Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Text from article: After Epstein was first arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2006, Epstein had told Ross that he was the victim of trumped-up charges brought as political revenge for his befriending of President Bill Clinton. Rather than look into the charges for himself, Ross, a lifelong Democrat, had simply chosen to believe Epstein. Even as evidence of Epstein’s crimes continued to mount, Ross had continued to flatter and excuse him while he tried to raise money for his various art ventures. “Damn, this is not what you needed or deserved,” Ross wrote to him once, in 2009, after Epstein had pleaded guilty, and video of his deposition leaked into the press. “It was an undeserved punishment foisted on you by jealous creeps,” Ross wrote, in another message. “I’m still proud to call you a friend,” he wrote, in 2015, when Epstein was under scrutiny again, this time on suspicion of sex trafficking.
Text from article: After Epstein was first arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2006, Epstein had told Ross that he was the victim of trumped-up charges brought as political revenge for his befriending of President Bill Clinton. Rather than look into the charges for himself, Ross, a lifelong Democrat, had simply chosen to believe Epstein. Even as evidence of Epstein’s crimes continued to mount, Ross had continued to flatter and excuse him while he tried to raise money for his various art ventures. “Damn, this is not what you needed or deserved,” Ross wrote to him once, in 2009, after Epstein had pleaded guilty, and video of his deposition leaked into the press. “It was an undeserved punishment foisted on you by jealous creeps,” Ross wrote, in another message. “I’m still proud to call you a friend,” he wrote, in 2015, when Epstein was under scrutiny again, this time on suspicion of sex trafficking.
Text from article: After Epstein was first arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2006, Epstein had told Ross that he was the victim of trumped-up charges brought as political revenge for his befriending of President Bill Clinton. Rather than look into the charges for himself, Ross, a lifelong Democrat, had simply chosen to believe Epstein. Even as evidence of Epstein’s crimes continued to mount, Ross had continued to flatter and excuse him while he tried to raise money for his various art ventures. “Damn, this is not what you needed or deserved,” Ross wrote to him once, in 2009, after Epstein had pleaded guilty, and video of his deposition leaked into the press. “It was an undeserved punishment foisted on you by jealous creeps,” Ross wrote, in another message. “I’m still proud to call you a friend,” he wrote, in 2015, when Epstein was under scrutiny again, this time on suspicion of sex trafficking.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
Text from article: And then there was the email exchange that now troubled him most of all, from 2009, when Epstein wrote to propose an idea. “I might want to fund an exhibition entitled statutory,” he wrote. “girls and boys ages 14-25 where they look nothing like their true ages. Juvenile mug shots, photo shop, make up. Some people go to prison because they can’t tell true age. Controversial. Fun. Maybe it should be a web page, with hits, tallied.” “You are incredible,” Ross had written back. “This would be a very [p]owerful and freaky book.”
Text from article: And then there was the email exchange that now troubled him most of all, from 2009, when Epstein wrote to propose an idea. “I might want to fund an exhibition entitled statutory,” he wrote. “girls and boys ages 14-25 where they look nothing like their true ages. Juvenile mug shots, photo shop, make up. Some people go to prison because they can’t tell true age. Controversial. Fun. Maybe it should be a web page, with hits, tallied.” “You are incredible,” Ross had written back. “This would be a very [p]owerful and freaky book.”
Text from article: And then there was the email exchange that now troubled him most of all, from 2009, when Epstein wrote to propose an idea. “I might want to fund an exhibition entitled statutory,” he wrote. “girls and boys ages 14-25 where they look nothing like their true ages. Juvenile mug shots, photo shop, make up. Some people go to prison because they can’t tell true age. Controversial. Fun. Maybe it should be a web page, with hits, tallied.” “You are incredible,” Ross had written back. “This would be a very [p]owerful and freaky book.”
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
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