As more Big Names are linked to Epstein, the needle of suspicion moves closer home

Shortly after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Randy Andy Andrew, was arrested by the police for his close association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates suddenly quit the AI summit in Delhi where he was scheduled to make a keynote address, his precipitate departure reportedly linked to his nominal connection with Epstein.

The so-called Epstein Files read like a Who’s Who of Big Names, including Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, linguist Noam Chomsky, and motivational maestro Deepak Chopra.

Though in most cases, no wrongdoing has been ascribed to those so named, the very fact that they have been mentioned in Epstein’s copious correspondence with innumerable people is enough to make headlines.

The vile Epstein seems to have been an indefatigable networker, corresponding with all and sundry with the frenzied dedication of an army of spam senders selling 3BHK apartments, or urging you to divulge your bank details so that they can deposit the ten-million-dollar prize you won in a lottery, even though you forgot to buy a ticket for it.

The Epstein list keeps growing. Who’ll pop up next? The Pope? That’s what worries me. Not that it might be the Pope. But that it might be someone much closer home. Me.

I’ve never communicated with the fellow. But suppose the chap’s tried to contact me through emails or texts that unnoticed by me have gone into spam. Does that make me an accomplice by association, like an unwitting recipient of stolen goods?

True, Epstein connected only with capital-letter Big Names and I’m very much a lower-case small name. But suppose the bozo did so by mistake, or as an April Fool lark, or just to show he wasn’t too snobbish to hobnob occasionally with hoi polloi, me being about as polloi as you can hoi?

So far, my lower-case name hasn’t cropped up Epstein-wise. But as put by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – don’t say he’s in the Epstein dossier too! – no evidence of guilt is not evidence of no guilt.

So I might as well confess: Guilty, as not charged – yet.

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