{"id":15049,"date":"2026-02-04T05:53:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/i-still-would-like-to-meet-putin-epsteins-unrequited-love-for-russian-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:53:57","slug":"i-still-would-like-to-meet-putin-epsteins-unrequited-love-for-russian-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/i-still-would-like-to-meet-putin-epsteins-unrequited-love-for-russian-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I still would like to meet Putin’: Epstein’s unrequited love for Russian leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What has Vladimir Putin got to do with Jeffrey Epstein?<\/p>\n

The Russian president’s name appears more than 1,000 times in the latest files.<\/p>\n

His inclusion does not imply any wrongdoing, and there’s no evidence the two ever met, but boy, it sounds like Epstein wanted to.<\/p>\n

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The emails appear to reveal repeated attempts by the convicted sex offender to court the Kremlin leader.<\/p>\n

And there’s even an audio file in which Epstein can be heard coaching someone on how to approach Putin.<\/p>\n

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“I would send a note to Putin, saying ‘I’m going to leave government on March 14th. I’m going to be in Scandinavia, or I plan to be in western, northern Europe. We should have dinner’. That’s it, no more. It has to be very short,” he says in the recording.<\/p>\n

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The first substantive mention of Vladimir Putin in the latest files, unearthed by Sky’s Data and Forensics team, is from September 2011.<\/p>\n

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An unnamed contact refers to a meeting Epstein said he had arranged with Putin later that month, while Putin was Russia’s prime minister. There’s no evidence it took place, and there are no other details.<\/p>\n

From 2013 onwards, by which time Putin had returned to the presidency, the emails show Epstein made several bids to meet him through the former Norwegian PM Thorbjorn Jagland.<\/p>\n

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In May that year, Epstein emailed Jagland, who was then serving as secretary-general of the Council of Europe, saying: “I know you are going to meet putin [sic] on the 20th, He is desperate to engage western investment in his country…I have his solution.”<\/p>\n

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He adds: “I recoginize [sic] that there are human rights issues that are at the forefront of your trip howver [sic], if it is helpful to you, I would be happy to meet with him sometime in june [sic] and explain the solution to his top prioirty [sic], I think this would be good for your goals.”<\/p>\n

But it appears it never happened. After pestering Jagland to follow up within Putin’s team, Epstein complains that he has heard nothing back.<\/p>\n

In January 2014, Jagland told Epstein he was going to meet Putin in Sochi. “Why don’t you come?” he asks. We don’t know what happened next.<\/p>\n

But in July that year, Epstein still sounds desperate to meet the Russian president. In an email, a contact tells him: “I wasn’t able to convince Reid to change his schedule to go meet Putin with you.”<\/p>\n

“Bad idea now after plane crash,” Epstein replies – a reference to Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine three days prior, killing all 298 people on board.<\/p>\n

But it seems it did not put Epstein off for long.<\/p>\n

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