“There are some stories that are just too wild to be reckoned with while they’re happening,” he said. Three years later, the project still hasn’t found a home, but Magnolia boss Eamonn Bowles thinks that may very well change given all of the renewed exposure on the Epstein case. Bryant’s pal David Carr, the late Times media columnist, was a fan, and the book was optioned by Magnolia Pictures in 2016. In 2009, before he turned his attention to Epstein, Bryant published a small-press book called The Franklin Scandal, about an alleged power broker pedophile ring in Nebraska that garnered national media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Moreover, the little black book opens up multiple vistas of investigation, and I would attempt to amass sufficient corroboration on some of the power broker perps who molested these girls.”Īs a reporter, Bryant has spent the past two decades researching and writing about child trafficking, a beat that has put him outside of the journalistic mainstream (and one that inevitably intersects, at times, with the conspiracy realm). “My Epstein article would focus on the government malfeasance that enabled Epstein to skate on scores of child abuse charges,” Bryant wrote in a pitch he submitted to various editors, “and I would also look into covert ties that the government may have had with Epstein.
At the time, Bryant was shopping a feature on Epstein, without success. “It is a mosaic of Epstein’s social contacts,” the investigative journalist Nick Bryant told me.īryant first got his hands on a copy of the black book in 2012, after the feds caught Epstein’s former house manager trying to peddle it for $50,000. There’s a road map to that network in Epstein’s now-infamous black book, filled with many bold-faced names, phone numbers, and addresses, from Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Ehud Barak to Alec Baldwin, Ralph Fiennes, Mick Jagger, and even Courtney Love. It’s going to be contagion numbers.”Įver since Epstein’s arrest on July 6, there’s been growing scrutiny of his vast network of rich and/or famous and/or powerful friends and acquaintances-or former friends and acquaintances, as it were. With Jeffrey Epstein denied bail and prosecutors building their case in his sex trafficking indictment, one of the next shoes to drop-possibly many shoes-will invariably be: Who within Epstein’s social orbit might be implicated in the scandal one way or another? As someone involved in litigation against Epstein told my colleague Gabriel Sherman earlier this week, “It’s going to be staggering, the amount of names.
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