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You said he wasn't a household name until he died.
I would not agree with that, it was definitely earlier enough to cause issues, including reopening investigations, long before he died.
Thats all.
Thank you for clarifying! And I'm sorry, I don't think you're right. You may have known about him, but prior to his death practically nobody else knew or cared about him.
Even his arrest was global news, random google chart aside.
Reps were calling for Acosta to testify about the plea deal before his arrest, following the herald's exposé.
Before that it was brought up for ties to Clinton, quite regularly, especially during the campaigning up to the 2016 election..
Skyrocketing interest following his death (more to find out about his death than anything else) or following a very public and continual series of comments about the Epstein files doesn't really indicate anything other than google searches following significant events, not whether people were aware of him. That is really all that "interest over time" chart says, IMO - more people were searching for additional news, nothing more, on very recent, very public, very notable news.