"Even as evidence of Epstein’s crimes continued to mount, [David] Ross had continued to flatter and excuse him while he tried to raise money for his various art ventures...
“It was an undeserved punishment foisted on you by jealous creeps,” Ross wrote, in another message.
👉“I’m still proud to call you a friend,” he wrote, in 2015, when #Epstein was under scrutiny again, this time on suspicion of sex trafficking."👈
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/david-a-ross-jeffrey-epstein-donations.html
" #Epstein wrote to propose an idea. “I might want to fund an exhibition entitled statutory,” he wrote. “girls & boys ages 14-25 where they look nothing like their true ages. Juvenile mug shots, photo shop, make up. Some people go to prison because they can’t tell true age. Controversial. Fun. Maybe it should be a web page, with hits, tallied.”
“You are incredible,” Ross had written back. “This would be a very [p]owerful & freaky book”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/david-a-ross-jeffrey-epstein-donations.html
The rest of this New York Times article works very hard to make David Ross a sympathetic character.
No.
No sympathy for people who enabled Epstein after his first arrest for pedophilia. Who commiserated with Epstein over the arrest and the pathetic excuse for punishment that he got.
These people knew that Epstein was abusing girls. Even if they never saw it themselves, they knew what he was and what he was doing.
And they enabled his continuing crimes by treating him as an acceptable person.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️