Jeffrey Epstein's Former Mentor Reveals Incriminating Tapes Exist — But Deep-State Cabal Buried Them

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Jeffrey Epstein mysteriously perished in jail six years ago — but sources say the deep-state cabal that controlled him is still covering up video evidence implicating the international power brokers entangled in his illicit sex trafficking web.
In a deathbed confession, financier Steven Hoffenberg — who mentored the moneyman during the 1980s before cooperating with the FBI — said the shadowy group tasked Epstein and his now-imprisoned sidekick, Ghislaine Maxwell, with ensnaring global bigwigs in a vast blackmailing scheme.
'Wherever Epstein was entertaining he [and Ghislaine] were taping,' said Hoffenberg, who asked the National Enquirer not to publish what he knew about the cabal until three years after his death, which occurred in August 2022.
'They were sending video footage to the cabal every week,' Hoffenberg told the Enquirer.
Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and conspiracy linked to Epstein's sexual abuse of female minors, remains the only person besides her late boss who was charged in the case.
According to Hoffenberg, the socialite was responsible for emailing or personally delivering the secretly recorded honey-trap videos to the pair's powerful overlords.
He added that exposure of these tapes would be 'the mother lode of damning evidence, which would take down many of the world's most powerful men and shatter the secret cabal that Epstein reported to.'
Last month, Maxwell was reportedly granted limited immunity before being grilled over two days about Epstein's activities by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Maxwell's attorneys are seeking to secure immunity for her in exchange for testifying before Congress about her side of the story — and insist she will finally invoke her Fifth Amendment rights if her demands are not met.
'No one from the government has ever asked her to share what she knows — until now,' an insider says.
Sources have speculated that Epstein was linked to Israel's national intelligence agency Mossad through Ghislaine's late father, Robert, a publishing tycoon and suspected Israeli spy.
Epstein and Maxwell's alleged Mossad handler Ari Ben-Menashe claimed in an exclusive interview with the Enquirer that the disgraced duo 'were agents of the Israeli Intelligence Service.'
Ben-Menashe says, 'Epstein was the simple idiot who was … providing girls to all kinds of politicians.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett refuted the conspiracy on X as a 'vicious wave of slander and lies against' his country, adding, 'The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false.'
But as the Enquirer previously reported, federal agents seized more than 70 computers, iPads and hard drives from Epstein's homes in Manhattan and the U.S. Virgin Islands during raids in 2019.
'The FBI and the New York City police department have had the tapes since 2019,' Hoffenberg said.
Hoffenberg and John Mark Dougan, a former Palm Beach, Fla., deputy sheriff, both insisted the government buried evidence to protect Epstein's powerful pals, who included Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates — who have all denied any knowledge of his sketchy activities.
Still, one of Epstein's alleged victims told U.K.'s The Sun in 2020 that she accidentally walked into a television control room with multiple screens where Epstein and Maxwell were mockingly watching Prince Andrew frolicking with a girl.
'I don't know who the girl was on the video — but she was topless,' the woman told The Sun.
In June, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi opened a Pandora's box when she was caught on hidden camera by journalist James O'Keefe saying the FBI is combing through thousands of sex tapes recorded by Epstein.
But the DOJ and the FBI shockingly shut down the investigation in July, issuing a two-page memo claiming there is no evidence of an Epstein 'client list' or that he was blackmailing anyone.
The memo set off a firestorm of cover-up allegations against Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and his second-in-command Dan Bongino, who for years have demanded that the alleged child molesters be exposed and prosecuted.
Far-right activist Laura Loomer called for an independent investigation by a special counsel, while conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson alleged that 'every single person' in Washington, D.C., believes Epstein was a Mossad agent.
As Enquirer readers know, Epstein got a slap on the wrist in 2008 when he received an 18-month jail sentence for solicitation of prostitution, a deal orchestrated by then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta after local cops turned the case over to the FBI.
According to The Daily Beast, Acosta later claimed Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and that the decision to let him walk was made above his 'pay grade.'
Meanwhile, Loomer recently released a smoking-gun 2008 memo from the FBI's Miami office citing the case and stating: 'Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon.'
As the Enquirer previously reported, Epstein was found hanging from a bedsheet in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking. His death was officially ruled a suicide, but his brother, Mark, insisted to the Enquirer that his sibling was murdered.
Shortly after Epstein's passing, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr raised eyebrows when he ruled the death was self-inflicted — BEFORE an autopsy was performed, according to the Associated Press.
Barr then faced conflict-of-interest allegations when it was revealed that years earlier, the top prosecutor's father had hired Epstein as a teacher at New York's exclusive Dalton School, according to the New York Times.
Suspicions also spiked after two prison workers tasked with guarding Epstein before his death admitted they'd fallen asleep and were surfing the internet, but served no time for their actions — and upon the discovery that there was a missing minute in the released surveillance video recording outside Epstein's cell on the night before his body was found.
Investigative journalist Declan Hill recently asserted there was an extra prisoner counted on Epstein's prison wing at 10 p.m. on the evening he died, who was mysteriously missing from the 3 a.m. count, but added the DOJ said the 'ghost count' was a mistake.
'There is no question there are tapes,' Hoffenberg told the Enquirer. 'But the truth is, the government doesn't want to go after Epstein's powerful clients.
'Ghislaine can claim ownership of those tapes, and that's the ball game because they will expose what nobody wants to come to the surface.'
Hoffenberg also called the recordings a 'double-edged sword' for Maxwell because she may use them to negotiate a get-out-of-jail-free card — or they could provide more evidence that will saddle her with additional charges.
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