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August 24, 2025 24 mins
Hollywood's Hidden Horrors: The A-List Predator Ring
In this explosive episode, we uncover the shocking revelations as Mel Gibson blows the whistle on Hollywood's darkest secret - an elite network of entertainment industry predators. Through verified documents, insider testimonies, and previously buried evidence, we expose the disturbing connections between A-list celebrities, private islands, and powerful industry moguls. From exclusive parties to secret locations, discover how the entertainment industry's most prominent figures have been linked to a sinister underground network. This episode rips away the glamorous facade to reveal how power, influence, and silence have protected Hollywood's most disturbing open secret.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of the most disturbing problems in our world today
is human and particularly of children.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
And look at mel Gibson's profile. He dropped a list.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh dare you?

Speaker 4 (00:22):
The system is completely based on money, the studio system.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Now, the first step in eradicating this crime is awareness,
goes he sound of freedom.

Speaker 5 (00:33):
You're not gonna believe what's about to drop? The Epstein list. Yeah,
the real one. And this isn't just some Internet rumor.
Mel Gibson himself just lit the fuse. If you're tired
of the endless cover ups around Epstein and now the
Diddy scandals, buckle up because the truth is about to

(00:54):
get a whole lot messier. You already know. Epstein's client
list wasn't just some random collection of names. It was
packed with Hollywood's elite, the same faces you've seen smiling
on red carpets and winning awards. Turns out some of
your favorite celebs were hopping on those private flights to
Epstein's island for things we can barely even talk about.

(01:15):
And now the footage they never wanted you to see,
it's finally leaking, and once it's out, there's no going back.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
Dron also captured this mattress inside the infamous temple, and
for some reason, the staff had removed the golden dome
from the top of the temple and boarded up the
fake dorm.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
And no matter what happens, I just asked for the
grace to be able to deal.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
With a gut full of the whole industry. I mean,
it's a very strange place, hollyweird Wood, but it's an
odd place.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
I saw a foundation called Thorn.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
We're building digital tools to fight human traffiing.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
So Mel Gibson didn't just disappear from Hollywood by accident.
He was blacklisted. And this right here is the reason why.
For years he's been trying to get this tape out,
but every single time it went online it vanished almost instantly.
The lengths these elites will go to cover the tracks
absolutely terrifying. Remember John McAfee, the tech mogul who supposedly

(02:14):
took his own life well before that, he's the one
who reportedly captured hours of drone footage and almost all
of it was wiped from the Internet. But here's where
it gets wild. Mel Gibson managed to recover a piece
of that footage and he's planning to drop it in
his upcoming documentary. And this isn't just about celebrity scandals.

(02:36):
Mel says, it's part of a much bigger picture, a
spiritual war playing out right now with Hollywood's predators and
blackmail rings right in the middle of it. Once this
goes public, it's going to shake things in a way
we've never seen before.

Speaker 8 (02:51):
Ah. And this is in the next film I'm going
to do. I'm going to try and tackle this question
that there are big realms, spiritual realms. There's good, there's evil,
and they are slugging it out.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
You can't build a resentment about it. You have to
still try and love those people. Yeah, because that's the
way they're thinking.

Speaker 9 (03:14):
Referred to me as wild king Knights, And what a
wild king Knight was was when him and a guest
or guest would go to a hotel room or be
at his home, his bedroom, and they would have intimate gatherings.
I would have to go and prep that hotel room,
which consisted of baby oil astroglide.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
So what exactly is Mel Gibson planning to expose in
this new documentary and who's really on this Epstein Diddy list?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Just learned that Mel Gibson is about to release a
four part massive documentary series on the worldwide Child's Picking Ring.

Speaker 8 (03:55):
I think it's a lot of the people they'd get
in it, you know, institutions good or as bad as
the people in it running it.

Speaker 9 (04:04):
You know about a stark just pos it like the
second before I go, just to let you guys know
again it is gonna get hot.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
Alcohol.

Speaker 10 (04:14):
So why if it don't you live one?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Though not all the other ones, because this was.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
A sign in a theater that was smaller.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Unfortunately.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
I asked him about that one particular part where everybody's
talking and they all cried out Ebstein Islander, and that
went okay, Now I understand more.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're up against Wow. Ebstein Island isn't the only island
out there. And Tim Ballard takes down one of the film.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
And here's why this matters so much. Mel Gibson isn't
just talking. He's putting it all on the table. He
says he's working on a brand new documentary that will
expose how Hollywood doesn't just cover for predators, it nurtures them. Epstein, Diddy,
Harvey Weinstein, Dan Schneider. Those are just the tip of
the Iceberg. Rumor has it. The project is called The War,

(05:00):
a four part series that's already sending shock waves across
social media. And here's where it gets even crazier. Sources
claim Mel passed critical intel to Operation Underground Railroad, the
same group that's been taking down some of the most
dangerous international trafficking networks on the planet. That intel, they say,
became the blueprint for this documentary. If that's true, then

(05:22):
what's coming isn't just another Hollywood scandal. It's a direct
hit at the heart of an entire system that's been
protected for decades.

Speaker 11 (05:30):
The advantage for the Ukrainian refugee, crist We tried to discuss,
especially a woman and the young girls, to have some
preventive measures, dangerous propositions.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Annual global profit from the American is around thirty two
billion dollars.

Speaker 11 (05:46):
During women into slavery and taking children to sell up.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
In the first two weeks, there was already hundreds of
children reported missing from crossing the border.

Speaker 9 (05:57):
I thought he was this clean businessman who to the
top because he was such a powerful and you know, smart,
educated man. I had no idea that he had this
other side to him. And when I started to get
exposed to his lifestyle. I started to really realize, like,
this guy has an addiction. It's not just you know,
once every few weeks, it's every day, every hour.

Speaker 12 (06:20):
I want to start with alleged victim number four, who
goes by the name Mia. It's an alias. She is
one of the people who is testifying where the judges
granted her anonymity. She is on the stand, but everybody
in the courtroom has been warned, do not reveal her identity,

(06:41):
do not even give a physical description of him.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
And I was looking at a building with the top
of the sixes on it, so there was a huge
illuminated triple six in red, and I went from that
to that, and he started smiling, and I thought, oh, no,
Chris Walkin is the anti crisis.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
But here's what's going to make this documentary hit different.
Mel isn't just calling out the system. He's naming names,
and not just any names, his own Hollywood colleagues. The
same people who laughed at him, mocked him and turned
their backs when he got blacklisted for speaking his mind.

(07:20):
This time, Mel's coming with receipts, real ones to promote
the project. He dropped the Epstein Ditty list straight on
his official X account, and it's loaded. We're talking a
list actors, chart topping musicians, big name directors, and industry
power players, all allegedly tied to trips to Epstein's Island
and Diddy's infamous freak off parties. Sure a few names

(07:42):
were exactly who everyone expected, but others they were the
kind that make you stop scrolling and say, no way them.
This isn't just going to ruffle feathers. It's going to
flip the entire table on the p.

Speaker 11 (07:54):
Ditty case and everything going on with jay Z.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Right now, go over.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
To X.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
And look at Mel Gibson's profile.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
He dropped a list.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I'll dare you.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
When I came over here, I was god. I was
in my mid twenties. The first time I really came
over here. You know, I had a whole bunch of weird,
paranoid suspicions about what the hell was going on because
there was a lot of stuff I couldn't understand, and
nobody was really bothering to explain it to me.

Speaker 12 (08:47):
So she testified, excuse me, that she was Diddy's ex assistant.
She said, you sly assaulted her in various ways. Multiple times,
he exacted unbelievable violence against her, threatened her at one
point allegedly threatened to take her phone and use anything

(09:11):
on the phone.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
Again.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
What really turned heads was that Mel didn't leak this
through some shady back channel. He posted it himself right
on his official account. That alone sent shock waves through
Hollywood's upper circles. But here's where it gets spicier. Mel
isn't just going after random names on the list. He's

(09:32):
zooming in on a select few media powerhouses like Ellen
and Oprah and one of America's most beloved actors, Tom Hanks. Now,
Hank's name has been floating around Epstein rumors for years,
but things really got suspicious back in twenty twenty, right
when the Epstein case was heating up again. Out of nowhere,

(09:53):
Tom becomes a Greek citizen. At the time, everyone brushed
it off as a personal choice. But Mel's team they
see it differently. Why because Greece has some of the
strictest rules against extraditing its citizens, especially for crimes under
foreign investigation. To them, that move wasn't random, it was calculated,

(10:14):
and it doesn't stop there. Mel now claims he has
buried flight logs and hidden video footage linking Tom Hanks
to at least one trip to Epstein's Island. But that's
not the only reason Mel's pointing the spotlight his way.
If you've been watching Internet chatter about Hanks, you've probably
noticed the weird patterns people have been talking about for years.

(10:36):
It's not just about the Greek passport. Hanks has this
strange obsession with posting pictures of random gloves lying in
the street, abandoned kid's shoes, and other lost items, always
paired with odd captions. Just last month, he posted a
single child's croc sneaker hanging on a fence with the
caption anything less useful and this isn't new behavior. Scroll

(10:59):
through his instagram and and you'll see it goes back years. Gloves,
tiny shoes, even alone pacifier. Oh and here's the kicker.
Every single post has comments turned off. Some people say
it's just a quirky hobby, and Hanks himself once claimed
he's just fascinated by lost things. But after everything we
know now a lot of people aren't buying that explanation anymore.

Speaker 10 (11:22):
I know used to have this obsession obsession on Instagram
with lost gloves, and if anyone who knows you and
follows you is understands that there's something going on with
you and lost gloves.

Speaker 13 (11:35):
Well it's lost objects, but it started with lost gloves
and I first of all, there's a story behind them all.
What happened, what happened to its mate? How did this
glove get lost? Is some Is someone going to keep
the other glove at home on the off chance, or
they're going to pair it up. It's a little bit of,
you know, Romeo and Juliet kind of quality too.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
I wanted to leave and because I knew that, I
didn't want to work with it, and he was getting scary.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
But here's where things take an even darker turn. Some
Hollywood insiders who've worked closely with mel Gibson claim these
photos aren't just random quirks at all. They believe their
symbols hidden in plain sight. To them, these gloves, tiny shoes,
and pacifiers could be more than lost and found oddities.
They might be subtle references to trophies taken from victims,

(12:27):
or even coded messages meant for certain people in the know.
It's the kind of theory that sounds insane until you
start connecting the dots, and according to Mel, once you've
seen the evidence, he's sitting on, those dots form a
picture that's impossible to ignore.

Speaker 14 (12:44):
I have to ask, what about one recent habit of
yours though you're posting photos on social media of lost
clothing you find around on the street, right, gloves, socks?

Speaker 11 (12:58):
That, what's that?

Speaker 13 (12:59):
Absolute use of worldwide social media? Twenty million followers later on,
they're still hanging on whatever new kids mitten is going
to be found somewhere.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
You could that some of your worst nightmares were real
at the time. Anythink now this is what I mean
by actually starting to swim up or downstream with the
rest of the salmon. You know, eventually, if you stay
here long enough, yeah, you'll find yourself doing that.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
And you have to.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
There's a way of doing it without doing it.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
And Mel's team isn't letting any of this slide. They're
digging into everything, including Tom's mysterious connection to the late
actor Isaac Cappy. If you remember, Capy went public with
some seriously disturbing accusations against Tom Hanks before his sudden
death under what many still believe were highly suspicious circumstances. Officially,

(13:55):
it was ruled a suicide. But for people who've been
watching the patterns, the timing, the players involved, it doesn't
sit right.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Now.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
With Mel's investigators pulling at those threads, there's a growing
sense that Cappy's final warnings might have been more than
just wild claims. They could have been the first pieces
of a much bigger puzzles.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Okay, First of all, American actor Isaac Cappey who recently died.
You might know him from like thor Or, Breaking Bad
or Terminator. Well before his death, he came out with
the video where he was exposing all of Hollywood, and
he was exposing Tom Hanks. He was calling him the
P word in the video. He also says specifically that
he is not suicide whatsoever. Anyhow, he's found dead, he commits.

(14:42):
He jumps off a bridge in Arizona on May fourteenth,
Remember the state. Okay, now, let's jump over to Tom
hanks Instagram. Where you go to a post April fourth
he makes a post historic Route sixty six roadkill. I
hope not well. Kapey died on Interstate forty That's where
the bridge was, and inter State Forard is considered Route
sixty six. Elizahkapi calls Tom Hanks a p Wordlitz dumps

(15:06):
off a bridge, gets a buy car. Tom Hanks was
an Instagram post and says roadkill, So.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
I know successful producer. I will not mention the names,
but his whole opinion about women on film, from beginning
to end, was very brief. He says, women on film
either negatior dead, both is better.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
Whether you're on board with Mel's claims or not, one
thing's crystal clear. He believes every word of it. And
here's something interesting. Tom Hanks was never on Mel's good side.
They never worked together, never shared a set, and according
to Mel, that was no accident. He said for years
that he never bought into Hank's America's mister nice guy image.

(15:48):
To him, that squeaky clean persona wasn't genuine. It was
a carefully manufactured pr mask hiding a much darker reality underneath.
And now with everything Mel says he's uncovered, he's more
convinced than ever that the mask is about to come off.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's the nicest guy in Hollywood.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
Is that.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
No one searches my backyard for body.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
And speaking of celebrities who built entire careers on being nice.
Mel's team is now digging into Oprah Winfrey and Ellen
degenerous and the whispers that they've been running cover for
some of Hollywood's most powerful predators. For years, Ellen was
sold as the friendliest face in show business, the woman
who could make anyone laugh and feel welcome. But behind

(16:34):
the scenes stories are way different and way darker. As
time went on, rumors painted Ellen as one of the
most toxic and cold personalities in the industry. Then last year,
just weeks after her buddy Ditty was locked up, she
suddenly flew off to the UK, and while she was
conveniently overseas, the Internet started buzzing with unsettling rumors about

(16:56):
her and some of the big name celebrities who were
constant fixed on her talk show. Here's the kicker. Ellen
always claims she wanted her platform to be free from
hate speech or negativity, but guess who never got an invite,
Mel Gibson. Meanwhile, Diddy appeared on her show over a
dozen times without a single issue that double standard. Yeah,

(17:19):
it's not going unnoticed anymore.

Speaker 8 (17:20):
Are you gonna try to be early?

Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'm trying to be early.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Are you gonna be early for my party?

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yes, I no, no, you know I have to arrive
fashionably late, all right, not.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Too late, not too late, not too lately, would you
like me to I'll tell you later, okay, but.

Speaker 13 (17:33):
Not too late, because because you know, once you get there,
the party really starts.

Speaker 10 (17:37):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (17:38):
I got you.

Speaker 9 (17:39):
I promise I'm not gonna let you down on this
big one.

Speaker 6 (17:41):
All right?

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Good?

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Good, your shoes, your feet.

Speaker 11 (17:43):
Are gonna have blisters.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
You're gonna be dancing so hard.

Speaker 13 (17:46):
I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
These kids are my friends.

Speaker 15 (17:48):
They're young adults now, the ones that were rescued, they're
gonna come out soon and tell their story. It's gonna
be very awkward when the mainstream media comes after these
kids next and accuses of them of being part of
some conspiracy.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
And here's something you might not have noticed. Take a
closer look at the Ellen Show set design ever, realize
it looks eerily similar to Epstein's infamous blue stripe temple
on Little Saint James Island, right down to the palm
trees surrounding it. Maybe it's pure coincidence, but when you
start lining up these details, people like mel Gibson stop

(18:20):
seeing coincidences. And start seeing patterns and Mel isn't just
pointing fingers, He's bringing receipts. Word is He's planning to
include exclusive drone footage from Epstein's Island in his upcoming documentary.
This is the kind of footage that never made it
to mainstream news. Shots inside that blue and white temple
revealing disturbing details like a filthy mattress that raises far

(18:44):
more questions than it answers. If this makes it into
the final cut, it could be one of the most
explosive pieces of evidence the public has ever seen.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
A series of videos which evidence underground air vents and
captured unusual activities such as that still working on island.
The uploads began on the tenth of July, four days
after Epstein's rest and while he was in prison, the
staff can be seen working to dismantle some of the
structures and buildings. The drone also captured this mattress inside

(19:18):
the infamous temple, and for some reason, the staff had
removed the golden dome from the top of the temple
and boarded up the fake door. There are numerous videos
capturing all areas of the island. The drone footage continued
to be uploaded up until Epstein's death on the tenth
of August twenty nineteen. The drone captures a network of

(19:38):
underground NYIR vents and access points, fake doors, strained symbols,
and iiconography.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
The original YouTuber who dropped this bombshell drone footage went
by the name Rusty Shackleford back in July twenty nineteen.
But here's the twist. That channel's been completely wiped since then.
Now the only way to see those videos is through
buried inter archives, and the mystery doesn't stop there. No
one actually knows who Rusty Shackleford really was, but plenty

(20:08):
of people suspect it wasn't some random YouTuber. It might
have been the late cybersecurity mogul John McAfee himself. Here's why.
When the Rusty account started posting drone shots of Epstein's island,
McAfee just happened to be in the Caribbean. Around that
same time, he tweeted about going dark and claimed the

(20:29):
CIA was after him. It's not far fetched when you
remember McAfee was a hardcore drone enthusiast, and he even
bragged online that one of his own team members was
a skilled drone operator put those pieces together, and suddenly
the idea that he was behind those jaw dropping island
videos doesn't sound so crazy.

Speaker 16 (20:49):
Good morning, John McAfee. Here, as most of you know,
I am a drone nut. I have here my latest acquisition,
the Mayvig Platinum pro It is awesome. Governments hate these
and the hands of citizens because what used to be
for the government, something costing millions of dollars, is now

(21:12):
available to the people and we can watch them just
like they watch us.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
And here's another clue that points straight to McAfee as
the man behind Rusty Shackelford. One of the videos on
that channel used the line they should have left him alone,
a direct quote from the Born movie series Funny Thing.
McAfee had already tweeted that exact same phrase. But McAfee

(21:37):
didn't just film and leaked drone footage of Epstein's island.
He openly questioned the official story of Epstein's death. He
claimed Epstein's cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione, a convicted murderer with nothing
to lose, strangled him, and in June twenty twenty, mccaffee
said he knew exactly which high ranking official placed Tartaglia

(22:00):
in that cell and promised to reveal the name. Then
he went even further. In May twenty twenty one, McAfee
tweeted that Bill gates divorce was tied to multiple affairs
and hanging with the Jeffrey Epstein crowd. Just one month later,
on June twenty three, McAfee was found dead in a
Spanish prison cell exactly thirty two days after that tweet.

(22:25):
Officially they called it suicide by hanging. But for anyone
who's followed McAfee's life, his work, and the enemies he made,
that explanation never sat right. And here's where it all
circles back to Mel Gibson. Mel's been blacklisted in Hollywood
for speaking out about the exact same things McAfee was

(22:46):
posting about, a global network of predators that doesn't just
touch the entertainment industry, it reaches all the way to
the very top. And now with his new documentary in
the works, Mel's picking up right where McAfee left off.

Speaker 7 (23:01):
Is a day of recognition for human drinking and slavery
still existing around the world. The tragedy of human forced
forced labor, hereditary slavery, that exists in almost every country

(23:22):
needs to be abolished.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
One of the most disturbing problems in our world today
is human and particularly children. Now, the first step in
eradicating this crime is awareness.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
Now you can see exactly why Mel Gibson is going
all in on this documentary. Almost everything the mainstream media
fed you about Epstein total fiction, and the real story
is packed with holes, holes that lead to some very
uncomfortable truths. But here's the game changer. Mel's not fighting
this battle alone anymore. Word is, He's just teamed up

(23:59):
with an another major Hollywood name, the one who wasn't
just a bystander. They were in the rooms at the parties,
and they know exactly who was there, when they were there,
and what went down. This insider could be the key
that turns Mel's documentary from explosive into unstoppable. And when
those names finally drop, there's no way to put this

(24:21):
genie back in the bottle.
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