Epstein Secrets

a powerful Wall Street investment bank. Both New York magazine and Vanity Fair magazine reported that he made connections at Dalton that led him to Alan C. Greenberg, then the dauntless chief executive of the Wall Street firm Bear Steams. Known as "Ace," Mr. Greenberg was later the firm's chairman and the chairma

tive Officer Jimmy Cayne praising his skills. He left in 1981 to set up J. Epstein & Co., but one bank executive said he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and was a client until Bear Stearns' demise. Epstein's money management business had an exclusive focus: It would serve only billionaires. Epstein

cumstances. And what's interesting about that is that he seemed to have a curious power over the two gentlemen who ran Bear Stearns, James Cayne and Ace Greenberg. And he was certainly questioned by the SEC back in the day. AMY GOODMAN: The Securities and Exchange Commission. VICKY WARD: Yes, as to what he m

; the actors Alec Baldwin and Dustin Hoffman; the singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett (whose name was misspelled); and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, among many others. He turned up in the gossip columns but lived "a life full of question marks," as New York magazine put it in 2002. More than on

a powerful Wall Street investment bank. Both New York magazine and Vanity Fair magazine reported that he made connections at Dalton that led him to Alan C. Greenberg, then the dauntless chief executive of the Wall Street firm Bear Stearns. Known as "Ace," Mr. Greenberg was later the firm's chairman and the chairm

tive Officer Jimmy Cayne praising his skills. He left in 1981 to set up J. Epstein & Co., but one bank executive said he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and was a client until Bear Stearns' demise. Epstein's money management business had an exclusive focus: It would serve only billionaires. Epstein

cumstances. And what's interesting about that is that he seemed to have a curious power over the two gentlemen who ran Bear Stearns, James Cayne and Ace Greenberg. And he was certainly questioned by the SEC back in the day. AMY GOODMAN: The Securities and Exchange Commission. VICKY WARD: Yes, as to what he m

; the actors Alec Baldwin and Dustin Hoffman; the singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett (whose name was misspelled); and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, among many others. He turned up in the gossip columns but lived "a life full of question marks," as New York magazine put it in 2002. More than on

thority figure—the camp dramatics counselor, Yitz Greenberg (also now a prominent rabbi)—finally told me that

ian Steven Wright, actor Robert Downey, Jr., several billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson and Mark Rich, authors such as Saul Bellow, David Mamet and Elie Wiesel, and judges, senators, congressmen, governors and other public officials. In addition I have had some of the most interesting cases involving people