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TTERSON zot to speak to Carter directly. ing women. And we still get to te down the rest of what Carter | her. “I’m Canadian.” in the March issue, still created a lented Mr. Epstein” in a sly refer- lebrated suspense novel The Tal- ition, by Anthony Minghella, was nity Fairs readers. For Graydon Is Epstein some sort of scam artist, n enough. And throughout the ers wouldn't miss as they drew ystein’s life story. It came through it paragraph of Ward's 7,500-word it there is something innocent, ipstein.” nt was rather ironic—so much so »ypposite. 152 CHAPTER 39 Todd Meister: June 2015 arry Cipriani, on Fifth Avenue, is a New York institu- tion. The restaurant began its life as an American out- post of Harry’s Bar—which was itself a famous American outpost in Venice. Located inside the Sherry-Netherland hotel, its a theme restaurant—the theme being money. And today, a hedge-fund manager named Todd Meister is talking about a very ’ wealthy man—Jeffrey Epstein—whom he knows through his 4 father, Epstein’s sometime friend Bob Meister. . ‘I've known Jeffrey since I was nineteen,” Meister says. “So | let me tell you what 1 know—whatever everyone knows and ; everybody else says. First off, he’s no billionaire. Second off — 4 and here's why —he has no clue how to invest. He has people do ‘that for him.” 1 Meister knows how to invest. He does it for other people and, as e son of a superrich father, for himself. He also knows about the 153 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010496