THE DIRT ON DERSHOWITZ

The Man Who Helped Epstein Get Away With It — Then Blamed the Victims

There’s something uniquely grotesque about Alan Dershowitz. Not just the way he’s aged into a caricature of his former self — a Harvard-credentialed banshee of self-pity and legal gaslighting — but the way he’s managed to insert himself into the Epstein scandal not as a person of interest, but as a self-appointed arbiter of who counts as a victim. And by his logic, the answer is never the young girls trafficked by his old friend. It's always him.

Let’s be clear from the outset: Dershowitz is not a neutral commentator. He is not an objective legal analyst. He is a man accused of rape under oath by Virginia Giuffre. Not once. Not twice. But six times. He has denied it, of course. He always denies it. But for a man who claims he wants the truth, he’s worked awfully hard to smear and silence the women who might speak it.

HE CALLED MARIA FARMER A "CRIMINAL."

YES, THAT MARIA FARMER.

In a July 2025 interview on Newsmax — the preferred propaganda channel for disgraced men in tailored suits — Dershowitz declared that Maria Farmer and Sarah Ransome “aren’t victims. They’re perpetrators.” Let that sink in. He said this with a straight face. On air. Without irony.

Maria Farmer is the first person to have reported Epstein to the FBI. In 1996. Before anyone else. She told authorities that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were abusing girls, trafficking them, and operating with total impunity. Her warnings were ignored. She was blackballed, stalked, and left to rot in a cancer ward while the media paraded Dershowitz around as an expert.

But sure, Alan. Tell us more about how you’re the real victim here.

HE HELPED WRITE THE DEAL THAT LET EPSTEIN WALK FREE

Dershowitz was one of the key architects of the now-infamous 2008 plea deal in which Jeffrey Epstein served 13 months of “custody” in a private wing of a Palm Beach jail — where he left six days a week to go to the office, had a private driver, and lived better than most working-class Americans.

Worse, that deal included a provision immunizing Epstein’s unnamed co-conspirators. That list may very well include Dershowitz himself. You’d think a man under such suspicion would recuse himself from the case. But Dershowitz didn’t just not recuse — he celebrated the deal. He called it “a good deal.” He called it “brilliant.” He called it justice.

In the real world, we call it a cover-up.

HE WANTS GHISLAINE MAXWELL TO GET "TIME SERVED"

Dershowitz recently said — out loud, on camera — that he hopes Ghislaine Maxwell cuts a deal and gets time served. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking minors. She lured girls as young as 14 years old to Epstein under the pretense of modeling jobs and then delivered them into rape scenarios like some demonic concierge of human pain.

But according to Dershowitz, she’s "served longer than anyone ever for any comparable crime."

What exactly is the comparable crime, Alan?

Show us the other convicted trafficker of a billionaire sex predator who had access to princes, presidents, and secret intelligence figures. Show us the comparison. Because if you can’t, you’re not making a legal argument. You’re paving the road to her release. And we all know why.

HE SETTLED WITH GIUFFRE — THEN LIED ABOUT WHAT IT MEANT

In 2022, Virginia Giuffre and Alan Dershowitz agreed to a mutual settlement of their dueling defamation lawsuits. Giuffre’s public statement was careful and noncommittal. She did not retract her accusation. She did not clear his name. She simply stepped back from the legal brawl.

But Dershowitz declared it a full exoneration. He went on TV. He wrote op-eds. He told anyone who would listen that Giuffre had “admitted” he was innocent. That’s a lie. It’s a self-serving, legally meaningless, PR-manufactured lie. But it plays well with the crowd that still believes Epstein killed himself.

HE'S AFRAID THE TRUTH MIGHT BE IN THE FILES

Dershowitz now claims the upcoming release of the Epstein case files will be unfair — that they’ll include “only the false accusations” and none of the magical evidence that would prove his innocence. He’s worried the public might not be able to “distinguish between true and false.”

Here’s the thing: we can. We know who first went to the FBI. We know who risked everything to speak up. We know which voices have stayed consistent and which have bent with the legal wind. We know who protected Epstein, who profited off him, and who is still — to this day — trying to launder their reputation at the expense of survivors.

The files should be released. All of them. And when they are, we don’t need Dershowitz to narrate them for us.

So how dirty is Alan Dershowitz?

Dirty enough to build the scaffolding that protected a predator.

Dirty enough to smear the women who came forward.

Dirty enough to still be defending Ghislaine Maxwell while calling himself a victim.

History will not remember him as a constitutional scholar.

It will remember him as the man who looked at a child trafficking ring — and said, “But what about my reputation?”

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