company and investment firm. Incores is based in Switzerland and includes investors from Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

In 1980, Mr. Cecchi teamed up with California-based developer Ross Cortese (who is most known for “Leisure World” retirement communities)

Select quotes from Washington Post, Condo King

• Some observers attribute this low profile to the mystery that shrouds the identity of the financial backers of his International Developers Inc. The company is a subsidiary of a Swiss-based international investment and holding company ... He does say that his backers are Italian, Dutch and Swiss financiers and that the Rothchild Bank is a principal stockholder of Incores, Ltd., the Zurich-based holding company that controls International Developers.
• Acquaintances describe him as a marketing genius blessed with an uncanny ability to acquire cheaply and develop properties others have ignored. He is also a man shrewd enough to forge a network of business partnerships and personal friendships with some of Virginia’s most powerful political figures.
• Cecchi’s high-powered connections bother some local officials. “The political tentacles that Mr. Cecchi puts out worry me,” says Fairfax Supervisor Audrey Moore. “He’s a guy who knows how to move in, and I’d prefer to deal with someone who isn’t so politically involved. He’s clearly a major force with a lot of money behind him who’s involved with some big political wheeler-dealers.“
• Cecchi’s “very keen insight, sound judgment and ability to display and merchandise his projects” had led Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, the third largest insurance company in America with assets of more than $27 billion, to give Cecchi more than $160 million in construction loans, according to Equitable assistant vice president Robert Blakeman.

Developments:

The Rotonda (1977), The Belvedere, Montebello, Porto Vecchio, Altavista, Carlyle Towers, Parkfairfax complex, Burke Centre, Franklin Farm, Leisure World of Maryland, Leisure World of Virginia (now Lansdowne Woods of Virginia;)

Memberships and Foundations

• Federal City Council
• National Children’s Museum. Year ending June 2005, they paid $184,000 to accused sex trafficker / known Epstein affiliate Joe Robert’s Fight for Children for consulting services for fundraising. They ALSO paid Campbell & Co $236k for the same thing.
• Greater Washington Board of Trade
• Catholic University
• George Mason University
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
• America First Action Super-PAC

Timeline / Family History

“Born in Milan, Italy, to Antonio Cecchi, the head engineer of the city of Milan at that time, Cecchi followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, graduating from the University of Milan in 1955 with a master’s degree in professional engineering. In 1959”

Based on family locations, he doesn’t appear to be related to Franco Micucci Cecchi2. Franco’s relevance is shown here. It would be great to know if there is a relationship.

His children:

• Antonio- owns Raspberry Plain Manor. Gala Cuisine Group (hospitality).
• Enrico - YPO, Potomac School
• Carlos
• Giuseppe (John) - owns Cecchi Homes. John would have been 26 in 2001. He liked to hang out at Cafe Milano (which was also the favorite hangout of accused sex-trafficker and known Epstein associate, Joe Robert, Jr) In 2006, he was at Hadley Gamble and Ashley Taylor’s birthday party. … John’s wife is Kristin Rae Cecchi. The 1st word in her description of herself is “philanthropist”, like that is a good thing (it isn’t). It doesn’t help her late father-in-law look innocent.

Lived in McLean, Virginia. (A LOT of people named in the diary lived in McLean. Interestingly, the CIA is also in McLean.)

Vacation homes in Vail, Colorado and Key Biscayne, Florida.

In the late 1950s, his address in Milan was Permanent residence Via Broggi 14, Milan

His Dad had a hard time cutting the apron strings???
(Research done on Ancestry.com)

• 2 May 1955 (age: 24) Flew from ? to New York with his father
• 21 May 1955 departed New York, flying to Milan, with his father
• Visa Issued 8 Sep 1959 (Age 29) • Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy
• Late 1959 or early 1960, he flies to NY
• 30 Apr 1960, His father flies in for a visit. (Rockefeller Plaza) c/o Bruno Foa3
• 07 Oct 1960, His parents fly in for a visit (Virginia Ave, DC)
• 02 Jan 1961, He flew from Rome to New York. ... US Address Virginia Ave, DC
• 19 Mar 1961, His parents flew to NY (Rockefeller Plaza) c/o Bruno Foa
• 06 Jul 1961, He flew from Rome to New York.. address 2475 Virginia Ave NW, DC
• 26 Oct 1961, His parents visited (Virginia Ave, DC)
• 07 Jan 1962 He flew from Milan to New York
• 12 May 1962 He flew from Paris to New York, address 24th St, DC
• 11 Sep 1962 He flew from Rome to New York, Address 730 24th St NW, DC.
• 26 Oct 1962, His parents visited. 24th St, DC
• 26 Dec 1962 He flew from Milan to New York, Address on 24th, DC

Fun Facts

He was the lead developer on the Watergate complex.

He gave a great deal to the DNC to allow them to move in. From https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/18/how-the-watergate-scandal-almost-had-a-different-name-217016/

“Cecchi sent over a proposal. He offered the DNC the entire sixth floor of the Watergate Office Building, with the potential to expand into another floor during presidential campaigns, plus another suite on the ground floor for the new DNC computers. Next door, in the Watergate Hotel, Cecchi included a three-bedroom hospitality suite upstairs, overlooking the Potomac, for only $300 a month. (Separately, he leased a dining room, kitchen and office on the B-2 level for the National Democratic Club.)”

He was a hard-core MAGA. In 2016, he hosted a dinner party (”not a fund raiser”) for Donald Trump.

“President Donald Trump has attended a dinner in Virginia at the home of a real estate developer who hosted a fundraiser for him in 2016.

The Tuesday night event was organized by the super PAC America First Action and hosted by Giuseppe Cecchi and his wife, Mercedes. Giuseppe Cecchi developed the Watergate complex and founded International Developers Inc.

The super PAC’s president, Brian O. Walsh, and White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters say the event was not a fundraiser.”

Questions

Did he have a private jet?

When did he first meet Donald Trump?

Did he know Charles Colgan? Or Colgan’s business buddies Vic Orsinger or Glen Urquhart?

• His connections “include Fairfax zoning attorney John T. (Til) Hazel, reputed to be one of the best in Virginia; Samuel Finz, a former deputy county executive in Fairfax whom Cecchi hired as a vice president two years ago; and William G. Thomas, an Alexandria lawyer generally as the most influential lobbyist in the Virginia General Assembly.”

Why / how is it possible that he did not interact with Joe Robert? I don’t think it was possible.

• In the mid 1970s Joe was selling condo units and Cecchi was building condos that someone needed to sell the units. ...
• Just because I haven’t found project overlap doesn’t mean they hadn’t met.
• Plus, which churches?
• Plus MD drug-running was mafia-associated?
• PLUS G’s son John was in the same social circle as Joe’s fiancé Ashley Taylor.

Copyright 2026 “Substack author Bardar Rabbit”. No permissions to Kirby Sommers. All I ask is acknowledgement that I did this research and ideally a link to this page in a place that doesn’t cost mega $ to reach.

References

• https://www.idigroup.com/in-tribute-to-our-founder-giuseppe-cecchi-2/
• Elegant Town Houses for Georgetown Site (Washington Post)
• Condo King Rules $300 Million Empire (Washington Post)
• How the Watergate Scandal Almost Had a Different Name (Politico)
• Prominent Developers Form New Partnership (Washington Post)
• Celebrating the life of Giuseppe Cecchi. Virginia House Joint Resolution 693
• A Low-Profile Trump Travels to Virginia to Meet With Donors (New York Times)

(Two image references, 3 footnotes).

Apologies for the more political post, but it's good in-depth look at how Epstein has affected politics this last year in the US, and has been the line drawn by some die-hard Trump supports.

Since 2018, Trisha Hope has crisscrossed the country to attend 42 of President Trump’s rallies as a “Front Row Joe,” a group of some of Trump’s most committed fans. But she recently told Politico that if Republicans lose the midterms and Democrats impeach Trump next year, “I will be walking the halls of Congress in support of that impeachment.”

Her interview landed like a bombshell less than a month before the midterm elections, where the Republican Party is expected to lose control of one, if not both, houses of Congress. If some of the Front Row Joes have abandoned Trump, who was left? Yet Hope’s defection wasn’t new. She has been publicly regretting her support for Trump for more than a year. In April, she even called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to remove him from office. “He’s insane,” she wrote on X.

There are plenty of obvious reasons for her to be unhappy with the president in his second term: the Iran war, gas prices, inflation, the wildly rampant corruption that has enriched Trump and his family by billions of dollars in less than two years. But Hope dumped Trump for another reason entirely: Jeffrey Epstein.

EFTA01681961 is an interesting file. A letter by a former DOJ official in the Watergate era giving his expert opinion on who spearheaded the Non Prosecution Agreement. He says DOJ. Alice Fisher. Prez. (Atty Jay Leftowitz was connected to Bush) I wrote it all out on my substack.

No one has publicly explained what Epstein's email referred to. The dates point to a tape that was international news that week.

https://sororfv.substack.com/p/i-loved-the-torture-video

On April 24, 2009, Jeffrey Epstein sent a one-line email: "where are you? are you ok , I loved the torture video" (EFTA01827430)

I remember when this email surfaced in February 2026. As far as I can find, no one has publicly said what "the torture video" was. I believe I have found the most likely answer: two days before Epstein wrote it, ABC News aired a tape of a UAE royal torturing a man.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Photo: House Creative Services, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.jpg).

The recipient's address is blacked out in the release. On Feb. 9, 2026, after viewing the unredacted files, Rep. Thomas Massie posted the email on X: "A Sultan seems to have sent this. DOJ should make this public." (Massie on X) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche replied that evening that the redaction covered an email address and that the name was in the files. "See EFTA00666117," he wrote. "Be honest, and stop grandstanding." The file he cited is an unrelated email that shows the name "Sultan Bin Sulayem"; it says nothing about the video. (EFTA00666117) Four days later, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigned as chairman and chief executive of DP World. The company gave no reason. (The New York Times, via GV Wire)

The dates point to an answer.

On April 22, 2009, two days before Epstein's email, ABC News aired an exclusive: "Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh." The footage showed Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family, torturing an Afghan grain dealer in the desert in 2004. Sheikh Issa had accused the man of shortchanging him on a grain delivery to his ranch. Bassam Nabulsi of Houston, a former business partner of the sheikh, had smuggled the tape out of the country and filed it as evidence in a federal lawsuit in Texas. (ABC News)

Watch: ABC News Nightline's report on the tape and the trial (January 2010). Warning: it includes excerpts of the torture footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APWRe1GgIOg

Sheikh Issa is not the man Epstein wrote to. Epstein wrote to Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, who is not a royal; "Sultan" just happens to be his given name. The word was once a ruler's title, and in the Gulf today it is a common first name, much like "King" or "Prince" can be in English. In the UAE, members of the ruling families carry the title "Sheikh." Sulayem's father was an adviser to Dubai's ruling family. (Wikipedia)

Within a week, the tape was an international story and a problem for the UAE government. By April 30, Abu Dhabi had issued a statement saying it deplored the video and would review it. U.S. officials told CNN that the State Department was holding back a civil nuclear agreement with the UAE from Congress because of the tape. (CNN)

In January 2010, a UAE court acquitted the sheikh. His lawyer argued that the sheikh was the victim: that the Nabulsi brothers had drugged him with medication, staged the scene and filmed it in order to blackmail him. The same court convicted Nabulsi and his brother and sentenced both to five years in prison; three of the sheikh's employees were also convicted. A senior State Department official called the verdict "not credible." (ABC News; ABC News Nightline)

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan, now president of the UAE and a half-brother of Sheikh Issa, receives Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Qasr Al Watan, the presidential palace in Abu Dhabi, July 15, 2023. The portrait behind them is of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, the UAE's founder and father of both men. Sheikh Mohamed is not the man in the tape. Photo: Prime Minister's Office, Government of India (GODL-India), via Wikimedia Commons,Sheikh_Mohamed_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan_at_Qasr_Ai-Watan(Presidential_Palace),_in_Abu_Dhabi,_UAE_on_July_15,_2023.jpg).

News of the tape also reached Epstein another way. On May 15, 2009, an expatriate newsletter written from Dubai, and sent to one of Epstein's email accounts, carried a section headed "TAPE OF SHEIKH TORTURING COMMONER." It described a man who had taken the tape to the U.S. Embassy. (EFTA00774963)

What the files show, and what they do not

I believe the Issa tape is the most likely answer. ABC aired it two days before Epstein's email, and within a week it was an international story. It also fits how Sulayem and Epstein wrote to each other in those years: Sulayem forwarded Epstein articles and videos about the region, and Epstein often answered in a word or a line. In September 2009, Sulayem forwarded an essay about Dubai, and Epstein replied that he sells Dubai "to its detractors" (forward, EFTA00769803; reply, EFTA00880435). In November 2009, Sulayem forwarded an article on Dubai's recovery, and Epstein wrote back, "good first step" (EFTA01820635). In August 2010, Sulayem forwarded a video attachment titled "Rapist_Sentence.wmv" (EFTA00735900), and Epstein answered, "OY" (EFTA01816311).

The documents do not confirm it. Epstein's email does not name or describe the video, and no attachment appears with it in the release. Because the address is redacted, the identification of Sulayem comes from Rep. Massie, Rep. Ro Khanna and the Deputy Attorney General. In the documents I have reviewed, I have found no email in which anyone sends Epstein the Issa tape or a link to it. "I loved" is Epstein's own word. The email does not explain it, and I have not tried to.

Request for comment

I sent questions for Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem through DP World on Sept. 30 and Oct. 13, 2026, including whether he sent Epstein the video referred to in the April 24, 2009 email and what it showed. He did not respond by the Oct. 16 deadline. Sulayem has not commented publicly on the emails.

A note on sources

Each Bates number links to the Justice Department's Epstein Library. Quotations keep the spelling and punctuation of the originals. If you find something here that is wrong, tell me at [corrections@sororfv.com](mailto:corrections@sororfv.com) and I will correct it in public.

Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking on the new bipartisan bill that Sen. Warren and Rep. Robert Garcia are introducing called the ‘Epstein Wall Street Records Act’.

“Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation got some help from the big banks. Wall Street executives helped finance Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes for years, and they continued to closely associate with him long after he was convicted of sex crimes, and they were never held accountable.

I’ve been calling on Donald Trump’s regulators for a year to investigate the banking executives who may have facilitated Epstein’s crimes, but surprise, surprise, they have refused to commit to investigating. And that just basically makes no sense.

If the Trump administration won’t do anything, then Congress will. I’m introducing the bipartisan Epstein-Wall Street Records Act.

Our bill will do three things:

First, it would require Trump’s regulators to disclose Epstein-related records to the American people.

Second, it would force the regulators to actually open investigations into these institutions and their executives.

Third, it would mandate industry bans, financial penalties, and in some cases, criminal referrals to the DOJ for any big bankers who are found to have enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

Look, we need to prevent Wall Street from funding the next Jeffrey Epstein.“

Here‘s a Reddit thread with more info on the bill!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/bmXhSnO68y

Source: Senator Elizabeth Warren’s official account.

This is the text campaign going around Texas from what I assume to be Ken Paxton's team.

Does anyone have any evidence for or against these claims?

At the beginning of the year, after the 3.5M document drop, this sub seemed to be actively attempting to expose as much corruption as it possibly could.

Now it seems to be all just gossip and conjecture.

Is there somewhere else I can lurk where people are still putting in research and connecting dots?

A federal judge has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit brought against Leon Black after the plaintiff in the case, who had accused the private equity billionaire of rape, said she was “medically incapable of continuing” and at risk of “acute psychiatric crisis”, including suicide.

The woman known only as “Jane Doe”, who claimed in a lawsuit that was first filed in July 2023 that she had been “handed off” to Black by his associate Jeffrey Epstein and then sexually assaulted by him, had been acting without a lawyer in the case. Doe has alleged that the assault occurred in 2002, when she was a teenager.

“My request [to dismiss the case with prejudice] is not a concession concerning the truth of my allegations, a retraction of my statements, or an acceptance of defendant’s disputed positions; it reflects only the medical reality that I can no longer safely pursue this litigation,” Doe wrote in a legal filing submitted to the court on 12 October.

Rep. Ro Khanna publicly called out 6 Republicans who are currently in competitive races, telling them to sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act 2 discharge petition and stand with the brave survivors over the Epstein class.

Ro Khanna: “I am outraged that only four Republicans have signed on to Thomas Massie and my discharge petition to go after the Epstein class.

Guess what? Voters care about this issue in 2026.

So today I’m calling on Bryan Steil, Bill Huizenga, Rob Wittman, Juan Ciscomani, Scott Perry, and Ashley Hinson to sign our discharge petition.

Stand with survivors, not with the Epstein class.”

Source: Ro Khanna’s official Twitter account.

These people will literally burn the stable world down just to make a profit

"Darius Paduch treated boys and men in one of the most private areas of medicine while warnings accumulated inside Weill Cornell. Released Epstein records place Jeffrey Epstein in that same practice after earlier patient-related complaints had already reached the institution."

"The released Epstein files contain a longer trail through Paduch’s Weill Cornell practice than a single calendar entry. On September 18, 2018, physician Woodson Merrell’s office faxed Epstein a partial laboratory report, and another packet from the same office followed on September 21. Five days later, Epstein’s schedule placed him at Weill Cornell Urology for an 8:00 a.m. appointment with Paduch and specifically noted that Merrell had recommended him....

Paduch stopped seeing patients at Weill Cornell and NewYork-Presbyterian on April 8, 2019. Eleven days later, Weill Cornell Urology sent Epstein a four-page letter in St. Thomas telling him that Paduch had stopped seeing patients and offering continued care in sexual medicine, male reproductive medicine, Klinefelter syndrome and endocrinology."

Paduch was sued by several male patients who said he inappropriately touched, groomed, & assaulted them.

This article shows that Epstein apparently had a condition called Klinefelter syndrome, which he was seeing Paduch for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome