[stein1946]

While I understand that once one attains those short of connections, certain intelligence agencies will reach out offering lucrative opportunities for your co-operation.

Disgusting nature aside, I can't help but be amazed as to how someone can be so well connected. What sort of skills did Epstein have that managed to have so many people on speed dial?

How do you get in a position to correspond with presidents, royals, celebrities and getting them all hooked on you?

Amazing indeed.

[tokioyoyo]

A few years ago there was some news articles about “group chats that rule the world”, and for some reason people didn’t take it seriously enough. Closer to the top, it feels like it’s “everyone knows everyone” game. Playing against those groups just leads to a perma-loss, so you’re incentivized to partake.

This is/was one of such groups.

[Teever]

Some people would love to play against those groups with the goal of not winning but costing their opponents dearly.

They never get the opportunity though because those groups are intentionally protected from those kinds of players.

[ricardo81]

Isn't part of it that he had leverage on many people, given the amount of evidence there seems to be? I guess that would be one way to further the network via 'favours'.

[gehsty]

Wealth and the party scene (drugs and sex) as a carrot and then a stick. It is not amazing, it is vile.

[unregistereddev]

He was a talented con artist. While I don't have the link offhand, I recall reading an in-depth article the New York Times published on Epstein's rise. He gained connections first by exaggerating his own credentials, and later by exaggerating the depth and nature of his other connections. He was very good at convincing people that he was someone they needed to know.

[raincom]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-...

Alternative link: https://archive.is/Q8Idm

[veunes]

But less about personal brilliance and more about how social power actually works when money, status, and weak accountability intersect

[Zigurd]

Being omniconnected was his job, if you think he was being managed, and his business, to the extent he was freelancing and trading on his own account.

How do you become omniconnected? You offer people a good time. How do you have repeat customers? You offer them a too good time. Why the disgusting acts? Because mere sex isn't scandalous enough.

Sometimes you do it because you've been commissioned to do it to a specific person. Sometimes you do it on spec because you think you can sell it. There is no one goal or ideology or theme to it other than it's gotta be nasty enough to blackmail a target.

[lostlogin]

> What sort of skills did Epstein have that managed to have so many people on speed dial?

The answer may be disturbing.

[0dayz]

If one stops seeing Epstein as only a blackmailer and instead see him as both a blackmailer and a fixer I think things falls into place.

There are after all multiple people being "given" girlfriends or contacts for social networking, shown in the Epstein files.

Most obvious example is of course Donald Trump with Melania.

[tokioyoyo]

I think it’s an oversimplification. Epstein isn’t the only “connecting big people to other big people” person. It just happened to be on top of all the shady stuff, he also trafficked kids. I believe there are more people like him, just flying under the radar.

[navigate8310]

What triggered Mossad to toss their best informant?

[gowld]

It's at a minimum extremely ignorant to believe or pretent that this begins and end at "Mossad" being a magical shady force that controls the world. Looking for tight little narrative misses the complexity of human sociery.