The Epstein Files Book Club

This week, we get to the heart of the story. Philosopher Kate Manne recounts the harrowing stories of the women pseudonymed Katie Johnson and Jane Doe 4. Both say President Donald Trump sexually assaulted them when they were 13 years old. “It is plausible, though not certain, that our President is a rapist of children,” Kate Manne says. “And that is devastating.” Stick around as Kate explains the logic of misogyny at work among the Epstein network, and how all of society is hurt when male entitlement is a norm.

Mentioned in this Episode

NYT: ⁠Zorro Ranch investigation begins⁠

⁠Post and Courier reporting on Jane Doe 4⁠

NPR: ⁠Justice Dept posts some of the missing documents⁠

⁠Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women⁠, by Kate Manne

⁠Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny⁠, by Kate Manne

Inside Higher Ed: ⁠More Prominent Professors Resign⁠

Japan Today: ⁠Joi Ito out at Global Startup Campus⁠

The Daily Beast: ⁠David Copperfield To End Vegas Show⁠

⁠Kate Manne’s Substack, More To Hate⁠

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Lauren Sherman, who wrote the book on Les Wexner, sits down with Elise and Jena to explain why the retail billionaire from New Albany, Ohio, is such an important figure in the Epstein network. They also discuss the fashion people in the Epstein files, the unanswered questions that deserve more attention, and what it means to follow the money in this story.

Mentioned in this episode:

Lauren Sherman at Puck

House Oversight to seek seven more transcribed interviews

The Hill: Bill O'Reilly on no need to depose Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton deposition before House Oversight Committee 

WSJ: More than 40,000 Withheld Files

Selling Sexy by Lauren Sherman and Chantal Fernandez

Full Les Wexner deposition

Former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries

Spectrum News: Wexner and New Albany Ohio

The Cut: Which Fashion People Are In the Epstein Files? 

NYMagazine: Peggy Siegal, the grande dame of the Epstein files

Puck: Questions about Wexner ex-girlfriend Sharon Cohen 

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Records show Jeffrey Epstein was aided by a network of doctors and dentists who treated women he employed and trafficked. After the latest headlines and fallout, we explore Karyna Shuliak, Epstein’s girlfriend and former assistant, and Dr. Harry Fisch, a celebrity urologist who liked to joke around with Epstein, Woody Allen, and who, according to the files, tried to write and shop a comedy pilot.

Mentioned in this episode

Bill Clinton’s testimony before House Oversight

Poophole Loophole song

Netflix: Jeffrey Epstein Filthy Rich

Chauntae Davis on Bill Clinton

NYT: Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

People: Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie banned from royal events

BBC: Paleontologist Jack Horner out at Chapman University

NYT: Columbia University Dental School resignations

SCMP: Karyna Shuliak married a woman

WPIX: Missing dental student pulled from Hudson River

Seth Herzog

NYT archive on Dr. Harry Fisch

Cornell Daily Sun on Weil doctors and Epstein

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Journalist Vicky Ward first profiled Jeffrey Epstein for Vanity Fair in 2003 and has continued following the case since. Ward joins Elise and Jena to talk about all the unanswered questions in this ongoing scandal, how Jeffrey Epstein became wealthy in the first place, and why, after all these years, the Epstein saga won’t slow down.

Mentioned in this Episode

NPR: Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

Roger Sollenberger Substack

WSJ: DOJ To Review Whether Epstein Files Were Improperly Withheld

Hillary Clinton opening statement 

Mother Jones: State Department guts office combating human trafficking

PBS: Clinton deposition paused over leaked photo

Bill Gates admits to affairs with two Russians

NYT: World Economic Forum’s Borge Brende resigns over Epstein Ties

Harvard Crimson: Larry Summers leaves Harvard

NYT’s running list of Epstein-related resignations or removals 

Journalist Vicky Ward

Ward’s 2003 Vanity Fair profile, “The Talented Mr. Epstein”

Fresh Air: Excavating the Epstein Files, with Vicky Ward

NYT on Leon Black and Epstein

WaPo: Steven Hoffenberg, Epstein mentor, dies 

Bloomberg: ‘Eva Dubin gave me your email”

NBC: Epstein’s named and unnamed co-conspirators

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Long before the Epstein scandal broke, Donald Barr, former headmaster of The Dalton School (where Jeffrey Epstein taught math), wrote a 257-page novel called Space Relations. Jena is joined by writer Laura Moran for a book report on Space Relations by Donald Barr (who is also the father of former Attorney General William Barr). Moran calls it “a catastrophe of a book” and “deeply, deeply, unfortunate.” 

Mentioned in this episode:

BBC: What happens after Andrew’s arrest?

Was This Victoria’s Secret? (Episode 4)

See clips of the Les Wexner testimony 

Space Relations by Donald Barr

Variety: Wasserman’s earlier scandal

Writer Laura Moran 

NPR: The relationship between Donald Barr and William Barr

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