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SPOILS OF SUCCESS 
Awn tqr Epstein's 70-
acre island. Little St. 
lames. in the U.S. Virgin 
Islands—he now calls 
it Little St. Jett 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. 
Larry Summers. Harvard's current presi-
dent. Harvard law professor Alan Dersho-
witz says. "I'm on my 20th book.... The 
only person outside of my immediate family 
that I send drafts to is Jeffrey." Real-estate 
developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose, 
who has %tacked 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. 
EdeIn= and 3ilunay Gel 
Mann. and mathematical 
biologist Martin Nowak. 
When these men describe 
Epstein. they talk about 
**energy" and "curiosity: as 
well as a love for theoreti-
cal physics that they don't 
ordinarily find in laymen. 
Ge11-Mann rather sweetly 
mentions that **there are al-
ways pretty ladies around" 
when he goes to dinner cht 
Epstein. and he's under the impression that 
Epstein's clients include the Queen of En-
gland. 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 sug-
gests that Wexner "made him." "I had real-
ly rich clients before:' he has said. Yet he 
does not deny that he and Wexner have a 
special relationship. Epstein secs it as a 
partnership of equals. "People have said it's 
like we have one brain between two of us: 
"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. 
but Epstein has said that he now owns the 
house. 
Wexner trusts Epstein so completely 
that he has assigned him the power of fidu-
ciary over all of his private trusts and foun-
dations, says a source close to Wexner. In 
1992. Epstein even persuaded Wexner to 
put him on the board of the Wexner Foun-
dation in place of Warices ailing mother. 
Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to 
be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled 
by splitting the foundation in two. 
Epstein does not care that he comes be-
tween family members. In fact, he sees it 
as his job. He tells people. "I am there to .1 
represent my client. and if my client needs 
protecting—sometimes even from his own 
family-then it's often better that people 
hate me, not the client." 
"You've probably heard I'm vicious ins 
my representation of my clients,- he tells
people proudly; Leah Kiernan describes his
haggling over art prices as something like ; 
a scene out of the movie Mad Mar Be-
yond Thunderdome. Even a former mentor 
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says he's seen "the dark side- of Epstein. 5
and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meet-
ing in which Epstein chewed out a team :. 
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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: "1 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 interestel in taking flying lessons?' 
Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling 
her that her. daughter. Domenica. who suf-
. krs 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 air-
line tickets of good friends by affixing first-
class stickers: the only problem was that the 
stickers turned out to be unofficial. Some-
times the technique ‘Corked. 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 knowiedge 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. 
Fl
pstein is known about town 
as a man who loves wom-
en—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 Victo-
ria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls 
being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to 
a concert 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 
tilled. she says. with young Russian mod-
els. "Some of the guests were horrified," 
the woman says. 
"He's reckless," says a former business 
associate, "and he's gotten more so. Mon-
ey does that to you. He's breaking the oath 
he made to himself—that he would never 
media. Right now, in the wake of the pub-
licity following his trip with Clinton, he 
must be in a very difficult place." 
A
ccording to S.E.C. and 
other legal documents un-
earthed by Vanity Fair, 
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 Hoffen-
berg, 57, who, for a few months before the 
S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 093, was 
trying to buy the New York Asst. He is cur-
rently incarcerated in the Federal Medical 
Center in Devens. Massachusetts, serving a 
20-year sentence for bilking investors out of 
more than 5450 trillion in one of the largest 
Ponzi schemes in American history. 
When Epstein met Hoffenberg in Lon-
don 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 peo-
ple 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 Man-
hanan'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 Brook-
lyn. According to Hotlenberg. the two men 
were introduced by Douglas Leese. a de-
fense contractor. Epstein has said they were 
introduced by John Mitchell. the late attor-
ney. general. 
Epstein had been running International 
Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.). a consulting 
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 dep-
osition he testified that he spent SO per-
cent of his time helping people 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 investors. A lawsuit that 
Michael Stroll. the former head of Wil-
liams Electronics Inc.. filed against Epstein 
shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an in-
vestment from Stroll of S450,000. 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 oth-
er 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 mil-
Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really 
liked Jeffrey.... Jeffrey has a way of getting 
under your skin, and he was under Hof-
fenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg 
were Epstein's social connections; they in-
cluded oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the 
designer Vera) and Mohan Murjani, whose 
clothing company grew into Gloria Van-
derbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then. 
One friend recalls that when he took Cana-
dian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he 
hired a Rolls-Royce especially for the oc-
casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) 
In 198'Z Hoffenberg. according to sources, 
set Epstein up in the offices he still occu-
pies in the Villard House. on Madison Av-
enue, across a courtyard from the restaurant 
Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new pro-
tégé as a consultant at 525.000 a month. 
and the relationship flourished. "They trav-
eled everywhere together—on Hoffinberis 
plane. all around the world, they were al-
ways 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 ex-
ecuting "illegal operations.-
Several of Epstein's Eizar Stearns contem-
poraries recall that Epstein left the compa-
ny very suddenly: Within the company there 
were rumors also that he was involved in a 
technical infringement. and it was thought 
that the executive committee asked that he 
resign after his two supporters. Ace Green-
berg and Jimmy Clyne. were outnumbered. 
Greenberg says he can't recall this: Cayne 
denies it happened. and Epstein has de-
nied 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' manage-
ment 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.— let. 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 ease in Philadelphia. 
In 1981 the SEC's Jonathan Harris and 
Robert Blackburn took Epstein's testimony 
and that of other Bear Steams employees in 
part of what became a protracted case 
about insider trading around a tender offer 
placed on March IL 1981. by the Seagram 
Company Li.J. for St. Joe Minerals Corp. 
Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in-
vestors 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 in-
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contains a parody of Affleck and Matt Da-
mon making Good Will Hunting 11, Affleck 
says to Damon, "What do I keep telling you? 
You gotta do the safe picture, then you do 
the art picture. Then sometimes you gotta 
do the payback picture because your friend 
says you owe him. Then sometimes you got-
ta go back to the null." 
"Sometimes you do Reindeer Gaines," 
Damon says derisively. 
"That's just mean," Aifieck whines. 
But it's a pretty accurate description of 
his career to date. "Ben takes these franchise 
properties so he can go and experiment," 
says Harvey Weinstein. 
"He believes in trying to stretch himself 
and notikecp doing the same thing," ob-
serves Bruce Willis. who starred with Aleck 
in Armageddon. "He's an awesome actor, 
and I think he's going to do great things." 
Several years ago, in a televised interview 
on Inside the Anon Studio, Affleck said that 
his goal was to make big commercial movies. 
He has since rested his ambitions. "That's 
an adolescent aspiration, in a way. I'd 
rather be in movies like Magnolia, which I 
think is a towering achievement. I'll con-
tinue to act, but I won't act in a way that 
requires me to hang my name out there 
and do a lot of publicity. I'll do character 
roles and focus on writing and directing. It 
doesn't require the same kinds of sacri-
fice, in terms of quality of life and person-
al life, and it's a more holistic approach to 
the process. It's become increasingly frus-
trating for me to have my role in the story-
telling process limited to one character. You 
have to be respectful and judicious about 
your input when is somebody else's project." 
Affleck has always impressed colleagues 
with his voracious appetite for information 
and skills. "He has made it a point to learn 
everything he can about how the business 
works—not just the craft of acting, but 
from the producing standpoint, from the 
studio standpoint," says Jon Gordon, exec-
utive vice president of production at Mira-
max. "He knows how deals work. It's what 
sets him apart. If he wanted to run a studio 
at some point, he could. He's about as 
sharp as they come 
A
°leek is already juggling his acting with 
screenwriting and such other commit-
ments as Project Greenlight. the contest he 
and Damon started to help launch the ca-
reers of young filmmakers. Afileck's friends 
are certain net be directing soon. "There's 
no question," Weinstein says. "Both he and 
Matt. I think they're going to rewrite the 
rules. These guys can fix anything. There'll 
be home runs in both instances?' 
But there are other thoughts tickling the 
back of Affleck's mind as well. A passion-
ate liberal, he campaigned for Al Gore. 
cares deeply about political issues. and is 
extremely well informed. He entertains him-
self by writing imaginary political speeches 
in his head. He would rather discuss Acts 
in Africa than his movie career. 
When Lopez goes to Affieck's mother's 
house for dinner. Weinstein reports. "J.Lo 
told me that the conversation at the table is 
always about politics—about government 
initiatives. educational initiatives. what's go-
ing on in the day.-
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in, without any of the kind of common: 
people make—without being beholden 
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the win-at-all-costs mentality." 
And the invasion of privacy would he 
nothing new. "What are you going to say 
about me that hasn't already been said? I 
don't cheat, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. 
I live a clean lik," Mika says, his eyes 
twinkling. 
"He's only 30 years old," says Jennifer 
Todd, who co-produced Boiler Room. "He 
still has an enormous amount of time to 
do things?' 
Tune, and drive.."I think he's incredibly 
hungry," says Sean Bailey. who founded 
the media and production company Live-
Planet with Affleck, Damon, and Chris 
Moore. "I think the guy has very grand 
aspirations. I don't think he's going to be 
content with just being a movie star. He 
knows he has the potential to do very big 
things." 
Such ambitions could be derailed by any 
number of miscalculations. including a pd. 
sate life that generates too many sensational 
headlines, but Affieck has a clear idea of 
the ultimate goal. "On my deathbed. I have 
to be one who looks back and feels I lived 
a good and substantial and meaningful 
Ilk.- he says. 
In the meantime. however there's a wed-
ding to plan. Z 
Jeffrey Epstein 
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s Bear Stearns 
and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear 
Steams on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped 
oil that Epstein had information on insider 
trading at Bear Stearns. and it was therefore 
obliged to question him. In his S.E.C. testi-
mony, given on April I. 1981, Epstein claimed 
that he had found "offensive" the way Bear 
Stearns management had handled a disci-
plinary action following its discovery that he 
had committed a possible "Rea D" viola-
tion—evidently he had lent money to his clos-
est friend. (In the 1989 deposition he said 
that he'd lent approximately $20.000 to War-
m Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an action 
could have been considered improper, al-
though Epstein claimed he had not realized 
this until afterward. 
According to Epstein. Bear Stearns man-
agement had questioned him about the loan 
_ 
. 
Alvin Einbender.. In his 1989 deposition Ep-
stein recalled that the partner who had made 
an "issue" of the matter was Marvin David-
son. On March 9. Epstein said. he had met 
with Tarnopol and Einbendcr again. and the 
two partners told him that the oxalate com-
mittee had weighed the offense. together with 
previous "carelessness" over expenses. and 
he would be lined 51.500. 
"There was discussion whether, in fact. I 
had ever put in an airline ticket for some-
one else and not myself and I said that it 
was possible. ... since my secretary han-
dles my expenses?' Epstein told the S.E.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 con-
nection between Epstein's leaving and the 
alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals 
by other people at Bear Steams: 
nection with your reasons for leaving the firm? 
A: I'm aware that there were many rumors. 
Q: What were the rumors ynu heard? 
A: Nothing to do with St. Joe. 
Q: Can you relate what you heard? 
A: It was having to do with an Wien affair 
with a secretary. 
Q: Have you heard any other rumors suggest-
ing that you had made a presentation or com-
munication to the Executive Committee con-
cerning alleged improprieties by other mem-
bers or employees of Bear Stearns? 
A: I. in fact, haw heard that rumor, but it's been 
from Mr. Harris in our conversation last week. 
Q Have you heard it from anyone else? 
A: No. 
A little later the interview focuses on 
James Caync: 
Q: Did you ever hear while you were at Bear 
Steams that Mr. Cayne may have trader or iv. 
sider information in connection with Si 
t- • 
Minerals Corporation? 
A: No. 
Q: Did Mr. Cayne ever have any conversation 
with you about SI Joe Minerals? 
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Jeffrey Epstein 
lions between Mr. Cayne and anyone else re-
garding St. Joe Minerals? 
A: No. 
And still later in the questioning comes this 
exchange: 
Q: Have you had any type of business deal-
ings with Mr. Cayne? 
A: There's no relationship with Bear Steams. 
Q: Pardon? 
A: Other than Bear Steams, 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 participat-
ing inpny business venture with Mr. Cayne? 
A: Nd. 
Q: Have you had any business participations 
with Mr. Therm? 
A: No; nor do I anticipate any. 
Q: Mr. Epstein. did anyone at Bear Steams 
tell you in words or substance that you should 
not divulge anything about St. Joe Minerals to 
the staff of the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission? 
A: No. 
Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way 
either directly or indirectly, in words or sub-
stance. that your compensation for this past 
year or any future monies 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 be-
ing approximately S100.000. 
The S.E.C. never brought any charges 
against anyone at Bear Stearns for insider 
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 32.500 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. 
O
ne of Epstein's first assignments for Hof-
fenbcrg was to mastermind doomed bids 
to take over Pan American World Airways in 
1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. 
Hofknberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before 
a grand jury in Illinois that Epstein came up 
with the idea of financing these bids through 
Towers's acquisition 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 companies 
and Towers Financial. supposedly to make a 
profit for us and for the companies," Hoffen-
berg reportedly told the grand jury. He also 
ecuting the schemes, although, having no 
broker's license, he had to rely on others to 
make the trades. Much of Hoffenberg's sub-
sequent 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 Rich-
ard Allen, the former treasurer of United 
Fire, recalls seeing Epstein two or three 
times at the company. He and another a-
ecutive say they had direct dealing with Ep-
stein 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 "mak-
ing the orders." He could not recall whether 
he had chosen the brokers used. 
To win approval from the Illinois insur-
ance regulators for Towers's acquisition of 
the companies, Hoffenberg promised to in-
ject S3 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 S3 million of the insurance 
companies bonds to buy Pan Am and Em-
ery 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 & Ren-
shaw.-  Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then. 
said Hoffenbetg, while making it appear as 
though they were investing the bonds in 
much staler financial instruments, they used 
them as collateral to buy the stock. -Ep-
stein was the person in charge or the trans-
actions. and Mitchell Bracer was assisting 
him with it in coordination on behalf or the 
insurance companies' money." Hoffinberg, 
claimed at the time. 
At one point. according to Hoffinberg. a 
broker forged the documents necessary for a 
SI.S million check to be written on insurance-
company funds. The check was used to buy 
more stock in the takeover targets. Mean-
while. in order to throw the insurance regula-
tors off the S 1.8 million was reported us being 
safely invested in a money-market account. 
United Fire's former chief financial officer 
Daniel Payton confirms part of Hotknberg's 
account. He says he recalls making one or 
two telephone calls to Epstein tat Rotten-
berg'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 mar-
gin account to take some positions in ... 
Emery and Pan Am." says Payton. 
Epstein's extraordinary creativity was, ac-
cording to Hoffenberg, responsible for the 
purchase by the insurance companies of a 
$500,000 bond, with no money down. "Ep-
stein created a great scheme to purchase a 
5500.000 treasury bond that would not be 
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 deal-
ings with anyone from the insurance com-
panies. But Richard Allen says he recalls 
talking to Epstein at Hofknberg's direction 
and telling him it was urgent they retrieve 
the missing bonds for a stale examination. 
According to Allen, Epstein said, "We'll get 
them back." He had "kind of a flippant atti-
tude," says Allen. "They never came back." 
E
pstein, according to Hoffenberg, also 
came up with a scheme to manipulate 
the price of Emery Freight stock in an at-
tempt to minimize the losses that occurred 
when HotTenberg's bid went wrong and the 
share price began to fall. This was alleged to 
have imohed multiple clients' accounts con-
trolled by Epstein. 
Eventually. in 1991, insurance regulators in 
ffiinois sued Hoffenberg. He settled the case. 
and Epstein. who was only a paid consul-
tant, 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 vety 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 remem-
ber.... 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 apinst Hoffenberg it would 
seem the government was perhaps a bit lazy;" 
says David Lewis. who represented Mitchell 
Bruer. "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 Hoffenbetg'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 Horknberg says. "In a crim-
inal 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." 
E
pstein was involved with Hoffcnberg in 
other questionable transactions. Finan-
cial records show that in 1988 Epstein in-
vested S1.6 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 Neder-
!ander and Toboroff that he had raised his 
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whose identity they could not be allowed to 
know. But Hof enberg has claimed the mon-
ey came from him, and Towers's financial 
statements for that year show a loan to Ep-
stein of $400,000. (Epstein has said he 
can't remember the details and has dis-
puted 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 
Pennsylvania chemical company. The plan 
was to group together with two other parties 
to take a substantial declared position in the 
stock. According to a source. Epstein was 
supposed tp help Nederlander and Toboroff 
raise SIS million. He seemed to fail to find 
other investors, say those familiar with the 
deal. (Epstein has said he was merely an in-
vestor.) He invested SI million, which he 
told his co-investors was his own money. 
But in his 1989 deposi-
tion he said that he put 
in only S300,000 of his 
own money. Where did 
the rest come from? Hof-
Feilberg 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 ini-
tially 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 S: Schuster. who want-
ed to put up approximately S500.000. (Nei-
ther Epstein nor Snyder can now recall 
the investment. Yet in the 1989 deposition 
Epstein said that he had recruited Sny-
der, whom he had met socially. into the 
deal.) 
According to a source. Toboroff and Ne-
derlander told Epstein that Snyder was too 
late. but, without their realizing it. Hoffen-
herg has claimed, Snyder wrote a check to 
lioffenberg and bought out some of his in-
vestment. But then Snyder wanted out. 
"Nederlander started to get these irate 
calls from [Snyder.' who wasn't part of the 
deal, saying be was owed all this money." 
; says someone close to the deal. Toboroff 
Tug as Nederlander and Toboroff were 
j growing wary of Epstein, he became in-
creasingly involved with Leslie Werner, whom 
he had met through insurance executive 
Robert Meister and his late wile. Epstein has 
told people that he met Wexner 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 approach-
ing. His story has subsequently changed. 
When asked if Wexner knew about his con-
nection to Hoffenberg, 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 Ep-
stein and Wexner actually met. there was 
an immediate and strong personal chem-
istry. Werner says he thinks Epstein is "very 
smart with a combination of excellent judg-
ment and unusually high standards. Also. 
he is always a most loyal friend." 
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 rue 
you'll ever see in a ornate home 
Sources say Epstein proved that he could 
be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" 
ideas about investments. "Wexner had a cou-
ple of bad investments. and Jeffrey cleaned 
those up right away." says a former associ-
ate or Epstein's. 
Before he signed on with Wexner. Epstein 
had several ineetines with Harold Levin. then 
head of Wexner Investments, in which he 
enunciated ideas about currencies that Lain 
found incommthensibk. "In W." says some-
one who used to work very closely with Wex-
ner. "almost everyone at the Limited won-
dered who Epstein was: he literally came 
out of nowhere." 
uch of Epstein's work is related to clean-
ing up, tightening budgets, and efficien-
cies. One person who worked for Werner and 
who saw a contract drawn up between the 
two men says Epstein is involved in "every-
thing, not just a little here. a little there. 
Everything!" In addition, he says. "Wexner 
likes having a hatchet man.... Whenever 
there is ditty work to be done he'd stick Jef-
frey 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 aerate was 
scared to death of." says a former employee. 
Meanwhile. he is also less than popular 
with some people outside %amt.'s company 
with whom he now deals. "He 'inserted' 
himself into the construction process of Les-
lie Weamer's yacht.... That resulted in liti-
gation down the road between Mr. Wexner 
and the shipyard that 
eventually built the ves-
sel: says Lars Forsberg. 
a lawyer whose firm at 
the rime. Dickerson and 
was hired to deal 
with litigation stemming 
from the construction 
of Wexner's Limitless—
at 3IS feet. one of the 
'largest private yachts in 
the world. Evidently. Ep-
stein stalled on paying 
Dickerson and Reily for 
its work "It's pntably 
once 
twice in my le-
gal career that I've had 
to sue a client for payment 
of services that he'd re-
quested and we'd per-
formed ... without issue 
on the performance." says Forsberg. In 
the end the matter was settled. but Ep-
stein claims he now has no recollection 
of it. 
The incident is one of a number of disputes 
Epstcin has become embroiled in. Some are 
for sums so tiny as to be baffling: for instance. 
Epstein sued investment adviser Herbert 
Glass, who sold him the Palm Beach house in 
1990. for 513,444—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. EPA. CIO 
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pstein's appointment to the board of 
New York's Rockefeller University in 
2000 brought him into greater social promi-
nence. Boasting such social names as Nancy 
Kissinger. Brooke Astor, and Robert Bass. 
the board also includes such pre-eminent 
scientists as Nobel laureate Joseph Gold-
stein. "Epstein was thrilled to be elected." 
says someone who knows him. 
After one term Epstein resigned. Accord-
ing to New York magazine, this was because 
he didn't like to wear a suit to meetings. A 
Jeffrey Epstein 
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 defaulting on 
loans from its private-banking arm for S20 
million. Epstein claims that Citibank "fraud-
ulent induced" him into borrowing the 
moire for investments. Citibank disputes this 
charge. 
The legal papers for another case offer a 
rare window into Epstein's finances. In 1995, 
Epstein stopped paying rent to his landlord, 
the nonprofit Municipal Arts Society, for his 
office in the Vi lard House. 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 state-
ment for 1988. in which he claimed to be 
worth 520 million. He listed that he owned 
57 million in securities, SI million in cash. 
zero in residential property (although he 
told sources that he had already bought the 
was "arrogant" and "not a good lit." The 
spokesperson admits that it is "infrequent" 
for board members not to be renominated 
after only one term. 
Still, the recent spate of publicity Ep-
stein has inspired does not seem to have 
fazed him. In November he was spotted in 
the front row of the Victoria's Secret fashion 
show at New York's Lexington Avenue Ar-
mory; around the same time the usual co-
terie 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 weekend. 
Thanks to Epstein's introductions, says 
Martin Nowak, the biologist finds himself 
moving from Princeton to Harvard. where 
he is assuming the joint position of profes-
sor of mathematics and prokssor of biolo-
• gy. Epstein has pledged at least S25 million 
to Harvard to create the Epstein Program 
for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary 
Dynamics, and Epstein will have an office 
at the university. The program will be dedi-
cated to searching for natures algorithms, a 
pursuit that is a specialty of Nowak's. For 
Epstein this must be the summit of every-
thing 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 
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Epstein has explained that this was because 
work. re-appear. and we'll talk some more." 
the co-investors wanted an indemnity against 
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being sued by Wexner. One of the investors 
with Epstein. Maxwell. and several beautiful 
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around one night teasing him about the 
kinds of grasping women who might want 
to date him. He was amused by the idea.... 
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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, 
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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. 
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In a 2002 New York Magazine article, Donald Trump described long-time friend Epstein as '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. No doubt about it—Jeffrey 
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. 
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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. 
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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 
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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 
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of the charmingly inevitable accidents of Epstein's rise, Greenberg was a senior partner of the house; 
Bear Steams CEO Jimmy Cayne later told New York that Epstein's forte was dealing with wealthier 
clients, helping them with their overall portfolios. Leslie Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, reportedly 
made Epstein his financial adviser and was instrumental in building his fortune. Epstein was no 
footman; he loved luxury and, in his own words, saw himself as a financial architect, someone who 
could show the rich how to live with their money. "I want people to understand the power, the 
responsibility, and the burden of their money," he once wrote. At times, his powers seemed magical. "I 
think it's all done with mirrors," says Michael Stroll, a Chicago businessman who sued Epstein (and 
lost) when an oil deal didn't work out. 
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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 
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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. 
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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, 
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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 
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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 
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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 ' 
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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, 
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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 
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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. 
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Not that he is likely to admit that he did anything wrong. Throughout his ordeal, Epstein maintained the 
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 
whole issue is—it's just mathematics at this point. This is the nature of a successful economy. The more 
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. 
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without search warrant did not violate Fourth Amendment; (2) as matter of first impression, 
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Amendment; (3) officers had probable cause to search vehicle; (4) convictions were supported by 
sufficient evidence; (5) District Court did not ... 
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