Now that the child molester Jeffrey Epstein is gone, and the Epstein files have been released, what fate awaits Ghislaine Maxwell and others remains to be seen.

Given the typically brief life span of sensational stories, in just a matter of days or weeks the Epstein saga will be filed away under ‘Forgotten’ where it will receive only cursory attention from future historians and political pundits alike.

That’s a tragedy for the obvious reason that not a single sexual deviant, aside from Epstein’s child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently in jail for the crime of having sex with children.

This week I was lectured by a friend for allegedly glossing over the fact that “reputations have been destroyed” by the release of the Epstein files. Yes, Bill Gates, the argument goes, had to endure the pain of a divorce when his wife Melinda decided she had heard enough smutty gossip to continue in the relationship. The files were particularly harsh on Mr. Gates, who, it is alleged, had sexual relations with Russian prostitutes and acquired a nasty STD.

Desperate to keep the disease to himself, he inquired how to get antibiotics to secretly administer to his former wife. Whether the trick worked we may never know, but it certainly did not save the doomed marriage.

And then there is the shocking fall from grace of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles, who was forced to relinquish all royal titles and privileges, effectively isolating the man from his family and........

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