In 2003, investigative reporter Vicky Ward published a lavish profile in Vanity Fair of a relatively unknown billionaire named Jeffrey Epstein. Titled “The Talented Mr. Epstein,” the profile was an unveiling for the money man, who at the time seemed to be newly present in powerful circles. The resulting piece is classic Vanity Fair fodder; it chronicles Epstein’s “complicated past,” financial squabbles, business rifts, and lingers on his famous friends and luxurious reportedly 51,000-square-foot home, “a high-walled, eclectic, imperious fantasy that seems to have no boundaries.”
. She dutifully met with a set of sources, lined up by Epstein, to speak to his business practices. Unsurprisingly, they described Epstein glowingly, his “brilliantly creative mind, his intellectual prowess—a mental agility that, to put it bluntly, was simply not evident in the many phone conversations he had with me.
What I had “on the girls” were some remarkably brave first-person accounts. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix. The oldest daughter, an artist whose character was vouchsafed to me by several sources, including the artist Eric Fischl, had told me, weeping as she sat in my living room, of how Epstein had attempted to seduce both her and, separately, her younger sister, then only 16.
The final piece daintily glazes over Epstein’s relationship with underage girls, chalking it up to a bachelor’s womanizing. A choice quote: “There are many women in his life, mostly young, but there is no one of them to whom he has been able to commit.”Ward says that when she asked Carter why he’d removed the allegations from the piece, the editor explained “He’s sensitive about the young women.”
But the resulting insider story is a case study for why so many powerful men are able to keep their prolific and conspicuous histories of sexual assault an open secret. It was Epstein’s connection to a high-rolling set that causedto take an interest in the no-name billionaire; Ward claims that Carter assigned the story after Bill Clinton used his private jet to fly to Africa.
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