If sunlight is the best disinfectant, it has taken many years and traumatic testimony from scores of victims for its beams to reach the dark recesses of the Jeffrey Epstein story — a grim tale of the routine sexual abuse of young women and girls, covered up by the wealth and influence of a New York celebrity financier and the complicity of his British enabler Ghislaine Maxwell.
The roll call of the victims of trafficking and abuse is lengthy — 200 women are receiving compensation via the JP Morgan bank, which financed Epstein’s businesses. Now that a US court has unsealed a vast cache of documents pertaining to the legal cases brought against Epstein and his estate, there is more evidence of the sex-trafficking network that flourished as two social magnets globe-trotted and partied with some of the biggest names in transatlantic politics, society and royalty.
