1. The Times is reporting on disturbing new accusations that Jeffrey Epstein relied on a ring of women close to him to feed his insatiable appetite for girls.

Mr. Epstein’s accusers contend in court papers that his longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell, along with a small cadre of other women — including several assistants and one known as Ms. Maxwell’s “lieutenant” — helped Mr. Epstein lure girls into his orbit and managed the logistics of his encounters with them. Above, Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell in 1995.