Epstein Secrets

clients, and flies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARD explores Epstein's investment career, his ties to retail magnate Leslie Wexner, and his complicated past EFTA01334041 I n Manhattan's Upper

s air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARD explores Epstein's investment career, his ties

rce his air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARD explores Epstein's investment career, his

s it sound as though his job combines the roles of real-estate agent. ac- countant, lawyer, money manager, trustee, and confidant. But, as with lay Gatsby, myths and 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

ture of media coverage. New York magazine was then soliciting him for a profile, as was Vanity Fair, who had assigned the British tabloid reporter, Vicki Ward, to the job. Both profiles—New York's by Landon Thomas—pivot on the Clinton connection and detail the same quandary, how a man without clear instit

n the Clinton connection and detail the same quandary, how a man without clear institutional bona fides nevertheless achieves wealth and influence. Ward—who would more recently assert in the Daily Beast, that she was barred by Vanity Fair from writing about under-age sex evidence (a fact that could

get married, he said he'd rather go back to jail. He is Calvin Harris's song, It Was Acceptable in the 80s, come to life. This is all, of course, a Gatsby-like tale: An enigmatic, and strangely appealing figure, able to invent and inhabit his own world is a mystery to try to decipher. Of course Gatsby

ture of media coverage. New York magazine was then soliciting him for a profile, as was Vanity Fair, who had assigned the British tabloid reporter, Vicki Ward, to the job. Both profiles, New York's by Landon Thomas, pivot on the Clinton connection and detail the same quandary, how a man without clear ins

n the Clinton connection and detail the same quandary, how a man without clear institutional bona fides nevertheless achieves wealth and influence. Ward— who would more recently assert in the Daily Beast, that she was barred by Vanity Fair from writing about under-age sex evidence (a fact that could

d rather go back to jail. He is Calvin Harris's song, It Was Acceptable in the 80s, come to life. This is all, inevitably, a Gatsby-like story. But Gatsby in New York Post and Daily Mail parlance would likely be a freaky financier too. And it's a story about the limitation of journalism, in which the

ck, the press baron and 143 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021999 --- 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

re serious about hi: heavily on him this montl to Vicky Ward, an English ity Fair. He'd meant for it preg

s late twenties and commenced an astonishingly quick rise up the social and media ladders. But where Carter was open and outgoing, Epstein really was Gatsby-like—-very little about him was known. Maybe, Carter thought, Ward could find out. What did Epstein do, exactly, for money? Why was he so secretive?

s late twenties and commenced an astonishingly quick rise up the social and media ladders. But where Carter was open and outgoing, Epstein really was Gatsby-like—very little about him was known. Maybe, Carter thought, Ward could find out. What did Epstein do, exactly, for money? Why was he so secretive?

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

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

nature of media coverage. New York magazine was then soliciting him for a profile, as was Vanity Fair, who had assigned the British tabloid reporter, Vicki Ward, to the job. Both profiles, New York’s by Landon Thomas, pivot on the Clinton connection and detail the same quandary, how a man without clear insti

arried, he said he would rather go back to jail. He is Calvin Harris’s song, It Was Acceptable in the 80s, come to life. This is all, inevitably, a Gatsby-like story. But Gatsby in New York Post and Daily Mail parlance would likely be a freaky financier too. And it’s a story about the limitation of jou

nature of media coverage. New York magazine was then soliciting him for a profile, as was Vanity Fair, who had assigned the British tabloid reporter, Vicki Ward, to the job. Both profiles, New York’s by Landon Thomas, pivot on the Clinton connection and detail the same quandary, how a man without clear insti

arried, he said he would rather go back to jail. He is Calvin Harris’s song, It Was Acceptable in the 80s, come to life. This is all, inevitably, a Gatsby-like story. But Gatsby in New York Post and Daily Mail parlance would likely be a freaky financier too. And it’s a story about the limitation of jou

and nature of media coverage. This magazine was then soliciting him for a profile, as was Vanity Fair, who had assigned the British tabloid reporter, Vicki Ward, to the job. Both profiles pivot on the Clinton connection and detail the same quandary, how a man without clear institutional bona fides neverthele

and paid out what may be as much as $20 million, he seems somehow to have gotten away with it too—that worst sin of all. This is all, inevitably, a Gatsby-like story, except with none of the sentimentality or romantic longings accorded Gatsby—or at least that Nick Caraway and Fitzgerald accord him. Gats