Interestingly, though brutally, Brian Epstein suffered the same fate as
Alan Turing, arguably the most brilliant computer scientist of this century (with
John Von Neumann being the most notable alternative).
You see, both Brian Epstein and Alan Turing were both homosexuals in England, a country in which homosexuality is not just labeled a mental disorder but also a crime. They were both discovered ("outed," in the worst possible way) and both faced with the humiliating choice between feminizing estrogen treatments or criminal incarceration. They both (as far as we can tell) opted for the relatively less humiliating course of suicide.
Ain't it a bitch when the forces of social opprobrium destroy our best and brightest?