Infrequently Asked Questions About Jeffrey Epstein, Part Three: As If In A Labyrinth
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I sold the Renoir and the TV set.
Don’t want to be around when this gets out.
—Duran Duran, “The Reflex”
Previously on Infrequently Asked Questions About Jeffrey Epstein…
You were going to tell me what could possibly be worse—hypothetically speaking—than the rapes, the history of sexual assault, the Putin puppetry, the mob ties, the felony conviction, and Donald Trump’s long relationship with the world’s most notorious child sex traffickers.
I was, and I will. But we have a lot more to cover before we get there. More than I thought.
Dude, we’re 14,500 words into this. Are you just jerking me around? Is this going to be like Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s vault?
No.
For one thing, Al Capone’s vault did not contain a creepy dental chair with weird rubber masks adorning sterile walls. For another, the FBI did not pay a thousand agents a million dollars in overtime to remove stuff from the vault before Geraldo could open it.
Geraldo blocked me on Twitter, by the way. One of my better celebrity blocks.
Why did Geraldo Rivera block you?
I don’t remember. Probably I called him a traitor—he was fluffing Trump pretty hard, back in the first term—and brought up the empty vault.
I’ve since reconsidered. What we don’t give Rivera enough credit for is, before the unfortunate and embarrassing anticlimax, he managed to get millions of people to watch a long exposé on Al Capone’s arrest. That was probably the first time most Americans became aware of money laundering. So maybe I was being a bit too harsh about the empty vault business.1 Although he totally deserved to be called out for whatever stupid thing he said about Trump.
We’re already off track. Is this a cop-out? Are you deflecting?
No! The truth is, I intended to have this be a three-part series, but just the part where I answer the “what’s worse” question already runs to 3,000 words. So I’m covering that in Part Four. Part Four will only be that. I promise.
Very well. Since we last spoke, the House Oversight Committee has released a new tranche of photos collected from the Epstein estate.
Indeed. They are in a Dropbox, here.
What’s your take on the tranche?
More than half the photos are weird shots of, like, Epstein’s hot water heater and the framework on a patio on his island. Not sure
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