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A review by wrycounsel
Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B Stewart, Rachel Abrams
2.0
I got about six chapters in and it's not the book I thought I was getting.
Basically I feel too numbed out to continue reading about all the gold diggers that this unhinged, too-rich old man kept buying with multi million dollar houses and high end cars and gifts in millions of stocks. In this post Epstein age, a lecherous old rich fart who actually gave valuable goods and large lump sums of cash to the younger (they were mostly middle aged but younger than him by decades) women he diddled seems quite gentlemanly, since we know more and more about Jeffrey Epstein who straight up raped minors and then turned them into pimps when he was done with them. The women who had courtesan for pay relationships with Sumner Redstone at least actually got paid.
It's just that I have nothing to learn and no joy to gain from reading stories that all blend into each other about ex-models who let a gross, emotionall desperate old man feel them up for millions of dollars per grope because they all seem so hideous together.
I have no idea why this book and this topic were deemed by the NYTimes to be such a notable topic, but for the fact that people in media think that what they do is the most important and interesting thing (it isn't) and I guess white men like fantasizing about what it would be like to be rich enough to do bad things to women and get away with it. Well sure, ok, yeah. Do that over there. I'm not spending any more time on this.
Basically I feel too numbed out to continue reading about all the gold diggers that this unhinged, too-rich old man kept buying with multi million dollar houses and high end cars and gifts in millions of stocks. In this post Epstein age, a lecherous old rich fart who actually gave valuable goods and large lump sums of cash to the younger (they were mostly middle aged but younger than him by decades) women he diddled seems quite gentlemanly, since we know more and more about Jeffrey Epstein who straight up raped minors and then turned them into pimps when he was done with them. The women who had courtesan for pay relationships with Sumner Redstone at least actually got paid.
It's just that I have nothing to learn and no joy to gain from reading stories that all blend into each other about ex-models who let a gross, emotionall desperate old man feel them up for millions of dollars per grope because they all seem so hideous together.
I have no idea why this book and this topic were deemed by the NYTimes to be such a notable topic, but for the fact that people in media think that what they do is the most important and interesting thing (it isn't) and I guess white men like fantasizing about what it would be like to be rich enough to do bad things to women and get away with it. Well sure, ok, yeah. Do that over there. I'm not spending any more time on this.