Jeffrey Epstein is the most famous face in the world right now. And his case, like almost every major American story of the past decade, has been thoroughly checked for Russian connections: Was he a Russian agent? Was the island a Kremlin operation? Was Epstein connected to Vladimir Putin? And if so, how? Aside from several e-mails where Epstein tries to arrange a meeting with the Russian dictator, few things pointed to him passing information to the Russians.
That changed when America found out about Masha Bucher (née Drokova), a Silicon Valley publicist and angel investor from Russia who’s been mentioned in the Epstein files over 1,600 times. The reason Bucher—and her extensive correspondence with Epstein—fueled the “Epstein was working with Moscow” theory isn’t merely because she is Russian-born. It’s because she is Kremlin-bred.
