Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich (Do you remember Epstein?) NYT [View all]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-money-scams-investigation.html
https://archive.ph/WKBgH Archived.
For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society.
Tons here. This is telling:
Rung by rung, Epstein climbed a social and financial ladder, often using young women as a potent form of currency. His girlfriends, lovers and even exes helped elevate his status inside a bank, got him hired to track down missing assets and gained him entree to prestigious organizations. And deliberately or not, some of them enabled him as he constructed a sex-trafficking operation that would later ensnare hundreds of teenage girls and young women.
That story starts at Bear Stearns, the place where Epstein learned how to win and use power. The institution continued to enable him long after he had shown his true colors.
More than four decades later, Tennenbaum still regrets that he didnt end Epsteins career when he had the chance.
I didnt realize, he said, that I was creating one of the monsters of Wall Street.
Some previous detective work.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220810679
His publicly known network of contacts.

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We mapped Jeffrey Epstein's social network. Here's what we found.
https://america2.news/we-mapped-jeffrey-epsteins-social-network-heres-what-we-found/
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