Epstein Secrets

l Trust was at all relevant times herein a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Virgin Islands with its principal place of business in the Virgin Islands. 2. Bear Stearns was at all relevant times herein a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in the State of New York. On June Z

ts were being investigated by the press, including Landon Thomas at the New York Times, following the collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund ("the "High-Grade Fund") and the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Leverage Fund ("the Enhanced Fund") (c

had sought his help in becoming a model. The lawsuit filed Thurs- day also alleges that Epstein has assaulted girls on his private island in the Virgin Islands. Herman declined to elaborate on that assertion. • larty_lcellerOpbposteom t, BANKRUPTCY • Save Your Home! You Ma y • Stop The Calls! • Elimin

as opted to prop up that entity with $1.6 billion in loans (see BusinessWeek.com, 6/22/07, "Bear Stearns to the Rescue—Sort Of"). The four-year-old Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Leverage fund was down about 10% as of the end of April. Bear Stearns has suspended investor redemptions in that fund, too. The W

d it to be the largest home in the state. In Palm Beach, he bought a waterfront home on El Effillo Way. And he owns a 100-acre private Island in the Virgin Islands. Perhaps as remarkable as his lavish homes is his extensive network of friends and associates at the highest echelons of power. This includes not o

the law. Epstein's Virgin Islands-based money-management firm, Financial Trust Company, is listed in the SEC filing as a "beneficial owner" of the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage fund. A January filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission describes Epstein's firm as having "the power