Epstein had ’em all fooled

THE world’s most notorious creep met his maker just over a week ago in what has officially been ruled a suicide.

But many still doubt that finding. And that’s not the only question surrounding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Known as a filthy rich bon vivant and moneyman, he was in reality merely a performer, a fraud of the highest and most heinous type.

Epstein managed to creep his way into some of the highest places in the world on the back of a meticulously made-up mosaic of phony accolades by holding himself out as some sort of a mathematical savant — a financier extraordinaire.

But the vagaries of his past are the things that make those in the know spot a fraud. Believed to be a “Wall Street guy,” Epstein worked at Bear Stearns for just over four years before essentially being thrown out.

And there isn’t any legend to how he made his fortune. When I asked around Wall Street, nobody could point to the great market or trading calls Epstein made — because there most likely were none.

He had all the telltale signs of a Bernie Madoff-style fraudulent façade, a carefully sculpted image designed to impress beyond reproach.

While at Bear Stearns, Epstein somehow lifted himself up to an options trader/financial broker, ultimately rubbing elbows with some of Manhattan’s elites, reportedly due to his talent for schmoozing clients — many, I’d speculate, from his days of grifting connections as a math teacher at the tony Dalton School.

When all is said and done I have little doubt that much, if not all, of Epstein’s “wealth” will be determined to have been swiped, swindled, stolen or misappropriated.

There also will probably be numerous forms of vast overpayment for “consulting” or other such fake services — covers for sex trafficking to rich and famous perverts around the world.