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Explaining our taste for excessive harm
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012747.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Explaining our taste for excessive harm Marc D. Hauser Viking/Penguin For Jacques and Bert Hauser, my parents, my friends, and my reminder that life should be lived to its fullest Hauser Evilicious. Front matter 2 Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ⎯⎯ Plato To witness s...

From: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
email TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030519.txt Mar 8, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

From: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Sent: 3/8/2011 1:48:24 AM To: Darren lndyke Details of the disturbing lifestyle led by Jeffrey Epstein emerged last night after the Daily Mail uncovered logs of telephone messages left at his Florida child sex den. Schoolchildren were...

Not Bad for a HORSE Head Though
email IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031768.txt Oct 17, 2018 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

From: Sultan Bin Sulayem PF Sent: 10/17/2018 5:26:21 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Subject: Not Bad for a HORSE Head Though Attachments: image001.jpg Importance: — High Trump calls Stormy Daniels 'Horseface' Jordan Fabian 1 hr ago © Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/G...

Re: and....another bit of advice ...? on WA
email TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023202.txt Dec 7, 2015 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: 12/7/2015 7:35:13 PM To: Lisa New Subject: Re: and....another bit of advice ...? on WA better list to present woody On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Lisa New <__________________ wrote: politicians I have taped Bill Clinton Al Gore, Jo...

Lionsgate buys Starz for $4.4 billion
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029989.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Lionsgate buys Starz for $4.4 billion Lionsgate, the film studio behind the “Hunger Games” movie franchise, said on Thursday it would buy premium TV network Starz for $4.4 billion in cash and stock. Th... MORE BUSINESS Hillary Clinton's health plan would kill Joe Biden's cance...

I Decided On A Bold Challenge To The Traditional Power Of The Government To Censor Obscene Material—Indeed To Censor Any “Offensive” Material Shown Only To People Who Aren’t Offended By It. Instead Of Arguing That The Film Itself Was Not Obscene
document I decided on a bold challenge to the traditional power of the government to censor obscene material—indeed to censor any “offensive” material shown only to people who aren’t offended by it. Instead of arguing that the film itself was not obscene House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

I decided to argue that it was none of the government’s constitutional business to act as a board of censors—to tell its adult citizens what they could and could not watch in the privacy of a movie theater that was off limits to children and that did not advertise in a pandering...

Judge Aldrich Immediately Expressed Skepticism About The Reach Of My Argument
document Judge Aldrich immediately expressed skepticism about the reach of my argument House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

suggesting that the Stanley decision wasn’t relevant to a movie theater. He told me about his grandmother who “once went to a movie entitled Sur Les Troits de Paris. She thought it was a travelogue. She didn’t after she got there of course…I heard about it.” I assured him tha...

Mr. Dershowitz. Well
document Mr. DERSHOWITZ. Well House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

I would submit that most politicians that get up and make political speeches are doing it for a motive which is not unrelated to that. Yet we don’t probe the motives of Presidents and Vice-presidents and Senators in speaking. Nor should we probe the motives of newspaper publish...

Following Three Days Of Intensive Argument And Questioning
document Following three days of intensive argument and questioning House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

the three judges issued a decision written by Judge Aldrich. He bought my argument totally. He began by accepting my assumption about the nature of the film:

It Was The First Time In History That A Court—Any Court—Had Ruled That The Government Had No Power To Ban Or Prosecute An “Obscene” Film That Was Shown To The Public In A Theater. I Had Achieved A Total Victory Not Only For My Client
document It was the first time in history that a court—any court—had ruled that the government had no power to ban or prosecute an “obscene” film that was shown to the public in a theater. I had achieved a total victory not only for my client House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

but for my novel approach to offensiveness under the First Amendment. It was a heck of a way to begin my career as a lawyer. The victory would

A Few Months Later The Supreme Court Rendered A 5 To 3 Decision In The I Am Curious Yellow Case That Did Not Reach The Broad Issue Decided By The District Court (Nor Did It Mention Bear Baiting); Instead
document A few months later the Supreme Court rendered a 5 to 3 decision in the I Am Curious Yellow case that did not reach the broad issue decided by the district court (nor did it mention bear-baiting); instead House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

it decided the case on a narrow procedural ground. We eventually settled the case to the advantage of the defendants. The film was shown throughout the country and no one went to prison. Judge Aldrich’s opinion

Only Hours Before The Scheduled Performance
document Only hours before the scheduled performance House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Carl Stork and Nathan J. Hagen—the co-presidents of the Quincy House Film Society—received telephone calls from the D.A.’s office directing them to be in Judge Charles R. Alberti’s courtroom at two o’clock for a hearing. Stork and Hagen tried to call me in my office. But I was...

After Some Legal Argument
document After some legal argument House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Judge Alberti declared that he was ready to see Deep Throat to decide whether it was obscene. I argued that the judge need not view the film: no matter what its content

Whether You Folks Like It Or Not
document Whether you folks like it or not House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

you are part of a rather important political event…I am not here to either encourage or discourage the students who decided to see this film…Were I not involved in this lawsuit

Redgrave Herself Has Used Her Art “To Do The Work” Of Terrorists. In 1977
document Redgrave herself has used her art “to do the work” of terrorists. In 1977 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

she made a film calling for the destruction of the Jewish state by armed struggle. She has personally received training in terrorism at camps from which terrorist raids were staged. She advocated the assassination of Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar Sadat. After playing her cont...