Revealed: Epstein’s Austrian passport – and the trips in it

Entry and exit stamps, also to Saudi Arabia

These images are some of the most recently published US Department of Justice Epstein files appeared and were received by Standard now published. You can also see the entry and exit stamps that document many of Epstein’s trips in the 1980s – namely under the code name Marius Robert Tell. He was obviously regularly in Paris and in Malaga, Spain – The neighboring town of Marbella was a playground for the rich and famous in the 1980s – and once also in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is also listed in the passport as the place of residence of Robert Fortelni.

Austrian authorities knew nothing about the passport

The US authorities have known that the passport existed for a long time 2019 known. According to reports, they had him Wall Street Journal found in his apartment in Manhattan. Even back then, the Austrian colleagues were asked whether they knew anything about such a document. The Ministry of the Interior in Vienna, however, knew nothing about it and the investigations had not revealed anything, they said. But there was obviously interest in the document, because Vienna also asked the US authorities whether they could find out more about the fake passport.

Was the pass actually used?

In any case, the passport was also discussed in the trial against Epstein. Whose Lawyers argued at the time, it was never used. However, the stamps leave a different impression. At the time, the public prosecutor’s office apparently created a possible flight risk and, among other things, prevented Epstein from being released.

A visit to Vienna is documented

In any case, Epstein was in Vienna, exactly in 2019, the year in which the Austrian passport appeared. At that time he maintained close contacts with Trump’s liaison to the political right in the USA, Steve Bannon. Apparently he met him in Vienna. Another meeting with the then Slovak Foreign Minister According to research by Slovak media, Miroslav Lajčák did not materialize. In any case, the US Department of Justice files show, Epstein did not come to Vienna alone, but with three – unknown – female companions. He left after just a few hours.