1) Richard Branson
The billionaire founder of Virgin Group and hot-air balloon enthusiast was all over the documents Friday, including a photo of him with Epstein somewhere in the tropics. (Not a good look anywhere, but especially not in someplace that might plausibly be, say, the U.S. Virgin Islands.)
2) Brad Karp
The chair of law firm Paul Weiss may not sound like a big deal to you, but his firm is one of the most prestigious legal practices with ties to the Democratic Party. He also had ties with Epstein, asking him in June of 2016 to help his son get a role in a Woody Allen movie. (Another guy who was close to the disgraced financier, as we’ll get into later.)
3) George Mitchell
A former Democrat senator from Maine who once served as Senate Majority Leader, Mitchell was close friends with Epstein long after his conviction in 2008. From the Journal:
4) Bill Gates
Long a favorite of the left, Gates’ ties to Epstein were long known. Not known were the accusations in the new documents that Gates apparently contracted an STD from “Russian girls” and asked Epstein for antibiotics to slip to his then-wife, Melinda, to cover up for it.
5) Kathryn Ruemmler
Yes, the White House counsel to former President Barack Obama was more deeply tied to the Epstein scandal than we originally thought.
6) Sergey Brin
He’s a co-founder of Google, a donor to Democrats and leftist causes, and now ensnared more significantly in the Epstein scandal. From the Journal:
The Google co-founder appears in an undated photograph on a visit to a tropical destination with women’s faces redacted. Another document shows that one of Epstein’s accusers told the Epstein Victims Claims Administrator that she met Brin and his then-wife when they spent a day on Epstein’s island in January 2007 with Brunel, the modeling agent.
7) Steve Tisch
Alas, even my beloved New York Football Giants have gotten ensnared in the latest batch of Epstein documents. One of the team’s co-owners, Steve Tisch, exchanged emails with Epstein, including (ugh) about women. From the WSJ: