
The fact that roughly 330 million people live in the United States is complemented by a pure statistical cruelty, and that is, at least one of them will be named Jeffrey Epstein.
No, not the dead, disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker whose name has become shorthand for everything rotten about the powerful and rich. No, this Jeffrey Epstein is a 56-year-old comedian originally from New York, now based in Oregon, who has spent the last decade watching his birth name transform from a minor social inconvenience into something resembling a full-time occupation.