CONFIRMED: Huffines' Epstein Ranch Purchase Benefited Victims
Fake news spread across the internet alleging otherwise.
Over the weekend, various influencers and internet journalists spread claims online that Texas Comptroller candidate Don Huffines family’s purchase of Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch provided no benefit to Epstein’s victims. However, an email from the estate’s attorney explicitly confirms that the sale proceeds did indeed benefit the victims.
The Santa Fe New Mexican published a story just four days before early voting began, revealing that Don Huffines’ family now owns the notorious Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.
The family of Texas businessman and politician Donald Huffines owns the late Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in southern Santa Fe County, which was purchased in 2023 by a limited liability company created just a month before the purchase.
Huffines’ campaign consultant, Allen Blakemore, confirmed to the Santa Fe New Mexican that the proceeds for the purchase benefited the Epstein victims:
“Four years after Mr. Epstein’s death, the Huffines family purchased property in New Mexico listed at public auction whose proceeds benefited his victims,”
- Allen Blakemore
Despite Blakemore confirming the funds benefited Epstein’s victims, internet journalists and political influencers began a swarm of posts stating this was a lie and that no victims benefited from the purchase.
Sarah Fields, internet-journalist:
Internet influencer:
Center Square contributor:
However, an email obtained by Current Revolt from Daniel Weiner (of the law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed, which represents the Epstein estate) confirms that proceeds from the sale of the ranch did indeed go to benefit Epstein’s victims:
Proceeds from the sale of the Zorro Ranch property became assets of the Epstein Estate, which subsequently settled over 55 individual claims by women alleging sexual abuse by Mr. Epstein, in addition to those individual claims resolved through the Estate’s widely praised Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program. (The Estate is currently in the process of resolving a putative class action on behalf of all other women who suffered abuse at Mr. Epstein’s hands who have not previously settled with the Estate.) It is therefore accurate to state that the Estate used funds from the New Mexico property sale to benefit Mr. Epstein’s victims.
The property was in the process of being listed at public auction at the time Mr. Huffines purchased it.
Daniel Weiner - Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Internet journalists and outlets mistakenly interpreted the March 25, 2021 deadline for submitting claims to the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program as meaning the entire fund had closed or shut down completely.
A basic Grok AI search also confirmed that Epstein victims benefited from the sale of the ranch to the Huffines family.
Despite basic research into how the victims were the primary claimants, internet influencers and journalists continued to falsely claim that Epstein victims were not compensated.
Lynn Davenport, education policy analyst:
Sloppy reporting by some journalists included basic factual errors, such as wrongly claiming that Huffines was a state representative (false, he served as a state senator) and incorrectly stating that Allen Blakemore was Huffines’ attorney (also false, Blakemore is his campaign consultant and spokesperson).
Internet influencers, hungry for social media impressions and attention, rushed to fabricate false allegations in order to make a ranch purchase into more of a scandal than it actually was.
Thank you for the quick turnaround on this weird accusation against Huffines.
Huffines has my vote