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President Donald Trump on July 28 said that he terminated Jeffrey Epstein’s membership at Mar-a-Lago because Epstein “stole people that worked for me.”

The show’s surreal and mordantly satirical depiction of the American Dream as a nightmare began just after political scientist Francis Fukayama’s so-called “end of history,” when the Cold War defeat of communism made it appear that there was no alternative to a triumphant global capitalism, and history seemed to be ending like a Hollywood movie. Signified by the Trinity Test of a nuclear bomb, as regards its prehistory, the dawn of the Cold War becomes The Return’s origin story for its ironic nuclear family of BOB, Joudy, and Laura. Standing in the street outside her house, she hears her mother calling her voice in the distance and she screams in her familiar way, as the season ends with her home and her destiny going into foreclosure, as the power in her family’s home is suddenly cut. If I were to propose a Benjamin-style critique as an addendum to this special issue, it would return us not to the Red Room, but to a location the new season neglects, One Eyed Jacks, the brothel near the Canadian border where Laura and other underage girls work as prostitutes after being recruited from the local department store’s perfume counter.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on July 17 defended the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Jeffrey Epstein, the Sackler family, the Koch brothers—these major private donors have reignited talk about how research and education get funded. Increasingly, universities are spending substantial time not only deciding whether to accept gifts but defending them after the fact or renouncing them and returning the money. Although the lessons of Jeffrey Epstein are clear—the Massachusetts Institute of Technology didn't stop its Media Lab from taking his gifts when it was obvious who he was—it seems likely that these kinds of episodes are going to happen more frequently in the future. Blame the intense competition among institutions at a time when money to support university endeavors has gotten tighter. Unfortunately, there's been more talk about this problem than action to solve it.

The utilization of the internet for human trafficking and sexual exploitation is not an issue that can be tackled one corporation, one country, or one market sector at a time. It is an international problem that requires broader solutions that can protect and provide remedy to victims without chilling the freedom of speech and freedom of contract of consensual parties engaged in sex work. Recent changes to laws related to human trafficking have strengthened the power of litigation, authorizing civil lawsuits against perpetrators of human trafficking that may include third parties who knowingly benefit from trafficking conduct- such as internet providers, business partners, and even banks and credit card companies. These laws have enabled the victims of Jeffrey Epstein to successfully pursue Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase, receiving multimillion-dollar settlements. Pressure from credit card companies who were named in lawsuits combined with other litigation efforts changed the practices of Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek, resulting in the eventual acquisition of MindGeek by Ethical Capital Partners (ECP), a private equity firm intent on giving the company an environmental-, social-, and governance-focused (ESG) makeover. While there is a next chapter for the parent corporation, many of the independent sex workers who depend on platforms for their primary income continue to suffer irreparable harm. Also, to date, MindGeek and Pornhub have not paid settlements on cases arising under the new legislation. Most cases against internet providers have not survived a motion to dismiss. These civil actions also fail to address harm to victims outside the jurisdiction of countries with similar measures. If the goal is to bring an end to exploitation-for-profit on the internet, not merely to legislate morality and end sex work in general, a more comprehensive and targeted solution is needed. This Essay contemplates a corporate-governance solution that could aid advances in technology by placing a limit on the reliance by company management on corporate structure and contractual relationships to disclaim responsibility and justify inaction. In a prior work, Corporate Family Matters, I propose a definition and governance regime for a particular type of corporate group-the corporate family. A corporate family is an enterprise formed by weaving corporations, partnerships, and LLCs together in a mix of public and private entities acting for the benefit of a parent corporation or for the personal gain of one or more leaders of the enterprise. Using MindGeek as an example, this Essay applies this definition to the enterprise and explains how acknowledging the influence of MindGeek and treating the enterprise as a family can provide relief to victims while minimizing collateral harms.

The Epstein files are coming. But will Americans be able to fully trust them?

Award-winning Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown’s bombshell reporting sparked the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation that finally brought him to justice. Brown sits down with Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig to discuss her new book, “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story,” which chronicles the powerful people and broken system that failed to stop Epstein for nearly two decades.

According to the unnamed source, Alex Acosta, the federal prosecutor in the case, gave this explanation to Trump administration officials while he was being vetted as secretary of labor. At one point, state prosecutors offered Epstein a plea deal that entailed five years of probation, no jail time, no sex-offender registration, and no need to pay restitution to victims- the ultimate sweetheart deal. Frustrated with state prosecutors, Palm Beach police approached Acosta, who agreed to take up the case. Because of the riskiness of a trial, he succeeded in arranging a \"non-prosecution agreement,\" under which Epstein would plead guilty to sex crimes. Throughout the tense negotiations, Acosta insisted that Epstein must serve jail time, register as a sex offender, and offer restitution to his victims.

Britain’s Prince Andrew on Feb. 15 settled the sexual abuse lawsuit brought by a woman who said she was trafficked to him by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. The amount of the settlement, announced on Feb. 15, is not known.