Epstein Secrets

t does not, at the time the applicant comes for- ward, have enough information to sustain a conviction

, from prosecuting or threatening to prosecute under the Georgia obscenity statute, GaCode § 16-12-80 (1980), any person who exhibited the movie "Caligula," the rights to which Penthouse owns.' Penthouse also sought a declaration that "Caligula" is not obscene within the meaning of that obscenity sta

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

ned. R _ Vicky Ward: October 2002 4 pstein went out of his way to spin the Vanity Fair story to his own ends, and soon after she got the assignment, Vicky .dWard’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 academics, scie

l Street. Junk bonds were king. Call girls | were charging ten thousand dollars a night. And in the shadows, 7 you'd see things that would have made Caligula blush. Sights " that would make Nero himself reach for the nearest fire extin- q guisher. When the urge presented itself, the new super rich "didn’t

o me. I owerful friends might send some- killed. ward, out of concern for my safety stayed in Australia