In a newly uncovered video, Jeffrey Epstein candidly referred to himself as a “tier one” sexual predator during an interview that featured the disgraced financier under scrutiny. This footage has surfaced alongside a significant release of files by the U.S. Department of Justice. The release includes a staggering 180,000 images and 2,000 videos.
During the interview, Epstein, donning glasses and a black shirt, faced probing questions from an unseen interviewer, speculated to be Steve Bannon, former chief strategist for Donald Trump. At one point, the interviewer provocatively asked Epstein whether he considered himself “the Devil himself.”
Epstein’s response was cryptic yet deflective: “No, but I do have a good mirror,” he replied. The interviewer persisted, emphasizing the seriousness of the question: “Do you think you’re the devil himself?”
Epstein appeared nonchalant, responding, “I don’t know. Why would you say that?” The interviewer began to elaborate, suggesting, “because you have all the attributes,” but Epstein interjected, asserting, “No, the devil scares me.”
Epstein says: ‘I don’t know. Why would you say that?’
The interviewer begins to explain, saying ‘because you have all the attributes’, before Epstein cuts him off: ‘No, the devil scares me.’
Bannon, 72, served in the White House role for the first seven months of Trump’s first administration.
It is not clear when or where the interview was filmed, who filmed the video, or why Bannon in particular was chosen to question Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein described himself as a ‘tier one’ sexual predator in a newly-revealed video showing the disgraced financier facing questions in a sit-down interview
The footage emerged as part of the newly released tranche of files that the US department of justice published on Friday, including 180,000 images and 2,000 videos
‘What are you, [a] class 3 sexual predator?’ the interviewer asks Epstein.
‘Tier 1. I’m the lowest,’ the American financier responds.
He is asked whether the money he has earned is ‘dirty money’, to which Epstein responds: ‘No, it’s not.’
Pressed on why not, Epstein says: ‘Because I earned it.’
‘You earned it by advising the worst people in the world, that do enormous bad things, and just to make more money,’ the interviewer says.
‘Ethics is always a complicated subject,’ Epstein says, before talking about the money he claims he donated to help eradicate polio in Pakistan and India.
‘Instead of asking me whether that money should be given to these children for vaccines, I think you might want to ask their mothers, who receive the vaccine, who know their child now won’t get polio, and ask them if Epstein should have helped these people with their money,’ he adds.
‘You’re a mathematician,’ the interviewer responds, before putting forward a scenario where Epstein walks into the clinic and tells the people ‘in the most dire straits of poverty and sickness’ that the money was coming from a ‘criminal’.
‘What percentage of people do you estimate would say, “I don’t care; I want the money for my children?” the interview asks.
‘I would say everyone says, “I want the money for my children”, Epstein responds.
More than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender were released by the US department of justice on Friday
An image from the latest release from the Epstein files
More than three million pages of documents related to the late sex offender were released on Friday.
The publication of the documents came six weeks after a December 19 deadline to release all the files, as mandated in the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed Congress and was signed into law in November.
US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday that the release ‘marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process’, indicating that the US justice department views its role as complete.
However, Democrats continue to contend that the department has withheld a vast quantity of documents – potentially around two-and-a-half million – without proper justification.
