“It’s hard to believe that not so long ago people actually thought I was a good guy. And now people are ashamed to say they knew me.”
That’s what a forlorn Jeffrey Epstein told me just weeks before his July 2019 arrest for sex trafficking of minors and subsequent suicide in his jail cell.
When I heard the news, I wasn’t surprised that Epstein, an uber-rich one-time master of the universe, had killed himself. He had risen to the top of finance as a high-end wealth adviser, hanging with Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and top Wall Street financiers. He had an office at Harvard where he handled his philanthropic efforts.
The Department of Justice and FBI released a memo last week confirming that Jeffrey Epstein did commit suicide while in jail in 2019. AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Uma Sanghvi, File
All of that was being taken away bit