New Jeffrey Epstein Book – More Questions Than Answers

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Much like an exhilarating action-adventure film the place the protagonist drops 4 assailants in 15 seconds with just a few strategic blows, the Jeffrey Epstein story requires a suspension of disbelief. Thus far, the revolting life and mysterious demise of the New York financier-turned-sex-offender has amounted to little greater than the platitude “the bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

Jeffrey Epstein

But there’s extra to the Epstein story than meets the attention. Today — to nice fanfare — Miami Herald reporter Julie Okay. Brown, whose investigation into Epstein began the ball rolling downhill, printed a complete e-book on the inevitable destruction of the serial sexual predator. This deep dive into the grim story of the boy born in Brooklyn who went on to hobnob with the jet-set poses a panoply of reliable questions that have to be answered. Though in lots of locations it’s mentioned to learn like a novel, this non-fiction e-book reveals a delay in and even perhaps a corruption of the prison justice system, together with attainable crimes for whom nobody is held to account.

Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein?

It isn’t merely the action-adventure movie that Americans love; they’re besotted by an excellent thriller as properly, and it’s right here the place the Epstein story — rife with intrigue — delivers. Did he die by his personal hand, or did another person do the deed? In the well-researched exposé Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, Brown supplies an engrossing account of the autumn of the high-flying financier. However, the cliffhanger stays. In the chapter “Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself,” New York Times e-book reviewer David Enrich mentioned, “She doesn’t have the goods to substantiate the provocative assertion.”

Having secured advance copies of the e-book, The Times and The Guardian mentioned the marketing campaign to “fix” Epstein’s authorized downside again in 2008. Brown fingered lawyer and former U.S. solicitor normal Kenneth Starr as having performed a job in getting Epstein a slap when he ought to have gotten extra of the slammer. Ed Pilkington of The Guardian summed up Brown’s accusations this manner: “When Epstein’s lawyers appeared to be failing in their pressure campaign, with senior DoJ officials concluding that Epstein was ripe for federal prosecution, Starr pulled out the stops.”

The Miami Herald reporter-turned-book-author additionally injected herself into the drama. The Times’ Enrich lauded this self-revelatory side of the e-book:

“The story of how Brown produced this exposé is at times gripping. She describes the needle-in-a-haystack search for victims. She lets us in on the advice her therapist gave as Brown tried to figure out how to connect with victims of sexual violence. She recounts the thrill of getting sources to talk and the fear that suspicious men — including an unsolicited pizza deliveryman — were surveilling her and her reporting partner, Emily Michot. At its best, ‘Perversion of Justice’ courses with Brown’s adrenaline.”

By outward look, Epstein led a lifetime of excessive privilege for many years — full with personal jets and a contact listing that included presidents and princes alike. His was the excessive life in mansions the place he would entertain the rich and highly effective with champagne that flowed freely. He imagined himself a number one and edgy philanthropist by pursuing peculiar scientific initiatives corresponding to transhumanism and cryonics. In supporting such analysis, Epstein maybe hoped to change into immortal. At that, he might have succeeded. Epstein certainly will probably be remembered, although it is going to be for his corrupt and vile underbelly. Thus, the story of the life and demise of Epstein is much less action-adventure or thriller and extra Greek tragedy.

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