A naked woman’s foot with black painted nails, from a novel a sentence that was probably scrawled with a felt-tip pen on this foot, in the background and on the same bed cover, is the novel itself in a heavily read paperback edition: What can be seen in this one photo alone reveals the entire horrifying depths of the machinations the American investment banker Jeffrey Epsteinwho, convicted as a sex offender, allegedly committed suicide in his prison cell in 2019.

The photo is one of the ones just before actual Epstein files nor from US Democrats published images from Epstein’s lifewhich probably had its main content in the fact that Epstein sold far too young women and girls to extremely rich and powerful people Men mediated. But what does it prove when he poses in enchanting harmony with such rich and powerful people or when they are seen spending their precious time in Epstein’s New York home or on the grounds of his private Caribbean island of Little St. James?