Left to right: Epstein, unidentified (duh!) woman, and Woody Allen.
Left to right: Segway inventor Dean Kamen, Epstein, and Richard Branson.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein's not in this one, but it's among the photos released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Larry Summers, Epstein, and Bill Gates in a previously released photo. Summers and Gates do appear in separate photos released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, but, oddly enough, without Epstein, so I opted to go with this one instead.
The Andrew Formally Known as Prince, and Epstein, in another previously released photo.
Epstein and supermodel (so where's her cape?) Ingrid Seynhaeve.
Left to right: Jimmy Buffett, Buffett's wife Jane Slagsvol, Bill Clinton (as the signature indicates), Ghislaine Maxwell, and Epstein.
In the center--what the hell, I'll let you figure that one out yourself.
My takeaway?
Whether one is a Democrat or a Republican, a liberal or a conservative, an intellectual, artist, or businessman, it may not mean as much as whether one belongs to the clique, a clique variously referred to as the Jet Set, Cafe Society, the Beautiful People, the Rich and Famous, the Glitterati, and the A-List. In his unfinished novel Answered Prayers, Truman Capote refers to it as the "Center of the Earth". Now, not necessarily all of the members of whatever you choose to call it did anything wrong (FULL DISCLOSURE: I've complimented one or two of these people on this blog in the past) but my, oh my, for a bunch some have also referred to as "elitists", they weren't always careful about who they hung around with, were they? As for Jeffrey Epstein, I suspect he preyed not only on underage girls, but in a different sort of way, this clique as well. There's something to be said for exclusion.
