Book of the week: Perversion of Justice by Julie K. Brown

Brown’s account of Jeffrey Epstein’s undoing is a ‘searing indictment of a society in thrall to money and power’

Donald and Melania Trump pictured with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in Florida in 2000
Donald and Melania Trump pictured with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in Florida in 2000
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Jeffrey Epstein’s name is “so universally reviled” now that it’s easy to forget how different things once were, said David Enrich in The New York Times. Not long before he died in jail while awaiting trial for sex-trafficking, he had many of the world’s most powerful men on speed dial; he owned a Gulfstream jet and a Caribbean island. Even journalists were bamboozled – but not Julie K. Brown.

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