How I Learned the Sinister Truth About My Interview With Epstein

GIF by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty George Rush was one of the country’s best-connected journalists as the Editor of the New York Daily News’ Rush & Molloy column when he had an eye-popping encounter with Jeffrey Epstein. Almost two decades later, he discovered the much more sinister truth behind it in the Epstein files. In this riveting dispatch Rush describes how Epstein tried to manipulate the Daily News—and successfully kept Ghislaine Maxwell out of their coverage. And see his must-watch interview with Joanna Coles on The Daily Beast podcast by clicking here . I got wind that Jeffrey Epstein might be on the prowl again in September of 2009. A mutual friend had introduced me to Renee Morrison, a socialite-turned-amateur-detective who’d always found her Palm Beach neighbor more than a little creepy. Epstein had recently completed 13 months of his featherweight work-release sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Having endured evening sleepovers at the county sheriff’s stockade, he was now ensconced in his mansion on El Brillo Way, on probation. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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