Ward has been at this game for a long time.
Her new series, she says, is focused on Epstein and the men involved with him.
“You’ll hear how brilliant a manipulator he was, and how he was able to get me on the back foot.
The fact that he can, two years after his death, tarnish the reputations of people like Bill Gates speaks to the reach he had.
Epstein, Ward says, was a master of providing powerful men with what they wanted.
So I went out and tried to re-report the entire thing,” she said.
Ward says she spoke to ex-members of the Mossad, intelligence experts and former friends to ask if they believe any of this is true.
But where the Epstein story drifts in the worlds of ultra-conspiratorial QAnon territory is hard to mark, Ward concedes.
“You wouldn’t have Ehud Barak issuing hot denials and Bill Clinton basically silenced, or the breakup of Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, and Ghislaine Maxwell sitting in jail.
Last month, the former British socialite won a court victory when a judge ordered one of her accusers to pay her $13.70 to cover litigation expenses.
Although that case ended in 2015, the testimony, given under oath, is essentially unadjudicated.
“What gets lost amid the horrific sexual crime allegations is that he was the most brilliant con-artist of all time.