A month old but still relevant to Epstein sh-t. From Bloomberg.
The Network -- Who helped Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein’s private emails show the support and advice the disgraced financier got in his “hour of terror.”
By Max Abelson, Surya Mattu, Jason Leopold, Ava Benny-Morrison, Harry Wilson, Jeff Kao and Dhruv Mehrotra
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM UTC
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bloomberg.com
brief excerpt:
When investigators were closing in on Jeffrey Epstein, he thought about saying sorry. Merrie Spaeth, a sought-after crisis strategist who once served as the director of media relations for Ronald Reagan’s White House, helped him pick his words.
She sent Epstein three versions of a public apology in February 2008, according to emails obtained by Bloomberg News. The first was meek: “As a child growing up, I was taught to apologize,” it read. “I fervently hope it will be acceptable for me to simply offer to the community my apologies for associating with young women who turned out to be under the age of eighteen.” The second, at just 33 words, offered little more than a “wish to apologize” and a vow to “conduct myself appropriately in the future.” The third, elegiac and cultured, opened with ideas from philosopher William James about the “hour of terror and the hour of satiety.” It described the “substantial” rewards Epstein had reaped by chasing the American dream, evoked introspection—“I’ve been forced to ask myself what’s important”— and culminated in a “public and heartfelt apology.” He had a clear favorite:
From: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
To: [REDACTED] <[REDACTED]>
Date: Tue, Feb 26 2008 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: letters
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Four months later, he pleaded guilty to two Florida state charges, felony solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to engage in prostitution, and was taken into custody to serve a sentence that lasted just over a year. Over the next decade, he never made any broad public apology of the sort the three drafts envisioned. The emails from Spaeth, whose connection to Epstein hasn’t been described publicly, span only a few weeks and don’t make clear what happened to the apologies she prepared. Spaeth’s firm was hired through a lawyer “to provide communications options for Mr. Epstein and his legal team,” she said in response to questions for this story. “I ultimately terminated the engagement because of my discomfort with it.”
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