(The saddest part about Sam Kinison's death was that it happened while he was trying to get clean and sober. Six days after his wedding in '92, he was driving in NW of Needles, CA when a teenager drunk driving a pick up truck hit him head on. Sam was sober.)
Most likely scenario - The new epstein has a meeting with the old one, to show he's perfectly safe performing this function. The blackmail empire carries on as usual.
I pray a whistleblower survives long enough to leak documentation of how the Mossad has been blackmailing our politicians to such a degree it makes what Hoover did look like an amateur.