Here is my favorite lede in recent memory (and don't pretend it wasn't on purpose, you crafty Crimson folks):
For billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein, charges of illicit sex practices just keep coming.
Let me go on record as saying that I'm now starting to feel sorry for Jeffrey Epstein. The guy clearly has a problem. But he never forced anyone to do anything, and the lawsuit that the Crimson article describes sounds like a complete crock to me. And Crimson, are you sure it wasn't first reported in the New York Post, not by ABC News?
After all, the Post has been doing top-notch reporting on the Epstein case. Today, for example, it reports that ...
The stunning model wannabe who says she was pressured into a hush- hush affair with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein when she was only 16 has an even bigger secret - she's a man.
"I'm a spoiled bitch and really mean," her MySpace page says.
Now, I'm just guessing, but given that it was Alan Dershowitz who dug up dirt on some of the other accusers by checking out their MySpace pages, could Professor Dershowitz have possibly fed this delicious little item to the Post?
If so, I wouldn't blame him....
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