The Truth Must Come Out: Diddy, Epstein, and JFK

Purging the Spirit of Caligula

With the US election less than a week away as of this writing, journalists are spilling ink by the barrel and tongues are wagging non-stop about November 5. While we can expect great controversy between now and then as well as between now and inauguration day — and likely longer — there are previous controversies that have not yet been wrapped up. 

Before we, as a nation, move forward in any positive direction, we need to perform some serious self-reflection. The truth must come out on some of the darkest aspects of our nation and its history. Specifically, or at least for a good start, we need to see full declassification of the JFK files, a release of the Epstein client list, and a full release of documents related to the ongoing and ballooning P. Diddy scandal. 

Why those three topics, you ask? First, because these are known cover-ups involving some of the highest-level state and non-state actors in the world. The connections are staggering and implicate household names, which can potentially rewrite how we understand status and power. The word will soon come out that many, many people knew what was going on and did nothing. 

Second, these three scandals appear to all fit the same overlapping Venn diagram involving intelligence agencies, the mafia, sexual coercion and blackmail, human (including child) trafficking, and a whole lot of money. As we’ll explore in a bit, when multiple rabbit holes go into the same hill, you’re looking at a rabbit warren. 

Third, and perhaps most importantly, these episodes tarnish the soul of the nation. Poorly-hidden secrets undermine the moral authority of any society, and they especially do so when horrific crimes are involved. Hypocrisy is an ugly sin, and a nation cannot consider itself wholesome or even whole when hypocrisy is at its core. 

So, consider the three covered-up scandals above tips of the same enormous iceberg of corruption, or rabbit holes to the same warren, or weeping sores atop a festering wound. 

What happens in private between consenting adults is no one’s business. But the words “consenting” and “adults” are doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, and in many cases the victims of sexual abuse in Diddy and Epstein’s case either weren’t consenting, weren’t adults, or both. 

How does this relate to JFK? We’ll get there. Sexual blackmail and coercion have been going on for decades. 

Unfortunately, it’s easy and inviting to look the other way and pretend none of this is happening or has happened — far more comforting indeed to believe it’s impossible. Sadly, it does indeed appear to be true, and ignoring it only makes it worse. 

Let’s start with Diddy. 

Connections Everywhere

First, a little comic relief, courtesy of South Park: 

Trey Parker and Matt Stone rarely miss with their celebrity roasts, and this one hits the mark. Not even Satan wants to do what Diddy does. 

The fact that the term “freak-off” has entered the vernacular is noteworthy in itself. If you want a quick refresher on the original charges brought in September in New York, check here. 

The original charges from Diddy’s September arrest are expanding. On October 21, 5 new accusers, including a 13-year old girl, have all come forward to accuse Diddy of sexual assault. Another case that’s recently surfaced is his drugging and assault of a 10-year old boy, an aspiring rapper to whom Diddy offered stardom and then threatened his family. You might want to avoid that article if you don’t want nightmares. 

Speaking of nightmares, you can bet that Justin Bieber has plenty of nightmares of Diddy, to whom he was introduced by Usher when he was 15, and left in his custody for 48 hours. Usher himself appears to be a significant victim of Diddy, having attended his “Flavor Camp” at age 14. It fits a pattern: Aspiring parents sent their talented child to Diddy in an attempt to win stardom. Then things get ugly. 

To be clear, the trial won’t take place until May 5, 2025, and Diddy has entered a not guilty plea. But given the number of accusers and the few people rushing to Diddy’s side, the news so far looks damning. Diddy and many other celebrities are currently under investigation for a number of sexual abuse and human trafficking crimes, more of which are coming out every day. The official charges include racketeering, e.g. profiting from crimes. That charge could easily include extortion. To add fuel to the extortion and/or blackmail fire, Diddy reportedly had hundreds of hidden cameras in his homes. Just what and who was he recording at his freaky parties?

There’s no way to cover every aspect of the case here. So, here are a few WTF points to expand on: 

• Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio became Diddy’s business coach in 2021.

• A member of the Sinaloa cartel (unsuccessfully) sued Diddy for $666,000 for ruining his drug business after the cartel member refused to traffic minors to one of Diddy’s parties.

• Ron Burkle, a major Democratic fundraiser, infused $100 million into Diddy’s Sean John clothing company in 2003. Burkle is also the godfather to Diddy’s children and formerly close friends with Bill Clinton, whom he allegedly flew on his private plane nicknamed “Air F*ck One” after Clinton left office, leading to allegations of sexual assault. Burkle is also verified to have been on the Epstein flight log. 

Those are just tidbits, and you can find more. Clearly, this situation is far more than just a lurid celebrity scandal. Just how many people P. Diddy is connected to is staggering — essentially everyone in both popular entertainment and politics. Besides the (funny) fact that he’s currently housed in the same jail cell as Sam Bankman-Fried, trying to comprehend a map of everyone connected to Diddy would be like examining a massive spider web while on LSD, and equally unsettling. 

The Friends You Keep 

It’s no secret that Diddy helped Obama during his Senate campaign via his hilariously-titled “Vote or Die” campaign. In a 2004 clip during Obama’s senatorial run, Diddy offered to later help Obama become president: 

Now, this in itself isn’t an indication of anything untoward, as Diddy was operating politically at the time to drive the youth and minority vote. To be fair and avoid partisanship, Donald Trump has openly said Diddy was a good friend, as have many other A-list celebrities. 

Things start to get weird when you notice that many close associates of Diddy have appeared on the Democratic campaign trail stumping for Kamala Harris after Diddy’s house was raided. 

Take Usher, for example, who as mentioned above lived with Diddy at just 14 years old when Diddy was 23. He recently appeared at a Kamala Harris campaign. 

So did John Legend, who is apparently close with Diddy and collaborated with him on a recent album, campaigning with Harris on October 29. 

This bit with John Legend could be easily ignored, if it weren’t for his wife Chrissy Teigen publicly claiming the best “public place they did it” was “At the Obama thing.” 

This is the same Chrissy Teigen who deleted a slew of vile posts on Twitter, but since the internet is forever, here’s a sample:

Teigen nuked her Twitter page in 2020 after she claimed harassment from “conspiracy theorists” drove her from the platform after an apparently false allegation of her being on the Epstein flight log was released. But you don’t have to be much of a conspiracy theorist to instantly see this is some sick shit. There’s more, too, if you care to look. 

For now, these connections are only speculation and not airtight. But what friends you keep says a lot about you, and these are weird connections indeed. 

To summarize this Diddy news:

• Evidence is increasingly clear that Diddy drugged and raped many people, including minors, and many of his associates were aware of this behavior. He additionally has a well-known history of violence and intimidation. 

• Hidden cameras throughout his houses and connections to the highest levels of society beg the question of what power Diddy held over those he videotaped in illegal acts.

• Diddy’s association with the rich and powerful, including many Democratic party players, further begs the question of if he was some sort of intelligence asset, as he’d have had blackmail material on many people. 

Different Rabbit Holes, Same Warren

Perhaps coincidentally, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend/madame lost her appeal case the day after P. Diddy was arrested — specifically, on September 17, 2024. The fact that Maxwell was sentenced for sex trafficking to no one, apparently is alarming in itself, as is the idea that Epstein’s original Florida deal ensured prosecutors wouldn’t go after his co-conspirators. 

The Epstein case has been covered in great detail many places elsewhere, but still a million questions remain. Some pertinent questions include:

• Why has no one besides Maxwell been prosecuted for participating in Epstein’s trafficking ring? 

• Where did Epstein get his money? 

• Why did a man as powerful as Bill Gates need an already-convicted Epstein to set up a meeting with the Nobel Prize committee to try to get Gates a Nobel Peace Prize? Note that the two traveled together to the meeting. 

• Why was Epstein meeting with CIA chief Bill Burns, Obama’s White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, and Edmond de Rothschild CEO Ariane de Rothschild after Epstein had been convicted? 

• What’s up with publishing magnate Robert Maxwell (Ghislaine Maxwell’s father) and his weird death, and where did the £460 million from his companies’ pension funds go? 

As-yet unproven rumors have long been circulating that Epstein was an intelligence operative, perhaps working for both American services and Israel’s Mossad to collect control files on important individuals via sexual blackmail. While we may never know the truth, the protection and sweetheart deals offered to Epstein in his original Florida arrest put up more red flags than a Soviet parade. 

By that, I mean I’d be shocked if it turned out he wasn’t an intelligence asset. 

It’s unclear whether we’ll ever find out who exactly did what with Epstein on his creepy little island, but one thing is clear: Neither Epstein nor Diddy invented sexual blackmail. 

Back in Time

An LA Times article from 1993 summarizes Anthony Summers’ book, “Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover aptly. To quote, 

“Top organized crime figures Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello obtained photos of Hoover’s alleged homosexual activity with longtime aide Clyde Tolson and used them to ensure that the FBI did not target their illegal activities.”

“As head of the FBI, Hoover obtained information about the sexual lives of Washington’s power elite, including John and Robert Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt and others, according to a number of biographers.”

Summers alleges that CIA director William Donovan obtained compromising photos of Hoover as the two quarreled over the direction of US policy. 

Much work has been done into these investigations since then. The best has been from Whitney Webb, whose two-part book “One Nation Under Blackmail” delves deep into the origins of this blackmail, including all the power players involved. 

In short, this practice really gained steam in the era immediately after the Second World War and the creation of the CIA out of the OSS. The mob merged with intelligence assets to fight communism — for example, by running operations in Italy to prevent a communist victory in the election of 1948. 

In what’s perhaps a familiar-sounding story, mafiosos like Lewis Rosenstiel along with political figures J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn — counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy — would host sex extortion parties. Among the places they would be held were at New York’s Plaza Hotel — specifically, in the infamous Blue Room. This blackmail ring apparently began with mobster Lewis Rosenstiel. As Webb writes,

One of the “blackmail parties” Susan Kaufman attended with her then-husband Lewis Rosenstiel was hosted by Cohn in 1958 at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, suite 233. Kaufman described Cohn’s suite as a “beautiful suite…all done in light blue.” She described being introduced to Hoover, who was in drag, by Cohn, who told her that Hoover’s name was “Mary” in a fit of barely concealed laughter. Kaufman testified that young boys were present and Kaufman claimed that Cohn, Hoover and her ex-husband engaged in sexual activity with these minors.

New York attorney John Klotz, tasked with investigating Cohn for a case well after Kaufman’s testimony, also found evidence of the “blue suite” at the Plaza Hotel and its role in a sex extortion ring after combing through local government documents and information gathered by private detectives. Klotz later told journalist and author Burton Hersh what he had learned: 

Roy Cohn was providing protection. There were a bunch of pedophiles involved. That’s where Cohn got his power from — blackmail.

There’s a lot more to this story, and since much of what’s in this section is drawn from Whitney Webb’s work I’ll refer you to her for more. 

Now: What does this have to do with JFK and his assassination? First, JFK made the mafia very angry by not invading Cuba after Castro’s revolution in 1959. The mafia, whose “official” accountant was Meyer Lansky, was making a fortune in Cuba via casinos — and lost it all after Castro took power. 

This is the same Meyer Lansky who smuggled guns for a nascent Israel and formed a key component of the Jewish-Italian Mafia in the US, which went to great lengths to support Israel in its creation. Kennedy’s rejection of Israeli access to nuclear weapons in 1963 came only months before his assassination in November of that year. The mob had all the reasons in the world to whack him, and the willingness to do so, too. 

Interests converge with the CIA and certain Pentagon players, as well. The botched Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 combined with the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 led to a lot of consternation in the halls of power, who were already entangled with the mafia. As George Carlin said, “You don’t need a grand conspiracy when interests converge:” Lots of people wanted Kennedy dead. 

Here’s the connection to now: Roy Cohn was Trump’s mentor for much of his early career and until Cohn’s death of AIDS in 1986. In his earlier life, Cohn was “bitter rivals” with RFK Sr., who aimed to take down the mafia. The 1968 assassination of RFK Sr. is still one of the weirdest stories in US history. So, the fact that Trump and RFK Jr. have teamed up is very interesting. 

Even more interesting is the fact that Trump recently said, to millions of viewers on Joe Rogan, that he’d release the JFK files should he become president. Perhaps the assassination attempt on Trump pushed him and RFK Jr. into the same corner? 

The Faustian Bargain

If you’ve wondered why so many mediocre people rise to the top in entertainment and politics, there’s an apparently simple reason: You have to make a deal with the devil to get there. Whether it’s being involved in shocking debauchery that allows for blackmail, looking the other way and saying nothing, or collecting information on rivals, things get dirty on the way to the top. 

The system of power doesn’t necessarily reward talent. It rewards loyalty, which is ensured by kompromat. The sexual blackmail rings established decades ago appear to be functioning as intended. 

What we don’t know right now is…well, a lot. We’re aware of the cases of Diddy and Epstein, but those are just two players. How many others are there that are still secret? If you see one rat, there’s likely many more you haven’t seen yet. The next several months in the Diddy case, for example, are set to be shocking indeed. 

The point is this: The Faustian Bargain many power players have had to go through is a winnowing mechanism to cut down any who might A) might object to depravity and B) refuse to allow themselves to be compromised. One person telling the truth can start a fire that burns the whole house down — it just takes the right spark. 

Purging the Spirit of Caligula

A Roman Emperor by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1871). Caligula’s corpse is splayed out on the floor while his successor, Claudius, hides behind a curtain.

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There’s nothing new about the rich and powerful being involved in debauchery. In every society on Earth, especially prosperous societies, the wealthy have let money amplify their darkest desires, while their power prevents any accountability. 

The emperor Caligula was famously educated in the ways of debauchery by his predecessor Tiberius. Tiberius had retired to the island of Capri after the traumatic death of his heir, Germanicus, and, as the story goes, threw himself into a great number of vile acts. 

In short, a powerful man retreated to a private island where he could indulge in perversion and bring along the next generation of power to groom and pass on that behavior. Sound familiar? 

There are countless other examples. As an interesting note, in 1501, former Cardinal Cesare de Borgia, illegitimate son of pope Alexander VI, hosted the shocking Banquet of Chestnuts at the Papal Palace, involving “50 honest prostitutes.” That this was only 16 years before Martin Luther’s 95 Theses is a strong indicator of the corruption of the Church at the time, as well what a reaction to corruption can look like. 

The difference between now and then is significant. We now have the ability to widely spread and share information about malfeasance by the wealthy and powerful. In short, behavior that could get swept under the rug in the pre-information age can now become instant, worldwide news. 

Before anything else, though, the truth has to come out. 

A person involved in or affected by depravity requires courage to speak up — which can be terrifying, to be sure. But a reckoning has to happen. We all know twisted things are happening at the highest levels of society. The question is: What are we going to do about it?