12/18/2025
They are titans of industry, best-selling authors, world-renowned scientists, banking moguls, top-tier journalists, and political power players.
In message after message, they often turned to the same man for advice, for connections, and to banter and trade gossip about President Donald Trump.
That man, Jeffrey Epstein, was already a registered s*x offender after a 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution with a minor – but that did not seem to deter his pen pals, some of whom even looked to him for guidance on avoiding their own s*xual scandals.
Those messages were laid bare in extraordinary fashion last week when the House Oversight Committee released more than 23,000 pages of records obtained from the estate of Epstein, who died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal s*x trafficking charges.
The messages have been heavily scrutinized for new revelations about Epstein’s relationship with Trump – and indeed, show that Epstein relished talking about their one-time friendship as Trump rose to political power, offering his opinions on everything from the president’s sanity – “f***ing crazy” – to who should be in his Cabinet.
But the thousands of Epstein emails also show another key aspect of his uniquely corrupting role in American society: How he cast himself at the center of a web of power and influence.
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