Perversion of Justice

Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown's three-part series in the Miami Herald was one of the most explosive news stories of the decade, revealing how Epstein ran a global sex trafficking pyramid scheme with impunity for years, targeting vulnerable teens, often from fractured homes, and then turning them into recruiters. The outrage led to Epstein's arrest, the disappearance and eventual indictment of his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, and the resignation of U.S. secretary of labor Alexander Acosta. In Perversion of Justice, Brown tracks Epstein's evolution from a college dropout to one of the most successful financiers in the country (whose connections included Victoria's Secret owner Les Wexner, Prince Andrew, Leon Black and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton), and reveals details about his mysterious suicide in a New York City jail cell and the wild speculation about the secrets he took to the grave. Perversion of Justice reveals the power of truth, the importance of local journalism, and the tenacity of one woman in the face of the deep-seated corruption of powerful men. Book jacket.