Imagine you become a multimillionaire in the 2000s. You start going to networking parties. Someone introduces you to Epstein, who has a lot of money and is well connected. As you two hit it along, he offers you a flight on his plane from wherever you are back to your home city. You agree, because you're networking. Nothing strange happens in the flight. The air hostesses are young and cute, but you don't even suspect they're underage. Without you knowing, Epstein is gauging your reactions to them, to see if you're someone he can make certain future offers to. If you fall for lust, maybe next month you end up on his island, doing it on hidden camera with an underage teen and become a de-facto vassal. But back in the first flight you weren't necessarily guilty of anything.

Probably how it happened. What's weird is no-one on that list has come out and given an account as to what happened. The ONLY person I've ever seen/heard give an account of when they met epstein was Eric Weinstein who met him in his office one day. And spent most of the podcast reminding everyone that he had a weird feeling about epstein and he thought he was fake in some way. There's a huge amount of virtue signalling to be had to come out and say "I knew epstein was weird when I met him" it's weird no-one has done it.