Alan Dershowitz claims that there is no Epstein client list. Dershowitz was one of Epstein’s attorneys. He points out that the Feds know who his clients were. That list is likely a composite put together through investigation and assembled from emails, other documents, flight logs and whatnot. But as far as a list of clients composed by Epstein goes, it doesn’t exist. I think that is likely true. However, Dershowitz, the MSM and even DOJ are all being a little disingenuous. Nobody cares about the client list. The pot of gold is not a client list but something similar. A difference with a distinction.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/16/dershowitz-there-never-has-been-an-epstein-client-list/

I never worked vice, but I know investigators that have. Back in the 70’s or early 80’s one such investigator raided a brothel run by a notorious San Antonio madam. The whorehouse that she ran was located in an unassuming middle-class neighborhood. During the search he found the madam’s client list. Only he didn’t call it a client list. The term, in the trade, from both sides, whores and cops is “trick book”. When word of the raid got out, anybody who was anybody in Bexar County law enforcement wanted that book. He retained it as evidence and put it in the property room. It was never seen again.

Clients were identified by name and oh so much more. Notations indicated the frequency of visits, the going rate, sexual proclivities, and preferences regarding the type of prostitute that was preferred. This information was a necessary aid to running a successful business.

It makes sense. A quick head job is less time intensive than providing a client with the girlfriend experience. From a scheduling standpoint it is a good thing to know. Head job five minutes and out the door, don’t even have to turn down the bedspread. Girlfriend experience, twenty minutes of begging followed by two minutes of foreplay, two minutes of intercourse and ten minutes to make the bed and apply makeup.

In Epstein’s case, if one holds to the theory that he was running a “honey trap” (that’s intelligence talk for targeting a mark with sex for later blackmail), then there would be additional indications cross indexing incriminating videos, comes to mind. On the other hand, if Epstein was a garden variety voyeur, then covert tape was for his own enjoyment and the only record that he needed was already captured on tape.

Was Epstein blackmailing his fellow pedophiles? Absolutely not! He was merely doing favors for friends. These friends then showed their gratitude by investing large sums of money in his various schemes. Friends helping friends.

Either way intelligence operation or private perversions it doesn’t strike me as odd that no trick book has turned up. If Epstein maintained a trick book then there is no getting around the fact that he was nothing more than a pimp. That is probably not consistent with his self-image. If he was part of an intelligence operation, then would be handlers would maintain the trick book. Epstein’s role in that type of operation was to provide grist for the mill. It would be up to the intelligence operatives to approach and initiate the blackmail scheme with the victim. They wouldn’t want Epstein anywhere near that aspect of the operation. Epstein was merely a tool and not a driving force.

It would be helpful while following the antics of the MSM to recall the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect:
https://dailyaccra.com/2023/12/27/the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-michael-crichtons-take-on-media-credibility/

I have a question for Dershowitz that nobody has seemed to ask. That is: How many search warrants were issued for videos and other electronic media that the Feds seized from Epstein?

News reports indicate that the Feds executed search warrants at various locations owned and controlled by Epstein. Most of these reports indicate that the Feds seized boxes of electronic media as evidence. I’m guessing that the warrants included the electronic media as items to be seized. Here’s the quirk. The search warrant for the premises allows the seizure of such items. It does not allow the feds to view the items. In order to view the various video tapes, CD’s, thumb drives, and hard drives the Feds would have to apply for another search warrant. (Not for each item).

My suspicion is that much of the media was never reviewed. Bondi got caught short after promising a quick turnaround on releasing the Epstein file. Then she found out that the FBI had twenty years of electronic media that had never been officially reviewed. Film festivals in FBI squad rooms with beer and pretzels don’t count.

It suits the MSM narrative to throw out terms that kinda, sorta, maybe apply. It’s not their fault that question and answers and the readers understanding don’t jive.