Ronan Farrow also deserves some credit, he published in the New Yorker magazine, which is a monthly. I think the Times finally agreed to print the story because they knew it was coming soon and wanted to grab the credit for the scoop.
Farrow also did us the service of telling us that even though he was a long time NBC reporter that they had refused to allow him to break the story on the network, months earlier.
Farrow shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with the two New York Times reporters.
Farrow previously (2016) published an article about his father's sexual abuse of his older sister. (His father is Woody Allen, who married another of Ronan's sisters at age 19.)
The long quotes from that Hollywood Reporter article are included in this wikipedia page: Ronan Farrow
On Sept 8, LucyT posted a link to one of Epsteins accusers on a YT video. Then in the comments section, a person by the name of Juliet Charley claims she is the same person and she is the one who is claiming it goes back to the WH. Dont have time to get all the links. (running out the door to work, sorry). If someone can follow up with this you will see she keeps leading posters along day by day up until at least the 8th. Sorry I don’t have time to post the link. It is this thread 9/8.