To give more detail to that speculation -
Well if you are being blackmailed, you can’t really explain why you are paying millions of dollars to some guy who shows up out of nowhere, and the guy who shows up out of nowhere can’t explain why he’s suddenly being paid huge sums.
So instead of paying him hush money you give him money to manage for you, and then he takes his management fee typical for hedge funds.
He figures this scheme out and then learns who the marks are he can take down and goes after them with lavish parties and mixers. Not everyone who shows up at a billionaire’s bash is a target but they help to provide cover and an environment in which the blackmailer (who also happens to be a pedophile pervert) earns trust, e.g. confidence man.
Once you’re on his film, you are on the hook for life.
And thus, a 2nd rate Wall Street trader who nobody seems to have traded with is suddenly a hedge fund manager running billions of dollars.
Thanks so much for the explanation . . . It makes perfect sense.
Well if you are being blackmailed, you can’t really explain why you are paying millions of dollars to some guy who shows up out of nowhere, and the guy who shows up out of nowhere can’t explain why he’s suddenly being paid huge sums.
So instead of paying him hush money you give him money to manage for you, and then he takes his management fee typical for hedge funds.
He figures this scheme out and then learns who the marks are
GUESS where he got the List Of Marks..?
From Les Wexner, his old mentor from Victoria Secret, The Limited, Guess Jeans, etc. the older guy who sheparded Epstein into the darker reaches of their shared hobby.
Wexner is much older, had longstanding contacts in the billionaire community and in the smaller clutch of wealthy people with purient interests not easily satisfied:
Hair-twirling, giggly p*ssy wearing braces and bobby socks, selling girl scout cookies in front of the grocery store. Or, more darkly, Cub Scout boy butt p*ssy.
Wexner had years to casually learn who was like him, and in order to monetize his knowledge, turned that data over to his younger ambitious friend. Wexner already had a client list in his head, he simply had to hand it over to his friend.
Maybe he even got a cut of the action..? Plus, foreign goverments would also be interested, if they needed sudden favors for intel ops pronto, no questions asked.
Epstein's "genius investing talent" is simply his management of a deeply average investment fund populated by deep-pocketed people who permitted themselves to be ensnared in his trap.
Bingo. That is exactly it. It’s how did he all of a sudden became a billionaire and shake hands with all the money from famous people. Party them up, blackmail and he gets to invest for them. I wish I had that idea when I was a stockbroker.