Review: Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein docuseries honors his victims and their stories, but the creep still gets away
? Then by all means, reveal it. Even a nation restricted to Netflix for excitement has a limit to how long it can sit and watch.
Co-produced by Joe Berlinger of “Paradise Lost” and best-selling novelist James Patterson , the series starts off in the early 2000s, when Vanity Fair reporter Vicky Ward was assigned to write a profile of a ubiquitous billionaire investor — Epstein, who kept showing up to all the right parties with all the right people, yet nobody really knew much about him.
This becomes “Filthy Rich’s” recurring theme — how one oddly captivating man lied his way into influence, amassed a dubious fortune and thereby reaped hideous degrees of privilege. Epstein’s galling slipperiness becomes most apparent in the 2008 quashing, byThe evidence that prosectors were building in that case, thoroughly recounted here, would probably land anyone else a long prison sentence.
The only taste we get of Epstein’s demeanor in this and ensuing legal scrapes comes mainly from videotaped depositions for civil suits, in the early 2010s. What we see of him is curiously banal — no hint of the Svengali-like figure others describe. Bryant and her team briefly trace this phenomenon back to Epstein’s beginnings, first as a teacher in the 1970s at Manhattan’s elite Dalton School , to his unlikely hiring at investment powerhouse Bear Stearns. “One of my important mistakes in my career,” says Michael Tennenbaum, a Bear Stearns executive who hired Epstein — and kept him on even after he found out Epstein’s résumé was bogus.
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