Opinion
Institutions must reckon with the possibility that their prestige can be used to legitimize people whose conduct warrants serious investigations.
For more than two decades, one question has followed me since I was abused by Jeffrey Epstein: “Why me?”
In trying to understand what happened, I have come to recognize that the answer lies not only in the manipulation I endured, but also in the institutions and social structures that helped make that manipulation possible.
Leon Black’s board position at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of the starkest examples of institutional ignorance — a head-in-the-sand, look-the-other-way mentality that will inevitably give abuse of power a dark corner to grow and fester in.
