Epstein Secrets

a phone from the backseat to the front.) In 1976, another Dalton father, asking "wouldn't you rather be rich than be a teacher?" introduced him to Bear Stern's chief Ace Greenberg, a conversation Epstein recounts as this: Greenberg: "Everyone tells me you're super smart in math and you're Jewish and you'r

tle beyond his strict realm seems palatable or even in a sense familiar to him. He's a foreigner out here. Not too long ago, I met him for lunch in the West Village, the first time in more than ten years, he said, he'd been out to lunch in a restaurant (a not particularly pleasant experience for him and we were

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,

nearly a billion dollars from his real-estate-magnate grandfather, the developer of some of the most beautiful Art Deco buildings on Park Avenue and the West Village. Advance men for President Clinton. Few other guys can get in, except for a couple of model wranglers, those handsome, usually South American guys

ittle beyond his strict realm seems palatable or even in a sense familiar to him. He’s a foreigner out here. Not too long ago, I met him for lunch in the West Village, the first time in more than ten years, he said, he’d been out to lunch in a restaurant (a not particularly pleasant experience for him and we were o

n a phone from the backseat to the front.) In 1976, another Dalton father, asking “wouldn’t you rather be rich than be a teacher?” introduced him to Bear Stern’s chief Ace Greenberg, a conversation Epstein recounts as this: Greenberg: “Everyone tells me you’re super smart in math and you’re Jewish and you’re

be a hypocrite. I wanted to be free. I was not remotely ambivalent about what I wanted: to be free. That was the reason to make money.” His rise at Bear Sterns was a steep one. And he soon became the protégée of Jimmy Cayne (also hired by Ace Greenberg on a whim—he met him in a bridge game—who would go on to