Rod Webber, the man who defaced a $120,000 piece of art earlier this week, painted “Jeffrey Epstain Didn’t Kill Himself” on what appears to be the Palm Beach home of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I made an update at Jeffrey Epstein‘s house. I call this one ‘Stain on us all,'” Webber said in a Facebook post on Tuesday, explaining his deliberately misspelled message, “Epstain didn’t kill himself,” scrawled on a gate. The 46-year-old took footage of the graffiti and posted it online.
The Palm Beach police told the Washington Examiner they had received no calls from Epstein’s estate about the graffiti, and no complaint about the matter has yet been filed.
The house, part of the financial mogul’s extensive real estate holdings, is estimated to be worth $12 million. Epstein purchased the home in 1990 for a reported $2.5 million. The posh mansion, which sits on the Florida waterfront, was where he allegedly raped many of the dozens of underage girls who have accused him of abuse.
Webber also vandalized a $120,000 piece of duct-taped banana art at a Miami art gallery on Sunday. He wrote “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself” on the display and was arrested for criminal mischief. He told the Washington Examiner that he did the stunt to prove the gallery was using the artwork as a publicity stunt.
“If they pressed charges, it would expose them as the frauds they are. They had me arrested, so now we know who they are, and the kind of people the art world are comprised of,” he said.
Webber said the police have not contacted him about vandalizing Epstein’s home, but he told the Washington Examiner that his defacement of property was intended to bring attention to stories that do not fit the “official” narrative.
“I don’t know for certain what happened with Jeffrey Epstein, but the meme is a symbol,” he said in a Wednesday statement. “The government has proven over and over again that it cannot be trusted. So, why should we believe the ‘official’ narrative put out by the government?”
“My arrests have been for no more than speaking truth to power. But, since the corporate news refuses to do their job, it is now necessary for acts of civil disobedience to keep these stories alive,” he added.
