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Julie K. Brown: Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. [View all]
(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
— Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T13:48:49.519Z
Understanding Epstein's Crimes
Sex trafficking isn't widely understood. Here is what Epstein did.
”I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender’ … It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011.
Epstein compared raping a 13-year-old girl to stealing a bagel. Let that sink in. This wasn’t an accident; it was strategic. In some ways, the bagel was a metaphor for how he justified the depravity of his crimes.
The fact that so many otherwise respectable, powerful and smart people continued to associate with Epstein after it was known he had sexually assaulted so many underage girls is mind boggling.
What’s even more insidious is, by having all those elite people around him, those people helped perpetuate the normalization of Epstein’s crimes against children.
Make no mistake. Epstein molested, raped, threatened, discarded and mentally tortured girls and young women.
Another important reminder. Ghislaine Maxwell helped him, and these files back that up.
It may be worth explaining here what sex trafficking is.
https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/understanding-epsteins-crimes
Sex trafficking isn't widely understood. Here is what Epstein did.
”I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender’ … It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011.
Epstein compared raping a 13-year-old girl to stealing a bagel. Let that sink in. This wasn’t an accident; it was strategic. In some ways, the bagel was a metaphor for how he justified the depravity of his crimes.
The fact that so many otherwise respectable, powerful and smart people continued to associate with Epstein after it was known he had sexually assaulted so many underage girls is mind boggling.
What’s even more insidious is, by having all those elite people around him, those people helped perpetuate the normalization of Epstein’s crimes against children.
Make no mistake. Epstein molested, raped, threatened, discarded and mentally tortured girls and young women.
Another important reminder. Ghislaine Maxwell helped him, and these files back that up.
It may be worth explaining here what sex trafficking is.
https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/understanding-epsteins-crimes
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