It's clear that Jeffrey Epstein — just like R. Kelly and Harvey Weinstein and so many other powerful, alleged abusers — did not act alone.
It’s clear by now that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein used his immense wealth and status to power his predatory behavior. And now, following his arrest on charges of sex trafficking dozens of minors, another point has been made more sharply than ever: Epstein — just like R. Kelly and Harvey Weinstein and so many other powerful, alleged abusers — did not act alone.
They were all doing their part within a vast and disturbing network of enablers and co-conspirators — strikingly similar to the tangled web of enablers surrounding Kelly, arrested Thursday on new federal sex charges. “Why are these predators being enabled? That’s the larger story,” Conchita Sarnoff, executive director of Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking and an investigative journalist who has been writing about the Epstein case for a decade , tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
Heller stresses that because he has not examined Epstein or anyone around him, he cannot discuss psychological profiles or comment on their innocence or guilt. But, he hypothesizes for Yahoo Lifestyle, “They’ve experienced the feelings of power and control that a very wealthy pedophile has. And he may connect them with revenue, contacts… or at least the hope of those rewards. It’s intoxicating for some people to be around celebrities, athletes…and extremely wealthy business people.
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