It works like this: Jack networked with everyone and their brother. His rolodex was, quite literally, tens of thousands of names deep. Very often, he’d learn that contact A could financially benefit from meeting contact B.
And so, for a finder’s fee, he’d put the two contacts together.
Full disclosure: Jack and I have split finder’s fees for deals between our contacts, including a very nice six-figure payout when a sports league changed hands. (I knew the owner; he knew the financier — and when a deal was struck, we both profited.)
Keep this in mind when reading about the Epstein document dump, because the emails and communications between professional networkers — which Jeffrey
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certainly was (among many other things, of course) — are explicitly designed to perpetuate the illusion of close, intimate friendships.
When I worked for Jack in the 2000s, my emails/texts were replete with back-and-forth communications between sports icons like Troy Aikman and Yao Ming. Never met either gentleman, but their reps allowed them to join our PR agency’s speakers’ bureau. It took tons of friendly, enthusiastic, over-the-top emails to seal the deal. (I forget who repped Ming, but Troy’s contact was actually his mom, who was involved in his charitable foundation.) Whatever "in" I had, I played it up to the nth degree.
And if any of those texts/emails were ever leaked, you’d probably think we were best buddies. Which was precisely the illusion I was paid to perpetuate!
Much of the media is marveling over the depth and scope of Jeffrey Epstein’s celebrity relationships: Somehow, he knew everyone. From NFL owners to tech giants to global leaders to European royalty, Epstein corresponded with every big-name he possibly could.
Well, yeah. If you’re a professional networker, that’s exactly what you do!
But problem #1 is that millions of Epstein emails were just dumped. Nobody has the bandwidth to pore through all the communications.
So, instead, we rely on media outlets to do all the grunt work for us. (As the Fox News Channel might’ve put it, "They report, we decide.")
The second problem is even worse: Too many news outlets are run by lazy, left-wing ideologues whose biases lead to embarrassing mistakes — and/or the deliberate dissemination of fake news.
Take, for example, the slew of reports about Elon Musk’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. A shockingly large number of outlets claimed that Musk begged to visit "Epstein Island" — but was such a dork, he wasn’t allowed to visit.
Here’s the "email" that caused the controversy:
And then he explains. See at the link.