{"id":12858176,"date":"2026-02-17T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12858176"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:14:10","slug":"the-price-of-admission-to-epsteins-world-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/02\/17\/the-price-of-admission-to-epsteins-world-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Admission to Epstein\u2019s World: Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-1sojcmr ehdk2mb0\">\n<h2 id=\"link-213c79a5\" class=\"css-185ahps e1h9rw200\" data-testid=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/17\/well\/epstein-files-associates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.4lOF.w4uKYto5DaJ8&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Price of Admission to Epstein\u2019s World: Silence<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-178vgup e1wiw3jv0\"><em>There were plenty of signs that something wasn\u2019t right with Jeffrey Epstein. Why didn\u2019t anyone say something?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By <\/span><a class=\"last-byline css-ojhyzr e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/lisa-miller\">Lisa Miller, NY Times <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">When Jeffrey Epstein said \u201cmassage\u201d in the years after he got out of jail in 2009, what did his friends and associates think he meant? Epstein had been convicted in a Florida court of sex crimes with minors in 2008. His method,\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/01\/business\/01epstein.html\">reported in The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0at the time, had been to recruit girls as young as 14 to his home and persuade them to undress and massage him. Then he would force them to have sex and paid them cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">He was charged with sex crimes\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/07\/nyregion\/jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking.html\">again<\/a>\u00a0in 2019, this time by the federal government, which accused him of trafficking underage girls in the early 2000s. If he committed crimes in the years between 2009 and his death in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting federal trial in 2019, he was not charged with them. But the Epstein files show that, during that decade, he was both rebuilding and curating his vast, elite social network, while also looking at plans for a new massage room on his private island of Little St. James and choosing marble for his massage room in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/17\/well\/epstein-files-associates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.4lOF.w4uKYto5DaJ8&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Price of Admission to Epstein\u2019s World: Silence There were plenty of signs that something wasn\u2019t right with Jeffrey Epstein. Why didn\u2019t anyone say something? By Lisa Miller, NY Times When Jeffrey Epstein said \u201cmassage\u201d in the years after he got out of jail in 2009, what did his friends and associates think he meant? 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