Epstein Secrets

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tretch of Fifth Avenue between 59th Street and 42nd Street is home to some of the city's most storied—and high-end— shopping, from Holly Golightly's Tiffany & Co. to Bergdorf Goodman and Henri Bendel. EXPLORE Next, head over to Grand Central Terminal—the Beaux Arts masterpiece is full of opulent flourishes,

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" jorvy ipste r.'t, Pm-t BCCC1 f:Or+C Sp }n Ntw "He's yen/enigmatic:Rosa Monckton told Vanity Fair in 2003. Monckton was the former British CEO of Tiffany & Co. and confidante to the late Princess Diana. She was also a close friend of Epstein's since the 1980s. "He never reveals his hand ... He's a classic I

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

- ies among New York's moneyed world. People know snippets, but few know the whole. "He's very enigmatic," says Rosa Monckton, the former C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K. and a close friend since the early 1980s. "You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's some