Epstein Secrets

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thed by Vanity Fair, Epstein may have good reason to keep his past cloaked in secrecy: his real mentor. it might seem, was not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Hoffen- berg, 57, who, for a few months before the S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 093, was trying to buy the New York Asst. He is cur- rently incarcerated

dollars," Stroll has said. Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really liked Jeffrey... Jeffrey has a way of getting under your skin, and he was under Hoffenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg were Epstein's social connections; they included oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the designer Vera) and Mohan Murja

person in charge or the trans- actions. and Mitchell Bracer was assisting him with it in coordination on behalf or the insurance companies' money." Hoffinberg, claimed at the time. At one point. according to Hoffinberg. a broker forged the documents necessary for a SI.S million check to be written on in

ved .iff court Monday with at least three attorneys. He wore a blue blazer, blue shirt, blue jeans and white and gtay sneakers. After Circuit Judge Deborah ,Dale Puc:Ulo aq:epted the plea, he was fingerprinted. Epstein thenremoved.his blazer and wc1.s handcuffed for-the tiip to jail while hiini:ttorne

Citibank once sued him for defaulting on a $20 million loan. The article suggested that one of his business mentors and previous employers was Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term.after"bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one ofthe largest Ponzi schemes in .American history.” As he amas

Tony Randall, who presided over a November 1991 YIVO Institute event at the Plaza Hotel to honor the late Robert Maxwell (Marina Garnier) | (Lto R) Deborah j, Blohm, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Gwendolyn Beck attend a reception at Mar-a-Lago, 1995. (Davidoff Studios) Jeffrey Epstein, Donald

pstein’s friends and ex-friends: Nobel Prize-winning gant e ea a i scientists, financiers who worked with Epstein at Bear Stearns. | (i She'd handled Steven Hoffenberg with aplomb. And, working with Vanity Fair's editors, she'd figured out ways to slip even more information between the lines, in ways that would allo

pstein at Bear Stearns. | (i She'd handled Steven Hoffenberg with aplomb. And, working with Vanity Fair's edit