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Conchita Sarnoff was one of the first journalists to expose Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking—starting her deep dive in 2006 after a shocking tip in Mexico. While at a dinner in Mexico City, a former Foreign Minister accused Americans of hypocrisy: trafficking weapons, drugs, "and now you’re stealing our children." This led her to investigate human trafficking, where she uncovered Epstein's case. Having known Epstein socially since the early 1990s (and met Ghislaine Maxwell shortly after), she had unique access. She interviewed Epstein himself during his 2008 house arrest and expanded her probe into blackmail reaching from Harvard to the White House to Buckingham Palace. Her book TrafficKing: The Jeffrey Epstein Case (finished in 2008, finally published in 2021 after 27 rejections) details the "sweetheart deal," elite influence peddling, and how Epstein used power to evade justice. Key quotes from Sarnoff: “The people implicated ranged from Harvard to the White House to Buckingham Palace.” “The Epstein story wasn’t only about child sexual exploitation. It was also about blackmail and influence peddling at the highest levels of power.” She tried to tell the story. No one wanted to hear it.