I was listening to the voice of the brother of Jeffrey Epstein a few months ago. He spoke with an old school New York City working class accent, like the TV character, Archie Bunker. I decided to do a bit of Google searching. It turned out that Jeffrey Epstein came from a blue collar background, his father being a construction worker and his mother a teacher's aide and a secretary at an insurance firm. He grew up in a modest neighborhood in Brooklyn. Epstein attended two colleges in NYC but graduated from neither. Other than being an extrovert, he had no real skills. He was not from a family with connections.
The best I can guess is that Epstein was a New York version of Bill Clinton: an extrovert with a huge sex drive. That makes the whole Pedophile Island story unusual.
He apparently was extraordinarily bright in math, even when young, and something of a musical prodigy. At least according to Wikipedia.