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People talk about Jeffrey Epstein as though he's special or as though he's mysterious in some way. That takes away from the truth of it, which is that there are lots of people like him.

With Epstein dead and Maxwell in jail, who was paying these men? It could be any of the people who are not yet facing charges, says Osborne-Crowley when we meet. Firstly, they can afford it. The weekend I was in Miami, there was a person following me, a person following a survivor in South Africa who was in my book, and a person following a survivor in the UK.

Bill Clinton has also not been accused of any wrongdoing. Yet lawmakers are grappling with what accountability in the United States looks like at a time when men around the world have been toppled from their high-powered posts for maintaining their connections with Epstein after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to state charges in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

Many unanswered questions remain about the relationship between Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - formerly Prince Andrew - and Jeffrey Epstein, but the former royal once said they were introduced by Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, the British socialite who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex-trafficking underage girls for Epstein after pleading not guilty, and Mountbatten-Windsor are understood to have enjoyed a close friendship in the '90s and early 2000s, when they were regularly spotted together on the New York and London social scenes.

In his statement, provided by his team, Wexner called himself naive, foolish, and gullible to put any trust in Jeffrey Epstein. I completely and irrevocably cut ties with Epstein nearly twenty years ago when I learned that he was an abuser, a crook, and a liar, he said. To my enormous embarrassment and regret I, like many others, was duped by a world-class con man.

Bass told CNN's Dana Bass that it was "unfortunate" that the organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics are supporting Wasserman amid revelations that he exchanged flirty emails with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell two decades ago. Bass initially declined to take a position on the drama surrounding Wasserman, saying two weeks ago that it was up to the board of the LA28 Olympics - the nonprofit behind the Games - to decide whether to keep him.

Attorney General Pam Bondi agreed during a Wednesday hearing that Ghislaine Maxwell does not deserve special treatment, but she couldn't identify the reason behind Maxwell's recent controversial prison transfer. Sparks flew between Bondi and lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle when she appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Things became especially tense on the subject of the Department of Justice's ongoing release of files related to convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

Williams went on CNN a few hours later and said the whole thing was rotten. It's kind of a reminder of how awful the pardon power is in our world right now. Because the framers drafted it, did not put any guardrails on it, and for the last 240 years or however long nothing has been done to restrain it, Williams lamented.

The authorities' search for Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, has entered its second week. The people who took Nancy from her Arizona home sent a message to the Guthries. One TV station, KGUN, said it received a ransom note demanding $6 million by this evening. Here's what we know so far about the case. Police have not publicly confirmed the details of the ransom note in concrete terms, NPR's Bill Chappell tells Up First.

"I think Casey Wasserman needs to step down,"