Epstein Secrets

get to sleep before 3 a.m. JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, 41. Since dropping out of high school, he's built a four-restaurant empire with eateries in the Bronx, Harlem, Sutton Place and City Island. Pro: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Con: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Full Text

meantime. howc. zr. there's a wed- ding to plan. Jeffrey Epstein Cil•TIVI ED FROM %tot , a, Bear Stearns and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear Steams on March 1_. The S.E.C. was tipped oil that Epstein had information on insider trading at Bear Steams. and it was therefore obliged to question hi

ool. While there he began tutoring the son of Bear Steams chairman Ace Greenberg and was friendly with a daugh- ter of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear Stearns. where. under the mentorship of both Greenberg and current Bear Steams C.E.O. James Caync. he did well enough to become a limited partner—a rung b

ed in him. saying. for example. that he had left Bear Stearns in 1981 after he was discovered ex- ecuting "illegal operations: Several of Epstein, Lar Stearns contem- poraries recall that Epstein left the compa- ny very suddenly. Wthin the company there were rumors also that he was involved in a technical

and his security detail when he made "one brief visit" to Mr. Epstein's home. That was around the same time as a meeting in Mt Clinton's office in Harlem in 2002, Mt Lire& said. "He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Me

at Manhattan's exclusive Dalton School between 1973 and 1975, according to a 2002 New York magazine profile, where his students included the son of Bear Steams Chairman Alan Greenberg. He joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a lowly junior assistant to a floor trader. In a swift rise, trading options, he made pa

his skills. He left in 1981 to set up J. Epstein & Co., but one bank executive said he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and was a client until Bear Stearns' demise. Epstein's money management business had an exclusive focus: It would serve only billionaires. Epstein reportedly made all the investment ca

and his security detail when he made "one brief visit" to Mr. Epstein's home. That was around the same time as a meeting in Mr. Clinton's office in Harlem in 2002, Mr. Urefia said. "He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New

at Manhattan's exclusive Dalton School between 1973 and 1975, according to a 2002 New York magazine profile, where his students included the son of Bear Steams Chairman Alan Greenberg. He joined Bear Steams in 1976 as a lowly junior assistant to a floor trader. In a swift rise, trading options, he made par

his skills. He left in 1981 to set up J. Epstein & Co., but one bank executive said he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and was a client until Bear Stearns' demise. Epstein's money management business had an exclusive focus: It would serve only billionaires. Epstein reportedly made all the investment ca

in Islands resident, while denying that his interest in the matter was influenced by tens of thousands of dollars donated by Virgin Islanders to the Harlem Democrat's recent re-election campaigns. As The New York Sun reported in front-page stories in 2003, tax breaks offered by the Virgin Islands's Ec

y Committee at Harvard. His philanthropic affiliations include both the Wexner Foundation and The COUQ Foundation. Mr. Epstein started his career at Bear Steams with an educational background in physics. He was elected to the Board in October 2001. 1 posted on 10/20/2002 8:49:45 AM PDT by Liz [ Post Reply I

ture at the Mercer Hotel, where he prefers to have brealcfast and meetings when he's in town, instead of in his office at Clinton's headquarters in Harlem. He has a pied-a-terre under renovation in New York—which he splits with Leonardo DiCaprio—but is looking for something nicer. He offered $17 millio

et. But a report in the March issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands this week, unmasks Epstein's mystery image. Epstein wasn't exactly the top gun at Bear Steams, as he claims - and left the firm amid a swirl of rumors and an • SEC violation, the article said. His mentor in high finance was Steve Hoffenberg,

get to sleep before 3 a.m. JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, 41. Since dropping out of high school, he's built a four-restaurant empire with eateries in the Bronx, Harlem, Sutton Place and City Island. Pro: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Con: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Full Text

Islands-based money-management firm, Financial Trust Company, is listed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a stakeholder in Bear Stearns's High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund, which became much easier to refer to in recent weeks as "Bear Stearns' collapsing h