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Anyone who's seen Alison Klayman's 2019 documentary The Brink will remember the scenes where Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage sit together discussing a pan-European nationalist populist "Movement" - with Bannon calling Farage "the face" of Brexit while they talk about stitching together far-right parties across the EU. Bannon tells Farage that he'll "fund it somehow".

What those scenes didn't show is that the Brussels vehicle Bannon was about to claim as his own - The Movement - had actually been created out of Farage's network and that, in the background, Jeffrey Epstein was quietly helping Bannon plan, protect, and track his "European revolution".

Farage is not just a cameo, he is 'Mr Brexit' - the most famous and successful of Bannon's protégés apart from Donald Trump.

And Farage was wired into the legal shell of The Movement through his partner, Laure Ferrari, from day one - with an opaque dark money funding structure suggested by Epstein.

Farage's Partner Builds the Brussels Shell

Before Bannon ever announced his European project, a Brussels foundation with the same name already existed - built by individuals in Farage's world.

On 9 January 2017, according to the deed quoted by FOIA Research, a new foundation called Le Movement/The Movement was founded in Belgium with the aim to unite "populist and conservative movements in Europe", defending "national sovereignty", "effective national borders", the "fight against radical Islam", and "the defence of Israel as a sovereign state on its historic land".

It was registered by the right-wing Belgian lawyer Mischaël Modrikamen, his wife Yasmine Dehaene-Modrikamen, and Laure Ferrari, a protégé and aide to the then UK MEP Nigel Farage, who was fresh from his success in leading the Leave.EU campaign during the 2016 EU Referendum.

Ferrari had worked for Farage's UKIP, and then ran the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe - a Farage-linked think tank later accused (alongside the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe) of diverting EU funds into UKIP campaigning.

Today, Ferrari is openly Farage's partner, so close to the Reform UK Leader that the house he said he had bought in his Clacton parliamentary constituency is actually owned by her.

Modrikamen told FOIA Research that he had circulated a memo about The Movement to like-minded parties, but nothing much happened until Farage told him that his long-term friend and ally, Cambridge Analytica co-founder and Breitbart CEO, Steve Bannon, wanted to meet.

Modrikamen recalls that at this lunch, "it clicked"; that he and Bannon "absolutely shared the same convictions", and that Bannon agreed to adopt the foundation as his Brussels hub.

Modrikamen told Reuters that the organisation would provide a pan-European "link between the Movement started by President DJ Trump in the USA and citizens and political movements in other countries, including the Brexit campaign".

So by the time The Brink cameras caught Bannon and Farage talking about a European "Movement", Farage's own circle had already built the corporate shell, and Farage himself had brokered the deal that handed it to Bannon.

This is the structure into which Jeffrey Epstein walked.

'Donors to My Revolution': Bannon Turns to Epstein

On 8 October 2017, a few weeks after Steve Bannon had left the White House as President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, journalist Michael Wolff emailed Bannon asking: "How's it looking…?" From Connecticut, Bannon replied:

"I'm in CT with donors to my revolution now all day… can we meet tomorrow?"

Wolff proposed a meeting with the disgraced sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein - "JE leaves for Paris tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. Could meet before or tonight".

Over the next year, as Byline Times has reported in these pages, those contacts deepened.

Epstein became a pa...