Epstein Secrets

unearthed 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 Hoffenberg, 57, who, for a few months before the S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 1993, was trying to buy the New York Post. He is currently incarcerated in

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 Murjani

ealousy. People in it lack courage. But you’re no stranger to harsh criticism. People weren’t exactly nominating you for a justice award for getting O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bulow off the hook. Some of the criticisms against me have been just. I’m a tough lawyer. But charging me with one of the most heinous

t 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 of the largest Ponzi schemes in American histo- ry?" •

ment URL: EFTA00188389 HOTSHOT EPSTEIN NOT SO HOT: VF PAUL THARP. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Feb 4, 2003. pg. 036 People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Hoffenberg, Steve Section: Business Text Word Count 249 Document URL: r. 41)stract 02pp:taw; turupary) "...SP4-4trw [Jeffrey Epstein], a 50-year-old Ral

. Epsteith legal team includes West Palm Beach defense attorney Jack Goldberger, Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, who worked on the OJ. Simpson murder case, and Kenneth Starr, who once pursued a president based on his lies about sex with young women. Federal authorities also step

that 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 of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history." As he a

usiness mentors and previous employers was Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term after "bilking invest

who's hard at work on a story about massage-loving billionaire Jeffrey Epstein for Carter. penned an oral history about debauched Hollywood producer Don Simpson for Maxim's February issue Home NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings. Inc NYPOST COM, NYPOSTONLINE COW and NEVVYORKPOST,COM a