Edward Jay Epstein expands on his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and claims the pedophile financier was the “poster boy for rehabilitation.”

Edward Jay Epstein's mentor was Vladimir Nabokov, the author of the novel 'Lolita'. That's basically all you need to know I guess. A creep who thinks Epstein didn't do any harm to his victims.

'Name-brand journalist Edward Jay Epstein was seduced by the charms of accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein more than three decades ago.

Yet even after the Miami Herald, multiple lawsuits and law enforcement authorities detailed how he sexually abused dozens of teenage girls and sometimes raped them, the late Jeffrey Epstein’s spell apparently remains strong.

“Look, take this about Jeffrey. He is the poster boy for rehabilitation,” said the 83-year-old Epstein (no relation to the convicted sex offender who authorities said hanged himself in his jail cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center a month after his July arrest on new federal charges of sex trafficking with minors).

“He went to prison [after pleading guilty to reduced charges in 2008]. He served his term. He got out. The U.S. attorney’s office said he stuck completely to the terms of his parole. He registered as a sex offender—which is no fun, but which was something he was supposed to do. (...)”.

“I did hang around with Jeffrey because I was fascinated with him. For one thing, the women around him were some of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen in my life. These were not underage women. They were women like [former model and Miss Sweden] Eva Andersson and [actress] Morgan Fairchild. None of them were really girlfriends of his, but they hung around him…

“I don’t understand Jeffrey,” Edward continued. “I can’t conceive of why he would go out with an underage woman, unless your theory’s right that he’s a pedophile…It wasn’t like he was some sort of ugly gnome that couldn’t get a girl…

Edward Epstein also cast doubt on the notion (...) that Jeffrey [Epstein] destroyed dozens of young lives.

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