When the Emperor Commodus was strangled in his Bath, by the muscular Male Prostitute hired by his Sister, who he thought was just going to fuck him--I'm sorry, but these are the Historical Facts, and there's no getting round them--

I think we can safely say that the Easy Retirement days for Roman Emperors were over. But what, besides, is it about Commodus' rather surprising fate that naggingly reminds us of Geoffrey Epstein's? The unspeakable sleaze? The broken hyoid bone? The lowness of the level of things at the very top?