Good morning and Happy Monday. We are apparently at war with Iran now. We’ll get to all that in the coming days, but today I want to share what I learned diving into the Epstein Files over the weekend.

Saturday afternoon, I received a tip that there were some disturbing email exchanges in the Epstein Files between Jeffrey Epstein and #MeTooed scientist Lawrence Krauss, formerly of ASU. Krauss “retired” from ASU in 2019, a year after Buzzfeed revealed numerous allegations of sexual misconduct against him by multiple women.

For his part, Krauss denied the allegations with a white-hot indignation that could have fueled 1,000 suns. In fact, a 45-page letter Krauss wrote, which he believes exonerates him of wrongdoing, still lives on his personal website. I reached out to Krauss on Saturday (via a contact form on his site) and asked him to comment on what I found in the Epstein files. At the time of publication, Krauss had not responded.

The Epstein Files revealed that Krauss turned to Epstein for advice on how to navigate what he saw as an attack on his good name, as well as someone to finance his travels. A JMail search for the term “Krauss” turned up more than 5100 results. It appears that Krauss introduced fellow academic Noam Chomsky to Epstein in 2012. Chomsky kept in touch with Epstein, seeking financial advice from him on multiple occasions.

Here’s Noam Chomsky’s reply in 2018 to Epstein about an op-ed Epstein was considering submitting to the Washington Post to defend himself. Chomsky notes, “You’ve seen I’m sure what happened to Lawrence.”

You can read the full exchange here.

Anyway, the tip I received was about this email between Epstein and what appears to be a young woman, though we don’t know their relationship. Start at the bottom, where Epstein asks the woman, “Did you really take a shower in Krauss room in Arizona?” (sic)

Here’s the continuation of the conversation, where Epstein berates the person he’s talking to.

Notice this part from Epstein:

And here’s the remainder of the conversation, where Epstein continues to belittle her.

Gotta love the part where Epstein compares her taking a shower in Krauss’s room to “running over a child.”

For what it’s worth, there are a lot of emails between Epstein and what appear to be young women or girls in his employ, often with him mocking their intelligence, disobedience, or inability to do what he wants.

So, is that email actually about Lawrence Krauss having one of Epstein’s girls in his hotel room? Well, here’s what else I found.

The email between Epstein and the woman (we have no idea how old she is) was sent on March 28, 2015. On March 22, 2015, Epstein, Chomsky, and Krauss were all set to travel from Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico to Phoenix, where Krauss was hosting Chomsky at an event.

You can see the date on the screen here: 3.22.2055

There are dozens of emails between Epstein, his staff, and Krauss as they worked out the travel logistics for the event. Here’s one between Epstein and Krauss.

Here’s an email where the sender is redacted, but it looks identical to weekly calendars that Epstein got from his staff.

For those who are unaware, Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico is now being investigated for crimes related to the sex trafficking of young girls. It’s approximately 37 miles from Santa Fe.

So, we know that Krauss and Epstein (and Chomsky) commiserated about #MeToo and all the allegations that came to light. We know that Epstein, Chomsky, and Krauss were in Phoenix the weekend before Epstein sent the email to the young woman on March 28. And, we know that while Krauss’s wife was initially expected to attend, that changed immediately preceding the event.

“She’s also gorgeous, btw.”

But then…it appears Krauss’s wife, Nancy, whom he married in 2014 and who weighed in often on his reponses to the allegations against him at ASU, couldn’t make the trip.

We also know that both Chomsky and Krauss were staying at the Tempe Mission Palms, located about 10 miles from Phoenix.

And that Krauss checked into a hotel on the 21st of March, 2015.

This is important because, if you’ll recall from the exchange above, Epstein was chastising the young woman for not leaving her bags “at the front desk,” as instructed. This doesn’t make much sense if Krauss is staying at home, but it makes lots of sense when you know he was staying at the same hotel as Chomsky and his wife.

Also, having spent five days of my life reading emails written by Epstein, all with terrible grammar, punctuation, and argument/analysis, I can guarantee you that Epstein was not Chomsky’s favorite person to debate, though God only knows what they liked to talk about.

Obviously, we don’t know who the woman Epstein is emailing is, though the “ha scritto” that appears repeatedly on her emails gives some clues, as “ha scritto” is Italian for “wrote.” It appears she’s using an Italian language email platform. This is meaningful because there are emails between Epstein and others referencing a “little Italian girl.”

In fact, Epstein sent a photo of the “Iittle Italian girl” to an unknown recipient on the Friday ahead of the weekend he was to meet Krauss in New Mexico and fly together to Phoenix with Chomsky.

Again, we don’t know who Epstein was sending that image to.

There are numerous eyebrow-raising emails between Epstein and the professor unrelated to that weekend in Phoenix, including Krauss sending Epstein his then-25 year-old daughter’s resume in 2009, Krauss signing up for lunch with Epstein and Woody Allen in 2012…

…dinner with someone with the last name “Depp” in 2015…(Johnny Depp did a series of videos for Krauss’s Origins Center in 2016).

…Krauss begging Epstein to help him with the legal costs of defending himself against the #MeToo allegations leveled against him at at ASU in 2018.

And whatever this is.

But perhaps worse, there’s this exchange between Krauss, Epstein, and someone on Epstein’s staff about Krauss staying with him in NYC, and Epstein having to move women/girls out of their rooms to make a place for Krauss.

And the arrangements behind the scenes:

The “71st” Epstein is referencing his palatial townhouse on 71st Street in Manhattan. Given how tight Epstein and Krauss appear to be, and how often they spend time together, it seems suspect that Krauss wouldn’t have noted all the young women Epstein was shuffling to make space for him at the NYC townhouse.

I’ve spent several days sifting through Epstein’s emails, which are a nightmare to navigate. The emails between Krauss and Epstein begin in 2009 and go through March, 2019. Epstein was arrested in July of that year, and he died in his cell on August 10.

Got a tip about the Epstein files or anything else? Email me at [email protected].

I’m running out of room (apologies if Gmail clips this newsletter today), but I wanted to leave this here for you all to read.

Have all his advisors quit? Is there anyone giving this guy advice? What is happening?

Amen.

Each Day, I do my best to leave you with a smile on your face, a song in your heart, and the will to fight another day.

In honor of Tom Holland and Zendaya announcing they’re hitched, let’s all take a moment to remember the moment she fell for him right before our eyes.

Hey, survive and advance out there today, kids. Don’t let the bastards get you down.

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