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Ge. THE PALM BEACH POST ~—* 222.28 ry ‘> EPSTEIN from 1A ‘asking questions and teenage girls ‘started talking, a wave of legal ‘resistance followed. ° If Palm Beach police didn’t know quite who Jeffrey Epstein was; they found out soon enough. Epstein, now 53, was a quintes- sential man of mystery. He amassed his fortune and friends quietly, always in the background as. he navigated New York high society. _. When he first attracted notice in the early 1990s, it was on account of the woman he was dating: Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late British media tycoon Robert Maxwell. In a lengthy article, headlined “The Mystery of Ghislaine Max- well’s Secret Love,” the British Mail on Sunday tabloid laid out specula- tive stories that the socialite’s beau was a CIA spook, a math teacher, a concert pianist or a corporate head- hunter. “But what is the truth about him?” the newspaper wondered. “Like Maxwell, Epstein is both flamboyant and intensely private.” The media frenzy did not begin in full until a decade later. In Sep- tember 2002, Epstein was flung into the limelight when he flew Clinton and actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on his private jet. Suddenly everyone wanted to know who Epstein was. New York magazine and Vanity Fair published lengthy profiles. The New York Post listed him as one of the city’s most eligible bachelors and began describing him in its gossip columns with adjectives such as “mysterious” and “reclusive.” Although Epstein gave no inter- views, the broad strokes of his past started.to come into focus. Building a life of extravagance He was born blue-collar in 1953, the son of a New York City parks department employee, and raised in Brooklyn's Coney [sland neighbor- hood. He left college without a backelaws dar-aea hunt heeame a 07/26/17 MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006 Jeffrey Epstein has donated m: to Democratic candidates’ campaigns, incluc the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. B of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Christoph Powertul legal ean J ee Fenn S. ‘Monnet: sownbense s donates a block oi * Side: Thought to be the largest private residence in Manhatt: - to-have closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to m| Page 76 of 151 Public Records Request No.: 17-295 DOJ-OGR-00032115