Rock Billionaire Pictured in Epstein and Friends Photo Dump

Was he looking for his missing salt shaker?

Jimmy Buffett makes an unexpected appearance in the latest batch of photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, a new collection of images showing the sex trafficker with wealthy and famous figures.

Among the new photos are billionaires Buffett, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson, as well as political commentator Steve Bannon, director Woody Allen, and others.

Also included are new images of former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. Here’s a look at Epstein’s personal photos with his former associates.

Margaritaville!

One photo shows Buffett and his wife, Jane Slugsful, with Clinton, Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell. A printed copy of the photo, signed by Clinton, was part of Epstein’s estate.

No further details about this photo are available, including when it was taken. However, Epstein’s “Black Book” mentions the “Margaritaville” singer among the celebrities invited to his Palm Beach, Florida home in 1995 for a fundraiser for Clinton.

The musician, who died at age 76 in 2023, appears in the photo wearing a black blazer and white shirt—a more formal outfit than the laid-back rocker usually wore. By the time of his death, he had become a billionaire and owned three homes in Palm Beach, Florida, not far from the homes of Trump and Epstein.

Clinton, 79, is at the center of this decades-old photo, with Epstein, his arms around Maxwell, 63, and Slugsful, now 80.

MAGA Attack Dog’s Selfie

Currently, Steve Bannon is a staunch supporter of the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement and is seeking a legal loophole that would allow Trump to run for a third term. In 2018, he was exchanging text messages and taking selfies with Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he discussed how to improve his public image.

Text messages released by Democrats show that Bannon, who had left his position as a White House advisor in the first Trump administration a year earlier, advised Epstein on media strategies to rehabilitate his image in anticipation of a possible interview on the “60 Minutes” program, which ultimately never happened.

These exchanges began a year before Epstein’s arrest and suicide in 2019. In these messages, the two men discussed the growing outrage over Epstein’s sex crimes, which Bannon, 72, seemed to consider a smear campaign.

“Who’s pulling the strings against you? Something serious is afoot,” Bannon wrote to Epstein. “It’s a setup, buddy. This is my business. The information being released is carefully orchestrated… It’s a complex operation.”

A Filmmaker’s Friend

Filmmaker Woody Allen met Epstein at a dinner in 2010, two years after his conviction for sex crimes.

Allen, now 90, publicly described Epstein as a “charming and seductive” man. Allen secretly contacted Epstein, sending him a strange letter in 2016 in which he compared Epstein’s Upper East Side apartment to Dracula’s castle, “where Lugosi has three young vampires at his beck and call.”

Epstein’s calendar between 2014 and 2019 lists nearly 100 meetings between him, Allen, and Allen’s wife, Soon-Yi Previn. These meetings included film screenings, dinners, and visits to Epstein’s properties.

A ‘Randy’ Bunch

Bill Gates stated that he first met Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 to discuss fundraising for charitable causes. He dined with Epstein on several occasions and even visited his Manhattan home. In an email to his colleagues after one of these meetings, the Microsoft founder wrote, “Epstein’s lifestyle is quite different and rather interesting, even if it doesn’t align with my own.”

Gates later described his relationship with Epstein as a “grave mistake,” primarily because it lent Epstein undeserved legitimacy. His ex-wife, Melinda, said she was uncomfortable with her husband’s relationship with Epstein and that the billionaires’ association played a role in their 2021 divorce.

Bill Gates, 70, does not appear in any of the photos released Friday alongside Epstein, but he is featured in three pictures that belonged to the deceased sex trafficker. One of these photos shows Gates and Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, then known as Prince Andrew, looking at each other. Prince Andrew was stripped of his royal title in October after it was revealed that he and his ex-wife had continued to communicate with Epstein long after claiming to have severed all contact with him.

A second photo shows Gates standing in front of a framed portrait, hanging above a black dresser in a house. A third photo shows him carrying a shoulder bag and folders, alongside Epstein’s pilot, Lawrence Wysoski, in front of a private jet.

His Caribbean Neighbor

British businessman Richard Branson, whose fortune is estimated by Forbes at $2.8 billion, appears in the photo, smiling and holding a sheet of paper with percentages and equations, with Epstein smiling behind him. Also visible is engineer Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway and iBOT, who is also smiling.

The three men appear to be in a tropical location. Epstein was known to own an island off the coast of Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, where his victims claim to have been trafficked and sexually exploited.

Branson, who built his fortune through the Virgin Group, also owns two neighboring private islands: Necker Island and Mosquito Island, in the British Virgin Islands.

One of Epstein’s victims, Sarah Ransom, claimed in emails in 2016 that Epstein possessed sex tapes of Branson, Prince Andrew, and Clinton. However, Ransom admitted to lying about this in a 2019 New Yorker article.

Harvard Guys

Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor for nearly 50 years, and Larry Summers, the recently retired former president of Harvard, appear in new photos released by Epstein’s estate.

Perhaps coincidentally, Epstein is wearing a red Harvard t-shirt in the photo where he is posing with Dershowitz, now 87 years old. Epstein donated $9.1 million to the university between 1998 and 2008 and was a close friend of Summers, 71, who led the university for six years during that period.

Summers, the former Treasury Secretary, resigned from several boards of directors on which he served after the release of Epstein’s emails revealed that he was not only a close friend of the sex trafficker but had also sought his advice on how to approach a woman with whom he worked.

His ‘Closest Friend’

Before the release of these new images, few photos of Epstein and Trump together existed. However, these new photos more clearly illustrate the president’s past relationship with the notorious sex offender, who described himself as “one of Trump’s closest friends.”

One photo, from Epstein’s estate, shows Trump smiling with an unidentified woman—whose face is blurred—and with a group of women wearing Hawaiian-style flower leis, their faces also blurred.

A third photo shows an oddly shaped box of condoms adorned with a caricature of Donald Trump’s face and the caption: “I’m HUUUUGE!”