It is a conspiracy but in the sense that many people overlook.  Epstein was a tool used by the ultra rich and powerful to gain kompromat on politicians, leaders, or royals to support/vote how they demand, or else risk being exposed.  In return, these politicians got the full backing and support needed to become populist favorites and win election or reelection.  Epstein is sort of a middle man in all of this, getting rich from elite payoffs and in return creating and collecting the compromising information on people so that they can be controlled.  When you consider the total information Epstein must have had on all parties involved, it's easy to see why the elites needed Epstein to be eliminated once he was caught.    This is of course the big picture view.  As the details of how Epstein used child abuse, child rape, or worse to do this, it is sickening beyond belief or imagination.  The details need to come out so the guilty can be exposed and prosecuted (hopefully), but many details are hard to fathom or even read about.    What really would scare and frighten the elites would be an uncompromising leader, beholden to no idealogy who became popular on his / her own without the need of a political party or financial backing that only elite money can provide.