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James PaTTERSON Epstein prefers diminutive women, but Nadia is tall. She's rail-thin and blond like the sun, with glowing skin, a wide smile, and sky-high cheekbones. On a good day, she could pass for a Bond girl—a woman caught up in a web of crime and intrigue. But of course, that’s exactly what she is. In certain circles, the academics and the women in Epstein’s orbit are almost a joke. In a 2003 profile of him, New York maga- zine quotes Harvard professors (“He is amazing”), Princeton professors (“He changed my life”), MIT professors (“If I had acted upon the investment advice he has given me over the years, Td be calling you from my Gulfstream right now”), and other lumi- naries, up to and including Bill Clinton. “Pye known Jeff for fifteen years,” says Donald Trump. “Terrific guy; he’s a lot of fun to be with.” No one knew then that someday Trump would run for presi- dent. (When he does, he'll attack Hillary Clinton for Bill Clinton’s own entanglements with Epstein.) But Trump’s already ahead of — t the curve in that he ends up severing his ties to Epstein well 4 before the police or the media get wind of Epstein’s penchant for underage girls. He does this because he finds out that in their endless hunt ~ for “masseuses,” Epstein’s procurers have been prowling around ~ Trump’s estate in Palm Beach. Virginia Roberts: 1999 q rump’s estate, Mar-z 7 ulously wealthy he: " sits on twenty perfi 4 miles away from Jeffrey E home to the exclusive Mar- courts, and a very posh rest Donald Trump had fou 4 they blocked all his efforts 1 q Other clubs on the island- ; blacks and Jews— had neve q atgued. At one point he sent ; ber of the town council: Gu sidney Poitier confronts his Heman's Agreement, in which “in Connecticut and New Yor HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022097