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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWas Epstein's pedophile industry also an attempt to kompromat
important people? Not saying that Epstein didn't have a personal predilection for young girls. But that it went so long as it did, was a byproduct kompromat?
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Every damn day. Guy is a pedophilic sex addict.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)I'm thinking there are some worried folks out there right now who took advantage of Epstein's "introductions."
Mister Ed
(5,930 posts)If all Epstein wanted was to indulge his own perversion, he could have done that much, much less conspicuously.
Those girls were given out like party favors to the VIP's that Epstein entertained. I have to think the purpose of that was to cultivate influence over the VIP's, by simultaneously currying favor with them and gaining kompromat on them.
ScratchCat
(1,988 posts)Because you don't hook up extremely wealthy and ONLY extremely wealthy individuals with underage girls for any other reason. You entertain them once, you have them for life. Need money? Just contact "Billionaire X" and ask if he'd like a video to surface.
NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)A 'personal predilection' could be handled discreetly by someone of Epstein's means. The real money is in the kompromat to be gathered on influential people in positions of power.
dalton99a
(81,471 posts)probably with design/operational assistance from some Russian-speaking folks
Volaris
(10,270 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)They hire someone to find them girlfriends?
I dont know...they disgust me.
renate
(13,776 posts)I think it was that Tim guy who wrote that book on Trump, but I'm not sure.
If that's actually true, blackmail might explain where Epstein's money comes from....
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)It certainly wouldn't surprise me if there was foreign backing by enemy states.
WhiteTara
(29,704 posts)at kompromat. I think it was kompromat. He was partners with Robert Maxwell and Semion Mogilovech; remember when Robert fell off his yacht and died recently. Those guys don't fuck around. Epstein has no visible means of support and yet is fabulously wealthy. I'm sure he laundered money too.