This is a very long article I read a while ago. Basically says everyone is dumb and you’re relatively smart if you flatter everyone.
AI summary below:
I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book (Mother Jones, Oct 2020 Highlights from the article: The “Pseudo-Intellectual” Trap: The journalist notes that many of the world’s most “brilliant” people—scientists, politicians, and billionaires—were lured in by Epstein simply because they were flattered.
The “Mediocrity” of the Elite: The article reinforces the idea that Epstein wasn’t a mastermind so much as a “social climber” who realized that rich people are often bored and looking for the next “smart” person to validate them, making them remarkably easy targets.
Yeah this piece smells like calculated revisionism. Clearly well-researched, but amazingly (!) distances him from all the right players, and does its best to waft away any Israeli connection as purely incidental.
very cool writeup. I’ve tried on a couple occasions to get a grip on how fucko made all that money. and every time, including wikipedia, it was like met some folks, bear sterns, clients, consulting, insulting, yadda, yadda, he a billionaire… like holup, I’m doing some tallying here, what was the middle part…?
way easier to grasp when a) it ain’t actually tres comas, let alone a multiple of that and b) it’s just a series of grifts, swindles, and embezzlements of one not really that savvy confidence man.
Looks like he also was a Mossad agent