December 1, 2025 • 26 mins
Glenn Dubin is a billionaire hedge fund manager and major figure in New York’s high society whose long, troubling relationship with Jeffrey Epstein went far beyond casual acquaintance. Even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for sex crimes involving a minor, Dubin — along with his wife, Eva Andersson-Dubin — kept him close, inviting him into their home, allowing him to spend holidays like Thanksgiving with their children, and maintaining financial and social ties. This wasn’t ignorance; it was an active choice to normalize a convicted sex offender in one of Manhattan’s most influential households, effectively lending Epstein the legitimacy he needed to remain welcome in elite circles.
Dubin’s continued embrace of Epstein, despite years of mounting allegations and sworn victim testimony naming him as a participant in Epstein’s abuse, reveals a staggering moral blindness — or worse, a conscious decision to protect a friend whose crimes were well-documented. By keeping the door open for Epstein socially, professionally, and philanthropically, Dubin became part of the protective cocoon that allowed Epstein to survive and thrive after his conviction. In doing so, he not only damaged his own reputation beyond repair but also exemplified the elite complicity that kept Epstein’s network intact long after it should have collapsed.
And that's not even the worst of what Glenn Dubin has been accused of...
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Dubin’s continued embrace of Epstein, despite years of mounting allegations and sworn victim testimony naming him as a participant in Epstein’s abuse, reveals a staggering moral blindness — or worse, a conscious decision to protect a friend whose crimes were well-documented. By keeping the door open for Epstein socially, professionally, and philanthropically, Dubin became part of the protective cocoon that allowed Epstein to survive and thrive after his conviction. In doing so, he not only damaged his own reputation beyond repair but also exemplified the elite complicity that kept Epstein’s network intact long after it should have collapsed.
And that's not even the worst of what Glenn Dubin has been accused of...
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bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. There were a lot of people on the
Epstein stage, and it's hard to keep track of everybody,
and for people who are just getting involved in the story,
who have just started to follow along with what's going on,
there's a lot of new faces and a lot of
new names that you have to get familiar with. So
(00:20):
what we're going to start doing here on the podcast
is having a introduction type of series to people that
were critical to what Jeffrey Epstein had going on. And
in this episode, we're going to talk about the Dubins.
Glenn Dubin didn't just brush up against Jeffrey Epstein in
some random hedge fun handshake years before Epstein's crimes were
(00:41):
republic He stood by him long after the world knew
exactly what he was. In two thousand and nine, after
Epstein had been convicted of soliciting sex from a minor,
the Dubin still invited them into their home for Thanksgiving dinner.
And that was an explicit, knowing choice to bring us
set offender into the family holiday for dinner with your
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children present. The defense from the Dubin camp that they
were one hundred percent comfortable having Epstein around their kids
reads like something torn from a bad satire about Manhattan
high society, where status trump's safety, but the reality is
far darker. It's telling the world that a convicted predator's
friendship mattered more than the untold damage that he did
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to the women and the girls that he abused. Financially,
Dubin's ties to Epstein went deeper than cocktails in charity gallas.
They invested together, They move money in and out of
the same ventures. Epstein even used a foundation structure to
funnel donations into Eva Anderson Dubin's breast cancer charity without
attaching his name, a sleight of hand that led Epstein
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by social capital without the stink of his reputation sticking
to it. Dubin didn't slam the door on that arrangement.
He held it wide open even after Epstein's release. Dubin
continued association gave Epstein something that he couldn't buy outright legitimacy.
When a billionaire hedge fund manager still treats you like
a valued friend, others take that as permission to do
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the same. Dubin's acceptance wasn't just personal loyalty. It was
a reputational life rap for Epstein in the circles where money, influence,
and silence are the currency. And when Virginia Roberts name
Glenn Dubin among the men Epstein trafficked or two, Dubin
issued the standard denial, but the allegations didn't vanish. It
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reappeared in court filings, unsealed testimony, and in alternative media
again and again. Even if Dubin never faces a criminal charge,
the persistence of his name and sworn statements is its
own indictment, not legal, but certainly moral. Then there's the
footnote about Epstein wanting to marry Dubin's own daughter, Selena,
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a claim back by reports that Epstein named her a
beneficiary of his trust. Whether Epstein's intent was real or
a manipulative power play, the fact that he felt comfortable
enough to float such an idea speaks volumes about how
entangled he was with the Dubin family. By the time
the US virgin Islands a poena Duben for Epstein related documents,
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the picture was clear. This wasn't a casual pre scandal acquaintance.
The Dubins were part of Epstein's in her network well
after his first arrest. When law enforcement shows up at
your door in a trafficking probe, it's not because you
were in the wrong place once. It's because your proximity
was sustained visible and suspicious. In the rarefied air of
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Wall Street, where power protects power, Dubin's downfall was never
going to be a purp walk. Instead, it was a
quiet exit from his fund in twenty twenty. The slow
retreat from the public boards, the air brushing of connections
in official bios, and what he'd want you to think
is accountability is nothing more than a page from the
damage control playbook for the ultral wealthy, where the scandal ismanaged,
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not resolved. The Dubin Epstein relationship is a case study
and how predators survive. They don't do it alone. They
do it because people with money and influence keep lending
them credibility. Glen Dubin could have been a cautionary example
in two thousand and eight, the guy who cut all
ties and warned others. Instead, he became one more example
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of how elite loyalty to fellow insiders outweighs any duty
to the vulnerable. All the denials all the carefully awarded statements,
all the quiet charity board resignations, can erase the simple truth.
When Epstein needed legitimacy after prison, Glen Dubin gave it
to him. The few defenders that Dubin has like to
fall back on the tired refrain that no charges wherever filed,
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as though the absence of prosecution is proof of innocence.
In the rarefied world that Glen Dubin moves in the
absence of prosecution often just means legal laws are too high,
the rolodex too powerful, and the financial resources too deep
for a case to ever see the inside of a
court room. The twenty twenty four unsealing of more Epstein
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related core documents shredded whatever scraps of plausible deniability remained.
Once again, Dubin's name surfaced alongside allegations, meetings, and interactions
that no one with the shred of common sense would
ever defend. We're not talking about random mentions. They're part
of the long pattern in sworn statements, which is why
as PR machine has been an overdrive for years trying
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to blur, minimize, or dismiss the record. Epstein didn't keep
people like Lan Dubin in his orbit because they were disposable.
He kept them because they were useful, useful for introductions,
for access, for a shared veneer of elite respectability that
allowed them to move in the same rooms as politicians, billionaires,
and royalty. Even after becoming a convicted sex offender. Dubin
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played his part in that ecosystem, and pretending otherwise is
revisionist history. Even the optics of the Dubin household Thanksgiving
with Epstein in two thousand and nine are damning. We're
not talking about some public charity event where one could
plausibly claim ignorance of who might attend. That was their home,
their table, their children. Every single person at the table
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knew exactly who Epstein was. By then inviting them wasn't
a social courtesy, It was a deliberate, knowing embrace. The
trust issue literally and figuratively runs deep. Epstein naming Selina
Dubin as a beneficiary is either one of the sickest
manipulations in his arsenal, or a reflection of a level
of closeness that defies any excuse. Either way, it underscores
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how grotesquely entangled the predator was with the family, and
how utterly blind, reckless, or wilfully indifferent they were to
the risk. Dubin's Wall Street profile meant his ongoing acceptance
of Epstein was noticed. It wasn't just a family matter.
It was a signal to other high flyers that Epstein
was still safe to do business with, a social class
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where the wrong association can sinc reputations overnight. Dubin's continued
warmth towards Epstein wasn't just enabling, it was advertising. And
look when law enforcement in the US Virgin Islands began
issuing subpoenas for Epstein's associates, Dubin wasn't on the list
by accident. The investigators saw the same pattern. Anyone paying
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attention could see a high powered couple whose continued relationship
with Epstein extended years past the point of moral or
reputational cover. The hedge fund world is filled with men
who treat ethics as an optional accessory, but even by
those standards, the Duben Epstein link is calling. This wasn't
a misjudged deal or a one time meeting. It was
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a years long post conviction relationship that kept giving Epstein
the social oxygen he needed to operate. When the fallout
finally forced the Dubins to retreat from public life and
step away from the fund, it wasn't some act of conscience.
It was a tactical withdrawal, one meant to preserve as
much of his wealth, standing, and insulation as possible while
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waiting for the public's outrage to move on to another scandal.
The facts are brutally simple. After Epstein's crimes were known,
Glen Dubin could have chosen distance, condemnation, and accountability. Instead,
he chose proximity, acceptance, and silence. That choice didn't just
protect Epstein, it helped keep the machinery of his abuse
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running long after any decent person would have slammed the
door shut. But the most damning thing for Glenn Dubin
are the allegations made against some by Virginia Roberts. And
Virginia never mince words when it comes to naming the
powerful men. She says Jeffrey Epstein trafficked or two and
Glenn Dubin's name is among them. In sworn testimony in
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public statements, Roberts has alleged that she was directed to
have sex with Duben while still a teenager in Epstein's orbit.
These aren't off hand mentions. There are direct, specific accusations
made under oath, woven into a consistent narrative that she
repeated for years. According to Roberts, Epstein and Maxwell arranged
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for her to be with Dubin as part of the
wider network of sexual exploitation that targeted young women and girls.
She described a pattern in which Epstein loaned out victims
to his wealthy, well connected friends as both the means
of rewarding allies and binding them into silence. In that framework,
Dubin is alleged to have been one of the recipients
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of these coursed encounters. And what makes the Dubin allegations
especially explosive is the timing. Robert's claim placed her abuse
by the Dubins during the very period when Epstein's trafficking
machine was operating at full tilt, with Maxwell allegedly orchestrating
much of the logistics. This wasn't some hazy recollection decades
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after the fact. These are anchored to specific periods in
her life that have been corroborated by other pieces of
Epstein's timeline. Dubin has issued flat denials, branding Robert its
allegations is false and defamatory, but the denial alone doesn't
erase the fact that his name surfaces repeatedly in connection
with Epstein's sex trafficking operation. It's not a cameo, it's
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a recurring presence in depositions, core filings, media summaries of
unsealed documents, and survivors and investigators don't keep mentioning the
same people by accident. While Glenn Dubin has not been
charged with any crime, Robert's accusations carry enough weight to
have been included in unsealed testimony that was scrutinized by attorneys, journalists,
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and law enforcement alike. In cases like this, absence of
indictment is not proof of innocence. It's often a sign
of how formidable the legal and political walls are around
the accused. Robert's account also fits into a broader pattern
that she laid out regarding Epstein's in her circle, a
pattern in which Maxwell and Epstein targeted powerful men specifically
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because they could provide protection, access, and influence. In this
alleged model, the abuse itself wasn't just predation. It was transactional,
a currency of control. Naming Dubin places them in the
alleged transaction chain. Adding to the discomfort is the fact
that the Dubin family's relationship with Epstein didn't end after
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these alleged events. If anything, they grew closer in the
years after, maintaining the kind of visible friendship that undermines
every I had no idea defense. If the allegations are false,
their choice to stand by Epstein post conviction is baffling.
If they are true, it's an outright indictment of moral bankruptcy.
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The persistence of Dubin's name and survivor testimony also carries
weight in the court of public opinion. Robert's credibility has
been tested in multiple legal venues, and while defense attorneys
have worked hard to pick a parterer story, much of
what she's alleged about Epstein's network has been corroborated by documents, photographs,
and the accounts of other victims. That gives her identification
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of Dubin a seriousness that cannot be brushed aside as
a mere rumor. Even in the absence of charges. The
stain of these allegations is permanent. You don't get your
name pulled out of a sworn victim testimony in a
case as infamous as Epstein's without leaving a permanent mark.
At its core, the Roberts' allegations against Glenn Dubin aren't
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just about one incident. It's about whether a man at
the very top of finance uses position in Epstein's inner
circle to exploit a traffic girl, and whether the machinery
of wealth and influence has ensured that such claims will
never see the inside of a criminal courtroom. That's why
the allegation continues to loom, unresolved but unforgotten in the
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ongoing reckoning with Epstein's legacy. All Right, we're going to
wrap up part one here, and in the next episode
we're gonna pick up where we left off. All of
the information that goes with this episode can be found
in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to
another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're
picking up where we left off talking about Glenn Dubin.
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What makes the Dubin Epstein relationship even more revolting is
how public it was within their social circles. These weren't
just shadowy backroom meetings. This was dinner party normalcy. Yacht
outings and holiday gatherings in the rarefied Manhattan set. People
saw it, talked about it, and yet no one with
any real influence challenged it. Instead, the Dubin's acceptance acted
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like a green light for everyone else who wanted to
keep Epstein in their orbit without getting their own hands dirty.
And Dubin's role wasn't passive either. His financial dealings with
Epstein weren't just old investments left with her. They were
maintained after Epstein's release from jail. That means someone somewhere
had to actively sign off on continuing to intermingle assets
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with a convicted sex offender. In the world of high finance,
nothing like that happens without explicit intent. Even Epstein's philanthropy
laundering scheme using intermediaries to make donations without his name attached,
fit neatly into the Dubin connection. Eva Anderson Dubin's charity
became one such outlet, enabling Epstein to maintain a veneer
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of generosity while sidestepping the reputational consequences. In essence, the
Duben household wasn't just a friend's home to Epstein. It
was part of his broader pr strategy. When the Virginia
Roberts allegations emerged, Glenn Dubin's denials followed the predictable billionaire template,
a brief, categorical and dismissive with no substantative engagements with
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the facts. But for survivors in the public, the more
glaring issue was how deeply his name kept surfacing in
legal filings, as if permanently welded to the infrastructure of
Epstein's world. This wasn't a one off cameo. It was repeated,
embedded presence and look the rod here is an only
Duben his own choices, but the ecosystem that enabled them.
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Other hedge fund titans, art world patrons and political donors
salms down by Epstein and chose to look the other way.
In elite circles, moral failure doesn't trigger exile. It becomes
a shared secret and unspoken agreement that no one will
push too hard because everyone's rolodex has skeletons. Dubin's ongoing
hospitality towards Epstein post conviction also undercuts every defense about
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not knowing the full scope of his crimes. By two
thousand and nine, there was no mystery Epstein had served
time registered as a sex offender and had been the
subject of extensive media coverage. Continuing the friendship wasn't about ignorance.
It was about deciding that the crimes didn't outweigh his
usefulness or companionship. The reported plan Epstein had to marry
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Selena Dubin wasn't some random joke either. It was exactly
the kind of power play that he used to assert
dominance over people in his orbit, a way to tether
himself to the wealthy, influential families. And that this claim
didn't trigger a total scorched earth severing of ties tells
you everything you need to know about the mindset in
the Duben household at the time. Subpoenas from the US
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Virgin Islands in twenty twenty put the Dubin squarely in
the investigative's crosshairs. The Virgin Islands government wasn't wasting resources
chasing irrelevant figures. They were targeting people and entities that
formed key parts of Epstein's post two thousand and eight ecosystem.
Glenn Dubin's inclusion on that list should have been a
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scandal in itself, yet it barely registered outside of investigative reporting.
The quiet exit from high Bridge Capital and other public
roles after Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest wasn't a moral decision.
It was optics management. By stepping back without making public statements,
Dubin could avoid the kind of on the record reckoning
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that might generate follow up questions or bind them to
a position in the playbook of elite damage control. Silence
is an awkward it's a strategy, and that strategy has worked,
at least in part. Glenn Dubin has avoided the criminal
charges that have caught others in Epstein's orbit, and the
public outrage has been diluted by the sheer volume of
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names involved. But in the court of public opinion, especially
for those who have read the filings and traced the timelines,
Dubin's years of post conviction friendship with Epstein remained one
of the most blatant examples of power enabling predation. Now
we have to talk about Eva Anderson Dubin and her
connection to Jeffrey Epstein as well. And now it wasn't
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a fleeting social acquaintance either. It was an entanglement that
stretched decades, long before she married Glen Dubin and long
after Epstein's first arrest. She had dated Epstein in the
early eighties, and they remained close afterward, a loyalty that
persisted throughout his conviction for sex crimes. That's not an
ordinary amicable ex relationship. That's wilful proximity to a man
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who was later proven to be a predator. Even after
marrying Glenn Dubin, Eva kept Epstein in the fold, and
not in the arm's length obligatory way that some exes
remained cordial. She corresponded with them, saw them socially, and
most shockingly, continued to bring them into her family's private spaces.
It was Eva, after all, who reassured Epstein's probation officer
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in two thousand and nine that her family was one
hundred percent comfortable having them over for Thanksgiving with their children.
The optics of a former girlfriend turned family friend hosting
a convicted sex offender at her own table with her
children present are appalling enough, but when you factor in
Eva's stature in New York's elite philanthropic scene, it becomes
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even more grotesque. She wasn't someone owned figure who could
slip under the radar. She was a public presence, a
patron of the arts and medical causes, consciously lending her
credibility you to someone whose reputation was already in tatters.
Her breast cancer foundation also became a convenient channel for
Epstein's philanthropy laundering. Instead of attaching his name to donations,
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which would have triggered outrage and negative press, Epstein gave
anonymously or through structures designed to hide the source. Eva
didn't have to accept the money, but she did, and
in doing so, she allowed him to keep buying his
way back into polite society now. Eva's defenders sometimes framed
her relationship with Epstein as a product of long standing friendship,
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as though history is a moral shield that logic collapses
instantly when applied to a sex offender with a known
history of targeting miners. We've known him for a long
time is not a defense. It's an admission that the
ties were so strong that even his conviction couldn't sever them.
And what's worse is the message this sent to her
own children and to the elite circle she moved in.
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By normalizing Epstein's presence in their life lives post conviction,
Eva modeled the idea that wealth, power and personal loyalty
are more important than the moral aligned drawn at child's
sexual abuse. And we're not just talking about bad judgment.
We're talking about a corrosive pretense of ethical leadership in
the philanthropic world that she inhabited. Her long, strange loyalty
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to Epstein also gave him something he desperately needed, the
ability to appoint to a respectable woman who vouched for
him in the wake of his conviction. When others avoided
him publicly. Eva continued acceptance acted like a character reference
in the court of public opinion. For a predator trying
to rebuild his network. That kind of validation was priceless.
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Even after Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest, when the scale of
his crimes became impossible to dismiss, report surfaced about the
depth of his relationship with the Duban family. Eva's passed
as his girlfriend and her post conviction friendship were suddenly
on avoid headlines. Yet she, like her husband, opted for
minimal public engagement. No extended explanation, no full throated condemnation,
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just damage control. It's also telling that Epstein reportedly considered
marrying Selena Dubin, Eva's daughter, while some dismiss this as
another of Epstein's manipulative fantasies. The fact that it was
plausible enough to report underscores just how intimately entwined he
remained with the family, and how Eva's own comfort with
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him helped maintain that entanglement At its core. Eva Anderson
Dubin's long, weird relationship with Jeffrey Epstein isn't just about
bad optics. It's about how deep personal loyalty can curdle
into moral blindness. She had every reason to shut the
door on him permanently after two thousand and eight. Instead,
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she kept it wide open, and in doing so, she
helped give a convicted predator the social oxygen he needed
to keep moving in the highest circles. By the time
Epstein was arrested again in twenty nineteen, the Dubins had
already spent a decade providing them with the kind of
high society cover he couldn't buy anywhere else. And it
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wasn't an act of charity. It was an act of complicity,
the deliberate choice to keep a convicted sex offender in
their lives, their home, and their public image. Their loyalty
to Epstein gave them what no PR firm or crisis
manager could the endorsement of an influential, respectable couple who
refused to treat him like a pariah he should have
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been even after twenty nineteen. Their strategy wasn't to denounce
them or express regret. It was to retreat quietly, to
avoid on camera reckonings, to let lawyers and spokespeople drip
feed sanitize denials. Glenn stepped away from public face of
his hedge fund. Eva slipped deeper into the background of
her philanthropy, but neither offered the kind of candid, soul
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searching public accounting that would have shown even a shred
of her responsibility for the role they played in Epstein's
rehabilitation tour. In many ways, their silence has been as
damning as any direct statement could be. The Dubans never
use their platform to condemn Epstein's crimes, to side publicly
with the survivors. They never explain why their family dinners
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and holiday gatherings include a registered sex offender. They never
walk the public through their thinking because doing so would
require them to admit just how indefensible their actions were.
This is the blueprint for elite crisis management, weighted out
bank on short memory of the new cycle, and trust
that the public outrage will eventually be drowned out by
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the next scandal. It often works, but that doesn't erase
the history or the fact that their choices directly contributed
to Epstein's ability to remain in circulation, meet new people,
and sustain the illusion of legitimacy. It's also a reminder
of how predators like Epstein thrive not because their masterminds
operating alone, but because they're propped up by people who
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should know better. Without enablers like the Dubin's, Epstein's reach
would have been drastically reduced after two thousand and eight.
They didn't just fail to close the door on them,
they opened it wider, and for years, the Dubin household,
with its wealth status and deep rollodex, was the perfect
showroom for Epstein's rehabilitation. A man who should have been
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a social outcast was instead enjoying Thanksgiving in one of
Manhattan's most rarefied homes, breaking bread with a family that
carried both Wall Street and philanthropic cloud. That single fact
tells you everything you need to know about the skewed
moral compass at play and look. It's hard to overstate
the damage this kind of elite endorsement does the public perception.
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For every potential ally who might have thought twice about
associating with Epstein after his conviction, seeing him embraced by
people like Lenn and Eva Dubin sent the opposite message
that money, status, and personal loyalty can do neutralize even
the ugliest of crimes. When Epstein finally died in federal custody,
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the Dubans lost the one person whose presence in their
lives will forever stand their names. But death didn't erase
the paper trail, the subpoenas, the testimonies, the allegations, or
the photographs that placed them firmly in his orbit. Their
chapter in Epstein's saga is permanent, no matter how much
they or their lawyers wish it could be scrubbed. Survivors
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of Epstein's abuse have every right to look at the
Dubans and see not just friends of the predator, but
facilitators of his post conviction survival. Their year's long relationship
with them after two thousand and eight wasn't just a
lapse in judgment. It was a signal to the world
that his crimes could be forgiven or ignored in the
right company. And look, the Dubans weren't bystanders swept up
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and someone else's scandal. There were active participants in the
social rehabilitation and accused, at least Glenn Dubin of partaking
in the abuse itself of one of the most notorious
predators of our time. They chose to protect them, to
stand beside them, to keep them welcomed in their home,
and by doing so, they crossed the line. They can
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never uncross. The damage that they enabled cap be undone,
and their names will forever be a footnote in the
story of how Jeffrey Epstein kept his world intact long
after the rest of us knew exactly what he was.
All of the information that goes with this episode can
be found in the description box.
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. There were a lot of people on the
Epstein stage, and it's hard to keep track of everybody,
and for people who are just getting involved in the story,
who have just started to follow along with what's going on,
there's a lot of new faces and a lot of
new names that you have to get familiar with. So
(00:20):
what we're going to start doing here on the podcast
is having a introduction type of series to people that
were critical to what Jeffrey Epstein had going on. And
in this episode, we're going to talk about the Dubins.
Glenn Dubin didn't just brush up against Jeffrey Epstein in
some random hedge fun handshake years before Epstein's crimes were
(00:41):
republic He stood by him long after the world knew
exactly what he was. In two thousand and nine, after
Epstein had been convicted of soliciting sex from a minor,
the Dubin still invited them into their home for Thanksgiving dinner.
And that was an explicit, knowing choice to bring us
set offender into the family holiday for dinner with your
(01:03):
children present. The defense from the Dubin camp that they
were one hundred percent comfortable having Epstein around their kids
reads like something torn from a bad satire about Manhattan
high society, where status trump's safety, but the reality is
far darker. It's telling the world that a convicted predator's
friendship mattered more than the untold damage that he did
(01:25):
to the women and the girls that he abused. Financially,
Dubin's ties to Epstein went deeper than cocktails in charity gallas.
They invested together, They move money in and out of
the same ventures. Epstein even used a foundation structure to
funnel donations into Eva Anderson Dubin's breast cancer charity without
attaching his name, a sleight of hand that led Epstein
(01:47):
by social capital without the stink of his reputation sticking
to it. Dubin didn't slam the door on that arrangement.
He held it wide open even after Epstein's release. Dubin
continued association gave Epstein something that he couldn't buy outright legitimacy.
When a billionaire hedge fund manager still treats you like
a valued friend, others take that as permission to do
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the same. Dubin's acceptance wasn't just personal loyalty. It was
a reputational life rap for Epstein in the circles where money, influence,
and silence are the currency. And when Virginia Roberts name
Glenn Dubin among the men Epstein trafficked or two, Dubin
issued the standard denial, but the allegations didn't vanish. It
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reappeared in court filings, unsealed testimony, and in alternative media
again and again. Even if Dubin never faces a criminal charge,
the persistence of his name and sworn statements is its
own indictment, not legal, but certainly moral. Then there's the
footnote about Epstein wanting to marry Dubin's own daughter, Selena,
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a claim back by reports that Epstein named her a
beneficiary of his trust. Whether Epstein's intent was real or
a manipulative power play, the fact that he felt comfortable
enough to float such an idea speaks volumes about how
entangled he was with the Dubin family. By the time
the US virgin Islands a poena Duben for Epstein related documents,
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the picture was clear. This wasn't a casual pre scandal acquaintance.
The Dubins were part of Epstein's in her network well
after his first arrest. When law enforcement shows up at
your door in a trafficking probe, it's not because you
were in the wrong place once. It's because your proximity
was sustained visible and suspicious. In the rarefied air of
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Wall Street, where power protects power, Dubin's downfall was never
going to be a purp walk. Instead, it was a
quiet exit from his fund in twenty twenty. The slow
retreat from the public boards, the air brushing of connections
in official bios, and what he'd want you to think
is accountability is nothing more than a page from the
damage control playbook for the ultral wealthy, where the scandal ismanaged,
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not resolved. The Dubin Epstein relationship is a case study
and how predators survive. They don't do it alone. They
do it because people with money and influence keep lending
them credibility. Glen Dubin could have been a cautionary example
in two thousand and eight, the guy who cut all
ties and warned others. Instead, he became one more example
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of how elite loyalty to fellow insiders outweighs any duty
to the vulnerable. All the denials all the carefully awarded statements,
all the quiet charity board resignations, can erase the simple truth.
When Epstein needed legitimacy after prison, Glen Dubin gave it
to him. The few defenders that Dubin has like to
fall back on the tired refrain that no charges wherever filed,
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as though the absence of prosecution is proof of innocence.
In the rarefied world that Glen Dubin moves in the
absence of prosecution often just means legal laws are too high,
the rolodex too powerful, and the financial resources too deep
for a case to ever see the inside of a
court room. The twenty twenty four unsealing of more Epstein
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related core documents shredded whatever scraps of plausible deniability remained.
Once again, Dubin's name surfaced alongside allegations, meetings, and interactions
that no one with the shred of common sense would
ever defend. We're not talking about random mentions. They're part
of the long pattern in sworn statements, which is why
as PR machine has been an overdrive for years trying
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to blur, minimize, or dismiss the record. Epstein didn't keep
people like Lan Dubin in his orbit because they were disposable.
He kept them because they were useful, useful for introductions,
for access, for a shared veneer of elite respectability that
allowed them to move in the same rooms as politicians, billionaires,
and royalty. Even after becoming a convicted sex offender. Dubin
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played his part in that ecosystem, and pretending otherwise is
revisionist history. Even the optics of the Dubin household Thanksgiving
with Epstein in two thousand and nine are damning. We're
not talking about some public charity event where one could
plausibly claim ignorance of who might attend. That was their home,
their table, their children. Every single person at the table
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knew exactly who Epstein was. By then inviting them wasn't
a social courtesy, It was a deliberate, knowing embrace. The
trust issue literally and figuratively runs deep. Epstein naming Selina
Dubin as a beneficiary is either one of the sickest
manipulations in his arsenal, or a reflection of a level
of closeness that defies any excuse. Either way, it underscores
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how grotesquely entangled the predator was with the family, and
how utterly blind, reckless, or wilfully indifferent they were to
the risk. Dubin's Wall Street profile meant his ongoing acceptance
of Epstein was noticed. It wasn't just a family matter.
It was a signal to other high flyers that Epstein
was still safe to do business with, a social class
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where the wrong association can sinc reputations overnight. Dubin's continued
warmth towards Epstein wasn't just enabling, it was advertising. And
look when law enforcement in the US Virgin Islands began
issuing subpoenas for Epstein's associates, Dubin wasn't on the list
by accident. The investigators saw the same pattern. Anyone paying
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attention could see a high powered couple whose continued relationship
with Epstein extended years past the point of moral or
reputational cover. The hedge fund world is filled with men
who treat ethics as an optional accessory, but even by
those standards, the Duben Epstein link is calling. This wasn't
a misjudged deal or a one time meeting. It was
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a years long post conviction relationship that kept giving Epstein
the social oxygen he needed to operate. When the fallout
finally forced the Dubins to retreat from public life and
step away from the fund, it wasn't some act of conscience.
It was a tactical withdrawal, one meant to preserve as
much of his wealth, standing, and insulation as possible while
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waiting for the public's outrage to move on to another scandal.
The facts are brutally simple. After Epstein's crimes were known,
Glen Dubin could have chosen distance, condemnation, and accountability. Instead,
he chose proximity, acceptance, and silence. That choice didn't just
protect Epstein, it helped keep the machinery of his abuse
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running long after any decent person would have slammed the
door shut. But the most damning thing for Glenn Dubin
are the allegations made against some by Virginia Roberts. And
Virginia never mince words when it comes to naming the
powerful men. She says Jeffrey Epstein trafficked or two and
Glenn Dubin's name is among them. In sworn testimony in
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public statements, Roberts has alleged that she was directed to
have sex with Duben while still a teenager in Epstein's orbit.
These aren't off hand mentions. There are direct, specific accusations
made under oath, woven into a consistent narrative that she
repeated for years. According to Roberts, Epstein and Maxwell arranged
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for her to be with Dubin as part of the
wider network of sexual exploitation that targeted young women and girls.
She described a pattern in which Epstein loaned out victims
to his wealthy, well connected friends as both the means
of rewarding allies and binding them into silence. In that framework,
Dubin is alleged to have been one of the recipients
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of these coursed encounters. And what makes the Dubin allegations
especially explosive is the timing. Robert's claim placed her abuse
by the Dubins during the very period when Epstein's trafficking
machine was operating at full tilt, with Maxwell allegedly orchestrating
much of the logistics. This wasn't some hazy recollection decades
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after the fact. These are anchored to specific periods in
her life that have been corroborated by other pieces of
Epstein's timeline. Dubin has issued flat denials, branding Robert its
allegations is false and defamatory, but the denial alone doesn't
erase the fact that his name surfaces repeatedly in connection
with Epstein's sex trafficking operation. It's not a cameo, it's
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a recurring presence in depositions, core filings, media summaries of
unsealed documents, and survivors and investigators don't keep mentioning the
same people by accident. While Glenn Dubin has not been
charged with any crime, Robert's accusations carry enough weight to
have been included in unsealed testimony that was scrutinized by attorneys, journalists,
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and law enforcement alike. In cases like this, absence of
indictment is not proof of innocence. It's often a sign
of how formidable the legal and political walls are around
the accused. Robert's account also fits into a broader pattern
that she laid out regarding Epstein's in her circle, a
pattern in which Maxwell and Epstein targeted powerful men specifically
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because they could provide protection, access, and influence. In this
alleged model, the abuse itself wasn't just predation. It was transactional,
a currency of control. Naming Dubin places them in the
alleged transaction chain. Adding to the discomfort is the fact
that the Dubin family's relationship with Epstein didn't end after
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these alleged events. If anything, they grew closer in the
years after, maintaining the kind of visible friendship that undermines
every I had no idea defense. If the allegations are false,
their choice to stand by Epstein post conviction is baffling.
If they are true, it's an outright indictment of moral bankruptcy.
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The persistence of Dubin's name and survivor testimony also carries
weight in the court of public opinion. Robert's credibility has
been tested in multiple legal venues, and while defense attorneys
have worked hard to pick a parterer story, much of
what she's alleged about Epstein's network has been corroborated by documents, photographs,
and the accounts of other victims. That gives her identification
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of Dubin a seriousness that cannot be brushed aside as
a mere rumor. Even in the absence of charges. The
stain of these allegations is permanent. You don't get your
name pulled out of a sworn victim testimony in a
case as infamous as Epstein's without leaving a permanent mark.
At its core, the Roberts' allegations against Glenn Dubin aren't
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just about one incident. It's about whether a man at
the very top of finance uses position in Epstein's inner
circle to exploit a traffic girl, and whether the machinery
of wealth and influence has ensured that such claims will
never see the inside of a criminal courtroom. That's why
the allegation continues to loom, unresolved but unforgotten in the
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ongoing reckoning with Epstein's legacy. All Right, we're going to
wrap up part one here, and in the next episode
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another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're
picking up where we left off talking about Glenn Dubin.
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What makes the Dubin Epstein relationship even more revolting is
how public it was within their social circles. These weren't
just shadowy backroom meetings. This was dinner party normalcy. Yacht
outings and holiday gatherings in the rarefied Manhattan set. People
saw it, talked about it, and yet no one with
any real influence challenged it. Instead, the Dubin's acceptance acted
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like a green light for everyone else who wanted to
keep Epstein in their orbit without getting their own hands dirty.
And Dubin's role wasn't passive either. His financial dealings with
Epstein weren't just old investments left with her. They were
maintained after Epstein's release from jail. That means someone somewhere
had to actively sign off on continuing to intermingle assets
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with a convicted sex offender. In the world of high finance,
nothing like that happens without explicit intent. Even Epstein's philanthropy
laundering scheme using intermediaries to make donations without his name attached,
fit neatly into the Dubin connection. Eva Anderson Dubin's charity
became one such outlet, enabling Epstein to maintain a veneer
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of generosity while sidestepping the reputational consequences. In essence, the
Duben household wasn't just a friend's home to Epstein. It
was part of his broader pr strategy. When the Virginia
Roberts allegations emerged, Glenn Dubin's denials followed the predictable billionaire template,
a brief, categorical and dismissive with no substantative engagements with
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the facts. But for survivors in the public, the more
glaring issue was how deeply his name kept surfacing in
legal filings, as if permanently welded to the infrastructure of
Epstein's world. This wasn't a one off cameo. It was repeated,
embedded presence and look the rod here is an only
Duben his own choices, but the ecosystem that enabled them.
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Other hedge fund titans, art world patrons and political donors
salms down by Epstein and chose to look the other way.
In elite circles, moral failure doesn't trigger exile. It becomes
a shared secret and unspoken agreement that no one will
push too hard because everyone's rolodex has skeletons. Dubin's ongoing
hospitality towards Epstein post conviction also undercuts every defense about
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not knowing the full scope of his crimes. By two
thousand and nine, there was no mystery Epstein had served
time registered as a sex offender and had been the
subject of extensive media coverage. Continuing the friendship wasn't about ignorance.
It was about deciding that the crimes didn't outweigh his
usefulness or companionship. The reported plan Epstein had to marry
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Selena Dubin wasn't some random joke either. It was exactly
the kind of power play that he used to assert
dominance over people in his orbit, a way to tether
himself to the wealthy, influential families. And that this claim
didn't trigger a total scorched earth severing of ties tells
you everything you need to know about the mindset in
the Duben household at the time. Subpoenas from the US
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Virgin Islands in twenty twenty put the Dubin squarely in
the investigative's crosshairs. The Virgin Islands government wasn't wasting resources
chasing irrelevant figures. They were targeting people and entities that
formed key parts of Epstein's post two thousand and eight ecosystem.
Glenn Dubin's inclusion on that list should have been a
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scandal in itself, yet it barely registered outside of investigative reporting.
The quiet exit from high Bridge Capital and other public
roles after Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest wasn't a moral decision.
It was optics management. By stepping back without making public statements,
Dubin could avoid the kind of on the record reckoning
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that might generate follow up questions or bind them to
a position in the playbook of elite damage control. Silence
is an awkward it's a strategy, and that strategy has worked,
at least in part. Glenn Dubin has avoided the criminal
charges that have caught others in Epstein's orbit, and the
public outrage has been diluted by the sheer volume of
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names involved. But in the court of public opinion, especially
for those who have read the filings and traced the timelines,
Dubin's years of post conviction friendship with Epstein remained one
of the most blatant examples of power enabling predation. Now
we have to talk about Eva Anderson Dubin and her
connection to Jeffrey Epstein as well. And now it wasn't
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a fleeting social acquaintance either. It was an entanglement that
stretched decades, long before she married Glen Dubin and long
after Epstein's first arrest. She had dated Epstein in the
early eighties, and they remained close afterward, a loyalty that
persisted throughout his conviction for sex crimes. That's not an
ordinary amicable ex relationship. That's wilful proximity to a man
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who was later proven to be a predator. Even after
marrying Glenn Dubin, Eva kept Epstein in the fold, and
not in the arm's length obligatory way that some exes
remained cordial. She corresponded with them, saw them socially, and
most shockingly, continued to bring them into her family's private spaces.
It was Eva, after all, who reassured Epstein's probation officer
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in two thousand and nine that her family was one
hundred percent comfortable having them over for Thanksgiving with their children.
The optics of a former girlfriend turned family friend hosting
a convicted sex offender at her own table with her
children present are appalling enough, but when you factor in
Eva's stature in New York's elite philanthropic scene, it becomes
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even more grotesque. She wasn't someone owned figure who could
slip under the radar. She was a public presence, a
patron of the arts and medical causes, consciously lending her
credibility you to someone whose reputation was already in tatters.
Her breast cancer foundation also became a convenient channel for
Epstein's philanthropy laundering. Instead of attaching his name to donations,
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which would have triggered outrage and negative press, Epstein gave
anonymously or through structures designed to hide the source. Eva
didn't have to accept the money, but she did, and
in doing so, she allowed him to keep buying his
way back into polite society now. Eva's defenders sometimes framed
her relationship with Epstein as a product of long standing friendship,
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as though history is a moral shield that logic collapses
instantly when applied to a sex offender with a known
history of targeting miners. We've known him for a long
time is not a defense. It's an admission that the
ties were so strong that even his conviction couldn't sever them.
And what's worse is the message this sent to her
own children and to the elite circle she moved in.
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By normalizing Epstein's presence in their life lives post conviction,
Eva modeled the idea that wealth, power and personal loyalty
are more important than the moral aligned drawn at child's
sexual abuse. And we're not just talking about bad judgment.
We're talking about a corrosive pretense of ethical leadership in
the philanthropic world that she inhabited. Her long, strange loyalty
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to Epstein also gave him something he desperately needed, the
ability to appoint to a respectable woman who vouched for
him in the wake of his conviction. When others avoided
him publicly. Eva continued acceptance acted like a character reference
in the court of public opinion. For a predator trying
to rebuild his network. That kind of validation was priceless.
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Even after Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest, when the scale of
his crimes became impossible to dismiss, report surfaced about the
depth of his relationship with the Duban family. Eva's passed
as his girlfriend and her post conviction friendship were suddenly
on avoid headlines. Yet she, like her husband, opted for
minimal public engagement. No extended explanation, no full throated condemnation,
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just damage control. It's also telling that Epstein reportedly considered
marrying Selena Dubin, Eva's daughter, while some dismiss this as
another of Epstein's manipulative fantasies. The fact that it was
plausible enough to report underscores just how intimately entwined he
remained with the family, and how Eva's own comfort with
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him helped maintain that entanglement At its core. Eva Anderson
Dubin's long, weird relationship with Jeffrey Epstein isn't just about
bad optics. It's about how deep personal loyalty can curdle
into moral blindness. She had every reason to shut the
door on him permanently after two thousand and eight. Instead,
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she kept it wide open, and in doing so, she
helped give a convicted predator the social oxygen he needed
to keep moving in the highest circles. By the time
Epstein was arrested again in twenty nineteen, the Dubins had
already spent a decade providing them with the kind of
high society cover he couldn't buy anywhere else. And it
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wasn't an act of charity. It was an act of complicity,
the deliberate choice to keep a convicted sex offender in
their lives, their home, and their public image. Their loyalty
to Epstein gave them what no PR firm or crisis
manager could the endorsement of an influential, respectable couple who
refused to treat him like a pariah he should have
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been even after twenty nineteen. Their strategy wasn't to denounce
them or express regret. It was to retreat quietly, to
avoid on camera reckonings, to let lawyers and spokespeople drip
feed sanitize denials. Glenn stepped away from public face of
his hedge fund. Eva slipped deeper into the background of
her philanthropy, but neither offered the kind of candid, soul
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searching public accounting that would have shown even a shred
of her responsibility for the role they played in Epstein's
rehabilitation tour. In many ways, their silence has been as
damning as any direct statement could be. The Dubans never
use their platform to condemn Epstein's crimes, to side publicly
with the survivors. They never explain why their family dinners
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and holiday gatherings include a registered sex offender. They never
walk the public through their thinking because doing so would
require them to admit just how indefensible their actions were.
This is the blueprint for elite crisis management, weighted out
bank on short memory of the new cycle, and trust
that the public outrage will eventually be drowned out by
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the next scandal. It often works, but that doesn't erase
the history or the fact that their choices directly contributed
to Epstein's ability to remain in circulation, meet new people,
and sustain the illusion of legitimacy. It's also a reminder
of how predators like Epstein thrive not because their masterminds
operating alone, but because they're propped up by people who
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should know better. Without enablers like the Dubin's, Epstein's reach
would have been drastically reduced after two thousand and eight.
They didn't just fail to close the door on them,
they opened it wider, and for years, the Dubin household,
with its wealth status and deep rollodex, was the perfect
showroom for Epstein's rehabilitation. A man who should have been
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a social outcast was instead enjoying Thanksgiving in one of
Manhattan's most rarefied homes, breaking bread with a family that
carried both Wall Street and philanthropic cloud. That single fact
tells you everything you need to know about the skewed
moral compass at play and look. It's hard to overstate
the damage this kind of elite endorsement does the public perception.
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For every potential ally who might have thought twice about
associating with Epstein after his conviction, seeing him embraced by
people like Lenn and Eva Dubin sent the opposite message
that money, status, and personal loyalty can do neutralize even
the ugliest of crimes. When Epstein finally died in federal custody,
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the Dubans lost the one person whose presence in their
lives will forever stand their names. But death didn't erase
the paper trail, the subpoenas, the testimonies, the allegations, or
the photographs that placed them firmly in his orbit. Their
chapter in Epstein's saga is permanent, no matter how much
they or their lawyers wish it could be scrubbed. Survivors
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of Epstein's abuse have every right to look at the
Dubans and see not just friends of the predator, but
facilitators of his post conviction survival. Their year's long relationship
with them after two thousand and eight wasn't just a
lapse in judgment. It was a signal to the world
that his crimes could be forgiven or ignored in the
right company. And look, the Dubans weren't bystanders swept up
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and someone else's scandal. There were active participants in the
social rehabilitation and accused, at least Glenn Dubin of partaking
in the abuse itself of one of the most notorious
predators of our time. They chose to protect them, to
stand beside them, to keep them welcomed in their home,
and by doing so, they crossed the line. They can
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never uncross. The damage that they enabled cap be undone,
and their names will forever be a footnote in the
story of how Jeffrey Epstein kept his world intact long
after the rest of us knew exactly what he was.
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