Through interviews and meticulous research, Patterson’s book revealed just how far-reaching Epstein’s influence extended, the elaborately extensive effort he went to carry out and cover up his crimes, and some of the lives he damaged over the years. The docuseries, using the book for reference, does the same but instead shifts the focus to the survivors . It is their firsthand accounts of what it is like to be forced into sex trafficking that anchor the Netflix series. While the book reviews police interviews, Filthy Rich puts faces and voices to these women and gives them a place to tell the story themselves in a way they haven’t been able to before.