12/03/2025
EPISODE 35 OF THE LATE SHOW ON CBS SHOOK AMERICA WHEN STEPHEN COLBERT APPEARED WITH THE THEME “DIRTY MONEY”
35 WORLD-FAMOUS FIGURES WERE CALLED OUT BY HIM, SENDING SHOCKWAVES THROUGH ALL OF HOLLYWOOD.
There was no laughter, no familiar sharp jokes. In episode 35, Stephen Colbert walked onto the stage with a heavy expression — as if he were carrying a secret America would never forget. The theme that night: “Dirty Money.”
And at the 7-minute mark, he placed a folder on the table that made the entire room fall silent.
Inside were the final pages Virginia Giuffre left behind — pages the media had been too afraid to touch for years.
Colbert took a deep breath, looked straight into the camera, and began to read.
The first name.
The second name.
The third name…
By the time he reached the 35th figure, the audience in the studio seemed afraid to even breathe.
Those names came from every field: entertainment, politics, global tech, international finance — people the world once believed were untouchable. All appeared in documents connected to the dark, buried chapters of Virginia Giuffre’s life, along with money transfers, “support funds,” private jet trips, and handwritten notes Virginia wrote with trembling hands.
Colbert ended with a line that has left Hollywood frozen to this day:
“Money can cover many things — but it cannot cover the truth.”
