How Evil Epstein Used Elites to Stifle the Truth | The Daily Beast Podcast

Tina Brown tells all about her shocking experience being named in the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein case files, revealing how Jeffrey Epstein and his allies frantically tried to “neutralize” her and shut down The Daily Beast after her explosive reporting with Conchita Sarnoff blew open his web of abuse. In a gripping conversation with Daily Beast executive editor Hugh Dougherty, Brown recounts the panic inside Epstein’s circle, the chilling legal threats from powerhouse firms, the duplicity of social fixer Peggy Siegal, and the moral rot of an elite “club” that protected its own even after the truth was in plain sight. She reflects on the pre-#MeToo culture that dismissed victims, the powerful names orbiting Epstein—from Bill Clinton to Ehud Barak—and the industrial scale of exploitation enabled by Ghislaine Maxwell and recruiter Jean-Luc Brunel. It’s a bracing defense of investigative journalism, a warning about the corrosive power of extreme wealth, and a behind-the-scenes look at how close this story came to being buried—so what else is still hidden in the millions of unreleased files?

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00:00 - Epstein Flight Logs & Elite Connections
04:32 - Epstein’s Panic Over Daily Beast Coverage
09:04 - Why The Elite Kept Seeing Epstein After the Exposé
13:31 - The Girls, The Promises & The Pipeline
18:02 - Tina Brown’s First Impression of Epstein
22:34 - Legal Threats & Epstein's Decision Not to Sue
27:05 - Inside the Prosecutors’ “Easy Way Out”
31:36 - Institutional Fear & Epstein’s Web of Influence
36:08 - The Moral Blindness of the Powerful
40:39 - Sixteen Years Later: What the Files Really Show

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📖 Title: How Evil Epstein Used Elites to Stifle the Truth
👂 Podcast: The Daily Beast Podcast
📺 Episode: 652
🎧 Format: Full Podcast
📅 Date: February 15, 2026
👨‍💼 Guest: Tina Brown
🎙️ Host: Hugh Dougherty

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