{"id":20250,"date":"2026-02-06T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2026\/02\/06\/epstein-says-he-is-asked-every-day-for-advice-on-metoo-so-many-men-contact-me-jeffrey-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:19:00","slug":"epstein-says-he-is-asked-every-day-for-advice-on-metoo-so-many-men-contact-me-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/2026\/02\/06\/epstein-says-he-is-asked-every-day-for-advice-on-metoo-so-many-men-contact-me-jeffrey-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein says he is asked ‘every day’ for advice on #MeToo: ‘So many men contact me’ | Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In August 2018, as the #MeToo movement spread across social media and women around the world demanded justice for sexual predators, journalist Michael Wolff turned to Jeffrey Epstein for help. Wolff wanted Epstein to support writer Stephen Elliott, who is suing the founder of the Shitty Media Men List, a crowdsourced Google Doc detailing anonymous misconduct claims against dozens of men in the media industry.<\/p>\n

According to emails released from the so-called Epstein files, Wolff wrote to Epstein: \u201cI have always thought that the way out of this situation is through concrete examples of individuals successfully confronting their own persecution. \u201cIf his story is solid, he may be worth supporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first, Epstein didn’t move. In a one-word email with no punctuation, the convicted sex offender responded: \u201cIt\u2019s hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about it some more, if you will,\u201d wrote Wolff, who originally received Elliott\u2019s suggestion through Lorin Stein, a former editor of the prestigious Paris Review and another name on the Shitty Media Men List. \u201cI think there is an opportunity here. All you need is an excuse or an opportunity to make your case publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll help you anyway, if you want,\u201d Epstein said.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, Elliott sued Moira Donegan, founder of the Shitty Media Men List.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Michael Wolff attending an event held at 92NY in March 2025. <\/span> Photo: Theo Wargo\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This chain of communications, from Elliott to Stein, Stein to Wolff, and Wolff to Epstein, is just one of many exchanges unearthed as the Trump administration staggered release of Epstein files involving Epstein and men accused of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

There is no evidence that either Stein or Elliott knew that their communications had been passed on to Epstein or that Wolff had attempted to enlist Epstein’s support, or that the two men personally communicated with Epstein.<\/p>\n

But the emails, texts and other documents included in the press release show that Epstein participated in the #MeToo movement and that its people succumbed to it. In some cases, convicted child sex offenders and elite groups have strategized on how to blunt the power of the #MeToo movement and the women who promoted it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many men are obsessed with me, reaching out to me and asking when the madness will stop,\u201d Epstein wrote to one recipient whose identity has been redacted in December 2018. (The Guardian quotes most of his emails, texts and contact details as written, with adjustments made for clarity.)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun,\u201d Epstein added.<\/p>\n

Elliott did not respond to a request for comment. In a September 2018 essay, Elliott said she was shocked to learn she had been accused of rape by a "loud list of media men,” denied the allegations of wrongdoing and denied having had a sexual relationship with anyone who worked in the media. Elliott and Donegan, now a columnist for the Guardian, reached an agreement in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no idea that Epstein was aware of this incident,\u201d Donegan said in an email. \u201cI learned of his exchange yesterday morning.\u201d "But now, after reading the conversation between Epstein, Wolff, Stein and Elliott, I can say that it is no mystery to me why someone like Mr. Epstein would be interested in a lawsuit against me and why he would want to help with that lawsuit. I think the emails speak for themselves.”<\/p>\n

Stein, who was not involved in Elliott’s lawsuit and declined to speak on the record, resigned from the Paris Review in 2017 following a workplace investigation by the Shitty Media Men List. At the time, Stein said the sexual activity was consensual but that his actions were "an abuse of my position.”<\/p>\n

Some of Epstein’s interactions with his rich and famous associates have previously been made public. But the release on Friday of 3 million additional records relating to the financier, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, widened the window on Epstein’s efforts to track and respond to the #MeToo movement. It also provides a startling picture of many prominent people who wanted to complain that the movement had gone too far against Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor.<\/p>\n

In a series of emails in November 2017, Epstein and celebrity publicist Peggy Siegal expressed surprise at the speed with which #MeToo was destroying the reputations of men like Charlie Rose, Harvey Weinstein, Brett Ratner and Louis CK.<\/p>\n

"Charlie, Harvey, Brett. Lewis. . Jeffrey is looking better and better L:),” Epstein wrote to Siegal.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Peggy Siegel in 2024.<\/span> Photo: Patrick McMullan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

"I KNOW!!!! The world is chaotic. It’s been happening since the beginning of time (and that’s no excuse). It’s in our time when so much global information has suddenly emerged with new norms of behavior,” Siegal responded. She added: \u201cYou have suffered for years and now you are the least in this witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another email exchange between the two, Epstein complained that he did not understand why the reporter for the Page Six article, which had called Epstein a "wronged billionaire pedophile,” was so hostile. Siegal advised Epstein to donate to women.<\/p>\n

"MeToo crazy people want blood and death. It’s a barbaric response to the action that just went on,” she wrote. She continued, "I spoke to you to give back. Have you ever set up a scholarship? To help women’s health? To care for single mothers? Anything? That would make you a hero.”<\/p>\n

A request for comment sent to Siegel’s company email address was returned, and the company’s phone number was disconnected. In 2020, Siegal claimed in an interview with Vanity Fair that he did not know Epstein well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never been involved in his personal life,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know anything about those girls. I knew absolutely nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noam Chomsky, one of America’s top public intellectuals of 2019, advised Epstein to ignore "the appalling way you are being treated in the media and in the public,” according to a signed email Epstein sent to his publicist. Epstein sent the email in February 2019, about three months after the Miami Herald published its investigation into Epstein’s 2008 conviction, which brought his name into the broader public consciousness.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein in a photo released by the House Oversight Committee.<\/span> Photo: Epstein Estate\/House Oversight\/Zuma Press Wire\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhat the vultures want most is public reaction,\u201d Chomsky wrote. \u201cThis is especially true now, as hysteria over the abuse of women grows to the point where even questioning the allegations becomes a crime worse than murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chomsky, 97, and his wife did not respond to requests for comment. When the Harvard Crimson asked Chomsky in 2023 about his relationship with Epstein, Chomsky said in part, "I’ve never stopped to talk about close friends who spent years in prison and then were released. That’s a very normal thing in a free society.”<\/p>\n

Wolff and Epstein also appeared to respond to the #MeToo movement in December 2017. Because Wolff was worried that "this new round of Woody” (ostensibly in reference to the resurfaced allegations against Woody Allen) would "pull him into the general Harvey pool of despising and shunning him.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are strange times.\u201d Epstein answered. \u201cI still have two more friends left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolf did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Wolff’s apparent suggestion that defendants file lawsuits has proven prescient, as defamation lawsuits have become a major feature of the backlash against #MeToo. As of last year, nearly a fifth of the more than 400 cases supported by the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, a post-MeToo organization that helps people who have survived sexual harassment in the workplace, involved defending people accused of defamation.<\/p>\n

Epstein also emailed Joi Ito, a prominent technologist, about #MeToo. \u201cWith all these people getting arrested for harassment, my reputation has gone up a little bit and I\u2019ve been getting requests for advice and stuff every day,\u201d Epstein boasted in a November 2017 email.<\/p>\n

Ito, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, lost his job as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Institute in September 2019 after admitting to receiving more than $1 million from Epstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any conversation with Epstein, I have never been involved, have never heard him say anything, and have never seen evidence of the horrific acts of which he is accused,\u201d Ito said in an August 2019 statement. \u201cHowever, I take full responsibility for any errors in judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

An investigation by Buzzfeed News found that Epstein may have been most involved in efforts by famed scientist Lawrence Krauss to defend himself after Krauss, a star in atheist circles and a professor at Arizona State University, reportedly forcibly kissed a woman, groped her and made a sexist joke. Krause denied all the accusations against him, calling them "false, misleading and defamatory charges.” He suggested that people’s obsession with celebrities was to blame.<\/p>\n

Krauss was told by a Buzzfeed News reporter and an Arizona State University professor that he forwarded Epstein emails, discussed conversations with university officials, and even wanted Epstein to actually investigate a lawyer Krauss was planning to hire.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Lawrence Krause.<\/span> Photo: Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI received advice from a somewhat infamous friend before and after my BuzzFeed experience. His name is Jeffrey Epstein, and you probably already know who he is,\u201d Krauss wrote to attorney Justin Dillon in March 2018. \u201cThe point is that Jeffrey is not only friends with most famous people from finance, business, to Hollywood, but he also speaks regularly with people who have been let down during #metoo: the horrible White House people he is friends with, Ken Starr, etc.\u201d (Starr, who led the effort to investigate Bill Clinton over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, later served as president of Baylor University. He left the Texas school amid accusations that the university mishandled multiple sexual assault allegations and died in 2022. He and Epstein did indeed email.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI know who that person is. I would like to have a brief conversation with him.\u201d Dylan answered. I’m not sure if they ever spoke. Citing ethical obligations, Dylan declined to comment.<\/p>\n

After Epstein suggested to Krauss that Krauss not hire a lawyer to represent him directly, Dillon pushed back strongly. \u201cYou are getting terrible advice from smart people who have never done this and have no idea what they are talking about,\u201d Dillon wrote.<\/p>\n

Dillon declined to comment further on the email. \u201cI wish you could quote me where I told Dr. Krause that Jeffrey Epstein has no idea what he\u2019s talking about!\u201d he said via text. \u201cI, ah, support that opinion\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Krause did not respond to a request for comment. When some of his conversations with Epstein surfaced last year, he told The New York Times that he had never hidden his relationship with Epstein. Krause said that when she was accused of sexual assault, she "asked advice from everyone I knew.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAs it should be noted, none of my communications with Epstein are in any way related to the horrific crimes for which he was accused in 2019,\u201d Krause said. \u201cI was as shocked as everyone else when he was arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September 2018, Krause sent Epstein a letter with good news. A woman on a college committee said, "She looks like a baby… but she’s older… she’s not a young me-too bitch.”<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, Krause announced his retirement from Arizona State University. The university concluded that he grabbed the woman’s breasts. \u201cTo be clear, I have never harassed or assaulted anyone, and I have not shown any gender discrimination in my professional dealings at the university or anywhere else,\u201d Krause said in a statement posted on the platform now known as X.<\/p>\n

Krauss workshopped the statement with Epstein.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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