There’s probably quite a few famous people in the Epstien files who were just paid to make an appearance or speech or similar at an event before he was a known person…
Yeah, the guy had a real fetish for surrounding himself with smart people, especially considering he was (based on the evidence in the files that have been released so far) a remarkably dumb person.
It’s as if a well-connected person knows/communicates with a lot people. Weird to call social networking a fetish.