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THE PALM BEACH POST • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007 Milian sues billionaire investor, /says they had sex when she was 16 The Associated hers Mail on Sunday to be a dose dismissed. NEW YORK — A billionaire friend of England% Prince He refused to comment on investor, already facing jail Andrew, has been indicted in Epstein% Florida charges. in Palm Beach County on Palm Beach on charges of so- Meanwhile, Unroch, 57, charges of soliciting under- liciting underage prostitutes. also acknowledged that his age prostitutes, is being sued That case is pending. client was living with him by a young woman who says The girl visited Epstein and was at the center of a $10 he had sex with her when "several times over the sev- million lawsuit he filed last she was 16 and had sought eral months and engaged in year against a neighbor who his help becoming a model. bizarre and unnatural sex said he was having sex with The lawsuit, fled late acts" while she was a minor, underage girls. That case is Thesday in Manhattan% state the lawsuit says. pending. ' Supreme Court, says finan- Epstein "repeatedly re- "What she was doing at cier Jeffrey Epstein had the quested that (the girl) return 22 is irrelevant to what hap- teen perform a sex act when with her 14-, 15-, and 16- pened to her when she was she brought year-old girlfriends, stating, 16," Unroch said Wednesday photographs tome by with your friends He went on the say he hoped of herself your next time. Don't Epstein would agree to "do for him to bring (a mutual right" by his client and re- review in his friend in er . I love girls solve the case out of court. Upper East your age." Side mansion The young woman, now sometime in 23, kept returning to Epstein 2000. because she has "mental Epstein, issues," said her lawyer, Wil- Epstein 54, a money liam J. Unroch. He refused to manager, elaborate, but court papers told the teen he managed say she was "disabled at a re- finances for Victoria's Secret sult of severe mental disease and "could get you into the and defect." catalog" if she were "nice" Epstein's lawyer in New to him, court papers say. York, Gerald Lefcourt, said, The papers say being "nice" "The girl has admitted she included massages and other is insane, but she can read a favors. newspaper and recognize the When the girl told Epstein, word 'rich.'" "I am 16 years old and just Lefcourt also said the want to model," he replied, statute of limitations has "Don't worry I won't tell any- expired for the woman% body," court papers say. case criminally and civilly, Epstein, _said by London% and will almost certainly be EFTA00188312 `Post' Grabs a Towel in Preparation for Epstein Trial - New York Magazine's Daily lntell... Page 1 of 1 New York Magazine News & Features II/ 2/07 in Other News 11:00 am `Post' Grabs a Towel in Preparation for Epstein Trial Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire and friend of Clinton who ImiCharged IBM year with paying teenage girls to massage him while he jerked off into a towel at his pink Palm Beach mansion, has decided not to plead guilty, the Post reports today; hell take his chances with a jury. Reporting this must have been bittersweet for the l'ost, because they've been insisting for months that Epstein had taken or was litenaRy an she verge of any minute taking a plea deal. But then we expect they are wailing with baited breath for all the lurid details the trial to come out. As are wet In fact, with the expectation that all the stories we've heard in the months since the allegations first came to light are going to be rehashed in the trial, which the Past says is scheduled forJanuary, were going to repeat one of our favorite bits from the recent lawsuit filed by lawyer extraordinaire William Unmet, on behalf Of his es-lover, transgender kinda.mode [Epstein] suddenly went into the bathroom and came eat severalminuteslater wearing red lipstick and wearing a matted red wig. Ile said to plaintiff 'Call me Janice' t sa . 'Pent Nixes Dal [MITI Earlier: Intel's coverage o(Jeffrey Epstein snare e3d 0: 10. a sy4 Ems OA ura FQ, mint YOU WILL BE FROMITIM TO REGISTER OR LOGIN WHEN POSTING. MEW CONNIE/1Y 0 GI 350 words anon° MOIL and URLs prohibited Uwe Guideams PREVIEW POET CON PIEHT Corgi& C 2006. New Vogl AlegarewHoldato LW All MOH Named httn://nvmaa.com/dailv/intel/2007/11/Dost izrabs a towel in preparat.html 12/4/2007 EFTA00188313 EFTA00188314 ME PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008 Girl drops lawsuit against Palm Beach man By LARRY KELLER the litigation be halted at his Intracoastal home, a Palm Beach Palm Beath Post SfreWriter until her daughter Police Department investigation con- A girl who says that wealthy money turns 18. • cluded. He was indicted in July 2006 on manager and part-time Palm Beach The mother com- a single count of felony solicitation of resident Jeffrey Epdtein engaged in plained that Jane Doe's prostitution. The case is pending. • sexual activity with her when she was father did not consult Jane Doe's parents separated two 14, has dropped her lawsuit against with her or their months after she was born at Good Sa- him because her divorced parents are daughter before suing maritan Medical Center, according to squabbling over the litigation. Epstein for $50mil- court records. The couplek subsequent "It has to do with the fact that the Epstein lion. The lawsuit al- divorce has been contentious. Each has parents aren't on the same page right Accused of leges sexual assault, had primary custody of the girl at various • now," said Jeffrey Herman, the attorney sexuality intentional infliction times. for the girl, identified in court papers assaulting then- of emotional distress The father pleaded guilty to fed- only as Jane Doe "It's like a sideshow" 14-year-old gift and loss ' of parental eral fraud charges in 2001 and was sen- The girl turns 18 in May and can sue consortium. Herman tenced to 21 months in federal prison, • again at that time without her parents' also represents a Jane plus three years' probation. The US. involvement, Herman said. Doe No. 2 who, like Jane Doe, claims attorney overseeing his prosecution Herman sued Epstein last month on Epstein summoned her to his home for was Guy Lewis. Now in private practice, • behalf of the girl, her father and her a massage when She was a minor and Lewis was hired by Epstein to defend stepmother. Her birth mother, who lives sexually touched her him against the father's lawsuit filed on near Atlanta, then asked to intervene ,Epstein, 55; induced several un r- behalf of Jane Doe. on her daughter's behalf and asked that age girls to give him sexual ma es • lany_kelet@pbpostcom • EFTA00188315 ft. guilty in underage escort case -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Page 1 of 2 sun-sentinel.coin/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbverdict0320pnmar20,0,5695099.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Man guilty in underage escort case West Palm resident faces mandatory sentence of at least 10 years in prison BY VANESSA BLUM South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 20, 2008 Rejecting defense claims of entrapment, a federal jury convicted a West Palm Beach man on Wednesday for CI) Holy Hosp Crossital arranging to have sex with a teen prostitute in Costa Rica through a bogus travel agency secretly run by the FBI. 2" Year in a row Jorge Muentes, 48, cried as federal marshals led him from his family after the guilty verdict was read in the Foil Lauderdale courtroom of U.S. District Judge James Cohn. <J4,‘s, "I love you, baby," his wife of 17 years called after him. AMERICAS "I love you." Muentes, who worked as a butler, contacted the FBI's 50 BEST HOSPITALS fake agency, Latin American Pleasure Tours, in September after seeing an ad in an adult magazine. In conversations with an undercover detective posing as the agency's owner, Muentes requested a 14- to 16-year-old prostitute. He was arrested at Miami ciljalionalAirmyt Nov. 15 as he attempted to board a flight to San Jose. Iia_ David 0. Markus, the attorney representing Muentes, said he would appeal the verdict. Markus had argued his client was entrapped by the detective who Markus said called Muentes repeatedly and steered him toward an underage prostitute. But prosecutors insisted Muentes made the choice to request a teenager without encouragement and took concrete steps toward acting on his desires by paying for the trip and attempting to travel. After a two-day trial and one day of deliberations, the jury of seven men and five women found Muentes guilty of two counts for soliciting the services of an underage prostitute and for attempting to travel overseas for sex with a minor. Muentes, who has no criminal record or history of child abuse, faces a mandatory sentence of at least 10 years. A nearly identical case against a New York Vietnam War veteran is set for trial Monday before U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez in Fort Lauderdale. hertvawinv crin-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbverdict0320pnmar20,0,204460... 3/20/2008 EFTA00188316 , guilty in underage escort case -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Pagc 2 of 2 The two cases are part of a government crackdown on so-called sex tourists who travel overseas to molest children. The initiative has led to more than 70 arrests since 2003, including those of 15 people snared in the sting operation. The Web site for Latin American Pleasure Tours offers to fulfill travelers' desires with "clean, fun- loving companions of varying ages." All calls to the agency were directed to the Miami FBI headquarters and answered by Richard Love, a retired Fort Lauderdale police detective who posed as the agency's owner. Love testified at trial that Muentes needed no prodding to request a "very young" escort. In their first conversation, Love offered Muentes two types of escorts — for sightseeing or sex. After Muentes indicated his interest in a prostitute, Love asked him to choose from a range of 14 to 27 years old. "Let's go young ... very young," Muentes said. Love suggested a 14- to 16-year-old and Muentes agreed. When Muentes asked about the legality of sex with a minor, Love said it was all illegal. According to testimony at trial, adult prostitution is legal in Costa Rica, but transactions cannot involve a third party, such as an agency or pimp. Markus said Muentes changed his mind and requested a 21- to 24-year-old escort, but was never given a chance to back out. Sentencing is set for May 29. Vanessa Blum can be reached at vbblum®sun-sentinelstom or 954-356-4605. ao_j_Floida_S_un-Seritinel Copyright C 2008, utl htto://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/locaYsouthflorida/sfl-flbverdict0320pnmar20,0,204460... 3/20/2008 EFTA00188317 THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY. APRIL 18, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH - Part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein has been sued in federal court by two more women this week who say he had sexual contact with them when they gave him mas- sages at his waterfront mansion when they were minors. They are the fourth and fifth women to sue Epstein. Both women are seeking more than $50 million. Jane Doe No. 4 says she was 15 years old when she had several encounters with Epstein in 2002 or 2003. Jane Doe No. 5 says she was 15 or 16 years old when she was with him. Epstein was indicted by a county grand jury in July 2006 on a single felony count of solicitation of prostitution. That case is still active. EFTA00188318 THE [vim REACH POST • TUESDAY, MARCH 18,2008 Girl sues Epstein, two others she says conspired in massages "These two conspired with Jane Doe,' 17, sues in state court him to help with the criminal enterprise," Leopold said. after dropping a federal suit. Jane Doe, through her father and stepmother, filed a federal lawsuit against By LARRY KELLER Epstein in January. She dis- Palm Beath Post SteWriter missed it after her mother WEST PALM BEACH - A former Palm said she wasn't consulted Beach Community College student who Epstein about the litigation and police say procured underage girls to give sought to intervene. The Jeffrey Epstein sexualroassages at his Palm mother is acting on her daughter's behalf in Beach mansion,. and Epsteia personal assis- the latest lawsuit. tant have been sued along with Epstein over Epstein's lawyer has denied the girN al- their alleged conduct: legations and said her family is simply at- The girl behind the lawsuit was 14 years tempting to get money from a very rich man. old when she contends he engaged in sexual Epstein, 55, is a Manhattan money manager conduct with her after she went,to his water- who has homes there, in New Mexico and the front home in 2005 to give him a massage. Virgin Islands, in addition to his $8.5 million Her lawsuit, filed under the name Jane Doe, Palm Beach mansion. seeks unspecified damages from Epstein for Two other Jane Does have sued Epstein sexual assault and intentional infliction of in federal court this year, making similar al- emotional distress. legations to those of the first Jane Doe. Those She also sued ' of cases remain active. Loxahatchee and ork Also pending against Epstein in state court City on grounds of conspiracy and civil rack- is a felony charge of solicitation of prostitu- eteering tion arising from the same alleged incidents "We just want a full measure of justice for with several girls. That case is set for trial'in th' 'd her attorney Ted Leopold. July, two years after he was indicted. ho attended Palm Beach Com- Jane Doe's new lawsuit, filed in Palm Beach munity Col ege, was paid by Epstein to bring County Circuit Court, is the most explicit in girls to his mansion for massages and more, detailing Epstein all • d according to Palm Beach police "I'm like a the only suit to include ad Heidi Fleiss," they said she told them. Her as defendants, and the on make con- attorney could not be reached immediately spiracy and racketeering allegations. Jane Doe will turn 18 in May. She lives with four s an Epstein personal assistant who arranged the encounters, even escort- other family members in Palm Beach County, is nearing graduation from high school and is ing the girls to his massage room, police working part time, Leopold said. alleged. lany_kellertipbpost.com EFTA00188319 WE PAUA BEACH POST • SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008 A DEADLINE FOR EPSTEIN The day of reckoning for Palm Beach billionaire finan- cier and alleged sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is coming. Really! State Attorney Barry Krischer has put his foot down after nearly two years of wrangling with Epsteink Epstein team of high•priced attor- neys. By July 8, Krischerb spokesman said, there will either be a trial or a plea agree- ment The reclusive 55-year-old Wall Street prodigy allegedly had a college student steer underage suburban girls to his beach- front mansion for sex and weird massages in 2005. "lib simply time," said Krischer'S spokes- man, Mike Edmondson. In November Epsteink local attorney, Jack Goldberger, told Page Two the case would be resolved with a guilty plea by late January. But things have been stalled as Epstein uses a dream team of lawyers that also includes Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and for- mer Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr. Now, a trial has been set for July, just in case. "Things have been delayed," Goldberger said. The problem? Sources close to the case say Epstein doesn't mind so much the 18 months in jail if he pleads guilty but he can't stand the thought ofbeing branded a Florida sex offender for life. "Ha been treated more harshly because he a wealthy man," Goldberger said. "He I jose lantbiet@pbpost.com EFTA00188320 Lawsuit: Epstein assistants helped procure underage girl for sex Page 1 of 2 Ea PRINTTHIS PalrnBeachPostcom Lawsuit: Epstein assistants helped procure underage girl for sex By MARYIUMCE Browse Specials Palm Beach Post Staff Writer & Deals From Local Monday, March 17, 2008 Dealerships WEST PALM BEACH - A former Palm Beach Community College student who allegedy procured underage girls to give Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages at his Palm Beach mansion, and Epstein's personal assistant have been sued along with Autos PalmBeachPosicom Epstein over their conduct. The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 14 years old when she contends he engaged in sexual conduct with her after she went to his waterfront home in 2005 to give him a massage. Her lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress against Epstein. More local news She also sued Loxahatchee and f New • te WItbr ing.news, photos and all of today's Post stories. York City on grounds of conspiracy and Share This Story civil racketeeting. "We just want a full measure of justice for this girl," said her attorney, Ted Leopold. gr 'ho attended Palm Beach Community College, was paid by Epstein to bring girls to his she mansion for massages and more, according to Palm Beach police. "I'm like a Heidi Fleiss," they said told them. Her attorney could not be reached immediately for comment. was an Epstein personal assistant who arranged the encounters, even escorting the girls to his massage room, police alleged. "These two conspired with him to help with the criminal enterprise," Leopold said. Jane Doe, through her father and stepmother, filed a federal lawsuit against Epstein in January. She The dismissed it after her mother said she wasn't consulted about the litigation and sought to intervene. mother is acting on her daughter's behalf in the latest lawsuit. 1•44n • ihvalmhaarhnnet nrinfthig r.lickabilitv.eotnint/cot?actionntectitle=Lawsuit%3A+Epst... 3/18/2008 EFTA00188321 Lawsuit: Epstein assistants helped procure underage girl for sex Page 2 of 2 Epstein's lawyer has denied the girl's allegations and said her family is simply attempting to get money from a very rich man. Epstein, 55, is a Manhattan money manager who has homes there, in New Mexico and the Virgin Islands in addition to his $8.5 million Palm Beach mansion. of Two other Jane Does have sued Epstein in federal court this year, making similar allegations to those the first Jane Doe. Those cases remain active. Also pending against Epstein in state court is a felony charge of solcitiation of prostitution arising from after the same alleged incidents with several girls. That case is now scheduled for trial in July, two years he was indicted. Jane Doe's new lawsuit, filed in Palm Beach Circu't Codige most explicit in detailing Epstein's alleged misconduct. It is the first to includ as defendants, and the first to make conspiracy and racketeering allegations. Jane Doe will turn 18 in May. She lives with other family members in Palm Beach County, is nearing graduation from high school and is working part time, Leopold said. Find this article at: http://www.palinbeachpost.corn/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/03/17/0317epstein.html F Check the box to include the list of links referenced In the article. lirrn•//nutmhenrlinnsf tirintthiS.CiiCkabilitv.com/pt/cpt?action=cpactitle=Lawsuit%3A+Epst... 3/18/2008 EFTA00188322 Page 1 of 2 Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom NEWS Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom ge His Desires Mogul Reportedly Built $30 Million Sex Grotto to Indul By MARCUS BARAM July 20, 2007 — from the rest of us. When it comes to sexual deviancy, the rich really are different fly in high-end prostitutes for the weekend Instead of hiring cheap hookers for an hour in a motel, they to liven things up, they'll build a sex to frolic in their underground grotto. Rather than buying sex toys vault complete with bondage and S&M gear. uter chip mogul Henry T. Nicholas III, who The latest in a long line of lurid Lotharios is said to be comp with hidden doors and secret levers, at his allegedly built a $30 million underground grotto, complete ents unearthed by the Los Angeles equestrian estate in Laguna Hills, Calif. According to court docum where he could indulge his lair" Times, Nicholas is said to have planned a "secret and convenient Ecstasy." "manic obsession with prostitutes" and "addiction to cocaine and in 1991, had his private jet ferry The 47-year-old billionaire, who co-founded Broadcom Corp nicknamed the Pond, where he prostitutes from New Orleans, Chicago and Las Vegas to his lair, nitrous oxide, according to the draft s and provided his rock-star guests with drugs, including mushroom complaint. Nicholas used the lair as his "personal In addition, the complaint dug up by the Times alleges that according to the paper. His wife, Stacy brothel" until his wife caught him in the act with a prostitute, Nicholas, has since filed for divorce. "all of the allegations are denied." In 2000, Nicholas' attorney Steven A. Silverstein told the Times that "pump house" to handle runoff from his Nicholas told the paper that the underground facility was a horse trails. Publishing heir Richard Quadracci reportedly The allegations seem to echo other well-publicized cases. equipped with a cross, bondage boards, ran a gay sex club, complete with a 1,000-square-foot playroom of his penthouse apartment in Manhattan. harness power hoists and other X-rated paraphernalia, out ge-themed bed and breakfast that he Quadracci claims that he only ran a Web site describing a bonda sued him and the case was settled in early planned to open one day. Eventually, his condominium board 2005. financier who was charged with felony Other notorious cases include Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire massages at his Palm Beach mansion. In solicitation of a prostitute for hiring underage girls to give him Alan Dershowitz, reportedly embarrassed that case, some of Epstein's lawyers including famed barrister nted their drug use. the girls by unearthing their MySpace pages on which they recou 8/31/2007 EFTA00188323 Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom Page 2 of 2 The Palm Beach Police requested an investigation by the FBI after the state's attorney reduced the charges in that case. Currently, prosecutors are expecting the case to go to trial and a case disposition hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16. The types of sex and erotic indulgences may vary in each case but they're all made possible by having money. it," "The rich aren't more prone to extreme sex but they are more likely to have the resources to spend on said Manhattan-based therapist Ian Kerner. "There are the $2 toothless hookers and the $20,000 call girl virgins but there's still work for all of them." Kemer believes that extreme sexual appetites have less to do with money than with core desires and instincts shaped by genetics and your upbringing. But being wealthy and powerful allows you to indulge those cravings -- sometimes with unexpected results. "I've had cases working with Wall Street bankers who always have to be about testosterone and they es never get to explore their feminine side or their vulnerable side and these guys often go to dominatrix and explore being whipped and spanked," said Kemer. They also may feel that their wealth is undeserved and that they need to be humiliated. "The investment banker who's mastered the universe just wants to chill out and be dominated." Wealthy men and women who are in the public eye may already feel above the law but they seek the thrill of putting themselves in high-risk situations. "These are people who feel they can do what they want all the time," said Gini Graham Scott, the author of "Homicide by the Rich and Famous." "The money lets them indulge every whim and eccentricity and they have the freedom to experiment," she explained. "But once they achieve a certain thrill, they need to expand that. After a while, it gets boring and they keep pushing the envelope on extreme behavior." That certainly seemed to be the case with Fiat heir Lapo Elkann, who was hospitalized in 2005 after overdosing at the apartment of a 53-year-old transvestite named Patrizia. After a stint in rehab in Arizona, Elkann moved to Manhattan, launched a new line of sunglasses and started indulging new passions: speeding in his family's racecars. Bravo! Copyright O 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures ant-mann. i.e. new.,Invint9iii-TAQQ9Rq 8/31/2007 EFTA00188324 Describe your relationship with Mr. Epstein. How long have you known Mr. Epstein? How did you meet? What was your role at the New York Academy of the Arts? What was Epstein's involvement with the NYAA? Did Epstein express any interest in one particular style of artwork or interest in a specific artist attending NYAA? Did any NYAA students work for Mr. Epstein or yourself? Were there ever any complaints filed against Mr. Epstein by young female students while he was active with the NYAA? Did Mr. Epstein ever show any noticeable attention or exhibit any questionable or inappropriate behavior towards young females while he was involved with the NYAA? (Believed to have brought a young female as his date to a formal function sponsored by NYAA) Did Mr. Epstein leave the NYAA on good terms? Did any of the students paint portraits of any of your family members during this time period?(=ainted portraits onhen? Where? What did the art depict? When was your last contact with Mr. Epstein? What was it in reference too? EFTA00188325 Page 1 of 1 BLAME GAME alleged pervy June 21, 2007 -- DID legal eagle Alan Dershowitz and use their clout to get a speec h canceled at billionaire Jeffrey Epstein Robert Trivers, Harvard? That's the belief of Rutgers University biologist ics (PED) was axed whose talk at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynam ist" for his "ration alization of after he called Dershowitz a "Nazi-like apolog rd Crimson a PED Triver s told the Harva Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians." plug. But Trivers secrec y" about who pulled the official said he was "sworn to or Epstein, who blames Dershowitz, who sits as a faculty affiliate on PED, Dersh owitz as a defense donated $6.5 million to create PED and has retained utes. ing under age prostit lawyer against his 2006 indictment for solicit owitz told us Epstein's lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, had no comm ent. 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Page 1 of 3 .e Bad News for Jeff Epstein? - Mergers, Acquisitions, Ventu Tralol HOME PAGE 1 MY TIMES TODAY'S PAPER VIDEO MOST POPULAR 1 TIMES TOPICS 1 gbexclu ork (ilAnt Business Friday, July is, 2007 I lEALTH SPORTS OPINION ARTS N.Y./REGION BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE 1 WORLD U.S. AUTOS YOUR MONEY DEALBOOK MARKETS RESEARC MEDIA & ADVERTISING WORLD BUSINESS SMALL BUSINESS SEARCH D DeaRlook DEALBOOK I MERGERS & mammon RANKING Edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin LP.O. / OFFERINGS r PRIVATE I EQUITY HEDGE FUNDS PEN CAP HOME ' ACQUISMONS JOBS More Bad News for Jeff Epstein? July U, 2007,12:26 Pm Link to This TOPICS Investment Banking E-mall This INDUSTRIES ive financier, was It was just about a year ago that Jeffrey Epstein, the reclus may now being charged with soliciting prostitutes in Palm Beach, Fla. He have another image problem on his hands. y-management firm, BusinessWeek reports that Mr. Epstein's Virgin Islands-based mone ities and Exchange Financial Trust Company, is listed in a filing with the Secur e Structured Credit Strategies Commission as a stakeholder in Bear Stearns's High-Grad to in recent weeks as "Bear Enhanced Leverage Fund, which became much easier to refer Stearns' collapsing hedge fund." LATEST rarely discloses anything It is a tantalizing nugget of information about someone who MERGER ant for privacy, Mr. Epstein about his business or his billionaire clients. Despite his pench Mark the Cul n on his 727. runs in prominent circles: he once flew former President Bill Clinto Playtex Deal to r over 10 percent of the Regulatory filings show that Mr. Epstein's firm had voting powe some of Wall Street's biggest Dutch. equity in the Bear Stearns fund, which, aided by loans from LaSalle subprime mortgages, or those INVESTM banks, bet heavily on the securities linked to the market for Banks to homeowners with weak credit histories. Role in lts, many of those bets Deutse As the subprime mortgage market has been rocked by a rise in defau Bank C 23 percent for the year. have gone bad. As of the end of April, the Bear fund was down ti,1".1t.nnl, hInne rewi ;111PC rni-n/7007/07/11/more-bad-news-for-ieff-enstein/ 7/13/2007 EFTA00188327 2 of 3 , More Bad News for Jeff Epstein? - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds ... Page Mr. Epstein did not respond to BusinessWeek's calls, and his lawyer had no comment. Massa( Investi. Of course, Mr. Epstein is not alone in his exposure to the fund. A fund-of-funds managed Investr I.P.OJOR by Paris-based BNP Paribas is listed in the S.E.0 filing as well. That fund was also Tax Lo heavily invested in Wood River Partners, a $127 million fund that imploded in 2005. Deal to Indian' Bear Stearns says it will reveal the details of the fund's losses next week. $1.1 Bil Permir Another Bear Stearns fund that got into trouble recently (with the same ridiculously long Share I name as the other fund, except without the words "enhanced leverage") is being propped PRIVATE More S up by loans from the firm. It was down about to percent as of April. The younger, Buyout "enhanced" fund is more heavily leveraged, and Bear Stearns has said it won't provide any Coldm. China] financing for it. Fund Go to Article from Busintss ek* Ex-Sea Buyout Go to Earlier DealBook Rein DEALER Add your comments... 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How Also if 4 Ho + Tip kils.imanthnnfr Mane mitimes r.nrri/2007/07/1 Umore-bad-news-for-ieff-enstein/ 7/13/2007 EFTA00188328 Page 1 of 3 Bear Steams' Collateral Damage h it How BlackBerry Curve"' only hum AT&T, the world's leading provider of IllackRunry" service, f Rot I RF In by ailiNaCkeettyCLIVe• Thea$46K5v-H fICenicaNis BusinessWeek Register Sign In TOP NEWS July 11, 2007, 12:01AM EST Bear Stearns' Collateral Damage Money manager Jeffrey Epstein, BNP Paribas, and other investors are mired in Bear's troubled hedge fund that bet big on subprime mortgages by Matthew Goldstein investors who those to sink The implosion of a hedge fund often sheds some unwanted attention on the wealthy fund that bet heavily money into the venture. That's certainly the case with an 11-month-old Bear Stearns hedge on risky bonds backed by subprime mortgages and is teetering on the verge of collapse (see BusinessWeek.com, 7/9/07, "Mutually As_sured Mayhem.). Bear Stearns trader One of the bigger investors in the troubled Bear Steams fund is Jeffrey Epstein, a former Epstein has turned money manager for the super-rich, according to regulatory filings. Over the past year, charged the garnered his fair share of notoriety and sensational headlines. Last July, prosecutors in Florida Palm Beach police onetime math teacher with soliciting sex from prostitutes at his Palm Beach (Fla.) mansion. prosecutors did not also alleged that the 53-year-old Epstein paid teenage girls to give him nude massages, but charge him with that offense. "MONEY MAN OF MYSTERY" the New York Post— The racy allegations involving Epstein—once labeled New York's most eligible bachelor by as Dealbreaker.com. have been good fodder for the New York tabloids and gossipy Wall Street Web sites such ill-fated big bet on a Now it appears Epstein may have another public relations headache on his hands over an getting into trouble with hedge fund set up by Bear Steams (BSC) last summer—right around the time he was the law. in the SEC filing as a Epstein's Virgin Islands-based money-management firm, Financial Trust Company, is listed Leverage fund. A "beneficial owner" of the Bear Steams High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced having "the power to January filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission describes Epstein's firm as from investors last vote or dispose of" 10% or more of the equity of the hedge fund, which raised $642 million billions of dollars summer. But the hedge fund's purchasing power was much bigger, given its ability to borrow (C), and Bank of from banks such as Barclays (BCS), Goldman Sachs (GS), Deutsche Bank (DB), Citigroup America (BAC). several phone calls. Epstein, who splits his time between Manhattan, Palm Beach, and St. Thomas, didn't return charge, had no Gerald Lefcourt, one of the criminal defense lawyers helping Epstein fend off the solicitation n"rrartrindiviwinilv/rinfinchirnnfent/inI2007/clh20070710 434383... 7/13/2007 EFTA00188329 Page 2 of 3 Bear Steams' Collateral Damage mystery," comment. Epstein, once described by New York magazine as an "international money man of Leslie Wexner, reportedly won't take on any clients who aren't billionaires. One of Epstein's longtime clients is the billionaire founder and CEO of the Limited Brands (LTD) retail chain. BIG LOSERS the years, he has Even beyond his money-management business, Epstein has cut a high-profile figure. Over Clinton, Donald befriended powerful politicians, celebrities, and academics, including former President Bill Trump, and law professor Alan Dershowitz. into the Bear Stearns Epstein isn't the only supposedly savvy money manager to the super-rich to throw money listed on an SEC funds. A so-called hedge fund-of-funds managed by Paris-based BNP Paribas (BNPQY) also is invested. A BNP filing as a beneficial owner of the same beleaguered Bear Stearns fund in which Epstein which invests in a spokeswoman declined to comment. A person familiar with BNP's Ozcar Multi-Strategy fund, impact on Ozcar's variety of different hedge funds, says the problems at Bear Stearns should have minimal performance. Ozcar fund, and other Still, this isn't the first time the BNP fund has made a disastrous bet on a hedge fund. The hedge fund that affiliated BNP funds, invested about $49 million in Wood River Partners, a onetime $127 million the former went bust in October, 2005, amid allegations of fraudulent trading. On May 30, John Whittier, out a scheme to manager of the hedge fund, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to charges of carrying at having invested in defraud investors in the fund. The Ozcar fund, of which little is publicly known, is looking two big losers in its brief four-year existence. TAINTED REPUTATION? in borrowed money to The hedge fund that Epstein and BNP invested in is barely holding on after using billions as of the end of buy risky bonds backed by ailing subprime mortgages. The fund was down 23% for the year week. In June, Bear April. Bear Stearns says it will provide a full accounting for the funds' losses sometime next shares in the Stearns suspended investor redemptions. Some frustrated Investors are offering to sell their investors are beleaguered hedge fund for as little as 10 cents on the dollar in the secondary market. Other preliminary contemplating litigation. The Securities and Exchange Commission, meanwhile, has launched a "Bear's Big investigation into the events leading up to the collapse of the fund (see BusinessWeek.com, 6/25/07, Loss Attracts SEC Attention"). Wall Street firm has A sister fund also run by Bear Stearns is faring a bit better, but that's only because the big Stearns to the opted to prop up that entity with $1.6 billion in loans (see BusinessWeek.com, 6/22/07, "Bear Leverage fund was Rescue—Sort Of"). The four-year-old Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies s in that fund, too. The down about 10% as of the end of April. Bear Stearns has suspended investor redemption which was more heavily Wall Street firm, however, has decided not to provide any financing to the younger fund, leveraged and indebted. Street because both The near-collapse of the two Bear Stearns funds has sparked widespread concern on Wall d debt hedge funds used billions in borrowed money to buy sophisticated securities called collateralize that rarely obligations. Popularly known as CDOs, these bond-like securities are hard-to-value investments could cause a trade. There is fear that the mass liquidation of the CDOs still held by the two hedge funds forced a management widespread devaluation in CDO prices. The trouble with the two hedge funds has already its reputation. shakeup at Bear Stearns' asset management division and ultimately may end up sullying einni/nriritIlltztrkiluhinflaCivienntentlit112007/clh20070710 434383 7/13/2007 EFTA00188330 20A THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2O08 W S C The Palm Beach Post TOM GIUFFRIDA Rublisiter JOHN BARTOSEK. Editor CHARLES GERARD!, General Manager Blli. ROSE, Managing Editor RANDY SCHUI.17., Editor of the Editorial Page JAN TUCKWOOD, Associate Editor BARRY BERG, PP Cimdation LARRY SIEDLIK. VP& Treasurer JOHN KELLY, VP Advertising GALEHOWDEN, VP Community Relations turd Mathetiotg LINDA MURPHY, VP Human Resources BOB BALER, VP Operations LAURA DECK CUNNINGHAM, Director, Marketing Services DAN SHORTER. General Manager, PalmBeadtPostrom Spare us the outrage An 11-month police investigation led to an indictment on one felony Lawyers for accused sex charge of solicitation of prostitution. predator soundfoolish. That was in July 2006, and part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein still has faced no repercussions for al- than $50 million, was filed on Jan. legedly preying on underage girls. 24: "We think this shows what this So maybe Mr. Epstein is satisfied case is all about: money." Yes, it is that he's getting his money worth — Mr. Epstein's effort to buy his from his large legal team, which way out of prosecution. includes Harvard Law School Pro- According to the lawyer of a 17- fessor Alan Dershowitz (remember year-old whose parents are suing • OJ. Simpson?) and Kenneth Starr him, Mr. Epstein masturbated in (remember Monica Lewinsky?). front of her (she was 14 at the time) Jack Goldberger of West Palm and used a vibrator on her at his Beach, who also on the team, home in February 2005. Another told Post columnist Jose Lambiet in Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez November: "This case is absolutely dismissed it: "Jeffrey Epstein did • going to end without a trial within not have sex with this woman." the next two months." For those girls who claim that he He was wrong, but Mr. Gold- did, Mr. Epsteint.lawyers maintain berger remains on Mr. Epsteink that he did not know their ages, de- • payroll, feigning moral outrage at spite a police search ofhishome and two lawsuits filed this year against garbage that found phone messages • the- Manhattan money manager. about the girls' school schedules The lawsuits allege sexual exploita- and even a high school transcript. tion of teenaged girls, one of them For all of his money, Mn Epstein's as young as 14. Said Mr. Goldberger best defense remains "I didn't know ifter the first lawsuit, seeking more 'thatI was a criminal pervert'? • EFTA00188331 THE PALM BEACH POS1 • TUFSOAY, FEBRUARY 12.2008 Girl in sex-abuse suit alleges harassment poena on her behalf. Also, by the Epstein. camp: Her Jane Does attorney said he father said in 2006 that The defendant .the and Epstein% lawyer already private investigators ag- accuses is a part-time had agreed to reschedule the gressively followed his car, for another date. photographed his home and Palm Beach resident. deposition The girl's mother, who chased off visitors after his lives near Atlanta, also was daughter accused Epstein. By LARRY KELLER served. About the same Jane Doe contends that Palm froth Post Staff Writer time, another man came to when she was 14, she was SWEET PALM BEACH — A Jane Does workplace and recruited to go to Epstein lawyer representing one of said he was a lawyer who mansion to give him a mas- two girls who recently sued needed to contact her, the sage. She says he engaged part-time Palm Beach resi- motion filed by West Palm in sexual conduct with her dent Jeffrey Epstein in fed- Beach lawyer Ted Leopold at that time. eral court, claiming sexual alleges. Epstein is a wealthy assault, has asked a judge "It can only be concluded Manhattan money manager to stop Epstein and his attor- that Epstein and/or his coun- who was indicted by a Palm neys from "continuous and sel are purposefully attempt- Beach County grand jury in systematic harassment" ing to harass Jane Doe and July 2006 on a single count of The girl, identified in her mother," Leopold said in felony solicitation of prostitu- court documents as "Jane his motion. tion. Police investigated him . Doe," 1Z says a process Epstein attorney Jack for 11 months, concluding server showed up at her Goldberger filed a writ- that he engaged in sexual place of employment on Feb. ten response saying there activity with several under- 1 to serve a subpoena for was no harassment, only a age girls whom he paid to her deposition, originally simple, routine serving of a give him massages at his wa- . scheduled for Feb. 6, even subpoena. terfront home. Epstein .has though her attorney had Its not the first time one maintained he did not know told Epstein attorney twice of Jane DoeS parents has the girls were minors. that he would accept the sub- complained of harassment 0 larry_keueripbposttorn EFTA00188332 to be choosy Another suit alleges sex during massage By LARRY KELLER tional distress. • Palm Beach That Staff Writer "She felt intimidated. She WEST PALM BEACH felt scared," Herman said. - Another woman filed a Jane Doe No. 3 made only the federal lawsuit against Jef- one visit to Epsteinb home, frey Epstein on Wednesday, he said. alleging that he turned a "It's just another copycat massage she gave him at his lawsuit filed by the same Palm Beach mansion into a lawyer who appears less sexual episode when she was interested in the truth than 16 years old. in grandstanding with these Identified as "Jane Doe press conferences," said Jack No. 3," she is seeking more Goldberger, one of Epsteinb than $50 million, the same attorneys. "We now have as two other lane Does" who sworn testimony that girls filed similar lawsuits in the lied about their age to Jeffrey past six weeks. All three suits Epstein, and they were care- were filed by Miami lawyer ful in being convincing thatIt Jeffrey Herman. they were over the ag Herman subsequently Herman said withdrew the first Jane Does instructed Jane Doe '140. , lawsuit because of squabbling "When he asks how old you by her patents over the litiga- are, tell him 18 or 19 years tion. The girl may refile the old." But he said it doesn't suit after she turns 18 in May matter. "They were underage and can make her own deci- girls," Herman said. "They sions, Herman said. were sexually assaulted." Other alleged victims also In addition to the civil law- have contartpd him, Herman suits, Epstein was indicted said. "I do anticipate more on a single count of felony cases," he said. solicitation of prostitution In the latest litigation, Jane in July 2006 after a lengthy Doe No. 3 alleges that she Palm Beach Police Depart- was recruited ment investigation into his lege student, activities with underage girls to give Epste at his home. A resolution has money at his waterfront home been delayed continually. The late in 2004 or early in 2005. case is on Monday's court The lawsuit alleges that, docket but is expected to be while on the massage table, rescheduled once again. Epstein sexually touched "One of the reasons (Jane Jane Doe No. 3, then mas- Doe It. 3) came forward is turbated. She is suing on she is tired of waiting for jus- grounds of sexual assault and tice," Herman said. intentional infliction of emo- elany kelleattpbpost.com Anti-Semitic incidents MAO Poo!ovaphn, drop for second year part of our society." It marked the second neighborhood. Conditi moon But an audit shows a straight year Florida's num- prompted a tornado , county. worrisome continued bers have declined and the Storms could he on the use ofswastikas. third consecutive decline na- tionally. Florida ranks fourth in anti-Semitic incidents, behind New York, New Jersey By KEVIN DEUTSCH and California. Palm Roark Pm/ Rtaff EFTA00188333 nother suit filed against Epstein Lawsuit seeks $50 million, alleges billionaire touched girl, then 16, inappropriately during a massage at his PB home. By WILLIAM KELLY Daily News Staff Writer Another young woman is seeking from more than $50 million in damages part-time Palm Beach billion aire Jeffrey Epstein, alleging he sexually assault- ed her at his Palm Beach home when she was 16 years old. Daily News Photo byJeffrry Langlois The federal law- suit, filed Wednes- afternoon. edge to be able to see traffic on South County Road on Wednesday day, claims the 55 -year-old Man- hattan money man- if greenery has to go ager touched the Epstein girl inappropriately Miami attorney files while she gave him third lawsuit against a massage on one the part-time Palm owners make improvements equal to at least 25 occasion in 2004 or Beacher. ILLIAM KELLY News Staff Writer Percent of the value of their homes, accessory buildings or structures within the new sight tri- 2005.The girl's attor- out those heavy - angle measurements. ney, Jeffrey M. Herman of Miami, an- r not to bring nounced the suit Wednesday at a news Commissioner Gene said that the town would result in a dramatic loss of greene ry at conference at Peruvian Park. ;commendations of and It is the third lawsuit Herman has ionsultant, the Plann ing many intersections along North Lake Way. reject "Landscaping is extremely important to this filed on behalf of young women who al- voted 5.2 Tuesday to . town," he said. lege Epstein sexually assaulted them tandards for intersections would force owner s of corner Brian Mirson, a traffic engineer and urban while they were underage and while they and cut planne r with American Consulting performed massages on him at his El s and other structures within said the new standards would reduceEngin the eers, taller than 30 inches better legal town's Brillo Way home. One of the earlier suits to drivers would have a exposure if Poor intersection sight distance was dropped last week because the 17- is found e relevant to a crash. year-old girl's divorced parents couldn't they Tor a car to be ing commissioners saidstart a the road to have required to pull 8 feet out in agree on how to pursue the case, Her- of the new rules would turn — we man said. don't think it's safe space to make a defens ible" in court, Mirso n said. None of the alleged victims have been The co to have a huge uproar ," einnts ' nsultan t's review of town interse ctions publicly identified. The young woman on showed that trees, whose behalf Wednesday's suit was filed added then er obstacles to shrubs hedges, walls and oth- iy Dowell said. Heinterse en" with existing ction a vehicle night could cause or contribute to is called Jane Doe No. 3. She is now 19, crash at 235 of the town's 278 intersec- Herman said. ;ht rules. tions. recommendation to Epstein's attorney, Guy Lewis of Mi- dsion is a The new Sight +.1..-.-1-- ----14 r-..-- sl--- -- EFTA00188334 4StiOliet eges billionaire toiichedgirl, then 16, inappropriately during a massage at his PB home. 13y WILLIAN1 KELLY Daily Nem Scoff W,iirr Another young woman is seeking more than $50 million in damages from part-time Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, alleging he sexually assault- ed her at his Palm Beach home when she was 16 years old. Daily News Photo by Jeffrey Langlois The federal law- suit, filed Wednes- edge to be able to see traffic on South County Road on Wednesday afternoon. day, claims the 55-year-old Man- if greenery has to go hattan money man- ager touched the girl inappropriately while she gave him Epstein Miami attorney files third lawsuit against a massage on one the part-time Palm .LIAM KELLY owners make improvements equal to at least 25 occasion in 2004 or Reacher. lews staff Writer percent of the value of their homes, accessory 2005. buildings or structures within the new sight tri- The girl's attor- not to bring out those heavy- angle measurements. ney, Jeffrey M. Herman of Miami, an- Commissioner Gene said that nounced the suit Wednesday at a news onunendations of the town would result in a dramatic oss of greenery at conference at Peruvian Park. nsultant, the Planning and many intersections along North Lake Way. It is the third lawsuit Herman has voted 5-2 Tuesday to reject "Landscaping is extremely important to this filed on behalf of young women who al- indards for intersections. town," he said. lege Epstein sexually assaulted them ould force owners of corner Brian Mirson, a traffic engineer and urban while they were underage and while they and other structures and cut planner with American Consulting Engineers, performed massages on him at his El alter than 30 inches within said the new standards would reduce the town's Brillo Way home. One of the earlier suits drivers would have a better legal exposure if poor intersection sight distance was dropped last week because the 17- is found relevant to a crash. year-old girl's divorced parents couldn't g commissioners said they "Thar a car to be required to pull B feet out in agree on how to pursue the case, Her- the new rules would start a the road to have safe space to make a turn — we man said. don't think it's defensible" in court, Mirson said. None of the alleged victims have been have a huge uproar," Corn- The consultant's review of town intersections publicly identified. The young woman on Dowell said. He added that showed that trees, shrubs, hedges, walls and oth- whose behalf Wednesday's suit was filed intersection er obstacles to sight could cause or contribute to is called Jane Doe No. 3. She is now 19, " with existing a vehicle crash at 235 of the town's 278 intersec- t rules. Herman said. to tions. ion is a recommendation The new sight triangles would force the re- Epstein's attorney, Guy Lewis of Mi- vhich has the fi nal say. ami, issued a statement dismisshig the of moval of vegetation from 284 private proper- :ommended enforcement whenever affected property Please see RULES, Page Al2 Please see EPSTEIN, Page Al2 PERSPECTIVES to PONDER Winslow Homer's etchings, illustrations blurry, large-scale a contrast to both on view atphotos by Seton Smith, Eaton. By IAN siOSTIteNt nyhibitions }Lal,?. Art have — little EFTA00188335 EPSTEIN His attorney says lawsuit is `wholly without merit' From Page Al latest allegations as "another copycat law- says. suit." The girl then accepted a payment of $200 to "This one repeats the identical allega- $300 and left, Herman said. tions of the first three lawsuits, including the "She was sort of in a state of shock," Her- absurd demand for $50 million," Lewis said. man said. "She felt intimidated. She felt vul- "These women, who are not 'victims' by any nerable." stretch of the imagination, have all confessed She never returned and did not tell her par- "NANTUCKI to lying about their ages. The latest lawsuit, ents about the incident until a criminal inves- "Sunshine Cot like the three before it, is wholly without mer- tigation began, he said. ShinSks,Old a it. We will vigorously fight these allegations The girl decided to sue Epstein because she Sea-Side Cow in court." wants justice, he said. 1Gtchen The suit says Epstein engaged in a scheme "For victims, it's very empowering to hold to get access to minor girls at his home, sexu- someone accountable," said Herman, who spe- Anita N. Gabkr ally assaulted them, then gad cializes in sex abuse cases. Reakor/Associas A young woman named Herman said "a number of other young Cell: (561) 676- crusted Jane Doe No. 3 and o er no to girls" have contacted him with similar allega- email: anitaCitn give Epstein the massages, Herman said. tions against Epstein. Visit An investigation by Palm Beach Police al- Jane Doe No. 3 told Epstein that she was 18 years old or older after being advised to do so leged that Epstein induced several underage [a 225 Per before giving him the massage, Herman said. girls to give him massages at his home. He Jane Doe No. 3 was alone in a room with a was indicted in July 2000 on one felony charge massage table when Epstein arrived wearing of solicitation of prostitution. The charge is only a towel to cover himself, the suit says. He pending. told her to partially undress, then touched her inappropriately during the massage, the suit — wkelly@pbclaibmews.com UNION CUSP sends e-mail urging residents to show police support From Page Al for Palm Beach." e-mail says. Citizens United for Sen- Co-chairwoman Jere Ze. when buying a house or a car. nko said unions "don't sit well "It's good job security," he sible Planning, a loosely knit group of primarily North End with a lot of people." said. "It's overdue." "We come from northern • The residents' groups also and Midtown bloggers, sent an e-mail message to about communities where unions sent out e-mail messages to are anathema," she said. 800 residents, asking them to 250 recipients Monday ask- ing them to support the Police For either union to be se- contact police directly by call- lected in next week's ballot- ing 838.6460, by mail at Palm Department. The message says a union ing, it must receive a majority Beach Police Department, vote. • P.O. Box 2029, Palm Beach, FL would create distance be- tween the police and the Tho department's chief, 33480 or by e-mail at chief® majors, captains and a ser- palmbeachpolice.com. residents. It urges town residents to geant who serves in the pro- Sgt. Fred Hess said he re- fessional standards unit are • ceived a copy of Tuesday's let- "speak out directly to the po- lice officers." excluded from the union vote, ter from the two groups in his as are non-sworn department , department mall slot. "... the message they need to get loud and clear in the employees. "Unions may have their — mkacoha „place in some situations," he next few. days is that we are beldlid them ... ," the CUSP @pbdailynews. coon kaid. "I don't think it Is right . . •. AM, 1110a7 .it uana 'esneoaq os ssai knOlls ....... inveln mint, EFTA00188336 20A THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2007 The Palm Beach Post Tom GIUFFRIDA, Publisher JOHN BARTO$EK, Editor. CHARLES GERARLM, General Manager Ma ROSE, Managing Editor RANDY SCHULTZ, Editor of the Editorial Page JAN TUCKWOOD, Associate Editor BARRY BERG, VP Civets:anon LARRY SIEDLIK, VP & Thentuvr JOHN BELLY, VPAdoertisited GALE }LOWDEN, VPCommunity Relations and Marketing LINDA MURPHY, VP Human Resources BOB HALVE, VP Operations LAURA DECK CUNNINGHAM, Hinder, Marketing Strokes DAN SHORTER, &trend Manager, Palmated:Postcam How will system judge Palm Beach predator? We soon will find out whether Jeffrey Epstein case big money can buy from the crimi- nal justice system what everyone comes to turning point. assumes that big money can buy. The penalty news reports say part-time Palm Beach resident the public understanding that Jeffrey Epstein is expected to face the more money the accused has, suggests that he will plead guilty the bigger the break he gets. Mr. to something more than one felony Epsteith legal team includ es West count for solicitation of proititution. Palm Beach defense attorney Jack Beach Count y grand jury Goldb erger, Harva rd Law Schoo l A Palm indicted the Manhattan money Profes sor Alan manager on that charge in July worked on the OJ. Simpson murde 2006. But a guilty plea that does not case, and Kenne Dersh th Starr, owitz, who who once on his r This time recognize the age of the girls whom pursued a president based wome n. "With so much corruf police say the billion aire paid for lies about sex with young sex would be a disservice to the Federal author ities also steppe d around us, we are grateful to girls, an insult to the investigator s in, which stalled the state's case Palm Beach Post for reporting who pressed the case and, for good for another year. On Nov.to9, Jeffrey citing helped remove County Com measure, a general outrage. • an unnam ed source close sioners 'Ibny Masilotti and Wa Palm Beach police have said that Epstein, Jose Lambietinvest of The Post Newell and City Commissio Jeffrey Epstein, 54, paid underage wrote that the federa n is expected l igation Ray Liberti and Jim aline," girls, one as young as 14, to come to is over, and Mr. Epstei gie Williams wrote to The Fos( his 7,200-square-foot waterfront home to serve up to 18 month s and could month. "... Now we want mor .for "massage" sessions. Police said be labeled a sex offend er in crimi- tention paid to stopping gangs d victim s nal record s. The charge the grand gun-related interviews with five allege a year ago lence." • and 17 witnes ses under oath, phone jury return ed more than maxim um five-y ear prison "You see, w messages, a high school transcript carries a der label. not elected and other items they found in Mr. term and no "sea offen Goldb erger told vials. We are b Epstein's trash and home show that 'his case," Mr. Lambi et, "is absolu tely going to newspaper us he knew how young the girls were. within the next as a 'mug she But after Mr. Epstei nk attorne ys told end withou t atrial State attorn ey spokes - a brief. We an prosecutors about the girls' MySpace two months." Edmondson would MAMAS, Mo pages, which mentioned mariju ana man Micha el Against Munk and alcohol use, State Attorney Barry not confirm any plea deal. But, he state attorn ey's hands sociation. As r Krischer sent the case to a grand jury, noted: "The being a single ers of childr en who have been 1 instead of filing charges himself. are not tied by there That does not by guns, we all wonder. Whet Blaming these victims, however, grand jury tharge. s." the guns coming from and w stow not make them any more de- preclu de additio nal charge of what happened. And Mr. Jeffrey Epstein, like too many benefiting? We know we aren1 unnecessary handoff to a mentilorida, preyed on teenaged "We are single mothers at after an 11-month police girls. The system should not let him work. Most of us work two job n reinforced buy his way out of that reality. are the nurses you see in the EFTA00188337 - 2itter- said. Norman "i amt anawcs um tort. Stnnif edly cheated on her, police he said. slashing Wednesday lege-.iffy enlisted the help of McGee, a crack contend. McGee also denied stabbing or Caine dealer, police also attack, llicicaberry Elijah, who survived. InriantiII Attl "Don't little kid, man." He do nothing to aTackaberry Riart,nedmield.HFriiday. Young & P the August 2006 throat was slashed. 111killed and Elijah's after ar- said that he entered the robbery home to that went om Stuart. Visit fin 'Packaberry discovered them crack. "A lion t rob it to buy more Wednesday and Thur • jog home from a date. said. ; daykr ;efiutznie Mass sta Thursday Prosecutors are seeking the death pen- bad," McGee gave a much longer and detailed Mary, attorney Norman slashed Elijah's Beach, srled of Jens ty for Norman and McGee, said Norman. statement. She said McGee she cut the Thum ,' . M represents admitted tin nerai Home rem ren Lerman, who the courtroom throat, then eventually The wound was a stab, erry's relatives filled the chest tort', Stuart. onday for the brief hearing, he said. A trial boy across cut, an officer told her. next not a St. Lucie County to for the pair may be set at their "I didn't think I jugged him that him to hard," die. I did urt appearance scheduled for May. "I didn't want Luceinealid.st, Anne, 88, of Port S history, Norman said. Norman, who had no criminal McGee it to spite John." Funerlalad Thursday. Yat Home and Crem et McGee at a gas station. Whendeclined, Osusan_spencer_wendeltip ttpostcom tort', Port St. offered to sell Norman drugs, she Lucie. GallnIs, Scott 1., 40, of Po S ra e, died Friday, Tillman Mineral .1 Home, West Palm abuse suit alleges harassment Beach. Funeral today. Girl in sex: the Epstein camp. Her by Okeechobee County poena on her behalf. Also, he father said in 2006 that n:Tufts, Ernest Woodrow, 90, of Jane Doe% attorney said ag- private investigators car, 8 vr;dtrionee, died Saturday. The defendant she . and Epstein lawyer already followed his Mineral Home and accuses is a part-time had agreed to reschedule the photographed his home and Crematory Okeechobee. deposition for another date. chased off visitors after his Palm Beach resident. The girrs mother, who daughter accused Epstein. lives near Atlanta, also was Jane Doe contends that About the same ICES B LARRY Palm Beach KELLER Post Staff BEACH Writer — A served. time, Jane another man came to when she was 14, she was recruited to go to Epstein% Does workplace and mansion to give him a mas- WEST PALM said he was a lawyer who says he engaged lawyer representing one of needed to contact her, the saga She conduct with her sued two girls who recently resi- motion filed by West Palm in sexual part-time Palm Beach that time. Beach lawyer Thd Leopold at Epstein is a wealthy dent Jeffrey Epstein in fed- alleges. eral court, claiming sexual money manager a judge "It can only'be concluded Manhattan indicted by a Palm assault, has asked Epstein and/or his coun- who was attor- that to stop Epstein and his and' set arepurposefully attempt- Beach County grand jury in 'continuous 2006 on a single count of DOLORES H. ROSS 75, manor, avid golfer, bridge enthusiast neys from ing to Jane Doe and July solicitationof rbstitu- systematic harassment. said in felony identified in her mother," Leopold Mrs. Ddcees H. (nee Heinizelman) Ross died him peacefully Sunday afternoon. February 10 2000 surrounded by her family al her home In the The girl, his Motion. . lion. Police investigated concluding court documents as "Jane for 11 months, Hawk Pointe community of Washington Town. shin, NJ. Sho was 75. says a process Goldberger Epstein attorney Jack that he engaged in sexual Doe," 1Z filed a writ- several under- •Born In Sunbury. PA., Mrs. Roes was raised server showed up at Feb. her saying there activity with in Groton, CT, andhad lived in Conyngharn. PA, ten response whom he paid to Flourlown, PA, and Ponta Wedge Beach, FL before manna to Chatham Tovmshlp where she place of employment on was no harassment, only a age girlsmassages at his wa- subpoena for him had lived for 30 years before recently moving to Washington Township. She and her husband 1 to serve a deposition, originally simple; routine serving of a give terfront home. Epstein has Bob Ross also maintained a home at the PGA her subpoena. NatIonal in PaM Beach Gardens, FL for many scheduled for Feb. 6, even maintained he did not know years attorney had It's not the first.time one the girls were minors. (Mrs. Ross had wooed as ere& estate broker though her Doe's parents has larry_kellerepbpostcom .4i nP ai sFaremmolit recently, told Epstein attorney twice of Jane complained of harassment 0 `Ir;c:jairel.crhaV that he would accept the sub- ass bridge enlhuslast and and G Club at Palm goiter eeach EFTA00188338 signs all of thicityla checks and has the right to inspect all documents through- out the city. He suggested the original framers of the charter put the measure in place to provide some "checks and balances? within city government. Elected in March 200Z Masters has not suspended anyone. "Ira one thing to amend the char- ter," Masters said. "But it's another thing to change the original intent of the charter." The city charter hasn't been amended since 1973. The council created a charter re- PALM BEACH GARDENS - Jill Coulter of Palm Bea, view advisory board to comb the docu- Ash Wednesday at St. Ignatius Loyola Cathedral. ( ment, which produced the 21 proposed for Christians, the faithful turned out at churches ti amendments. The proposals include Gerald Barbarito, head of the Diocese of Palm Beac See RIVIERA, 5B 00 Part-time Palm Beacher faces another sex suit sexually tinged massage at his home. WEST' PALM BEACH, The latest alleged victim — For the second time in two is identified as "Jane Doe weeks, part-time Palm Beach No. 2." She went to Epsteinh resident Jeffrey Epstein has Palm Beach mansion in 2004 been sued for more than or 2005 when she was 16, $50 million by a woman who the lawsuit alleges. She says contends that he engaged another girl recruited her in sexual activity with her to go there to give Epstein a when she was a minor after massage. enticing her Once there, she alleges, to give him she was led to an upstairs a massage at room with a maggsge table. his home. Epstein came in wearing More only a towel around his waist lawsuits may and told her to remove her follow, Miami clothes. She did, except for lawyer Jef- her bra and panties, accord- frey Herman ing to the lawsuit. Epstein said. "I'm Epstein removed his towel, aware of oth- rolled onto his back, mastur- er bated and touched Jane Doe' he said. "I have been victims con- No. 2 sexually, according to . lacted:' -1 mrman filed a similar courtlawsuit the filed in federal suit against Epstein on Wednesday. Palm Beach on in West 2 en behalf of a ldcntilicd as "Jane Doe," girl Jane Doe No. 2 was paid her $200 afterward, and the girl lather ant ateptnother The 'who recruited her was given i, now 17, 11 when says she csi :he gay: Epstein . In a See EPSTEIN, 5B O. Emily Minor's column will return. Col EFTA00188339 i s parents UE <Whole at odd18s over suit m involving their daughtle s so er. cu sto - HELPS REMO Er st, Sedt ^ OK Ou Mold Spores House Air Dud Cleaning ► EPStEI N fro "The fath er ha Patten • Bacteria d ha s th e rig ht to m ak e $100, according tod. the lawsuit. dy anions• on his daughter's Oust Mlles Mildew • the sam e de cis • Animal Dander The two attende un rm high rights," He a wealthy New an - ' sa id . Palm Beach Co . ty 2 is now Epstein is No school Jane Doe inia, Her York money manager who 19 and living itrVirg WEEKEND FUN Emmy Friday TGIF on, has counted Bill Clint ita in k man sa id: p an d Br Both lawsuits corg ntend Donald 'Blimew am on g hi s , ta ete d Prince An dr that Ep ste in , 55 e ta rg et of taged friends. He was th "economically disadvan Palm a lengthy investigation into ghis from westerno were his activities with girls by the Beach County" wh ely to Palm Beach Police Depart- rI,he Palm Beach Post perceived as less lik es, or ment that resulted in his in- complain to authoritiuld be dictment in July 2006 on one whose credibility wo 'count of felony soatlicca itation 0TO questioned if they did. ll of of prostitut ion . Th se is "Both complaints are fu lies," said Guy Lewis, foirm US. attorney in M iam an er pend d in g. Epstein has been suedwhino man A NAME YOU or- New York by a wo one of Epstein many attsuit says he had sex with her neys. Jane Doe No. 2k law ry when she was 16 . Herman "is an outrageous, defamato Said he ha s re ce ived calls ca t of th e fir st. " g the same copy in from others snakatinstate. There has been a twist t Her assertions nvened a newsin th the first Jane Doe lawsui nt ends Herman co mother in .Georgia co and. co nf erence Wednesday .on that her former hu—shcon- the middle bridge connecting — Jane Doek father of them West Palm Beach and Palm sulted with neither uit She Beach. before filing the lawshalt the "This is the bridge... th ese is as ki ng a ju dg e to crui ted to co me litigation until her danug hter girls wedregire ve a m as sa ge ," he make over an turns 18 in May and ca . sa id . "W he n th ey cr os se d th is her own decisions. in court bridge, they had no idea what The mother asked e law- was an store for them. This is filings to be added tosu th rs." e "h as ffered a bridge of teaha . suit, saying sh ffer Herman s described and will continue toishsuand both Jane Does as typical severe mental anofguEpstein% teenage girls Epstein robbed pain" as a result t" of their innocence. rsity la* "reckless conduc didn't want But Harvard Unive witz, Jane Doe just for wa rd Professor Alan Dersho the law su it go in g ste in att orney, pro- th th e fat he r's involve- another Ep e sta te att orney's of- wj Le op old , vided th onciul SemC ment," sa id 'le d fic e wi th inform at ion gleaned options coailob;0 Ihiough BMW fin ne y. 'S he W eb on ce the Mother's attor on her from the myspace.comowing SiDecion ea re & hn wanted to pursue esitsentially site two years ago shall eged own. :The father n." th at some of Epsteinthkeir alco- did this on his ows been es- victims boasted ofuse. Jane Doe ha ther since hol and marijuana e girls tranged from her fa said. 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Epstein was different Epstein, one of the most from most sexual abuse sus- mysterious of the country's pects; he was far more pow- mega-rich, was known as erful. He counted among his much for his secrecy as for friends former President Bill his love of fine things: mag- Clinton, Donald Trump and nificent homes, private, jets, Prince Andrew, along with beautiful women, friendships some of the most prominent legal. scientific and business EFTA00188341 Way. Epstein's Palm Beach mansion at 358 El Brillo Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends and, investigators say, underage girls By ANDREW MARRA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WINGED GARGOYLES guarded the gate at Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. Inside, hidden cameras trolled two rooms, while the girls came and went. For the police detectives else: the regular arriva l of who sifted through the gar- teenag e girls he hired to give bage outside and kept him massages and, police records of visitors, it was the say, perform sexual favors . lair of a troubling target . Epste in was differ ent Epstein, one of the most from most sexual more abuse sus- mysterious of the country's pects; he was far pow- was known as erful. He counte d among his mega-rich, Presid ent Bill much for his secrecy as for friend s forme r his love of fine things: mag- Clinton, Donalw, d Trump and nificent homes, private jets, Prince Andre along with beautiful women, friendships some of the most prominent with the world 's elite. legal, scient ific and business Epstein's mysterious lifestyle But at Palm Beach police minds in the countr y. l after claims headquarters, he was be- When detectives started began to unrave coming known for something See EPSTEIN, 6A ► of sexual activity with minors. ■ Epstein's lawyers take on Palm Beach police chief. Local, 1B State suspends Boynton doctor, Hostilities escalat says he violated previous order Lebanon's Cabinet seems torn over Hezboi By STACEY SINGER Paint Beath Post Staff Writer Mondays are supposed to be scalpel days for By HENRY CHU and BORZOU anese goven DARAGAHI Boynton Beach plastic surgeon Mark D. Schreiber. Los Angeles Tinto of the U.N.-b But not today. and BEIRUT- By air liah. on land, Is- day, after sh Hezbo fighte rs Cabin et fonr The Florida Department of Health issued an raeli forces and maxim ize th eir ed Nations emergency suspension order against the doctor late battled fiercely to a last-minute . cease-fire. Friday, saying it believed that the last time the state positions Sunday in before an 01E. Through, suspended Schreiber's license, he continued to oper- C surge of bloodletting EFTA00188342 THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006 Jeffrey Epstein has donated more than $1009000 presider to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kerry's and the SE the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson rles Set of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Cha Po w er fu l leg al te am st y m ie fuel extraordinary de EPSTEIN from 1,4 In March 2005, a v king questions and teenage girls A life of luxury and secrecy contacted Palm Bea said another parent h tried talking, a wave of legal conversation betwe' sistance followed. dren. If Palm Beach police didn't know Now the mother ite who Jeffrey Epstein was, they 14-year-old daught md out soon enough. molested by a man o Epstein, now 53, was a quintes- The phone call ntial man of mystery. He amassed extensive investigal 3 fortune and friends quietly, would lead detective: ways in. the background as he leave them frustrate( vigated New York high society. Palm Beach poll( When he first attracted notice in attorney's office ha e early 1990s, it was on account of discuss the case. Bu e woman he was dating: Ghislaine police report detailit axwell, daughter of the late British probe offers a wine edia tycoon Robert Maxwell. detectives faced as In a lengthy article, headlined close in on Epstein. he Mystery of Ghislaine Max- Detectives intery ill's Secret Love," the British Mail who told them a frk Sunday tabloid laid out specula- her to a rich man's hi •e stories that the socialite's beau a massage. She said is a CIA spook, a math teacher, .a her to say she was 18 ncert pianist or a corporate head- house, she said she inter. after stripping to h "But what is the truth about massaging the man rn?" the newspaper wondered. turbated. ike Maxwell, Epstein is both anboyant and intensely private." Police Interview 5 a The media frenzy did not begin The investigatioi full until a decade later. In Sep- after the girl identifi mber 2002, Epstein was flung into photo as the man wt e limelight when he flew Clinton Police arranged for id actors Kevin Spacey and Chris to set aside Epstein't mker to Africa on his private jet. could sift through it Suddenly everyone wanted, to video camera to fee( tow who Epstein was. New York and goings at his ho agazine and Vanity Fair published itored an airport han ngthy profiles. The New York Post his private jet's arri ted him as one of the city's most tures. igible bachelors and began They quickly le !scribing him in its gossip columns woman who took the ith adjectives such as "mysterious" to Epstein's house id "reclusive." son, a Palm Beach ( Although Epstein gave no inter- lege student from Le ews, the broad strokes of his past TINA FINIBIRG/Tho At33clated Pins sworn su it a arced to come into focus. East th Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattantownhousellominates a block on theit Upper is reporte d quarters„ she had en a eas Side. Thought to be the largest private residen ce in Manha ttan, ailding a fife of extravakance EFTA00188343 Lein has donated more than $100,000 s' campaigns, including John Kerry's presidential bid, 1 I New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the Senate bids ry Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. al team stymies detectives fuel extraordinary desires. . enough dirt on the girls to make • In March 2005, a worried mother prosecutors skeptical. Not only did contacted Palm Beach police. She some of the girls have issues with said another parent had overheard a drugs or alcohol hit also some had conversatio n between their chil- criminal records and other troubles, dren. Epstebts legal team claimed. And at Now the mother was afraid her least one of them, they said, lied police she was 14year-old daughter had been when thantold she 18 when she started molested by a man on the island. younger performing massages for Epstein. The phone call triggered an extensive investigation, one that After the meeting, prosecutors would lead detectives to Epstein but postponed their decision to take the leave them frustrated. case to a grand jury. Palm Beach police and the state In the following Weeks, police szp attorney's office a Palm Beach victims orcomplaintt have declined to received that two of the discuss the case. But their families had been zp police report .detailing the criminal harassed or threatened. Epstein's probe offers a window into what legal team maintains that its private detectives faced as they sought to investigators did nothing illegal or close in on Epstein. unethical during their research. Detectives interviewed the girl, By then, relations between who told them a friend had invited police and prosecutors were fraying. her to a rich man's house to perform At a. key meeting with prosecutors a massage. She said the friend told and the defense, Detective Joseph . her to say she was 18 if asked. At the Recarey, the lead investigator, was a house, she said she was paid $300 no-show, according to Epstein's after stripping to her panties and attorney. massaging the man while he mas- 'The embarrassment on the turbated. prosecutor's face was evident when the police officer never showed up Police Interview 5 alleged victims ' for the meeting," attorney Jack The iniestigation began in full Goldberger said. after the. girl identified Epstein in a Later in April, Recarey walked photo as the man who had paid her. into a prosecutor's office at the state Police arranged for garbage trucks attorney's office. and learned the to set aside Epstein's trash so police case was taking in Unexpected turn. could sift through it. They set up a The prosecutor, ,• Leanne video camera to record the comings Belohlavek, told Recarey: the state and goings at his home. They mon- attorney's office had offered Epstein itored an airport hangar for signs of a plea deal that, woidd- not require his private jets arrivals and depar- him to serve jail time or receive a tures. felony conviction. • They quickly learned that the Recarey told her he disapproved wonian who took the 14- d girl of the plea offer." • to Epstein's house The 'deal 'wirer came to pass, minor a Palm Beach Co Col- lege student from Loxahatchee. In a however. 'TINA fir4113FRG/Itie ASSOSICd PIOSI sworn statement at police head- Mum unclear after charge ittan townhouse dominatoc a block nn the UDDer East rtn.rfaro Rnhcan then 1R admit/PA EFTA00188344 lilt Police interview 5 alleged victims fral e la". jiaa Goldberger said . The investigation began in full after the.girl identifie d Eps tein in a Later in April, Recarey walked photo as the man who had paid her. into a prosecutor's office at the state Police arranged for garb age truc ks attorney's office and learned the an unexpected turn. to set aside Epstein's trash so policea case was taking could sift through it. They set up The prosecutor, Lanna video camera to reco rd the com ings Belohlavek, told Recarey' the state and goin gs at his hom e. The y mon - atto rney's office had offered Epstein itored an airport hangar for sign s of a plea deal that. would -not requirea his private jet's arriv als and depa r- him to serve jail time or receive tures. felo ny conviction. They quickly learned that the Recarey told her he disapproved wonian who took the 14-y d girl of the plea offer.'. 's house was The 'deal never came to pass, Palm Beach Col- ninon townhouse dominates a TINA FINEKRG/Ibe Associated Ness block on the Uppe repo r East rted t ic lege student from Loxahatchee. in a sworn qua rters , en however. police head- Future unclear after charge six 18, admitted girls to visit On May 1, the department asked le largest private reSidehce In Manhatta n, it is she had fallen snow. Epstein, all between the ages of 14 prosecutors to approve warrants to television and a heated sidewalk to melt her for each arrest Epstein on four counts or of and 16. Epstein paid ity with a min visit, she said. unlawful sexual activ drive back to her and to his personal assistant, in his i house,j id detectives, 'Tin now 27, for her alleged role the visits. Police like a also wan ted to charge Rob- . 'Police interviewed five alleged offic ials victims and 17 witnesses. Their with son, the selkescribed Heidi Fleiss, report shows some of the girls said lewd and lascivious acts:. they had been instructed to have sex By then, the departmetit was with another woman in fron t of frustrated with the way the state said she had dire ct attorney's office had handledrant the Epstein, and one e day the war s intercourse with him. case. On the sam ce the wer e requ este d, Palm Bea ch Poli In October, police searched hael Reiter wrote a letter Palm Beach mansion. They discov- Chief MicAtto rney Barry Krischer ered photos of naked, young-looking to State g he disqualify himself females, just as several of the girls sugg estin if he would not'act. had described in interviews. Hidden from the case flaxwoll, a cameras were found in the garage Two weeks 'later, Recarey was lite parties area and inside a clock on Eps tein 'S told that proseCtitarS had decided desk, alongsid e a girl' s high scho ol once again to take the case ..to the msely transcript. • grand jury. ghter of a Two of Epstein's former It is not known how many of the on, dated employees told inve stiga tors that girls testified before the grand jury. young-look ing girls show ed up to But Epstein's defense team said one he 1990s. perform massages two or threine girl who was subpoenaed — the one times a day when Epstein was who said she had sexual intercourse PaIrritieachPost.c orn town . with Epstein —never showed tip.' inve stiga tion. The y said the girls wer e perm it- The grand jury's indictment was avious stories on the Epstein ted many indulgences. A. chef handed down in July. It was not the cooked for them. Workers gave- one the police department had d claim ed Epst ein them rides and handed out hun wanted. • is I never met A form er frien dred s of doll ars at a time . g. slapped with a ise to reim- Instead of bein :k Dunne, the backed, out of a prom One emp loye e told dete ctiv es he • ge of unla wfu l sexual activity sands of char f the trials and burse him hundreds of dthou stment was told to send a doze n rose s to one a minor, Epstein was char ged -y rich."I wasn't dollars after their faile inve teen age girl afte r a high school with with one cou nt of felo ny solic itati on 7 except for a in Texas oil wells. noth A judge decided ing. dram a. performance. Others were of prostitution, which carries • a Epstein owed him given rental cars. One, according to maximum penalty of five years in a bad mem ory: I wou ld hip with Clin ton It's police, received a $200 Christmas prison. He was booked into the Palms ist attention. rather not have ever met Jeffrey bonus. 23 and ton as early as Epstein," said Miciden hael Stroll, the ed to cem ent thei r Beach County Jail early July t of WMiams The cop s mov released hours -late r. I tend of thou- retired former pres Corp as they tried to tighten the join him at an Electronics and Seg. a . "Suf fice case . But enco unte red other Epstein's legal team "doesn't noo se, they dispute that he had girls over for g dinner in Palm it to say I have nothing good to say forces at work. M arances, about him." inter view ed a massages," Goldberger said. But he to close friends Among the characteristics most In Orla ndo they noth- said theiunte r claims that they had sex- is a penc hant poss ible victi m who told them rs with him lack credi- Ithe Oval Office attributed to Epstein mg inap prop riate had happened bility. ual enco • for women. tein. They rated more than' • He has been linked to Maxpart well, between her and Epshad spoken 'They are incapable of being aske d her whe ther she ratic candidates' a fixture on the high-so ciety y else . She said yes; a pri- believed,rds. " he said. "They had crimi- New Yor k and Lon - to amo ne They had accusations ofr. John Keny's circuits in both stigator had asked her the thee nal reco the reelection don. Previous girlfriends are said to vateam.inve im• • a neanna nmAn no?Inat H,nm Iw thea EFTA00188345 Ponce lei The in ung into after the.g e flew Clinton photo as tt d actors Kevin Spaoey and Chris Police am Tucker to Africa on his private jet. to set aside SuddenlyEreveryone wanted, to could sift I know who tein was. New York video cam( magazine an Vattity Fair published - and going( lengthy profiles. The New York Post itored an a listed him as one of the city's most his private eligible bachelors and began tures. describing him in its gossip columns They q with adjectives such as "mysterious" woman wit. and "reclusive." to Epstein' Although Epstein gave no inter- son, a Pahl views, the broad strokes of his past lege studer started to come into focus. TINA FINELIEAG/The Astodatea Pou sworn stall Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse dominates a block on the Upper Eas quarters, R Building a life of extravagance Side. Thought to be the largest private residehce in Manhattan, It is reported she had tak to have closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt fallen snow. Epstein, all He was born blue-collar in 1953, the son of a New York City parks and 16. Ep visit., she sa department employee, and raised in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighbor- Women in his ilf During hood. He left college without a house, Rob bachelor's degree but became a like a Heidi math teacher at the prestigious Police i Dalton School in Manhattan. victims an The story goes that the father of report shoe one of Epstein's students was so they had be impressed with the man that he put with anoth him in touch with a senior partner at Epstein, am Bear Stearns, the global investment intercourse bank and securities firm. • In Octol In 1976, Epstein left Dalton for a Palm Beach job at Bear arris. By the early ered photos 1980s, he had started J. Epstein and females, jus Co. That is when he began making Ghistaine Maxwell, a had describe his millions in earnest cameras we Little is known or said about fixture at elite parties area and ins Epstein's business except this: He and the intensely desk, along( manages money for the extremely private daughter of a transcript wealthy. He is said to handle media tycoon, dated • "No o: accounts only of $1 billion or great- employees er. • Epstein in the 1990s. young-lookii It has been estimated he has perform nu roughly 15 clients, but their identi- PalmBeachPost.com times a day ties are the subject of only specula- town. tion. All except for one: Leslie Wex- Read previous stories, on the Epstein investigation. They sal( ner, founder of The Limited retail ted many chain and a former Palm Beacher cooked for who is said to have been a mentor to 'he odd thing is I never met A former friend claimed Epstein them rides Epstein. him," said Dominick Dunne, the backed, out of a promise ter reim- dreds of doll: Wexner sold Epstein one of his famous chronicler of the trials and burse him hundreds of thousands of One tamp] most lavish residences: a massive tribulationsof the very rich."I wasn't dollars after their failed investment was told to se townhouse that dominates a block even aware of him," except for a in Texas oil wells. A judge decided teenage girl on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It Vanity Fair article. Epstein owed him nothing. drama perfo is reported to have, among its finer Epstein's friendship with Clinton 'It's a bad memory. I would given rental ( features, closed-circuit television has attracted the most attention. rather not have ever met Jeffrey police, receh and a heated sidewalk to melt away Epstein met Clinton. as early as Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the bonus. fallen snow. 1995, when he paid tent of thou-. retired former president of Williams The cops That townhouse, thought to be sands of dollars to join him at an Electronics and Sega Corp- "Suffice case. But as ti the largest' private residenee in intimate fund-raising dinner in Palm it to say I have nothing good to say noose, they Manhattan, is only a piece of the Beach. But from all appearances, about him." forces at worl extravagant world Epstein built over they did not beconte cloge friends Among the characteristics most In Orland time. until after Clinton left the Oval Office attributed to Epstein is, a penchant possible vitt( • In New Maim, he constructed and moved to New York.. for women. mg inapprof 27,000-square-foot hilltop mansion Epstein has donated more than' He has been linked to Maxwell, between her on a 10,0007acre ranch outside Santa • $100,000 to Democratic candidates' a fixture on the high-society party asked her wh Fe. Many believed it to be the largest campaigns, including John Kenya circuits in both New York and Lon- to anyone els home in the state. presidential bid, the • reelection don. Previous girlfriends are said to vete investi?a In Palm Beach, he bought a campaiiin of New Mexico Gov. Bill include a former Ms. Sweden and a same questtor EFTA00188346 :rept tor a in texas on wells. A Judge decided teenage girt alter a high school wats a minor, cpstem was cnarged Epstein owed him nothing. 'drama performance. Others were with one count of felony solicitation dal Clinton "les a bad memory. I would given rental cars. One, according to maximumof prostitution, which carries a tention. rather not have ever met Jeffrey police, received a $200 Christmas penalty of five years in as early as Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the bonus. prison. He was booked into the Palm is of thou-. . retired former president of Williams The cops moved to cement their Beach County Jail early July 23 and released hours later. him at an Electronics and Sega Corp. "Suffice case. But as they tried to tighten the ter in Palm it to say I have nothing good to say noose, they encountered other Epstein's legal team "doesn't pearances, about him." forces at work. dispute that he had girls over for ise friends Among the characteristics most In Orlando they interviewed a massages," Goldberger said. But he Oval Office attributed to Epstein is a penchant possible victim who told them noth- said their claims that they had sex- for women. mg inappropriate had happened ual encounters with him lack credi- more than' ' He has been linked to Maxwell, between her and Epstein. They bility. :andidates' a fixture on the high-society party asked her whether she had spoken 'They are incapable of behag hn Kerry's circuits in both New York and Lon- to anyone else. She said yes; a pri- believed," he said. 'hey had crimi- reelection don. Previous girlfriends are said to vate investigator had asked her the nal records.They had accusations of d Gov. Bill include a former Ms. Sweden and a same questions. theft made against them by their. ate bids of Romanian model. When they subpoenaed one of employers. There was evidence of • Rodham • "He's a lot of fun to be with," Epstein's former employees, he told drug use by some of them." )odd and Donald Thunp told New York maga- them the same thing. He and a pri- What remains for Epstein is yet zine in 2002. It is even said that he vate eye had met at a restaurant days to be seen. likes beautiful women as much as I earlier to go over what the man The Palm Beach Police Depart- vales do, and many of them are on the would tell investigators. ment has asked the FBI to investi- Be found younger side. , No doubt about it, Detectives received complaints gate the case. It also has returned stein's life Jeffrey enjoys his social life." that private eyes were posing as the $90,000 Epstein donated in 2004. aid he left police officers. When they told In New York, candidates for if a federal Investigation leads to Epstein Epstein's local attorney, Guy Frons- governor and state attorney general unties and Although he was not a fre- tin, he said the investigators worked have vowed to return a total of at iolation. It quenter of the Palm Beach social for Roy Blitck, the high-powered least $60,000 in campaign contribu- bank once scene, he made his presence felt. Miami kwyer who has defended the tions from Epstein. Meanwhile, on a $20 Among his charitable donations, he likes of Rush Llinbaugh and William Epstein's powerful friends have gave $90,000 to the Palm Beach Kennedy Smith. remained silent as tabloids and that one of Police Department and $100,000 to While the private eyes were Internet blogs feast on the public 1 previous Ballet Florida. conducting a parallel investigation, details of the police'investigation. offenberg, hi Pan Beach, he lived in luxu- Dershowitz, the Harvard law pro- Goldberger maintains Epstein's erm after ry. Three black Mercedes sat in his fessor, traveled to West Palm Beach innocence but says the legal team tore than garage, alongside a green Harley- with information about the girls.. has not ruled out a future plea deal. he largest Davidson. His jet waited at a hangar From their own profiles on the pop- He insists Epstein will emerge in the can histo- at Palm Beach Internal-logeAirport ular Web site MySpace.com, he end with his reputation untarnished. At home, a private chef and a small obtained copies of their discussions s wealth, staff stood at the ready. From a about their use of alcohol and mari- "He will recover from this," he disputes window in his mansion, he could juana. said. sued the look out on the Intracoastal Water- He took his research to a meet- Staff writer Larry Keller and staff him. his way and the West Palm Beach sky- ing with prosecutors in early 2006, researchers Bridget Bulger, Angelica a Beach line. He seemed to be a man who where he sought to cast doubt on the Cortez, Amy Hanaway and Melanie t less than had evetYlllinil- teens' reliability. Mena contributed to this story. . t,. 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I would given rental features, closed-circuit television has attracted the most attention. rather not have ever met Jeffrey police, rece and a heated sidewalk to melt away Epstein met Clinton as Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the bonus. fallen snow. early as 1995, when he paid tens of thou- retired former president of Williams The cope That townhouse, thought to be sands of dollars to join him an Electronics and Sega Corp. the largest private residence in intimate fund-raising dinner in at "Suffice case. But as Palm it to say I have nothing good to say noose, the. Manhattan, is only a piece of the Beach. But from. all appearance s, about him." extravagant wind Epstein built over they did not become close friends forces at wo: time. Among the characteristics most In Orlan until after Clinton left the Oval Office attributed to Epstein is a penchant possible vict In New Mexico, he constructed a and moved to New York. for women. ing 27,000-square-foot hilltop mansion inappro Epstein has donated more than' He has been on a 10,0004cre ranch outside Santa • $100,000 to Democratic candidates' a fixture on the linked to Maxwell, between he high-society Fe. Many believed it to be the largest campaigns, including John Kerry's circuits in both New York andparty Lon- asked her w. to anyone el home in the state. presidential bid, the reelection don. Previous girlfriends are said to tate investig In Palm Beach, he bought a campaign of New Mexico Got. Bill include a former Ms. Sweden and a same questk waterfront home on El Brillo Way. Richardson and the Senate bids of Romanian model. And he owns a 100-acre private Joe Lieberman, Hillary Rodham When th. "He's a lot of fun to be with," Epstein's fon island in the Virgin Islands. Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Donald Trump told New York maga- them the san Perhaps as remarkable as his Charles Schumer. zine in 2002. "It is even said that he vate eye hadi lavish homes is his extensive net . likes beautiful women as much as I earlier to g( work of friends and associates at the PoWeiful friends and enemies do, and many of them are on the would tell inv highest echelons of power. This A Vanity Fair profile found younger side. No doubt about it, includes not only socialites but also cracks in the veneer of Epstein's Detective business tycoons, media moguls, story. The 2003 life • Jeffrey enjoys his social life." that private politicians, royalty and Nobel Prize- Bear Stearns in the article said he left 'ce office wake of a federal Investigation leads to Epstein in's tom winning scientists whose research probe and a possible Securities and he often.funds. Although he was not a fre- tin, he said th Exchange Commission violation. It' quenter of the Palm Beach social for Roy Bit "Just like other people collect also pointed out that Citibank once scene, he made his presence felt. Miami lawyer art, he collects scientists," said sued him for defaulting on a Among his charitable donations, he likes of Rush I Martin Nowak, who directs the million loan. $20 Program for Evolutionary Dynamics gave $90,000 to the Palm Beach Kennedy Snit The article suggested that one of Police Department and $100,000 to While tit( at Harvard University and was his business mentors and previous Ballet Florida. reportedly the recipient of a $30 employers was Steven Hoffenberg conducting a million research donation from now serving a prison term after, ry. In Palm Beach, he lived in luxu- Dershowitz, Epstein. Three black Mercedes sat in his fessor, travele "bilking investors out of more than garage, alongside a green Harley- with informal Epstein is said to have $450 million in one of the largest Davidson. His jet waited at a hangar From their ot befriended former Harvard Presi- Ponzi schemes in American histo- at Palm Beach Intematioqa l Airport. ular Web sit dent Larry Stinuners, prominent law ry?" • At home, a private chef and a small obtained coin( Professor Alan Dershowitz, Donald As he amassed his wealth, staff stood at the ready. From a about their us. Trump and New York Daily News Epstein made enemies in disputes window in his mansion, he could juana. Publisher Mort Zuckerman. both large and small. He sued the look out on the Intracoastal Water- He And yet he managed for decades man who in 1990 sold him his way and the West Palm Beach sky- ing withtook hi prose to maintain a low profile. He avoids multimillion-dollar Palm Beach line. He seemed to be a man who where he song eating out and was rarely photo- home over a dispute about less than had everything. teens' reliabiht ' graphed. $16,000 in furnishings. t: But extraordinary wealth `tan The privet NiaaLAM • -.:plOaq :00A. OR EFTA00188348 YORK TIMES NATIONAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 17 Florida Sex Case Raises Questions About Charges By ABBY GOODNOUGH college student, told the girl to say she was IS If Mr. Epstein asked, the PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the sum- report said. mer and autumn of last year, when The girl told the police that Mr. most of the mansions here stood Epstein's assistant had led her up- empty behind their towering hedges, stairs to a room with a massage ta- the police stealthily watched one at ble and that Mr. Epstein had come in the end of a waterside lane. They and told her to remove her clothes. monitored the comings and goings of She said Mr. Epstein had masturbat- its owner's private jet, subpoenaed ed as she massaged him, had pressed his phone records and riffled through a vibrator against her underwear his trash. and had given her $300 afterward. The owner was Jeffrey Epstein, 53, an intensely private New York Ms. In mi., the police interviewed then 19, who told them money manager with several billion- Mr. Epstein had routinely paid her to aire clients. Months earlier, the step- bring teenage girls to his home. The mother of a 14-year-old girl told the police then interviewed a total of 5 al- Palm Beach police that a wealthy leged victims and 17 witnesses, older man, whom the girl later Iden- many of whom told similar stories titled as Mr. Epstein, might have had about what they had observed or par- inappropriate sexual contact with ticipated in at Mr. Epstein's home. her. According to the report, at least one In sworn statements to the police, said Mr. Epstein had engaged in in- the 14-year-old and other teenage tercourse with her. girls said a friend had arranged for Mr. Lefcourt, his lawyer, said one them to visit Mr. Epstein's home and girl who told the police of having had give him massages, usually in their sex with Mr. Epstein as a minor had underwear, in exchange for cash. lied about both the sex and her age Most of the girls, according to the and had not shown up for grand Jury police, said Mr. Epstein had mastur- questioning. He also said Mr. Epstein bated during the massages, and a had passed a liedetector test clear- few said he had penetrated them ing him of any sexual Involvement with his fingers or penis. They identi- with under-age girls. fied him in photos and accurately de- A spokeswoman for the Palm scribed the inside of his home Some Beach police said that early this recalled that his employees had fed year, the police went to Mr. Krischer, them snacks or rented them cars. the state attorney, intending to apply Mr. Epstein pleaded not guilty In for warrants to arrest Mr. Epstein. August to the crime he was ulti- Instead, she said, they were told that mately charged with, soliciting pros- PI.Littv ATh. by Peter Davelet The ere Yoe: nee: titution. But at a time when prosecu- y large crowd of brides- and grooms-to-be dashed to the tors around the nation have become • y Marriage License Bureau just before midnight on Friday. increasingly severe in dealing with people accused of sex offenses, the case has raised questions about Ity were sent notices of or drive In. They think, 'Well, we whether Mr. Epstein's prominence nd asked for feedback, need to do this, there are no lines, won him preferential treatment. iirre said, but she had let's just do it now.' " By the account of the police, they We had an open public Weddings have been a mainstay of found probable cause to charge Mr. no one showed up;' she the Las Vegas experience since the Epstein with much more serious of- ally puzzling to me." 1920's, taking off with the wide- fenses: one count of lewd and lascivi- , the city's marriage in- spread use of the automobile in the ous molestation and four counts of bustling. There were 1940's, when the Hitching Post and unlawful sexual activity with a mi- • flowing gowns, some the Wee Kirk o' the Heather opened nor. ters looking slightly ter- their doors. Inspired by the lax li- But instead of proceeding with suple — he with a cigar censing laws— no blood test, no wait- such charges on his own, the Palm ween his teeth, she un- ing — couples flocked from around Beach County state attorney took the ere wed under a tree at the region, and eventually the coun- rare step of presenting a broad range tile Chapel. When it was try, to wed. of possible charges to a grand jury, le gave her groom a pat Among the earliest celebrity cli- which indicted Mr. Epstein In July on ents were the actors Clara Bow and the lesser count. In Florida, prosecu- Iht, outside the wedding Rex Bell, who tied the knot here in tors usually refer only capital cases mu in the courthouse, 1931, said Guy Rocha, the state archi- to grand Juries. PIlamlute Canty ihnItes Office Ink neon lettering above vist. Even before the indictment, the "chapel rats," so called Just like its casinos, restaurants, Palm Beach police chief, Michael Jeffrey Epstein faces lesser city guards for their hotels and adult entertainers, Las Reiter, had accused prosecutors of charges than police wanted. fling of chapel services Vegas wedding chapels cater to all giving Mr. Epstein special treatment bewildered couples. tastes. Couples can combine a wed- and asked the state attorney, Barry Mr. Krlscher would convene a grand tic tannins were etddv. ding with a day package to the most E. Krlscher, to remove himself from beet to examine the evidence and de- EFTA00188349 e • &obi mute ceremony. For $365, you can Post an . . , I keeps careful watch oitl get in the spirit of ci at whose post is elective,• saying said, Mr. Denbo*itz met with pros- Lancelot, or step 1, said that scores more out of a coffin and bare the public had been left "to wonder ecutors to share information about fangs at your in normal showed up Fri- betrothed during a whether the system tilted in favor of the accusers, Including statements gothic ceremony. they had posted on MySpace.com, Mating the closing hoer. Several chapel owners said they a wealthy, well-connected alleged deadline won't stop drunk were indifferent to the perpetrator and against very young the social networking site, concern- ing use of drugs and alcohol. Ac- in getting married in the probably were losingchange. "They money, and girls who are alleged victims of sex cording to the report, Mr. Krischer's night," Mr. Williams said. there is no point in i t," said the Rev. crimes." office then decided to delay the n up drunk all day long. I David Nye, who is a co-owner of A The case has taken a toll on the grand Jury session for several Las Vegas Wedding reputation of Mr. Epstein, who owns from getting married." Chapel. months. a palatial home in Manhattan, has raguIrre said the majority "Who would this affect? Britney The Palm Beach police grew frus- pledged $30 million to Harvard and who showed up for a wed- Spears, that's all," Mr. Nye said. "I once flew former President Bill Clin- trated, the report said, and on May 1 se during the graveyard am not sure why there is contro- the department asked prosecutors to a ton on his 727. Politicians including o intention of racing off to versy. Most people are shocked to death that it was open in the middle Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic candi- approve warrants to arrest Mr. Ep- anyway. "We think there date for governor in New York, and stein. inception here." she said. of the night to begin with. If 8 to mid- Chief Reiter also wrote Mr. Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, le coining in during those night isn't enough, I don't know what is.,, also a Democrat, have returned Krlscher questioning "the unusual normally not planning int- campaign contributions from him. course that your office's handling of night weddings, they fly in Tell that to poor Mr. Harris. But Mr. Epstein fought back, as- this matter has taken" and suggest- sembling a team of star lawyers, in- ing that Mr. Krlscher disqualify him- cluding Gerald B. Lefcourt and Alan self. Chief Reiter refused several re- M. Dershowitz, a friend of his, to look quests to be interviewed, and his ties for Indian Veterans into the backgrounds of his young ac- spokeswoman would not say explicit- cusers. ly why he had urged the prosecutor Mr. Lefcourt says that the police to step aside. dense Department's most Ing buried close to home, Thomas acted "outrageously" and that his cli- Mike Edmondson, a spokesman y, from December 2005. By Berry, a Navy veteran and a founder ent has been wrongfully dragged for Mr. Krischer, said the state at- 2006, there will be an esti- of the two-year-old National Native through the mud. torney's office sometimes sent non- .,361 Native Kit "lean vet- A merlean Veterans Association, said "He disputes that he ever had sex capital cases to grand juries when sirding to the .Ile Na- tribes have sacred ceremonies and with any under-age person or any- there were questions about witness ive American e erans As- rituals to honor the dead and ease thing like that," said Mr. Lefcourt, credibility. Mr. Krischer does not estimates that 22 patent of passage into the next life. whose clients have included Russell recommend a particular charge in nericans 18 years or older "If a Native American Is buried In Crowe, Martha Stewart and Abbie such cases, Mr. Edmondson said, but ms. a national cemetery, a lot of the ritu- Hoffman. gives the grand jury a list of possible about recognizing that it's als cannot be performed because of Neither the police nor the state at- charges. gates that have rights — coding restrictions and regulations," torney's office would discuss the Bruce J. Winick, a law professor at ), should have rights," Mr. Mr. Berry said. "So it's important to case in detail. But the police released the University of Miami, said that I in a recent Interview. us to have a place on tribal land to a thick report on the 13-month in- while prosecutors in Florida rarely ire 562 federally recognized bury our veterans." vestigation after the indictment was referred noncapital cases to grand he United States. New blex- Leo Chischilly, 57, the department unsealed in late July. juries, they sometimes did so with - nas 22 tribal reservations; manager for the Department of Nav- The police started investigating sensitive cases to be extra-cautious. tpulation of Mr. Udall's dis- ajo Veterans Affairs in the Navajo Mr. Epstein in March 2005, almost Mr. Letcourt said the police were Percent Indian. capital, Window Rock, Ariz., said immediately after they were con- wrong to have released the report so ling the importance of be- having veterans' cemeteries on trib- tacted by the stepmother of the 14- soon, especially without correcting al land was a matter of practicality year-old, who, according to the re- information that later proved wrong. as well as tradition. port, was in a special school for stu- He cited his assertion that one accus- "The Navajo Nation would like to dents with disciplinary problems. er had lied about her age, adding that bury their loved ones within the four The girl, the report said, told the she had also been arrested on drug sacred mountains on Navajo land," police that an older friend had "of- charges and had been fired by her Mr. Chischilly said. "But the closest fered her an opportunity to make employer for stealing. veterans' cemetery is in Santa Fe, money" and had driven her to Mr. "What I'm trying to focus on," Mr. N.M., four hours' drive from Window Epstein's house one Sunday. The Lefcourt said, "is, What's motivating Rock. Some families visit the grave ed by the police as the selective and misleading release sites on Veterans Day or Memorial a local community of information to the public?" Day, but most people would prefer something closer to home." Some reservations have cemeter- ies dedicated to veterans, but they are maintained and paid for by the tribal %gilt-Mation or volunteers, not by theM. Fort Defiance Veterans Cemetery In Arizona is one such exmple. It s graves is full with more than 300 Navajo veterans. set aside in Ten acres have been veterans' fora new Chinle, Ariz., hischilly said, but cemetery, one m yis Mr needed. Bush signs "Hopefully if president submit a pm- the legislation we can cemetery on t posal to get a veteran: Mr• Chischilly the Navajo Nation," provide ., the said. "We'll be able to have to get other rtnitl ottlie /me vt,N land, but we will the opera- sources of funding for I) more titan 300 gray,* tinnol mate" r Mr. Epstein is SAM b.. k...... A • Scott Wiseman foe ThoNew Vett Times EFTA00188350 dismal-ter-a—aid himself" by sh on the Iraq also disliked ush but said it im the primary. e Manning said party doesn't Lieberman ther sad corn- SUM ptaas by DAM HIGGACS : always felt Party has been capable of han- ble waves an GREENACRES — Michael Shi view," Mea- ting Israel's war Israeli flag as a rally suppor ts a big exit" way Sunday at effort in Lebanon gets under ivist Andre public was invit- ieberman's loss Temple Beth Tikvah. The ing Michael Ha- ed to hear speakers includ Friends of the dar, executive director of the se of the school Col 13th Sharon t week% Gold Israel Defense Forces, and >dation Great . At the close of the Israel Defense Forces lob Magian deliv- participates in a cal Terry Pereira. of the rally, a man (right) prayer for the non doesn't make congregational reading of a 'inning the lot- state of Israel. at did, doesn't Kanjian said. :et to respond as ed with a mixture d expressions. c a se part of an 11- fo c u s o f f ir e in Eps te in f divided a $5.38 to prize to be Palm Beach chief ghter;14. The ars. Kanjian said on ; he sla ms state attorney camp tell it Reiter, 48, is a 18, and a daueduled to go to ple is sch because Perei- law ye rs ta ke hi m loose cannon better suited cou n Wednesday. cM1 disclosure Defendant's to be the sheriff of Mayber- mediatio rt file show any 2005 Mi cha el Rei ter. "a distorted view of the ry. They whisper that he's Nothing in the couis aved in a embroiled in a messy di- sugges ts the ir spl it par- ery payout By LARRY allERWriter Beac it Pac Ste Eps tein , 53, was indict- case" and beh r en the larl y ugl y. Palm of "childish" manne wh ticu s share was less vorce. he arranged to In the case of Palm edl ast month on a chargesti- sol icit alio n of pro grand jury didn't indict Ep- Reiter did in fact file for Reiter incurred the fina nci er Jef frey Ep- felo ny stei n on the cha rge s it th of the Epstein camp m several years Beach of Re- if tution solely becauseone of sou ght . ano the r Eps tein divorce from his wife, Jill, wrawel as l as the state attar- interest in the stein, it seems, at times, asof use d iter 's "craziness," ine d. las t yea r, afte r 24 years of ace company. two men are acc law yer com pla See MIER, 78 oin g: Eps tein and Epstein's lawyers said. His ted To hea r the Eps tein ma rriage. They have a son, wro ngd department dissemina downside: Repub. Palm Beach Police Chief aission hopeful Ed moved into west- ELECIIONS 2006 • ie could run, Debate. He never Grieving for Mom, sister Mate House District 78 ;herd said, moved out to my LAKE WORTH — il Palm Beach, all Jane Tackaber- Machek faces challenge ry's son, John, e Hewn /1.C/reit EFTA00188351 W S C ME PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY, AUGUST 14, ch ief's pr of es sio na lis m , in te gr ity In ma Colleagues cite Moo* dent confined to his home development from Palm professionalism," Miami- Reiter Town Atlantic UniversiW, al- P;REITER from IB Manager Peter with a sick child thanked Re- Beach Dade State Attorney has attended the FBI Na- Elwell says the iter for delivering a few Cokes so tional Academy in Quantico, rey's office for two reasons. Katherine Fernandez Rundle Palm Beach to the house. Reiter refuse d draw First, he pressed for Epstein said of Reiter's letter. chiefs payment for the bever ages. Va., and management cours- the more in- police es at Harva rd. He's been ac- :o be charged with Following Epstein's well worth his Another resident thanked serious crimes of sexual ac- dictment, Reiter referred the for shutting off his tive in county wide interagen- $144,0 00 sal- Reiter law enfo rcement new ivitywith minors. Second, he case to the FBI to determine ary. • car's headlights in his drive- cy zations and has a "top slammed State Attorn ey Bar- whether the super-rich, organi way, saying a valet must have secret" national security ry Krischer in blunt language super-connected defendant been at fault P. HIV/torn / seldom used by one law- had violated any federal laws. Juno Beach Police Chief clearance. l con- d. Al- Reiter worke d everything "He has a perspective she pushed enforcement officia Reiter won't discuss the H.C. Clark II agree from road patrol to organized that's broader than just ad- cernin g anoth er becau se of he doesn 't know Re- measure thro case or the broadsides aimed though crime, vice and narcotics. ng the needs of the lature last e what he perceived as that of. at him. But others almost iter well, he has,met with him And he's no novice at investi- dressi town," said Town Manager crease HIV b fice's mishandling of the uniformly use one word to on countywide law enforce- gations involving the island's seen Peter Elwell , who promoted county jail 53 case. descri be the chief: profes- ment issues. "I've nevernever rich and famous. He was the Reiter from assistant chief to ing Pan Bea In a letter to Krischer sional him lose his cool. I've lead detective probing the chief in March 2001. Reiter We're a' written May 1, Reiter called "I seen anyth ing but a profes- drug overdose death of David makes more than $144,000 as able to make always been im- sional demeanor from him." his actions in the Epstein pressehave He d by Milce's profes- Kennedy in 1984. He also was the town's top cop. Elwell HIV unless v case "highl y unusu al." - Reiter joined the Palm one of the officers who thinks he's worth it. pact in the pri and his leader added, "Imusturge you to ... sionalism Rick Lincol n, chief Beach Police Depar tment in worke d the investigation of "He's very businesslike, said Dr. Job consider if good and suffi- ship," said na Police Depart- 1981, leaving a $20,00 0-ayea r Willia m Kenne dy Smith , who very straightforward. He's gional direc cient reason exists to require of the Lanta a Palm Beach patrol job at the Unive rsity of was charg ed in 1991 — and not easily agitated or flam- Correctional your disqualification from the ment yand 32 years. Pittsb urgh. . His person nel later acquit ted —wit h raping boyan t. He's about the work," es, which pr prosecution of these cases." Count cop for shows consistently ex- a woma n at the Kenne dy Elwell said. "I think that his care at the ja In short, Reiter told the "The town of Palm Beach jacket evalua tions. family compo und in Palm servic e as chief has been A study : has a very profes sional police cellent job in, five-plus county's top prosecutor for outsta nding County Jail, years that he depar tment . We all consid er Posh Palm Beach is no Beach years. " rapid testini the past 13. a hotbed of crime, and in his Reiter, who has a master's ought to get off the case. "It Mike to be our peer and job, a resi- degre e in human resource lany_keuennoboostcom 2004 as part first year on the gram for tt looks hire a departure from . man of integrity." Disease Co vention, higl `Many lawmakers have) challenged same-party portance of want to go back for my last two years efforts in jail Democrats because they believed they could do Among ( and complete a lot of these things which learned th a better job. I'm no exception to that.' through rapi are so vital for Southeast Florida.' STEVE PERMAN, Boca Raton chiropractor jail during a RICHARD A. MACHEK, District 78 incumbent • oil: a third full-blown Al EFTA00188352 • ••• ••••• ems -_- -Lem -c crj.er. • l• Those w d reshape the early bus- OOLIONVU KaiMa... A w.. was relea sed polic e positions, including teenagers. t draft, which three new officers and four I• $22 million on curb, Won in new s week. civil ian staff ers who will free street, and sidewalk repair p is in property val A budget wor.ksho 24, to be up officers to do more actual around the city. heduled for Aug rings policing. if $1million for city road flowed by public hea the • $1 milli on on you th entryways and landscaping. pt. 6 and 18. But by value of the p s are prog ram s. May or Lois • $500,000 on park im- r by 25 percent e the public hearing ally don 't Fran kel said this is all new ements, including re- ition id, cities trad significant revenue. But she is only sure vamping prov it - — helping to b man y the ball fields at tem, $14 million of new-isen eke $400 ,000 of that will be Park . changes. how Phipps rams t. It's bee n set asid e for parks be spent — city As it standsnow,here are spen emp owerment II $120,000 to create a are geari ital two "you th strategy for redeveloping the city's debaers ston te on whe the key new item s and cap mill ion cen ters " that will provide job year jects in the $358 See BUDGET, 49 ► crease the tax ra dget. training, help with school- -e the The result Expert: Ignorance of age IONG LOCAL isn't defense in sex eases By LARRY KEU ER Palm Beath Post Site Writer Epstein: Two Even if Palm Beach mon- politicians have ey manager Jeffrey Epstein returned dona- didn't know that girls who tions since he police say gave him sexual was charged massages at his Intracoastal with soliciting home were under the legal minors. age, that alone wouldn't have exempted him from criminal s mo- charges of sexual activity with and lewd and lasciviou end that minors. lesta tion. The y cont "Ignoran ce is not a valid Eps tein — frien d of the rich defense," said Bob Delde, a and famous and fina ncial pa- r who was tron of Dem ocra tic Patt y or- legal skills professo and cand idate s— a Lake City prosecutor for ganizations ed thos e acts with nearly 30 years, half of that com mitt time specializing in sex five undthe erage girls. crimes against children. In past week, New 'There is no knowled ge York Atto rney General and toria l cand idate Eliot GARY CORMWO/Saft Phobeophet element as far as the age is gubernahas retu rned about concerned," Dekle said. Spit zer 1the Cuban American Club, $50, 000 in cam paig n con tri- sty Ma upside doom': oast for Cuba's Fidel Castro. After an 11-month inve sti- ons he rece ived from Ep- , iced Friday with herh gation, Palm Beach police buti stein , and Mar k Gree n, a / expressed similar senti- said there was probable cause candidate to replace Spitzerin / s ati, ights of the 1960ch eating codfish fricassee to charge Epstein, 53, with Bea Co unlawful sex acts with a minor See EPSTEIN, 580' fed in Palm and black beans, she Castro is either dead ,rby table in theslarfie rt. n. _ here television biros See CUBAN CLUB, 48 l• Emily J. Minor's column will return soo igua gesi rogr anuj ungi rs Rpundup, 3B Gunfire scatters crowd at National Bike tee schools after a, EFTA00188353 Lawyer: Jurors often believe adults over ki ► EPSTEIN from IB Child sex abuse cases may suffer from psychologi- cal problems, Dekle said. tins' ages work again and in favor of the deft his current job, has returned $10,000 to him because of the often are difficult "Lots of child sexual in a trial, Dekle said. Palm Beach scandal, the New to prosecute, an abuse victims have been vic- If a child and an ad York Daily News has reported. timized by multiple people different stories and Rather than file charges, attorney says. over a period of time. Then swear they're telling the state attorney's office the act of abuse produces truth, adult jurors are presented the case to a behavior in the victims that likely to believe the • county grand jury. The panel If two teens are in a sexual further damages their credi- Dekle said. indicted Epstein last week on relationship and the boy bility." Examples include • a single, less serious charge turns 18 before the girl, he promiscuous behavior and "You have all these l of felony solicitation of pros- could be charged with a sex drug abuse. working against you in titution. crime if the sex continues. Some of the alleged vic- sex abuse case. Preset The case raised eyebrows There would be no public in- tims in the Epstein case re- normally try to be very ' because the state attorney's terest in pursuing that, Dekle turned to his home multiple ful in filing those cast office rarely, if ever, kicks said. times for the massage ses- cause they knowwhattl such charges to a grand jury. But where there is al e sions and the $200 to $300 he getting into. There is nc And it increases the difficulty gap in ages — and espec y typically paid them per visit thing as an iron-clad of prosecuting child sex m cases of teachers with stu- "That would be a definite sexual abuse case." abuse cases, especially when dents — there is a public in- problem for the prosecutor," lany_kener(o)pbpost.com the defendant is enormously terest in prosecuting, he said. said Betty Resch, who prose- wealthy and can hire high- Likewise if the accused has a cuted crimes against children track record of sex with mi- in Palm Beach County for five priced, top-tier lawyers. At least one of Epstein's nors. years and now is in private Mit title ANTIQUES 641NEC0ta alleged victims told police he Still there is a "universal practice in Lake Worth. knew she was underage constant" in prosecuting 'Ile victim becomes less when the two of them got these cases, Dekle said. Men sympathetic" to a jury, Resch naked for massages and sex- who exploit underage chil- said. "But she's a victim nev- ual activity. She was 16 years dren for sex often carefully ertheless. She's a kid." Purchasing the individual pi to the entire estate old at the time and said Ep- choose their victims in ways Most men charged with 1201 US. 'Warty Oat • N stein asked her questions that will minimize the risk to sex crimes against minors 561-625.9569 about her high school, ac- them, he said. look normal, Dekle said. A 3926 NoriNake Blvd • eat cording to police reports. Victims usually are from a jury expecting to see a mon- 561.694.2812 • A girl who said she met lower social status, and they ster seldom will. And the vio- lotuuttruelreasuresine.coi Epstein when she was 15 said he told her if she told any- body what happened at his house, bad things could hap- . pen, the police reports state. Palnilleachnist.com Epstein's youngest al- leged victim was 14 when she ' says she gave him a massage that included some sexual activity. She is now 16. The SI girl's father says he doesn't know whether she told Ep- stein her age. CON. "My daughter has kept a lot of what happened from me because of sheer embarrass- ment," he said. "But she very The Poses Storm 2006 Web site will use every resource to keep CI much looked 14. Any prudent you informed.,. and safe. We will ma man would have had second Log on anytime. thoughts about that" only show Defense attorney Jack Goldberger maintains that within you not only did Epstein pass a working on j polygraph test showing he did not know the girls were Females Over 55 we can co minnre hitt their Atnrioe EFTA00188354 Defense attorney Jack Goldberger maintains that not only did Epstein pass a polygraph test showing he did not know the girls were minors, but their stories Females Over 55 weren't credible. 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The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain that would have allowed Epstein to have no criminal record. His current attorney de- nies this happened. • And the doctiraents also reveal that the father of at leant one girl complained that private investigators aggressively fol- lowed his car,johotographed his home and chased off vihitors. Police altio• talked to somebody who said she was offered money if she refused to cooperate with the Palm Beach Police Department probe of, EP- stein. The state attorney's office said it presented the Epstein case to a county grand jury this month rather than directly former attorney charging Epstein because ag d t° p mebargain, of concerns about the lea girls' credibility. The Police say. grand jury indicted Ep- stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic- itation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Police believed there was probable cause to charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molesta- tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case. The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but was postponed after Dershowitz pro- duced information gleaned from the Web site myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol and marijuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective Joseph Re- a 20-year-old Royal PaknTeacliwoman who told police she EFTA00188356 41—/ Cf 6y LARRY KELLER Paha Reath Post Staff Miter Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm. Beach County State Attorney's Office and pro- age vi gaseabhrisut teen- rmy itan infothe ingsay ge dedgirdsr wh eliest Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epsteito n, sexually charged massa ges, accord ing police reports. The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea barga in have allowe d Epstei n to have n that would attorn ey.0e- criminal record. His curren t nies this happened. • And the documentsalso reveal that the father of at lent one girl complained that fol- private investigators ,aggressively and lowed his cart photographed his home chased off vihitors. Poke also talked S. somebody who' said she was offered money if she refused to cooperate with the Palm Beach Police Department probe of Ep- The state attornmi office said it presented the F.perein case to a Epstein: His grand jury this mon former attorney rather than directly charg ing Epstein because apfea bargain, nled of concerns about the girls' credibility. The Nike saY• grand jury indicted Ep- stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic- itation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Police believed there was probable' cause to charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molesta- tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case. The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but was posoned after Dershowitz pro- duced information gleaned from the Web site myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol and marijuana use, according to the police car report prepared by Detective Joseph Re- :awn a 20-year-old Royal woman who told police she recruited girls for Epstein, also is profiled on myspace.com. Her page includes pho- tos of her and her friends, including one DAMON FRIGNSIStall PhoWriiifrhe See EPSTEIN, 78 from Easter ACIl — liana Young. 3, receives some instructions Friday her preschool marching 'Iowa the aisle during Wilso iCristi the st of n before gradu ates now will enter kindergarten . Turnpike to tap into information Drbids woman's testimony superhighway EFTA00188357 W S C gr ap h sh ow s he di dn 't kn ow gi rls ' ag es , la w yer says Poly a way for the pros- passed on knowl- said. "Ws ► EPSTEIN from IB planted of being harassed by test "he age," the attorney ecutor's office to not take the private investigators provid- edge of full responsibility for not fil- lken se tag num bers of two said . the (charge), and not do- using the "Pimpin' ed Afte r the indictment ing , who was of the men . Poli ce foun d the ing wha t thh Palm Beach Po- Made EZ." e regi stere d to a against Epstein was unsealed lice Department wanted. I not char ged" e case , is a vehi cles wer potential prosecution wit- private eyeanot in West Palm this week Police Chiefto Reiter the think something fell e apar t ch and her in Jupi ter, refe rred the mat ter e und erag wit- ness. Bea with thos to Recarey's re- FBI. "We've received the re- nqsses." According to Recarey, according ferral, and we're reviewing prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek Port have no knowkdge of it," said FBI spokeswoman Defense attorney Robert offered Epstein atto rney s "I Judy Orih uela in Miami. Ger sbman was a prosecutor nse atto rney Gold - sbc years. 'Those girls Dershowitz and Guy &origin it" defe The chief himself has for a plea deal in April. Fronstin, berg er said . must have been incredible or with Eps tein ; The repo rt also says a come under attack from Er, untrustworthy, I don't know," after speaking ected to the Ep- stein's lawyers and friends in accepted the deal, in which woman conn d by New Yor k, whe re he has a he said. Epstein would plead guilty to stein casey was contacte New York Post Other attorneys said Ep- of aggr avat ed as- som ebod who was still in home. The t stein 's case raises the issue of one count Tha t quo ted Fob-la's prominen sault with intent to commit a touc h with Epst ein. New York lawyer, Gerald whether wealthy, connected on five pers on told her she wou ld be defe ndan ts like Epstein — felony, be placed 't Lefc ourt , as sayi ng his client years' probation and have no compens ated if she didn indicted only "because of whose frien ds include former al- coop erat e with polic e, Re- was side nt Clinton and criminal record. The deal repo rt says . Tho se the craziness of the police Pre p are treated so called for Epst ein to sub- care y's f." Don ald Thim did talk "wil l be deal t chie rently from othe rs. Once mit to a psychiatric and sex- who the woman said she Reiter has declined to diffe the subj ect of ual. evaluation and have no with ," he 'me w he was ised visit s with mi- was told . Pho ne reco rds comment on the case. a crim inal prob e, Epst ein unsuperv wom an talk ed with Pros ecut ors have not of pow erfu l nors, according to Recarey 's show the hired a phal anx barg ain was the pers on who alleg edly in- pres ented a sex-related case atto rney s such as Ders how itz report The plea her around the like Epstein's to a grand Fury and Lefcourt, who is a past made in connection with only timidated said , Recarey re- before, said Mike Edmond- president of the National As- one of the five alleged vic- time she son, spokesman for the state sociation of Criminal Defense tims, the report states. ported. e. "That's what Fronstin — who declined Phone records also show attorney's offic a case that falls Lawyersmi . said to have you do with lawyer Roy Black to comment on the case — that the person at then plac ed a into a gray area," he said . Mia me nationally was subseque ntly fired and mad e the thre ey's office — who beca Eps tein 's pers onal as- The state ' ttorn n he successfully veteran defense attorney call to who in turn called a did not recommend a partic- known wheWilliam Kennedy Jack Goldberger was hire d. sista nt defe nded ther e was any New Yor k corp orat ion affili - ular criminal charge on Smith on a rape charge in He denies the report which to indict Epstein, Ed- Palm Beach — also was in- agreement by any of Ep- ated with Epstein, mondson said. The grand ju- volved at one point. stein's attorneys to a plea states. ented with a list of deal. The issue in the Epstein ry was pres from highest to low- Said defense attorney is not whe ther fem ales char ges helle Suslcauer. "I think "We abiolutely did not case est then deliberated with the Mic agree to a plea in this case ," cam e to his wate rfro nt hom e, out of the room, Ws unfortunate the public he knew thei r pros ecut or may get the perception that he said. Neither BeJohlavek but whether he said . . nor a state attorney 's ages . with power, you may be be reac hed "He 's neve r deni ed girls "Peo ple are surprised at treated differently than the spokesman coul d d jury proceeding," average Joe." for comment. came to the house," Gold- the gran t Palm Beach defense n Ep- Wes The parent or parents of berger said. Buta whe poly grap h atto rney Rich ard Tendler 0 lato_iwileatonostwo alleged • victims who. com- stein was given . Fr ino nix o Club E BOAT Get Organized in OWN THE WATER, NOT TH r -tlia 54 Save an additional 10% off current sale items .1. WO per BUM al • i wiled Boiling already marked 20% oft Join um gil oh; 1. - e it 2 ycnr. lo . • . (, k 17r 2 .'2 h9)i, .41 \ ` YOWL PALM HIPLI.SE • • 1/05 N. Cowes. Ave. I1C2 enyn too Br6th. it I 561.734.8777 Malt 884e The EFTA00188358 Simkin, 27, also a yoga teacher. teaches Thai massage. • The loss of talented teachers pains Simkin, of Boynton Beach, took her members of the local yoga community. first yoga classes with Katz as a college stu- "It's a terrific thing for him, but it's ter- dent and almost immediately decided to become a teacher. She specializes in flow rible to have him leave," said Merrill Katz, yoga, which, like Ashtanga, consists of a who taught Simkin and sent her to Elsner series of postures connected by breathing for further training. "He's one of the most techniques. knowledgeable teachers we have in this ar- ea, and she was always very talented." They are not the first to make the Elsner, who lives in Delray Beach, spe- See YOGA, 6B P. After long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charge By LARRY KELLER Pall &adz Post Staff Writer • Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein paid to have underage girls and young women brought to his home, where he re- ceived massages and sometimes sex, ac- cording to an investigation by the Palm. Beach Police • Department, Palm Beach police spent months sifting through Ep- stein's trash and watching his waterfront home and Palm Beach 'International Airport to keep tabs on his private jet. An indictment Epstein charging Epstein, 53, was unsealed Monday, charging him with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. lAYLORJONES/SWIPheiofimplut Palm Beach police thought there was probable cause to charge Epstein with un- lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and kicks lascivious molestation. its British Soccer Camp at Okeeheelee . Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry ; Blake Weger (center), 5, of Wellington; with State Attorney Barry Krischei's han- dling of the case that he wrote a memo • drills. See EPSTEIN, 5B No. newly negotiated proposal for beachfront commission at 4 p.m. Thursday. If the com- million plan, city staff will draft development, mission approves the agreement, the city will lease and financial agreements with Greater take it to the county to secure $5 million from Bay over the next few weeks. Greater Bay a recreation bond that was slated for beach proposes to overhaul the casino building, the redevelopment three years ago. County com- pool and parking lot and provide landscaping. missioners extended the deadline unfilJuly 31 This week, negotiations centered on the so the city could present a beach redevelop- developer's and city's obligations for the ment plan to keep the bond money. project including fiscal, maintenance and If city commissioners endorse the $19.1 See BEACH, 6B IP ; ti EFTA00188359 w s C THE Police kept watch on home, airport, sift said. A county grand jury The chiefs letter 20, of Royal Palm Beach. Give Iss. EPSTEIN from 18 "found the allegations wholly Robion has worked at an 01 ked and not See the letter Palm Beach Police We Garden restaurant in toucl suggesting the county's top unsubstant iated Chief Michael Reiter wrote to prosecutor disqualify himself credible," and that's why his State Attorney Barry Krischer Wellington and said she was a 0 not charged with Journalism major' at Palm son t q must urge you• to ex- client was on the Epstein case. Beach Community College amine the unusual course that sexual activity with minors, Pao PaImBeachPost.com when she was questioned by f onm your office's handling of this he said. police last October. She has relati matter has taken and consider Goldberger said Epstein if good and sufficient reason passed a lie detector, test ad- an unlisted phone number she t A money manager for the and could not be reached for centl exists to require your dis- ministered by a reputable ultra-rich, Epstein was named comment. Palm qualification from the prose- polygraph examiner in which one of New York's most eligi- cution of these cases," Reiter he said he did not know the ble bachelors in 2003 by The wrote in a May 1 memo to girls were minors. Krischer. Also, a New York Post. He reportedly Mel." search warrant served on hobnobs with the likes of asked her if she would like to' beini , said at age she 17, met a Ep- friend then elaAs While not commenting Epstein's home found no evi- former President Clinton, make money giving him a c.ouk to corroborate the massage. She said she was $300 specifically on the Epstein dence former Hailt rersity to his five -bedroom, T case, Mike Edmondson, girls' allegations, Goldberger President Sum- driven 71/ 2 -bath home on the Intra- scan spokesman for the state at- said. mers and Dona p, and torney, said his office pre- According to police docu- . has lavish homes in Manhat- coastal Waterway, then es- Epsti tan, New Mexico and the Vir- corted upstairs to aad bedroom S sents cases other than mur- ments: with a massag oils. and a ders to a grand jury when II A Palm Beach Commu- gin Islands. and were hous there are questions shout nity College student said she He has contributed tens of Epstein mas- ary 2 witnesses'. credibility and gave Epstein a massage in the thousands of dollars to Dean-. both naked she said, but when he nail their ability to testify. nude, then brought hint six ocratic Party candidates and sage, grabbed her buttocks, she assis By the nature of their jobs, girls, ages 14 to 16, for mas- organizations, including Sen. said . she didn't want'to be her u police officers look at evi- sage and sex4inged sessions John Kerry's presidential bid, touched.. ing a dence from a "one-sided per- at his home. and the Senate cadSigns of • WA 27-year-old woman Joe Lieberman, CUR- Epstein said he'd pay her sever spective," Edmondson .said. worn. "A prosecutor has to look at it who worked as Epstein's ton, Christopher D d and to bring him more younger the better, and g in a much broader fashion," persong assistant also facili- Charles Schumer. table weighing the veracity of wit- tated the liaisons, phoning Goldberger is one of five told police. When nesses and how they may fare the PBCC student to arrange attorneys Epstein has re- once to bring a 23-year-old SI attorneys' for girls when Epstein was tained since he became the woman to' him, t said and I under defense old, 'd. mass questioning, he said.. coming to town. And she es subject of an investigation, she was too Wein's attorney, Jack corted the girls upstairs when Edinondson said. Among the ho een Gold rger, said his client they arrived, puffing fresh others: Man Dershowitz , the c the case, said she old S committed no crimes. sheetson a massage table and well-known Harvard law pro- eventually brought six girls to er gu placing massage oils nearby. fessor and author, who is a Epstein w l ip:aid $2 00 Robs silte reports and state- said. "I'm paid I ments in question refer to ■ Police took sworn friend of Epstein. Dershowitz each time, false accusations that were statements from five alleged could not be reached for like a • Hei * police 0 not charged because the Palm victims and 17 witnesses. comment. quoted her as saying. The stork Beach County state attorney They contend that on three Police said the woman girls knew what to expect EWE questioned the credibility of occasions, Epstein had sex who enlisted when they were to Ep- the t Goldberger with the girls. 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Rob- North Carolina, has not been State Attorney Barry Krischer journalism major' at Palm son took to meet Epstein led charged in the case. on the Epstein case. Beach Community College. police to start the mvestiga- Palm. Beach police often PalmBeachPost.com • when she•was questioned by • doh of him in March 2005. A conducted surveillance of police last October. She has relative of the girl called to say Epstein's home, and at Palm unlisted phone number she thought the child had re-, Beach International Airport A money mahager for the an and could not be reached for cently engaged in sex with a to see if his private jet was ultra-rich, Epstein was named CO Palm Beach man. The girl there, so they would know one of New York's most e said she met Ep- then got into a fight with a when he was in town. Police tie bachelors in 2003 by 17, a friend classmate who accused her of also arranged repentediy to New York Post He reportedly steiwen, at age like to being a prostitute, and she receive his trash from Palm hobnobs with the likes of asked her if she would him a couldn't explain why she had Beach sanitation workers, • former President Clinton, make money giving massage. She said she was $300 in her purse. • collecting papers with names former Haillersity The girl gave police this and phone numbers, sex toys President Sum- driven to his five-bedroom, and female hygiene products. men and Dona p, and 71/2-bath home on the Intra- account of her meeting with One note stated that a fe- has lavish homes in Manhat- coastal Waterway,a bedroom then es- Epstein: to She accompanie d male could not come over at 7 tan, New Mexico and the Vir- corted upstairs ellid oils. p.m. because of soccer. -An- gin Islands. with a massag and a second girl to ps em s were a Sunday in Febru- other said a girl had to work He has contributed tens of Epstein andduring e mas- house on Once. there, a wom- Sunday "Monday after thousands of dollars to Dem- both naked ary 2005. ocratic Party candidates and sage, she her said, but when he an she thought was Epstein's school?" And still another organizations, including Sen. grabbed didn't buttocks, she assistant told the girl to follow note contained the Work want: to be her upstairs to a room featur- hours of a girl, saying the John Kerry's presidential bid, said she woman, leaves school at 11:30 a.m. and the Senate campaigns of touched. ing a mural of a naked come over the next and would Joe Lieberman, Hillary Epstein said he'd pay her several photographs of naked day at 10:30 am. ton, Christopher Dodd and to bring him more gi women on a shelf, a hot pink younger the better, and green sofa and a massage Only three months before Charles Schumer. the police department probe Goldberger is one of five told police. When she began, Epstein donated attorneys Epstein has re- once to bring a 23-year-old She stripped to her bra the department for said and panties and gave hint a $90,000 to tained since he became the woman to him, the purchase of a firearms subject of an investigation, she was Wp old, said. massage. said Jane &ruder, sitnulator, Epstein gave the 14-year- town finance director. The Edinondson said. Among the who not been others: Alan Dershowitz, the chargesm the case, said she old $300 and she and the oth-• purchase Was never made. well-known Harvard law pro- eventually brought six girls to eft, she said. She said The money was returned. to fessor and author, who is a Epstein wi t / paid $200 told her that Fpctein Epstein on Monday, she said. friend of Epstein. Dershowitz each time, sad. "I'm ep er $200 that day. Other. girls .told similar • SYttff writers Andrew Mara; could not be reached for like a Herr ems; police • arid Tim °MMus and staff re- comment. quoted her as saying. The stories. In most accounts; Angelica Cortez con- tat searcher Police said the woman gins knew what to exped tributed to this story. who enlisted Nogg when they wereda to Ep- the EPAsntime's,Peis° Sarah now Epstein was stein's home, said. 27, escorted the s :o Ep- larry_kelleOpbpostcom PUBLIC LAND AUCTIO 20° • HOME SITES TO 100 ACRE PARCELS -'BIDS AS LOW AS $100 N PROPERTIES TO BE SOLO! Properties in Brevard,Canton, Cliarlette,Citrus, Moy,Mend* Cumberland,Duda,Escambia, Hagler, Gadsden,Minis!,Gull,Beano,Hendry, Hernando,111 lids em NNW MOM counties' Now only 15% DOWN PAYMENT required. EFTA00188361 48 THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY,JULY25,2006 Indictment: Billionaire solicited 3 times the commission of a Waterway since 1990, according to HARDWOOD FI.00RI Palm Beach police will report crime. property records. A man answering the His attorney, Jack door there Monday said that Epstein today about their prostitution Goldberger, declined to wasn't home. A Cadillac Escalade reg- LUMBE probe of the money manager. discuss the charge. istered to him was parked in the drive- State attorney's of- way, which is flanked by two massive LQUII:1 AT fice spokesman Mike gargoyles. LyA.F.IV/000 FL 0„„NG By LARRY KELLER Edmondson also had Epstein sued Property Appraiser Palm Beach Post Ste' Wnter little to say. Gary Nikolits in 2001, contending that Billionaire. money manager and "Generally speak- Epstein the assessment of his home exceeded Palm Beach part-time resident Jeffrey ing, there is a case that its fair market value. He dismissed his has a number of different aspects to it," lawsuit in December 2002. Epstein solicited or procured prostitutes Edmondson said of a prostitution- three or more times between Aug. 1 and A profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair Oct. 31 of last year, according to an in- related charge being submitted to a magazine said he owns what are be- grand jury. "We first became aware of lieved to be the largest private homes in vas dictment charging him with felony so- the case months ago by Palm Beach Manhattan — 51,000 square feet — and licitation of prostitution. police." in New Mexico — a 7,500-acre ranch. Epstein, 53, was booked at the Palm Prosecutors and police worked to- Those are in addition to his 70-acre is- • OP Beach County jail at 1:45 a.m..Sunday. gether to bring the case to the grand land in the U.S. Virgin Islands and fleet • PIC He was released on $3,000 bond. jury, he said. of aircraft • NC Epstein's case is unusual in that Palm Beach police confirmed that Epstein's friends and admirers, ac- • 10 suspected prostitution johns are usually and said the department will release a cording to the magazine, include prom- charged with a misdemeanor, and even report today regarding its investigation. inent businessmen, academics and sci- LA a felony charge is typically made in a Epstein has owned a five-bedroom, entists and famed Harvard law professor criminal information — an alternative to 71/2-bath, 7,234-square-foot home with a Alan Dershowitz. 1-8E an indictment charging a person with 50 South US Hithw pool and a boat dock on the Intracoastal 0 larry_keaeritpepostcom Children's book on Cuba must stay Be GRAND 12 Mo. 36 Mo. in Miami-Dade schools, judge rules OPENING. 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GARY CORONADD/Suff Amp forwarded a July 16 e-mail he from Epstein, who worked on Lifesaver struggles with dead weight s victorious 2000 campaign against ate Rep. Curt Levine. race in the annual American Red Cross lifeguard Competi- not going to work on a WELLINGTON - Shadoe Stein, 17, of Palm Beach Gardens ion basis, period, and you should reacts to the weight of a mannequin — 130 to 165 pounds tion at the Aquatics Complex. Teams from Wellington, Boca me on the payroll," read Epstein's when wet — as she starts her leg of a mannequin pull relay Raton and Palm Beach Gardens vied in six events on Sunday. tememberwho got you where you u don't want to be another Curt io you? You have everyone else in 3 on the payroll, and your most it closest confidante who has been rou right from the gitgo you throw Mystery money man faces soliciting charg .±1 says Slosberg ignored his advice Epstein was indicted last week by a ng peace with U.S. Rep. Robert By MCOLEJANOK convictions. Slosberg's chief Palm Read Post S&vf Writer state grand jury, according to state at- However, checks of court records rho has become id for calming the ruckus that led to . A part-time Palm Beecher who has torney's spokesman Mike Edmondson. here and in New York Sunday turned up the county Health Bill Despite Epstein's arrest, the indictment no such convictions. is removal from socialized with Donald Trump,jailed was containing the allegations remained Epstein could not be reached. Ed- strict board. Had he been "on the Clinton and Kevin Spacey early Sunday with accused drug dealers. sealed Sunday and Edmondson provid- mondson said he was being represented ' Epstein says, Slosberg might have after ed no details. by West Palm Beach attorney Jack a more heed. drunken drivers and wife beatersprosti- soliciting a Unlike most accused johns. Epstein Goldberg, who declined comment ■ . he was charged with tute. was charged with a third-degree felony Epstein is the president of3 Epstein ≥ already had President Bush and VP instead of a misdemeanor. Under state & Co., a money management company Jeffrey Eps aey in South Florida to headline Manhattan money manager Jeffrey I th:, a solicitation charge usually is de- Epstein, 53, was picked up at his hogne based in Manhattan that caters to ultra- Indictment gn fund-raisers, so it's only natural He tas mi to a more serious felony when the wealthy clientele, according to pub- related to S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw, R-F ort on El Brillo Way at 1:45 am.bond. efendant has at least two solicitation released hours later on $3,000 See SOLICITING, 66 Ir.. prostitution :dale, would turn to the next figure in adenfial line of succession. Shaw's km says it has lined up House :ex Dennis Hastert for an Aug. 3 money in FortLauderdale. Lake Worth ■ temotrafic National Chairman Howard is speaking gig at a sold-out Wednesday ponders ideas a in West Palm Beach is the latest coup to Democratic Professionals Forum, 0-month-old group led by Gunster for affordable ley attorney Bryan Miller that has drawn dial 2008 Democratic presidential L fl re ran : •-• va Ms Evan Bayh and warit warner to EFTA00188363 itri f WVIIW.MO11 I 0041C0 &Oven, I `Mysterious billionaire' has been on probation FREE ESTIMA TES! dropped. Mil cost for a Esthetes include a ► SOUCITING from /B complete job! RELIABLE II ON TIME Since then, Epstein's lished reports. National name has turned up in New NO DEPOSITS a PAY UPON COMPLETION nmgazines have described York City's tabloids. The New CRI llifeRin "MEDIC him as a "mysterious billion- York Post noted he flew Pres- RESIDENTIAL • COMM aire" who lives in a 45,000- square-foot New York City ident Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his pri- HORIZON *STATECERTIFIEDROO mansion. vate Boeing 727.1n 2003, the ROOFINC NCORPORATED 561.842.6121 He has been in trouble paper dubbed him one of the IIC I CCCII2S613 before. in 1993 he and two Big Apple's lop studs." other defendants were In 2004, Epstein bid charged in federal court with three counts of postal larceny and theft and one count of against 'frump for a 43,000- square foot Palm Beach es- SOCIAL SECUR property theft Epstein plead guilty to a single charge of tate once owned by health- care magnate Abe Gosman. Trump topped Epstein with a DISABILITY conspiring to steal U.S. $41.35 million bid. Bissi &Ass* Treasury checks from resi- dential mailboxes and re- StaffResearcher Angelica Disability Advocates, ceived 5 years' probation. Cortez contributed to this story. 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If the women whom Palm Beach Jury should have decided vehicles were registered to two pri- onsequences, police say a part-time town resident vate investigators. Mr. Goldberger such as the invited to his home and paid for if Epstein is a pedophile. denied knowing anything about it. net service sex acts were, in fact, women, the Police also note in their reports ke rest stops solicitation charge against Jeffrey that the state attorneyb office of- lestions. How Epstein might feel more sufficient. But police interviews with five fered Mr. Epstein a plea deal that in airport in But, according to police records, alleged victims and 17 witnesses would have placed him on proba- cample, know they weren't. He was over 50. And under oath, as well as phone mes- tion for five years, allowing him before they they were girls. sages, a high school transcript and ultimately to walk away with no ts? Even driv- 14. other items that police found from criminal record at all. tronic tolling 15. searching Mr. Epstein trash and I asked Mr. Krischer% spokes- iot know that 16. 7,234-square-foot waterfront home, man, Mike Edmondson, why the amt Martha's 17-yeavold girls. provide evidence that he knew the case was referred to a grand jury in- People who That should girls were teenagers. stead of Mr. Epstein being ch rs preloaded count for some- One girl couldn't show up when and facing a trial before a j of tolls could thing — the dif- Mr. Epstein wanted because she shouldn't the victims credibility state without ference between had soccer. Mother time, Mr. Ep- be a factor to determine whether a d their Sun- Elise prostitution and stein had to wait for his "massage" crime's been committed, not wheth- it the unused Cramer pedophilia. session because the girl he wanted er a jury will convict? (After all, as ritable done- So, it is baffling was still in class. Mr. Goldberger told The Palm Beach ants may be that Mr. Epstein, who was indicted Why didn't State Attorney Barry Post of Mr. Epstein, "He's never de- pike officials last month by a grand jury on one Krischer let a jury decide whether nied girls came to the house.") iom the new felony count of solicitation of pros- to believe the teenagers — in- Especially, I asked Mr. Edmond- serve best. titution, has not been charged, as cluding a 16-year-old who went to son to explain: Why shouldn't the Palm Beach police strenuously Mr. Epsteinb house to "work" in public look at this case and think urged, with unlawful sex acts with December 2004 after being asked there are two kinds of justice — one a minor and lewd and lascivious whether she needed to make money for the wealthy and one for the rest molestation. for Christmas gifts? of us? Conviction of crimes against mi- Prosecutors gave greater weight Mr. Edmondson said he could nors would mean steeper penalties to the details Mr. Dershowitz pro- not comment on the case because it workers, than the maximum five-year prison vided about the girls in an apparent is active, but on the latter point, he term Mr. Epstein faces if convicted effort to assail their character. ME offered, for the sake of "philosophi- wealthy of the single count of felony solicita- Dershowitz pointed out to prosecu- cal debate": "Whether wealth buys a tion. It also would help carry a mes- tors that some of the teenagers had different standard of justice across sage of intolerance to perverts who talked on myspace.com about mari- the country ... the answer to that as worth up prey on girls. juana and alcohol use. would, of course, be yes." nunent audi- Prosecutors did not pursue charg- But in this case, he said, "regard- es against Mr Epstein reflecting The 20-yeaeold Royal Palm 8,200 people Beach woman who told police she less of the battery of attorneys, the average tax the age of the victims because they outcome would be the same. Every assumed a jury would view the girls recruited girls for Mr. Epstein has iich will cost a Web page on myspace.com that issue that was debated in public was not as victims but as promiscuous, debated in our office before this t $700 billion untrustworthy, willing participants. features one girl using the name art The loss "Pimpin' Made EZ." case went to the grand jury." The presumption is offensive. 'rally lead to Mr. Epstein, a 53-year-old Man- Although no charges of witness In this case, it is not the victims' grams for the hattan money manager who has tampering have been filed, the par- credibility but the state attorneys om the wage hired Harvard law professor Alan ents of at least one of the teenage that deserves questioning. o help. Dershowitz and defense attor- victims complained to police of be- Elisa Cramer is an editorial writer* ative packag- ney Jack Goldberger, has denied ing followed and intimidated by two The Palm Beach Post. Her e-mail oppose creat- knowing how old the girls were. men.' Police determined that their address is elisa_ctumerepbpostcom for the rich ;he nation is in Iraq —also David Ignatius sing the mini- t for devising ms to Senate List, Rann., ;elf to run for Turning disaster to opportunity Groping for a way to understand bag past when Arab fighters would nts to deliver P promise to the ruinous mess in the Middle see the advancing Israeli army, dis- latest ploy is East I find myself looking back- card their boots and flee in terror. le cleanup of ward to an earlier ruinous mess, the The strategy of Israel's (and Yom Kippur War of October 1973. Americab) enemies today is to lure That long-ago war, like the cue the military superpower into a pro- we raised the rent one in Lebanon, began with an ago, and for tracted conflict 'lb accept the bait, Arab sneak attack — a potentially as the Israelis did in assaulting Leb- Ad it hostage devastating Egyptian thrust across anon and as America did in Iraq, is onstituents is the Suez Canal, cruelly launched to risk stepping into a trap. As Law- t its worst. on Israel's holiest day. The Israelis EFTA00188365 The Palm Beach Post B TUESDAY, AUGUST $,2006 Building overhang fans Count Palat3eOarastecat on Waste Management on Cal truck, trapping driver, projeci By LARRY K.FilFR Epstein camp calls female accusers liars Pads Beach Post SeteTfLiter any underage ly insisted anybody who came Attorneys and publicists for women," his to his house be over the age of tioned," Goldberger said. charge, Police Chief Michael Palm Beach financier Jeffrey lead attorney, 18. How he verified that, I don't Epstein, 53, was indicted Reiter referred the case to the Epstein went on the offensive Jack Gold- know. The question is, did by a county grand jury last FBI to determine whether Monday, contending that berger, said anything illegal occur. The law month on a charge of felony there were federal law viola- teenage girls who have ac- from Idaho was not violated here." solicitation of prostitution. Af- tions. where he was ter an 11-month investigation cused Epstein of sexual she- nanigans at his waterfront vacationing He had no explanation as to included sifting through After a spate of stories about the case last week, New w why Epstein would pay girls or thatEps tein home are liars and saying that Epstein with his land- women with no massage train- his hom's trash and surveilling York publicist Dan Klores — hi the Palm Beach Police De- 13r. ing — as the alleged victims concludee, Palm Beach police whose client list has included partment is "childish." Epstein did have young said was the case — $200 to evidence d there was enough Paris Hilton andJenniferLoppeeZz 01 women come to his house to $300 for their visits. "the sexu to charge him with — said on Saturday that Ep "There never was any sex give him al activ credibility of these witnesses When the ity with minors. stein's camp was ready "to get between- Jeffrey Epstein and er said. massages, Goldberg- grand jury indicted "Mr. Epstein absolute- has been seriously ques- Epstein their story out" JAC on the less serious EPst See EPSTEIN, 98 ► 2-year-old boy in serious condition City EFTA00188366 on try W S C THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY, AUGUST 8,2006 96 A' rmed A ttorney: Police gave media `distorted vie ► EPSTEIN from M directly against him is wrong, Gold- peas e" the chief, Goldberger said. w' berger said. Epstein investigation ovies, They did that Monday via Gold- The Palm A state attorney's spokesman Read a berger and a Los Angeles publicist ment was Beach Police Depart- wou say only that letter Palm Beach Police "happy and ecstatic" that caseld the office refers Chief MichaelfromReite r to State Attorney for Miami criminal defense attorney the s to the grand jury when ther ne Roy Black, who also has represented evid panel was going to review the are issues with the viability of thee Barry Krischer on the Epstein probe. Epstein in the case. ence. "I think what happened is evidence or witnesses credibility. PalmBeachPostcom they weren't happy with the result. I from IB We just think there has been a They deci Both the state attorney and the distorted view of this case in the me- embarra ded to use the press to grand jury concluded there was not dia presented by the Palm Beach po- ss Mr. Eps tein." sufficient evidence that Epstein had accusers, he added, have histories of aly ending a But reco rds show that mplished so lice," Goldberger said. wrote Krischer on May 1— well be- Reiter sex with minors, according to Gold drug abuse and thefts. 'These wom- Reiter has consistently declined fore the berger. "It was just a childish perfor-- en are liars. We've established that" case wen t to the grand jury — mance by the Palm Bea But why would they all invent n me every to comment on the case and did not suggestin ch Police Dubov said respond to a request for comment goo g that Krischer "consider if Departm ent," Gol dber ger said. thei r stories about meeting Epstein Monday. d and sufficient reason exists to for sexu tome in West require your disqualification from the The defe nse atto rney said one of al massages? h. "He would The implication that State Attor- prosecut ion of these cases." the alleged victims who claimed she "I don 't have an er as to what rid dance. It ney Barry Krischer was easy on Ep- Rath er than flat- was a minor was in fact over the age was the motivation answ out decline to of 18. Another alleged for thes e women it. We were stein by presenting the case to a charge Eps tein , Kris victim who to come forward and make these al- When you grand jury rather than filing charges the case cher refe rred was oenaed to testify to the legations," Goldberger said. to the grand jury to "ap- grandsubp sing, you jury failed to do so. Epstein's 0 lany_ kellergpbposLco m of 23 years ay were part- tas showgirl, lead singer. $300,000 from license plates to aid 4 dolphin tuxedo and a %, RACHEL SIMMONSEN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Mote Marine Laboratory in Sara programs he held her sota will use $100,000 for public ser-- phins, and the Whale and Dolphin Harbor Branch, a research facility s, escorting Four dolphin research and edu- vice announcements on the dangers Conservation Society's DolphinS- north of Fort Pierce, as well as $2.8 in glittery cation programs will split about of feeding dolphins and another MART project has been awarded million in grants for other dolphin l, pink feath- $300,000 that was raised in the past $60,000 to study how hurricanes and about $72,000 to develop a voluntary research and conservation groups. at swayed as year by the "Protect Wild Dolphins" red tides in Port Charlotte have af- code of conduct for dolphin tour op- r were stage specialty license plate program, ac- erators. Each year, an additional $30,000 is City, then fected dolphin habitats. Since it was created in 1999, the is set aside to reimburse groups that cording to Harbor Branch Oceano- Florida State University will use provide care to sick and injured ma- fell in love, graphic Institution, which adminis- dolphin specialty license plate pro- rine mammals. d two chil- about S70,000 to study the use of •• . EFTA00188367 ters the program. acoustic technologies to gram has raised more than 54.5 mil- EFTA00188368 wane ap., via players at SEW VLs trouble est of tl he said. er. of their significant oth pace," de- Others had a little more "It's not a competitive th in g" he "It's a nice change of Wilson said. spotting them. ed that A rival company is voting But Ut said. pa rt of a fending champ Mark t showed When Bill Wallace lealornshirt was questioning the deal. or $73. The role reversal wasA lbur Wives Wilson said the evenes into the man with the re,dthpoe fan couldn't Naztec charity event of the PG ng gr ou p him what hard work go e. Raking Mark Calcavecchia ris ed . $16 Association, a fund-raisi re n and caddying. Keeping scor pressure of help but be a little su rp th his Bar BENNET! r Palm Beach Ant Suac ite is red ild that supports needurys.chIt takes place the sand traps. And th e ct piece of "Doesn't look like him wi BEACH ness a families during to is wa s th e trying to give the perfe pink bib," he said • WEST PALM ty corn- percen every other year, an d th ad vi ce. giana_ceroodahoostoom — Palm Beach Coyun An the switch from first time it madeBe "You're just hoping it wa s the missioners Tuesda approvbuy United ed Gaits. a $456,000 contract e tovoting asked Phoenix to Palm ach 6,000 new collapsibl Take an online tour BeachPost.com booths needed for the ctr tra nsi- minute nda Classic Pahn onic objecti Preview the PGA Tours Ho Lion this fall fromgele hines insteac touch-screen votin mac utes, tl to paper ballots. un- tirne a nst Palm Beach man In keeping with the c,oons ment a ty's reputation for electi th Girl drops lawsuit agai ct wi Cou controversy, the contra Nat- confide West Palm Beach-basepdcame to deli, me, a Palm Beach tec International Grou a rival the fir d at his Intracoastalenho tigation con- the litigation be halte er Po lice Departm t inves over the objections of Naztec with t] until her daught in Ju ly 2006 on By LARRY KELLER Writer chided. He was indicted itation of company that said ak e ness Patin Beach Post Staff turns 18. a sin gle count of felony solicing. lacks the capacity to m ve send a althy money A girl who says that ewePalm Beath The mother com- pr os titution. The case is pendrated two the booths and shouldn't-bhausi- commi manager and parttim in engaged in plained that Jane Doest Jane Doet parents sepa been eligible for a small Con resident Jeffrey Epster when she was fa ther did not consul months after she was born at Good Sa- ness preference that en abled with her or their maritan Medical Center, according to 0, wit • sexual activity with he suit against it to win the bid. ng Green r law ug hter before suing court records. The couplet subsequent 'With Florida outlawiting the c 14, has dropped he orced parents are da stein for $50 mil- divorce has been contentious. Each has him because her div Ep paperless electronic vo will and squabbling over the lit igation. th e in lion. The lawsuit al- had primary custody of the girl at various after June 30, the county that Betan th at Ep ste sa ul t "It has to do with th e fa ct leges sexual infaslic tion times. switch to *paper balloan ts same page right Accused of intentional pleaded guilty to fed- are read by optical sc ners. have parents aren't on the the attorney sexuality onal distress Th e fa th er 01 and was sen- eir piu-su rm an , c. now," said Jeffrey He in court papers assaultingthen. of em oti eral fraud charges ins 20 To allow voters to markcoth for the girl, identified and loss of parental month in federal priso n, ballots in privacy, the les unty Th e a sid eshow." 14-year-old girl. or tiu m . Herman tenced to 21 s' probation. The US. tab that tom; only as Jane Doe. "It's lik ay and can sue co ns ne plus three year ution wants 6,000 plasticds The girl turns 18 in Mou also represents a Ja ne y overseeing his prosec have privacy shiel on th ree year t her parents' Doe, claims attorGu ivate practice, Artly again at that time, with Do e No. 2 who, like Jane r Was y Lewis. Now in pr sides. id . he r to hi involvement, Herman sa last month on Epstein summoned was a minor and Lewis was hireedfaby s ho me fo Ep ste in to de fend South Carolina-based boot! ed on Election or S1 Herman sued Epsterinfather and her a massage when shr.e hi m ag ain st th ther's lawsuit fil United American th low- • get ° behalf of the girl, he other, who lives sexually touchedinhe veral under- behalf of Jane Doe. Services submitted e stepmother. Her birth m d to intervene Ep stein, 55, duced se al massages Oiarry_ketientpbpost.com near Atlanta, thenbeas ke girls to give him sexu lf and asked that. , age on her daughifert ha 4 EFTA00188369 And not in the good way. The Lake Worth City unanimously Tuesday nigh Commission voted t to gal challenge to the state's plan support a le- s to issue Palm Beach a permit to dredge new sand onto the Reach 8 beach. The challenge was filed with the ment of Environmen Depart- tal Prot ectio n by the Surfrider and Snook foundations and several individuals. The vote cam e at a pack ed mee ting where even standing room was hard to com e by. The large but well -beh aved crow d of hun dred s spilled out of the com miss ion cham bers , into the hallway and nearly out the door of Lake Worth City Hall. Please see REACH 8, Page A6 pan Feder al ju d g e st u d yin g E p st ei n d ea l sewer He asks for more informa tion about victims' involvement any, in the , if Kenneth Marra late last week in an at- plea r Point By MAR GIE neg KAC otia tion s for the billi ona ire sex offe nde r. tempt to have the judge throw out the deal reached in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. ORA Beac h billi onai re Jeffrey Epstein be- Daily News Staff Write r That deal, which calls for 12 4; residents oppose hind bars for 18 mon ths. Brad Edwards, a Hollywood attor- months of house arrest at Epstein's El Epstein 30-6 on the barrier Now jailed, also to A federal judge is seeking mor e in- formation before deciding whether to they ney repr esen ting thre e girls who Brillo Way home and community ser- claim vice after he leaves the Palm Beach ;0-31 on the Point. serve house arrest. quash a plea agreement that put Palm appeared were sexually abus ed by Epst ein, before U.S. District Judge Please see EPSTEIN, Page A9 ROGERS :ws Staff Writer — A long-discussed mi. anitary-sewer system in )(id at a cost of more than H is tori c C a sa N a n a li st e d fo r $ 7 2 .5 M ) be dead. :ommission's direction, By DAVID ROGERS ig Dunham on May 9 Daily News Staff Writer To see more of led a letter to residents Casa Nana, visit )th parts of town asking Casa Nana is again on the ther they want to replace market, and its price has more PalinBcachDailyNews.com than doubled since the last sale • • septic systems with a in 2003. Donald Trump, buyer dose ary sewer system. cycling. The hotel skis it will "plant a tree. e sweeteners used. for every RSVP." Hires took his commercial presenters will include Eco Decor, FfoPertY, we ha Root beer flavor also can be the a beer to the public at the found in candies, popcorn and Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce and direction our property going." Reichert said. "In order for thereisto ' data:stork Dadelphia Centennial Exhibi- cough drops. There is even a the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation. be Biba, there a. It was a huge success and, has to be Florida tourism. We want to sus- July15 -.26 root beer shampoo. General manager Jennifer Reichert tain Florida's environmen ere long, Hires root beer was t." tied and available in local said the state does a good job of connect- For information on the celebration, Kourtney Frothy and flirty ing hotels with services and products that call (800) 789-9843. For environmental 20$ North Federal It rkeis• Now's a perfect time to grab can improve their environmental impact. tips and news, visit the Green Wave Lake Worth. Honda blog a bottle of root beer and add it The DEP helped Biba find highly efficient at www.palmbeachdailynews.com (561)-233-99 verance drink to your favorite recipes. Try a HEPA filters for its air-conditioning sys- Summer h•a — DAVID ROGERS Tuesday - Sate:day. 12pr. Of course, none of these reci- spicy root-beer glaze on bar- i contain alcohol, so what's becued baby-back ribs, juicy with the "beer" part of root ham steaks or boneless chicken ir? breast. Paired with a smooth, One record states that dur- creamy sweet-potato purée, EPSTEIN the 18th century, farmers steamed vegetables and fresh, Attorney: Victims not consulted in plea negotiations re brewing spiked root beer crisp greens, root beer-inspired A Nurses' Regist i ememade stills by ferment- entrees create an easy, tasty From Page Al could not be reached for comment regard- Nurses providing tl ; a solution of the extract and summertime supper. nr with yeast. The alcohol ing the question before the federal court. quality Nursing C At the end of the day, it's the County Jail, includes an agreement that Guy Lewis, another of Epstein's attor- dent was marginal at best, classic root-beer float that will the federal government will not prosecute neys, also was unavailable by Palm Beach as I much less than regular bring a smile. Take a scoop of telephone at Martin Counties fi Epstein. his Miami office. Ts available today. vanilla ice cream and drop it Edwards said his clients were not con- The case drew the ire of Palm Beach 20 years. The use of the word "beer" into a tall glass. Gently pour sulted when the plea deal was negotiated. Police Chief Michael Reiter, whose depart- cause some angst for Mr. root beer over the ice cream. The girls, each identified public- ment conducted a nearly year- Rite 12.N.. CBS es. His drink was all the rage Add another scoop of ice cream ly as a "Jane Doe," were about to he height of Prohibition. It long investigation of Epstein Companion • Don and another pour of the soda. If be named as victims in a federal LICIICSE • tell.102I m't until lab results proved that found he paid underage you have enough room, repeat indictment against Epstein, Ed- t the beverage contained less again. For a gourmet touch, add girls for massages and some- wards said. times sex at his mansion. ihol than bread that temper- a flirty swirl of whipped cream U.S. Attorney e advocates endorsed it and said Reiter turned the findings and top it off with a shiny-red during Friday's hearing that the )0pularity soared. (Hires over to State Attorney Barry maraschino cherry. federal District Court has no ju- n used the words "Temper- Here's another variation Krischer's office with a rec- risdiction over the plea agree- ommendation that Epstein be e drink" in its marketing to prepare with ice-cream pop ment approved in state Circuit ing this period.) arrested on four counts of un- molds. Pour 4 cups root beer into Court. lawful sex acts with a minor, a a pitcher and place in the refrig- "The court has taken the mo- proves toxic second-degree felony, and one erator for about 15 minutes. This tions under advisement and not Ma rra Root beer hit another snag count of lewd and lascivious mo- Convenientlylocate( will "flatten" the liquid and re- ruled yet," U.S. District Court U.S. Dist rict Court lestation, also a second-degr 960 when the U.S. Food and move the excess foam. ee to Good Samaritan H spokeswoman Alicia Valle wrote judge has not ruled. felony. g Administration banned Then take the cold root beer in an e-mail. "The parties are in the use of sassafras oil based on But Krischer did not arrest and place it in the freezer for 10 conferring to determine if an evidentiary Epstein, instead choosing to send the case VICTORFABIUS BUT conclusion that it was a car- minutes. hearing is necessary." to a grand jury, which indicted Epstein on Suite #3901 igen. Sassafras root had been In the meantime, place a Marra did not rule but asked for more one third-degree felony count of solicita- 1411 North Plaster I key ingredient in creating maraschino cherry into each information about the girls' involvement, tion of prostitution. beer, and the ban all but ru- pop mold, then pour in root beer West Palm Bead if any, in the plea negotiations. Marra, ac- Epstein's plea acknowledged solicita- t its place on the soda radar. until half-full. Gently place a Florida 33401 cording to Edwards, also expressed con- tion of one underage girl for prostitution. uter experimenting with small scoop of ice cream in the cern about the issue of federal versus state Edwards, the victims' attorney, on PHONE: (561) 671-; -natives, root beer makers mold and add a little bit of root jurisdiction. Tuesday referred to Epstein as a "serious FAX: (561) 671.1% e up with a solution. They beer until full. Epstein, a 55-year-old Manhattan in- sexual predator" who is receiving "clear, ad that sassafras could be Freeze the molds for a cou- vestment banker, was handcuffed and tak- transparent, favorable treatment" and ANursesRegistry@aol if is it treated first to re• ple of.hours and wait until the en to the Palm Beach Counts, Jail at the "'mina hie woulth a.- . EFTA00188370 I..ea..• Gans ibas %non tia• yeau Id %An18111g V1 ClgC AJ uu netu — Known unnitionauy as a com- „ Hardball had a backdrop of the Marching Palm& it was about the economy, immigration, muter university with little school spirit Owls band, and this morning, MSNBC and health cam. — and the answers were nearly all the correspondent Joe Scarborough will film At the mention of Florida Atlantic same. his MorningJoe show from campus. University by moderator Brian Williams, "This has been a big year for FAU. "We're part of history. We're on our from NBC Nightly News, a collective We won the New Orleans Bowl and now Da chant of F-A-U, F-A-U erupted this is happening" said Krysta Barrett, See DEBATE, 66 ► Pr( 'This was a typical 14-year-old girl.... What happened here was despicable: of JEFFREY HERMAN, lawyer for parents of girl, now 17, who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault Palm Beach man faces lawsuit in teen sex case a trim he did, Lopez] By LARRY KELLER Lawyer Jeffrey Her- leaving Palm Beath Past Staff Writer car to c man (left) conducts WEST PAIAM BEACH — The parents of a a news conference Circ teenage girl sued part-time Palm Beach resi- Thursday with the fa- Pet, 25 dent Jeffrey Epstein for more than $50 million ther and stepmother pleader on Thursday, alleging that the wealthy money of a girl who claims felony manager had her brought to his mansion for wealthy money man- mansla a massage, then engaged in sexual activity ager Jeffrey Epstein first sb with her. assaulted her in also mt The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 2005. The parents hours c 14 at the time. She was the youngest of sev- seek more than "Mai eral alleged victims of Epstein, according S50 million,in their for his to Palm Beach police, who spent 11 months lawsuit Epstein, who Haddac investigating him. faces a prostitution coopen The federal lawsuit, filed by Miami at solicitation charge, is thoritie torney Jeffrey Herman, says "Epstein has a scheduled to enter a probath sexual preference and obsession for under- plea March 10. After age minor girls." Epstein "gained access to retume primarily disadvantaged minor girls in his BILL INGRAM with hi Staff Photographer -T home, sexually assaulted these girls, and two old then gave them money." forgot Herman, who specializes in child sex Galant, abuse litigation, sued on behalf of the girl, Lope her father and her stepmother on grounds televisit of sexual assault, intentional infliction of ized Se emotional distress and loss of parental con- shows what this case is all about money." stepmother have prior arrests for financial diately sortium. He and another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann crimes the lawyers say show the lawsuit is fi- JFK ME "Jane Doe ... fell into Epstein's trap and Sanchez launched an immediate counterof- nancially motivated. Another Epstein lawyer, Lope became one of his victims," the lawsuit says. fensive, even showing up at Herman's news Gerald Lefcourt, a prominent New York crim- boy, aft "We're dismayed by the filing of the law- conference outside the federal courthouse in inal defense attorney, provided some of those longer 1 suit, but not surprised," said Jack Goldberger, West Palm Beach They distributed copies of Semino one of Epain's attorneys. "We think this documents showing that the girl's father and See EPSTEIN, 78 ► • larry_k = + EFTA00188371 cunnrmed n is investiga ting Records investigators obtained on other information it had recebase d mar- d nearly 5833,000 from another bank acco unt show ived. •susan_mIller@pbpost.com er wants Epstein paid girl $300, suit claims new home 00. EPSTEINfrom M documents to Goldberger March 10, but ing only a towel, removed he has Post- and lay naked on the masit- "Jeffrey Epstein did not ported other sage table, the lawsuit says have sex with this woman," cour t dates He demanded that Jane Doe. Sanchez said. to resolve the remove her clothing, and she Herman suggested that case did, except for her under- Epstein masturbated in front His in- wear, the lawsuit alleges. The of the alleged victim and dictment sexual activity followed, the used a vibrator on her after followed an suit says. she was brought to his home Epstein exhaustive Epstein $300 af- in February 2005. The girl is by the Palm Beach i nvestiga giotion n terward, and got $200 now 17. nvePo De- for bringing to him, partment, which concluded ts "This was a typical 14- that Epstein year-old girl at the time she girls and paid unde aar Iped met Epstein," Herman said. brought toyoun g women to E n arred his' fwe-bedroom, .sons with girls, Palm Bealiai- r "What happened here was 71/2-bath Intra despicable." coastal home for police concluded. Neit ch massage her The girl told police inves- play. Mucshand sometimes sex was changed. tigators that she informed the Jane Doeof the language in This is not the first time Epstein she was 18 when she of police reposuit mirrors that Epstein has been sued over rts in the case. purporte met him, and she said that Herman client said her teenage dgirlsactivities with was her age oh her Web page, mee " . He was Sanchez said. ' was set in New York in October sued by a up by The girl's father and step- hatchee, w o was of Loxa- woman who says she had sex mother also attended the Beach Com a Palm with Epstein when news conference, munity College 16 and had sought hisshe ' was help in student at the time. When becoming a mod "We're very angry," the Jane el. father said. "It's not right that home,Doe arrived at Epsteinb The lawsuit filed Thurs- this wealthy man can fly into Epsteinshe was escorted by an. day also alleges that Eps assi tein town and destroy my daugh- len, to a roomstant, Sarah Kel- has assaulted girls on his tert innocence." He did not table, polic with a massage private island in the Virgin take questions. e reports and the Islands. Herman declined to Ej stein, 55, is a mysteri- laws uit say elaborate on that assertion. Epstein walked in Wear- • larty_lcellerOpb ous?slew York money man- posteom MIEN EYESI0NE/Sla Photographer ager who owns a Manhattan I (left) at a Yes on 1 rally Thursday e for the amendment because he lomes benefit to a new home. mansion, as well as homes in Palm Beach, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. BANKRUPTCY A Palm Beach County • Save Your Home! grand jury indicted him m You Ma y • Stop The Calls! het seen show support at 60 July 2006 on one count of • Eliminate Debt! percent, but he has declined felony solicitation of prostitu- FREE IMMEDIATE CONSULTATIO to release that internal poll. tion atbrorting from alleged Low Fees, Easy Paymen N • He applauded the tax incidents between Aug 1 and Attorney Gregg H. Wexler t Plan relief steps taken by the Ion handled Oct 31, 2005. thousands of Bankruptcy 3egislahzre: both the man- Epstein is scheduled to MAIN OFFICE: WEST cases. dates for governments to PALM BEACH, FL enter a plea in the case on 'roll back their tax rates and 'the proposed constitutional t, (561) 641-8020 Crist cont to emphasize that "we'reinue d just ketting started," but also is- ju ed words of concern. What's about to become Florida history? "If this were to not pass MI the following Scratch-Off Gam trni Tuesday, I think it woul es of the Florida Lottery. ke the wind out of the d f cutting property taxesails s in - p, lorida," he said. "It's very portant to keep that Eno- OXIMLEIMEL ASS DOS,, , tIEWEitiataf ▪0 00 Pay Day $250 24 Karat Gold entail) going." /683 4692 Bankroll Cash Bonanza Cowboy Cash /544 Doubt° Dough deana_pooletlpbpostcom #686 #671 d0:1Jordan gbp0M torn 'Dottie UMW 79 /584 Got 16 t 03 Rush Gold Rush Golden Spin rmtrshil—n 4650 kola& Monopoly Game 1598 Joker's Wild /523 1695 EFTA00188372 care enough auuut pi tiv imam .1.113U schools, police, reliable power and spective the report "lacked" also water. Mc Powell, the Ran d repo rt was "too broad." As for planning, Kamikaze Repubh says, had reconstruction plans, my but the report emphasized the impor- helping the civilian popula- those who say amyll i they weren't practical. Gen. ibm a- tance—ofthe strategy finally adopted for John McCain Nen Franks, who ran military oper l last tion conservative enough _ year by Gen. David Petraeus. tions in Iraq, had a "fundamenta the Of cour se, lack of planning by what they deserve. misunderstanding" of the role The Clinton. the White Hou se and Pentagon military should play in postwar Iraq.. was evid ent both before and after Many on the right, 2003 Gen. Franks retired in mid- had the 2005 Rand report — evident to Rush Limbaugh, Glt with perfect timing. Baghdadfrom everybody but the White House and Ann Coulter, James D fallen, and he left the mess agon, apparently. Rather than others, have declared i that "fundamental misunderstand- Pent censor the report, the administra-s er vote for Hillary ing" for someone else to dean up. could have acted on it two year not vote at all— ( The Army is supposed to publish tion for Sen. McCain. Tin unclassified reports as soon as it before political and public pressure pointed spokesmen : ed a change in strategy. Now, as can review them, to be sure that- forc Defense Secretary Robert Gate s vatism insist that voti they don't contain sensitive mate acknowledged this wee k with his Clinton is a matter o rial. More than 21/2 years later, the Better to go doWn on Army hasn't publ ished the repo rt comments on troop levels, the next one% convictions than president will be responsible for and has done little to circulate ending what Mr. Bush secretly and compromised placebo the classified version to Pentagon recklessly started. Plan on it. lb be sure, politic leaders. Asked why, an Army makes for interestin versation, but the wii starves to death It isn't necessary Spare us the outrage thing Sen. McCain h for him should he b But it isn't possible An 11-month police investiga tion Lawyersfor acc use d sex there no difference one felon y lish . McCain and Sen. Cli led to an indictment on pre dat or sou nd foo Obaina), as some Red charge of solicitation of prostitution.e A form of irration That was in July 2006, and part -tim Epst ein still has taken hold whe Palm Reacher Jeffrey was filed on Jan. ones elf or to the pm has faced no repercussions for al- than $50 million, this show s wha t this mor e important th: girls . 24: "We think legedly preying on underage money." Yes, it is over the country to So maybe Mr. Epstein is satisfied rase is all. about: effo rt to buy his to raise taxe s and in that he% getting his money's worthh — Mt Epstein% ecut ion. heal th care . pros from his large legal team, whic way out of to the lawyer of a 17- According Principles should includes Harvard Law School Pro- se pare nts are suin g idle that strict adhe fessor Alan Dershowitz (remember year-old who wor alternative. se • OJ. Simpson?) and Kenneth Star r .him, Mt. Epstein masturbated in 14 at the time ) Exactly which o (remember Monica Lewinsky?). front of her (she was cilitates the garnisl Jack Goldberger of West team Palm and used a vibrator on her at his to pay for insuran Beach, who% also on the , home in February 2005. Another . Clinton has pn ney, Lilly Ann Sanc hez Sen told Post columnist Jose Lambiet in Epstein attor it "Jeffrey Epstein did terview with ABCs November "This case is absolutely dismissedsex with this woman." nopoulos, Sea Clin • going to end without a trial within not have claim that he government-orderer the next two months." For those girls who gram would requin He was wrong, but Mr. Gold- did, Mr.did Epstein% lawyers maintain mechanism that nt Epst efifs that he not ImoW their ages , de- berger rem ains on Mt know, going after p • payroll, feigning moral outragenst at spite a police search of his home ands Where.are thos' garb age that foun d phone message two lawsuits filed this year agai girls' school schedules when a Democratii hatt an mon ey man ager . abou t the pointing justices • the Man even a high school transcript The. lawsuits allege sexual exploita- and For all of his mon ey, Mr. Ermtein% Cou rt? Given that tion of teenaged girls , one of them justi ces will be 70 g as 14. Said Mr. Gold berg er best defe nse remains "I didn't know vem bet it% a near as youn I was a criminal pervert'? •after the first lawsuit, seeking more that k —‘t EFTA00188373 EFTA00188374 THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13,2008 Eclectic mix visits jailed tycoon A sci' entist, • a stuntm an and a rep uted 4sex slave'. visit Epstein LARRY U.ER During his first month of confinement, Palm leleach Posti(E a Writer and sometime movie stuntman. Epstein was visited by the female assis- The only other people to visit him at WEST PALM BEACH - 1)rcoon Jeffrey tant who, girls told police, had escorted Epstein mingled with an eclectic mix of the jail, according to records, are a Singer them to the room at his mansion where Island man and an individual who listed people, including beautiful young women, they gave him naked massages. before he got into trouble for paying teen- Epstein% Palm Beach address as his Also trekking to the jail was a young OWL age girls to give him sexual massages at woman whom Epstein purportedly de- his Palm Beach mansion. Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty on June 30 scribed as his Yugoslavian sex slave. to two prostitution-related charges and Epstein Not much has changed, even though The wealthy financier and science he now resides in a dorm at the Palm was sentenced to 18 months in jail, fol- Serving 18 wonlc also has been visited by an expert lowed by a year of house arrest. Epstein months at Beach County Sheriff% Offices 17-acre, on artificial intelligence, as well as a man 967-bed stockade near the fairgrounds. who is a mixed martial arts aficionado the county See EPSTEIN, 85 ► stockade. EFTA00188375 Exper t on ar t i ic ia l in te ll ig en ce pa ys vi • f si t • • • • • ► EPS TEIN /rem 1B girls told police. One gir and records show he also owns a home paid teenage girls $200 that Epstein instructed in Lake Worth. to $300 in 2004 and her to kiss and have and 2005 for mas sage s in his hom e that watc Epstein has financed a number of sometimes included sexual touching she hed and masturb ated . scientists . over the years, including Palm Beach police said. engaged in se Nobel Prize winners. at Epst ein urgi ng. He gave $30 mil- HigAl in July included: Epstein in jail four 29, who some of the She lists her address teen masseuses said phoned them whe as on the Upp lion to Har vard Univ days. November, he formed the not-f2003 er Flor ida ersit y in Science Foundation, which he . in or-pmfit Epstein was in town and escorted themn East side of Man hatta Epstein enormous apartment n, not far from said finances scientific research. upon their arrival at his Palm Be_a ■ Igor Zinoviev, a Rus sian mix ed waterfront home to an upstairs roomch, the■ Roger Schank, 62. founder of tial arts fighter, who coaches a Chicmar- ago where she Institute for Learning Sciences at team in prep ared the mac- cage tabl e Nor thwe stern the Inte rnat iona l Figh t Lea;ve. and provided University and an expert He also has work r thei r enco un- on artif icial intel ligen ce, ed as a pers onal tra ters with paid one visit cele him three times i . visit ed Epst ein to Epstein. Schank has written numer- manbrit y body , accordin guar d and movie sny:t- acco rdin g to a jail ous book s on that g to the league% Web wte. visitor% log lists a Manhattan doctorate degree from subj ect and has a The New Jersey resid ent visited Epszeir home addr ess. ache d by Yale University seven time s in July. telep hone , in ling uistics. He was one of 19 peop she dieclii~pstein. who applied le Zino viev, Scha nk and to be ■ 23, whose fam- Atlantic University pres ident of Florida could not be reached in 2003. He became for co ily in ugos via ps in paid mon ey to "chi ef lear so that he could bring her to the United ning offic er" at the onli ne 111-ump Univ ersit y Staf f researcher Niels Heimetiks contrib- in 2005 . Scha States to be his "sex slave," two teenage listed his address as being in Stuank uted to this story. rt, * larry_keller@pbpostcom - tikrthlkat. -LE S-Cirtunk- • I cl oy -Sivt Is Icovk -1 351N feillo -1 DIE PAL H " THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 2008 Girls lawsuit claims sex assaults The minors are seeking millionsfrom financier Jeffrey Epstein. By BILL DIPAOLO Patin Beach Pas! Ste Writer Two underage girls are ac- cusing Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting them in a federal civil lawsuit filed Wednesday by their Miami attorney. Epstein has been in jail BILL ReGRAWSIall PhologalThat since pleading guilty in June Attorney Jeffrey Berman, whose clients are suing Palm Beacher Jef- to solicitation of prostitution frey Epstein, speaks Wednesday outside the county stockade. of underage girls. He is serv- ing an 18-month sentence. for life as a sex offender. He old visited the mansion many "Both girls are seeking a will be under a curfew from times in two years for the measure of justice. This is a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and must same reason, Herman said. beginning of their healing have no unsupervised con- Both were brought to the process," said attorney Jef- tact with anyone younger mansion by friends, he said. frey Herman. than 18. He also cannot own The charges against Ep- Herman is seeking damag- nor possess pornographic or stein stemmed from a corn- ' es of more than $100 million. sexual materials, according plaint to Palm Beach police Epstein has the assets to to court documents. about two years ago from a cover the punitive damages, The two girls, ages 13 and relative of a 14-year-old girl said Herman, adding that the 16, met with investigators dur- who had given him a naked financier owns an island off ing the 11-month investigation massage at his 7,234-square- St. Thomas and property in by Palm Beach police. They foot home. He paid the girls New Mexico and New York. are identified as "Jane Doe $200 to $300 each after the ' There are four pending No. 6" and "Jane Doe No. 7" in massage sessions, police said. federal civil lawsuits and one documents filed Wednesday Police concluded that in state court pertaining to in the West Palm Beach sec- there were several other girls Epstein'; relationships with tion of US. District Court. brought to the home in 2004 minors. At least one woman The 13-year-old visited and 2005 for similar reasons. has sued him in New York. Epsteinb $8.5 million Intra- Upon his release, Epstein, coastal mansion once and Staff writer Larry Keller con- 55, will be under house arrest had sex with him, according tributed to this story for a year and musk register to the lawsuit. The 16-year- S bilt..dipaolo@pbpost.com EFTA00188376 FHE PAW BEACH POST • TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008 As part of the plea deal, federal investigators agreed to drop their investigation of Epstein, which they had taken to a grand jury, two law enforcement sources said. UMA SAMCHYySiallthatographyr Epstein was indicted two Investment banker Jeffrey years ago after an 11-month Epstein waits In court Monday investigation by Palm Betch before his guilty plea. police. They received a complaint from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had Palm given Epstein a naked mas- sage at his five-bedroom, 7,234-square-foot, $8.5 million Intracoastal home. Beacher Police concluded that there See EPSTEIN, 8A 0- pleads in Crime coverage ■ Read past stories on the Epstein case. sex case ■ See photos of fugitives, unsolved cases, police blotters, a blog, special reports and more. Palm8eachPost.com Jeffrey Epstein will serve Ph years on teen solicitation charges. • By LARRY KELLFS Paint Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — He lives in a Palm Beach water- front mansion and has kept company with the like's of President Clinton, Prince An- drew and Donald 'frump, but investment bankerjeffrey Ep- stein will call the Palm Beach County Jail home for the next 18 months. Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty Monday to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. After serving 18 months in jail, he will be under house arrest for a year. And he will have a lifelong obligation to register as a sex offender. He must submit to an HIV test within 48 hours, with the results being pro- vided to his victims or their parents. EFTA00188377 Epstein faces civil lawsuits; more clients may be added Epstein will be allowed 0. EPSTEIN from IA to leave home for work. "It'a validation of what The New York-based money we're saying in the civil were several other girls cases," said Miami attorney brought in 2004 and 2005 to manager told the judge he Jeffrey Herman, who repre- an upstairs room at the home has formed the not-for-profit sents the alleged victims in for similar massages and Florida Science Foundation the federal lawsuits. West sexual touching. to finance scientific re- Palm Beach attorney Ted The indictment charged search. "Itn them every day," Leopold represents one al- Epstein only with felony so- Epstein said. leged victim in a civil suit in licitation of prostitution. The The foundation was in- state court. He said he antici- state attorney% office later corporated in November. pates amending that lawsuit added the charge of procur- Epstein said he already has to add "a few other clients" ing underage girls for that awarded money to Harvard as well. purpose. and MTE In the criminal case, po- Prosecutor Lanna Be- When he is released from lice went so far as to Scour lohlavek said of the plea: "I jail, there is a chance that Ep- Epsteinh trash and conduct took into consideration the stein will be forced to move. surveillance at Palm Beach length, the trial would have Sex offenders are not allowed International Airport, where been and witnesses having to live within 1,000 feet of a they watched for his private to testify" about sometimes school, park or other areas jet so they would know when embarrassing incidents. where children may gather. he was in town. They con- Einstein may . have made No determination has been cluded that Epstein paid girls a serious mistake soon after made as to whether Epstein home complies, but attorneys $200 to $300 each after the he was charged. He rejected massage sessions. an offer to plead guilty to one said it likely does. Heidi Fleiss," count of aggravated assault Sex offenders also typi- now 22, told with intent to commit a felo- cally must attend counseling police a et efforts in ny, according to police docu- sessions. Belohlavek said recruiting girls for Epstein. ments. He would have gotten that was waived for Epstein There was probable cause five years probation, had no because his private psychia- to charge Epstein with un- Criminal record and not been trist is working with him. lawful sex acts with a minor a registered sex offender, the documents indicate. and lewd and lascivious mo- Epstein arrived in court 'It's validation lestation, police concluded. Monday with at least three The state attorney% of- attorneys.. He wore a blue of what we're saying blazer, blue shirt; blue jeans fice said questions about in the civil cases.' the girls' credibility led it to and white and gray sneakers. take the unprecedented step After Circuit Judge Deborah ILI FREY HERMAN of presenting the evidence Dale Pucillo accepted the Attorney who represents alleged against Epstein to a grand plea, he was fingerprinted. victims, commenting on the plea jury, rather than directly Epstein then removed his charging him. blazer and was handcuffed Palm Beach Police Chief for the trip to jail while his. The judge was skeptical but Michael Reiter was furious attorneys tried to shield him agreed to it. with State Attorney Barry. froth photographers' lenses. Epstein legal woes don't Krischer, saying in a May When he eventually is end with Monday's plea. 2006 letter that the prosecu- released to house arrest, Ep- There are four pending fed- stein will have to observe a tor should disqualify himself. eral civil lawsuits and one "I continue to find your 10 p.m. to 6 a.m..curfew, have in state court related to. his offices treatment of these no unsupervised contact behavior. At least one woman cases highly unusual," he with anyone younger than has sued him in New York, 18 and neither own nor pos- wrote. He Meal asked for and where he owns a 51,000- got a federal investigation. sess pornographic or sexual square-foot Manhattan man- materials "that are relevant sion. to your deviant behavior," the judge said. EFTA00188378 Epstein hired a phalanx of high-priced lawyers —includ- ing Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz — and public relations people who questioned Reiterk com- petence and the victims' truthfulness. In addition to mansions in Palm Beach and Manhat- tan, Epstein owns homes in New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. He a frequent con- tributor to Democratic Party candidates. He also donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003. Former New ' York Gov. Eliot Spitzer returned a $50,000 campaign contribu- tion from Epstein after his indictment, then resigned this year during his own sex scandal. And the same Palm Beach Police Department that vigorously investigated Epstein returned his $90,000 donation for the purchase of a fi rearms simulator. Staffwriter Eliot Xleinbergand staffresearcher Michelle Quig- ley contributed to this story. elarry_kellerapbposteom IllAA SAMNA/Stall Photovapher effrey Epstein (left) appears in court Monday. Soon after he was charged two years ago, Epstein reject- ed a deal that would have given him five years' probation and no criminal record, documents show. EFTA00188379 The Night We Saw Jeffrey Epstein in Real Life - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer Page 1 of 2 New York Magazine News & Features 1/31/08 Party Lines 5:3o pm The Night We Saw Jeffrey Epstein in Real Life With free-flowing top-shelf liquor, truffle-oily foods, megabyte venues, and scores of A-to-D-listers poised to shun our goofy questions, most Peggy Siegal parties fill us with a heady mix of wonder and self-loathing. Last night's private screening of the HBO film Bernard and Doris at the Time Warner Center was no exception. At an event that seemed especially saturated with befuddling celebrity sightings: Why is Mo Rocca following Bebe Neuwirth like a puppy dog? Why is Cindy Adams photo- opping with Rush Limbaugh? Catherine Crier is still around? We were rendered speechless by one boldfacer we saw shuffling into the screening room with a beautiful woman: Jeffrey Epstein! That's right, Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey. Ep. Stein. Unshaven, smiling that feline-monkey grin, wearing a slightly tattered sweater and jeans, he reeked of money and massage oil. Well, we didn't get dose enough to say for sure, but we could imagine. We knew he and Peggy are Photo: Patrick McMullan friends, and Tye only ever seen him in jeans," she told New York in December. But really? The week after another lawsuit was filed against him by a teenage girl, he showed up to a movie premiere? With a young woman? (She looked to be in her twenties, at least, by the way.) Words failed us. Hell, even our fingers failed us as we fumbled to text a colleague about this turn of events. The film began, and it seemed to dovetail thematically with Epstein's saga: all about eccentric billionaires Doris Duke and her bizarre relationship with the hired help. When the lights went back up, Epstein and his comely companion were gone. No photographs of them on any of the wire services. Was it all a dream? — http://nymag.com/daily/inte1/2008/01/the_night we_sawjeffrey_epste.htinl 1/31/2008 EFTA00188380 The Night We Saw Jeffrey Epstein in Real Life - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer Page 2 of 2 Justin Rauitz Related: The Fantasist [NYM] Share 61 U Email 1,0 Link Li Print NEW YOU WILL BE PROMPTED TO REGISTER OR LOGIN WHEN POSTING. MUSEUM COMMENT A • User Guidelines 0 of 350 words allowed. HTML and URLs prohibited PREVIEW POST CO) http://nymag.com/daily/inte1/2008/01/the_night_we_sawjeffrey_epstc.html 1/31/2008 EFTA00188381 I of 3 Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Jane Doe's $50 Million Civil Suit Against Jeffrey Epst... Page =al FEATURES REVIEWS FAME-O -METER RADAR OUI HOMC ASS CO 41BACK NEXT < BACK TO FRESH INTELLIGENCE ON THE DOCKET LOG IN JANE DOE'S $50 MILLION CIVIL SUIT AGAINST JEFFREY EPSTEIN Usemame Password Back in November, we reported that Jeffrey Epstein, the tacky pervert Joln Ftadar On It's free and ef billionaire accused of sexually assaulting Forgot Your Pi able-bodied, underage girls up and down the Eastern seaboard, opted to take his chances in court rather than cop a plea. Today we bring you the details of the first FRESH IN' suit. The complaint, filed by one "Jane Doe," seeks to extract from Epstein Obama's Pi "damages in excess of $50 million," which actually seems an appropriate The Failure payout for having a creepy old dude Down Own' fondle you with a brightly colored American I( vibrator. Machine THE ACCUSED Epstein The pertinent facts presented in the Looking Ba complaint (downloadable pdf after the jump): Epstein, "a man of tremendous Murdoch R' wealth, power, and influence," also happens to have a "sexual preference and obsession with underage minor girls." To satiate this appetite, "he engaged in a Theater of plan and scheme in which he gained access to primarily economically of Souls: B disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually assaulted them, and then gave Off them money? One of these girls, the plaintiff "Jane Doe," was only 14! What We're Epstein's scheme, according to the complaint, is as follows: ,a Internets Palm Beach Community College coed, would at Epstein's behest lure underage Dear Tionn. girls to his mansion, "ostensibly to give a wealthy man a massage for monetary up to What' compensation" but really so that he could touch their parts and engage in Still Be Me; other non age-appropriate behavior with them. wrangled destitute girls because they would be "enticed by the money being offered—generally $200 to The Not Re $300 per 'massage' session—and who were perceived as less likely to complain Heath Ledg to authorities or have credibility If allegations of improper conduct were han://www.radarmanzine.com/exclusives/2008/01/jane-does-50-million-civil-suit-against... 1/31/2008 EFTA00188382 Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Jane Doe's $50 Million Civil Suit Against Jeffrey Epst... Page 2 of 3 made." (They were!) 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PROORIEWF COMMERCIAL hun://ad.doubleelick.net/adi/N4492.Advertising.com/B2688598.2;sz=160x600;cliek—http:/... 1/31/2008 EFTA00188384 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of I SOCIETY GIRL AT TWITS' END Neal Travis. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 1, 2000. pg. 009 Abstract (Document Summary) THINGS may be turning sour for gal-about-town Ghisla ine Maxwell, daughter of the fat and fraudulent owner of the Daily News, the late Robert Maxwell. former I hear that some of the 39-year-old Ghislaine's friend Manhattan and London party circuit are cutting her s on the because she's had so much adverse press over her relationship with Prince Andrew, Fergie's ex, with whom she recently attended a downtown S&M-themed party. Her relationship with "Randy Andy" is said to be platon ic, but the socially prominent women in Ghislaine's have recently sworn off any kind of publicity. "set" Full Text (328 words) Copyright New York Post Corporation Dec 1, 2000 THINGS may be turning sour for gal-about-town Ghisla ine Maxwell, daughter of the fat and fraudulent former owner of the Daily News, the late Robert Maxwell. I hear that some of the 39-year-old Ghislaine's friends Manhattan and London party circuit are cutting her on the because she's had so much adverse press over her relationship with Prince Andrew, Fergie's ex, with whom she recently attended a downtown S&M-themed party. Her relationship with "Randy Andy" is said to be platon ic, but the socially prominent women in Ghislaine's have recently sworn off any kind of publicity. A series of "set" lacerating articles - and the publication of the vapid "Bright Young Things," written by one of their own, Brook e de Ocampo - has portrayed this crowd as a bunch of twits living off their trust funds. Ghislaine's own funds are something of a mystery. Her father lavished money on her and set her up In at least one business in New York. But Maxwell's own ill-gotten gains which was named for her. There are plenty of British pensio were seized after he took a dive off his yacht, ners who lost their only means of support in the crash of Maxwell's house of cards and who find it obsce ne that Ghislaine manages to own an apartment on the Upper East Side and a mews house in London. She is said to be on some kind of retainer from mysterious New York financier Jeffrey Epstein, who reportedly has holdings in several major companies. Epstein also likes the company of attractive young women, and it's said that Ghislaine has been very good about introducing him to some of her pals. Ghislaine and her two elder sisters don't talk about where their money is coming from, but they are said to be heavily involved in some kind of Internet company. It would be awful luck for Ghislaine if her social standing were diminished at the same time as tech stocks are going down the toilet. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Furthe r reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Maxwell, Ghislaine Section: Neal Travis' New York Text Word Count 328 Document URL: EFTA00188385 MURKY WORLD OF CLINTON PAL New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 20, 2002. pg. 010 People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Clinton, Bill, Trump, Donald J, Boardman, Samantha, Truman, James Section: Page Six Text Word 1147 Count Document URL: Abstract (Document Summary) fait& Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for $15,000. [Jeffrey Epsteinj's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial digs to him for just $1. Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the interior. SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman EFTA00188386 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 3 MURKY WORLD OF CLINTON PAL New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 20, 2002. pg. 010 Abstract (Document Summary) Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for $15,000. (Jeffrey Epsteinj's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial digs to him for just $1. Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the interior. SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman, last year for man-about-town Todd Meister. According to our spies, Boardman ditched Meister after she caught him in flagrante with a 19-year-old coed. But don't feel too bad for her. Women's Wear Daily reports Boardman has a new man - Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. Truman must not be too pleased. When Boardman dumped him, he needed to recuperate at a Buddhist retreat upstate. Editorial meetings at Conde Nast must be a hoot these days. "DISCO Bloodbath" author James St. James is following up his notorious tell-all about killer club kid Michael Alig with another true-crime tome. He's shopping around "Killer Grandpa," his investigation into a lynching that his grandfather led in 1935. "My grandfather was a sheriff in Fort Lauderdale, and he lynched a black man that allegedly raped a white woman," James told us. "About 100 people gathered to watch, and they passed a gun around and everyone took a shot at the body. It became this big town secret, and I write about what really happened." James, a 1980s club kid who fell in with Alig's inner circle, is played by Seth Green in "Party Monster," the movie adaptation of "Disco Bloodbath." But James said he was "shocked" when he watched a few scenes of Green mincing it up with Macaulay Culkin, who plays Alig. "I didn't know I was so gayl I thought I was more like Steve McQueen, but Seth is flouncing around the whole time. Seth is much cuter than me, actually, and looks better in drag." Full Text (1147 words) (Copyright 2002, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) PAGE SIX'S scoop last month that mysterious money manager Jeffrey Epstein had flown Bill Clinton, Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his private 727 has sent journalists all over town trying to find out just who Epstein really is. Vanity Fair has a reporter on his trail, but New York magazine beats them to the punch with a feature this week on Epstein's strange history. Epstein, 49, a former Dalton School math teacher from Coney Island, is said to manage $15 billion for super- wealthy clients he'll only take on if they have at least $1 billion in assets. "According to people who know him," New York reports, "if you were worth $700 million and felt the need for the services of Epstein & Co., you would receive a not-so-polite no-thank-you." Noted mergers/acquisitions lawyer Dennis Block of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft recalls trying to give Epstein a client whose funds were below the $1 billion cutoff. "I sent him a $500 million client a few years ago and he wouldn't take him," Block reports. "Said the account was too small. Both the client and I were amazed. But that's Jeffrey." Most Wall Streeters, however, aren't even certain what Epstein actually does for a living. "My belief is that Jeff maintains some sort of money-management firm, though you won't get a straight answer from him," says one powerful investor. "He once told me that he has 300 people working for him, and I've also heard he manages Rockefeller money. But one never knows. It's like looking at the Wizard of Oz." Some say that Epstein once quit his seat on the board of the Rockefeller Institute because he hates wearing a suit, supposedly telling a friend, "It feels like wearing a dress." EFTA00188387 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 3 One power player who doesn't find Epstein to be all that hard to figure is Donald Trump. "I've known Jeffrey for 15 years," The Donald tells the magazine. "Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." Another thing Epstein - who's said to pocket at least $75 million a year in fees - and Trump have in common is a taste for extravagant living. Epstein lives in a 45,000-square-foot, eight-story mansion on East 71st Street. Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for $15,000. Epstein's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial digs to him for just $1. Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the interior. "I don't want to live in another person's house," Epstein told New York. Blind dater CHRIS Noth wasn't lonely on a recent trip to London. The "Law & Order hunk was set up on a blind date with Rose Keegan, an actress and the daughter of historian Sir John Keegan. The two spent much of the evening at the Century Club, and they were chaperoned by Kyle MacLachlan, who is pals with Noth from their days on the set of "Sex and the City." MacLachlan is in London co-starring in a play with hemp-happy Woody Harrelson. 'Rockets' soars "ROCKETS Redglarel" - a posthumous tribute to the late East Village actor and downtown icon - won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Directed by Luis Fernandez De La Reguera, it features interviews with Rockets' pals Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi and Julian Schnabel. Rockets, the beloved 350-pound former bodyguard of punk legend Sid Vicious who appeared in several of Buscemi's and Jarmusch's movies, died last year after years of drug abuse. Bizarre union BOB Crane was a sex addict, but his second wife, Pat Crane, didn't care. "He treated women like the rest of the world treats toilet paper. Who's going to be jealous of toilet paper?" she told "20/20" contributing correspondent Chris Connelly. Despite Crane's penchant for seducing other women and documenting his trysts on film and videotape, Pat insists: "We had a wonderful sex life. We had a wonderful marriage." Crane was bludgeoned to death in 1978 with a camera tripod. Plot device GAY writers love PAGE SIX. Everyone's favorite gossip column is prominently featured in the new novel "The Night We Met," a romantically swishy comedy by Rob Byrnes about a guy and his mafioso boyfriend. After making references to this page and The Post throughout the book, Byrnes even attempts to replicate one of our items in the climax. Byrnes' fictional item may lack the flawless prose of a real PAGE SIX scoop, but he does have us outsmarting yet another mendacious mouthpiece. Change partners SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman, last year for man-about-town Todd Meister. According to our spies, Boardman ditched Meister after she caught him in flagrante with a 19-year-old coed. But don't feel too bad for her. Women's Wear Daily reports Boardman has a new man - Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. Truman must not be too pleased. When Boardman dumped him, he needed to recuperate at a Buddhist retreat upstate. Editorial meetings at Conde Nast must be a hoot these days. Well protected EFTA00188388 ' Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 3 SEAN "Puffy" Combs confirmed our account of how Heath Ledger scuffled with his bodyguards at the VH1Nogue Awards after-party Combs threw at Lotus. "Heath is from Australia, and he parties hard now," Combs told "Access Hollywood." The two became pals on the set of "Monster's Ball." "He's coming at me, he's like, 'Puff, people don't know that we're the best of friends,' so it's like my security held him up for a second . . . and I was like, 'No, that's my brother.' " Sins of his grandfather "DISCO Bloodbath" author James St. James is following up his notorious tell-all about killer club kid Michael Alig with another true-crime tome. He's shopping around "Killer Grandpa," his investigation into a lynching that his grandfather led in 1935. "My grandfather was a sheriff in Fort Lauderdale, and he lynched a black man that allegedly raped a white woman," James told us. "About 100 people gathered to watch, and they passed a gun around and everyone took a shot at the body. It became this big town secret, and I write about what really happened." James, a 1980s club kid who fell in with Alig's inner circle, is played by Seth Green in "Party Monster," the movie adaptation of "Disco Bloodbath." But James said he was "shocked" when he watched a few scenes of Green mincing it up with Macaulay Culkin, who plays Alig. "I didn't know I was so gayl I thought I was more like Steve McQueen, but Seth is flouncing around the whole time. Seth is much cuter than me, actually, and looks better in drag." Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Clinton, Bill, Trump, Donald J, Boardman, Samantha, Truman, James Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1147 Document URL: EFTA00188389 HOTSHOT EPSTEIN NOT SO HOT: VF 2003. pg. 036 PAUL THARP. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Feb 4, People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Hoffenberg, Steve Section: Business Text Word Count 249 Document URL: r. 41)stract 02pp:taw; turupary) "...SP4-4trw claims to manage a billionaires-only [Jeffrey Epstein], a 50-year-old Ralph Lauren lookalike who g his attention-grabbing moves was flying fund, has made headlines for his high- society lifestyle; amon jet. President Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on a private nberg], he cooked up some of The article says that when Epstein worked for [Steve Hoffe in has denied. Hoffenberg's questionable financing deals - a claim Epste EFTA00188390 Page 1 of 1 k Post Airchives: New Yor NOT SO HOT: VF HOTSHOT EPSTEIN st. New York, N.Y.: Feb 4, 2003. pg. 036 rk Po PAUL THARP. New Yo has made Abstract (Documen t Summary) cla im s to m an ag e a billionaires-only fund, and lookalike who President Clinton -year-old Ralph Lauren ing moves was flying [Jeffrey Epstein), a 50 society lifestyle; among his attention-grabb h- headlines for his hig on a private jet. Sp ac ey to Af ric a Kevin me of Hoffenberg's fo r [Ste ve Ho ffe nb erg), he cooked up so en Epstein worked The article says that wh als - a claim Epstein has denied. g de questionable financin rds) Full Text (249 wo ghts Reserved) New York Post. Ali Ri (Copyright 2003, The illion to Harvard - is bn ob s wi th m og uls and pledged $25 m port. ire who ho ys a re lf-proclaimed billiona th a questionable financial background, sa Jeffrey Epstein - a se nt y hu nt er wi toes ex-bou actually a small pota has made ag e a bil lionaires-only fund, e who cla im s to m an esident Clinton and in, a 50 -yea r-o ld Ralph Lauren lookalik his attention-grabbing moves was flying Pr Epste society lifestyle; amon g headlines for his high- on a private jet. a Kevin Spacey to Afric ystery image. ws sta nd s th is we ek , unmasks Epstein's m ir, on ne ch issue of Vanity Fa But a report in the Mar of rumors and an he cla im s - an d le ft the firm amid a swirl earns, as the top gun at Bear St Epstein wasn't exactly said. ticle SEC violation, the ar years in prison l co lle cto r tu rn ed hu stler now serving 20 nberg, the bil ance was Steve Hoffe e, the report says. His mentor in high fin i sc he m n's costliest Ponz for running the natio tionable he co ok ed up so m e of Hoffenberg's ques for Hoffenberg, when Epstein worked The article says that nie d. im Epstein has de financing deals - a cla for defaulting ing on e in wh ich Citibank is suing him s lawsuits, includ involved in numerou Epstein has also been from its private banking arm. ns on $20 million in loa ent on the article. Sc ha nt z, co uld n't be reached for comm r, Jeffrey Epstein and his lawye agnate Leslie d cli en ts se cr et , ex cept for one - retail m deals an Epstein keeps all his high standards . . . and a loyal friend." The article said that t . [w ith ] stein "smar Wexner, who calls Ep ohibited without r. Further reproduc tion or distribution is pr rmission of the copyright owne Reproduced with pe permission. ffenberg, Steve People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Ho Business Section: 249 Text Word Count Docu m en t UR L: EFTA00188391 • MORE HEAT FOR BEL AIR BURGLAR New York Post. New York, N.Y.: May 26, 2005. pg. 012 Companies: Miami Heat (NAICS: 711211, Sic:7941 ) Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1671 Document URL: • ,Rgtaftfraigs Abstract (Document Summary) • kleelKaii,ir NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be settling down with his former gal pal. Model has been flashing a massive canary-yellow diamond engagement ring Ratner recently gave her, were told. , a Romanian stunner, used to date reclusive billionaire Jeffity Epstein. Epstein, who handles Leslie Wexner's fortune, helped land her a gig modeling EFTA00188392 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 4 MORE HEAT FOR BEL AIR BURGLAR New York Post. New York, N.Y.: May 26, 2005. pg. 012 Abstract (Document Summary) NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be settling down with his former gal pal. Model Alina Pascau has been flashing a massive canary-yellow diamond engagement ring Ratner recently gave her, we're told. Pascau, a Romanian stunner, used to date reclusive billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who handles Leslie Wexner's fortune, helped land her a gig modeling for Wexner's Victoria's Secret brand, wehear, and paid for her to live in high style. After they broke up she and Ratner dated for a while before his fling with Williams. "She's beautiful, but dumb as paint," one pal of Pascau told us. "She never washes her hair and she always has a cellphone glued to her ear. Without Jeffrey she would never have gotten the Victoria's Secret job." Pascau, who likes high-profile men, also used to bed down with Formula I driver Eddie Irvine. Ratner's rep did not return calls. YOU can't watch Arthur Chi'en on WCBS/Ch. 2 any more - the reporter was fired last week for uttering the "f word" on-air - but you can buy a plethora of products with his face on it. Cafepress.com is hawking a line of Chi'en-branded mugs, T-shirts, buttons, tote bags, messenger bags, barbecue aprons, teddy bears and even a "Chi'en Classic Thong." Some are emblazoned with the words, "What the (bleep) is your problem, man?" - the question Chi'en, who thought he was off the air, yelled out to twohecklers. David Yee, who is selling the Chi'en merchandise, said he was inspired by the popular T-shirts of revolutionary Che Guevara. "Chi'en sort of sounds like Che," he explained. "People are buying it." Meanwhile, Chi'en's friend Ian Gerard, the founder of Gen Art, has circulated an e-mail calling the firing "ridiculous," and urging recipients to complain to various Viacom and Channel 2 executives. Chi'en tells us he was "devastated" by his dismissal, and says he's currently looking for a new job. "I've got bigger things to worry about than the shirts, basically," he said. Full Text (1671 words) (Copyright 2005, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) YOUNG Hollywood can rest easier now that police have arrested the man suspected of committing a string of burglaries in the Beverly Hills and Bel Air area. Darnell Riley, 28, was officially busted two months ago in connection with a burglary/robbery at "Girls Gone Wild" gazillionaire Joe Francis' home in January 2004 - but he's also being investigated for break-ins at the homes of Paris Hilton, baby oil heiress Casey Johnson, club promoter Tommy Alastra and other L.A. celebs. A source said the crime ring used a gorgeous Elite model, still at large, to infiltrate the Hollywood party scene: "She would befriend the men, get the security codes to their homes and then send Riley in." Just before the 2004 Golden Globes, Francis returned to his Bel Air home as it was being robbed. The intruder Francis recently identified as Riley held him at gunpoint and stole $300,000 in cash and valuables. Sources added that Francis was "being blackmailed." Francis would only say, "I can confirm I was robbed at gunpoint." When Hilton's home was burgled in September of 2004, it looked eerily similar to the Francis break-in. At the time, Hilton spokesman Elliot Mintz confirmed that a "very, very professional" gang swiped more than $100,000 worth of jewelry, cash, video tapes and other items from the Hollywood Hills house Paris was renting with her sister, Nicky. After the burglary, more Hilton sex tapes mysteriously appeared, and damaging reports surfaced of a tape where Hilton supposedly used the "n-word." . Insiders say Hilton paid dearly to make sure the tape was never found. A source said, "She was blackmailed. She paid $20,000 a month to have that tape not released." Hilton told PAGE SIX via her rep, "Anyone who http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/844991031.html?MAC=b1d21f354a3eec5270f91258... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188393 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 blackmails should be prosecuted to the full extent of theliw." Hollywood insiders say Frankie Muniz and Wes Anderson may also have been burglarized, but their reps deny it. Steve Coleman, a Los Angeles police officer who worked the case, told PAGE SIX: "Darnell Riley is in custody and charged with burglary, robbery, and home invasion. This is an ongoing investigation." Asked if the cops were looking into whether or not Riley had pulled the heists at the homes of Hilton, Johnson and the others, Coleman said, "That's fair to say." Wacky lackeys AND you thought P. Diddy forcing Farnsworth Bentley to hold his umbrella was bad? Mariah Carey retains a "petite Colombian woman" whose duties include "keeping Mariah's long skirts from touching the floor and humping around a Louis Vuitton backpack filled with bottled water," reports Stuff magazine. Nelly keeps a "personal jewelry jockey" to ensure the safekeeping of all his carat- encrusted bling. Ludacris has a minion whose sole role is to make sure his boss' Gameboy is always loaded with fresh batteries. And rapper N.O.R.E. has a hype man, Ching Bing, who has just one job: to stand onstage and swing around a towel. We hear . . . THAT Eva Longoria - milking her man-eating "Desperate Housewives" image to the max - has taped a spot for Sirius Satellite Radio where she huskily pants: "Some women have to guess what a man wants, but I know what a man really wants, something that will keep a smile on his face for a really long time - over 120 channels, enough to satisfy any man" . . . THAT a visitor to Japan - where extreme modesty and close quarters prevail - reports that new public toilets have an unusual feature, the Flush Noise button, so that you can conceal the sound of actual bathroom functions with an artificial flushing noise. Sightings . DALLAS Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder powwowing at Caf Milano . . BEN Affleck sitting front row at the Red Sox-Blue Jays game in Toronto, then getting mobbed for photos before escaping through the Sox dugout . . . TRACY Morgan lifting up his shirt a la his character in "The Longest at Yard" to do a striptease for Burt Reynolds, Adam Sandler and Chris Rock at their movie premiere after-party Plus, the new lounge in Chelsea . . . HARRY Shearer dedicating his song, "82 Facelifts," to Barbara Walters during a performance at the Cutting Room. Romanian babe scores rock settling NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be down with his former gal pal. Model Alina Pascau has been flas hing a massive canary-yello w diamond engagement ring Ratner recently gave her, we're told. Pascau, a Romanian stunner, used to date reclusive for billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who handles Leslie Wexner's fortune, helped land her a gig modeling to live in high style. After they broke up she and Wexner's Victoria's Secret brand, wehear, and paid for her Pascau Ratner dated for a while before his fling with Williams. "She's beautiful, but dumb as paint," one pal of and she always has a pellphone glued to her ear. Without Jeffrey she would told us. "She never washes her hair with to bed down never have gotten the Victoria's Secret job." Pascau, who likes high-profile men, also used Formula I driver Eddie Irvine. Ratner's rep did not return calls. Publicity-hungry canceled a dinner for 18 at A ROMAN restaurateur is trying to exploit a near-miss with Bill Clinton, who recently Romeo Caraccio is whining to the press that Clinton's people the fashionable Agata e Romeo eatery. Owner ordered nearly $2,000 of special food and wines but never canceled, leaving him to take a loss. But his tale is it, and compensated baloney, says Clinton rep Jim Kennedy. "An advance person made a reservation, canceled publicity out of a canceled the restaurant for it," Kennedy said. He quipped, "A restaurant trying to get reservation? I'm shocked." http://pgasb.pgarchiver.corn/nypost/844991031.html?MAC=b1d21f354a3eec5270f91258... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188394 Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 Protein power HOW did Shaquille O'Neal prepare for last night's Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Finals pitting his Miami Heat against the Detroit Pistons? By devouring a 48-oz. porterhouse ($76) at South Beach's trendiest steakhouse, Prime 112, the night before. The 7-foot-1, 320- lb. center joined fellow carnivores Jamie Foxx and TNT analyst Charles Barkley, who as usual was trashing the Knicks. There's one menu item Shaq steers clear of - the $20 "Kobe Hot Dog." Keepin' it real IS life imitating art? Blond bombshell Katheryn VVinnick, who was so good as lvana Trump in Tuesday night's "Trump Unauthorized" on ABC, must have liked her brush with real estate fame. The Post's Lois Weiss reports the actress was seen canoodling with one of the city's top real estate investment-sale brokers, Douglas Harmon of Eastdil, Tuesday afternoon, before she got into a black Lincoln in front of 40 W. 57th St., the building where Harmon is headquartered. Paris burger ad not for kids? PARIS Hilton is too hot for Washington. Lawmakers are working behind the scenes to get her sizzling W ad for eatery chain Carl's Jr. - in which she writhes half-naked on a Bentley, cavorts with a garden hose and sucks her finger - banished to late night. Sources say several influential pots have quietly told networks the commercial, labeled "basically soft-core porn" by the Parents Television Council, isn't fit for children and shouldn't air before 10 p.m. The eye-popping ad, in which Paris looks like she's getting ready for her next Rick Solomon, is great publicity for Carl's Jr., which hired the hotel hottie to hawk its new Spicy Burger. The fast- food firm's official response to those who are seeing red? "Get a life." Sudden dash DAMON Dash, with gorgeous wife Rachel Roy in tow, basked in the glory of receiving an AAFA American Image Award from Kevin Bacon at the Grand Hyatt, but dashed out without offering a donation to the event's charity to partner, the Alzheimer's Association. The hip-hop mogul was apparently the only honoree who didn't donate nobody connected to the event was aware of it. the event. Dash's publicist told us he did make a donation - but Axed reporter branded the "f YOU can't watch Arthur Chi'en on WCBS/Ch. 2 any more - the reporter was fired last week for uttering but you can buy a plethora of products with his face on it. Cafepress.c om is hawking aline of word" on-air - aprons, teddy bears and even a Chi'en-branded mugs, T-shirts, buttons, tote bags, messenger bags, barbecue "What the [bleep) is your problem, man?: the "Chi'en Classic Thong." Some are emblazoned with the words, the Chi'en question Chi'en, who thought he was off the air, yelled out to twohecklers. David Yee, who is selling by the popular T-shirts of revolutionar y Che Guevara. "Chi'en sort of sounds merchandise, said he was inspired founder of Gen Art, like Che," he explained. "People are buying it." Meanwhile, Chi'en's friend Ian Gerard, the and has circulated an e-mail calling the firing "ridiculous," and urging recipients to complain to various Viacom looking for a Channel 2 executives. Chi'en tells us he was "devastated" by his dismissal, and says he's currently new job. "I've got bigger things to worry about than the shirts, basically," he said. Call to mouths s. But when you KELLY Osboume thinks her Hollywood friends are too thin. "Sure they're beautiful in photograph Vogue. "I hate to name names, so I'm not see them in person, they look hungry and miserable," she tells Teen 'You're so and remember thinking, going to, but there's one in particular I think of often. I saw her last summer looked near into her in the winter and she literally beautiful, you're at the most perfect weight.' And then I ran , the magazine's June/July death. I was like, 'What are you doing to yourself? You're 18 years old." Interestingly issue features shrunken Lindsay Lohan on the cover. [Illustration] REWARDS -Shaquille O'Neal; Katheryn Winnick -IN A CONTROVERSIAL TV SPOT, PARIS HILTON http://pqasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/844991031.html?MAC=b1d2If354a3eec5270f91258... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188395 Archives: New York Post Page 4 of 4 HERSELF AFTER WASHING A BENTLEY IN HER SKIMPY SWIMSUIT. [Jeff Vespa /INirelmage] -LATINA LOVELY THALIA CHANNELS ELVIS PRESLEY AS SHE SHOOTS HER NEW VIDEO FOR "AMAR SIN SER AMADA" IN BROOKLYN. [Sara Jaye Weiss] Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. Companies: Miami Heat (NAICS: 711211, Sic:7941 ) Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1671 Document URL: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.cont/nypost/844991031.11tml?MAC=b1d21f354a3eec5270f91258... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188396 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 4 PROBED POL'S SON BLAMES PLOT New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Jan 14, 2005. pg. 014 Abstract (Document Summary) IS billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein making a bid for IMG Models? As we reported last summer, Epstein tried to buy Elite Models when the bankrupt agency was auctioned off. In 2003, we reported that Epstein, who's been described as "a connoisseur of beautiful women," was talking to Karin Models owner Jean-Luc Brunel about doing a deal, but it went nowhere. Epstein has also met with Elite's Gerald Marie and 1 Management's Scott Lipps. Now we hear Epstein has been having talks with fellow billionaire Teddy Forstmann, who paid $750 million for the IMG group a few months ago, about buying the company's modeling division, which reps the likes of Gisele Bundchen, Kate Moss and Heidi Klum. Reps for IMG and Forstmann deny any such negotiations are taking place. Epstein's rep did not return calls. Forstmann has been talking to top Hollywood talent agencies about a possible merger. PAUL Allen, 51, the bachelor Microsoft co-founder worth $20 billion (according to Forbes), rang in the New Year with British blonde Kate Reardon, 36 (above), a former fashion director for Tatter magazine who now writes about jewelry for the Times of London. The couple ushered in 2005 in St. Barts aboard Allen's 413- foot yacht, "Octopus," equipped with two helicopters and a 60-foot submarine. There were scores of other guests but Allen seemed mesmerized by Reardon, who had a similareffect on another billionaire, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith. Reardon attended Goldsmith's funeral in 1997, along with his widow and his second wife. "Conveniently, Allen has a house in London," said our source. [TRUMAN CAPOTE], dead for over 20 years, is suddenly a hot property in Hollywood. The author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood" is the subject of two new biopics - Warner Independent's "Every Word Is True," based on Plimpton's 1997 oral history, and United Artists' "Capote," based on the landmark 1988 Gerald Clarke bio.rny. "Capote," due out this fall, stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who is talented but a bit burly to play the "tiny terror." "Every Word" stars relatively unknown Toby Jones with an all-star supporting cast including Alan Cumming, Anjelica Huston, Sandra Bullock (as "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee), Ashley Judd, Kevin Kline, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver. Hollywood columnist Jeffrey Wells reports that "Capote" has the advantage of Hoffman in the starring role, while "Every Word," which just started filming, is said to have a much better screenplay. Full Text (1520 words) (Copyright 2005, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) THE loose-cannon son of a subpoenaed Bronx state senator claims Republicans are behind a federal probe of frfr the Bronx Democratic machine because they want to destroy Fernando Ferrer's campaign for mayor. Efrain Gonzalez III, whose dad, State Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., is one of nine Bronx politicians subpoenaed to testify, wrote to the Riverdale Review: "The GOP controls the White House, the N.Y. State House and City Hall, so if they want to attack the members of the Bronx Democratic Party, who is going to stop them?" Fifteen subpoenas reportedly have been served, six of them to nonprofit organizations that employ relatives of the elected officials. Young Gonzalez is president of the Latino Affirmation Council, which isn't listed in The Bronx or Manhattan. Gonzalez letter to the Riverdale paper said: "When my father and the 14 other members were issued subpoenas, that alone was a message being sent by the GOP, that they will do anything in their power to keep Mayor Bloomberg in power, because all those members being probed are working to support Ferrer in next year's mayoral race." The elder Gonzalez's lawyer, "Don't Worry Murray" Richman, told PAGE SIX: "This is the over-excited imagination of a young man. We do not support these allegations which were not authorized and don't represent the views of the senator or myself." In a strange e-mail posted on YonkersTribune.com last fall, after The Post broke the news of the investigation, young Gonzalez said: "They couldn't find any weapons [of mass destruction), so they said instead of killing more http://pqasb.pqarchiver.corn/nypost/778885231.htmIMAC=d480c38ad9d4655614f3d46d... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188397 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 camels, they are trying to get rid of all the donkeys over here instead . . . they forgot that a Puerto Rican donkey knows how to climb high mountains, and are stronger than any elephant." One federal subpoena went to the elder Gonzalez's longtime girlfriend, Lucia Sanchez. Investigators are also looking into the $1 million in campaign funds Gonzalez has spent over the years in uncontested elections, with much of the money going to a mystery campaign worker identified in filings as Ricardo Santiago. "At issue is whether or not borough politicos funneled state and city funds into pet programs to then turn those funds into salaries for friends and relatives," the Riverdale Review reports. One of the non-profits being probed is the West Bronx Neighborhood Association, a favorite of Gonzalez's housed in the same building as his office on the Grand Concourse. Talent shortfall THUMB-size thespians looking for a little work would do well to book a trip to London, where dwarf actors are in short supply. Producers for the BBC's "Doctor Who" are searching for undersize actors to play little blue aliens in the remake of the classic 1970s sci-fi show. But most of Britain's tiny talents have already been snapped up for the new "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie or to play Gringotts Bank staff in the new "Harry Potter" film. Executive producer Russell T. Davies complained to London's Daily Mirror: "It's very difficult to employ persons of restricted growth when these other movies are filming at the same time." We hear . . . THAT it could get crowded for the Democrats in 2008. John Kerry has said he won't rule out running again, and now comes word Tipper Gore is telling friends that Al Is eyeing another race himself. Words of gold DONALD Trump will be paid a record-breaking $1 million an hour for Learning Annex appearances in three featured cities this year. That's over $16,000 a minute. Since it was founded in 1980, the Learning Annex has such celebrity teachers as Sarah Jessica Parker, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Henry Kissinger. The when he was a member of the previous highest fee was $28,000 - paid to Ron Wood nearly 20 years ago 23 and Rolling Stones. Trump's "How toSucceed in Real Estate" hits Los Angeles on May 1, Chicago on Oct. New York on Nov. 6. Learning Annex president/fo under Bill Zanker said, "Last time he taught for us, over 20,000 students came - and this year he's even bigger." Mogul lusts for model shop Epstein tried IS billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein making a bid for IMG Models? As we reported last summer, auctioned off. In 2003, we reported that Epstein, who's been to buy Elite Models when the bankrupt agency was women," was talking to Karin Models owner Jean-Luc Brunel about described as "a connoisseur of beautiful nowhere. Epstein has also met with Elite's Gerald Marie and 1 Manageme nt's Scott doing a deal, but it went Forstmann, who paid $750 Lipps. Now we hear Epstein has been having talks with fellow billionaire Teddy reps the likes million for the IMG group a few months ago, about buying the company's modeling division, which for IMG and Forstmann deny any such negotiations are of Gisele Bundchen, Kate Moss and Heidi Klum. Reps calls. Forstmann has been talking to top Hollywood talent agencies taking place. Epstein's rep did not return about a possible merger. Aspen captive her in a room SOCIALITE Denise Rich has fired her yoga instructor after his girlfriend told police that he locked that The unidentified woman alleged of Rich's Aspen mansion for three days over the Thanksgiving holiday. room when she threatened to call the cops. A Jules Paxton attacked her first and then locked her in a during the incident, spokesman for Rich said the ex-wife of pardoned tax cheat Marc Rich was traveling abroad staying at herhome. "Mrs. Rich has decided to discontinue his services as her but confirmed that Paxton was yoga instructor," the rep said. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/778885231.html?MAC=d480c38ad9d4655614f3d46d... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188398 Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 Happy holiday PAUL Allen, 51, the bachelor Microsoft co-founder worth $20 billion (according to Forbes), rang in the New Year with British blonde Kate Reardon, 36 (above), a former fashion director for Tatler magazine who now writes about jewelry for the Times of London. The couple ushered in 2005 in St. Barts aboard Allen's 413- foot yacht, "Octopus," equipped with two helicopters and a 60-foot submarine. There were scores of other guests but Allen seemed mesmerized by Reardon, who had a similareffect on another billionaire, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith. Reardon attended Goldsmith's funeral in 1997, along with his widow and his second wife. "Conveniently, Allen has a house in London," said our source. Super at 14 THE 44 contestants in the Ford Supermodel of the World contest learned evasive maneuvers at the after-party at the Tunnel, where they met such studs as Jesse Palmer of the Giants, Trevor Ariza of the Knicks, Jamie ("Born Rich") Johnson and Kelly ("The Apprentice") Perdew. New husband Fabian Basabe showed, too, without bride Martina Borgomanero, and worked the red carpet The winner, who also got a $250,000 modeling contract, was Brazilian Camila Finn (above), all of 14. She might look even better when she grows up. IT'S THE TRUMAN CAPOTE SHOW TRUMAN Capote, dead for over 20 years, is suddenly a hot property in Hollywood. The author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" " Cold Blood" is the subject of two new biopics - Warner Independent's "Every Word Is True," based on Plimpton's 1997 oral history, and United Artists' "Capote," based on the landmark 1988 Gerald Clarke biograp y. "Capote," due out this fall, stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who is talented but a bit burly to play the "tiny terror." "Every Word" stars relatively unknown Toby Jones with an all-star supporting cast including Alan Cumming, Anjelica Huston, Sandra Bullock (as "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee), Ashley Judd, Kevin Kline, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver. Hollywood columnist Jeffrey Wells reports that "Capote" has the advantage of Hoffman in the starring role, while "Every Word," which just started filming, is said to have a much better screenplay. Own show COURTNEY Fine, a former aide to Mayor Bloomberg who left politics to become an actress, is showcasing "Me 2," a play she wrote about a woman jailed for breaking into the bar where she left her cell- phone. Among those s sister invited to last night's opening at the Producers Club 2: Victoria Gatti, Amy Fine Collins and Bloomberg' Marjorie Tiven. The show closes after tomorrow's performance. Never mind Parnham, the lawyer for Andrea Yates, is quick to cash in after winning her a new trial for the murder shopping a book, "States of o er we kids. Parnham, who will try to get Yates off using the insanity defense, is premenstrual Mind," which will focus on his favorite tricks for defending female killers: postpartum depression, syndrome and post-traumatic stress. And he'll include similar cases: Clara Harris, who allegedly ran over her y, who strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett and then unfaithful husband with herMercedes Benz, and Lisa Montgomer surgically removed her fetus last month. [Illustration] BEACH -Kate Reardon; Camila Finn -SINGER ALICIA KEYS KEEPS HER BOD BUFF BY JOGGING ON THE -ANY MAN WHO WINS THE HEART OF NICOLE KIDMAN, IN BARBADOS YESTERDAY. [ZUMA PRESS) LATEST PICTURED HERE IN A SHOOT FOR THE NEW ISSUE OF IN STYLE, IS A LUCKY DOG. HER THE MAG, IS PHILIP ROTH, 71, WHO WROTE THE NOVEL "THE HUMAN STAIN," THE CRUSH, SHE TELLS BASIS FOR HER 2003 FILM. [RUVEN AFANADOR FOR IN STYLE] prohibited without Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/778885231.html?MAC=d480c38ad9d4655614f3d46d... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188399 Archives: New York Post Page 4 of 4 permission. People: Gonzalez, Efrain III, Epstein, Jeffrey, Rich, Denise, Allen, Paul, Reardon, Kate Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1520 Document URL: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.corn/nypost/778885231.httnl?MAC=d480c38ad9d4655614f3d46d... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188400 RADAR COMEBACK - ROSHAN GETS BIG-TIME BACKERS WITH BANKROLL KEI7.1-1.1. KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 19, 2004. pg. 037 People: Roshan, Maer, Zuckerman, Mort, Epstein, Jeffrey Companies: Radar Media LLP Section: Business Text Word Count 484 Document URL: cw t „ tifti r,191 tAbilitict(bizietirtiOritSittrirralY) H Macr Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to bankroll him with millions. Roshan had tried to get [Mort Zuckerman] and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell apart, but at first nothing came of the talks. "That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, ... EFTA00188401 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 2 RADAR COMEBACK - ROSHAN GETS BIG-TIME BACKERS WITH BANKROLL KEITH J. KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 19, 2004. pg. 037 Abstract (Document Summary) Maer Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to bankroll him with millions. Roshan had tried to get [Mort Zuckerman] and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell apart, but at first nothing came of the talks. "That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, an attorney who handled the negotiations with Zuckerman and [Jeffrey Epstein] on Roshan's behalf. Full Text (484 words) (Copyright 2004, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) Maer Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to bankroll him with millions. How many millions is open to debate. Mort Zuckerman, owner of the Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, has teamed with Jeffrey Epstein as the primary backers of a new and improved Radar, set to launch as a monthly in April 2005. Radar put out only two issues before it ran out of money last year, with the third issue stranded on the drawing board. "Its not a Daily News or a U.S. News publication," said Roshan. "It's a new publishing company." Radar Media LLP, the previous company, is selling assets only to the new company. The old company will be dissolved and there is already a dispute as to how the money will be divvied up among the still unpaid creditors, which includes freelancers. "I don't know if it will be possible to pay everyone in full," said Michael North, the attorney handling the dissolution. But Roshan insisted, "There is no reason to assume they won't be paid." It's not the first time that Roshan has talked with Zuckerman about a magazine venture. Zuckerman, Epstein and a collection of media heavyweights that included Harvey Weinstein, Nelson Peltz and media critic Michael Wolff had tried to buy New York magazine but lost out to Bruce Wasserstein at the eleventh hour. Roshan was being talked about as a potential editor in chief. Roshan had tried to get Zuckerman and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell apart, but at first nothing came of the talks. Roshan next turned to a French Moroccon businesswoman, Maria Oufkin, but after a brief flurry of publicity, she faded. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/716729581.html?MAC=b465a1b44f88a88e53d9c38c... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188402 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 2 "That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, an attorney who handled the negotiations with Zuckerman and Epstein on Roshan's behalf. How much is committed this time is open to speculation. One source said that it would take a miniumum of $20 million to launch a magazine but more realistically, it would take several times that over a five or six year period. Talk magazine, where Roshan was deputy editor near the end of its run, cost its joint venture partners Miramax and Hearst about $55 million before it shut down in early 2002 after nearly two and a half years of publication. "I can't tell you the commitment," said Hand of the new backers. "It's significant and we're happy with it." Said Roshan, "Just because we have backers, doesn't mean we're going to turn into Talk. We're still going to be lean. We'll have the funding to do what we like, but I'm not interested in town cars." He said he hopes to have about a half million in circulation eventually for the new Radar. [Illustration] -MAER ROSHAN Patience pays off. -MORT ZUCKERMAN Ponies up $$. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Roshan, Maer, Zuckerman, Mort, Epstein, Jeffrey Companies: Radar Media LLP Section: Business Text Word Count 484 Document URL: http://pqasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/716729581.html?MAC=b465a1b44f88a88e53d9c38c... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188403 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 3 RADAR HITS RELAUNCH TARGET - PARTY HIGHLIGHT: GAWKER'S DENTON GETS PIE IN EYE Keith J. Kelly. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: May 20, 2005. pg. 034 Abstract (Document Summary) CONTROVERSY flared at the Radar launch party when [GAWKER] founder Nick Denton was hit with a creamy gooey pie as he sidled up next to magazine founder Maer Roshan for a photo op. Denton then promptly dumped his glass of red wine on Roshan's head. Roshan professed to be as surprised as anyone (and in fact was one of several bystanders hit with splatter from the Unknown Pie Guy). They later retreated to Roshan's hotel suite, Roshan changed clothes and even let Denton shower. SMASHED: Gawker's Nick Denton smiles after getting pied at the Radar relaunch party. Maer Roshan (top, right), the mag's founder, was nearby. [Suzanne Boyd), Suede editor before it folded, was also at the soiree. [Wrelmage, Marina Gamier] Full Text (876 words) (Copyright 2005, The New York Post. All Rights Resented) CONTROVERSY flared at the Radar launch party when Gawker founder Nick Denton was hit with a creamy gooey pie as he sidled up next to magazine founder Maer Roshan for a photo op. Gawker, a media-centric Web site which for weeks has had been needling Radar and its self promoting founder, sarcastically calling it, "Radar, the Greatest American Magazine Launch." let The photo op was seen as a chance to make nice between Roshan and Denton to prove they were willing to bygones be bygones, blah, blah. Then the peace accord was ruptured as a burly unknown person broke through the throng and smashed the wearing custard pie squarely into the face of Denton and dashed out, leaving no clue as to his identity. He was an English-soccer style shirt and a New York Knicks hat. an early Denton, his face and clothes a mess from the ambush, assumed he had been set up by Roshan. (In on his own Web site, he insisted he had only been hit with a glancing blow version of the event that he posted from the pie tosser, but had to retract that version when photos turned up). be as surprised as Denton then promptly dumped his glass of red wine on Roshan's head. Roshan professed to one of several bystanders hit with splatter from the Unknown Pie Guy). They later anyone (and in fact was retreated to Roshan's hotel suite, Roshan changed clothes and even let Denton shower. night. He also rummaged around and found a T-shirt and pants for Denton to wear for the rest of the Johnson. Denton, despite the good turn done by Roshan still feels it was a set-up by event planner Nadine but the execution left "It is pretty clear it was one of Nadine Johnson's hires," said Denton. "It was nicely staged, a lot to be desired since Maer was hit too." asked Denton. "I "What baffles me is why they would want their launch event hijacked by that kind of publicity?" heard Mort Zuckerman slipped in the goo," said Denton. "He had to have the whole thing explained to him, including what a blog is." but were out of Daily Snooze owner Zuckerman and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein were both on hand, 11/30/2005 http://pqasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/842504731.html?M AC=7 bce35alce53b22e38507a31... EFTA00188404 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 3 range when the pie started flying. The two billionaires are 50-50 partners in the venture. Drew Kerr, a spokesman for Roshan, and the party planner, both deny that it was a Radar plant. "No one was hired by anyone to throw a pie," said a spokesperson for Johnson. On the business side, William Holiber, the president of U.S. News & World Report, which is also owned by Zuckerman, was on hand. Media Ink on April 8 reported that he had been drafted into action when launch publisher Linda Sepp, a Zuckerman pal, was given the boot weeks before the launch. At the time, a Zuckerman spokesman was insisting that Holiber was only helping out on Radar in an "informal and advisory role" and had no official title on Radar. But when the debut issues were handed out, there was Holiber, proudly pointing out his designation as Radar's president. publisher, Sepp was nowhere in sight at the party or on the masthead but a former Sports Illustrated associate Grayle Howlett was, handing out his very own Radar publisher card. Also on hand was Suzanne Boyd, who was the editor-in-chief of Time Inc.'s short-lived urban-fashion magazine Suede. She quit the publishing company and took a buyout on the remaining year of her two-year contract rather than accept a position as an editor-at-large in magazine development. the That move is considered a blow to Time Inc. A company spokesman confirmed that she had declined company offer. for 7 years The statuesque fashion editor had been running Flare, the Toronto- based fashion bible of Canada of Essence Communica tions, and Isolde Motley, the corporate when she was picked by Ed Lewis, then the head which was envisioned as a hot new fashion magazine for women of color. editor of Time, to launch Suede, considered a Boyd arrived in March of last year and cranked out the first issue by the end of the summer - breakneck pace in magazine land. tions into As the launch was progressing, Time was in the process of negotiating to convert Essence Communica a 100 percent- owned subsidiary by buying out Lewis. plug was being Suddenly, in the weeks before the buyout was finalized, a stunned Boyd got the word that the pulled on the new magazine after publishing only two issues. staff was let go. In its public announcement, Time Inc. had insisted that it was only suspended, but the Now Boyd, the last link, has quit the company and is weighing her options. -for newsstand sales of Insiders believed that Time Inc. was disappointed by the costs and the lower-than-hoped the first two issues. that Life magazine was Industry sources say the biggest obstacle to Suede's funding may have been the losses piling up as a weekly insert into daily newspapers. [Illustration] Maer Roshan (top, SMASHED: Gawker's Nick Denton smiles after getting pied at the Radar relaunch party. Intp://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/842504731.html?MAC-7bcc35alce53b22e38507a31... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188405 Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 3 right), the mag's founder, was nearby. Suzanne Boyd, Suede editor before it folded, was also at the soiree. tWirelmage, Marina Gamier) Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. Companies: Time Inc(TickerTL, NAICS: 511120, Duns:00-121-3446 ) Section: Business Text Word Count 876 Document URL: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/842504731.html?MAC=7bee35alce53b22€38507a31... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188406 Adchives: New York Post Page 1 of 4 SINGLING OUT APPLE'S TOP STUDS Richard Johnson. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 28, 2003. pg. 012 Abstract (Document Summary) ANDRE BALAZS, 46. The ever-smiling hotelier - who owns The Mercer in Soho, Chateau Marmont and the Standard in L.A., the Raleigh in Miami, Sunset Beach on Shelter lasland, and a new place in St. Barts -just split from his wife Katie Ford. Pro: Recently was reported skinny-dipping. Con: Seems to be giving Uma Thurman more than his shoulder to cry on. JEFFREY EPSTEIN, 50. Mystery billionaire was a math teacher at Dalton just a few years ago. Then he started handling Leslie Wexner's money. Now he lives in Manhattan's biggest mansion. Pro: Has a private plane which he used to take Bill Clinton to Africa. Con: Was one of Mort Zuckerman's partners in failed attempt to buy New York magazine. CHRIS BARISH, 30. The son of Planet Hollywood tycoon and movie producer Keith Barish recently sold out his interest in three Las Vegas nightclubs to Kirk Kerkorian for $10 million. Pro: You'll never have to wait on line or pay for a drink at Marquee, his new club. Con: You might never get to sleep before 3 a.m. JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, 41. Since dropping out of high school, he's built a four-restaurant empire with eateries in the Bronx, Harlem, Sutton Place and City Island. Pro: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Con: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Full Text (1905 words) (Copyright 2003, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) New York has the smartest, toughest, most ambitious men in the world, and some of them are still single - or newly single, having gotten divorced. We went through our multiple data bases, interviewed the experts, polled our readers, and came up with this definitive PAGE SIX list of the city's most eligible guys. incomes. They come from all sorts of backgrounds and generations, with different talents and widely divergent The only thing they have in common is they like women. We rejected some men because they seem to be in long-term romances heading toward marriage, others because it seems they'll never marry. To the many men who think they belong on the list, there's always next year. by Mariah DEREK JETER, 29. The Yankee shortstop's sex-symbol status has only grown since he was stalked for the World Series. Carey, and mocked in American Express ads for his propensity to party. Pro: Great seats Con: Demands near-perfection - at least visually - in his dates. University of ED SKYLER, 30. Tall, dark, super-serious mayoral press secretary went to Collegiate, then the of City Hall and Gracie Pennsylvania. His sister is a successful playwright. Pro: He can give you a private tour 18 hours a day, starting before dawn. Mansion. Con: A romantic evening would end early bcause Skyler works Utendahl Capital JOHN UTENDAHL, 46. He's 6-foot-3, with movie star looks - and he is chairman and CEO of space in his Brooklyn Partners, the largest minority-owned investment bank in America. Pro: Plenty of closet a golf widow - he runs a charity Heights townhouse and his weekend place in Quogue. Con: Plan on being tournament every year in Boca Raton, Fla. king game. Now JEREMY SHOCKEY, 23. The Giants' tight end became a fan favorite with his first tackle-brea Quite single despite his friendship with he's the biggest local gridiron personality since Joe "Willie" Namath. Pro: misfires, as when he blasted Giants fans because they babelicious Britny Gastineau. Con: His big mouth often had the nerve to boo him and his disappointin g teammates. and the ANDRE BALAZS, 46. The ever-smiling hotelier - who owns The Mercer in Soho, Chateau Marmont lasland, and a new place in St. Barts - just split Standard in L.A., the Raleigh in Miami, Sunset Beach on Shelter skinny-dipp ing. Con: Seems to be giving Uma Thurman from his wife Katie Ford. Pro: Recently was reported http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/519943651.html?MAC=dd6e0556b501381670461379... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188407 • Aithives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 more than his shoulder to cry on. ETHAN HAWKE, 33. The adulterer/actor finally shed his pretty-boy image this summer, brazenly cheating on wife Uma Thurman. Pro: Plenty of women would like a shot at taming this rogue bull. Con: Might guilt you into reading one of his weak novels. ROCCO DiSPIRITO, 37. The dashing owner of Union Pacific and star of his own reality show has cooked for just about every hip hottie in town. Pro: He might be ready to settle down in the next few years (Yeah, right). Con: If you haven't already dated him, one of your friends has. ANDRE 3000, 28. With this year's smash hit "Hey Ya," the fun half of hip-hop duo Outkast has gone from cult figure to mainstream superstar. Pro: His minimalist posse includes as few as four members. Con: Recently moved to Brooklyn and might not realize that only the lamest of the lame frequent Williamsburg nightspots. PHARRELL WILLIAMS, 30. Pop production whiz's maddeningly catchy beats legitimized Justin Timberlake, and cameos of his Curtis Mayfield-like falsetto are becoming ubiquitous on hits by Jay-Z and others. Pro: Makes more than you do in a year to tweak a Britney Spears song. Con: Approaching a P. Diddy-like level of oxerexposure. JIMMY FALLON, 29. We don't know if it's his cuddly demeanor or uncanny impersonation skills, but the resident hunk on "Saturday Night Live" is catnip to the ladies. Pro: Likes to play the jukebox at Hell's Kitchen dive bars. Con: If he stays over your house, make sure to have extra hair product for his artfully mussed 'do. DAMON DASH, 32. Brash CEO of Rocawear clothing line and Roc-a- Fella Records also owns a film company, vodka line, nightclub, and he's undoubtedly planning a new project as you read this. Pro: One of the city's reigning rapresarios. Con: Is prone to obnoxious harangues against his underlings or those who question his importance. JULIAN CASABLANCAS, 25. Doe-eyed son of Elite Models founder John Casablancas sings for hot rock band The Strokes. Pro: His band is actually good. Con: Wears "ironic" 1980$ concert T-shirts by Def Lepard and Michael Jackson. the most SHEPHERD SMITH, 39. Next to the blustery Bill O'Reilly, this Southern-fried anchorman is probably Pro: His sprawling Lower East Side pad has a pool table. recognizable face on the top-rated Fox News Channel. in 2000 for hitting a reporter with his car in a dispute over a parking space Con: A road rager who was arrested in Tallahassee, Fla. of PAOLO ZAMPOLLI, 33. Italian owner of ID Models can usually be found sitting in a corner banquette surrounded by a bevy of beauties. Pro: Throws great parties in his downtown loft. whatever club just opened your name. Con: If you're not 5-foot-11 with cheekbones that cut glass, he probably won't remember Oscar for "The ADRIEN BRODY, 30. Haunted-looking actor famously kissed Halle Berry while accepting his -hop music under the alias, "A. Ranger." Con: Is serious with girlfriend Michelle Pianist." Pro: Makes moody trip Dupont, a music-industry personal assistant. Then he started JEFFREY EPSTEIN, 50. Mystery billionaire was a math teacher at Dalton just a few years ago. plane which handling Leslie Wexner's money. Now he lives in Manhattan's biggest mansion. Pro: Has a private in failed attempt to buy New he used to take Bill Clinton to Africa. Con: Was one of Mort Zuckerman's partners and movie producer Keith Barish York magazine. CHRIS BARISH, 30. The son of Planet Hollywood tycoon million. Pro: You'll never recently sold out his interest in three Las Vegas nightclubs to Kirk Kerkorian for $10 his new club. Con: You might never get to sleep before 3 a.m. have to wait on line or pay for a drink at Marquee, pregnant and BILLY CRUDUP, 35. The hunky actor dumped Mary Louise Parker when she was 81/2 months Pro: Critics loved his performanc e in Tim ran off with Claire Danes, but that might not last too long either. Burton's "Big Fish." Con: A true heart-breaker. in love himself LENNY KRAVITZ, 39. The super-modelizer had a big hit with "Let Love Rule," but hasn't fallen littp://pqasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/519943651.html?MAC=t16e0556b501381b7046b79... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188408 Aichives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 since the end of his marriage to Lisa Bonet that produced a daughter, Zoe, 15. Pro: Has a beautiful loft downtown he rented to Nicole Kidman, who then statrted dating him. Con: The funky fashions make him seem narcissistic. DONALD TRUMP JR., 25. The first-born son of The Donald and his first wife Ivana is following in his father's footsteps, not only developing buildings, but taking center stage to sell the apartments. Pro: Weekend flights down to Mar-a-lago on the family jet. Con: his dad, who owns Miss Universe, has extremely high standards when it comes to the female form. CHRIS HEINZ, 30. The billionaire ketchup heir has captured the attention of many Manhattanites, including Gwyneth Paltrow (pre- Chris Martin). Pro: Tall, dark and handsome, he even has a sense of humor. Con: Likes lost causes - he quit his banking job to work for his stepfather John Kerry's foundering campaign. JONATHAN TISCH, 50. The charming Loews hotel chain chairman is a regular on the social and charity circuit. Back on the market and looking for a date after breaking off his wedding to Jill Swid. Pro: Has deep pockets and hotels in every port. Con: Notoriously marriage- phobic. ANDREW CUOMO, 46. After a nasty split with his wife Kerry Kennedy, the failed gubernatorial candidate has been quietly dating again. Pro: He's capable and articulate and has nowhere to go but up from here. Con: Sometimes comes off as arrogant and self-absorbed. CHARLES ROCKEFELLER, 30. The tall, blond Rockefeller heir has got looks, money, and impeccable manners and, duhl . . . he's a Rockefeller! Pro: Occasionally entertains at the dynastic estate, Pocantico Hills. Con: Is it boyish charm, or just boyish? MARCUS SAMUELSSON, 33. The studly chef/owner of Aquavit - who once made People magazine's Sexiest list - has a new eatery, Riingo, in the new Alex Hotel. Pro: He cooks and does dishes! Con: All chefs keep late' hours, and they fraternize after hours with the waitresses. JONATHAN KRAMER, 29. Grungy artist has been making a living out of painting since he was in college. Not Is new to the spotlight (he did date Sophie Dahl), Kramer can be found frequenting Rene Risque concerts. Pro: and may offer to paint you. Con: Likes to travel around town on a skateboard - with no sidecar for good company a date. one DAN ABRAMS, 36. The MSNBC newsdude, the son of legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, is love him. Con: MSNBC of the few talking heads smart enough to cover legal issues. Pro: Your mother will ratings are so low, no one gets to see him. his JAMIE JOHNSON, 23. The Johnson & Johnson heir burst onto the scene last year at Sundance with pals' - "blessed" lives. Pro: The documentary "Born Rich," which showed the pathetic underbelly of his - and his kid's got talent! Con: He sold out his friends, and that nasal voice could cut glass. He was a ROFFREDO GAETANI, 50. The strapping former boxer is an Italian count distantly related to a pope. Ferrari dealerships . Pro: The old world close friend of late Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, who set Roffredo up with Ivana Trump very busy, especially with models. charm Is such that he kisses women's hands. Con: Has been was just his most famous conquest. had the good sense REP. ANTHONY WEINER, 38. The Brooklyn Democrat is ambitious and hard-working, and his aides. Pro: Being touted as a possible candidate for to hire the extremely capable Serena Torrey as one of mayor. Con: Could be cruelly described as a pencil- necked geek. chain of furniture stores ERIC VILLENCY, 28. Dashing president and creative director of Maurice Villency, a fashion designers so he gets front-row seats to all the founded by his grandfather in 1932. Pro: He sponsors shows. Con: Seems serious with his girlfriend of over a year, gorgeous Olivia Chantecaill e. congressman for ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, 41. The state assemblyman resembles his legendary father, the beauty in Puerto Rico, where young Adam whom a boulevard in Harlem is named. His mother was a famous http://pqasb.pqarchiver.comThypost/519943651.html?MAC=dd6e0556b50138167046b79... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188409 Archives: New York Post Page 4 of 4 grew up. He plans someday to oust his nemesis, Rep. Charlie Rangel, and take over his seat. Pro: Has a yacht at City Island where he entertains bikini babes. Con: Has a tendency to back losers. FREDERIC FEKKAI, 44. Handsome French haircutter has charmed the pants off Libet Johnson, Patricia Duff and other blondes too numerous to mention. Meanwhile, he's been branding his name and marketing hair care products. Pro: You'll never have a bad hair day. Con: He might be a bit spoiled. One rich girlfriend supposedly gave him a Gulfstream jet, and it wasn't even Christmas. JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, 41. Since dropping out of high school, he's built a four-restaurant empire with eateries in the Bronx, Harlem, Sutton Place and City Island. Pro: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Con: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. Companies: Apple Computer Inc(Ticker:AAPL, NAICS: 334111, Duns:06-070-4780 ) Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1905 Document URL: http://pciasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/519943651.html?MAC=dd6e0556650138167046679... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188410 THE TITLE FIGHT: NEW YORK - THE MAGAZINE, THAT IS - AWAITS NEW OWNER KEITH.]: KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 14, 2003. pg. 031 People: Kravis, Henry, Deutsch, Donny, Weinstein, Harvey, Wolff, Michael, Zuckerman, Mort Section: Business Text Word 441 Count Document URL: Prrylva""wjtjtprira 7Rfracra IR ;n4-.-C"ecc lit& titar r ik -WV IRMA 411.,, .2419' BIDDER: David Pecker's American Media BIDDER: Investor group of U.S. News and World Report boss Mort Zuckerman, Miramax co-Chairman [Harvey Weinstein], Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, bigtime adman [Donny Deutsch] and New York Columnist [Michael Wolff]. The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought in Deutsch and [Jeffrey Epstein], the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects to be picked as some ... EFTA00188411 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 2 THE TITLE FIGHT: NEW YORK - THE MAGAZINE, THAT IS - AWAITS NEW OWNER KEITH J. KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 14, 2003. pg. 031 Abstract (Document Summary) BIDDER: David Pecker's American Media BIDDER: Investor group of U.S. News and World Report boss Mort Zuckerman, Miramax co-Chairman (Harvey Weinstein], Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, bigtime adman [Donny Deutsch] and New York Columnist [Michael Wolff]. The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought in Deutsch and [Jeffrey Epstein], the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects to be picked as some kind of editorial uber boss. Weinstein is in the coalition but is still smarting over the drubbing he took in Wolffs book, "Autumn of the Moguls." Full Text (441 words) (Copyright 2003, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) In the weeks to come, the city's chattering classes will be consumed with handicapping who'll be editor-in-chief of New York magazine after Henry Kravis and Primedia get through selling it. Nobody was talking officially last week, pending a deal as final bids arrived Thursday. The consensus is the highest offer is for about $55 million - coming from a motley team of millionaires and billionaires around Mort Zuckerman. The coalition includes: Zuckerman, the owner of the Daily News and U.S. News & World Report; billionaire financier Nelson Peitz; mysterious money manager Jeffrey Epstein; ad executive Donny Deutsch, Miramax co- chairman Harvey Weinstein; and non-cash contributors Michael Wolff of New York magazine and possibly Jim Dolan, CEO of Cablevision. The other two rival bidders are almost diametrically opposite: Bill Curtis' Curtco Media publishes super-upscale glossies, The Robb Report and Worth. American Media publishes the downmarket supermarket tabloids National Enquirer, Star and Globe, plus health and fitness magazines such as Men's Fitness and Shape. the magazine as an "Whoever the editor is has to have a strong point of view," offers Clay Felker, who launched independent weekly in 1967. It was not a particularly bright time in the city. But Felker and his young writers took worst of the city. "We believed the city was the imperial center of on the challenges, exposing the best and the the United States and possibly the world," he said. in Deutsch and Epstein, The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought to be picked as some kind of editorial uber boss. Weinstein is the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects over the drubbing he took in Wolff's book, "Autumn of the Moguls." in the coalition but is still smarting Weinstein is thought to favor Radar founder Maer Roshan as editor. New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan's name has surfaced - but he and Wolff have had a public feud. ent would probably be delayed A deal on the winning bid could be announced early next week. The announcem until after the annual New York Awards, being staged tomorrow at the Four Seasons. regain that old glory - or will there be too The world has changed and the question now is: can the new owners many sacred cows in the ownership mix? "Who will be left to make fun of?" As one observer asked as the Zuckerman coalition emerged as the favorite, Henry Kravis, watch out. http://pgasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/503203971.html?MAC=8562d59151d6ab55b4753a2... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188412 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 2 [Illustration] BIDDER: David Pecker's American Media BIDDER: Investor group of U.S. News and World Report boss Mort Zuckerman, Miramax co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein, Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, bigtime adman Donny Deutsch and New York Columnist Michael Wolff. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Kravis, Henry, Deutsch, Donny, Weinstein, Harvey, Wolff, Michael, Zuckerman, Mort Section: Business Text Word Count 441 Document URL: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/503203971.html?MAC=8562d59151d6ab55 b4753a2... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188413 Page 1 of 4 'Archives: New York Post BILL, STARS ENJOY AFRICAN TREK 010 New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Sep 25, 2002. pg. Abstract (Document Summary) haired, drug-loving "Jay" in Kevin Smith's JASON Mewes is alive and well. Mewes, who played the long- Back," was reportedly on the lam or even Bob Strike "Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent hadn't seen him in 10 months. An arrest warrant feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they conviction. But last month, Mewes made an had been issued for him after he violated probation on a heroin movie "RSVP," and he'll host a talent show Oct. appearance at a film festival in Malibu to promote his new indie of his death are greatly exaggerated," chuckled 17 at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. "The rumors with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just moved to Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the phone being dead. L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as become the running mate of Sen. John Kerry in the IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and Weaver, has become a Democrat and is now 2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John r, Christine Dodd, last worked for a liberal working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative directo tts, who has made clear his plans to run in 2004, is congressman - a Democrat. Now Kerry of Massachuse d between Kerry and McCain is said to be scheduled making overtures towards McCain. A rumored head- to-hea of the People," the new McCain biography by Paul at McCain's cabin in Sedona, Ariz., next month. And for "Man a love letter. After noting that McCain's 2000 presidential Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage, common groundwith John McCain, and I look forward to privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on our country stronger." fighting side by side with him on yet another day to make Full Text (1634 words) ved) (Copyright 2002, The New York Post, All Rights Reser Adventure." CALL it "The Three Amigos' Most Excellent African , Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa with Former President Bill Clinton is on a trip through Ghana star of "Rush Hour' and its sequel. Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, the plane of financial wizard Jeffrey Epstein. The secretive The three are being flown around Africa on the private retail empire that includes The Limited, Victoria's Epstein handles the billions of Leslie Wexner, head of the Secret and Express. with his traveling companions is a mystery - as is his How Clinton, who took off on Saturday, hooked up t that his offices are in the landmarked Villard House relationship to Epstein. Little is known about Epstein excep Maxwell, daughter of the late British press lord Robert across from Le Cirque, and he once employed Ghislaine Maxwell, in an unspecified capacity. in "Mr. President," a movie he's been working on since But Tucker is playing America's first black president his n Mandela, and Bahrain's crown prince endorsing 1999. Tucker has already shot footage of Clinton, Nelso and Treasury Secrtary Paul O'Neill on their debt- Bono candidacy, and the comic accompanied U2 frontman relief tour of Africa this summ er. r had dinner earlier this month, Clinton mentioned that Tucke At the Congressional Black Caucus' annual awards playing the first black president. asked to visit him in the Oval Office to prepare for essay in the position," Clinton joked. In an October 1998 "I didn't have the heart to tell him that I've already taken notwit hstand ing, (is] our first black that Clinton, "white skin The New Yorker, author Toni Morrison argued president." He of. Last we heard, he wanted to portray Bobby Darin. Kevin Spacey has no presidential aspirations we know might be bored during some parts of the trip. /2005 tml?MAC=8282d8da 1 05ae0258d6c121 31.. 11/30 littn://oaasb.oaarchiver.com/nypost./1 95152701.h EFTA00188414 'Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 In Ghana, Clinton will launch a new initiative with Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto to give deeds and land titles to poor people who now have no legal status and are considered squatters. In South Africa, Clinton will deliver a speech and join Mandela in promoting prevention of AIDS. Clinton will also meet in that country with the first class of Clinton Democracy Fellows -11 young South African men and women who just completed three months in the U.S. Clinton will also meet with the presidents of the other nations on his itinerary. Perfect angel THE producer of Tara Reid's latest flick says she's a perfect angel and that Us Weekly misquoted him as saying that he and the bar- friendly hellcat "went out drinking all the time." J. Todd Harris, producer of "Heaven's Pond," blasts Us in a letter to the editor: "I specifically said that our working relationship with the actress was nothing short of spectacular." He also shoots down the mag's source who claims Reid needed to have a baby sitter escort her out every night tomake sure she didn't wake up with any regrets. We hear . . . THAT eyebrows are flexing over tonight's U.N. black-tie dinner honoring Muhammad Ali, Mayor Bloomberg and Paul and Heather Mills McCartney. Seems Heather insists on being referred to as "Lady Heather Mills McCartney" . . . THAT Steve Martin, Paul Morrissey, Glenda Bailey and Elizabeth Kieselstein-Cord attended last night's 15th anniversary party of Modern Painters magazine at the Cheim and Read Gallery. Headlines heal SARAH Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, credits the media for keeping her weight down. Once dubbed time the "Duchess of Pork" by the British press, the now stunning and skinny Weight Watchers rep says every she remembers the old headlines. Among those she cited during an appearance at an she thinks of pigging out, Greedy Fergie" and "82 Albany Weight Watchers seminar, according to The Post's Kenneth Lovett: "Fat, Selfish, Percent Would Rather Sleep With a Goat." "It does help me when I read articles that [say] the 'slim svelte Fergie,'" Ferguson said. "I don't want them to have a go at me again. I'm tired of that." Lost actor pops up in L.A. JASON Mewes is alive and well. Mewes, who played the long- haired, drug-loving "Jay" in Kevin Smith's or even "Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," was reportedly on the lam him in 10 months. An arrest warrant feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they hadn't seen a heroin conviction. But last month, Mewes made an had been issued for him after he violated probation on to promote his new indie movie "RSVP," and he'll host a talent show Oct. appearance at a film festival in Malibu in Huntington, W.Va. "The rumors of his death are greatly exaggerate d," chuckled 17 at Marshall University moved to Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the phone with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as being dead. Sex sells as a ABERCROMBIE & Fitch has outdone itself. The store chain's new "magalog," a catalog disguised past efforts, with a naked Heidi Klum on the cover - one hand hiding her magazine, is even more salacious than of sex and nipples, the other holding a Santa hat over a naked man's crotch. The tag line reads: "180 pages tapes, Heidi Fleiss gets Xmas fun! Heidi Klum adds inches, Spike Lee catches it on tape, Larry Flynt breaks and breasts inside. what she wants, streetcorner Santa brawls and morel" One spy said: "There Is a ton of bums students, will be featured on "Entertainment Everyone is naked." The quarterly, targeted at teens and college Tonight" later this week. Janney's' jam http://pgasb.pqarchiver.corthypost/195152701.html?MAC=8282d8da105ae0258d6d2131.. 11/30/2005 EFTA00188415 • Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 THE ex-fianc of Emmy-winning "West Wing" star Allison Janney (above) is being evicted from her Central Park West pad. Janney has been illegally subletting the rent-stabilized, $1,100- a-month apartment to former beau Dennis Gagomiros, says Keith Rubenstein, a lawyer for landlord Michael Tauber. "We are starting the eviction process," says Rubenstein, who estimated the "fair market" value of Janney's joint at $3,000 a month. Janney's lawyer, Sam Himmelstein, insists Janney "surrendered possession" of her pad several weeks ago to the landlord. "Her ex-fianc belives that he has the succession rights to the apartment, but she has nothing to do with that," he said. Flasher chic WONDER why Stella McCartney never took her black satin coat off during the opening of her boutique last Friday? She had nothing under it but a very sexy bra and satin knickers. The highlight of the afterparty at Gaslight was Stella, Gwyneth Paltrow and Usher singing karaoke for the likes of Bono, Britney Spears, Liv Tyler, Debbie Harry, Russell Simmons, Graydon Carter, Christy Tur lington, Karolina Kurkova, Helena Christensen and others too fashionable to mention. Dueling Dems DON'T invite Ed Koch and Pete Grannis to the same political party. The former mayor has no use for the assemblyman who has represented the Upper East Side for 28 years. The feud began with Koch's endorsement of Andrew Eristoff, a Republican challenger for the State Senate seat currently occupied by Democrat Liz Krueger. Grannis observed in community weekly Our Town: "Our former mayor seems to have a thing for Republicans and an aversion to endorsing women of either party." Now Koch has responded in a letter to Our Town to Grannis' "gutter attack" and "vile comments." Koch lists no fewer than 9 women he's endorsed for election over the years, plus seven women he appointed to office, and concludes, "I am sure Grannis has harbored thoughts of higher office, indeed ran for Congress and lost. I doubt that he will ever attain higher office, and I truly believe he does not deserve the office he currently holds and has held for 28 years." Single again Capriati THIS year's ladies' man, Matthew Perry, is single again. After squiring around Amanda Peet, Jennifer hot young things this summer, the "Friends" star was on the prowl Sunday night. After losing and a host of other the Emmy to his co-star Matt LeBlanc, Perry and Hank Azaria showed up in fine spirits to the Glamour/ "He Entertainment Weekly post-Emmy party at the Mondrian in Los Angeles and flirted with a gaggle of girls. his head," said our spy. Perry eventually left alone. was so excited he startedto sweat and had to massage MCCAIN MUTINY IN WORKS? John Kerry in the IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and become the running mate of Sen. become a Democrat and is now 2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John Weaver, has Dodd, last worked for a liberal working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative director, Christine 2004, is congressman - a Democrat. Now Kerry of Massachusetts, who has made clear his plans to run in making overtures towards McCain. A rumored head- to-head between Kerry and McCain is said to be scheduled Ariz., next month. And for "Man of the People," the new McCain biography by Paul at McCain's cabin in Sedona, McCain's 2000 presidential Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like a love letter. After noting that campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage, and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater I look forward to privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on common groundwith John McCain, and fighting side by side with him on yet another day to make our country stronger." lustratIonj David Copperfield -Allison Janney, Stella McCartney -Just call him David Cop-a-feel. Modelizing magician s blondes. We caught Copperfield holding hands with Marilyn seems to have cast his spell over two babealiciou been wooing the gorgeous Guma (above), 21, an Estonian-born assistant manager at Nello's. Copperfield has Gurna for a few weeks now t stop him from stepping out with another squeeze (below) on Madison Avenue just a week earlier. 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All Rights Reserved Vanity Fair March 2003 SECTION: The Talented Mr. Epstein; No. 511; Pg. 300 LENGTH: 7494 words HEADLINE: The Talented Mr. Epstein; Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor nancier lives in New York's largest private residence, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and ies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARD explores Epstein's investment career, his ties to retail magnate IsFilie—Agaer, and his complicated past BYLINE: Vicky Ward, Contributing Editor BODY: On Manhattan's Upper East Side, home to some of the most expensive real es- tate on earth, exists the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, huge arched windows, and nine floors, it sits on-or, rather, commands-the block of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Ave- nues. Almost ludicrously out of proportion with its four- and five-story neighbors, it seems more like an institution than a house. This is perhaps not surprising-until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's largest private residence. Inside, amid the flurry of menservants attired in sober black suits and pris- tine white gloves, you feel you have stumbled into someone's private Xanadu. This is no mere rich person's home, but a high-walled, eclectic, imperious fan- tasy that seems to have no boundaries. The entrance hall is decorated not with paintings but with row upon row of individually framed eyeballs; these, the owner tells people with relish, were imported from England, where they were made for injured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer, which does have a painting, in the manner of Jean Dubuffet ... but the host coyly refuses to tell visitors who painted it. In any case, guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior. Despite its eccentricity the house is curiously impersonal, the statement of someone who wants to be known for the scale of his possessions. Its occupant, financier Jeffrey Epstein, 50, admits to friends that he likes it when people think of him this way. A good-looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren, with thick gray-white hair and a weathered face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, and loafers. He tells people he bought the house because he knew he "could never live anywhere bigger." He thinks 51,000 square feet is an appropriately large space for someone like himself, who deals mostly in large concepts-especially large sums of money. EFTA00188418 Page 2 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the town house-Epstein usually re- fers to the former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite-size morsels and drink copious quantities of Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or tobacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," so called because of the cordovan-colored fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding an opium pipe and caressing a snarling lionskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and guests by the menservants in white gloves. Upstairs, to the right of a spiral staircase, is the "office," an enormous gallery spanning the width of the house. Strangely, it holds no computer. Com- puters belong in the "computer room" (a smaller room at the back of the house), Epstein has been known to say. The office features a gilded desk (which Epstein tells people belonged to banker J. P. Morgan), 18th-century black lacquered Por- tuguese cabinets, and a nine-foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the desk, a pa- perback copy of the Marquis de Sade's The Misfortunes of Virtue was recently spotted. Covering the floor, Epstein has explained, "is the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home-so big, it must have come from a mosque." Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator Alberto Pinto, who has worked for Jacques Chirac and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there is one particularly startling oddity: a stuffed black poo- dle, standing atop the grand piano. "No decorator would ever tell you to do that," Epstein brags to visitors. "But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog." People can't help but feel it's Epstein's way of saying that he always has the last word. In addition to the town house, Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico, on an $18 million, 7,500-acre ranch which he named "Zorro." "It makes the town house look like a shack," Epstein has said. He also owns Little St. James, a 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Is- lands, where the main house is currently being renovated by Edward Tuttle, a de- signer of the Amanresorts. There is also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter, and a Boeing 727, replete with trading room, on which Epstein recently flew President Clin- ton, actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's grandson, Casey Wasserman, and a few others, on a mission to explore the problems of aids and economic development in Africa. Epstein is charming, but he doesn't let the charm slip into his eyes. They are steely and calculating, giving some hint at the steady whir of machinery running behind them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, after refusing to give an interview for this article. "You be white. You get the first move." It was an appropriate metaphor for a man who seems to feel he can win no matter what the advantage of the other side. His advantage is that no one really seems to know him or his history completely or what his arsenal actually consists of. He has carefully engineered it so that he remains one of the few truly baffling myster- ies among New York's moneyed world. People know snippets, but few know the whole. "He's very enigmatic," says Rosa Monckton, the former C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K. and a close friend since the early 1980s. "You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath. He never reveals his hand... He's a classic iceberg. What you see is not what you get." Even acquaintances sense a curious dichotomy: Yes, he lives like a "modern maha- raja," as Leah Kleman, one of his art dealers, puts it. Yet he is fastidiously, EFTA00188419 Page 3 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style almost obsessively private-he lists himself in the phone book under a pseudonym. He rarely attends society gatherings or weddings or funerals; he considers eat- ing in restaurants like "eating on the subway"-i.e., something he'd never do. There are many women in his life, mostly young, but there is no one of them to whom he has been able to commit. He describes his most public companion of the last decade, Ghislaine Maxwell, 41, the daughter of the late, disgraced media baron Robert Maxwell, as simply his "best friend." He says she is not on his payroll, but she seems to organize much of his life-recently she was making telephone inquiries to find a California-based yoga instructor for him. (Epstein is still close to his two other long-term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher, a for- mer associate of his at the brokerage firm Bear Stearns and now an opera pro- ducer, and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and onetime model. He tells people that when a relationship is over the girlfriend "moves up, not down," to friendship status.) Some of the businessmen who dine with him at his home-they include newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis Ranieri, Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, real-estate tycoon Leon Black, former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, Tom Pritzker (of Hyatt Hotels), and real-estate personality Donald Trump-sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he actually does to earn his millions. Cer- tainly, you won't find Epstein's transactions written about on Bloomberg or talked about in the trading rooms. "The trading desks don't seem to know him. It's unusual for animals that big not to leave any footprints in the snow," says a high-level investment manager. Unlike such fund managers as Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, whose client lists and stock maneuverings act as their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret, bar one client: billionaire Leslie Wexner, the respected chairman of Limited Brands. Epstein insists that ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1961 he has managed money only for billionaires-who depend on him for discretion. "I was the only person crazy enough, or arrogant enough, or misplaced enough, to make my limit a billion dollars or more," he tells people freely. According to him, the flat fees he receives from his clients, combined with his skill at playing the currency markets "with very large sums of money," have afforded him the lifestyle he enjoys today. Why do billionaires choose him as their trustee? Because the problems of the mega-rich, he tells people, are different from yours and mine, and his unique philosophy is central to understanding those problems: "Very few people need any more money when they have a billion dollars. The key is not to have it do harm more than anything else... You don't want to lose your money." He has likened his job to that of an architect-more specifically, one who spe- cializes in remodeling: "I always describe (a billionaire) as someone who started out in a small home and as he became wealthier had add-ons. He added on another addition, he built a room over the garage ... until you have a house that is usually a mess... It's a large house that has been put together over time where no one could foretell the financial future and their accompanying needs." He makes it sound as though his job combines the roles of real-estate agent, accountant, lawyer, money manager, trustee, and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, myths and rumor swirl around Epstein. Here are some of the hard facts about Epstein-ones that he doesn't mind peo- ple knowing: He grew up middle-class in Brooklyn. His father worked for the city's parks department. His parents viewed education as "the way out" for him and his younger brother, Mark, now working in real estate. Jeffrey started to EFTA00188420 Page 4 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style play the piano-for which he maintains a passion-at five, and he went to Brook- lyn's Lafayette High School. He was good at mathematics, and in his early 20s he got a job teaching physics and math at Dalton, the elite Manhattan private school. While there he began tutoring the son of Bear Stearns chairman Ace Greenberg and was friendly with aJAlightsr of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear Stearns, where, under the mentorship of both Greenberg Ind current Bear Stearns C.E.O. James Cayne, he did well enough to become a limited partner-a rung be- neath full partner. He abruptly departed in 1981 because, he has said, he wanted to run his own business. Thereafter the details recede into shadow. A few of the handful of current friends who have known him since the early 1980s recall that he used to tell them he was a "bounty hunter," recovering lost or stolen money for the govern- ment or for very rich people. He has a license to carry a firearm. For the last 15 years, he's been running his business, J. Epstein & Co. Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his life-Epstein has said this was in 1986; others say it was in 1989, at the earliest-he has gradually, in a way that has not generally made headlines, come to be accepted by the Establishment. He's a member of various commissions and councils: he is on the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the In- stitute of International Education. His current fan club extends to Cayne, Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Larry Summers, Harvard's current president. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says, "I'm on my 20th book... The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jef- frey." Real-estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose, who has worked with Epstein on projects in New Albany, Ohio, for Wexner, says, "He digests and decodes the information very rapidly, which is to me terrific because we have shorter meetings." Also on the list of admirers are former senator Mitchell and a gaggle of distinguished scientists, most of whom Epstein has helped fund in recent years. They include Nobel Prize winners Gerald Edelman and Murray Gell-Mann, and mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. When these men describe Epstein, they talk about "energy" and "curiosity," as well as a love for theoretical physics that they don't ordinarily find in laymen. Gell-Mann rather sweetly mentions that "there are always pretty ladies around" when _m goes to dinner chezippatein, and he's under the impression that Epstein's clients include the Queen of England. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit in the back of Dershowitz's law class. Epstein gets annoyed when anyone suggests that Wexner "made him." "I had really rich clients before," he has said. Yet he does not deny that he and Wex- ner have a special relationship. Epstein sees it as a partnership of equals. "People have said it's like we have one brain between two of us: each has a side." "I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns," says Wexner. "But Jeffrey sees patterns in politics and financial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not in investment strategy, and, as everyone who knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fashion and design. we fre- quently discuss world trends as each of us sees them." By the time Epstein met Wexner, the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion empire-one that now includes Victoria's Secret, Express, and Bath & EFTA00188421 Page 5 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Body Works-from $5,000 lent him by his aunt. "Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to realize his (Jeffrey's) dreams," says someone who has worked closely with both men. "He gave Jeffrey the ball, and Jeffrey hit it out of the park." Wexner, through a trust, bought the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported $13.2 million in 1969. In 1993, Wexner married Abigail Koppel, a 31- year-old lawyer, and the newlyweds relocated to Ohio; in 1996, Epstein moved into the town house. Public documents suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it, but Epstein has said that he now owns the house. Wexner trusts Epstein so completely that he has assigned him the power of fi- duciary over all of his private trusts and foundations, says a source close to Wexner. In 1992, Epstein even persuaded Wexner to put him on the board of the Wexner Foundation in place of Wexner's ailing mother. Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled by splitting the foun- dation in two. Epstein does not care that he comes between family members. In fact, he sees it as his job. He tells people, "I am there to represent my client, and if my client needs protecting-sometimes even from his own family-then it's often bet- ter that people hate me, not the client." "You've probably heard I'm vicious in my representation of my clients," he tells people proudly; Leah Kleman describes his haggling over art prices as something like a scene out of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Even a for- mer mentor says he's seen "the dark side" of Epstein, and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meeting in which Epstein chewed out a team making a presentation for Wexner as being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." One reporter, in fact, received three threats from Epstein while preparing a piece. They were delivered in a jocular tone, but the message was clear: There will be trouble for your family if I don't like the article. On the other hand, Epstein is clearly very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has known Epstein since before his Bear Stearns days, can't say enough nice things: "I have a boy who's dyslexic, and Jeffrey's gotten close to him over the years... Jeffrey got him into music. He bought him his first piano. And then as he got to school he had difficulty ... in studying ... so Jeffrey got him interested in taking flying lessons." Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling her that her daughter, Domenica, who suffers from Down syndrome, needed the sun, and that Rosa should feel free to bring her to his house in Palm Beach anytime. Some friends remember that in the late 80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the airline tickets of good friends by affixing first-class stickers; the only prob- lem was that the stickers turned out to be unofficial. Sometimes the technique worked, but other times it didn't, and the unwitting recipients found themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and had no knowledge of the stickers.) Many of those who benefited from Epstein's largesse claim that his generosity comes with no strings attached. "I never felt he wanted anything from me in return," says one old friend, who received a first- class upgrade. Epstein is known about town as a man who loves women-lots of them, mostly young. Model types have been heard saying they are full of gratitude to Epstein for flying them around, and he is a familiar face to many of the Victoria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert EFTA00188422 Page 6 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style at Epstein's town house, where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. "These were not women you'd see at Upper East Side dinners," the woman recalls. "Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely." This same guest also at- tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was filled, she says, with young Russian models. "Some of the guests were horri- fied," the woman says. "He's reckless," says a former business associate, "and he's gotten more so. Money does that to you. He's breaking the oath he made to himself-that he would never do anything that would expose him in the media. Right now, in the wake of the publicity following his trip with Clinton, he must be in a very difficult place." According to S.E.C. and other legal documents unearthed by Vanity Pair, Epstein may have good reason to keep his past cloaked in secrecy: his real mentor, it might seem, was not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Hoffenberg, 57, who, for a few months before the S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 1993, was trying to buy the New York Post. He is currently incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts, serving a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. When Epstein met Hoffenberg in London in the 1980s, the latter was the char- ismatic, audacious head of the Towers Financial Corporation, a collection agency that was supposed to buy debts that people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies. But Hoffenberg began using company funds to pay off earlier investors and service a lavish lifestyle that included a mansion on Long Island, homes on Manhattan's Sutton Place and in Florida, and a fleet of cars and planes. Hoffenberg and Epstein had much in common. Both were smart and obsessed with making money. Both were from Brooklyn. According to Hoffenberg, the two men were introduced by Douglas Leese, a defense contractor. Epstein has said they were introduced by John Mitchell, the late attorney general. Epstein had been running International Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.), a consult- ing company, out of his apartment in the Solo building on East 66th Street in New York. Though he has claimed that he managed money for billionaires only, in a 1989 deposition he testified that he spent 80 percent of his time helping peo- ple recover stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers. He was also not above entering into risky, tax-sheltered oil and gas deals with much smaller in- vestors. A lawsuit that Michael Stroll, the former head of Williams Electronics -Int, filed against Epstein shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an investment from Stroll of $450,000, which Epstein put into oil. In 1984, Stroll asked for his money back; four years later he had received only $10,000. Stroll lost the suit, after Epstein claimed in court, among other things, that the check for $10,000 was for a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net worth never exceeded four and a half million dollars," Stroll has said. Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really liked Jeffrey... Jeffrey has a way of getting under your skin, and he was under Hoffenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg were Epstein's social connections; they included oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the designer Vera) and Mohan Murjani, whose clothing company grew into Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then. One friend recalls that when he took Canadian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he hired a Rolls- Royce especially for the occasion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) In 1987, Hoffenberg, according to sources, set Epstein up in the offices he still occupies in the Villard House, on Madison Avenue, across a courtyard from the restaurant Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new protege as a consultant at EFTA00188423 Page 7 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style $25,000 a month, and the relationship flourished. "They traveled everywhere to- gether-on Hoffenberg's plane, all around the world, they were always together," says a source. Hoffenberg has claimed that Epstein confided in him, saying, for example, that he had left Bear Stearns in 1981 after he was discovered executing "illegal operations." Several of Epstein's Bear Stearns contemporaries recall that Epstein left the company very suddenly. Within the company there were rumors also that he was in- volved in a technical infringement, and it was thought that the executive com- mittee asked that he resign after his two supporters, Ace Greenberg and Jimmy Cayne, were outnumbered. Greenberg says he can't recall this; Cayne denies it happened, and Epstein has denied it as well. "Jeffrey Epstein left Bear Stearns of his own volition," says Cayne. "It was never suggested that he leave by any member of management, and management never looked into any improprieties by him. Jeffrey said specifically, 'I don't want to work for anybody else. I want to work for myself.'" Yet, this is not the story that Epstein told to the S.E.C. in 1981 and to lawyers in a 1989 deposition involving a civil business case in Philadelphia. In 1981 the S.E.C.'s Jonathan Harris and Robert Blackburn took Epstein's tes- timony and that of other Bear Stearns emicrWann part of what became a pro- tracted case about insider trading around a tender offer placed on March 11, 1981, by the Seagram Company Ltd. for St. Joe Minerals Corp. Ultimately several Italian and Swiss investors were found guilty, including Italian financier Giuseppe Tome, who had used his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about the tender offer. After the tender offer was announced, the S.E.C. began investigating trades involving St. Joe at continued on page 343 continued from page 305 Bear Stearns and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped off that Epstein had information on insider trading at Bear Stearns, and it was therefore obliged to question him. In his S.E.C. testimony, given on April 1, 1981, Epstein claimed that he had found "offensive" the way Bear Stearns management had handled a disciplinary action following its discovery that he had committed a possible "Reg D" violation-evidently he had lent money to his closest friend. (In the 1989 deposition he said that he'd lent approxi- mately $20,000 to Warren Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an action could have been considered improper, although Epstein claimed he had not realized this un- til afterward. According to Epstein, Bear Stearns management had questioned him about the loan around March 4. The questioners, Epstein said, were Michael (Mickey) Tar- nopol and Alvin Einbender. In his 1989 deposition Epstein recalled that the partner who had made an "issue" of the matter was Marvin Davidson. On March 9, Epstein said, he had met with Tarnopol and Einbender again, and the two partners told him that the executive committee had weighed the offense, together with previous "carelessness" over expenses, and he would be fined $2,500. "There was discussion whether, in fact, I had ever put in an airline ticket for someone else and not myself and I said that it was possible, ... since my secretary handles my expenses," Epstein told the S.H.C. In his 1989 testimony he stated that the "Reg D" incident had cost him a shot at partnership that year. What the S.E.C. seemed to be especially interested in was whether there was a connection between Epstein's leaving and the alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals by other people at Bear Stearns: Q: Sir, are you aware that certain rumors may have been circulating around your firm in connection with your reasons for leaving the firm? A: I'm aware that there were many rumors. EFTA00188424 Page 8 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Q: What were the rumors you heard? A: Nothing to do with St. Joe. Q: Can you relate what you heard? A: It was having to do with an illicit affair with a secretary. Q: Have you heard any other rumors suggesting that you had made a presentation or communication to the Executive Committee concerning alleged improprieties by other members or employees of Bear Stearns? A: I, in fact, have heard that rumor, but it's been from Mr. Harris in our con- versation last week. Q: Have you heard it from anyone else? A: No. A little later the interview focuses on James Cayne: Q: Did you ever hear while you were at Bear Stearns that Mr. Cayne may have trader or insider information in connection with St. Joe Minerals Corporation? A: No. Q: Did Mr. Cayne ever have any conversation with you about St. Joe Minerals? A: No. Q: Did you happen to overhear any conversations between Mr. Cayne and anyone else regarding St. Joe Minerals? A: No. And still later in the questioning comes this exchange: Q: Have you had any type of business dealings with Mr. Cayne? A: There's no relationship with Bear Stearns. Q: Pardon? A: Other than Bear Stearns, no. Q: Have you been a participant in any type of business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: No. Q: Do you have any expectation of participating in any business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: No. Q: Have you had any business participations with Mr. Theram? A: No; nor do I anticipate any. Q: Mr. Epstein, did anyone at Bear Stearns tell you in words or substance that you should not divulge anything about St. Joe Minerals to the staff of the Secu- rities and Exchange Commission? A: No. Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way, either directly or indirectly, in words or substance, that your compensation for this past year or any future mon- ies coming to you from Bear Stearns will be contingent upon your not divulging information to the Securities and Exchange Commission? A: No. Despite the circumstances of Epstein's leaving, Bear Stearns agreed to pay him his annual bonus-which he anticipated as being approximately $100,000. The S.E.C. never brought any charges against anyone at Bear Stearns for in- sider trading in St. Joe, but its questioning seems to indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's answers. Some sources have wondered why, if he was such a big producer at Bear Stearns, he would have given it up over a mere $2,500 fine. Certainly the years after Epstein left the firm were not obviously prosperous ones. His luck didn't seem to change until he met Hoffenberg. One of Epstein's first assignments for Hoffenberg was to mastermind doomed bids to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. Hoffenberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before a grand jury in Illinois that EFTA00188425 Page 9 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Epstein came up with the idea of financing these bids through Towers's acquisi- tion of two ailing Illinois insurance companies, Associated Life and United Fire. "He was hired by us to work on the securities side of the insurance compa- nies and Towers Financial, supposedly to make a profit for us and for the compa- nies," Hoffenberg reportedly told the grand jury. He also alleged that Epstein was the "technician," executing the schemes, although, having no broker's li- cense, he had to rely on others to make the trades. Much of Hoffenberg's subse- quent testimony in his criminal case has proven to be false, and Epstein has claimed he was merely asked how the bids could be accomplished and has said he had nothing to do with the financing of them. Yet Richard Allen, the former treasurer of United Fire, recalls seeing Epstein two or three times at the com- pany. He and another executive say they had direct dealing with Epstein over the finances. And in his deposition of 1989, Epstein stated that he was the one who executed "all" Hoffenberg's instructions to buy and sell the stock. He called it "making the orders." He could not recall whether he had chosen the brokers used. To win approval from the Illinois insurance regulators for Towers's acquisi- tion of the companies, Hoffenberg promised to inject $3 million of new capital into them. In fact, in his grand-jury testimony Hoffenberg claimed that he, his chief operating officer, Mitchell Brater, and Epstein came up with a scheme to steal $3 million of the insurance companies' bonds to buy Pan Am and Emery stock. "Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater arranged the various brokerage accounts for the bonds to be placed with in New York, and I think one in Chicago, Rodman & Renshaw," Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then, said Hoffenberg, while making it appear as though they were investing the bonds in much safer financial instru- ments, they used them as collateral to buy the stock. "Epstein was the person in charge of the transactions, and Mitchell Brater was assisting him with it in co- ordination on behalf of the insurance companies' money," Hoffenberg claimed at the time. At one point, according to Hoffenberg, a broker forged the documents neces- sary for a $1.8 million check to be written on insurance-company funds. The check was used to buy more stock in the takeover targets. Meanwhile, in order to throw the insurance regulators off, the $1.8 million was reported as being safely invested in a money-market account. United Fire's former chief financial officer Daniel Payton confirms part of Hoffenberg's account. He says he recalls making one or two telephone calls to Epstein (at Hoffenberg's direction) about the missing bonds. "He said, 'Oh, yeah, they still exist.' But we found out later that he had sold those assets ... leveraged them ... (and) used some margin account to take some positions in ... Emery and Pan Am," says Payton. Epstein's extraordinary creativity was, according to Hoffenberg, responsible for the purchase by the insurance companies of a $500,000 bond, with no money down. "Epstein created a great scheme to purchase a $500,000 treasury bond that would not be shown ... (as) margined or collateralized," he reportedly told the grand jury. "It looked like it was free and clear but it actually wasn't," he said. Epstein has denied he ever had any dealings with anyone from the insurance companies. But Richard Allen says he recalls talking to Epstein at Hoffenberg's direction and telling him it was urgent they retrieve the missing bonds for a state examination. According to Allen, Epstein said, "We'll get them back." He had "kind of a flippant attitude," says Allen. "They never came back." Epstein, according to Hoffenberg, also came up with a scheme to manipulate the price of Emery Freight stock in an attempt to minimize the losses that occurred EFTA00188426 Page 10 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style when Hoffenberg's bid went wrong and the share price began to fall. This was al- leged to have involved multiple clients' accounts controlled by Epstein. Eventually, in 1991, insurance regulators in Illinois sued Hoffenberg. He settled the case, and Epstein, who was only a paid consultant, was never deposed or accused of any wrongdoing. Barry Gross, the attorney who was handling the suit for the regulators, says of Epstein, "He was very elusive... It was hard to really track him down. There were a substantial number of checks for significant dollars that were paid to him, I remember... He was this character we never got a handle on. Again we presumed that he was involved with the Pan Am and Emery run that Hoffenberg made, but we never got a chance to depose him." "From the government's discovery in the main sentencing against Hoffenberg it would seem the government was perhaps a bit lazy," says David Lewis, who repre- sented Mitchell Brater. "They went for what they knew they could get ... and that was the fraudulent promissory notes (i.e., the much larger and unrelated part of Hoffenberg's fraud, based in New York State)... What they couldn't get, they didn't bother with." Another lawyer involved in the criminal prosecution of Hoffenberg says, "In a criminal investigation like that, when there is a guilty plea, to be quick and dirty about it, discovery is always incomplete... They don't have to line up witnesses; they don't have to learn every fact that might come out on cross- examination." Epstein was involved with Hoffenberg in other questionable transactions. Finan- cial records show that in 1988 Epstein invested $1.6 million in Riddell Sports Inc., a company that manufactures football helmets. Among his co-investors were the theater mogul Robert Nederlander and attorney Leonard Toboroff. A source close to this transaction claims that Epstein told Nederlander and Toboroff that he had raised his share of the money from a Swiss banker, whose identity they could not be allowed to know. But Hoffenberg has claimed the money came from him, and Towers's financial statements for that year show a loan to Epstein of $400,000. (Epstein has said he can't remember the details and has disputed the accuracy of the Towers financial reports.) Around the same time, Nederlander and Toboroff let Epstein come in with them on a scheme to make money out of Pennwalt, a Penns lvania chemical company. The plan was to group together with two other parties to ta e a substantial declared position in the stock. According to a source, Epstein was supposed to help Ned- erlander and Toboroff raise $15 million. He seemed to fail to find other inves- tors, say those familiar with the deal. (Epstein has said he was merely an in- vestor.) He invested $1 million, which he told his co-investors was his own money. But in his 1989 deposition he said that he put in only $300,000 of his own money. Where did the rest come from? Hoffenberg has said it came from him, in a loan that Nederlander and Toboroff didn't know about. Two things happened that alarmed Nederlander and Toboroff. After the group signaled a possible takeover, the Pennwalt management threatened to sue the would-be raiders. Epstein was reluctant initially to give a deposition about his share of the money, telling Toboroff there were "reasons" he didn't want to. Then, after the opportunity for new investors was closed, co-investors recall Epstein announcing that he'd found one at last: Dick Snyder, then C.E.O. of the publisher Simon & Schuster, who wanted to put up approximately $1O0,000. (Nei- tnerEpstein nor Snyder can now recall the investment. Yet in the 1989 deposi- tion Epstein said that he had recruited Snyder, whom he had met socially, into the deal.) EFTA00188427 Page 11 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style According to a source, Toboroff and Nederlander told Epstein that Snyder was too late, but, without their realizing it, Hoffenberg has claimed, Snyder wrote a check to Hoffenberg and bought out some of his investment. But then Snyder wanted out. "Nederlander started to get these irate calls from (Snyder,) who wasn't part of the deal, saying he was owed all this money," says someone close to the deal. Toboroff and Nederlander were baffled. Eventually, a source close to Hoffenberg says, Hoffenberg paid Snyder off. Just as Nederlander and Toboroff were growing wary of Epstein, he became in- creasingly involved with Leslie Wexner, whom he had met through insurance execu- tive Robert Meister and his late wife. Epstein has told people that he met Wex- ner in 1986 in Palm Beach, and that he won his confidence by persuading him not to invest in the stock market, just as the 1987 crash was approaching. His story has subsequently changed. When asked if Wexner knew about his connection to Hof- fenberg, Epstein said that he began working for Wexner in 1989, and that "it was certainly not the same time." Wherever and whenever it was that Epstein and Wexner actually met, there was an immediate and strong personal chemistry. Wexner says he thinks Epstein is "very smart with a combination of excellent judgment and unusually high stan- dards. Also, he is always a most loyal friend." Sources say Epstein proved that he could be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" ideas about investments. "Wexner had a couple of bad investments, and Jeffrey cleaned those up right away," says a former associate of Epstein's. Before he signed on with Wexner, Epstein had several meetings with Hargis) Levin, then head of Wexner Investments in which he enunciated ideas about cur- rencies that Levin found incomprehensible. "In fact," says someone who used to work very closely with Wexner, "almost everyone at the Limited wondered who Ep- stein was; he literally came out of nowhere." "Everyone was mystified as to what his appeal was," says Robert Morosky, a former vice-chairman of the Limited. Much of Epstein's work is related to cleaning up, tightening budgets, and effi- ciencies. One person who worked for Wexner and who saw a contract drawn up be- tween the two men says Epstein is involved in "everything, not just a little here, a little there. Everythingi" In addition, he says, "Wexner likes having a hatchet man... Whenever there is dirty work to be done he'd stick Jeffrey on it... He has a reputation for being ruthless but he gets the job done." Epstein has evidently been asked to fire personal-staff members when needed. "He was that mysterious person that everyone was scared to death of," says a former employee. Meanwhile, he is also less than popular with some people outside Wexner's company with whom he now deals. "He 'inserted' himself into the construction process of Leslie Wexner's yacht... That resulted in litigation down the road between Mr. Wexner and the shipyard that eventually built the vessel," says are Forsberg, a lawyer whose firm at the time, Dickerson and Reily, was hired to deal with litigation stemming from the construction of Wexner's Limitless-at 315 feet, one of the largest private yachts in the world. Evidently, Epstein stalled on paying Dickerson and Reily for its work. "It's probably once or twice in my legal career that I've had to sue a client for payment of services that he'd re- quested and we'd performed ... without issue on the performance," says Forsberg. In the end the matter was settled, but Epstein claims he now has no recollection of it. EFTA00188428 Page 12 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style A< The incident is one of a number of disputes Epstein has become embroiled in. Some are for sums so tiny as to be baffling; for instance, Epstein sued invest- ment adviser Herbert Glass, who sold him the Palm Beach house in 1990, for $13,444-Epstein claimed this was owed him for furnishings removed by Glass. In 1998 the U.S. Attorney's Office sued Epstein for illegally subletting the. former home of the deputy consul general of Iran to attorney Ivan Fisher and others. Epstein paid $15,000 a month in rent to the State Department, but he charged Fisher and his colleagues $20,000. Though the exact terms of the agree- ment are sealed, the court ruled against Epstein. Wexner offers some insight into his friend's combative style. "Many times people confuse winning and losing," Wexner says. "Jeffrey has the unusual qual- ity of knowing when he is winning. Whether in conversations or negotiations, he always stands back and lets the other person determine the style and manner of the conversation or negotiation. And then he responds in their style. Jeffrey sees it in chivalrous terms. He does not pick a fight, but if there is a fight, he will let you choose your weapon." One case is rather more serious. Currently, Citibank is suing Epstein for de- faulting on loans from its private-banking arm for $20 million. Epstein claims that Citibank "fraudulently induced" him into borrowing the money for invest- ments. Citibank disputes this charge. The legal papers for another case offer a rare window into Epstein's fi- nances. In 1995, Epstein stopped paying rent to his landlord, the nonprofit Mu- nicipal Arts Society, for his office in the Villard Hpust. He claimed that they were breaking the terms of the lease by not letting his staff in at night. The case was eventually settled. However, one of the papers filed in this dispute is Epstein's financial statement for 1988, in which he claimed to be worth $20 mil- lion. He listed that he owned $7 million in securities, $1 million in cash, zero in residential property (although he told sources that he had already bought the home in Palm Beach), and $11 million in other assets, including his investment in Riddell. A co-investor in Riddell says: "The company had been bought with a huge amount of debt, and it wasn't public, so it was meaningless to attach a figure like that to it ... the price it cost was about $1.2 million." The co- investors bought out Epstein's share in Riddell in 1995 for approximately $3 million. At that time, when Epstein was asked, as a routine matter, to sign a paper guaranteeing he had access to a few million dollars in case of any subse- quent disputes over the sale price, Wexner signed for him. Epstein has explained that this was because the co-investors wanted an indemnity against being sued by Wexner. One of the investors calls this "bullshit." Epstein's appointment to the board of New York's Rockefeller University in 2000 brought him into greater social prominence. Boasting such social names as Nancy Kissinger, Brooke Astor, and Robert Bass, the board also includes such pre- eminent scientists as Nobel laureate Joseph Goldstein. "Epstein was thrilled to be elected," says someone who knows him. After one term Epstein resigned. According to New York magazine, this was be- cause he didn't like to wear a suit to meetings. A spokesperson for the Rocke- feller board says Epstein left because he had insufficient time to commit; a board member recalls that he was "arrogant" and "not a good fit." The spokesper- son admits that it is "infrequent" for board members not to be renominated after only one term. Still, the recent spate of publicity Epstein has inspired does not seem to have fazed him. In November he was spotted in the front row of the Victoria's EFTA00188429 Page 13 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Secret fashion show at New York's Lexington Avenue Armory; around the same time the usual coterie of friends and beautiful women were whisked off to Little St. James (which he tells people has been renamed Little St. Jeff) for a long week- end. Thanks to Epstein's introductions, says Martin Nowak, the biologist finds himself moving from Princeton to Harvard, where he is assuming the joint posi- tion of professor of mathematics and professor of biology. Epstein has pledged at least $25 million to Harvard to create the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics, and Epstein will have an office at the uni- versity. The program will be dedicated to searching for nature's algorithms, a pursuit that is a specialty of Nowak's. For Epstein this must be the summit of everything he has worked toward: he has been seen proudly displaying Harvard president Larry Summers's letter of commitment as if he can't quite believe it is real. He says he was reluctant to have his name attached to the program, but Summers persuaded him. He rang his mentor Wexner about it, and Wexner told him it was all right. An insatiable, restless soul, always on the move, Epstein builds a tremendous amount of downtime into his hectic work schedule. Yet there is something almost programmed about his relaxation: it's as if even pleasure has to be measured in terms of self-improvement. Nowak says that, when he goes to stay with Epstein in the Caribbean, they'll get up at six and, as the sun rises, have three-hour con- versations about theoretical physics. "Then he'll go off and do some work, re- appear, and we'll talk some more." Another person who went to the island with Epstein, Maxwell, and several beautiful women remembers that the women "sat around one night teasing him about the kinds of grasping women who might want to date him. He was amused by the idea... He's like a king in his own world." Many people comment there is something innocent, almost childlike about Jef- frey Epstein. They see this as refreshing, given the sophistication of his sur- roundings. Alan Dershowitz says that, as he was getting to know Epstein, his wife asked him if he would still be close to him if Epstein suddenly filed for bankruptcy. Dershowitz says he replied, "Absolutely. I would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas." N GRAPHIC: LEFT, BY JAMES ESTRIN; RIGHT, BY DUBLIN CAINE; MR. BIG Jeffrey Epstein in New York, 2001. Left, Epstein's nine-floor, 51,000-square- foot town house. He also owns a 7,500-acre ranch in New Mexico, a house in Palm Beach, and a Car- ibbean island.; TOP TO BOTTOM: BY ALBERTO PINTO, LISA HINGE, J. B. SCHMITKA; un- real estate From top: the "leather room" in Epstein's house, where "tea" is served to guests; Epstein at his Zorro ranch in 1991 with his "best friend," Ghislaine Maxwell; Epstein in 1979.; TOP TO BOTTOM: BY LISA HINGE, SARAH ADAM SCULL; SPOILS OF SUCCESS From top: Epstein's 70- acre island, Little St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands-he now calls it Little St. Jeff; Epstein with President Clinton in Brunei, 2002; Leslie Wexner with his future wife, Abigail, at the 1990 C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards, in New York, 1991.; ALBERTO PINTO; OFFICE SPACE The "office" in Epstein's house. It has no computers, but it does have a desk that Epstein tells people once belonged to banker J. P. Morgan, and "the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home."; Pages 300-301: Left, from The New York Times. Page 304: Bottom, from Globe Photos. LOAD-DATE: January 24, 2005 EFTA00188430 Prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 1 of 4 thaestertalo ndI on.co.uk nment gue from lb, Evening Standard PRINCE ANDREW'S BILLIONAIRE FRIEND IS ACCUSED OF PREYING ON GIRL OF 14 28.04.07 Add your view One of Prince Andrew's closest friends is being Investigated by the FBI for allegedly paying under-age girls for tawdry sexual encounters. Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has stayed at Sandringham and holidayed with the Prince in Thailand, while Andrew has visited his luxurious New York townhouse at least twice. Police in Florida are so concerned by claims that the bachelor financier had sexual encounters with under- age girls at his exclusive Palm Beach villa that they have passed the case files to the FBI. Epstein, 54, leads a hedonistic lifestyle that has troubled Royal courtiers ever since he was introduced to the Prince by their friend Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell. During his Thai holiday with Epstein, Andrew was photographed surrounded by topless women on a yacht. And Epstein was a guest at the Queen's birthday party in 2000 at Windsor and has attended a weekend house Concerns: Billionaire Jeffrey party at Sandringham. Epstein is under investigation for According to official documents seen by this newspaper, alleged sexual encounters with Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter has asked the underage girls FBI to determine whether Epstein broke laws designed to protect children from prostitution and pornography. Some such offences carry minimum sentences of ten to 15 years. The documents reveal that Epstein was the subject of an 11-month undercover investigation by police after a complaint in 2005 from the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl, who claimed she was paid £150 to give him an erotic massage at his flamingo-pink villa. The girl is said to have been taken there by 18-year-old student who claims in a sworn statement that she was recruited at the age of 17 to provide the billionaire with a £100 nude massage. She told police he grabbed her after she began to rub him with oil. After the massage,' according to a police department affidavit, Epstein stated that he http://www.thisisiondon.co.ukinews/article-23394287-details/Prince+Andrew%27s+billiona... 5/3/2007 EFTA00188431 Prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 2 of 4 understood she s not comfortable, but he would pay her I over some girls. He told her the younger the better.' The student claims she found at least six girls aged 14 to 16. Every girl knew what to expect,' the affidavit continues. They were told they would provide a massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching.' One of the girls cried hysterically', according to a police report, as she recalled how she was recruited to provide services for Epstein when she was 16. She claims in a sworn statement that he introduced her to a woman whom he said he had brought from Yugoslavia to be his sex slave'. The girl claims that Epstein persuaded her to have sex with the woman. He allegedly also forcibly' held the girl's head as he tried to have sex with her, but stopped after she screamed no'. Epstein apologised for his actions and paid her £500 for that visit,' the records claim. Additionally, [he] gave her a 2005 Dodge Neon, blue in colour, for her personal use.' When police searched the villa, they say they found a pink and green couch In the master bedroom, matching a description by the alleged victims. They say the stairway to the room was lined with photos of naked young girls. Two hidden cameras were found ecks, and police also discovered pictures of nd other witnesses on a computer. The allegations came to light after Epstein was accused of soliciting a prostitute. He Is due to stand trial next month. Palm Beach police believe that the relatively light charge, which makes no mention of sex with minors, was the result of intimidation by private inves-tigators and high-powered lawyers representing Epstein. Police claim that local prosecutors were deterred from aggressively pursuing the case. One of his legal team, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, told The Mall on Sunday that Epstein had Epstein's friend Prince Andrew http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23394287-details/Prince+Andrew%27s+billiona... 5/3/2007 EFTA00188432 'prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 3 of 4 passed a lie detector test showing he was innocent of all allegations. The financier had paid for massages, but had not engaged in sex or erotic massages with any minors, the lawyer insisted. He said that the girl who accused Epstein of forcible sex had a long record of lying, theft and blaming others for her crimes'. The hidden cameras, he said, had been installed at the behest of Palm Beach police following a theft from the villa. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed: We received the referral from the Palm Beach police chief. We have a pending case.' Epstein's friends include entrepreneur Donald Trump, who once said: He likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.' What is this? Digg Reddit Del.iclo.us Newsvine NowPublic READER VIEWS (o) Add your view No comments have so far been submitted. 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Valle, Special Counsel Robert Senior, Chief, Criminal Division Kenneth Noto, Deputy Chief, Criminal Division Anne Schultz, Chief, Appellate Division Gerardo Simms, Chief, Asset Forfeiture Division Wendy A. Jacobus, Chief, Civil Division David Weinstein, Chief, PINS Karen Gilbert, Chief, Narcotics Eric Bustillo, Chief, Economic and Environmental Crimes Section Rick Del Toro, Chief, Major Crimes Section Ben Greenberg, Chief, Special Prosecutions Roger Stefin, Deputy Chief, Ft. Lauderdale Rolando Garcia, Deputy Chief, West Palm Beach Diana Acosta, Acting Deputy Chief, Ft. Pierce From: Annette Castillo Cyndee Campos Executive Division July 1, 2008 EFTA00188434 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 1 of 4 rRICNOLY IOYMAI GO be Niu fork times.corn SM VSC.00 II rlytmnor: July 1, 2008 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case By LANDOMTHOMAS Jr. The bad news arrived by phone last week on Little St. James Island, the palm-fringed Xanadu in the Caribbean where Jeffrey E. Epstein, adviser to billionaires, lives in secluded splendor. Report to the Palm Beach County jail, the caller, Mr. Epstein's lawyer, said. So over the weekend Mr. Epstein quit his pleasure dome, with its staff of 7o and its flamingo- stocked lagoon, and flew to Florida. On Monday morning, he turned himself in and began serving i8 months for soliciting prostitution. "I respect the legal process," Mr. Epstein, 55, said by phone as he prepared to leave his 78-acre island, which he calls Little St. Jeff's. "I will abide by this." live the It is a stunning downfall for Mr. Epstein, who grew up in Coney Island and went on to life of a billionaire, only to become a tabloid monument to an age of hyperwealth. Mr. Epstein owns a Boeing 727 and the largest town house in Manhattan. He has paid for college educations for personal employees and students from Rwanda, and spent millions on a project to develop a thinking and feeling computer and on music intended to alleviate depression. But Mr. Epstein also paid women, some of them under age, to give him massages that ended with a sexual favor, the authorities say. seek Federal prosecutors initially threatened to bring him to trial on a variety of charges and the maximum penalty, to years in prison. After years of legal wrangling, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges. Upon his release from jail, he must register as a sex offender wherever he goes in the United States. People from all walks of life break the law, of course. But for the rich, wrapped in a cocoon of immense comfort, it can be easy to yield to temptation, experts say. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/0lepstein.html? y=l&sq=epstein&st=nyt8cad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188435 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 2 of 4 "A sense of entitlement sets in," said Dennis Pearne, a psychologist who counsels people on matters related to extreme wealth. The attitude, he said, becomes, "I deserve anything I want, I can have anything I want — and I can afford it." To prosecutors, Mr. Epstein is just another sex offender. He did what he did because he could, and because he never dreamed he would get caught, they say. Mr. Epstein's defenders counter that he has been unjustly persecuted because of his wealth and lofty connections. Sitting on his patio on "Little St. Jeff's" in the Virgin Islands several months ago, as his legal troubles deepened, Mr. Epstein gazed at the azure sea and the lush hills of St. Thomas in the distance, poked at a lunch of crab and rare steak prepared by his personal chef, and tried explain how his life had taken such a turn. He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among the diminutive denizens of I.illiput. "Gulliver's playfulness had unintended consequences," Mr. Epstein said. "That is what happens with wealth. There are unexpected burdens as well as benefits." Those benefits are on full display on his island where, despite his time in jail, Mr. Epstein has views of commissioned a new estate. The villa will occupy the island's promontory, which offers house the Atlantic on one side and the Caribbean on the other. It will have a separate library to Mr. Epstein's 90,000 volumes, a Japanese bathhouse and what he calls a "Ziegfeld" movie theater. a For now, however, those visions of a private paradise have been replaced by the cold reality of jail cell. The legal drama began in 2005, when a young woman who gave Mr. Epstein massages at his Palm Beach mansion told the local police about the encounter. She was 14 at the time, and was paid $200. The police submitted the results of their investigation to the state attorney, asking that Mr. Epstein be charged with sexual relations with minors. His lawyers say Mr. Epstein never knew the young women were under age, and point to depositions in which the masseuses — several of whom have filed civil suits — admitted to lying about their age. In July 2005, a Florida grand jury charged Mr. Epstein with a lesser offense, soliciting prostitution. Mr. Epstein's legal team, which would eventually include the former prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr and the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, was elated: Mr. Epstein would avoid prison. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/Olepstein.html?J=1&screpstein8cst=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188436 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 3 of 4 But then the United States attorney's office in Miami became involved. Last summer, Mr. Epstein got an ultimatum: plead guilty to a charge that would require him to register as a sex offender, or the government would charge him with sexual tourism, according to people who were briefed on the discussions. David Weinstein, an attorney in the government's Miami office, declined to discuss the specifics of the case. But he did address the subject of Mr. Epstein's means and prominent legal team, and dismissed a proposal by Mr. Epstein's lawyers — who opposed the application of federal statutes in the case — that he be confined to his house in Palm Beach for a probationary period. "In their mind that would be an adequate resolution," Mr. Weinstein said. "Our view is that is not enough of a punishment to fit the crime that occurred." The lurid details of the case have captivated wealthy circles in Palm Beach and New York and transformed Mr. Epstein, who shuns publicity and whose business depends on discretion, into a figure of public ridicule. He said he has been trailed by stalkers and has become the target of lawsuits. In recent months, he said, he received over too letters a week asking for money or jobs as a masseuse. lie recently received a package of gold-tinted condoms. It has been a long, strange journey from Coney Island, where Mr. Epstein grew up in middle- class surroundings. He taught briefly at Dalton, the Manhattan private school, and then joined Bear Stearns, becoming a derivatives specialist. He struck out on his own in the 198os. Ills business is something of a mystery. He says he manages money for billionaires, but the only client he is willing to disclose is Le3lien Wexner, the founder of Limitesi Brands. As Mr. Epstein explains it, he provides a specialized form of superelite financial advice. He counsels people on everything from taxes and trusts to prenuptial agreements and paternity suits, and even provides interior decorating tips for private jets. Industry sources say he charges flat annual fees ranging from $25 million to more than $too million. As it became clear that he was headed for jail, Mr. Epstein has tried to put on a brave face. "Your body can be confined, but not your mind," he said in a recent interview by phone. But the strains were showing. "I am anxious," he said in another recent interview, referring to how inmates would treat him. "I make a great effort to treat people equally, but I recognize that http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/01epstein.html7_r=1&sq=epstein&st=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188437 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 4 of 4 I might be perceived as one of the New York arrogant rich." Jail will certainly be a big change. Mr. Epstein is a man of precise, at times unconventional, habits. He starts his mornings with a secret-ingredient bran muffin prepared by his chef. He seems to have a germ phobia. He never wears a suit, preferring monogrammed sweatsuits and jeans. And he rarely attends meetings — "I never have to be anywhere," he tells his pilots, when he cautions them to avoid flying through chancy weather. ," Looking back, Mr. Epstein admits that his behavior was inappropriate. "I am not blameless he said. He said he has taken steps to make sure the same thing never happens again. For starters, Mr. Epstein has hired a full-time male masseur (the man happens to be a former Ultimate Fighting champion). He also has organized what he calls a board of directors of friends to counsel him on his behavior. And Mr. Epstein has changed his e-mail address to alert people that he will be unavailable for the next 18 months. The new address indicates he is "on vacation." C9920914 2094 The New 10. .1"Imee CLemilanY efletiey Poky I Sew I carackons I RSS I I FklaStok I tictip I continua I Work fotlJo I wimp http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/Olepstein.html?J=1&screpstein&st=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188438 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge - NYTimes.com Page 1 of I tie Nell; gOrk a' ntes SAIIP4CLY PQM11 /41 Sr* ,410110 PC ilytisties.corn June 30, 2008 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:02 p.m. ET WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida. Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 months in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex offender. Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 $200 to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes became sexual. He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. retNalie Associated Press Ethempafey I Smith I cargetlene I ass I I ter I HS I Cantata's I Wed' labile I me-take . . . . http://www.nytimes.corn/aponline/us/AP-Billionaire-Prostitution.html7sq=epstein&st=nyt&... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188439 JUL. 1.2000 10:13AM USA() WPB FL NO.340 P.1 THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY, JULY 1,2008 As part of the plea deal, federal investigators agreed to drop their investigation of Epstein, which they had taken to a grand jury, two law enforcement sources said. laM 51NOWSIMIPhotintaphar Epstein was indicted two years ago after an lbmonth Investment banker Jeffrey investigation by Palm Boaph Epstein waits in court Monday police. They received r a before his guilty plea. complaint from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had Palm given Epstein a naked nuts• sage at his five-bedroom, 7,2.34-square-foot, $8.5 million Intracoastal home. Beacher Police concluded that there • Sea EPSTEIN, BA l• • Crime coverage pleads in ■ Read past stories on the Epstein case. • See photos of fugitives, sex case unsolved cases, police blotters, a bldg, special reports and moro. • PalmBeaehhst.com Jeffrey Epstein will serve years on teen solicitation charges. ay LARRY KELLER Pd.,BaaehJWt Stte Ron WEST PALM BEACH — He lives in a Palm Beach water front mansion and has kept company with the 'Ikea of President Clinton, Prince An- drew and Donald 'frump, but inveabnent bankerJeffrey Ep- stein will call the Palm Beach County Jail home for the next 18 months, Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty Monday to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. After serving IS months in jail, he will be under house arrest for a year And he will have a lifelong obligation to register aa a sex offender. He must submit to an HIV teat within 48 hours, with the results being pro- vided to his victims or their parents EFTA00188440 N0.348 P.2 hi_ 1 2H 10: 1:111vi Sq2 'AN] IL Epstein faces civil lawsuits; more clients may be added Epstein will be allowed Ifs validation of what • Ile EPSTEIN/nee IA to leave home for woik. we're saying In the civil The New York-based money cases," Said Miami attorney were several other girls manager told the judge he Jeffrey Herman, who tem.& brought In 2004 and 2005 to has formed the not-feePrefit sante the alleged victims In an upstairs room at the home Florida Science Ibundatlen the federal lawsuits. West for similar, massages and to finance scientific re- Palm Beach attorney Ted sexual touching. search. "I'm there every day," Leopold represents one al- The indictment charged Epstein said. leged victim in a civil suit in Epstein only with felony so- The foundation was In- state court. He said he antici- licitation of prostitution. The corporated in November pates *ending that lawsuit state attorney's office later Epstein said he already has to •add 'a few other clients" added the charge of procur- awarded money to Harvard as well ing underage girls for that and kar. In the criminal case, po- purpose- When he is released from lice went so far as to Scour Prosecutor Lama Be- jail, there is a chance-that Ep- Epsteinis trash and conduct lohlavek said of the plea: "I stein will be forced to move. surveillance at Palm Beach took into consideration the Sex offenders are not allowed International Airport, where length, the trial would have to live within 1,000 feet of a they watched for his private been • ind witnesses having echool, park or other areas jet so they would know when to testify" about sometimes where children may gather he was .in town. They con- embarrassing incidents. No determination has been cluded that Epstein paid girls Epstein may .have made made as to whether Epsteints $200 to $300 each after the a serious mistake soon after home complies, but attorneys massage sessions. he was charged. He rejected said it likely does, idi Reiss," an offer to plead guilty to one Sex offenders also typi- 22, told count of aggravated assault cally must attend counseling po ce a ou efforts in with Intent to commit a felo- sessions. Belohlavek bald recruiting girls for Epstein. ny,. according to police docu- that was waived for Epstein There was probable cause ments. He would have gotten because hie private psychia- to charge Epstein with un- five years' probation, had no trist is working with him. lawful sex acts with a minor Criminal record and not been a registered sex offender, the documents indicate. and lewd and lascivious mo- Epstein arrived in court 'It's validation lestation, police concluded. Monday with at least three The state attorney's of- atterneys: He wore a blue of what we're saying fice said questions about' blazer, blue !AUK- blue jeans in the civil cases. the girls' credibility led it to and white and gray sneakers, take the unprecedented step After Circuit Judge Deborah JEFFREY HERMAN of presenting the evidence Dale Puente accepted the Attorney who reneged& alleged 'against Epstein to a grand plea, he *was fingerprinted. victims, commenting on the plea jury, rather than directly E. stein then removed his charging Mtn, blazer and was handcuffed Palm Beach Police Chief for the trip to jail while his. The judge was skeptical but Michael Eeiter was furious attorneys tried to shield him agreed to it with State Attornin ey Barry. Epstein legal woes don't &lech er, saying a May froth photographers' tepees. When he eventually is end with Monday's plea. 2006 letter that the prosecu- There are four pending fed- tor should disqualify himse lf. released to house arrest Ep- your stein will have to observe a eral civil lawsuits and one "I continue to find these 10 pm. to 6 a.m. curfew, have in state court related to, his office's treatment of behavior At least one woman cases highly unusual," and he no unsupervised contact asked for with anyone younger than has sued him In New York, 'note. He then 18 and neither own nor pot-'• where he. owns a 51,000- got a federal Investigation. sere pornographic or sexual square-foot Manhattan man- materials "that are relevant sion. to your deviant behavior," the judge said. EFTA00188441 USPO kPB FL NO.348 P.3 JUL. 1.2008 10:13AM Epstein hired a phalanx of high-priced lawyers —Includ- ing Harvard law professor and author Alan Derehowitz — and public relations people Who questioned getter% com- petence and the victims truthfulness. In addition to mansions in Palm Beach and Manhat- tan, Epstein owns homes in New Mexico and the Virgin. Islande. He% a frequent con- tributor to Democratic Party candidates. He also donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003, Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer returned a $50,000 campaign contribu- tion from Epstein after his indictment. then resigned this year during his own sex • scandal. And the Barrie Palm Beach Police Departinent that vigorously investigated Epstein returned his $90,000 donation for the purchase of a firearins simulator StqflwriferEliotlatinbergand staff researcher Michelle Quig- ley confributed to Ail story. CHarry.:41400, Postom UMA SAW:MI/U.1uPriatomptior • )effrey Epstein (lett) appeirs In court Monday. Soon after ha was charged two years ago,entsEpstein relent- ed a deal that would have given him five years' probati on and no crimina l record, docum show. EFTA00188442 Page 1 of 2 Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com sun-sentinel.cominews/local/palmbeachisfl-flpepstein0701sbjul01,0,1047755.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges By Missy Diaz South Florida Sun-Sentinel 11:28 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH Billionaire Palm Beach- New York-Virgin Islands money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a jail uniform Monday after pleading guilty to hiring underage Palrnatackeounty girls for erotic massages and sex. The 55-year-old will be designated a sex offender, requiring him to register annually with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Epstein, who lives in a 13,000-square-foot mansion on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, will spend 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. of Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout the hearing, read off a litany other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, including a 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity log and a stern warning that he not possess, watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually stimulating material relative to your deviant behavior." The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact — direct or indirect -- with his victims, text something Pucillo clarified explicitly, saying it includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and messages. "That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third parties. ... Is that clear?" she asked. Epstein told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the very rich and counts among his friends former President Bill Clinton. His real estate holdings include a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and a 50,000-square-foot townhouse on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side. According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005 Epstein paid , tf o find girls — "the younger the better"— to "work" for him. Epstein rejected a 23- year-old who brought to Epstein's home. once referred to herself as Heidi Fleiss, the Hoist madam whose client list included celebrities. "The more you do, the more you get paid," reportedly told the he going rate was $200 to $300 per massage. All of the girls knew what to expect, according to : "provide a massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching." Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty Monday to two counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony offer to commit prostitution. The http://www.sun-sentinel.cominews/locaVpalmbeach/sfl-flpepstein0701sbjul01,0,697175,pri... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188443 Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges -- South Florida Sun-Sentincl.com Page 2 of 2 maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court filed by four girls seeking in excess of $50 million each. "We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. Missy Diaz can be reached at mdiaz@sun-sentinet&orri or 561-228-5505. Copyright O 2008, South Florida SuP7Sentimel http://wvvvv.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpcpstein0701sbjul01,0,697175,pri... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188444 Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex -- South Florida... Page 1 of 2 sun-sentinel.cominews/local/palmbeach/sfl-630epstein,0,69 I 3787.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex By Missy Diaz Sun-Sentinel.com 12:25 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH Mega-rich Palm Beach-New York-Virgin Islands money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a jail uniform today after pleading guilty to hiring underage Palm Beach County girls for erotic massages and sex. As a result, Epstein will be designated a sex offender, a moniker that will require he register annually with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and any other jurisdiction that so requires. Epstein, 55, will spend 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout today's hearing, read off a litany of other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, including a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity log and a stem warning that he not possess, watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually stimulating material relative to your deviant behavior." The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact -- direct or indirect -- with his victims, something Pucillo explained includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and text messages. "That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third panics is that clear?" she asked. Epstein, a billionaire who lives in a five bedroom, 7'/ bath, 13,000-square-foot mansion on El BrilloWay in Palm Beach, told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the super wealthy and counts among his friends former President Bill Clinton. According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005, Epstein used a then 20-year-old girl to find 14- to 16- year-old girls from her school to "work" for him. http://www.sun-sentineLcom/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-630cpstein,0,3606120,print.story 6/30/2008 EFTA00188445 Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex -- South Florida... Page 2 of 2 In return, according to police, Epstein paid her $200 for each girl she found. Epstein's assistant kept the recruiter apprised of when Epstein would be in Palm Beach and the recruiter would take the girls to the mansion. Once there, Epstein's assistant escorted the girl to a bedroom furnished with a massage table and oils. Epstein would enter in only a towel and would touch himself during some sessions and try fondling the girls with sex toys in others, according to police. Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty today to two counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution, and felony offer to commit prostitution. The maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. Epstein told the judge he takes no prescription medication other than for his cholesterol. He works in the Virgin Islands, he said, but while on house arrest he plans to do charitable work at a non-profit he formed charity called The Florida Science Foundation. State records show the foundation was formed in November for the purpose of providing grants to organizations in science and research. "My background is in physics," Epstein told Pucillo. Harvard and MIT have been recipients of grants from the organization, he said. While the criminal ease may have been disposed today, Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court filed by four of the girls who are each seeking in excess of $50 million. "We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. "An important measure of justice is that he'll be a registered sex offender." As deputies fingerprinted Epstein, who was dressed in a navy sport coat, jeans and sneakers, a phalanx of his handlers congregated outside the courtroom. His attorney, Jack Goldberger, along with two other men, one in a seersucker suit, the other typing furiously on a laptop computer, stayed with Epstein until lawmen escorted him from the courtroom. Copyright O 2008, South.Florida autt-.Ssnlinel http://www.sun-sentinel.cominews/local/palmbeach/s11-630epstein,0,3606I 20,print.story 6/30/2008 EFTA00188446 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge - 06/30/2008 - Miamillerald.com Page 1 of I MlamiHerald.com 0 Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2008 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida. Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 months in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex offender. Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 $200 to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes became sexual. He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. © 2008 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved. http://www.miamihcrald.com html 7/1/2008 EFTA00188447 EFTA00188448 ILLVI IV" LIM MR. BIG Jeffrey Epstein in Ness York. 200I. Left. Epstein% nine-Moor, M.000-square. foul loon house. Ile also nuns a 75110-acre ranch in Nos Nlesico, a house in Palm Beach, and a Caribbean island. Lately, leffrey Epstein's high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New Ifork's largest private residake, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and flies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARP explores Epstein's investment career, his ties to retail magnate Leslie Wexner, and his complicated past EFTA00188449 Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the charm slip into his eyes. They arc steely the town house—Epstein usually rekrs to the and calculating, giving some hint at the former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite- steady whir of machinery running behind size morsels and drink copious quantities of them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, af- Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or to- ter refusing to give an interview for this arti- bacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," cle. "You be white. You get the first mow." so called because of the cordovan-colored It was an appropriate metaphor hr a man fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered who seems to feel he can win no matter in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a what the advantage of the other side. //is huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding advantage is that no one really seems to an opium pipe and caressing a snarling li- know him or his history completely or what onskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger his arsenal actually consists of. He has care- sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and fully engineered it so that he remains one guests by the menservants in white glows. of the few truly baffling mysteries among Upstairs, to the right of a spiral stair- New York's moneyed world. People know n Manhattan's case, is the "office," an enormous gallery snippets, but few know the whole. Upper Lip Side, home to some of the spanning the width of the house. Strangely, "He's very enigmatic." says Rosa Month- most expensive real estate on earth, exists it holds no computer. Computers belong in ton, the Farmer C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the crown jewel of the city's residential the "computer room" fa smaller room at the U.K. and a close friend since the early town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, the back of the house). Epstein has been 1980s. - You think you know him and then huge arched windows, and nine floors. it known to say. The office features a gilded you peel oil' another 'ring of the onion skin sits on—or. rather. commands—the block desk (which Epstein tells people belonged and there's something else extraordinary of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison to banker J. R Morgan). 18th-century black underneath. He never reveals his hand.... Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of pro- lacquered Portuguese cabinets. and a nine- He's a classic iceberg. What you see is not portion with its four- and five-story neigh- foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the what you get." bors, it seems more like an institution than desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de a house. This is perhaps not surprising— Sack's The Misfinunes of Time was re- ven acquaintances sense a until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private cently spotted. Covering the floor. Epstein curious dichotomy: Yes. he school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's has explained. "is the largest Persian rug lives like a "modern ma- largest private residence. you'll ever see in a private home—so big. it haraja." as Loh Rieman, Inside, amid the flurry of menservants must have come from a mosque." Amid one of his art dealers. puts such splendor, much of which reflects the it. Yet he is fastidiously, al- attired in sober black suits and pristine work of the French decorator .Alberto Pin- most obsessively private—he white .gloves, you feel you have stumbled into someone's private Xanadu. This is to. who has worked for Jacques Chime and lists himself in the phone book under a no mere rich person's home, but a high- the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Ara- pseudonym. He rarely attends society gath- walled, eclectic, imperious fantasy that bia, there is one particularly startling oddi- erings or weddings or funerals: he considers seems to have no boundaries. ty: a stuffed black poodle. standing atop eating in restaurants like "eating on the sub- The entrance hall is decorated not with the grand piano. "No decorator would ever way"—i.e.. something he'd never do. There paintings but with row upon row of indi- tell you to do that." Epstein brags to visi- are many women in his life. mostly young, vidually framed eyeballs: these. the owner tors. "But I want people to think what it but there is no one of them to whom he tells people with relish. were imported from means to stuff a dog.- People can't help has been able to commit. He describes his but feel it's Epstein's way' of saying that he most public companion of the last decade, • England. where they were made for in- jured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer. always has the last word. Ghislaine Maxwell, 41. the daughter of the which does have a painting, in the man- in addition to the town house. Epstein late, disgraced media baron Robert Max- ner of Jean Dubufftt ... but the host coyly lives in what is reputed to be the largest well, as simply his "best friend:' He says refuses to tell visitors who palmed it. In any private dwelling in New Mexico. on an S IS she is not on his payroll, but she seems case, guests are like pygmies next to the million. 7.500-acre ranch which he named to organize much of his life—recently she nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked "Zono." "It makes the town house look like was making telephone inquiries to find a African warrior. a shack,- Epstein has said. He also owns California-based yoga instructor for him. Despite its eccentricity the house is curi- Little St. James. a 70-acre island in the (Epstein is still close to his two other long- ously impersonal, the statement of someone U.S. Virgin Islands. where the main house term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher. a for- who wants to be known for the scale of his is currently being renovated by Edward Tit- mer associate of his at the brokerage firm possessions. Its occupant. financier Jeffrey tle, a designer of the Amanresorts. There is Bear Stearns and now an opera producer, Epstein, 50. admits to friends that he likes it also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream onetime model. He tells people that when 0 rie•in when people think of him this way. A good- looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren. IV, a helicopter. and a Boeing 727. replete a relationship is over the girlfriend -moves with thick gray-white hair and a weathered with trading room, on which Epstein re- up. not down," to friendship status.) Op lc 110110.4 ili ...... face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, cently flew President Clinton. actors Chris Some of the businessmen who dine with and loafers. He tells people he bought the 'Ricker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket him at his home—they include newspaper house because he knew he "could never lite magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis anywhere bigger." He thinks 51.000 square grandson. Casey Wasserman, and a few oth- Ranieri. Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, feet is an appropriately large space for some- ers, on a mission to explore the problems of real-estate tycoon Leon Black. former Mi- one like himself, who deals mostly in large AIDS and economic development in Africa. crosoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. Tom • • 4. •• •• . • k • • • EFTA00188450 personality Donald Trump —sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he ac- tually does to earn his millions. Certainly, you won't find Epstein's transactions writ- ten about on Bloomberg or talked about in the trading rooms. "The trading desks don't seem to know him. It's unusual for animals 'hat big not to leave any footprints in the mow" says a high-level investment mai Unlike such fund managers as Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, whose client lists and stock maneuverings act as their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret, bar one client: bib lionaire Leslie Wexner, the respected chair- man of Limited Brant's. Epstein insists that ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1981 he as managed money only for billionaires- -Am depend on him for discretion. "I was the only person crazy enough, or arrogant enough, or misplaced enough, to make my limit a bib lion dollars or more," he tells peo- ple freely. According to him, the flat fees he receives from his clients. combined with his skill at playing e currency markets "with very I rge sums of money," have afforded f.:m the lifestyle he enjoys today. Why do billionaires choose him as their trustee? Because the prob- lems of the mega-rich. he tells peo- ple. are different from yours and mine, and his unique philosophy is central to understanding those problems: parks department. His " /ery few people need any more money parents viewed educa- UNREAL ESTATE len they have a billion dollars. The key tion as "the way out" From tor the "leather is not to have it do harm more than any- for him and his young- room" in Epstein's house. thing else.... You don't want to lose your er brother, Mark, where "tea" is served now money." working in real estate. to guests: Epstein at his Jeffrey started to play Zorro ranch in 1991 1 e has likened his job to the piano—for which he with his "best friend," that of an architect—more maintains a passion—at Ghislaine Maxwell: specifically, one who spe- five. and he went to Epstein in 1979. cializes in remodeling: "I Brooklyn's Lakette High always describe [a billion- School. He was good at "bounty hunter: recov- aire] as someone who mathematics. and in his ering lost or stolen mon- ey for the government or for very rich started out in a small early 20s he got a job teaching physics home and as he became wealthier had add- math at Dalton, and people. He has a license to carry a firearm. the elite Manhattan pri- For the last 15 years. he's been running ons. He added on another addition, he built vate school. While his there he began tutoring business, J. Epstein & Co. a room over the garage ... until you have a the son of Bear Stearns chairman Ace Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his house that is usually a mess.... It's a large Greenberg and was friendly with a daugh- life—Epstein has said this was house that has been put together over time ter of Greenberg's. in 1986: Soon he went to Bear others say it was in 1989. at the earliest where no one could foretell the financial fu- Stearns. where. — under the mentorship of he has gradually, in a way that tut: and their accompanying needs." both Greenberg and current Bear Stearns generally made headlin has not -le makes it sound as though his job C.E.O. James Cayne, es, come to be ac- he did well enough cepted by the Establishment. He's a mem- :ombines the roles of real-estate agent, ac- to become a limited partner—a rung be- ber of various commissions and counci :ountant, lawyer, money manager, trustee. neath full partner ls: . He abruptly departed in he is on the Trilateral Commission, and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, 1981 becaus the e, he has said, he wanted to Council on Foreign Relations, nyths and rumor swirl around Epstein. run his own business. the New Here are some of the hard facts about York Academ y of Science s, and the Insti- Thereafter the details recede into shad- tute of International Educat ion. EFTA00188451 "I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns;' says Wexner. "But Jef- frey sees patterns in politics and fmaria cial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not in in- vestment strategy, and, as everyone who knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fash- ion and design. We frequently discuss world trends as each of us sees them:' y the time Epstein met Wexner, the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion em- pire —one that now in- cludes Victoria's Secret. Express, and Bath & Body Works—from $5,000 lent him by his aunt. "Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to real- ize his (Jeffrey's) dreams." says some- one who has worked closely with both men. "He gave Jeffrey the ball and Jeffrey hit it out of the park." Wexner, through a trust. bought the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported $13.2 million in 1989. In 1993. Wex- ner married Abigail Koppel. a 31-year-old lawyer. and the newlyweds relocated to Ohio: in 1996. Epstein moved in- . - to the town house. Public documcnts suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it. SPOILS OF SUCCESS EdeIn= and 3ilunay Gel but Epstein has said that he now owns the Awn tqr Epstein's 70- Mann. and mathematical house. acre island. Little St. biologist Martin Nowak. Wexner trusts Epstein so completely lames. in the U.S. Virgin When these men describe that he has assigned him the power of fidu- Islands—he now calls Epstein. they talk about ciary over all of his private trusts and foun- it Little St. Jett Epstein **energy" and "curiosity: as dations, says a source close to Wexner. In with President Clinton in well as a love for theoreti- 1992. Epstein even persuaded Wexner to Brunei. 2002: Leslie Wexner with his future cal physics that they don't put him on the board of the Wexner Foun- wife. Abigail at the 1990 ordinarily find in laymen. dation in place of Warices ailing mother. C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards. Ge11-Mann rather sweetly Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to in New York. 1991. mentions that **there are al- be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled ways pretty ladies around" by splitting the foundation in two. when he goes to dinner cht Epstein does not care that he comes be- Larry Summers. Harvard's current presi- Epstein. and he's under the impression that tween family members. In fact, he sees it dent. Harvard law professor Alan Dersho- Epstein's clients include the Queen of En- as his job. He tells people. "I am there to .1 witz says. "I'm on my 20th book.... The gland. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were represent my client. and if my client needs only person outside of my immediate family thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand protecting—sometimes even from his own that I send drafts to is Jeffrey." Real-estate of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's family-then it's often better that people developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose, house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince hate me, not the client." who has %tacked with Epstein on projects in Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit "You've probably heard I'm vicious ins New Albany, Ohio. for Wexner. says. "He in the back of Dershowitz's law class. my representation of my clients,- he tells Epstein gets annoyed when anyone sug- people proudly; Leah Kiernan describes his 1 digests and decodes the information very like ; rapidly, which is to me terrific because we gests that Wexner "made him." "I had real- haggling over art prices as something ly rich clients before:' he has said. Yet he a scene out of the movie Mad Mar Be- t: have shorter meetings." mentor does not deny that he and Wexner have a yond Thunderdome . Even a former g Also on the list of admirers are former Epstein. 5 a special relationship. Epstein secs it as a says he's seen "the dark side- of senator Mitchell and a gaggle of meet- distinguished scientists, most of whom partnership of equals. "People have said it's and a Bear Stearns source recalls a e: like we have one brain between two of us: ing in which Epstein chewed out a team :. h. Epstein has helped fund in recent years. • • EFTA00188452 being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." media. Right now, in the wake of the pub- Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really One reporter, in fact, received three threats licity following his trip with Clinton, he liked Jeffrey.... Jeffrey has a way of getting from Epstein while preparing a piece, They must be in a very difficult place." under your skin, and he was under Hof- were delivered in a jocular tone, but the fenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg ccording to S.E.C. and were Epstein's social connections; they in- A message was clear: There' will be trouble other legal documents un- cluded oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the 0 for your family if I don't like the article. earthed by Vanity Fair, designer Vera) and Mohan Murjani, whose S On the other hand, Epstein is clearly very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an Epstein may have good clothing company grew into Gloria Van- t derbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then. 0. Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has reason to keep his past known Epstein since before his Bear Stearns cloaked in secrecy: his real One friend recalls that when he took Cana- days, can't say enough nice things: "1 have mentor. it might seem, was dian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he a boy who's dyslexic, and Jeffrey's gotten not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Hoffen- hired a Rolls-Royce especially for the oc- close to him over the years.... Jeffrey got berg, 57, who, for a few months before the casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) him into music. He bought him his first S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 093, was In 198'Z Hoffenberg. according to sources, piano. And then as he got to school he had trying to buy the New York Asst. He is cur- set Epstein up in the offices he still occu- difficulty ... in studying ... so Jeffrey got rently incarcerated in the Federal Medical pies in the Villard House. on Madison Av- him interestel in taking flying lessons?' Center in Devens. Massachusetts, serving a enue, across a courtyard from the restaurant Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new pro- her that her. daughter. Domenica. who suf- more than 5450 trillion in one of the largest tégé as a consultant at 525.000 a month. . krs from Down syndrome. needed the sun, Ponzi schemes in American history. and the relationship flourished. "They trav- and that Rosa should feel free to bring her When Epstein met Hoffenberg in Lon- eled everywhere together—on Hoffinberis to his house in Palm Beach anytime. don in the 1980s, the latter was the char- plane. all around the world, they were al- Some friends remember that in the late ismatic, audacious head of the Towers ways together." says a source. Hoffenberg 80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the air- Financial Corporation. a collection agency has claimed that Epstein confided in him. line tickets of good friends by affixing first- that was supposed to buy debts that peo- saying. for example, that he had left Bear class stickers: the only problem was that the ple owed to hospitals. banks, and phone Stearns in 1981 after he was discovered ex- stickers turned out to be unofficial. Some- companies. But Hoffenberg began using ecuting "illegal operations.- times the technique ‘Corked. but other times company funds to pay off earlier investors Several of Epstein's Eizar Stearns contem- it didn't. and the unwitting recipients found and service a lavish lifestyle that included a poraries recall that Epstein left the compa- themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has mansion on Long Island. homes on Man- ny very suddenly: Within the company there claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and hanan's Sutton Place and in Florida, and a were rumors also that he was involved in a had no knowiedge of the stickers.) Many of fleet of cars and planes. technical infringement. and it was thought those who benefited from Epstein's largesse Hoffenberg and Epstein had much in that the executive committee asked that he claim that his generosity comes with no common. Both were smart and obsessed resign after his two supporters. Ace Green- strings attached. "I never felt he wanted with making money Both were from Brook- berg and Jimmy Clyne. were outnumbered. anything from me in return." says one old lyn. According to Hotlenberg. the two men Greenberg says he can't recall this: Cayne friend. who received a first-class upgrade. were introduced by Douglas Leese. a de- denies it happened. and Epstein has de- fense contractor. Epstein has said they were nied it as well. "Jeffrey Epstein left Bear pstein is known about town introduced by John Mitchell. the late attor- Stearns of his own volition:' says Cayne. Fl as a man who loves wom- ney. general. "It was never suggested that he leave by en—lots of them, mostly Epstein had been running International any member of management. and' manage- young. Model types have Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.). a consulting ment never looked into any improprieties been heard saying they are company. out of his apartment in the Solo by him. Jeffrey said specifically. 'I don't full of gratitude to Epstein building on East 66th Street in New York. want to work for anybody else. I want to for flying them around. and Though he has claimed that he managed work for myself.— let. this is not the story he is a familiar face to many of the Victo- money for billionaires only, in a 1989 dep- that Epstein told to the S.E.C. in 1981 and ria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls osition he testified that he spent SO per- to lawyers in a 1989 deposition involving a being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to cent of his time helping people recover civil business ease in Philadelphia. a concert at Epstein's town house. where stolen money from fraudulent brokers and In 1981 the SEC's Jonathan Harris and the women seemed to outnumber the men lawyers. He was also not above entering Robert Blackburn took Epstein's testimony by far. "These were not women you'd see into risky. tax-sheltered oil and gas deals and that of other Bear Steams employees in at Upper East Side dinners." the woman with much smaller investors. A lawsuit that part of what became a protracted case recalls. "Many seemed foreign and dressed Michael Stroll. the former head of Wil- about insider trading around a tender offer a little bizarrely." This same guest also at- liams Electronics Inc.. filed against Epstein placed on March IL 1981. by the Seagram tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an in- Company Li.J. for St. Joe Minerals Corp. that Prince Andrew attended, which was vestment from Stroll of S450,000. which Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in- tilled. she says. with young Russian mod- Epstein put into oil. In 1984. Stroll asked vestors were found guilty. including Italian els. "Some of the guests were horrified," for his money back: four years later he had financier Giuseppe Tome, who had used the woman says. received only $10.000. Stroll lost the suit, his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar "He's reckless," says a former business after Epstein claimed in court, among oth- Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about associate, "and he's gotten more so. Mon- er things, that the check for $10,000 was for the tender offer. a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net After the tender offer was announced. ey does that to you. He's breaking the oath he made to himself—that he would never worth never exceeded four and a half mil- the S.E.C. began investigating trades in- EFTA00188453 input when is somebody else's project." So is Affleck planning to become the lib- contains a parody of Affleck and Matt Da- your ed colleag ues Affleck has always impress mon making Good Will Hunting 11, Affleck drniisy voracious appetite for information teha nter t° t haencswe rais Rotnhal rlains edthRe someda ounghiltn:ifilea says to Damon, "What do I keep telling you? with his to learn running there's "He has made it a point for Congress at least "I think You gotta do the safe picture, then you do and skills. sometim es you gotta everyth ing he can about how the business a real nobility to public service. It walkd be the art picture. Then not just the craft of acting, but fun to run on a platform I really beb....ed do the payback picture because your friend works— says you owe him. Then sometimes you got- from the producing standpoint, from the in, without any of the kind of common: ta go back to the null." studio standpoint," says Jon Gordon, exec- people make —without being beholden • president of production at Mira- the win-at-all-costs mentality." "Sometimes you do Reindeer Gaines," utive vice And the invasion of privacy would he max. "He knows how deals work. It's what Damon says derisively. nothin g new. "What are you going to say "That's just mean," Aifieck whines. sets him apart. If he wanted to run a studio point, he could. He's about as about me that hasn't already been said? I But it's a pretty accurate description of at some don't cheat, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. they come his career to date. "Ben takes these franchise sharp as I live a clean lik," Mika says, his eyes properties so he can go and experiment," with twinklin g. °leek is already juggling his acting says Harvey Weinstein. "He believes in trying to stretch himsel f A screenwriting and such other commit- "He's only 30 years old," says Jennifer Project Greenlight. the contest he Todd, who co-prod uced Boiler Room. "He and notikecp doing the same thing," ob- ments as ca- still has an enormo us amount of time to started to help launch the serves Bruce Willis. who starred with Aleck and Damon 's friends do things? ' young filmmakers. Afileck in Armageddon. "He's an awesome actor, reers of Tune, and drive.."I think he's incredibly to do great things. " are certain net be directing soon. "There's and I think he's going who founded n," Weinstein says. "Both he and hungry," says Sean Bailey. Several years ago, in a televised interview no questio the the media and produc tion compa ny Live- think they're going to rewrite on Inside the Anon Studio, Affleck said that Matt. I Damon , and Chris guys can fix anything. There'll Planet with Affleck, his goal was to make big commercial movies. rules. These Moore. "I think the guy has very grand runs in both instances?' Hehas since rested his ambitions. "That's be home though ts tickling the aspirations. I don't think he's going to be I'd But there are other an adolescent aspiration, in a way. well. A passion - content with just being a movie star. He Affleck's mind as rather be in movies like Magnolia, which I back of al to do very big he campaigned for Al Gore. knows he has the potenti think is a towering achievement. I'll con- ate liberal, things. " about political issues. and is tinue to act, but I won't act in a way that cares deeply Such ambitions could be derailed by any out there extreme ly well informed. He entertains him- requires me to hang my name ulations. including a pd. writing imaginary political speeches number of miscalc and do a lot of publicity. I'll do character self by that generat es too many sensational He would rather discuss Acts sate life roles and focus on writing and directing. It in his head. headlin es, but Affieck has a clear idea of his movie career. doesn't require the same kinds of sacri- in Africa than "On my deathbed. I have When Lopez goes to Affieck's mother's the ultimate goal. fice, in terms of quality of life and person- looks back and feels I lived for dinner. Weinstein reports. "J.Lo to be one who al life, and it's a more holistic approach to house a good and substa ntial and meaningful that the conversation at the table is the process. It's become increasingly frus- told me t govern ment Ilk.- he says. about politics—abou trating for me to have my role in the story- always In the meantime. however there's a wed- to one charact er. You initiativ es. educational initiatives. what's go- telling process limited ding to plan. Z in the day.- have to be respectful and judicious about ing on with your reasons for leaving the firm? Alvin Einbender.. In his 1989 deposition Ep- nectionaware that there were many rumors. Jeffrey Epstein A: I'm stein recalled that the partner who had made Q: What were the rumors ynu heard? an "issue" of the matter was Marvin David- A: Nothing to do with St. Joe. UED PROM PAGE i s Bear Stearn s son. On March 9. Epstein said. he had met Q: Can you relate what you heard? CONTIN ol and Einbendcr again. and the A: It was having to do with an Wien affair and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear with Tarnop told him that the oxalate com- with a secretary. Steams on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped two partners suggest- weighed the offense. together with Q: Have you heard any other rumors com- oil that Epstein had information on insider mittee had ing that you had made a present ation or "carelessness" over expenses. and trading at Bear Stearns. and it was therefore previous munication to the Executive Committee con- S.E.C. testi- he would be lined 51.500. cerning alleged improprieties by other mem- obliged to question him. In his I. 1981, Epstein claimed "There was discuss ion whether, in fact. I bers or employees of Bear Stearns? mony, given on April put in an airline ticket for some- A: I. in fact, haw heard that rumor, but it's been that he had found "offensive" the way Bear had ever disci- one else and not myself and I said that it from Mr. Harris in our conversation last week. Stearns management had handled a else? possible. ... since my secretary han- Q Have you heard it from anyone plinary action following its discovery that he was told the S.E.C. A: No. expense s?' Epstein had committed a possible "Rea D" viola- dles my vidently he had lent money to his clos- In his 1989 testimony he stated that the A little later the interview focuses on tion—e cost him a shot at tion he said - Reg D" inciden t had James Caync: est friend. (In the 1989 deposi $20.00 0 to War- partner ship that year. that he'd lent approximately hear while you were at Bear What the S.E.C. seemed to be especially Q: Did you ever Cayne may have trader or iv. m Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an action a con- Steams that Mr. ed in was whether there was could have been considered improper, al- interest 's leaving and the sider information in connection with Si t- • had not realized nection betwee n Epstein tion? though Epstein claimed he Minerals Corpora this until afterward. alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals A: No. ation According to Epstein. Bear Stearns man- by other people at Bear Steams: Q: Did Mr. Cayne ever have any convers with you about SI Joe Mineral s? agement had questioned him about the loan _ . EFTA00188454 told the grand jury. "It looked ecuting the schemes, although, having no he reportedly Jeffrey Epstein broker's license, he had to rely on others make the trades. Much of Hoffenberg's sub- wasn't," to like it was free he said. and clear but it actually t testimo ny in his crimina l case has Epstein has denied he ever had any deal- lions between Mr. Cayne and anyone else re- sequen ings with anyone from the insurance com- garding St. Joe Minerals? proven to be false, and Epstein has claimed could be panies. But Richard Allen says he recalls A: No. he was merely asked how the bids erg's direction Epstein at Hofknb comes this accomplished and has said he had nothing talking to they retrieve later in the questio ning him it was urgent And still to do with the financing of them. Yet Rich- and telling examin ation. exchange: the missing bonds for a stale ard Allen, the former treasurer of United said, "We'll get two or three Accord ing to Allen, Epstein Q: Have you had any type of business deal- Fire, recalls seeing Epstein He had "kind of a flippant atti- ings with Mr. Cayne? times at the company. He and another a- them back." says Allen. "They never came back." A: There's no relationship with Bear Steams. ecutive say they had direct dealing with Ep- tude," Q: Pardon? stein over the finances. And in his deposit ion A: Other than Bear Steams, no. pstein, according to Hoffenberg, also Q: Have you been a particip business venture with Mr. Cayne? ant in any type of of 1989, Epstein stated that he was the one who executed "all" Hoffenberg's instructions the E came up with a scheme to manipulate price of Emery Freight stock in an at- A: No. to buy and sell the stock. He called it "mak- recall whethe r tempt to minimi ze the losses that occurred Q: Do you have any expectation of participat- ing the orders." He could not when HotTenberg's bid went wrong and the ing inpny business venture with Mr. Cayne? he had chosen the brokers used. began to fall. This was alleged to A: Nd. To win approval from the Illinois insur- share price Q: Have you had any busines s particip ations of have imohed multiple clients' accounts con- ance regulators for Towers's acquisition with Mr. Therm? ed to in- trolled by Epstein . the companies, Hoffenberg promis A: No; nor do I anticipate any. S3 million of new capital into them. In Eventua lly. in 1991, insurance regulators in Q: Mr. Epstein. did anyone at Bear Steams ject ny Hoffenberg ffi i nois sued Hoffenb erg. He settled the case. tell you in words or substance that you should fact. in his grand-jury testimo and Epstein . who was only a paid consul- not divulge anything about St. Joe Minerals to claimed that he, his chief operati ng officer. and Exchang e Com- came up with a tant, was never depose d or accuse d of any the staff of the Securities Mitchell Brater, and Epstein the attorne y who oing. Barry Gross. mission? scheme to steal S3 million of the insurance wrongd rs. says was handlin g the suit for the regulato A: No. companies bonds to buy Pan Am and Em- Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way ery stock. "Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater of Epstein. "He was vety elusive. ... It was either directly or indirectly, in words or sub- d the various brokerage accounts for hard to really track him down. There were a stance. that your compensation for this past arrange in New York. substan tial numbe r of checks for significant year or any future monies coming to you from the bonds to be placed with dollars that were paid to him. I remem- Bear Stearns will be contingent upon your not and I think one in Chicago. Rodma n & Ren- charact er we never got a divulging information to the Securities and shaw.- Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then. ber.... He was this on. Again we presum ed that he was Exchange Commission? said Hoffenbetg, while making it appear as handle and Emery run A: No. in involve d with the Pan'Am though they were investing the bonds got a ents, they used that Hoffenb erg made, but we never ancial instrum Despite the circumstances of Epstein's much staler fin depose him." collateral to buy the stock. - Ep- chance to leaving. Bear Stearns agreed to pay him his them as "From the government's discovery in the be- stein was the person in charge or the trans- annual bonus--which he anticipated as was assistin g main sentencing apinst Hoffenberg it would ing approximately S100.000. actions. and Mitchell Bracer was perhaps a bit lazy;" in coordination on behalf or the seem the government The S.E.C. never brought any charges him with it says David Lewis. who represented Mitchell ce companies' money." Hoffinberg, against anyone at Bear Stearns for insider insuran Bruer. "They went for what they knew they at the time. trading in St. Joe. but its questioning seems claimed that was the fraudulent At one point. according to Hoffinberg. a could get .. . and to indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's ory notes [i.e., the much larger and the documents necessary for a promiss answers. Some sources have wondered broker forged unrelate d part of Hoffenb etg's fraud. based check to be written on insurance- why. if he was such a big producer at Bear SI.S million used to buy in New York State]. ... What they couldn't funds. The check was Stearns. he would have given it up over a company more stock in the takeover targets. Mean- get. they didn't bother with:' mere 32.500 fine. Another lawyer involved in the criminal to throw the insurance regula- Certainly the years after Epstein left the while. in order us being prosecu tion of Horknberg says. "In a crim- off the S 1.8 million was reported Firm were not obviously prosperous ones. tors that, when there is a invested in a money-market account. inal investigation like His luck didn't seem to change until he met safely to be quick and dirty about it. United Fire's former chief financial officer guilty plea. Hoffenberg. discove ry is always incom plete.... They Daniel Payton confirms part of Hotknberg's one or don't have to line up witness es: they don't says he recalls making ne of Epstein's first assignments for Hof- account. He O fenbcrg was to mastermind doomed bids two telepho to take over Pan American World Airways in berg's ne calls to Epstein tat Rotten- have to learn every direction) about the missing bonds. on cross-e xamina fact tion." that might come out 1988. "He said, 'Oh. yeah, they still exist.' But we 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in pstein was involved with Hoffcnberg in Hofknberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before found out a grand jury in Illinois that Epstein came up ... leverag later that he had sold those assets ed them ... (and) used some mar- cial E other questionable transactions. Finan- records show that in 1988 Epstein in- t to take some positions in ... with the idea of financing these bids through gin accoun vested S1.6 million in Riddell Sports Inc., a Am." says Payton. Towers's acquisition of two ailing Illinois Emery and Pan manufactures football helmets. insurance companies. Associated Life and Epstein's extraordinary creativity was, ac- company that his co-inve stors were the theater to Hoffenberg, responsible for the Among United Fire. "He was hired by us to work on cording a mogul Robert Nederl ander and attorney ce companies of the securities side of the insurance companies purchase by the insuran "Ep- Leonar d Toboro ff. A source close to this with no money down. and Towers Financial. supposedly to make a $500,000 bond, that Epstein told Neder- a great scheme to purchase a transaction claims profit for us and for the companies," Hoffen- stein created and Toboro ff that he had raised his y bond that would not be !ander berg reportedly told the grand jury. He also 5500.000 treasur ••• • • • • .•• • .11. • • •• EFTA00188455 whose identity they could not be allowed to Tug as Nederlander and Toboroff were uch of Epstein's work is related to clean- know. But Hof enberg has claimed the mon- j growing wary of Epstein, he became in- ing up, tightening budgets, and efficien- ey came from him, and Towers's financial creasingly involved with Leslie Werner, whom cies. One person who worked for Werner and statements for that year show a loan to Ep- he had met through insurance executive who saw a contract drawn up between the stein of $400,000. (Epstein has said he Robert Meister and his late wile. Epstein has two men says Epstein is involved in "every- can't remember the details and has dis- told people that he met Wexner in 1986 in thing, not just a little here. a little there. puted the accuracy of the Towers financial Palm Beach, and that he won his confidence Everything!" In addition, he says. "Wexner reports.) by persuading him not to invest in the stock likes having a hatchet man... . Whenever Around the same time, Nederlander and market, just as the 1987 crash was approach- there is ditty work to be done he'd stick Jef- Toboroff let Epstein come in with them on a ing. His story has subsequently changed. frey on it.... He has a reputation for being scheme to make money out of Pennwalt, a When asked if Wexner knew about his con- ruthless but he gets the job done." Pennsylvania chemical company. The plan nection to Hoffenberg, Epstein said that he Epstein has evidently been asked to fire was to group together with two other parties began working for Wexner in 1989, and that personal-staff members when needed. "He to take a substantial declared position in the "it was certainly not the same time." was that mysterious person that aerate was stock. According to a source. Epstein was Wherever and whenever it was that Ep- scared to death of." says a former employee. supposed tp help Nederlander and Toboroff stein and Wexner actually met. there was Meanwhile. he is also less than popular raise SIS million. He seemed to fail to find an immediate and strong personal chem- with some people outside %amt.'s company other investors, say those familiar with the istry. Werner says he thinks Epstein is "very with whom he now deals. "He 'inserted' deal. (Epstein has said he was merely an in- smart with a combination of excellent judg- himself into the construction process of Les- vestor.) He invested SI million, which he ment and unusually high standards. Also. lie Weamer's yacht.... That resulted in liti- told his co-investors was his own money. he is always a most loyal friend." gation down the road between Mr. Wexner But in his 1989 deposi- and the shipyard that tion he said that he put eventually built the ves- in only S300,000 of his sel: says Lars Forsberg. own money. Where did a lawyer whose firm at the rest come from? Hof- the rime. Dickerson and Feilberg has said it came was hired to deal from him. in a loan that with litigation stemming Nederlander and Toboroff from the construction didn't know about. of Wexner's Limitless— Two things happened at 3IS feet. one of the that alarmed Nederlander 'largest private yachts in and Toboroff. After the the world. Evidently. Ep- group signaled a possible stein stalled on paying takeover. the Pennwalt Dickerson and Reily for management threatened to its work "It's pntably sue the would-be raiders. once twice in my le- Epstein was reluctant ini- gal career that I've had tially to give a deposition to sue a client for payment about his share of the of services that he'd re- money. telling Toboroff quested and we'd per- there were "reasons- he OFFICE SPACE formed ... without issue didn't want to. Then, after the opportunity The "office" in Epstein's house. It has no on the performance." says Forsberg. In for new investors was closed, co-investors computers. but it does have a desk that the end the matter was settled. but Ep- recall Epstein announcing that he'd found Epstein tells people once belonged to banker stein claims he now has no recollection one at last: Dick Snyder then C.E.O. of J. P Morgan. and "the largest Persian rue of it. the publisher Simon S: Schuster. who want- you'll ever see in a ornate home The incident is one of a number of disputes ed to put up approximately S500.000. (Nei- Epstcin has become embroiled in. Some are ther Epstein nor Snyder can now recall Sources say Epstein proved that he could for sums so tiny as to be baffling: for instance. the investment. Yet in the 1989 deposition be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" Epstein sued investment adviser Herbert Epstein said that he had recruited Sny- ideas about investments. "Wexner had a cou- Glass, who sold him the Palm Beach house in der, whom he had met socially. into the ple of bad investments. and Jeffrey cleaned 1990. for 513,444—Epstein claimed this was deal.) those up right away." says a former associ- owed him for furnishings removed by Glass. sued According to a source. Toboroff and Ne- ate or Epstein's. In 1998 the U.S. Attorney's Office former derlander told Epstein that Snyder was too Before he signed on with Wexner. Epstein Epstein for illegally subletting the general of Iran late. but, without their realizing it. Hoffen- had several ineetines with Harold Levin. then home of the deputy consul others. EPA. CIO herg has claimed, Snyder wrote a check to head of Wexner Investments, in which he to attorney Ivan Fisher and die Wu. rent to lioffenberg and bought out some of his in- enunciated ideas about currencies that Lain paid 515.000 a month in fisher an vestment. But then Snyder wanted out. found incommthensibk. "In W." says some- Department. but he charged the mi. • Though "Nederlander started to get these irate one who used to work very closely with Wex- his colleagues $20.000. tr: calls from [Snyder.' who wasn't part of the ner. "almost everyone at the Limited won- terms of the agreement are set against Epstein. deal, saying be was owed all this money." dered who Epstein was: he literally came court ruled insight nth) :r. int ; says someone close to the deal. Toboroff out of nowhere." Wexner ofkrs some EFTA00188456 was "arrogant" and "not a good lit." The Jeffrey Epstein spokesperson admits that it is "infrequent" for board members not to be renominated he is winning. Whether in conversations or after only one term. negotiations, he always stands back and lets Still, the recent spate of publicity Ep- FASHION the other person determine the style and stein has inspired does not seem to have Coven Ben Affleck's Double RL T-shirt from Dosiolo manner of the conversation or negotiation. fazed him. In November he was spotted in Rt. NXC. and LA. oe go to wwwPolacom. for Lents And then he responds in their style. Jeffrey the front row of the Victoria's Secret fashion leans. cod 800-USA-LEVI; Deborah IMAM-. for Ad sees it in chivalrous terms. He does not pick show at New York's Lexington Avenue Ar- Ithe Agency/. a fight, but if there is a fight, he will let you mory; around the same time the usual co- Page 96: Chrome Hearts shirt from Chrome terie of friends and beautiful women were Hearts, NYC, a call for Ray-San choose your weapon." sunglasses, call )388-l. One case is rather more serious. Currently, whisked off to Little St. James (which he Page 123: Peter Cinceni's Emporia Armani Citibank is suing Epstein for defaulting on tells people has been renamed Little St. Jeff) shirt from Emporio Amon boutimes nationwide: loans from its private-banking arm for S20 for a long weekend. Ralph Lauren suspenders from selected million. Epstein claims that Citibank "fraud- Thanks to Epstein's introductions, says Polo Ralph Laren storm: km Meehan for WSW ScImpfer Management ulent induced" him into borrowing the Martin Nowak, the biologist finds himself Page 140: Noes Cocottes shirt moire for investments. Citibank disputes this moving from Princeton to Harvard. where by Thomas Pink; nil by charge. he is assuming the joint position of profes- Giorgio Annoni; lie by DKNY; The legal papers for another case offer a sor of mathematics and prokssor of biolo- Brioni mat by special ceder rare window into Epstein's finances. In 1995, • gy. Epstein has pledged at least S25 million from selected Bocci men Epstein stopped paying rent to his landlord, to Harvard to create the Epstein Program Par. 151: lay Glannon and Mina Roytberg styled by Aloe the nonprofit Municipal Arts Society, for his for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Henhips. office in the Vi lard House. He claimed that Dynamics, and Epstein will have an office Page 160: Styled by Angelo Grata- Emir. Inc they were breaking the terms of the lease by at the university. The program will be dedi- Page 214: For June Havoc's Giro Simonelli Design not letting his staff in at night. The case was cated to searching for natures algorithms, a start amiable by special order. coil 978.499.2°15. eventually settled. However. one of the papers pursuit that is a specialty of Nowak's. For Page 220: Bernadette Peters's Donna Koran Na.. York dress filed in this dispute is Epstein's financial state- Epstein this must be the summit of every- 'rpm Donna <.non New York ment for 1988. in which he claimed to be thing he has worked toward: he has been Pores natiorsece and Beegocel worth 520 million. He listed that he owned seen proudly displaying Harvard president Goodman NYC. Paul Smith 57 million in securities, SI million in cash. Larry Summers's letter of commitment as Women coat :ram Henn Bendel. zero in residential property (although he if he can't quite believe it is real. He says he NYC. and 'Fa9x. LA.: Chanel mwelty and gloss. from Chanel told sources that he had already bought the was reluctant to have his name attached to baArearationsode. or cat 800-550-000S; home in Palm Beach), and SII million in the program. but Summers persuaded him. Norc50 Rockily.. shoes fro„, Kohl. soma other assns. including his investment in He rang his mentor Wexner about it. and monica Cori_ and Carol Oxalate. N.C.: Riddell. A co-investor in Riddell sins: "The Wexner told him it was all right. Lamberison &we handbag by special order R.— company had been bought with a huge An insatiable, restless soul. always on the Bergdorf OCCO^NIA NYC.: Glsurka luggoge !IC." Ghurbo. NYC. cr col 800.587.684. amount of debt. and it wasn't public. so it move. Epstein builds a tremendous amount Par 223: Agnes Stockpot's Tom Ford for is es was meaningless to attach a figure like that to of downtime into his hectic work schedule. Saint Laurent Rive Gaucho dross from Yves SCR- it ... the price it cost was about S1.2 mil- Yet there is something almost programmed Laurent Rive Gaucho boum_es. hon." The co-investors bought out Epstein's about his relaxation: it's as if even plea- NYC. and Houston share in Riddell in 1995 for approximately sure has to be measured in terms of self- Page 226: Nan Cannon styled by Linea Mechene: sap 53 million. At that time, when Epstein was improvement. Nowak says that. when he and pants by Delco & asked. as a routine matter, to sign a paper goes to stay with Epstein in the Caribbean. Gabbana, from Dolce & guaranteeing he had access to a few million they'll get up at six and. as the sun rises. Gabbono. Beverly HI& tems-BY dollars in case of any subsequent disputes have three-hour conversations about theoret- by Wendy Wale.. from %%reedy over the sale price. Wexner signed for him. ical physics. "Then he'll go off and do some Walker, LA: ;noes oy Jimmy Choo. from Jimrr CM°. Beset& Has. Epstein has explained that this was because work. re-appear. and we'll talk some more." ***** 276-77: Ben Nieck's Guess shirt from the co-investors wanted an indemnity against Another person who went to the island Guess stores nosonwido. or go so weneguessrom, being sued by Wexner. One of the investors with Epstein. Maxwell. and several beautiful Venom boon from calls this "bullshit." women remembers that the women "sat leen«. bouts:tuts around one night teasing him about the worldwide. or go to ,WAV.VOISCK0 corn. E pstein's appointment to the board of kinds of grasping women who might want New York's Rockefeller University in to date him. He was amused by the idea.... 2000 brought him into greater social promi- He's like a king in his own world:' or col 888.3VERSACE. Pars 278-79: Double RL T.shes nence. Boasting such social names as Nancy Many people comment there is some- Iron Double RL NYC. and LA.. or go to Kissinger. Brooke Astor, and Robert Bass. thing innocent, almost childlike about Jef- .....o.palocom: Chrome Hearts bng.skavect she Iron Chrome Hearn. NYC ..:r the board also includes such pre-eminent frey Epstein. They see this as refreshing, given for cat scientists as Nobel laureate Joseph Gold- the sophistication of his surroundings. Alan Ray- an sug sun. call BBB- stein. "Epstein was thrilled to be elected." Dershowitz says that. as he was getting to LUXOTITCA says someone who knows him. know Epstein, his wife asked him if he would Page 281: Tommy Haire After one term Epstein resigned. Accord- still be close to him if Epstein suddenly filed t. Oaf from Tommy Hager stores worldwide. or col S00- ing to New York magazine, this was because for bankruptcy. Dershowitz says he replied, TOMMY4U; Double RL T-snet he didn't like to wear a suit to meetings. A "Absolutely. I would be as interested in him from Double Rt. NYC. and IA, hod bomb.. eon< r,n rhp • EFTA00188457 The Hariand Crimson :: News :: Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women Page 1 of 2 The Harvard Critii"§"a News Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women Dershowitz assisted Epstein in his defense, discredited witnesses with online profiles Published On 8/412006 1:05:25 AM By KATHERINE EA, GRAY Crimson Staff Writer Billionaire money manager Jeffrey E. Epstein, who donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003, has been charged with soliciting sex from prostitutes in his Palm Beach, Florida mansion. And though Epstein's case was originally to be presented to a grand jury in February, it was postponed after Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, a longtime friend of Epstein, produced information weakening some the accusers' credibility, according to the Palm Beach Post. New York State Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot L. Spitzer and New York attorney general candidate Mark A. Green have both returned gifts of $50,000 and $10,000 from Epstein, respectively, according to the New York Daily News. University President Derek C. Bok did not respond to requests for comment this week, and it is unclear what, if any, action will be taken against Epstein's $30 million, which was given in February 2003 to fund the research of mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak. According to an indictment that was unsealed last week, Epstein allegedly solicited sex at least three times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last year. Epstein's charges stem from alleged sexual encounters with of-age women. The Palm Beach Police Department believed it had probable cause to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and of lewd and lascivious molestation, according to an affidavit. But a grand jury found the witnesses in the affidavit released by the police department not credible, according to Epstein 's defense attorney, Jack A. Goldberger. In an attempt to discredit the reliability of the girls' testimony, Dershowitz gave the police copies of two myspace.com profiles of girls who testified in the affidavit against Epstein, according to a Palm Beach Police report, One girl's profile showed messages from her friends that 'contain some profanity,' according to the report. The report further says that the other girl's profile "states that her interests include music, theater and weed (Marijuana)." Dershowitz declined to comment on this issue through an assistant. When asked whether Dershowitz was hired by Epstein or was working for him pro bono, Goldberger declined comment, and said only that Dershowitz and Epstein have been friends "for many years." In April, then-Epstein lawyer Guy Fronstin accepted a plea deal that would have the billionaire plead guilty to one count of aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, and would give him five years' probation but no criminal record, according to the Post. That deal was to only apply to charges from one of the five alleged victims. Fronstin has since been fired, and Goldberger said that no such plea deal was made by any of Epstein's attorneys, according to the Post. it was absolutely clear to both the state attorney and grand jury that Epstein had no knowledge that any girl that came to his house was underaged," Goldberger told The Crimson Wednesday. "He passed a polygraph examination on that very issue." According to the probable cause affidavit released by the Palm Beach Police Department, one of the girls Epstein solicited was a 16-year- old girl who performed sexual acts for him in his bedroom on several occasions over a span of two years. The woman, whose name was blotted from the affidavit, told the police that she would completely remove her clothes and begin massaging Epstein's back, while he lay on a massage table, wearing only a towel. She would then massage his chest, and Epstein would begin to masturbate both himself and the woman. But "the woman referred to in the police report wasn't in the country at the time," Lefcourt said Wednesday, referring to the affidavit. "I do know that it was impossible to have happened the way it did." Prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek could not be reached for comment this week. Epstein, who in 2003 was named one of New York's most eligible bachelors by the New York Post, achieved fame after he took President Clinton, Chris Tucker, and Kevin Spacey on an African AIDS awareness tour via his personal jet in 2002. hi tn• //ninny therrimenn rnm /nrinterfrienrilv actve9ref=5 1rIfIA 1 R/1 innnA EFTA00188458 Page 2 of 2 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women In a 2002 New York Magazine article, Donald Trump described long-time friend Epstein as 'a lot of fun to be with? side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger enjoys his social life," Trump said. —Materia/ from the Associated Press was used in the reporting of this article. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray©fas.haryard.edu. htipliwww.thecrimson.comlartIcle.aspx?ref=514961 httn•Min!!!!! the.°rim et-in re-trn nterfriendIv a snx?ref=514061 8/11/2006 EFTA00188459 Jeffrey Epstein plea hearing moved to March Page 1 of 2 €K PRINTTHIS PalmBeachDailyNewscom Powered by riakkability Jeffrey Epstein plea hearing moved to March By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer Thursday, January 03, 2008 A plea hearing for part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein will be rescheduled to March, his New York attorney confirmed Wednesday. The Manhattan money manager is expected to plead guilty to a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. The hearing originally was scheduled for Friday. Sources have confirmed that the deal will put Epstein in prison for 18 months, followed by house arrest. "The plea conference will be moved to March, but it will be resolved, we believe," attorney Gerald Lefcourt said by phone. Although he declined to give a reason, Lefcourt said the date change was agreed to by both the defense and the prosecution. Mike Edmondson, spokesman for State Attorney Barry Krischer, declined to comment. "It's a matter of policy we don't comment on active cases," Edmondson said. In exchange for his guilty plea, federal authorities are expected to drop their probe into whether Epstein broke any federal laws, sources have said. Epstein, 54, was indicted in July 2006 on a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. After completing an 11-month investigation, Palm Beach police said Epstein paid five underage girls for massages and sometimes sex at his El Brillo Way home. The investigation began after police received a call from a woman who said her 14-year-old stepdaughter might have been molested by a man in Palm Beach. Investigators watched Epstein's 7,234-square-foot waterfront home and private jet, and rummaged through his trash to build their case. They took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. http://cox.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Jeffrey+Epstein+plea+hearing+... 1/3/2008 EFTA00188460 Jeffrey Epstein plea hearing moved to March Page 2 of 2 Find this article at: http://vAinv.paimbeachdailynews.cominewsicontent/newsfepstein0103.html F Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright 2007 Palm Beach Daily News. All rights reserved. http://cox.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Jeffrey+Epstcin+plea+hearing+... 1/3/2008 EFTA00188461 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 1 of 9 QN. ,1,WY.,„„Ag 0.,„m RIC Gra PRINTTHIS Features The Fantasist Accused of paying underage girls for sex, superrich money manager Jeffrey Epstein is finding that living in a dream world is dangerous—even if you can pay for it. • By Philp Weiss • Published Dec 10, 2007 Jeffrey epstein is under indictment for sex crimes in Palm Beach, Florida, and I'd expected that when he came into the office of PR guru Howard Rubenstein, he would be sober and reserved. Quite the opposite. He was sparkling and ingenuous, apologizing for the half-hour lateness with a charming line— "I never realized how many one-way streets and no-right-turns there are in midtown. I finally got out and walked"—and as we went down the corridor to Rubenstein's office, he asked, "Have you managed to talk to many of my friends?" Epstein had been supplying me the phone numbers of important scientists and financiers and media figures. "Do you understand what an extraordinary group of people Hinwwww.nrintthis.clickabilitv.com/nt/cot?action=cnt&title=A+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188462 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 2 of 9 they are, what they have accomplished in their fields?" One of the accusers—a girl of 14—had put his age at 45, not in his fifties, and you could see why. His walk was youthful, and his face was ruddy with health. He had none of the round-shouldered, burdened qualities of middle age. There was nothing in his hands, not a paper, a book, or a phone. Epstein had on his signature outfit: new blue jeans and a powder-blue sweater. "I've only ever seen him in jeans," his friend the publicist Peggy Siegal had reported, saying there was a hint of arrogance in that, Epstein's signal that he doesn't have to wear a uniform like the rest of us. I told Epstein and Rubenstein the sort of story New York wanted to do, and Epstein seemed to find ironic delight in every word. "A secretive genius," I'd said. "Not secretive, private," he corrected in his warm Brooklyn accent. "And if I was a genius I wouldn't be sitting here." "A guy with sex issues." A smile formed on Epstein's bow-shaped lips. "What do you mean by sex issues?" Well ... He was 54, had never married—I didn't finish. "Are you channeling my mother?" When I said we were interested in the agony of his ordeal, Rubenstein wrote out the word agony in capital letters on his pad. But agony seemed the last thing on Epstein's soul. "It's the Icarus story, someone who flies too close to the sun," I said. "Did Icarus like massages?" Epstein asked. Two years before, he had tried to explain himself to the Palm Beach police in the same way. After they came into his mansion with a search warrant and carted off massage tables and photos of naked girls and soaps shaped like genitalia, Epstein conveyed an urgent message to the detectives through his attorney. "Mr. Epstein is very passionate about massages ... The massages are therapeutic and spiritually sound for him; that is why he has had many massages." Epstein had even given $100,000 to Ballet Florida's massage fund, so that the dancers might also be treated. I never got to interview Epstein at length. His dream team of lawyers led by Gerald Lefcourt was negotiating a plea with Florida state prosecutors in advance of a January 7 trial date. It is expected that Epstein will plead guilty to soliciting prostitution and get an eighteen-month sentence—not that there's likely to be a shameful admission. He has always had the confidence that comes with the power to dazzle and, though accused of "doing everything in Sodom and Gomorrah," as one friend put it, seemed to believe that he could convince any halfway sophisticated person that he wasn't the least bit tawdry. "He lives in a different environment," says Siegal. "He's of this world. But he creates this different environment. He lives like a pasha. The most magnificent townhouse I've ever been in, and I've been in everything. I've seen a model of the house in Santa Fe ... a stone fortress. A model of the house in the Caribbean—it is not to be believed. I've seen photographs of the apartment in Paris ... How did he get himself into that pickle? That's the mystery of Jeffrey Epstein. He's very mysterious. Not that many people get close to him. Not that many people know him." The descriptions of Epstein's character veer between visionary and big talker. His world seems to be at an astral distance from normal humanity. He lives in what is described as the largest private residence in Manhattan, about 50,000 square feet in nine stories between Fifth and Madison on 71st. Visitors report a stuffed poodle is on the piano. The house, said one visitor, is like what Hollywood might imagine when it tries to show the superrich. When Epstein noticed the visitor's astonishment at his surroundings, he leaned against a wall with a soft smile and tapped the paneling. "It's all fake," he said. Epstein grew up in Coney Island, the son of a Parks Department employee. He never got a college degree. He studied science at Cooper Union and then NYU before migrating inevitably toward wealth. For two years, he was a charismatic teacher of physics and math at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side, till Ace Greenberg, a friend of the father of one of Epstein's students, offered him a job at Bear Stearns. In one httn://www.nrintthis.clickabilitv.cotn/nt/cot?action=ent&title=A+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188463 Page 3 of 9 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... house; of the charmingly inevitable accidents of Epstein's rise, Greenberg was a senior partner of the Bear Steams CEO Jimmy Cayne later told New York that Epstein's forte was dealing with wealthier reportedly clients, helping them with their overall portfolios. Leslie Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, made Epstein his financial adviser and was instrumental in building his fortune. Epstein was no who footman; he loved luxury and, in his own words, saw himself as a financial architect, someone could show the rich how to live with their money. "I want people to understand the power, the "I responsibility, and the burden of their money," he once wrote. At times, his powers seemed magical. (and think it's all done with mirrors," says Michael Stroll, a Chicago businessman who sued Epstein lost) when an oil deal didn't work out. Next: Epstein's Icarus momenta The New York not,' Redux) Stroll says he could never get a straight line from Epstein. "Everybody who's his friend thinks he's so darn brilliant because he's so dam wealthy. I never saw any brilliance, I never saw him work. Anybody I know that is that wealthy works 26 hours a day. This guy plays 26 hours a day." Those who believe in Epstein say that his intelligence works in a lofty and synthetic manner. "His mind goes through a cross section of descriptions," says Joe Pagano, a financier. "He can go from mathematics to psychology to biology. He takes the smallest amount of information and gets the correct answer in the shortest period of time. That's my definition of IQ." A Columbia University geneticist says Epstein has that insight in science, too. "He has the ability to make connections that other minds can't make," says Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize winner. "He is extremely smart and probing. He can very quickly acquire information to think about a problem and also to identify biological problems without having all the data that a scientist would have ... He also has an extremely short attention span. Why?—it's not that he's bored. He has enough information after fifteen httn.//wwwnrintthiR.clickahilitv.com/nt/cot1action=crit&tifirA+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188464 Page 4 of 9 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... minutes so that you can see his mind thrashing about, as if in a labyrinth. And even to doubt an expert's statements." Epstein has been a munificent supporter of cutting-edge research. Axel met Epstein during the early biotech days of the eighties. The writer Michael Wolff met him in the Internet bubble, in the late nineties, when Epstein invited him and a group of scientists and media types to fly to a conference on the West Coast in his beautiful 727. "It was all a little giddy," Wolff says. "There's a little food out, lovely hors d'oeuvre. And then after fifteen to twenty minutes, Jeffrey arrives. This guy comes onboard: He was my age, late forties, and he had a kind of Ralph Lauren look to him, a good-looking Jewish guy in casual attire. Jeans, no socks, loafers, a button-down shirt, shirttails out. And he was followed onto the plane by—how shall I say this?—by three teenage girls not his daughters. Not adolescent girls. These are young, 18, 19, 20, who knows? They were model-like. They towered over Jeffrey. And they immediately began serving things. You didn't know what to make of this ... Who is this man with this very large airplane and these very tall girls?" Soon after, Wolff was invited to tea at the house on East 71st Street. He understood that there was a purpose to the cultivation. Epstein was shifting his view to media, in his Ober-way. "What does the media mean, where does he fit into it?" Then Epstein began to show up in the press. In 2002, he flew Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his plane to discuss aids policy, and suddenly he was being written about. In 2003, he became a discreet confidant to Wolff during the period when Wolff was involved in a bid for New York Magazine. Sometime after that, Wolff saw the financial architect in his office at 457 Madison Avenue, the Villard House, where Random House once had its offices. "His literal office is where Bennett Ceres was. It's an incredibly strange place. It has no corporate affect at all. It's almost European. It's old—old-fashioned, unrehabbed in its way." Nearby, Wolff went on, "the trading floor is filled with guys in yarmulkes. Who they are, I have no idea. They're like a throwback, a bunch of guys from the fifties. So here is Jeffrey in this incredibly beautiful office, with pieces of art and a view of the courtyard, and he seems like the most relaxed guy in the world. You want to say 'What's going on here?' and he gives you that Cheshire smile." Epstein likes to say he's private, but you don't fly Bill Clinton to Africa without wanting attention. One friend says the Africa trip was Epstein's Icarus moment. There was tremendous risk that the natural forces of resentment would bring the too-smart, too-rich spirit back to earth. This is the friends' theory of the Palm Beach case: an overzealous police chief battened onto a rich man because he was not living in a box like everyone else. The dazzling arc of Epstein's comet came to an end—without his knowing it—in March 2005. That was when a distraught woman called the police in Palm Beach and, after at first refusing to give her name, said that she believed her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been molested by a wealthy man. The stepmother had learned about the matter in a roundabout way. The girl lived during the week at an "involuntary-admitted juvenile educational facility" because of behavior problems. She had shown up at the school with $300 in her purse, and it became the talk of her classmates. One friend called the girl a "whore," another friend put a fist through the wall in anger, the girl left school. The stepmother got a call from another student's mother. Soon, a policewoman was talking to the girl with a therapist present. The girl cried and dug her finger into her thigh and told the story, of going to a big house on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and climbing a spiral staircase to the master bedroom, where a blonde woman of 25 who wasn't very friendly laid out sheets and lotions on a massage table and left, then Jeff came in, naked but for a towel, and sternly ordered the girl to take off her clothes. As she rubbed his chest, he touched himself, then applied a vibrator to her crotch. httn./Ainum rwirothic rlirknhilitv rnm/nt/nnt?action=enthtitle=A+Sex-Crime+Investiflatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188465 Page 5 of 9 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... • Next: The police lock onto Epstein's sybaritic lifestyle, OUR MIMI Await Linka Rednib.7” DUI Rain putaer.67 101IIINAN lAklAt JEFFREY EPSTEIN Wsktrauryployky initial 1111th llon•snl ph/v.0,4st Splash News; Palm Beach Pasr; David Levenson Getty Images; Patrick McMullan; Donna Ward/Getty Images; AP) The lengthy police narrative in the case doesn't make clear how police connected gray-haired Jeff with Jeffrey Epstein, but when the girl identified his picture in an instant in a photo lineup, police threw themselves into an investigation of the modem and palatial house on El Brillo Way. Palm Beach Island is a 3.75-square-mile spit of land famous for towering ficus privacy hedges on Mediterranean-influenced architecture that begins at over $5 million for a single-family home. But the police did their work miles across the water, in the sprawling, drab subdivisions of West Palm Beach, where, according to police reports, high-school girls had • ifairstein's house. The 14- year-old was used to set up her 18-year-old go-between, had massaged him once and thereafter refused, but had agreed to procure girls, for $200 a head. "I'm like Heidi Fleiss," she said. The police net went wider, to malls and community colleges, and Olive Garden restaurants and trailer parks, and the story was always the same. Skinny, beautiful young girls were approached by other girls, who said they could make $200 by massaging a wealthy man, naked. said Epstein had told her the younger the better—which she said meant 18 to 20. The rules were simple. Tell him you're 18. There might be some touching; you could draw the line. "The more you do, the more you are paid." A couple of the girls said they went all the way into the experience—one olice she visited 50 times, another hundreds of times, both having sex with Epstein and , a then-19-year-old beauty who Epstein told one of them was his "sex slave"; he'd purchased her from her family back in Yugoslavia. Epstein's friends' belief that he was targeted for his big life reflects the fact that the police locked onto Epstein's sybaritic lifestyle. They made careful note of the girls' thong panties, the shape and color of hitn./Ainuus nrintthic nlir.4ahility e.nmintinnt?actinn=crit&titletA+Sex-Crime+Investieatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188466 6 of 9 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page the sex toys Epstein favors, and the erotic art in his home, from photos to the mural of a woman to the statue of the man with a bow. Police repeatedly pulled his trash to dig out phone messages and kept an eye on his private planes. Once, they even reported on Wexner's plane, noting the procession of Cadillac Escalades that made its way across the tarmac. After word of the investigation got back to Epstein, through his girls, police served a search warrant at the house right under the noses of New York decorator Mark Zeff and architect Douglas Schoettle, who were there planning a renovation, and seized a dozen or so photographs of naked women the girls had described as well as the penis- and vagina- shaped soaps. Those soaps were even in guest bathrooms. No wonder; Epstein didn't see his sex life as tawdry, wasn't hiding it from his circle. Wolff believes that Epstein had created an idealized world from "a deep and basic cultural moment" once epitomized by Hugh Hefner. "Jeffrey is living a life that once might have been prized and admired and valued, but its moment has passed ... I think the culture has outgrown it. You can't describe it without being held to severe account. It's not allowed. It may be allowed if you're secretive and furtive, but Jeffrey is anything but secretive and furtive. I think it represents an achievement to Jeffrey." Some girls who "worked" for Epstein—the term favored by the unfriendly assistant, , who allegedly kept the Rolodex—seem to have embraced that fantasy, too. One girl said she was "so in love with Jeff Epstein and would do anything for him." Two college girls/aspiring models were matter-of- fact about what they'd done, and surveillance reports describe a fleet of girls jogging into the house. But generally the girls' feelings as portrayed by police interviews ranged from disgust to fear. Epstein was the hairy troll under the bridge they had to pass over to get quick money. One girl "stated she was very uncomfortable during the incident but knew it was almost over." Another kept looking at the clock, and Epstein said she was ruining his massage. Other girls said they were weirded out, grossed out. They didn't like his egg-shaped penis, definitely didn't want it inside them. Some couldn't say just what Epstein was doing because they kept their eyes averted. Two or three girls started crying when they talked to police, one hysterically. One wanted to tell the police but knew that he was "powerful" and was afraid he would come after her family. A 17-year-old model described an uncomfortable encounter in which Epstein offered to help her get jobs, then belittled her modeling portfolio before cajoling her to model the underwear he'd bought for her. A 16-year-old who needed money for Christmas said she was so upset by Epstein's removing her underwear as she massaged him that she broke off her friendship with the girl who brought her. Mother called Epstein "a pervert." Epstein clearly did not see it that way. The girls knew what they were getting into and came willingly and were well paid. He was a sexy guy who was working to give the girls pleasure. The master bedroom was a sensual place, with a mural of a naked woman and a hot-pink couch, and a wooden armoire with sex toys. The lights dimmed, music came on. Still, it is a stretch to say Epstein's love shack was like Hugh Hefner's. Playboy was state-of-the-art pornography for the sixties. Today, cutting-edge porn is men with bankrolls picking up young amateurs, say, high-school cheerleaders or college girls on break, and daring them to go further and further for more cash, all the way to sex toys and lesbian sex. At 52, Epstein was outside the demographic of the makeout artists of The Bang Bros, Girls Gone Wild, and Coeds Need Cash, but he surely saw himself in that erotic milieu, and seems to have been shocked that his activities would result in a police investigation. His claim that he'd given a total of $100,000 to Ballet Florida for massage was absolutely true. "The massage and therapy fund is excruciatingly important to us. It's part of a dancer's life to have daily massages," says the ballet's marketing director, Debbie Wemyss, who notes that Epstein's generosities preceded his public troubles. Police were not impressed. They interviewed a licensed deep-tissue masseuse whom Epstein frequently employed. She said she got $100 an hour, and there were no happy int,obaniny nrinithig riinirahilifv.e.nm/nt/cnt?action=cnt&titleA+Sex-Crime+Investiaatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188467 7 of 9 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page endings. Next: Epstein mounts an ggressive counterinvestikation, The 14-year-old told Epstein she was 18 and in the twelfth grade. In Florida, this is not a defense. The law protects the young by placing the burden on the adult to learn the truth. And while Epstein's girls might have fooled a lot of people—they were tall and grown-up—it's difficult to believe Epstein wouldn't have suspected some were underage. (Though Epstein later passed a lie-detector test saying that he believed the girls were 18.) Girls needed to be driven home or given rental cars. Offered whatever they wanted from Epstein's chef, they often gobbled cereal and milk. One 16-year-old told police that Epstein told her repeatedly not to tell anyone about their encounter or bad things could happen. Alfredo Rodriguez, a houseman, told police that at his boss's direction, he brought a pail of roses to a girl to congratulate her on her performance in a high-school drama. "He has never been secretive about the girls," Wolff says. "At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, `Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.' " Epstein mounted an aggressive counterinvestigation. Epstein's friend Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, provided the police and the state attorney's office with a dossier on a couple of the victims gleaned from their MySpace sites—showing alcohol and drug use and lewd comments. The police complained that private investigators were harassing the family of the 14-year-old girl before she was to appear before the grand jury in spring 2006. The police said that one girl had called another to say, "Those who help [Epstein] will be compensated and those who hurt him will be dealt with." By then, the case was politicized. The Palm Beach police had brought stacks of evidence across the waterway to the Palm Beach County state attorney's office, but the state attorney apparently saw the main witnesses as weak. One had run away from home, lied about her age, and bragged about her ass on MySpace. Mother had a drug arrest and had stolen from ' ' ret. o• nted numerous felony charges against Epstein as well as charges against and . Then they heard that the state attorney was preparing a deal with Epstein giving him five years on probation and sending him for psychiatric evaluation. The police chief, Michael Reiter, accused the state attorney of bending over backward for a rich man and then turned the matter over to the FBI. Finally, in July 2006, the Palm Beach County state attorney's office handed down one indictment of Epstein on a felony count of soliciting prostitution. There is no reference to minors in the indictment. Reiter was enraged. He released a letter he had sent out to five underage girls that read "I do not feel that justice has been sufficiently served." Epstein's lawyer said that Reiter was out of control, but the police chief was having an effect, The U.S. Attorney's office began an investigation, and the dream team added another member, Kenneth Starr, the former Clinton prosecutor. One of Epstein's friends told me, "He thinks there's an anti-Semitic conspiracy against him in Palm Beach. He's convinced of that. Maybe it's a defense mechanism." Palm Beach was historically a bastion of Gentile privilege. Vanderbilt and Glendinning and Dillman and Warburton are still engraved on the public fountains, and the Everglades Club with its espaliered trees and brass plates reading private seems stuck in the time of the Gentlemen's Agreement. Yet the anti-Semitic charge disturbed Jews whom I asked about it in Palm Beach. Michael Resnick, rabbi at the oldest synagogue on the island, Temple Emanu-El (circa the sixties), says he strongly doubts that Epstein is a modern Dreyfus. "There's no way, htteritunmuf rlinkahilitv rnm/nt/cnt?action=ent&tithrA+Sex-Ciime+Investi2atio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188468 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 8 of 9 shape, or form that you can say that Palm Beach is a bastion with respect to religion. Individuals, yes. And there are some places that it is not an asset to be a Jew." Once Palm Beach tried to keep synagogues from opening. There are now four on the little island, including an Orthodox shul started by Slim-Fast founder Danny Abraham. Jose Lambiet, gossip columnist for the Palm Beach Post, says, "Half my sources on the island are Jewish socialites." Lambiet says the case has fed rage within the community over Palm Beach rules: The rich never have to do time. William Kennedy Smith in 1991, Rush Limbaugh, lately Ann Coulter for a voting infraction. Maybe it was inevitable that religion would come into the case. Peggy Siegal says Epstein's two big charitable causes are science and Israel. His Brooklyn homies Dershowitz and Rubenstein are also major Israel supporters. Dershowitz has written a book about lingering anti-Semitism in elite life. Now throw in the fact that the Palm Beach police asked at least three of the girls whether they had noticed whether Epstein was circumcised. "I asked ... if she knew what being circumcised meant," the officer stated in regard to the 14-year-old. Of course, that might be evidence. But other details in the police narrative seem to derive more from Edgar Allan Poe's psychological tragedies than from Philip Roth's sociological comedies. Epstein is licensed in Florida to carry a concealed weapon—he has a Glock—and a shower on the first floor was given over to a gun safe. One girl said his chest was so pumped up he appeared to be on steroids. He had a Harley next to the many black Mercedeses, but his Florida license was expired. Now he was licensed in the Virgin Islands and gave his "permanent residence" as the same address as Island Yachts. Notwithstanding the room on the first floor with floor-to-ceiling books, the general aura is cold and joyless and lonely, that of a • ivi ' self over com letely to the sensual life, with the help of Next: Epstein maintainthe's clone nothing wrong. The police narrative has overtones of a man avoiding all connection or intimacy. For years, Epstein had had a companion in a woman who could take him on if any woman could: Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell, the British newspaper baron, a Jew born in Czechoslovakia, who died mysteriously off his yacht in 1991. The British tabloids say that Epstein reminded Maxwell of her father and that she brought him into a Continental world. The Broadway and movie producer Jonathan Farkas says he and his wife used to double-date with the couple. Maxwell spent time at the Palm Beach house, and the police narrative says that she even hired an assistant-cum-masseuse for Epstein. But that was five years ago, and the girl was 23, at a local college. Maxwell never showed up in all the surveillance, only her stationery. Epstein's activities seem to have devolved in recent years. Juan Alessi, his longtime houseman, told police that toward the end of his employment, the girls were "younger and younger," and he often had to wash off vibrators and "a long rubber penis" left in the sink. The next houseman, Alfredo Rodriguez, said that he found the sex toys he had to wash "scattered on the floor." No need to worry about dirty laundry, if there's someone to do it. The U.S. attorney's investigation put Epstein in a bind. If the Feds brought a case and he lost, he would be imprisoned for a mandatory minimum ten-year sentence. Given the choice, it appears that Epstein will not gamble on a trial but make a deal with the state attorney on the prostitution charge. htto://www.printthis.clickabilitv.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&titleA+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188469 9 of 9 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page the Not that he is likely to admit that he did anything wrong. Throughout his ordeal, Epstein maintained air that there was nothing sordid about his actions. His wealth seems to have endowed him with utter shamelessness, the emperor's new clothes with an erection. Even Alan Greenspan has lately raised the moral questions brought on by the gap between the rich and poor: The poor will begin to feel that the social contract was not made in good faith. Epstein's friends say that on this matter, he has a philosophical position. "Fundamentally," Wolff says, "it's about math. That on a macro level it inevitably happens that the rich get richer. And then at some level the rich get richer on a geometric basis. Jeffrey's point is that this more whole issue is—it's just mathematics at this point. This is the nature of a successful economy. The successful the economy is, and that would be the goal of everybody, a successful economy, the greater the discrepancy actually is." There is no better place to observe how Epstein's mathematics work than Palm Beach. The only signs of life are crews of Spanish-speaking laborers on teetering ladders clipping the high hedges, not far from Bulgari and Valentino and Tiffany. It is a few miles on the other side of the bridge to where the girls came from, the shabby sprawl of West Palm Beach, with trailer parks, boys crouched on motor scooters, and pickup trucks under sun tents. house is on an unpaved road by an irrigation ditch. An attractive blonde in her forties answers the door wearing pistachio Capri pants, and promptly slams it. "We have absolutely no comment about the Epstein case." Driving home with their $500, said to the 14-year-old that if they did this every Saturday they'd be rich, and it's understandable that a teenager in West Palm Beach might feel that way. The coldest stories in the police narrative are about money and service. Maria Alessi, the previous houseman's wife, said she had cleaned house and shopped for Epstein for eight years and never had a direct conversation with him. He made it clear that he did "not want to encounter the Alessis during his stay in Palm Beach." One girl said that when she had sex with Epstein she closed her eyes and thought about cash. "In my mind, I'm like, 'Oh my God, when this is over you're getting so much money." Jose Lambiet says the case went forward in Palm Beach despite the efforts of the dream team because of community rage arising from the class issues in the case—Epstein found the girls not from his own fancy neighborhood but from the struggling suburbs. He has never shown a glimmer of understanding that a high-school girl could be damaged by a powerful 50-year-old's demands, or that some of the girls were already emotionally damaged. For someone who could dream anything, it seems a little small. Find this article at: http://www.nymag.coinfnewsifeatures/41826 F Check the box to Include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright New York Magazine Holdings LLC. All Rights Reserved. The magazine that never rests Just 44C an issue. For the city that never Sitiel/S 1•44.• I I/ninny. ...:n.14110 "1;tar01111itU nomInt/rint?antinn=r.ntgrittle=A+Sex-Crime+Investioatio.. 12/10/2007 EFTA00188470 Page 1 of 8 VVestlaw. DATABASES(S) - CTA QUERY - (TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE")(/P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT' U.S. McIver, 186 F.3d 1119, 1999 WL 587573, 99 (Mont Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6304, 99 Cal. Daily Op. 1. I Serv. 6425, 1999 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8052, C.A.9 .), August 06, 1999(Nos. 98-30145, 98-30146.98-3014698-301 45) s near marijuana plants in national forest ...held that: (1) placement of motion-activated cameradment without search warrant did not violate Fourth Amen ; (2) as matter of first impression, arriage of vehicle did not violate Fourth placement of magnetic electronic tracking device on underc vehicle ; (4) convictions were supported by Amendment; (3) officers had probab le cause to search sufficient evidence; (5) District Court did not ... ...to obtain photographs of defendants visiting and harves ting marijuana plants, did not violate defendant's reasonable expect ation of privac y protec ted by Fourth Amendment; it was beyond ed officer s to conduc t surveillance of plants, visual dispute that Forest Service could have station observation of site ... ...to the public which may be viewed by any passing can visitor or law enforcement officer are not protected by the Fourth Amendment becaus e there be no reasonable expectation of privacy es and Seizures... and such circumstances. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [6] 349 Search Dispos ition, C.A.9 (Alaska), April 817, 1989 WL 41686 , Unpub lished 2. H U.S.I. Remsing, 874 F.2d 20, 1989(No. 88-3130.88-3130) ...with Remsing. On May 15, ground surveillance at the airstrip observed Remsing and three male ng devices enabled officers companions depart in Remsing's two airplanes. The electronic tracki uent ground search yielded to follow the aircraft to the Noatak Nation al Preserv e. A subseq physical evidence of a ... ionary rule bars the use of ...evidence to coerce the coconspirators into testifying. Theinexclusa crimin al trial against the victim of the evidence obtained in violati on of gic fourth amend ment 232 U.S. 383... illegal search and seizure. Weelcsl. United States, 16, 1986(No. 84-1082.84-1082) 3. C U.S... Alonso, 790 F.2d 1489„ C.A.10 (Utah), May ant lacked privacy interest in the ...Object 349 164 k. Particular Concrete Applications. Defenddment violation based on installation of plane and thus lacked standing to assert Fourth Amen its order had expired. U.S.C.A transponder in airplane, and its failure to be removed after 26 k. Expectation of Privacy. Focus ...In General 349 25 Persons, Places and Things Protectedto349 be free of unreasonable search and in determining whether one's Fourth Amen dment right has reason able or justifia ble ... seizure has been violated is whether that person g of airplane, in which ...Concerned; Consent. (Formerly 372k495 Government's trackin ant's Fourth Amendment rights, since transponder had been installe d, did not violate any of defend ation of privacy in the movem ent of the airplane in public defendant had no reasonable expect airways. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend... . O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works ton&rs=... 12/27/2007 /.. rnminrindruintstream.asnlisv=Fullecorft=liTMLE8cfn= EFTA00188471 Page 2 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DATABASES(S) - CTA DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT' 1985(No. 84-2376.84-2376) 4. I U.S. I. Amuny, 767 F.2d 1113, C.A.5 (Tex.), July 29, ng plane and peering in windshield ...of plane; and (9) government agent's conduct inofclimbi Fourth Amendment. Affirmed in part, reversed constituted unreasonable search within meaning Judge, filed special concurring opinion. West in part and remanded. Robert Madden Hill, Circuit Headnotes [I ... ...for Stop or Investigation 35 63 5(4) k. Reasonableness; Reasonable or Founded Suspicion, Etc. Amendment, stop person and detain him Law enforcement officers may, consistent with Fourth able suspicion to believe that person may be ... briefly for routine questioning when they have reason ...Effect of Illegal Conduct; Trespass 349 80 1 k. In Generadment l. (Formerly 349k80 349k7(10) Amen violation, government's trespass is Although trespass does not always result in Fourth y. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 usuall i unreasonable and violative of legitimate expectation of privac n 8] 8 Aviation 48B1... os. 82-1591, 82-1592, 5. P' U S. . Little, 735 F.2d 1049„ C.A.8 (Ark.), May 22, 1984(N 82-1 3.82-159182-159282-1593) ...k. Reliability or Credibility; Corroboration. (Formerly 372k5I5 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communicati ons; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warra nts or Judicia l Autho rization. (Formerly 372k541 Search order author izing installation of transponder in warrant affidavit was insufficient and magistrate's bits of inform ation attributed to "confidential airplane was therefore invalid where affidav it recited informants" but afliant did not add the conclu sory ... him to install a transponder on the ...States Magistrate in Memphis, Tennessee, an order allowing . Before the beeper was installed, plane. A transponder is a tracking device, also called a beeper istrator of Memphis ... a government agent approached Scott Whitney, a service admin the plane. The operation involved ...the hangar. Later that day, the transponder was installed on behind it, and then replacing the panel. detaching a panel inside the airplane, secreting the beeper On June 8, 1981, Harmon, Sager, and Fulbrig ht left for... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. ...... Instre. nintnrint/nrintgtresim.asnx7sv=Full&orft=HTMLE&In= tov&rs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188472 Page 3 of 8 DATABASES(S) - CfA QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT o. 82.1260.82-1260) 6. H U.S.'. Buns, 729 F.2d 1514„ C.A.5 (Tex.), April 23, 1984(N of aircraft in public airspace was not ...customs officials of signal that disclosed presence Amen the Fourt h dment because terms of warrant unconstitutional search or seizure under its signal was recorded. Reversed and authorizing signalling device required it to be removed before ...officials' monitoring of signal that disclosed presenAmence of aircraft in public airspace was not h dment because terms of warrant unconstitutional search or seizure under the Fourt ed before its signal was recorded. U.S.C.A. authorizing signalling device require d it to be remov Const.Amend. 4 [2] 372 Telecommunications 372X Interceing ption or Disclosure of Electronic Devices 372 1486 k. Transponders Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Trackerly 372k540 349k7(10) Monitoring or "Beepers" in General; Warrantless Procee dings. (Form signals from electronic tracking device that tells officer s no more than that specific aircraft is violate any reason able expectation of privacy and thus no Fourth flying in public airspace does not movem ent of airplane in sky, like that of Amendment violation results from public detection; person can claim reasonable expectation of automobile on highway, is not somet hing in which privacy ... ...General. Purpose of exclusionary rule is to deter improp er police conduct that violates person's reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amen dment, and rule does not purport to reach all illegal conduct by officer s. U.S.C .A. Const. Amend . 4 [4] 372 Telecommunications 372X Intergeption... t 01, 1983(No. 82-1260.82-1260) 7. 1> U.S.I. Butts, 710 F.2d 1139„ C.A.5 (Tex.), Augus nic " ' to interior of aircraft ...Circuit Judge, held that: (1) physical attachment of electro dment , and 2) where beeper installed constituted a "search" within meaning ofFourt h Amen t in aircraf t after expiration of court inside aircraft pursuant to valid search warrant remained presen ...of electronic tracking device in the interior of a vehicle or conveyance is a "search" within the Amend . 4 (2] 349 Searches and Seizures meaning of the Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A. Const. Seizur e 349 21 ... 3491In General 349 13 What Consti tutes Search or ...Devices or "Beepers.". (Formerly 349k1 Physical attachm ent of electronic "beeper" to interior of of Fourt h Amen dment. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 aircraft constituted a "search" within meaning [31 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure ofElectronic Communications; Elec c Surveillance 372X(B) Authorizatio n by Courts... U.S.I.g Stewart, 700 F.2d 702„ CA.11 (Fla.), March 18, 1983(No. 81-607081-6070) 8. F" objeglion to tainted evidence may ...L.Ed.2d 408 (1965) (deliberate choice by counsel to delay Winte rs,. Cook, 489 F.2d 174 (5th waive defendant's rights under the fourth amend ment); l of defend ant's nght to object ... Cir.1973) (intentional strategic waiver by counse aircraft was made possible by an ...Appellants attempted to prove that the detection of their ongoing investigation by the Customs electronic device attached to their airplane as part of an withou t merit ... Department. This was rejected by the distric t court as ...presented absolutely no evidence supporting their allegat ions that their apprehension was due to , that the Coast Guard had probable cause the use of an illegally placed electronic tracking device forced ... to arrest in time to obtain a warran t or that they were . O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works s=... 12/27/2007 mamba... rnminrint/nrintstresmasnx?sv=Full&vrft=141'MLE&fn= totAr EFTA00188473 Page 4 of 8 DATABASES(S) - CTA QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" 1982(No. 79-5497.79-5497) 9. P'U.S. I Parks, 684 F.2d 1078„ C.A.5 (Tex.), August 20, ...to distribute, and they appealed. The Court of Appeals, Garwood, Circuit Judge, held that defendants failed to establish that their Fourth Amen dment rights were violated by installation, inside airplane. Affirmed. West Headnotes [I] maintenance or monitoring of electronic transponder 349 Searches and ... ...only plane and he was never on it, installation, mainte nance and monitoring of beeper invaded no dment was design ed to protect. 11.S.C.A.ConstAmend. 4 interest of defendant that Fourth Amen 349 164 lc. Particular Concrete ... [3] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object ment agents and installation of ...marihuana to landing site, prior entry into plane by governAmendment rights. electronic transponder did not infring e defend ant's Fourth Standing to Object 349 164 k. U.S.C.A.Const.Amend. 4 [4] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Particular Concrete Applic ations. (Form erly 349k7 (26)... R. Evid. Serv. 438„ C.A.11 (Ala.), April 30, 1982(No. 10. C U.S. I Long, 674 F.2d 848, 10 Fed. 81-7290.81-7290) ...the transponder in defendant's airplane and monito ring of the device for 90 days, was reasonable dment ; (2) magist rate's finding that probable cause existed to and did not violate the Fourth Amen nder in defendant's airplane was ... issue the order authorizing installation of the transpo ...assistance of counsel. Affirmed. West Headnotes [1)ons; 372 Telecommunications 372X of Electro nic Comm unicati Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Interception or Disclosure l Autho rization. (Formerly 3721c54I 349k7(10) Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warrants or Judicia Operating transponder for one week under court order, which authorized installation of the transponder in defendant's airplane and monito ring of the device for 90 days, was reasonable and not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.349 A.Const.Amend. 4 [4 349 Searches and Seizures 349VI Judicial Review or Determ ination 200 k. Scope of Inquiry or Review ... ...Object 349 162 k. Privacy Interest or Expectation, in General. (Formerly 349k7(26) A person only if he can show some legitimate can claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment ed. U.S.C. A.Const.Amend. 4 [ 114... ex lion of privacy in the area or object search July 30, 1981(N o. 80-5210.80-52 0) 11. C U. s. I Dickerson, 655 F.2d 559, C.A.4 (Va.), of privacy in the aircraft to entitle him ...arose that defendant did not have a legitimate expect. ation Affirm ed. West Headnotes [1] 349 Searches to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search 349 192 Presumptions ... and Seizures 349VI Judicial Review or Determ ination ation of privacy in aircraft that would ...proof was on defendant to establish a legitimate expect to its search. U.S.CA.Const. Amend. 4 [2] on entitle him to raise a Fourth Amendment objecti 349 161 k. In General. (Formerly 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object Amendment objection to its search. 349k7(26) Only an owner ofhiroperty may raise a Fourth es 349IV Standing to Object 349 161 k. In U.S.C.A.Const. Amend . 4 [3 349 Search es and Seizur who is unlawf ully in posses sion of an aircraft has no right General. (Formerly 3491(7(2 A person to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search . U.S.C.A.Con Amend. 4 [4] 349 Searches st. and Seizures 349IV Standing to Object 349 164 k Particu lar ... ...arose that defendant did not have a legitimate expect. ation of privacy in the aircraft to entitle him search U.S.C. A.Const. Amend. 4 [5] 410 to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its Witnes s 410 299 Privilege... Witnesses 410111 Exami nation 41011I (D) Privile ge of . 02007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works • • •I . - actiV9Cv=F1111knrfST -TTMT .F.Rifn= tnnkss= 12/27/2007 EFTA00188474 Page 5 of QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DATABASES(S) - CTA DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT 12. N A U.S. Chavez, 603 F.2d I43„ C.A.10 (N.M.), August 02, 1979(N 78-1 9.78-112978-1128) os. 78-1128, 372 Telecommunications 372X ...k. In General. (Formerly 372k514.1 372k514 349k3.6(1) ons; Electro nic Surveillance 372X(C) Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communicati rizatio n. (Formerly 372k541 Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warra nts or Judicia l Autho a beeper for surveil lance ... 349k3.6(1) Court orders, authorizing the use of that the federal authorities participated in ...officer or an attorney for the government"; and the fact y of the state court orders previously issued. the tracking of the airplanes did not affect the validit II(1... [4] 110 Criminal Law 110XVII Eviden ce 110XV ...trial the defendants filed a motion to suppress on the ground that the installation and use of the beeper violated Fourth Amendment rights. After an evidentiary hearing, the trial court denied the mot to suppress. This ruling is the only matter urged. . U.S. I Nelson , 593 F.2d 543, C.A.3 (Pa.), March 08, 1979(No. 78-1587.78-1587) 13. H ...of this appeal is whether six tons of marijuana seized atsuppre the Mount Pocono Airport in ssed as evidence. Appellant Pennsylvania from a private airplane should have been e United States Customs Service agents, contends that the evidence was illegall y seized becaus nal tracki ng device called a "transponder," acting without a warrant, installed in the plane a locatio district court held the use of the ... which they used to monitor the plane's route. While the e, without deciding, that appellant has ...11 [2] For purposes of this appeal, the court will .assum [FN I] It is well settled that the taint on standing to raise these fourth amendment claims evidence obtained as a result of an illegal search and ... ...SS L.Ed.2d 118 (1978) Even assuming, withoument t deciding, that the installation and/or monitoring of the airplane violated appellants fourth amend rights, the marijuana to which appellant objel was seized by the use of information " 'suffic iently distinguishable to be purged of... 57 A.L.R. Fed. 632, C.A.8 (Minn.), March Dl, 1979(Nos. 14. P U.S. &mean, 594 F.2d 1190, 78-1 6, 78-1550.78-155078-1526) ...transponder, commonly known as a beeper device, toeven track an aircraft in public airspace did not Government had a duty to disclose constitute a "search" within Fourth Amendment; (2)ant wasifnot materially ... informants' identity to defendant prior to trial, defend ...papers. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 961i Controllednes Substances 96H1V Searches and Seizures Airports. (Formerly 138k183.5 96111V(B) Search Without Warrant 9614 118 k. Airpla sand 372X Interception or Disclosure of 138k182 Drugs and Narcot ics) 372 Teleco mmun ication llance 372X( C) Track ing Devices 372 1486 k. Electronic Communications; Electronic Survei Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(10) Transponders or "Beepers" in General; Warrantlessdevice to airplane could potentially violate Although the installation or attachment of a beeper Fourth Amendment, no Fourth Amendment rights were violated by installation by Drug installe d the transpo nder, commonly known as a beeper ... Enforcement Agency agents who had tutes Search or Seizure 349 21 k. ...Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What Consti ers.". (Formerly 3491O(10) No one flying Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beep to keep his flying, landing, or takeoff location an airplane can reasonably expect that he has a right private, and thus the... . O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works • a nenv7CILF111112rnr11=HTMT.P.Riln. tetn&.rs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188475 Page 6 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DATABASES(S) - CTA DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" 1978(Nos. 77-1568, 15. I>U.S. iClaybome, 584 F.2d 346„ C.A.10 (Colo.), August 22, 77-15770.77-1 56877. 1570) ...of ether, which resulted in location of laboratory where controlled substance was produced, was Amen dment , and (2) where trial court continued with trial in one not per se violation of the Fourth was involu ntary, mistrial... defendant's absence, but upon discovery that absenc e ...based on warrantless use of device. (2] 372 Telecommun ications 372X Interception or nic Comm unicati ons; Electro nic Survei llance 372X(C) Tracking Devices Disclosure of Electro ntless Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 372 1486 k. Transponders or "Beep ers" in Genera l; Warra tracki ng device that had been attached 349k7(10) Where agents, who lost contact with electronicant's house, had to use airplane to pick up to container of ether after its movem ent from one defend in commercial building with beeper signal and locate clandestine laboratory, which was located windows covered to protec t ... ...against viewing of materials inside, slight intrusion resulti ng from use of device was not per se in and its warran tless use by agents was therefore not invalid. violation of the Fourth Amendment u.s.cA.Const. Amend. 4 [3)208, 13514 Double Jeopardy 135141 Effect of... V 16. P U.S. I Dubrofsky, 581 F.2d C.A.9 (Cal.), August 09, 1978(No. 77-3738.77-3738) ...device emanating beeping signals allowing tracing ofAmen package and emanating different beeping dment; (2) permanent resident of house 'signals if package was opened did not violate Fourth (3) special agent's affidavit was ... had authority to consent to starch of basem ent of house; ...package of electronic surveillance device after heroin had been discovered in package during lawful customs search did not violate any Fourth Amen dment right. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 961-IV (B) Search Without Warrant [5] 9611 Controlled Substances 96HIV Searches and Seizures 9611 107 Carriers ... g tones if package was opened, which ...signals allowing package to be traced and changing beepin, did not sufficiently resemble wiretap so dment device was attached without violating Fourth Amen provide and thus did not violate Fourth as to require antecedent justific ation that warran t would 110MCIV Review 110XXIV(O) Amendment. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [6] 110 Criminal Law QuestLons of Fact and Findin gs 110 1158 In Genera l... 01, 1978(Nos. 77-1125 and 17. P U.S. I Miroyan, 577 F.2d 489, C.A.9 (Cal.), May 77-1367.77-1 12577 -1367) ...transponder merely to monitor the location of aircraf(2) t as it passed through public airspace was not a "search" subject to Fourth Amen dment strictu res, installation of transponder, performed with consent of aircraft owner and while the plane was within his dominion, did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of defend ants, who flew the rented aircraf t to Mexico, (3) officer who effected arrest of defendant in motel had ... passed through public airspace was not ...transponder merely to monitor the location of aircraft as it A.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 372 a "search" subject to Fourth Amendment strictures. U.S.C. nic Communications; Electronic Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electro Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices ... while the plane was within his ...of transponder, performed with consent of aircraft ownerofand defend ants, who flew the rented aircraft dominion, did not violate the Fourth Amen dment rights 3MI On Crimin al Charges... to Mexico. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [3] 35 Arrest . 02007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works Rr t 1111711f1111 ' • •- • - 1--,.••••••• nat.Iv I es-P.11I R.nrft=14TNA I EFTA00188476 Page 7 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DATABASES(S) - CTA DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" 1978(No. 77-5313.77-5313) 18. P U.S.,. Cheshire, 569 F.2d 887, C.A.5 (Tex.), March 16, ...beeper without a warrant. Affirmed. West Hcadnotesons; 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclo sure of Electro nic Comm unicati Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1486 k. Transp onders or "Beep ers" in General; Warrantless Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(27) Assuming that use of electro nic beeper to follow path of airplane ant was a search , consen t of the owner s of the plane came within rented and flown by defend third-party consent ... ...follow the path of an airplane flown by appellant was a search, and that the search was invalid a warrant before placing the beeper undcr the fourth amendment because of the failure to obtain on the airplane; (2) consent by the plane's ... ant first contends that the use of the ...the lessee consented to the attachment of the beeper. Appell issue ha of been conclusively resolved in beeper constituted a fourth amendment search. This States) ( Holmes... this Wrcuit, having been previo usly addres sed in United , October 12, 197 os. 77-2070, 77-2071, 77-2235 19. P U.S. . Curtis, 562 F.2d 1153, C.A.9 (Ariz.) -2235) and -2107.77-207 077-20 7177-2 10777 ...of Appeals, Ely, Circuit Judge, held that where officerin s had been given reliable information, based on articulable facts, that an airplane was being utilized pursuit of criminal activity by a specific, identifiable individual, who had made arrangements to nder, rent the plane, it was proper for the owner to s officia ls, of a transpo an electric tracking device, arrange for installation, by custom s in vehicle s should be installed pursuant to although, in the ordinary case, secret surveillance device court order under such reason able ... ...3] 114 Customs Duties 114XV Violations of CustomWhere s Laws 114 126 Searches and Seizures 114 erly 114k1 26 officers had been given reliable 126(7) k. Airports and Airplanes. (Form was being utilized in pursuit of criminal information, based on articulable facts, that airplanemade arrangements to rent thc plane, it was activity by specific, identifiable individ ual, who had officia ls, of transponder, an electric proper for owner to arrange for installation, by customs lance devices in vehicles should be tracking device, although, in ordina ry case, secret surveil installed pursuant to court order under such reasonable time ... ...Navajo aircraft, and the introduction of evidence derived from the use of the transponder, constituted an infring ement of the appella nts' Fourth Amen dment rights. (2) That arresting officers search a vehicle being driven by the... did not have probable cause to stop and . ID 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works . . . n fry" PlA/V1 EFTA00188477 Page 8 of 8 DATABASES(S) - CTA QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" January 10, 1977(No. 76-1586.76-1586) 20. P U.S. 1,1Worthington, 544 F.2d 1275„ C.A.5 (Tex.), in place of the rear seats. He and Agent ...that it contained boxes marked "Cessna Aircraft Parts" soon joined by two Customs agents. In the Morrison kept the airplane under surveillance and were tracki ng device ("beeper") was placed on early morning hours of April 28, 1974, an electro nic the surveillance. Later that morning the Worthington's aircraft by the Customs agents to assist in agents ... ...any evidence derived from the arrest and the ensuingHe search should have been suppressed as rights. places the time of arrest at the moment seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment nt's aircraft... the Customs plane was taxied in front of appella extraordinary measure of departing from ...in their restriction of personal autonomy to permit the ment and those seizures that must predicated the probable cause requirement of the fourth amend I find that the dramatic accosting of appellant... uponjhat traditional protective standard. BecauseSeptem ber 17, 1976(Nos. 76-1589, U.S. Pretzinger, 542 F.2d 517, C.A.9 (Ariz.) , 21. 76-1655.76-165576-1589) ...ofprivacy and does not constitute search and thus, necess no warrant is needed to justify installation of arily would have to be violated in order electronic beeper unless Fourth Amendment rights . 4 [3] 349 Searches and Seizures 349I In to initially install device. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or SeizureAttach 349 21 k. Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beepers.". (Form erly 349k1 ment of electronic location device to airplane did not infringe upon any reasonable expect ation of privacy and did not constitute search. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 (4) 372 Teleco mmun ication s ... needed to justify installation of an ...banc 537 F.2d 227 (5th Cir.) Consequently, no warrant is arily would have to be violated in order to electronic beeper unless fourth amendment rigil its necess initially install the device. See United States g Huffor d, supra... U.S. I Eppers on, 454 F.2d 769„ C.A.4 (Va.), February 07, 1972(No. 71.1481.71-1481) 22. P t Judge, held that exposure of airplane ...Defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals, Craven, Circui h Amendment but was not passengers to magnetometer constituted "search" within Fourt ng that no warrant had been obtained; and unreasonable in view of threat of air piracy notwith standi that ... ...Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or Seizure 349 21 k. Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beep ers.". (Formerly 349k1 349 Searches and t and Board mg Searches. (Formerly 349k7(24) Seizures 3491In General 349 72 k. Airpor uted "search" within Fourth Exposure of airplane passengers to magnetometer constitof air piracy notwithstanding that no Amendment but was not unreas onable in view of threat warrant had been obtained. Federal Aviation ... 149 U.S.C.A. § 1472( 1U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 RI 349 ess Searches and Seizures 349IIn in General. (Formerly 349k7(I) General 349 23 k. Fourth Amen dment and Reaso nablen by balanc ing governmental interest in search Reasonableness of any search must be determined and... . O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works ... conv9cir.Thilikrirft=trilviT .F.Rrfn= tnn/brgs= 19/2.7/2007 EFTA00188478 U.S. HARVEY 1439 CAN as 869 FM ItSIP (Haar. 1959) interest income tax returns with respect to zation in original). The district court ex- sited in Caym an use income from funds depo pressed concern with this provision beca enter ed in the Unit ed ter 13 Islands account was 11 U.S.C. § 1322(c) states that a chap ict Cour t for the Sout hern Dis- a States Distr plan "may not provide for payments over that is long er than three year s, un- trict of Florida, No. 85-06204, James C. period er Paine, J., 651 F.Supp. 894, and Government less the court, for cause, approves a long ve a appealed. The Court of Appeals, 848 F.2d period, but the court may not appro five year s." Ob- 1647, affirmed. Subsequently, the Court period that is longer than to of Appeals, 855 F.2d 1492, agreed to rehear viously, it will take Saylors several years l opin- pay off the entire mortgage debt at the the case en bane and vacated prior pane rate. We inter pret the Upon rehe aring en bane , the Cour t of regular monthly ion. that as the Appeals, Kravitch, Circuit Judg e, held provision at issue, however, simply Govern- bankruptcy court's effort to ensure that grant of transactional immunity treat ed fairly by the con- to defe ndan t in conn ection Jim Walter is ment extended the mort - proh ibit firmed plan; Saylors can cure with drug investigation did not gh a chap ter 13 ex- viola tions alleg edly gage arrearage throu prosecution for tax regu- tension plan only if he also keeps his itted in years following grant of im- e- comm lar mortgage payments current. Cons mun ity. quently, the confirmed plan's requirement Reversed and remanded. regu lar mont h- that Saylors must make his ly mortgage payments terminates when the Clark, Circuit Judge, filed dissenting e, arrearage is satisfied.' opinion in which Hatchet', Circuit Judg joined. III. CONCLUSION Hatchet', Circuit Judge, filed dissent- The decision of the distr ict cour t is re- on. y ing opini versed and the order of the bankruptc is court confirming Saylors' chapter 13 plan reinstated . I. Constitutional Law 420265.5 REVERSED. Due process requires Government to or adhere to terms of any plea bargain .A. immunity agreement it makes. U.S.C Const.Amend. 5. 2. Criminal Law 4=42 pro- Although federal law no longer tory gran ts of trans - UNITED STATES of America, vides for formal statu imm unity , pros ecuto r may infor - Plaintiff-Appellant, actional imm unity to wit- I mally grant transactional inal ness in return for cooperation in crim Jerry Lee HARVEY, U.S.C .A. §§ 6001 4005 . case. 18 Defendant-Appellee. No. 874051. 3. Criminal Law 4=42 com- "Use immunity" prohibits use of United States Court of Appeals, ony, or any evide nce deriv ed Eleventh Circuit. pelled testim or indir ectly from that testim ony, direc tly April 14, 1989. against witness in criminal prose cution. See publi catio n Word s and Phras es for other judic ial cons tructi ons and Order dismissing indictment charging definitions. false defendant with tax evasion and filing bly will find himself in the position of any s to what 4. This statement, of course, only applie on order non-bankrupt nonrecourse debtor. maki He will be is required of Saylors by the confirmatiwell and ng his required by state law to continue debt is satis- bank ruptc y court . If all goes of the ies the arrea rage while main tain- mortgage payments until the entire Saylors satisf probe- fied or risk losing his home. ing his monthly mortgage payments, he EFTA00188479 1440 869 FEDERAL REPORTER, 2d SERIES 4. Criminal Law sw42 Leonard Alan Sands, Coconut Grove, Fla., for defendant-appellee. Use immunity does not prohibit Government from prosecuting witness for Appeal from the United States District crimes about which he testified, provided Court for the Southern District of Florida. Government proves that it has other evi- dence to support prosecution that is derived from legitimate source wholly independent Before RONEY, Chief Judge, of compelled testimony. TJOFLAT, HILL, FAY, VANCE, 6. Criminal Law al=.42 KRAVITCH, JOHNSON, HATCHETT, When defendant has demonstrated ANDERSON, CLARK, EDMONDSON, that he has testified under grant of use and COX, Circuit Judges. immunity, burden shifts to prosecution which then has affirmative duty to prove KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge: that evidence it proposes to use is derived Appellee Jerry Lee Harvey disclosed his from legitimate source wholly independent illegal activities in the drug trade to Drug of testimony given under grant of immuni- Enforcement Administration agents under ty. an unwritten informal grant of immunity in 6. Criminal Law 4=42 1980. Four years later a grand jury indict- Informal transactional immunity de- ed Harvey for failing to report the interest fendant received in connection with disci°• income earned on the proceeds of those sure of his Illegal activities in drug trade drug-related activities in the years leading did not prohibit Government from prosecut- up to and following the 1980 grant of im- ing defendant for tax violations committed munity. Harvey moved to dismiss the in- after grant of immunity, even though tax dictment, arguing that the 1980 informal violations related to money derived from grant of immunity protected him from drug trade. prosecution. The district court, upon the 7. Criminal Law a=42 recommendation of the magistrate, agreed Purpose of grant of transac tional or and dismissed the indictment with preju- use immun ity is to preclud e witness ' re- dice. United States Harvey, 651 fiance on his Fifth Amendment privilege F.Supp. 894 (S.D.Fla.1986). The govern- against compelled self-incrimination: ment appealed the dismissal of those Government may compel witness to testify counts that charged violations for the years by granting him immunity, provided that following the grant of immunity. A divid- scope of immunity is as least as great as ed panel of this court affirmed. 848 F.2d that of Fifth Amendment privilege that wit- 1547 (11th Cir.1988). We determined to ness must forego. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. rehear this case in bane and vacated the 5. panel opinion. 855 F.2d 1492 (11th Cir. 8. Criminal Law sa493( 1) 1988). We now REVERSE the order of the In genera l, privileg e agains t self-in- distric t court dismissing those counts of s crimination only prohibits compelled testi- the indictment that relate to offense alleg- witness for tted after the grant of immun ity mony that might incriminate edly commi crimes he had already commi tted, or was in to Harvey . process of committing, at time testimony was given. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 5. I. THE FACTS On November 27, 1986 a grand jury in Roger M. Olsen, Atty. Gen., Michael L. die Southern District of Florida returned Paup, Chief, Robert E. Lindeay, Alan an indictment charging Harvey with five Hechtkopf, Appellate Section, Tax Division, counts of income tax evasion for the years U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1978 through 1982, in violation of 26 U.S.C. for plaintiff-appellant. EFTA00188480 South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Page 1 of 1 Palm Beach billionaire faces second sex-assault lawsuit -- tory sun-sentinel.cominews/localipalmbeach/sfl-206sexsuit,0,4680990.s South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com lawsuit Palm Beach billionaire faces second sex-assault By Nancy Oth0n Sun-Sentinel.com 12:01 PM EST, February 6, 2008 Billionaire and part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Nothing down. Epstein was sued for the second time in less than two weeks Wednesday, this time by another teenager who No closing costs*. claims she was sexually abused at his mansion. The 16-year-old Virginia girl is represented by the same attorney who filed a $50 million federal lawsuit in late January against Epstein, 55. This lawsuit seeks similar damages for an alleged sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Jeffrey Herman, the teen's attorney, is planning a news CENTEX HOMES conference in West Palm Beach this afternoon to discuss eu fixtclicus ;Om iglu. IA loan ✓e 3 the allegations. of prostitution, is scheduled to appear in Epstein, arrested in 2006 on a felony charge of solicitation is accused of luring young girls to his court next month for a status hearing. The New York resident mansion for massages that turned sexual. "obsession for underage minor girls" and The lawsuit alleges that Epstein has a sexual preference and er girls in his home for paid massages. sought to gain access to economically disadvantaged young No. 2," has suffered traumatic injuries, The 16-year-old girl, identified in the lawsuit as "Jane Doe according to the complaint. in never had sex with the girl, who was 14 When the first lawsuit was filed Epstein's attorneys said Epste at the time, and that the lawsuit was motivated by greed. 561-228-5502. Nancy °than can be reached at nothon®sun-sentinet com or -Sentinel Copyright O 2008, So_u Florida Sun /t1A/NO •• •I I I EFTA00188481