The fallout from Epstein

Some in the convicted pedophile’s vast network wanted free holidays, some of them wanted to rub shoulders with other famous people, some of them wanted to have sex with under-age girls. Whatever their tastes, Jeffrey Epstein satisfied them.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, right, has been arrested for ‘misconduct in public office,’ and is among the few mentioned in the Jeffrey Epstein files who face arrest, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 26, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—“It’s amazing how the arrest of a 66-year-old man in Norfolk has raised the spirits of the entire country,” remarked a reader on the letters page of the Guardian this week.

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