I'm a writer, I've traditionally published and self-published a bunch of books. Maybe about a year ago I decided to write a novel very similar to The Housemaid, which is a about a homeless girl who ends up working as a maid for a billionaire. I don't think that novel is very good, but it's extremely popular and I liked the premise, so I thought: what if the billionaire was Jeffrey Epstein? I finished the novel and sent it to my agent and have been revising it with him for the last two months or so. At the moment, it's too long, at about 132,000 words. I've spent the last few days cutting a lot of political asides and digressions (twenty pages of them so far!), both on the part of the main character and the billionaire pedophile character. I'm worried I'm going to have to cut out a lot more.

The story of the novel is: a homeless 19-year-old girl answers a job ad to work as a maid in a billionaire's mansion. She gets the job and basically ends up working as the nanny for the young son. The billionaire owner of the mansion seduces her and she agrees to be his side-chick. The billionaire is not exactly the same as Epstein (he's younger and very handsome, he has a wife and kids, Ghislaine Maxwell didn't really make it into this novel, he's descended from Georgians rather than Jews) but he also has a lot in common with him (interest in eugenics, being a fixer, world domination). After befriending the son, the homeless girl maid finds out that the billionaire has children locked in his basement, and that he uses them to "get dirt on" other billionaires and world leaders, who have sex with them. The maid decides that she's going to find a way to free them.

In an effort to escape his wife, who knows about his affairs, the billionaire takes the maid to an island he owns in the Caribbean. One night he falls asleep, and the maid uses his hand to unlock his phone, steal millions of dollars from him, and also find the passcode for the dungeon on the island. She sneaks out and frees a couple of young Ukrainian girls who were locked in the dungeon there, and manages to get them to safety in a hotel on another island. She sneaks back into bed before he wakes up and discovers his missing Ukrainians. He spends days using the police and military in an effort to find them, but fails. They manage to sail away in a sailboat. (I'm leaving out a lot of details in this plot summary.) He never discovers who stole his captives.

Feeling glum, he returns to his original mansion with the maid. She purchases some guns and frees the kids in his basement, locking him and his family (minus his son) in the dungeon. She gets the captives to an AirBnB, but then decides to return to the mansion and steal all of the billionaire's money at gunpoint in order to destroy him and capitalism itself, since he and his wife are some of the richest people on Earth. She succeeds in doing this, transferring the money into a cryptocurrency account, but as she's leaving, another maid at the house finds her and knocks her out. She wakes up tied to a chair. The billionaire and his wife try to get their money back, but the other maid kills them in a fit of jealousy, then frees the main character and runs off just as the police show up and arrest the main character. She gets thrown in jail on suspicion of murdering the two billionaires, but because she stole hundreds of billions of dollars from them, the stock market crashes and the AI running the jail breaks down and opens all the doors, setting the prisoners free. The maid sets out to help the captives she left in the AirBnB. The end.

So this is supposed to be a mystery/thriller, but it has a leftwing political slant: the billionaire controls the police and both major political parties, the main character hates the police and landlords, etc. It's more like a fantasy in a lot of ways. But the parallels to Epstein are obvious. I did a lot of research on his island, for instance, so the island in the novel is very similar to the real thing. Here's the issue: is this ethical? If this novel became a success, would I be profiting from the misery Epstein inflicted on all his many victims? I just started reading Virginia Giuffre's memoir (may she rest in peace) and it's one of the most disturbing books I've ever encountered. I seriously felt physically ill within maybe fifteen minutes of starting this book. The real thing is far more disturbing than the fantasy I concocted. At the same time, this might seem unbelievable, but Giuffre is clearly a liberal. Her favorite TV show is Law and Order. She seems to believe in the police as well as the system that "failed" her and so many other people just like her so many times and in so many different appalling ways. I still have to read a lot here, but my guess is that she thinks that everything related to Epstein is somehow isolated from Western society and not inherent to it. I saw a post on hexbear yesterday about how there's going to be a TV show or something about the journalists investigating Epstein, and that's bound to be libshit too.

So is it ethical for me to have this novel published? Or is it actually my duty to write what could be a popular work of fiction that squarely points its finger at Epstein, both political parties, the government, and Western society itself?