We Still Need to Rip the Epstein Ring Out of Silicon Valley
The effort to track down other members of the Epstein ring was never done in a serious way by authorities. Independent investigators have mapped out other parts of the ring, but there hasn’t been any kind of reckoning outside of the famous two (plus Jean-Luc Bernel) that have been brought to trial.
The ring was obviously much larger than a few members.
In 2020, a well-known venture capitalist, leaked, seemingly inadvertently, that Ghislaine Maxwell had attended Kleiner Perkin’s holiday party in 2011. Kleiner Perkins is one of the biggest and most powerful venture capital firms in the Valley and continues to be a primary figure to this day. The VC stated in now-deleted Tweets from 2020: “We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex, but I guess that was fine with the 'cool' people who managed the tightly controlled guest list.”
?????? Uhm what ?????????
This event has NOT been cleared up, no further details have been made available, no other investigation was done, no one was charged, no one was punished, there wasn’t even anything more than a pique of backlash to this revelation. This has been shrugged off by the tech world as if all of these meetings that were brokered between Epstein/Maxwell and tech elite is just an unfortunate passing of ships, that the predation couldn’t have had anything to do with it. Sortof in the tone of, well, ain’t life funny like that. As if there was any other reason that these fucks were involved with ANYTHING, much less Silicon Valley *elite*, that wasn’t about raping teen girls.
I’ve done a lot of research about Epstein and Ghislaine and their predation patterns. Their entire lives were about trafficking and abusing teenage girls. There were not other pursuits; everything they did was about this. This was their job, life, interest, hobby, it was the totality of who they were and what they did. They were fucking soulless monsters. Pedophiles are OBSESSED with predation and for Ghislaine and Epstein, that is all that they did, everything they were.
There is no fucking way that Ghislaine fucking Maxwell was at a top venture capital party in 2011 without there being a reason. The ONLY reason they would have been there is through their extensive pedophilia circle, involving money for abuse and from abuse, and human trafficking of teen girls, and using technology and connections within the industry to drive that agenda.
The interactions that Epstein has had with tech are significant yet have been brushed off as essentially “one-offs” and more or less harmless blunders and errors of judgement. Maxwell has been photographed with Elon Musk, and Reid Hoffman helped to cover for Epstein after his arrest. Both are members of the PayPal Mafia. In fact: “Hoffman invited Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and Epstein to an August 2015 dinner in Palo Alto with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel.”
Vanity Fair initially reported on the dinner: "[Epstein] was a guest at a dinner in Palo Alto hosted by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden. At the dinner, Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. (“Mark met Epstein in passing one time at a dinner honoring scientists that was not organized by Epstein,” Zuckerberg spokesman Ben LaBolt told me. “Mark did not communicate with Epstein again following the dinner.”)”.
This was four years after we have records of Epstein proactively working within the tech industry to find ways to use technology to hunt teen girls. Facebook and Instagram continue to be used extensively by pedophiles.
The meetings with Gates and Bezos have been more publicized as yet again the actions of the PayPal Mafia go unremarked upon, like it’s a “accident” that multiple actors from the PayPal Mafia are associated with Epstein: Musk, Zuckerberg, Hoffman and Thiel. (Thiel was the first investor in Facebook). At the same dinner! Crazy. Additionally, Jason Calcanis was in Epstein’s “little black book” too; most recently, he has been involved advising Elon about strategy throughout the Twitter purchase, and he showed up on day one to help with the transition process. These are connections that need to be looked into. Jason Calcanis came on my radar years ago after he offered to pay a ransom to whoever could get him the video tape of a woman whose husband, a start-up CEO, was arrested after he brutally attacked her. The subtext was that the video would “prove” that domestic abuse actually occurred. This was done without the permission of the woman and with literally no thought to what it could do to a victim to have video of her partner beating her on the internet. Luckily, no one sent him the video after he faced public backlash, but this to me was extremely disturbing and there is definitely something wrong with how Jason Calacanis regards and treats women. While I’m not accusing him of anything specific, I think there is plenty of evidence that we should take Jason Calacanis’s appearance in Epstein’s little black book with seriousness especially as he is linked to Hoffman and Musk as well.
In January 2011, the same year that Ghislaine Maxwell attended the Kleiner Perkins holiday party, Epstein hosted an event on his island for a “scientific brain-trust meeting”. Invited was a computer scientist named Reichart Von Wolfshield, who immediately reported the events to an investigative lawyer:
“Epstein spent most of his time with Reichart talking about formulaic systems that might be invented to ‘get young girls’. Epstein expressed the view that women were ‘a life support system for a vagina’. So, he wanted to discuss the statistical analysis of the marketplace and new ways for finding girls. He admitted that he knew nothing about computers but he thought the internet might hold the key for meeting volumes of young females in a short time…
Richart verified something else I suspected: Epstein was not going to stop his sex abuse or change his thinking about girls simply because he had been caught in Palm Beach and jailed for a few months under a cushy deal. He couldn’t stop. This was his way of life. It was what drove him. Now he was just looking for more sophisticated and technologically advanced ways to find more girls and pursue the with less risk. The only thing jail had taught him was to be more careful and not get caught”.
This account comes from the first and most foundational lawyer for the case against Epstein, who has written a book called “Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein.” The author shows great integrity and consistently fought for Epstein’s victims again and again, so I thank him for his work very much.
A Hollywood Reporter article provides yet more details on this 2011 “Mindshift” conference. The event also “included a NASA computer engineer, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and a Nobel laureate in theoretical physics.” There was a panel on cryptocurrency at the event and Epstein continued to have conversations with crypto scientists after. This was in 2011, so crypto was in extremely early stages. As usual, pedophiles are all over new technologies.
Epstein had been involved in the technology world for some time prior to the 2011 events we are focusing on here. He made his first known financial gift to MIT in 2002, payments which continued until 2017 and totaled $850,000. These gifts involved the MIT Media Lab, whose goal is to “create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that enable people to reimagine and redesign their lives. We engage people everywhere in meaningful, creative experiences integrating art, science, design, and engineering.”
Since the MIT involvement has been covered more extensively elsewhere, I won’t go too far into it. That said, I will say that I find it incredible frightening, incredibly disturbing, and totally repugnant, that this man, who was KNOWN to prey on teen girls and had already been found guilty of it, was allowed literally on the campus of MIT, a campus with girls as young as 16 and 17 and 18 and 19, falling right into Jeffrey’s target age ranges. This is particularly alarming as MIT has a horrific track record of sexual abuse on campus; a 2019 student survey revealed that “One in nine MIT students (11.0 percent) experienced nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force, inability to consent, coercion, or without voluntary agreement. The rate for undergraduate women is one in four; for TGQN students is one in five; and for graduate women is one in seven.” And that has been consistent with previous reports from MIT about the rates on campus.
Epstein being there wasn’t some kind of isolated event; he was part of a system in which teenage students (whom he continually preyed on himself) are raped and abused and exposed to predators at a great rate. He was just one of them. As I have talked about before, the fact that MIT is full of rape and sexual abuse is one way that girls are driven from the technology field; once they do get into the field itself, the sexual abuse continues and predators roam freely to opportunistically attack women, many of whom have already been sexually abused in the technology “pipeline” while in school. Many big tech campuses are specifically designed to provide the experience of an “extended college experience”, so, lots of stuff coming up here.
To zoom out a bit, this has a lot to tell us about the predation pattern of the pedophile, and how they adapt to new technological tools in search of their prey and as a way to find and groom children and teens online. Epstein and Ghislaine were highly organized in how they did this and it is undoubtable that they were using technology to do these things. Epstein had more than enough money and practice to put technology projects into production and we have to assume that he was able to do that with co-conspirators. Pedophiles are often the first users of technologies, they have been there in the early days of chat rooms, crypto, Tor, the “dark web”, Facebook, Instagram and soon, the metaverse. And they are often, like Epstein and Ghislaine, working in a highly coordinated, group matter, are very efficient, and are mass predators. Far from what is portrayed — pedophiles as being singularly isolated, opportunistic, single-victim abusers — the pattern is actually long-term and is highly sophisticated: pedophiles go to GREAT lengths and dedicate massive amounts of time to their endeavors. To pedophiles, technology is a great tool for doing that. Thus it is not surprising in the least to see pedophiles emerge at the forefront of new technologies and even trying to push technology into certain directions should that power be available to them. And to Epstein, it was.
In 2017, six years after the appearance of Ghislaine Maxwell at the Kleiner Perkins holiday party, Epstein did an interview with The Next Web, a tech industry publication, about cryptocurrency:
“Epstein revealed no details on his own cryptocurrency holdings, but it’s clear that the space occupies more than a little of his thinking. Bitcoin and related blockchain technologies easily represent an evolutionary leap forward for how we conceptualize money. It only makes sense that a practiced billionaire would be paying attention….
Since forming an eponymous foundation in 2000, Epstein has found a role as science philanthropist, sharing his resources to beneficial, unlikely ends. His money has funded research related to quantum computing, genetics, artificial intelligence, and beyond. As a result, the 64-year-old tycoon holds court with A-list names from the academic community, like theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author Lawrence Krauss, or MIT’s quantum computing pioneer, Seth Lloyd.”
This clearly highlights that the relationship of Epstein and Ghislaine in technology was not scatter shot random social meetings but rather a deep and ongoing engagement with the upper echelons of the technology ecosystem including the tech giants, the PayPal mafia, the most important feeder school into tech (MIT), and with venture capitalists. That doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Something very serious was happening here.
It is unreasonable to assume anything other, than that Epstein and Maxwell’s involvement in technology was for the purposes of child and teen sexual abuse and trafficking, as Epstein himself stated in these elite “science and tech conferences” on his island. Like all pedophiles, this was the driving purpose of his life and of Ghislaine’s life. In light of such, I think we have a lot to think about and much remains undone as far as Epstein’s relationship to tech. This topic has barely been broached outside of looking at the MIT Media Lab finances in a vacuum.
Epstein might be dead but his victims are not. (Although I do very much believe that there are dead girls as a result of these terrible events, but that’s for another post). First of all, there needs to be an extensive industry-wide investigation into this. We simply do not know what we are looking at in terms of Epstein’s actual involvement. No one has even bothered to go out and collect the evidence. We have some major players that we are able to put on the board with him but we need to know a lot more. There are no actually investigative bodies within the tech industry or that preside over it, so it’s unsurprising that this hasn’t been investigated. Yet, that is no excuse.
Two. Why in the fuck was the Kleiner Perkins event swept under the rug? That entire situation should have been investigated and still NEEDS to be investigated. That needs to include interviews with everyone who was present on that night, it needs to include figuring out who made the invitation to Ghislaine, it needs to include a map of what relationships brought her to that place, and what influences Epstein/Maxwell had there. That is where I would start. Ghislaine being at an incredibly exclusive, insiders-only party for one of the top venture capital firms in the world, did not just ‘happen’.
This needs to include a full sweep of the industry to see what other Epstein appearances and connections and meetings and fundings and etc. has occurred. Epstein surely had money in Silicon Valley — was he one of Kleiner Perkin’s limited partners? What other firms could he have operated through? What startup funding can be traced back through venture capitalists, private equity, hedge funds that Epstein was transacting through? As I wrote in a recent piece, we don’t know who the LPs are — the ones who are actually giving the VCs money to invest. This has provided an incredibly opaque screen in which LPs can give money in near secrecy and startups come out the other side of the VC black box. So we HAVE to assume that Epstein money was circulating in the Valley, the most likely reason Maxwell was at the party was because they were giving Kleiner Perkins money to invest in startups. And we need to follow that rabbit hole as far as it goes.
You can bet that that same pedophile ring is STILL operating in Silicon Valley. Epstein and Maxwell are very obviously part of a larger child trafficking and pedophile ring, which means the involvement did not die with Jeffrey. The ring is still alive and it is still functioning. If it is still functioning it is still in Silicon Valley. The Valley was all too happy to let this slide especially when the trials and eventual death of Epstein took off the pressure and the issue fell out of the headlines and the forefront of public consciousness. I can guarantee you a lot of people in the Valley were relieved when that happened. Time to put some fear of God back into ‘em!!!!
And let’s come on out and state the obvious. There are a lot of extremely rich men in Silicon Valley and among them are absolutely pedophiles, traffickers, sexual predators, people who pay for access to these girls, etc. Pedophiles and predators recognize each other easily and love to co-offend; we have seen Epstein involved with so many other pedophiles include Jean-Luc Bernel, Andy Warhol and Donald Trump. Pedophiles operate in rings.
So when we investigate this we should also be hunting for associated pedophiles, material participants in the crime, in the tech industry and that also means SERIOUSLY thinking about the Bill Gates relationship as well as why tech gadflys like Jason Calacanis appear in the little black book while his handlers in the PayPal Mafia have beaming photos with Ghislaine. Gates spent a LOT of time with Epstein, which means it at the very least should be independently investigated. Calacanis being in the black book WHILE being part of a small and specific group, the PayPal Mafia, that shows up around the Epstein name repeatedly, is a massive sign that something is VERY wrong here.
You should NOT get off the hook for that shit without a full investigation and that hasn’t happened with any of the many high-profile tech people that we KNOW were associated. People are rarely hanging out and around pedophiles in this context for no reason. It is incredibly stupid and negligent to assume that Epstein was a ship passing Silicon Valley in the night, that any of these people are not themselves predators, that none of them participated in the trafficking, that none of them took part in laundering money, that none of them were “provided” teenagers . Any reasonable person would invite independent investigation out of respect for the severity of this situation. And no, we cannot just trust them when they say they have nothing to do with it. That should weigh exactly nothing in our assessment.
The meeting of technologists at the Epstein island is highly concerning. First, this was only one of many such events that Epstein hosted, which means he had fairly regular contact with computer scientists and members of the tech industry, all for the stated purpose of “finding girls”. Pedophiles are consistently trying to “game” systems like this. One of my biggest concerns upon reading it is that Epstein was trying to find foolproof ways to find “untraceable” girls for himself or for his clients — as in, girls no one would report as missing or go looking for, girls without friends or families, girls in extreme poverty and addiction in countries not only here but all over the world. (Again, in my OPINION there is a large chance that girls were killed over the course of these events and sometimes I worry that girls were actually being supplied for killing, again for another post).
Epstein shows clearly that there are predators who are interested in shaping technology itself in order to drive their own sick and sadistic goals. Do we ever ask ourselves about the impact that pedophiles and other sex abusers have had on the technical infrastructure itself? Or how many pedophiles really are using technology as a tool, abusing children and teens online and exploiting them and manipulating and abusing them?
On the matter of the crypto thing, I think this continues to be a situation where we just have to be extremely mindful that pedophile rings operate using this technology, Epstein was a huge player in that, and crypto was being used to finance, collect, pay, etc. for the human trafficking operation. Like it or not, crypto has been a huge boon to this group of predators. On another note, I am reminded about the idea of the blockchain web in which everything put on it is stored forever; under this model, things like child sexual abuse material can never be taken down. Another huge boon to pedophiles.
In short, since policing and intelligence agencies have stopped working on most of this and the public has largely moved on, we need to keep it going. This investigation is very much alive, these events were very recent, all evidence points to something much more serious and widespread than just Epstein in Silicon Valley. He shows up over and over in tech circles: a highly sexist, predatory environment where sexual abuse is continually bought off, NDAed and covered up, where there are a number of sexual predators in the highest echelons, where technology products aim for teen girls as their primary consumer demographic, and where technology make it easy to find, surveil, contact, manipulate, extort and pay for, teen girls and other children.
Epstein will never die until the STILL LIVING RING is hunted down and torn from every part of the globe. And that means in the tech industry too.