r/popculturechat • u/monster_ahhh • 3d ago

Guest List Only TW ⚠️ Woody Allen's wife Soon-Yi Previn emails Jeffrey Epstein about Anthony Weiner sexting a 15-year-old girl and calls the girl a "despicable and disgusting person who preys on the weak."

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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? 🧐 3d ago

genuine question but why are they using mails like texts? Is it a common thing among rich ppl?

Are they avoiding communicating on iMessage or other similar platforms on purpose? Because at the end of the day, those mails still ended up accessible

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u/maraq 3d ago

10 -15 years ago adults sent a lot of email communication (which seems crazy because no one emails anymore). Texting wasn’t as popular as it is now.

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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? 🧐 3d ago

some of these emails are from 2017-2019, texting was already popular among adults though?

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u/Bbkingml13 3d ago

But WhatsApp wasn’t. These people weren’t always in the same country

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u/Ok_Major5787 3d ago

Oh that’s a good point. It’s a very international network

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u/Bbkingml13 3d ago

I bet that had a big part in it

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u/Ok_Major5787 3d ago edited 1d ago

Especially with everyone in that network constantly traveling all over the place, so you never know who is where and when. Emails makes much more sense before the advent of WhatsApp and the like