Here’s some light – and rebellion! – Read while we wait for the Epstein files to be released (or closed). You can now view the Jeffrey Epstein emails recently released by Congress in a fake Gmail account.
“You are logged in as Jeffrey Epstein,” the Gmail website reads. (Eq.) Kino CEO Luke Igel and software engineer Riley Walz collaborated on this project. The latter is one of the creators of the Panama Playlist, which (in a similar light) turned Spotify’s loose privacy into a website for “leaking” music tastes of public figures.
Gmail is about as reliable a recreation of Gmail as you can imagine. Like a real inbox, messages are sorted from latest to latest on the eve of Epstein’s 2019 arrest for sex trafficking of minors. It includes a working search feature.
Screenshot of Gmail project. A fake Gmail inbox of Jeffrey Epstein using a real email released by Congress. (Luke Igel/Riley Walz)
The US House Oversight Committee released the emails on November 12. Their revelations put Donald Trump’s ties to sex traffickers back in the spotlight. The President’s name appears several times in more than 20,000 documents. In one, the late sex offender claimed that Trump “knew about girls.”
In a 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein said Trump “spent several hours at my house” with someone whose name was redacted. (The committee said it was a victim.) In a 2017 thread, Epstein described the current president as “worse in real life and on the outside.” In 2018, the disgraced financier claimed he was “able to take.” [Trump] Below.”
Another public figure who looked worse than before was Andrew formerly known as “The Prince” (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor). “We’re in this together,” she told Epstein in 2011. Then there’s former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. He remained in contact with Epstein as recently as 2019, long after his arrest in 2008 on charges of soliciting underage sex. In the wake of the email dump, Summers was placed on leave from Harvard and resigned from OpenAI’s board.
You can check out Gmail on the project’s website. No one will blame you if you need to take a shower afterwards (and maybe douse yourself in bleach).