His name was Umar Dzhabrailov. A 67-year-old Chechen/Russian legislator and businessman, he was found dead on March 3rd with a gunshot wound to the head, a Luger pistol lying beside his body, in a luxury apartment in central Moscow.

And he had a “thing” for Ghislaine Maxwell.

Though there was no suicide note, police initially called it a “suspected” suicide. However, an investigation was launched.

According to reports, Dzhabrailov’s name had surfaced a few weeks earlier in the stack of Epstein files released by the U.S. Department of Justice in January. There were emails written by him to Jeffrey Epstein’s paramour and fellow trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he had been known to refer to as his “soulmate.” One such email from 2001 read:

“Dear Ghislaine, I’m back from London, planing [sic] 2 B in Moscow. Really want 2 C U, but I need 2 know exactly when U arive [sic], cause I want 2 take care of U and arrange welcoming things. Wishing U all the best! Umar.” [Safia Samee Ali, News Nation, March 3, 2026.]

There is also a reply from Maxwell reading:

“Umar Sorry that we did not come last week. Got side tracked and ended up in France. However we Jeffrey Tom and I are coming next week arriving Fri. Will you be around and can we get together? Let me know Hope you are wel [sic].” [Id.]

Dzhabrailov’s daughter has rejected the suggestion of suicide, posting on Instagram:

“He got silenced because of his implication with Jeffrey Epstein and Trump.” [Post by “Sci-Fun Fiction, Facebook, March 3, 2026.]

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It was also reported that Dzhabrailov had earlier attempted suicide in 2020. So — assuming the above information is accurate — here are my questions:

> First and foremost: Was it indeed suicide, or was it murder?

> Second: If suicide, was it the revelation in the Epstein files that pushed him over the edge?

> Third: If he was murdered, was it because of something he may have known about others connected with Epstein and/or Maxwell?

> Fourth: How deeply involved with the Maxwell gang was he? Was he just a facilitator — a pimp — for higher-ups in the Moscow elite? (If so, and if his elimination was ordered by a member of the Russian inner circle, we will likely never know who was responsible.)

Whatever the answers, this is yet another indication of the long reach of the late Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators. Their slimy tentacles have now been seen to stretch across borders and oceans, revealing a truly incomprehensible level of degradation among some of the world’s most wealthy and influential citizens.

It is so deeply embedded that wars are now being started to distract attention from it; people’s lives are being upended by mere association with anyone connected to it; and — if Umar Dzhabrailov’s death did result from it — more lives may be in jeopardy as the revelations keep coming.

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Thomas Payne famously wrote in 1776: “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

He had no idea.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/9/26