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

because, of course, the poor mother now blames herself terribly for what happened. And, you know, I talked to—there were numerous people. The artist Eric Fischl was a friend of the older daughter. They all verified. They remembered these two women recounting their trauma at the time, so brave. We all go thr

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

because, of course, the poor mother now blames herself terribly for what happened. And, you know, I talked to—there were numerous people. The artist Eric Fischl was a friend of the older daughter. They all verified. They remembered these two women recounting their trauma at the time, so brave. We all go thr

n. Whatever annual bonus of arou dollars). The SEC never Bear Stearns employee. And so the pa ture get folded up into the greater my cket ship that Ace Greenberg had given Did Epstein crash the ro ' H i him to pilot? Or did he take it and fly it out, over the horizon? Fither way, Epstein was out on his own.

would d take to be no less explosive than the facts it contained. Vicky Ward: October pstein went out of | his own ends, and s Ward’s phone bega Greenberg and Jimmy Cz _ from Les Wexner; from . shakers who counted Eps 4 Then there were the c go on the record, but d 4 Ward’s back, he was har i tour of hi

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eper, scholarship to the University of Oklahoma, t 94 borough accent, he's careful one parent-teacher 4 to-teacher ratio, the g, a Wall Street 4 Greenberg has taken a special shine to ame from a humble background. = he won a football” ransferred to the 4 perfectly. University of Missov 1949. That sa

nd partner, which meant that he was entit sts, Still in his twenties, he was running with the bu down any doors that stood in his way. The view from Ace Greenberg's 0 s striking. At night, the whole city wa ffice, high above Madison i Avenue in midtown, wa s lit P up like a stage set. It was Epstein’s city now

her daughters who came from Phoenix. The oldest daughter, an artist whose character was vouchsafed to me by several sources, including | the artist Eric Fischl, had told me, weeping as she sat in my liy- ing room, of how Epstein had attempted to seduce both her and, separately, her younger sister, then only