Epstein Secrets

nvestment career, his ties to retail magnate Leslie Wexner, and his complicated past BYLINE: Vicky Ward, Contributing Editor BODY: On Manhattan's Upper East Side, home to some of the most expensive real estate on earth, exists the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak d

for the occasion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) In 1987, Hoffenberg, according to sources, set Epstein up in the offices he still occupies in the Villard House, on Madison Avenue, across a courtyard from the restaurant Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new protege as a consultant at $25,000 a month, and the

by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert at Epstein's town house. where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. "These were not women you'd see at Upper East Side dinners." the woman recalls. -Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely." This same guest also at- tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwe

the oc- casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) In 1987. Hoffenberg. according to sources. set Epstein up in the offices he still occu- pies in the Villard House. on Madison Av- enue. across a courtyard from the restaurant Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new pro- tege as a consultant at 525.000 a month. and

by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert at Epstein's town house. where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. "These were not women you'd see at Upper East Side dinners." the woman recalls. "Many seemed foreign and dressed a link bizarrely." This same guest also at- tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell

r the oc- casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) In 1987, Reifenberg according to sources, set Epstein up in the offices he still occu- pies in the Villard House. on Madison Av- enue. across a courtyard from the restaurant Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new pro- tégé as a consultant at 515.000 a month. and

to have been a mentor to Epstein. Wexner sold Epstein one of his most lavish residences: a massive townhouse that dominates a block on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It is reported to have, among its finer features, closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt away Mlen snow. That townhouse, thought

r the oc- casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it. In 1987. Hoffenberg. according to sources. set Epstein up in the offices he still occu- pies in the Villard House. on Madison Av. enue. across a coumard from the restaurant Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new pro- tege as a consultant at 525.000 a month. and t

by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert at Epstein's town house. where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. "These were not women you'd see at Upper East Side dinners." the woman recalls. "Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely." This same guest also at- tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwe

he oc- casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) In 1987, Hoffenberg, according to sources. set Epstein up in the offices he still occu- pies in the Villard House. on Madison Av- enue. across a courtyard from the restaurant Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new pro- tégé as a consultant at 525.000 a month, an