In March 2014, Jeffrey Epstein took his private jet to Seattle to visit Bill Gates at his office. Epstein brought along a Polish model he had met a few months earlier. Dressed in a long gray coat, she posed for a photo with the Microsoft co-founder. Epstein took the picture.

Looking at the photograph now brings back difficult memories for the Polish model, who was then in her 20s. She notes how young she looks at the time. And how strange she must have appeared to Gates and other famous people that Epstein was escorting her to meet.

“Now when I look at myself there, it couldn’t have looked normal,” she said in a recent interview. “I saw the looks of those people, like what is she doing here?”

In the years after he registered as a sex offender, Epstein was rarely alone. He was often accompanied by attractive young women in their late teens or 20s. They opened the door at his New York townhouse when billionaires came calling. They sat beside him at meetings with bankers and celebrities. They traveled with him on his private jet to visit scientists, political leaders and tech-company founders. Photos of some of them with Epstein appeared in tabloid newspapers.

[Of course, Bill Gates and Co had “no idea” Epstein who-didn’t-kill-himself was dropping their names to lure sweet young things in, in the hopes of meeting them for future employment opportunities. The preponderance of Epstein’s VIP buddies were Democrats, no? Maybe that’s why, even though he didn’t kill himself, he still has big Dem buddies protecting him (and those other jet-to-the-island buddies) like Sen Dick Durbin. What do you want to bet, that if there’s a prayer of GOP taking the senate back, Epstein’s flight logs, now safely protected in Dem hands, DON’T KILL THEMSELVES either? ~ Beege]