Netflix shares trailer, release date for its four-part Jeffrey Epstein docuseries

That “Epstein didn’t kill himself” has become a rallying cry for right-wing loons doesn’t negate the fact that the heinous crimes of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein run deeper than most probably realize. Just within the last month it was revealed that MIT and Harvard University had been downplaying their extensive ties to the billionaire. And now Netflix is dipping its toe into the murky orbit of Epstein’s criminality with a documentary, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.

Epstein’s penchant for underaged girls was an open secret for years, long before the Miami Herald cracked the case open with its Perversion of Justice series in 2018. Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors, but he died in his jail cell before he could head to trial. It was ruled a suicide, but the details are sketchy.

Per the below trailer, the documentary will dig into the basics of the Epstein story, as well as the coterie of high-profile figures, including celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz and the in-the-wind socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped him routinely evade justice and continue abusing underaged girls. The lax deal given to him in 2008 by Alexander Acosta, Trump’s former labor secretary, is declared in the below clip as “one of the worst failures of the criminal justice system.”