Washington : Michael Wolff, a writer, reporter, columnist, author and would-be mogul, has spent his long career building his profile as an insider with gossip on New York luminaries, while sometimes drawing scrutiny from other journalists.

That profile expanded on Wednesday, Washington time: Wolff, it turns out, has been enough of an insider that he once provided advice to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced sex offender, on how to handle his dealings with Donald Trump, who was running for president at the time.

That revelation emerged from emails between Wolff and Epstein released by Washington lawmakers, shedding new light on the relationship between the two.

In one of the emails, from December 2015, Wolff said CNN planned to ask Trump about his relationship with Epstein, and then couns

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