Barry Levine

Barry Levine is a veteran investigative reporter and editor in print and television. He received the Huffington Post’s “Game Changer” award in 2010 for his “shoe leather reporting” and led a reporting team to a Pulitzer Prize nomination for investigative reporting and national news reporting. He lives in New York.

THE SPIDER (Crown, October 20, 2020) by Barry Levine

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? A Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist unearths never-before-reported details in the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life, death, and criminal web, including the role of Ghislaine Maxwell.

By now, the basic contours of Epstein’s horrendous crimes—his decades-long serial abuse of young women and underage girls—are familiar. But for all that has been written about Epstein since his shocking death in a lower Manhattan jail cell, an astonishing amount remains unknown. A shy Brooklyn kid turned renegade financier, Jeffrey Epstein never wanted to play by the rules of polite society. He was elusive in life and he has remained just as elusive in death.

What is known is that he had amassed nearly $600 million by the time of his death. That fortune allowed Epstein to pursue a privileged, secretive life, jetting between his fortress-like homes in Manhattan, New Mexico, and Little St. James, his private island. Behind these closed doors, Epstein socialized with scientists and world leaders and preyed on powerless young women.

In this dogged work of reporting, Barry Levine shines a light into the darkest corners of Epstein’s world, including:

• Epstein’s young adulthood and earliest accusations of sexual misconduct
• The murky sources of Epstein’s fortune and business dealings
• Epstein’s circle of confidantes and employees, particularly the nature of his long relationship with socialite Ghislaine Maxwell
• His ties to powerful men, including Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Les Wexner, and Donald Trump
• Epstein’s last hours as a free man in Paris and the secret operation to arrest him at a New Jersey airport before he could flee
• New details on Epstein’s final days in jail and the mystery surrounding his death

Featuring rare and never-before-seen photographs, The Spider exposes how Epstein operated and evaded justice for so long—and how he drew so many others into his criminal web.

Barry Levine & Monique Al-Faizy

Monique Al-Faizy

Monique El-Faizy is a Paris-based journalist and the author of God and Country: How Evangelicals Have Become America’s New Mainstream. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Marie Claire, GQ, and Glamour.

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WOMEN (Hachette Books, October 22, 2019) by Barry Levine and Monique El Fairy

With groundbreaking interviews, behind-the-scenes reporting, and never-before-seen photos, All the President’s Women records 43 new allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump.

During his 2016 presidential run, the revelation of the Access Hollywood tape and subsequent allegations of sexual misconduct lodged against Donald Trump looked like they might doom his candidacy. Trump survived, and the first two years of the real estate scion’s presidency were marked not by controversy over his behavior around women but by the Mueller investigation.

So far, Trump has dodged the #MeToo bullet that has taken down so many once-powerful men. But despite the decades of tabloid fascination with his personal life, the story of Trump’s relationship with women has never been fully told. Considering his bully pulpit in the White House, the reckoning is overdue.

All the President’s Women offers the most detailed account yet of Trump’s history with women, dating back to his childhood and high school days through his rise in real estate, reality TV, and politics. This book will show that Trump’s behavior goes far beyond occasional “locker-room talk” and unwanted advances.

Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy detail more than a dozen new allegations against Trump, including a disturbing attack on a woman at Mar-a-Lago, an incident at a private Manhattan sex club involving a teenage girl, as well as Trump’s behavior at fashion shows and beauty pageants–events that gave the future president a hunting ground to harass young women.

Veteran journalists Levine and El-Faizy tell the story of Trump from the point of view of the women in his orbit–wives, mistresses, playmates, and those whom the president has dated, kissed, groped, or lusted after.

Esquire published an excerpt here.

The Guardian published an excerpt here.

Cosmopolitan published an excerpt here.

You can read a Q&A with the authors in a Huffington Post interview here.

PRAISE AND PRESS for ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WOMEN:

“Barry Levine… and Monique el-Faizy are well placed to write this alarming book….Their book is lurid [and] informative….All the President’s Women is breezy but heavy.”
– The Guardian

“What emerges from this compendium of reporting are disturbing patterns of predatory behavior from a man who uses wealth and power to abuse women, as well as deep insight to the cultural forces that have allowed such predators to operate free of consequences.”
– Esquire.com

“A thorough… history of Trump’s behavior toward women…[All the President’s Women] elicits disgust and anger…assembl[ing] Trump’s cruelties and transgressions into one neat volume.”
– The Washington Post

“In a new book, All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator, Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy claim to have unearthed 43 new accusations against the President… The women who came forward in 2016 tried to warn us about the harm he was capable of…Just think of how much suffering would have been prevented if we had listened.”
-TIME magazine

“All the President’s Women [is] an in-depth exploration of Trump’s tendency to objectify the women who cross his path. The most powerful element … is the index included at its conclusion: a list of the many, many women who have come forward to claim that Trump mistreated them. The accounts vary; the theme does not. I moved on her like a bitch, the book suggests, is not the exception; it is the rule…The book also offers damning evidence, collectively, of Trump’s lifelong treatment of women as playthings; it could operate just as readily as a textbook on the workings of rape culture.”
-The Atlantic

“While many of the most shocking incidents discussed here are public knowledge, the significant new material and the book’s usefulness as a single-volume source on the topic make this not only a critical current read but one likely to become even more important in the future.”
-Library Journal (Starred Review)

“A searing account….An incredible tale and a necessary…volume of [Trump’s] improprieties.”
– AOL Build

“It is [the] narration, combined with a stunning 43 new allegations of Trump’s sexual misconduct, that makes All the President’s Women such an impactful read. Levine and El-Faizy painstakingly document Trump’s decades-long history of treating women as objects and accessories.”
– HuffPost

“All the President’s Women shows the most powerful rapist in the world should be seen as a predator first, and a president second….Maybe this is the book that will change everything….Compelling.”
– Jessica Valenti, Medium.com

“A thorough and disturbing rundown of President Trump’s attitudes toward and interactions with women….This somber narrative makes a strong case that Trump’s history of sexual misconduct goes far beyond ‘locker room talk.'”
– Publishers Weekly

“An exhaustive… compendium….With so many horrific anecdotes one after the other, the through line of the story is… the unrepentant predator.”
– Rawstory.com