Jeffrey Epstein’s shopping list paints a horrific picture of what was going on behind closed doors.
The pedophile, who died by suicide in his New York prison cell in August 2019, made a number of purchases from the online retail giant, many of which cause a shudder in retrospect. First of all, there are his book purchases, which highlight his interest in the Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov is best known for his 1955 book Lolita, which follows the story of a pedophile who falls in love with a 12-year-old girl.
Epstein, who grimly christened his private jet ’the Lolita Express’, purchased Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature, as well as Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov’s Prose, by David H. J. Larmour. There are also explicit reads, with the convicted sex offender purchasing a book called Justine in 2016. Published in 1791, it includes graphic depictions of rape and torture and ultimately led to author Marquis De Sade being arrested and imprisoned, on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The disgraced financier also bought titles like The Stranger Beside Me, the 1980 autobiographical true crime book by Ann Rule, who knew serial killer Ted Bundy personally before his depravity was exposed. It’s not hard to see why Epstein may have been drawn to the story of an outwardly successful man concealing his true monstrous self behind a thin veneer of charm.
On July 8, 2016, Epstein purchased Lying by neuroscientist Sam Harris, a long-form essay book which argues that "we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie".
In amongst the true crime, life advice, and controversial literature is the 2016 paperback Nobody Likes A C*ckblock. Written by R. Swanson and illustrated by Jess Jansen, the tome is packed with adult humour but designed to look like a children’s book. The front cover shows an adult bear reading a story to a young bear tucked up in bed.
Books aside, Epstein also made purchases for children’s clothes. On February 19, 2018, he purchased two sets of girls’ uniforms, one beige with a ‘school pleated hem’, and the other white and black with a polo neck. The description and comments on the site make it clear these are intended as uniforms for young, school-aged girls.
Perhaps even more disturbingly, on June 28, 2017, Epstein ordered a pack of Gerber Baby Girls sleeper suits. This was not the only purchase of an item intended for very young children, with a set of Bright Starts Grab and Stack Blocks delivered to New York the following month.
A number of purchases made by Epstein are explicitly sexual in nature. One purchase was made in 2017 for Vagifirm, a supplement intended for ‘vaginal tightening’. In 2014, he bought a ‘Portable Fitness Exercise Exotic Stripper Strip Spinning Pole’, and in 2016, he bought a leather whip. Other items were simply bizarre, including a Brass & Leather Sailor Look Brass Antique Sea Marine Telescope, an embroidered sombrero, and microscopic cameras.
These disturbing revelations come as US representatives who gained access to the unredacted Epstein files for the very first time have spoken out about their findings. Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, said this week that the files contained several previously unreported young victims, one as young as nine years old.
According to Raskin, one document contains 18 redactions, four of which are men born before 1970. Raskin said: "You read through these files, and you read about 15-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls. I saw a mention of a 9-year-old girl today. I mean, this is just preposterous and scandalous,"
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The names of six men, which include one foreign government official, were redacted in the publicly released material, with Republican lawmaker Thomas Massie asserting that these individuals were "likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files". Meanwhile, calling for greater transparency, Ro Khanna, a Democrat, argued there was "no explanation why those people were redacted".
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