Hugh Hefner tried to warn the FBI about Epstein — new docs show they ignored him
6 days ago by shish_mish to c/news
He had a kink for the blonde bombshells/pinup girls of his youth. Full bodied women with a "girl next door" quality (his gross words, not mine). Epstein and Trump preferred jailbait. Where Hefner liked sex with women he objectified, Epstein and Trump liked to rape, abuse and have power over girls. In my opinion, Hefner was gross, but Epstein and Trump are evil.
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not a fan of Heffner, but to equate him to Epstein and Trump waters down the gravity of what Epstein and Trump did. That's why I make the distinction.
"barely legal" is such a disingenuous attack.
Is it legal? Yes. What's the problem? Something will always be "barely legal". Even if we decide that it's immoral and make it illegal, something else will still always be "barely legal".
If you think something is immoral, then just say so. If a bunch of consenting adults do something that doesn't harm anyone, mind your own business.
Barely Legal was published Larry Flynt i think.
Well thats a depressing thought but it sounds plausible.
Reported to FBI in 2005, didn’t hear back until 2020. So that’s Robert Mueller, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe as directors during those 15 years FBI ignored her. It was three years into Chris Wray’s tenure that she finally got a call back. And a year after the perp DIED. Jesus fuckin Christ
Yeah, when it comes to Epstein, multiple presidents from both parties have some splainin to do.
they were definitely slow-walking it, under biden too.
Yeah it seems the fbi, or someone even higher up, were under Epsteins thumb. Going by the comments in here most people won’t like this, but Trump reported Epstein and Maxwell to the FBI in 2006 as well:
"Listen, I'm Hugh Hefner, but that guy is DEPRAVED!"
They knew. They didn't investigate on purpose. Fucking conspiracy theorists went crazy thinking there was a child trafficking ring in the basement on a one story pizzeria, but now gobble their cucklord's pedophilic nuts
That's because it was never about the paedophilia, the only reason they worked themselves into a lather is because they thought it was a Democrat run child trafficking ring. Accuse a Republican of literally anything and they don't give a shit but the second you accuse a Democrat of so much as jaywalking and they'll turn it into a national emergency.
During Trump's first term it came out that Roy Moore, an Alabama Republican running for Senate, was a rapist and a pedophile (naturally he was Trump's endorsed candidate).
Not only did Moore not drop out of the race, he almost won the election. And he only lost because enough Democrats showed up to vote for his opponent - the Republican voters still mostly supported Moore even after he admitted to going after teenagers.
i remember that election, it was insane how much support he still had, and the msms immediately shut up about reporting on moore.
accuse a Democrat of so much as jaywalking and they’ll turn it into a national emergency
Or wearing a tan suit.
also so many billionaires funding dinos and gop are in to, to expose them would end that money train, thats why they have the MSMs running inteference.
Looking at the Instagram of James Alefantis, it most certainly was about paedophilia. He has been protected just like Epstein.
my money's on it was a honeypot run by israel to entrap us leaders, was wildly successful beyond the wildest expectations, the fbi caught on to it after a bit and rather than, y'know, doing the right thing, they decided they wanted to also have the dirt on the us leadership.
in which the ruling class installed the FBI heads themselves. epstein was more of a liability than ghislaine, because he was the head of the operation.
They still aren't doing that, quite the opposite, in fact, which shows who's really running the U.S. and what a farce this so called democracy is—the very democracy they supposedly always defend around the world. For example, in Israel, which also had the very best connections to Epstein, as evidenced even by the little information that the so-called U.S. law enforcement agencies are willing to disclose.
I despise Hefner usually, this is the first time I can think of where he's been somewhat honorable.
How disgusting is that? Hefner was actually too good to hang out with Epstein, Trump, Clinton, et al
We all can and should shit on Hugh Hefner, but one thing he wasn’t was stupid. Apparently another thing he wasn’t was a child rapist.
Good on you Hef for not being the biggest piece of shit alive, at the time, I guess
I think I remember this from a Behind the Bastards episode from way back when, maybe 2020.
Or maybe I'm confusing two BtB stories, in any case in one Playboy helped the abused & exploited woman become independent and also gave emotional support. (or was it You're Wrong About? Damn.)
In any case, the true Epstein story was known for basically ever (even before Q-Anon) and he was just never investigated properly, even though multiple victims came forward ages ago. Which is somehow even more shocking.
His (first) time in jail was a joke btw, he was allowed to go home to do office work every day...
Clearly, there was a lot more going on than we've ever been told, and it was well-known at the highest level of our government for multiple administrations from BOTH parties. Both sides covered this up, and are STILL covering it up.
We need to expose ever tiny detail, and destroy whoever gets destroyed. It's time to clean house of many years of accumulated scum, and if it destroys reputations and careers, that's too bad. That's what you get for covering for MONSTERS.
it was well-known at the highest level of our government
It was public. Robert Evans could make a well-researched episode about him in 2019, with public sources that reach much further back.
Or we can just make your government irrelevant by allowing America's economic, cultural and geopolitical power to collapse. That seems like the more likely option.
why was it his responsibility? he passed the knowledge onto the proper authorities. he did the right thing.
maybe he didn't want to jeopardize an investigation by publishing hearsay. maybe he thought they were investigating.
what a silly comment. lol @ the upvotes.
I would argue that it was his responsibility as a publisher. Otherwise, what's the point of hiring journalists?
The reason a free press is important in a democracy is to hold the proper authorities responsible when they don't do their job.
Same reason nobody else really has, they're vicious gangsters, they kill innocent people. If they rape children en masse they have no qualms killing an investigator.
I'm not sure people would had respected a piece of proper journalism published in PlayBoy
I'm very sure you're wrong. From the briefest of searches:
Hugh Hefner’s Playboy did a lot of great journalism. Here are a few highlights.
Especially a piece of proper journalism in a sexual impropriety publication, calling someone out for sexual impropriety...🤔 Yeah I'm afraid it wouldn't've landed right.
Here is the text for anyone here in the comments:
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner notified the FBI of Jeffrey Epstein and reported that a Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by the late financier, according to new court documents reported this week.
The FBI reportedly ignored several of Hefner's tips about Epstein for 15 years, according to NewsNation.
Court records show that Audra Christiansen, a former Playboy Playmate, told Hefner in 2005 that she was an Epstein survivor and asked Hefner to contact the FBI. She suggested that authorities would be more likely to take his call over hers because of his status.
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Hefner died in 2017 at age 91.
Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown, in her Substack, reported on the legal complaint, which was filed by 34 Epstein survivors against the United States in the Southern District of Florida.
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In the court document, the FBI agreed to assist Christiansen and investigate her claims. But Christiansen apparently did not hear from the FBI until October 2020.
"For about fifteen years, the FBI did not investigate Ms. Christiansen’s tips or follow up on her allegations," according to the court documents.
The documents revealed that Christiansen met the late convicted child sex offender, and "before she knew it she was naked and raped by Epstein" and "trafficked for 10 years."
"The complaint alleges the FBI did not investigate the model’s claim and by not doing 'violated mandatory policies and protocols requiring it to investigate claims, like Ms. Christiansen’s, of child sexual abuse and trafficking' and 'failing to investigate credible tips, such as Ms. Christiansen’s allegations, the FBI created a foreseeable zone of risk to future victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking enterprise, including Plaintiffs,'" NewsNation reported.
No shit... Espstein is a part of same the FBI and CIA play.
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The kicker is that Hugh Hefner was a god awful person him self. If someone like him saw red flags with Epstein then they must have been unimaginably horrific.
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