Jeffrey Epstein
Cultural Comment
The Salacious Glossiness of Netflix’s Prince Andrew Drama, “Scoop”
Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson star in a re-creation of an infamous BBC interview that feels like a hallucinated episode of “The Crown.”
Culture Desk
How Victoria’s Secret Created the American Fantasy Woman
A documentary series directed by Matt Tyrnauer examines the behind-the-scenes story of the lingerie company and the billionaire at its helm, Leslie Wexner, who had close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Annals of Communications
Why Didn’t Vanity Fair Break the Jeffrey Epstein Story?
The former editor Graydon Carter and a journalist, Vicky Ward, give conflicting accounts of why the magazine didn’t publish sexual-abuse allegations in 2003.
Letter from the U.K.
Prince Andrew’s Very Bad Week
A ruling in a New York legal case, in which Andrew is accused of sexual abuse, led to the Duke of York being stripped of his military titles.
News Desk
The Relentless Ego of Ghislaine Maxwell
The British socialite, who has been convicted of conspiring with her late partner, Jeffrey Epstein, to groom minors for sexual abuse, continues to act like she has nothing to be ashamed of.
Our Local Correspondents
Victimhood and Vulnerability in the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial
The former socialite and associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s has been compared by one of her attorneys to the Biblical Eve, a woman asked to pay for the sins of the man, as if a woman can’t also make a perfectly legitimate criminal.
If U Cn Rd Ths
A Speed-Reading App Condenses the Jeffrey Epstein Saga
The book-summarizing service Blinkist tried to distill Ghislaine Maxwell’s four-hundred-and-sixty-five-page court deposition into a bite-size slab, and skipped the sex toys.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: The Year of the Whistle-Blower
From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about the crucial role that whistle-blowers have played in 2019.
Letter from the U.K.
Prince Andrew’s Noxious Interview About Jeffrey Epstein
Living at an elevated remove from the common people, perhaps the Prince imagined that he would be able to make his case to those same commoners. He could not have been more wrong.
Podcast Dept.
Three Podcasts to Listen to in September
The audio arm of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, a look inside the incomprehensible case of Jeffrey Epstein, and a daily two-minute show about the world of birds.
News Desk
How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted.
Comment
The Failure to See What Jeffrey Epstein Was Doing
Money offers one explanation for why people seemed to ignore the obvious. But money, here, is really shorthand for a range of ways to exert influence.
Annals of Appearances
The Gall of Ghislaine Maxwell
The socialite’s impenitent gaze, in a photo taken at an In-N-Out Burger, seems to encapsulate the broader audacity of the Jeffrey Epstein affair.
Our Columnists
Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracies and the Mysterious Deaths of the Rich and Ruined
At the time of Epstein’s death, he had lost what sociopaths like him value most: control.
Our Columnists
Alex Acosta Had to Go, But the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Is Really About Money and Privilege
The issues raised by this saga go to the heart of the American class system, in which people of great wealth and social standing are able to buy their own brand of justice.
Daily Comment
The Judicial System Finally Catches Up to Jeffrey Epstein
How was the multimillionaire hedge-fund manager able to carry on his lavish life style with impunity through the #MeToo movement and its fallout?