NOW NY is calling out Stephen Ross, billionaire Hudson Yards developer, for declaring himself a “champion of racial equality” while continuing to support and help fund Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. Ross is set to host a fundraiser luncheon on Friday at his Southampton home with attendees paying up to $250,000.
Epstein’s crimes are sweeping and flagrant, but not drastically different from what commercial sexual exploitation looks like every single day in cities across America. Women and girls, mostly of color and poor, are bought and sold in a sex trade that targets and recruits the most vulnerable among us. Men, many rich and powerful, fuel the market for exploitation each time they exchange money for sexual access.