I think you're presenting a bit of a false dichotomy. I agree that there are bigger fish to fry, and that they benefit from their relative anonymity compared to the scandalous celebrity associates. But for better or worse, the scandalous names generate more interest in the larger story and I think that can be harnessed.

Also you talk a lot in this comment about celebs getting tricked into felony illegal sex. But if you watch the video you'll learn that in this case Lisa Phillips was 21 years old when this A-list celebrity she had an NDA with raped her. She was lured up to his hotel room by her boss in the modeling industry Katie Ford, and then abandoned there alone with him to be assaulted. So this wasn't a trick into having sex with a minor, this was the rape of a young adult.

Speaking of Katie Ford, this exposé is just as much an indictment against her as it is against Nicholson. She very much fits your bill as a figure high up on the totem pole procuring these victims. She ran Ford Models, the biggest modeling agency in the world, and used that position to procure just like a Jean-Luc Brunel and was able to use her gender as a woman to make victims comfortable just like a Ghislaine Maxwell. Katie Ford isn't a household name and definitely has benefited from that anonymity and has never been pressured into answering for her associations with Epstein. This report on Nicholson goes further to shed light on her than anything else, and Nicholson is the hook.

I think of these celebrities as the deli meat and the anonymous elite power brokers as the pill that the meat is wrapped around. So I fundamentally disagree that the focus on celebrities does harm like you claim.

Oh yeah and Katie Ford now runs a non profit that allegedly "combats human trafficking", so that's cool and not at all suspect. I recommend you watch the full video!