# Jeffrey Epstein Wasn't Rich. But the Secret Zionist Club That Funded Him Was.
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Publisher: The Pugilist with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez · published 2026-04-01 · read 2026-09-12

Original: https://alisav.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-wasnt-rich-but-the

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## Who is named (22)

- [Judaism](https://truthscore.com/entity/082526d1)
- [Nazi regime](https://truthscore.com/entity/1831de2d)
- [Jeffrey Epstein](https://truthscore.com/entity/1e6a5f26)
- [Meyer Lansky](https://truthscore.com/entity/3b07491e)
- [Charles Bronfman](https://truthscore.com/entity/4b6cc5c6)
- [Palestinians](https://truthscore.com/entity/4eb6a2b4)
- [Edgar Bronfman](https://truthscore.com/entity/599c98f5)
- [MEGA](https://truthscore.com/entity/5be13faf)
- [Birthright Taglit](https://truthscore.com/entity/61ecde80)
- [Benjamin Netanyahu](https://truthscore.com/entity/692c1f16)
- [Zionism](https://truthscore.com/entity/70a8eac9)
- [Robert Maxwell](https://truthscore.com/entity/78b2f2bf)
- [Leslie Wexner](https://truthscore.com/entity/83c70ca2)
- [Israel](https://truthscore.com/entity/9e6b26cf)
- [Hillel International](https://truthscore.com/entity/a0f4a2d2)
- [Mossad](https://truthscore.com/entity/af0a724a)
- [Oslo Accords](https://truthscore.com/entity/b2544c4d)
- [Michael Steinhardt](https://truthscore.com/entity/c899a93f)
- [Wall Street Journal investigation (1998)](https://truthscore.com/entity/e082d8c0)
- [Yitzhak Shamir](https://truthscore.com/entity/e0fb1177)
- [Shimon Peres](https://truthscore.com/entity/e492d04e)
- [Washington Institute for Near East Policy](https://truthscore.com/entity/fa187dcb)

## What it added

- [Epstein was a co‑opted Mossad agent](https://truthscore.com/claim/7dd9bbd5)
  > Epstein was a “co‑opted Mossad agent.”
- [Zionism is a political ideology, not a religion.](https://truthscore.com/claim/57a3b124)
  > Zionism is a political ideology, not a religion and not a religious ideology.
- [Israel is a nation‑state, founded in 1948, currently governed by a right‑wing nationalist coalition led by Zionists.](https://truthscore.com/claim/a8c7d779)
  > Israel is a nation‑state, founded in 1948, currently governed by a right‑wing nationalist coalition led by Zionists.
- [The Holocaust resulted in the systematic murder of six million Jewish men, women, and children by the Nazi regime.](https://truthscore.com/claim/c6f2f9a4)
  > The Holocaust was one of the most monstrous crimes in human history. Six million Jewish men, women, and children were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime — gassed, shot, starved, worked to death — in an industrial program of genocide without modern parallel.
- [The Zionist Israeli political project has, for decades, used the Holocaust as a shield to deflect accountability for the displacement, occupation, and…](https://truthscore.com/claim/3b1f7133)
  > The Zionist Israeli political project has, for decades, used the Holocaust as a shield — invoking the memory of Jewish suffering to deflect accountability for the displacement, occupation, and genocidal killing of Palestinian people.
- [Les Wexner co‑founded the Study Group, which later became the Mega Group.](https://truthscore.com/claim/365dc6b7)
  > In 1991 — the same year Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Israeli asset Robert Maxwell, fell from his yacht into the Atlantic and was buried in Jerusalem with six heads of Israeli intelligence in attendance — two North American billionaires quietly founded what they called the Study Group. These men were Leslie Wexner, who would become Jeffrey Epstein’s sole known financial patron, and Charles Bronfman, heir to the Seagram liquor empire.
- [Charles Bronfman co‑founded the Study Group.](https://truthscore.com/claim/78988cf2)
  > These men were Leslie Wexner, who would become Jeffrey Epstein’s sole known financial patron, and Charles Bronfman, heir to the Seagram liquor empire.
- [The Study Group was a by‑invitation‑only consortium of roughly twenty of the wealthiest Jewish businessmen in North America, with membership dues starting at…](https://truthscore.com/claim/74a0a7a0)
  > Their “Study Group” was a by‑invitation‑only consortium of roughly twenty of the wealthiest Jewish businessmen in North America. They met twice yearly, behind closed doors, with membership dues starting at $30,000 a year — equal to about $72,000 in 2026.
- [The public did not learn of the Study Group’s existence for seven years.](https://truthscore.com/claim/8eafb3b0)
  > The public didn’t learn The Study Group existed for seven years. And that’s exactly what the members of the Mega Group want.
- [A 1998 Wall Street Journal investigation first brought the Mega Group to public attention.](https://truthscore.com/claim/075bcd7f)
  > A 1998 Wall Street Journal investigation first brought the Mega Group to public attention.
- [Members of the Mega Group included Edgar Bronfman, Charles Schusterman, Harvey “Bud” Meyerhoff, Laurence Tisch, Max Fisher, Steven Spielberg, and Les Wexner.](https://truthscore.com/claim/5b48f75d)
  > The names of the members were extraordinary. They included: Edgar Bronfman, chairman of the World Jewish Congress; Charles Schusterman of Samson Investment; Harvey “Bud” Meyerhoff, Baltimore real estate magnate; Laurence Tisch, chairman of Loews Corporation (who, like Donald Barr — the man who gave Epstein his first job — served in the OSS, the wartime precursor to the CIA); Max Fisher, Detroit oil magnate and Republican Party powerhouse; Steven Spielberg, the film director; and Les Wexner — who by then had already handed an unknown college dropout named Jeffrey Epstein the keys to a Manhattan townhouse reportedly rigged with hidden surveillance cameras in every room and said to be the largest private residence in Manhattan, and given him power of attorney over his personal finances.
- [Les Wexner gave Jeffrey Epstein the keys to a Manhattan townhouse and power of attorney over his personal finances.](https://truthscore.com/claim/24d0d710)
  > Les Wexner … handed an unknown college dropout named Jeffrey Epstein the keys to a Manhattan townhouse reportedly rigged with hidden surveillance cameras in every room … and given him power of attorney over his personal finances.
- [Jeffrey Epstein was presented as a wealthy financier, but was actually the public face of a secret Zionist boys’ club.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3b458986)
  > I believe, as many others do, that Jeffrey Epstein was presented as a wealthy financier, when in fact he was simply the public face of a secret Zionist boys’ club that was quietly providing him with everything he needed to do the dirtiest of the dirty work they wanted doing, to make sure Israel could grow in power and remain powerful.
- [John Kiriakou said Epstein’s relationship with Les Wexner was a long‑term intelligence operation.](https://truthscore.com/claim/87f39bfb)
  > Kiriakou also described Epstein’s Wexner relationship not as philanthropy or friendship but as a long‑term intelligence operation.
- [Maria Farmer testified that the network was a blackmail operation to gain leverage over global elites for the benefit of Israel, and identified Les Wexner as…](https://truthscore.com/claim/29a976d9)
  > Epstein survivor Maria Farmer has been more direct than almost anyone. In her testimony, she described the network as a blackmail operation intended to gain leverage over global elites for the benefit of Israel, and identified Wexner as its backbone and primary enabler.
- [Ari Ben‑Menashe said he encountered Jeffrey Epstein in Robert Maxwell’s office in the 1980s.](https://truthscore.com/claim/940f91d0)
  > Former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben‑Menashe told multiple outlets that he encountered Epstein in Robert Maxwell’s office in the 1980s — meaning Epstein knew Robert before he knew Ghislaine, contradicting her sworn statements to the FBI that her father never met Epstein and that she herself met him through a friend who was dating him at the time.
- [Robert Maxwell’s funeral was attended by multiple Israeli prime ministers, with Shimon Peres delivering the eulogy and Yitzhak Shamir speaking at the graveside.](https://truthscore.com/claim/42c586ad)
  > Robert Maxwell’s funeral drew multiple Israeli prime ministers, with Shimon Peres delivering the eulogy. At the graveside, then‑Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said Maxwell “has done more for Israel than can today be said.”
- [The last known meeting of the Mega Group took place at Edgar Bronfman’s Manhattan mansion on May 3–4, 2001.](https://truthscore.com/claim/1083397d)
  > The last known meeting of the Mega Group occurred at the Manhattan mansion of Edgar Bronfman on May 3–4, 2001.
- [The 2008 plea deal that set Jeffrey Epstein free was handed down by a prosecutor who said Epstein belonged to intelligence and should be left alone.](https://truthscore.com/claim/67a7b4a2)
  > We will look at the plea deal that set Epstein free in 2008, handed down by a prosecutor who admitted he was told Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to leave it alone.
- [The Oslo Accords were brokered by a man financially entangled with Jeffrey Epstein and listed as a $10 million beneficiary in his will.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3686fd07)
  > We will look at the Oslo Accords, brokered by a man now known to have been financially entangled with Epstein and listed as a $10 million beneficiary in his will.
- [Whitney Webb established that several Mega Group members had documented ties to organized crime.](https://truthscore.com/claim/c8f45d56)
  > Investigative journalist Whitney Webb, whose 2019 MintPress News series and subsequent two‑volume book One Nation Under Blackmail remains the most thoroughly documented accounting of this network, established that several of the most prominent Mega Group members had documented ties to organized crime stretching back generations.
- [Michael Steinhardt’s father was a mob associate of Meyer Lansky.](https://truthscore.com/claim/9d9c2ee6)
  > Michael Steinhardt’s father was a mob associate of Meyer Lansky, one of the most powerful figures in twentieth‑century American organized crime.
- [The Bronfman empire built its early fortune through Prohibition‑era liquor distribution networks heavily intertwined with bootlegging.](https://truthscore.com/claim/155ee2d6)
  > The Bronfman empire built its early fortune through Prohibition‑era liquor distribution networks heavily intertwined with bootlegging.
- [Birthright Taglit was co‑founded by Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt with the backing of Benjamin Netanyahu.](https://truthscore.com/claim/5d6ab3d4)
  > The group also funded causes that are harder to dismiss as mere charity. Mega Group members Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt co‑founded Birthright Taglit with the backing of Benjamin Netanyahu.
- [Multiple Mega Group members sat on the board of WINEP.](https://truthscore.com/claim/2a2e2c58)
  > Multiple members also sat on the board of WINEP — the Washington Institute for Near East Policy — which shapes U.S. foreign policy thinking on the Middle East to this day.
- [John Schindler argued that Jeffrey Epstein operated within a broader Israeli covert action framework.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d847ef96)
  > Former NSA counterintelligence officer John Schindler has argued that Epstein operated within a broader Israeli covert action framework, stressing the link to Wexner and suggesting that Congress or serious investigative reporters should use the Mega Group as a starting point — not an ending point.
- [The Mega Group was at minimum the social and financial substrate in which Jeffrey Epstein’s world grew.](https://truthscore.com/claim/70748a4b)
  > The Mega Group was, at minimum, the social and financial substrate in which Epstein’s world grew.
- [Judaism is one of the world’s oldest religions, spanning more than three thousand years.](https://truthscore.com/claim/1bbeda70)
  > Judaism is one of the world’s oldest religions, a faith tradition spanning more than three thousand years, encompassing Torah, Talmud, prayer, ethical obligation, and a profound civilization of thought, art, and moral philosophy.
- [The Mega Group may still be operating quietly, allowing Epstein’s frontman to take the fall.](https://truthscore.com/claim/b382458b)
  > It appears to have been the funding and influence architecture for a coordinated operation that stretched from New York to Tel Aviv to a ranch in the New Mexico desert, and which, by many estimations, might still be in quiet operation as it allows its perverse frontman to take the fall.

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