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THE PALM BEACH POST     •     THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007
Milian sues billionaire investor,
/says they had sex when she was 16
The Associated hers        Mail on Sunday to be a dose        dismissed.
NEW YORK — A billionaire      friend of England% Prince             He refused to comment on
investor, already facing jail    Andrew, has been indicted in       Epstein% Florida charges.
in Palm Beach County on          Palm Beach on charges of so-          Meanwhile, Unroch, 57,
charges of soliciting under-      liciting underage prostitutes.     also acknowledged that his
age prostitutes, is being sued    That case is pending.              client was living with him
by a young woman who says             The girl visited Epstein       and was at the center of a $10
he had sex with her when          "several times over the sev-       million lawsuit he filed last
she was 16 and had sought         eral months and engaged in         year against a neighbor who
his help becoming a model.        bizarre and unnatural sex          said he was having sex with
The lawsuit, fled late         acts" while she was a minor,       underage girls. That case is
Thesday in Manhattan% state       the lawsuit says.                  pending. '
Supreme Court, says finan-            Epstein "repeatedly re-           "What she was doing at
cier Jeffrey Epstein had the      quested that (the girl) return     22 is irrelevant to what hap-
teen perform a sex act when       with her 14-, 15-, and 16-         pened to her when she was
she brought      year-old girlfriends, stating,     16," Unroch said Wednesday
photographs      tome by with your friends          He went on the say he hoped
of     herself   your         next time. Don't      Epstein would agree to "do
for him to       bring              (a mutual       right" by his client and re-
review in his    friend in er      . I love girls   solve the case out of court.
Upper East       your age."
Side mansion        The young woman, now
sometime in      23, kept returning to Epstein
2000.            because she has "mental
Epstein,      issues," said her lawyer, Wil-
Epstein          54, a money      liam J. Unroch. He refused to
manager,         elaborate, but court papers
told the teen he managed          say she was "disabled at a re-
finances for Victoria's Secret    sult of severe mental disease
and "could get you into the       and defect."
catalog" if she were "nice"           Epstein's lawyer in New
to him, court papers say.         York, Gerald Lefcourt, said,
The papers say being "nice"       "The girl has admitted she
included massages and other       is insane, but she can read a
favors.                           newspaper and recognize the
When the girl told Epstein,    word 'rich.'"
"I am 16 years old and just          Lefcourt also said the
want to model," he replied,       statute of limitations has
"Don't worry I won't tell any-    expired for the woman%
body," court papers say.          case criminally and civilly,
Epstein, _said by London%      and will almost certainly be
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Features
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`Post' Grabs a Towel in
Preparation for Epstein Trial
Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire and friend of Clinton who
ImiCharged IBM year with paying teenage girls to massage
him while he jerked off into a towel at his pink Palm Beach
mansion, has decided not to plead guilty, the Post reports
today; hell take his chances with a jury. Reporting this
must have been bittersweet for the l'ost, because they've
been insisting for months that Epstein had taken or was
litenaRy an she verge of any minute taking a plea deal. But
then we expect they are wailing with baited breath for all
the lurid details the trial to come out. As are wet In fact,
with the expectation that all the stories we've heard in the
months since the allegations first came to light are going to
be rehashed in the trial, which the Past says is scheduled
forJanuary, were going to repeat one of our favorite bits
from the recent lawsuit filed by lawyer extraordinaire
William Unmet, on behalf Of his es-lover, transgender
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ME PALM BEACH POST      •    WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008
Girl drops lawsuit against Palm Beach man
By LARRY KELLER                                 the litigation be halted    at his Intracoastal home, a Palm Beach
Palm Beath Post SfreWriter                          until her daughter          Police Department investigation con-
A girl who says that wealthy money                       turns 18. •                 cluded. He was indicted in July 2006 on
manager and part-time Palm Beach                               The mother com-          a single count of felony solicitation of
resident Jeffrey Epdtein engaged in                         plained that Jane Doe's     prostitution. The case is pending.
• sexual activity with her when she was                       father did not consult         Jane Doe's parents separated two
14, has dropped her lawsuit against                         with her or their           months after she was born at Good Sa-
him because her divorced parents are                        daughter before suing       maritan Medical Center, according to
squabbling over the litigation.                             Epstein for $50mil-         court records. The couplek subsequent
"It has to do with the fact that the    Epstein          lion. The lawsuit al-       divorce has been contentious. Each has
parents aren't on the same page right      Accused of       leges sexual assault,       had primary custody of the girl at various
• now," said Jeffrey Herman, the attorney    sexuality        intentional infliction      times.
for the girl, identified in court papers   assaulting then- of emotional distress          The father pleaded guilty to fed-
only as Jane Doe "It's like a sideshow"    14-year-old gift and    loss ' of parental   eral fraud charges in 2001 and was sen-
The girl turns 18 in May and can sue                     consortium. Herman          tenced to 21 months in federal prison,
• again at that time without her parents'                     also represents a Jane      plus three years' probation. The US.
involvement, Herman said.                  Doe No. 2 who, like Jane Doe, claims         attorney overseeing his prosecution
Herman sued Epstein last month on       Epstein summoned her to his home for         was Guy Lewis. Now in private practice,
• behalf of the girl, her father and her     a massage when She was a minor and           Lewis was hired by Epstein to defend
stepmother. Her birth mother, who lives    sexually touched her                         him against the father's lawsuit filed on
near Atlanta, then asked to intervene        ,Epstein, 55; induced several un r-        behalf of Jane Doe.
on her daughter's behalf and asked that    age girls to give him sexual ma         es   • lany_kelet@pbpostcom
•
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Man guilty in underage escort case
West Palm resident faces mandatory sentence of at least 10 years in prison
BY VANESSA BLUM
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
March 20, 2008
Rejecting defense claims of entrapment, a federal jury
convicted a West Palm Beach man on Wednesday for                      CI) Holy Hosp
Crossital
arranging to have sex with a teen prostitute in Costa Rica
through a bogus travel agency secretly run by the FBI.
2" Year in a row
Jorge Muentes, 48, cried as federal marshals led him
from his family after the guilty verdict was read in the
Foil Lauderdale courtroom of U.S. District Judge James
Cohn.
<J4,‘s,
"I love you, baby," his wife of 17 years called after him.                      AMERICAS
"I love you."
Muentes, who worked as a butler, contacted the FBI's
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fake agency, Latin American Pleasure Tours, in
September after seeing an ad in an adult magazine. In conversations with an undercover detective posing
as the agency's owner, Muentes requested a 14- to 16-year-old prostitute. He was arrested at Miami
ciljalionalAirmyt Nov. 15 as he attempted to board a flight to San Jose.
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David 0. Markus, the attorney representing Muentes, said he would appeal the verdict. Markus had
argued his client was entrapped by the detective who Markus said called Muentes repeatedly and steered
him toward an underage prostitute.
But prosecutors insisted Muentes made the choice to request a teenager without encouragement and took
concrete steps toward acting on his desires by paying for the trip and attempting to travel.
After a two-day trial and one day of deliberations, the jury of seven men and five women found Muentes
guilty of two counts for soliciting the services of an underage prostitute and for attempting to travel
overseas for sex with a minor.
Muentes, who has no criminal record or history of child abuse, faces a mandatory sentence of at least 10
years.
A nearly identical case against a New York Vietnam War veteran is set for trial Monday before U.S.
District Judge Jose Gonzalez in Fort Lauderdale.
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The two cases are part of a government crackdown on so-called sex tourists who travel overseas to
molest children. The initiative has led to more than 70 arrests since 2003, including those of 15 people
snared in the sting operation.
The Web site for Latin American Pleasure Tours offers to fulfill travelers' desires with "clean, fun-
loving companions of varying ages." All calls to the agency were directed to the Miami FBI
headquarters and answered by Richard Love, a retired Fort Lauderdale police detective who posed as the
agency's owner.
Love testified at trial that Muentes needed no prodding to request a "very young" escort. In their first
conversation, Love offered Muentes two types of escorts — for sightseeing or sex. After Muentes
indicated his interest in a prostitute, Love asked him to choose from a range of 14 to 27 years old. "Let's
go young ... very young," Muentes said.
Love suggested a 14- to 16-year-old and Muentes agreed. When Muentes asked about the legality of sex
with a minor, Love said it was all illegal. According to testimony at trial, adult prostitution is legal in
Costa Rica, but transactions cannot involve a third party, such as an agency or pimp.
Markus said Muentes changed his mind and requested a 21- to 24-year-old escort, but was never given a
chance to back out.
Sentencing is set for May 29.
Vanessa Blum can be reached at vbblum®sun-sentinelstom or [Phone Redacted].
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THE PALM BEACH POST     •    FRIDAY. APRIL 18, 2008
WEST PALM BEACH - Part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein
has been sued in federal court by two more women this week who
say he had sexual contact with them when they gave him mas-
sages at his waterfront mansion when they were minors. They are
the fourth and fifth women to sue Epstein. Both women are
seeking more than $50 million. Jane Doe No. 4 says she was
15 years old when she had several encounters with Epstein
in 2002 or 2003. Jane Doe No. 5 says she was 15 or 16 years
old when she was with him. Epstein was indicted by a county
grand jury in July 2006 on a single felony count of solicitation
of prostitution. That case is still active.
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THE [vim REACH POST     •     TUESDAY, MARCH 18,2008
Girl sues Epstein, two others
she says conspired in massages
"These two conspired with
Jane Doe,' 17, sues in state court                                 him to help with the criminal
enterprise," Leopold said.
after dropping a federal suit.                                        Jane Doe, through her
father and stepmother, filed
a federal lawsuit against
By LARRY KELLER                                     Epstein in January. She dis-
Palm Beath Post SteWriter                               missed it after her mother
WEST PALM BEACH - A former Palm                                 said she wasn't consulted
Beach Community College student who               Epstein          about the litigation and
police say procured underage girls to give                         sought to intervene. The
Jeffrey Epstein sexualroassages at his Palm       mother is acting on her daughter's behalf in
Beach mansion,. and Epsteia personal assis-       the latest lawsuit.
tant have been sued along with Epstein over           Epstein's lawyer has denied the girN al-
their alleged conduct:                            legations and said her family is simply at-
The girl behind the lawsuit was 14 years      tempting to get money from a very rich man.
old when she contends he engaged in sexual        Epstein, 55, is a Manhattan money manager
conduct with her after she went,to his water-     who has homes there, in New Mexico and the
front home in 2005 to give him a massage.         Virgin Islands, in addition to his $8.5 million
Her lawsuit, filed under the name Jane Doe,       Palm Beach mansion.
seeks unspecified damages from Epstein for            Two other Jane Does have sued Epstein
sexual assault and intentional infliction of      in federal court this year, making similar al-
emotional distress.                               legations to those of the first Jane Doe. Those
She also sued         '                  of   cases remain active.
Loxahatchee and                            ork       Also pending against Epstein in state court
City on grounds of conspiracy and civil rack-      is a felony charge of solicitation of prostitu-
eteering                                         tion arising from the same alleged incidents
"We just want a full measure of justice for   with several girls. That case is set for trial'in
th'          'd her attorney Ted Leopold.        July, two years after he was indicted.
ho attended Palm Beach Com-            Jane Doe's new lawsuit, filed in Palm Beach
munity    Col ege, was paid by Epstein to bring    County Circuit Court, is the most explicit in
girls to his mansion for massages and more,       detailing Epstein all           •    d
according to Palm Beach police "I'm like a        the only suit to include             ad
Heidi Fleiss," they said she told them. Her       as defendants, and the on            make con-
attorney could not be reached immediately         spiracy and racketeering allegations.
Jane Doe will turn 18 in May. She lives with
four      s an Epstein personal assistant
who arranged the encounters, even escort-
other family members in Palm Beach County,
is nearing graduation from high school and is
ing the girls to his massage room, police          working part time, Leopold said.
alleged.                                             lany_kellertipbpost.com
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WE PAUA BEACH POST      •    SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008
A DEADLINE FOR EPSTEIN
The day of reckoning for
Palm Beach billionaire finan-
cier and alleged sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein is coming.
Really!
State Attorney Barry
Krischer has put his foot
down after nearly two years
of wrangling with Epsteink
Epstein           team of high•priced attor-
neys.
By July 8, Krischerb spokesman said,
there will either be a trial or a plea agree-
ment
The reclusive 55-year-old Wall Street
prodigy allegedly had a college student
steer underage suburban girls to his beach-
front mansion for sex and weird massages
in 2005.
"lib simply time," said Krischer'S spokes-
man, Mike Edmondson.
In November Epsteink local attorney, Jack
Goldberger, told Page Two the case would be
resolved with a guilty plea by late January.
But things have been stalled as Epstein uses
a dream team of lawyers that also includes
Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and for-
mer Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr.
Now, a trial has been set for July, just in
case.
"Things have been delayed," Goldberger
said.
The problem? Sources close to the case
say Epstein doesn't mind so much the 18
months in jail if he pleads guilty but he
can't stand the thought ofbeing branded a
Florida sex offender for life.
"Ha been treated more harshly because
he a wealthy man," Goldberger said. "He
I jose [Email Redacted]
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Lawsuit: Epstein assistants helped procure underage
girl for sex
By MARYIUMCE
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Specials
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer                                                                & Deals
From Local
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WEST PALM BEACH - A former Palm Beach Community College student who
allegedy procured underage girls to give Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages at his
Palm Beach mansion, and Epstein's personal assistant have been sued along with
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Epstein over their conduct.
The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 14 years old when she contends he engaged in sexual conduct
with her after she went to his waterfront home in 2005 to give him a massage. Her lawsuit seeks
unspecified damages for sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress against Epstein.
More local news                           She also sued
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"We just want a full measure of justice for this girl," said her attorney, Ted Leopold.
gr        'ho attended Palm Beach Community College, was paid by Epstein to bring girls to his
she
mansion for massages and more, according to Palm Beach police. "I'm like a Heidi Fleiss," they said
told them. Her attorney could not be reached immediately for comment.
was an Epstein personal assistant who arranged the encounters, even escorting the girls to his
massage room, police alleged.
"These two conspired with him to help with the criminal enterprise," Leopold said.
Jane Doe, through her father and stepmother, filed a federal lawsuit against Epstein in January. She
The
dismissed it after her mother said she wasn't consulted about the litigation and sought to intervene.
mother is acting on her daughter's behalf in the latest lawsuit.
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Epstein's lawyer has denied the girl's allegations and said her family is simply attempting to get money
from a very rich man. Epstein, 55, is a Manhattan money manager who has homes there, in New Mexico
and the Virgin Islands in addition to his $8.5 million Palm Beach mansion.
of
Two other Jane Does have sued Epstein in federal court this year, making similar allegations to those
the first Jane Doe. Those cases remain active.
Also pending against Epstein in state court is a felony charge of solcitiation of prostitution arising from
after
the same alleged incidents with several girls. That case is now scheduled for trial in July, two years
he was indicted.
Jane Doe's new lawsuit, filed in Palm Beach Circu't Codige                      most explicit in detailing Epstein's
alleged misconduct. It is the first to includ                                 as defendants, and the first to make
conspiracy and racketeering allegations.
Jane Doe will turn 18 in May. She lives with other family members in Palm Beach County, is nearing
graduation from high school and is working part time, Leopold said.
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Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom
NEWS
Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom
ge His Desires
Mogul Reportedly Built $30 Million Sex Grotto to Indul
By MARCUS BARAM
July 20, 2007 —
from the rest of us.
When it comes to sexual deviancy, the rich really are different
fly in high-end prostitutes for the weekend
Instead of hiring cheap hookers for an hour in a motel, they
to liven things up, they'll build a sex
to frolic in their underground grotto. Rather than buying sex toys
vault complete with bondage and S&M gear.
uter chip mogul Henry T. Nicholas III, who
The latest in a long line of lurid Lotharios is said to be comp
with hidden doors and secret levers, at his
allegedly built a $30 million underground grotto, complete
ents unearthed by the Los Angeles
equestrian estate in Laguna Hills, Calif. According to court docum where he could indulge his
lair"
Times, Nicholas is said to have planned a "secret and convenient
Ecstasy."
"manic obsession with prostitutes" and "addiction to cocaine and
in 1991, had his private jet ferry
The 47-year-old billionaire, who co-founded Broadcom Corp              nicknamed the Pond, where he
prostitutes from New Orleans, Chicago and Las Vegas to his lair, nitrous oxide, according to the draft
s and
provided his rock-star guests with drugs, including mushroom
complaint.
Nicholas used the lair as his "personal
In addition, the complaint dug up by the Times alleges that
according to the paper. His wife, Stacy
brothel" until his wife caught him in the act with a prostitute,
Nicholas, has since filed for divorce.
"all of the allegations are denied." In 2000,
Nicholas' attorney Steven A. Silverstein told the Times that
"pump house" to handle runoff from his
Nicholas told the paper that the underground facility was a
horse trails.
Publishing heir Richard Quadracci reportedly
The allegations seem to echo other well-publicized cases.             equipped with a cross, bondage boards,
ran a gay sex club, complete with a 1,000-square-foot playroom
of his penthouse apartment in Manhattan.
harness power hoists and other X-rated paraphernalia, out
ge-themed bed and breakfast that he
Quadracci claims that he only ran a Web site describing a bonda
sued him and the case was settled in early
planned to open one day. Eventually, his condominium board
2005.
financier who was charged with felony
Other notorious cases include Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire
massages at his Palm Beach mansion. In
solicitation of a prostitute for hiring underage girls to give him
Alan Dershowitz, reportedly embarrassed
that case, some of Epstein's lawyers including famed barrister
nted their drug use.
the girls by unearthing their MySpace pages on which they recou
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Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom                                                       Page 2 of 2
The Palm Beach Police requested an investigation by the FBI after the state's attorney reduced the
charges in that case. Currently, prosecutors are expecting the case to go to trial and a case disposition
hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16.
The types of sex and erotic indulgences may vary in each case but they're all made possible by having
money.
it,"
"The rich aren't more prone to extreme sex but they are more likely to have the resources to spend on
said Manhattan-based therapist Ian Kerner. "There are the $2 toothless hookers  and the $20,000  call girl
virgins but there's still work for all of them."
Kemer believes that extreme sexual appetites have less to do with money than with core desires and
instincts shaped by genetics and your upbringing. But being wealthy and powerful allows you to indulge
those cravings -- sometimes with unexpected results.
"I've had cases working with Wall Street bankers who always have to be about testosterone and they
es
never get to explore their feminine side or their vulnerable side and these guys often go to dominatrix
and explore being whipped and spanked," said Kemer.
They also may feel that their wealth is undeserved and that they need to be humiliated. "The investment
banker who's mastered the universe just wants to chill out and be dominated."
Wealthy men and women who are in the public eye may already feel above the law but they seek the
thrill of putting themselves in high-risk situations. "These are people who feel they can do what they
want all the time," said Gini Graham Scott, the author of "Homicide by the Rich and Famous."
"The money lets them indulge every whim and eccentricity and they have the freedom to experiment,"
she explained. "But once they achieve a certain thrill, they need to expand that. After a while, it gets
boring and they keep pushing the envelope on extreme behavior."
That certainly seemed to be the case with Fiat heir Lapo Elkann, who was hospitalized in 2005 after
overdosing at the apartment of a 53-year-old transvestite named Patrizia. After a stint in rehab in
Arizona, Elkann moved to Manhattan, launched a new line of sunglasses and started indulging new
passions: speeding in his family's racecars. Bravo!
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Describe your relationship with Mr. Epstein.
How long have you known Mr. Epstein? How did you meet?
What was your role at the New York Academy of the Arts?
What was Epstein's involvement with the NYAA?
Did Epstein express any interest in one particular style of artwork or interest in a specific artist
attending NYAA?
Did any NYAA students work for Mr. Epstein or yourself?
Were there ever any complaints filed against Mr. Epstein by young female students while he was
active with the NYAA?
Did Mr. Epstein ever show any noticeable attention or exhibit any questionable or inappropriate
behavior towards young females while he was involved with the NYAA? (Believed to have
brought a young female as his date to a formal function sponsored by NYAA)
Did Mr. Epstein leave the NYAA on good terms?
Did any of the students paint portraits of any of your family members during this time
period?(=ainted                portraits onhen?           Where?
What did the art depict?
When was your last contact with Mr. Epstein? What was it in reference too?
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BLAME GAME
alleged pervy
June 21, 2007 -- DID legal eagle Alan Dershowitz and
use  their clout to get   a speec  h canceled at
billionaire Jeffrey Epstein
Robert Trivers,
Harvard? That's the belief of Rutgers University biologist
ics (PED) was axed
whose talk at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynam
ist" for his "ration   alization of
after he called Dershowitz a "Nazi-like apolog                       rd  Crimson a PED
Triver s  told the  Harva
Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians."                               plug.  But Trivers
secrec  y" about  who    pulled   the
official said he was "sworn to
or Epstein, who
blames Dershowitz, who sits as a faculty affiliate on PED,
Dersh   owitz as a defense
donated $6.5 million to create PED and has retained                         utes.
ing   under  age   prostit
lawyer against his 2006 indictment for solicit                       owitz   told us
Epstein's lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, had      no comm     ent. Dersh
a barroo  m  brawle   r and  has  threat  ened   to beat me
Trivers "has a reputation as
llation  .
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It was just about a year ago that Jeffrey Epstein, the reclus
may now
being charged with soliciting prostitutes in Palm Beach, Fla. He
have another image problem on his hands.
y-management firm,
BusinessWeek reports that Mr. Epstein's Virgin Islands-based mone
ities and Exchange
Financial Trust Company, is listed in a filing with the Secur
e Structured Credit Strategies
Commission as a stakeholder in Bear Stearns's High-Grad
to in recent weeks as "Bear
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It is a tantalizing nugget of information about someone who                                                MERGER
ant for privacy, Mr. Epstein
about his business or his billionaire clients. Despite his pench                                            Mark
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runs in prominent circles: he once flew former President Bill Clinto                                        Playtex
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r over 10 percent of the
Regulatory filings show that Mr. Epstein's firm had voting powe
some of Wall Street's biggest                 Dutch.
equity in the Bear Stearns fund, which, aided by loans from                                                  LaSalle
subprime mortgages, or those                 INVESTM
banks, bet heavily on the securities linked to the market for                                                Banks
to homeowners with weak credit histories.                                                                    Role in
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23 percent for the year.
have gone bad. As of the end of April, the Bear fund was down
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Mr. Epstein did not respond to BusinessWeek's calls, and his lawyer had no comment.
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Of course, Mr. Epstein is not alone in his exposure to the fund. A fund-of-funds managed                 Investr
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by Paris-based BNP Paribas is listed in the S.E.0 filing as well. That fund was also
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heavily invested in Wood River Partners, a $127 million fund that imploded in 2005.                     Deal to
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Bear Stearns' Collateral Damage
Money manager Jeffrey Epstein, BNP Paribas, and other investors are mired in Bear's
troubled hedge fund that bet big on subprime mortgages
by Matthew Goldstein
investors who those to sink
The implosion of a hedge fund often sheds some unwanted attention on the wealthy
fund that bet heavily
money into the venture. That's certainly the case with an 11-month-old Bear Stearns hedge
on risky bonds backed by subprime mortgages and is teetering on the verge of collapse (see
BusinessWeek.com, 7/9/07, "Mutually As_sured Mayhem.).
Bear Stearns trader
One of the bigger investors in the troubled Bear Steams fund is Jeffrey Epstein, a former
Epstein has
turned money manager for the super-rich, according to regulatory filings. Over the past year,
charged the
garnered his fair share of notoriety and sensational headlines. Last July, prosecutors in Florida
Palm Beach police
onetime math teacher with soliciting sex from prostitutes at his Palm Beach (Fla.) mansion.
prosecutors did not
also alleged that the 53-year-old Epstein paid teenage girls to give him nude massages, but
charge him with that offense.
"MONEY MAN OF MYSTERY"
the New York Post—
The racy allegations involving Epstein—once labeled New York's most eligible bachelor by
as Dealbreaker.com.
have been good fodder for the New York tabloids and gossipy Wall Street Web sites such
ill-fated big bet on a
Now it appears Epstein may have another public relations headache on his hands over an
getting into trouble with
hedge fund set up by Bear Steams (BSC) last summer—right around the time he was
the law.
in the SEC filing as a
Epstein's Virgin Islands-based money-management firm, Financial Trust Company, is listed
Leverage fund. A
"beneficial owner" of the Bear Steams High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced
having "the power to
January filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission describes Epstein's firm as
from investors last
vote or dispose of" 10% or more of the equity of the hedge fund, which raised $642 million
billions of dollars
summer. But the hedge fund's purchasing power was much bigger, given its ability to borrow
(C), and Bank of
from banks such as Barclays (BCS), Goldman Sachs (GS), Deutsche Bank (DB), Citigroup
America (BAC).
several phone calls.
Epstein, who splits his time between Manhattan, Palm Beach, and St. Thomas, didn't return
charge, had no
Gerald Lefcourt, one of the criminal defense lawyers helping Epstein fend off the solicitation
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Bear Steams' Collateral Damage
mystery,"
comment. Epstein, once described by New York magazine as an "international money man of
Leslie Wexner,
reportedly won't take on any clients who aren't billionaires. One of Epstein's longtime clients is
the billionaire founder and CEO of the Limited Brands (LTD) retail chain.
BIG LOSERS
the years, he has
Even beyond his money-management business, Epstein has cut a high-profile figure. Over
Clinton, Donald
befriended powerful politicians, celebrities, and academics, including former President Bill
Trump, and law professor Alan Dershowitz.
into the Bear Stearns
Epstein isn't the only supposedly savvy money manager to the super-rich to throw money
listed on an SEC
funds. A so-called hedge fund-of-funds managed by Paris-based BNP Paribas (BNPQY) also is
invested. A BNP
filing as a beneficial owner of the same beleaguered Bear Stearns fund in which Epstein
which invests in a
spokeswoman declined to comment. A person familiar with BNP's Ozcar Multi-Strategy fund,
impact on Ozcar's
variety of different hedge funds, says the problems at Bear Stearns should have minimal
performance.
Ozcar fund, and other
Still, this isn't the first time the BNP fund has made a disastrous bet on a hedge fund. The
hedge fund that
affiliated BNP funds, invested about $49 million in Wood River Partners, a onetime $127 million
the former
went bust in October, 2005, amid allegations of fraudulent trading. On May 30, John Whittier,
out a scheme to
manager of the hedge fund, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to charges of carrying
at having invested in
defraud investors in the fund. The Ozcar fund, of which little is publicly known, is looking
two big losers in its brief four-year existence.
TAINTED REPUTATION?
in borrowed money to
The hedge fund that Epstein and BNP invested in is barely holding on after using billions
as of the end of
buy risky bonds backed by ailing subprime mortgages. The fund was down 23% for the year
week. In June, Bear
April. Bear Stearns says it will provide a full accounting for the funds' losses sometime next
shares in the
Stearns suspended investor redemptions. Some frustrated Investors are offering to sell their
investors are
beleaguered hedge fund for as little as 10 cents on the dollar in the secondary market. Other
preliminary
contemplating litigation. The Securities and Exchange Commission, meanwhile, has launched a
"Bear's Big
investigation into the events leading up to the collapse of the fund (see BusinessWeek.com, 6/25/07,
Loss Attracts SEC Attention").
Wall Street firm has
A sister fund also run by Bear Stearns is faring a bit better, but that's only because the big
Stearns to the
opted to prop up that entity with $1.6 billion in loans (see BusinessWeek.com, 6/22/07, "Bear
Leverage fund was
Rescue—Sort Of"). The four-year-old Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies
s in that fund, too. The
down about 10% as of the end of April. Bear Stearns has suspended investor redemption
which was more heavily
Wall Street firm, however, has decided not to provide any financing to the younger fund,
leveraged and indebted.
Street because both
The near-collapse of the two Bear Stearns funds has sparked widespread concern on Wall
d debt
hedge funds used billions in borrowed money to buy sophisticated securities called collateralize
that rarely
obligations. Popularly known as CDOs, these bond-like securities are hard-to-value investments
could cause a
trade. There is fear that the mass liquidation of the CDOs still held by the two hedge funds
forced a management
widespread devaluation in CDO prices. The trouble with the two hedge funds has already
its reputation.
shakeup at Bear Stearns' asset management division and ultimately may end up sullying
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20A      THE PALM BEACH POST       •    WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2O08 W S C
The Palm Beach Post
TOM GIUFFRIDA Rublisiter
JOHN BARTOSEK. Editor           CHARLES GERARD!, General Manager
Blli. ROSE, Managing Editor RANDY SCHUI.17., Editor of the Editorial Page
JAN TUCKWOOD, Associate Editor
BARRY BERG, PP Cimdation LARRY SIEDLIK. VP& Treasurer
JOHN KELLY, VP Advertising GALEHOWDEN, VP Community Relations turd Mathetiotg
LINDA MURPHY, VP Human Resources    BOB BALER, VP Operations
LAURA DECK CUNNINGHAM, Director, Marketing Services
DAN SHORTER. General Manager, PalmBeadtPostrom
Spare us the outrage
An 11-month police investigation
led to an indictment on one felony
Lawyers for accused sex
charge of solicitation of prostitution.     predator soundfoolish.
That was in July 2006, and part-time
Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein still
has faced no repercussions for al-         than $50 million, was filed on Jan.
legedly preying on underage girls.         24: "We think this shows what this
So maybe Mr. Epstein is satisfied      case is all about: money." Yes, it is
that he's getting his money worth          — Mr. Epstein's effort to buy his
from his large legal team, which           way out of prosecution.
includes Harvard Law School Pro-               According to the lawyer of a 17-
fessor Alan Dershowitz (remember           year-old whose parents are suing
• OJ. Simpson?) and Kenneth Starr            him, Mr. Epstein masturbated in
(remember Monica Lewinsky?).               front of her (she was 14 at the time)
Jack Goldberger of West Palm               and used a vibrator on her at his
Beach, who also on the team,               home in February 2005. Another
told Post columnist Jose Lambiet in        Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez
November: "This case is absolutely         dismissed it: "Jeffrey Epstein did
• going to end without a trial within        not have sex with this woman."
the next two months."                          For those girls who claim that he
He was wrong, but Mr. Gold-             did, Mr. Epsteint.lawyers maintain
berger remains on Mr. Epsteink              that he did not know their ages, de-
• payroll, feigning moral outrage at          spite a police search ofhishome and
two lawsuits filed this year against       garbage that found phone messages
• the- Manhattan money manager.               about the girls' school schedules
The lawsuits allege sexual exploita-        and even a high school transcript.
tion of teenaged girls, one of them        For all of his money, Mn Epstein's
as young as 14. Said Mr. Goldberger        best defense remains "I didn't know
ifter the first lawsuit, seeking more     'thatI was a criminal pervert'?       •
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THE PALM BEACH POS1       •    TUFSOAY, FEBRUARY 12.2008
Girl in sex-abuse suit alleges harassment
poena on her behalf. Also,       by the Epstein. camp: Her
Jane  Does attorney said he      father said in 2006 that
The defendant .the                   and Epstein% lawyer already      private investigators ag-
accuses is a part-time had agreed to reschedule the                   gressively followed his car,
for another date.    photographed his home and
Palm Beach resident. deposition         The girl's mother, who        chased off visitors after his
lives near Atlanta, also was     daughter accused Epstein.
By LARRY KELLER             served. About the same               Jane Doe contends that
Palm froth Post Staff Writer    time, another man came to        when she was 14, she was
SWEET   PALM    BEACH      —  A  Jane   Does workplace and        recruited to go to Epstein
lawyer representing one of said he was a lawyer who                   mansion to give him a mas-
two girls who recently sued needed to contact her, the                sage. She says he engaged
part-time Palm Beach resi- motion filed by West Palm                  in sexual conduct with her
dent Jeffrey Epstein in fed- Beach lawyer Ted Leopold                 at that time.
eral court, claiming sexual alleges.                                      Epstein is a wealthy
assault, has asked a judge              "It can only be concluded     Manhattan money manager
to stop Epstein and his attor- that Epstein and/or his coun-         who was indicted by a Palm
neys from "continuous and sel are purposefully attempt-               Beach County grand jury in
systematic harassment"                ing to harass Jane Doe and      July 2006 on a single count of
The    girl,   identified     in  her mother," Leopold said in    felony solicitation of prostitu-
court documents as "Jane his motion.                                  tion. Police investigated him
. Doe," 1Z says a process                 Epstein attorney Jack         for 11 months, concluding
server showed up at her Goldberger filed a writ-                      that he engaged in sexual
place of employment on Feb. ten response saying there                 activity with several under-
1 to serve a subpoena for was no harassment, only a                   age girls whom he paid to
her deposition, originally simple, routine serving of a               give him massages at his wa- .
scheduled for Feb. 6, even subpoena.                                  terfront home. Epstein .has
though her attorney had                 Its not the first time one    maintained he did not know
told Epstein attorney twice of Jane DoeS parents has                  the girls were minors.
that he would accept the sub- complained of harassment                0 larry_keueripbposttorn
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to be choosy                                Another suit alleges
sex during massage
By LARRY KELLER             tional distress. •
Palm Beach That Staff Writer         "She felt intimidated. She
WEST        PALM        BEACH felt scared," Herman said.
- Another woman filed a Jane Doe No. 3 made only the
federal lawsuit against Jef- one visit to Epsteinb home,
frey Epstein on Wednesday, he said.
alleging that he turned a                 "It's just another copycat
massage she gave him at his lawsuit filed by the same
Palm Beach mansion into a lawyer who appears less
sexual episode when she was interested in the truth than
16 years old.                         in grandstanding with these
Identified   as    "Jane     Doe  press conferences," said Jack
No. 3," she is seeking more Goldberger, one of Epsteinb
than $50 million, the same attorneys. "We now have
as two other lane Does" who sworn testimony that girls
filed similar lawsuits in the lied about their age to Jeffrey
past six weeks. All three suits Epstein, and they were care-
were filed by Miami lawyer ful in being convincing thatIt
Jeffrey Herman.                       they were over the ag
Herman         subsequently           Herman said
withdrew the first Jane Does instructed Jane Doe '140. ,
lawsuit because of squabbling "When he asks how old you
by her patents over the litiga- are, tell him 18 or 19 years
tion. The girl may refile the old." But he said it doesn't
suit after she turns 18 in May matter. "They were underage
and can make her own deci- girls," Herman said. "They
sions, Herman said.                   were sexually assaulted."
Other alleged victims also            In addition to the civil law-
have contartpd him, Herman suits, Epstein was indicted
said. "I do anticipate more on a single count of felony
cases," he said.                      solicitation of prostitution
In the latest litigation, Jane in July 2006 after a lengthy
Doe No. 3 alleges that she Palm Beach Police Depart-
was recruited                         ment investigation into his
lege student,                         activities  with underage girls
to give  Epste                       at  his  home.  A resolution has
money at his waterfront home been delayed continually. The
late in 2004 or early in 2005.       case is on Monday's court
The lawsuit alleges that, docket but is expected to be
while on the massage table, rescheduled once again.
Epstein sexually touched                 "One of the reasons (Jane
Jane   Doe   No.   3,  then    mas-  Doe    It. 3) came forward is
turbated. She is suing on            she   is tired of waiting for jus-
grounds   of sexual   assault   and   tice," Herman    said.
intentional infliction of emo- elany kelleattpbpost.com
Anti-Semitic incidents
MAO Poo!ovaphn,
drop for second year                  part of our society."
It marked the second
neighborhood. Conditi     moon              But an audit shows a                  straight year Florida's num-
prompted a tornado ,     county.            worrisome continued                   bers have declined and the
Storms could he on the                      use ofswastikas.                      third consecutive decline na-
tionally. Florida ranks fourth
in anti-Semitic incidents,
behind New York, New Jersey
By KEVIN DEUTSCH             and California.
Palm Roark Pm/ Rtaff
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nother
suit filed
against
Epstein
Lawsuit seeks $50 million,
alleges billionaire touched girl,
then 16, inappropriately during
a massage at his PB home.
By WILLIAM KELLY
Daily News Staff Writer
Another young woman is seeking
from
more than $50 million in damages
part-time Palm Beach  billion aire Jeffrey
Epstein, alleging he
sexually assault-
ed her at his Palm
Beach home when
she was 16 years
old.
Daily News Photo byJeffrry Langlois                 The federal law-
suit, filed Wednes-
afternoon.
edge to be able to see traffic on South County Road on Wednesday                                         day, claims the
55 -year-old Man-
hattan money man-
if greenery has to go                                                                                   ager touched the           Epstein
girl inappropriately Miami attorney files
while she gave him third lawsuit against
a massage on one the part-time Palm
owners make improvements equal to at least 25                      occasion in 2004 or        Beacher.
ILLIAM KELLY
News Staff Writer                      Percent of the value of their homes, accessory
buildings or structures within the new sight tri-                  2005.The girl's attor-
out those  heavy    -    angle measurements.                                               ney, Jeffrey M. Herman of Miami, an-
r not to bring                                                                                            nounced the suit Wednesday at a news
Commissioner Gene                        said that
the   town       would     result in a dramatic loss of       greene ry at         conference at Peruvian Park.
;commendations of             and                                                                             It is the third lawsuit Herman has
ionsultant, the  Plann   ing            many     intersections along North      Lake  Way.
reject            "Landscaping is extremely important to this                 filed on behalf of young women who al-
voted 5.2 Tuesday to
.         town," he said.                                                  lege Epstein sexually assaulted them
tandards for intersections
would force   owner  s  of corner             Brian Mirson, a traffic engineer and urban                  while they were underage and while they
and   cut     planne    r with American Consulting                              performed massages on him at his El
s and other structures within said the new standards would reduceEngin                 the eers,
taller than 30 inches better legal                                                        town's          Brillo Way home. One of the earlier suits
to drivers would have a
exposure if Poor intersection sight distance              was dropped last week because the 17-
is found
e      relevant to a crash.                                  year-old girl's divorced parents couldn't
they             Tor  a car to be
ing commissioners saidstart a the road to have required to pull 8 feet out in                              agree on how to pursue the case, Her-
of the new rules would                                                                 turn — we           man said.
don't think it's safe space to make a
defens  ible" in court, Mirso  n said.             None of the alleged victims have been
The co
to have   a huge  uproar   ," einnts '                 nsultan t's review  of town  interse ctions         publicly identified. The young woman on
showed that trees,                                               whose behalf Wednesday's suit was filed
added then er obstacles to shrubs hedges, walls and oth-
iy Dowell said. Heinterse
en" with existing
ction
a vehicle        night could cause or contribute to             is called Jane Doe No. 3. She is now 19,
crash at 235 of the town's 278 intersec-            Herman said.
;ht rules.                                 tions.
recommendation to                                                                                 Epstein's attorney, Guy Lewis of Mi-
dsion is a                                      The new Sight +.1..-.-1--   ----14   r-..--   sl--- --                                        EFTA00188334
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eges billionaire toiichedgirl,
then 16, inappropriately during
a massage at his PB home.
13y WILLIAN1 KELLY
Daily Nem Scoff W,iirr
Another young woman is seeking
more than $50 million in damages from
part-time Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey
Epstein, alleging he
sexually assault-
ed her at his Palm
Beach   home   when
she was 16 years
old.
Daily News Photo by Jeffrey Langlois       The federal law-
suit, filed Wednes-
edge to be able to see traffic on South County Road on Wednesday afternoon.                day, claims the
55-year-old Man-
if greenery has to go                                                                     hattan money man-
ager touched the
girl inappropriately
while she gave him
Epstein
Miami attorney files
third lawsuit against
a massage on one
the part-time Palm
.LIAM KELLY                       owners make improvements equal to at least 25            occasion in 2004 or
Reacher.
lews staff Writer                 percent of the value of their homes, accessory           2005.
buildings or structures within the new sight tri-            The girl's attor-
not to bring out those  heavy-    angle measurements.                                      ney, Jeffrey M. Herman of Miami, an-
Commissioner Gene                    said that      nounced the suit Wednesday at a news
onunendations of the town would result in a dramatic oss of greenery at                    conference at Peruvian Park.
nsultant, the Planning and many intersections along North Lake Way.                            It is the third lawsuit Herman has
voted 5-2 Tuesday to reject           "Landscaping is extremely important to this         filed on behalf of young women who al-
indards for intersections.        town,"   he said.                                        lege Epstein sexually assaulted them
ould  force owners   of corner         Brian  Mirson, a traffic engineer and urban         while they were underage and while they
and  other structures  and   cut   planner   with  American Consulting Engineers,          performed massages on him at his El
alter than 30 inches within said the new standards would reduce the town's                 Brillo Way home. One of the earlier suits
drivers would have a better legal exposure if poor intersection sight distance            was dropped last week because the 17-
is found relevant to a crash.                           year-old girl's divorced parents couldn't
g  commissioners     said  they        "Thar a car to be required to pull B feet out in    agree on how to pursue the case, Her-
the new  rules  would   start  a  the  road to have safe space to make a turn — we        man said.
don't think it's defensible" in court, Mirson said.         None of the alleged victims have been
have a huge uproar," Corn-             The consultant's review of town intersections      publicly identified. The young woman on
Dowell said. He    added   that   showed   that trees, shrubs, hedges, walls and oth-     whose behalf Wednesday's suit was filed
intersection    er  obstacles to sight could cause or contribute to     is called Jane Doe No. 3. She is now 19,
" with existing                    a vehicle crash at 235 of the town's 278 intersec-
t rules.                                                                                   Herman said.
to tions.
ion is a recommendation                 The new sight triangles would force the re-
Epstein's attorney, Guy Lewis of Mi-
vhich has the fi nal say.                                                                  ami, issued a statement dismisshig the
of  moval    of vegetation from 284 private proper-
:ommended enforcement
whenever affected    property                Please see RULES, Page Al2                       Please see EPSTEIN, Page Al2
PERSPECTIVES to PONDER
Winslow Homer's etchings,    illustrations
blurry, large-scale
a contrast to both on view atphotos
by Seton Smith,                    Eaton.
By IAN siOSTIteNt
nyhibitions          }Lal,?. Art have
—                                              little
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EPSTEIN
His attorney says lawsuit is `wholly without merit'
From Page Al
latest allegations as "another copycat law-           says.
suit."                                                    The girl then accepted a payment of $200 to
"This one repeats the identical allega-           $300 and left, Herman said.
tions of the first three lawsuits, including the          "She was sort of in a state of shock," Her-
absurd demand for $50 million," Lewis said.           man said. "She felt intimidated. She felt vul-
"These women, who are not 'victims' by any            nerable."
stretch of the imagination, have all confessed            She never returned and did not tell her par-    "NANTUCKI
to lying about their ages. The latest lawsuit,        ents about the incident until a criminal inves-      "Sunshine Cot
like the three before it, is wholly without mer-      tigation began, he said.                           ShinSks,Old a
it. We will vigorously fight these allegations            The girl decided to sue Epstein because she       Sea-Side Cow
in court."                                            wants justice, he said.                                     1Gtchen
The suit says Epstein engaged in a scheme            "For victims, it's very empowering to hold
to  get access to minor girls at his home, sexu-      someone accountable," said Herman, who spe-
Anita N. Gabkr
ally assaulted them, then gad                         cializes in sex abuse cases.                       Reakor/Associas
A young woman named                                  Herman said "a number of other young           Cell: (561) 676-
crusted Jane Doe No. 3 and o er no            to     girls" have contacted him with similar allega-     email: anitaCitn
give Epstein the massages, Herman said.              tions against Epstein.                                        Visit
An investigation by Palm Beach Police al-
Jane Doe No. 3 told Epstein that she was 18
years old or older after being advised to do so      leged that Epstein induced several underage        [a      225 Per
before giving him the massage, Herman said.          girls to give him massages at his home. He
Jane Doe No. 3 was alone in a room with a         was indicted in July 2000 on one felony charge
massage table when Epstein arrived wearing            of solicitation of prostitution. The charge is
only a towel to cover himself, the suit says. He      pending.
told her to partially undress, then touched her
inappropriately during the massage, the suit                           — [Email Redacted]
UNION
CUSP sends e-mail urging residents to show police support
From Page Al                         for Palm Beach."                 e-mail says.
Citizens United for Sen-         Co-chairwoman Jere Ze.
when buying a house or a car.                                         nko said unions "don't sit well
"It's good job security," he     sible Planning, a loosely knit
group of primarily North End     with a lot of people."
said. "It's overdue."                                                     "We come from northern
•      The residents' groups also      and Midtown bloggers, sent
an e-mail message to about       communities where unions
sent out e-mail messages to                                           are anathema," she said.
800 residents, asking them to       250 recipients Monday ask-
ing them to support the Police       For either union to be se-
contact police directly by call-                                     lected in next week's ballot-
ing 838.6460, by mail at Palm       Department.
The message says a union     ing, it must receive a majority
Beach Police Department,                                             vote.
• P.O. Box 2029, Palm Beach, FL        would create distance be-
tween the police and the             Tho department's chief,
33480 or by e-mail at chief®                                         majors, captains and a ser-
palmbeachpolice.com.                residents.
It urges town residents to   geant who serves in the pro-
Sgt. Fred Hess said he re-                                       fessional standards unit are
•
ceived a copy of Tuesday's let-     "speak out directly to the po-
lice officers."                  excluded from the union vote,
ter from the two groups in his                                       as are non-sworn department
, department mall slot.                    "... the message they need
to get loud and clear in the    employees.
"Unions may have their                                                              — mkacoha
„place in some situations," he        next few. days is that we are
beldlid them ... ," the CUSP                @pbdailynews. coon
kaid. "I don't think it Is right
.   . •.
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20A      THE PALM BEACH POST          •      FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2007
The Palm Beach Post
Tom GIUFFRIDA, Publisher
JOHN BARTO$EK, Editor.       CHARLES GERARLM, General Manager
Ma ROSE, Managing Editor RANDY SCHULTZ, Editor of the Editorial Page
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How will system judge
Palm Beach predator?
We soon will find out whether                   Jeffrey Epstein case
big money    can    buy  from   the crimi-
nal justice system what everyone comes to
turning point.
assumes that big money         can buy.
The penalty news reports say
part-time Palm Beach resident the public understanding that
Jeffrey Epstein is expected to face the more money the accused has,
suggests that he will plead guilty the bigger the break he gets.                            Mr.
to something more than one           felony     Epsteith legal      team     includ   es  West
count for solicitation of proititution. Palm Beach defense attorney                        Jack
Beach     Count  y  grand   jury     Goldb   erger,   Harva    rd    Law     Schoo   l
A Palm
indicted the Manhattan              money       Profes  sor  Alan
manager on that charge in July worked on the OJ. Simpson murde
2006. But a guilty plea that does not case, and Kenne
Dersh
th  Starr,
owitz,
who
who
once
on his
r
This time
recognize the age of the girls whom pursued a president based                     wome     n.           "With so much corruf
police say    the   billion aire paid    for   lies about  sex    with   young
sex would be a disservice to            the        Federal   author    ities   also  steppe   d      around us, we are grateful to
girls, an insult to the      investigator    s in,  which    stalled     the    state's   case       Palm Beach Post for reporting
who pressed the case and, for good for another year. On Nov.to9, Jeffrey                citing       helped remove County Com
measure, a general outrage.             •      an unnam     ed   source    close                     sioners 'Ibny Masilotti and Wa
Palm Beach police have said that Epstein, Jose Lambietinvest                of The Post         Newell and City Commissio
Jeffrey Epstein, 54, paid underage wrote that the federa n is expected       l         igation       Ray Liberti and Jim aline,"
girls, one as young as 14, to come          to is over,  and   Mr.  Epstei                           gie Williams wrote to The Fos(
his 7,200-square-foot waterfront home to serve up to 18 month
s and could         month. "... Now we want mor
.for "massage" sessions. Police said be labeled                a  sex   offend    er  in crimi-       tention paid to stopping gangs
d victim    s  nal  record  s.  The    charge     the   grand                          gun-related
interviews with five allege                                                      a  year   ago                         lence." •
and 17 witnes    ses  under   oath, phone      jury  return  ed   more    than
maxim      um   five-y   ear prison                             "You see, w
messages, a high school transcript carries a                                    der label.                             not elected
and other items they found in Mr. term and no "sea offen                  Goldb    erger told                          vials. We are b
Epstein's trash and home show that                'his case,"       Mr.
Lambi   et,  "is absolu    tely  going to                           newspaper us
he knew how young the girls were.                                         within     the  next                          as a 'mug she
But after Mr. Epstei   nk  attorne ys   told  end   withou   t atrial
State   attorn   ey  spokes    -                       a brief. We an
prosecutors about the girls' MySpace two months." Edmondson would                                                      MAMAS, Mo
pages, which mentioned mariju            ana   man    Micha    el                                                      Against Munk
and alcohol use, State Attorney Barry not confirm any plea                    deal. But, he
state   attorn   ey's hands                            sociation. As r
Krischer sent the case to a grand jury, noted: "The                         being    a single       ers of childr en who  have been 1
instead of filing charges himself.             are  not tied   by  there
That     does    not      by guns, we all wonder. Whet
Blaming these victims, however, grand jury tharge.                              s."              the guns coming from and w
stow not make them any more de- preclu                de additio   nal  charge
of what happened. And Mr.               Jeffrey Epstein, like too many                     benefiting? We know we aren1
unnecessary handoff to a mentilorida, preyed on teenaged                                  "We are single mothers at
after an 11-month police girls. The system should not let him                          work. Most of us work two job
n reinforced buy his
way out of that reality.                    are the nurses you see in the
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-
2itter-
said. Norman          "i amt anawcs um
tort. Stnnif                              edly cheated on her, police                        he said.                                 slashing
Wednesday                                lege-.iffy enlisted the help of McGee, a crack
contend.                 McGee also denied stabbing or
Caine dealer, police also
attack, llicicaberry Elijah,    who survived.
InriantiII Attl
"Don't                    little kid, man." He
do nothing to aTackaberry
Riart,nedmield.HFriiday.
Young & P
the August 2006 throat was slashed.
111killed
and Elijah's               after  ar- said that he entered
the
robbery
home to
that went
om Stuart. Visit         fin 'Packaberry    discovered   them                                    crack. "A
lion            t                                                                             rob it to buy more
Wednesday        and Thur        • jog home from a date.                                             said.
; daykr  ;efiutznie Mass  sta Thursday          Prosecutors are seeking the death          pen- bad," McGee   gave   a much longer     and detailed
Mary,                                                             attorney       Norman                        slashed  Elijah's
Beach, srled                  of Jens       ty for Norman and McGee, said Norman. statement. She said McGee                           she cut  the
Thum   ,'  . M                                 represents                                            admitted
tin nerai Home                   rem        ren Lerman, who                the  courtroom      throat, then eventually  The  wound    was a stab,
erry's relatives filled                                 the  chest
tort', Stuart.
onday for the brief hearing, he said.     A trial boy across
cut, an  officer told her.
next   not a
St. Lucie County                              to for the pair may be set at their                  "I didn't  think  I jugged him that
him  to
hard,"
die. I did
urt appearance    scheduled   for May.                            "I didn't want
Luceinealid.st, Anne, 88, of Port S                                                   history, Norman said.
Norman, who had no criminal McGee it to spite John."
Funerlalad Thursday. Yat
Home and Crem                et McGee at a gas station. Whendeclined, Osusan_spencer_wendeltip ttpostcom
tort', Port St.                            offered to sell Norman drugs, she
Lucie.
GallnIs, Scott 1., 40, of Po
S ra e, died Friday, Tillman
Mineral
.1            Home, West Palm
abuse suit alleges harassment
Beach. Funeral today.                      Girl in sex:                    the Epstein camp. Her                                by
Okeechobee County                                                                            poena on her behalf. Also,    he   father said in 2006 that
n:Tufts, Ernest Woodrow, 90, of                                                              Jane   Doe%    attorney  said                                     ag-
private investigators car,
8
vr;dtrionee, died Saturday.                         The defendant she .                      and Epstein lawyer already                        followed   his
Mineral Home and                           accuses is a part-time had                     agreed to reschedule the photographed his home and
Crematory Okeechobee.                                                                        deposition for another     date.
chased off visitors after his
Palm Beach resident.                          The girrs mother, who daughter accused Epstein.
lives near Atlanta, also was           Jane Doe contends that
About the same
ICES                                                            B LARRY
Palm Beach
KELLER
Post Staff
BEACH
Writer
—    A
served.
time,
Jane
another  man   came to    when     she was 14, she was
recruited to go to Epstein%
Does workplace and mansion to give him a mas-
WEST PALM
said he was a lawyer who                         says he engaged
lawyer representing one of needed to contact her, the saga She conduct                                with her
sued
two girls who recently resi- motion filed by West Palm in sexual
part-time Palm         Beach                                                    that  time.
Beach lawyer Thd Leopold at Epstein is a wealthy
dent Jeffrey Epstein in fed- alleges.
eral court, claiming sexual                                                                  money manager
a  judge          "It can  only'be concluded Manhattan       indicted   by a Palm
assault, has      asked                         Epstein   and/or his coun-    who   was
attor-     that
to stop Epstein and his and' set arepurposefully attempt- Beach                       County    grand  jury in
'continuous                                                         2006  on  a single count of
DOLORES H. ROSS
75, manor, avid golfer, bridge enthusiast
neys from                                 ing  to          Jane  Doe and July solicitationof rbstitu-
systematic harassment.                                             said in felony
identified in her mother," Leopold
Mrs. Ddcees H. (nee Heinizelman) Ross died                                                                                                                   him
peacefully Sunday afternoon. February 10 2000
surrounded by her family al her home In the                The    girl,
his  Motion.                    . lion. Police investigated
concluding
court    documents        as   "Jane                                         for   11  months,
Hawk Pointe community of Washington Town.
shin, NJ. Sho was 75.                                                  says a process Goldberger     Epstein attorney Jack that he engaged in sexual
Doe,"    1Z                                              filed a writ-                         several under-
•Born In Sunbury. PA., Mrs. Roes was raised
server showed up at Feb.         her                       saying there activity with
in Groton, CT, andhad lived in Conyngharn. PA,
ten   response                                  whom he paid to
Flourlown, PA, and Ponta Wedge Beach, FL
before manna to Chatham Tovmshlp where she              place of employment on                    was   no  harassment, only a age girlsmassages            at his wa-
subpoena      for                                              him
had lived for 30 years before recently moving to
Washington Township. She and her husband
1 to serve a
deposition,       originally       simple; routine serving of a give  terfront   home.    Epstein has
Bob Ross also maintained a home at the PGA               her                                      subpoena.
NatIonal in PaM Beach Gardens, FL for many               scheduled for Feb. 6, even                                                  maintained he did not know
years
attorney     had         It's not the first.time one the girls were minors.
(Mrs. Ross had wooed as ere&
estate broker        though her                                          Doe's parents has          larry_kellerepbpostcom
.4i nP ai sFaremmolit recently,                          told Epstein attorney twice of               Jane
complained     of harassment 0
`Ir;c:jairel.crhaV     that he would    accept    the  sub-
ass
bridge enlhuslast and and
G Club at Palm goiter
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signs all of thicityla checks and has the
right to inspect all documents through-
out the city. He suggested the original
framers of the charter put the measure
in place to provide some "checks and
balances? within city government.
Elected in March 200Z Masters has
not suspended anyone.
"Ira one thing to amend the char-
ter," Masters said. "But it's another
thing to change the original intent of
the charter."
The city charter hasn't been
amended since 1973.
The council created a charter re-                 PALM BEACH GARDENS - Jill Coulter of Palm Bea,
view advisory board to comb the docu-                Ash Wednesday at St. Ignatius Loyola Cathedral. (
ment, which produced the 21 proposed                 for Christians, the faithful turned out at churches ti
amendments. The proposals include                    Gerald Barbarito, head of the Diocese of Palm Beac
See RIVIERA, 5B 00
Part-time Palm Beacher
faces another sex suit
sexually tinged massage at
his home.
WEST' PALM            BEACH,     The latest alleged victim
— For the second time in two is identified as "Jane Doe
weeks, part-time Palm Beach No. 2." She went to Epsteinh
resident Jeffrey Epstein has Palm Beach mansion in 2004
been sued for more than or 2005 when she was 16,
$50 million by a woman who the lawsuit alleges. She says
contends that he engaged another girl recruited her
in sexual activity with her to go there to give Epstein a
when she was a minor after massage.
enticing her       Once there, she alleges,
to give him she was led to an upstairs
a massage at room with a maggsge table.
his home.       Epstein came in wearing
More        only a towel around his waist
lawsuits may and told her to remove her
follow, Miami clothes. She did, except for
lawyer Jef- her bra and panties, accord-
frey Herman ing to the lawsuit.
Epstein          said.     "I'm     Epstein removed his towel,
aware of oth- rolled onto his back, mastur-
er              bated and touched Jane Doe'
he said. "I have been victims
con-  No. 2 sexually, according to
. lacted:'
-1 mrman filed a similar courtlawsuit
the          filed in federal
suit against Epstein on Wednesday. Palm Beach on
in West
2 en behalf of a
ldcntilicd as "Jane Doe," girl     Jane Doe No. 2 was paid
her $200 afterward, and the girl
lather ant
ateptnother The 'who recruited her was given
i, now 17,
11 when        says she csi
:he gay:
Epstein
.  In a              See EPSTEIN, 5B O.
Emily Minor's column will return.          Col
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Both lawsuits corg               ntend Donald 'Blimew                        am     on g    hi  s
,    ta    ete  d     Prince An         dr
that Ep       ste in ,    55                                                        e ta   rg  et  of
taged friends. He was th
"economically disadvan Palm a lengthy investigation into
ghis from westerno were his activities with girls by the
Beach County" wh ely to Palm Beach Police Depart-
rI,he Palm Beach Post
perceived as less lik es, or ment that resulted in his in-
complain to authoritiuld be dictment in July 2006 on one
whose credibility wo                               'count of felony soatlicca               itation                                                        0TO
questioned if they did.                    ll of of prostitut          ion  .   Th             se is
"Both complaints are fu
lies," said Guy Lewis, foirm
US. attorney           in    M   iam      an
er pend
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in  g.
Epstein has been suedwhino
man
A NAME YOU
or- New York by a wo
one of Epstein many attsuit says he had sex with her
neys. Jane Doe No. 2k law                    ry when she was 16
. Herman
"is an outrageous, defamato                         Said he         ha   s    re  ce  ived calls
ca t of  th e  fir  st. "                                                    g  the same
copy                                         in from others snakatinstate.
There has been a twist            t Her assertions nvened a newsin   th
the first Jane Doe lawsui            nt  ends           Herman co
mother in .Georgia                co
and.      co nf  erence Wednesday .on
that her former hu—shcon- the middle bridge connecting
— Jane Doek father of them West Palm Beach and Palm
sulted with neither uit She Beach.
before filing the lawshalt the                          "This is the bridge... th                 ese
is as  ki ng   a  ju  dg   e  to                                         crui    ted    to   co  me
litigation until her danug               hter girls wedregire         ve    a  m   as sa  ge  ,"  he
make over an
turns 18 in May and ca .                           sa id  . "W    he n  th   ey   cr  os se  d  th is
her own decisions. in court bridge, they had no idea what
The mother asked e law- was an store for them. This is
filings to be added tosu          th                                       rs."
e  "h  as     ffered a bridge of teaha
. suit, saying sh                             ffer         Herman                  s described
and will continue toishsuand both Jane Does as typical
severe mental anofguEpstein% teenage girls Epstein robbed
pain" as a result t"                              of their innocence. rsity la*
"reckless conduc didn't want                           But Harvard Unive witz,
Jane Doe just                 for   wa  rd Professor Alan                     Dersho
the law      su  it   go   in g                                       ste   in  att  orney, pro-
th   th   e    fat  he  r's    involve- another Ep            e  sta   te    att orney's of-
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wanted to pursue esitsentially site two years ago shall                                        eged
own. :The father n."                               th at some of Epsteinthkeir alco-
did this on his ows been es- victims boasted ofuse.
Jane Doe ha ther since hol and marijuana e girls
tranged from her fa                     said.           Herman said 'tth relevant
Thanksgiving, Leopold                     ger ba ground ck              s aren
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Epstein's Palm Beach mansion at 358 El Brillo Way.
Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends
and, investigators say, underage girls
By ANDREW MARRA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WINGED GARGOYLES guarded the gate at Jeffrey
Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. Inside, hidden cameras
trolled two rooms, while the girls came and went.
For the police detectives     else: the regular arrival of
who sifted through the gar-       teenage girls he hired to give
bage outside and kept             him massages and, police
records of visitors, it was the   say, perform sexual favors.
lair of a troubling target.           Epstein was different
Epstein, one of the most     from most sexual abuse sus-
mysterious of the country's       pects; he was far more pow-
mega-rich, was known as           erful. He counted among his
much for his secrecy as for       friends former President Bill
his love of fine things: mag-     Clinton, Donald Trump and
nificent homes, private, jets,    Prince Andrew, along with
beautiful women, friendships      some of the most prominent
legal. scientific and business
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Way.
Epstein's Palm Beach mansion at 358 El Brillo
Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends
and, investigators say, underage girls
By ANDREW MARRA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WINGED GARGOYLES guarded the gate at Jeffrey
Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. Inside, hidden cameras
trolled two rooms, while the girls came and went.
For the police detectives else: the regular arriva         l of
who sifted through the gar-     teenag  e girls  he   hired  to give
bage outside and kept him massages and,                       police
records of visitors, it was the say, perform sexual favors       .
lair of a troubling target .        Epste   in   was      differ ent
Epstein, one of the most from most sexual more     abuse sus-
mysterious of the country's     pects;   he  was    far         pow-
was     known  as erful.  He   counte   d among     his
mega-rich,                                           Presid  ent Bill
much for his secrecy as for     friend  s forme   r
his love of fine things: mag- Clinton, Donalw,       d Trump and
nificent homes, private jets, Prince     Andre         along with
beautiful women, friendships     some   of  the  most    prominent
with the world   's elite.       legal, scient ific   and  business Epstein's mysterious lifestyle
But at Palm Beach police    minds   in  the countr   y.
l after claims
headquarters, he was be-            When detectives started began to unrave
coming known for something                      See EPSTEIN, 6A ► of sexual activity with minors.
■ Epstein's lawyers take on Palm Beach police chief. Local, 1B
State suspends Boynton doctor,                                                     Hostilities escalat
says he violated previous order                                                    Lebanon's Cabinet seems torn over Hezboi
By STACEY SINGER
Paint Beath Post Staff Writer
Mondays are supposed to be scalpel days for                                         By HENRY CHU and BORZOU          anese goven
DARAGAHI
Boynton Beach plastic surgeon Mark D. Schreiber.                                                Los Angeles Tinto       of the U.N.-b
But not today.                                                                                         and
BEIRUT- By air liah. on land, Is- day, after sh
Hezbo     fighte rs Cabin et fonr
The Florida Department of Health issued an                                      raeli forces and    maxim ize th eir ed Nations
emergency suspension order against the doctor late                                 battled fiercely to a last-minute . cease-fire.
Friday, saying it believed that the last time the state                            positions Sunday in before an 01E.       Through,
suspended Schreiber's license, he continued to oper-           C
surge of bloodletting
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THE PALM BEACH POST      •     MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006
Jeffrey Epstein has donated more than $1009000
presider
to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kerry's
and the SE
the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson
rles Set
of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Cha
Po w er fu l leg al te am st y m ie
fuel extraordinary de
EPSTEIN from 1,4                                                                                                                        In March 2005, a v
king questions and teenage girls
A life of luxury and secrecy                                                              contacted Palm Bea
said another parent h
tried talking, a wave of legal                                                                                                     conversation betwe'
sistance followed.                                                                                                                 dren.
If Palm Beach police didn't know                                                                                                     Now the mother
ite who Jeffrey Epstein was, they                                                                                                  14-year-old daught
md out soon enough.                                                                                                                molested by a man o
Epstein, now 53, was a quintes-                                                                                                      The phone call
ntial man of mystery. He amassed                                                                                                    extensive investigal
3 fortune and friends quietly,                                                                                                      would lead detective:
ways in. the background as he                                                                                                       leave them frustrate(
vigated New York high society.                                                                                                           Palm Beach poll(
When he first attracted notice in                                                                                                attorney's office ha
e early 1990s, it was on account of                                                                                                 discuss the case. Bu
e woman he was dating: Ghislaine                                                                                                    police report detailit
axwell, daughter of the late British                                                                                                 probe offers a wine
edia tycoon Robert Maxwell.                                                                                                         detectives faced as
In a lengthy article, headlined                                                                                                  close in on Epstein.
he Mystery of Ghislaine Max-                                                                                                            Detectives intery
ill's Secret Love," the British Mail                                                                                                who told them a frk
Sunday tabloid laid out specula-                                                                                                  her to a rich man's hi
•e stories that the socialite's beau                                                                                                a massage. She said
is a CIA spook, a math teacher, .a                                                                                                  her to say she was 18
ncert pianist or a corporate head-                                                                                                 house, she said she
inter.                                                                                                                              after stripping to h
"But what is the truth about                                                                                                    massaging the man
rn?" the newspaper wondered.                                                                                                        turbated.
ike Maxwell, Epstein is both
anboyant and intensely private."                                                                                                  Police Interview 5 a
The media frenzy did not begin                                                                                                     The investigatioi
full until a decade later. In Sep-                                                                                              after the girl identifi
mber 2002, Epstein was flung into                                                                                                 photo as the man wt
e limelight when he flew Clinton                                                                                                  Police arranged for
id actors Kevin Spacey and Chris                                                                                                  to set aside Epstein't
mker to Africa on his private jet.                                                                                                could sift through it
Suddenly everyone wanted, to                                                                                                  video camera to fee(
tow who Epstein was. New York                                                                                                     and goings at his ho
agazine and Vanity Fair published                                                                                                 itored an airport han
ngthy profiles. The New York Post                                                                                                 his private jet's arri
ted him as one of the city's most                                                                                                 tures.
igible bachelors and began                                                                                                           They quickly le
!scribing him in its gossip columns                                                                                               woman who took the
ith adjectives such as "mysterious"                                                                                               to Epstein's house
id "reclusive."                                                                                                                   son, a Palm Beach (
Although Epstein gave no inter-                                                                                                lege student from Le
ews, the broad strokes of his past                                                          TINA FINIBIRG/Tho At33clated Pins     sworn su        it a
arced to come into focus.                                                                                        East                                 th
Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattantownhousellominates a block on theit Upper
is reporte d
quarters„
she had     en a  eas
Side. Thought to be the largest private residen ce in Manha ttan,
ailding a fife of extravakance
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Lein has donated more than $100,000
s' campaigns, including John Kerry's presidential bid,
1
I New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the Senate bids
ry Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer.
al team stymies detectives                                         fuel extraordinary desires.            . enough dirt on the girls to make
• In March 2005,  a worried  mother     prosecutors skeptical. Not only did
contacted Palm Beach police. She           some  of the girls have issues with
said another parent had overheard       a  drugs  or alcohol hit also some had
conversatio  n    between    their  chil-  criminal records and other troubles,
dren.                                      Epstebts  legal team claimed. And at
Now the mother was afraid her         least one   of them, they said, lied
police she was
14year-old daughter had been when thantold         she
18  when    she started
molested by a man on the island.           younger
performing   massages    for Epstein.
The phone call triggered an
extensive investigation, one that              After the meeting, prosecutors
would lead detectives to Epstein but postponed their decision to take the
leave them frustrated.                     case to a grand jury.
Palm Beach police and the state           In the following Weeks, police
szp attorney's office a Palm Beach victims orcomplaintt
have   declined   to  received                that two of the
discuss the case. But                                   their families had been
zp police report .detailing the criminal harassed or threatened. Epstein's
probe offers a window into what legal team maintains that its private
detectives faced as they sought to investigators did nothing illegal or
close in on Epstein.                        unethical during their research.
Detectives interviewed    the  girl,     By then, relations between
who told them a friend had invited police and prosecutors were fraying.
her to a rich man's house to perform At a. key meeting with prosecutors
a massage. She said the friend told and the defense, Detective Joseph .
her to say she was 18 if asked. At the Recarey, the lead investigator, was a
house, she said she was paid $300 no-show, according to Epstein's
after stripping to her panties and attorney.
massaging the man while he mas-               'The embarrassment on the
turbated.                                  prosecutor's face was evident when
the police officer never showed up
Police Interview 5 alleged victims ' for the meeting," attorney Jack
The iniestigation began in full Goldberger said.
after the. girl identified Epstein in a        Later in April, Recarey walked
photo as the man who had paid her. into a prosecutor's office at the state
Police arranged for garbage trucks attorney's office. and learned the
to set aside Epstein's trash so police case was taking in Unexpected turn.
could sift through it. They set up a          The prosecutor, ,• Leanne
video camera to record the comings Belohlavek, told Recarey: the state
and goings at his home. They mon- attorney's office had offered Epstein
itored an airport hangar for signs of a plea deal that, woidd- not require
his private jets arrivals and depar- him to serve jail time or receive a
tures.                                     felony conviction. •
They quickly learned that the             Recarey told her he disapproved
wonian who took the 14-            d girl of the plea offer."       •
to Epstein's house                            The  'deal  'wirer  came to pass,
minor a Palm Beach Co                Col-
lege student from Loxahatchee. In a however.
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The investigation began in full
after the.girl identifie               d  Eps   tein    in  a           Later in April, Recarey walked
photo as the man who had paid her.                                into a prosecutor's office at the state
Police arranged for garb                     age    truc   ks      attorney's office and learned the
an unexpected turn.
to set aside Epstein's trash so policea case was taking
could sift through it. They set up                                      The prosecutor, Lanna
video camera to reco                  rd  the   com     ings       Belohlavek, told Recarey' the state
and goin        gs  at     his  hom      e.  The   y  mon     -    atto  rney's office had offered Epstein
itored an airport hangar for                    sign    s  of     a plea deal that. would -not requirea
his private jet's            arriv    als   and     depa   r-     him to serve jail time or receive
tures.                                                            felo  ny conviction.
They quickly learned that the                                    Recarey told her he disapproved
wonian who took the 14-y                              d girl of the plea offer.'.
's house was                                          The 'deal never came to pass,
Palm Beach                                   Col-
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lege student from Loxahatchee. in a
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six
18, admitted
girls to visit               On May 1, the department asked
le largest private reSidehce In Manhatta   n, it is                     she had
fallen snow.              Epstein, all between the ages of                          14      prosecutors to approve warrants to
television and a heated sidewalk to melt                                                                      her    for    each        arrest Epstein on four counts or                  of
and 16. Epstein paid                                                                             ity  with  a min
visit, she said.                                                 unlawful sexual activ
drive back to her and to                                 his personal assistant,
in his i                                                                house,j                        id detectives,         'Tin                           now     27, for her alleged
role                        the visits. Police
like a                                                                        also  wan    ted   to charge Rob-
. 'Police interviewed five alleged offic                               ials
victims and 17 witnesses. Their with                              son, the selkescribed Heidi Fleiss,
report shows some of the girls said                                      lewd and lascivious acts:.
they had been instructed to have sex                                   By then, the departmetit was
with another woman in                          fron   t   of     frustrated with the way the state
said    she   had    dire    ct    attorney's office had handledrant               the
Epstein, and one                                                                           e  day    the war        s
intercourse with him.                                             case. On the sam                                 ce
the      wer    e  requ este   d, Palm       Bea ch  Poli
In October, police searched                                               hael Reiter wrote a letter
Palm Beach mansion. They discov- Chief MicAtto                                        rney Barry Krischer
ered photos of naked, young-looking to State g he disqualify himself
females, just as several of the                      girls       sugg    estin
if he would not'act.
had described in interviews. Hidden from the case
flaxwoll, a                                                               cameras were found in the garage                                      Two weeks 'later, Recarey was
lite parties                                                               area and inside a clock on                   Eps   tein   'S    told that proseCtitarS had decided
desk, alongsid          e   a  girl'  s  high    scho     ol    once again to take the case ..to the
msely                                                                      transcript.              •                                      grand jury.
ghter of a                                                                      Two of Epstein's former                                          It is not known how many of the
on, dated                                                                  employees told inve                   stiga   tors    that       girls testified before the grand jury.
young-look          ing   girls     show     ed    up     to     But Epstein's defense team said one
he 1990s.                                                                  perform massages two or threine girl who was subpoenaed — the one
times a day when Epstein was                                     who said she had sexual intercourse
PaIrritieachPost.c        orn                                          town   .                                                         with Epstein —never showed tip.'
inve  stiga  tion.                             The    y  said     the     girls   wer    e perm     it-          The grand jury's indictment was
avious stories on the Epstein
ted many indulgences. A. chef handed down in July. It was not the
cooked for them. Workers gave- one the police department had
d   claim   ed   Epst ein       them rides and handed out hun wanted.                                                        •
is I never    met        A  form   er frien                                 dred  s  of   doll    ars   at  a  time   .                                                  g.  slapped with a
ise to reim-                                                                                  Instead   of   bein
:k Dunne, the backed, out of a prom                                              One     emp     loye    e  told   dete   ctiv  es he •             ge  of  unla   wfu    l  sexual activity
sands of                                                                         char
f the trials and burse him hundreds of dthou                  stment was         told    to    send     a  doze    n rose    s to  one
a minor, Epstein was char              ged
-y rich."I wasn't dollars after their faile inve                            teen  age       girl    afte    r   a   high      school with    with one cou       nt  of  felo   ny solic itati on
7 except for a in Texas oil wells. noth         A judge decided
ing.                    dram   a. performance. Others were of prostitution, which carries • a
Epstein owed him                                       given rental cars. One, according to maximum penalty of five years in
a   bad   mem     ory:    I   wou  ld
hip with   Clin ton       It's                                               police, received a $200 Christmas prison. He was booked into the Palms
ist attention.        rather not have ever met Jeffrey bonus.                                                                                                                          23 and
ton as early as Epstein," said Miciden           hael Stroll, the
ed  to  cem     ent   thei  r    Beach County Jail early July
t of WMiams                The     cop     s mov                                       released hours         -late  r.
I tend of thou- retired former pres Corp                                                      as they tried to tighten the
join him at an Electronics and           Seg.  a         . "Suf fice       case  . But
enco    unte    red other                   Epstein's legal team "doesn't
noo  se,       they                                              dispute that he had girls over for
g dinner in Palm it to say I have nothing good to say forces at work.
M        arances, about him."                                                                                     inter   view    ed   a     massages," Goldberger said. But he
to close friends          Among the characteristics most                        In     Orla     ndo      they
noth- said theiunte     r claims that they had sex-
is  a  penc  hant         poss  ible    victi  m    who      told   them                                     rs with him lack credi-
Ithe Oval Office attributed to Epstein                                        mg     inap     prop    riate had happened bility.
ual enco
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for women.                                                                                       tein. They
rated more than' • He has been linked to Maxpart                well, between her and Epshad                                  spoken               'They are incapable of being
aske   d  her     whe     ther    she
ratic candidates' a fixture on the high-so              ciety        y
else   . She said yes; a pri- believed,rds.               " he said. "They had crimi-
New     Yor    k and  Lon    -     to amo     ne                                                                     They had accusations ofr.
John Keny's circuits in both                                                             stigator had asked her the thee                  nal reco
the reelection don. Previous girlfriends are said to vateam.inve                     im• • a neanna
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magazine an Vattity Fair published -                                                                                                  and going(
lengthy profiles. The New York Post                                                                                                     itored an a
listed him as one of the city's most                                                                                                   his private
eligible bachelors and began                                                                                                            tures.
describing him in its gossip columns                                                                                                         They q
with adjectives such as "mysterious"                                                                                                   woman wit.
and "reclusive."                                                                                                                       to Epstein'
Although Epstein gave no inter-                                                                                                   son, a Pahl
views, the broad strokes of his past                                                                                                   lege studer
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Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse dominates a block on the Upper Eas
quarters, R
Building a life of extravagance              Side. Thought to be the largest private residehce in Manhattan, It is reported            she had tak
to have closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt fallen snow.              Epstein, all
He was born blue-collar in 1953,
the son of a New York City parks                                                                                                       and 16. Ep
visit., she sa
department employee, and raised in
Brooklyn's Coney     Island  neighbor-
Women in his ilf                                                                      During
hood. He left college without a                                                                                                        house, Rob
bachelor's degree but became a                                                                                                         like a Heidi
math teacher at the prestigious                                                                                                              Police i
Dalton School in Manhattan.                                                                                                            victims an
The story goes that the father of                                                                                                 report shoe
one of Epstein's students was so                                                                                                       they had be
impressed with the man that he put                                                                                                     with anoth
him in touch with a senior partner at                                                                                                  Epstein, am
Bear Stearns, the global investment                                                                                                    intercourse
bank and securities firm.                                                                                                                  • In Octol
In 1976, Epstein left Dalton for a                                                                                               Palm Beach
job at Bear      arris. By the early                                                                                                  ered photos
1980s, he had started J. Epstein and                                                                                                   females, jus
Co. That is when he began making                      Ghistaine Maxwell, a                                                             had describe
his millions in earnest                                                                                                                cameras we
Little is known or said about                   fixture at elite parties                                                         area and ins
Epstein's business except this: He                    and the intensely                                                                desk, along(
manages money for the extremely                      private daughter of a                                                             transcript
wealthy. He is said to handle                        media tycoon, dated                                                                  • "No o:
accounts only of $1 billion or great-                                                                                                  employees
er. •                                                Epstein in the 1990s.                                                             young-lookii
It has been estimated he has                                                                                                     perform nu
roughly 15 clients, but their identi-                                PalmBeachPost.com                                                 times     a day
ties are the subject of only specula-                                                                                                  town.
tion. All except for one: Leslie Wex-                    Read previous stories, on the Epstein investigation.                                They sal(
ner, founder of The Limited retail                                                                                                     ted many
chain and a former Palm Beacher                                                                                                       cooked for
who is said to have been a mentor to        'he odd thing is I never met                   A former   friend    claimed      Epstein   them rides
Epstein.                                 him," said Dominick Dunne, the backed, out of a promise ter reim- dreds of doll:
Wexner sold Epstein one of his famous chronicler of the trials and burse him hundreds of thousands of                                   One tamp]
most lavish residences: a massive tribulationsof the very rich."I wasn't dollars after their failed investment was told to se
townhouse that dominates a block even aware of him," except for a in Texas oil wells. A judge decided teenage girl
on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It Vanity Fair article.                                Epstein owed him nothing.                      drama perfo
is reported to have, among its finer         Epstein's friendship with Clinton             'It's a bad memory. I would given rental (
features, closed-circuit television has attracted the most attention.                  rather not have ever met Jeffrey police, receh
and a heated sidewalk to melt away           Epstein met Clinton. as early as Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the bonus.
fallen snow.                             1995, when he paid tent of thou-. retired former president of Williams                             The cops
That townhouse, thought to be sands of dollars to join him at an Electronics and Sega Corp- "Suffice case. But as ti
the largest' private residenee in intimate fund-raising dinner in Palm it to say I have nothing good to say noose, they
Manhattan, is only a piece of the Beach. But from all appearances, about him."                                                        forces at worl
extravagant world Epstein built over they did not beconte cloge friends                   Among the characteristics most                    In Orland
time.                                    until after Clinton left the Oval Office attributed to Epstein is, a penchant possible vitt(
• In New Maim, he constructed           and moved to New York..                      for women.                                      mg inapprof
27,000-square-foot hilltop mansion          Epstein has donated more than'                He has been linked to Maxwell, between her
on a 10,0007acre ranch outside Santa • $100,000 to Democratic candidates' a fixture on the high-society party asked her wh
Fe. Many believed it to be the largest campaigns, including John Kenya circuits in both New York and Lon- to anyone els
home in the state.                       presidential bid, the • reelection don. Previous girlfriends are said to vete investi?a
In Palm Beach, he bought a campaiiin of New Mexico Gov. Bill include a former Ms. Sweden and a same questtor
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Epstein owed him nothing.            'drama performance. Others were with one count of felony solicitation
dal Clinton        "les a bad memory. I would given rental cars. One, according to maximumof prostitution, which carries a
tention.       rather not have ever met Jeffrey       police, received   a $200 Christmas             penalty of five years in
as early as Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the        bonus.                              prison. He  was booked into the Palm
is of thou-. . retired former president of Williams      The cops moved to cement their   Beach  County   Jail early July 23 and
released  hours later.
him at an Electronics and Sega Corp. "Suffice case. But as they tried to tighten the
ter in Palm it to say I have nothing good to say noose, they encountered other                Epstein's legal team "doesn't
pearances, about him."                                forces at work.                     dispute that he had girls over for
ise friends        Among the characteristics most         In Orlando they interviewed a massages," Goldberger said. But he
Oval Office attributed to Epstein is a penchant possible victim who told them noth- said their claims that they had sex-
for women.                             mg inappropriate had happened ual encounters with him lack credi-
more than'       ' He has been linked to Maxwell, between her and Epstein. They bility.
:andidates' a fixture on the high-society party asked her whether she had spoken              'They are incapable of behag
hn Kerry's circuits in both New York and Lon- to anyone else. She said yes; a pri- believed," he said. 'hey had crimi-
reelection don. Previous girlfriends are said to vate investigator had asked her the nal records.They had accusations of
d Gov. Bill include a former Ms. Sweden and a same questions.                             theft made against them by their.
ate bids of Romanian model.                              When they subpoenaed one of employers. There was evidence of
• Rodham        • "He's a lot of fun to be with," Epstein's former employees, he told drug use by some of them."
)odd and Donald Thunp told New York maga- them the same thing. He and a pri-                  What remains for Epstein is yet
zine in 2002. It is even said that he vate eye had met at a restaurant days to be seen.
likes beautiful women as much as I earlier to go over what the man              The Palm Beach Police Depart-
vales         do, and many of them are on the would tell investigators.                   ment has asked the FBI to investi-
Be found younger side. , No doubt about it,              Detectives received complaints gate the case. It also has returned
stein's life Jeffrey enjoys his social life."        that private eyes were posing as the $90,000 Epstein donated in 2004.
aid he left                                          police officers. When they told          In New York, candidates for
if a federal Investigation leads to Epstein          Epstein's local attorney, Guy Frons- governor and state attorney general
unties and         Although he was not a fre- tin, he said the investigators worked have vowed to return a total of at
iolation. It quenter of the Palm Beach social for Roy Blitck, the high-powered least $60,000 in campaign contribu-
bank once scene, he made his presence felt. Miami kwyer who has defended the tions from Epstein. Meanwhile,
on a $20 Among his charitable donations, he likes of Rush Llinbaugh and William Epstein's powerful friends have
gave $90,000 to the Palm Beach Kennedy Smith.                               remained silent as tabloids and
that one of Police Department and $100,000 to            While the private eyes were Internet blogs feast on the public
1 previous Ballet Florida.                          conducting a parallel investigation, details of the police'investigation.
offenberg,         hi Pan Beach, he lived in luxu- Dershowitz, the Harvard law pro-           Goldberger maintains Epstein's
erm after ry. Three black Mercedes sat in his fessor, traveled to West Palm Beach innocence but says the legal team
tore than garage, alongside a green Harley- with information about the girls.. has not ruled out a future plea deal.
he largest Davidson. His jet waited at a hangar From their own profiles on the pop- He insists Epstein will emerge in the
can histo- at Palm Beach Internal-logeAirport ular Web site MySpace.com, he end with his reputation untarnished.
At home, a private chef and a small obtained copies of their discussions
s    wealth,  staff stood at the ready. From a about their use of alcohol and mari-          "He will recover from this," he
disputes window in his mansion, he could juana.                                       said.
sued the look out on the Intracoastal Water-          He took his research to a meet- Staff writer Larry Keller and staff
him. his way and the West Palm Beach sky- ing with prosecutors in early 2006, researchers Bridget Bulger, Angelica
a Beach line. He seemed to be a man who where he sought to cast doubt on the Cortez, Amy Hanaway and Melanie
t less than had evetYlllinil-                       teens' reliability.                  Mena contributed to this story.
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Via Manhattan Atpper East Side. It Vanity Fair article.                                   Epstein owed him nothing.                 drama pert
is reported to have, among   its finer      Epstein's friendship with Clinton              "It's a bad memory. I would given rental
features, closed-circuit television has attracted the most attention.                   rather   not have ever met Jeffrey police, rece
and a heated sidewalk to melt away           Epstein   met  Clinton   as                Epstein,"    said Michael Stroll, the bonus.
fallen snow.                                                              early  as
1995, when he paid tens of thou- retired former president of Williams                       The cope
That townhouse, thought to be sands of dollars to join him an Electronics and Sega Corp.
the largest private residence in intimate fund-raising dinner in at                                                     "Suffice case. But as
Palm it to say I have nothing good to say noose, the.
Manhattan, is only a piece of the Beach. But from. all appearance                 s, about him."
extravagant wind Epstein built over they did not become close friends                                                             forces at wo:
time.                                                                                      Among the characteristics most              In Orlan
until after Clinton left the Oval Office attributed to Epstein is a penchant possible               vict
In New Mexico, he constructed a and moved to New York.                            for women.                                 ing
27,000-square-foot hilltop mansion                                                                                                       inappro
Epstein has donated more than'                He has been
on a 10,0004cre ranch outside Santa • $100,000 to Democratic candidates' a fixture on the linked                   to Maxwell, between he
high-society
Fe. Many believed it to be the largest campaigns, including John Kerry's circuits in both New York andparty                Lon-
asked her w.
to anyone el
home in the state.                       presidential bid, the reelection don. Previous girlfriends are said to tate investig
In Palm Beach, he bought a campaign of New Mexico Got. Bill include a former Ms. Sweden and a same questk
waterfront home on El Brillo Way. Richardson and the Senate bids of Romanian model.
And he owns a 100-acre private Joe Lieberman, Hillary Rodham                                                                           When th.
"He's a lot of fun to be with," Epstein's fon
island in the Virgin Islands.             Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Donald Trump told New York maga- them the san
Perhaps as remarkable as his Charles Schumer.                                     zine in 2002. "It is even said that he vate eye hadi
lavish homes is his extensive net .                                                    likes beautiful women as much as I earlier to g(
work of friends and associates at the PoWeiful friends and enemies                      do, and many of them are on the would tell inv
highest echelons of power. This              A Vanity Fair profile found younger side. No doubt about it,
includes not only socialites but also cracks in the veneer of Epstein's                                                                Detective
business tycoons, media moguls, story. The 2003                                  life • Jeffrey enjoys his social life."           that private
politicians, royalty and Nobel Prize- Bear Stearns in the    article said he left                                                      'ce office
wake   of a federal     Investigation leads to Epstein                     in's tom
winning scientists whose research probe and a possible Securities and
he often.funds.                                                                              Although he was not a fre- tin, he said th
Exchange Commission violation. It' quenter of the Palm Beach social for Roy Bit
"Just like other people collect also pointed out that Citibank once               scene, he made his presence felt. Miami lawyer
art, he collects scientists," said sued him for defaulting on a                         Among     his charitable donations, he likes of Rush I
Martin Nowak, who directs the million loan.                                     $20
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics                                                       gave    $90,000    to the Palm Beach Kennedy Snit
The article suggested that one of Police Department and $100,000 to                      While tit(
at Harvard University and was his business mentors and previous Ballet Florida.
reportedly the recipient of a $30 employers was Steven Hoffenberg                                                                  conducting a
million research donation from now serving a prison term after, ry. In Palm Beach, he lived in luxu- Dershowitz,
Epstein.                                                                                     Three black Mercedes sat in his fessor, travele
"bilking investors out of more than garage, alongside a green Harley- with informal
Epstein is said to have $450 million in one of the largest Davidson. His jet waited at a hangar From their ot
befriended former Harvard Presi- Ponzi schemes in American histo- at Palm Beach Intematioqa                             l Airport. ular Web sit
dent Larry Stinuners, prominent law ry?"                             •                   At home, a private chef and a small obtained coin(
Professor Alan Dershowitz, Donald              As he amassed his wealth, staff stood at the ready. From a about their us.
Trump and New York Daily News Epstein made enemies in disputes                           window in his mansion, he could juana.
Publisher Mort Zuckerman.                  both large and small. He sued the look out on the Intracoastal Water-                        He
And yet he managed for decades man who in 1990 sold him his way and the West Palm Beach sky- ing withtook                                    hi
prose
to maintain a low profile. He avoids multimillion-dollar Palm Beach line. He seemed to be a man who where he song
eating out and was rarely photo- home over a dispute about less than had everything.                                               teens' reliabiht
' graphed.                                   $16,000 in furnishings.            t:             But extraordinary wealth `tan              The privet
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Florida Sex Case Raises
Questions About Charges
By ABBY GOODNOUGH                 college student, told the girl to say
she was IS If Mr. Epstein asked, the
PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the sum- report said.
mer and autumn of last      year, when
The girl told the police that Mr.
most of the mansions here stood Epstein's assistant had led her up-
empty behind their towering hedges, stairs to a room with a massage ta-
the police stealthily watched one at ble and that Mr. Epstein had come in
the end of a waterside lane. They and told her to remove her clothes.
monitored the comings and goings of She said Mr. Epstein had masturbat-
its owner's private jet, subpoenaed ed as she massaged him, had pressed
his phone records and riffled through a vibrator against her underwear
his trash.                               and had given her $300 afterward.
The owner was Jeffrey Epstein, 53,
an intensely private New York Ms.
In   mi.,    the police interviewed
then 19, who told them
money manager with several billion- Mr. Epstein had routinely paid her to
aire clients. Months earlier, the step- bring teenage girls to his home. The
mother of a 14-year-old girl told the police then interviewed a total of 5 al-
Palm Beach police that a wealthy leged victims and 17 witnesses,
older man, whom the girl later Iden- many of whom told similar stories
titled as Mr. Epstein, might have had about what they had observed or par-
inappropriate sexual contact with ticipated in at Mr. Epstein's home.
her.                                      According to the report, at least one
In sworn statements to the police, said Mr. Epstein had engaged in in-
the 14-year-old and other teenage tercourse with her.
girls said a friend had arranged for        Mr. Lefcourt, his lawyer, said one
them to visit Mr. Epstein's home and girl who told the police of having had
give him massages, usually in their sex with Mr. Epstein as a minor had
underwear, in exchange for cash.         lied about both the sex and her age
Most of the girls, according to the and had not shown up for grand Jury
police, said Mr. Epstein had mastur- questioning. He also said Mr. Epstein
bated during the massages, and a had passed a liedetector test clear-
few said he had penetrated them ing him of any sexual Involvement
with his fingers or penis. They identi- with under-age girls.
fied him in photos and accurately de-       A spokeswoman for the Palm
scribed the inside of his home Some Beach police said that early this
recalled that his employees had fed year, the police went to Mr. Krischer,
them snacks or rented them cars.         the state attorney, intending to apply
Mr. Epstein pleaded not guilty In for warrants to arrest Mr. Epstein.
August to the crime he was ulti- Instead, she said, they were told that
mately charged with, soliciting pros-
PI.Littv ATh. by Peter Davelet The ere Yoe: nee:  titution. But at a time when prosecu-
y large crowd of brides- and grooms-to-be dashed to the tors around the nation have become
•
y Marriage License Bureau just before midnight on Friday.                    increasingly severe in dealing with
people accused of sex offenses, the
case has raised questions about
Ity were sent notices of or drive In. They think, 'Well, we whether Mr. Epstein's prominence
nd asked for feedback, need to do this, there are no lines, won him preferential treatment.
iirre said, but she had let's just do it now.' "                                 By the account of the police, they
We had an open public         Weddings have been a mainstay of found probable cause to charge Mr.
no one showed up;' she the Las Vegas experience since the Epstein with much more serious of-
ally puzzling to me."      1920's, taking off with the wide- fenses: one count of lewd and lascivi-
, the city's marriage in- spread use of the automobile in the ous molestation and four counts of
bustling. There were 1940's, when the Hitching Post and unlawful sexual activity with a mi-
• flowing gowns, some the Wee Kirk o' the Heather opened nor.
ters looking slightly ter- their doors. Inspired by the lax li-                  But instead of proceeding with
suple — he with a cigar censing laws— no blood test, no wait- such charges on his own, the Palm
ween his teeth, she un- ing — couples flocked from around Beach County state attorney took the
ere wed under a tree at the region, and eventually the coun- rare step of presenting a broad range
tile Chapel. When it was try, to wed.                                         of possible charges to a grand jury,
le gave her groom a pat        Among the earliest celebrity cli- which indicted Mr. Epstein In July on
ents were the actors Clara Bow and the lesser count. In Florida, prosecu-
Iht, outside the wedding Rex Bell, who tied the knot here in tors usually refer only capital cases
mu in the courthouse, 1931, said Guy Rocha, the state archi- to grand Juries.                                                         PIlamlute Canty ihnItes Office
Ink neon lettering above vist.                                                   Even before the indictment, the
"chapel rats," so called     Just like its casinos, restaurants, Palm Beach police chief,                 Michael     Jeffrey    Epstein      faces lesser
city guards for their hotels and adult entertainers, Las Reiter, had accused prosecutors of charges than police wanted.
fling of chapel services Vegas wedding chapels cater to all giving Mr. Epstein special treatment
bewildered couples. tastes. Couples can combine a wed- and asked the state attorney, Barry Mr. Krlscher would convene a grand
tic tannins were etddv. ding with a day package to the most E. Krlscher, to remove himself from beet to examine the evidence and de-
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e • &obi           mute ceremony. For $365, you can          Post an          .   .     ,                         I
keeps careful watch oitl         get in the spirit of                        ci at whose post is elective,• saying      said, Mr. Denbo*itz met with pros-
Lancelot, or step
1, said that scores more          out of a coffin and bare                     the public had been left "to wonder ecutors to share information about
fangs at your
in normal showed up Fri-          betrothed during a                          whether the system tilted in favor of the accusers, Including statements
gothic ceremony.                                                  they had posted on MySpace.com,
Mating the closing hoer.             Several chapel owners said they          a wealthy, well-connected alleged
deadline won't stop drunk         were indifferent to the                     perpetrator and against very young the social networking site, concern-
ing use of drugs and alcohol. Ac-
in getting married in the         probably were losingchange.       "They
money, and
girls who are alleged victims of sex
cording  to the report, Mr. Krischer's
night," Mr. Williams said.        there is no point in i t," said the Rev.    crimes."
office  then   decided to delay the
n up drunk all day long. I        David Nye, who is a co-owner of A              The case has taken a toll on the
grand Jury session for several
Las Vegas Wedding                           reputation of Mr. Epstein, who owns
from getting married."                                 Chapel.                                                         months.
a palatial home in Manhattan, has
raguIrre said the majority           "Who would this affect? Britney                                                       The Palm Beach police grew frus-
pledged $30 million to Harvard and
who showed up for a wed-         Spears, that's all," Mr. Nye said.
"I    once flew former President Bill Clin-
trated, the report said, and on May 1
se during the graveyard          am not sure why there is contro-                                                      the department asked prosecutors to
a            ton on his 727. Politicians including
o intention of racing off to     versy. Most people are shocked to
death that it was open in the middle        Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic candi- approve warrants to arrest Mr. Ep-
anyway. "We think there                                                    date for governor in New York, and stein.
inception here." she said.       of the night to begin with. If 8 to mid-                                                 Chief Reiter also wrote Mr.
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico,
le coining in during those       night isn't enough, I don't know what
is.,,                                       also a Democrat, have returned Krlscher questioning "the unusual
normally not planning int-                                                   campaign contributions from him.         course that your office's handling of
night weddings, they fly in        Tell that to poor Mr. Harris.
But Mr. Epstein fought back, as- this matter has taken" and suggest-
sembling a team of star lawyers, in- ing that Mr. Krlscher disqualify him-
cluding Gerald B. Lefcourt and Alan self. Chief Reiter refused several re-
M. Dershowitz, a friend of his, to look quests to be interviewed, and his
ties for Indian Veterans                                                      into the backgrounds of his young ac- spokeswoman would not say explicit-
cusers.                                  ly why he had urged the prosecutor
Mr. Lefcourt says that the police to step aside.
dense Department's most           Ing buried close to home, Thomas           acted "outrageously" and that his cli-        Mike Edmondson, a spokesman
y, from December 2005. By         Berry, a Navy veteran and a founder         ent has been wrongfully dragged for Mr. Krischer, said the state at-
2006, there will be an esti-    of the two-year-old National Native         through the mud.                         torney's office sometimes sent non-
.,361 Native Kit "lean vet-       A merlean Veterans Association, said           "He disputes that he ever had sex capital cases to grand juries when
sirding to the      .Ile Na-      tribes have sacred ceremonies and          with any under-age person or any- there were questions about witness
ive American e erans As-          rituals to honor the dead and ease          thing like that," said Mr. Lefcourt, credibility. Mr. Krischer does not
estimates that 22 patent of       passage into the next life.                whose clients have included Russell recommend a particular charge in
nericans 18 years or older           "If a Native American Is buried In      Crowe, Martha Stewart and Abbie such cases, Mr. Edmondson said, but
ms.                               a national cemetery, a lot of the ritu-    Hoffman.                                 gives the grand jury a list of possible
about recognizing that it's    als cannot be performed because of             Neither the police nor the state at- charges.
gates that have rights —          coding restrictions and regulations,"      torney's office would discuss the            Bruce J. Winick, a law professor at
), should have rights," Mr.       Mr. Berry said. "So it's important to      case in detail. But the police released the University of Miami, said that
I in a recent Interview.          us to have a place on tribal land to       a thick report on the 13-month in- while prosecutors in Florida rarely
ire 562 federally recognized      bury our veterans."                        vestigation after the indictment was referred noncapital cases to grand
he United States. New blex-          Leo Chischilly, 57, the department      unsealed in late July.                   juries, they sometimes did so with -
nas 22 tribal reservations;       manager for the Department of Nav-             The police started investigating sensitive cases to be extra-cautious.
tpulation of Mr. Udall's dis-   ajo Veterans Affairs in the Navajo         Mr. Epstein in March 2005, almost            Mr. Letcourt said the police were
Percent Indian.                   capital, Window Rock, Ariz., said          immediately after they were con- wrong to have released the report so
ling the importance of be-       having veterans' cemeteries on trib-       tacted by the stepmother of the 14- soon, especially without correcting
al land was a matter of practicality       year-old, who, according to the re- information that later proved wrong.
as well as tradition.                      port, was in a special school for stu- He cited his assertion that one accus-
"The Navajo Nation would like to        dents with disciplinary problems.        er had lied about her age, adding that
bury their loved ones within the four          The girl, the report said, told the she had also been arrested on drug
sacred mountains on Navajo land,"          police that an older friend had "of- charges and had been fired by her
Mr. Chischilly said. "But the closest      fered her an opportunity to make employer for stealing.
veterans' cemetery is in Santa Fe,         money" and had driven her to Mr.             "What I'm trying to focus on," Mr.
N.M., four hours' drive from Window        Epstein's house one Sunday. The Lefcourt said, "is, What's motivating
Rock. Some families visit the grave                         ed by the police as the selective and misleading release
sites on Veterans Day or Memorial                             a local community of information to the public?"
Day, but most people would prefer
something closer to home."
Some reservations have cemeter-
ies dedicated to veterans, but they
are maintained and paid for by the
tribal %gilt-Mation or volunteers, not
by theM.
Fort Defiance Veterans Cemetery
In Arizona is one such exmple. It s
graves is
full with more than 300
Navajo veterans.
set aside in
Ten acres have been veterans'
fora   new
Chinle, Ariz., hischilly said, but
cemetery,
one
m yis Mr  needed.
Bush signs
"Hopefully if president
submit a pm-
the legislation we can cemetery on
t
posal to get a veteran:
Mr• Chischilly
the Navajo Nation," provide     ., the
said. "We'll  be  able  to
have to   get other
rtnitl     ottlie /me vt,N    land, but we will           the opera-
sources of funding     for
I) more titan 300 gray,*
tinnol mate"      r
Mr. Epstein is
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view," Mea-                                                                    ting Israel's war
Israeli flag as a rally suppor
ts a big exit"                                                                   way Sunday at
effort in Lebanon gets under
ivist Andre                                                                   public was invit-
ieberman's loss                                 Temple Beth Tikvah. The
ing Michael Ha-
ed to hear speakers includ
Friends of the
dar, executive director of the
se of the school                                                                Col 13th Sharon
t week% Gold                                     Israel Defense Forces, and
>dation Great                                                                    . At the close
of the Israel Defense Forces
lob Magian deliv-                                                             participates in a
cal Terry Pereira.                                of the rally, a man (right)
prayer for the
non doesn't make                                  congregational reading of a
'inning the lot-                                  state of Israel.
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Kanjian said.
:et to respond as
ed with a mixture
d expressions.                                                             c a se
part of an 11-                           fo c u s o f f ir e in Eps te in
f divided a $5.38
to prize to be           Palm Beach chief                                                                                                                                                ghter;14. The
ars. Kanjian said                                                  on ; he sla ms state attorney                                       camp tell it Reiter, 48, is a 18, and a daueduled to go to
ple is sch
because Perei-                              law ye rs ta ke hi m                                                                     loose cannon better suited cou                n Wednesday.
cM1 disclosure
Defendant's                                                                                                   to be the sheriff of Mayber- mediatio                       rt file
show any 2005                                               Mi cha  el Rei  ter.                "a distorted view of the ry. They whisper that he's Nothing in the couis
aved in a embroiled in a messy di- sugges                    ts the ir spl it    par-
ery payout                      By LARRY allERWriter
Beac it Pac Ste                Eps  tein ,  53,  was indict- case" and beh           r     en  the                                         larl y ugl y.
Palm                                                              of "childish" manne        wh                                              ticu
s share was less                                                                                                                       vorce.
he arranged to             In the case of Palm edl             ast month on a chargesti-
sol icit alio n of pro      grand jury didn't indict Ep-               Reiter did in fact file for      Reiter incurred the
fina   nci er Jef frey Ep-  felo ny                              stei n  on   the   cha    rge s   it                                        th of the Epstein camp
m several years        Beach                                                            of Re-
if tution solely becauseone         of  sou  ght .  ano  the r    Eps  tein   divorce from his wife, Jill, wrawel
as       l as the state attar-
interest in the        stein, it seems, at times, asof
use d     iter 's  "craziness,"                                  ine  d.             las t yea r, afte r 24 years of
ace company.           two men are           acc                                                law  yer  com pla                                                                      See MIER, 78
oin g:    Eps tein  and   Epstein's lawyers said. His    ted       To    hea r  the     Eps  tein   ma  rriage. They have a son,
wro  ngd                             department dissemina
downside: Repub.     Palm Beach Police Chief
aission hopeful Ed
moved into west-                                                                                                                        ELECIIONS 2006 •
ie could run,
Debate. He never                                     Grieving for Mom, sister                                                           Mate House District 78
;herd said,
moved out to my           LAKE WORTH —
il Palm Beach, all        Jane Tackaber-                                                                                                Machek faces challenge
ry's son, John,                                                                                            e                                Hewn        /1.C/reit
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W S C         ME PALM BEACH POST        •     MONDAY, AUGUST 14,
ch ief's pr of es sio na lis m , in te gr ity In ma
Colleagues cite                                               Moo*                                          dent confined to his home development from Palm
professionalism," Miami-                            Reiter Town                                                         Atlantic UniversiW, al-
P;REITER from IB                                                                     Manager Peter with a sick child thanked Re- Beach
Dade State Attorney                                                                                                has attended the FBI Na-
Elwell says the iter for delivering a few Cokes so         tional  Academy in Quantico,
rey's office for two reasons. Katherine Fernandez Rundle                             Palm Beach             to the house. Reiter refuse      d                                          draw
First, he pressed for Epstein said of Reiter's letter.                                        chiefs        payment for      the   bever ages.  Va.,  and   management cours-
the  more                                in-                    police                                                     es  at Harva   rd. He's been ac-
:o be charged with                   Following Epstein's                             well worth his         Another resident thanked
serious crimes of sexual ac- dictment, Reiter referred the                                                            for shutting off      his tive  in county   wide interagen-
$144,0   00  sal-     Reiter                                     law       enfo    rcement        new
ivitywith minors. Second, he case to the FBI to determine                             ary.          •       car's headlights in his drive- cy zations and has a "top
slammed State Attorn    ey Bar-  whether the super-rich,                                                                                         organi
way, saying a valet must have secret" national security
ry Krischer in blunt language super-connected defendant                                                     been at fault                                                               P. HIV/torn /
seldom used by one law- had violated any federal laws.                 Juno Beach Police Chief                                                   clearance.
l  con-                                                                 d.     Al-       Reiter  worke   d everything        "He has a perspective              she pushed
enforcement officia                  Reiter won't discuss the H.C. Clark II agree                            from   road patrol to organized that's broader than just ad-
cernin  g anoth er becau  se of                                              he  doesn   't  know     Re-                                                                               measure thro
case or the broadsides aimed though                                         crime, vice and narcotics.                  ng the needs of the            lature last e
what he perceived as that of. at him. But others almost iter well, he has,met with him And he's no novice at investi- dressi                     town,"    said Town Manager            crease HIV b
fice's mishandling      of  the
uniformly use one word to on countywide law                 enforce- gations involving the island's
seen                                          Peter   Elwell   , who promoted        county jail 53
case.                             descri be the chief: profes- ment issues. "I've nevernever                 rich and   famous. He was the Reiter from assistant chief to               ing Pan Bea
In a letter to Krischer sional                                him lose his cool. I've                   lead detective probing the chief in March 2001. Reiter                          We're a'
written May 1, Reiter called          "I                           seen   anyth  ing but a profes- drug overdose death of David makes more than $144,000 as                              able to make
always been im- sional demeanor from him."
his actions in the Epstein pressehave
He           d by    Milce's profes-                                             Kennedy in 1984. He also was the town's top cop. Elwell                    HIV unless v
case "highl  y  unusu al."                                      -      Reiter   joined     the    Palm       one of the officers who thinks he's worth it.                              pact in the pri
and his leader
added, "Imusturge you to ... sionalism       Rick Lincol n, chief Beach    Police   Depar    tment     in    worke  d the investigation of           "He's very businesslike,           said Dr. Job
consider if good and suffi- ship," said       na Police Depart- 1981, leaving a      $20,00   0-ayea     r   Willia m  Kenne  dy  Smith  , who   very    straightforward. He's          gional direc
cient reason exists to require of the Lanta     a Palm Beach patrol       job  at the  Unive    rsity  of    was   charg ed  in  1991  —   and   not  easily    agitated or flam-       Correctional
your disqualification from the ment yand          32 years.       Pittsb  urgh.   . His     person    nel    later acquit ted —wit    h raping   boyan   t. He's  about the work,"      es, which pr
prosecution of these cases." Count cop for                                 shows consistently         ex-    a woma    n   at  the  Kenne   dy   Elwell   said.   "I think that his     care at the ja
In short, Reiter told the       "The town of Palm Beach jacket             evalua   tions.              family   compo   und    in   Palm   servic  e   as   chief   has been           A study :
has a very profes sional police  cellent job                                                                                        in,  five-plus
county's top prosecutor     for                                                                                                                  outsta   nding                          County Jail,
years   that  he   depar tment . We  all consid er      Posh Palm Beach is no Beach                                               years.  "                               rapid testini
the past 13.                                                    a hotbed of crime, and in his                    Reiter, who has a master's
ought to get off the case. "It Mike to be our peer and                                     job,  a   resi-    degre  e in human resource            lany_keuennoboostcom                 2004 as part
first year   on  the                                                                                                  gram for tt
looks hire a departure from . man of integrity."
Disease Co
vention, higl
`Many lawmakers have) challenged same-party                                                   portance of
want to go back for my last two years                                                                                                                                          efforts in jail
Democrats because they believed they could do                                                      Among (
and complete a lot of these things which                                                                                                                                         learned th
a better job. I'm no exception to that.'                                                   through rapi
are so vital for Southeast Florida.'                                                              STEVE PERMAN, Boca Raton chiropractor                                       jail during a
RICHARD A. MACHEK, District 78 incumbent                                                                                                                           • oil: a third
full-blown Al
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Those w
d reshape the    early bus-              OOLIONVU KaiMa...   A w..
was   relea  sed    polic  e    positions, including teenagers.
t draft, which                     three new officers and four               I• $22 million on curb,
Won in new                       s week.                            civil ian   staff  ers who  will free street, and sidewalk repair
p is
in property val                    A budget wor.ksho  24,  to be up officers to do more
actual around the city.
heduled   for Aug
rings policing.                                    if $1million for city road
flowed by public hea the                • $1 milli       on   on  you   th entryways and landscaping.
pt. 6 and 18.
But by
value of the p                                      s are   prog    ram     s.   May   or   Lois       • $500,000 on park im-
r
by 25 percent              e the public hearing
ally don   't Fran    kel   said   this is all new        ements, including re-
ition
id, cities trad significant revenue. But she is only sure vamping         prov
it -    — helping to b                   man  y                                                                       the ball fields at
tem, $14 million of new-isen     eke                                        $400    ,000  of that will be          Park .
changes.                             how                                    Phipps
rams                                                                        t. It's  bee  n set asid e for
parks be     spent — city          As it standsnow,here       are    spen
emp  owerment        II $120,000 to create a
are geari                                    ital  two     "you    th                    strategy for redeveloping the
city's debaers
ston
te  on whe       the key new item    s and cap
mill  ion    cen   ters  " that will provide job
year                             jects in  the  $358                                                                   See BUDGET, 49 ►
crease the tax ra         dget.                             training, help with school-
-e the       The result
Expert: Ignorance of age
IONG LOCAL                                                       isn't defense in sex eases
By LARRY KEU ER
Palm Beath Post Site Writer
Epstein: Two
Even if Palm Beach mon-                              politicians have
ey manager Jeffrey Epstein                                returned dona-
didn't know that girls who                                tions since he
police say gave him sexual                                was charged
massages at his Intracoastal                              with soliciting
home were under the legal                                 minors.
age, that alone wouldn't have
exempted him from criminal                                             s mo-
charges of sexual activity with and lewd and lasciviou            end    that
minors.                             lesta  tion.   The   y  cont
"Ignoran ce  is not a valid   Eps  tein   —    frien  d   of  the  rich
defense," said Bob Delde, a and famous and fina                   ncial pa-
r who was     tron   of  Dem    ocra   tic Patt  y or-
legal skills professo                               and    cand   idate  s—
a Lake City prosecutor for ganizations          ed    thos   e  acts    with
nearly 30 years, half of    that    com   mitt
time specializing in sex five undthe          erage girls.
crimes against children.               In           past week, New
'There is no knowled    ge     York     Atto rney     General and
toria  l cand   idate Eliot
GARY CORMWO/Saft Phobeophet        element as far as the age is gubernahas                retu  rned     about
concerned," Dekle said.             Spit zer
1the Cuban American Club,                                                $50, 000    in   cam    paig n  con   tri-
sty Ma upside doom':           oast for Cuba's Fidel Castro.             After an 11-month inve  sti-
ons   he   rece   ived   from   Ep-    ,
iced Friday with herh                                               gation, Palm Beach police buti      stein  ,  and     Mar    k  Gree   n,   a  /
expressed similar senti-              said there was probable cause candidate to replace Spitzerin /
s ati,
ights of the 1960ch            eating codfish fricassee              to charge Epstein, 53, with
Bea    Co                                               unlawful sex acts with a minor                       See EPSTEIN, 580'
fed in Palm                     and black beans, she
Castro is either dead
,rby table in theslarfie        rt.                                                                                              n.     _
here television
biros
See CUBAN CLUB, 48 l•                      Emily J. Minor's column will return soo
igua gesi rogr anuj ungi
rs Rpundup, 3B
Gunfire scatters crowd at National Bike
tee   schools after a,
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Lawyer: Jurors often believe adults over ki
► EPSTEIN from IB
Child sex abuse cases may                suffer from psychologi-
cal problems, Dekle said.
tins' ages work again
and in favor of the deft
his current job, has returned
$10,000 to him because of the       often are difficult                 "Lots of child sexual        in a trial, Dekle said.
Palm Beach scandal, the New          to prosecute, an               abuse  victims have been vic-        If a child and an ad
York Daily News has reported.                                       timized by multiple people      different stories and
Rather than file charges,           attorney says.              over a period of time. Then     swear they're telling
the state attorney's office                                         the act of abuse produces       truth, adult jurors are
presented the case to a                                            behavior in the victims that     likely to believe the
• county grand jury. The panel           If two teens are in a sexual further damages their credi-       Dekle said.
indicted Epstein last week on relationship and the boy bility." Examples include
• a single, less serious charge turns 18 before the girl, he promiscuous behavior and                          "You have all these l
of felony solicitation of pros- could be charged with a sex drug abuse.                              working against you in
titution.                        crime if the sex continues.             Some of the alleged vic-    sex abuse case. Preset
The case raised eyebrows There would be no public in- tims in the Epstein case re-               normally try to be very
' because the state attorney's terest in pursuing that, Dekle turned to his home multiple                 ful in filing those cast
office rarely, if ever, kicks said.                                 times for the massage ses-       cause they knowwhattl
such charges to a grand jury.       But where there is al e sions and the $200 to $300 he            getting into. There is nc
And it increases the difficulty gap in ages — and espec y typically paid them per visit               thing as an iron-clad
of prosecuting child sex m cases of teachers with stu- "That would be a definite                      sexual abuse case."
abuse cases, especially when dents — there is a public in- problem for the prosecutor,"                 lany_kener(o)pbpost.com
the defendant is enormously terest in prosecuting, he said. said Betty Resch, who prose-
wealthy and can hire high- Likewise if the accused has a cuted crimes against children
track record of sex with mi- in Palm Beach County for five
priced, top-tier lawyers.
At least one of Epstein's   nors.                              years and now is in private                 Mit title
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alleged victims told police he       Still there is a "universal practice in Lake Worth.
knew she was underage constant" in prosecuting                           'Ile victim becomes less
when the two of them got these cases, Dekle said. Men sympathetic" to a jury, Resch
naked for massages and sex- who exploit underage chil- said. "But she's a victim nev-
ual activity. She was 16 years dren for sex often carefully ertheless. She's a kid."                       Purchasing the individual pi
to the entire estate
old at the time and said Ep- choose their victims in ways                 Most men charged with                1201 US. 'Warty Oat • N
stein asked her questions that will minimize the risk to sex crimes against minors                               [Phone Redacted]
about her high school, ac- them, he said.                            look normal, Dekle said. A                  3926 NoriNake Blvd • eat
cording to police reports.            Victims usually are from a jury expecting to see a mon-                     [Phone Redacted]
• A girl who said she met lower social status, and they ster seldom will. And the vio-                       lotuuttruelreasuresine.coi
Epstein when she was 15 said
he told her if she told any-
body what happened at his
house, bad things could hap-
. pen, the police reports state.
Palnilleachnist.com
Epstein's youngest al-
leged victim was 14 when she
' says she gave him a massage
that included some sexual
activity. She is now 16. The
SI
girl's father says he doesn't
know whether she told Ep-
stein her age.
CON.
"My daughter has kept a
lot of what happened from me
because of sheer embarrass-
ment," he said. "But she very
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polygraph test showing he
did not know the girls were
minors, but their stories                                                     Females Over 55
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Bye-bye preschool   Police say
lawyer tried
to discredit
teenage girls
By LARRY KELLER
RIMBeftch IS SteMiter
Famed Harvard law professor Alan
Dershowitz met with the Palm Beach
'County State Attorney's Office and pro-
vided damaging information about ?teen-
age girls who say they gave his client,
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein,
sexually charged massages, according to
police reports.
The reports also state that another
Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain
that would have allowed Epstein to have no
criminal record. His current attorney de-
nies this happened. •
And the doctiraents also reveal that the
father of at leant one girl complained that
private investigators aggressively fol-
lowed his car,johotographed his home and
chased off vihitors.
Police altio• talked to
somebody who said she
was offered money if she
refused to cooperate with
the Palm Beach Police
Department probe of, EP-
stein.
The state attorney's
office said it presented the
Epstein case to a county
grand jury this month
rather than directly former attorney
charging Epstein because ag        d t°
p mebargain,
of concerns about the lea
girls' credibility. The Police say.
grand jury indicted Ep-
stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic-
itation of prostitution, which carries a
maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Police believed there was probable
cause to charge Epstein with the more
serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a
minor and lewd and lascivious molesta-
tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so
angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry
Krischer a memo in May suggesting he
disqualify himself from the case.
The case originally was going to be
presented to the grand jury in February,
but was postponed after Dershowitz pro-
duced information gleaned from the Web
site myspace.com showing some of the
alleged victims commenting on alcohol
and marijuana use, according to the police
report prepared by Detective Joseph Re-
a 20-year-old Royal
PaknTeacliwoman who told police she
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6y LARRY KELLER
Paha Reath Post Staff Miter
Famed Harvard law professor Alan
Dershowitz met with the Palm. Beach
County State Attorney's Office and pro-
age
vi                           gaseabhrisut teen-
rmy itan
infothe
ingsay
ge
dedgirdsr wh
eliest
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epsteito        n,
sexually charged     massa  ges,  accord  ing
police reports.
The reports also state that another
Epstein attorney agreed to a plea barga        in
have  allowe d Epstei  n to have   n
that would                         attorn ey.0e-
criminal record. His curren      t
nies this happened. •
And the documentsalso reveal that the
father of at lent one girl complained that   fol-
private investigators ,aggressively and
lowed his cart photographed his home
chased off vihitors.
Poke also talked S.
somebody who' said she
was offered money if she
refused to cooperate with
the Palm Beach Police
Department probe of Ep-
The state attornmi
office said it presented the
F.perein case to a           Epstein: His
grand jury this mon          former attorney
rather than directly
charg  ing Epstein because apfea   bargain,
nled
of concerns about the
girls' credibility. The Nike saY•
grand jury indicted Ep-
stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic-
itation of prostitution, which carries a
maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Police believed there was probable'
cause to charge Epstein with the more
serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a
minor and lewd and lascivious molesta-
tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so
angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry
Krischer a memo in May suggesting he
disqualify himself from the case.
The case originally was going to be
presented to the grand jury in February,
but was posoned after Dershowitz pro-
duced information gleaned from the Web
site myspace.com showing some of the
alleged victims commenting on alcohol
and marijuana use, according to the police
car
report prepared by Detective Joseph Re-
:awn                   a 20-year-old Royal
woman who told police she
recruited girls for Epstein, also is profiled
on myspace.com. Her page includes pho-
tos of her and her friends, including one
DAMON FRIGNSIStall PhoWriiifrhe                                See EPSTEIN, 78
from Easter
ACIl — liana Young. 3, receives some instructions Friday
her preschool
marching 'Iowa the aisle during
Wilso
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st of
n before
gradu ates now will enter kindergarten .                                     Turnpike to tap
into information
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Poly                                                         a way for the pros-                                passed on knowl- said. "Ws
► EPSTEIN from IB                          planted of being harassed by test "he age," the attorney ecutor's office to not take the
private investigators provid- edge of                                                         full responsibility for not fil-
lken  se   tag    num      bers   of  two       said .                                         the (charge), and not do-
using the                "Pimpin' ed                                                                Afte     r the indictment ing
, who     was        of  the  men    .   Poli   ce   foun    d  the                                                ing  wha   t thh Palm Beach Po-
Made EZ."                                                        e regi    stere   d to a against Epstein was unsealed lice Department wanted. I
not char   ged"      e   case  ,  is a      vehi  cles   wer
potential prosecution wit- private eyeanot                        in West Palm this week Police Chiefto                          Reiter
the think something fell e apar            t
ch and             her     in Jupi   ter,     refe rred      the   mat   ter                            e  und   erag    wit-
ness.                                       Bea                                                                                           with     thos
to Recarey's re- FBI. "We've received the re- nqsses."
According to Recarey, according                                                            ferral, and we're reviewing
prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek Port have no knowkdge of it," said FBI spokeswoman                                                                 Defense attorney Robert
offered Epstein atto           rney   s          "I
Judy     Orih   uela  in Miami.            Ger  sbman was a prosecutor
nse       atto   rney      Gold   -                                                    sbc years. 'Those girls
Dershowitz and Guy &origin it" defe                                                                 The chief himself has for
a plea deal in April. Fronstin,             berg   er  said    .                                                                           must have been incredible or
with    Eps   tein  ;         The      repo     rt   also      says     a come under attack from Er, untrustworthy, I don't know,"
after speaking                                                    ected to the Ep- stein's lawyers                     and friends in
accepted the deal, in which woman conn                                              d   by      New     Yor    k,  whe  re he has a he said.
Epstein would plead guilty to stein casey was
contacte
New     York Post          Other attorneys said Ep-
of aggr  avat   ed   as-      som   ebod         who       was     still in home. The                                    t  stein  's case raises the issue of
one count                                                                           Tha    t    quo   ted    Fob-la's prominen
sault with intent to commit a touc                h     with       Epst     ein.
New York lawyer, Gerald whether                        wealthy, connected
on     five      pers  on   told     her   she     wou   ld  be                                                defe  ndan   ts like Epstein —
felony, be placed                                                                         't    Lefc   ourt  , as  sayi ng his client
years' probation and have no compens                     ated        if    she     didn
indicted only "because of whose frien               ds include former
al-     coop   erat  e     with       polic   e,   Re-      was                                             side   nt     Clinton and
criminal record. The deal                                repo     rt   says    .  Tho    se     the craziness of the police Pre                              p     are treated
so called for Epst    ein    to  sub-       care  y's                                                  f."                                Don   ald  Thim
did    talk     "wil    l  be    deal  t    chie                                             rently   from   othe rs. Once
mit to a psychiatric and sex- who the woman said she                                                  Reiter has declined to diffe                               the subj ect of
ual. evaluation and       have     no      with  ,"                                                                                       he 'me   w  he  was
ised  visit s  with    mi-      was      told   .    Pho     ne      reco   rds comment on the case.                           a   crim  inal    prob  e,  Epst ein
unsuperv                                                  wom       an    talk  ed   with            Pros   ecut   ors    have not                                of pow  erfu l
nors, according to Recarey           's     show    the                                                                                   hired a     phal  anx
barg   ain   was        the  pers   on     who      alleg    edly   in-    pres    ented a sex-related case atto           rney   s such   as Ders how  itz
report The plea                                                her around the like Epstein's to a grand Fury and Lefcourt, who is a past
made in connection with only timidated said                          , Recarey re- before, said Mike Edmond- president of the National As-
one of the five alleged vic- time she                                                           son, spokesman for the state sociation of Criminal Defense
tims, the report states.                    ported.                                                                   e. "That's what
Fronstin — who declined                     Phone records also show attorney's offic                          a  case that falls Lawyersmi       .
said to have           you    do   with                                          lawyer Roy Black
to comment on the case — that the person                           at   then    plac   ed  a into a gray area,"           he  said .           Mia
me nationally
was subseque     ntly    fired    and       mad   e  the    thre                                                            ey's office    —    who      beca
Eps     tein  's   pers   onal   as-           The    state ' ttorn                                 n  he  successfully
veteran defense attorney call to who in turn called a did not recommend a partic- known wheWilliam                                                                   Kennedy
Jack Goldberger was            hire d.       sista nt                                                                                      defe  nded
ther e    was      any       New    Yor    k    corp    orat  ion    affili - ular criminal charge on Smith on a rape charge in
He denies                                                                   the report which to indict Epstein, Ed- Palm Beach — also was in-
agreement by any of Ep- ated with Epstein,                                                     mondson said. The grand ju- volved at one point.
stein's attorneys to a plea states.                                                                              ented with a list of
deal.                                           The issue in the Epstein ry was pres                          from   highest to low-           Said defense attorney
is  not     whe     ther    fem   ales      char   ges                                      helle Suslcauer. "I think
"We abiolutely did not case                                                                 est   then     deliberated with the Mic
agree to a plea in this       case    ,"    cam   e  to  his    wate     rfro  nt hom     e,
out    of  the room,      Ws    unfortunate the public
he     knew      thei  r    pros   ecut   or                          may get the perception that
he said. Neither BeJohlavek but whether                                                         he   said  .   .
nor a state attorney                  's    ages  .                                                                                        with power, you may be
be  reac   hed            "He    's   neve     r  deni    ed   girls           "Peo    ple are surprised at treated differently than the
spokesman coul     d                                                                                           d jury proceeding," average Joe."
for comment.                                came to the house," Gold- the gran                         t  Palm     Beach defense
n Ep- Wes
The parent or parents of berger said. Buta whe                        poly   grap   h    atto   rney      Rich   ard Tendler 0 lato_iwileatonostwo
alleged • victims who. com- stein was given
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Simkin, 27, also a yoga teacher.                       teaches Thai massage.
• The loss of talented teachers pains                    Simkin, of Boynton Beach, took her
members of the local yoga community.                   first yoga classes with Katz as a college stu-
"It's a terrific thing for him, but it's ter-      dent and almost immediately decided to
become a teacher. She specializes in flow
rible to have him leave," said Merrill Katz,           yoga, which, like Ashtanga, consists of a
who taught Simkin and sent her to Elsner               series of postures connected by breathing
for further training. "He's one of the most            techniques.
knowledgeable teachers we have in this ar-
ea, and she was always very talented."                     They are not the first to make the
Elsner, who lives in Delray Beach, spe-                                           See YOGA, 6B P.
After long probe,
billionaire faces
solicitation charge
By LARRY KELLER
Pall &adz Post Staff Writer     •
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein
paid to have underage girls and young
women brought to his home, where he re-
ceived massages and sometimes sex, ac-
cording to an investigation
by the Palm. Beach Police •
Department,
Palm Beach police spent
months sifting through Ep-
stein's trash and watching
his waterfront home and
Palm Beach 'International
Airport to keep tabs on his
private jet. An indictment Epstein
charging Epstein, 53, was
unsealed Monday, charging him with one
count of felony solicitation of prostitution.
lAYLORJONES/SWIPheiofimplut          Palm Beach police thought there was
probable cause to charge Epstein with un-
lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and
kicks                                                     lascivious molestation.
its British Soccer Camp at Okeeheelee                      . Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry
; Blake Weger (center), 5, of Wellington;                 with State Attorney Barry Krischei's han-
dling of the case that he wrote a memo
• drills.
See EPSTEIN, 5B No.
newly negotiated proposal for beachfront
commission at 4 p.m. Thursday. If the com-               million plan, city staff will draft development,
mission approves the agreement, the city will            lease and financial agreements with Greater
take it to the county to secure $5 million from          Bay over the next few weeks. Greater Bay
a recreation bond that was slated for beach              proposes to overhaul the casino building, the
redevelopment three years ago. County com-               pool and parking lot and provide landscaping.
missioners extended the deadline unfilJuly 31               This week, negotiations centered on the
so the city could present a beach redevelop-             developer's and city's obligations for the
ment plan to keep the bond money.                        project including fiscal, maintenance and
If city commissioners endorse the $19.1                                               See BEACH, 6B IP ;
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Police kept watch on home, airport, sift
said. A county grand jury The chiefs letter                                20, of Royal Palm Beach. Give
Iss. EPSTEIN from 18                 "found the allegations      wholly                                         Robion has worked at an 01 ked
and     not  See the letter Palm Beach Police We Garden restaurant in toucl
suggesting the county's         top  unsubstant     iated                 Chief Michael Reiter wrote to
prosecutor disqualify himself credible," and that's why his State Attorney Barry Krischer                       Wellington and said she was a                 0
not   charged   with                                         Journalism       major'    at     Palm    son  t
q must urge you• to ex- client was                                   on the Epstein case.                  Beach     Community           College
amine the unusual course       that  sexual    activity  with   minors,                                                                                   Pao
PaImBeachPost.com                     when she was questioned by f onm
your office's handling of this he said.                                                                         police last October. She has relati
matter has taken and consider             Goldberger      said  Epstein
if good and sufficient reason passed a lie detector, test ad-                                                   an   unlisted phone number she t
A money manager for the and could not be reached for centl
exists to require your dis- ministered by a reputable ultra-rich, Epstein was named comment.                                                              Palm
qualification from the prose- polygraph examiner in which one of New York's most eligi-
cution of these cases," Reiter he said he did not know the ble bachelors in 2003 by The
wrote in a May 1 memo to girls were minors.
Krischer.
Also,   a New York Post. He reportedly              Mel."
search warrant served on hobnobs with the likes of asked her if she would like to' beini
,
said
at age
she
17,
met
a
Ep-
friend
then
elaAs
While not commenting Epstein's home found no evi- former President Clinton, make money                                         giving him a c.ouk
to   corroborate     the                                        massage.      She   said she was $300
specifically on the Epstein dence                                        former Hailt               rersity
to  his   five -bedroom,            T
case, Mike Edmondson, girls' allegations, Goldberger President                                        Sum- driven
71/
2 -bath  home      on   the     Intra-  scan
spokesman for the state at- said.                                        mers and Dona              p, and
torney, said his office pre-             According to police docu- . has lavish homes in Manhat- coastal Waterway, then es- Epsti
tan, New Mexico and the Vir- corted upstairs to aad               bedroom           S
sents cases other than mur- ments:                                                                             with  a massag                     oils.  and  a
ders to a grand jury when                II A Palm Beach Commu- gin Islands.                                                and                   were   hous
there are questions shout nity College               student  said  she       He has contributed    tens    of Epstein
mas- ary 2
witnesses'. credibility and gave Epstein a massage in the thousands of dollars to Dean-. both naked                    she   said,  but    when      he nail
their ability to testify.           nude, then brought         hint  six ocratic Party candidates and           sage,
grabbed      her    buttocks,       she    assis
By the nature of their jobs, girls, ages 14 to 16, for mas- organizations, including Sen. said . she didn't want'to be her u
police officers look at evi- sage and sex4inged sessions John Kerry's presidential bid, touched..                                                         ing a
dence from a "one-sided per- at his home.                                and the Senate cadSigns of                                         •
WA 27-year-old woman Joe Lieberman,                           CUR-         Epstein    said  he'd     pay   her   sever
spective," Edmondson .said.                                                                                                                               worn.
"A prosecutor has to look at it who worked as Epstein's ton, Christopher D d and                               to  bring  him   more
younger the better,                       and g
in a much broader fashion," persong assistant also facili- Charles Schumer.                                                                               table
weighing the veracity of wit- tated the liaisons, phoning                     Goldberger is one of five         told  police.   When
nesses and how they may fare the PBCC student to arrange attorneys Epstein has re-                              once   to   bring    a 23-year-old            SI
attorneys'    for  girls  when     Epstein   was  tained   since   he became       the   woman     to'  him,      t         said   and   I
under defense                                                                                                                   old,                 'd.  mass
questioning, he said..               coming to town. And she es subject of an investigation,                    she  was  too
Wein's attorney, Jack corted the girls upstairs when Edinondson said. Among the                                              ho                een
Gold rger, said       his   client  they    arrived,   puffing   fresh  others:  Man    Dershowitz    ,  the   c              the  case,     said  she old S
committed no crimes.                 sheetson a massage table and well-known Harvard law pro- eventually                     brought     six    girls to er gu
placing   massage    oils nearby.    fessor  and   author,  who     is  a  Epstein   w
l     ip:aid            $2 00   Robs
silte reports and state-                                                                                                             said.    "I'm   paid I
ments in question         refer  to      ■   Police     took    sworn     friend of  Epstein. Dershowitz        each  time,
false accusations that were statements from five alleged could not be                        reached       for  like  a • Hei                 *  police       0
not charged because the Palm         victims     and   17   witnesses.   comment.                               quoted    her    as   saying.      The    stork
Beach County state attorney They contend that on three                       Police said the woman girls knew what to expect EWE
questioned the credibility of occasions, Epstein             had    sex  who enlisted                          when they were                   to Ep- the t
Goldberger      with   the girls.                    Epstein   was                         stein's   home,                       d. 27,e
the witnesses,"
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In home, airport, sifted through trash
The chief's letter                                     Palm Beach. Give a massage — maybe na-
orked at an Ol- ked — and allow some steillilit ioom                        whose most re-
See the letter Palm Beach Police                     restaurant in touching.                                   cen      cnown      address is in
Chief Michael Reiter wrote to       Wellington   and   said she   was  a      One   14-year-old   girl.  Rob-  North    Carolina,    has not been
State Attorney Barry Krischer       journalism major' at Palm son took to meet Epstein led charged in the case.
on the Epstein case.                Beach Community College. police to start the mvestiga-                          Palm. Beach police often
PalmBeachPost.com                 • when she•was questioned by • doh of him in March 2005. A conducted surveillance of
police last October. She has relative of the girl called to say Epstein's home, and at Palm
unlisted phone number she thought the child had re-, Beach International Airport
A money mahager for the an     and  could not be reached for cently engaged in sex with a to see if his private jet was
ultra-rich, Epstein was named CO                                          Palm Beach man. The girl there, so they would know
one of New York's most e                          said she    met    Ep-  then got into a fight with a when he was in town. Police
tie bachelors in 2003 by                                   17, a friend   classmate    who accused her of also arranged repentediy to
New York Post He reportedly         steiwen,      at age
like to being    a   prostitute,  and she receive his trash from Palm
hobnobs with the likes of asked her if she would him                   a  couldn't   explain   why  she had Beach sanitation workers, •
former President Clinton, make              money     giving
massage. She said she was $300 in her purse.                        •      collecting papers with names
former Haillersity                                                            The    girl  gave  police   this and   phone numbers, sex toys
President                   Sum- driven to his five-bedroom,                                                   and   female    hygiene products.
men and Dona               p, and 71/2-bath home on the Intra- account of her meeting with                          One   note    stated that a fe-
has lavish homes in Manhat- coastal Waterway,a bedroom       then es- Epstein:
to                     She accompanie     d            male    could   not  come over at 7
tan, New Mexico and the Vir- corted upstairs ellid oils.                                                       p.m.    because      of  soccer. -An-
gin Islands.                        with a massag                         and a second girl to ps em s
were                a Sunday in Febru-      other    said  a  girl  had  to work
He has contributed tens of Epstein andduring e mas- house on Once.                       there, a wom-    Sunday             "Monday after
thousands of dollars to Dem-        both  naked                           ary  2005.
ocratic Party candidates and sage, she her      said, but when he an she thought was Epstein's school?" And still another
organizations, including Sen. grabbed didn't          buttocks, she assistant told the girl to follow note contained the Work
want: to be her upstairs to a room featur- hours of a girl,                   saying the
John Kerry's presidential bid, said she                                                             woman,     leaves    school      at  11:30 a.m.
and the Senate campaigns of touched.                                      ing a mural of a naked                              come    over  the next
and   would
Joe Lieberman, Hillary                   Epstein said he'd pay her several photographs of naked day at 10:30 am.
ton, Christopher Dodd and to bring him more gi                           women on a shelf, a hot pink
younger    the   better,              and green sofa and a massage               Only three months before
Charles Schumer.                                                                                               the   police department probe
Goldberger is one of five told police. When she                                                           began,        Epstein donated
attorneys Epstein has re- once to bring a 23-year-old                         She stripped to her bra                        the department for
said and panties and gave          hint  a $90,000    to
tained since he became the woman to him,                                                                       the   purchase       of a firearms
subject of an investigation, she was Wp old,                      said. massage.                                              said  Jane &ruder,
sitnulator,
Epstein gave the 14-year- town finance director. The
Edinondson said. Among the                        who        not been
others: Alan Dershowitz, the chargesm the case, said she old $300 and she and the oth-• purchase Was never made.
well-known Harvard law pro- eventually brought six girls to                         eft, she said. She said The money was returned. to
fessor and author,     who   is a   Epstein  wi      t /   paid   $200              told her that Fpctein Epstein on Monday, she said.
friend of Epstein. Dershowitz each time,                   sad. "I'm ep          er $200 that day.
Other. girls .told similar • SYttff writers Andrew         Mara;
could not be reached for like a Herr ems; police •                                                             arid  Tim  °MMus        and  staff re-
comment.                            quoted her as saying. The stories. In most accounts;                                 Angelica     Cortez  con-
tat  searcher
Police said the woman gins knew what to exped                                                              tributed  to  this story.
who enlisted Nogg                   when they wereda to Ep- the           EPAsntime's,Peis°
Sarah             now
Epstein   was                       stein's home,                  said.  27,  escorted    the     s  :o  Ep-     larry_kelleOpbpostcom
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Indictment: Billionaire solicited 3 times
the commission of a                         Waterway since 1990, according to           HARDWOOD FI.00RI
Palm Beach police will report                     crime.                                      property records. A man answering the
His attorney, Jack                     door there Monday said that Epstein
today about their prostitution                    Goldberger, declined to                     wasn't home. A Cadillac Escalade reg-              LUMBE
probe of the money manager.                       discuss the charge.                         istered to him was parked in the drive-
State attorney's of-                    way, which is flanked by two massive          LQUII:1      AT
fice spokesman Mike                         gargoyles.                                  LyA.F.IV/000 FL 0„„NG
By LARRY KELLER                      Edmondson also had                               Epstein sued Property Appraiser
Palm Beach Post Ste' Wnter              little to say.                               Gary Nikolits in 2001, contending that
Billionaire. money manager and                   "Generally speak- Epstein               the assessment of his home exceeded
Palm Beach part-time resident Jeffrey            ing, there is a case that                    its fair market value. He dismissed his
has a number of different aspects to it,"   lawsuit in December 2002.
Epstein solicited or procured prostitutes        Edmondson said of a prostitution-
three or more times between Aug. 1 and                                                            A profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair
Oct. 31 of last year, according to an in-        related charge being submitted to a         magazine said he owns what are be-
grand jury. "We first became aware of       lieved to be the largest private homes in         vas
dictment charging him with felony so-            the case months ago by Palm Beach           Manhattan — 51,000 square feet — and
licitation of prostitution.                      police."                                    in New Mexico — a 7,500-acre ranch.
Epstein, 53, was booked at the Palm              Prosecutors and police worked to-      Those are in addition to his 70-acre is-                         • OP
Beach County jail at 1:45 a.m..Sunday.           gether to bring the case to the grand       land in the U.S. Virgin Islands and fleet                        • PIC
He was released on $3,000 bond.                  jury, he said.                              of aircraft                                                      • NC
Epstein's case is unusual in that                Palm Beach police confirmed that            Epstein's friends and admirers, ac-                         • 10
suspected prostitution johns are usually         and said the department will release a      cording to the magazine, include prom-
charged with a misdemeanor, and even             report today regarding its investigation.   inent businessmen, academics and sci-                            LA
a felony charge is typically made in a                Epstein has owned a five-bedroom,      entists and famed Harvard law professor
criminal information — an alternative to         71/2-bath, 7,234-square-foot home with a    Alan Dershowitz.                                                1-8E
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forwarded a July 16 e-mail he
from Epstein, who worked on                                                            Lifesaver struggles with dead weight
s victorious 2000 campaign against
ate Rep. Curt Levine.                                                                                                       race in the annual American Red Cross lifeguard Competi-
not going to work on a                              WELLINGTON - Shadoe Stein, 17, of Palm Beach Gardens
ion basis, period, and you should                    reacts to the weight of a mannequin — 130 to 165 pounds                tion at the Aquatics Complex. Teams from Wellington, Boca
me on the payroll," read Epstein's                  when wet — as she starts her leg of a mannequin pull relay             Raton and Palm Beach Gardens vied in six events on Sunday.
tememberwho got you where you
u don't want to be another Curt
io you? You have everyone else in
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it closest confidante who has been
rou right from the gitgo you throw          Mystery money man faces soliciting charg
.±1 says Slosberg ignored his advice                                                            Epstein was indicted last week by a
ng peace with U.S. Rep. Robert                            By MCOLEJANOK                                                                  convictions.
Slosberg's  chief               Palm Read Post S&vf Writer            state grand jury, according to state at-          However, checks of court records
rho has   become
id for calming the ruckus that led to .         A part-time Palm Beecher who has           torney's spokesman Mike Edmondson.            here and in New York Sunday turned up
the county  Health                                            Bill   Despite Epstein's arrest, the indictment      no such convictions.
is removal from                             socialized with Donald Trump,jailed
was           containing the allegations remained              Epstein could not be reached. Ed-
strict board. Had he been "on the           Clinton and Kevin     Spacey
early Sunday with accused drug dealers.        sealed Sunday and Edmondson provid-           mondson said he was being represented
' Epstein says, Slosberg might have                                                after   ed no details.                                by West Palm Beach attorney Jack
a more heed.                                drunken drivers and wife beatersprosti-
soliciting  a               Unlike most accused johns. Epstein       Goldberg, who declined comment
■                        . he was charged    with
tute.                                          was charged with a third-degree felony           Epstein is the president of3 Epstein
≥ already had President Bush and VP                                                       instead of a misdemeanor. Under state         & Co., a money management company               Jeffrey Eps
aey in South    Florida   to headline           Manhattan money manager Jeffrey            I th:, a solicitation charge usually is de-
Epstein, 53, was picked up at his hogne                                                      based in Manhattan that caters to ultra-        Indictment
gn fund-raisers, so it's only natural                                           He tas         mi to a more serious felony when the     wealthy clientele, according to pub-            related to
S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw,  R-F  ort             on El Brillo Way at 1:45 am.bond.               efendant has at least two solicitation
released hours later  on  $3,000                                                                                See SOLICITING, 66 Ir..     prostitution
:dale, would turn to the next figure in
adenfial line of succession. Shaw's
km says it has lined up House
:ex Dennis Hastert for an Aug. 3 money
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He was over 50. And they were girls
overall.              If the women whom Palm Beach            Jury should have decided              vehicles were registered to two pri-
onsequences,       police say a part-time town resident                                             vate investigators. Mr. Goldberger
such as the        invited to his home and paid for            if Epstein is a pedophile.           denied knowing anything about it.
net service        sex acts were, in fact, women, the                                                   Police also note in their reports
ke rest stops      solicitation charge against Jeffrey                                              that the state attorneyb office of-
lestions. How      Epstein might feel more sufficient.       But police interviews with five        fered Mr. Epstein a plea deal that
in airport in      But, according to police records,         alleged victims and 17 witnesses       would have placed him on proba-
cample, know       they weren't. He was over 50. And         under oath, as well as phone mes-      tion for five years, allowing him
before they      they were girls.                          sages, a high school transcript and    ultimately to walk away with no
ts? Even driv-                         14.                   other items that police found from     criminal record at all.
tronic tolling                         15.                   searching Mr. Epstein trash and            I asked Mr. Krischer% spokes-
iot know that                          16.                   7,234-square-foot waterfront home,     man, Mike Edmondson, why the
amt Martha's                           17-yeavold girls.     provide evidence that he knew the      case was referred to a grand jury in-
People who                           That       should     girls were teenagers.                  stead of Mr. Epstein being ch
rs preloaded                        count for some-             One girl couldn't show up when      and facing a trial before a j
of tolls could                     thing — the dif-         Mr. Epstein wanted because she         shouldn't the victims credibility
state without                       ference between          had soccer. Mother time, Mr. Ep-       be a factor to determine whether a
d their Sun-             Elise      prostitution     and     stein had to wait for his "massage"    crime's been committed, not wheth-
it the unused          Cramer       pedophilia.              session because the girl he wanted     er a jury will convict? (After all, as
ritable done-                          So, it is baffling    was still in class.                    Mr. Goldberger told The Palm Beach
ants may be        that Mr. Epstein, who was indicted           Why didn't State Attorney Barry     Post of Mr. Epstein, "He's never de-
pike officials     last month by a grand jury on one         Krischer let a jury decide whether     nied girls came to the house.")
iom the new        felony count of solicitation of pros-     to believe the teenagers — in-            Especially, I asked Mr. Edmond-
serve best.        titution, has not been charged, as        cluding a 16-year-old who went to      son to explain: Why shouldn't the
Palm Beach police strenuously             Mr. Epsteinb house to "work" in        public look at this case and think
urged, with unlawful sex acts with        December 2004 after being asked        there are two kinds of justice — one
a minor and lewd and lascivious           whether she needed to make money       for the wealthy and one for the rest
molestation.                              for Christmas gifts?                   of us?
Conviction of crimes against mi-          Prosecutors gave greater weight        Mr. Edmondson said he could
nors would mean steeper penalties         to the details Mr. Dershowitz pro-     not comment on the case because it
workers,           than the maximum five-year prison         vided about the girls in an apparent   is active, but on the latter point, he
term Mr. Epstein faces if convicted       effort to assail their character. ME   offered, for the sake of "philosophi-
wealthy            of the single count of felony solicita-   Dershowitz pointed out to prosecu-     cal debate": "Whether wealth buys a
tion. It also would help carry a mes-     tors that some of the teenagers had    different standard of justice across
sage of intolerance to perverts who       talked on myspace.com about mari-      the country ... the answer to that
as worth up        prey on girls.                            juana and alcohol use.                 would, of course, be yes."
nunent audi-           Prosecutors did not pursue charg-                                               But in this case, he said, "regard-
es against Mr Epstein reflecting             The 20-yeaeold Royal Palm
8,200 people                                                Beach woman who told police she        less of the battery of attorneys, the
average tax      the age of the victims because they                                              outcome would be the same. Every
assumed a jury would view the girls       recruited girls for Mr. Epstein has
iich will cost                                               a Web page on myspace.com that         issue that was debated in public was
not as victims but as promiscuous,                                               debated in our office before this
t $700 billion     untrustworthy, willing participants.      features one girl using the name
art The loss                                                 "Pimpin' Made EZ."                     case went to the grand jury."
The presumption is offensive.
'rally lead to         Mr. Epstein, a 53-year-old Man-          Although no charges of witness         In this case, it is not the victims'
grams for the      hattan money manager who has              tampering have been filed, the par-    credibility but the state attorneys
om the wage        hired Harvard law professor Alan          ents of at least one of the teenage    that deserves questioning.
o help.            Dershowitz and defense attor-             victims complained to police of be-    Elisa Cramer is an editorial writer*
ative packag-      ney Jack Goldberger, has denied           ing followed and intimidated by two    The Palm Beach Post. Her e-mail
oppose creat-      knowing how old the girls were.           men.' Police determined that their     address is elisa_ctumerepbpostcom
for the rich
;he nation is
in Iraq —also                                                         David Ignatius
sing the mini-
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ms to Senate
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Turning disaster to opportunity
Groping for a way to understand                                               bag past when Arab fighters would
nts to deliver
P promise to       the ruinous mess in the Middle                                                   see the advancing Israeli army, dis-
latest ploy is   East I find myself looking back-                                                 card their boots and flee in terror.
le cleanup of      ward to an earlier ruinous mess, the                                                The strategy of Israel's (and
Yom Kippur War of October 1973.                                                  Americab) enemies today is to lure
That long-ago war, like the cue                                                the military superpower into a pro-
we raised the      rent one in Lebanon, began with an
ago, and for                                                                                       tracted conflict 'lb accept the bait,
Arab sneak attack — a potentially                                                as the Israelis did in assaulting Leb-
Ad it hostage      devastating Egyptian thrust across
anon and as America did in Iraq, is
onstituents is     the Suez Canal, cruelly launched                                                 to risk stepping into a trap. As Law-
t its worst.       on Israel's holiest day. The Israelis
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Epstein camp calls female accusers liars
Pads Beach Post SeteTfLiter               any underage      ly insisted anybody who came
Attorneys and publicists for             women," his        to his house be over the age of tioned," Goldberger said.              charge, Police Chief Michael
Palm Beach financier Jeffrey                 lead attorney,     18. How he verified that, I don't     Epstein, 53, was indicted        Reiter referred the case to the
Epstein went on the offensive                 Jack Gold-         know. The question is, did by a county grand jury last                 FBI to determine whether
Monday, contending that                       berger, said       anything illegal occur. The law month on a charge of felony            there were federal law viola-
teenage girls who have ac-                    from Idaho        was not violated here."            solicitation of prostitution. Af-    tions.
where he was                                         ter an 11-month investigation
cused Epstein of sexual she-
nanigans at his waterfront                    vacationing
He had no explanation as to         included sifting through           After a spate of stories
about the case last week, New
w
why Epstein would pay girls or thatEps tein
home are liars and saying that Epstein        with his land-    women with no massage train- his hom's trash and surveilling           York publicist Dan Klores —            hi
the Palm Beach Police De-                      13r.             ing — as the alleged victims concludee, Palm Beach police              whose client list has included
partment is "childish."             Epstein did have young      said was the case — $200 to evidence d there was enough                Paris Hilton andJenniferLoppeeZz       01
women come to his house to    $300 for their visits. "the sexu              to charge him with       — said on Saturday that Ep
"There never was any sex give him                                                                   al  activ
credibility of these witnesses When the ity with minors.               stein's camp was ready "to get
between- Jeffrey Epstein and er said. massages, Goldberg-                                                      grand jury indicted
"Mr. Epstein absolute-   has been seriously ques- Epstein                                       their story out"                       JAC
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ovies,                  They did that Monday via Gold-         The   Palm                                   A     state attorney's spokesman Read a
berger and a Los Angeles publicist ment was               Beach Police Depart- wou say only that                                          letter      Palm Beach Police
"happy and ecstatic" that caseld                           the office refers Chief MichaelfromReite r to State Attorney
for Miami criminal defense attorney the                                                   s  to  the  grand jury when ther
ne                  Roy Black, who also has represented evid panel was going to review the are issues with the viability of thee Barry Krischer on the Epstein probe.
Epstein in the case.                        ence. "I think what happened is evidence
or witnesses credibility.        PalmBeachPostcom
they weren't happy with the result.
I from IB               We just think there has been a They deci                                            Both     the  state attorney and the
distorted view of this case in the me- embarra ded to use the press to grand jury concluded there was not
dia presented by the Palm Beach po-               ss Mr.   Eps   tein."              sufficient evidence that Epstein had accusers, he added, have histories of
aly ending a                                                   But   reco  rds    show     that
mplished so        lice," Goldberger said.                wrote Krischer on May 1— well be-
Reiter sex with minors, according to Gold drug abuse and thefts. 'These wom-
Reiter has consistently declined fore the                                        berger. "It was just a childish perfor-- en are liars. We've established that"
case  wen   t to the grand jury — mance by the Palm Bea                              But why would they all invent
n me every        to comment on the case and did not suggestin                                                                           ch Police
Dubov said      respond to a request for comment goo                g that Krischer "consider if Departm          ent," Gol  dber ger said.        thei r stories about meeting Epstein
Monday.                                      d and sufficient reason exists to                                                     for sexu
tome in West                                              require your disqualification from the           The    defe  nse  atto rney said  one of            al massages?
h. "He would          The implication that State Attor- prosecut    ion   of these cases."
the alleged victims who claimed she              "I don  't have an         er as to what
rid dance. It     ney Barry Krischer was easy on Ep-           Rath er  than     flat-
was a minor was in fact over the age was the motivation answ
out decline to of 18. Another alleged                                                   for thes e women
it. We were       stein by presenting the case to a charge
Eps  tein ,   Kris                                                victim who to come forward and make these al-
When you         grand jury rather than filing charges the case                        cher  refe rred was          oenaed to testify to the legations," Goldberger said.
to the grand jury to "ap- grandsubp
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tuxedo and a               %, RACHEL SIMMONSEN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer           Mote Marine Laboratory in Sara
programs
he held her                                                 sota will use $100,000 for public ser--     phins, and the Whale and Dolphin             Harbor Branch, a research facility
s, escorting          Four dolphin research and edu-         vice announcements on the dangers           Conservation Society's DolphinS-             north of Fort Pierce, as well as $2.8
in glittery    cation programs will split about           of feeding dolphins and another             MART project has been awarded               million in grants for other dolphin
l, pink feath-    $300,000 that was raised in the past       $60,000 to study how hurricanes and         about $72,000 to develop a voluntary         research and conservation groups.
at swayed as      year by the "Protect Wild Dolphins"        red tides in Port Charlotte have af-        code of conduct for dolphin tour op-
r were stage      specialty license plate program, ac-                                                   erators.                                        Each year, an additional $30,000
is City, then                                                fected dolphin habitats.                       Since it was created in 1999, the
is set aside to reimburse groups that
cording to Harbor Branch Oceano-               Florida State University will use                                                   provide care to sick and injured ma-
fell in love,   graphic Institution, which adminis-                                                    dolphin specialty license plate pro-        rine mammals.
d two chil-                                                  about S70,000 to study the use of
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only as Jane Doe. "It's lik ay and can sue                                co ns                      ne plus three year                              ution      wants 6,000 plasticds
The girl turns 18 in Mou                                              also represents a Ja                      ne y overseeing his prosec                  have privacy shiel on th
ree year
t her parents'                                        Doe, claims attorGu                               ivate practice,                                             Artly
again at that time, with                            Do  e No. 2 who, like Jane                          r    Was y Lewis. Now in pr                            sides.
id  .                                           he  r to hi
involvement, Herman sa last month on Epstein summoned was a minor and Lewis was hireedfaby
s ho me  fo                               Ep ste in to de fend
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ed on                               Election or S1
Herman sued Epsterinfather and her a massage when shr.e                                                  hi m  ag ain st th ther's lawsuit fil              United American th            low- • get
° behalf of the girl, he other, who lives sexually touchedinhe                               veral under- behalf of
Jane Doe.                              Services submitted e
stepmother. Her birth m d to intervene                 Ep   stein, 55, duced se al massages Oiarry_ketientpbpost.com
near Atlanta, thenbeas     ke                             girls to give him sexu
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And not in the good way.
The Lake Worth City
unanimously Tuesday nigh      Commission voted
t to
gal challenge to the state's plan support a le-
s to issue Palm
Beach a permit to dredge new
sand onto the
Reach 8 beach.
The challenge   was   filed  with   the
ment of Environmen                           Depart-
tal   Prot ectio n by the
Surfrider and Snook foundations
and several
individuals.
The  vote cam  e at a  pack  ed  mee  ting where
even standing room was hard to
com  e by. The
large but well  -beh  aved    crow  d  of  hun dred  s
spilled out of the  com  miss  ion  cham   bers , into
the hallway and nearly out the door
of Lake
Worth City Hall.
Please see REACH 8, Page A6
pan                                             Feder al ju d g e st u d yin g E p st ei n d ea l
sewer                                          He asks for more informa             tion about victims' involvement
any, in the                                                                     , if    Kenneth Marra late last week in an at-
plea
r Point                                                By MAR    GIE
neg
KAC
otia   tion  s for the  billi ona  ire  sex   offe nde  r.
tempt to have the judge throw out the
deal reached in Palm Beach County
Circuit Court.
ORA               Beac h billi onai re Jeffrey Epstein be-
Daily News Staff Write r                                                            That deal, which calls for 12
4; residents oppose                                                                               hind bars  for 18 mon  ths.
Brad Edwards, a Hollywood attor-
months of house arrest at Epstein's El
Epstein
30-6 on the barrier           Now jailed, also to
A federal judge is seeking     mor e in-
formation before deciding whether to they
ney repr esen  ting thre e girls who
Brillo Way home and community ser-
claim vice after he leaves the
Palm Beach
;0-31 on the Point.           serve house arrest.   quash a plea agreement that put Palm appeared
were sexually abus    ed by Epst ein,
before U.S. District Judge          Please see EPSTEIN, Page A9
ROGERS
:ws Staff Writer
— A long-discussed mi.
anitary-sewer system in
)(id at a cost of more than
H is tori c C a sa N a n a li st e d fo r $ 7 2 .5 M
) be dead.
:ommission's direction,                                                                                        By David Rogers
ig Dunham on May 9                                                                                               Daily News Staff Writer     To see more of
led a letter to residents                                                                                                                    Casa Nana, visit
)th parts of town asking                                                                                    Casa Nana is again on        the
ther they want to replace                                                                              market, and its price has more PalinBcachDailyNews.com
than doubled since the last sale             •
• septic systems with a                                                                                 in 2003.                             Donald Trump, buyer dose
ary sewer system.
cycling. The hotel skis it will "plant a tree.
e sweeteners used.       for every RSVP."
Hires took his commercial                                                   presenters will include Eco Decor,         FfoPertY, we ha
Root beer flavor also can be                                                  the
a beer to the public at the        found in candies, popcorn and          Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce and direction             our property going." Reichert
said. "In order for thereisto                '             data:stork
Dadelphia Centennial Exhibi-       cough drops. There is even a           the Arthur  R. Marshall Foundation.                                          be Biba, there
a. It was a huge success and,                                                                                            has to be Florida tourism. We   want to sus-                July15 -.26
root beer shampoo.                         General manager Jennifer Reichert tain Florida's environmen
ere long, Hires root beer was                                                                                                                        t."
tied and available in local
said the state does a good job of connect-        For information on the celebration,              Kourtney
Frothy and flirty                      ing hotels with services and products that call ([Phone Redacted]. For
environmental            20$ North Federal It
rkeis•                                 Now's a perfect time to grab       can improve their environmental impact. tips and news, visit the Green Wave                          Lake Worth. Honda
blog
a bottle of root beer and add it       The DEP helped Biba find highly efficient at www.palmbeachdailynews.com                                 (561)-233-99
verance drink                    to your favorite recipes. Try a        HEPA filters for its air-conditioning sys-                                                            Summer h•a
— David Rogers               Tuesday - Sate:day. 12pr.
Of course, none of these reci- spicy root-beer glaze on bar-
i contain alcohol, so what's     becued baby-back ribs, juicy
with the "beer" part of root      ham steaks or boneless chicken
ir?                               breast. Paired with a smooth,
One record states that dur-     creamy sweet-potato purée,
EPSTEIN
the 18th century, farmers       steamed vegetables and fresh,         Attorney: Victims not consulted in plea negotiations
re brewing spiked root beer       crisp greens, root beer-inspired                                                                                                       A Nurses' Regist
i ememade stills by ferment-      entrees create an easy, tasty         From Page Al                                    could not be reached for comment regard-          Nurses providing tl
; a solution of the extract and   summertime supper.
nr with yeast. The alcohol                                                                                              ing the question before the federal court.         quality Nursing C
At the end of the day, it's the    County Jail, includes an agreement that            Guy Lewis, another of Epstein's attor-
dent was marginal at best,        classic root-beer float that will      the federal government will not prosecute neys, also was unavailable by                              Palm Beach as
I much less than regular          bring a smile. Take a scoop of                                                                                       telephone at        Martin Counties fi
Epstein.                                       his Miami office.
Ts available today.               vanilla ice cream and drop it              Edwards said his clients were not con-        The case drew the ire of Palm Beach                    20 years.
The use of the word "beer"        into a tall glass. Gently pour         sulted when the plea deal was negotiated. Police Chief Michael Reiter, whose depart-
cause some angst for Mr.         root beer over the ice cream.          The girls, each identified public-                       ment conducted a nearly year-          Rite 12.N.. CBS
es. His drink was all the rage Add another scoop of ice cream             ly as a "Jane Doe," were about to
he height of Prohibition. It                                                                                                       long investigation of Epstein            Companion • Don
and another pour of the soda. If        be named as victims in a federal                                                                    LICIICSE • tell.102I
m't until lab results proved                                                                                                       that found he paid underage
you have enough room, repeat            indictment against Epstein, Ed-
t the beverage contained less again. For a gourmet touch, add                                                                      girls for massages and some-
wards said.                                              times sex at his mansion.
ihol than bread that temper-      a flirty swirl of whipped cream             U.S. Attorney
e advocates endorsed it and                                                                            said                            Reiter turned the findings
and top it off with a shiny-red         during Friday's hearing that the
)0pularity soared. (Hires                                                                                                          over to State Attorney Barry
maraschino cherry.                     federal District Court has no ju-
n used the words "Temper-             Here's another variation                                                                     Krischer's office with a rec-
risdiction over the plea agree-                           ommendation that Epstein be
e drink" in its marketing         to prepare with ice-cream pop          ment approved in state Circuit
ing this period.)                                                                                                                  arrested on four counts of un-
molds. Pour 4 cups root beer into       Court.                                                   lawful sex acts with a minor, a
a pitcher and place in the refrig-          "The court has taken the mo-
proves toxic                                                                                                                     second-degree felony, and one
erator for about 15 minutes. This      tions under advisement and not             Ma rra
Root beer hit another snag                                                                                                        count of lewd and lascivious mo-          Convenientlylocate(
will "flatten" the liquid and re-      ruled yet," U.S. District Court U.S. Dist rict Court lestation, also a second-degr
960 when the U.S. Food and        move the excess foam.                                                                                                          ee        to Good Samaritan H
spokeswoman Alicia Valle wrote judge has not ruled. felony.
g Administration banned              Then take the cold root beer       in an e-mail. "The parties are                                                                               in the
use of sassafras oil based on                                                                                                         But Krischer did not arrest
and place it in the freezer for 10     conferring to determine if an evidentiary Epstein, instead choosing to send the case             VICTORFABIUS BUT
conclusion that it was a car-     minutes.                               hearing is necessary."                         to a grand jury, which indicted Epstein on                 Suite #3901
igen. Sassafras root had been         In the meantime, place a                Marra did not rule but asked for more one third-degree felony count of solicita-               1411 North Plaster I
key ingredient in creating        maraschino cherry into each            information about the girls' involvement, tion of prostitution.
beer, and the ban all but ru- pop mold, then pour in root beer                                                                                                                West Palm Bead
if any, in the plea negotiations. Marra, ac-       Epstein's plea acknowledged solicita-
t its place on the soda radar.    until half-full. Gently place a                                                                                                                 Florida 33401
cording to Edwards, also expressed con- tion of one underage girl for prostitution.
uter experimenting with           small scoop of ice cream in the        cern about the issue of federal versus state       Edwards, the victims' attorney, on              PHONE: (561) 671-;
-natives, root beer makers        mold and add a little bit of root      jurisdiction.                                  Tuesday referred to Epstein as a "serious            FAX: (561) 671.1%
e up with a solution. They        beer until full.                           Epstein, a 55-year-old Manhattan in- sexual predator" who is receiving "clear,
ad that sassafras could be            Freeze the molds for a cou-        vestment banker, was handcuffed and tak- transparent, favorable treatment" and                    ANursesRegistry@aol
if is it treated first to re•  ple of.hours and wait until the        en to the Palm Beach Counts, Jail at the "'mina hie woulth                   a.-
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Hardball had a backdrop of the Marching                 Palm&
it was about the economy, immigration,                          muter university with little school spirit Owls band, and this morning, MSNBC
and health cam.                                                 — and the answers were nearly all the correspondent Joe Scarborough will film
At the mention of Florida Atlantic                           same.                                      his MorningJoe show from campus.
University by moderator Brian Williams,                            "This has been a big year for FAU.        "We're part of history. We're on our
from NBC Nightly News, a collective                             We won the New Orleans Bowl and now                                                                Da
chant of F-A-U,         F-A-U erupted                           this is happening" said Krysta Barrett,                            See DEBATE, 66 ►
Pr(
'This was a typical 14-year-old girl.... What happened here was despicable:                                                                          of
Jeffrey Herman, lawyer for parents of girl, now 17, who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault
Palm Beach man faces lawsuit in teen sex case                                                                                                                           a trim
he did,
Lopez]
By LARRY KELLER                                                                                                          Lawyer Jeffrey Her-       leaving
Palm Beath Past Staff Writer                                                                                                                            car to c
man (left) conducts
WEST PAIAM BEACH — The parents of a                                                                                                        a news conference             Circ
teenage girl sued part-time Palm Beach resi-                                                                                                  Thursday with the fa-     Pet, 25
dent Jeffrey Epstein for more than $50 million                                                                                                ther and stepmother       pleader
on Thursday, alleging that the wealthy money                                                                                                  of a girl who claims      felony
manager had her brought to his mansion for                                                                                                    wealthy money man-        mansla
a massage, then engaged in sexual activity                                                                                                    ager Jeffrey Epstein      first sb
with her.                                                                                                                                     assaulted her in          also mt
The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was                                                                                                 2005. The parents         hours c
14 at the time. She was the youngest of sev-                                                                                                  seek more than                "Mai
eral alleged victims of Epstein, according                                                                                                    S50 million,in their      for his
to Palm Beach police, who spent 11 months                                                                                                     lawsuit Epstein, who      Haddac
investigating him.                                                                                                                            faces a prostitution      coopen
The federal lawsuit, filed by Miami at                                                                                                     solicitation charge, is   thoritie
torney Jeffrey Herman, says "Epstein has a                                                                                                    scheduled to enter a      probath
sexual preference and obsession for under-                                                                                                    plea March 10.                After
age minor girls." Epstein "gained access to                                                                                                                             retume
primarily disadvantaged minor girls in his                                                                                                     BILL INGRAM              with hi
Staff Photographer
-T home, sexually assaulted these girls, and                                                                                                                               two old
then gave them money."                                                                                                                                                  forgot
Herman, who specializes in child sex                                                                                                                                  Galant,
abuse litigation, sued on behalf of the girl,                                                                                                                               Lope
her father and her stepmother on grounds                                                                                                                                televisit
of sexual assault, intentional infliction of                                                                                                                             ized Se
emotional distress and loss of parental con-                         shows what this case is all about money."       stepmother have prior arrests for financial         diately
sortium.                                                                He and another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann   crimes the lawyers say show the lawsuit is fi-     JFK ME
"Jane Doe ... fell into Epstein's trap and                       Sanchez launched an immediate counterof-        nancially motivated. Another Epstein lawyer,           Lope
became one of his victims," the lawsuit says.                        fensive, even showing up at Herman's news       Gerald Lefcourt, a prominent New York crim-         boy, aft
"We're dismayed by the filing of the law-                         conference outside the federal courthouse in    inal defense attorney, provided some of those       longer 1
suit, but not surprised," said Jack Goldberger,                      West Palm Beach They distributed copies of                                                          Semino
one of Epain's attorneys. "We think this                             documents showing that the girl's father and                                   See EPSTEIN, 78 ►   • larry_k
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cunnrmed n is investiga
ting
Records investigators obtained                 on other information it had recebase d
mar-
d     nearly 5833,000 from another bank acco  unt show                                                   ived.
•[Email Redacted]
er wants Epstein paid girl $300, suit claims
new home 00. EPSTEINfrom M                 documents to Goldberger
March 10, but ing only a towel, removed
he has Post- and lay naked on the masit-
"Jeffrey Epstein did not                           ported other sage table, the lawsuit says
have sex with this woman,"                            cour t dates He demanded that Jane Doe.
Sanchez said.                                          to resolve the remove her clothing, and she
Herman suggested that                               case                did, except for her under-
Epstein masturbated in front                              His       in- wear, the lawsuit alleges. The
of the alleged victim and                             dictment            sexual activity followed, the
used a vibrator on her after                          followed an suit says.
she was brought to his home Epstein                   exhaustive             Epstein            $300 af-
in February 2005. The girl is by the Palm Beach       i nvestiga
giotion
n terward, and              got $200
now 17.                                                nvePo De- for bringing                    to him,
partment, which concluded                         ts
"This was a typical 14- that Epstein
year-old girl at the time she girls and             paid unde                          aar            Iped
met Epstein," Herman said. brought toyoun            g women to            E      n arred
his' fwe-bedroom, .sons with girls, Palm Bealiai- r
"What happened here was 71/2-bath Intra
despicable."                                       coastal home for police concluded. Neit ch
massage                                                            her
The girl told police inves- play. Mucshand       sometimes sex was changed.
tigators that she informed the Jane Doeof the language in                    This is not the first time
Epstein she was 18 when she of police reposuit mirrors that Epstein has been sued over
rts in the case. purporte
met him, and she said that            Herman client said her teenage dgirlsactivities with
was her age oh her Web page, mee "                                                       . He was
Sanchez said.                                             ' was set in New York in October sued      by a
up by
The girl's father and step- hatchee, w o was of Loxa- woman who says she had sex
mother also attended the Beach Com                           a Palm with Epstein when
news conference,                                 munity College 16 and had sought hisshe            ' was
help in
student at the time. When becoming a mod
"We're very angry," the Jane                                                             el.
father said. "It's not right that home,Doe     arrived at Epsteinb            The lawsuit filed Thurs-
this wealthy man can fly into Epsteinshe       was escorted by an. day also alleges that Eps
assi                                                     tein
town and destroy my daugh- len, to a roomstant, Sarah Kel- has assaulted girls on his
tert innocence." He did not table, polic with a massage private island in the Virgin
take questions.                                 e reports and the Islands. Herman declined
to
Ej stein, 55, is a mysteri- laws    uit say                           elaborate on that assertion.
Epstein walked in Wear- • larty_lcellerOpb
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e for the amendment because he
lomes benefit to a new home.
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in Palm Beach, New Mexico
and the Virgin Islands.
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schools, police, reliable power and       spective the report "lacked" also
water. Mc Powell, the Ran     d  repo rt  was "too broad." As for planning,                       Kamikaze Repubh
says, had reconstruction plans, my  but the report emphasized the impor-
helping the civilian popula-             those who say amyll i
they weren't practical. Gen. ibm a- tance—ofthe        strategy finally adopted              for John McCain Nen
Franks, who ran military oper l last      tion                                               conservative enough _
year by Gen. David Petraeus.
tions in Iraq, had a "fundamenta   the       Of cour se, lack of planning by                what they deserve.
misunderstanding" of the      role                                                               The Clinton.
the White     Hou se and Pentagon
military should play in postwar Iraq.. was     evid ent both  before and after                    Many on the right,
2003
Gen. Franks retired in mid- had the 2005 Rand report — evident to                            Rush Limbaugh, Glt
with perfect timing. Baghdadfrom everybody but the White House and                           Ann Coulter, James D
fallen, and he left the mess                   agon, apparently. Rather than                 others, have declared i
that "fundamental misunderstand- Pent    censor the report, the administra-s                er vote for Hillary
ing" for someone else to dean up.             could have acted on it two year               not vote at all—             (
The Army is supposed to publish tion                                                     for Sen. McCain. Tin
unclassified reports as soon as      it before political and public pressure                 pointed spokesmen :
ed a change in strategy. Now, as
can review them, to be sure that- forc    Defense Secretary Robert Gate        s             vatism insist that voti
they don't contain sensitive mate         acknowledged    this wee  k with  his              Clinton is a matter o
rial. More than 21/2 years later, the                                                       Better to go doWn on
Army hasn't publ    ished the  repo rt   comments on troop levels, the next                  one% convictions than
president will be responsible for
and has done little to circulate ending what Mr. Bush secretly and                           compromised placebo
the classified version to Pentagon recklessly started. Plan on it.                               lb be sure, politic
leaders. Asked why, an Army                                                                  makes for interestin
versation, but the wii
starves to death
It isn't necessary
Spare us the outrage                                                                           thing Sen. McCain h
for him should he b
But it isn't possible
An 11-month police investiga      tion     Lawyersfor         acc   use    d sex           there no difference
one  felon  y                                    lish  .         McCain and Sen. Cli
led to an indictment on                          pre  dat   or sou   nd   foo                   Obaina), as some Red
charge of solicitation of prostitution.e                                                           A form of irration
That was in July 2006, and part     -tim
Epst  ein  still                                                     has   taken hold whe
Palm Reacher Jeffrey                                               was   filed  on  Jan.        ones  elf or to the pm
has faced no repercussions for al- than $50 million,           this show   s wha  t this        mor   e  important th:
girls .     24: "We think
legedly preying on underage                                        money." Yes,     it is       over   the   country to
So maybe Mr. Epstein is satisfied rase is all. about: effo         rt  to buy   his        to  raise   taxe  s and in
that he% getting his money's worthh — Mt Epstein%               ecut ion.                       heal   th  care .
pros
from his large legal team, whic way out of to the lawyer of a 17-
According                                          Principles should
includes Harvard Law School Pro-                             se pare  nts   are  suin  g       idle   that strict adhe
fessor Alan Dershowitz (remember year-old who                                                  wor alternative.
se
• OJ. Simpson?) and Kenneth Star             r .him, Mt. Epstein masturbated in
14 at  the time  )            Exactly which o
(remember Monica Lewinsky?). front of her (she was                                             cilitates the garnisl
Jack Goldberger of West team        Palm and used a vibrator on her at his                      to pay for insuran
Beach, who% also on the                    , home in February 2005. Another                           . Clinton has pn
ney, Lilly Ann   Sanc   hez        Sen
told Post columnist Jose Lambiet in Epstein attor         it "Jeffrey Epstein did              terview with ABCs
November "This case is absolutely dismissedsex              with this woman."                  nopoulos, Sea Clin
• going to end without a trial within not have                              claim  that  he        government-orderer
the next two months."                            For those girls who                           gram would requin
He was wrong, but Mr. Gold- did, Mr.did             Epstein% lawyers maintain              mechanism that nt
Epst   efifs   that he      not ImoW their ages     , de-
berger  rem  ains  on   Mt                                                                     know, going after p
• payroll, feigning moral outragenst        at spite a police search of his home ands                  Where.are thos'
garb age  that foun d phone message
two lawsuits filed  this   year  agai
girls' school schedules              when a Democratii
hatt an  mon   ey   man   ager  .  abou t  the                                       pointing justices
• the Man                                             even a high school transcript
The. lawsuits allege sexual exploita- and    For  all of his  mon  ey, Mr. Ermtein%            Cou    rt? Given that
tion of teenaged   girls , one  of  them                                                       justi  ces will be 70
g as 14. Said Mr.   Gold  berg   er  best defe  nse remains "I didn't know             vem     bet it% a near
as youn                                           I was a criminal pervert'?
•after the first lawsuit, seeking more that
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THE PALM BEACH POST     •    WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13,2008
Eclectic mix visits jailed tycoon
A sci' entist,
•
a stuntm an and a rep uted 4sex slave'. visit Epstein
LARRY U.ER                    During his first month of confinement,
Palm leleach Posti(E
a Writer                                                        and sometime movie stuntman.
Epstein was visited by the female assis-          The only other people to visit him at
WEST PALM BEACH - 1)rcoon Jeffrey          tant who, girls told police, had escorted
Epstein mingled with an eclectic mix of                                                      the jail, according to records, are a Singer
them to the room at his mansion where          Island man and an individual who listed
people, including beautiful young women,      they gave him naked massages.
before he got into trouble for paying teen-                                                  Epstein% Palm Beach address as his
Also trekking to the jail was a young       OWL
age girls to give him sexual massages at      woman whom Epstein purportedly de-
his Palm Beach mansion.                                                                         Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty on June 30
scribed as his Yugoslavian sex slave.          to two prostitution-related charges and Epstein
Not much has changed, even though            The wealthy financier and science
he now resides in a dorm at the Palm                                                         was sentenced to 18 months in jail, fol- Serving 18
wonlc also has been visited by an expert       lowed by a year of house arrest. Epstein months at
Beach County Sheriff% Offices 17-acre,        on artificial intelligence, as well as a man
967-bed stockade near the fairgrounds.        who is a mixed martial arts aficionado                                                    the county
See EPSTEIN, 85 ► stockade.
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Exper t on ar t i ic ia l in te ll ig en ce pa ys vi
• f
si t
•     •                               •
•     •
►   EPS  TEIN /rem   1B                             girls    told police. One       gir                    and records show he also owns a home
paid teenage girls $200                            that Epstein instructed                                in Lake Worth.
to  $300    in  2004    and    her  to  kiss  and   have
and  2005 for mas  sage s in   his  hom   e  that   watc                                                      Epstein has financed a number of
sometimes included sexual touching she                     hed and masturb      ated  .                   scientists . over the years, including
Palm Beach police said.                                    engaged in se                                  Nobel Prize winners.
at  Epst  ein   urgi  ng.                                                            He  gave   $30 mil-
HigAl          in July included:                  Epstein in jail four
29, who some of the She lists her address
teen masseuses said phoned them whe                                              as on the Upp
lion   to Har   vard   Univ
days. November, he formed the not-f2003
er  Flor  ida
ersit y in
Science Foundation, which he
. in
or-pmfit
Epstein was in town and escorted themn East                  side of Man      hatta
Epstein enormous apartment
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Girls lawsuit claims sex assaults
The minors are seeking
millionsfrom financier
Jeffrey Epstein.
By BILL DIPAOLO
Patin Beach Pas! Ste Writer
Two underage girls are ac-
cusing Palm Beach financier
Jeffrey Epstein of sexually
assaulting them in a federal
civil lawsuit filed Wednesday
by their Miami attorney.
Epstein has been in jail                                                BILL ReGRAWSIall PhologalThat
since pleading guilty in June Attorney Jeffrey Berman, whose clients are suing Palm Beacher Jef-
to solicitation of prostitution frey Epstein, speaks Wednesday outside the county stockade.
of underage girls. He is serv-
ing an 18-month sentence.       for life as a sex offender. He old visited the mansion many
"Both girls are seeking a will be under a curfew from times in two years for the
measure of justice. This is a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and must same reason, Herman said.
beginning of their healing have no unsupervised con- Both were brought to the
process," said attorney Jef- tact with anyone younger mansion by friends, he said.
frey Herman.                    than 18. He also cannot own          The charges against Ep-
Herman is seeking damag- nor possess pornographic or stein stemmed from a corn- '
es of more than $100 million. sexual materials, according plaint to Palm Beach police
Epstein has the assets to to court documents.                  about two years ago from a
cover the punitive damages,        The two girls, ages 13 and relative of a 14-year-old girl
said Herman, adding that the 16, met with investigators dur- who had given him a naked
financier owns an island off ing the 11-month investigation massage at his 7,234-square-
St. Thomas and property in by Palm Beach police. They foot home. He paid the girls
New Mexico and New York. are identified as "Jane Doe $200 to $300 each after the '
There are four pending No. 6" and "Jane Doe No. 7" in massage sessions, police said.
federal civil lawsuits and one documents filed Wednesday             Police concluded that
in state court pertaining to in the West Palm Beach sec- there were several other girls
Epstein'; relationships with tion of US. District Court.          brought to the home in 2004
minors. At least one woman         The 13-year-old visited and 2005 for similar reasons.
has sued him in New York.        Epsteinb $8.5 million Intra-
Upon his release, Epstein, coastal mansion once and Staff writer Larry Keller con-
55, will be under house arrest had sex with him, according tributed to this story
for a year and musk register to the lawsuit. The 16-year- S [Email Redacted]
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FHE PAW BEACH POST     •     TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008
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.
UMA SAMCHYySiallthatographyr                 Epstein was indicted two
Investment banker Jeffrey                         years ago after an 11-month
Epstein waits In court Monday                     investigation by Palm Betch
before his guilty plea.                           police. They received a
complaint from a relative of
a 14-year-old girl who had
Palm                                               given Epstein a naked mas-
sage at his five-bedroom,
7,234-square-foot, $8.5 million
Intracoastal home.
Beacher                                               Police concluded that there
See EPSTEIN, 8A 0-
pleads in                                          Crime coverage
■ Read past stories on the
Epstein case.
sex case                                           ■ See photos of fugitives,
unsolved cases, police blotters,
a blog, special reports and more.
Palm8eachPost.com
Jeffrey Epstein will
serve Ph years on teen
solicitation charges.
• By LARRY KELLFS
Paint Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH — He
lives in a Palm Beach water-
front mansion and has kept
company with the like's of
President Clinton, Prince An-
drew and Donald 'frump, but
investment 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
18 months in jail, he will be
under house arrest for a year.
And he will have a lifelong
obligation to register as a sex
offender. He must submit to
an HIV test within 48 hours,
with the results being pro-
vided to his victims or their
parents.
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Epstein faces civil lawsuits;
more clients may be added
Epstein will be allowed
0. EPSTEIN from IA                  to leave home for work.               "It'a validation of what
The New York-based money           we're saying in the civil
were several other girls                                               cases," said Miami attorney
brought in 2004 and 2005 to         manager told the judge he          Jeffrey Herman, who repre-
an upstairs room at the home        has formed the not-for-profit      sents the alleged victims in
for similar massages and            Florida Science Foundation         the federal lawsuits. West
sexual touching.                    to finance scientific re-          Palm Beach attorney Ted
The indictment charged           search. "Itn them every day,"      Leopold represents one al-
Epstein only with felony so-        Epstein said.                      leged victim in a civil suit in
licitation of prostitution. The        The foundation was in-          state court. He said he antici-
state attorney% office later       corporated in November.             pates amending that lawsuit
added the charge of procur-        Epstein said he already has         to add "a few other clients"
ing underage girls for that        awarded money to Harvard            as well.
purpose.                           and MTE                                In the criminal case, po-
Prosecutor Lanna Be-                When he is released from        lice went so far as to Scour
lohlavek said of the plea: "I      jail, there is a chance that Ep-    Epsteinh trash and conduct
took into consideration the        stein will be forced to move.       surveillance at Palm Beach
length, the trial would have       Sex offenders are not allowed       International Airport, where
been and witnesses having          to live within 1,000 feet of a      they watched for his private
to testify" about sometimes        school, park or other areas        jet so they would know when
embarrassing incidents.            where children may gather.         he was in town. They con-
Einstein may . have made       No determination has been          cluded that Epstein paid girls
a serious mistake soon after      made as to whether Epstein
home complies, but attorneys        $200 to $300 each after the
he was charged. He rejected                                           massage sessions.
an offer to plead guilty to one   said it likely does.                                Heidi Fleiss,"
count of aggravated assault           Sex offenders also typi-                          now 22, told
with intent to commit a felo-     cally must attend counseling        police a         et efforts in
ny, according to police docu-     sessions. Belohlavek said           recruiting girls for Epstein.
ments. He would have gotten       that was waived for Epstein             There was probable cause
five years probation, had no      because his private psychia-        to charge Epstein with un-
Criminal record and not been      trist is working with him.          lawful sex acts with a minor
a registered sex offender, the
documents indicate.                                                   and lewd and lascivious mo-
Epstein arrived in court           'It's validation               lestation, police concluded.
Monday with at least three                                               The state attorney% of-
attorneys.. He wore a blue          of what we're saying
blazer, blue shirt; blue jeans                                        fice said questions about
in the civil cases.'             the girls' credibility led it to
and white and gray sneakers.                                          take the unprecedented step
After Circuit Judge Deborah               ILI FREY HERMAN             of presenting the evidence
Dale Pucillo accepted the           Attorney who represents alleged   against Epstein to a grand
plea, he was fingerprinted.        victims, commenting on the plea   jury, rather than directly
Epstein then removed his                                             charging him.
blazer and was handcuffed                                                 Palm Beach Police Chief
for the trip to jail while his.   The judge was skeptical but         Michael Reiter was furious
attorneys tried to shield him     agreed to it.                       with State Attorney Barry.
froth photographers' lenses.         Epstein legal woes don't          Krischer, saying in a May
When he eventually is         end with Monday's plea.             2006 letter that the prosecu-
released to house arrest, Ep-     There are four pending fed-
stein will have to observe a                                           tor should disqualify himself.
eral civil lawsuits and one         "I continue to find your
10 p.m. to 6 a.m..curfew, have    in state court related to. his       offices treatment of these
no unsupervised contact           behavior. At least one woman         cases highly unusual," he
with anyone younger than          has sued him in New York,
18 and neither own nor pos-                                            wrote. He Meal asked for and
where he owns a 51,000-              got a federal investigation.
sess pornographic or sexual       square-foot Manhattan man-
materials "that are relevant      sion.
to your deviant behavior," the
judge said.
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Epstein hired a phalanx of
high-priced lawyers —includ-
ing Harvard law professor
and author Alan Dershowitz
— and public relations people
who questioned Reiterk 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
Islands. 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 same Palm
Beach Police Department
that vigorously investigated
Epstein returned his $90,000
donation for the purchase of
a fi rearms simulator.
Staffwriter Eliot Xleinbergand
staffresearcher Michelle Quig-
ley contributed to this story.
elarry_kellerapbposteom
IllAA SAMNA/Stall Photovapher
effrey Epstein (left) appears in court Monday. Soon after he was charged two years ago, Epstein reject-
ed a deal that would have given him five years' probation and no criminal record, documents show.
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New York Magazine News & Features
1/31/08                                        Party Lines                                        5:3o pm
The Night We Saw Jeffrey
Epstein in Real Life
With free-flowing top-shelf liquor, truffle-oily foods, megabyte
venues, and scores of A-to-D-listers poised to shun our goofy
questions, most Peggy Siegal parties fill us with a heady mix of
wonder and self-loathing. Last night's private screening of the
HBO film Bernard and Doris at the Time Warner Center was
no exception. At an event that seemed especially saturated
with befuddling celebrity sightings: Why is Mo Rocca following
Bebe Neuwirth like a puppy dog? Why is Cindy Adams photo-
opping with Rush Limbaugh? Catherine Crier is still around?
We were rendered speechless by one boldfacer we saw
shuffling into the screening room with a beautiful woman:
Jeffrey Epstein!
That's right, Jeffrey Epstein.
Jeffrey. Ep. Stein. Unshaven, smiling that feline-monkey grin,
wearing a slightly tattered sweater and jeans, he reeked of
money and massage oil. Well, we didn't get dose enough to say
for sure, but we could imagine. We knew he and Peggy are
Photo: Patrick McMullan                          friends, and Tye only ever seen him in jeans," she told New
York in December. But really? The week after another lawsuit
was filed against him by a teenage girl, he showed up to a movie premiere? With a young woman? (She
looked to be in her twenties, at least, by the way.) Words failed us. Hell, even our fingers failed us as we
fumbled to text a colleague about this turn of events.
The film began, and it seemed to dovetail thematically with Epstein's saga: all about eccentric billionaires
Doris Duke and her bizarre relationship with the hired help. When the lights went back up, Epstein and his
comely companion were gone. No photographs of them on any of the wire services. Was it all a dream? —
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complaint (downloadable pdf after the jump): Epstein, "a man of tremendous                 Murdoch R'
wealth, power, and influence," also happens to have a "sexual preference and
obsession with underage minor girls." To satiate this appetite, "he engaged in a           Theater of
plan and scheme in which he gained access to primarily economically                        of Souls: B
disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually assaulted them, and then gave              Off
them money? One of these girls, the plaintiff "Jane Doe," was only 14!
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Epstein's scheme, according to the complaint, is as follows:                    ,a         Internets
Palm Beach Community College coed, would at Epstein's behest lure underage
Dear Tionn.
girls to his mansion, "ostensibly to give a wealthy man a massage for monetary              up to What'
compensation" but really so that he could touch their            parts and engage in
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other non age-appropriate behavior with them.               wrangled  destitute girls
because they would be "enticed by the money being offered—generally $200 to                 The Not Re
$300 per 'massage' session—and who were perceived as less likely to complain                Heath Ledg
to authorities or have credibility If allegations of improper conduct were
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Once inside the mansion, Epstein's assistant, Sarah Kaplan, it is alleged, would
take down the girl's name and contact info and lead her up a flight of stairs lined           Wesley Snl
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with photos of nude women into a bedroom furnished with a massage table.
Once the girl was inside, Kaplan would leave and Epstein would enter, wearing
only a towel. He would proceed to "remove his towel, lay down naked on the                    EXECUTIVE
massage table, and direct the girl to remove her clothes. He then would perform               Alex Balk
one or more lewd, lascivious and sexual acts, including masturbation and
touching the girl's vagina with a vibrator." For this, Jane Doe received $300 and             EDITED BY
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SOCIETY GIRL AT TWITS' END
Neal Travis. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec
1, 2000. pg. 009
Abstract (Document Summary)
THINGS may be turning sour for gal-about-town Ghisla
ine Maxwell, daughter of the fat and fraudulent
owner of the Daily News, the late Robert Maxwell.                                                        former
I hear that some of the 39-year-old Ghislaine's friend
Manhattan and London party circuit are cutting her                                                         s on the
because she's had so much adverse press over her
relationship with Prince Andrew, Fergie's ex, with whom
she recently attended a downtown S&M-themed party.
Her relationship with "Randy Andy" is said to be platon
ic, but the socially prominent women in Ghislaine's
have recently sworn off any kind of publicity.                                                               "set"
Full Text (328 words)
Copyright New York Post Corporation Dec 1, 2000
THINGS may be turning sour for gal-about-town Ghisla
ine Maxwell, daughter of the fat and fraudulent former
owner of the Daily News, the late Robert Maxwell.
I hear that some of the 39-year-old Ghislaine's friends
Manhattan and London party circuit are cutting her                                                            on the
because she's had so much adverse press over her
relationship with Prince Andrew, Fergie's ex, with whom
she recently attended a downtown S&M-themed party.
Her relationship with "Randy Andy" is said to be platon
ic, but the socially prominent women in Ghislaine's
have recently sworn off any kind of publicity. A series of                                                     "set"
lacerating articles - and the publication of the vapid
"Bright Young Things," written by one of their own, Brook
e de Ocampo - has portrayed this crowd as a bunch of
twits living off their trust funds.
Ghislaine's own funds are something of a mystery. Her
father lavished money on her and set her up In at least
one business in New York. But Maxwell's own ill-gotten gains
which was named for her. There are plenty of British pensio were seized after he took a dive off his yacht,
ners who lost their only means of support in the
crash of Maxwell's house of cards and who find it obsce
ne that Ghislaine manages to own an apartment on the
Upper East Side and a mews house in London.
She is said to be on some kind of retainer from mysterious
New York financier Jeffrey Epstein, who reportedly
has holdings in several major companies. Epstein also
likes the company of attractive young women, and it's
said that Ghislaine has been very good about introducing him
to some of her pals.
Ghislaine and her two elder sisters don't talk about where
their money is coming from, but they are said to be
heavily involved in some kind of Internet company. It would
be awful luck for Ghislaine if her social standing
were diminished at the same time as tech stocks are going
down the toilet.
Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Furthe
r reproduction or distribution is prohibited without
permission.
People:         Maxwell, Ghislaine
Section:        Neal Travis' New York
Text Word Count 328
Document URL:
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New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 20, 2002. pg. 010
People:         Epstein, Jeffrey, Clinton, Bill, Trump, Donald J, Boardman, Samantha, Truman, James
Section:        Page Six
Text Word       1147
Count
Document URL:
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Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for
$15,000. [Jeffrey Epsteinj's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial
digs to him for just $1. Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the
interior.
SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman
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MURKY WORLD OF CLINTON PAL
New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 20, 2002. pg. 010
Abstract (Document Summary)
Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for $15,000.
(Jeffrey Epsteinj's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial digs to him for just
$1. Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the interior.
SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman, last year for
man-about-town Todd Meister. According to our spies, Boardman ditched Meister after she caught him in
flagrante with a 19-year-old coed. But don't feel too bad for her. Women's Wear Daily reports Boardman has a
new man - Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. Truman must not be too pleased. When Boardman dumped him, he
needed to recuperate at a Buddhist retreat upstate. Editorial meetings at Conde Nast must be a hoot these
days.
"DISCO Bloodbath" author James St. James is following up his notorious tell-all about killer club kid Michael Alig
with another true-crime tome. He's shopping around "Killer Grandpa," his investigation into a lynching that his
grandfather led in 1935. "My grandfather was a sheriff in Fort Lauderdale, and he lynched a black man that
allegedly raped a white woman," James told us. "About 100 people gathered to watch, and they passed a gun
around and everyone took a shot at the body. It became this big town secret, and I write about what really
happened." James, a 1980s club kid who fell in with Alig's inner circle, is played by Seth Green in "Party
Monster," the movie adaptation of "Disco Bloodbath." But James said he was "shocked" when he watched a few
scenes of Green mincing it up with Macaulay Culkin, who plays Alig. "I didn't know I was so gayl I thought I was
more like Steve McQueen, but Seth is flouncing around the whole time. Seth is much cuter than me, actually,
and looks better in drag."
Full Text (1147 words)
(Copyright 2002, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved)
PAGE SIX'S scoop last month that mysterious money manager Jeffrey Epstein had flown Bill Clinton, Chris
Tucker and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his private 727 has sent journalists all over town trying to find out just who
Epstein really is.
Vanity Fair has a reporter on his trail, but New York magazine beats them to the punch with a feature this week
on Epstein's strange history.
Epstein, 49, a former Dalton School math teacher from Coney Island, is said to manage $15 billion for super-
wealthy clients he'll only take on if they have at least $1 billion in assets.
"According to people who know him," New York reports, "if you were worth $700 million and felt the need for the
services of Epstein & Co., you would receive a not-so-polite no-thank-you."
Noted mergers/acquisitions lawyer Dennis Block of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft recalls trying to give
Epstein a client whose funds were below the $1 billion cutoff.
"I sent him a $500 million client a few years ago and he wouldn't take him," Block reports. "Said the account was
too small. Both the client and I were amazed. But that's Jeffrey."
Most Wall Streeters, however, aren't even certain what Epstein actually does for a living. "My belief is that Jeff
maintains some sort of money-management firm, though you won't get a straight answer from him," says one
powerful investor. "He once told me that he has 300 people working for him, and I've also heard he manages
Rockefeller money. But one never knows. It's like looking at the Wizard of Oz."
Some say that Epstein once quit his seat on the board of the Rockefeller Institute because he hates wearing a
suit, supposedly telling a friend, "It feels like wearing a dress."
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One power player who doesn't find Epstein to be all that hard to figure is Donald Trump.
"I've known Jeffrey for 15 years," The Donald tells the magazine. "Terrific guy. He's 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."
Another thing Epstein - who's said to pocket at least $75 million a year in fees - and Trump have in common is a
taste for extravagant living. Epstein lives in a 45,000-square-foot, eight-story mansion on East 71st Street.
Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for $15,000.
Epstein's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial digs to him for just $1.
Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the interior.
"I don't want to live in another person's house," Epstein told New York.
Blind dater
CHRIS Noth wasn't lonely on a recent trip to London. The "Law & Order hunk was set up on a blind date with
Rose Keegan, an actress and the daughter of historian Sir John Keegan. The two spent much of the evening at
the Century Club, and they were chaperoned by Kyle MacLachlan, who is pals with Noth from their days on the
set of "Sex and the City." MacLachlan is in London co-starring in a play with hemp-happy Woody Harrelson.
'Rockets' soars
"ROCKETS Redglarel" - a posthumous tribute to the late East Village actor and downtown icon - won the Grand
Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Directed by
Luis Fernandez De La Reguera, it features interviews with Rockets' pals Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Jim
Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi and Julian Schnabel. Rockets, the beloved 350-pound former bodyguard of punk
legend Sid Vicious who appeared in several of Buscemi's and Jarmusch's movies, died last year after years of
drug abuse.
Bizarre union
BOB Crane was a sex addict, but his second wife, Pat Crane, didn't care. "He treated women like the rest of the
world treats toilet paper. Who's going to be jealous of toilet paper?" she told "20/20" contributing correspondent
Chris Connelly. Despite Crane's penchant for seducing other women and documenting his trysts on film and
videotape, Pat insists: "We had a wonderful sex life. We had a wonderful marriage." Crane was bludgeoned to
death in 1978 with a camera tripod.
Plot device
GAY writers love PAGE SIX. Everyone's favorite gossip column is prominently featured in the new novel "The
Night We Met," a romantically swishy comedy by Rob Byrnes about a guy and his mafioso boyfriend. After
making references to this page and The Post throughout the book, Byrnes even attempts to replicate one of our
items in the climax. Byrnes' fictional item may lack the flawless prose of a real PAGE SIX scoop, but he does
have us outsmarting yet another mendacious mouthpiece.
Change partners
SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman, last year for
man-about-town Todd Meister. According to our spies, Boardman ditched Meister after she caught him in
flagrante with a 19-year-old coed. But don't feel too bad for her. Women's Wear Daily reports Boardman has a
new man - Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. Truman must not be too pleased. When Boardman dumped him, he
needed to recuperate at a Buddhist retreat upstate. Editorial meetings at Conde Nast must be a hoot these
days.
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SEAN "Puffy" Combs confirmed our account of how Heath Ledger scuffled with his bodyguards at the
VH1Nogue Awards after-party Combs threw at Lotus. "Heath is from Australia, and he parties hard now,"
Combs told "Access Hollywood." The two became pals on the set of "Monster's Ball." "He's coming at me, he's
like, 'Puff, people don't know that we're the best of friends,' so it's like my security held him up for a second . . .
and I was like, 'No, that's my brother.' " Sins of his grandfather
"DISCO Bloodbath" author James St. James is following up his notorious tell-all about killer club kid Michael Alig
with another true-crime tome. He's shopping around "Killer Grandpa," his investigation into a lynching that his
grandfather led in 1935. "My grandfather was a sheriff in Fort Lauderdale, and he lynched a black man that
allegedly raped a white woman," James told us. "About 100 people gathered to watch, and they passed a gun
around and everyone took a shot at the body. It became this big town secret, and I write about what really
happened." James, a 1980s club kid who fell in with Alig's inner circle, is played by Seth Green in "Party
Monster," the movie adaptation of "Disco Bloodbath." But James said he was "shocked" when he watched a few
scenes of Green mincing it up with Macaulay Culkin, who plays Alig. "I didn't know I was so gayl I thought I was
more like Steve McQueen, but Seth is flouncing around the whole time. Seth is much cuter than me, actually,
and looks better in drag."
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NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be
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NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be settling
down with his former gal pal. Model Alina Pascau has been flashing a massive canary-yellow diamond
engagement ring Ratner recently gave her, we're told. Pascau, a Romanian stunner, used to date reclusive
billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who handles Leslie Wexner's fortune, helped land her a gig modeling for
Wexner's Victoria's Secret brand, wehear, and paid for her to live in high style. After they broke up she and
Ratner dated for a while before his fling with Williams. "She's beautiful, but dumb as paint," one pal of Pascau
told us. "She never washes her hair and she always has a cellphone glued to her ear. Without Jeffrey she would
never have gotten the Victoria's Secret job." Pascau, who likes high-profile men, also used to bed down with
Formula I driver Eddie Irvine. Ratner's rep did not return calls.
YOU can't watch Arthur Chi'en on WCBS/Ch. 2 any more - the reporter was fired last week for uttering the "f
word" on-air - but you can buy a plethora of products with his face on it. Cafepress.com is hawking a line of
Chi'en-branded mugs, T-shirts, buttons, tote bags, messenger bags, barbecue aprons, teddy bears and even a
"Chi'en Classic Thong." Some are emblazoned with the words, "What the (bleep) is your problem, man?" - the
question Chi'en, who thought he was off the air, yelled out to twohecklers. David Yee, who is selling the Chi'en
merchandise, said he was inspired by the popular T-shirts of revolutionary Che Guevara. "Chi'en sort of sounds
like Che," he explained. "People are buying it." Meanwhile, Chi'en's friend Ian Gerard, the founder of Gen Art,
has circulated an e-mail calling the firing "ridiculous," and urging recipients to complain to various Viacom and
Channel 2 executives. Chi'en tells us he was "devastated" by his dismissal, and says he's currently looking for a
new job. "I've got bigger things to worry about than the shirts, basically," he said.
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YOUNG Hollywood can rest easier now that police have arrested the man suspected of committing a string of
burglaries in the Beverly Hills and Bel Air area.
Darnell Riley, 28, was officially busted two months ago in connection with a burglary/robbery at "Girls Gone
Wild" gazillionaire Joe Francis' home in January 2004 - but he's also being investigated for break-ins at the
homes of Paris Hilton, baby oil heiress Casey Johnson, club promoter Tommy Alastra and other L.A. celebs.
A source said the crime ring used a gorgeous Elite model, still at large, to infiltrate the Hollywood party scene:
"She would befriend the men, get the security codes to their homes and then send Riley in."
Just before the 2004 Golden Globes, Francis returned to his Bel Air home as it was being robbed. The intruder
Francis recently identified as Riley held him at gunpoint and stole $300,000 in cash and valuables.
Sources added that Francis was "being blackmailed." Francis would only say, "I can confirm I was robbed at
gunpoint."
When Hilton's home was burgled in September of 2004, it looked eerily similar to the Francis break-in.
At the time, Hilton spokesman Elliot Mintz confirmed that a "very, very professional" gang swiped more than
$100,000 worth of jewelry, cash, video tapes and other items from the Hollywood Hills house Paris was renting
with her sister, Nicky.
After the burglary, more Hilton sex tapes mysteriously appeared, and damaging reports surfaced of a tape
where Hilton supposedly used the "n-word." .
Insiders say Hilton paid dearly to make sure the tape was never found. A source said, "She was blackmailed.
She paid $20,000 a month to have that tape not released." Hilton told PAGE SIX via her rep, "Anyone who
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blackmails should be prosecuted to the full extent of theliw."
Hollywood insiders say Frankie Muniz and Wes Anderson may also have been burglarized, but their reps deny
it. Steve Coleman, a Los Angeles police officer who worked the case, told PAGE SIX: "Darnell Riley is in
custody and charged with burglary, robbery, and home invasion. This is an ongoing investigation."
Asked if the cops were looking into whether or not Riley had pulled the heists at the homes of Hilton, Johnson
and the others, Coleman said, "That's fair to say."
Wacky lackeys
AND you thought P. Diddy forcing Farnsworth Bentley to hold his umbrella was bad? Mariah Carey retains a
"petite Colombian woman" whose duties include "keeping Mariah's long skirts from touching the floor and
humping around a Louis Vuitton backpack filled with bottled water," reports Stuff magazine. Nelly keeps a
"personal jewelry jockey" to ensure the safekeeping of all his carat- encrusted bling. Ludacris has a minion
whose sole role is to make sure his boss' Gameboy is always loaded with fresh batteries. And rapper N.O.R.E.
has a hype man, Ching Bing, who has just one job: to stand onstage and swing around a towel.
We hear . . .
THAT Eva Longoria - milking her man-eating "Desperate Housewives" image to the max - has taped a spot for
Sirius Satellite Radio where she huskily pants: "Some women have to guess what a man wants, but I know what
a man really wants, something that will keep a smile on his face for a really long time - over 120 channels,
enough to satisfy any man" . . . THAT a visitor to Japan - where extreme modesty and close quarters prevail -
reports that new public toilets have an unusual feature, the Flush Noise button, so that you can conceal the
sound of actual bathroom functions with an artificial flushing noise.
Sightings
.
DALLAS Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder powwowing at Caf Milano
. . BEN Affleck sitting front row at the Red Sox-Blue Jays game in Toronto,   then getting mobbed   for photos
before escaping through the Sox dugout . . . TRACY Morgan lifting up his shirt a la his character in "The Longest
at
Yard" to do a striptease for Burt Reynolds, Adam Sandler and Chris Rock at their movie premiere after-party
Plus, the new  lounge   in Chelsea  . . . HARRY Shearer dedicating his song, "82 Facelifts," to Barbara Walters
during a performance at the Cutting Room.
Romanian babe scores rock
settling
NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be
down with his former gal pal.  Model  Alina Pascau   has been  flas hing a massive   canary-yello w  diamond
engagement ring Ratner recently gave her, we're told. Pascau, a Romanian stunner, used to date reclusive
for
billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who handles Leslie Wexner's fortune, helped land her a gig modeling
to  live in high style. After they broke  up  she and
Wexner's Victoria's Secret brand, wehear, and paid for her
Pascau
Ratner dated for a while before his fling with Williams. "She's beautiful, but dumb as paint," one pal of
and she always  has a pellphone    glued  to her ear. Without  Jeffrey she would
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to bed  down
never have gotten the Victoria's Secret job." Pascau, who likes high-profile men, also used
Formula I driver Eddie Irvine. Ratner's rep did not return calls.
Publicity-hungry
canceled a dinner for 18 at
A ROMAN restaurateur is trying to exploit a near-miss with Bill Clinton, who recently
Romeo   Caraccio  is whining  to the press  that Clinton's people
the fashionable Agata e Romeo eatery. Owner
ordered nearly $2,000 of special  food and  wines but never canceled,  leaving  him  to take a loss. But his tale is
it, and compensated
baloney, says Clinton rep Jim Kennedy. "An advance person made a reservation, canceled
publicity out of a  canceled
the restaurant for it," Kennedy said. He quipped, "A restaurant trying to get
reservation? I'm shocked."
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Protein power
HOW did Shaquille O'Neal prepare for last night's Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Finals pitting his Miami Heat
against the Detroit Pistons? By devouring a 48-oz. porterhouse ($76) at South Beach's trendiest steakhouse,
Prime 112, the night before. The 7-foot-1, 320- lb. center joined fellow carnivores Jamie Foxx and TNT analyst
Charles Barkley, who as usual was trashing the Knicks. There's one menu item Shaq steers clear of - the $20
"Kobe Hot Dog."
Keepin' it real
IS life imitating art? Blond bombshell Katheryn VVinnick, who was so good as lvana Trump in Tuesday night's
"Trump Unauthorized" on ABC, must have liked her brush with real estate fame. The Post's Lois Weiss reports
the actress was seen canoodling with one of the city's top real estate investment-sale brokers, Douglas Harmon
of Eastdil, Tuesday afternoon, before she got into a black Lincoln in front of 40 W. 57th St., the building where
Harmon is headquartered.
Paris burger ad not for kids?
PARIS Hilton is too hot for Washington. Lawmakers are working behind the scenes to get her sizzling W ad for
eatery chain Carl's Jr. - in which she writhes half-naked on a Bentley, cavorts with a garden hose and sucks her
finger - banished to late night. Sources say several influential pots have quietly told networks the commercial,
labeled "basically soft-core porn" by the Parents Television Council, isn't fit for children and shouldn't air before
10 p.m. The eye-popping ad, in which Paris looks like she's getting ready for her next Rick Solomon, is great
publicity for Carl's Jr., which hired the hotel hottie to hawk its new Spicy Burger. The fast- food firm's official
response to those who are seeing red? "Get a life."
Sudden dash
DAMON Dash, with gorgeous wife Rachel Roy in tow, basked in the glory of receiving an AAFA American Image
Award from Kevin Bacon at the Grand Hyatt, but dashed out without offering a donation to the event's charity
to
partner, the Alzheimer's Association. The hip-hop mogul was apparently the only honoree who didn't donate
nobody connected to the event was aware of  it.
the event. Dash's publicist told us he did make a donation - but
Axed reporter branded
the "f
YOU can't watch Arthur Chi'en on WCBS/Ch. 2 any more - the reporter was fired last week for uttering
but you can  buy a plethora   of products  with his  face on  it. Cafepress.c  om  is hawking  aline   of
word" on-air -
aprons,  teddy   bears and   even   a
Chi'en-branded mugs, T-shirts, buttons, tote bags, messenger bags, barbecue
"What   the  [bleep) is your problem,   man?:     the
"Chi'en Classic Thong." Some are emblazoned with the words,
the Chi'en
question Chi'en, who thought he was off the air, yelled out to twohecklers. David Yee, who is selling
by   the popular T-shirts  of revolutionar   y Che  Guevara.   "Chi'en  sort of sounds
merchandise, said he was inspired
founder  of Gen   Art,
like Che," he explained. "People are buying it." Meanwhile, Chi'en's friend Ian Gerard, the                            and
has circulated an e-mail calling the firing "ridiculous," and urging recipients     to complain  to  various Viacom
looking for a
Channel 2 executives. Chi'en tells us he was "devastated" by his dismissal, and says he's currently
new job. "I've got bigger things to worry   about than the shirts,   basically," he  said.
Call to mouths
s. But when you
KELLY Osboume thinks her Hollywood friends are too thin. "Sure they're beautiful in photograph
Vogue.  "I hate to name    names,    so I'm not
see them in person, they look hungry and miserable," she tells Teen                                             'You're so
and  remember     thinking,
going to, but there's one in particular I think of often. I saw her last summer                             looked  near
into her  in the winter and  she  literally
beautiful, you're at the most perfect weight.' And then I ran
, the magazine's June/July
death. I was like, 'What are you doing to yourself? You're 18 years old." Interestingly
issue features shrunken Lindsay    Lohan    on the cover.
[Illustration]
REWARDS
-Shaquille O'Neal; Katheryn Winnick -IN A CONTROVERSIAL TV SPOT, PARIS HILTON
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HERSELF AFTER WASHING A BENTLEY IN HER SKIMPY SWIMSUIT. [Jeff Vespa /INirelmage] -LATINA
LOVELY THALIA CHANNELS ELVIS PRESLEY AS SHE SHOOTS HER NEW VIDEO FOR "AMAR SIN SER
AMADA" IN BROOKLYN. [Sara Jaye Weiss]
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PROBED POL'S SON BLAMES PLOT
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IS billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein making a bid for IMG Models? As we reported last summer, Epstein tried
to buy Elite Models when the bankrupt agency was auctioned off. In 2003, we reported that Epstein, who's been
described as "a connoisseur of beautiful women," was talking to Karin Models owner Jean-Luc Brunel about
doing a deal, but it went nowhere. Epstein has also met with Elite's Gerald Marie and 1 Management's Scott
Lipps. Now we hear Epstein has been having talks with fellow billionaire Teddy Forstmann, who paid $750
million for the IMG group a few months ago, about buying the company's modeling division, which reps the likes
of Gisele Bundchen, Kate Moss and Heidi Klum. Reps for IMG and Forstmann deny any such negotiations are
taking place. Epstein's rep did not return calls. Forstmann has been talking to top Hollywood talent agencies
about a possible merger.
PAUL Allen, 51, the bachelor Microsoft co-founder worth $20 billion (according to Forbes), rang in the New Year
with British blonde Kate Reardon, 36 (above), a former fashion director for Tatter magazine who now writes
about jewelry for the Times of London. The couple ushered in 2005 in St. Barts aboard Allen's 413- foot yacht,
"Octopus," equipped with two helicopters and a 60-foot submarine. There were scores of other guests but Allen
seemed mesmerized by Reardon, who had a similareffect on another billionaire, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith. Reardon
attended Goldsmith's funeral in 1997, along with his widow and his second wife. "Conveniently, Allen has a
house in London," said our source.
[TRUMAN CAPOTE], dead for over 20 years, is suddenly a hot property in Hollywood. The author of "Breakfast
at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood" is the subject of two new biopics - Warner Independent's "Every Word Is True,"
based on            Plimpton's 1997 oral history, and United Artists' "Capote," based on the landmark 1988 Gerald
Clarke bio.rny. "Capote," due out this fall, stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who is talented but a bit burly to
play the "tiny terror." "Every Word" stars relatively unknown Toby Jones with an all-star supporting cast including
Alan Cumming, Anjelica Huston, Sandra Bullock (as "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee), Ashley Judd,
Kevin Kline, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver. Hollywood columnist Jeffrey Wells reports that "Capote"
has the advantage of Hoffman in the starring role, while "Every Word," which just started filming, is said to have
a much better screenplay.
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THE loose-cannon son of a subpoenaed Bronx state senator claims Republicans are behind a federal probe of                frfr
the Bronx Democratic machine because they want to destroy Fernando Ferrer's campaign for mayor.
Efrain Gonzalez III, whose dad, State Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., is one of nine Bronx politicians subpoenaed to
testify, wrote to the Riverdale Review: "The GOP controls the White House, the N.Y. State House and City Hall,
so if they want to attack the members of the Bronx Democratic Party, who is going to stop them?" Fifteen
subpoenas reportedly have been served, six of them to nonprofit organizations that employ relatives of the
elected officials. Young Gonzalez is president of the Latino Affirmation Council, which isn't listed in The Bronx or
Manhattan.
Gonzalez     letter to the Riverdale paper said: "When my father and the 14 other members were issued
subpoenas, that alone was a message being sent by the GOP, that they will do anything in their power to keep
Mayor Bloomberg in power, because all those members being probed are working to support Ferrer in next
year's mayoral race."
The elder Gonzalez's lawyer, "Don't Worry Murray" Richman, told PAGE SIX: "This is the over-excited
imagination of a young man. We do not support these allegations which were not authorized and don't represent
the views of the senator or myself."
In a strange e-mail posted on YonkersTribune.com last fall, after The Post broke the news of the investigation,
young Gonzalez said: "They couldn't find any weapons [of mass destruction), so they said instead of killing more
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camels, they are trying to get rid of all the donkeys over here instead . . . they forgot that a Puerto Rican donkey
knows how to climb high mountains, and are stronger than any elephant."
One federal subpoena went to the elder Gonzalez's longtime girlfriend, Lucia Sanchez. Investigators are also
looking into the $1 million in campaign funds Gonzalez has spent over the years in uncontested elections, with
much of the money going to a mystery campaign worker identified in filings as Ricardo Santiago.
"At issue is whether or not borough politicos funneled state and city funds into pet programs to then turn those
funds into salaries for friends and relatives," the Riverdale Review reports.
One of the non-profits being probed is the West Bronx Neighborhood Association, a favorite of Gonzalez's
housed in the same building as his office on the Grand Concourse.
Talent shortfall
THUMB-size thespians looking for a little work would do well to book a trip to London, where dwarf actors are in
short supply. Producers for the BBC's "Doctor Who" are searching for undersize actors to play little blue aliens in
the remake of the classic 1970s sci-fi show. But most of Britain's tiny talents have already been snapped up for
the new "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie or to play Gringotts Bank staff in the new "Harry Potter" film.
Executive producer Russell T. Davies complained to London's Daily Mirror: "It's very difficult to employ persons
of restricted growth when these other movies are filming at the same time."
We hear . . .
THAT it could get crowded for the Democrats in 2008. John Kerry has said he won't rule out running again, and
now comes word Tipper Gore is telling friends that Al Is eyeing another race himself.
Words of gold
Donald Trump will be paid a record-breaking $1 million an hour for Learning Annex appearances in three
featured
cities this year. That's over $16,000 a minute. Since it was founded in 1980, the Learning Annex has
such celebrity  teachers  as Sarah  Jessica Parker, Tony  Robbins,  Deepak   Chopra   and Henry Kissinger.   The
when   he was a member   of  the
previous highest fee was $28,000 - paid to Ron Wood nearly 20 years ago
23 and
Rolling Stones. Trump's "How toSucceed in Real Estate" hits Los Angeles on May 1, Chicago on Oct.
New York on Nov. 6. Learning Annex      president/fo under Bill Zanker said, "Last time he taught for us, over  20,000
students came - and this    year he's even bigger."
Mogul lusts for model shop
Epstein tried
IS billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein making a bid for IMG Models? As we reported last summer,
auctioned   off. In 2003,  we  reported  that Epstein,  who's been
to buy Elite Models when the bankrupt agency was
women,"   was  talking to  Karin  Models   owner  Jean-Luc    Brunel  about
described as "a connoisseur of beautiful
nowhere.  Epstein has  also met  with Elite's  Gerald  Marie  and  1 Manageme     nt's Scott
doing a deal, but it went
Forstmann,   who  paid  $750
Lipps. Now we hear Epstein has been having talks with fellow billionaire Teddy
reps the likes
million for the IMG group a few months ago, about buying the company's modeling division, which
for IMG  and   Forstmann    deny  any  such  negotiations are
of Gisele Bundchen, Kate Moss and Heidi Klum. Reps
calls. Forstmann    has been    talking to top Hollywood   talent agencies
taking place. Epstein's rep did not return
about a possible merger.
Aspen captive
her in a room
SOCIALITE Denise Rich has fired her yoga instructor after his girlfriend told police that he locked          that
The  unidentified  woman    alleged
of Rich's Aspen mansion for three days over the Thanksgiving holiday.
room  when  she threatened   to call the cops. A
Jules Paxton attacked her first and then locked her in a
during the incident,
spokesman for Rich said the ex-wife of pardoned tax cheat Marc Rich was traveling abroad
staying at herhome. "Mrs.  Rich has decided  to discontinue   his services as her
but confirmed that Paxton was
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Happy holiday
PAUL Allen, 51, the bachelor Microsoft co-founder worth $20 billion (according to Forbes), rang in the New Year
with British blonde Kate Reardon, 36 (above), a former fashion director for Tatler magazine who now writes
about jewelry for the Times of London. The couple ushered in 2005 in St. Barts aboard Allen's 413- foot yacht,
"Octopus," equipped with two helicopters and a 60-foot submarine. There were scores of other guests but Allen
seemed mesmerized by Reardon, who had a similareffect on another billionaire, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith. Reardon
attended Goldsmith's funeral in 1997, along with his widow and his second wife. "Conveniently, Allen has a
house in London," said our source.
Super at 14
THE 44 contestants in the Ford Supermodel of the World contest learned evasive maneuvers at the after-party
at the Tunnel, where they met such studs as Jesse Palmer of the Giants, Trevor Ariza of the Knicks, Jamie
("Born Rich") Johnson and Kelly ("The Apprentice") Perdew. New husband Fabian Basabe showed, too, without
bride Martina Borgomanero, and worked the red carpet The winner, who also got a $250,000 modeling contract,
was Brazilian Camila Finn (above), all of 14. She might look even better when she grows up.
IT'S THE TRUMAN CAPOTE SHOW
TRUMAN Capote, dead for over 20 years, is suddenly a hot property in Hollywood. The author of "Breakfast at
Tiffany's"      " Cold Blood" is the subject of two new biopics - Warner Independent's "Every Word Is True,"
based on             Plimpton's 1997 oral history, and United Artists' "Capote," based on the landmark 1988 Gerald
Clarke  biograp   y. "Capote," due out this fall, stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who is talented but a bit burly to
play the "tiny terror." "Every Word" stars relatively unknown Toby Jones with an all-star supporting cast including
Alan Cumming, Anjelica Huston, Sandra Bullock (as "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee), Ashley Judd,
Kevin Kline, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver. Hollywood columnist Jeffrey Wells reports that "Capote"
has the advantage of Hoffman in the starring role, while "Every Word," which just started filming, is said to have
a much better screenplay.
Own show
COURTNEY Fine, a former aide to Mayor Bloomberg who left politics to become an actress, is showcasing "Me
2," a play she wrote about a woman jailed for breaking into the bar where she left her cell- phone. Among those
s sister
invited to last night's opening at the Producers Club 2: Victoria Gatti, Amy Fine Collins and Bloomberg'
Marjorie Tiven. The show closes after tomorrow's performance.
Never mind
Parnham, the lawyer for Andrea Yates, is quick to cash in after winning her a new trial for the murder
shopping a book, "States of
o er we kids. Parnham, who will try to get Yates off using the insanity defense, is
premenstrual
Mind," which will focus on his favorite tricks for defending female killers: postpartum depression,
syndrome and post-traumatic stress. And he'll include similar cases: Clara      Harris, who allegedly ran over her
y,  who   strangled  Bobbie Jo Stinnett and then
unfaithful husband with herMercedes Benz, and Lisa Montgomer
surgically removed her fetus last month.
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-Kate Reardon; Camila Finn -SINGER ALICIA KEYS KEEPS HER BOD BUFF BY JOGGING ON THE
-ANY MAN  WHO WINS THE HEART OF NICOLE KIDMAN,
IN BARBADOS YESTERDAY. [ZUMA PRESS)
LATEST
PICTURED HERE IN A SHOOT FOR THE NEW ISSUE OF IN STYLE, IS A LUCKY DOG. HER
THE  MAG,  IS PHILIP ROTH, 71, WHO WROTE THE NOVEL "THE HUMAN  STAIN," THE
CRUSH, SHE TELLS
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RADAR COMEBACK - ROSHAN GETS BIG-TIME BACKERS WITH BANKROLL
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Macr Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be
willing to bankroll him with millions.
Roshan had tried to get [Mort Zuckerman] and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell
apart, but at first nothing came of the talks.
"That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, ...
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RADAR COMEBACK - ROSHAN GETS BIG-TIME BACKERS WITH BANKROLL
KEITH J. KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 19, 2004. pg. 037
Abstract (Document Summary)
Maer Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to
bankroll him with millions.
Roshan had tried to get [Mort Zuckerman] and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell apart, but at
first nothing came of the talks.
"That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, an attorney who handled
the negotiations with Zuckerman and [Jeffrey Epstein] on Roshan's behalf.
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Maer Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to
bankroll him with millions.
How many millions is open to debate.
Mort Zuckerman, owner of the Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, has teamed with Jeffrey Epstein as
the primary backers of a new and improved Radar, set to launch as a monthly in April 2005.
Radar put out only two issues before it ran out of money last year, with the third issue stranded on the drawing
board.
"Its not a Daily News or a U.S. News publication," said Roshan. "It's a new publishing company."
Radar Media LLP, the previous company, is selling assets only to the new company.
The old company will be dissolved and there is already a dispute as to how the money will be divvied up among
the still unpaid creditors, which includes freelancers.
"I don't know if it will be possible to pay everyone in full," said Michael North, the attorney handling the
dissolution.
But Roshan insisted, "There is no reason to assume they won't be paid."
It's not the first time that Roshan has talked with Zuckerman about a magazine venture.
Zuckerman, Epstein and a collection of media heavyweights that included Harvey Weinstein, Nelson Peltz and
media critic Michael Wolff had tried to buy New York magazine but lost out to Bruce Wasserstein at the eleventh
hour.
Roshan was being talked about as a potential editor in chief.
Roshan had tried to get Zuckerman and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell apart, but at first
nothing came of the talks.
Roshan next turned to a French Moroccon businesswoman, Maria Oufkin, but after a brief flurry of publicity, she
faded.
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"That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, an attorney who handled
the negotiations with Zuckerman and Epstein on Roshan's behalf.
How much is committed this time is open to speculation.
One source said that it would take a miniumum of $20 million to launch a magazine but more realistically, it
would take several times that over a five or six year period.
Talk magazine, where Roshan was deputy editor near the end of its run, cost its joint venture partners Miramax
and Hearst about $55 million before it shut down in early 2002 after nearly two and a half years of publication.
"I can't tell you the commitment," said Hand of the new backers. "It's significant and we're happy with it."
Said Roshan, "Just because we have backers, doesn't mean we're going to turn into Talk. We're still going to be
lean. We'll have the funding to do what we like, but I'm not interested in town cars."
He said he hopes to have about a half million in circulation eventually for the new Radar.
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RADAR HITS RELAUNCH TARGET - PARTY HIGHLIGHT: GAWKER'S
DENTON GETS PIE IN EYE
Keith J. Kelly. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: May 20, 2005. pg. 034
Abstract (Document Summary)
CONTROVERSY flared at the Radar launch party when [GAWKER] founder Nick Denton was hit with a creamy
gooey pie as he sidled up next to magazine founder Maer Roshan for a photo op.
Denton then promptly dumped his glass of red wine on Roshan's head. Roshan professed to be as surprised as
anyone (and in fact was one of several bystanders hit with splatter from the Unknown Pie Guy). They later
retreated to Roshan's hotel suite, Roshan changed clothes and even let Denton shower.
SMASHED: Gawker's Nick Denton smiles after getting pied at the Radar relaunch party. Maer Roshan (top,
right), the mag's founder, was nearby. [Suzanne Boyd), Suede editor before it folded, was also at the soiree.
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CONTROVERSY flared at the Radar launch party when Gawker founder Nick Denton was hit with a creamy
gooey pie as he sidled up next to magazine founder Maer Roshan for a photo op.
Gawker, a media-centric Web site which for weeks has had been needling Radar and its self promoting founder,
sarcastically calling it, "Radar, the Greatest American Magazine Launch."
let
The photo op was seen as a chance to make nice between Roshan and Denton to prove they were willing to
bygones be bygones, blah, blah.
Then the peace accord was ruptured as a burly unknown person broke through the throng and smashed the
wearing
custard pie squarely into the face of Denton and dashed out, leaving no clue as to his identity. He was
an English-soccer style shirt and a New  York Knicks hat.
an early
Denton, his face and clothes a mess from the ambush, assumed he had been set up by Roshan. (In
on  his own  Web site, he insisted he had only been hit with a glancing blow
version of the event that he posted
from the pie tosser, but had to retract that version when photos turned up).
be as surprised as
Denton then promptly dumped his glass of red wine on Roshan's head. Roshan professed to
one  of several bystanders hit with splatter from the Unknown Pie Guy). They later
anyone (and in fact was
retreated to Roshan's hotel suite, Roshan changed clothes and even let Denton    shower.
night.
He also rummaged around and found a T-shirt and pants for Denton to wear for the rest of the
Johnson.
Denton, despite the good turn done by Roshan still feels it was a set-up by event planner Nadine
but the execution left
"It is pretty clear it was one of Nadine Johnson's hires," said Denton. "It was nicely staged,
a lot to be desired since Maer was hit too."
asked Denton. "I
"What baffles me is why they would want their launch event hijacked by that kind of publicity?"
heard Mort Zuckerman slipped in the goo," said Denton.
"He had to have the whole thing explained to him, including what a blog is."
but were out of
Daily Snooze owner Zuckerman and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein were both on hand,
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range when the pie started flying. The two billionaires are 50-50 partners in the venture.
Drew Kerr, a spokesman for Roshan, and the party planner, both deny that it was a Radar plant.
"No one was hired by anyone to throw a pie," said a spokesperson for Johnson.
On the business side, William Holiber, the president of U.S. News & World Report, which is also owned by
Zuckerman, was on hand.
Media Ink on April 8 reported that he had been drafted into action when launch publisher Linda Sepp, a
Zuckerman pal, was given the boot weeks before the launch.
At the time, a Zuckerman spokesman was insisting that Holiber was only helping out on Radar in an "informal
and advisory role" and had no official title on Radar.
But when the debut issues were handed out, there was Holiber, proudly pointing out his designation as Radar's
president.
publisher,
Sepp was nowhere in sight at the party or on the masthead but a former Sports Illustrated associate
Grayle Howlett was, handing out his very own  Radar publisher card.
Also on hand was Suzanne Boyd, who was the editor-in-chief of Time Inc.'s short-lived urban-fashion magazine
Suede.
She quit the publishing company and took a buyout on the remaining year of her two-year contract rather than
accept a position as an editor-at-large in magazine development.
the
That move is considered a blow to Time Inc. A company spokesman confirmed that she had declined
company offer.
for 7 years
The statuesque fashion editor had been running Flare, the Toronto- based fashion bible of Canada
of Essence Communica    tions, and Isolde Motley, the corporate
when she was picked by Ed Lewis, then the head
which was envisioned as a hot new  fashion magazine   for women  of color.
editor of Time, to launch Suede,
considered a
Boyd arrived in March of last year and cranked out the first issue by the end of the summer -
breakneck pace in magazine land.
tions into
As the launch was progressing, Time was in the process of negotiating to convert Essence Communica
a 100 percent- owned subsidiary by buying out Lewis.
plug was being
Suddenly, in the weeks before the buyout was finalized, a stunned Boyd got the word that the
pulled on the new magazine after publishing only two issues.
staff was let go.
In its public announcement, Time Inc. had insisted that it was only suspended, but the
Now Boyd, the last link, has quit the company and is weighing her options.
-for newsstand sales of
Insiders believed that Time Inc. was disappointed by the costs and the lower-than-hoped
the first two issues.
that Life magazine was
Industry sources say the biggest obstacle to Suede's funding may have been the losses
piling up as a weekly insert into daily newspapers.
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right), the mag's founder, was nearby. Suzanne Boyd, Suede editor before it folded, was also at the soiree.
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SINGLING OUT APPLE'S TOP STUDS
Richard Johnson. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 28, 2003. pg. 012
Abstract (Document Summary)
ANDRE BALAZS, 46. The ever-smiling hotelier - who owns The Mercer in Soho, Chateau Marmont and the
Standard in L.A., the Raleigh in Miami, Sunset Beach on Shelter lasland, and a new place in St. Barts -just split
from his wife Katie Ford. Pro: Recently was reported skinny-dipping. Con: Seems to be giving Uma Thurman
more than his shoulder to cry on.
Jeffrey Epstein, 50. Mystery billionaire was a math teacher at Dalton just a few years ago. Then he started
handling Leslie Wexner's money. Now he lives in Manhattan's biggest mansion. Pro: Has a private plane which
he used to take Bill Clinton to Africa. Con: Was one of Mort Zuckerman's partners in failed attempt to buy New
York magazine. CHRIS BARISH, 30. The son of Planet Hollywood tycoon and movie producer Keith Barish
recently sold out his interest in three Las Vegas nightclubs to Kirk Kerkorian for $10 million. Pro: You'll never
have to wait on line or pay for a drink at Marquee, his new club. Con: You might never get to sleep before 3 a.m.
JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, 41. Since dropping out of high school, he's built a four-restaurant empire with eateries in
the Bronx, Harlem, Sutton Place and City Island. Pro: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Con: Is
pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks.
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New York has the smartest, toughest, most ambitious men in the world, and some of them are still single - or
newly single, having gotten divorced. We went through our multiple data bases, interviewed the experts, polled
our readers, and came up with this definitive PAGE SIX list of the city's most eligible guys.
incomes.
They come from all sorts of backgrounds and generations, with different talents and widely divergent
The only thing they have in common  is they like women.
We rejected some men because they seem to be in long-term romances heading toward marriage, others
because it seems they'll never marry. To the many men who think they belong on the list, there's always next
year.
by Mariah
DEREK JETER, 29. The Yankee shortstop's sex-symbol status has only grown since he was stalked
for the World Series.
Carey, and mocked in American Express ads for his propensity to party. Pro: Great seats
Con: Demands near-perfection - at least visually - in his dates.
University of
ED SKYLER, 30. Tall, dark, super-serious mayoral press secretary went to Collegiate, then the
of City  Hall and Gracie
Pennsylvania. His sister is a successful playwright. Pro: He can give you a private tour
18 hours  a day,  starting before dawn.
Mansion. Con: A romantic evening would end early bcause Skyler works
Utendahl Capital
JOHN UTENDAHL, 46. He's 6-foot-3, with movie star looks - and he is chairman and CEO of
space  in his Brooklyn
Partners, the largest minority-owned investment bank in America. Pro: Plenty of closet
a golf widow  - he runs  a charity
Heights townhouse and his weekend place in Quogue. Con: Plan on being
tournament every year in Boca Raton, Fla.
king game. Now
JEREMY SHOCKEY, 23. The Giants' tight end became a fan favorite with his first tackle-brea
Quite single despite his friendship with
he's the biggest local gridiron personality since Joe "Willie" Namath. Pro:
misfires, as when he blasted  Giants fans because they
babelicious Britny Gastineau. Con: His big mouth often
had the nerve to boo him and his disappointin   g teammates.
and the
ANDRE BALAZS, 46. The ever-smiling hotelier - who owns The Mercer in Soho, Chateau Marmont
lasland, and a new  place in St. Barts - just split
Standard in L.A., the Raleigh in Miami, Sunset Beach on Shelter
skinny-dipp ing. Con:  Seems  to be giving Uma  Thurman
from his wife Katie Ford. Pro: Recently was reported
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more than his shoulder to cry on.
ETHAN HAWKE, 33. The adulterer/actor finally shed his pretty-boy image this summer, brazenly cheating on
wife Uma Thurman. Pro: Plenty of women would like a shot at taming this rogue bull. Con: Might guilt you into
reading one of his weak novels.
ROCCO DiSPIRITO, 37. The dashing owner of Union Pacific and star of his own reality show has cooked for
just about every hip hottie in town. Pro: He might be ready to settle down in the next few years (Yeah, right).
Con: If you haven't already dated him, one of your friends has.
ANDRE 3000, 28. With this year's smash hit "Hey Ya," the fun half of hip-hop duo Outkast has gone from cult
figure to mainstream superstar. Pro: His minimalist posse includes as few as four members. Con: Recently
moved to Brooklyn and might not realize that only the lamest of the lame frequent Williamsburg nightspots.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS, 30. Pop production whiz's maddeningly catchy beats legitimized Justin Timberlake, and
cameos of his Curtis Mayfield-like falsetto are becoming ubiquitous on hits by Jay-Z and others. Pro: Makes
more than you do in a year to tweak a Britney Spears song. Con: Approaching a P. Diddy-like level of
oxerexposure.
JIMMY FALLON, 29. We don't know if it's his cuddly demeanor or uncanny impersonation skills, but the resident
hunk on "Saturday Night Live" is catnip to the ladies. Pro: Likes to play the jukebox at Hell's Kitchen dive bars.
Con: If he stays over your house, make sure to have extra hair product for his artfully mussed 'do.
DAMON DASH, 32. Brash CEO of Rocawear clothing line and Roc-a- Fella Records also owns a film company,
vodka line, nightclub, and he's undoubtedly planning a new project as you read this. Pro: One of the city's
reigning rapresarios. Con: Is prone to obnoxious harangues against his underlings or those who question his
importance.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS, 25. Doe-eyed son of Elite Models founder John Casablancas sings for hot rock band
The Strokes. Pro: His band is actually good. Con: Wears "ironic" 1980$ concert T-shirts by Def Lepard and
Michael Jackson.
the most
SHEPHERD SMITH, 39. Next to the blustery Bill O'Reilly, this Southern-fried anchorman is probably
Pro: His sprawling  Lower   East Side pad  has a pool table.
recognizable face on the top-rated Fox News Channel.
in 2000 for hitting a reporter with his car in a dispute over a parking space
Con: A road rager who was arrested
in Tallahassee, Fla.
of
Paolo Zampolli, 33. Italian owner of ID Models can usually be found sitting in a corner banquette
surrounded  by a bevy of beauties. Pro: Throws great parties in his downtown loft.
whatever club just opened
your  name.
Con: If you're not 5-foot-11 with cheekbones that cut glass, he probably won't remember
Oscar for "The
ADRIEN BRODY, 30. Haunted-looking actor famously kissed Halle Berry while accepting his
-hop music under the alias, "A. Ranger." Con: Is serious with girlfriend Michelle
Pianist." Pro: Makes moody trip
Dupont, a music-industry personal assistant.
Then he started
Jeffrey Epstein, 50. Mystery billionaire was a math teacher at Dalton just a few years ago.
plane which
handling Leslie Wexner's money. Now he lives in Manhattan's biggest mansion. Pro: Has a private
in failed attempt  to buy New
he used to take Bill Clinton to Africa. Con: Was one of Mort Zuckerman's partners
and movie   producer   Keith Barish
York magazine. CHRIS BARISH, 30. The son of Planet Hollywood tycoon
million. Pro: You'll never
recently sold out his interest in three Las Vegas nightclubs to Kirk Kerkorian for $10
his new club.  Con: You  might never  get to sleep before 3 a.m.
have to wait on line or pay for a drink at Marquee,
pregnant and
BILLY CRUDUP, 35. The hunky actor dumped Mary Louise Parker when she was 81/2 months
Pro: Critics loved his performanc e in Tim
ran off with Claire Danes, but that might not last too long either.
Burton's "Big Fish." Con: A true heart-breaker.
in love himself
LENNY KRAVITZ, 39. The super-modelizer had a big hit with "Let Love Rule," but hasn't fallen
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since the end of his marriage to Lisa Bonet that produced a daughter, Zoe, 15. Pro: Has a beautiful loft
downtown he rented to Nicole Kidman, who then statrted dating him. Con: The funky fashions make him seem
narcissistic.
Donald Trump JR., 25. The first-born son of The Donald and his first wife Ivana is following in his father's
footsteps, not only developing buildings, but taking center stage to sell the apartments. Pro: Weekend flights
down to Mar-a-lago on the family jet. Con: his dad, who owns Miss Universe, has extremely high standards
when it comes to the female form.
CHRIS HEINZ, 30. The billionaire ketchup heir has captured the attention of many Manhattanites, including
Gwyneth Paltrow (pre- Chris Martin). Pro: Tall, dark and handsome, he even has a sense of humor. Con: Likes
lost causes - he quit his banking job to work for his stepfather John Kerry's foundering campaign.
JONATHAN TISCH, 50. The charming Loews hotel chain chairman is a regular on the social and charity circuit.
Back on the market and looking for a date after breaking off his wedding to Jill Swid. Pro: Has deep pockets and
hotels in every port. Con: Notoriously marriage- phobic.
ANDREW CUOMO, 46. After a nasty split with his wife Kerry Kennedy, the failed gubernatorial candidate has
been quietly dating again. Pro: He's capable and articulate and has nowhere to go but up from here. Con:
Sometimes comes off as arrogant and self-absorbed.
CHARLES ROCKEFELLER, 30. The tall, blond Rockefeller heir has got looks, money, and impeccable manners
and, duhl . . . he's a Rockefeller! Pro: Occasionally entertains at the dynastic estate, Pocantico Hills. Con: Is it
boyish charm, or just boyish?
MARCUS SAMUELSSON, 33. The studly chef/owner of Aquavit - who once made People magazine's Sexiest
list - has a new eatery, Riingo, in the new Alex Hotel. Pro: He cooks and does dishes! Con: All chefs keep late'
hours, and they fraternize after hours with the waitresses.
JONATHAN KRAMER, 29. Grungy artist has been making a living out of painting since he was in college. Not
Is
new to the spotlight (he did date Sophie Dahl), Kramer can be found frequenting Rene Risque concerts. Pro:
and  may   offer to paint you. Con: Likes to travel around town on a skateboard - with no sidecar for
good company
a date.
one
DAN ABRAMS, 36. The MSNBC newsdude, the son of legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, is
love him. Con: MSNBC
of the few talking heads smart enough to cover legal issues. Pro: Your mother will
ratings are so low, no one gets to see him.
his
JAMIE JOHNSON, 23. The Johnson & Johnson heir burst onto the scene last year at Sundance with
pals' - "blessed" lives. Pro: The
documentary "Born Rich," which showed the pathetic underbelly of his - and his
kid's got talent! Con: He sold out his friends, and that nasal voice could cut glass.
He was a
ROFFREDO GAETANI, 50. The strapping former boxer is an Italian count distantly related to a pope.
Ferrari dealerships . Pro: The old world
close friend of late Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, who set Roffredo up with                         Ivana Trump
very busy, especially with models.
charm Is such that he kisses women's hands. Con: Has been
was just his most famous conquest.
had the good sense
REP. ANTHONY WEINER, 38. The Brooklyn Democrat is ambitious and hard-working, and
his aides. Pro: Being touted as a possible candidate for
to hire the extremely capable Serena Torrey as one of
mayor. Con: Could be cruelly described as a pencil- necked  geek.
chain of furniture stores
ERIC VILLENCY, 28. Dashing president and creative director of Maurice Villency, a
fashion designers so he gets front-row  seats to all the
founded by his grandfather in 1932. Pro: He sponsors
shows. Con: Seems serious with his girlfriend of over a year, gorgeous Olivia Chantecaill e.
congressman for
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, 41. The state assemblyman resembles his legendary father, the
beauty in Puerto Rico, where young Adam
whom a boulevard in Harlem is named. His mother was a famous
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grew up. He plans someday to oust his nemesis, Rep. Charlie Rangel, and take over his seat. Pro: Has a yacht
at City Island where he entertains bikini babes. Con: Has a tendency to back losers.
Frederic Fekkai, 44. Handsome French haircutter has charmed the pants off Libet Johnson, Patricia Duff
and other blondes too numerous to mention. Meanwhile, he's been branding his name and marketing hair care
products. Pro: You'll never have a bad hair day. Con: He might be a bit spoiled. One rich girlfriend supposedly
gave him a Gulfstream jet, and it wasn't even Christmas.
JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, 41. Since dropping out of high school, he's built a four-restaurant empire with eateries in
the Bronx, Harlem, Sutton Place and City Island. Pro: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Con: Is
pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks.
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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].
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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 Wolffs book, "Autumn of the
Moguls."
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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.
the magazine as an
"Whoever the editor is has to have a strong point of view," offers Clay Felker, who launched
independent weekly in 1967. It was not a particularly bright time in the city. But Felker and  his young writers took
worst of the city. "We  believed  the city was the  imperial center of
on the challenges, exposing the best and the
the United States and possibly the world," he said.
in Deutsch and Epstein,
The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought
to be picked as some   kind of editorial  uber boss. Weinstein is
the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects
over the drubbing he took in Wolff's book, "Autumn   of  the Moguls."
in the coalition but is still smarting
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.
ent would probably be delayed
A deal on the winning bid could be announced early next week. The announcem
until after the annual New York Awards, being staged tomorrow at the Four Seasons.
regain that old glory - or will there be too
The world has changed and the question now is: can the new owners
many sacred cows in the ownership mix?
"Who will be left to make fun of?"
As one observer asked as the Zuckerman coalition emerged as the favorite,
Henry Kravis, watch out.
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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.
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haired, drug-loving "Jay" in Kevin Smith's
JASON Mewes is alive and well. Mewes, who played the long-                Back," was reportedly on the lam or even
Bob  Strike
"Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent
hadn't seen him in 10 months. An arrest warrant
feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they
conviction. But last month, Mewes made an
had been issued for him after he violated probation on a heroin
movie "RSVP," and he'll host a talent show Oct.
appearance at a film festival in Malibu to promote his new indie
of his death are greatly exaggerated," chuckled
17 at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. "The rumors
with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just moved to
Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the phone
being dead.
L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as
become the running mate of Sen. John Kerry in the
IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and
Weaver, has become a Democrat and is now
2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John
r, Christine Dodd, last worked for a liberal
working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative directo
tts, who has made clear his plans to run in 2004, is
congressman - a Democrat. Now Kerry of Massachuse
d between Kerry and McCain is said to be scheduled
making overtures towards McCain. A rumored head- to-hea
of the People," the new McCain biography by Paul
at McCain's cabin in Sedona, Ariz., next month. And for "Man
a love letter. After noting that McCain's 2000 presidential
Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like
and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater
campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage,
common groundwith John McCain, and I look forward to
privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on
our country stronger."
fighting side by side with him on yet another day to make
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Adventure."
CALL it "The Three Amigos' Most Excellent African
, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa with
Former President Bill Clinton is on a trip through Ghana
star of "Rush Hour' and its sequel.
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, the
plane of financial wizard Jeffrey Epstein. The secretive
The three are being flown around Africa on the private
retail empire that includes The Limited, Victoria's
Epstein handles the billions of Leslie Wexner, head of the
Secret and Express.
with his traveling companions is a mystery - as is his
How Clinton, who took off on Saturday, hooked up
t that his offices are in the landmarked Villard House
relationship to Epstein. Little is known about Epstein excep
Maxwell, daughter of the late British press lord Robert
across from Le Cirque, and he once employed Ghislaine
Maxwell, in an unspecified capacity.
in "Mr. President," a movie he's been working on since
But Tucker is playing America's first black president                                                        his
n Mandela, and Bahrain's crown prince endorsing
1999. Tucker has already shot footage of Clinton, Nelso and Treasury Secrtary Paul O'Neill on their debt-
Bono
candidacy, and the comic accompanied U2 frontman
relief tour of Africa this summ er.
r had
dinner earlier this month, Clinton mentioned that Tucke
At the Congressional Black Caucus' annual awards
playing the first black president.
asked to visit him in the Oval Office to prepare for
essay in
the position," Clinton joked. In an October 1998
"I didn't have the heart to tell him that I've already taken                  notwit hstand ing, (is] our first black
that Clinton, "white skin
The New Yorker, author Toni Morrison argued
president."
He
of. Last we heard, he wanted to portray Bobby Darin.
Kevin Spacey has no presidential aspirations we know
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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
time
the "Duchess of Pork" by the British press, the now stunning and skinny Weight Watchers rep says every
she remembers  the  old headlines. Among those  she  cited during  an appearance     at an
she thinks of pigging out,
Greedy    Fergie" and  "82
Albany Weight Watchers seminar, according to The Post's Kenneth Lovett: "Fat, Selfish,
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
or even
"Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," was reportedly on the lam
him  in 10 months.   An  arrest warrant
feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they hadn't seen
a heroin conviction. But  last month,  Mewes    made   an
had been issued for him after he violated probation on
to promote his new indie movie  "RSVP,"    and he'll host a talent show  Oct.
appearance at a film festival in Malibu
in Huntington,  W.Va. "The rumors  of his death are  greatly exaggerate   d," chuckled
17 at Marshall University
moved to
Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the phone with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just
L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as being dead.
Sex sells
as a
ABERCROMBIE & Fitch has outdone itself. The store chain's new "magalog," a catalog disguised
past efforts, with a naked Heidi Klum  on  the cover  - one hand  hiding her
magazine, is even more salacious than
of sex  and
nipples, the other holding a Santa hat over a naked man's crotch. The tag line reads: "180 pages
tapes,  Heidi Fleiss gets
Xmas fun! Heidi Klum adds inches, Spike Lee catches it on tape, Larry Flynt breaks
and breasts inside.
what she wants, streetcorner Santa brawls and morel" One spy said: "There Is a ton of bums
students, will be featured  on "Entertainment
Everyone is naked." The quarterly, targeted at teens and college
Tonight" later this week.
Janney's' jam
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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
Capriati
THIS year's ladies' man, Matthew Perry, is single again. After squiring around Amanda Peet, Jennifer
hot young things this summer,  the "Friends" star was on  the prowl Sunday  night.  After losing
and a host of other
the Emmy to his co-star Matt LeBlanc, Perry and Hank Azaria showed up in fine spirits    to the Glamour/
"He
Entertainment Weekly post-Emmy party at the Mondrian in Los Angeles and flirted with a gaggle of girls.
his head," said our spy. Perry eventually left alone.
was so excited he startedto sweat and had to massage
MCCAIN MUTINY IN WORKS?
John Kerry in the
IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and become the running mate of Sen.
become    a Democrat     and is now
2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John Weaver, has
Dodd,   last worked  for a liberal
working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative director, Christine
2004, is
congressman - a Democrat. Now Kerry of Massachusetts, who has made clear his plans to run in
making overtures towards McCain.         A rumored head-   to-head between  Kerry and  McCain   is said  to be scheduled
Ariz., next month. And  for "Man of the People," the  new McCain    biography   by Paul
at McCain's cabin in Sedona,
McCain's    2000  presidential
Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like a love letter. After noting that
campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage, and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater
I look forward to
privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on common groundwith John McCain, and
fighting side by side with him on yet another    day  to make  our country stronger."
lustratIonj
David Copperfield
-Allison Janney, Stella McCartney -Just call him David Cop-a-feel. Modelizing magician
s blondes. We  caught  Copperfield holding hands with Marilyn
seems to have cast his spell over two babealiciou
been wooing the gorgeous
Guma (above), 21, an Estonian-born assistant manager at Nello's. Copperfield has
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]
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Copyright 2003 The Conde Nast Publications Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Vanity Fair
March 2003
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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.
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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,
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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
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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 &
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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
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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
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$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.
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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
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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
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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 Hoffenberg. 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.)
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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.
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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
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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.
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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              Concerns: Billionaire Jeffrey
party at Sandringham.                                            Epstein is under investigation for
According to official documents seen by this newspaper,          alleged sexual encounters with
Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter has asked the             underage girls
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
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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
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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.'
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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
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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."
live the
It is a stunning downfall for Mr. Epstein, who grew up in Coney Island and went on to
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.
seek
Federal prosecutors initially threatened to bring him to trial on a variety of charges and
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.
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"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
views of
commissioned a new estate. The villa will occupy the island's promontory, which offers
house
the Atlantic on one side and the Caribbean on the other. It will have a separate library to
Mr. Epstein's 90,000 volumes, a Japanese bathhouse and what he calls a "Ziegfeld" movie
theater.
a
For now, however, those visions of a private paradise have been replaced by the cold reality of
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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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stein will call the Palm Beach
County Jail home for the next
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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
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were several other girls                  manager told the judge he             Jeffrey Herman, who tem.&
brought In 2004 and 2005 to               has formed the not-feePrefit          sante the alleged victims In
an upstairs room at the home              Florida Science Ibundatlen            the federal lawsuits. West
for similar, massages and                 to finance scientific re-             Palm Beach attorney Ted
sexual touching.                          search. "I'm there every day,"        Leopold represents one al-
The indictment charged               Epstein said.                         leged victim in a civil suit in
Epstein only with felony so-                 The foundation was In-            state court. He said he antici-
licitation of prostitution. The           corporated in November                pates *ending that lawsuit
state attorney's office later            Epstein said he already has           to •add 'a few other clients"
added the charge of procur-              awarded money to Harvard              as well
ing underage girls for that              and kar.                                  In the criminal case, po-
purpose-                                     When he is released from          lice went so far as to Scour
Prosecutor Lama Be-                 jail, there is a chance-that Ep-       Epsteinis trash and conduct
lohlavek said of the plea: "I            stein will be forced to move.          surveillance at Palm Beach
took into consideration the              Sex offenders are not allowed          International Airport, where
length, the trial would have             to live within 1,000 feet of a         they watched for his private
been • ind witnesses having             echool, park or other areas            jet so they would know when
to testify" about sometimes             where children may gather              he was .in town. They con-
embarrassing incidents.                  No determination has been             cluded that Epstein paid girls
Epstein may .have made              made as to whether Epsteints          $200 to $300 each after the
a serious mistake soon after             home complies, but attorneys          massage sessions.
he was charged. He rejected              said it likely does,                                      idi Reiss,"
an offer to plead guilty to one            Sex offenders also typi-                                   22, told
count of aggravated assault             cally must attend counseling           po ce a ou           efforts in
with Intent to commit a felo-           sessions. Belohlavek bald              recruiting girls for Epstein.
ny,. according to police docu-          that was waived for Epstein               There was probable cause
ments. He would have gotten             because hie private psychia-           to charge Epstein with un-
five years' probation, had no           trist is working with him.             lawful sex acts with a minor
Criminal record and not been
a registered sex offender, the
documents indicate.                                                          and lewd and lascivious mo-
Epstein arrived in court                'It's validation                 lestation, police concluded.
Monday with at least three                                                        The state attorney's of-
atterneys: He wore a blue
of what we're saying                fice said questions about'
blazer, blue !AUK- blue jeans             in the civil cases.                 the girls' credibility led it to
and white and gray sneakers,                                                  take the unprecedented step
After Circuit Judge Deborah                     Jeffrey Herman                of presenting the evidence
Dale Puente accepted the                 Attorney who reneged& alleged      'against Epstein to a grand
plea, he *was fingerprinted.             victims, commenting on the plea      jury, rather than directly
E. stein then removed his                                                    charging Mtn,
blazer and was handcuffed                                                          Palm Beach Police Chief
for the trip to jail while his.       The judge was skeptical but             Michael Eeiter was furious
attorneys tried to shield him         agreed to it                            with State Attornin  ey Barry.
Epstein legal woes don't             &lech   er, saying       a May
froth photographers' tepees.
When he eventually is             end with Monday's plea.                  2006 letter that the prosecu-
There are four pending fed-              tor should disqualify himse   lf.
released to house arrest Ep-                                                                             your
stein will have to observe a         eral civil lawsuits and one              "I continue to find these
10 pm. to 6 a.m. curfew, have        in state court related to, his           office's treatment of
behavior At least one woman               cases highly unusual," and   he
no unsupervised contact                                                                        asked  for
with anyone younger than              has sued him In New York,               'note.  He  then
18 and neither own nor pot-'•         where he. owns a 51,000-                 got a federal Investigation.
sere pornographic or sexual           square-foot Manhattan man-
materials "that are relevant         sion.
to your deviant behavior," the
judge said.
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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
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)effrey Epstein (lett) appeirs In court Monday. Soon after ha was charged two years ago,entsEpstein relent-
ed a deal that would have given   him five years' probati on and no crimina l record, docum    show.
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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.
of
Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout the hearing, read off a litany
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,
text
something Pucillo clarified explicitly, saying it includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and
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
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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 [Phone Redacted].
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ILLVI IV" LIM
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
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Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the charm slip into his eyes. They arc steely
the town house—Epstein usually rekrs to the and calculating, giving some hint at the
former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite- steady whir of machinery running behind
size morsels and drink copious quantities of them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, af-
Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or to- ter refusing to give an interview for this arti-
bacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," cle. "You be white. You get the first mow."
so called because of the cordovan-colored It was an appropriate metaphor hr a man
fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered who seems to feel he can win no matter
in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a what the advantage of the other side. //is
huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding advantage is that no one really seems to
an opium pipe and caressing a snarling li- know him or his history completely or what
onskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger his arsenal actually consists of. He has care-
sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and fully engineered it so that he remains one
guests by the menservants in white glows. of the few truly baffling mysteries among
Upstairs, to the right of a spiral stair- New York's moneyed world. People know
n Manhattan's        case, is the "office," an enormous gallery snippets, but few know the whole.
Upper   Lip    Side,  home   to some of the       spanning the width of the house. Strangely,         "He's very enigmatic." says Rosa Month-
most expensive real estate on earth, exists        it holds no computer.    Computers    belong  in ton, the Farmer C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in
the crown jewel of the city's residential         the  "computer    room"   fa smaller   room   at the U.K.  and a close friend since the early
town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door,       the back of the house). Epstein has been 1980s. - You think you know him and then
huge arched windows, and nine floors. it           known to say. The office features a gilded you peel oil' another 'ring of the onion skin
sits on—or. rather. commands—the block             desk (which Epstein tells people belonged and there's something else extraordinary
of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison           to banker J. R Morgan). 18th-century black underneath. He never reveals his hand....
Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of pro-           lacquered Portuguese cabinets. and a nine- He's a classic iceberg. What you see is not
portion with its four- and five-story neigh-       foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the what you get."
bors, it seems more like an institution than      desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de
a house. This is perhaps not surprising—          Sack's The Misfinunes of Time was re-                            ven acquaintances sense a
until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private         cently spotted. Covering     the floor.  Epstein                 curious  dichotomy: Yes. he
school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's           has explained. "is the largest Persian rug                       lives like a "modern ma-
largest private residence.                         you'll ever see in a private home—so big. it                    haraja." as Loh Rieman,
Inside, amid the flurry of menservants         must have come from a mosque." Amid                              one  of his art dealers. puts
such splendor, much of       which  reflects the                 it. Yet he is fastidiously, al-
attired in sober black suits and pristine
work   of the French   decorator  .Alberto  Pin-                 most  obsessively  private—he
white .gloves, you feel you have stumbled
into someone's private Xanadu. This is             to. who has worked for Jacques Chime and lists himself in the phone book under a
no mere rich person's home, but a high-            the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Ara- pseudonym. He rarely attends society gath-
walled, eclectic, imperious fantasy that          bia, there is one particularly startling oddi- erings or weddings or funerals: he considers
seems to have no boundaries.                       ty: a stuffed black poodle. standing atop eating in restaurants like "eating on the sub-
The entrance hall is decorated not with        the grand piano. "No decorator would ever way"—i.e.. something he'd never do. There
paintings but with row upon row of indi-           tell you to do that." Epstein brags to visi- are many women in his life. mostly young,
vidually framed eyeballs: these. the owner         tors. "But I want people to think what it but there is no one of them to whom he
tells people with relish. were imported from       means to stuff a dog.- People can't help has been able to commit. He describes his
but feel it's Epstein's way' of saying that he most public companion of the last decade,
•
England. where they were made for in-
jured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer.         always has the last word.                         Ghislaine Maxwell, 41. the daughter of the
which does have a painting, in the man-                in addition to the town house. Epstein late, disgraced media baron Robert Max-
ner of Jean Dubufftt ... but the host coyly        lives in what is reputed to be the largest well, as simply his "best friend:' He says
refuses to tell visitors who palmed it. In any     private dwelling in New Mexico. on an S IS she is not on his payroll, but she seems
case, guests are like pygmies next to the          million. 7.500-acre ranch which he named to organize much of his life—recently she
nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked        "Zono." "It makes the town house look like was making telephone inquiries to find a
African warrior.                                  a shack,- Epstein has said. He also owns California-based yoga instructor for him.
Despite its eccentricity the house is curi-   Little St. James. a 70-acre island in the (Epstein is still close to his two other long-
ously impersonal, the statement of someone         U.S. Virgin Islands. where the main house term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher. a for-
who wants to be known for the scale of his        is currently being renovated by Edward Tit- mer associate of his at the brokerage firm
possessions. Its occupant. financier Jeffrey       tle, a designer of the Amanresorts. There is Bear Stearns and now an opera producer,
Epstein, 50. admits to friends that he likes it    also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and
Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream onetime model. He tells people that when
0 rie•in
when people think of him this way. A good-
looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren.             IV, a helicopter. and a Boeing 727. replete a relationship is over the girlfriend -moves
with thick gray-white hair and a weathered         with trading room, on which Epstein re- up. not down," to friendship status.)
Op lc 110110.4 ili ......
face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts,   cently flew President Clinton. actors Chris          Some of the businessmen who dine with
and loafers. He tells people he bought the        'Ricker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket him at his home—they include newspaper
house because he knew he "could never lite        magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis
anywhere bigger." He thinks 51.000 square         grandson. Casey Wasserman, and a few oth- Ranieri. Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman,
feet is an appropriately large space for some-    ers, on a mission to explore the problems of real-estate tycoon Leon Black. former Mi-
one like himself, who deals mostly in large       AIDS and economic development in Africa. crosoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. Tom
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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: parks department.
His
" /ery few people need any more money parents viewed
educa-                                       UNREAL ESTATE
len they have a billion dollars. The key tion as "the way
out"                                      From  tor the "leather
is not to have it do harm more than any- for him and his
young-                                       room" in Epstein's house.
thing else.... You don't want to lose your er brother, Mark,                                                       where "tea" is served
now
money."                                             working in real estate.                                         to guests: Epstein at his
Jeffrey started to play                                         Zorro ranch in 1991
1                     e has likened his job to the piano—for which he                                               with his "best friend,"
that of an architect—more maintains a passion—at                                             Ghislaine Maxwell:
specifically, one who spe- five. and he went to                                               Epstein in 1979.
cializes in remodeling: "I Brooklyn's Lakette High
always describe [a billion- School. He was good at                                             "bounty hunter: recov-
aire] as someone who mathematics. and in his                                                  ering  lost or stolen mon-
ey for the government or for very rich
started out in a small early 20s he got a job teaching physics
home and as he became wealthier had add- math at Dalton,                                    and people. He has a license to carry a firearm.
the elite Manhattan pri- For the last 15 years. he's been running
ons. He added on another addition, he built vate school. While                                                                               his
there he began tutoring business, J. Epstein & Co.
a room over the garage ... until you have a the son
of Bear Stearns chairman Ace           Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his
house that is usually a mess.... It's a large Greenberg and
was friendly with a daugh- life—Epstein has said this was
house that has been put together over time ter of Greenberg's.                                                                        in 1986:
Soon he went to Bear others say it was in 1989. at the earliest
where no one could foretell the financial fu- Stearns. where.                                                                                  —
under the mentorship of he has gradually, in a way that
tut: and their accompanying needs."                 both Greenberg and current Bear Stearns generally made headlin                      has not
-le makes it sound as though his job C.E.O. James Cayne,                                                              es, come to be ac-
he did well enough cepted by the Establishment. He's a mem-
:ombines the roles of real-estate agent, ac- to become a limited
partner—a rung be- ber of various commissions and counci
:ountant, lawyer, money manager, trustee. neath full partner                                                                                  ls:
. He abruptly departed in he is on the Trilateral Commission,
and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, 1981 becaus                                                                                         the
e, he has said, he wanted to Council on Foreign Relations,
nyths and rumor swirl around Epstein.              run his own business.                                                              the New
Here are some of the hard facts about                                                          York Academ   y of Science  s, and  the Insti-
Thereafter the details recede into shad- tute of International Educat
ion.
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"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.
SPOILS OF SUCCESS                                                  EdeIn= and 3ilunay Gel but Epstein has said that he now owns the
Awn tqr Epstein's 70-                                            Mann. and mathematical house.
acre island. Little St.                                         biologist Martin Nowak.          Wexner trusts Epstein so completely
lames. in the U.S. Virgin                                            When these men describe       that he has assigned him the power of fidu-
Islands—he now calls                                            Epstein. they talk about ciary over all of his private trusts and foun-
it Little St. Jett Epstein                                         **energy" and "curiosity: as dations, says a source close to Wexner. In
with President Clinton in                                           well as a love for theoreti- 1992. Epstein even persuaded Wexner to
Brunei. 2002: Leslie
Wexner with his future                                           cal physics that they don't put him on the board of the Wexner Foun-
wife. Abigail at the 1990                                           ordinarily find in laymen. dation in place of Warices ailing mother.
C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards.                                            Ge11-Mann rather sweetly Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to
in New York. 1991.                                           mentions that **there are al- be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled
ways pretty ladies around" by splitting the foundation in two.
when he goes to dinner cht          Epstein does not care that he comes be-
Larry Summers. Harvard's current presi-          Epstein. and he's under the impression     that tween    family members. In fact, he sees it
dent. Harvard law professor Alan Dersho-         Epstein's clients   include the Queen   of En-  as  his job.  He tells people. "I am there to .1
witz says. "I'm on my 20th book.... The          gland. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were represent my client. and if my client needs
only person outside of my immediate family       thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand protecting—sometimes even from his own
that I send drafts to is Jeffrey." Real-estate   of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's family-then it's often better that people
developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose,      house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince hate me, not the client."
who has %tacked with Epstein on projects in      Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit            "You've probably heard I'm vicious ins
New Albany, Ohio. for Wexner. says. "He          in the back of Dershowitz's law class.          my representation of my clients,- he tells
Epstein gets annoyed when anyone sug- people proudly; Leah Kiernan describes his                   1
digests and decodes the information very                                                                                                      like ;
rapidly, which is to me terrific because we      gests that Wexner "made him." "I had real- haggling over art prices as something
ly rich clients before:' he   has said. Yet  he a  scene   out  of  the  movie  Mad   Mar    Be-      t:
have shorter meetings."                                                                                                                   mentor
does   not deny   that he and  Wexner   have  a yond   Thunderdome     . Even  a former           g
Also on the list of admirers are former                                                                                               Epstein.  5   a
special relationship. Epstein secs it as a says he's seen "the dark           side- of
senator          Mitchell and a gaggle of                                                                                                   meet-
distinguished scientists, most of whom           partnership of equals. "People have said it's and a Bear Stearns source recalls a                     e:
like we have one brain between two of us:       ing  in  which   Epstein   chewed   out  a team :.    h.
Epstein has helped fund in recent years.   • •
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being so brutal as to be "irresponsible."          media. Right now, in the wake of the pub-               Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really
One reporter, in fact, received three threats   licity following his trip with Clinton, he          liked Jeffrey.... Jeffrey has a way of getting
from Epstein while preparing a piece, They         must be in a very difficult place."                 under your skin, and he was under Hof-
were delivered in a jocular tone, but the                                                               fenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg
ccording to S.E.C. and          were Epstein's social connections; they in-
A
message was clear: There' will be trouble
other legal documents un-       cluded oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the
0       for your family if I don't like the article.
earthed by Vanity Fair,         designer Vera) and Mohan Murjani, whose
S          On the other hand, Epstein is clearly
very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an                             Epstein may have good           clothing company grew into Gloria Van-
t                                                                                                              derbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then.
0.      Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has                                reason to keep his past
known Epstein since before his Bear Stearns                            cloaked in secrecy: his real    One friend recalls that when he took Cana-
days, can't say enough nice things: "1 have                            mentor. it might seem, was      dian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he
a boy who's dyslexic, and Jeffrey's gotten          not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Hoffen-          hired a Rolls-Royce especially for the oc-
close to him over the years.... Jeffrey got          berg, 57, who, for a few months before the         casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.)
him into music. He bought him his first              S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 093, was           In 198'Z Hoffenberg. according to sources,
piano. And then as he got to school he had           trying to buy the New York Asst. He is cur-        set Epstein up in the offices he still occu-
difficulty ... in studying ... so Jeffrey got        rently incarcerated in the Federal Medical         pies in the Villard House. on Madison Av-
him interestel in taking flying lessons?'            Center in Devens. Massachusetts, serving a         enue, across a courtyard from the restaurant
Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling            20-year sentence for bilking investors out of      Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new pro-
her that her. daughter. Domenica. who suf-           more than 5450 trillion in one of the largest      tégé as a consultant at 525.000 a month.
. krs from Down syndrome. needed the sun,              Ponzi schemes in American history.                and the relationship flourished. "They trav-
and that Rosa should feel free to bring her             When Epstein met Hoffenberg in Lon-             eled everywhere together—on Hoffinberis
to his house in Palm Beach anytime.                  don in the 1980s, the latter was the char-         plane. all around the world, they were al-
Some friends remember that in the late          ismatic, audacious head of the Towers              ways together." says a source. Hoffenberg
80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the air-          Financial Corporation. a collection agency        has claimed that Epstein confided in him.
line tickets of good friends by affixing first-      that was supposed to buy debts that peo-          saying. for example, that he had left Bear
class stickers: the only problem was that the        ple owed to hospitals. banks, and phone           Stearns in 1981 after he was discovered ex-
stickers turned out to be unofficial. Some-         companies. But Hoffenberg began using              ecuting "illegal operations.-
times the technique ‘Corked. but other times         company funds to pay off earlier investors            Several of Epstein's Eizar Stearns contem-
it didn't. and the unwitting recipients found       and service a lavish lifestyle that included a     poraries recall that Epstein left the compa-
themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has            mansion on Long Island. homes on Man-              ny very suddenly: Within the company there
claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and          hanan's Sutton Place and in Florida, and a         were rumors also that he was involved in a
had no knowiedge of the stickers.) Many of          fleet of cars and planes.                          technical infringement. and it was thought
those who benefited from Epstein's largesse             Hoffenberg and Epstein had much in             that the executive committee asked that he
claim that his generosity comes with no             common. Both were smart and obsessed               resign after his two supporters. Ace Green-
strings attached. "I never felt he wanted           with making money Both were from Brook-            berg and Jimmy Clyne. were outnumbered.
anything from me in return." says one old           lyn. According to Hotlenberg. the two men          Greenberg says he can't recall this: Cayne
friend. who received a first-class upgrade.          were introduced by Douglas Leese. a de-           denies it happened. and Epstein has de-
fense contractor. Epstein has said they were       nied it as well. "Jeffrey Epstein left Bear
pstein is known about town         introduced by John Mitchell. the late attor-       Stearns of his own volition:' says Cayne.
Fl
as a man who loves wom-            ney. general.                                      "It was never suggested that he leave by
en—lots of them, mostly                Epstein had been running International         any member of management. and' manage-
young. Model types have            Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.). a consulting           ment never looked into any improprieties
been heard saying they are         company. out of his apartment in the Solo          by him. Jeffrey said specifically. 'I don't
full of gratitude to Epstein       building on East 66th Street in New York.          want to work for anybody else. I want to
for flying them around. and        Though he has claimed that he managed              work for myself.— let. this is not the story
he is a familiar face to many of the Victo-          money for billionaires only, in a 1989 dep-        that Epstein told to the S.E.C. in 1981 and
ria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls          osition he testified that he spent SO per-         to lawyers in a 1989 deposition involving a
being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to               cent of his time helping people recover            civil business ease in Philadelphia.
a concert at Epstein's town house. where             stolen money from fraudulent brokers and               In 1981 the SEC's Jonathan Harris and
the women seemed to outnumber the men                lawyers. He was also not above entering            Robert Blackburn took Epstein's testimony
by far. "These were not women you'd see              into risky. tax-sheltered oil and gas deals        and that of other Bear Steams employees in
at Upper East Side dinners." the woman               with much smaller investors. A lawsuit that        part of what became a protracted case
recalls. "Many seemed foreign and dressed            Michael Stroll. the former head of Wil-            about insider trading around a tender offer
a little bizarrely." This same guest also at-        liams Electronics Inc.. filed against Epstein      placed on March IL 1981. by the Seagram
tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell            shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an in-          Company Li.J. for St. Joe Minerals Corp.
that Prince Andrew attended, which was               vestment from Stroll of S450,000. which            Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in-
tilled. she says. with young Russian mod-            Epstein put into oil. In 1984. Stroll asked        vestors were found guilty. including Italian
els. "Some of the guests were horrified,"            for his money back: four years later he had        financier Giuseppe Tome, who had used
the woman says.                                      received only $10.000. Stroll lost the suit,       his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar
"He's reckless," says a former business          after Epstein claimed in court, among oth-         Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about
associate, "and he's gotten more so. Mon-            er things, that the check for $10,000 was for      the tender offer.
a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net               After the tender offer was announced.
ey does that to you. He's breaking the oath
he made to himself—that he would never               worth never exceeded four and a half mil-          the S.E.C. began investigating trades in-
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input when is somebody else's project."              So is Affleck planning to become the lib-
contains a parody of Affleck and Matt Da- your                                          ed  colleag  ues
Affleck     has  always impress
mon making Good Will Hunting 11, Affleck                                                                                                                        drniisy
voracious appetite for information teha                  nter t°
t haencswe
rais                  Rotnhal
rlains     edthRe              someda
ounghiltn:ifilea
says to Damon, "What do I keep telling you? with his                                            to learn   running                                              there's
"He has made it a point                             for   Congress at least "I think
You gotta do the safe picture, then you do and skills.
sometim  es  you  gotta   everyth    ing   he  can about  how the business a real nobility to public service. It walkd be
the art picture. Then
not just the craft of acting, but fun to run on a platform I really beb....ed
do the payback picture because your friend works—
says you owe him. Then sometimes you got-          from     the   producing standpoint, from the in, without any of the kind of common:
ta go back to the null."                           studio standpoint," says Jon Gordon, exec- people make —without being beholden •
president of production at Mira- the win-at-all-costs mentality."
"Sometimes you do Reindeer Gaines," utive vice                                                             And the invasion of privacy would he
max.     "He    knows how deals work. It's what
Damon says derisively.                                                                                     nothin    g new. "What are you going to say
"That's just mean," Aifieck whines.            sets him apart. If he wanted to run a studio
point, he could.    He's   about     as  about     me    that hasn't already been said? I
But it's a pretty accurate description of at some                                                      don't    cheat,    I don't drink, I don't do drugs.
they  come
his career to date. "Ben takes these franchise sharp as                                                    I  live   a   clean    lik," Mika says, his eyes
properties so he can go and experiment,"                                                             with  twinklin    g.
°leek is already juggling his acting
says Harvey Weinstein.
"He believes in trying   to stretch  himsel  f       A screenwriting and such other commit-                "He's only 30 years old," says Jennifer
Project Greenlight. the contest he Todd, who co-prod
uced Boiler Room. "He
and notikecp doing the same thing," ob- ments as                                                      ca-  still  has    an    enormo    us amount of time to
started to help launch the
serves Bruce Willis. who starred with Aleck and Damon                                         's friends   do    things?   '
young filmmakers. Afileck
in Armageddon. "He's an awesome actor, reers of                                                                 Tune, and drive.."I think he's incredibly
to do great  things. "   are   certain    net be directing soon. "There's
and I think he's going                                                                                                                                 who founded
n," Weinstein says. "Both he and hungry," says Sean Bailey.
Several years ago, in a televised interview no questio                                            the  the    media      and   produc    tion  compa      ny Live-
think they're going to rewrite
on Inside the Anon Studio, Affleck said that Matt. I                                                                                        Damon        ,  and  Chris
guys can fix anything. There'll Planet with Affleck,
his goal was to make big commercial movies. rules. These                                                   Moore. "I          think   the   guy   has      very  grand
runs in both instances?'
Hehas since rested his ambitions. "That's be home                               though  ts tickling   the  aspirations. I don't think he's going to be
I'd      But    there  are  other
an adolescent aspiration, in a way.                                                  well.  A  passion   - content with just being a movie star. He
Affleck's mind as
rather be in movies like Magnolia, which I back of                                                                                               al to do very big
he campaigned for Al Gore. knows he has the potenti
think is a towering achievement. I'll con- ate liberal,                                                    things.    "
about political issues. and is
tinue to act, but I won't act in a way that cares deeply                                                        Such ambitions could be derailed by any
out   there  extreme     ly  well informed. He entertains him-
requires me to hang my name                                                                                                            ulations. including a pd.
writing imaginary political speeches number of miscalc
and do a lot of publicity. I'll do character self by                                                                    that   generat  es too many sensational
He would rather discuss Acts sate life
roles and focus on writing and directing. It in his head.                                                  headlin    es,    but  Affieck     has a clear idea of
his movie career.
doesn't require the same kinds of sacri- in Africa than                                                                               "On my deathbed. I have
When Lopez goes to Affieck's mother's the ultimate goal.
fice, in terms of quality of life and person-                                                                                     looks   back and feels I lived
for dinner. Weinstein reports. "J.Lo to be one who
al life, and it's a more holistic approach to house                                                        a  good      and     substa   ntial   and meaningful
that the conversation at the table is
the process. It's become increasingly frus- told me                                    t  govern   ment   Ilk.-   he   says.
about politics—abou
trating for me to have my role in the story- always                                                            In the meantime. however there's a wed-
to  one charact  er. You   initiativ es.  educational initiatives. what's go-
telling process limited                                                                                    ding   to plan. Z
in the day.-
have to be respectful and judicious about ing on
with your reasons for leaving the firm?
Alvin Einbender.. In his 1989 deposition Ep- nectionaware that there were many rumors.
Jeffrey Epstein                                                                                         A: I'm
stein recalled that the partner who had made Q: What were the rumors ynu heard?
an "issue" of the     matter  was   Marvin   David-
A: Nothing to do with St. Joe.
UED    PROM  PAGE   i s  Bear  Stearn    s  son.  On  March 9. Epstein said. he had met Q: Can you relate what you heard?
CONTIN
ol and Einbendcr again. and the A: It was having to do with an Wien affair
and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear with Tarnop
told him that the oxalate com- with a secretary.
Steams on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped two partners                                                                                            suggest-
weighed    the offense. together with Q: Have you heard any other rumors com-
oil that Epstein had information on insider mittee had                                                  ing that you  had made    a present ation or
"carelessness" over expenses. and
trading at Bear Stearns. and it was therefore previous                                                  munication to the Executive Committee con-
S.E.C.    testi- he  would   be lined 51.500.                        cerning alleged improprieties by other mem-
obliged to question him. In his
I. 1981, Epstein  claimed        "There   was   discuss  ion whether, in fact. I bers or employees of Bear Stearns?
mony, given on April
put in an airline ticket for some- A: I. in fact, haw heard that rumor, but it's been
that he had found "offensive" the way Bear had ever
disci- one   else and    not myself and I said that it from Mr. Harris in our conversation last week.
Stearns management had handled a                                                                                                               else?
possible. ... since my secretary han- Q Have you heard it from anyone
plinary action following its discovery that he was                                      told the S.E.C.  A: No.
expense   s?'  Epstein
had committed a possible "Rea D" viola- dles my
vidently he had lent  money  to  his  clos- In   his  1989 testimony he stated that the             A little later the interview focuses on
tion—e                                                                             cost  him  a shot at
tion  he   said   - Reg  D"   inciden  t  had                         James Caync:
est friend. (In the 1989 deposi
$20.00 0  to  War-  partner  ship  that  year.
that he'd lent approximately                                                                                               hear while you were at Bear
What the S.E.C. seemed to be especially Q: Did you ever Cayne may have trader or iv.
m Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an action                                                      a con-  Steams  that Mr.
ed in was whether there was
could have been considered improper, al- interest                                  's leaving and  the sider information in
connection with Si t- •
had  not  realized   nection    betwee   n Epstein                                           tion?
though Epstein claimed he                                                                               Minerals Corpora
this until afterward.                               alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals A: No.
ation
According to Epstein. Bear Stearns man- by other
people at Bear Steams:                   Q: Did Mr. Cayne ever have any convers
with you about SI Joe    Mineral s?
agement had questioned him about the         loan
_     .
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told the grand jury. "It looked
ecuting the schemes, although, having no he reportedly
Jeffrey Epstein                                      broker's license, he had to rely on          others
make the trades. Much of Hoffenberg's sub- wasn't,"
to   like     it   was      free
he said.
and clear but it actually
t  testimo     ny  in his crimina  l  case  has            Epstein      has denied he ever had any deal-
lions between Mr. Cayne and anyone else re- sequen                                                                ings      with     anyone         from the insurance com-
garding St. Joe Minerals?                             proven to be false, and Epstein has claimed
could    be    panies.        But      Richard           Allen says he recalls
A: No.                                                he was merely asked how the bids                                                                               erg's direction
Epstein         at    Hofknb
comes    this accomplished and has said he had nothing talking to                                                                they retrieve
later in the questio  ning                                                                                                  him      it   was     urgent
And still                                             to do with the financing of them. Yet Rich- and telling                                                           examin    ation.
exchange:                                                                                                          the     missing       bonds         for    a  stale
ard Allen, the former treasurer of United                                                                      said, "We'll get
two    or three      Accord        ing    to   Allen,       Epstein
Q: Have you had any type of business deal- Fire, recalls seeing Epstein                                                                   He had "kind of a flippant atti-
ings with Mr. Cayne?                                  times at the company. He and another a- them back."
says      Allen.     "They never came back."
A: There's no relationship with Bear Steams.         ecutive say they had direct dealing with Ep- tude,"
Q: Pardon?                                           stein over the finances. And in his deposit          ion
A: Other than Bear Steams, no.                                                                                            pstein, according to Hoffenberg, also
Q:  Have  you  been  a particip
business venture with Mr. Cayne?
ant in any type   of of  1989, Epstein stated that he was the one
who executed "all" Hoffenberg's instructions
the
E
came up with a scheme to manipulate
price     of Emery Freight stock in an at-
A: No.                                               to buy and sell the stock. He called it "mak-
recall   whethe    r   tempt       to   minimi       ze the losses that occurred
Q: Do you have any expectation of participat- ing the orders." He could not                                       when HotTenberg's bid went wrong and the
ing inpny business venture with Mr. Cayne?            he had chosen the brokers used.
began to fall. This was alleged to
A: Nd.                                                   To win approval from the Illinois insur- share price
Q: Have you had      any  busines s particip ations                                                         of    have     imohed           multiple clients' accounts con-
ance regulators for Towers's acquisition
with Mr. Therm?                                                                                    ed  to  in-    trolled      by   Epstein       .
the companies, Hoffenberg promis
A: No; nor do I anticipate any.                            S3 million      of  new  capital into   them.    In          Eventua      lly.   in   1991,    insurance regulators in
Q: Mr. Epstein. did anyone at Bear Steams ject                                             ny Hoffenberg ffi          i nois   sued     Hoffenb         erg.   He settled the case.
tell you in words or substance that you should fact. in his grand-jury testimo                                    and      Epstein      .   who      was      only   a paid consul-
not divulge anything about St. Joe Minerals to claimed that he, his chief operati                ng  officer.
and  Exchang  e Com-                                         came    up  with    a   tant,    was      never       depose       d  or  accuse    d of any
the staff of the Securities                          Mitchell Brater, and Epstein
the   attorne  y who
oing.     Barry       Gross.
mission?                                             scheme to steal S3 million of the insurance wrongd                                                                         rs. says
was     handlin      g    the   suit     for  the  regulato
A: No.                                               companies bonds to buy Pan Am and Em-
Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way ery stock. "Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater of Epstein. "He was vety elusive. ... It was
either directly or indirectly, in words or sub-                d the various brokerage accounts for hard to really track
him down. There were a
stance. that your compensation for this past arrange                                       in New York.           substan       tial   numbe        r   of checks for significant
year or any future monies coming to you from the bonds to be placed with                                          dollars        that      were       paid      to him. I remem-
Bear Stearns will be contingent upon your not and I think one in Chicago. Rodma                    n &  Ren-
charact    er we never got a
divulging information to the Securities and shaw.- Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then. ber.... He was this
on.    Again        we     presum    ed that he was
Exchange Commission?                                 said Hoffenbetg, while making it appear as handle                                                              and   Emery run
A: No.                                                                                                       in    involve     d   with      the    Pan'Am
though they were investing the bonds                                                                                        got a
ents,   they  used       that    Hoffenb        erg    made,         but   we   never
ancial instrum
Despite the circumstances of Epstein's much staler fin                                                                           depose        him."
collateral to buy the stock. - Ep- chance to
leaving. Bear Stearns agreed to pay him his them as                                                                     "From the government's discovery in the
be-  stein was    the person in charge or the trans-
annual bonus--which he anticipated as                                                        was    assistin  g    main      sentencing apinst Hoffenberg it would
ing approximately S100.000.                          actions. and Mitchell Bracer
was perhaps a bit lazy;"
in coordination on behalf or the seem the government
The S.E.C. never brought any charges him with it                                                              says    David       Lewis.        who      represented Mitchell
ce companies' money." Hoffinberg,
against anyone at Bear Stearns for insider insuran                                                                 Bruer.      "They        went       for   what   they knew they
at the time.
trading in St. Joe. but its questioning seems claimed                                                                                                 that    was    the fraudulent
At one point. according to Hoffinberg. a could get .. . and
to indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's                                                                                  ory    notes       [i.e.,    the  much     larger and
the documents necessary for a promiss
answers. Some sources have wondered broker forged                                                                  unrelate     d   part      of   Hoffenb      etg's   fraud.   based
check to be written on insurance-
why. if he was such a big producer at Bear SI.S million                                       used   to  buy       in   New     York        State].      ...   What    they   couldn't
funds. The check was
Stearns. he would have given it up over a company
more   stock      in the takeover targets. Mean- get. they didn't bother with:'
mere 32.500 fine.                                                                                                      Another lawyer involved in the criminal
to throw the insurance regula-
Certainly the years after Epstein left the while. in order                                      us being       prosecu       tion of Horknberg says. "In a crim-
off the S 1.8 million was reported
Firm were not obviously prosperous ones. tors                                                                                                              that, when there is a
invested in a money-market account. inal investigation like
His luck didn't seem to change until he met safely                                                                                      to   be    quick      and dirty about it.
United Fire's former chief financial officer guilty plea.
Hoffenberg.                                                                                                       discove       ry   is    always         incom     plete.... They
Daniel Payton confirms part of Hotknberg's
one     or     don't    have       to   line     up    witness   es: they don't
says he recalls making
ne of Epstein's first assignments for Hof- account. He
O      fenbcrg was to mastermind doomed bids two telepho
to take over Pan American World Airways in berg's
ne calls to Epstein tat Rotten- have to learn every
direction) about the missing bonds. on                     cross-e      xamina
fact
tion."
that  might    come out
1988.   "He  said,    'Oh. yeah, they still exist.' But we
1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in                                                                                       pstein was involved with Hoffcnberg in
Hofknberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before found out
a grand jury in Illinois that Epstein came up ... leverag
later that he had sold those assets
ed them ... (and) used some mar-
cial
E
other questionable transactions. Finan-
records show that in 1988 Epstein in-
t to take some positions in ...
with the idea of financing these bids through gin accoun                                                           vested     S1.6 million in Riddell Sports Inc., a
Am." says Payton.
Towers's acquisition of two ailing Illinois Emery and Pan                                                                                   manufactures football helmets.
insurance companies. Associated Life and                Epstein's extraordinary creativity was, ac- company that
his     co-inve       stors were the theater
to Hoffenberg, responsible for the Among
United Fire. "He was hired by us to work on cording                                                          a     mogul        Robert         Nederl        ander and attorney
ce companies of
the securities side of the insurance companies purchase by the insuran                                 "Ep-        Leonar      d    Toboro        ff.   A    source    close to this
with no money     down.
and Towers Financial. supposedly to make a $500,000 bond,                                                                                             that    Epstein    told Neder-
a great scheme to purchase a transaction claims
profit for us and for the companies," Hoffen- stein created                                                                    and      Toboro         ff that   he  had    raised his
y bond that would not be !ander
berg reportedly told the grand jury. He also 5500.000 treasur                                                                                                     •••   •   •   •
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whose identity they could not be allowed to Tug as Nederlander and Toboroff were                   uch of Epstein's work is related to clean-
know. But Hof enberg has claimed the mon- j growing wary of Epstein, he became in-                  ing up, tightening budgets, and efficien-
ey came from him, and Towers's financial creasingly involved with Leslie Werner, whom cies. One person who worked for Werner and
statements for that year show a loan to Ep- he had met through insurance executive who saw a contract drawn up between the
stein of $400,000. (Epstein has said he Robert Meister and his late wile. Epstein has two men says Epstein is involved in "every-
can't remember the details and has dis- told people that he met Wexner in 1986 in thing, not just a little here. a little there.
puted the accuracy of the Towers financial Palm Beach, and that he won his confidence Everything!" In addition, he says. "Wexner
reports.)                                      by persuading him not to invest in the stock likes having a hatchet man... . Whenever
Around the same time, Nederlander and market, just as the 1987 crash was approach- there is ditty work to be done he'd stick Jef-
Toboroff let Epstein come in with them on a ing. His story has subsequently changed. frey on it.... He has a reputation for being
scheme to make money out of Pennwalt, a When asked if Wexner knew about his con- ruthless but he gets the job done."
Pennsylvania chemical company. The plan nection to Hoffenberg, Epstein said that he               Epstein has evidently been asked to fire
was to group together with two other parties began working for Wexner in 1989, and that personal-staff members when needed. "He
to take a substantial declared position in the "it was certainly not the same time."           was that mysterious person that aerate was
stock. According to a source. Epstein was          Wherever and whenever it was that Ep- scared to death of." says a former employee.
supposed tp help Nederlander and Toboroff stein and Wexner actually met. there was                Meanwhile. he is also less than popular
raise SIS million. He seemed to fail to find an immediate and strong personal chem- with some people outside %amt.'s company
other investors, say those familiar with the istry. Werner says he thinks Epstein is "very with whom he now deals. "He 'inserted'
deal. (Epstein has said he was merely an in- smart with a combination of excellent judg- himself into the construction process of Les-
vestor.) He invested SI million, which he ment and unusually high standards. Also. lie Weamer's yacht.... That resulted in liti-
told his co-investors was his own money. he is always a most loyal friend."                    gation down the road between Mr. Wexner
But in his 1989 deposi-                                                                                              and the shipyard that
tion he said that he put                                                                                             eventually built the ves-
in only S300,000 of his                                                                                              sel: says Lars Forsberg.
own money. Where did                                                                                                 a lawyer whose firm at
the rest come from? Hof-                                                                                             the rime. Dickerson and
Feilberg has said it came                                                                                                    was hired to deal
from him. in a loan that                                                                                             with litigation stemming
Nederlander and Toboroff                                                                                              from the construction
didn't know about.                                                                                                   of Wexner's Limitless—
Two things happened                                                                                             at 3IS feet. one of the
that alarmed Nederlander                                                                                           'largest private yachts in
and Toboroff. After the                                                                                              the world. Evidently. Ep-
group signaled a possible                                                                                            stein stalled on paying
takeover. the Pennwalt                                                                                               Dickerson and Reily for
management threatened to                                                                                             its work "It's pntably
sue the would-be raiders.                                                                                            once       twice in my le-
Epstein was reluctant ini-                                                                                           gal career that I've had
tially to give a deposition                                                                                          to sue a client for payment
about his share of the                                                                                                of services that he'd re-
money. telling Toboroff                                                                                               quested and we'd per-
there were "reasons- he                                          OFFICE SPACE                                         formed ... without issue
didn't want to. Then, after the opportunity         The "office" in Epstein's house. It has no  on the performance." says Forsberg. In
for new investors was closed, co-investors           computers. but it does have a desk that    the end the matter was settled. but Ep-
recall Epstein announcing that he'd found         Epstein tells people once belonged to banker stein claims he now has no recollection
one at last: Dick Snyder then C.E.O. of            J. P Morgan. and "the largest Persian rue    of it.
the publisher Simon S:    Schuster. who  want-         you'll ever see in a ornate home            The incident is one of a number of disputes
ed to put up approximately S500.000. (Nei-                                                     Epstcin has become embroiled in. Some are
ther Epstein nor Snyder can now recall              Sources say Epstein proved that he could for sums so tiny as to be baffling: for instance.
the investment. Yet in the 1989 deposition be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" Epstein sued investment adviser Herbert
Epstein said that he had recruited Sny- ideas about investments. "Wexner had a cou- Glass, who sold him the Palm Beach house in
der, whom he had met socially. into the ple of bad investments. and Jeffrey cleaned 1990. for 513,444—Epstein claimed this was
deal.)                                            those up right away." says a former associ- owed him for furnishings removed by Glass.
sued
According to a source.  Toboroff and   Ne-  ate or Epstein's.                                 In 1998 the U.S. Attorney's Office
former
derlander told Epstein that Snyder was too           Before he signed on with Wexner. Epstein Epstein for illegally subletting        the
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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.
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In a 2002 New York Magazine article, Donald Trump described long-time friend Epstein as 'a lot of fun to be with?
side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey
"It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger
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 kmgray©fas.haryard.edu.
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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.
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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
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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
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house;
of the charmingly inevitable accidents of Epstein's rise, Greenberg was a senior partner of the
Bear Steams CEO Jimmy Cayne later told New York        that Epstein's forte was dealing with wealthier
reportedly
clients, helping them with their overall portfolios. Leslie Wexner, founder of Limited Brands,
made Epstein his financial adviser and was instrumental in building his fortune. Epstein was no
who
footman; he loved luxury and, in his own words, saw himself as a financial architect, someone
could show the rich how to live with their money. "I want people to understand    the power, the
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responsibility, and the burden of their money," he once wrote. At times, his powers seemed magical.
(and
think it's all done with mirrors," says Michael Stroll, a Chicago businessman who sued Epstein
lost) when an oil deal didn't work out.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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the
Not that he is likely to admit that he did anything wrong. Throughout his ordeal, Epstein maintained
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
more
whole issue is—it's just mathematics at this point. This is the nature of a successful economy. The
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.
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U.S. McIver, 186 F.3d 1119, 1999 WL 587573, 99 (Mont     Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6304, 99 Cal. Daily Op.
1.    I   Serv. 6425, 1999 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8052, C.A.9
.), August 06, 1999(Nos. 98-30145,
98-30146.98-3014698-301     45)
s near marijuana plants in national forest
...held that: (1) placement of motion-activated cameradment
without search warrant did not violate  Fourth   Amen           ; (2) as matter of first impression,
arriage    of vehicle did not violate Fourth
placement of magnetic electronic tracking device on underc vehicle  ; (4) convictions were supported by
Amendment; (3) officers had     probab le cause to  search
sufficient evidence; (5) District Court did not ...
...to obtain photographs of defendants visiting and harves       ting marijuana plants, did not violate
defendant's reasonable    expect ation of privac y protec  ted by  Fourth Amendment; it was beyond
ed  officer s to conduc   t surveillance of plants, visual
dispute that Forest Service could have station
observation of site ...
...to the public which may be viewed by any passing can     visitor or law enforcement officer are not
protected by the Fourth Amendment          becaus  e there       be no reasonable expectation of privacy
es and Seizures...
and such circumstances. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [6] 349 Search          Dispos  ition, C.A.9 (Alaska), April
817,  1989  WL   41686   , Unpub  lished
2. H U.S.I. Remsing, 874 F.2d
20, 1989(No. 88-3130.88-3130)
...with Remsing. On May 15, ground surveillance at the         airstrip observed Remsing and three male
ng devices enabled officers
companions depart in Remsing's two airplanes. The electronic tracki      uent ground    search yielded
to follow the aircraft to the Noatak   Nation al Preserv  e. A  subseq
physical evidence of a ...
ionary rule bars the use of
...evidence to coerce the coconspirators into testifying. Theinexclusa crimin  al trial against the victim of the
evidence obtained in violati on  of gic fourth  amend    ment
232  U.S.   383...
illegal search and seizure. Weelcsl. United States, 16, 1986(No. 84-1082.84-1082)
3. C U.S... Alonso, 790 F.2d 1489„ C.A.10 (Utah), May
ant lacked privacy interest in the
...Object 349 164 k. Particular Concrete Applications. Defenddment    violation based on installation of
plane and thus lacked standing to    assert Fourth   Amen
its order  had expired. U.S.C.A
transponder in airplane, and its failure to be removed after
26 k. Expectation of Privacy. Focus
...In General 349 25 Persons, Places and Things Protectedto349     be  free of unreasonable search and
in determining whether   one's Fourth   Amen   dment    right
has reason  able  or justifia ble ...
seizure has been violated is whether that person
g of airplane, in which
...Concerned; Consent. (Formerly 372k495 Government's trackin  ant's Fourth Amendment rights, since
transponder had been installe d, did not violate any of defend
ation of privacy in the movem    ent of the airplane in public
defendant had no reasonable expect
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DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH
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1985(No. 84-2376.84-2376)
4. I      U.S. I. Amuny, 767 F.2d 1113, C.A.5 (Tex.), July 29,
ng plane and peering in windshield
...of plane; and (9) government agent's conduct inofclimbi  Fourth Amendment. Affirmed in part, reversed
constituted unreasonable search within meaning Judge,                 filed special concurring opinion. West
in part and remanded. Robert Madden Hill, Circuit
Headnotes [I ...
...for Stop or Investigation 35 63 5(4) k. Reasonableness;          Reasonable or Founded Suspicion, Etc.
Amendment, stop person and detain him
Law enforcement officers may, consistent with Fourth           able  suspicion to believe that person may be ...
briefly for routine questioning when     they  have   reason
...Effect of Illegal Conduct; Trespass 349 80 1 k. In Generadment      l. (Formerly 349k80 349k7(10)
Amen               violation, government's trespass is
Although trespass does not always result in Fourth                                    y. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4
usuall i unreasonable and violative of legitimate expectation of privac
n 8] 8 Aviation 48B1...                                                    os. 82-1591, 82-1592,
5. P'      U S. . Little, 735 F.2d 1049„ C.A.8 (Ark.), May 22, 1984(N
82-1 3.82-159182-[Phone Redacted])
...k. Reliability or Credibility; Corroboration. (Formerly        372k5I5 372 Telecommunications 372X
Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communicati           ons; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C)
Tracking Devices 372 1487 k.       Warra  nts or Judicia   l Autho   rization. (Formerly 372k541 Search
order   author    izing installation of transponder in
warrant affidavit was insufficient and magistrate's             bits of   inform   ation attributed to "confidential
airplane was therefore    invalid  where  affidav it  recited
informants" but afliant did not add the conclu    sory   ...
him to install a transponder on the
...States Magistrate in Memphis, Tennessee, an order allowing . Before the beeper was installed,
plane. A transponder is a tracking device, also called a beeper             istrator of Memphis ...
a government agent approached Scott Whitney, a service admin
the plane. The operation involved
...the hangar. Later that day, the transponder was installed on       behind    it, and then replacing the panel.
detaching a panel inside the airplane, secreting the beeper
On June 8, 1981, Harmon,     Sager,  and  Fulbrig ht   left for...
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o. 82.1260.82-1260)
6.   H    U.S.'. Buns, 729 F.2d 1514„ C.A.5 (Tex.), April 23, 1984(N
of aircraft in public airspace was not
...customs officials of signal that disclosed presence Amen
the Fourt h        dment because terms of warrant
unconstitutional search or seizure under                          its signal was recorded. Reversed and
authorizing signalling device required it to be removed before
...officials' monitoring of signal that disclosed presenAmence of aircraft in public airspace was not
h         dment because terms of warrant
unconstitutional search or seizure under the Fourt ed before its signal was recorded. U.S.C.A.
authorizing signalling device    require d it to be remov
Const.Amend. 4 [2] 372 Telecommunications 372X Interceing          ption or Disclosure of Electronic
Devices 372 1486 k. Transponders
Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Trackerly 372k540 349k7(10) Monitoring
or "Beepers" in General; Warrantless     Procee   dings. (Form
signals from electronic tracking device that tells officer     s no more than that specific aircraft is
violate  any reason  able expectation of privacy and thus no Fourth
flying in public airspace does not                          movem   ent of airplane in sky, like that of
Amendment violation results from public detection;       person  can   claim reasonable expectation of
automobile on highway,     is not somet  hing  in which
privacy ...
...General. Purpose of exclusionary rule is to deter improp      er police conduct that violates person's
reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amen           dment, and rule does not purport to
reach all illegal conduct by officer s. U.S.C   .A. Const.  Amend   . 4 [4] 372 Telecommunications 372X
Intergeption...
t 01, 1983(No. 82-1260.82-1260)
7. 1> U.S.I. Butts, 710 F.2d 1139„ C.A.5 (Tex.), Augus
nic "           ' to interior of aircraft
...Circuit Judge, held that: (1) physical attachment of electro
dment    , and   2)  where   beeper installed
constituted a "search" within meaning ofFourt       h Amen
t in aircraf t after expiration of court
inside aircraft pursuant to valid search warrant remained presen
...of electronic tracking device in the interior of a vehicle      or conveyance is a "search" within the
Amend    . 4 (2] 349 Searches and Seizures
meaning of the Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A. Const.            Seizur  e  349  21 ...
3491In General 349 13 What       Consti  tutes Search    or
...Devices or "Beepers.". (Formerly 349k1 Physical attachm             ent of electronic "beeper" to interior of
of Fourt   h Amen     dment. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4
aircraft constituted a "search" within meaning
[31 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception            or Disclosure ofElectronic Communications;
Elec        c Surveillance 372X(B) Authorizatio       n by Courts...
U.S.I.g Stewart,   700 F.2d 702„   CA.11     (Fla.),  March   18, 1983(No. 81-[Phone Redacted])
8. F"
objeglion to tainted evidence may
...L.Ed.2d 408 (1965) (deliberate choice by counsel to delay      Winte    rs,. Cook, 489 F.2d 174 (5th
waive defendant's rights under    the fourth   amend    ment);
l of defend   ant's  nght to object ...
Cir.1973) (intentional strategic waiver by counse
aircraft was made possible by an
...Appellants attempted to prove that the detection of their      ongoing investigation by the Customs
electronic device attached to their airplane as part of an     withou   t merit ...
Department. This was rejected by the       distric t court as
...presented absolutely no evidence supporting their allegat        ions that their apprehension was due to
, that  the Coast Guard had probable cause
the use of an illegally placed electronic tracking device    forced  ...
to arrest in time to obtain a warran t or  that they  were
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1982(No. 79-5497.79-5497)
9.   P'U.S. I Parks, 684 F.2d 1078„ C.A.5 (Tex.), August 20,
...to distribute, and they appealed. The Court of          Appeals, Garwood, Circuit Judge, held that
defendants failed to establish that their      Fourth    Amen      dment rights were violated by installation,
inside    airplane. Affirmed. West Headnotes [I]
maintenance or monitoring of electronic transponder
349 Searches and ...
...only plane and he was never on it, installation, mainte            nance and monitoring of beeper invaded no
dment    was    design    ed to protect. 11.S.C.A.ConstAmend. 4
interest of defendant that Fourth Amen                                  349 164 lc. Particular Concrete ...
[3] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object
ment agents and installation of
...marihuana to landing site, prior entry into plane by governAmendment rights.
electronic transponder did not      infring e defend   ant's Fourth
Standing to Object 349 164 k.
U.S.C.A.Const.Amend. 4 [4] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V
Particular Concrete Applic      ations. (Form   erly  349k7   (26)...
R. Evid. Serv. 438„ C.A.11 (Ala.), April 30, 1982(No.
10. C U.S. I Long, 674 F.2d 848, 10 Fed.
81-7290.81-7290)
...the transponder in defendant's airplane and monito           ring of the device for 90 days, was reasonable
dment   ; (2)  magist    rate's finding that probable cause existed to
and did not violate the Fourth Amen                             nder    in defendant's airplane was ...
issue the order authorizing installation of the transpo
...assistance of counsel. Affirmed. West Headnotes [1)ons;          372 Telecommunications 372X
of Electro  nic Comm     unicati          Electronic Surveillance 372X(C)
Interception or Disclosure                                    l Autho     rization. (Formerly 3721c54I 349k7(10)
Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warrants or           Judicia
Operating transponder for one week under court order,              which authorized installation of the
transponder in defendant's airplane and        monito   ring   of  the   device for 90 days, was reasonable and
not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.349           A.Const.Amend. 4 [4 349 Searches and
Seizures 349VI Judicial Review or       Determ    ination          200 k. Scope of Inquiry or Review ...
...Object 349 162 k. Privacy Interest or Expectation, in            General. (Formerly 349k7(26) A person
only    if he can show some legitimate
can claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment           ed.   U.S.C.    A.Const.Amend. 4 [ 114...
ex        lion of privacy in the  area or object   search
July   30,   1981(N     o. 80-5210.80-52 0)
11. C U. s. I Dickerson, 655 F.2d 559, C.A.4 (Va.),
of privacy in the aircraft to entitle him
...arose that defendant did not have a legitimate expect. ation    Affirm    ed. West Headnotes [1] 349 Searches
to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search 349 192 Presumptions ...
and Seizures 349VI Judicial Review        or Determ    ination
ation of privacy in aircraft that would
...proof was on defendant to establish a legitimate expect      to  its search. U.S.CA.Const. Amend. 4 [2]
on
entitle him to raise a Fourth Amendment objecti 349 161 k. In General. (Formerly
349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object                       Amendment objection to its search.
349k7(26) Only an owner ofhiroperty may raise a Fourth             es  349IV     Standing to Object 349 161 k. In
U.S.C.A.Const. Amend      . 4 [3   349 Search   es  and  Seizur
who   is  unlawf    ully   in posses  sion of an aircraft has no right
General. (Formerly 3491(7(2 A person
to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search             . U.S.C.A.Con Amend. 4 [4] 349 Searches
st.
and Seizures 349IV Standing to       Object   349   164   k  Particu    lar ...
...arose that defendant did not have a legitimate expect. ation           of privacy in the aircraft to entitle him
search     U.S.C.    A.Const. Amend. 4 [5] 410
to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its                     Witnes    s 410 299 Privilege...
Witnesses 410111 Exami     nation  41011I (D)  Privile  ge   of
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AMENDMENT
12.    N          A
U.S. Chavez, 603 F.2d I43„ C.A.10 (N.M.), August 02, 1979(N
78-1 9.78-[Phone Redacted])
os. 78-1128,
372 Telecommunications 372X
...k. In General. (Formerly 372k514.1 372k514 349k3.6(1)           ons;   Electro    nic Surveillance 372X(C)
Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communicati                       rizatio  n. (Formerly 372k541
Tracking Devices 372 1487         k.  Warra  nts  or Judicia   l Autho
a  beeper     for  surveil   lance  ...
349k3.6(1) Court orders, authorizing the use of
that the federal authorities participated in
...officer or an attorney for the government"; and the fact      y of the state court orders previously issued.
the tracking of the airplanes did not affect the validit    II(1...
[4] 110 Criminal Law 110XVII Eviden            ce  110XV
...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.                  .
U.S.    I  Nelson , 593 F.2d  543,   C.A.3   (Pa.),  March     08, 1979(No. 78-1587.78-1587)
13. H
...of this appeal is whether six tons of marijuana seized atsuppre      the Mount Pocono Airport in
ssed as evidence. Appellant
Pennsylvania from a private airplane should have been             e  United      States Customs Service agents,
contends that the evidence was illegall      y seized   becaus
nal  tracki   ng device called a "transponder,"
acting without a warrant, installed in the plane a locatio             district court held the use of the ...
which they used to monitor the plane's route. While the
e, without deciding, that appellant has
...11 [2] For purposes of this appeal, the court will .assum  [FN    I]    It is well settled that the taint on
standing to raise these fourth amendment           claims
evidence obtained    as a result of an illegal  search    and   ...
...SS L.Ed.2d 118 (1978) Even assuming, withoument          t deciding, that the installation and/or monitoring
of the airplane violated appellants    fourth    amend              rights, the marijuana to which appellant
objel was seized by the use of information " 'suffic            iently distinguishable to be purged of...
57 A.L.R.    Fed.   632,     C.A.8 (Minn.), March Dl, 1979(Nos.
14. P U.S. &mean, 594 F.2d 1190,
78-1 6, 78-1550.78-[Phone Redacted])
...transponder, commonly known as a beeper device, toeven            track an aircraft in public airspace did not
Government had a duty to disclose
constitute a "search" within Fourth Amendment; (2)ant wasifnot materially ...
informants' identity to defendant prior     to trial, defend
...papers. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 961i Controllednes            Substances 96H1V Searches and Seizures
Airports. (Formerly 138k183.5
96111V(B) Search Without Warrant 9614 118 k. Airpla sand                  372X      Interception or Disclosure of
138k182 Drugs and Narcot        ics) 372   Teleco  mmun      ication
llance    372X(      C)  Track   ing Devices 372 1486 k.
Electronic Communications; Electronic Survei                   Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(10)
Transponders or "Beepers" in General; Warrantlessdevice                  to airplane could potentially violate
Although the installation or attachment of a       beeper
Fourth Amendment, no Fourth Amendment rights                    were violated by installation by Drug
installe d  the  transpo     nder, commonly known as a beeper ...
Enforcement Agency agents who had
tutes Search or Seizure 349 21 k.
...Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What Consti         ers.".   (Formerly 3491O(10) No one flying
Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beep            to   keep    his flying, landing, or takeoff location
an airplane can reasonably expect      that  he has  a   right
private, and thus the...
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DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH
AMENDMENT"
1978(Nos. 77-1568,
15.   I>U.S. iClaybome, 584 F.2d 346„ C.A.10 (Colo.), August 22,
77-15770.77-1     56877. 1570)
...of ether, which resulted in location of laboratory where                controlled substance was produced, was
Amen     dment    , and   (2)    where     trial court continued with trial in one
not per se violation of the Fourth                                  was     involu   ntary, mistrial...
defendant's absence, but upon discovery that absenc              e
...based on warrantless use of device. (2] 372 Telecommun                    ications 372X Interception or
nic Comm     unicati ons;   Electro   nic   Survei     llance 372X(C) Tracking Devices
Disclosure of Electro                                                       ntless  Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540
372 1486 k. Transponders or "Beep         ers" in  Genera    l; Warra
tracki  ng device that had been attached
349k7(10) Where agents, who lost contact with electronicant's house, had to use airplane to pick up
to container of ether after its  movem     ent from   one    defend
in commercial building with
beeper signal and locate clandestine laboratory, which was located
windows covered to protec     t ...
...against viewing of materials inside, slight intrusion resulti              ng from use of device was not per se in
and  its warran     tless    use   by agents was therefore not invalid.
violation of the Fourth Amendment
u.s.cA.Const. Amend. 4 [3)208,      13514 Double Jeopardy 135141 Effect of...  V
16. P U.S. I Dubrofsky, 581 F.2d                  C.A.9 (Cal.), August 09, 1978(No. 77-3738.77-3738)
...device emanating beeping signals allowing tracing ofAmen            package and emanating different beeping
dment; (2) permanent resident of house
'signals if package was opened did not violate Fourth (3) special agent's affidavit was ...
had authority to consent    to starch   of  basem   ent  of  house;
...package of electronic surveillance device after heroin had                  been discovered in package during
lawful customs search did not violate any        Fourth      Amen        dment     right. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4
961-IV   (B) Search Without Warrant
[5] 9611 Controlled Substances 96HIV Searches and Seizures
9611 107 Carriers ...
g tones if package was opened, which
...signals allowing package to be traced and changing beepin, did                   not sufficiently resemble wiretap so
dment
device was attached without violating Fourth Amen provide and thus did not violate Fourth
as to require antecedent justific   ation  that warran    t would
110MCIV Review 110XXIV(O)
Amendment. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [6] 110 Criminal Law
QuestLons of Fact and   Findin   gs 110   1158   In Genera      l...
01, 1978(Nos. 77-1125 and
17. P U.S. I Miroyan, 577 F.2d 489, C.A.9 (Cal.), May
77-1367.77-1   12577 -1367)
...transponder merely to monitor the location of aircraf(2)          t as it passed through public airspace was not
a "search" subject to Fourth      Amen    dment    strictu  res,          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      defend   ants,  who  flew   the   rented      aircraf  t to Mexico, (3) officer who effected
arrest of defendant in motel had ...
passed through public airspace was not
...transponder merely to monitor the location of aircraft as it A.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 372
a "search" subject to Fourth Amendment strictures. U.S.C.                          nic Communications; Electronic
Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electro
Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices ...
while the plane was within his
...of transponder, performed with consent of aircraft ownerofand              defend  ants, who flew the rented aircraft
dominion, did not violate   the   Fourth   Amen     dment       rights
3MI     On    Crimin  al Charges...
to Mexico. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [3] 35 Arrest
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DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH
AMENDMENT"
1978(No. 77-5313.77-5313)
18. P  U.S.,. Cheshire, 569 F.2d 887, C.A.5 (Tex.), March 16,
...beeper without a warrant. Affirmed. West Hcadnotesons;         372 Telecommunications 372X
Interception or   Disclo  sure of Electro nic  Comm     unicati        Electronic Surveillance 372X(C)
Tracking Devices 372 1486 k.        Transp   onders   or "Beep   ers"   in General; Warrantless Proceedings.
(Formerly 372k540 349k7(27) Assuming that use of electro                 nic beeper to follow path of airplane
ant was  a  search , consen   t of the  owner    s of the plane came within
rented and flown by defend
third-party consent ...
...follow the path of an airplane flown by appellant was          a search, and that the search was invalid
a warrant before placing the beeper
undcr the fourth amendment because of the failure to obtain
on the airplane; (2) consent by the plane's     ...
ant first contends that the use of the
...the lessee consented to the attachment of the beeper. Appell   issue   ha     of been conclusively resolved in
beeper constituted a fourth amendment search. This States) ( Holmes...
this Wrcuit, having been previo    usly addres  sed   in  United
, October 12, 197 os. 77-2070, 77-2071, 77-2235
19. P U.S. . Curtis, 562 F.2d 1153, C.A.9 (Ariz.)     -2235)
and -2107.77-207      077-20  7177-2  10777
...of Appeals, Ely, Circuit Judge, held that where officerin      s had been given reliable information, based
on articulable facts, that an airplane    was  being   utilized      pursuit of criminal activity by a specific,
identifiable individual, who had made arrangements to nder,      rent   the plane, it was proper for the owner to
s officia ls, of  a transpo           an electric tracking device,
arrange for installation, by custom                                s in  vehicle   s should be installed pursuant to
although, in the ordinary case, secret surveillance device
court order under such reason    able ...
...3] 114 Customs Duties 114XV Violations of CustomWhere        s Laws 114 126 Searches and Seizures 114
erly  114k1   26            officers had been given reliable
126(7) k. Airports and Airplanes. (Form                       was being utilized in pursuit of criminal
information, based on articulable facts, that airplanemade            arrangements to rent thc plane, it was
activity by specific, identifiable individ  ual,  who   had
officia  ls, of transponder, an electric
proper for owner to arrange for installation, by customs lance devices in vehicles should be
tracking device, although,    in ordina  ry case,  secret  surveil
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 infring ement  of the appella nts' Fourth Amen   dment   rights. (2) That arresting officers
search   a vehicle being driven  by the...
did not have probable cause to stop and
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DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH
AMENDMENT"
January 10, 1977(No. 76-1586.76-1586)
20. P   U.S. 1,1Worthington, 544 F.2d 1275„ C.A.5 (Tex.),
in place of the rear seats. He and Agent
...that it contained boxes marked "Cessna Aircraft Parts"           soon joined by two Customs agents. In the
Morrison kept the airplane under surveillance and were          tracki  ng device ("beeper") was placed on
early morning hours of April 28, 1974, an       electro    nic
the surveillance. Later that morning the
Worthington's aircraft by the Customs agents to assist in
agents ...
...any evidence derived from the arrest and the ensuingHe          search should have been suppressed as
rights.         places the time of arrest at the moment
seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment nt's aircraft...
the Customs plane was taxied in front of appella
extraordinary measure of departing from
...in their restriction of personal autonomy to permit the      ment   and those seizures that must predicated
the probable cause requirement of the     fourth   amend
I find that   the dramatic accosting of appellant...
uponjhat traditional protective standard. BecauseSeptem             ber   17,  1976(Nos. 76-1589,
U.S. Pretzinger, 542 F.2d 517,         C.A.9  (Ariz.)   ,
21.
76-1655.76-[Phone Redacted])
...ofprivacy and does not constitute search and thus, necess    no warrant is needed to justify installation of
arily would have to be violated in order
electronic beeper unless Fourth Amendment rights          . 4 [3] 349    Searches and Seizures 349I In
to initially install device. U.S.C.A.Const.   Amend
General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or SeizureAttach        349 21 k. Use of Electronic Devices;
Tracking Devices or "Beepers.". (Form        erly 349k1               ment of electronic location device to
airplane did not infringe upon any reasonable expect            ation of privacy and did not constitute search.
U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 (4) 372       Teleco  mmun     ication   s ...
needed to justify installation of an
...banc 537 F.2d 227 (5th Cir.) Consequently, no warrant is            arily  would have to be violated in order to
electronic beeper unless fourth amendment          rigil its  necess
initially install the device. See United States g Huffor
d, supra...
U.S.  I  Eppers  on, 454 F.2d 769„  C.A.4   (Va.),  February 07, 1972(No. 71.1481.71-1481)
22. P
t Judge, held that exposure of airplane
...Defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals, Craven, Circui                 h Amendment but was not
passengers to magnetometer constituted "search" within Fourt         ng  that no warrant had been obtained; and
unreasonable in view of threat   of air piracy  notwith     standi
that ...
...Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What             Constitutes Search or Seizure 349 21 k.
Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beep              ers.". (Formerly 349k1 349 Searches and
t and    Board    mg   Searches. (Formerly 349k7(24)
Seizures 3491In General 349 72 k. Airpor                             uted "search" within Fourth
Exposure of airplane passengers to magnetometer constitof              air piracy notwithstanding that no
Amendment but was not unreas      onable  in  view     of  threat
warrant had been obtained. Federal Aviation ...
149 U.S.C.A. § 1472( 1U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 RI 349  ess
Searches and Seizures 349IIn
in General. (Formerly 349k7(I)
General 349 23 k. Fourth Amen  dment  and Reaso nablen
by balanc ing governmental interest in search
Reasonableness of any search must be determined
and...
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U.S.        HARVEY                                           1439
CAN as 869 FM ItSIP (Haar. 1959)                                 interest
income tax returns with respect to
zation in original). The district court ex-                                              sited    in  Caym    an
use income from funds depo
pressed concern with this provision beca                                            enter ed  in   the  Unit  ed
ter 13 Islands account was
11 U.S.C. § 1322(c) states that a chap                                   ict Cour t for the   Sout   hern   Dis-
a States Distr
plan "may not provide for payments over
that  is  long er than  three   year  s,  un- trict of Florida, No. 85-06204, James C.
period
er Paine, J., 651 F.Supp. 894, and Government
less the court, for cause, approves a long
ve a appealed. The Court of Appeals, 848 F.2d
period, but the court may not appro
five   year s."    Ob- 1647, affirmed. Subsequently, the Court
period that is longer than
to of Appeals, 855 F.2d 1492, agreed to rehear
viously, it will take Saylors several years                                                              l opin-
pay off the entire mortgage            debt  at   the      the case en bane and vacated prior pane
rate.   We    inter pret    the           Upon   rehe aring  en bane   ,  the  Cour  t of
regular monthly                                            ion.
that
as   the     Appeals, Kravitch, Circuit     Judg    e, held
provision at issue, however, simply
Govern-
bankruptcy court's effort to ensure that grant of transactional immunity
treat ed  fairly   by  the    con-                       to defe  ndan  t   in  conn ection
Jim Walter is                                               ment extended
the   mort   -                                               proh  ibit
firmed plan; Saylors can cure                              with drug investigation did not
gh  a  chap  ter  13    ex-                               viola tions     alleg edly
gage arrearage throu                                       prosecution for tax
regu-
tension plan only if he also keeps his                           itted in years following grant of im-
e- comm
lar mortgage payments current. Cons                        mun ity.
quently, the confirmed plan's requirement                       Reversed and remanded.
regu  lar  mont   h-
that Saylors must make his
ly mortgage payments terminates when the                       Clark, Circuit Judge, filed dissenting
e,
arrearage is satisfied.'                                  opinion in which Hatchet', Circuit Judg
joined.
III. CONCLUSION
Hatchet', Circuit Judge, filed dissent-
The decision    of  the distr ict  cour  t  is  re-
on.
y ing opini
versed and the order of the bankruptc
is
court confirming Saylors' chapter 13 plan
reinstated .                                              I. Constitutional Law 420265.5
REVERSED.                                                   Due process requires Government to
or
adhere to terms of any plea bargain
.A.
immunity agreement it makes. U.S.C
Const.Amend. 5.
2. Criminal Law 4=42
pro-
Although federal law no longer
tory  gran ts  of  trans -
UNITED STATES of America,                          vides for formal statu
imm  unity , pros ecuto r  may     infor -
Plaintiff-Appellant,                           actional
imm  unity   to  wit-
I                               mally grant transactional
inal
ness in return for cooperation in crim
Jerry Lee HARVEY,                                        U.S.C .A.  §§ 6001  4005  .
case. 18
Defendant-Appellee.
No. 874051.                              3. Criminal Law 4=42
com-
"Use immunity" prohibits use of
United States Court of Appeals,                                    ony,  or   any evide  nce   deriv ed
Eleventh Circuit.                          pelled testim
or indir ectly  from   that   testim ony,
direc  tly
April 14, 1989.                           against witness in criminal prose
cution.
See publi catio n Word s   and   Phras es
for other   judic ial  cons tructi ons  and
Order dismissing indictment charging                    definitions.
false
defendant with tax evasion and filing
bly will find himself in the position      of any
s to what
4. This statement, of course, only applie   on order        non-bankrupt nonrecourse debtor. maki  He will be
is required of Saylors by the confirmatiwell    and
ng his
required by state law to continue debt is satis-
bank ruptc y court .  If all goes
of the
ies the arrea rage  while  main tain-      mortgage payments until the entire
Saylors satisf                               probe-       fied or risk losing his home.
ing his monthly mortgage payments, he
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4. Criminal Law sw42                                Leonard Alan Sands, Coconut Grove,
Fla., for defendant-appellee.
Use immunity does not prohibit
Government from prosecuting witness for            Appeal from the United States District
crimes about which he testified, provided         Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Government proves that it has other evi-
dence to support prosecution that is derived
from legitimate source wholly independent            Before RONEY, Chief Judge,
of compelled testimony.                            TJOFLAT, HILL, FAY, VANCE,
6. Criminal Law al=.42                             KRAVITCH, JOHNSON, HATCHETT,
When defendant has demonstrated              ANDERSON, CLARK, EDMONDSON,
that he has testified under grant of use           and COX, Circuit Judges.
immunity, burden shifts to prosecution
which then has affirmative duty to prove               KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
that evidence it proposes to use is derived            Appellee Jerry Lee Harvey disclosed his
from legitimate source wholly independent illegal activities in the drug trade to Drug
of testimony given under grant of immuni- Enforcement Administration agents under
ty.
an unwritten informal grant of immunity in
6. Criminal Law 4=42                                 1980. Four years later a grand jury indict-
Informal transactional immunity de- ed Harvey for failing to report the interest
fendant received in connection with disci°• income earned on the proceeds of those
sure of his Illegal activities in drug trade drug-related activities in the years leading
did not prohibit Government from prosecut- up to and following the 1980 grant of im-
ing defendant for tax violations committed munity. Harvey moved to dismiss the in-
after grant of immunity, even though tax dictment, arguing that the 1980 informal
violations related to money derived from grant of immunity protected him from
drug trade.                                         prosecution. The district court, upon the
7. Criminal Law     a=42                           recommendation of the magistrate, agreed
Purpose of grant     of  transac  tional  or  and dismissed the indictment with preju-
use  immun  ity is  to preclud  e  witness '  re-  dice. United States              Harvey, 651
fiance on his Fifth Amendment privilege F.Supp. 894 (S.D.Fla.1986). The govern-
against     compelled       self-incrimination: ment appealed the dismissal of those
Government may compel witness to testify counts that charged violations for the years
by granting him immunity, provided that following the grant of immunity. A divid-
scope of immunity is as least as great as ed panel of this court affirmed. 848 F.2d
that of Fifth Amendment privilege that wit- 1547 (11th Cir.1988). We determined to
ness must forego. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. rehear this case in bane and vacated the
5.                                                  panel opinion. 855 F.2d 1492 (11th Cir.
8. Criminal Law sa493(      1)                      1988).    We now REVERSE the order of the
In genera  l, privileg e   agains  t self-in-  distric t court dismissing those counts of
s
crimination only prohibits compelled testi- the indictment that relate to offense alleg-
witness    for                tted after the grant of immun ity
mony that might incriminate                         edly commi
crimes he had   already  commi   tted, or was   in  to Harvey   .
process of committing, at time testimony
was given. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 5.                                I. THE FACTS
On November 27, 1986 a grand jury in
Roger M. Olsen, Atty. Gen., Michael L.
die Southern District of Florida returned
Paup, Chief, Robert E. Lindeay, Alan
an indictment charging Harvey with five
Hechtkopf, Appellate Section, Tax Division,
counts of income tax evasion for the years
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C.,
1978 through 1982, in violation of 26 U.S.C.
for plaintiff-appellant.
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Palm Beach billionaire faces second sex-assault
By Nancy Oth0n
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Billionaire and part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey
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Epstein was sued for the second time in less than two
weeks Wednesday, this time by another teenager who             No closing costs*.
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       CENTEX HOMES
conference in West Palm Beach this afternoon to discuss                                    eu fixtclicus   ;Om iglu.
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the allegations.
of prostitution, is scheduled to appear in
Epstein, arrested in 2006 on a felony charge of solicitation
is accused of luring young girls to his
court next month for a status hearing. The New York resident
mansion for massages that turned sexual.
"obsession for underage minor girls" and
The lawsuit alleges that Epstein has a sexual preference and
er girls in his home for paid massages.
sought to gain access to economically disadvantaged young
No. 2," has suffered traumatic injuries,
The 16-year-old girl, identified in the lawsuit as "Jane Doe
according to the complaint.
in never had sex with the girl, who was 14
When the first lawsuit was filed Epstein's attorneys said Epste
at the time, and that the lawsuit was motivated by greed.
[Phone Redacted].
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