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Relationships between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and some of the world's most prominent people are already well known. Among them: CEOs Bill Gates, Lex Wexner, Leon Black, Jes Staley; former U.S. presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton; tarnished celebrities Kevin Spacey and Woody Allen; and Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family.

A new expose that dropped this week by The Wall Street Journal reveals Epstein's circle of associates also included William Burns, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency since 2021; Kathryn Ruemmler, a White House Counsel under President Barack Obama and now a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs; Leon Botstein, president of Bard College; Ariane de Rothschild, chief executive of Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group; and renowned professor, author and academic, Noam Chomsky.

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