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Once again, the name “Jeffrey Epstein” has surfaced at the center of a Washington, D.C., scandal. Only this time it’s a very different Jeffrey Epstein — and the controversy in question involves a bunch of legacy musical acts who never owned any private islands.
You’ve no doubt heard something about Trump’s now-iffy plans for a Freedom 250 concert to be held on the National Mall over the Fourth of July holiday. How a slew of musicians who had signed up to perform — Martina McBride, Morris Day and The Time, Bret Michaels of Poison and Young MC — have since backed out after realizing that the event was being organized as a partisan gathering rather than a non-ideological celebration of the nation’s semi-quincentennial. And how, in the latest wrinkle, Trump has announced that he may call the whole thing off, or else turn it into a proper MAGA rally with himself — “the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime” — taking center stage.
Well, it turns out that many of the music acts involved in the kerfuffle are reportedly represented by a talent booker at New York-based agency Universal Attractions. And that booker’s name, through no fault of his own, happens to be Jeffrey Epstein. Even more remarkable, this booking agent isn’t the only Jeffrey Epstein working in entertainment. Rambling found another, a former magazine editor turned publicist at talent agency UTA.
