Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 2 THE TITLE FIGHT: NEW YORK - THE MAGAZINE, THAT IS - AWAITS NEW OWNER KEITH J. KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 14, 2003. pg. 031 Abstract (Document Summary) BIDDER: David Pecker's American Media BIDDER: Investor group of U.S. News and World Report boss Mort Zuckerman, Miramax co-Chairman (Harvey Weinstein], Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, bigtime adman [Donny Deutsch] and New York Columnist [Michael Wolff]. The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought in Deutsch and [Jeffrey Epstein], the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects to be picked as some kind of editorial uber boss. Weinstein is in the coalition but is still smarting over the drubbing he took in Wolff s book, "Autumn of the Moguls." Full Text (441 words) (Copyright 2003, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) In the weeks to come, the city's chattering classes will be consumed with handicapping who'll be editor-in-chief of New York magazine after Henry Kravis and Primedia get through selling it. Nobody was talking officially last week, pending a deal as final bids arrived Thursday. The consensus is the highest offer is for about $55 million - coming from a motley team of millionaires and billionaires around Mort Zuckerman. The coalition includes: Zuckerman, the owner of the Daily News and U.S. News & World Report; billionaire financier Nelson Peitz; mysterious money manager Jeffrey Epstein; ad executive Donny Deutsch, Miramax co- chairman Harvey Weinstein; and non-cash contributors Michael Wolff of New York magazine and possibly Jim Dolan, CEO of Cablevision. The other two rival bidders are almost diametrically opposite: Bill Curtis' Curtco Media publishes super-upscale glossies, The Robb Report and Worth. American Media publishes the downmarket supermarket tabloids National Enquirer, Star and Globe, plus health and fitness magazines such as Men's Fitness and Shape. "Whoever the editor is has to have a strong point of view," offers Clay Felker, who launched the magazine as an independent weekly in 1967. It was not a particularly bright time in the city. But Felker and his young writers took on the challenges, exposing the best and the worst of the city. "We believed the city was the imperial center of the United States and possibly the world," he said. The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought in Deutsch and Epstein, the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects to be picked as some kind of editorial uber boss. Weinstein is in the coalition but is still smarting over the drubbing he took in Wolff's book, "Autumn of the Moguls." Weinstein is thought to favor Radar founder Maer Roshan as editor. New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan's name has surfaced - but he and Wolff have had a public feud. A deal on the winning bid could be announced early next week. The announcement would probably be delayed until after the annual New York Awards, being staged tomorrow at the Four Seasons. The world has changed and the question now is: can the new owners regain that old glory - or will there be too many sacred cows in the ownership mix? As one observer asked as the Zuckerman coalition emerged as the favorite, "Who will be left to make fun of?" Henry Kravis, watch out. http://pgasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/503203971.html?MAC=8562d59151d6ab55b4753a2... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188412

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'Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 4 BILL, STARS ENJOY AFRICAN TREK New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Sep 25, 2002. pg. 010 Abstract (Document Summary) JASON Mewes is alive and well. Mewes, who played the long- haired, drug-loving "Jay" in Kevin Smith's "Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," was reportedly on the lam or even feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they hadn't seen him in 10 months. An arrest warrant had been issued for him after he violated probation on a heroin conviction. But last month, Mewes made an appearance at a film festival in Malibu to promote his new indie movie "RSVP," and he'll host a talent show Oct. 17 at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. "The rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated," chuckled Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the phone with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just moved to L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as being dead. IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and become the running mate of Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John Weaver, has become a Democrat and is now working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative director, Christine Dodd, last worked for a liberal congressman - a Democrat. Now Kerry of Massachusetts, who has made clear his plans to run in 2004, is making overtures towards McCain. A rumored head- to-head between Kerry and McCain is said to be scheduled at McCain's cabin in Sedona, Ariz., next month. And for "Man of the People," the new McCain biography by Paul Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like a love letter. After noting that McCain's 2000 presidential campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage, and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on common groundwith John McCain, and I look forward to fighting side by side with him on yet another day to make our country stronger." Full Text (1634 words) (Copyright 2002, The New York Post, All Rights Reserved) CALL it "The Three Amigos' Most Excellent African Adventure." Former President Bill Clinton is on a trip through Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa with Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, the star of "Rush Hour' and its sequel. The three are being flown around Africa on the private plane of financial wizard Jeffrey Epstein. The secretive Epstein handles the billions of Leslie Wexner, head of the retail empire that includes The Limited, Victoria's Secret and Express. How Clinton, who took off on Saturday, hooked up with his traveling companions is a mystery - as is his relationship to Epstein. Little is known about Epstein except that his offices are in the landmarked Villard House across from Le Cirque, and he once employed Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late British press lord Robert Maxwell, in an unspecified capacity. But Tucker is playing America's first black president in "Mr. President," a movie he's been working on since 1999. Tucker has already shot footage of Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and Bahrain's crown prince endorsing his candidacy, and the comic accompanied U2 frontman Bono and Treasury Secrtary Paul O'Neill on their debt- relief tour of Africa this summer. At the Congressional Black Caucus' annual awards dinner earlier this month, Clinton mentioned that Tucker had asked to visit him in the Oval Office to prepare for playing the first black president. "I didn't have the heart to tell him that I've already taken the position," Clinton joked. In an October 1998 essay in The New Yorker, author Toni Morrison argued that Clinton, "white skin notwithstanding, (is] our first black president." Kevin Spacey has no presidential aspirations we know of. Last we heard, he wanted to portray Bobby Darin. He might be bored during some parts of the trip. littn://oaasb.oaarchiver.com/nypost./1 95152701.html?MAC=8282d8da 1 05ae0258d6c121 31.. 11/30/2005 EFTA00188414

'Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 In Ghana, Clinton will launch a new initiative with Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto to give deeds and land titles to poor people who now have no legal status and are considered squatters. In South Africa, Clinton will deliver a speech and join Mandela in promoting prevention of AIDS. Clinton will also meet in that country with the first class of Clinton Democracy Fellows -11 young South African men and women who just completed three months in the U.S. Clinton will also meet with the presidents of the other nations on his itinerary. Perfect angel THE producer of Tara Reid's latest flick says she's a perfect angel and that Us Weekly misquoted him as saying that he and the bar- friendly hellcat "went out drinking all the time." J. Todd Harris, producer of "Heaven's Pond," blasts Us in a letter to the editor: "I specifically said that our working relationship with the actress was nothing short of spectacular." He also shoots down the mag's source who claims Reid needed to have a baby sitter escort her out every night tomake sure she didn't wake up with any regrets. We hear . . . THAT eyebrows are flexing over tonight's U.N. black-tie dinner honoring Muhammad Ali, Mayor Bloomberg and Paul and Heather Mills McCartney. Seems Heather insists on being referred to as "Lady Heather Mills McCartney" ... THAT Steve Martin, Paul Morrissey, Glenda Bailey and Elizabeth Kieselstein-Cord attended last night's 15th anniversary party of Modern Painters magazine at the Cheim and Read Gallery. Headlines heal SARAH Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, credits the media for keeping her weight down. Once dubbed the "Duchess of Pork" by the British press, the now stunning and skinny Weight Watchers rep says every time she thinks of pigging out, she remembers the old headlines. Among those she cited during an appearance at an Albany Weight Watchers seminar, according to The Post's Kenneth Lovett: "Fat, Selfish, Greedy Fergie" and "82 Percent Would Rather Sleep With a Goat." "It does help me when I read articles that [say] the 'slim svelte Fergie,'" Ferguson said. "I don't want them to have a go at me again. I'm tired of that." Lost actor pops up in L.A. JASON Mewes is alive and well. Mewes, who played the long- haired, drug-loving "Jay" in Kevin Smith's "Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," was reportedly on the lam or even feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they hadn't seen him in 10 months. An arrest warrant had been issued for him after he violated probation on a heroin conviction. But last month, Mewes made an appearance at a film festival in Malibu to promote his new indie movie "RSVP," and he'll host a talent show Oct. 17 at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. "The rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated," chuckled Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the phone with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just moved to L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as being dead. Sex sells ABERCROMBIE & Fitch has outdone itself. The store chain's new "magalog," a catalog disguised as a magazine, is even more salacious than past efforts, with a naked Heidi Klum on the cover - one hand hiding her nipples, the other holding a Santa hat over a naked man's crotch. The tag line reads: "180 pages of sex and Xmas fun! Heidi Klum adds inches, Spike Lee catches it on tape, Larry Flynt breaks tapes, Heidi Fleiss gets what she wants, streetcorner Santa brawls and morel" One spy said: "There Is a ton of bums and breasts inside. Everyone is naked." The quarterly, targeted at teens and college students, will be featured on "Entertainment Tonight" later this week. Janney's' jam http://pgasb.pqarchiver.corthypost/195152701.html?MAC=8282d8da105ae0258d6d2131.. 11/30/2005 EFTA00188415

• Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 THE ex-fianc of Emmy-winning "West Wing" star Allison Janney (above) is being evicted from her Central Park West pad. Janney has been illegally subletting the rent-stabilized, $1,100- a-month apartment to former beau Dennis Gagomiros, says Keith Rubenstein, a lawyer for landlord Michael Tauber. "We are starting the eviction process," says Rubenstein, who estimated the "fair market" value of Janney's joint at $3,000 a month. Janney's lawyer, Sam Himmelstein, insists Janney "surrendered possession" of her pad several weeks ago to the landlord. "Her ex-fianc belives that he has the succession rights to the apartment, but she has nothing to do with that," he said. Flasher chic WONDER why Stella McCartney never took her black satin coat off during the opening of her boutique last Friday? She had nothing under it but a very sexy bra and satin knickers. The highlight of the afterparty at Gaslight was Stella, Gwyneth Paltrow and Usher singing karaoke for the likes of Bono, Britney Spears, Liv Tyler, Debbie Harry, Russell Simmons, Graydon Carter, Christy Tur lington, Karolina Kurkova, Helena Christensen and others too fashionable to mention. Dueling Dems DON'T invite Ed Koch and Pete Grannis to the same political party. The former mayor has no use for the assemblyman who has represented the Upper East Side for 28 years. The feud began with Koch's endorsement of Andrew Eristoff, a Republican challenger for the State Senate seat currently occupied by Democrat Liz Krueger. Grannis observed in community weekly Our Town: "Our former mayor seems to have a thing for Republicans and an aversion to endorsing women of either party." Now Koch has responded in a letter to Our Town to Grannis' "gutter attack" and "vile comments." Koch lists no fewer than 9 women he's endorsed for election over the years, plus seven women he appointed to office, and concludes, "I am sure Grannis has harbored thoughts of higher office, indeed ran for Congress and lost. I doubt that he will ever attain higher office, and I truly believe he does not deserve the office he currently holds and has held for 28 years." Single again THIS year's ladies' man, Matthew Perry, is single again. After squiring around Amanda Peet, Jennifer Capriati and a host of other hot young things this summer, the "Friends" star was on the prowl Sunday night. After losing the Emmy to his co-star Matt LeBlanc, Perry and Hank Azaria showed up in fine spirits to the Glamour/ Entertainment Weekly post-Emmy party at the Mondrian in Los Angeles and flirted with a gaggle of girls. "He was so excited he startedto sweat and had to massage his head," said our spy. Perry eventually left alone. MCCAIN MUTINY IN WORKS? IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and become the running mate of Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John Weaver, has become a Democrat and is now working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative director, Christine Dodd, last worked for a liberal congressman - a Democrat. Now Kerry of Massachusetts, who has made clear his plans to run in 2004, is making overtures towards McCain. A rumored head- to-head between Kerry and McCain is said to be scheduled at McCain's cabin in Sedona, Ariz., next month. And for "Man of the People," the new McCain biography by Paul Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like a love letter. After noting that McCain's 2000 presidential campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage, and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on common groundwith John McCain, and I look forward to fighting side by side with him on yet another day to make our country stronger." lustratIonj -Allison Janney, Stella McCartney -Just call him David Cop-a-feel. Modelizing magician David Copperfield seems to have cast his spell over two babealicious blondes. We caught Copperfield holding hands with Marilyn Guma (above), 21, an Estonian-born assistant manager at Nello's. Copperfield has been wooing the gorgeous Gurna for a few weeks now t stop him from stepping out with another squeeze (below) on Madison Avenue just a week earlier. Schwartzwatd (above); Adam Nemser/PHOTOLink (below) [color] - Matthew Perry. LFI [color] http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/195152701.html?MAC=8282d8da105ae0258d6d2131.. 11/30/2005 EFTA00188416

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Page 1 2 of 2 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2003 The Conde Nast Publications Inc. All Rights Reserved Vanity Fair March 2003 SECTION: The Talented Mr. Epstein; No. 511; Pg. 300 LENGTH: 7494 words HEADLINE: The Talented Mr. Epstein; Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor nancier lives in New York's largest private residence, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and ies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARD explores Epstein's investment career, his ties to retail magnate IsFilie—Agaer, and his complicated past BYLINE: Vicky Ward, Contributing Editor BODY: On Manhattan's Upper East Side, home to some of the most expensive real es- tate on earth, exists the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, huge arched windows, and nine floors, it sits on-or, rather, commands-the block of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Ave- nues. Almost ludicrously out of proportion with its four- and five-story neighbors, it seems more like an institution than a house. This is perhaps not surprising-until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's largest private residence. Inside, amid the flurry of menservants attired in sober black suits and pris- tine white gloves, you feel you have stumbled into someone's private Xanadu. This is no mere rich person's home, but a high-walled, eclectic, imperious fan- tasy that seems to have no boundaries. The entrance hall is decorated not with paintings but with row upon row of individually framed eyeballs; these, the owner tells people with relish, were imported from England, where they were made for injured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer, which does have a painting, in the manner of Jean Dubuffet ... but the host coyly refuses to tell visitors who painted it. In any case, guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior. Despite its eccentricity the house is curiously impersonal, the statement of someone who wants to be known for the scale of his possessions. Its occupant, financier Jeffrey Epstein, 50, admits to friends that he likes it when people think of him this way. A good-looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren, with thick gray-white hair and a weathered face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, and loafers. He tells people he bought the house because he knew he "could never live anywhere bigger." He thinks 51,000 square feet is an appropriately large space for someone like himself, who deals mostly in large concepts-especially large sums of money. EFTA00188418

Page 2 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the town house-Epstein usually re- fers to the former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite-size morsels and drink copious quantities of Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or tobacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," so called because of the cordovan-colored fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding an opium pipe and caressing a snarling lionskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and guests by the menservants in white gloves. Upstairs, to the right of a spiral staircase, is the "office," an enormous gallery spanning the width of the house. Strangely, it holds no computer. Com- puters belong in the "computer room" (a smaller room at the back of the house), Epstein has been known to say. The office features a gilded desk (which Epstein tells people belonged to banker J. P. Morgan), 18th-century black lacquered Por- tuguese cabinets, and a nine-foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the desk, a pa- perback copy of the Marquis de Sade's The Misfortunes of Virtue was recently spotted. Covering the floor, Epstein has explained, "is the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home-so big, it must have come from a mosque." Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator Alberto Pinto, who has worked for Jacques Chirac and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there is one particularly startling oddity: a stuffed black poo- dle, standing atop the grand piano. "No decorator would ever tell you to do that," Epstein brags to visitors. "But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog." People can't help but feel it's Epstein's way of saying that he always has the last word. In addition to the town house, Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico, on an $18 million, 7,500-acre ranch which he named "Zorro." "It makes the town house look like a shack," Epstein has said. He also owns Little St. James, a 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Is- lands, where the main house is currently being renovated by Edward Tuttle, a de- signer of the Amanresorts. There is also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter, and a Boeing 727, replete with trading room, on which Epstein recently flew President Clin- ton, actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's grandson, Casey Wasserman, and a few others, on a mission to explore the problems of aids and economic development in Africa. Epstein is charming, but he doesn't let the charm slip into his eyes. They are steely and calculating, giving some hint at the steady whir of machinery running behind them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, after refusing to give an interview for this article. "You be white. You get the first move." It was an appropriate metaphor for a man who seems to feel he can win no matter what the advantage of the other side. His advantage is that no one really seems to know him or his history completely or what his arsenal actually consists of. He has carefully engineered it so that he remains one of the few truly baffling myster- ies among New York's moneyed world. People know snippets, but few know the whole. "He's very enigmatic," says Rosa Monckton, the former C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K. and a close friend since the early 1980s. "You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath. He never reveals his hand... He's a classic iceberg. What you see is not what you get." Even acquaintances sense a curious dichotomy: Yes, he lives like a "modern maha- raja," as Leah Kleman, one of his art dealers, puts it. Yet he is fastidiously, EFTA00188419

Page 3 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style almost obsessively private-he lists himself in the phone book under a pseudonym. He rarely attends society gatherings or weddings or funerals; he considers eat- ing in restaurants like "eating on the subway"-i.e., something he'd never do. There are many women in his life, mostly young, but there is no one of them to whom he has been able to commit. He describes his most public companion of the last decade, Ghislaine Maxwell, 41, the daughter of the late, disgraced media baron Robert Maxwell, as simply his "best friend." He says she is not on his payroll, but she seems to organize much of his life-recently she was making telephone inquiries to find a California-based yoga instructor for him. (Epstein is still close to his two other long-term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher, a for- mer associate of his at the brokerage firm Bear Stearns and now an opera pro- ducer, and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and onetime model. He tells people that when a relationship is over the girlfriend "moves up, not down," to friendship status.) Some of the businessmen who dine with him at his home-they include newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis Ranieri, Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, real-estate tycoon Leon Black, former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, Tom Pritzker (of Hyatt Hotels), and real-estate personality Donald Trump-sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he actually does to earn his millions. Cer- tainly, you won't find Epstein's transactions written about on Bloomberg or talked about in the trading rooms. "The trading desks don't seem to know him. It's unusual for animals that big not to leave any footprints in the snow," says a high-level investment manager. Unlike such fund managers as Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, whose client lists and stock maneuverings act as their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret, bar one client: billionaire Leslie Wexner, the respected chairman of Limited Brands. Epstein insists that ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1961 he has managed money only for billionaires-who depend on him for discretion. "I was the only person crazy enough, or arrogant enough, or misplaced enough, to make my limit a billion dollars or more," he tells people freely. According to him, the flat fees he receives from his clients, combined with his skill at playing the currency markets "with very large sums of money," have afforded him the lifestyle he enjoys today. Why do billionaires choose him as their trustee? Because the problems of the mega-rich, he tells people, are different from yours and mine, and his unique philosophy is central to understanding those problems: "Very few people need any more money when they have a billion dollars. The key is not to have it do harm more than anything else... You don't want to lose your money." He has likened his job to that of an architect-more specifically, one who spe- cializes in remodeling: "I always describe (a billionaire) as someone who started out in a small home and as he became wealthier had add-ons. He added on another addition, he built a room over the garage ... until you have a house that is usually a mess... It's a large house that has been put together over time where no one could foretell the financial future and their accompanying needs." He makes it sound as though his job combines the roles of real-estate agent, accountant, lawyer, money manager, trustee, and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, myths and rumor swirl around Epstein. Here are some of the hard facts about Epstein-ones that he doesn't mind peo- ple knowing: He grew up middle-class in Brooklyn. His father worked for the city's parks department. His parents viewed education as "the way out" for him and his younger brother, Mark, now working in real estate. Jeffrey started to EFTA00188420

Page 4 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style play the piano-for which he maintains a passion-at five, and he went to Brook- lyn's Lafayette High School. He was good at mathematics, and in his early 20s he got a job teaching physics and math at Dalton, the elite Manhattan private school. While there he began tutoring the son of Bear Stearns chairman Ace Greenberg and was friendly with aJAlightsr of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear Stearns, where, under the mentorship of both Greenberg Ind current Bear Stearns C.E.O. James Cayne, he did well enough to become a limited partner-a rung be- neath full partner. He abruptly departed in 1981 because, he has said, he wanted to run his own business. Thereafter the details recede into shadow. A few of the handful of current friends who have known him since the early 1980s recall that he used to tell them he was a "bounty hunter," recovering lost or stolen money for the govern- ment or for very rich people. He has a license to carry a firearm. For the last 15 years, he's been running his business, J. Epstein & Co. Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his life-Epstein has said this was in 1986; others say it was in 1989, at the earliest-he has gradually, in a way that has not generally made headlines, come to be accepted by the Establishment. He's a member of various commissions and councils: he is on the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the In- stitute of International Education. His current fan club extends to Cayne, Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Larry Summers, Harvard's current president. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says, "I'm on my 20th book... The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jef- frey." Real-estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose, who has worked with Epstein on projects in New Albany, Ohio, for Wexner, says, "He digests and decodes the information very rapidly, which is to me terrific because we have shorter meetings." Also on the list of admirers are former senator Mitchell and a gaggle of distinguished scientists, most of whom Epstein has helped fund in recent years. They include Nobel Prize winners Gerald Edelman and Murray Gell-Mann, and mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. When these men describe Epstein, they talk about "energy" and "curiosity," as well as a love for theoretical physics that they don't ordinarily find in laymen. Gell-Mann rather sweetly mentions that "there are always pretty ladies around" when _m goes to dinner chezippatein, and he's under the impression that Epstein's clients include the Queen of England. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit in the back of Dershowitz's law class. Epstein gets annoyed when anyone suggests that Wexner "made him." "I had really rich clients before," he has said. Yet he does not deny that he and Wex- ner have a special relationship. Epstein sees it as a partnership of equals. "People have said it's like we have one brain between two of us: each has a side." "I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns," says Wexner. "But Jeffrey sees patterns in politics and financial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not in investment strategy, and, as everyone who knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fashion and design. we fre- quently discuss world trends as each of us sees them." By the time Epstein met Wexner, the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion empire-one that now includes Victoria's Secret, Express, and Bath & EFTA00188421

Page 5 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Body Works-from $5,000 lent him by his aunt. "Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to realize his (Jeffrey's) dreams," says someone who has worked closely with both men. "He gave Jeffrey the ball, and Jeffrey hit it out of the park." Wexner, through a trust, bought the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported $13.2 million in 1969. In 1993, Wexner married Abigail Koppel, a 31- year-old lawyer, and the newlyweds relocated to Ohio; in 1996, Epstein moved into the town house. Public documents suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it, but Epstein has said that he now owns the house. Wexner trusts Epstein so completely that he has assigned him the power of fi- duciary over all of his private trusts and foundations, says a source close to Wexner. In 1992, Epstein even persuaded Wexner to put him on the board of the Wexner Foundation in place of Wexner's ailing mother. Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled by splitting the foun- dation in two. Epstein does not care that he comes between family members. In fact, he sees it as his job. He tells people, "I am there to represent my client, and if my client needs protecting-sometimes even from his own family-then it's often bet- ter that people hate me, not the client." "You've probably heard I'm vicious in my representation of my clients," he tells people proudly; Leah Kleman describes his haggling over art prices as something like a scene out of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Even a for- mer mentor says he's seen "the dark side" of Epstein, and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meeting in which Epstein chewed out a team making a presentation for Wexner as being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." One reporter, in fact, received three threats from Epstein while preparing a piece. They were delivered in a jocular tone, but the message was clear: There will be trouble for your family if I don't like the article. On the other hand, Epstein is clearly very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has known Epstein since before his Bear Stearns days, can't say enough nice things: "I have a boy who's dyslexic, and Jeffrey's gotten close to him over the years... Jeffrey got him into music. He bought him his first piano. And then as he got to school he had difficulty ... in studying ... so Jeffrey got him interested in taking flying lessons." Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling her that her daughter, Domenica, who suffers from Down syndrome, needed the sun, and that Rosa should feel free to bring her to his house in Palm Beach anytime. Some friends remember that in the late 80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the airline tickets of good friends by affixing first-class stickers; the only prob- lem was that the stickers turned out to be unofficial. Sometimes the technique worked, but other times it didn't, and the unwitting recipients found themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and had no knowledge of the stickers.) Many of those who benefited from Epstein's largesse claim that his generosity comes with no strings attached. "I never felt he wanted anything from me in return," says one old friend, who received a first- class upgrade. Epstein is known about town as a man who loves women-lots of them, mostly young. Model types have been heard saying they are full of gratitude to Epstein for flying them around, and he is a familiar face to many of the Victoria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert EFTA00188422

Page 6 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style 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 Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was filled, she says, with young Russian models. "Some of the guests were horri- fied," the woman says. "He's reckless," says a former business associate, "and he's gotten more so. Money does that to you. He's breaking the oath he made to himself-that he would never do anything that would expose him in the media. Right now, in the wake of the publicity following his trip with Clinton, he must be in a very difficult place." According to S.E.C. and other legal documents unearthed by Vanity Pair, 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 the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts, serving a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. When Epstein met Hoffenberg in London in the 1980s, the latter was the char- ismatic, audacious head of the Towers Financial Corporation, a collection agency that was supposed to buy debts that people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies. But Hoffenberg began using company funds to pay off earlier investors and service a lavish lifestyle that included a mansion on Long Island, homes on Manhattan's Sutton Place and in Florida, and a fleet of cars and planes. Hoffenberg and Epstein had much in common. Both were smart and obsessed with making money. Both were from Brooklyn. According to Hoffenberg, the two men were introduced by Douglas Leese, a defense contractor. Epstein has said they were introduced by John Mitchell, the late attorney general. Epstein had been running International Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.), a consult- ing company, out of his apartment in the Solo building on East 66th Street in New York. Though he has claimed that he managed money for billionaires only, in a 1989 deposition he testified that he spent 80 percent of his time helping peo- ple recover stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers. He was also not above entering into risky, tax-sheltered oil and gas deals with much smaller in- vestors. A lawsuit that Michael Stroll, the former head of Williams Electronics -Int, filed against Epstein shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an investment from Stroll of $450,000, which Epstein put into oil. In 1984, Stroll asked for his money back; four years later he had received only $10,000. Stroll lost the suit, after Epstein claimed in court, among other things, that the check for $10,000 was for a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net worth never exceeded four and a half million 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, whose clothing company grew into Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then. One friend recalls that when he took Canadian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he hired a Rolls- Royce especially 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 EFTA00188423

Page 7 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style $25,000 a month, and the relationship flourished. "They traveled everywhere to- gether-on Hoffenberg's plane, all around the world, they were always together," says a source. Hoffenberg has claimed that Epstein confided in him, saying, for example, that he had left Bear Stearns in 1981 after he was discovered executing "illegal operations." Several of Epstein's Bear Stearns contemporaries recall that Epstein left the company very suddenly. Within the company there were rumors also that he was in- volved in a technical infringement, and it was thought that the executive com- mittee asked that he resign after his two supporters, Ace Greenberg and Jimmy Cayne, were outnumbered. Greenberg says he can't recall this; Cayne denies it happened, and Epstein has denied it as well. "Jeffrey Epstein left Bear Stearns of his own volition," says Cayne. "It was never suggested that he leave by any member of management, and management never looked into any improprieties by him. Jeffrey said specifically, 'I don't want to work for anybody else. I want to work for myself.'" Yet, this is not the story that Epstein told to the S.E.C. in 1981 and to lawyers in a 1989 deposition involving a civil business case in Philadelphia. In 1981 the S.E.C.'s Jonathan Harris and Robert Blackburn took Epstein's tes- timony and that of other Bear Stearns emicrWann part of what became a pro- tracted case about insider trading around a tender offer placed on March 11, 1981, by the Seagram Company Ltd. for St. Joe Minerals Corp. Ultimately several Italian and Swiss investors were found guilty, including Italian financier Giuseppe Tome, who had used his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about the tender offer. After the tender offer was announced, the S.E.C. began investigating trades involving St. Joe at continued on page 343 continued from page 305 Bear Stearns and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped off that Epstein had information on insider trading at Bear Stearns, and it was therefore obliged to question him. In his S.E.C. testimony, given on April 1, 1981, Epstein claimed that he had found "offensive" the way Bear Stearns management had handled a disciplinary action following its discovery that he had committed a possible "Reg D" violation-evidently he had lent money to his closest friend. (In the 1989 deposition he said that he'd lent approxi- mately $20,000 to Warren Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an action could have been considered improper, although Epstein claimed he had not realized this un- til afterward. According to Epstein, Bear Stearns management had questioned him about the loan around March 4. The questioners, Epstein said, were Michael (Mickey) Tar- nopol and Alvin Einbender. In his 1989 deposition Epstein recalled that the partner who had made an "issue" of the matter was Marvin Davidson. On March 9, Epstein said, he had met with Tarnopol and Einbender again, and the two partners told him that the executive committee had weighed the offense, together with previous "carelessness" over expenses, and he would be fined $2,500. "There was discussion whether, in fact, I had ever put in an airline ticket for someone else and not myself and I said that it was possible, ... since my secretary handles my expenses," Epstein told the S.H.C. In his 1989 testimony he stated that the "Reg D" incident had cost him a shot at partnership that year. What the S.E.C. seemed to be especially interested in was whether there was a connection between Epstein's leaving and the alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals by other people at Bear Stearns: Q: Sir, are you aware that certain rumors may have been circulating around your firm in connection with your reasons for leaving the firm? A: I'm aware that there were many rumors. EFTA00188424

Page 8 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Q: What were the rumors you heard? A: Nothing to do with St. Joe. Q: Can you relate what you heard? A: It was having to do with an illicit affair with a secretary. Q: Have you heard any other rumors suggesting that you had made a presentation or communication to the Executive Committee concerning alleged improprieties by other members or employees of Bear Stearns? A: I, in fact, have heard that rumor, but it's been from Mr. Harris in our con- versation last week. Q: Have you heard it from anyone else? A: No. A little later the interview focuses on James Cayne: Q: Did you ever hear while you were at Bear Stearns that Mr. Cayne may have trader or insider information in connection with St. Joe Minerals Corporation? A: No. Q: Did Mr. Cayne ever have any conversation with you about St. Joe Minerals? A: No. Q: Did you happen to overhear any conversations between Mr. Cayne and anyone else regarding St. Joe Minerals? A: No. And still later in the questioning comes this exchange: Q: Have you had any type of business dealings with Mr. Cayne? A: There's no relationship with Bear Stearns. Q: Pardon? A: Other than Bear Stearns, no. Q: Have you been a participant in any type of business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: No. Q: Do you have any expectation of participating in any business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: No. Q: Have you had any business participations with Mr. Theram? A: No; nor do I anticipate any. Q: Mr. Epstein, did anyone at Bear Stearns tell you in words or substance that you should not divulge anything about St. Joe Minerals to the staff of the Secu- rities and Exchange Commission? A: No. Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way, either directly or indirectly, in words or substance, that your compensation for this past year or any future mon- ies coming to you from Bear Stearns will be contingent upon your not divulging information to the Securities and Exchange Commission? A: No. Despite the circumstances of Epstein's leaving, Bear Stearns agreed to pay him his annual bonus-which he anticipated as being approximately $100,000. The S.E.C. never brought any charges against anyone at Bear Stearns for in- sider trading in St. Joe, but its questioning seems to indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's answers. Some sources have wondered why, if he was such a big producer at Bear Stearns, he would have given it up over a mere $2,500 fine. Certainly the years after Epstein left the firm were not obviously prosperous ones. His luck didn't seem to change until he met Hoffenberg. One of Epstein's first assignments for Hoffenberg was to mastermind doomed bids to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. Hoffenberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before a grand jury in Illinois that EFTA00188425

Page 9 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Epstein came up with the idea of financing these bids through Towers's acquisi- tion of two ailing Illinois insurance companies, Associated Life and United Fire. "He was hired by us to work on the securities side of the insurance compa- nies and Towers Financial, supposedly to make a profit for us and for the compa- nies," Hoffenberg reportedly told the grand jury. He also alleged that Epstein was the "technician," executing the schemes, although, having no broker's li- cense, he had to rely on others to make the trades. Much of Hoffenberg's subse- quent testimony in his criminal case has proven to be false, and Epstein has claimed he was merely asked how the bids could be accomplished and has said he had nothing to do with the financing of them. Yet Richard Allen, the former treasurer of United Fire, recalls seeing Epstein two or three times at the com- pany. He and another executive say they had direct dealing with Epstein over the finances. And in his deposition of 1989, Epstein stated that he was the one who executed "all" Hoffenberg's instructions to buy and sell the stock. He called it "making the orders." He could not recall whether he had chosen the brokers used. To win approval from the Illinois insurance regulators for Towers's acquisi- tion of the companies, Hoffenberg promised to inject $3 million of new capital into them. In fact, in his grand-jury testimony Hoffenberg claimed that he, his chief operating officer, Mitchell Brater, and Epstein came up with a scheme to steal $3 million of the insurance companies' bonds to buy Pan Am and Emery stock. "Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater arranged the various brokerage accounts for the bonds to be placed with in New York, and I think one in Chicago, Rodman & Renshaw," Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then, said Hoffenberg, while making it appear as though they were investing the bonds in much safer financial instru- ments, they used them as collateral to buy the stock. "Epstein was the person in charge of the transactions, and Mitchell Brater was assisting him with it in co- ordination on behalf of the insurance companies' money," Hoffenberg claimed at the time. At one point, according to Hoffenberg, a broker forged the documents neces- sary for a $1.8 million check to be written on insurance-company funds. The check was used to buy more stock in the takeover targets. Meanwhile, in order to throw the insurance regulators off, the $1.8 million was reported as being safely invested in a money-market account. United Fire's former chief financial officer Daniel Payton confirms part of Hoffenberg's account. He says he recalls making one or two telephone calls to Epstein (at Hoffenberg's direction) about the missing bonds. "He said, 'Oh, yeah, they still exist.' But we found out later that he had sold those assets ... leveraged them ... (and) used some margin account to take some positions in ... Emery and Pan Am," says Payton. Epstein's extraordinary creativity was, according to Hoffenberg, responsible for the purchase by the insurance companies of a $500,000 bond, with no money down. "Epstein created a great scheme to purchase a $500,000 treasury bond that would not be shown ... (as) margined or collateralized," he reportedly told the grand jury. "It looked like it was free and clear but it actually wasn't," he said. Epstein has denied he ever had any dealings with anyone from the insurance companies. But Richard Allen says he recalls talking to Epstein at Hoffenberg's direction and telling him it was urgent they retrieve the missing bonds for a state examination. According to Allen, Epstein said, "We'll get them back." He had "kind of a flippant attitude," says Allen. "They never came back." Epstein, according to Hoffenberg, also came up with a scheme to manipulate the price of Emery Freight stock in an attempt to minimize the losses that occurred EFTA00188426

Page 10 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style when Hoffenberg's bid went wrong and the share price began to fall. This was al- leged to have involved multiple clients' accounts controlled by Epstein. Eventually, in 1991, insurance regulators in Illinois sued Hof fenberg. He settled the case, and Epstein, who was only a paid consultant, was never deposed or accused of any wrongdoing. Barry Gross, the attorney who was handling the suit for the regulators, says of Epstein, "He was very elusive... It was hard to really track him down. There were a substantial number of checks for significant dollars that were paid to him, I remember... He was this character we never got a handle on. Again we presumed that he was involved with the Pan Am and Emery run that Hoffenberg made, but we never got a chance to depose him." "From the government's discovery in the main sentencing against Hoffenberg it would seem the government was perhaps a bit lazy," says David Lewis, who repre- sented Mitchell Brater. "They went for what they knew they could get ... and that was the fraudulent promissory notes (i.e., the much larger and unrelated part of Hoffenberg's fraud, based in New York State)... What they couldn't get, they didn't bother with." Another lawyer involved in the criminal prosecution of Hoffenberg says, "In a criminal investigation like that, when there is a guilty plea, to be quick and dirty about it, discovery is always incomplete... They don't have to line up witnesses; they don't have to learn every fact that might come out on cross- examination." Epstein was involved with Hoffenberg in other questionable transactions. Finan- cial records show that in 1988 Epstein invested $1.6 million in Riddell Sports Inc., a company that manufactures football helmets. Among his co-investors were the theater mogul Robert Nederlander and attorney Leonard Toboroff. A source close to this transaction claims that Epstein told Nederlander and Toboroff that he had raised his share of the money from a Swiss banker, whose identity they could not be allowed to know. But Hoffenberg has claimed the money came from him, and Towers's financial statements for that year show a loan to Epstein of $400,000. (Epstein has said he can't remember the details and has disputed the accuracy of the Towers financial reports.) Around the same time, Nederlander and Toboroff let Epstein come in with them on a scheme to make money out of Pennwalt, a Penns lvania chemical company. The plan was to group together with two other parties to ta e a substantial declared position in the stock. According to a source, Epstein was supposed to help Ned- erlander and Toboroff raise $15 million. He seemed to fail to find other inves- tors, say those familiar with the deal. (Epstein has said he was merely an in- vestor.) He invested $1 million, which he told his co-investors was his own money. But in his 1989 deposition he said that he put in only $300,000 of his own money. Where did the rest come from? Hoffenberg has said it came from him, in a loan that Nederlander and Toboroff didn't know about. Two things happened that alarmed Nederlander and Toboroff. After the group signaled a possible takeover, the Pennwalt management threatened to sue the would-be raiders. Epstein was reluctant initially to give a deposition about his share of the money, telling Toboroff there were "reasons" he didn't want to. Then, after the opportunity for new investors was closed, co-investors recall Epstein announcing that he'd found one at last: Dick Snyder, then C.E.O. of the publisher Simon & Schuster, who wanted to put up approximately $1O0,000. (Nei- tnerEpstein nor Snyder can now recall the investment. Yet in the 1989 deposi- tion Epstein said that he had recruited Snyder, whom he had met socially, into the deal.) EFTA00188427

Page 11 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style According to a source, Toboroff and Nederlander told Epstein that Snyder was too late, but, without their realizing it, Hoffenberg has claimed, Snyder wrote a check to Hoffenberg and bought out some of his investment. But then Snyder wanted out. "Nederlander started to get these irate calls from (Snyder,) who wasn't part of the deal, saying he was owed all this money," says someone close to the deal. Toboroff and Nederlander were baffled. Eventually, a source close to Hoffenberg says, Hoffenberg paid Snyder off. Just as Nederlander and Toboroff were growing wary of Epstein, he became in- creasingly involved with Leslie Wexner, whom he had met through insurance execu- tive Robert Meister and his late wife. Epstein has told people that he met Wex- ner in 1986 in Palm Beach, and that he won his confidence by persuading him not to invest in the stock market, just as the 1987 crash was approaching. His story has subsequently changed. When asked if Wexner knew about his connection to Hof- fenberg, Epstein said that he began working for Wexner in 1989, and that "it was certainly not the same time." Wherever and whenever it was that Epstein and Wexner actually met, there was an immediate and strong personal chemistry. Wexner says he thinks Epstein is "very smart with a combination of excellent judgment and unusually high stan- dards. Also, he is always a most loyal friend." Sources say Epstein proved that he could be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" ideas about investments. "Wexner had a couple of bad investments, and Jeffrey cleaned those up right away," says a former associate of Epstein's. Before he signed on with Wexner, Epstein had several meetings with Hargis) Levin, then head of Wexner Investments in which he enunciated ideas about cur- rencies that Levin found incomprehensible. "In fact," says someone who used to work very closely with Wexner, "almost everyone at the Limited wondered who Ep- stein was; he literally came out of nowhere." "Everyone was mystified as to what his appeal was," says Robert Morosky, a former vice-chairman of the Limited. Much of Epstein's work is related to cleaning up, tightening budgets, and effi- ciencies. One person who worked for Wexner and who saw a contract drawn up be- tween the two men says Epstein is involved in "everything, not just a little here, a little there. Everythingi" In addition, he says, "Wexner likes having a hatchet man... Whenever there is dirty work to be done he'd stick Jeffrey on it... He has a reputation for being ruthless but he gets the job done." Epstein has evidently been asked to fire personal-staff members when needed. "He was that mysterious person that everyone was scared to death of," says a former employee. Meanwhile, he is also less than popular with some people outside Wexner's company with whom he now deals. "He 'inserted' himself into the construction process of Leslie Wexner's yacht... That resulted in litigation down the road between Mr. Wexner and the shipyard that eventually built the vessel," says are Forsberg, a lawyer whose firm at the time, Dickerson and Reily, was hired to deal with litigation stemming from the construction of Wexner's Limitless-at 315 feet, one of the largest private yachts in the world. Evidently, Epstein stalled on paying Dickerson and Reily for its work. "It's probably once or twice in my legal career that I've had to sue a client for payment of services that he'd re- quested and we'd performed ... without issue on the performance," says Forsberg. In the end the matter was settled, but Epstein claims he now has no recollection of it. EFTA00188428

Page 12 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style A< The incident is one of a number of disputes Epstein has become embroiled in. Some are for sums so tiny as to be baffling; for instance, Epstein sued invest- ment adviser Herbert Glass, who sold him the Palm Beach house in 1990, for $13,444-Epstein claimed this was owed him for furnishings removed by Glass. In 1998 the U.S. Attorney's Office sued Epstein for illegally subletting the. former home of the deputy consul general of Iran to attorney Ivan Fisher and others. Epstein paid $15,000 a month in rent to the State Department, but he charged Fisher and his colleagues $20,000. Though the exact terms of the agree- ment are sealed, the court ruled against Epstein. Wexner offers some insight into his friend's combative style. "Many times people confuse winning and losing," Wexner says. "Jeffrey has the unusual qual- ity of knowing when he is winning. Whether in conversations or negotiations, he always stands back and lets the other person determine the style and manner of the conversation or negotiation. And then he responds in their style. Jeffrey sees it in chivalrous terms. He does not pick a fight, but if there is a fight, he will let you choose your weapon." One case is rather more serious. Currently, Citibank is suing Epstein for de- faulting on loans from its private-banking arm for $20 million. Epstein claims that Citibank "fraudulently induced" him into borrowing the money for invest- ments. Citibank disputes this charge. The legal papers for another case offer a rare window into Epstein's fi- nances. In 1995, Epstein stopped paying rent to his landlord, the nonprofit Mu- nicipal Arts Society, for his office in the Villard Hpust. He claimed that they were breaking the terms of the lease by not letting his staff in at night. The case was eventually settled. However, one of the papers filed in this dispute is Epstein's financial statement for 1988, in which he claimed to be worth $20 mil- lion. He listed that he owned $7 million in securities, $1 million in cash, zero in residential property (although he told sources that he had already bought the home in Palm Beach), and $11 million in other assets, including his investment in Riddell. A co-investor in Riddell says: "The company had been bought with a huge amount of debt, and it wasn't public, so it was meaningless to attach a figure like that to it ... the price it cost was about $1.2 million." The co- investors bought out Epstein's share in Riddell in 1995 for approximately $3 million. At that time, when Epstein was asked, as a routine matter, to sign a paper guaranteeing he had access to a few million dollars in case of any subse- quent disputes over the sale price, Wexner signed for him. Epstein has explained that this was because the co-investors wanted an indemnity against being sued by Wexner. One of the investors calls this "bullshit." Epstein's appointment to the board of New York's Rockefeller University in 2000 brought him into greater social prominence. Boasting such social names as Nancy Kissinger, Brooke Astor, and Robert Bass, the board also includes such pre- eminent scientists as Nobel laureate Joseph Goldstein. "Epstein was thrilled to be elected," says someone who knows him. After one term Epstein resigned. According to New York magazine, this was be- cause he didn't like to wear a suit to meetings. A spokesperson for the Rocke- feller board says Epstein left because he had insufficient time to commit; a board member recalls that he was "arrogant" and "not a good fit." The spokesper- son admits that it is "infrequent" for board members not to be renominated after only one term. Still, the recent spate of publicity Epstein has inspired does not seem to have fazed him. In November he was spotted in the front row of the Victoria's EFTA00188429

Page 13 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Secret fashion show at New York's Lexington Avenue Armory; around the same time the usual coterie of friends and beautiful women were whisked off to Little St. James (which he tells people has been renamed Little St. Jeff) for a long week- end. Thanks to Epstein's introductions, says Martin Nowak, the biologist finds himself moving from Princeton to Harvard, where he is assuming the joint posi- tion of professor of mathematics and professor of biology. Epstein has pledged at least $25 million to Harvard to create the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics, and Epstein will have an office at the uni- versity. The program will be dedicated to searching for nature's algorithms, a pursuit that is a specialty of Nowak's. For Epstein this must be the summit of everything he has worked toward: he has been seen proudly displaying Harvard president Larry Summers's letter of commitment as if he can't quite believe it is real. He says he was reluctant to have his name attached to the program, but Summers persuaded him. He rang his mentor Wexner about it, and Wexner told him it was all right. An insatiable, restless soul, always on the move, Epstein builds a tremendous amount of downtime into his hectic work schedule. Yet there is something almost programmed about his relaxation: it's as if even pleasure has to be measured in terms of self-improvement. Nowak says that, when he goes to stay with Epstein in the Caribbean, they'll get up at six and, as the sun rises, have three-hour con- versations about theoretical physics. "Then he'll go off and do some work, re- appear, and we'll talk some more." Another person who went to the island with Epstein, Maxwell, and several beautiful women remembers that the women "sat around one night teasing him about the kinds of grasping women who might want to date him. He was amused by the idea... He's like a king in his own world." Many people comment there is something innocent, almost childlike about Jef- frey Epstein. They see this as refreshing, given the sophistication of his sur- roundings. Alan Dershowitz says that, as he was getting to know Epstein, his wife asked him if he would still be close to him if Epstein suddenly filed for bankruptcy. Dershowitz says he replied, "Absolutely. I would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas." N GRAPHIC: LEFT, BY JAMES ESTRIN; RIGHT, BY DUBLIN CAINE; MR. BIG Jeffrey Epstein in New York, 2001. Left, Epstein's nine-floor, 51,000-square- foot town house. He also owns a 7,500-acre ranch in New Mexico, a house in Palm Beach, and a Car- ibbean island.; TOP TO BOTTOM: BY ALBERTO PINTO, LISA HINGE, J. B. SCHMITKA; un- real estate From top: the "leather room" in Epstein's house, where "tea" is served to guests; Epstein at his Zorro ranch in 1991 with his "best friend," Ghislaine Maxwell; Epstein in 1979.; TOP TO BOTTOM: BY LISA HINGE, SARAH ADAM SCULL; SPOILS OF SUCCESS From top: Epstein's 70- acre island, Little St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands-he now calls it Little St. Jeff; Epstein with President Clinton in Brunei, 2002; Leslie Wexner with his future wife, Abigail, at the 1990 C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards, in New York, 1991.; ALBERTO PINTO; OFFICE SPACE The "office" in Epstein's house. It has no computers, but it does have a desk that Epstein tells people once belonged to banker J. P. Morgan, and "the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home."; Pages 300-301: Left, from The New York Times. Page 304: Bottom, from Globe Photos. LOAD-DATE: January 24, 2005 EFTA00188430

Prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 1 of 4 thaestertalondIon.co.uk nment gue from lb, Evening Standard PRINCE ANDREW'S BILLIONAIRE FRIEND IS ACCUSED OF PREYING ON GIRL OF 14 28.04.07 Add your view One of Prince Andrew's closest friends is being Investigated by the FBI for allegedly paying under-age girls for tawdry sexual encounters. Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has stayed at Sandringham and holidayed with the Prince in Thailand, while Andrew has visited his luxurious New York townhouse at least twice. Police in Florida are so concerned by claims that the bachelor financier had sexual encounters with under- age girls at his exclusive Palm Beach villa that they have passed the case files to the FBI. Epstein, 54, leads a hedonistic lifestyle that has troubled Royal courtiers ever since he was introduced to the Prince by their friend Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell. During his Thai holiday with Epstein, Andrew was photographed surrounded by topless women on a yacht. And Epstein was a guest at the Queen's birthday party in 2000 at Windsor and has attended a weekend house party at Sandringham. According to official documents seen by this newspaper, Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter has asked the FBI to determine whether Epstein broke laws designed to protect children from prostitution and pornography. Some such offences carry minimum sentences of ten to 15 years. The documents reveal that Epstein was the subject of an 11-month undercover investigation by police after a complaint in 2005 from the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl, who claimed she was paid £150 to give him an erotic massage at his flamingo-pink villa. The girl is said to have been taken there by 18-year-old student who claims in a sworn statement that she was recruited at the age of 17 to provide the billionaire with a £100 nude massage. She told police he grabbed her after she began to rub him with oil. After the massage,' according to a police department affidavit, Epstein stated that he Concerns: Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is under investigation for alleged sexual encounters with underage girls http://www.thisisiondon.co.ukinews/article-23394287-details/Prince+Andrew%27s+billiona... 5/3/2007 EFTA00188431

Prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 2 of 4 understood she s not comfortable, but he would pay her I over some girls. He told her the younger the better.' The student claims she found at least six girls aged 14 to 16. Every girl knew what to expect,' the affidavit continues. They were told they would provide a massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching.' One of the girls cried hysterically', according to a police report, as she recalled how she was recruited to provide services for Epstein when she was 16. She claims in a sworn statement that he introduced her to a woman whom he said he had brought from Yugoslavia to be his sex slave'. The girl claims that Epstein persuaded her to have sex with the woman. He allegedly also forcibly' held the girl's head as he tried to have sex with her, but stopped after she screamed no'. Epstein apologised for his actions and paid her £500 for that visit,' the records claim. Additionally, [he] gave her a 2005 Dodge Neon, blue in colour, for her personal use.' When police searched the villa, they say they found a pink and green couch In the master bedroom, matching a description by the alleged victims. They say the stairway to the room was lined with photos of naked young girls. Two hidden cameras were found ecks, and police also discovered pictures of nd other witnesses on a computer. The allegations came to light after Epstein was accused of soliciting a prostitute. He Is due to stand trial next month. Palm Beach police believe that the relatively light charge, which makes no mention of sex with minors, was the result of intimidation by private inves-tigators and high-powered lawyers representing Epstein. Police claim that local prosecutors were deterred from aggressively pursuing the case. One of his legal team, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, told The Mall on Sunday that Epstein had Epstein's friend Prince Andrew http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23394287-details/Prince+Andrew%27s+billiona... 5/3/2007 EFTA00188432

'prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 3 of 4 passed a lie detector test showing he was innocent of all allegations. The financier had paid for massages, but had not engaged in sex or erotic massages with any minors, the lawyer insisted. He said that the girl who accused Epstein of forcible sex had a long record of lying, theft and blaming others for her crimes'. The hidden cameras, he said, had been installed at the behest of Palm Beach police following a theft from the villa. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed: We received the referral from the Palm Beach police chief. We have a pending case.' Epstein's friends include entrepreneur Donald Trump, who once said: He likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.' What is this? Digg Reddit READER VIEWS (o) Del.iclo.us No comments have so far been submitted. ADD YOUR COMMENT Name: Email: Town and country: Your comment: Newsvine NowPublic Add your view Your email address will not be published _ __11111 Terms and conditions You have 1500 characters left. make text area bigger r Remember me - this will save your name, location and email address for when you leave your next comment. r Email me a link to these comments. Clear I submit comment DAILY MAIL MAIL ON SUNDAY THIS IS TRAVEL THIS IS MONEY METRO Loot I JobsIte I Homes & property I London jobs I FIndaProperty.com I Primelocation.com I Educate London http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23394287-details/Prince+Andrew%27s+billiona... 5/3/2007 EFTA00188433

United States Attorney's Office Southern District of Florida NEWS BRIEFING To: R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney Jeffrey H. Sloman, First Assistant James Swain, Executive Assistant Alicia O. Valle, Special Counsel Robert Senior, Chief, Criminal Division Kenneth Noto, Deputy Chief, Criminal Division Anne Schultz, Chief, Appellate Division Gerardo Simms, Chief, Asset Forfeiture Division Wendy A. Jacobus, Chief, Civil Division David Weinstein, Chief, PINS Karen Gilbert, Chief, Narcotics Eric Bustillo, Chief, Economic and Environmental Crimes Section Rick Del Toro, Chief, Major Crimes Section Ben Greenberg, Chief, Special Prosecutions Roger Stefin, Deputy Chief, Ft. Lauderdale Rolando Garcia, Deputy Chief, West Palm Beach Diana Acosta, Acting Deputy Chief, Ft. Pierce From: Annette Castillo Cyndee Campos Executive Division July 1, 2008 EFTA00188434

Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 1 of 4 be Niu fork times rlytmnor:.corn July 1, 2008 rRICNOLY IOYMAI SM VSC.00 II GO Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case By LANDOMTHOMAS Jr. The bad news arrived by phone last week on Little St. James Island, the palm-fringed Xanadu in the Caribbean where Jeffrey E. Epstein, adviser to billionaires, lives in secluded splendor. Report to the Palm Beach County jail, the caller, Mr. Epstein's lawyer, said. So over the weekend Mr. Epstein quit his pleasure dome, with its staff of 7o and its flamingo- stocked lagoon, and flew to Florida. On Monday morning, he turned himself in and began serving i8 months for soliciting prostitution. "I respect the legal process," Mr. Epstein, 55, said by phone as he prepared to leave his 78-acre island, which he calls Little St. Jeff's. "I will abide by this." It is a stunning downfall for Mr. Epstein, who grew up in Coney Island and went on to live the life of a billionaire, only to become a tabloid monument to an age of hyperwealth. Mr. Epstein owns a Boeing 727 and the largest town house in Manhattan. He has paid for college educations for personal employees and students from Rwanda, and spent millions on a project to develop a thinking and feeling computer and on music intended to alleviate depression. But Mr. Epstein also paid women, some of them under age, to give him massages that ended with a sexual favor, the authorities say. Federal prosecutors initially threatened to bring him to trial on a variety of charges and seek the maximum penalty, to years in prison. After years of legal wrangling, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges. Upon his release from jail, he must register as a sex offender wherever he goes in the United States. People from all walks of life break the law, of course. But for the rich, wrapped in a cocoon of immense comfort, it can be easy to yield to temptation, experts say. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/0lepstein.html? y=l&sq=epstein&st=nyt8cad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188435

Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 2 of 4 "A sense of entitlement sets in," said Dennis Pearne, a psychologist who counsels people on matters related to extreme wealth. The attitude, he said, becomes, "I deserve anything I want, I can have anything I want — and I can afford it." To prosecutors, Mr. Epstein is just another sex offender. He did what he did because he could, and because he never dreamed he would get caught, they say. Mr. Epstein's defenders counter that he has been unjustly persecuted because of his wealth and lofty connections. Sitting on his patio on "Little St. Jeff's" in the Virgin Islands several months ago, as his legal troubles deepened, Mr. Epstein gazed at the azure sea and the lush hills of St. Thomas in the distance, poked at a lunch of crab and rare steak prepared by his personal chef, and tried explain how his life had taken such a turn. He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among the diminutive denizens of I.illiput. "Gulliver's playfulness had unintended consequences," Mr. Epstein said. "That is what happens with wealth. There are unexpected burdens as well as benefits." Those benefits are on full display on his island where, despite his time in jail, Mr. Epstein has commissioned a new estate. The villa will occupy the island's promontory, which offers views of the Atlantic on one side and the Caribbean on the other. It will have a separate library to house Mr. Epstein's 90,000 volumes, a Japanese bathhouse and what he calls a "Ziegfeld" movie theater. For now, however, those visions of a private paradise have been replaced by the cold reality of a jail cell. The legal drama began in 2005, when a young woman who gave Mr. Epstein massages at his Palm Beach mansion told the local police about the encounter. She was 14 at the time, and was paid $200. The police submitted the results of their investigation to the state attorney, asking that Mr. Epstein be charged with sexual relations with minors. His lawyers say Mr. Epstein never knew the young women were under age, and point to depositions in which the masseuses — several of whom have filed civil suits — admitted to lying about their age. In July 2005, a Florida grand jury charged Mr. Epstein with a lesser offense, soliciting prostitution. Mr. Epstein's legal team, which would eventually include the former prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr and the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, was elated: Mr. Epstein would avoid prison. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/Olepstein.html?J=1&screpstein8cst=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188436

Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 3 of 4 But then the United States attorney's office in Miami became involved. Last summer, Mr. Epstein got an ultimatum: plead guilty to a charge that would require him to register as a sex offender, or the government would charge him with sexual tourism, according to people who were briefed on the discussions. David Weinstein, an attorney in the government's Miami office, declined to discuss the specifics of the case. But he did address the subject of Mr. Epstein's means and prominent legal team, and dismissed a proposal by Mr. Epstein's lawyers — who opposed the application of federal statutes in the case — that he be confined to his house in Palm Beach for a probationary period. "In their mind that would be an adequate resolution," Mr. Weinstein said. "Our view is that is not enough of a punishment to fit the crime that occurred." The lurid details of the case have captivated wealthy circles in Palm Beach and New York and transformed Mr. Epstein, who shuns publicity and whose business depends on discretion, into a figure of public ridicule. He said he has been trailed by stalkers and has become the target of lawsuits. In recent months, he said, he received over too letters a week asking for money or jobs as a masseuse. lie recently received a package of gold-tinted condoms. It has been a long, strange journey from Coney Island, where Mr. Epstein grew up in middle- class surroundings. He taught briefly at Dalton, the Manhattan private school, and then joined Bear Stearns, becoming a derivatives specialist. He struck out on his own in the 198os. Ills business is something of a mystery. He says he manages money for billionaires, but the only client he is willing to disclose is Le3lien Wexner, the founder of Limitesi Brands. As Mr. Epstein explains it, he provides a specialized form of superelite financial advice. He counsels people on everything from taxes and trusts to prenuptial agreements and paternity suits, and even provides interior decorating tips for private jets. Industry sources say he charges flat annual fees ranging from $25 million to more than $too million. As it became clear that he was headed for jail, Mr. Epstein has tried to put on a brave face. "Your body can be confined, but not your mind," he said in a recent interview by phone. But the strains were showing. "I am anxious," he said in another recent interview, referring to how inmates would treat him. "I make a great effort to treat people equally, but I recognize that http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/01 epstein.html7 _r=1&sq=epstein&st=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188437

Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 4 of 4 I might be perceived as one of the New York arrogant rich." Jail will certainly be a big change. Mr. Epstein is a man of precise, at times unconventional, habits. He starts his mornings with a secret-ingredient bran muffin prepared by his chef. He seems to have a germ phobia. He never wears a suit, preferring monogrammed sweatsuits and jeans. And he rarely attends meetings — "I never have to be anywhere," he tells his pilots, when he cautions them to avoid flying through chancy weather. Looking back, Mr. Epstein admits that his behavior was inappropriate. "I am not blameless," he said. He said he has taken steps to make sure the same thing never happens again. For starters, Mr. Epstein has hired a full-time male masseur (the man happens to be a former Ultimate Fighting champion). He also has organized what he calls a board of directors of friends to counsel him on his behavior. And Mr. Epstein has changed his e-mail address to alert people that he will be unavailable for the next 18 months. The new address indicates he is "on vacation." C9920914 2094 The New 10. .1"Imee CLemilanY efletiey Poky I Sew I carackons I RSS I I FklaStok I tictip I continua I Work fotlJo I wimp http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/Olepstein.html?J=1&screpstein&st=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188438

Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge - NYTimes.com Page 1 of I tie Nell; gOrk a' ntes ilytisties.corn June 30, 2008 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:02 p.m. ET SAIIP4CLY PQM11 /41 Sr* ,410110 PC WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida. Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 months in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex offender. Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 $200 to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes became sexual. He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. retNalie Associated Press Ethempafey I Smith I cargetlene I ass I I ter I HS I Cantata's I Wed' labile I me-take . . . . http://www.nytimes.corn/aponline/us/AP-Billionaire-Prostitution.html7sq=epstein&st=nyt&... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188439

JUL. 1.2000 10:13AM USA() WPB FL NO.340 P.1 laM 51NOWSIMIPhotintaphar Investment banker Jeffrey Epstein waits in court Monday before his guilty plea. Palm Beacher pleads in sex case Jeffrey Epstein will serve years on teen solicitation charges. ay LARRY KELLER Pd., BaaehJWt Stte Ron WEST PALM BEACH — He lives in a Palm Beach water front mansion and has kept company with the 'Ikea of President Clinton, Prince An- drew and Donald 'frump, but inveabnent bankerJeffrey Ep- stein will call the Palm Beach County Jail home for the next 18 months, Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty Monday to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. After serving IS months in jail, he will be under house arrest for a year And he will have a lifelong obligation to register aa a sex offender. He must submit to an HIV teat within 48 hours, with the results being pro- vided to his victims or their parents THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY, JULY 1,2008 • ■ Read past stories on the Epstein case. • See photos of fugitives, unsolved cases, police blotters, a bldg, special reports and moro. • PalmBeaehhst.com As part of the plea deal, federal investigators agreed to drop their investigation of Epstein, which they had taken to a grand jury, two law enforcement sources said. Epstein was indicted two years ago after an lbmonth investigation by Palm Boaph police. They received r a complaint from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had given Epstein a naked nuts• sage at his five-bedroom, 7,2.34-square-foot, $8.5 million Intracoastal home. Police concluded that there Sea EPSTEIN, BA l• • Crime coverage EFTA00188440

hi_ 1 2H 10: 1:111vi Sq2 'AN] IL N0.348 P.2 Epstein faces civil lawsuits; more clients may be added • Ile EPSTEIN/nee IA were several other girls brought In 2004 and 2005 to an upstairs room at the home for similar, massages and sexual touching. The indictment charged Epstein only with felony so- licitation of prostitution. The state attorney's office later added the charge of procur- ing underage girls for that purpose- Prosecutor Lama Be- lohlavek said of the plea: "I took into consideration the length, the trial would have been • ind witnesses having to testify" about sometimes embarrassing incidents. Epstein may .have made a serious mistake soon after he was charged. He rejected an offer to plead guilty to one count of aggravated assault with Intent to commit a felo- ny,. according to police docu- ments. He would have gotten five years' probation, had no Criminal record and not been a registered sex offender, the documents indicate. Epstein arrived in court Monday with at least three atterneys: He wore a blue blazer, blue !AUK- blue jeans and white and gray sneakers, After Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Puente accepted the plea, he *was fingerprinted. E. stein then removed his blazer and was handcuffed for the trip to jail while his. attorneys tried to shield him froth photographers' tepees. When he eventually is released to house arrest Ep- stein will have to observe a 10 pm. to 6 a.m. curfew, have no unsupervised contact with anyone younger than 18 and neither own nor pot-'• sere pornographic or sexual materials "that are relevant to your deviant behavior," the judge said. Epstein will be allowed to leave home for woik. The New York-based money manager told the judge he has formed the not-feePrefit Florida Science Ibundatlen to finance scientific re- search. "I'm there every day," Epstein said. The foundation was In- corporated in November Epstein said he already has awarded money to Harvard and kar. When he is released from jail, there is a chance-that Ep- stein will be forced to move. Sex offenders are not allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a echool, park or other areas where children may gather No determination has been made as to whether Epsteints home complies, but attorneys said it likely does, Sex offenders also typi- cally must attend counseling sessions. Belohlavek bald that was waived for Epstein because hie private psychia- trist is working with him. 'It's validation of what we're saying in the civil cases. JEFFREY HERMAN Attorney who reneged& alleged victims, commenting on the plea The judge was skeptical but agreed to it Epstein legal woes don't end with Monday's plea. There are four pending fed- eral civil lawsuits and one in state court related to, his behavior At least one woman has sued him In New York, where he. owns a 51,000- square-foot Manhattan man- sion. Ifs validation of what we're saying In the civil cases," Said Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman, who tem.& sante the alleged victims In the federal lawsuits. West Palm Beach attorney Ted Leopold represents one al- leged victim in a civil suit in state court. He said he antici- pates *ending that lawsuit to •add 'a few other clients" as well In the criminal case, po- lice went so far as to Scour Epsteinis trash and conduct surveillance at Palm Beach International Airport, where they watched for his private jet so they would know when he was .in town. They con- cluded that Epstein paid girls $200 to $300 each after the massage sessions. idi Reiss," 22, told po ce a ou efforts in recruiting girls for Epstein. There was probable cause to charge Epstein with un- lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious mo- lestation, police concluded. The state attorney's of- fice said questions about' the girls' credibility led it to take the unprecedented step of presenting the evidence 'against Epstein to a grand jury, rather than directly charging Mtn, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Eeiter was furious with State Attorney Barry. &lecher, saying in a May 2006 letter that the prosecu- tor should disqualify himself. "I continue to find your office's treatment of these cases highly unusual," he 'note. He then asked for and got a federal Investigation. EFTA00188441

JUL. 1.2008 10:13AM USPO kPB FL NO.348 P.3 Epstein hired a phalanx of high-priced lawyers —Includ- ing Harvard law professor and author Alan Derehowitz — and public relations people Who questioned getter% com- petence and the victims truthfulness. In addition to mansions in Palm Beach and Manhat- tan, Epstein owns homes in New Mexico and the Virgin. Islande. He% a frequent con- tributor to Democratic Party candidates. He also donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003, Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer returned a $50,000 campaign contribu- tion from Epstein after his indictment. then resigned this year during his own sex • scandal. And the Barrie Palm Beach Police Departinent that vigorously investigated Epstein returned his $90,000 donation for the purchase of a firearins simulator StqflwriferEliotlatinbergand staff researcher Michelle Quig- ley confributed to Ail story. CHarry.:41400,Postom • UMA SAW:MI/U.1u Priatomptior )effrey Epstein (lett) appeirs In court Monday. Soon after ha was charged two years ago, Epstein relent- ed a deal that would have given him five years' probation and no criminal record, documents show. EFTA00188442

Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Page 1 of 2 sun-sentinel.cominews/local/palmbeachisfl-flpepstein0701sbjul01,0,1047755.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges By Missy Diaz South Florida Sun-Sentinel 11:28 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH Billionaire Palm Beach- New York-Virgin Islands money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a jail uniform Monday after pleading guilty to hiring underage Palrnatackeounty girls for erotic massages and sex. The 55-year-old will be designated a sex offender, requiring him to register annually with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Epstein, who lives in a 13,000-square-foot mansion on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, will spend 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout the hearing, read off a litany of other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, including a 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity log and a stern warning that he not possess, watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually stimulating material relative to your deviant behavior." The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact — direct or indirect -- with his victims, something Pucillo clarified explicitly, saying it includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and text messages. "That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third parties. ... Is that clear?" she asked. Epstein told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the very rich and counts among his friends former President Bill Clinton. His real estate holdings include a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and a 50,000-square-foot townhouse on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side. According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005 Epstein paid , tf o find girls — "the younger the better"— to "work" for him. Epstein rejected a 23-year-old who brought to Epstein's home. once referred to herself as Heidi Fleiss, the Hoist madam whose client list included celebrities. "The more you do, the more you get paid," reportedly told the he going rate was $200 to $300 per massage. All of the girls knew what to expect, according to : "provide a massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching." Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty Monday to two counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony offer to commit prostitution. The http://www.sun-sentinel.cominews/locaVpalmbeach/sfl-flpepstein0701sbjul01,0,697175,pri... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188443

Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges -- South Florida Sun-Sentincl.com Page 2 of 2 maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court filed by four girls seeking in excess of $50 million each. "We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. Missy Diaz can be reached at mdiaz@sun-sentinet&orri or 561-228-5505. Copyright O 2008, South Florida SuP7Sentimel http://wvvvv.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpcpstein0701sbjul01,0,697175,pri... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188444

Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex -- South Florida... Page 1 of 2 sun-sentinel.cominews/local/palmbeach/sfl-630epstein,0,69 I 3787.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex By Missy Diaz Sun-Sentinel.com 12:25 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH Mega-rich Palm Beach-New York-Virgin Islands money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a jail uniform today after pleading guilty to hiring underage Palm Beach County girls for erotic massages and sex. As a result, Epstein will be designated a sex offender, a moniker that will require he register annually with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and any other jurisdiction that so requires. Epstein, 55, will spend 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout today's hearing, read off a litany of other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, including a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity log and a stem warning that he not possess, watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually stimulating material relative to your deviant behavior." The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact -- direct or indirect -- with his victims, something Pucillo explained includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and text messages. "That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third panics is that clear?" she asked. Epstein, a billionaire who lives in a five bedroom, 7'/ bath, 13,000-square-foot mansion on El BrilloWay in Palm Beach, told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the super wealthy and counts among his friends former President Bill Clinton. According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005, Epstein used a then 20-year-old girl to find 14- to 16- year-old girls from her school to "work" for him. http://www.sun-sentineLcom/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-630cpstein,0,3606120,print.story 6/30/2008 EFTA00188445

Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex -- South Florida... Page 2 of 2 In return, according to police, Epstein paid her $200 for each girl she found. Epstein's assistant kept the recruiter apprised of when Epstein would be in Palm Beach and the recruiter would take the girls to the mansion. Once there, Epstein's assistant escorted the girl to a bedroom furnished with a massage table and oils. Epstein would enter in only a towel and would touch himself during some sessions and try fondling the girls with sex toys in others, according to police. Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty today to two counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution, and felony offer to commit prostitution. The maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. Epstein told the judge he takes no prescription medication other than for his cholesterol. He works in the Virgin Islands, he said, but while on house arrest he plans to do charitable work at a non-profit he formed charity called The Florida Science Foundation. State records show the foundation was formed in November for the purpose of providing grants to organizations in science and research. "My background is in physics," Epstein told Pucillo. Harvard and MIT have been recipients of grants from the organization, he said. While the criminal ease may have been disposed today, Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court filed by four of the girls who are each seeking in excess of $50 million. "We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. "An important measure of justice is that he'll be a registered sex offender." As deputies fingerprinted Epstein, who was dressed in a navy sport coat, jeans and sneakers, a phalanx of his handlers congregated outside the courtroom. His attorney, Jack Goldberger, along with two other men, one in a seersucker suit, the other typing furiously on a laptop computer, stayed with Epstein until lawmen escorted him from the courtroom. Copyright O 2008, South. Florida autt-.Ssnlinel http://www.sun-se ntinel.cominews/local/pal mbeach/s11-630epstei n,0,3606 I 20,print.story 6/30/2008 EFTA00188446

Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge - 06/30/2008 - Miamillerald.com Page 1 of I MlamiHerald.com 0 Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2008 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida. Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 months in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex offender. Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 $200 to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes became sexual. He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. @ 2008 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved. http://www.miamihcrald.com html 7/1/2008 EFTA00188447

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MR. BIG Jeffrey Epstein in Ness York. 200I. Left. Epstein% nine-Moor, M.000-square. foul loon house. Ile also nuns a 75110-acre ranch in Nos Nlesico, a house in Palm Beach, and a Caribbean island. Lately, leffrey Epstein's high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New Ifork's largest private residake, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and flies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARP explores Epstein's investment career, his ties to retail magnate Leslie Wexner, and his complicated past EFTA00188449

n Manhattan's Upper Lip 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 door, huge arched windows, and nine floors. it sits on—or. rather. commands—the block of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of pro- portion with its four- and five-story neigh- bors, it seems more like an institution than a house. This is perhaps not surprising— until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's largest private residence. Inside, amid the flurry of menservants attired in sober black suits and pristine white .gloves, you feel you have stumbled into someone's private Xanadu. This is no mere rich person's home, but a high- walled, eclectic, imperious fantasy that seems to have no boundaries. The entrance hall is decorated not with paintings but with row upon row of indi- vidually framed eyeballs: these. the owner tells people with relish. were imported from England. where they were made for in- jured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer. which does have a painting, in the man- ner of Jean Dubufftt ... but the host coyly refuses to tell visitors who palmed it. In any case, guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior. Despite its eccentricity the house is curi- ously impersonal, the statement of someone who wants to be known for the scale of his possessions. Its occupant. financier Jeffrey Epstein, 50. admits to friends that he likes it when people think of him this way. A good- looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren. with thick gray-white hair and a weathered face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, and loafers. He tells people he bought the house because he knew he "could never lite anywhere bigger." He thinks 51.000 square feet is an appropriately large space for some- one like himself, who deals mostly in large Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the town house—Epstein usually rekrs to the former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite- size morsels and drink copious quantities of Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or to- bacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," so called because of the cordovan-colored fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding an opium pipe and caressing a snarling li- onskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and guests by the menservants in white glows. Upstairs, to the right of a spiral stair- case, is the "office," an enormous gallery spanning the width of the house. Strangely, it holds no computer. Computers belong in the "computer room" fa smaller room at the back of the house). Epstein has been known to say. The office features a gilded desk (which Epstein tells people belonged to banker J. R Morgan). 18th-century black lacquered Portuguese cabinets. and a nine- foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de Sack's The Misfinunes of Time was re- cently spotted. Covering the floor. Epstein has explained. "is the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home—so big. it must have come from a mosque." Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator .Alberto Pin- to. who has worked for Jacques Chime and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Ara- bia, there is one particularly startling oddi- ty: a stuffed black poodle. standing atop the grand piano. "No decorator would ever tell you to do that." Epstein brags to visi- tors. "But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog.- People can't help but feel it's Epstein's way' of saying that he always has the last word. in addition to the town house. Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico. on an S IS million. 7.500-acre ranch which he named "Zono." "It makes the town house look like a shack,- Epstein has said. He also owns Little St. James. a 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. where the main house is currently being renovated by Edward Tit- tle, a designer of the Amanresorts. There is also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter. and a Boeing 727. replete with trading room, on which Epstein re- cently flew President Clinton. actors Chris 'Ricker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's grandson. Casey Wasserman, and a few oth- ers, on a mission to explore the problems of AIDS and economic development in Africa. • • • the charm slip into his eyes. They arc steely and calculating, giving some hint at the steady whir of machinery running behind them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, af- ter refusing to give an interview for this arti- cle. "You be white. You get the first mow." It was an appropriate metaphor hr a man who seems to feel he can win no matter what the advantage of the other side. //is advantage is that no one really seems to know him or his history completely or what his arsenal actually consists of. He has care- fully engineered it so that he remains one of the few truly baffling mysteries among New York's moneyed world. People know snippets, but few know the whole. "He's very enigmatic." says Rosa Month- ton, the Farmer C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K. and a close friend since the early 1980s. - You think you know him and then you peel oil' another 'ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath. He never reveals his hand.... He's a classic iceberg. What you see is not what you get." ven acquaintances sense a curious dichotomy: Yes. he lives like a "modern ma- haraja." as Loh Rieman, one of his art dealers. puts it. Yet he is fastidiously, al- most obsessively private—he lists himself in the phone book under a pseudonym. He rarely attends society gath- erings or weddings or funerals: he considers eating in restaurants like "eating on the sub- way"—i.e.. something he'd never do. There are many women in his life. mostly young, but there is no one of them to whom he has been able to commit. He describes his most public companion of the last decade, Ghislaine Maxwell, 41. the daughter of the late, disgraced media baron Robert Max- well, as simply his "best friend:' He says she is not on his payroll, but she seems to organize much of his life—recently she was making telephone inquiries to find a California-based yoga instructor for him. (Epstein is still close to his two other long- term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher. a for- mer associate of his at the brokerage firm Bear Stearns and now an opera producer, and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and onetime model. He tells people that when a relationship is over the girlfriend -moves up. not down," to friendship status.) Some of the businessmen who dine with him at his home—they include newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis Ranieri. Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, real-estate tycoon Leon Black. former Mi- crosoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. Tom • • 4. •• •• . • k • Op lc 110110.4 ili ...... 0 rie•in EFTA00188450

personality Donald Trump—sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he ac- tually does to earn his millions. Certainly, you won't find Epstein's transactions writ- ten about on Bloomberg or talked about in the trading rooms. "The trading desks don't seem to know him. It's unusual for animals 'hat big not to leave any footprints in the mow" says a high-level investment mai Unlike such fund managers as Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, whose client lists and stock maneuverings act as their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret, bar one client: bib lionaire Leslie Wexner, the respected chair- man of Limited Brant's. Epstein insists that ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1981 he as managed money only for billionaires- -Am depend on him for discretion. "I was the only person crazy enough, or arrogant enough, or misplaced enough, to make my limit a bib lion dollars or more," he tells peo- ple freely. According to him, the flat fees he receives from his clients. combined with his skill at playing e currency markets "with very I rge sums of money," have afforded f.:m the lifestyle he enjoys today. Why do billionaires choose him as their trustee? Because the prob- lems of the mega-rich. he tells peo- ple. are different from yours and mine, and his unique philosophy is central to understanding those problems: " /ery few people need any more money len they have a billion dollars. The key is not to have it do harm more than any- thing else.... You don't want to lose your money." 1 e has likened his job to specifically, one who that of an architect—more spe- cializes in remodeling: "I always describe [a billion- aire] as someone who started out in a small home and as he became wealthier had add- ons. He added on another addition, he built a room over the garage ... until you have a house that is usually a mess.... It's a large house that has been put together over time where no one could foretell the financial fu- tut: and their accompanying needs." -le makes it sound as though his job :ombines the roles of real-estate agent, ac- :ountant, lawyer, money manager, trustee. and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, nyths and rumor swirl around Epstein. Here are some of the hard facts about parks department. His parents viewed educa- tion as "the way out" for him and his young- er brother, Mark, now working in real estate. Jeffrey started to play the piano—for which he maintains a passion—at five. and he went to Brooklyn's Lakette High School. He was good at mathematics. and in his early 20s he got a job teaching physics and math at Dalton, the elite Manhattan pri- vate school. While there he began tutoring the son of Bear Stearns chairman Ace Greenberg and was friendly with a daugh- ter of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear Stearns. where. under the mentorship of both Greenberg and current Bear Stearns C.E.O. James Cayne, he did well enough to become a limited partner—a rung be- neath full partner. He abruptly departed in 1981 because, he has said, he wanted to run his own business. Thereafter the details recede into shad- UNREAL ESTATE From tor the "leather room" in Epstein's house. where "tea" is served to guests: Epstein at his Zorro ranch in 1991 with his "best friend," Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein in 1979. "bounty hunter: recov- ering lost or stolen mon- ey for the government or for very rich people. He has a license to carry a firearm. For the last 15 years. he's been running his business, J. Epstein & Co. Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his life—Epstein has said this was in 1986: others say it was in 1989. at the earliest— he has gradually, in a way that has not generally made headlines, come to be ac- cepted by the Establishment. He's a mem- ber of various commissions and councils: he is on the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Insti- tute of International Education. EFTA00188451

SPOILS OF SUCCESS Awn tqr Epstein's 70- acre island. Little St. lames. in the U.S. Virgin Islands—he now calls it Little St. Jett Epstein with President Clinton in Brunei. 2002: Leslie Wexner with his future wife. Abigail at the 1990 C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards. in New York. 1991. Larry Summers. Harvard's current presi- dent. Harvard law professor Alan Dersho- witz says. "I'm on my 20th book.... The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey." Real-estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose, who has %tacked with Epstein on projects in New Albany, Ohio. for Wexner. says. "He digests and decodes the information very rapidly, which is to me terrific because we have shorter meetings." Also on the list of admirers are former senator Mitchell and a gaggle of distinguished scientists, most of whom Epstein has helped fund in recent years. EdeIn= and 3ilunay Gel Mann. and mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. When these men describe Epstein. they talk about **energy" and "curiosity: as well as a love for theoreti- cal physics that they don't ordinarily find in laymen. Ge11-Mann rather sweetly mentions that **there are al- ways pretty ladies around" when he goes to dinner cht Epstein. and he's under the impression that Epstein's clients include the Queen of En- gland. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit in the back of Dershowitz's law class. Epstein gets annoyed when anyone sug- gests that Wexner "made him." "I had real- ly rich clients before:' he has said. Yet he does not deny that he and Wexner have a special relationship. Epstein secs it as a partnership of equals. "People have said it's like we have one brain between two of us: "I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns;' says Wexner. "But Jef- frey sees patterns in politics and fmaria cial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not in in- vestment strategy, and, as everyone who knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fash- ion and design. We frequently discuss world trends as each of us sees them:' y the time Epstein met Wexner, the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion em- pire—one that now in- cludes Victoria's Secret. Express, and Bath & Body Works—from $5,000 lent him by his aunt. "Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to real- ize his (Jeffrey's) dreams." says some- one who has worked closely with both men. "He gave Jeffrey the ball and Jeffrey hit it out of the park." Wexner, through a trust. bought the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported $13.2 million in 1989. In 1993. Wex- ner married Abigail Koppel. a 31-year-old lawyer. and the newlyweds relocated to Ohio: in 1996. Epstein moved in- . - to the town house. Public documcnts suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it. but Epstein has said that he now owns the house. Wexner trusts Epstein so completely that he has assigned him the power of fidu- ciary over all of his private trusts and foun- dations, says a source close to Wexner. In 1992. Epstein even persuaded Wexner to put him on the board of the Wexner Foun- dation in place of Warices ailing mother. Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled by splitting the foundation in two. Epstein does not care that he comes be- tween family members. In fact, he sees it as his job. He tells people. "I am there to .1 represent my client. and if my client needs protecting—sometimes even from his own family-then it's often better that people hate me, not the client." "You've probably heard I'm vicious ins my representation of my clients,- he tells people proudly; Leah Kiernan describes his haggling over art prices as something like ; a scene out of the movie Mad Mar Be- yond Thunderdome. Even a former mentor g says he's seen "the dark side- of Epstein. 5 and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meet- ing in which Epstein chewed out a team :. 1 t: a e: h. • • EFTA00188452

0 S t 0. being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." One reporter, in fact, received three threats from Epstein while preparing a piece, They were delivered in a jocular tone, but the message was clear: There' will be trouble for your family if I don't like the article. On the other hand, Epstein is clearly very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has known Epstein since before his Bear Stearns days, can't say enough nice things: "1 have a boy who's dyslexic, and Jeffrey's gotten close to him over the years.... Jeffrey got him into music. He bought him his first piano. And then as he got to school he had difficulty ... in studying ... so Jeffrey got him interestel in taking flying lessons?' Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling her that her. daughter. Domenica. who suf- . krs from Down syndrome. needed the sun, and that Rosa should feel free to bring her to his house in Palm Beach anytime. Some friends remember that in the late 80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the air- line tickets of good friends by affixing first- class stickers: the only problem was that the stickers turned out to be unofficial. Some- times the technique ‘Corked. but other times it didn't. and the unwitting recipients found themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and had no knowiedge of the stickers.) Many of those who benefited from Epstein's largesse claim that his generosity comes with no strings attached. "I never felt he wanted anything from me in return." says one old friend. who received a first-class upgrade. Fl pstein is known about town as a man who loves wom- en—lots of them, mostly young. Model types have been heard saying they are full of gratitude to Epstein for flying them around. and he is a familiar face to many of the Victo- ria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls being summoned 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 Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was tilled. she says. with young Russian mod- els. "Some of the guests were horrified," the woman says. "He's reckless," says a former business associate, "and he's gotten more so. Mon- ey does that to you. He's breaking the oath he made to himself—that he would never media. Right now, in the wake of the pub- licity following his trip with Clinton, he must be in a very difficult place." A ccording to S.E.C. and other legal documents un- earthed 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 Hoffen- berg, 57, who, for a few months before the S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 093, was trying to buy the New York Asst. He is cur- rently incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center in Devens. Massachusetts, serving a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than 5450 trillion in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. When Epstein met Hoffenberg in Lon- don in the 1980s, the latter was the char- ismatic, audacious head of the Towers Financial Corporation. a collection agency that was supposed to buy debts that peo- ple owed to hospitals. banks, and phone companies. But Hoffenberg began using company funds to pay off earlier investors and service a lavish lifestyle that included a mansion on Long Island. homes on Man- hanan's Sutton Place and in Florida, and a fleet of cars and planes. Hoffenberg and Epstein had much in common. Both were smart and obsessed with making money Both were from Brook- lyn. According to Hotlenberg. the two men were introduced by Douglas Leese. a de- fense contractor. Epstein has said they were introduced by John Mitchell. the late attor- ney. general. Epstein had been running International Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.). a consulting company. out of his apartment in the Solo building on East 66th Street in New York. Though he has claimed that he managed money for billionaires only, in a 1989 dep- osition he testified that he spent SO per- cent of his time helping people recover stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers. He was also not above entering into risky. tax-sheltered oil and gas deals with much smaller investors. A lawsuit that Michael Stroll. the former head of Wil- liams Electronics Inc.. filed against Epstein shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an in- vestment from Stroll of S450,000. which Epstein put into oil. In 1984. Stroll asked for his money back: four years later he had received only $10.000. Stroll lost the suit, after Epstein claimed in court, among oth- er things, that the check for $10,000 was for a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net worth never exceeded four and a half mil- Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really liked Jeffrey.... Jeffrey has a way of getting under your skin, and he was under Hof- fenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg were Epstein's social connections; they in- cluded oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the designer Vera) and Mohan Murjani, whose clothing company grew into Gloria Van- derbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then. One friend recalls that when he took Cana- dian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he hired a Rolls-Royce especially for the oc- casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) In 198'Z 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. and the relationship flourished. "They trav- eled everywhere together—on Hoffinberis plane. all around the world, they were al- ways together." says a source. Hoffenberg has claimed that Epstein confided in him. saying. for example, that he had left Bear Stearns in 1981 after he was discovered ex- ecuting "illegal operations.- Several of Epstein's Eizar Stearns contem- poraries recall that Epstein left the compa- ny very suddenly: Within the company there were rumors also that he was involved in a technical infringement. and it was thought that the executive committee asked that he resign after his two supporters. Ace Green- berg and Jimmy Clyne. were outnumbered. Greenberg says he can't recall this: Cayne denies it happened. and Epstein has de- nied it as well. "Jeffrey Epstein left Bear Stearns of his own volition:' says Cayne. "It was never suggested that he leave by any member of management. and' manage- ment never looked into any improprieties by him. Jeffrey said specifically. 'I don't want to work for anybody else. I want to work for myself.— let. this is not the story that Epstein told to the S.E.C. in 1981 and to lawyers in a 1989 deposition involving a civil business ease in Philadelphia. In 1981 the SEC's Jonathan Harris and Robert Blackburn took Epstein's testimony and that of other Bear Steams employees in part of what became a protracted case about insider trading around a tender offer placed on March IL 1981. by the Seagram Company Li.J. for St. Joe Minerals Corp. Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in- vestors were found guilty. including Italian financier Giuseppe Tome, who had used his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about the tender offer. After the tender offer was announced. the S.E.C. began investigating trades in- EFTA00188453

contains a parody of Affleck and Matt Da- mon making Good Will Hunting 11, Affleck says to Damon, "What do I keep telling you? You gotta do the safe picture, then you do the art picture. Then sometimes you gotta do the payback picture because your friend says you owe him. Then sometimes you got- ta go back to the null." "Sometimes you do Reindeer Gaines," Damon says derisively. "That's just mean," Aifieck whines. But it's a pretty accurate description of his career to date. "Ben takes these franchise properties so he can go and experiment," says Harvey Weinstein. "He believes in trying to stretch himself and notikecp doing the same thing," ob- serves Bruce Willis. who starred with Aleck in Armageddon. "He's an awesome actor, and I think he's going to do great things." Several years ago, in a televised interview on Inside the Anon Studio, Affleck said that his goal was to make big commercial movies. He has since rested his ambitions. "That's an adolescent aspiration, in a way. I'd rather be in movies like Magnolia, which I think is a towering achievement. I'll con- tinue to act, but I won't act in a way that requires me to hang my name out there and do a lot of publicity. I'll do character roles and focus on writing and directing. It doesn't require the same kinds of sacri- fice, in terms of quality of life and person- al life, and it's a more holistic approach to the process. It's become increasingly frus- trating for me to have my role in the story- telling process limited to one character. You have to be respectful and judicious about your input when is somebody else's project." Affleck has always impressed colleagues with his voracious appetite for information and skills. "He has made it a point to learn everything he can about how the business works—not just the craft of acting, but from the producing standpoint, from the studio standpoint," says Jon Gordon, exec- utive vice president of production at Mira- max. "He knows how deals work. It's what sets him apart. If he wanted to run a studio at some point, he could. He's about as sharp as they come A °leek is already juggling his acting with screenwriting and such other commit- ments as Project Greenlight. the contest he and Damon started to help launch the ca- reers of young filmmakers. Afileck's friends are certain net be directing soon. "There's no question," Weinstein says. "Both he and Matt. I think they're going to rewrite the rules. These guys can fix anything. There'll be home runs in both instances?' But there are other thoughts tickling the back of Affleck's mind as well. A passion- ate liberal, he campaigned for Al Gore. cares deeply about political issues. and is extremely well informed. He entertains him- self by writing imaginary political speeches in his head. He would rather discuss Acts in Africa than his movie career. When Lopez goes to Affieck's mother's house for dinner. Weinstein reports. "J.Lo told me that the conversation at the table is always about politics—about government initiatives. educational initiatives. what's go- ing on in the day.- So is Affleck planning to become the lib- teha raist haencswe nterlains t° RotnhaledthReouni ghltn:ifilea someday drniis running for Congress at least "I think there's a real nobility to public service. It walkd be fun to run on a platform I really beb....ed in, without any of the kind of common: people make—without being beholden • the win-at-all-costs mentality." And the invasion of privacy would he nothing new. "What are you going to say about me that hasn't already been said? I don't cheat, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I live a clean lik," Mika says, his eyes twinkling. "He's only 30 years old," says Jennifer Todd, who co-produced Boiler Room. "He still has an enormous amount of time to do things?' Tune, and drive.."I think he's incredibly hungry," says Sean Bailey. who founded the media and production company Live- Planet with Affleck, Damon, and Chris Moore. "I think the guy has very grand aspirations. I don't think he's going to be content with just being a movie star. He knows he has the potential to do very big things." Such ambitions could be derailed by any number of miscalculations. including a pd. sate life that generates too many sensational headlines, but Affieck has a clear idea of the ultimate goal. "On my deathbed. I have to be one who looks back and feels I lived a good and substantial and meaningful Ilk.- he says. In the meantime. however there's a wed- ding to plan. Z Jeffrey Epstein CONTINUED PROM PAGE i s Bear Stearns and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear Steams on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped oil that Epstein had information on insider trading at Bear Stearns. and it was therefore obliged to question him. In his S.E.C. testi- mony, given on April I. 1981, Epstein claimed that he had found "offensive" the way Bear Stearns management had handled a disci- plinary action following its discovery that he had committed a possible "Rea D" viola- tion—evidently he had lent money to his clos- est friend. (In the 1989 deposition he said that he'd lent approximately $20.000 to War- m Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an action could have been considered improper, al- though Epstein claimed he had not realized this until afterward. According to Epstein. Bear Stearns man- agement had questioned him about the loan _ . Alvin Einbender.. In his 1989 deposition Ep- stein recalled that the partner who had made an "issue" of the matter was Marvin David- son. On March 9. Epstein said. he had met with Tarnopol and Einbendcr again. and the two partners told him that the oxalate com- mittee had weighed the offense. together with previous "carelessness" over expenses. and he would be lined 51.500. "There was discussion whether, in fact. I had ever put in an airline ticket for some- one else and not myself and I said that it was possible. ... since my secretary han- dles my expenses?' Epstein told the S.E.C. In his 1989 testimony he stated that the -Reg D" incident had cost him a shot at partnership that year. What the S.E.C. seemed to be especially interested in was whether there was a con- nection between Epstein's leaving and the alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals by other people at Bear Steams: nection with your reasons for leaving the firm? A: I'm aware that there were many rumors. Q: What were the rumors ynu heard? A: Nothing to do with St. Joe. Q: Can you relate what you heard? A: It was having to do with an Wien affair with a secretary. Q: Have you heard any other rumors suggest- ing that you had made a presentation or com- munication to the Executive Committee con- cerning alleged improprieties by other mem- bers or employees of Bear Stearns? A: I. in fact, haw heard that rumor, but it's been from Mr. Harris in our conversation last week. Q Have you heard it from anyone else? A: No. A little later the interview focuses on James Caync: Q: Did you ever hear while you were at Bear Steams that Mr. Cayne may have trader or iv. sider information in connection with Si t- • Minerals Corporation? A: No. Q: Did Mr. Cayne ever have any conversation with you about SI Joe Minerals? EFTA00188454

Jeffrey Epstein lions between Mr. Cayne and anyone else re- garding St. Joe Minerals? A: No. And still later in the questioning comes this exchange: Q: Have you had any type of business deal- ings with Mr. Cayne? A: There's no relationship with Bear Steams. Q: Pardon? A: Other than Bear Steams, no. Q: Have you been a participant in any type of business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: No. Q: Do you have any expectation of participat- ing inpny business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: Nd. Q: Have you had any business participations with Mr. Therm? A: No; nor do I anticipate any. Q: Mr. Epstein. did anyone at Bear Steams tell you in words or substance that you should not divulge anything about St. Joe Minerals to the staff of the Securities and Exchange Com- mission? A: No. Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way either directly or indirectly, in words or sub- stance. that your compensation for this past year or any future monies coming to you from Bear Stearns will be contingent upon your not divulging information to the Securities and Exchange Commission? A: No. Despite the circumstances of Epstein's leaving. Bear Stearns agreed to pay him his annual bonus--which he anticipated as be- ing approximately S100.000. The S.E.C. never brought any charges against anyone at Bear Stearns for insider trading in St. Joe. but its questioning seems to indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's answers. Some sources have wondered why. if he was such a big producer at Bear Stearns. he would have given it up over a mere 32.500 fine. Certainly the years after Epstein left the Firm were not obviously prosperous ones. His luck didn't seem to change until he met Hoffenberg. O ne of Epstein's first assignments for Hof- fenbcrg was to mastermind doomed bids to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. Hofknberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before a grand jury in Illinois that Epstein came up with the idea of financing these bids through Towers's acquisition of two ailing Illinois insurance companies. Associated Life and United Fire. "He was hired by us to work on the securities side of the insurance companies and Towers Financial. supposedly to make a profit for us and for the companies," Hoffen- berg reportedly told the grand jury. He also ecuting the schemes, although, having no broker's license, he had to rely on others to make the trades. Much of Hoffenberg's sub- sequent testimony in his criminal case has proven to be false, and Epstein has claimed he was merely asked how the bids could be accomplished and has said he had nothing to do with the financing of them. Yet Rich- ard Allen, the former treasurer of United Fire, recalls seeing Epstein two or three times at the company. He and another a- ecutive say they had direct dealing with Ep- stein over the finances. And in his deposition of 1989, Epstein stated that he was the one who executed "all" Hoffenberg's instructions to buy and sell the stock. He called it "mak- ing the orders." He could not recall whether he had chosen the brokers used. To win approval from the Illinois insur- ance regulators for Towers's acquisition of the companies, Hoffenberg promised to in- ject S3 million of new capital into them. In fact. in his grand-jury testimony Hoffenberg claimed that he, his chief operating officer. Mitchell Brater, and Epstein came up with a scheme to steal S3 million of the insurance companies bonds to buy Pan Am and Em- ery stock. "Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater arranged the various brokerage accounts for the bonds to be placed with in New York. and I think one in Chicago. Rodman & Ren- shaw.- Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then. said Hoffenbetg, while making it appear as though they were investing the bonds in much staler financial instruments, they used them as collateral to buy the stock. -Ep- stein was the person in charge or the trans- actions. and Mitchell Bracer was assisting him with it in coordination on behalf or the insurance companies' money." Hoffinberg, claimed at the time. At one point. according to Hoffinberg. a broker forged the documents necessary for a SI.S million check to be written on insurance- company funds. The check was used to buy more stock in the takeover targets. Mean- while. in order to throw the insurance regula- tors off the S 1.8 million was reported us being safely invested in a money-market account. United Fire's former chief financial officer Daniel Payton confirms part of Hotknberg's account. He says he recalls making one or two telephone calls to Epstein tat Rotten- berg's direction) about the missing bonds. "He said, 'Oh. yeah, they still exist.' But we found out later that he had sold those assets ... leveraged them ... (and) used some mar- gin account to take some positions in ... Emery and Pan Am." says Payton. Epstein's extraordinary creativity was, ac- cording to Hoffenberg, responsible for the purchase by the insurance companies of a $500,000 bond, with no money down. "Ep- stein created a great scheme to purchase a 5500.000 treasury bond that would not be he reportedly told the grand jury. "It looked like it was free and clear but it actually wasn't," he said. Epstein has denied he ever had any deal- ings with anyone from the insurance com- panies. But Richard Allen says he recalls talking to Epstein at Hofknberg's direction and telling him it was urgent they retrieve the missing bonds for a stale examination. According to Allen, Epstein said, "We'll get them back." He had "kind of a flippant atti- tude," says Allen. "They never came back." E pstein, according to Hoffenberg, also came up with a scheme to manipulate the price of Emery Freight stock in an at- tempt to minimize the losses that occurred when HotTenberg's bid went wrong and the share price began to fall. This was alleged to have imohed multiple clients' accounts con- trolled by Epstein. Eventually. in 1991, insurance regulators in ffinois sued Hoffenberg. He settled the case. and Epstein. who was only a paid consul- tant, was never deposed or accused of any wrongdoing. Barry Gross. the attorney who was handling the suit for the regulators. says of Epstein. "He was vety elusive.... It was hard to really track him down. There were a substantial number of checks for significant dollars that were paid to him. I remem- ber.... He was this character we never got a handle on. Again we presumed that he was involved with the Pan'Am and Emery run that Hoffenberg made, but we never got a chance to depose him." "From the government's discovery in the main sentencing apinst Hoffenberg it would seem the government was perhaps a bit lazy;" says David Lewis. who represented Mitchell Bruer. "They went for what they knew they could get ... and that was the fraudulent promissory notes [i.e., the much larger and unrelated part of Hoffenbetg's fraud. based in New York State].... What they couldn't get. they didn't bother with:' Another lawyer involved in the criminal prosecution of Horknberg says. "In a crim- inal investigation like that, when there is a guilty plea. to be quick and dirty about it. discovery is always incomplete.... They don't have to line up witnesses: they don't have to learn every fact that might come out on cross-examination." E pstein was involved with Hoffcnberg in other questionable transactions. Finan- cial records show that in 1988 Epstein in- vested S1.6 million in Riddell Sports Inc., a company that manufactures football helmets. Among his co-investors were the theater mogul Robert Nederlander and attorney Leonard Toboroff. A source close to this transaction claims that Epstein told Neder- !ander and Toboroff that he had raised his • •• • .•• • .11. • ••• • • • EFTA00188455

whose identity they could not be allowed to know. But Hof enberg has claimed the mon- ey came from him, and Towers's financial statements for that year show a loan to Ep- stein of $400,000. (Epstein has said he can't remember the details and has dis- puted the accuracy of the Towers financial reports.) Around the same time, Nederlander and Toboroff let Epstein come in with them on a scheme to make money out of Pennwalt, a Pennsylvania chemical company. The plan was to group together with two other parties to take a substantial declared position in the stock. According to a source. Epstein was supposed tp help Nederlander and Toboroff raise SIS million. He seemed to fail to find other investors, say those familiar with the deal. (Epstein has said he was merely an in- vestor.) He invested SI million, which he told his co-investors was his own money. But in his 1989 deposi- tion he said that he put in only S300,000 of his own money. Where did the rest come from? Hof- Feilberg has said it came from him. in a loan that Nederlander and Toboroff didn't know about. Two things happened that alarmed Nederlander and Toboroff. After the group signaled a possible takeover. the Pennwalt management threatened to sue the would-be raiders. Epstein was reluctant ini- tially to give a deposition about his share of the money. telling Toboroff there were "reasons- he didn't want to. Then, after the opportunity for new investors was closed, co-investors recall Epstein announcing that he'd found one at last: Dick Snyder then C.E.O. of the publisher Simon S: Schuster. who want- ed to put up approximately S500.000. (Nei- ther Epstein nor Snyder can now recall the investment. Yet in the 1989 deposition Epstein said that he had recruited Sny- der, whom he had met socially. into the deal.) According to a source. Toboroff and Ne- derlander told Epstein that Snyder was too late. but, without their realizing it. Hoffen- herg has claimed, Snyder wrote a check to lioffenberg and bought out some of his in- vestment. But then Snyder wanted out. "Nederlander started to get these irate calls from [Snyder.' who wasn't part of the deal, saying be was owed all this money." ; says someone close to the deal. Toboroff Tug as Nederlander and Toboroff were j growing wary of Epstein, he became in- creasingly involved with Leslie Werner, whom he had met through insurance executive Robert Meister and his late wile. Epstein has told people that he met Wexner in 1986 in Palm Beach, and that he won his confidence by persuading him not to invest in the stock market, just as the 1987 crash was approach- ing. His story has subsequently changed. When asked if Wexner knew about his con- nection to Hoffenberg, Epstein said that he began working for Wexner in 1989, and that "it was certainly not the same time." Wherever and whenever it was that Ep- stein and Wexner actually met. there was an immediate and strong personal chem- istry. Werner says he thinks Epstein is "very smart with a combination of excellent judg- ment and unusually high standards. Also. he is always a most loyal friend." OFFICE SPACE The "office" in Epstein's house. It has no computers. but it does have a desk that Epstein tells people once belonged to banker J. P Morgan. and "the largest Persian rue you'll ever see in a ornate home Sources say Epstein proved that he could be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" ideas about investments. "Wexner had a cou- ple of bad investments. and Jeffrey cleaned those up right away." says a former associ- ate or Epstein's. Before he signed on with Wexner. Epstein had several ineetines with Harold Levin. then head of Wexner Investments, in which he enunciated ideas about currencies that Lain found incommthensibk. "In W." says some- one who used to work very closely with Wex- ner. "almost everyone at the Limited won- dered who Epstein was: he literally came out of nowhere." uch of Epstein's work is related to clean- ing up, tightening budgets, and efficien- cies. One person who worked for Werner and who saw a contract drawn up between the two men says Epstein is involved in "every- thing, not just a little here. a little there. Everything!" In addition, he says. "Wexner likes having a hatchet man.... Whenever there is ditty work to be done he'd stick Jef- frey on it.... He has a reputation for being ruthless but he gets the job done." Epstein has evidently been asked to fire personal-staff members when needed. "He was that mysterious person that aerate was scared to death of." says a former employee. Meanwhile. he is also less than popular with some people outside %amt.'s company with whom he now deals. "He 'inserted' himself into the construction process of Les- lie Weamer's yacht.... That resulted in liti- gation down the road between Mr. Wexner and the shipyard that eventually built the ves- sel: says Lars Forsberg. a lawyer whose firm at the rime. Dickerson and was hired to deal with litigation stemming from the construction of Wexner's Limitless— at 3IS feet. one of the 'largest private yachts in the world. Evidently. Ep- stein stalled on paying Dickerson and Reily for its work "It's pntably once twice in my le- gal career that I've had to sue a client for payment of services that he'd re- quested and we'd per- formed ... without issue on the performance." says Forsberg. In the end the matter was settled. but Ep- stein claims he now has no recollection of it. The incident is one of a number of disputes Epstcin has become embroiled in. Some are for sums so tiny as to be baffling: for instance. Epstein sued investment adviser Herbert Glass, who sold him the Palm Beach house in 1990. for 513,444—Epstein claimed this was owed him for furnishings removed by Glass. In 1998 the U.S. Attorney's Office sued Epstein for illegally subletting the former home of the deputy consul general of Iran to attorney Ivan Fisher and others. EPA. CIO paid 515.000 a month in rent to die Wu. Department. but he charged fisher • an his colleagues $20.000. Though the mi. terms of the agreement are set tr: court ruled against Epstein. Wexner ofkrs some insight nth) :r. int EFTA00188456

E pstein's appointment to the board of New York's Rockefeller University in 2000 brought him into greater social promi- nence. Boasting such social names as Nancy Kissinger. Brooke Astor, and Robert Bass. the board also includes such pre-eminent scientists as Nobel laureate Joseph Gold- stein. "Epstein was thrilled to be elected." says someone who knows him. After one term Epstein resigned. Accord- ing to New York magazine, this was because he didn't like to wear a suit to meetings. A Jeffrey Epstein he is winning. Whether in conversations or negotiations, he always stands back and lets the other person determine the style and manner of the conversation or negotiation. And then he responds in their style. Jeffrey sees it in chivalrous terms. He does not pick a fight, but if there is a fight, he will let you choose your weapon." One case is rather more serious. Currently, Citibank is suing Epstein for defaulting on loans from its private-banking arm for S20 million. Epstein claims that Citibank "fraud- ulent induced" him into borrowing the moire for investments. Citibank disputes this charge. The legal papers for another case offer a rare window into Epstein's finances. In 1995, Epstein stopped paying rent to his landlord, the nonprofit Municipal Arts Society, for his office in the Vi lard House. He claimed that they were breaking the terms of the lease by not letting his staff in at night. The case was eventually settled. However. one of the papers filed in this dispute is Epstein's financial state- ment for 1988. in which he claimed to be worth 520 million. He listed that he owned 57 million in securities, SI million in cash. zero in residential property (although he told sources that he had already bought the was "arrogant" and "not a good lit." The spokesperson admits that it is "infrequent" for board members not to be renominated after only one term. Still, the recent spate of publicity Ep- stein has inspired does not seem to have fazed him. In November he was spotted in the front row of the Victoria's Secret fashion show at New York's Lexington Avenue Ar- mory; around the same time the usual co- terie of friends and beautiful women were whisked off to Little St. James (which he tells people has been renamed Little St. Jeff) for a long weekend. Thanks to Epstein's introductions, says Martin Nowak, the biologist finds himself moving from Princeton to Harvard. where he is assuming the joint position of profes- sor of mathematics and prokssor of biolo- • gy. Epstein has pledged at least S25 million to Harvard to create the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics, and Epstein will have an office at the university. The program will be dedi- cated to searching for natures algorithms, a pursuit that is a specialty of Nowak's. 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The Hari and Crimson :: News :: Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women Page 1 of 2 The Harvard Critii"§"a News Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women Dershowitz assisted Epstein in his defense, discredited witnesses with online profiles Published On 8/412006 1:05:25 AM By KATHERINE EA, GRAY Crimson Staff Writer Billionaire money manager Jeffrey E. Epstein, who donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003, has been charged with soliciting sex from prostitutes in his Palm Beach, Florida mansion. And though Epstein's case was originally to be presented to a grand jury in February, it was postponed after Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, a longtime friend of Epstein, produced information weakening some the accusers' credibility, according to the Palm Beach Post. New York State Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot L. Spitzer and New York attorney general candidate Mark A. Green have both returned gifts of $50,000 and $10,000 from Epstein, respectively, according to the New York Daily News. University President Derek C. Bok did not respond to requests for comment this week, and it is unclear what, if any, action will be taken against Epstein's $30 million, which was given in February 2003 to fund the research of mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak. According to an indictment that was unsealed last week, Epstein allegedly solicited sex at least three times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last year. Epstein's charges stem from alleged sexual encounters with of-age women. The Palm Beach Police Department believed it had probable cause to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and of lewd and lascivious molestation, according to an affidavit. But a grand jury found the witnesses in the affidavit released by the police department not credible, according to Epstein 's defense attorney, Jack A. Goldberger. In an attempt to discredit the reliability of the girls' testimony, Dershowitz gave the police copies of two myspace.com profiles of girls who testified in the affidavit against Epstein, according to a Palm Beach Police report, One girl's profile showed messages from her friends that 'contain some profanity,' according to the report. The report further says that the other girl's profile "states that her interests include music, theater and weed (Marijuana)." Dershowitz declined to comment on this issue through an assistant. When asked whether Dershowitz was hired by Epstein or was working for him pro bono, Goldberger declined comment, and said only that Dershowitz and Epstein have been friends "for many years." In April, then-Epstein lawyer Guy Fronstin accepted a plea deal that would have the billionaire plead guilty to one count of aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, and would give him five years' probation but no criminal record, according to the Post. That deal was to only apply to charges from one of the five alleged victims. Fronstin has since been fired, and Goldberger said that no such plea deal was made by any of Epstein's attorneys, according to the Post. it was absolutely clear to both the state attorney and grand jury that Epstein had no knowledge that any girl that came to his house was underaged," Goldberger told The Crimson Wednesday. "He passed a polygraph examination on that very issue." According to the probable cause affidavit released by the Palm Beach Police Department, one of the girls Epstein solicited was a 16-year- old girl who performed sexual acts for him in his bedroom on several occasions over a span of two years. The woman, whose name was blotted from the affidavit, told the police that she would completely remove her clothes and begin massaging Epstein's back, while he lay on a massage table, wearing only a towel. She would then massage his chest, and Epstein would begin to masturbate both himself and the woman. But "the woman referred to in the police report wasn't in the country at the time," Lefcourt said Wednesday, referring to the affidavit. "I do know that it was impossible to have happened the way it did." Prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek could not be reached for comment this week. Epstein, who in 2003 was named one of New York's most eligible bachelors by the New York Post, achieved fame after he took President Clinton, Chris Tucker, and Kevin Spacey on an African AIDS awareness tour via his personal jet in 2002. hi tn• //ninny therrim enn rnm /nrinterfrienrilv actve9ref=5 1 rIfIA 1 R/1 innnA EFTA00188458

The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women Page 2 of 2 In a 2002 New York Magazine article, Donald Trump described long-time friend Epstein as 'a lot of fun to be with? "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life," Trump said. —Materia/ from the Associated Press was used in the reporting of this article. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at [email protected]. htipliwww.thecrimson.comlartIcle.aspx?ref=514961 httn•Min !!!!! the.° ri m et-in re-trn n terfri end Iv a snx?ref=514061 8/11/2006 EFTA00188459

Jeffrey Epstein plea hearing moved to March Page 1 of 2 PalmBeachDailyNewscom Jeffrey Epstein plea hearing moved to March €K PRINTTHIS Powered by riakkability By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer Thursday, January 03, 2008 A plea hearing for part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein will be rescheduled to March, his New York attorney confirmed Wednesday. The Manhattan money manager is expected to plead guilty to a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. The hearing originally was scheduled for Friday. Sources have confirmed that the deal will put Epstein in prison for 18 months, followed by house arrest. "The plea conference will be moved to March, but it will be resolved, we believe," attorney Gerald Lefcourt said by phone. Although he declined to give a reason, Lefcourt said the date change was agreed to by both the defense and the prosecution. Mike Edmondson, spokesman for State Attorney Barry Krischer, declined to comment. "It's a matter of policy we don't comment on active cases," Edmondson said. In exchange for his guilty plea, federal authorities are expected to drop their probe into whether Epstein broke any federal laws, sources have said. Epstein, 54, was indicted in July 2006 on a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. After completing an 11-month investigation, Palm Beach police said Epstein paid five underage girls for massages and sometimes sex at his El Brillo Way home. The investigation began after police received a call from a woman who said her 14-year-old stepdaughter might have been molested by a man in Palm Beach. Investigators watched Epstein's 7,234-square-foot waterfront home and private jet, and rummaged through his trash to build their case. They took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. http://cox.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Jeffrey+Epstein+plea+hearing+... 1/3/2008 EFTA00188460

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A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 1 of 9 QN. ,1,WY 0 RIC .,„„Ag.,„m Features The Fantasist Gra PRINTTHIS Accused of paying underage girls for sex, superrich money manager Jeffrey Epstein is finding that living in a dream world is dangerous—even if you can pay for it. • By Philp Weiss • Published Dec 10, 2007 Jeffrey epstein is under indictment for sex crimes in Palm Beach, Florida, and I'd expected that when he came into the office of PR guru Howard Rubenstein, he would be sober and reserved. Quite the opposite. He was sparkling and ingenuous, apologizing for the half-hour lateness with a charming line— "I never realized how many one-way streets and no-right-turns there are in midtown. I finally got out and walked"—and as we went down the corridor to Rubenstein's office, he asked, "Have you managed to talk to many of my friends?" Epstein had been supplying me the phone numbers of important scientists and financiers and media figures. "Do you understand what an extraordinary group of people Hinwwww.nrintthis.clickabilitv.com/nt/cot?action=cnt&title=A+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188462

A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 2 of 9 they are, what they have accomplished in their fields?" One of the accusers—a girl of 14—had put his age at 45, not in his fifties, and you could see why. His walk was youthful, and his face was ruddy with health. He had none of the round-shouldered, burdened qualities of middle age. There was nothing in his hands, not a paper, a book, or a phone. Epstein had on his signature outfit: new blue jeans and a powder-blue sweater. "I've only ever seen him in jeans," his friend the publicist Peggy Siegal had reported, saying there was a hint of arrogance in that, Epstein's signal that he doesn't have to wear a uniform like the rest of us. I told Epstein and Rubenstein the sort of story New York wanted to do, and Epstein seemed to find ironic delight in every word. "A secretive genius," I'd said. "Not secretive, private," he corrected in his warm Brooklyn accent. "And if I was a genius I wouldn't be sitting here." "A guy with sex issues." A smile formed on Epstein's bow-shaped lips. "What do you mean by sex issues?" Well ... He was 54, had never married—I didn't finish. "Are you channeling my mother?" When I said we were interested in the agony of his ordeal, Rubenstein wrote out the word agony in capital letters on his pad. But agony seemed the last thing on Epstein's soul. "It's the Icarus story, someone who flies too close to the sun," I said. "Did Icarus like massages?" Epstein asked. Two years before, he had tried to explain himself to the Palm Beach police in the same way. After they came into his mansion with a search warrant and carted off massage tables and photos of naked girls and soaps shaped like genitalia, Epstein conveyed an urgent message to the detectives through his attorney. "Mr. Epstein is very passionate about massages ... The massages are therapeutic and spiritually sound for him; that is why he has had many massages." Epstein had even given $100,000 to Ballet Florida's massage fund, so that the dancers might also be treated. I never got to interview Epstein at length. His dream team of lawyers led by Gerald Lefcourt was negotiating a plea with Florida state prosecutors in advance of a January 7 trial date. It is expected that Epstein will plead guilty to soliciting prostitution and get an eighteen-month sentence—not that there's likely to be a shameful admission. He has always had the confidence that comes with the power to dazzle and, though accused of "doing everything in Sodom and Gomorrah," as one friend put it, seemed to believe that he could convince any halfway sophisticated person that he wasn't the least bit tawdry. "He lives in a different environment," says Siegal. "He's of this world. But he creates this different environment. He lives like a pasha. The most magnificent townhouse I've ever been in, and I've been in everything. I've seen a model of the house in Santa Fe ... a stone fortress. A model of the house in the Caribbean—it is not to be believed. I've seen photographs of the apartment in Paris ... How did he get himself into that pickle? That's the mystery of Jeffrey Epstein. He's very mysterious. Not that many people get close to him. Not that many people know him." The descriptions of Epstein's character veer between visionary and big talker. His world seems to be at an astral distance from normal humanity. He lives in what is described as the largest private residence in Manhattan, about 50,000 square feet in nine stories between Fifth and Madison on 71st. Visitors report a stuffed poodle is on the piano. The house, said one visitor, is like what Hollywood might imagine when it tries to show the superrich. When Epstein noticed the visitor's astonishment at his surroundings, he leaned against a wall with a soft smile and tapped the paneling. "It's all fake," he said. Epstein grew up in Coney Island, the son of a Parks Department employee. He never got a college degree. He studied science at Cooper Union and then NYU before migrating inevitably toward wealth. For two years, he was a charismatic teacher of physics and math at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side, till Ace Greenberg, a friend of the father of one of Epstein's students, offered him a job at Bear Stearns. In one httn://www.nrintthis.clickabilitv.cotn/nt/cot?action=ent&title=A+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188463

A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 3 of 9 of the charmingly inevitable accidents of Epstein's rise, Greenberg was a senior partner of the house; Bear Steams CEO Jimmy Cayne later told New York that Epstein's forte was dealing with wealthier clients, helping them with their overall portfolios. Leslie Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, reportedly made Epstein his financial adviser and was instrumental in building his fortune. Epstein was no footman; he loved luxury and, in his own words, saw himself as a financial architect, someone who could show the rich how to live with their money. "I want people to understand the power, the responsibility, and the burden of their money," he once wrote. At times, his powers seemed magical. "I think it's all done with mirrors," says Michael Stroll, a Chicago businessman who sued Epstein (and lost) when an oil deal didn't work out. Next: Epstein's Icarus momenta The New York not,' Redux) Stroll says he could never get a straight line from Epstein. "Everybody who's his friend thinks he's so darn brilliant because he's so dam wealthy. I never saw any brilliance, I never saw him work. Anybody I know that is that wealthy works 26 hours a day. This guy plays 26 hours a day." Those who believe in Epstein say that his intelligence works in a lofty and synthetic manner. "His mind goes through a cross section of descriptions," says Joe Pagano, a financier. "He can go from mathematics to psychology to biology. He takes the smallest amount of information and gets the correct answer in the shortest period of time. That's my definition of IQ." A Columbia University geneticist says Epstein has that insight in science, too. "He has the ability to make connections that other minds can't make," says Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize winner. "He is extremely smart and probing. He can very quickly acquire information to think about a problem and also to identify biological problems without having all the data that a scientist would have ... He also has an extremely short attention span. Why?—it's not that he's bored. He has enough information after fifteen httn.//wwwnrintthiR.clickahilitv.com/nt/cot1action=crit&tifirA+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188464

A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 4 of 9 minutes so that you can see his mind thrashing about, as if in a labyrinth. And even to doubt an expert's statements." Epstein has been a munificent supporter of cutting-edge research. Axel met Epstein during the early biotech days of the eighties. The writer Michael Wolff met him in the Internet bubble, in the late nineties, when Epstein invited him and a group of scientists and media types to fly to a conference on the West Coast in his beautiful 727. "It was all a little giddy," Wolff says. "There's a little food out, lovely hors d'oeuvre. And then after fifteen to twenty minutes, Jeffrey arrives. This guy comes onboard: He was my age, late forties, and he had a kind of Ralph Lauren look to him, a good-looking Jewish guy in casual attire. Jeans, no socks, loafers, a button-down shirt, shirttails out. And he was followed onto the plane by—how shall I say this?—by three teenage girls not his daughters. Not adolescent girls. These are young, 18, 19, 20, who knows? They were model-like. They towered over Jeffrey. And they immediately began serving things. You didn't know what to make of this ... Who is this man with this very large airplane and these very tall girls?" Soon after, Wolff was invited to tea at the house on East 71st Street. He understood that there was a purpose to the cultivation. Epstein was shifting his view to media, in his Ober-way. "What does the media mean, where does he fit into it?" Then Epstein began to show up in the press. In 2002, he flew Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his plane to discuss aids policy, and suddenly he was being written about. In 2003, he became a discreet confidant to Wolff during the period when Wolff was involved in a bid for New York Magazine. Sometime after that, Wolff saw the financial architect in his office at 457 Madison Avenue, the Villard House, where Random House once had its offices. "His literal office is where Bennett Ceres was. It's an incredibly strange place. It has no corporate affect at all. It's almost European. It's old—old-fashioned, unrehabbed in its way." Nearby, Wolff went on, "the trading floor is filled with guys in yarmulkes. Who they are, I have no idea. They're like a throwback, a bunch of guys from the fifties. So here is Jeffrey in this incredibly beautiful office, with pieces of art and a view of the courtyard, and he seems like the most relaxed guy in the world. You want to say 'What's going on here?' and he gives you that Cheshire smile." Epstein likes to say he's private, but you don't fly Bill Clinton to Africa without wanting attention. One friend says the Africa trip was Epstein's Icarus moment. There was tremendous risk that the natural forces of resentment would bring the too-smart, too-rich spirit back to earth. This is the friends' theory of the Palm Beach case: an overzealous police chief battened onto a rich man because he was not living in a box like everyone else. The dazzling arc of Epstein's comet came to an end—without his knowing it—in March 2005. That was when a distraught woman called the police in Palm Beach and, after at first refusing to give her name, said that she believed her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been molested by a wealthy man. The stepmother had learned about the matter in a roundabout way. The girl lived during the week at an "involuntary-admitted juvenile educational facility" because of behavior problems. She had shown up at the school with $300 in her purse, and it became the talk of her classmates. One friend called the girl a "whore," another friend put a fist through the wall in anger, the girl left school. The stepmother got a call from another student's mother. Soon, a policewoman was talking to the girl with a therapist present. The girl cried and dug her finger into her thigh and told the story, of going to a big house on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and climbing a spiral staircase to the master bedroom, where a blonde woman of 25 who wasn't very friendly laid out sheets and lotions on a massage table and left, then Jeff came in, naked but for a towel, and sternly ordered the girl to take off her clothes. As she rubbed his chest, he touched himself, then applied a vibrator to her crotch. httn./Ainum rwirothic rlirknhilitv rnm/nt/nnt?action=enthtitle=A+Sex-Crime+Investiflatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188465

A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 5 of 9 • Next: The police lock onto Epstein's sybaritic lifestyle, OUR MIMI Await Linka Rednib.7” DUI Rain putaer.67 initial 1111th llon•snl ph/v.0,4st 101IIINAN lAklAt JEFFREY EPSTEIN Wsktrauryployky Splash News; Palm Beach Pasr; David Levenson Getty Images; Patrick McMullan; Donna Ward/Getty Images; AP) The lengthy police narrative in the case doesn't make clear how police connected gray-haired Jeff with Jeffrey Epstein, but when the girl identified his picture in an instant in a photo lineup, police threw themselves into an investigation of the modem and palatial house on El Brillo Way. Palm Beach Island is a 3.75-square-mile spit of land famous for towering ficus privacy hedges on Mediterranean-influenced architecture that begins at over $5 million for a single-family home. But the police did their work miles across the water, in the sprawling, drab subdivisions of West Palm Beach, where, according to police reports, high-school girls had • ifairstein's house. The 14- year-old was used to set up her 18-year-old go-between, had massaged him once and thereafter refused, but had agreed to procure girls, for $200 a head. "I'm like Heidi Fleiss," she said. The police net went wider, to malls and community colleges, and Olive Garden restaurants and trailer parks, and the story was always the same. Skinny, beautiful young girls were approached by other girls, who said they could make $200 by massaging a wealthy man, naked. said Epstein had told her the younger the better—which she said meant 18 to 20. The rules were simple. Tell him you're 18. There might be some touching; you could draw the line. "The more you do, the more you are paid." A couple of the girls said they went all the way into the experience—one olice she visited 50 times, another hundreds of times, both having sex with Epstein and , a then-19-year-old beauty who Epstein told one of them was his "sex slave"; he'd purchased her from her family back in Yugoslavia. Epstein's friends' belief that he was targeted for his big life reflects the fact that the police locked onto Epstein's sybaritic lifestyle. They made careful note of the girls' thong panties, the shape and color of hitn./Ainuus nrintthic nlir.4ahility e.nmintinnt?actinn=crit&titletA+Sex-Crime+Investieatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188466

A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 6 of 9 the sex toys Epstein favors, and the erotic art in his home, from photos to the mural of a woman to the statue of the man with a bow. Police repeatedly pulled his trash to dig out phone messages and kept an eye on his private planes. Once, they even reported on Wexner's plane, noting the procession of Cadillac Escalades that made its way across the tarmac. After word of the investigation got back to Epstein, through his girls, police served a search warrant at the house right under the noses of New York decorator Mark Zeff and architect Douglas Schoettle, who were there planning a renovation, and seized a dozen or so photographs of naked women the girls had described as well as the penis- and vagina- shaped soaps. Those soaps were even in guest bathrooms. No wonder; Epstein didn't see his sex life as tawdry, wasn't hiding it from his circle. Wolff believes that Epstein had created an idealized world from "a deep and basic cultural moment" once epitomized by Hugh Hefner. "Jeffrey is living a life that once might have been prized and admired and valued, but its moment has passed ... I think the culture has outgrown it. You can't describe it without being held to severe account. It's not allowed. It may be allowed if you're secretive and furtive, but Jeffrey is anything but secretive and furtive. I think it represents an achievement to Jeffrey." Some girls who "worked" for Epstein—the term favored by the unfriendly assistant, , who allegedly kept the Rolodex—seem to have embraced that fantasy, too. One girl said she was "so in love with Jeff Epstein and would do anything for him." Two college girls/aspiring models were matter-of- fact about what they'd done, and surveillance reports describe a fleet of girls jogging into the house. But generally the girls' feelings as portrayed by police interviews ranged from disgust to fear. Epstein was the hairy troll under the bridge they had to pass over to get quick money. One girl "stated she was very uncomfortable during the incident but knew it was almost over." Another kept looking at the clock, and Epstein said she was ruining his massage. Other girls said they were weirded out, grossed out. They didn't like his egg-shaped penis, definitely didn't want it inside them. Some couldn't say just what Epstein was doing because they kept their eyes averted. Two or three girls started crying when they talked to police, one hysterically. One wanted to tell the police but knew that he was "powerful" and was afraid he would come after her family. A 17-year-old model described an uncomfortable encounter in which Epstein offered to help her get jobs, then belittled her modeling portfolio before cajoling her to model the underwear he'd bought for her. A 16-year-old who needed money for Christmas said she was so upset by Epstein's removing her underwear as she massaged him that she broke off her friendship with the girl who brought her. Mother called Epstein "a pervert." Epstein clearly did not see it that way. The girls knew what they were getting into and came willingly and were well paid. He was a sexy guy who was working to give the girls pleasure. The master bedroom was a sensual place, with a mural of a naked woman and a hot-pink couch, and a wooden armoire with sex toys. The lights dimmed, music came on. Still, it is a stretch to say Epstein's love shack was like Hugh Hefner's. Playboy was state-of-the-art pornography for the sixties. Today, cutting-edge porn is men with bankrolls picking up young amateurs, say, high-school cheerleaders or college girls on break, and daring them to go further and further for more cash, all the way to sex toys and lesbian sex. At 52, Epstein was outside the demographic of the makeout artists of The Bang Bros, Girls Gone Wild, and Coeds Need Cash, but he surely saw himself in that erotic milieu, and seems to have been shocked that his activities would result in a police investigation. His claim that he'd given a total of $100,000 to Ballet Florida for massage was absolutely true. "The massage and therapy fund is excruciatingly important to us. It's part of a dancer's life to have daily massages," says the ballet's marketing director, Debbie Wemyss, who notes that Epstein's generosities preceded his public troubles. Police were not impressed. They interviewed a licensed deep-tissue masseuse whom Epstein frequently employed. She said she got $100 an hour, and there were no happy int,obaniny nrinithig riinirahilifv.e.nm/nt/cnt?action=cnt&titleA+Sex-Crime+Investiaatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188467

A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 7 of 9 endings. Next: Epstein mounts an ggressive counterinvestikation, The 14-year-old told Epstein she was 18 and in the twelfth grade. In Florida, this is not a defense. The law protects the young by placing the burden on the adult to learn the truth. And while Epstein's girls might have fooled a lot of people—they were tall and grown-up—it's difficult to believe Epstein wouldn't have suspected some were underage. (Though Epstein later passed a lie-detector test saying that he believed the girls were 18.) Girls needed to be driven home or given rental cars. Offered whatever they wanted from Epstein's chef, they often gobbled cereal and milk. One 16-year-old told police that Epstein told her repeatedly not to tell anyone about their encounter or bad things could happen. Alfredo Rodriguez, a houseman, told police that at his boss's direction, he brought a pail of roses to a girl to congratulate her on her performance in a high-school drama. "He has never been secretive about the girls," Wolff says. "At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, `Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.' " Epstein mounted an aggressive counterinvestigation. Epstein's friend Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, provided the police and the state attorney's office with a dossier on a couple of the victims gleaned from their MySpace sites—showing alcohol and drug use and lewd comments. The police complained that private investigators were harassing the family of the 14-year-old girl before she was to appear before the grand jury in spring 2006. The police said that one girl had called another to say, "Those who help [Epstein] will be compensated and those who hurt him will be dealt with." By then, the case was politicized. The Palm Beach police had brought stacks of evidence across the waterway to the Palm Beach County state attorney's office, but the state attorney apparently saw the main witnesses as weak. One had run away from home, lied about her age, and bragged about her ass on MySpace. Mother had a drug arrest and had stolen from ' ' ret. o • nted numerous felony charges against Epstein as well as charges against and . Then they heard that the state attorney was preparing a deal with Epstein giving him five years on probation and sending him for psychiatric evaluation. The police chief, Michael Reiter, accused the state attorney of bending over backward for a rich man and then turned the matter over to the FBI. Finally, in July 2006, the Palm Beach County state attorney's office handed down one indictment of Epstein on a felony count of soliciting prostitution. There is no reference to minors in the indictment. Reiter was enraged. He released a letter he had sent out to five underage girls that read "I do not feel that justice has been sufficiently served." Epstein's lawyer said that Reiter was out of control, but the police chief was having an effect, The U.S. Attorney's office began an investigation, and the dream team added another member, Kenneth Starr, the former Clinton prosecutor. One of Epstein's friends told me, "He thinks there's an anti-Semitic conspiracy against him in Palm Beach. He's convinced of that. Maybe it's a defense mechanism." Palm Beach was historically a bastion of Gentile privilege. Vanderbilt and Glendinning and Dillman and Warburton are still engraved on the public fountains, and the Everglades Club with its espaliered trees and brass plates reading private seems stuck in the time of the Gentlemen's Agreement. Yet the anti-Semitic charge disturbed Jews whom I asked about it in Palm Beach. Michael Resnick, rabbi at the oldest synagogue on the island, Temple Emanu-El (circa the sixties), says he strongly doubts that Epstein is a modern Dreyfus. "There's no way, htteritunmuf rlinkahilitv rnm/nt/cnt?action=ent&tithrA+Sex-Ciime+Investi2atio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188468

A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 8 of 9 shape, or form that you can say that Palm Beach is a bastion with respect to religion. Individuals, yes. And there are some places that it is not an asset to be a Jew." Once Palm Beach tried to keep synagogues from opening. There are now four on the little island, including an Orthodox shul started by Slim-Fast founder Danny Abraham. Jose Lambiet, gossip columnist for the Palm Beach Post, says, "Half my sources on the island are Jewish socialites." Lambiet says the case has fed rage within the community over Palm Beach rules: The rich never have to do time. William Kennedy Smith in 1991, Rush Limbaugh, lately Ann Coulter for a voting infraction. Maybe it was inevitable that religion would come into the case. Peggy Siegal says Epstein's two big charitable causes are science and Israel. His Brooklyn homies Dershowitz and Rubenstein are also major Israel supporters. Dershowitz has written a book about lingering anti-Semitism in elite life. Now throw in the fact that the Palm Beach police asked at least three of the girls whether they had noticed whether Epstein was circumcised. "I asked ... if she knew what being circumcised meant," the officer stated in regard to the 14-year-old. Of course, that might be evidence. But other details in the police narrative seem to derive more from Edgar Allan Poe's psychological tragedies than from Philip Roth's sociological comedies. Epstein is licensed in Florida to carry a concealed weapon—he has a Glock—and a shower on the first floor was given over to a gun safe. One girl said his chest was so pumped up he appeared to be on steroids. He had a Harley next to the many black Mercedeses, but his Florida license was expired. Now he was licensed in the Virgin Islands and gave his "permanent residence" as the same address as Island Yachts. Notwithstanding the room on the first floor with floor-to-ceiling books, the general aura is cold and joyless and lonely, that of a • ivi ' self over com letely to the sensual life, with the help of Next: Epstein maintainthe's clone nothing wrong. The police narrative has overtones of a man avoiding all connection or intimacy. For years, Epstein had had a companion in a woman who could take him on if any woman could: Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell, the British newspaper baron, a Jew born in Czechoslovakia, who died mysteriously off his yacht in 1991. The British tabloids say that Epstein reminded Maxwell of her father and that she brought him into a Continental world. The Broadway and movie producer Jonathan Farkas says he and his wife used to double-date with the couple. Maxwell spent time at the Palm Beach house, and the police narrative says that she even hired an assistant-cum-masseuse for Epstein. But that was five years ago, and the girl was 23, at a local college. Maxwell never showed up in all the surveillance, only her stationery. Epstein's activities seem to have devolved in recent years. Juan Alessi, his longtime houseman, told police that toward the end of his employment, the girls were "younger and younger," and he often had to wash off vibrators and "a long rubber penis" left in the sink. The next houseman, Alfredo Rodriguez, said that he found the sex toys he had to wash "scattered on the floor." No need to worry about dirty laundry, if there's someone to do it. The U.S. attorney's investigation put Epstein in a bind. If the Feds brought a case and he lost, he would be imprisoned for a mandatory minimum ten-year sentence. Given the choice, it appears that Epstein will not gamble on a trial but make a deal with the state attorney on the prostitution charge. htto://www.printthis.clickabilitv.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&titleA+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188469

A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 9 of 9 Not that he is likely to admit that he did anything wrong. Throughout his ordeal, Epstein maintained the air that there was nothing sordid about his actions. His wealth seems to have endowed him with utter shamelessness, the emperor's new clothes with an erection. Even Alan Greenspan has lately raised the moral questions brought on by the gap between the rich and poor: The poor will begin to feel that the social contract was not made in good faith. Epstein's friends say that on this matter, he has a philosophical position. "Fundamentally," Wolff says, "it's about math. That on a macro level it inevitably happens that the rich get richer. And then at some level the rich get richer on a geometric basis. Jeffrey's point is that this whole issue is—it's just mathematics at this point. This is the nature of a successful economy. The more successful the economy is, and that would be the goal of everybody, a successful economy, the greater the discrepancy actually is." There is no better place to observe how Epstein's mathematics work than Palm Beach. The only signs of life are crews of Spanish-speaking laborers on teetering ladders clipping the high hedges, not far from Bulgari and Valentino and Tiffany. It is a few miles on the other side of the bridge to where the girls came from, the shabby sprawl of West Palm Beach, with trailer parks, boys crouched on motor scooters, and pickup trucks under sun tents. house is on an unpaved road by an irrigation ditch. An attractive blonde in her forties answers the door wearing pistachio Capri pants, and promptly slams it. "We have absolutely no comment about the Epstein case." Driving home with their $500, said to the 14-year-old that if they did this every Saturday they'd be rich, and it's understandable that a teenager in West Palm Beach might feel that way. The coldest stories in the police narrative are about money and service. Maria Alessi, the previous houseman's wife, said she had cleaned house and shopped for Epstein for eight years and never had a direct conversation with him. He made it clear that he did "not want to encounter the Alessis during his stay in Palm Beach." One girl said that when she had sex with Epstein she closed her eyes and thought about cash. "In my mind, I'm like, 'Oh my God, when this is over you're getting so much money." Jose Lambiet says the case went forward in Palm Beach despite the efforts of the dream team because of community rage arising from the class issues in the case—Epstein found the girls not from his own fancy neighborhood but from the struggling suburbs. He has never shown a glimmer of understanding that a high-school girl could be damaged by a powerful 50-year-old's demands, or that some of the girls were already emotionally damaged. For someone who could dream anything, it seems a little small. Find this article at: http://www.nymag.coinfnewsifeatures/41826 F Check the box to Include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright New York Magazine Holdings LLC. All Rights Reserved. For the city that never Sitiel/S The magazine that never rests Just 44C an issue. 1•44.• I I/ninny. ...:n.14110 "1;tar01111itU nomInt/rint?antinn=r.ntgrittle=A+Sex-Crime+Investioatio.. 12/10/2007 EFTA00188470

Page 1 of 8 VVestlaw. QUERY - (TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE")( /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT' 1. I DATABASES(S) - CTA U.S. McIver, 186 F.3d 1119, 1999 WL 587573, 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6304, 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6425, 1999 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8052, C.A.9 (Mont.), August 06, 1999(Nos. 98-30145, 98-30146.98-3014698-30145) ...held that: (1) placement of motion-activated cameras near marijuana plants in national forest without search warrant did not violate Fourth Amendment; (2) as matter of first impression, placement of magnetic electronic tracking device on undercarriage of vehicle did not violate Fourth Amendment; (3) officers had probable cause to search vehicle; (4) convictions were supported by sufficient evidence; (5) District Court did not ... ...to obtain photographs of defendants visiting and harvesting marijuana plants, did not violate defendant's reasonable expectation of privacy protected by Fourth Amendment; it was beyond dispute that Forest Service could have stationed officers to conduct surveillance of plants, visual observation of site ... ...to the public which may be viewed by any passing visitor or law enforcement officer are not protected by the Fourth Amendment because there can be no reasonable expectation of privacy and such circumstances. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [6] 349 Searches and Seizures... 2. H U.S.I. Remsing, 874 F.2d 817, 1989 WL 41686, Unpublished Disposition, C.A.9 (Alaska), April 20, 1989(No. 88-3130.88-3130) ...with Remsing. On May 15, ground surveillance at the airstrip observed Remsing and three male companions depart in Remsing's two airplanes. The electronic tracking devices enabled officers to follow the aircraft to the Noatak National Preserve. A subsequent ground search yielded physical evidence of a ... ...evidence to coerce the coconspirators into testifying. The exclusionary rule bars the use of evidence obtained in violation of gic fourth amendment in a criminal trial against the victim of the illegal search and seizure. Weelcsl. United States, 232 U.S. 383... 3. C U.S... Alonso, 790 F.2d 1489„ C.A.10 (Utah), May 16, 1986(No. 84-1082.84-1082) ...Object 349 164 k. Particular Concrete Applications. Defendant lacked privacy interest in the plane and thus lacked standing to assert Fourth Amendment violation based on installation of transponder in airplane, and its failure to be removed after its order had expired. U.S.C.A ...In General 349 25 Persons, Places and Things Protected 349 26 k. Expectation of Privacy. Focus in determining whether one's Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure has been violated is whether that person has reasonable or justifiable ... ...Concerned; Consent. (Formerly 372k495 Government's tracking of airplane, in which transponder had been installed, did not violate any of defendant's Fourth Amendment rights, since defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the movement of the airplane in public airways. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. /.. rnminrindruintstream.asnlisv=Fullecorft=liTMLE8cfn= ton&rs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188471

Page 2 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT' DATABASES(S) - CTA 4. I U.S. I. Amuny, 767 F.2d 1113, C.A.5 (Tex.), July 29, 1985(No. 84-2376.84-2376) ...of plane; and (9) government agent's conduct in climbing plane and peering in windshield constituted unreasonable search within meaning of Fourth Amendment. Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded. Robert Madden Hill, Circuit Judge, filed special concurring opinion. West Headnotes [I ... ...for Stop or Investigation 35 63 5(4) k. Reasonableness; Reasonable or Founded Suspicion, Etc. Law enforcement officers may, consistent with Fourth Amendment, stop person and detain him briefly for routine questioning when they have reasonable suspicion to believe that person may be ... ...Effect of Illegal Conduct; Trespass 349 80 1 k. In General. (Formerly 349k80 349k7(10) Although trespass does not always result in Fourth Amendment violation, government's trespass is usuall unreasonable and violative of legitimate expectation of privacy. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 n 8] 8 Aviation 48B1... P' U 5. S. . Little, 735 F.2d 1049„ C.A.8 (Ark.), May 22, 1984(Nos. 82-1591, 82-1592, 82-1 i 3.82-159182-159282-1593) ...k. Reliability or Credibility; Corroboration. (Formerly 372k5I5 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warrants or Judicial Authorization. (Formerly 372k541 Search warrant affidavit was insufficient and magistrate's order authorizing installation of transponder in airplane was therefore invalid where affidavit recited bits of information attributed to "confidential informants" but afliant did not add the conclusory ... ...States Magistrate in Memphis, Tennessee, an order allowing him to install a transponder on the plane. A transponder is a tracking device, also called a beeper. Before the beeper was installed, a government agent approached Scott Whitney, a service administrator of Memphis ... ...the hangar. Later that day, the transponder was installed on the plane. The operation involved detaching a panel inside the airplane, secreting the beeper behind it, and then replacing the panel. On June 8, 1981, Harmon, Sager, and Fulbright left for... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. ...... Instre.nintnrint/nrintgtresim.asnx7sv=Full&orft=HTMLE&In= tov&rs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188472

Page 3 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT DATABASES(S) - CfA 6. H U.S.'. Buns, 729 F.2d 1514„ C.A.5 (Tex.), April 23, 1984(No. 82.1260.82-1260) ...customs officials of signal that disclosed presence of aircraft in public airspace was not unconstitutional search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment because terms of warrant authorizing signalling device required it to be removed before its signal was recorded. Reversed and ...officials' monitoring of signal that disclosed presence of aircraft in public airspace was not unconstitutional search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment because terms of warrant authorizing signalling device required it to be removed before its signal was recorded. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [2] 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1486 k. Transponders or "Beepers" in General; Warrantless Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(10) Monitoring signals from electronic tracking device that tells officers no more than that specific aircraft is flying in public airspace does not violate any reasonable expectation of privacy and thus no Fourth Amendment violation results from public detection; movement of airplane in sky, like that of automobile on highway, is not something in which person can claim reasonable expectation of privacy ... ...General. Purpose of exclusionary rule is to deter improper police conduct that violates person's reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment, and rule does not purport to reach all illegal conduct by officers. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [4] 372 Telecommunications 372X Intergeption... 7. 1> U.S.I. Butts, 710 F.2d 1139„ C.A.5 (Tex.), August 01, 1983(No. 82-1260.82-1260) ...Circuit Judge, held that: (1) physical attachment of electronic " ' to interior of aircraft constituted a "search" within meaning of Fourth Amendment, and 2) where beeper installed inside aircraft pursuant to valid search warrant remained present in aircraft after expiration of court ...of electronic tracking device in the interior of a vehicle or conveyance is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 (2] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or Seizure 349 21 ... ...Devices or "Beepers.". (Formerly 349k1 Physical attachment of electronic "beeper" to interior of aircraft constituted a "search" within meaning of Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [31 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Elec c Surveillance 372X(B) Authorization by Courts... 8. F" U.S.I.g Stewart, 700 F.2d 702„ CA.11 (Fla.), March 18, 1983(No. 81-607081-6070) ...L.Ed.2d 408 (1965) (deliberate choice by counsel to delay objeglion to tainted evidence may waive defendant's rights under the fourth amendment); Winters,. Cook, 489 F.2d 174 (5th Cir.1973) (intentional strategic waiver by counsel of defendant's nght to object ... ...Appellants attempted to prove that the detection of their aircraft was made possible by an electronic device attached to their airplane as part of an ongoing investigation by the Customs Department. This was rejected by the district court as without merit ... ...presented absolutely no evidence supporting their allegations that their apprehension was due to the use of an illegally placed electronic tracking device, that the Coast Guard had probable cause to arrest in time to obtain a warrant or that they were forced... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. mamba... rnminrint/nrintstresmasnx?sv=Full&vrft=141'MLE&fn= totArs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188473

Page 4 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" DATABASES(S) - CTA 9. P' U.S. I Parks, 684 F.2d 1078„ C.A.5 (Tex.), August 20, 1982(No. 79-5497.79-5497) ...to distribute, and they appealed. The Court of Appeals, Garwood, Circuit Judge, held that defendants failed to establish that their Fourth Amendment rights were violated by installation, maintenance or monitoring of electronic transponder inside airplane. Affirmed. West Headnotes [I] 349 Searches and ... ...only plane and he was never on it, installation, maintenance and monitoring of beeper invaded no interest of defendant that Fourth Amendment was designed to protect. 11.S.C.A.ConstAmend. 4 [3] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object 349 164 lc. Particular Concrete ... ...marihuana to landing site, prior entry into plane by government agents and installation of electronic transponder did not infringe defendant's Fourth Amendment rights. U.S.C.A.Const.Amend. 4 [4] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object 349 164 k. Particular Concrete Applications. (Formerly 349k7(26)... 10. C U.S. I Long, 674 F.2d 848, 10 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 438„ C.A.11 (Ala.), April 30, 1982(No. 81-7290.81-7290) ...the transponder in defendant's airplane and monitoring of the device for 90 days, was reasonable and did not violate the Fourth Amendment; (2) magistrate's finding that probable cause existed to issue the order authorizing installation of the transponder in defendant's airplane was ... ...assistance of counsel. Affirmed. West Headnotes [1) 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warrants or Judicial Authorization. (Formerly 3721c54I 349k7(10) Operating transponder for one week under court order, which authorized installation of the transponder in defendant's airplane and monitoring of the device for 90 days, was reasonable and not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A.Const.Amend. 4 [4 349 Searches and Seizures 349VI Judicial Review or Determination 349 200 k. Scope of Inquiry or Review ... ...Object 349 162 k. Privacy Interest or Expectation, in General. (Formerly 349k7(26) A person can claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment only if he can show some legitimate ex lion of privacy in the area or object searched. U.S.C.A.Const.Amend. 4 [ 114... 11. C U. s. I Dickerson, 655 F.2d 559, C.A.4 (Va.), July 30, 1981(No. 80-5210.80-52 0) ...arose that defendant did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the aircraft to entitle him to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. Affirmed. West Headnotes [1] 349 Searches and Seizures 349VI Judicial Review or Determination 349 192 Presumptions ... ...proof was on defendant to establish a legitimate expectation of privacy in aircraft that would entitle him to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. U.S.CA.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object 349 161 k. In General. (Formerly hi 349k7(26) Only an owner of roperty may raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [3 349 Searches and Seizures 349IV Standing to Object 349 161 k. In General. (Formerly 3491(7(2 A person who is unlawfully in possession of an aircraft has no right to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [4] 349 Searches and Seizures 349IV Standing to Object 349 164 k Particular ... ...arose that defendant did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the aircraft to entitle him to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [5] 410 Witnesses 410111 Examination 41011I(D) Privilege of Witness 410 299 Privilege... 02007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. • • •I . - actiV9Cv=F1111knrfST -TTMT .F.Rifn= tnnkss= 12/27/2007 EFTA00188474

Page 5 of QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT DATABASES(S) - CTA 12. N U.S. A Chavez, 603 F.2d I43„ C.A.10 (N.M.), August 02, 1979(Nos. 78-1128, 78-1 9.78-112978-1128) ...k. In General. (Formerly 372k514.1 372k514 349k3.6(1) 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warrants or Judicial Authorization. (Formerly 372k541 349k3.6(1) Court orders, authorizing the use of a beeper for surveillance ... ...officer or an attorney for the government"; and the fact that the federal authorities participated in the tracking of the airplanes did not affect the validity of the state court orders previously issued. [4] 110 Criminal Law 110XVII Evidence 110XVII(1... ...trial the defendants filed a motion to suppress on the ground that the installation and use of the beeper violated Fourth Amendment rights. After an evidentiary hearing, the trial court denied the mot to suppress. This ruling is the only matter urged.. 13. H U.S. I Nelson, 593 F.2d 543, C.A.3 (Pa.), March 08, 1979(No. 78-1587.78-1587) ...of this appeal is whether six tons of marijuana seized at the Mount Pocono Airport in Pennsylvania from a private airplane should have been suppressed as evidence. Appellant contends that the evidence was illegally seized because United States Customs Service agents, acting without a warrant, installed in the plane a locational tracking device called a "transponder," which they used to monitor the plane's route. While the district court held the use of the ... ...11 [2] For purposes of this appeal, the court will assume, without deciding, that appellant has standing to raise these fourth amendment claims. [FN I] It is well settled that the taint on evidence obtained as a result of an illegal search and ... ...SS L.Ed.2d 118 (1978) Even assuming, without deciding, that the installation and/or monitoring of the airplane violated appellants fourth amendment rights, the marijuana to which appellant l obje was seized by the use of information " 'sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of... 14. U.S. P &mean, 594 F.2d 1190, 57 A.L.R. Fed. 632, C.A.8 (Minn.), March Dl, 1979(Nos. 78-1 6, 78-1550.78-155078-1526) ...transponder, commonly known as a beeper device, to track an aircraft in public airspace did not constitute a "search" within Fourth Amendment; (2) even if Government had a duty to disclose informants' identity to defendant prior to trial, defendant was not materially ... ...papers. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 961i Controlled Substances 96H1V Searches and Seizures 96111V(B) Search Without Warrant 9614 118 k. Airplanes and Airports. (Formerly 138k183.5 138k182 Drugs and Narcotics) 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1486 k. Transponders or "Beepers" in General; Warrantless Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(10) Although the installation or attachment of a beeper device to airplane could potentially violate Fourth Amendment, no Fourth Amendment rights were violated by installation by Drug Enforcement Agency agents who had installed the transponder, commonly known as a beeper ... ...Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or Seizure 349 21 k. Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beepers.". (Formerly 3491O(10) No one flying an airplane can reasonably expect that he has a right to keep his flying, landing, or takeoff location private, and thus the... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. • a nenv7CILF111112rnr11=HTMT.P.Riln. tetn&.rs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188475

Page 6 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" DATABASES(S) - CTA 15. I> U.S. iClaybome, 584 F.2d 346„ C.A.10 (Colo.), August 22, 1978(Nos. 77-1568, 77-15770.77-156877.1570) ...of ether, which resulted in location of laboratory where controlled substance was produced, was not per se violation of the Fourth Amendment, and (2) where trial court continued with trial in one defendant's absence, but upon discovery that absence was involuntary, mistrial... ...based on warrantless use of device. (2] 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1486 k. Transponders or "Beepers" in General; Warrantless Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(10) Where agents, who lost contact with electronic tracking device that had been attached to container of ether after its movement from one defendant's house, had to use airplane to pick up beeper signal and locate clandestine laboratory, which was located in commercial building with windows covered to protect ... ...against viewing of materials inside, slight intrusion resulting from use of device was not per se in violation of the Fourth Amendment and its warrantless use by agents was therefore not invalid. u.s.cA.Const. Amend. 4 [3) 13514 Double Jeopardy 135141V Effect of... 16. P U.S. I Dubrofsky, 581 F.2d 208, C.A.9 (Cal.), August 09, 1978(No. 77-3738.77-3738) ...device emanating beeping signals allowing tracing of package and emanating different beeping 'signals if package was opened did not violate Fourth Amendment; (2) permanent resident of house had authority to consent to starch of basement of house; (3) special agent's affidavit was ... ...package of electronic surveillance device after heroin had been discovered in package during lawful customs search did not violate any Fourth Amendment right. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [5] 9611 Controlled Substances 96HIV Searches and Seizures 961-IV(B) Search Without Warrant 9611 107 Carriers ... ...signals allowing package to be traced and changing beeping tones if package was opened, which device was attached without violating Fourth Amendment, did not sufficiently resemble wiretap so as to require antecedent justification that warrant would provide and thus did not violate Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [6] 110 Criminal Law 110MCIV Review 110XXIV(O) QuestLons of Fact and Findings 110 1158 In General... 17. P U.S. I Miroyan, 577 F.2d 489, C.A.9 (Cal.), May 01, 1978(Nos. 77-1125 and 77-1367.77-112577-1367) ...transponder merely to monitor the location of aircraft as it passed through public airspace was not a "search" subject to Fourth Amendment strictures, (2) installation of transponder, performed with consent of aircraft owner and while the plane was within his dominion, did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of defendants, who flew the rented aircraft to Mexico, (3) officer who effected arrest of defendant in motel had ... ...transponder merely to monitor the location of aircraft as it passed through public airspace was not a "search" subject to Fourth Amendment strictures. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices ... ...of transponder, performed with consent of aircraft owner and while the plane was within his dominion, did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of defendants, who flew the rented aircraft to Mexico. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [3] 35 Arrest 3MI On Criminal Charges... 02007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. ' • •- • - 1--,.••••••• nat. Iv I es-P. 11 I R. nrft=14TNA I Rr t 1 111711f1111 EFTA00188476

Page 7 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" DATABASES(S) - CTA 18. P U.S.,. Cheshire, 569 F.2d 887, C.A.5 (Tex.), March 16, 1978(No. 77-5313.77-5313) ...beeper without a warrant. Affirmed. West Hcadnotes 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1486 k. Transponders or "Beepers" in General; Warrantless Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(27) Assuming that use of electronic beeper to follow path of airplane rented and flown by defendant was a search, consent of the owners of the plane came within third-party consent ... ...follow the path of an airplane flown by appellant was a search, and that the search was invalid undcr the fourth amendment because of the failure to obtain a warrant before placing the beeper on the airplane; (2) consent by the plane's ... ...the lessee consented to the attachment of the beeper. Appellant first contends that the use of the beeper constituted a fourth amendment search. This issue ha of been conclusively resolved in this ( Wrcuit, having been previously addressed in United States) Holmes... P 19. U.S. . Curtis, 562 F.2d 1153, C.A.9 (Ariz.), October 12, 197 os. 77-2070, 77-2071, 77-2235 and -2107.77-207077-207177-210777-2235) ...of Appeals, Ely, Circuit Judge, held that where officers had been given reliable information, based on articulable facts, that an airplane was being utilized in pursuit of criminal activity by a specific, identifiable individual, who had made arrangements to rent the plane, it was proper for the owner to arrange for installation, by customs officials, of a transponder, an electric tracking device, although, in the ordinary case, secret surveillance devices in vehicles should be installed pursuant to court order under such reasonable ... ...3] 114 Customs Duties 114XV Violations of Customs Laws 114 126 Searches and Seizures 114 126(7) k. Airports and Airplanes. (Formerly 114k126 Where officers had been given reliable information, based on articulable facts, that airplane was being utilized in pursuit of criminal activity by specific, identifiable individual, who had made arrangements to rent thc plane, it was proper for owner to arrange for installation, by customs officials, of transponder, an electric tracking device, although, in ordinary case, secret surveillance devices in vehicles should be installed pursuant to court order under such reasonable time ... ...Navajo aircraft, and the introduction of evidence derived from the use of the transponder, constituted an infringement of the appellants' Fourth Amendment rights. (2) That arresting officers did not have probable cause to stop and search a vehicle being driven by the... ID 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. . . . n fry" PlA/V1 EFTA00188477

Page 8 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" DATABASES(S) - CTA 20. P U.S. 1,1 Worthington, 544 F.2d 1275„ C.A.5 (Tex.), January 10, 1977(No. 76-1586.76-1586) ...that it contained boxes marked "Cessna Aircraft Parts" in place of the rear seats. He and Agent Morrison kept the airplane under surveillance and were soon joined by two Customs agents. In the early morning hours of April 28, 1974, an electronic tracking device ("beeper") was placed on Worthington's aircraft by the Customs agents to assist in the surveillance. Later that morning the agents ... ...any evidence derived from the arrest and the ensuing search should have been suppressed as seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. He places the time of arrest at the moment the Customs plane was taxied in front of appellant's aircraft... ...in their restriction of personal autonomy to permit the extraordinary measure of departing from the probable cause requirement of the fourth amendment and those seizures that must predicated uponjhat traditional protective standard. Because I find that the dramatic accosting of appellant... 21. U.S. Pretzinger, 542 F.2d 517, C.A.9 (Ariz.), September 17, 1976(Nos. 76-1589, 76-1655.76-165576-1589) ...of privacy and does not constitute search and thus, no warrant is needed to justify installation of electronic beeper unless Fourth Amendment rights necessarily would have to be violated in order to initially install device. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [3] 349 Searches and Seizures 349I In General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or Seizure 349 21 k. Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beepers.". (Formerly 349k1 Attachment of electronic location device to airplane did not infringe upon any reasonable expectation of privacy and did not constitute search. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 (4) 372 Telecommunications ... ...banc 537 F.2d 227 (5th Cir.) Consequently, no warrant is needed to justify installation of an electronic beeper unless fourth amendment rigilits necessarily would have to be violated in order to initially install the device. See United States g Hufford, supra... 22. P U.S. I Epperson, 454 F.2d 769„ C.A.4 (Va.), February 07, 1972(No. 71.1481.71-1481) ...Defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals, Craven, Circuit Judge, held that exposure of airplane passengers to magnetometer constituted "search" within Fourth Amendment but was not unreasonable in view of threat of air piracy notwithstanding that no warrant had been obtained; and that ... ...Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or Seizure 349 21 k. Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beepers.". (Formerly 349k1 349 Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 72 k. Airport and Boardmg Searches. (Formerly 349k7(24) Exposure of airplane passengers to magnetometer constituted "search" within Fourth Amendment but was not unreasonable in view of threat of air piracy notwithstanding that no warrant had been obtained. Federal Aviation ... 149 U.S.C.A. § 1472( 1 U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 RI 349 Searches and Seizures 349I In General 349 23 k. Fourth Amendment and Reasonableness in General. (Formerly 349k7(I) Reasonableness of any search must be determined by balancing governmental interest in search and... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. ... conv9cir.Thilikrirft=trilviT .F.Rrfn= tnn/brgs= 19/2.7/2007 EFTA00188478

U.S. HARVEY 1439 CAN as 869 FM ItSIP (Haar. 1959) zation in original). The district court ex- pressed concern with this provision because 11 U.S.C. § 1322(c) states that a chapter 13 plan "may not provide for payments over a period that is longer than three years, un- less the court, for cause, approves a longer period, but the court may not approve a period that is longer than five years." Ob- viously, it will take Saylors several years to pay off the entire mortgage debt at the regular monthly rate. We interpret the provision at issue, however, simply as the bankruptcy court's effort to ensure that Jim Walter is treated fairly by the con- firmed plan; Saylors can cure the mort- gage arrearage through a chapter 13 ex- tension plan only if he also keeps his regu- lar mortgage payments current. Conse- quently, the confirmed plan's requirement that Saylors must make his regular month- ly mortgage payments terminates when the arrearage is satisfied.' III. CONCLUSION The decision of the district court is re- versed and the order of the bankruptcy court confirming Saylors' chapter 13 plan is reinstated. REVERSED. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, I Jerry Lee HARVEY, Defendant-Appellee. No. 874051. United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. April 14, 1989. Order dismissing indictment charging defendant with tax evasion and filing false 4. This statement, of course, only applies to what is required of Saylors by the confirmation order of the bankruptcy court. If all goes well and Saylors satisfies the arrearage while maintain- ing his monthly mortgage payments, he probe- income tax returns with respect to interest income from funds deposited in Cayman Islands account was entered in the United States District Court for the Southern Dis- trict of Florida, No. 85-06204, James C. Paine, J., 651 F.Supp. 894, and Government appealed. The Court of Appeals, 848 F.2d 1647, affirmed. Subsequently, the Court of Appeals, 855 F.2d 1492, agreed to rehear the case en bane and vacated prior panel opin- ion. Upon rehearing en bane, the Court of Appeals, Kravitch, Circuit Judge, held that grant of transactional immunity Govern- ment extended to defendant in connection with drug investigation did not prohibit prosecution for tax violations allegedly committed in years following grant of im- munity. Reversed and remanded. Clark, Circuit Judge, filed dissenting opinion in which Hatchet', Circuit Judge, joined. Hatchet', Circuit Judge, filed dissent- ing opinion. I. Constitutional Law 420265.5 Due process requires Government to adhere to terms of any plea bargain or immunity agreement it makes. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 5. 2. Criminal Law 4=42 Although federal law no longer pro- vides for formal statutory grants of trans- actional immunity, prosecutor may infor- mally grant transactional immunity to wit- ness in return for cooperation in criminal case. 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 60014005. 3. Criminal Law 4=42 "Use immunity" prohibits use of com- pelled testimony, or any evidence derived directly or indirectly from that testimony, against witness in criminal prosecution. See publication Words and Phrases for other judicial constructions and definitions. bly will find himself in the position of any non-bankrupt nonrecourse debtor. He will be required by state law to continue making his mortgage payments until the entire debt is satis- fied or risk losing his home. EFTA00188479

1440 869 FEDERAL REPORTER, 2d SERIES 4. Criminal Law sw42 Use immunity does not prohibit Government from prosecuting witness for crimes about which he testified, provided Government proves that it has other evi- dence to support prosecution that is derived from legitimate source wholly independent of compelled testimony. 6. Criminal Law al=.42 When defendant has demonstrated that he has testified under grant of use immunity, burden shifts to prosecution which then has affirmative duty to prove that evidence it proposes to use is derived from legitimate source wholly independent of testimony given under grant of immuni- ty. 6. Criminal Law 4=42 Informal transactional immunity de- fendant received in connection with disci°• sure of his Illegal activities in drug trade did not prohibit Government from prosecut- ing defendant for tax violations committed after grant of immunity, even though tax violations related to money derived from drug trade. 7. Criminal Law a=42 Purpose of grant of transactional or use immunity is to preclude witness' re- fiance on his Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination: Government may compel witness to testify by granting him immunity, provided that scope of immunity is as least as great as that of Fifth Amendment privilege that wit- ness must forego. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 5. 8. Criminal Law sa493(1) In general, privilege against self-in- crimination only prohibits compelled testi- mony that might incriminate witness for crimes he had already committed, or was in process of committing, at time testimony was given. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 5. Roger M. Olsen, Atty. Gen., Michael L. Paup, Chief, Robert E. Lindeay, Alan Hechtkopf, Appellate Section, Tax Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant. Leonard Alan Sands, Coconut Grove, Fla., for defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Before RONEY, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT, HILL, FAY, VANCE, KRAVITCH, JOHNSON, HATCHETT, ANDERSON, CLARK, EDMONDSON, and COX, Circuit Judges. KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge: Appellee Jerry Lee Harvey disclosed his illegal activities in the drug trade to Drug Enforcement Administration agents under an unwritten informal grant of immunity in 1980. Four years later a grand jury indict- ed Harvey for failing to report the interest income earned on the proceeds of those drug-related activities in the years leading up to and following the 1980 grant of im- munity. Harvey moved to dismiss the in- dictment, arguing that the 1980 informal grant of immunity protected him from prosecution. The district court, upon the recommendation of the magistrate, agreed and dismissed the indictment with preju- dice. United States Harvey, 651 F.Supp. 894 (S.D.Fla.1986). The govern- ment appealed the dismissal of those counts that charged violations for the years following the grant of immunity. A divid- ed panel of this court affirmed. 848 F.2d 1547 (11th Cir.1988). We determined to rehear this case in bane and vacated the panel opinion. 855 F.2d 1492 (11th Cir. 1988). We now REVERSE the order of the district court dismissing those counts of the indictment that relate to offenses alleg- edly committed after the grant of immunity to Harvey. I. THE FACTS On November 27, 1986 a grand jury in die Southern District of Florida returned an indictment charging Harvey with five counts of income tax evasion for the years 1978 through 1982, in violation of 26 U.S.C. EFTA00188480

Palm Beach billionaire faces second sex-assault lawsuit -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Page 1 of 1 sun-sentinel.cominews/localipalmbeach/sfl-206sexsuit,0,4680990.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Palm Beach billionaire faces second sex-assault lawsuit By Nancy Oth0n Sun-Sentinel.com 12:01 PM EST, February 6, 2008 Billionaire and part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein was sued for the second time in less than two weeks Wednesday, this time by another teenager who claims she was sexually abused at his mansion. The 16-year-old Virginia girl is represented by the same attorney who filed a $50 million federal lawsuit in late January against Epstein, 55. This lawsuit seeks similar damages for an alleged sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Jeffrey Herman, the teen's attorney, is planning a news conference in West Palm Beach this afternoon to discuss the allegations. Nothing down. No closing costs*. CENTEX HOMES IA loan ✓e 3 eu fixtclicus ;Om iglu. Epstein, arrested in 2006 on a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution, is scheduled to appear in court next month for a status hearing. The New York resident is accused of luring young girls to his mansion for massages that turned sexual. The lawsuit alleges that Epstein has a sexual preference and "obsession for underage minor girls" and sought to gain access to economically disadvantaged younger girls in his home for paid massages. The 16-year-old girl, identified in the lawsuit as "Jane Doe No. 2," has suffered traumatic injuries, according to the complaint. When the first lawsuit was filed Epstein's attorneys said Epstein never had sex with the girl, who was 14 at the time, and that the lawsuit was motivated by greed. Nancy °than can be reached at nothon@sun-sentinet com or 561-228-5502. Copyright O 2008, So_u Florida Sun-Sentinel •• •I I I /t1A/NO EFTA00188481