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The Guardian reported that British billionaire Sir James Goldsmith was allegedly warning people about Jeffrey Epstein as early as the late 1980s, decades before Epstein became the subject of a federal sex-trafficking investigation. French architect Robert Couturier, who worked for Goldsmith, said Goldsmith described Epstein as a sexual deviant, warned him to stay away from Epstein, and expressed concern about protecting his own daughters. The report places that warning around 1987, which would make it one of the earliest known indications that people in elite circles had serious concerns about Epstein’s behavior. The significance is not just that Goldsmith reportedly disliked Epstein, but that Epstein was already cultivating wealthy families, financiers and social connections at the time, using access to people like the Goldsmiths to move deeper into the world of money and influence. There is no indication Goldsmith reported his concerns to law enforcement. The story also connects Goldsmith’s business presence on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, to the unresolved allegations of Jane Doe 4, who told the FBI in 2019 that Epstein had sexually abused and trafficked her there during the 1980s when she was a teenager. The Guardian did not establish that Epstein was definitively on Hilton Head during the period she described, but it found that Goldsmith’s company had operations and associates there, giving investigators another possible avenue for examining Epstein’s movements during a period for which the public record remains unusually thin. Jane Doe 4 also alleged that Epstein trafficked her to other men, including Donald Trump, an allegation the White House has strongly denied. The larger importance of the report is that it pushes the timeline of concerns about Epstein much further back than the 1996 Maria Farmer complaint and raises the possibility that warnings about his conduct were circulating among wealthy insiders years before law enforcement seriously acted. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: British billionaire warned Epstein was a ‘sexual deviant’ decades before FBI closed in on the abuser | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian
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