He Said He “Sucked Up to Spit It Out.” But With Epstein, What Was Michael Wolff Really Doing?

Inside the amoral collusion between a writer and the financier he claimed to merely “report on.”

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For years, Michael Wolff sold the world a seductive story: that he alone was brave enough to slip inside the lairs of powerful men like Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, Jeffrey Epstein and emerge with their secrets. A kind of journalistic snake-charmer who could get close without ever taking on their venom.

His o…