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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Several years after her marriage collapsed, Anne Theroux saw her ex-husband being interviewed on television. Writers, Paul Theroux declared, need to marry “a specific type of woman – protective and self-sacrificing types… a secretary, mother, guardian of the gate”. In response, she sent him a note: “If you had given me the job description in advance, I wouldn’t have applied.”

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