EPSTEIN FIGURED OUT WHAT KEPT POWERFUL PEOPLE COMING BACK: MONEY, ACCESS AND INTERESTING COMPANY. Review of nine years of messages shows how he worked on Woody Allen after their first dinner in 2010. He offered financial advice, dinners with scientists and intellectuals, favors involving Allen’s children, and gifts worth tens of thousands of euros. When Allen’s daughter wanted to attend Bard College, Epstein contacted the school’s president, whom he already knew and whose institution he had donated to. Allen later thanked him for “getting Beshe into Bard,” although the school president denied Epstein was responsible for her admission. Epstein also donated $15,000 to another daughter’s school. The relationship then became useful in the other direction. Allen’s name became one of Epstein’s most frequently used tools for drawing new people into his circle. The investigation notes Allen’s own controversies, but says the reviewed files contain no evidence that he was complicit in Epstein’s crimes. Epstein’s real skill was making proximity to him feel normal. Source: LeMondeInEnglish (YT) / Writer: Sol