The Epstein Papers are causing explosions of scandal every time the name of a famous person is revealed. The notoriously corrupt and corrupting sex offender hanged himself in prison, and his cohort, Ghislaine Maxwell, is serving out a 20-year sentence. One of the courageous women, whose testimony helped convict the two, died by suicide in April last year. In October, Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, was published and has been on the bestseller lists since then.

Many survivors of the Epstein-Maxwell sex trafficking operation agreed to appear on camera (including Giuffre) in the two Filthy Rich documentaries on Netflix, but reading about one woman’s honest account of what those two monsters did—and for years escaped the law on the basis of their wealth and power—can be shocking and enraging.

It must have been a difficult book to write, because she opened herself to judgement—many reading her account of the lavish lifestyle she led as part of Epstein’s entourage must have felt that she had it easy. But behind the glamour, there was abuse, helplessness, fear, the indignity of being ‘supplied’ to powerful men and being unable to walk out because of the reach Epstein had in the upper echelons of power. He bought off cops, judges, politicians, bureaucrats, diplomats and media persons for years and carried on with impunity.

Grooming, power and complicity

Maxwell, who sourced underage girls to feed the lust of this man and countless others, was attached to him with a twisted rope,........

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