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I'm sure we all have myriad questions about Jeffrey Epstein that may never be answered. Julie K. Brown, the investigative reporter who broke the story about Epstein for the Miami Herald, has five questions about the convicted sex trafficker. We called her up the other day, and she shared them with Esquire. At the risk of spoiling the story, I was surprised to learn that Brown doesn't believe Epstein committed suicide. Read her view on his death, and more, below. – Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief Plus: |
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The House Oversight Committee plans to release documents from the Epstein files on Friday. Here's what Julie K. Brown wants to know—including whether he really died by suicide.
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"You have to be on another planet if you don't know anything about Epstein," Julie K. Brown tells me over the phone. Maybe I shouldn't have played dumb. The award-winning investigative reporter exposed Jeffrey Esptein's sex-trafficking activities for the Miami Herald, after all. But with the Epstein files littering news feeds, including a House Oversight Committee plan to release documents this Friday, I thought we needed a primer for our conversation.
"There were probably hundreds of underage girls and young women who were sexually abused by this very powerful man over three decades. Then, he essentially walked away with little or no punishment for the crimes, even though the case was in the hands of the Justice Department," Brown says. |
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For proof that men in their sixties, and beyond, can still be stylish, you need only look at the boardrooms of the fashion industry itself. British founder-designer Sir Paul Smith, seventy-nine, is a walking billboard for the well-cut navy suit. And at the spritely age of eighty-five, Mr. Ralph Lauren is a testament that the innate sense of adventurous pleasure that style offers—be it westernwear, classic prep, or even slick Wall Street tailoring—is open to all, whatever age they may be.
But some of the latest big-ticket ad campaigns have highlighted a specific demographic: men in their sixties. Designer Peter Saville, sixty-nine, appeared in a Ferragamo campaign recently. Watch collector Auro Montanari, sixty-seven, was in a recent Zegna campaign. Actor Richard E. Grant, sixty-eight, took the runway with aplomb for Burberry. Hollywood offers even more inspiration: Sixty-four-year-old George Clooney, sixty-one-year-old Brad Pitt, and sixty-eight-year-old Spike Lee remain among the most stylish men in show business. It seems sexagenarians have never been cooler.
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"This hour is my whole life, you know?" Marcello Hernández is not talking about our hour-long Zoom interview, which the twenty-eight-year-old comedian does almost entirely off camera. ("After I do an interview, I try to immediately forget that I did it," he deadpans.) No, he's referring to his new stand-up routine, which—at the time of our chat in early July—he's touring around the country. The goal? See what works, see what doesn't, and shape the material into a Netflix special that will tape later this fall. He's more than a little obsessed. "It's my baby," he says. "It's my wedding."
If it's Hernández's big day, expect an incredibly fun ceremony. Almost as soon as the Cuban-Dominican American performer joined Saturday Night Live in 2022, it became obvious that he is the most dynamic cast member the show has seen since Kate McKinnon or Bill Hader. His superpowers include: a detonate-your-TV-screen manic energy, the ability to create instantly meme-able characters for SNL's scrolling audience, and a knack for channeling his upbringing as a Miami-born child of immigrants into hilarious, quick-witted sketches. |
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