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Epstein e-mails reveal a lost New York
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Recently released documents about the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.
PHOTO: DANIEL KRIEGER/NYTIMES
Shawn McCreesh
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WASHINGTON – Washington went nuts – and the White House went on the defensive – after lawmakers dumped more than 20,000 e-mails belonging to Jeffrey Epstein into the public domain on Nov 12. The central intrigue was the late financier’s relationship with the president, but there were other stories buried in the mass of documents.
The e-mails are like a portal back to a lost Manhattan power scene. Epstein’s inbox was larded with boldface names – many of them now faded or forgotten – that once meant everything to status-obsessed New Yorkers.
