Jeffrey Epstein Commissioned A 9-Foot Painting Called “Massacre of the Innocents” and Put It in His Entryway
An email from the Epstein document release is stunning the world right now.
Sent to Rich Barnett on July 10, 2011, it reads:
“HI Rich, Jeffrey is asking if you can Fedex the painting he had made of the Massacre of the Innocents to the ranch. It’s the large 9’x9′ canvas that he had rolled out for him to see in the entry way where they are killing babies. He wants to use it on the ranch and is hoping you could Fedex it to arrive by Wednesday? Thanks.”
The painting was headed to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, a nearly 10,000-acre property outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Multiple women have testified they were sexually abused there as teenagers. Federal agents never searched it.
The Massacre of the Innocents is a Biblical event from the Gospel of Matthew. King Herod of Judea ordered the slaughter of all boys under the age of two. It’s been depicted by many famous painters throughout history.
On its own, owning such a painting wouldn’t be unusual for a serious art collector. But the fact that a man with a known history of child abuse specifically commissioned a 9’x9′ canvas of babies being killed and displayed it in his entryway is deeply unsettling.
Nobody is misreading this email. The painting is real. The subject matter is real. And the person who wanted it greeting his guests is Jeffrey Epstein.