If you wanted to think of the ultimate scandal – the most heinous acts, the most powerful accomplices and the deepest moral abysses: you probably wouldn’t have to invent it anymore. A taboo breach of such explosive power that it could unhinge US society already exists. At the center is a multimillionaire who is said to have abused more than a thousand girls and women for years and apparently passed many of them, including boys, on to friends. It is becoming increasingly clear that his network consisted of the American and global elite who remained loyal to the sex offender despite his known crimes.
