On lunch break. Juan Alessi's testimony is done & we're onto a former Palm Beach Police officer, who searched Epstein's home in 2005.

One thing about Alessi's cross exam... Maxwell's lawyer accidentally said Jane Doe's real first name. All of us gasped in the overflow room. Alessi's cross began with attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca asking about Maxwell calling him John vs. Juan. Alessi said he didn't take this as a sign of disrespect. But he did later say working for Epstein and Maxwell 24/7 was like "slavery."

Today Epstein's former butler Juan Alessi testified that Ghislaine Maxwell gave him a "household manual" with checklists for staff. He called it "degrading."

One line says: "Remember that you see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, except to answer a question directed at you." On the "master bedroom" checklist: Staff had to ensure a gun was "placed in bedside table drawer."

On lunch break, but Epstein's former Palm Beach house manager Juan Alessi took the stand briefly beforehand.

He described Ghislaine Maxwell as the "lady of the house" and testified that she gave him instructions—including not to look Epstein in the eyes. Maxwell allegedly told Alessi to "look at another part of the room and answer" Epstein. Alessi testified that his relationship with Epstein was more "cordial" before Maxwell entered the picture.

Asked how often Maxwell was at the Palm Beach home, Alessi replied: 95% of the time.

During Jane Doe's cross exam today, Maxwell's lawyers pointed out that she claimed to fly on Epstein's plane with:
- Prince Andrew
- Chef Adam Perry Lang
- Epstein's brother Mark
- Epstein's mother Jane Doe also claimed that a woman named "Eva" participated in the group sex with her when she was underage.
Other women Jane alleges joined these abusive encounters:
- British woman named Emmy (likely Maxwell's assistant Emmy Tayler)
- Sophie, a masseuse
- Kelly, a model

On lunch break. Epstein's pilot Larry Visoski testified today that he didn't believe any of the girls on Epstein's plane were underage.

Jane Doe was 14 when Epstein and Maxwell allegedly recruited her. Visoski testified she was "a mature woman with piercing powder blue eyes." It was also mentioned today that Epstein gifted Visoski 40 acres of land in NM and paid for his daughters' private high school and college tuition.

So Visoski has daughters himself but... didn't notice anyone underage on Epstein's private jet.

Jeffrey Epstein boasted of his connections to Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein when trying to impress his victims.

After some digging, I found out that Weinstein helped get one of those victims an audition for a horror film. 1/
thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstei… The movie Weinstein helped one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims land an audition for was “Feast,” produced by Dimension Films in 2005. (Dimension was Miramax’s genre label and run by Harvey’s brother, Bob Weinstein.) 2/

This story is so important:
"When you drill down into plastics recycling, you realize it’s a myth." rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… "We’ve found plastic everywhere we’ve ever looked. It’s in the Arctic and the Antarctic and in the middle of the Pacific. It’s in the Pyrenees and in the Rockies. It’s settling out of the air. It’s raining down on us.”

Scoop with @LachCartwright & @eshugerman: Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Next modeling agency (& owner Faith Kates) go back decades.

During the 2000s, Epstein regularly visited Next's NYC office. Even in 2018, he donated to a charity linked to Kates' son.
thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstei… @LachCartwright @eshugerman Through an attorney, Faith Kates denied any business or financial relationship with Epstein. Her attorney said she had seen Epstein “once or twice a year” over the last decade.

When Jeffrey Epstein was Cosmo's Bachelor of the Month... thedailybeast.com/when-jeffrey-e… via @thedailybeast @thedailybeast “Financial strategist Jeffrey Epstein, 27, talks only to people who make over a million a year!” the listing declared. “If you’re ‘a cute Texas girl,’ write this New York dynamo at 55 Water St., 49th floor, N.Y.C. 10041.”