Epstein blast radius and the mainstreaming of extreme misogyny
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Via Business Insider, here’s a list of some people who have recently suffered some sort of professional consequences for remaining BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein, long after his hobby of raping minors had become public information:
Kathy Ruemmler
Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer turned in her resignation following weeks of scrutiny over her communications with the convicted sex offender. June 30 will be her last day as the Wall Street bank’s chief legal officer and general counsel, the bank said on Thursday.
The DOJ’s latest tranche of documents showed her offering Epstein advice on his legal troubles, including lawsuits brought by women accusing him of sexual abuse. She gushed over expensive gifts from him, including a $9,350 Hermes handbag, and referred to him in an email as “Uncle Jeffrey.”
Brad Karp
The high-powered corporate lawyer resigned as chairman Paul Weiss, calling reports about his relationship with Epstein a “distraction” for the white-show law firm. He also stepped down from the board of trustees of his alma mater, Union College.
The documents include emails showing he worked with Epstein to surveil a woman in a dispute with one of Karp’s clients. Business Insider has confirmed that the client was billionaire private equity titan Leon Black, who counted Epstein among his advisors.
Karp also visited Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and asked him to help his son get a job with director Woody Allen.
Sarah Ferguson
A charity chaired by Ferguson — the ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew — shuttered following the Justice Department’s document dump. A spokesperson for the foundation, called Sarah’s Trust, said the decision was made after “months” of discussion.
The records show Ferguson sent warm emails to Epstein in 2009, when he was imprisoned for soliciting sex from a minor. She referred to him as the “brother I have always wished for” and signed off another email with “love you.”
Peter Mandelson
Mandelson quit his job as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States, and left the British Labour Party itself, after the Epstein files showed him providing sensitive government information to the convicted sex offender.
The emails, dating back to Mandelson’s time in senior posts under former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, show him informing Epstein about a change in tax rules, the sale of government assets during a UK financial crisis, and a European Union bailout of Greece’s economy. The records also show Epstein sent money to Mandelson’s husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva.
Morgan McSweeney
McSweeney resigned as the chief of staff for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over Mandelson, whom he recommended for the ambassadorship job.
Casey Wasserman
Soccer player Abby Wambach and singer Chapell Roan said they were parting ways with Wasserman’s agency.
Wasserman flew on Epstein’s jet with a group of people that included former President Bill Clinton. The files also show Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell exchanging racy and flirtatious emails in 2003, well before police began investigating Epstein, and over a decade before Maxwell’s arrest on sex-trafficking charges in 2020.
“Casey – I will be coming back to NY torn late afternoon,” Maxwell wrote in one email. “I shall be wearing a tight leather flying suit.”
Peter Attia
The CBS News contributor and longevity expert stepped down as the chief science officer of David Protein, a protein bar brand, and is no longer an adviser to the sleep technology company Eight Sleep.
In the emails from the mid-2010s, Attia gives Epstein health advice that included crude remarks about women. In one email, he said a woman’s genitalia was “low carb.”
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was replaced as chairman and CEO of Dubai-based logistics firm DP World on February 13, after emails between the Emirati executive and Epstein were published by the Justice Department.
Emails published by the Justice Department show that Epstein referred to bin Sulayem as his “close personal friend” in a 2010 email. In an email to Epstein in 2015, bin Sulayem said that a girl he met “two years ago” who went to the American university in Dubai was “the best sex I ever had amazing body.”
I’m leaving out a few others listed in the article, such as Howard Lutnick, because they haven’t suffered any actual consequences beyond bad publicity yet.
It’s worth emphasizing, constantly, that none of these people seem to have had as close or long-lasting an association with Epstein as [checks notes] the current president of the United States.
On what is actually a closely related note, here are some thoughts from massively influential right wing influencer Nick Fuentes, who among other things has had a private dinner with Donald Trump, on what to do about the Woman Problem:
Women get sent to the gulags first, obviously. Which women? All women. Every woman. Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact. Well, what about the good ones? What about the trad ones? First of all, there are no trad ones or good ones. Second of all, we will determine which ones are acceptable after they’re all imprisoned. Then we will let them out.
You have to do it because those are our political enemies. You want to know our number — This is unironically just true. The number one political enemy in America is women. Straight up, I’m just telling you. I’m telling it like it is. People might say it’s Jews, it’s Democrats, it’s white liberals, it’s leftists, it’s the Chinese. Our number one political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned.
They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They’re the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people. You know, when you — I want you to understand something. When you’re sympathetic to poor people, you’re sympathetic to brown people because brown people are poor. OK? Not all poor people are brown, but most brown people are poor. So women are making us sympathetic to poor people, aka brown people. Women are making us sympathetic to George Floyd. Women are the reason that their fertility rate is low because they’re getting educated and they attack every man as a rapist and a pedophile and they’re henpecking and controlling all the men.
So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women. And we’ll sort it out. We’ll find the good ones. They can prove themselves. Then we’ll let them go.
So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.
As commenter Karen Cassandra of Texas has been pointing out for a long time, the most extreme misogyny remains socially acceptable in a way that a lot of other forms of social prejudice no longer are, although Donald Trump and his Republican party are working to change that, and not in a good way.