Jeffrey Epstein’s black book listed John Mappin’s London number. Now a DOJ audio file links his name to a dissolved Met Police child abuse operation — and nobody’s asking why.
One evening, a man calls a phone number, but does not identify himself. He says he has been put through by a switchboard and goes on to say the call is about an entry in Jeffrey Epstein’s contact book — the 97 page black book — and that a chap called John Mappin is in it. He says he deals with whistleblowers and charities regarding child sexual abuse and says this man, Mappin, was identified back in 1989 to a police operation in the Metropolitan Police called Operation Orchid. He leaves his UK mobile number and says the Met did not act, like they did not act on a lot of things.
That voicemail exists and is catalogued in the Department of Justice’s released Epstein files under the file EFTA00093515, preserved and published as part of the over 3.5 million pages made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law on November 19, 2025. A transcript is archived at tommycarstensen.com and the audio is hosted on the DOJ’s own servers at justice.gov
Who Is John Mappin
John Mappin is not a ‘household name’. He presents himself as an heir to the Mappin and Webb jewelry dynasty — a family that, per his own promotional materials, served the Royal Houses of England and Europe since as far back as the 1700s. He owns Camelot Castle Hotel — a Victorian property perched on the cliffs of Tintagel Cornwall, marketed as a luxury retreat steeped in Arthurian legend.
He is also a Scientologist and a vocal QAnon promoter, and one of the original financial backers of Turning Point UK — the British offshoot of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. In January 2020, Mappin flew a “Q” flag above his castle, drawing coverage from The Guardian. He has self styled himself with aristocratic flourishes — sometimes appearing publicly as “Sir John Mappin of Treworder” a title not recognized by any official authority.
He awarded Donald Trump an honorary “Camelot Castle knighthood” in 2016, claims to have had a personal meeting with Trump shortly after his inauguration, behind only Theresa May and Nigel Farage, and was photographed with Trump and Melania at the Washington Hotel. Eric Trump reportedly called Mappin before the inauguration to personally thank him for his support for Trump
Hope Not Hate, the UK based anti-extremism non profit— described Mappin as the operational anchor of Turning Point UK’s UK launch, noting that at the Royal Automobile Club event in December 2018, Kirk himself directed potential donors to “talk to John.” Kirk and Mappin have described each other as close friends and Mappin wrote a tribute piece published in The Telegraph in September 2025 following Kirk’s assassination, recounting their last dinner together in London.
He has been publicly photographed with Nigel Farage, Brexit Party officials, and attendees of TPUK events. Wikipedia’s entry on Turning Point UK identifies Mappin as a participant in a 2019 fundraising dinner alongside Farage and describes him as an “antisemitic conspiracy theorist.” He has been called a significant backer of the group’s overseas operation. He has not been charged with, nor accused of, any crime by law enforcement.
“This man has been identified back in 1989 to a police operation in the Metropolitan Police called Operation Orchid.”
Page 35 of the Black Book
Epstein’s so called “little black book” is a 97 page document. A former employee took it from Epstein’s home in 2005 and later attempted to sell it. Gawker published a redacted version in 2015 and an unredacted version was released on 8chan in 2019.
According to the public database at epsteinsblackbook.com John Mappin appears on page 35 — two phone numbers and one address are listed under his name. The main address is in London, UK.
Mappin has publicly denied ever meeting Epstein. In an exchange visible on social media, when challenged about his presence in the black book, Mappin stated he had never met Epstein and had been fighting child trafficking for years. His name remains on page 35.
and in the DOJ official Epstein Library — EFTA00191526
Epstein’s black book contained thousands of names, many of whom had no meaningful relationship with him. The question raised by the DOJ audio file is not simply whether Mappin knew Epstein — it is whether a separate, earlier, UK law enforcement operation had identified Mappin in connection with child sexual abuse.
the Suitcase
On July 11, 2019, during the execution of a search warrant at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion at 9 East 71st Street, FBI agents received two suitcases — one blue hardshell, one black canvas — from Richard Kahn, Epstein’s longtime accountant and financial manager. The contents were inventoried, secured at the FBI New York Operations Center, and reviewed again on July 31, 2019.
Among the contents were 48 loose diamonds with certificates, a Richard Mille watch and an FP Journe watch. A U.S. Department of Treasury Customs badge, six binders of CDs, a black wallet containing an AT&T corporate card issued to Wexner Investment Co. A white envelope containing $50,000 in ‘banded cash’ — a smaller envelope marked “$6000 for Sarah” containing $4315 in mixed bills and a $100 American Express Traveler’s Check, a Mappin & Webb dark brown jewelry box containing cuff links engraved with the letter “A” — Mappin & Webb is the jewelry house John Mappin has publicly identified as his family’s dynasty, a company he describes as having held Royal Warrants and served the Royal Houses of England and Europe for centuries. Whether the cuff links have any connection to John Mappin specifically is not established by these documents.
Also in the blue suitcase was an Austrian passport. The original July 11 inventory had described it as a passport in Epstein’s name. The July 31 amendment corrected that. The passport listed the name Marius Robert Fortelni. The photograph inside was of Jeffrey Epstein
The Fortelni passport, recovered from Epstein's blue suitcase. Name: Marius Robert Fortelni. DOB: 30 July 1954. Residence listed as Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Nationality: Austria.
The July 31 amendment correcting SA Jorgensen's original inventory, which had listed the Austrian passport in Epstein's name. Source: EFTA01307727
Interior pages of the Austrian passport found in Epstein's blue suitcase. Listed under the name Marius Robert Fortelni with entry stamps visible from France and Heathrow — dated 1982. Source: EFTA01648942
That is a fraudulent identity document, confirmed by FBI inventory
On August 2, 2019 — eight days before Epstein’s death — the same two suitcases and their full contents were transferred out of FBI custody to Frank Senerchia of Orion Investigations Inc, acting on behalf of Epstein’s legal counsel. Senerchia signed two FD-597 Receipt for Property forms and departed with the property. This transfer is documented in FD-302 Serial 206
The Mappin & Webb box left FBI custody with everything else.
Operation Orchid
Operation Orchid was a real Metropolitan Police investigation. It was established in 1989 and led by Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley, tasked with inquiring into the disappearance of missing children.
Its most documented outcome was the investigation into the 1984 murder of Mark Tildesley, a nine-year-old boy who vanished from a funfair in Wokingham, and the subsequent identification of a paedophile network operating across South East England. The operation involved extensive interviews with convicted paedophile Leslie Bailey, who had been charged in connection with the murders of 14-year-old Jason Swift and six-year-old Barry Lewis. Those interviews led to the prosecution of Sidney Cooke, who was convicted and sentenced for his role in the Swift killing as part of that wider network.
The Cooke and Bailey network was not a small scale local matter. It involved multiple perpetrators, multiple victims, and stretched across years of abuse that remained undetected while it was ongoing. Operation Orchid was wound down, according to available public records, after the Cooke network had been addressed.
This is important context for what the caller in EFTA00093515 says — and does not say. He does not claim John Mappin was arrested, he doesn’t claim charges were brought and he does not claim Operation Orchid produced any finding about Mappin. What he says, precisely, is that Mappin
“was identified back in 1989 to a police operation in the Metropolitan Police called Operation Orchid.”
Identified to an operation is the language of informant tips, intelligence referrals, and third party disclosures. It is how someone enters a file — not how they leave one as a confirmed perpetrator. The caller explicitly acknowledges that the Met did not act on this, and frames it alongside a broader pattern of institutional failure in how British police handled child abuse disclosures during that era.
That framing is historically grounded. The decades following Operation Orchid saw multiple formal inquiries — including the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), which ran from 2015 to 2022 — conclude that British institutions including the Metropolitan Police repeatedly failed to pursue allegations of child sexual abuse when powerful or connected individuals were implicated.
There is no publicly available official statement confirming that John Mappin was ever named in, connected to, or referenced by Operation Orchid. The claim exists solely in a voicemail preserved in the DOJ’s Epstein archive. It is evidence of what a caller told investigators. It is not a finding, and it is not treated as one here.
A second audio file in the same archive — EFTA00276490 — has been theorized by online commenters to feature a different voice and context, with some suggesting the speaker is Erika Kirk, CEO of Turning Point USA since Charlie Kirk's assassination on September 10, 2025. Last Page First has not independently verified that claim. Both files are publicly accessible at justice.gov/epstein
Mappin has denied ever meeting Epstein. His name remains on page 35.
The Network
What is verifiable is the network John Mappin has operated within for years — and the proximity that network places him to individuals and institutions with documented connections to Epstein’s world.
Mappin helped establish Turning Point UK alongside Charlie Kirk. According to Hope Not Hate, he was the designated contact for high-end donors at the launch event held at the Royal Automobile Club in December 2018. Kirk directed prospective backers directly to him. He attended TPUK events with Nigel Farage, Priti Patel, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Candace Owens. He sat opposite Farage at a 2019 fundraising dinner.
He produced content promoting QAnon through his Camelot TV Network and flew a Q flag above his castle in January 2020, drawing coverage from The Guardian. He awarded Donald Trump an honorary Camelot Castle knighthood in 2016, claims to have met Trump shortly after his inauguration — behind only Theresa May and Nigel Farage — and was photographed with Trump and Melania at the Washington Hotel. Eric Trump reportedly called Mappin personally before the inauguration to thank him for his public support.
He has described meeting a US intelligence official who told him QAnon was real. He has given himself the title “Sir John Mappin of Treworder,” which is recognized by no official authority.
After Kirk’s assassination on September 10, 2025, Mappin wrote a tribute published in The Telegraph recounting their last dinner together in London. In that piece and in subsequent statements, Mappin said Kirk “loved and applied” Scientology — a claim that drew attention in conservative media circles given Kirk’s public Christian identity.
The Candace Owens dimension is worth examining on its own terms. When Laura Loomer publicly accused Owens of accepting money from Mappin, Owens denied it. But in her denial, Owens acknowledged that someone from Turning Point’s team had contacted “a Scientologist” following Kirk’s shooting — a reference that observers interpreted as pointing to Mappin. The exchange confirmed that Mappin remained a significant figure in TPUSA’s orbit even after Kirk’s death, and that his relationship to the organisation was financially entangled enough to require a public denial.
His wife Irina Mappin, originally from Astana, Kazakhstan, was referenced in a Reddit thread as having organized children’s drawing and story competitions in Kazakhstan framed as cultural exchange. There is no evidence this activity is anything other than what it appears to be. It is noted here because it was raised in publicly circulating discussion of Mappin’s background, and because this publication documents what exists rather than deciding in advance what is relevant.
None of this places John Mappin in a room with Jeffrey Epstein. None of it confirms the claim in the voicemail. What it establishes is that the man whose name a London caller flagged to the Epstein investigation — citing a 1989 Metropolitan Police operation — spent the subsequent three decades at the intersection of right-wing political financing, Scientology, QAnon promotion, and direct proximity to Donald Trump’s political circle.
His name is on page 35, an anonymous caller said something specific to the FBI and the documents are public.
Why This Exists in an FBI File
The DOJ released over 3.5 million pages of Epstein related files under the Epstein Files Transparency Act — the files include voicemails, tip lines, and unsolicited contacts from members of the public who were attempting to provide information to investigators. EFTA00093515 is one of those files.
Its existence does not mean the FBI investigated Mappin. It does not mean the caller’s claim is true but it does mean someone in London, someone who described decades of work with whistleblowers on child sexual abuse, called the Epstein investigation and said something specific about a specific person, a person whose name appears on page 35 of a contact book that federal investigators were actively reviewing.
The DOJ released a memo in July 2025 stating it found no credible evidence of a client list or of Epstein blackmailing prominent individuals. That memo drew bipartisan criticism, and the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed with near unanimous congressional support precisely because a significant portion of lawmakers did not accept that the investigation was complete — or that what had been released told the full story.
John Mappin has not been charged with any crime. He has not been publicly named by any law enforcement body as a subject of investigation. He exists in this story the way many names in Epstein’s world exist: as a presence that raises more questions than any official body has seen fit to answer.
A caller named John Mappin to the FBI, cited a 1989 Metropolitan Police operation. They left a call back number, the FBI filed it and it has been sitting there ever since.
Now you know it exists too.
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Sharing. Jeepers, the horrors that are being revealed are chilling. What we do know for sure is too many innocent people for decades upon decades must have millions of voices loudly raised with actions demanding justice for each one. The justice demands for actions must never be silenced here in the USA and far and wide beyond our borders. These predators have no care but hatred for human beings except as property possessions. Maybe we need to think of them as such and make sure they become known worldwide as damaged, soiled goods.
So many investigations need to happen into so many really bad actors.
It’s horrifying how long these things have been going on with authorities doing absolutely nothing about it.
Sharing. Jeepers, the horrors that are being revealed are chilling. What we do know for sure is too many innocent people for decades upon decades must have millions of voices loudly raised with actions demanding justice for each one. The justice demands for actions must never be silenced here in the USA and far and wide beyond our borders. These predators have no care but hatred for human beings except as property possessions. Maybe we need to think of them as such and make sure they become known worldwide as damaged, soiled goods.