Teen Beat wrote:

Look at it from the other perspective. Guy with control of at least a billion dollars to lose comes to you, threatening to tell the whole world how you raped an endangered sea turtle in front of his crying sea turtle kids at one of his Sea World parties. How can you possibly take him seriously when every detail of your crime implicates him as well, not to mention every other sucker he's already covered up for?

Teen Beat wrote:

All the next guy would have to do is call his bluff, and not only would the both of them go down together, they'd take you down with them. It's no riskier to have someone out there with evidence you fucked a turtle and billions of dollars to lose if he does anything with it than it is to have someone out there with evidence you fucked a turtle and a billion of your dollars in hush money, and it's a whole lot less costly. Not all billionaires are smart enough to figure this out, but their bag men are. This is also why no one with control of a billion dollars is going to commit a crime as stupid as blackmail.

Teen Beat wrote:

I haven't followed the case beyond what's been posted here, because the whole thing is pretty gross. But isn't it more likely that Jeff is just a super cool guy, solid bro down the line, perpetually surrounded by wealth and beauty and celebrity? People trust him, men and women both, and they want to get in bed with him. The fact it's taken this long for his indiscretions to boil over, and as far as I know he hasn't tried to save himself by naming any famous co-conspirators, suggests the men were right to trust him. The women, maybe not so much.

Teen Beat wrote:

Spoken like someone who's never been a teenage girl. In fact, it's spoken like a white male who has spent his entire life in the fantasy world called Priveledgetopia. Here is the level of maturity I would like you to strive for when discussing this complex topic.