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James PaTTERSON A very well-connected group of Spanish families — including But if Ana had ly—had invested with Drysdale. already see thz hundreds of millions of dollars. t maintainthar | who helped se members of Spain's royal fami Those investors stood to lose And Ana’s father was one of those investors. What Ana wanted from Jeffrey Epstein was ing her father’s money. hing stupid,” she told him. “My father, he's done somet A Spanish accent. A Brooklyn accent. They blended well d Ana was so very lovely. It turned out that Epstein was willing to help. “Something stupid, you see, with the money. The family District of New t do you call it? A scheme. He knew some of 4 "Force. He was a him, And now the money is gone.” he was building _ of Drysdale ex help in recover: a 4 wome ‘ € n he'd cu . whole other kir ry Ones that n together, an Andrew Levanc money. Some—wha the people, but they lied to Epstein bringir People who knew Jeffrey Epstein recall that he was bad off after ; _ Epstein came tc his exit or ouster — whatever it was—from Bear Stearns. Mov- — 4 for a while. Sleeping in his lawyers © nin an apartment in the Solow: Tower, © The woman ing from couch to couch Becandér-to offices before settling dow on East 66th Street. Irs a bit hard to believe. After with a good deal of money. But Epstein’s lifestyle was expensive. He was a man on the make then, and Ana was still in her twen "himself, was as: hunt for the mo . Ineffect, Dc dee dfalls. And « all, Epstein left Bear Stearns ties, plying her craft at the Actors Studio—the New York City See were less theater institution that Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Ja 9 the US atton Nicholson, and Jane Fonda had all been members of. ad violated tt Epstein told Ana that he’d formed a company, Internationa Assets Group. To Ana, this sounded very small operation that Epstein wa impressive. In fact, IAG 5 running out of his apartmé 102 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022071