At the beginning of this February, a shadow began to loom over the offices of the New York Giants. Reports from the Associated Press revealed the appearance of Steve Tisch’s name, the team’s co-owner and a Hollywood producer, in a new wave of court documents related to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In that initial report, the Giants organization attempted to mitigate the media impact through an official statement, asserting that the relationship between Tisch and Epstein had been merely “brief” and superficial.
However, the narrative of a chance encounter has been dismantled this week in the face of compelling documentary evidence exposing a far darker and more persistent dynamic.
Emails, favors, and a pattern of abuse
What the Giants described as fleeting contact was, in fact, a relationship spanning years that began in 2013, according to an in-depth investigation by The Athletic. Electronic records show that just three weeks after meeting, Tisch and Epstein were already exchanging emails using lascivious and demeaning terms to refer to various women.
The investigation reveals that Epstein acted as a facilitator of “prospects” for the Giants owner. Among the communications, one stands out in which Epstein offers a young aspiring actress while highlighting her physical attributes in vulgar terms. Aware of the legal risk, the financier even wrote to Tisch: “Send me a number to call, I don’t like records of these conversations,” attempting to conceal a trail that is now coming to light.
The report documents that Epstein introduced Tisch to at least four women. One of the most harrowing testimonies comes from a young woman who, in 2013, visited the producer in a $60,000-a-month penthouse at the Trump Park Avenue building. The woman recounts that, after ignoring her professional aspirations, Tisch placed his hand on her thigh; when she rejected him and fled, she was later reprimanded by Epstein himself over the phone, who called her an “idiot” and warned that she would never achieve anything in her life for having walked out on the producer.
Other communications from women linked to this network describe Tisch’s behavior as “strange” and “predatory,” expressing fear that he merely sought to “absorb their youth” in exchange for promises of professional help that never materialized. Although the exchange of messages faded by August 2017, the current evidence directly contradicts the team’s official stance, leaving the co-owner at the center of a scandal that is only beginning to reveal its true dimensions.
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