WASHINGTON – In 2021, the New York Post held an online trailer for a documentary about Jeffrey Epstein, produced by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon. In the video, Bannon asks Epstein on camera about “all the destruction you’ve done to young women.”
However, the documentary did not appear. Now, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark, is asking Bannon to show him the invisible footage.
“Let’s take a look at the videotape,” he told NBC News on Friday. “He’s my brother.”
Mark Epstein said that after the 2018 Miami Herald documented details of the abuse of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, Magazine Media personality Bannon worked with his brother and the convicted sex offender. The two men filmed together in the summer of 2019 before Epstein was arrested by federal authorities.
“He said there was a 15- or 16-hour videotape of Jeff. He was trying to help Jeff rehabilitate his reputation,” Mark Epstein said of Bannon. He said meetings and conversations with Bannon took place in New York City after the brothers died in prison in 2019 or 2020.
“They spent a lot of time together,” Mark Epstein told NBC News.
Bannon was not accused of fraud and was not part of Epstein’s investigation.
Bannon did not reply to requests for comment.
NBC News saw Bannon enter Jeffrey Epstein’s New York residence in late 2018.
“When I met Bannon, he said he wanted to put together a documentary or something. He was trying to raise some money for that,” Mark Epstein said.
Business Insider first spoke with Mark Epstein in 2023 about his brother’s death and apparent documentary footage of Bannon.
Bannon is the central location of the Magazine movement. A populist who played a key role in Trump’s political rise, he hosts the popular “War Room” podcast. He has insisted that the Trump administration appoints special advisors to investigate the Epstein case.
In the trailer for “Monster: The Elite Life in the Epstein World,” published by the New York Post, Jeffrey Epstein described himself as a “sturdy follower and supporter” of the Times-Up organization that worked to combat sexual harassment. Bannon, a Hollywood producer and documentary filmmaker, asks if Epstein owns two islands, “Dr. Moreau’s Island.” Epstein replies “right.”
Bannon confirmed the footage during live taping of the podcast on July 12, saying it intends to release at least some of its content “early next year.”
“We’re releasing a film, a five-part series next year, early next year,” Bannon said in response to questioners about the future of the documentary.
“You need to name a name. You need to understand not only the elites of the world, but how they are closely related in the Epstein story,” he added. “That’s the key.”
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro criticized Bannon this week for not releasing the footage.
“So, I’ll release the Epstein tape and Steve,” Shapiro said. “I mean, seriously. More transparency is good. How about that? That seems to make sense to me.”
During the taping of Friday’s podcast “Warroom,” Bannon called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of “all sealed evidence” related to Epstein’s investigation.
“They should petition them to release all the evidence that was sealed, right? And there’s more they can do, but then we’ll start,” Bannon said.
In 2021, The New York Times said it confirmed that Bannon recorded more than 15 hours of interviews with Jeffrey Epstein. He said the film was intended to explain whether Epstein’s “perversion and despair of young women are part of a life systematically supported, encouraged and rewarded by a global facility that staves his money and influence.”
Jeffrey Epstein passed away in prison in August 2019. The examiner ruled that he committed suicide by hanging his death. However, the circumstances surrounding his death have long been forage for many on the far right who have pushed the plot that “Epstein did not commit suicide.”
Mark Epstein told NBC News that he has doubts about the official explanation.
“My concern is that my brother was killed,” he says, “Increasingly, I believe he was murdered. And everyone who sees all the information there about the facts comes to the same conclusion, is it correct?”
In May at the FOX Business, FBI director Kash Patel excited Epstein’s conspiracy theory before joining the administration — said the bureau decided that Epstein had taken his life.
“When you saw it, you know about suicide, and that was it,” Patel said at the time.
Mark Epstein called Patel “f–ing boron” for his review.
He said Bannon sent a dropbox link for one interview clip to Jeffrey Epstein. Mark said the link to the footage has expired.
