Jeffrey Epstein: A Room Full of Shadows – The Grand Jury, Curtis Yarvin, and the Tectonic Shift of Power

It was a court ruling, sober in its language, yet epochal in its impact. On July 18, 2025, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered the partial release of the grand jury transcripts in the case of Jeffrey Epstein. What many describe as a legal sensation is, in truth, much more: a silent tremor beneath the foundations of the American elite, a crack in the dense fabric of money, influence, and denial. For with the disclosure of witness statements, evidence, and network analyses, light is being cast for the first time into a room that was deliberately darkened for decades – with the tools of justice, politics, and media. But the light does not only fall on the actions of a single man. It strikes a system. And it shows how deeply this story is interwoven with the present – with a government that is increasingly turning away from democratic principles.

The legal significance of the disclosure can hardly be overstated. Grand jury proceedings in the United States are traditionally secret, protected by Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The purpose: witnesses should speak freely, the innocent be protected, investigations not endangered. A release is only permitted in exceptional cases – for example, when the public interest outweighs the interest in confidentiality. That this is now happening marks a legal precedent. For the principle of victim protection is being weighed against the public interest in structural clarification in such a far-reaching way that even intimate transcripts of a grand jury are being released. In his reasoning, the judge spoke of an “exceptional situation” involving “trust in the institutions.” A sentence that can also be read as a silent indictment – against those institutions that looked away for decades.

Yet what emerges through our investigations goes beyond individual attribution of guilt. Documents reveal not only Epstein’s ties to presidents, princes, Nobel laureates, and tech investors, but also outline a portrait of ideological complicity. Our own reporting shows that Epstein was no ordinary perpetrator. He was a curator of an elitist vision of humanity – a worldview in which intelligence, money, and access to others were the central currencies. A vision that, in many respects, bears unsettling resemblance to the ideas now shaping the governing agenda of the United States. Curtis Yarvin – intellectual architect of the neoreactionary movement, known under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug – has never confirmed any public meeting with Epstein.

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But the ideological parallels are striking. Epstein believed in genetic selection, in an intellectual aristocracy, in the targeted breeding of an elite. Yarvin preaches the abolition of democracy, rule by a CEO-state, the retreat from mass education in favor of technocratic leadership. Both share a worldview in which power does not emanate from the people, but from intellect – or more precisely: from those who claim it for themselves.

The released transcripts contain indications that Epstein deliberately invited young women with academic degrees to his dinner parties – not only as victims, but as potential bearers of his “DNA vision.” The Zorro Ranch plan – to impregnate up to 20 women at the same time – was not a fantasy, but the subject of at least three attested conversations with scientists, including employees of MIT, Harvard, and NASA. This raises questions that go far beyond sexual crimes. It is about biopolitics, a modern form of eugenics – fueled by money, access, and the conviction of being above the law. And this is precisely where the bridge to the present begins. Because the government program Project 2025 – a manifesto prepared by Trump-affiliated think tanks for the complete restructuring of the state – contains, albeit in different language, the same mindset. The devaluation of democratic discourse in favor of “efficient decision-making structures.” The transformation of state institutions into “executive organs” of the president. The delegitimization of media, science, and the judiciary as “leftist cartels.” And not least the idea that intelligence and power mutually legitimize each other – if only they are on the “right” side.

Peter Thiel, co-financier of Yarvin’s work, close contact of Epstein, and one of the ideological masterminds behind Project 2025, embodies this continuity. Thiel was repeatedly a guest of Epstein, supported transhumanist experiments, and is one of the most vehement opponents of liberal democracy. That his thinking is now finding its way into government policy is no coincidence. It is the expression of a culture war that begins with the body – and ends in society. That Epstein wanted to realize his genetic fantasies precisely in New Mexico – far from the coastal public, protected by isolation and influence – is reminiscent of the early phases of authoritarian ideologies. Again and again, such projects begin in supposed laboratories of progress. The Nazis spoke of “Lebensborn.” Epstein spoke of “reproduction of outstanding traits.” The vocabulary changes, the goal remains: control over the future through control over birth.

The release of the grand jury documents could, if the public allows it, be a legal dam break. Not because they guarantee justice. But because they make power visible. Because they show that crimes sometimes do not happen in the dark – but in the light of foundation dinners, think tank conferences, and science programs. And because they warn that political ideas always also produce physical realities. Under Trump, the Justice Department tried to prevent the release. Citing alleged security interests, the integrity of proceedings. But as so often, this was just another expression of protection – not of the victims, but of the perpetrators and their networks. Only the intervention of several federal prosecutors, flanked by a lawsuit from the Public Accountability Group, forced the judiciary to rethink. Now the ball is in society’s court.

The 200 pages, which are to be released gradually, do not contain a complete list of names. But they contain enough to recognize patterns. Enough to decipher the language of the elite anew. And enough to ask: Who thought along, who profited, who remained silent? Democracy does not die in a coup. It dies in salons, in budget papers, in the language of efficiency. It dies when eugenics becomes a topic of discussion again. When rule no longer needs to be legitimized – but is merely asserted. When grand jury transcripts say more about the present than about the past. Jeffrey Epstein is dead. His ideas are not. They live on – in government plans, in libertarian networks, in the longing for a world without inconvenient equality. It is up to us whether we enter this world. Or whether we finally take a look – with all the legal, historical, and moral clarity that is needed. Because what began in a Manhattan courtroom is more than a legal process. It is a look into the engine room of power. And perhaps – a final warning signal.

To be continued .....