Billionaire Gordon Getty Allegedly Said Of Epstein: “We ALL Have Similar Kinds Of Problems” |
The batch of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Justice Department on Friday reveals one of the sex criminal’s previously unknown billionaire associates: Gordon Getty (estimated net worth: $5.5 billion), 91, heir to J. Paul Getty’s oil fortune and formerly the richest man in the United States in 1983.
The pair seem to have been introduced through Getty’s longtime friend, Robert Trivers, an evolutionary biologist whose close relationship with Epstein is already well documented. Getty and Epstein exchanged emails for years beginning in 2013, five years after the latter’s conviction for soliciting underage sex.
According to a May 3, 2018 email, Trivers told Epstein that Getty had recently asked him “whether you were the same Jeffrey accused of relations with minors.”
“I said ‘yes,’” Trivers wrote, “and he said, ‘well, we ALL have similar kinds of problems.’”
He then explained Getty’s infamous infidelity scandal—the billionaire publicly revealed in 1999 that he’d fathered three daughters in an extramarital affair: “I had stayed one night at his home in SF, at his invitation of course, but with the stipulation that I leave........