Professionals: Choose Your Friends Wisely (and maybe don't have a massage at their houses, as Had Dershowitz at Epstein's)

What a pickle a number of professionals are in because they had pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as a friend. 

But for famous defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz that situation continues to be at the high end of bad. The latest development is the massage he did receive at Epstein's house. Yeah, we know all about those massages, especially the ones that Epstein himself received. 

On The Hill's TV show "Rising" today host Ryan Grims grilled Dershowitz about such a massage. Despite his training in trial work to be poised, in-control, and persuasive, he lost it. Over and over again, he repeated the phrase "Let Me Finish."

What he wanted to finish were his contentions:

  • It is not atypical to go to a friend's home for a massage. (Although a boomer with many wealthy friends, over the years I have never been invited over for a massage.)

  • That particular massage was administered by a middle-aged woman Olga.
The frustrated Dershowitz came across as a sputtering script machine.

Often along with the career coaching for clients I do do some media coaching. After all his decades in public life Dershowiz should have had enough media tutorials on how to establish a position of strength in media interviews. 

So, why did he blow this interview so badly? 

I have a theory. It's the Big Player Loses His Big Title. In American capitalism we are our titles or the brand of the enterprises we start. When Dershowitz turned in the title of iconic criminal law professor at Harvard Law School he lost a major piece of his identity. So he might have tried to graft on new pieces through conservative politics. Those didn't fit well and that showed in interaction with the media as well as publishing articles and books. The post-Harvard Dershowitz continues to stumble.

Meanwhile Friends of Jeffrey such as Prince Andrew and Leon Black still haven't been able to engineer reputation restoration. 

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