Among the newly released cache of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is an email exchange that suggested he assisted someone seeking employment at an Australian law firm.
Credit: New York State Sex Offender Registry
Last Saturday, 31 January, the United States Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents related to its investigation into financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Among them was a December 2011 email chain in which Epstein appeared to help someone seeking employment in Australia.
The person, whose identity was redacted, referred to Epstein as “my dearest Jeffrey” and asked for his opinion “on the cover letter I am about to send to all tha [sic] law firms and government organizations in Sydney”.
“Just tell me please if you think it is ok [sic],” the person wrote.
In the cover letter, which was mostly redacted, the person said he would “be able to work convenient for you hours and on the weekends if needed”.
Epstein replied: “Needs grammar check [sic], the english [sic] is poor.”
The person then asked whether they should write anything else, adding they were not Australian and “am without an Australian degree”.
“It gonna [sic] be tough,” they said.
Epstein was convicted in 2008 of sex offences and received an 18-month prison sentence, but was released on probation after 13 months.
He was arrested again in 2019 on charges that included the sex trafficking of minors, but died in a jail cell before the trial could commence.
The files revealed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, former Duke of York, invited Epstein to dinner at Buckingham Palace, where the two could have “lots of privacy”. It was unclear whether the meeting took place.
Epstein also invited Elon Musk to his private island in 2012 and 2013, but the communications suggested the trips did not occur.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd was also named in the files, first in 2014 when a Japanese entrepreneur told Epstein that Rudd “might stop by”.
The same day, Epstein sent an email to two redacted people that requested “non vegetarian food, as now Kevin Rudd is also coming”.
Rudd has denied ever meeting Epstein, and his office said there was never “direct contact between Jeffrey Epstein and either Dr Rudd or his office”.
