Filthy Rich: The Jeffrey Epstein Story (James Patterson True Crime, 2)
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- Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
- Publication date : April 18, 2017
- Edition : Reprint
- Language : English
- Print length : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1455542644
- ISBN-13 : 978-1455542642
- Item Weight : 9.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches
- Part of series : James Patterson True Crime
- Best Sellers Rank:#510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- eclecticCritiquesThe REAL Eyes Wide Shut World of Jeffery EpsteinFilthy Rich: The Billionaire's Sex Scandal--The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein
I read this to study style and format for a non-fiction court/trial subject matter and was not disappointed. Researched and written with John Connolly, an investigative reporter, and Tim Malloy, print and television journalist, James Patterson turned out yet again an interesting and page-turning book.
Chapters remain short 2 — 4 pages in this 287 page book, including Coda and Epilogue.
The subject is Jeffery Epstein, convicted in 2008, for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. He serves 13 months of an 18 month sentence in the Palm Beach County Central Detention Center [the Stockade]. Wearing an ankle bracelet Epstein has "work release" privileges and allowed to leave prison grounds six days a week to go to his attorney's office, his office, or to his home on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach.
In chapter's 32—33, Donald Trump bars Epstein from Mar-a-Lago when a member of the posh private resort complains to Trump his young daughter has been invited to Epstein's house, about two miles from the twenty acre resort. She goes, then complains to her father Epstein tries to get her to undress.
Patterson writes, "...in no uncertain terms [Trump] told Epstein that he was barred from Mar-a-Lago" and Trump severs all ties with him.
Epstein caters to ex-presidents [Clinton]; international politicians, royalty [Prince Andrew]; CEOs, Hollywood moguls ... you get the picture. His parties are infamous. His penchant for young girls, 14 and up, remains hidden from public scrutiny. The exceptions are those Eyes Wide Shut elite who pander along with his pedophile whims.
Patterson, Connolly and Malloy have taken a sensitive subject and presented it with taste, in an interesting format in the Patterson drama to keep you turning the pages.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Jodie-kay M NaughtonUgly and MaddeningHow he got away with his horrendous behavior is a study in manipulation. So many willing to look the other way
- JLMRecommended as an overview onlyI happened to catch a bit of a James Patterson interview recently with Chris Cuomo, discussing Jeffery Epstein. I wondered what connection Mr. Patterson had with Epstein. Then I found this book.
“Filthy Rich” is an important reminder that monsters look like US. No one wears a sign warning: “I am a dangerous psychopath.” (at least, not yet.) His many friends and recipients of his generosity claim Epstein is a “terrific guy” and a loyal friend. I do not doubt this. Epstein specially fitted a submarine for Stephen Hawking to observe life beneath the surface of the ocean. That is awesome, however; these qualities and gestures of philanthropy do not excuse or absolve him from his decades of deviance, his despicable crimes against possibly hundreds of young girls.
Published in 2016, just three years ago, yet feels like a nightmarish lifetime. It’s an overview, without an index; just the barest of bones about this corrupt, despicable man. That was fine with me. I don’t want to know about him. I want his crimes exposed and for him and all of his accomplices and enablers to pay for those crimes by never seeing freedom or hurting any young girl or anyone else ever again.
These past three years have been a lifetime, and much filth has been discovered since this book was published. Yet I’m puzzled about Mr. Patterson’s negligence when quoting Donald Trump from a profile of Epstein in New York magazine in 2002: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy; he’s a lot of fun to be with.”
The entire world has heard and read these words repeatedly; we know what comes next. Why cut off the rest of the quote?
Mr. Patterson wrote that Trump severed ties with Epstein after Trump found out Epstein’s procurers (pimps) of under age girls had been “prowling around” Maralago. I don’t believe it.
Mr. Patterson goes on, “…Trump’s friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell gave Epstein unlimited use of the (Maralago) facilities.” So Trump and Maxwell must have been very good friends, if Trump was willing to let Maxwell’s friend Epstein use his club whenever he wanted to, without paying the ridiculous $100,000 membership fee.
Just five paragraphs later, Mr. Patterson cites court documents from Virginia Roberts’s civil suit against Epstein in which Roberts names Ghislaine Maxwell as the Epstein “procurer” who approached her in the Maralago changing room, where fifteen year old Roberts was working as an assistant.
A fifteen year old girl working at Trump’s Maralago club, approached by Trump’s good friend Maxwell, for the purpose of procuring Roberts for “terrific guy” Jeffrey Epstein.
A simple connection of dots.
The full Trump statement:
“I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy, he's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.
No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
The recent deluge of disgusting allegations against Epstein, Alex Acosta’s illegal sweetheart deal for Epstein in Florida, the Southern District of New York’s recent arrest of Epstein on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, and Trump now declaring “I was not a fan,” of Epstein, even as footage of Trump and Epstein partying together blasts through the internet, should make one wonder if there’s some more dirt there.
Maybe irony was intended when Mr. Patterson wrote: “Donald Trump’s instincts regarding Jeffrey Epstein were solid.”
I have no doubt they were.
Recommended as an overview only. Potentially triggering; proceed with caution. - VirginiaAmazing Story of Jeffrey Epstein- read!James Patterson, with the help of John Connolly and Tim Malloy, has researched and written a thorough review of Jeffrey Epstein's life and crimes. The book features interviews and documents from the case and is a page-turner. It was also written before Julie Brown's story of Epstein shocked so many and gained national attention. Why is Patterson's book ignored or not credited as the earlier publication? Perhaps Patterson's marketing was inferior. This is the first Patterson book I have read, but I think I was unaware of his talent and skill.