In the book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, writers Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin, and James Robertson reveal Epstein and Maxwell ran an international “honeytrap” operation to blackmail the world’s most powerful politicians and business leaders.
“Mr. Epstein was the simple idiot who was going around providing girls to all kinds of politicians in the United States,” Israeli agent and handler Ari Ben-Menashe told the authors. “See, f—— around is not a crime. It could be embarrassing, but it’s not a crime.”
“But f—— a fourteen-year-old girl is a crime,” he added. “And he was taking photos of politicians f—— fourteen-year-old girls… They Epstein and Maxwell would just blackmail people, they would just blackmail people like that.”