Jeffrey epstein

Won’t you spare a thought for poor William Henry Gates III? For most of America, the collapse of a marriage is a private trauma, or at worst publicized in a series of ill-thought Facebook posts. But Mr Gates is worth $120 billion — and it turns out an unfathomably enormous fortune can buy a great deal of unwanted attention when your personal life is disintegrating. Jeff Bezos had an even bigger fortune at stake when he divorced — and his public breakup involved cringeworthy X-rated text messages being leaked to the world via the National Enquirer. Somehow Gates’s divorce has already managed to become more publicly excruciating. First, there were the leaks about Melinda’s $132,000 a night island getaway where she planned to wait out the media storm.

What was the most entertaining part of the first day of Donald Trump's impeachment hearings? Was it George Kent's twee but tragic bowtie? Ambassador Taylor's podcast-worthy tone? Adam Schiff claiming he didn't know who the whistleblower was? Frankly, there weren't too many moments to choose from. Which is perhaps why Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona decided to make his own fun. Read the first letter of each of his tweets from the proceedings... https://twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1194708768149430272 https://twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1194698583922098177 https://twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1194693002872184837 https://twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1194689552004321287 https://twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1194676222300696576 https://twitter.

Here are a few fascinating facts about the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the mysterious financier, friend to the rich and powerful, prolific ephebophile and alleged organizer of a child abuse ring. He was taken off suicide watch despite apparently attempting suicide just weeks before; his guards were asleep while he was reportedly hanging himself despite his being perhaps the most high-profile convict in the United States; two cameras outside his cell allegedly malfunctioned, and his friend and alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has somehow disappeared. Perhaps there are innocent explanations for all of these curious facts, but can you sincerely blame anyone who asks the question of whether there has been a conspiracy? The Epstein case really has something for everyone.

The now-infamous photograph of Ghislaine Maxwell at a California In-and-Out Burger has captivated Western audiences. She is calm. She is poised. She is a British heiress surrounded by fast food and Americana capitalism, a stranger to both empires but not the forces which govern them. Like every new development in the strange, perverted saga of Jeffrey Epstein, the snapshot raises more questions: mainly, what does she know? Amid fallout from Epstein’s death, we are left studying peripheral actors to better understand how the powerful protect their own, arriving at bloodlines.

The internet is making us all madder. A Facebook event created last month encouraging people to 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us' has accrued over two million attendees. Now, following the deeply convenient suicide of Jeffrey Epstein Saturday, a successor is hot on its tails. A newly-formed page is inviting internet crazies to 'Storm The Clinton Estates’ with the motivational message: ‘They Cant Suicide All Of Us' [sic]. The date is set for the same weekend as the Area 51 storming (so don't double-book). The joke event alludes to a conspiracy theory popular in the MAGAsphere: that Bill and Hillary Clinton are somehow responsible for the deaths of various people who have been in their circle at some point.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire charged with sex trafficking minors, was found injured in his Manhattan jail cell on Thursday. Either Epstein did this to himself or – far from his private jets and mansions – he encountered the honor of thieves. It’s understandable to not feel any sympathy for a wealthy and powerful man who exploited and abused children in the most disgusting of ways. However, it’s worth considering whether characters like Epstein have become scapegoats for something in which we are all complicit. Over 10 years ago, Epstein was charged with the sexual abuse of underage girls, but managed to use his money and influence to wiggle out of a long sentence and keep off the sex offender’s list.