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From: Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 8:32 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: ? Good for you. And ghislaine. congrats From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> =b>To: nadia <nadja2102@ya=oo.com> Sent: Tue, =arch 8, 2011 3:27:58 PM Subject:<=span> Jeffrey =nd Ghislaine: Notes on New York's Oddest Alliance «/=ont>http://www.vanit=fair.com/online/daily/2011/03/notes-on-new-yorks-oddest-couple-jeffrey-eps=ein-and- ghislaine-maxwell.html> =br> by Vicky Ward <http://www.v=nityfair.com/contributors/vicky-ward <http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/vicky-ward> March 8, 2011, 2:30 PM "I've got a story idea for you. The rebuildin= of Indonesia. Or New Orleans. Or both. Go there. I've just been= You will never think the same way about anything again." =o spoke not Bill or Melinda Gates, but Ghislaine Maxwell, the 48-year-ol= woman being written up everywhere at the moment as the alleged =9Cprocurer" of young women for billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. =pstein, 57, is the financier who spent a year in jail on charges of soli=iting prostitutes—and now there is talk of another investigation=0Abecause various women, now in their twenties and thirties, have come f=rward with allegations that he molested them when they were under-age. T=e allegations first surfaced in British newspapers, which have zeroed in=on Epstein's friendship with Prince Andrew, who has recently tri=d to publicly disassociate himself from his old pal. I wrote a piece=for Vanity Fair in 2003 called "The Talented Mr. Epstein.=E2 It was largely a business piece that focused on his mysterious =xit from Bear Stearns in 1981, his close relationships with Jimmy Cayne,=Les Wexner, the chairman of Limited Brands, and above all, the man who c=aimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is currently serving=a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of=$450 million. The piece alluded to Epstein's great=friendship with Maxwell, and how she introduced him to young women with =hom he had sexual relationships. But, in the end, the story didn =99t really go there, focusing instead on the issue that remains a myster=—how Jeffrey made his money, and how Ghislaine made hers. =br> This is not to say I didn't hear stories about the girls. I =id. But, not knowing quite who to believe, I concentrated on the intrigu=ng financial mystery instead. But now the women have come back. Not the=0Asame ones, different ones. And their stories are bone-chilling. Journa=ists from England have phoned—and, in one case, flown—to a=k me about Epstein and Maxwell. Who is he? And the British, especially, =ant to know: Who is she? At this point, I am so bored of repeating mysel= to others—it was, after all, my 2003 Vanity Fairstory th=t really brought him into the limelight—that I have decided to wri=e about this myself. Bizarrely, perhaps, I have gotten to kno= Jeffrey and Ghislaine far better after my piece than before it. = kept running into both of them, separately, at parties. Jeffrey is not = social animal so he usually has a couple of young women with him who st=nd two feet behind him, as if serving a monarch. "Do they speak?=E2 I remember asking him once, nodding at his lookalike blondes. H= laughed. "Not like you,Vicky," was his riposte. EFTA_R1_00097147 EFTA01779601 I remembered that when we'd once discussed math =94in particular, an isosceles triangle —and I revealed I hadn =80 t studied math since I was 14 (such is, or was, the way of the Brit=sh educational system), I received a package at home via messenger. It w=s a book: "Math for idiots." So he is not w=thout humor, even though he doesn't drink or smoke, and hates rest=urants. "Jeffrey knows a good deal about most subject=," newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman told me last week. He was =ertainly preaching to the converted. The truth is, Epstein does k=ow a lot about a lot of things. Just a few moments in his company and you =now this to be true. When I saw pictures of Prince Andrew wal=ing in Central Park with Jeffrey, my immediate thought was that =9CAndy"— as Jeffrey calls him—is probably asking =or help with his role as British trade envoy, or whatever his strange ti=le is. Because if one thing's for sure: When it comes to interna=ional business, Jeffrey knows what he's talking about far more t=an "Andy" does. Which is why Leon Black, Mort Zuckerman an= a few other financiers hang out with him. And Ghislaine? Full disclosure: I like her. Most people in New York do. It =80 s almost impossible not to. She is always the most inter=sting, the most vivacious, the most unusual person in any room. I =99ve spent hours talking to her about the third world at a bar until 2am= She is as passionate as she is knowledgeable. She is curious. She has s=ent weeks at the bottom of the ocean, literally going deeper than anyone=else. She has sent me a DVD of the fish there. Her rolodex would blow aw=y almost anyone else's I can think of—probably even Rupe=t Murdochs'. She is very well-read and can talk about most thing= for hours. She is passionate about Bill Clinton with whom she is close =riends. Yet, touchingly, when she had to give a speech at th= 40th birthday party of her best friend, Ariadne Calvo-Platero, (known f=ndly to her close friends as "the Tennis Goddess") Ghisl=ine shook a little with nerves. When it comes down to things she really =ares about—and Ariadne is one of them—Ghislaine shows he= vulnerability. And that vulnerability is key to understanding her f=iendship with Jeffrey. "He saved her," I reme=ber a close friend of mine telling me. "When her father died, sh= was a wreck; inconsolable. And then Jeffrey took her in. She's =ever forgotten that—and never will." In many =ays, the socially awkward Epstein with his big house, plane, island and =anch was the perfect replacement for her father, the late Robert Maxwell= newspaper tycoon and criminal. Sure, Jeffrey had his sexual pecadillos,=but then Ghislaine's father was not without his oddities. After =11, it was he who died leaving a massive "black hole" he=E2 d fraudulently created. To Ghislaine, Jeffrey's habits may=not have seemed that strange. In fact, she probably figured= rather like I have, after years of writing about he very rich, that mos= successful people in the end either have some weird habit (the late Bru=e Wasserstein had the weight issues, the girl issues, and moved countrie= to avoid paying tax), or they break the law (Sam Waksal, Martha Stewart=) You don't tend to get to the top by being the world's =ost balanced human being. Even the folksy Warren Buffett didn't =uite manage a normal life— whatever that is. He had a second =80 wife" for many years whose existence he has been open about= So what to make of the current fuss over Ghislaine? I haven=E2 t spoken to her or to Jeffrey, but I suspect that her loyalty to=friends like Bill Clinton will keep her in good stead, in the end, she=E2 II be out and about as always. Look at Waksal and Stewart. No on= sees them and thinks: criminal. Au contraire. 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