Jeffrey Epstein is now a name that has gone down in infamy for association with soliciting prostitution and abusing people’s common trust. However, the whole matter is not that. He’s left a big hole in financial circles just by his absence because he tried to mean so much to so many other people.
I spoke to an American citizen in London who had been working in the City and knew about figures in financial circles that had been encountering difficulty. It was just before the 2008 crash. After the name Epstein came up, he said, “Epstein is a classless act – with no future”. He left it at that. He was already an unpopular figure.
The character of a man is often difficult to assess in finance because a lot is demanded of anyone. It’s also true that the same fault lines are found in both men and women equally. Epstein was known for being particularly deviant and this is what pushed him out and eventually pulled him down in the sphere of public opinion.
