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Da Posr al' / f EFTA00260609  NO. 74520 (Ili;) hWi;. 'cluttlS9 ' AMMO • • EFTA00260610 EFTA00260611  SIR. BIC JelTral Epstein in \cn 1,,l, /44 Epstein\ nine-floor. 5I.IIIM-square- roof loon house. Ile also °ails a 7.5101-aera• ranch in \en \lesicii, a house in Palm Beach. and a Caribbean Lately, 3effrey Epstein's high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New Iork's largest private reside*e, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and flies celebrities I 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 Leslie Wexner, and his complicated past EFTA00260612  Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the charm slip into his eyes. They are steely the town house—Epstein usually refers to the and calculating, giving some hint at the former as "tea," since he likes to cat 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 move." so called because of the cordovan-colored It was an appropriate metaphor for 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. His 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 arc delivered to Epstein and fully engineered it so that he remains one guests by the menservants in white gloves. 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 Eaft Side. home to some of the spanning the width of the house. Strangely. -He's wry enigmatiC says Rosa NIonck- most expensive real estate on earth. exists it holds no computer. Computers belong in ton. the former C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the crown jewel of the city's residential the "computer room" as smaller room at the U.K. and a close friend since the early town houses. With its I5-lbot-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 off 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. P Morgan). 13th-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— Sades The MAthrtitnes linue was re- ven acquaintances sense a until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private cently spotted. Covering the floor. Epstein curious dichotomy: les. 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 Leah Kiernan. Inside, amid the flurry of mcnscnants must have come from a mosque." Amid one of his art dealers. puts attired in sober black suits and pristine such splendor. much of which reflects the it. Yet he is fastidiously. a4 white gloves, you feel you have stumbled work of the French decorator .Alberto Pin- most obsessively private—he 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 1. seems to have no boundaries. ty: a stuffed black poodle. standing atop eating in restaurants like "eating on the sub- The. entrance hail 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 England. where they were made for in- but feel it's Epstein's was of saying that he most public companion of the last decade. 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 Dubuffet ... 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 painted it. In any private dwelling in New Mexico. on an 518 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 "Zorro." "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 Tut- 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 56.8 million house in Palm Beach, and Eva Andersson Dubin. a doctor and when people think of him this way. A good- Florida. and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstrcam onetime model. He tells people that when looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren. IV. a helicopter. and a Boeing -27. 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.) 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 Tucker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket him at his home—they include newspaper house because he knew he "could never live magnate Ron Burkle. Lew Wasserman's publisher Mon 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 Myhnold. Tom concepts—especially large sums of money. Epstein is charming. but he doesn't let Pritzker (of Hyatt Hotels). and real-estate I•• • vaN "V tA.t A ZCH 2003 EFTA00260613  personality Donald Trump —sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he ac- tually dots to earn his mill ions. Certainly. you won't fi nd Epstein's transact ions writ- ten about on Bloomberg or talk ed about in the trading moms. "The trading desks don't seem to know him. It's unusual for animals 'hat big not to leave any foot prints in the .now." says a high-level investme nt manager. Unlike such fund managers as George Soros and Stanley Druckenmi ller, whose client lists and stock maneuv erings act as their calling cards. Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret. bar one client: bil- lionaire Leslie Wexner, the resp ected chair- man of Limited BraMis. Epstein insists that ver since he left Bear Stearns in 19131 he as managed money only for billi onaires — ho depend on him for discretio n. "I VMS the only person crazy enough , or arroeant cnough, or misplac ed enough. to make my limit a bil- lion dollars or more:' he tells peo - ple freely. According to him, the flat fees he receives from his clien ts. combined with his skill at play ing t e currency markets "with very I ge sums of money." have affo rded .m the lifestyle he enjoys toda y. Why do billionaires choose him as their trustee? Because the prob- lems of the mega -rich. he tells peo- ple, are different from you rs and mine, and his unique philoso phy is central to understanding thos e problems: parks departm "very few people need any ent. His more money parents view v ten they have a billion doll ed educa- ars. The key tion as "the UNREAL iSTATE it. not to have it do harm mor way out" e than any- for him and his From top: the "leather thing else... . You don't wan young- morn" in Epstein's house. t to lose your er brother. Ma money." rk, now where "tea- is seSed working in real estate. to euests: Epstein at his 1 Jeffrey started to play Zorro ranch in 1991 e has likened his job to the piano—for which he with his -hest friend." of an architect—more maintai Ghislaine Maxwell: ns a passion—at specifically, one who spe- live Epstein in 1979. . and he went to cializes in remodeling: "I Brooklyn's Lafa!ette High always describe [a billion- Sch "bounty hunter.- recov- ool. He was good at aire) as someone who ering lost or stolen mon- mathematics. and in his started out in a small earl ey for the government or for very home and as he became wea y 20s he got a job teaching physics and rich lthier had add- math at Dal people. He has a license to carry ons. He added on another add ton. the elite Manhattan pri- a firearm. ition. he built vate school. Wh For the last IS years. he's been runn a mom over the garage ... unti ile there he began tutoring ing his l you have a the son of business, J. Epstein & Co. house that is usually a mess. ... Bear Steams chairman Ace It's a large Greenberg and Since Leslie Wexner appeared in house that has been put together was friendly with a daugh- his over time ter of Greenberg' life —Epstein has said this was in *here no one could foretell the s. Soon he went to Bear othe 1986: financial fu- Stearns. where. rs say it was in 1989, at the earl tu; : and their accompanyin under the mentorship of he iest — g needs." both Gre enb has gradually. in a way that has not le makes it sound as though erg and current Bear Steams generally his job C.E.O. James Cay made headlines. come to be, ac- (4 co:abines the roles of real-estate nc. he did well enough cepted agent. ac- to become a limi by the Establishment. He's a countant. lawyer. money manager ted partner —a rung be- ber mem- , trustee. neath full partner. of various commissions and and confidant. But, as with He abruptly departed in he councils: Jay Gatsby, 1981 because, is on the Trilateral Commission myths and rumor swirl around he has said. he wanted to , the Epstein. run his Cou ncil on Foreign Relations. the New Here are some of the hard own bus ines s. facts about Thereafter the details recede York Academy of Sciences, and Epstein —ones that he doesn't min into the Insti- d people ow. A few of the han sha d- tute of International Education. knowing: He—grew-4m- mid dful of current friends His current fan club extends to Cayne. dle-class in who have kno BR oklyn. His father wor wn him since the early 1980s ked for the city's recall that Henry Rosovsky. the former dean of Har he used to tell them he was - a vard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences .".... 'CM 2003 . and EFTA00260614  "I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns," says Wexner. "But Jef- frey sees patterns in politics and finan- cial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills arc 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 S3 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 [kffreysj dreams.- says some- one who has worked closely with both men. "He gave Jeffrey the ball. "Jeffrey [knows] when and Jeffrey hit it out of the park." Wane!: through a trust. bought he is winning.... He will the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported S13.2 let youtchoose your million in 1989. In 1993. Wex- ner married Abigail Koppel. a 31-year-old lawyer. and the weapon; says Wexner. newlyweds relocated to Ohio: in 1996. Epstein moved in- to the town house. Public documents suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it. SPOILS OF SUCCESS Edelman and Nlurray Cell- but Epstein has said that he now owns the From top: Epstein's '0- Mann. and mathematical house. acre island. Little St. biologist Martin Nowak. Wexner trusts Epstein so completely James. in the U.S. \irgin When these men describe that he has assigned him the power of fidu- Islands—he now calls it Little St. Jeff: Epstein Epstein. they talk about ciary over all of his private trusts and foun- with President Clinton in "energy" and "curiosity." as dations. says a source close to Wexner. In Brunei. 2002: Leslie well as a love for theoreti- 1992. Epstein even persuaded Wexner to Wexner with his future cal physics that they don't put him on the board of the Wexner Foun- wik. Abigail. at the 1990 ordinarily find in laymen. dation in place of Wexner's ailing mother. C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards. Gell-Mann rather sweetly Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to in New York. 1991. mentions that "there arc al- be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled ways pretty ladies around" by splitting the foundation in two. when he goes to dinner elle: Epstein does not care that he comes be- Larn• Summers. Hananfs 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 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 philanthropisi Marshall Rose, house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince hate me, not the client." who has worked with Epstein on projects in Andrew. who subsequently arranged to sit "You've probably heard I'm vicious in New Albany. Ohio. for Wexner. says. "He in the back of Dershowitz's law class. my representation of my clients:' he tells digests and decodes the information very Epstein gets annoyed when anyone sug- people proudly: Leah Kiernan describes his rapidly, which is to me terrific because we gests that Wexner "made him." "I had real- haggling over art prices as something like have shorter meetings." ly rich clients before." he has said. Yet he a scene out of the movie .11ad Mac Be- t! Also on the list of admirers are former does not deny that he and Wexner have a yond Thundertiome. Even a former mentor senator George Mitchell and a gaggle of special relationship. Epstein sees it as a says he's seen "the dark side" of Epstein. a distinguished scientists, most of whom partnership of equals. "People have said it and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meet- e: Epstein has helped fund in recent years. like we have one brain between two of us: ing in which Epstein chewed out a team h. The• include Nobel Prize winners Gerald each has a side.- making a presentation for Wexner as 9 dr 304 VAN'13 m4tCH 2003 EFTA00260615  being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." media. Right now, in the wake of the pub- Hoffcnbcrg. says a close friend. "really One reporter. in fan. 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 he 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 HotTenberg message was clear: There will be trouble ccording to S.E.C. and were Epstein's social connections: they in- for your family if I don't like the article. other legal documents un- cluded oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the On the other hand. Epstein is clearly earthed by Vanity Fair, designer Vera) and Mohan Murjani. whose very generous with friends. Joe Pagano. an Epstein may have good clothing company grew into Gloria Van- Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has reason to keep his past derbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then. 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: "I 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 1993. was In 1987, Hoffenberg. according to sources. piano. And then as he got to school he had trying to buy the New York Post. 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 intereste4 in taking flying lessons." Center in Dewns. Massachusetts. serving a enue. across a courtyard from the restaurant Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling 20-war sentence for bilking investors out of Le Cirque. Holfenberg hired his new pro- her that her daughter. Domenica. who suf- more than 5450 million in one of the largest tege as a consultant at 525.000 a month. fen from Down syndrome. needed the sun. Ponzi schemes in American history. and the relationship flourished. "They tray. and that Rosa should feel free to bring her When Epstein met Hoffenberg in Lon- eled everywhere together—on Hoffenberg's 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. HotTenberg 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 HolTenberg began using ecuting "illegal operations: times the technique worked. hut other times company funds to pay oil' earlier investors Several of Epstein, Lar Stearns contem- it didn't. and the utmitting 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. Wthin the company there claimed that he paid for the upgrades. and hattan's Sutton Place and in Florida. and a were rumors also that he was involved in a had no knowledge of the stickers.) Many of fleet of cars and planes. technical infringement. and it was thought those who benefited from Epstein's largesse Hoffenbeng 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 Cayne. were outnumbered. anything from me in return." says one old lyn. According to HotTenbers. 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. E as a man who loves worn- ney general. "It was never suggested that he leave be 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 thing them around. and Though he has claimed that he managed work for myself.— Yet. 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 reccIls osition he testified that he spent NO per- to lawyers in a 198,4 deposition involving a being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to cent of his time helping people recover civil business case in Philadelphia. a concert at Epstein's town house. where stolen money from fraudulent brokers and In 1981 the S.E.C.'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 Stearns 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 II. 1981. by the Seagram tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an in- Company L..! for St. Joe Minerals Corp. that Prince Andrew attended, which was vestment from Stroll of 5150.000. 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 guilts. 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 S10.000. 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 510.000 was for the tender oiler. ey does that to you. He's breaking the oath a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net After the tender offer was announced. he made to himself—that he would never worth never exceeded lour and a half mil- the S.E.C. began investigating trades in- do anything that would expose him in the lion dollars." Stroll has said. volving St. Joe at CON II•uf 0 0% Pthi. 1.11 mAICti 200? VANI'v is EFTA00260616  contains a parody of Affleck and Matt Da- your input when it's somebody else's project:' mon making Good Will Hunting II. Affleck Affleck has always impressed colleagues to is Affleck Planning to rc tome the lib- admits says to Damon, "What do I keep telling you? with his voracious appetite for information te hralatChaensvdeneterrta b inR :t nal hed thReagi Someday You gotta do the safe picture, then you do and skills. "He has made it a point to learn oughtl1 the art picture. Then sometimes you gotta everything he can about how the business arunning for Congress. at least: -I think them s real nobility to public service. do the payback picture because your friend works—not just the craft of acting. but fun to run It wont,' be on a says you owe him. Then sometimes you got- from the producing standpoint, from the in, without any platform I really ed of the kind of common. a% ta go back to the well." studio standpoint.- says Jon Gordon. exec- people make —without "Sometimes you do Reindeer Games." utive vice president of production at Mira- the win-at-all-co being beholden , sts mentality." Damon says derisively. max. "He knows how deals work. It's what And the invasion of privacy would "That's just mean." Affleck whines. he sets him apart. If he wanted to run a studio nothing new. "What are you But it's a pretty accurate description of at some point, he could. He's about as about me that hasn't going to say already been said? I his career to date. "Ben takes these franchise sharp as they come.- don't cheat, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. properties so he can go and experiment:' I live a clean life: Affleck says, his eves says Harvey Weinstein. A ffleck is already juggling his acting with twinkling. "He believes in trying to stretch himself nscreenwriting and such other commit- "He's only 30 years old," says Jennifer and not/keep doing the same thing." ob- ments as Project Greenlight. the contest he Todd, who co-produced Boiler Room. "Hc serves Bruce Willis. who starred with Affleck and Damon started to help launch the ca- still has an enormous amount of time to in Armageddon. "He's an awesome actor. reers of young filmmakers. .Alfleck's friends do things." and I think hes going to do great things." are certain he'll be directing soon. "There's Time, and drive. -I think he's incredibly Several years ago. in a televised interview no question.' Weinstein says. "Both he and hungry." says Sean Bailey. who founded on Inside the Actors Studio. Affleck said that Matt. I think they're going to rewrite the the media and production company Live- his goal was to make big commercial movies. rules. These guys can fix anything. There'll Planet with Affleck. Damon. and Chris He has since revised his ambitions. "That's be home runs in both instances:' Moore. "I think the guy has very grand an adolescent aspiration. in a way. I'd But there are other thoughts tickling the aspirations. I don't think he's going to be rather be in movies like Magnolia. which I back of Meek's mind as well. A passion- content with just being a movie star. He think is a towering achievement. I'll con- ate liberal. he campaigned for Al Gore. knows he has the potential to do very big tinue to act. but I won't act in a way that cares deeply about political issues. and is things." requires me to hang my name out there extremely well informed. He entertains him- Such ambitions could 'ise derailed by any and do a lot of publicity. Fit do character self by writing imaginary political speeches number of miscalculations. including a pri- roles and focus on writing and directing. It in his head. He would rather discuss mos vate life that generates too many sensational doesn't require the same kinds of sacri- in Africa than his movie career. headlines, but Affleck has a clear idea of fice, in terms of quality of life and person- When Lopez goes to Affleck's mother's the ultimate goal. "On my deathbed. I have al life. and it's a more holistic approach to house for dinner. Weinstein reports. "J.Lo to be one who looks back and feels I lived the process. It's become increasingly frus- told me that the conversation at the table is a good and substantial and meaningful trating for me to have my role in the story- always about politics—about government lire: he says. telling process limited to one character. You initiatives. educational initiatives. what's go- In the meantime. howc. zr. there's a wed- have to be respeztful and judicious about ing en in the day." ding to plan. Jeffrey Epstein Alvin Einbender. In his 1989 deposition Ep- stein recalled that the partner who had made