A Missouri pastor who briefly managed Jeffrey Epstein’s non-public Caribbean island was suspended from her job after her affiliation was publicly uncovered — with the reverend defending her determination to work for him regardless of figuring out his prison previous as a Christly act.
Rev. Stephanie L. Remington, 50, was suspended from Missouri’s United Methodist Church final week when management realized her title had appeared greater than 1,800 occasions within the trove of Epstein recordsdata just lately launched by the Division of Justice, UM Information reported.
Remington has not been accused of any crimes, and the Epstein recordsdata point out gave the impression to be principally from communications about overseeing the pedophilic financier’s Little St. James Island within the US Virgin Islands.
She labored for Epstein on his island from Aug. 2018 to Might 2019 — leaving her position simply weeks earlier than his fateful July 2019 arrest and suicide a month later — and insisted she “by no means” noticed any nefarious habits throughout her time.
“I by no means noticed something,” Remington advised UM Information. “I knew him for the final 9 months of his life, nicely after he served time for the issues that he was accused of doing.”
However Remington was conscious of Epstein’s prison historical past from ten years earlier — a 2008 responsible plea for to procuring a baby for prostitution, which landed him simply over a yr in jail — and regarded to her Christian teachings whereas apparently wrestling with whether or not to take the job.
“I felt that if I withheld relationship from this man due to his previous, then I might be turning my again on each message of hope I’ve ever preached, each invitation to God’s unconditional love I’ve ever prolonged, and my calling to be a therapeutic presence on the planet for all folks,” she wrote in a 2019 private weblog put up.
And he or she doubled down on that place after her suspension.
“Jesus obtained into a number of hassle for the corporate he stored, however he didn’t let that hassle stress him into rejecting the individuals who, by their requirements, didn’t need to be human,” she advised UM Information.
“Social demise is simply one other type of homicide. He opened his coronary heart and his thoughts to them, they usually opened their tables and alabaster jars to him,” she added. “Is Jeffrey not amongst their variety?”
Remington additionally mentioned Epstein was very variety to her when her father fell ailing, a scenario which led to her leaving the job.
That was one of many issues matters mentioned in e mail again and forths with Epstein and his workers revealed within the recordsdata, whereas others concerned logistics about work being achieved on the Little St. James home.
Little St. James was the nexus of a lot of Epstein’s illicit habits. Claims of kid rape have surrounded the island, whereas the pedophile routinely flew wealthy and highly effective buddies to the tropical getaway.
And although Remington insisted she by no means skilled something untoward on the island throughout her few months working there, Remington mentioned Epstein would ceaselessly brag about his connections to each Invoice Clinton and President Trump.
“Half of America needs to tie him to the Clintons. The opposite half needs to tie him to Trump,” Remington advised UM Information. “Their hunch is right. Jeffrey was very proud to have direct traces to all his presidents.”
Remington might face penalties inside the United Methodist Church, with the probe investigating whether or not she adopted guidelines requiring clergy members to tell management in regards to the scope of their employment.
She couldn’t be reached for remark.
