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RE: Mr. Epstein
From Aileen Josephs, Esq.
Ms. Sanchez:
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bachelor financier lives
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private residence, claims to
take only billionaires as
clients, and flies celebrities
including Bill Clinton and
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Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the charm slip into his eyes. They are steely
the town house—Epstein usually mks 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 quanta's of them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, af-
Earl Gory. (He does not touch alcohol or to- ter refusing to give an interview kr this arti-
bacco.) Tea is served in the "leather mom:' cle. "You be white. You get the first move:
so called because of the cordovan-colored It was an appropriate metaphor for 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. His
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 gloves. of the kw 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 kw know the whole.
Upper Ely[ Side. home to some of the spanning the width of the house. Strangely. "He's wry enigmatic." says Rosa Mond-
most expehsive real estate on earth, exists it holds no computer. Computers belong in ton, the former C.E.O. of Tiffany
& Co. in
the crown jewel of the city's residential the "computer mom" is smaller room at the U.K. and a close friend since the
early
town houses. With its 15-trot-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 off another ring of
the onion skin
sits on—or. rather. commands—the block desk (which Epstein tells people belonged and there's something else rinaordinary
of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison to banker J. P 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— Sade's The Allsjoesunes of Orme was re- wen 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 Leah Kiernan,
Inside. amid the flurry of menservants must have come from a mosque: Amid one of his art dealers. puts
attired in sober black suits and pristine such splendor, much of which reflects the it. Yet he is fastidiously. al-
white gloves, you feel you have stumbled work of the French decorator Alberto Pin- most obsessively private—he
into someone's private Xanadu. This is to. who has worked -err Jacques Chirac 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. Them
paintings but with row upon row of indi- tell you to do that: Epstein brags to visi- am 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
England. where they were made for in- but feel it's Epstein's way of saying that he most public companion of the last decade,
jured soldiers. Nat coma 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 Dubutkt ... 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 painted it. In any private dwelling in New Mexico. on an 418 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 "Zeno." "It makes the town house look hire 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 Sr. 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 was to be known for the scale of his is currently being renamed by Edward Ma- mer associate of his at the brokerage firm
possessions. Its occupant. financier Jeffrey de, a designer of the Arnanresons. There is Bear Stearns and now an opera producer,
Epstein, 50, admits to friends that he likes it also a 56.8 million house in Palm Beach, and Eva Andersson Dubin. a doctor
and
when people think of him this way. A good- Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream onetime model. He tens people that when
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.)
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 Tucker and Kevin Speech supermarket him at his home—they
include newspaper
house because he knew he "could newer live magnate Ron Burkle. Lew Wasserman's publisher Mort Zuckerman. banker Louis
10, (0 *0110.
anywhere bigger." He thinks 51,000 square grandson, Casey Waxman, and a kw oth- Ranieri. Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman.
let is an appropriately large space kr some- ers, on a mission to explore the problems of real-estatc tycoon Leon Black. former Mi-
one like himself, who deals mostly in large /UOS and economic development in Africa. crosoft executive Nathan Myhnold,
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personality Donald Trump—sometimes
seem not all that clear as to what he ac-
tually does to earn his millions. Cenainly,
you won't find Epstein's transactions writ-
ten about on Bloomberg or talked about in
the trading rooms. "The trading desks daft
seem to bow him. It's unusual for animals
that big not to leave any footprints in the
snow." says a high-level inurement manager.
Unlike such fund managers as George
Soros and Stanley Drucicenmiller, whose
client lists and stock maneuverings act as
their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his
deals and clients secret, bar one client: bil-
Bonaire Leslie Viewer, the respected chair-
man of Limited BTUs. Epstein insists that
ever since he left Boar Steens in 1981 he
has managed money only for bfllionaires—
who depend on him for discretion. "I was
the only person crazy enough, or
arrogant enough. or misplaced
enough, to make my limit a bit-
Soo dollars or more." he tells peo-
ple freely. According to him, the
flat &es he roaches from his clients.
-You think you know
combined with his skill at playing
the currency markets "with very
him and then you es.: -7
large sums of money," hate afforded
him the lifestyle he enjoys today. peel off anothet ring
Why do billionaires choose him
as their trustee? Because the prob-
lems of the mega-rich, he tells peo-
of the onion.'
ple. are different from yours and
mine, and his unique philosophy is
central to understanding those problems: parks department. His
-Very few people need any more money parents viewed educa- UNREAL ESTATE
when they have a billion dollars. The key tion u "the way out From mr.. the "leather
is not to have it do harm more than any- for him and his young- room" .n Ep,tein't house.
thing else.... You don't want to lose your er brother. Mark, now "here "tea- is until
money." working in real estate. to guests: Epstein at his
Zorro ranch rn 1991
Jeffrey started to play with his - best friend."
e has likened his job to the piano—for which he Ghislaine Mama
that of an architect—more maintains a passion—at Epstein in 1979.
specifically, one who we- five, and he went to
e:allies in remodeling: "f Brooklyn's Lafayette High "bounty hunter:' recov-
always describe la billion- School. He was good at ering lost or stolen mom
. anal as someone who mathematics, and in his ey for the government or for very rich
started out in a small early 20s he got a job teaching physics and people. He has a license to carry a firearm.
home and as he became wealthier had add- math at Dalton. the elite Manhattan pri- For the last 15 years, he's been running his
: ore. He added on another addition, he built vate school. While there he began tutoring business, J. Epstein & Co.
- a room over the garage ... until you have a the son of Bear Steams chairman Ace Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his
it house that is usually a mess.... !Catskill& Greenberg and was friendly with a daugh- life—Epstein has said this was in 1986:
house that has been put together over time ter of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear others say it was in 1989, at the earliest —
• when no one could foretell the financial tu- Stearns. where. under the mentorship of he has gradually, in a way that has not
t; cure and their accompanying needs." both Greenberg and current Bear Steams generally mad:. headlines, come to be ac-
i He makes it sound as though his job C.E.O. James Cayne, he did well enough cepted by the Establishment. He's a mem- (4
° combines the roles of real-estate agent, as to become a limited partner—a rung be- ber of various commissions and councils:
countant. lawyer, money manager, trustee, neath full partner. He abruptly departed in he is on the Trilateral Commission, the
and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, 1981 because, he has said, he wanted to Council on Foreign Relations, the New
myths and rumor swirl around Epstein. run his own business. York Academy of Sciences, and the Insti-
Here are some of the hard facts about Thereafter the details recede into shad- tute of International Education.
Epstein—ones that he doesn't mind people ow. A few of the handful of current friends His current fan club extends to Cayne,
knowing:- He middle-class in who have known him sinraff et 1980s Henry RosovsteheyfilstcivRatt9-411
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"I think we both possess the skill of
seeing patterns," says Wexner. "But Jef-
frey sees patterns in politics and finan-
cial markets, and 1 see panems in lifestyle
and fashion trends. My skills are not in in-
vestment strategy, and, as everyone who
knows Jeffrey knows, his are riot in fash-
ion and design. We frequently discuss
world trends as each of us sees them-
y the time Epstein met
Wenner, 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 55,000 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:'
Yibma through a trust. bought
the town house in which Epstein
now lives for a reported S13.2
million in 1989. In 1993. Wex-
ner married Abigail Koppel.
a 3l-year-old lawyer, and the
neulyweds relocated to Ohio:
in 1996, Epstein moved in-
to the town house. Public
documents suggest that the house
is still owned by the trust that bought it.
SPOILS OF SUCCESS Edebnan and Murray WI- but Epstein has said that he now owns the
From tux 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 paver of fidu-
Islands—he now calls
it Little St. Tell: Epstein Epstein. they talk about ciary over all of his private trust and ktire
Met President Clinton in "energy" and - curiosity," as dations, says a source close to Uttar. In
Brunei. 200:: Leslie well as a love for theoreti- 1992, Epstein even persuaded Wexner to
Wexner with his future cal physics that they don't put him on the board of the Wexner Four)•
wife. Abigail. at the 1990 ordinarily find in laymen. dation in place of Wanes ailing mother.
C.F.DA. Fashion Awards, Gell-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 he
ways pretty ladies around" by splitting the foundation in tun. ria
when he goes to dinner the Epstein does not care that he comes be- a bei
Larry Summers. Harvard's current presi• Epstein, and he's under the impression that tween family members. In fact, he sees it 7,g: a c
dent. Harvard law prokssor Alan Dersho- Epstein's clients include the Queen of En- as his job. He tells people. - I am there to j the
witz says, "I'm on my 20th book.... The gland. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were represent my client. and if my client needs t' by
only person outside of my immediate firmly thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand protecting—sometimes even from his own ' at I
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." a lit
who has worlad with Epstein on projects in Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit "You've probably heard I'm vicious in rend
New Albany. Ohio, for Wexner. says. "He in the back of Dershowitis law class. my representation of my clients." he tells : that
digests and decodes the information very Epstein gets annoyed when anyone sug- people proudly: Leah Rieman describes his - fillet
rapidly, which is to me terrific because we gests that Wexner "made him.- "I had real- haggling over art prices as something like els. '
have shorter meetings." ly rich clients before," he has said. Yet he a scene out of the movie Mad Max Be- the u
Also on the list of admirers are former does not deny that he and Warier have a frond Thundentlome. Even a former mentor "F
senator George Mitchell and a gaggle of special relationship. Epstein sees it as a says he's seen "the dark side" of Epstein. assoc
distinguished scientists, most of whom partnership of equals. "People have said it's and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meet- ey do
Epstein has helped fund in recent years. like we have one brain between two of us: ing in which Epstein chewed out a team he ma
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being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." media. Right now, in the wake of the pub- Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really
One reports in fact, moved three threats licity following his trip with Clinton, he bled 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 Holt
were delivered in a jocular tone, but the fenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg
message was dear: There will be trouble :cording to S.E.C. and were Epstein's social connections; they in-
for your family if I don't like the article. other legal documents un- cluded oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the
On the other hand, Epstein is clearly earthed by Vanity Thin designer Vera) and Mohan Mutjani. whose
very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an Epstein may have good clothing company grew into Gloria Van-
Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has reason to keep his past derbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then.
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: -I 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 •no
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 1993, was In 1987 Reifenberg, according to sources,
piano. And then as he got to school he had trying to buy the New York Post 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 intereste4 in taking flying lessons." Center in Devens. Massachusetts. serving a enue- across a courtyard from the restaurant
Rosa Monekton recalls Epstein telling 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of Le Cirque. HolTenbers hired
his new pro-
her that her daughter. Domenica, who suf. more than 5450 million in one of the largest tege as a consultant at 525,000
a month.
fen from Down syndrome. needed the sun, Ponzi schemes in American history. and the relationship flourished. They tray
and that Rosa should kd free to bring her When Epstein met Hoffenberg in Lon- tied everywhde together—on Hoffenbergs
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 fun- 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 Steams 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 swilled. but other times company funds to pay off earlier investors Several of Epstein's bear Stearns contem-
it didn't. and the unwitting recipients found and service a lavish hfesryle that included a poraries recall that Epstein left the
compa-
themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has mansion on Long Island. homes on Man- ny tiny suddenly. Within the company there
claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and hattan's Sutton Place and in Florida. and a were rumors also that he was involved in a
bad no knowledge of the stickers.) Many of fleet of cars and planes. technical infringement. and it was thought
those who benefited from Epstein's largesse Reifenberg and Epstein had much in that the executive committee asked that he
claim that his generosity comes with no common. Both were sntan and obsessed resign after his two supporters. Ace Green-
strings attached. - I never felt he wanted with making money. Both were front Brook- berg and Jimmy Cayne. were outnumbered.
anything from me in return.- says one old lyn. According to Hoffer.bent the Two men Greenberg says he can't recall this:
Carne
friend. who received a first-class upgrade. were introduced by Douglas Leese. a de- denies it happened. and Epstein
has de-
&nse contractor. Epstein has said they were nied it as well. "Jeffrey Epstein left Bear
FI
pstetn is known about town introduced by John Mitchell. the late attor- Stearns of his own volition." says Cm ne.
as a man who lows 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:- Yet. this a not the story
he is a familiar face to many of the Victo- money for billionaires only. in a 1939 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 Ghishaine Maxwell to cent of his time helping people recover civil business case in Philadelphia.
a concert at Epstein's town house. where stolen money from fraudulent brokers and In 1981 the S.E.C.'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 Stearns employees in
at Upper Fast Side dinners." the woman with much smaller investors. A lawsuk 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 II, 1981. by the Seagram
tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an in- Company Lsil for St. Joe Minerals Corp.
that Prince Andrew attended, which was vestment from Stroll of 5450.000. which Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in.
filled. 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- cr things, that the check for S10,000 was for the tender offer.
ey does that to you. He's breaking the oath a horse he'd bought from Stroll, "My net After the tender offer was announced.
he made to himself—that he would never worth never exceeded four and a half mil- the S.E.C. began investigating trades in•
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attains a parody of Afftedc and Matt Da- your input when it's somebody else's project"
rn making Good MU Huang JL Alfteck So is Attica planning to iw.,ome the lib-
Meek has always impressed colleagues trals'
vs to Damon, "What do I keep telling you? with his voracious appetite for information that answer to Ronald Reagan' lie admits
but gotta do the safe picture, then you do and skills. "He has made it a point to learn he entertains the thought of someday
re art picture. Then sometimes you gotta everything he can about how the business =rang for Congress, at lag: "I think there's
a real nobility
the payback picture because your friend works—not just the craft of acting. but fun to run to public service. Ii would be
on a
ars you owe him. Then sometimes you got- from the producing standpoint, from the in, without any platform I really beiy eel
of the kind of compron:
bgo back to the well" studio standpoint," says Jon Gordon. exec- people make —without
"Sometimes you do Reindeer Games," utive vice president of production at Mira- the win-at-all-eosts being beholden
lemon says derisively. mentality."
max. "He knows how deals work. It's what And the invasion of privacy
"That's just mean:' Mika whines. sets him apart. If he wanted to run a studio nothing new. "What arc would he
But its a pretty accurate description of at some point, he could. He's about as about me that hasn't you going to say
already been said? I
career to date. "Ben takes these franchise sharp as they come?" don't chat, I don't drink, I don't do
poperties so he can go and experiment," drugs.
I live a dean life." Afftedt says, his eyes
Rs Harvey Weinstein.
"He believes in trying to stretch himself A Meek is dready juggling his acting with twinkling.
screenwriting and such other commit- "He's only 30 years old." says Jennifer
ad notIkeep doing the same thing," °b- ments as Project Greentight. the contest he Todd who co-produced
Bode Room. "He
uses Bruce Wdlis, who starred with Aftleck and Damon started to help launch the ca- still
has an enormous amount of time to
inrIrmageddon. "He's an awesome actor, reers of young filmmakers. Aftleck's friends do things."
ad I think he's going to do great things." are certain he'll be directing soon. "There's Time, and drive. "I think hes incredibly
Severe) years ago. in a televised interview no question." Weinstein says. "Both he and hungry." says Sean
Bailey. who founded
oilnside the Actors Studio. Mink said that Matt. I think they're going to rewrite the the media and production
company Live-
hirgoal was to make big comment-id movies. rules. These guys can fix anything. There'll Planet with Affleck. Damon.
and Chris
He has since revised his ambitions. "That's be home runs in both instances." Moore. "I think the guy has very grand
anadolescent aspiration, in a way. I'd But there are other thoughts tickling the aspirations. I don't think hes going to be
rafter be in movies like Magnolia. which I back of Alleck's mind as well. A passion- content with
just being a movie star. He
:hik is a towering achievement. I'll con- ate liberal he campaigned for Al Gore, knows he has the potential
to do very big
fine to act. but I won't act in a way that cares deeply about political issues, and is things:
respires me to hang my name out there extremely well inlbrmed. He entertains him- Such ambitions could be derailed by any
am do a lot of publicity. I'll do character self by writing imaginary political speeches number of miscalculations.
including a pri-
(ohs and focus on writing and directing. It in his head. He would rather discuss AIDS vate life that generates
too many sensational
doesn't require the same kinds of MM• in Africa than his mak career. headlines, but Aifleck has a clear idea of
tint in terms of quality of life and person- When Lopez goes to Affteck's mother's the ultimate goat. "On my deathbed. I haw
'al Ife, and it's a more holistic approach to house for dinner. Weinstein reports. "J.Lo to be one who looks back
and feels I lived
theprocess. It's become increasingly trus- told me that the conversation at the table is a good and substantial
and meaningful
ting for me to have my role in the story. always about politics--about government lik." he says.
tellag process limited to one character. You initiatins. educational initiatives. what's go- In the meantime. hose-en there's a wed-
hag to be respectful and judicious about ing on in the day." ding to plan. Z
Jeffrey Epstein Alvin Einbender. In his 1989 deposition Ep- election with your reasons foe leasing the firm.'
stein recalled that the partner who had made Al I'm aware that there were many rumors.
an "issue" of the matter was Marvin David- Q: What were the rumors war heard"
C ONTINUED FROM PACE SOS Bear Stearns eon. On March R Epstein said he had met A: Nothing to do with A. Joe.
ndother firms. Epstein resigned from Bear with Tarnopol and Einbender again, and the Q: Can you relate what you heard?
Seams on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped two partners told him that the matabet corn- A: It was having to do with an illicit affair
with a secretary.
off that Epstein had intbrmation on insider miner had weighed the offense. together with Q:
Hue you heard any other rumors suggest-
tradiig at Bear Stearns. and it was therefore previous "carelessness" over expenses, and ing that you had made a presentation or com-
obliged to question him. In his S.E.C. testi- he would be fined 52.500. munication to the Executive Committee con-
mony, giwn on April L 1981, Epstein claimed "There was discussion whether. in fact, I cerning alleged improprieties by other men
that he had found "offensive" the way Bear had ever put in an airline ticket for some- ben or employees of Bear Steams?
Steams management had handled a disci• one else and not myself and I said that it A: 4 in fact. have heard that mmcc but its been
plinary action following its discovery that he was possible, ... since my secretary hen- from Mr. Harris in our conversation last week.
Q: Have you heard Si from anyone else?
had committed a possible "Reg Cff viola- dies my expenses." Epstein told the S.E.C. A-. No.
tica—midently he had lent money to his clos- In his 1989 testimony he stated that the
est friend. (In the 1989 deposition he said "Reg D" incident had cost him a shot at A little later the interview focuses on
that he'd lent approxirnatdy 520.000 to War- partnership that year. James _came:
ren Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an anion What the S.E.C. seemed to be especially Q: Did you ever hear while you were at Bear
could have been considered improper, al. interested in was whether there was a con- Steams that Mr. Carne may have trader Or j.!.
though Epstein claimed he had not realized nection between Epstein's leaving and the sitter information in connection with Si •
this until afterward. alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals Minerals Corporation?
According to Epstein. Bear Stearns man- by other people at Bear Stearns: A: No.
agement had questioned him about the loan Q: Did Mr. Cayce ever have any conversation
around March 4. The questioners. Epstein Q: Sir, • re you a with you about St. Joe Minerals?
f rumors may A-
sard9litia20Illkael (Mickey) Tarnopol andr in7S cy to Agency Racket: 19-411
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, JeffreyEpstein coning the schemes, although, having no he reportedly told the
broker's license, he had to rely on others to like it was free and
grand jury. "It looked
clear but it actually
make the trades. Much of Hoffenberts sub- wasn't," he said.
icons between Mr. Cayne and anyone else re- sequent testimony
garding St. Joe Minerals? in his criminal case has Epstein has denied he ever had any deal-
A: No. proven to be false. and Epstein has claimed ings with anyone from
the insurance com-
he was merely asked how the bids could be panies. But
Richard Allen says he recalls
And mil/litter in the questioning comes this accomplished and has said he had nothing talking Epstein
to at Holfenberg's direction
achange: to do with the financing of them. Yee Rich- and telling him it
was urgent they retrieve
ard Allen, the former treasurer of United the missing bonds
Q: Have you had any type of business deal- for a state examination.
ings with Ms. Cayne? Fire. recalls seeing Epstein two or three According to Allen,
Epstein said, "NWT get
A: There's no relationship with near Steams. times at the company. He and another ex- them back." He
had 'kind of a flippant atti-
Q: Pardon? ecutive say they had direct dealing with Ep- tude," says Allen. "They
never came back."
A: Other than Bear Steams. no. stein over the finals= And in his deposition
Q: Have you been a partiripam in any type of of 1988 Epstein stated that he was the one
business venture with Mr. Cayne?
A: No.
who executed "all" Hoffenbag's instructions E pstein. according to Hoffenberg, also
tame up with a scheme to manipulate
Qt Do you have any exportation a partiripat- to buy and sell the stock. He called it "mak- the price of Emery Freight stock in an at-
tier} , business venture with Mr. Cayne? ing the orders." He could not recall whether tempt to minimiz
e the losses that occurred
he had chosen the brokers used. when Hoffenberes bid went wrong and the
(t.• Have you bad any business participations To win apprise' from the Illinois insur- share price began to fall. This
with Mr. Theram? was alleged to
ance regulators for Towers's acquisition of have imbed
A: No; nor do I anticipate any. multiple clients' accounts con-
the companies. HoiTenberg promised to in- trolled by Epstein.
Q: Mr. Epstein. did anyone at Bear Stearns ject 53 million
ell you in words or substance that you should of new capital into them. In Eventually, in 1991, insurance regulators in
ice divulge anything about Si. foe Minerals to fact. in his grandjury testimony Hoffenberg Illinois sued Reifenberg. He settled the case,
he staff of the Securities and Exchange Con- claimed that he. his chief operating officer. and Epstein. who was only
a paid consul-
tenon? Mitchell Brame and Epstein came up with a tant. was never deposed
or accused of any
A: No. scheme to steal 53 million of the insurance wrongdoing. Barry
Gross. the attorney who
Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way. companies' bonds to buy Pan Am and Em- was
ether directly or indirectly. in words or sub- ery stock. "Jeffrey Epstein and handhng' the suit for the regulators. says
Mitch Stater of Epstein. "He was very elusive. ... It was
mace. that YOUT compensation for this past arranged the
:tar or any future monies coming to you from various brokerag e accounts acv hard to really track him down. There were a
Bear Stearns will be contingent upon your not the bonds to be placed with in Nen' York. substantial number of checks for significant
dvulging information to the Securities and and I think one in Chicago. Rodman & Rev dollars that were paid to hint. I remem-
Exchange Commission? Holfenberg reportedly said. Then. ber.... He was this characte
said Hoffenberg, while making it appear as handle r we never got a
A No. on. Again we presumed that he was
though they were investing the bonds in imehed with the
Despite the circumstances of Epstein's much safer financia Pan Am and Emery run
l instruments. they used that Hoilenberg made. but we never
laving, Bear Stearns agreed to pay him his them as collatera pat a
l to buy the stock. "Ep- chance to depose him:
aunial bonus—which he anticipated as be- stein was the
person in charge of the trans- - From the government's discovery in the
im appnrtimately S100.000. actions. and Mitchell Rimer was assisting main sentencing against
The S.E.C. never brought any charges him with it in coordina Reifenberg it "cold
tion, an behalf of the seem the pavernment was perhaps a bit
against anyone at Bear Stearns for insider insurance compan lazy:
ies' money." Ho:limbers says David Lewis. who represented Mitchell
trading in St. foe. but its questioning seems claimed at the
time. Brace. "They went for what they knew they
so indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's At one point. according to Hottinserg.
answers. Some sources have wondered broker forged could get . .. and that was the fraudulent
the documents necessary for a promissory notes (i.e., the
why. if he was such a big producer at Bear 41.8 million check much larger and
to be written on insurance- unrelated part of Hof enberg's
Stearns, he would have given it up over a company funds. fraud, based
The check was used to buy- in New York Statet.... What they couldn't
mere $2.500 fine. mom stock in the takeover targets. Mean- get. they didn't bother
Certainly the years after Epstein let the while. in order to throw with"
the insurance regula- Another lawyer involved in the criminal
firm were not obviously prosperous ones. tors off the SI.S
million was reported as being prosecution of Reifenberg says. "in
His luck didn't seem to change until he met safely invested in a a crim-
money-market account. inal investigation like that. when
Reifenberg. United Finis eater chief financial officer guilty plea. to be there is a
quick and dirty about it.
nne Daniel Payton confirms pan of Hotrenberg's discovery is
of Epstein's first assignments for Hof- account. He says he recalls always incomplete... . They
making one or don't have to line up witnesses; they don't
kiknberg was to mastermind doomed bids two telephone
calls to Epstein (at Moffat- have to learn every fact that might
to take over Pan American %bid Airsays in bag's direction) about tome out
the missing bonds. on cross•examination"
1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. "He said,
'Oh. yeah. they still exist.' BUT we
HoReobag claimed in a 1993 hearing before found out bier that
a grand jury in Illinois that Epstein came up ... leveraged
he had sold those assets r psalm was involved with Reifenberg in
them . . . (and) used seine mar- .11La other questionable
wilt the idea of financing these bids through gin account transactions. Finan-
to take some positions in ... cial records show that in
Towers's acquisition of two ailing Illinois Emery and Pan 1988 Epstein in-
Am: says Payton. vested S1.6 million in Riddell Sports Inc.. a
insurance companies. Associated Lik and Epstein's caraordinary creativity was, ac- company that manufac
United Fire. 'He was hired by us to work on cording to Hoffenb tures football helmets.
erg, responsible for the Among his co.investors were the
the securities side o(the insurance companies purchas theater
e by the insurance companies of a mogul Robert Nederlander
and Towers Financial. supposedly to make a 5500.00 and attorney
0 bond. with no money down. "Ep- Leonard Toboroff. A source
profit fee us and for the companies," Ram- stein created close to this
a great scheme to purchase a transaction claims that Epstein
berg reportedly told the grand jury. He also 5500.00 treasury told Neder-
0 bond that would not be lander and Toboroff t he
cBstein was the "technician." a- his
shown • • • last Ittleygllilltgor collateralized. share.?Rik u ranker.
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whose identity they could not be allow
ed to ust as Nederlander and Tobotoff were All'arch
know. But Hoffenberg has claimed the
cy came from him, and Towers's
statements for that year show a loan
mon- J growing wary of Epstein. he became in-
financial creasingly insolved with Leslie
of Epstein's work is related to clean
11'1ing up, Mghtening budgets, and
Warm whom cies. One person who efficien-
to Ep- he had met through insurance worked kr Wexner and
stein of 5400.000. (Epstein has said executive who saw a contract drawn
he Robert Master and his late wife. up between the
can't remember the details and has Epstein has two men says Epstein is
dis- told people that he met Wari involved in "every-
puted the accuracy of the Towers finan er in 1986 in thing, not just a little here,
cial Palm Bach, and that he won a little there.
reports.) his confidence Everything!' In additi
by persuading him not to invest in the on, he says, "Werner
Around the same time, Nederlande stock lilies having a hatchet man.. . . Whenever
r and market, just as the 1987 crash
Toboroff let Epstein come in with than was approach- there is dirty work to be
on a ing. His story has subsequently done he'd stick Jef-
scheme to make money out of Penmvalt, changed. frey on it.... He has a reput
a When asked if Wexner knew ation for being
Pennsylvania chemical company. The about his con- ruthless but he gets the job done.
plan nection to Hoffenberg, Epste "
was to group together with two other in said that he Epstein has evidently been asked to fire
parties began working for Wexner in
to take a substantial declared position in 1989, and that personal-staff members
the "it was certainly not the same when needed. "He
stock. According to a source, Epste time?' was that mysterious person that merye
in was Wherever and whenever it was that ne was
supposed tp help Naderlender and Tobo Ep- scared to death of." says a forme
roff stein and Wormy actually met. r employee.
raise 51$ million. He seemed to fail to there was Meanwhile, he is also less than
find an immediate and strong perso popular
other investors, say those familiar with nal <tern- with some people outside
the ary. Wexner says he thinks Epste Warmer's company
deal. (Epstein has said he was merel in is "wry with whom he now deals.
y an in- smart with a combination "He 'inserted'
vestor.) He invested SI million, which of excellent judg- himself into the
he ment and unusually high stand construction process of La.
told his co-inwston was his own mone ards. Also. lie Wanerk yacht. . .. That
y. he is always a most loyal friend resulted in liti-
But in his 1989 deposi- ." gation down the road between Mr.
Wexner
tion he said that he put and the shipyard that
in only $300,000 of his eventually built the yes-
own money. Where did kl." says Lars Forsberg.
the rest come from? Hof- a tawver whose firm at
knberg has said it came the Fint. Dickerson and
from him. in a loan that Rs:.y. was hired to deal
Nederlander and Toboroff with litigation stemming
didn't know about. from the construction
Two things happened of Waner's Limidess—
that alarmed Nederlander at 315 feet. one of the
and Toboroff. Alter the largest private yachts in
group signaled a possible the "rand. Et idently. Ep-
takeover. the Pennwalt stein stalled on paying
management threatened to Dickerson and Reily for
sue the would-be raiders. its desk "Ws probably
Epstein was reluctant ini- once Jr twice in my le-
tially to give a deposition gal career that Ise had
about his share of the to sue a client for payment
money. telling Toboroff of services that he'd re-
there were "reasons" he quested and we'd per-
didn't want to. Then. after the opportunit OFFICE SPACE
y The "office" in Epstein's house. tt :as no timed ... without issue
for new investors was closed. codnv on the performance: says Forsb
estors comp uters. but it does have erg. In
recall Epstein announcing that he'd a desk that the end the matter was settled. but
found Epstein tells people once belonged to banker Ep-
one at last: Dick Snyder. then C.E.O 1. P. Morgan. and - the largest Perna rug stein claims he now has no recollectio
. of n
the publisher Simon do Schuster. who you'll ever see in a mate home." of it.
want-
ed to put up approximately $500.000. (Nei- The incident is ore of a number of disputes
ther Epstein nor Snyder can now Epstein has become embroiled in. Some are
recall Sources say Epstein Nosed that he could
the investment. Yet in the 1989 depo for anus so tiny as to be baffling: for instance.
sition
Epstein said that he had recruited Say- be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" Epstein sued investment adviser Herbert
ideas about inwstments. "%ants had a
der, whom he had met socially, into the cost- Clam, who sold hin the Palm Beach house in
pk of bad investments, and Jeffrey clean
deal.) ed 1990. for 513,444—Epstein claimed this was
those up right away. says a boner assocs
According to a source. Toboroff and Ne- .• owed him for furnishings removed by Glass.
ate of Epstein's.
deli:ander told Epstein that Snyder was too In 1998 the US. Attorney's Office sued
lam but. without their realizing it. Hoffen- Before he signed on with Wooer. Epstein
had sclera' meetings with Harold Epstein for illegally subletting the forma
telg has claimed. Snyder wrote a check to Levin then home of the deputy consul general of Iran
head of Wexner Investments, in which
Hoffenberg and bought out some of his in- he to attorney' Ivan Fisher and others. Ensc _ i%
enunciated ideas about currencies :hat
vestment. But then Snyder wanted out. Levin paid $15,000 a month in rent to the
found incomprehensible. "In fad;' says Fishe r
- Nederiander started to get these irate some- Department, but he charged in`
Wee his colleagues 570.000. mouth the
one who used to waft very closely with
calls from (Snyder.) who wasn't part of the
ner. "almo st everyo ne at the Limited won- terms of the agreement are sealed.
a deal, saying he was owed all this money: dead who Epste
says someone dose to the deal. Tobo in was: he literally came coact ruled against Epstein.
toff out of nowhere." 4;
are: tire baffled. Werner offers some insight user hh '7%
"Everyone was MPOOkaan to wh IPs combatiwt9 telM9 4700 fflY Pilt)e
"1
.,nde tgit l,Osource close to Hoffenberg t:
s ;1}nberg paid Snyder off.
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Jeffrey Epstein was "arrogant" and "not a good fit:' The
spokesperson adrnits that it is "infrequent"
for board members not to be renominated
he is winning. tabether in conversations or after neb one
term.
negotie/kek he akeys stands baar and Iets Stilt, the recent spare of publicity Ep-
the orher person determine the styk and stein hes inspired FASH1ON
does not stem to have
manna of die eonvasaam or negotiation. rand him. In C.nn Ben Mink's Delte IX Linie hom Dalva
November he was sponed in
And thea he responds in their sak. Jeffrey the front row of the gL 1UC ord LA age to wapeiocom lor ten',
Vietabis Secret fashion
sea it in chivabeus tamis. He does not piek show at New
York's Laingron Avenue Ar- coll IXO.USALEtl; Deborah wamt Ra. Art
a fight, but if diere isa flik, he twill Iet you mory; Me (he Agent')_
around the same time the usual co- Pogo 1hØ Heem tref kom Omme
choose your soapos:' terie of friends and beatnik' women ware Heorn, MC-acc.:d 22.377-0701: lor Roy-Bon
One case is redier more serious. Currendy, whisked off ~am ooi 888•LIDIOMCA
to Link St. James (which he
Citibank is sving Epstein for defaulting on tell: papte has Per 11.3:POw Comoors &mini* Annal
been reneed Link Stiel!) din
loens from ise pfivete-banking arm for 520 for a long weekend freon Emecno innen bo-O~ robormade:
. Web laan aispentlort korn :akered
million: Epstein claims that Ciáhank !banks to Epstein's introductions, sa»
&ent induced" him into borrowing the Martin Rob Rob, toa Oorn. Ce, ~ron lor vleier
Nowalk the biolottist finds himself sch.ofer monogaam
money kr investments. Citibank disputes this staving Perge IllOt Por Coca's diet
trom Princeton to Hanard, where
charge. he is astiming the joint position of profes- by Thomas Pink: tot he
Tbc legal papers fa eraan case offer a sor of mathematics and Gereis Amon: M by OKNY;
professor of biolo- inpik cuts N~ok:~
are window into Epstein's finanes. In 1995, gy. Epstein has
pedged at kast 525 million Ø ~ad bon Oom
Epstein stopped pains rent to his landlord, to Harvard to
ereare the Epstein Program .g.III: Is Glounam cad
ts nonprofit Munisipal Arts Society, for his for Mathema
ttc-al Daim' and Evolutionary »ne Reythaeg st,ted b jan,
dB* in the Yillard House. He daimed that Dynamiek and Henna
Epstein will have an office
ney west braking the terms of the lease by at the universit Page Ikon Dyed by Am" Grol, tor En*. bc
y. The program will be &dit Per at For Are Homes G. Simone& Design*
ot lening his staff in at night. The case was cated to searchin
g tbr naturis algorithms, a Kor( ooit. by ~moer. e& °78-499.79.5.
centually saded Howeven one of the papers pursuit that is
a specials). of Nowak's. For Per 220: Bemodefte Paris
(led in this dispute is Epsteint firarsval state- Epstein this Donna Koon Nr. York non
must be the stamras of eren-
aent for 1988. in which he claimed to be thing he bas 4om Oono Kam New Yer.
eerled toward: he hat been
sones 520 million. He listed that he mened seen ,:ons n:6~a ond Rose:•
prol* displaying Hanard president Gonore. WYC. Rad Salt
57 million in securities. SI million in cash. Larry
Sum eerst lener of commitment as .heen mee km Hem 8«.».
kro in residential property (although he if he cad:
gun believe ir is reel. He says he %'t eed kome. LA: Chanel
Wd zouten that he had already bougie the was reluctan: ~Ir, wo Ooms (mei
to hem his name anached to
lome in Palm Beach), and 511 million in the program ootronei rohor sm. or ca 800.554-0005:
. bul Summen persuaded him.
aber assets. ineluding his investment in He rang his Narnieo Rodrinee dam rana K.n. Song
mentor IYetner about it. and
Rddell. A co-investor in Riddell sas: "The Wang CML ord Coletol Cnorlore N.C.:
told han ir was all acht. lankortion Ins Rombog or ome a. Ø'o m
company had been bought with a huge An insetiabk. restless mak ahvays on the 3eeptkel Goachnon NYC. Ghurto .goott fr.:
anount of dek. and ir want public. to it move. Epstein Gnure. NYC. or ca soo...,r4ss
builds a tremendous amount
Yes meaninglas Eo :mach a fleurt like that to of downtime Por 2111: Ars Øre rom reed for
imo his hectic wak schedule.
the priee it tost was about 51.2 mil- Ter these is somethin Seint Loutere Rive Gambe au Vno Sta—
g almost programmed
Iiin" The co-investors bought out Epstein's about his retentio
n: it's as if even plee- LEE! taan Eo.
etc. And Harem
ba-wan
share in Riddefi in 1995 for appnatimately sure has
to be measured in terms of self- Page 22át osar Canon
53 million. Ar kat time, when Epstein was improve
ment. Nowak sas Mat. when he terRld bv Linda Mechena toe
asked. as a routine matten to sige a paper goes ond poen b,DRa
to stay with Epstein in the Caribbean.
garanteeing be had acces: to a kw million they'll set up Golabeffia. kon Dokt
at siv and. as the sun rises.
dollars in case of am' subsequent disputes have thme-ho Gobbona Benin. lik ~hl,
ur comersations about thcoret- by Wendy Web., boen Werd
mes the sale prise. Wener signed for him. teat physics.
"Thea heil go oir and do ame woaer. LA: aha: br Jimmy 'tm -reet-.
Epstein has etplained that tau was because work. re-appea •-nlie. tata Hik
r. and wet talk somt more.-
the co-irwestors innted an inde-insla against Another person who went to the island Pars 2M-77: Oen Affecit Gems net from
being sued by Wenkt One of the intresten wilt Epstein. Gooit oom laad& or go to mengratcom
Maxwell. and snaai beautiful %home boot kom
verb this "bullshit." women rememben Chat the women "sas Verloot bonis
around one night teasing hint about 'he ~Mik oe go lo
E ilsteins appointment to the baard of kinds of grasping nomen
New York's Rockefeller University in to date him.
2000 brought him into &stater sosial promi- He's like a king
who might want
He was amused by the idea. ...
ennuonocetom
er col 8884YERSACE
Pop* 272-71:
in his own world.- ~bat Ti ra
nente. Boasting such social names as Nancy Many people commiesu theses somt-
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