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In 2019, Donald Trump’s former chief political strategist Steve Bannon sat down and recorded a 15-hour interviewing session with infamous convicted sex offender and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for a teased documentary titled “The Monsters”<ref name=":1">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/business/media/michael-wolff-powerful-men.html</ref>, which aimed to expose Epstein’s life and his relations to the elite.

This would be one of the last interviews Epstein would have done as this was taken months before his arrest and subsequent suicide.

Despite being teased, the documentary and the 15-hour interview tape has went unreleased to the public.

==Background==
Jeffrey Epstein, a financer from New York, faced charges in 2006 for sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl on his private land after an investigation was held. More accusations by other minors would come out later that year, and Epstein would have ended up indicted<ref>https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2006/07/27/after-long-probe-billionaire-faces-solicitation-charge/2623078007/</ref>. Eventually, Jeffrey Epstein plead guilty in 2008 to one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution of a minor<ref>https://nypost.com/2008/06/30/jeffrey-epstein-pleads-guilty-to-prostitution-charges/</ref> and would spend 13 months in a county jail in accordance to a plea deal. This would have tainted his reputation drastically and bring his connections with public figures and other powerful people that gave him notoriety into question, and had people suspecting that the people he connected with also participated in his depraved acts at his island<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/01/usa</ref>.

==Interview==
Steve Bannon who was already acquainted with Epstein, went to his New York mansion and started recording an interview for an 8-10 hour documentary that he started co-production on which would have exposed Epstein’s depraved acts, his rise to fame and his connections to the elite.

Jeffrey Epstein from the teaser of the documentary, said that he was a supporter of the Time’s Up movement, a movement dedicated the support of sexual harassment awareness, and believed that women would one day control the world. Steve Bannon responded saying it was a "sop", saying his support was contradictory to the acts he committed.<ref name=":0">https://nypost.com/2021/10/19/jeffrey-epstein-told-steve-bannon-im-a-supporter-of-times-up/</ref>

He would also share his thoughts on solitary confinement and how it encouraged prisoners to commit suicide later on in a different session, which ironically foreshadowed his own suicide months later.<ref name=":0" />

In an unreleased clip, viewed by Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Epstein also elaborated on why he doesn’t hang with Donald Trump anymore, claiming “he was a crook”.<ref>https://radaronline.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-stopped-hanging-donald-trump-realized-trump-crook-mark-epstein/</ref> 

While there is plenty of information surrounding the interview, there is barely any shared details on the content of the documentary itself other than the reasoning of its production.

==Rumors==
While Bannon has stated that the interview was for his documentary, it has been claimed by journalist Michael Wolff in his book “Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned” that the interview was actually Bannon media-training Epstein in his mansion for a 60 Minutes interview that never got to happen. Steve Bannon allegedly told Epstein during the recordings, to look at the camera so he doesn’t come off as “stupid”, told him not to share his racist theories on how black people learned and to stick to the message that he wasn’t a pedophile.<ref name=":1" /> 

At the end of one of the sessions, Bannon was reported to have praised Epstein saying:<blockquote>“You’re engaging, you’re not threatening, you’re natural, you’re friendly, you don’t look at all creepy, you’re a sympathetic figure,”<ref name=":1" /></blockquote>Mark Epstein, Epstein’s brother, has also stated that Bannon tried to rehabilitate Epstein’s reputation with this interview.<ref name=":3">https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-dropped-donald-trump-realizing-crook-brother-says-2023-3</ref>

However, these claims have remained unconfirmed and denied by Bannon himself.

==Availability==
A 2-minute trailer was released in 2021, teasing the unannounced documentary which showed 3 clips of the interviews between Bannon and Epstein. 

Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, was sent a clip of one of the interviews by Jeffrey which was sent by Bannon over Dropbox, however the link is now inactive.<ref name=":3" />

Michael Wolff claimed in his book that he was allegedly in possession of a transcript of one of the practice interviews that Bannon held with Epstein, from a source he refused to reveal. This has however, not been confirmed.<ref name=":1" />

The location of the documentary, the interview tapes and the reasoning of it being unreleased still remain unknown.

==Gallery==
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