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This Epstein story is not only about sex

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Henry Abbott
Jul 24, 2025
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It has been oft-reported that Jeffrey Epstein and his staff spent long hours arranging everything so that he could be with three women a day.

As if that’s all he was up to.

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Billionaires like Leon Black, Bill Gates, and Glenn Dubin; the then-president of Barclays Bank Jes Staley; royals like Prince Andrew; and presidents like Bill Clinton—all of these powerful people employ staff to keep distracting strangers away. But it was Epstein who cut through all that. What are the odds some guy obsessed merely with his own closed-door libido would also be the best networker of all time?

Sometimes I wonder if this story breaks journalism. What murky forces might be at play between the likes of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein might be better discussed through the lens of Richards Heuer, Jr. who wrote the longtime training manual for CIA intelligence analysts. Heuer expla…

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