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Oh are these the reasons Mr. Allen liked to hang out with him?
Surely the times has captured the truest essence of their friendship with this piece
Text of the article referred to in the original post "They also indicate just how taken the culturally privileged can be with the financially extravagant, felony sentencing be damned. By his own account, Mr. Allen began going to the Epstein house in 2010, two years after Mr. Epstein had been sentenced for soliciting sex from teenage girls. What appeared to override any concerns that might have existed about these transgressions was the company, even when the company did not include the faculty of MIT, but rather people like the magician David Blaine, who once showed up “swallowing live goldfish and then regurgitating them.” Transactional relationships take many forms and a way to regard this one perhaps demands the lens of content. Over his long career, Mr. Allen has made two films — “Crimes and Misdemeanors” in 1989 and “Match Point,” 16 years later — about deceitful men who murder women and get away with it. The evasion of consequence has been an enduring source of fascination. In the end, perhaps Mr. Epstein provided Mr. Allen with something even more valuable than cachet: potential material"
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM