Epstein's "day job" was being a socialite. He was the guy who knew everybody. If you wanted an introduction, he could do it. He was the guy who made sure that the riff raff stayed out, even if they were rich.

I'm pretty sure that everybody knew he was always around "young women", but I strongly suspect that most of the people he interacted with didn't know about the child sex abuse. They were there for his "rolodex".

But, the end result is that because he was the guy who knew everybody in a position of power, his network shows who has the power. My guess is that at least half the people he had in his network were not into child sex abuse, and didn't know that he was involved in that. But, I have only the world's tiniest violin to play for those people. I think they're guillotine-worthy because of their abuses of power, and how they hoarded obscene amounts of wealth. For far too long, the ultra rich have had a good public image in the US. People should have been furious with them just for hoarding all that wealth. And, the Epstein folks are the ones who not only hoarded the wealth, but spent it to gain power, which they used to warp society to benefit themselves. So, now everybody's disgusted with them and hates them, it's for the wrong reasons, but at least they're hated.