I HAVE A MEMO TO EPSTEIN AND KEN STARR ABOUT HOW EPSTEIN SHOULD ACT TO FINESSE THE WHOLE PREDATOR PEDOPHILE THING
Right now I’m going deep into some Epstein files where, I suspect, no woman has gone before. Here’s one of the things I’ve unearthed.
In 2006 Epstein was charged in the Palm Beach, Florida case. In that case he was represented by, among others, Ken Starr and Jay Lefkowitz (another high profile lawyer who represented him was, of course, Alan Dershowitz).
Obviously the charges against him were a public relations nightmare for both Epstein and those defending him.
It’s unknown who had the idea to engage public relations and political consultant Merrie Spaeth to work with Epstein, but it was likely either Epstein, Starr, or Lefkowitz, because what I’ve found is a memo from Spaeth to the three of them, detailing her coaching of Epstein as to how he should act and respond to the media in order to present himself as a fine upstanding citizen and not a pedophile at all.
In the 10-page memo (included for Notes from the Front members), which references “Today’s session” with Epstein, she details all of the things which they covered in that session.
She starts by saying that they went through “the Spaeth method”, which, she explains, is designed to “Show participants how to “respond” to questions and create the perception of responsiveness (and actually be responsive) while not being trapped by the parameters of the question or the topic.”
She goes on to explain that the Spaeth method “recognizes that any short phrase which “acknowledges” that the listener heard the question serves as an acceptable substitute for whatever the question’s parameters appear to demand.”
In other words how to give a non-answer (or, as we in the legal biz are prone to say, a non-responsive answer), and not actually answer the question at all.
She then goes on to say “We also outlined some words characterizing how we hope the Dept. of Justice attorneys think of themselves and their position and some words describing the women in the litigation,” and then she goes on to talk about something she calls “The BIMBO effect”, which is to repeat the negative terminology in a question when answering the question (and which you apparently do *not* want to do). This, Spaeth says, “is named for the young woman caught in a tryst with a high-profile, married man. She announced, “I am not a BIMBO,” thus causing everyone to think she was.”
Then she talks about how to quickly dismiss a question (such as from a reporter) and to “substitute a competitive phrase.”
Throughout the memo she talks about how well Epstein did both in terms of seeming “authentic and spontaneous” while answering questions, and how “likeable” he appears. Of course the better he did, the more disgusted I became. :~(
The last part of the memo outlines very specific questions he is likely to get from both the media, and from attorneys on the other side, and how to respond to them.
Here’s to what I keep coming back: No matter how much she has tried to distance herself since, he was *arrested* in 2016, and she was working with him *in 2018*, coaching him on how to finesse being seen as the pedophile and predator that he was. I mean, how could she??
Notes from the Front members: The full 10-page memo is in your inbox now. And as a bonus I also found a note that Epstein wrote to himself that is the script for a very short public apology (one of three versions); that is included for you in your inbox too.
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