FROM W.A. SADGYT, BY EMAIL FROM LONDON AND NEW YORK

TENS OF THOUSANDS of men are claiming links to dead pedophile and friend of the rich and famous Jeffrey’s Epstein’s Department of Justice files, just so their friends and neighbors will think they are wealthy and privileged.

What used to be a feature of warfare – stolen valor, where men claimed to have served in wars, particularly Vietnam, when they did not – has now spread itself to the lifestyles of the outrageously rich and vulgar.

“It’s weird. Guys are willing to have themselves associated with a known child sex offender just to be thought of as rich and famous,” says psychologist Ed Lisjickin. “So they claim to be in the Epstein Files. Some are even now sending emails to Epstein’s email address just so they can claim they were in contact with the man.”