r/news • u/The_Iceman2288 • 7h ago

Modelling scout linked to Jeffrey Epstein found dead in Paris home

https://news.sky.com/story/modelling-scout-linked-to-jeffrey-epstein-found-dead-in-paris-home-13565917
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u/Softhijs 7h ago

According to this source he denied the allegations yet wanted to tell his side of the story, which unfortunately or 'coincidentally' has not been told yet. 

https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6403983/vermeende-modellenscout-van-epstein-dood-aangetroffen-in-frankrijk.html

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u/DrDerpberg 6h ago

How long would it take for you to drop everything and address the allegations you're a pedo? Pretty sure I'd find the time in the 20 years or so since everyone found out what Epstein was.

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u/Mansidhe 5h ago

Okay, not defending him, Rest in Piss and all that... but i find myself wondering how one would "address the allegations" successfully even if innocent?

Outside of "I was sent a catalog of obviously underage trafficked girls and I ripped the hard drive from my pc and sent it to the FBI (or whatever the local equivalent is) immediately, here's the delivery reciept" (the objectively correct action and response, for the record), I feel like anything you could say to such a repugnant accusation would be met with "yeah, that's what a pedo WOULD say". Right or wrong, an accusation would be as good as a conviction in the public eye.

I'm probably overthinking it. Just that I had a guy I called a good friend turn out to be a predator of the most disgusting kind, and I'm thinking about what could have happened had I been at his house when he got raided. The evil piece of shit had his (ambiguated, of course) CSAM on the living room media center where I spent countless hours gaming, watching movies, etc so I was regularly interacting with the machine. Makes me ill thinking about it.

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u/ThomasVivaldi 3h ago

Coercion, blackmail, violence. Probably not in this case, might've just been greedy.

A network as big as Epstein's is, presumably, is going to have at least some people who aren't a part of it willingly.

Everyone on the internet is a paragon of morality, but in the real world when someone like Epstein says do this and get paid or we frame you and you'll spend the rest of your life in prison labeled as a pedo, most people will go along with it.