The recent demise of Jeffrey Edward Epstein, a wealthy financier who was facing accusations of sex trafficking, had an unexpected impact on the life of one man simply because his name,` too, is Jeffrey Epstein.
As Jeffrey R. Epstein, a publicist at Disney, complained on his Twitter page, the death of his nefarious namesake resulted in a deluge of threats and abuse from people who apparently confused the living and the dead.
As some offered Jeffrey their sympathy…
…others remarked that this experience is familiar to them.
On 9 August, financier Jeffrey Epstein reportedly hanged himself in his Manhattan prison cell where he was awaiting trial. He was on a suicide watch after an earlier suicide attempt in July, but attorneys pushed for him to be taken off the watchlist shortly before his death, according to The Hill.