While Maria’s testimony focused on MEGA and Leslie Wexner, others, like Epstein’s former accomplice, whistleblower, some insider politicians, and journalists, have alleged a direct foreign intelligence connection.
On September 2, 2025, Republican Party Rep Anna Paulina Luna, a Trump ally, said, “After talking with Epstein survivors today, it’s clear this thing is a lot bigger than we could have anticipated – rich and powerful people need to go to prison. It is possible Epstein was a foreign intelligence asset.” She also said that the question is how much our own government knew about it.
Epstein’s partner in the Towers Ponzi Scheme, Steven Hoffenberg, said that Epstein had repeatedly admitted to having Mossad ties, and he claimed that he was the person who introduced Epstein to Robert Maxwell, who later died under mysterious circumstances. Epstein allegedly worked with Douglas Leese, a British defence contractor, and Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi businessman involved in transferring weapons from Israel to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair. Hoffenberg was reportedly found dead in his apartment in 2022. His body was found after 7-9 days, and authorities declared it death by natural cause.
Many conservative commentators like Tucker Carlson, Rep Marjorie Tyler Greene have repeatedly supported the Epstein-Mossad ties theory. Ari Ben-Menashe, once an Israeli intelligence also corroborated these claims. However, Ben-Menashe later became a whistleblower and his ties to Israeli intelligence were neither confirmed nor denied by the authorities.
It must be acknowledged that most of these arguments are circumstantial evidence, with little to no physical proof. One thing seems evident: sexual exploitation was systematically enabled through an opaque financial and a detached legal structure. There is also a striking similarity between Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein; both of them were connected to Ghislaine Maxwell and died under mysterious circumstances. The system puts everyone in proximity and an overlapping network, which is just bizarre. It is an oversimplification to call Epstein one great mastermind or notorious supervillain. But more complicated to see him as part of an organised structure. Epstein functioned as a node within powerful networks, where financial, political and intelligence communities are in tandem. Impunity was maintained through prosecutorial failure and social intimidation. Even when this did not work, there was damage control. The structure did not function like a house of cards, where one node goes down, and the whole system collapses. It contained damage by compartmentalising and eliminating the defective nodes.