My experience is that people never come from nowhere and become prominent people. They’ve either earned it through hard work, like Trump, or they get appointed by society’s gatekeepers.
I dont believe for a second that Epstein earned the wealth he was rumored to supposedly having.
I knew one mysterious guy like Epstein with unexplained riches. He was the father of a college classmate/friend of mine.
The father’s story was he came back from World War II where he probably worked for OSS (but impossible to verify).
Then this broke soldier (no family money) managed to become partners with another broke soldier. They bought a whole bunch of property in northern Virginia and became real estate moguls.
Some of the land was sold to the government for secret facilities over the years and they made an even bigger fortune.
My classmate’s father owned an insane huge mansion on the Potomac River in Alexandria.
I did get to visit and stay a weekend at the mansion at one point—and my friend would wink at me and said it would be advisable not to ask his father what he did for a living.
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My speculation is that the father was CIA from day one—and I have no clue what kind of operations he was involved with...and I don’t think my friend knew either. My friend just knew not to ask any questions.
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We were friends during the Watergate period. My friend told me Nixon was toast immediately after the Watergate break-in happened—and of course I thought he was crazy. Obviously he had some inside information.