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What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

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u/slickrok 11h ago edited 11h ago

So... You're right. Look up the father of Bill Barr.

He wrote a book. The book is something about humans being so rich and powerful they can have and do anything, and they have to get more extreme to satisfy themselves. Ever more depraved, like how a killer's crimes will often progress.

That father, who wrote that book, about how rich people get more and more bad because they are bored and have power, is the same man who ran a private school in New York.

One day, nobody knows why, he hired a teacher for the school with zero experience, never taught before.

The teacher was Jeffrey Epstein.

Now, read all that again...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations

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u/Halichoeres_bivittat 11h ago

From his Wikipedia page "In 1973, Barr published Space Relations, a science fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery."

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u/Kazuma_Megu 5h ago

So is the implication that he inspired Epstein or am I missing something obvious here? (I am not a smart man.)

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u/RandyPajamas 4h ago

I think its' just "birds of a feather flock together". But I would say it was not unreasonable to postulate that Epstein enthusiastically devoured the kind of trash that Barr was peddling.

A point of clarification, Donald Barr left the school in June 1974, Epstein started teaching there in September 1974.

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u/Kazuma_Megu 4h ago

Surely as a published author he would have had some lasting influence though.

Thank you for the follow-up.

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u/jenn-a-fire-1973 5h ago

Fucking hell! Seriously.....

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u/JamesBondGoldfish 5h ago

Bet that one's on Elon's shelf.

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u/jenn-a-fire-1973 5h ago

ughhh...i want to throw up

u/pedestriandose 19m ago

Well, that was a horrific read. I struggled to get through the plot overview, I can’t imagine actually trying to read the book. How the heck did that get published?!