The private jet has become the definitive, highly overdetermined artifact of modern super money culture: “There are people with the plane and people without the plane, and those are the only two classes that matter”
of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal was the degree to which the private jet has become the definitive, highly overdetermined artifact of modern super money culture. Epstein’s plane certified his wealth, earned him chits with academics and former presidents, served as a stage where he could perform his grift, and of course helped him groom his prey in his sick sex scheme.
Private air travel dazzles everyone, and once you fly this way, you’re hooked. Former presidents like to ride on private jets: Bill Clinton, of course, who’s famously, problematically addicted to private jets, but also Barack Obama. Donald Trump has placed a model of one of the two yet-to-be-configured Air Force Ones smack-dab in the middle of the Oval Office. Harvard scientists, Nobel Prize winners, narcissistic defense attorneys love to fly private too.
A personal, commercial-size private jet was not yet the coin of the rich-guy realm when Forstmann made his bold request—Hugh Hefner made a big show of having a plane, an airborne Playboy Mansion, and of course there was Air Force One, since 1962, the definitive superpower ride. Jackie Kennedy’s robin’s-egg-blue paint job was the ur-customization, beginning to show what was possible when you had power over your own plane. But during the ’90s, the trend definitely began to build.
But in 2002, in the middle of his acrimonious divorce from Jane Beasley Welch, his second wife of 13 years, she revealed the details in a court filing. Jane Welch’s expert valued her ex-husband’s annual use of a GE-owned Boeing 737 at about $3.5 million, or nearly $300,000 per month.
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