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At the time, Epstein was a money manager and jet-setting financier who, with his girlfriend Maxwell, was hobnobbing with the world's wealthiest from Buckingham Palace to Palm Beach and collecting powerful friends along the way.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

A close second was when he was hobnobbing with his colleagues.

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023

He was hobnobbing with politicians, co-chairing a lavish birthday party and fund-raiser for then-Senate candidate Hillary Clinton at Roseland Ballroom.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2022

But, from time to time, he’ll catch people doing double-takes in public, sometimes approaching him later to ask if he was hobnobbing with movie stars.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2022

Hugh's family was hobnobbing with chiefs and sultans while I ate hush puppies at the Sanitary Fish Market in Morehead City, a beach towel wrapped like a hijab around my head.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris