Choose Your Own Jeffrey Epstein Files Adventure

How folks felt and reacted to Jeffrey Epstein stories for over two decades now is probably how they’ll feel and react going forward

If you are new to Jeffrey Epstein, as in you only found out about the story in the last few weeks of media coverage, you are way late to the party. Or, for that matter, if you’ve only been following the Epstein story since his death in 2019, you are still behind the curve. Frankly, if your antenna started twitching around the 2008 conviction and grossly controversial plea agreement of Epstein, you are still chasing it.

That now-famous photo of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partying? That’s from 1992.

The pre-cursor to the “Epstein files” was the “Epstein’s flight logs” and “Epstein’s black book” that were talk radio and internet blogosphere go-to MacGuffins for years? Those cover a time period from 1993–1997.

Mainstream media coverage, you say? The oft-quoted New York Magazine feature subtly titled “Jeffrey Epstein: Interational Money Man of Mystery” in which Trump now infamously quoted “”I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy…He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side…