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Netflix’s explosive four-part docuseries, “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” debuted this week on the streaming giant and chronicles the sex trafficking crimes of the high-profile financier – whose social circles included the likes of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Harvey Weinstein, among others.

Through harrowing sit-down interviews with his accusers, interrogation footage of Epstein himself, and legal summaries from his lawyers and law enforcement officials, “Filthy Rich” graphically details Epstein’s lengthy “pyramid sex trafficking scheme” in Florida, New York, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands and questions how the mysterious billionaire was able to evade a harsher prison sentence despite mountains of evidence from his victims and law enforcement investigators.

Here’s an update on where some of the alleged co-conspirators and key figures are now:

Jeffrey Epstein

The billionaire pedophile at the center of Netflix’s docuseries, committed suicide by hanging in a New York City jail...

The Jeffrey Epstein case — really, an impossibly massive series of cases, playing out over decades as lives were ruined by the late financier and convicted sex offender — would seem to lie at the nexus of various American obsessions. There’s wealth, naturally, and celebrity, in the form of the notable men, like Bill Clinton, drawn into the Epstein orbit. These compound together in the form of power — the one thing Epstein sought relentlessly as he courted the establishment, and the one thing he had over his victims.

“Filthy Rich: Jeffrey Epstein,” a four-part documentary coming to Netflix, doesn’t probe much deeper than that; it’s a piece that exists to confirm and to amplify what the casual news consumer ambiently knows about Epstein’s story, rather than to seed throughout deep analysis about what the case can teach us.

There’s little, here, to be interpreted; what’s put...