Jeffrey Epstein believed he could make a deal to beat his sex trafficking charges by turning against Donald Trump or Bill Clinton, a new book claims.
The billionaire pedophile thought the Justice Department - under President Trump - ordered his arrest because they wanted him to 'flip and reveal the secrets of Bill Clinton', who had flown on Epstein's plane multiple times.
He also believed federal prosecutors in New York who were investigating Trump could have been after dirt on the former president.
The late financier believed that 'even in this climate' there was a 'deal to be made,' journalist Michael Wolff writes in Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting.
The book - available on October 19 - recounts in vivid and macabre detail Epstein's final months before his arrest in July 2019 and his subsequent suicide before he could face trial.
Jeffrey Epstein believed federal prosecutors ordered his arrest in 2019 because they were trying to get him to spill Bill Clinton's 'sex secrets,' a new book has claimed
The billionaire pedophile thought the sex trafficking charges were part of a larger plan to get him to give up dirt on his friends Trump or Clinton, according to Michael Wolff's new book, Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious
Wolff reveals that Epstein had considered trying to rehabilitate his image with a TV interview with Rachel Maddow or Gayle King and even staged a mock exchange with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
Epstein also had the support of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak who downplayed his crimes as 'prostitution' and had believed that 'the secrets are safe' so long as the billionaire financier was alive.
The book reveals the pedophile was flippant about his depraved sexual habits and even compared himself to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft who was arrested for soliciting prostitutes at massage parlors in early 2019.
'Bob gets dinner out, I get take-in,' Epstein reportedly said.
Wolff writes that the financier, who typically ignored the allegations against him that were reported in the media, was about to pay a British PR firm $3million to run a 'war room' to push back on every story about him at the time of his death.
Too Famous, published October 19, will lift the lid on billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's final months
Just before he hanged himself in his cell, Epstein made a morbid joke in a note to a friend saying: 'still just hanging around - no pun intended,' according to the book.
Wolff's previous books have included the sensational 'Fire and Fury' about the Trump White House, written in a gossipy tone recounting the conversations the journalist saw while in the room.
Too Famous takes a similar approach and appears to be based on at least three occasions where Epstein invited Wolff to his New York mansion and his apartment in Paris in the spring of 2019.
Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019 while flying back from Paris and at the time was 'on the verge of pulling the trigger' on buying a vast property in Morocco, Wolff writes.
Had the sale gone through it would have been significant as Morocco has no extradition treaty with the US.
On board the flight home was Epstein's girlfriend of seven years, who Wolff calls 'a young woman from Belarus whom he had put through dental school.' DailyMail.com has identified her as Karyna Shuliak.
Also on board were two blond and tall assistants who one of Epstein's friends jokingly called 'The law firm of Comely & Comely.'
Epstein flew to Teterboro airport in New Jersey and 30 minutes into the flight the pilots were asked to confirm Epstein was on board.
The financier became 'suddenly alarmed' and told his pilots to turn around but he was told it was impossible.
Federal agents were waiting for Epstein and arrested him as he came down the steps of his plane for sex trafficking charges.
Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges on July 6, 2019 while flying back from Paris and killed himself the following month before he could face trial
Epstein was previously convicted of procuring a child for prostitution in 2008, but according to Wolff, he believed there were 'two likely scenarios' behind his 2019 arrest.
'The White House, through the Justice Department, was looking to press a longtime Republican obsession, and Trump ace-in-the-hole, and get Epstein to flip and reveal the sex secrets of Bill Clinton,' he writes.
'Trump, if he was obsessed with Clinton, which he was, was also obsessed with what Epstein knew about Clinton.'
The other scenario was that prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, which were investigating Trump's business affairs, ordered the arrest of Epstein to 'pressure him to flip on Trump.'
Wolff writes that there were 'many likely holes in these theories' and the reality could have been that Epstein was 'just one more fallen sexual villain.'
'No matter, in Epstein's view - shared by [lawyer Reid] Weingarten - that did not mean there wasn't, even in this climate, a deal to be made,' the book states.
Perhaps the most macabre moment in the book is Wolff's claim that a few hours before his death, Epstein, who had already tried to kill himself once before while in prison, sent a note to a friend about his state of mind.
It read: 'Pretty crazy. But still just hanging around - no pun intended.'
Wolff reveals that months before his death he had visited Epstein's $75million Upper East Side mansion where he bumped into Ehud Barak.
At the time, Barak - who served as Israel Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001 - was considering running for office again and would later form a new party that ran in the September 2019 Israeli elections.
