• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    20 days ago

    My guess would be that Ghislaine was the literal ‘secretary’ who put it together and got it printed.

    … given that this document comes from, you know, her trial, lol.

    A redacted version was originally publically released as part of the case … but later, someone, probably someone connected to the proceedings of the case, leaked the unredacted version, the entire scan of the whole book.

    Also WTF, another one of Epstein’s actual, literal contact books was/is apparently recently up for auction?!

    https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/us-news/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-up-for-auction-again/

    Goddamnit this thing is like a fucking black market archaeological artefact.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      20 days ago

      She found it? Crazy.

      Christopher Helali bought one of the convicted pedophile’s infamous address books for $425 off eBay in 2020, from a woman who’d found it on a Manhattan sidewalk more than two decades ago

      It also had a lot more names?

      The book, dated October 1997 in a handwritten note, contains names, addresses and phone numbers of 349 people — 221 of whom were not named in a later, more infamous little black book Epstein kept, and which was seized by the FBI to investigate the disgraced financier’s sex crimes.

      And here is a searchable database of all of the names with photos:

      https://www.businessinsider.com/search-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-for-the-first-time-2020-7

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        20 days ago

        So as best I can tell this is a different… uh, edition, so to speak, of Epstein’s contact book.

        But yeah, thats the whole problem, how do you actually, certainly prove its genuine?

        Could be a well done fake.

        Hence my black market artefact analogy.

        …

        Like uh, the Nag Hammadi library… that was apparently found in the 1940s/50s by some kids cave spelunking, bounced around the ME archaeology black market for decades, at one point got bought by some wealthy dude, stayed in a safety deposit box in NYC or something for a decade…

        … and then actually got handed off to a real university or museum team, who promptly shit their pants, suspecting it to be genuine, then properly reassembled it from being mostly disintegrated, testesd the material and writing and language style and confirmed it is actually genuine… and then preserved in a proper vessel/environment…

        And that is how we know about something like 1/3 of the contents of early / heretical / ‘gnostic’ Christian writings and beliefs.

        … Shit like that is why Indiana Jones says ‘It belongs in a museum!’