The media played a paradoxical role in the Jeffrey Epstein saga, writes investigative journalist Hazel Friedman. ‘At its best, journalism accomplished what prosecutors, politicians and regulators repeatedly failed to do: prise open a case powerful people had spent years trying to bury. Yet journalism had vulnerabilities of its own.’ In her book The Devil Wears Sneakers, Friedman shares the stories of the South African women whom Epstein recruited.
BOOK EXCERPT: The Devil Wears Sneakers — Epstein and the network that allowed him to flourish
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