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Brad Edwards’ new book, Relentless Pursuit, is causing quite a stir.

Yesterday, we covered how the book revealed the details behind the falling out between Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein.

Epstein actually went around calling Weinstein a pig in the years that followed, showing a stunning lack of self-awareness.

For 12 years, Edwards, a lawyer, battled Epstein in and out of courtrooms and claims that Epstein threatened and intimidated him on numerous occasions.

Towards the start of their dealings, Edwards, who represented multiple victims of the sex trafficker, says that Epstein hired investigators to camp outside his home, told him he had “hired a former MMA champion”, and that “you don’t even know who all of my friends are”.

Aside from detailing the various showdowns between Edwards and Epstein, the book also covers the convicted paedophile’s relationships with some of the most powerful people in the world.

From the Daily Beast, let’s start with Bill Clinton:

Flight logs indicate Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet more than 20 times, including with the financier’s girlfriend and alleged madam, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. In September 2002, the trio (along with six Secret Service agents) traveled to Africa for a humanitarian trip that also included actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey…Edwards writes that eyewitnesses—including Davies, then 23—said Clinton and Epstein “exchanged somewhat crass jokes about women more than they discussed the solutions to major world problems.”

Edwards also says that Ghislaine Maxwell was close friends with Bill.

Does anybody remember this painting? Not a good look, Bill.

Edwards says that Donald Trump was actually one of the first people to reach out to him with damaging information about Epstein:

Trump told Edwards the last time he saw Epstein, he’d visited the money-manager’s home in Palm Beach and noticed young women outside. Epstein claimed the women were part of a “mentoring-type program that he was involved in, which Mr. Trump thought was a bit odd,” Edwards continues. Trump called Epstein “strange” and claimed he “never really liked him,” before sharing a list of names of people who, according to Edwards, “would know Epstein’s propensities better.”

In 2015, when Edwards took Trump’s deposition for an unrelated case, the reality star allegedly shared more intel. “He framed most of the information he had about potentially relevant leads as rumors that he had heard over the years. Still, his rumors were helpful,” Edwards writes.

Trump clearly had a change of heart, because video footage shows him partying with Epstein back in 1992, while hitting awkwardly on cheerleaders.

Let’s move on to Michael Jackson:

Johanna [an Epstein victim] was lured into Epstein’s orbit, in part, by the famous people associated with Epstein. “For a young woman like Johanna, the fact that there were stars who were friends with Jeffrey and Ghislaine was an attractive bonus of the job. Even the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson, had been enough of an Epstein acquaintance to pay him a visit in Palm Beach while Johanna was working there,” Edwards says.

You don’t have to watch Leaving Neverland to know Jacko was a very disturbed man.

Prince Andrew was always going to feature, and the book backs up the infamous and truly odd story about a puppet:

Johanna recalled another episode with Prince Andrew, this time at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion. “She described that Virginia was sitting on one of Prince Andrew’s knees and Johanna was sitting on the other,” Edwards writes. “While the two girls were in his lap, Ghislaine took out a puppet figure of Prince Andrew and placed the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast, at which point Prince Andrew placed his hand on Johanna’s breast. Everyone laughed.”

I bet they did.

Birds of a feather, and all that.

Also covered in the Daily Beast’s snapshot of the book are Epstein’s alleged connections with the CIA, and other ‘mysterious’ heavyweight politicians that were fond of erotic massages on Epstein’s infamous US Virgin Islands retreat.

You can read that in full here.

[source:dailybeast]