London: Jeffrey Epstein seemed to be welcomed back to New York society almost as soon as he emerged from prison and house arrest in 2010, when his friends began helping him reclaim his place among the city’s wealthy and well-connected. His criminal conviction for sex with a minor did not stop him from gaining invitations to opening nights.

Prince Andrew was back in touch within months. Ghislaine Maxwell was with him once more. An entire network of associates – some might say enablers – acted as if his guilty plea would be quickly forgotten.

This was the world Katherine Keating entered when she arrived in Manhattan at the age of 29. The daughter of the former prime minister, Paul Keating, had been a Labor policy adviser in Sydney. Toward the end of 2010, however, she turned up in New Yor

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