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He was like 37 and she was 18 when they met, right?

While her attempts to paint him as the mastermind rightly failed, he was _very_ much in on it. No sympathy whatsoever.

I want to assume best intention, but you have absolutely no reason to believe he was “thinking with his dick”. That is a rather sophomoric take.

So why do you think he got involved?

Money? Power? Ego? He is entirely capable of making his own decisions.