Epstein Secrets

ulent 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 I981 I.A.G. received an in. vestment from Stroll of 5450.000.

d rumor swirl around Epstein. Here are some of the hard facts about Epstein—ones that he doesn't mind people knowing: He—grew Lip middle-class in Brcoklyn. His father worked for the city's '3 4 ,.C2t 2003 parks department. His parents viewed educa- tion as "the way out" for him and his young- er bro

me into focus, Building a life of extravagance He was born blue-collar in 1953, the son of a New York City parks department employee, and raised in Brookiyn’s Coney Island neighbor- hood. He left college without a bachelor’s degree but became a math teacher at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan.

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to make money. In 1982, Epstein sold his wealthy friends, his friends’ wealthy relatives, and others on an oil-drilling deal. One of the investors, Michael Stroll, had run Williams Electronics, an entertainment company known for the pinball machines it made. Stroll put $450,000 into the oil deal. But in 1984,