Epstein Secrets

Lefrak—and make him chief of staff. Barrack, the grandson of Lebanese immigrants, is a starstruck real estate investor of legendary acumen who owns Michael Jackson’s former oddball paradise, Neverland Ranch. With Jeffrey Epstein—the New York financier who would become a tabloid regular after a guilty plea to one

s: his presidency was going to be different—as different as any since Andrew Jackson’s (he was supplying the less-than-well-read president-elect with Jackson-related books and quotes); they knew who their enemies were and shouldn’t fall into the trap of trying to make them their friends, because they would

d escaped Kushner even at Harvard. And it was helped by his own resentments toward the liberal elites whom he had tried to court with his purchase of the New York Observer, an effort that had backfired terribly. And it was, once he ventured onto the campaign trail, about having to convince himself that close up to the a

as a distinctly Middle Eastern affair. But it turns out there is an American in the middle of the action: 43-year-old deal maker David Jackson Mr. Jackson is chief executive officer of Istithmar World Capital, the private-equity arm of Dubai World, the government- owned fund whose debt woes have caught

ders. The results are a comedown for Mr. Jackson, who was beginning to cut an outsized figure in finance circles. Mr. Jackson was picked in 2008 by the New York Observer as one of the most powerful people in New York real estate. Mr. Jackson was born in Boston and educated at Princeton and Yale, where he got a master

as a distinctly Middle Eastern affair. But it turns out there is an American in the middle of the action: 43-year-old deal maker David Jackson Mr. Jackson is chief executive officer of Istithmar World Capital, the private-equity arm of Dubai World, the government- owned fund whose debt woes have caught

ders. The results are a comedown for Mr. Jackson, who was beginning to cut an outsized figure in finance circles. Mr. Jackson was picked in 2008 by the New York Observer as one of the most powerful people in New York real estate. Mr. Jackson was born in Boston and educated at Princeton and Yale, where he got a master