That makes it the latest in a line of “little black books” that have played key roles in crime stories as far back as the mid-18th century, when Samuel Derrick conspired with Jack Harris, the “Pimp General of all England,” to create an annual guide to London’s prostitutes and their specialties. Epstein’s book has become a symbol of the exclusive world of the very famous and very rich, and the secret life the financier lived. Maxwell at a boutique opening but that “she never phoned me.”) The Little Black Books of Men (It is unclear from the affidavit whether Ms. Epstein’s former girlfriend and “lady of the house,” and posited perhaps that was how their names ended up in the book. Those contacted for this article acknowledged having met Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Rodriguez’s statement in the affidavit, the book was compiled by employees of Mr. Epstein’s book declares that the list creates a portrait of a man “deeply enmeshed in the highest social circles.” The names in the book, though, are as likely to be a map of aspirational connections, as well as actual ones.īecause according to Mr. Being in the book suggested a fuzzy complicity: Might these people also have known, or had some sense, of his crimes?Ī report by New York magazine about those who appear in Mr. affidavit in 2009 as “a small bound book,” the item contains the names of people who viewers theorized may have known Mr. Epstein’s former house manager, attempted to sell the book it was published in 2015 by Gawker, with the telephone numbers redacted.ĭescribed in an F.B.I. (Last week, a federal judge denied his request to await trial at his $56 million Upper East Side mansion.)Īlfredo Rodriguez, Mr. Epstein, a 66-year-old financier, has been charged with. Epstein’s little black book has resurfaced as part of the current investigation into the sex crimes Mr.

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