The Pathetic Price of Entry to Epstein's World
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The Pathetic Price of Entry to Epstein’s World
PUBLISHED 2/12/2026 by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
Access, favors and gifts were enough, apparently, for already-powerful people to continue to associate with a sex trafficker.
Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivors in the audience as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Feb. 11, 2026. She was there to answer for her department’s handling of the files related to Epstein, President Trump’s investigations into political foes, and the two fatal ICE shootings of U.S. citizens. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
This story was originally published by The Contrarian.
The latest batch of Epstein files—over 3 million documents, only around half of what the Department of Justice reports to have amassed—has unleashed a new cast of characters, a list that includes tech titans, health influencers, litigation rainmakers, university leaders, sports executives, Hollywood moguls and international royalty. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who has championed the release of the files, remarked that these revelations should “shock the conscience of this country.”
Honestly? None of the named men (and women) are individuals I presumed would possess particularly stellar moral character. Call me cynical, but their collective fall from grace stirs no sense of shock on my part. The litany of expressions of regret—I am ashamed, this is not who I am!—reek merely of being the ones who got outed. That said, I have to admit to feeling—stunned? blindsided? nauseated?—by how pathetically small their price of entry was. That includes absurd favors curried (an internship with Woody Allen … really, does anyone still aspire to work with him?), crude jokes traded (“pussy is, indeed, low carb”), dating advice sought (“pro or civilian?”), or, most of all, shared handwringing over the #MeToo movement. For others, that meant giddily accepting gifts—Apple watches, Prada bags, monogrammed sweatshirts—they surely could afford to buy themselves. All in emails littered with typos, as if the rules of punctuation don’t apply, then surely no rules apply. (This might explain a whole lot about President Trump’s ALL CAPS and errant caps approach to posting, a.k.a. the Epstein code?) Whether anyone who appears in this round of files participated in or bore witness to sexual abuse and trafficking is only a fraction of the story. Rather, the overt, desperate desire to stay in Epstein’s circle—in many instances, well after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from girls—speaks volumes.
Molly Jong Fast’s standout piece for The New York Times drove home the bizarre need for Epstein adjacency among power players:
“[T]he plight of the victims often seemed to be an afterthought. That’s most likely because whatever they received from him in the past—access to career-enhancing people, access to young girls and an endless supply of freebies—might still be on offer. This is the nature of the Epstein files: It’s the record of what a global class of very privileged, accomplished and self-important people want to get gifted.”
Objects, even when they were humans, mattered because they kept the connectivity to the source relevant and close.
… The overt, desperate desire to stay in Epstein’s circle—in many instances, well after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from girls—speaks volumes.
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They deserve our protection, they deserve our respect, they deserve accountability. So do we. So does democracy.
https://msmagazine.com/2026/02/12/epstein-emails-trump-petter-attia-doctors/
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