Tasteful Friends—UES pedo’s townhouse, seen only by the Best People.

Hideous.

This was a creep who anyone ought to have been able to smell miles away.

I understand innocent people might have been grabbed and introduced to the man, or that, failing to have done the least bit of investigation, they might have accepted an invitation when they should not have. But anyone who made repeated dinner visits, island visits, private jet flights, townhouse visits, or otherwise had real dealings with this man are seriously fucking suspect.

I learned to gauge the nature of people's interests and invitations rather quickly when I was 17 and in college and invited to a lot of events. The names of Epstein's dear friends ought to have been at least as wise as a 17 year old from the sticks with a crash course in really rich people.

Okay, Im thinking the bronze woman was a Rorschach of sorts.

Anyone who spent any time with him and claims not to have known what he was into is a liar.

He had a first edition of Lolita prominently displayed.

Hmm... lots of world leaders in those photos.

The bedroom was intentionally decorated to make his victims swoon at how "romantic" he could be (floral motifs, crystal chandelier, etc). You can never go wrong with lot of blue in your bedroom: such a calming color.

That wallpaper print is way too large. Definitely a sign of a twisted mind.

I'm not a fan of that maximalist look. I think he decorated that place with the goal of impressing other people.

R3 see R4; I think the first-edition Lolita book probably also served as a litmus test for guests. Or at least a dog whistle.

As someone posted on another thread, the ceiling cameras confirm that the Epstein files are full of video of collapsed oligarch asses pumping away over dissociated 14 year olds.

I've seen the same furnishings that are in his townhouse at Home Goods!

R4 It’s one of the five greatest novels ever written. If I owned a first edition, I’d display it too.

I’m thinking Epstein, Trump, and Hefner are all the same kind of tasteless and creepy.

The Orange oaf and Epstein had something in common....tasteless, tacky and tawdry homes.

Interesting; the snapshots create familiarity with high profile people to impress people (particularly young women), while probably obliquely sending a message to his "dear friends" in the pictures that "I've got some serious shit on you"

OP-What does that classy gay bar the Townhouse have to do with pedophiles?

Seems gay to me. Is there something new to learn about Epstein?

He was really wealthy, which is why powerful people gravitated toward him. I don’t believe everyone who was photographed with him knew about or participated in his proclivities. When he’s your best friend for years, however…

Epstein was a slime, a sex fiend, and a pervert, but he was not a pedophile. A pedophile lusts after PRE-PUBESCENT children of either sex. Epstein lusted after post pubescent females. He was a hebophile.

Pre-pubescent children are usually regarded as children under the age of 11. Epstein lusted after girls in their early teens (as far as we know). I have never seen any evidence that he abused girls under the age of 13.

I’m sorry, I love the blue bedroom. Very Las Vegas-Miami Beach luxe/kitsch.

I think everyone knows the definition of pedophile, r19. The word is just used a shorthand for "creep who likes underage". You're kind of missing the point.

"Technically not a pedophile" is the new "it's only champagne if it comes from the right region in France"

the artwork sets off the ick.

Um, R12? What are the other four?

Dozens of framed prosthetic eyeballs? Are his victims still alive?

I thought there was a painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress in the foyer. It was lifesize, the first thing you’d see when you came in. Obv Clinton pissed him off at some point.

Just as remembered by me - with the Einstein visa.

the portrait is proof to the maga hive mind Epstein and Clinton were close and Clinton a frequent guest on the lolita express.

the hive mind consists of one overloaded brain cell.

The blue dress portait...

Bill Clinton IS Bea Arthur

I wonder if the new Whitehouse ballroom will be decorated like this townhouse...

Just one look at Epstein and I could tell he was a sleaze and would want nothing to do with him.

He liked blue.

I'm mildly intrigued by unusually shaped dongs.

woody allen thinks highly of his own blathering prose....

I'm not r32. I think half the reason these predators predate is their weird dicks. Uncooked hamburger and Toad and egg shaped haunts me

Wasn't this Leslie Wexner's townhome originally?

The whole Wexner-Epstein relationship is not talked about enough. That's where he got a lot of his money - from Wexner. Some say they were in a relationship.

Yeah was Epstein G4P? Or Bi?

R31 has put forth the most compelling argument thus far.

r35 it's long been thought that Wexner is gay and closeted. He's still alive, he's ancient now.

Damian Loeb’s Little Miss Pink Tomato (1995).

—A truly queasy painting by Damian Loeb, Little Miss Pink Tomato (1995), depicting a pre-teen beauty pageant, that Maria Farmer, one of his victims, remembers him purchasing