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As investigators closed in on predator Jeffrey Epstein in the late 2000s, he briefly considered issuing a public apology for his criminal behavior, Knewz.com can report. Newly obtained emails show he turned to a high-profile communications advisor to help him craft the words.
The apology drafts
Merrie Spaeth, a crisis strategist who once served as director of media relations for President Ronald Reagan’s White House, prepared three versions of a potential public apology for the predator. The drafts, sent in February 2008 and uncovered by Bloomberg News among an archive of Epstein emails, reveal the late financier’s fleeting contemplation of contrition. The first attempt was meek. “As a child growing up, I was taught to apologize. I fervently hope it will be acceptable for me to simply offer to the community my apologies for associating with young women…” The second mea culpa draft was a limited 33-word version, expressing little beyond a “wish to apologize” and a promise to “conduct myself appropriately in the future.” The third draft was far more elaborate. Drawing on ideas from philosopher William James about the “hour of terror and the hour of satiety,” it reflected on the “substantial” rewards Epstein had gained pursuing the American dream, noted he had been “forced to ask myself what’s important” and culminated in a “public and heartfelt apology.”
Trove of 18,000 emails
Four months after the drafts were circulated, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to felony solicitation and another crime. He was sentenced to just over a year in jail after negotiating a plea deal and was allowed to serve his time in a work-release program. Despite preparing the drafts, Epstein — who was arrested again in 2019, the same year he died in a New York jail while awaiting trial on trafficking charges — never delivered a broad public apology of the kind initially envisioned. Spaeth later explained her limited involvement, saying her firm had been hired through a lawyer “to provide communications options for Mr. Epstein and his legal team.” She added, “I ultimately terminated the engagement because of my discomfort with it.” Her connection to Epstein, previously undisclosed, appears only briefly in the trove of more than 18,000 emails obtained from the financier’s Yahoo account. The cache provides sweeping details of his public and private lives — his calculated recruitment of potential victims, his deep partnership with co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and more.
Epstein’s powerful allies
The emails also shed light on Epstein’s lesser-known but vital relationships with powerful allies. When his legal troubles mounted, he called on a network that included lawyers, academics, media advisors and even former and future White House officials. His circle also included a Hollywood publicist, a former prosecutor and acclaimed researchers, including one who went on to win a Nobel Prize.
Charmed life
Epstein’s wealth — built after leaving Bear Stearns in 1981 to advise the ultrarich — funded a lifestyle filled with private-jet travel, ownership of one of Manhattan’s largest townhouses and even his own Caribbean island. After Palm Beach, Fla., police received a tip from a girl’s family, leading to an investigation into his behavior, Epstein didn’t rely on a single defender. Instead, he assembled a team of elite professionals who, as the emails suggest, defended and deflected, coached and polished — thereby helping to prolong his influence and freedom. That support, the Justice Department later noted, shielded a man who allegedly harmed more than 1,000 people. His reckoning was delayed until 2019, when federal prosecutors charged him with trafficking. Just a month later, while awaiting trial, Epstein was found dead.
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