Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/25/jeffrey-epstein-rich-men-entitled-and-insecure

The sex offender could exploit these masters of the universe ​because, despite their privilege, ​they still felt short-changed by life, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

One of the things that has been frequently puzzled over as the effluent of the Epstein story flows on, is how a college dropout who thought it was cool to do typos managed to persuade the world’s most powerful into his lair. What, precisely, was the nature of his “genius”? Was it blackmail? Was it the social pyramid scheme of using one big name to reel in another? Nothing has come close to explaining it until, with the latest crop of details from the Epstein files, something has become suddenly clear: that it wasn’t the trafficked girls and women who Jeffrey Epstein groomed. The man’s real talent, if we want to call it that, was in the grooming of his cohort of associates.

This isn’t to say, of course, that the men and occasional woman who threw in their lot with a man we must straight-facedly refer to as “the dead paedophile” weren’t culpable. Nonetheless, if you study the huge amount of Epstein-related material, from the New York Times’s deep dive into his finances to the vast cache of correspondence contained in the files, a picture emerges of a man who did the kind of number on his peers that you would more commonly see directed at victims. While multiple survivor testimonies indicate that Epstein regarded the girls and women he trafficked as of such low consequence he didn’t even need to bother to groom them – per Virginia Giuffre’s account, Epstein raped her the first time they met – all of his resources, via a variety of tactics, went into capturing the allegiances of powerful men.

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Interesting. Who is the most entitled and insecure man in modern history? First one that comes to mind

Probably helps if they already have no moral compass entering that relationship. They went along, got their STDs, inflicted their PTSD, and didn't wonder if there was something wrong either this... in fact, it must have been a turn on for the sick fucks.

Is this a surprise to anybody? The 70s to 2000s was filled with movies and rock stars showing what a badass looks like. And it's often a womanizing macho dude with 6 women around his hands.

It still looks like that to the insecure tech bros.

Hey now, the 90s had a thing or two to say about rich dicks and sellouts...

His security nicknamed Mountbatten „the cunt“.

We should stick with this.

Oompa loompa doopidy doo....

I couldn't get through the first two seconds of this article.

Let's ask ourselves. Who gives a fuck?

Before or after you read, were you expecting more information that will let you make a decision on what you should do and who it should be done?

I've known enough for 6+ years. A lot more info has come out, so you're likely not far behind.

What more do you need to know to realize it's you and your family versus the ultra rich?

I wonder if the optimism of the 50s matched the optimism of the 90s.

He pretty much just needed to be prepared for the worst humanity had to offer and no matter what filth came from their mouths he would just say "Yes. And?". Give these rich fucks permission to be as evil as possible then take it one step further. Anyone who spent any time with him would progress from 'massages' to rape to murder.

I’m sure his training from fucking Mossad was pretty helpful too.

One of the overarching traits of narcissism a bottomless sense of entitlement.