Epstein Secrets

ck, the press baron and 143 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022110 --- PAGE BREAK --- James PATTERSON Epstein’s Palm Beach neighbor—who was also a step-uncle of Vicky Ward’s husband— to ask Ward to drop the story. But Ward was tenacious, and what she came back with was dynamite. More interesting and much more salacious th

l men drawn to him? And where did those beautiful women come from? Almost immediately, Epstein began a campaign to discredit Ward. He prevailed upon Conrad Black, the press baron and 143 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022110 --- PAGE BREAK --- James PATTERSON Epstein’s Palm Beach neighbor—who was also a step-uncle of Vi

tained. Vicky Ward: October 2002 pstein went out of his way to spin the Vanity Fair story to ; his own ends, and soon after she got the assignment, Vicky st : <4 Ward’s phone began to ring off the hook: calls from Ace | Greenberg and Jimmy Cayne, the current head of Bear Stearns; from Les Wexner; from

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e and then sent a $U542,869.57 bill to his company. Photo: Reuters Andrew Clark in Chicago May 12, 2007 EVEN by the exacting social standards of Conrad Black, it was a gathering of quite staggering opulence. There were six billionaires in the room - plus a Rockefeller, a Rothschild, a selection of Americ

d a lawyer for the express purpose of helping to "ward off the media," because she did not want any publ

phenomenon, as he made clear in his conversation with me. Also included in that category, at least to some degree, are Michael Milken, the financier; Conrad Black, the newspaper mogul; and Julian Assange of Wikileaks. A third category would include people who were somewhat well known, but whose trial brought t

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