EFTA00188312.pdf

THE PALM BEACH POST • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007 Milian sues billionaire investor, /says they had sex when she was 16 The Associated hers NEW YORK — A billionaire investor, already facing jail in Palm Beach County on charges of soliciting under- age prostitutes, is being sued by a young woman who says he had sex with her when she was 16 and had sought his help becoming a model. The lawsuit, fled late Thesday in Manhattan% state Supreme Court, says finan- cier Jeffrey Epstein had the teen perform a sex act when she brought photographs of herself for him to review in his Upper East Side mansion sometime in 2000. Epstein, 54, a money manager, told the teen he managed finances for Victoria's Secret and "could get you into the catalog" if she were "nice" to him, court papers say. The papers say being "nice" included massages and other favors. When the girl told Epstein, "I am 16 years old and just want to model," he replied, "Don't worry I won't tell any- body," court papers say. Epstein, _said by London% Epstein Mail on Sunday to be a dose friend of England% Prince Andrew, has been indicted in Palm Beach on charges of so- liciting underage prostitutes. That case is pending. The girl visited Epstein "several times over the sev- eral months and engaged in bizarre and unnatural sex acts" while she was a minor, the lawsuit says. Epstein "repeatedly re- quested that (the girl) return with her 14-, 15-, and 16- year-old girlfriends, stating, tome by with your friends your next time. Don't bring (a mutual friend in er . I love girls your age." The young woman, now 23, kept returning to Epstein because she has "mental issues," said her lawyer, Wil- liam J. Unroch. He refused to elaborate, but court papers say she was "disabled at a re- sult of severe mental disease and defect." Epstein's lawyer in New York, Gerald Lefcourt, said, "The girl has admitted she is insane, but she can read a newspaper and recognize the word 'rich.'" Lefcourt also said the statute of limitations has expired for the woman% case criminally and civilly, and will almost certainly be dismissed. He refused to comment on Epstein% Florida charges. Meanwhile, Unroch, 57, also acknowledged that his client was living with him and was at the center of a $10 million lawsuit he filed last year against a neighbor who said he was having sex with underage girls. That case is pending. ' "What she was doing at 22 is irrelevant to what hap- pened to her when she was 16," Unroch said Wednesday He went on the say he hoped Epstein would agree to "do right" by his client and re- solve the case out of court. EFTA00188312 `Post' Grabs a Towel in Preparation for Epstein Trial - New York Magazine's Daily lntell... Page 1 of 1 New York Magazine News & Features II/ 2/07 in Other News `Post' Grabs a Towel in Preparation for Epstein Trial t s a . 'Pent Nixes Dal [MITI Earlier: Intel's coverage o(Jeffrey Epstein 11:00 am Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire and friend of Clinton who ImiCharged IBM year with paying teenage girls to massage him while he jerked off into a towel at his pink Palm Beach mansion, has decided not to plead guilty, the Post reports today; hell take his chances with a jury. Reporting this must have been bittersweet for the l'ost, because they've been insisting for months that Epstein had taken or was litenaRy an she verge of any minute taking a plea deal. But then we expect they are wailing with baited breath for all the lurid details the trial to come out. As are wet In fact, with the expectation that all the stories we've heard in the months since the allegations first came to light are going to be rehashed in the trial, which the Past says is scheduled forJanuary, were going to repeat one of our favorite bits from the recent lawsuit filed by lawyer extraordinaire William Unmet, on behalf Of his es-lover, transgender kinda.mode [Epstein] suddenly went into the bathroom and came eat severalminuteslater wearing red lipstick and wearing a matted red wig. Ile said to plaintiff 'Call me Janice' snare e3d 0: 10. a sy4 Ems OA ura FQ, mint YOU WILL BE FROM ITIM TO REGISTER OR LOGIN WHEN POSTING. MEW CONNIE/1Y 0 GI 350 words anon° MOIL and URLs prohibited Uwe Guideams PREVIEW POET CON PIEHT Corgi& C 2006. New Vogl AlegarewHoldato LW All MOH Named httn://nvmaa.com/dailv/intel/2007/11/Dost izrabs a towel in preparat.html 12/4/2007 EFTA00188313 EFTA00188314 ME PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008 Girl drops lawsuit against Palm Beach man By LARRY KELLER Palm Beath Post Sfre Writer A girl who says that wealthy money manager and part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epdtein engaged in • sexual activity with her when she was 14, has dropped her lawsuit against him because her divorced parents are squabbling over the litigation. "It has to do with the fact that the parents aren't on the same page right • now," said Jeffrey Herman, the attorney for the girl, identified in court papers only as Jane Doe "It's like a sideshow" The girl turns 18 in May and can sue • again at that time without her parents' involvement, Herman said. Herman sued Epstein last month on • behalf of the girl, her father and her stepmother. Her birth mother, who lives near Atlanta, then asked to intervene on her daughter's behalf and asked that Epstein Accused of sexuality assaulting then- 14-year-old gift the litigation be halted until her daughter turns 18. • The mother com- plained that Jane Doe's father did not consult with her or their daughter before suing Epstein for $50mil- lion. The lawsuit al- leges sexual assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss ' of parental consortium. Herman also represents a Jane Doe No. 2 who, like Jane Doe, claims Epstein summoned her to his home for a massage when She was a minor and sexually touched her ,Epstein, 55; induced several un r- age girls to give him sexual ma es at his Intracoastal home, a Palm Beach Police Department investigation con- cluded. He was indicted in July 2006 on a single count of felony solicitation of prostitution. The case is pending. Jane Doe's parents separated two months after she was born at Good Sa- maritan Medical Center, according to court records. The couplek subsequent divorce has been contentious. Each has had primary custody of the girl at various times. The father pleaded guilty to fed- eral fraud charges in 2001 and was sen- tenced to 21 months in federal prison, plus three years' probation. The US. attorney overseeing his prosecution was Guy Lewis. Now in private practice, Lewis was hired by Epstein to defend him against the father's lawsuit filed on behalf of Jane Doe. • lany_kelet@pbpostcom • EFTA00188315 ft. guilty in underage escort case -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Page 1 of 2 sun-sentinel.coin/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbverdict0320pnmar20,0,5695099.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Man guilty in underage escort case West Palm resident faces mandatory sentence of at least 10 years in prison BY VANESSA BLUM South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 20, 2008 Rejecting defense claims of entrapment, a federal jury convicted a West Palm Beach man on Wednesday for arranging to have sex with a teen prostitute in Costa Rica through a bogus travel agency secretly run by the FBI. Jorge Muentes, 48, cried as federal marshals led him from his family after the guilty verdict was read in the Foil Lauderdale courtroom of U.S. District Judge James Cohn. "I love you, baby," his wife of 17 years called after him. "I love you." Muentes, who worked as a butler, contacted the FBI's fake agency, Latin American Pleasure Tours, in September after seeing an ad in an adult magazine. In conversations with an undercover detective posing as the agency's owner, Muentes requested a 14- to 16-year-old prostitute. He was arrested at Miami I cil ia_ jalionalAirmyt Nov. 15 as he attempted to board a flight to San Jose. David 0. Markus, the attorney representing Muentes, said he would appeal the verdict. Markus had argued his client was entrapped by the detective who Markus said called Muentes repeatedly and steered him toward an underage prostitute. CI) Holy Cross p Hos ital 2" Year in a row <J4, ‘s, AMERICAS 50 BEST HOSPITALS But prosecutors insisted Muentes made the choice to request a teenager without encouragement and took concrete steps toward acting on his desires by paying for the trip and attempting to travel. After a two-day trial and one day of deliberations, the jury of seven men and five women found Muentes guilty of two counts for soliciting the services of an underage prostitute and for attempting to travel overseas for sex with a minor. Muentes, who has no criminal record or history of child abuse, faces a mandatory sentence of at least 10 years. A nearly identical case against a New York Vietnam War veteran is set for trial Monday before U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez in Fort Lauderdale. hertvawinv crin-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbverdict0320pnmar20,0,204460... 3/20/2008 EFTA00188316 , guilty in underage escort case -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Pagc 2 of 2 The two cases are part of a government crackdown on so-called sex tourists who travel overseas to molest children. The initiative has led to more than 70 arrests since 2003, including those of 15 people snared in the sting operation. The Web site for Latin American Pleasure Tours offers to fulfill travelers' desires with "clean, fun- loving companions of varying ages." All calls to the agency were directed to the Miami FBI headquarters and answered by Richard Love, a retired Fort Lauderdale police detective who posed as the agency's owner. Love testified at trial that Muentes needed no prodding to request a "very young" escort. In their first conversation, Love offered Muentes two types of escorts — for sightseeing or sex. After Muentes indicated his interest in a prostitute, Love asked him to choose from a range of 14 to 27 years old. "Let's go young ... very young," Muentes said. Love suggested a 14- to 16-year-old and Muentes agreed. When Muentes asked about the legality of sex with a minor, Love said it was all illegal. According to testimony at trial, adult prostitution is legal in Costa Rica, but transactions cannot involve a third party, such as an agency or pimp. Markus said Muentes changed his mind and requested a 21- to 24-year-old escort, but was never given a chance to back out. Sentencing is set for May 29. Vanessa Blum can be reached at vbblum®sun-sentinelstom or 954-356-4605. Copyright C 2008, utl ao_j_Floida_S_un-Seritinel htto://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/locaYsouthflorida/sfl-flbverdict0320pnmar20,0,204460... 3/20/2008 EFTA00188317 THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY. APRIL 18, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH - Part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein has been sued in federal court by two more women this week who say he had sexual contact with them when they gave him mas- sages at his waterfront mansion when they were minors. They are the fourth and fifth women to sue Epstein. Both women are seeking more than $50 million. Jane Doe No. 4 says she was 15 years old when she had several encounters with Epstein in 2002 or 2003. Jane Doe No. 5 says she was 15 or 16 years old when she was with him. Epstein was indicted by a county grand jury in July 2006 on a single felony count of solicitation of prostitution. That case is still active. EFTA00188318 THE [vim REACH POST • TUESDAY, MARCH 18,2008 Girl sues Epstein, two others she says conspired in massages Jane Doe,' 17, sues in state court after dropping a federal suit. By LARRY KELLER Palm Beath Post SteWriter WEST PALM BEACH - A former Palm Beach Community College student who police say procured underage girls to give Jeffrey Epstein sexualroassages at his Palm Beach mansion,. and Epsteia personal assis- tant have been sued along with Epstein over their alleged conduct: The girl behind the lawsuit was 14 years old when she contends he engaged in sexual conduct with her after she went,to his water- front home in 2005 to give him a massage. Her lawsuit, filed under the name Jane Doe, seeks unspecified damages from Epstein for sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Loxahatchee and She also sued ' of ork City on grounds of conspiracy and civil rack- eteering "We just want a full measure of justice for th' 'd her attorney Ted Leopold. ho attended Palm Beach Com- munity Col ege, was paid by Epstein to bring girls to his mansion for massages and more, according to Palm Beach police "I'm like a Heidi Fleiss," they said she told them. Her attorney could not be reached immediately fours an Epstein personal assistant who arranged the encounters, even escort- ing the girls to his massage room, police alleged. Epstein "These two conspired with him to help with the criminal enterprise," Leopold said. Jane Doe, through her father and stepmother, filed a federal lawsuit against Epstein in January. She dis- missed it after her mother said she wasn't consulted about the litigation and sought to intervene. The mother is acting on her daughter's behalf in the latest lawsuit. Epstein's lawyer has denied the girN al- legations and said her family is simply at- tempting to get money from a very rich man. Epstein, 55, is a Manhattan money manager who has homes there, in New Mexico and the Virgin Islands, in addition to his $8.5 million Palm Beach mansion. Two other Jane Does have sued Epstein in federal court this year, making similar al- legations to those of the first Jane Doe. Those cases remain active. Also pending against Epstein in state court is a felony charge of solicitation of prostitu- tion arising from the same alleged incidents with several girls. That case is set for trial'in July, two years after he was indicted. Jane Doe's new lawsuit, filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, is the most explicit in detailing Epstein all • d the only suit to include ad as defendants, and the on make con- spiracy and racketeering allegations. Jane Doe will turn 18 in May. She lives with other family members in Palm Beach County, is nearing graduation from high school and is working part time, Leopold said. lany_kellertipbpost.com EFTA00188319 Epstein WE PAUA BEACH POST • SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008 A DEADLINE FOR EPSTEIN The day of reckoning for Palm Beach billionaire finan- cier and alleged sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is coming. Really! State Attorney Barry Krischer has put his foot down after nearly two years of wrangling with Epsteink team of high•priced attor- neys. By July 8, Krischerb spokesman said, there will either be a trial or a plea agree- ment The reclusive 55-year-old Wall Street prodigy allegedly had a college student steer underage suburban girls to his beach- front mansion for sex and weird massages in 2005. "lib simply time," said Krischer'S spokes- man, Mike Edmondson. In November Epsteink local attorney, Jack Goldberger, told Page Two the case would be resolved with a guilty plea by late January. But things have been stalled as Epstein uses a dream team of lawyers that also includes Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and for- mer Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr. Now, a trial has been set for July, just in case. "Things have been delayed," Goldberger said. The problem? Sources close to the case say Epstein doesn't mind so much the 18 months in jail if he pleads guilty but he can't stand the thought of being branded a Florida sex offender for life. "Ha been treated more harshly because he a wealthy man," Goldberger said. "He I jose lantbiet@pbpost.com EFTA00188320 Lawsuit: Epstein assistants helped procure underage girl for sex Page 1 of 2 PalrnBeachPostcom Ea PRINTTHIS Lawsuit: Epstein assistants helped procure underage girl for sex By MARYIUMCE Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Monday, March 17, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH - A former Palm Beach Community College student who allegedy procured underage girls to give Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages at his Palm Beach mansion, and Epstein's personal assistant have been sued along with Epstein over their conduct. Browse Specials & Deals From Local Dealerships Autos PalmBeachPosicom The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 14 years old when she contends he engaged in sexual conduct with her after she went to his waterfront home in 2005 to give him a massage. Her lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress against Epstein. More local news She also sued • te WItbr ing.news, photos and all of today's Post stories. Loxahatchee and f New York City on grounds of conspiracy and Share This Story civil racketeeting. "We just want a full measure of justice for this girl," said her attorney, Ted Leopold. gr 'ho attended Palm Beach Community College, was paid by Epstein to bring girls to his mansion for massages and more, according to Palm Beach police. "I'm like a Heidi Fleiss," they said she told them. Her attorney could not be reached immediately for comment. was an Epstein personal assistant who arranged the encounters, even escorting the girls to his massage room, police alleged. "These two conspired with him to help with the criminal enterprise," Leopold said. Jane Doe, through her father and stepmother, filed a federal lawsuit against Epstein in January. She dismissed it after her mother said she wasn't consulted about the litigation and sought to intervene. The mother is acting on her daughter's behalf in the latest lawsuit. 1•44n • ihvalmhaarhnnet nrinfthig r.lickabilitv.eotnint/cot?actionntectitle=Lawsuit%3A+Epst... 3/18/2008 EFTA00188321 Lawsuit: Epstein assistants helped procure underage girl for sex Page 2 of 2 Epstein's lawyer has denied the girl's allegations and said her family is simply attempting to get money from a very rich man. Epstein, 55, is a Manhattan money manager who has homes there, in New Mexico and the Virgin Islands in addition to his $8.5 million Palm Beach mansion. Two other Jane Does have sued Epstein in federal court this year, making similar allegations to those of the first Jane Doe. Those cases remain active. Also pending against Epstein in state court is a felony charge of solcitiation of prostitution arising from the same alleged incidents with several girls. That case is now scheduled for trial in July, two years after he was indicted. Jane Doe's new lawsuit, filed in Palm Beach Circu't Codige most explicit in detailing Epstein's alleged misconduct. It is the first to includ as defendants, and the first to make conspiracy and racketeering allegations. Jane Doe will turn 18 in May. She lives with other family members in Palm Beach County, is nearing graduation from high school and is working part time, Leopold said. Find this article at: http://www.palinbeachpost.corn/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/03/17/0317epstein.html F Check the box to include the list of links referenced In the article. lirrn•//nutmhenrlinnsf tirintthiS.CiiCkabilitv.com/pt/cpt?action=cpactitle=Lawsuit%3A+Epst... 3/18/2008 EFTA00188322 Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom Page 1 of 2 NEWS Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom Mogul Reportedly Built $30 Million Sex Grotto to Indulge His Desires By MARCUS BARAM July 20, 2007 — When it comes to sexual deviancy, the rich really are different from the rest of us. Instead of hiring cheap hookers for an hour in a motel, they fly in high-end prostitutes for the weekend to frolic in their underground grotto. Rather than buying sex toys to liven things up, they'll build a sex vault complete with bondage and S&M gear. The latest in a long line of lurid Lotharios is said to be computer chip mogul Henry T. Nicholas III, who allegedly built a $30 million underground grotto, complete with hidden doors and secret levers, at his equestrian estate in Laguna Hills, Calif. According to court documents unearthed by the Los Angeles Times, Nicholas is said to have planned a "secret and convenient lair" where he could indulge his "manic obsession with prostitutes" and "addiction to cocaine and Ecstasy." The 47-year-old billionaire, who co-founded Broadcom Corp in 1991, had his private jet ferry prostitutes from New Orleans, Chicago and Las Vegas to his lair, nicknamed the Pond, where he provided his rock-star guests with drugs, including mushrooms and nitrous oxide, according to the draft complaint. In addition, the complaint dug up by the Times alleges that Nicholas used the lair as his "personal brothel" until his wife caught him in the act with a prostitute, according to the paper. His wife, Stacy Nicholas, has since filed for divorce. Nicholas' attorney Steven A. Silverstein told the Times that "all of the allegations are denied." In 2000, Nicholas told the paper that the underground facility was a "pump house" to handle runoff from his horse trails. The allegations seem to echo other well-publicized cases. Publishing heir Richard Quadracci reportedly ran a gay sex club, complete with a 1,000-square-foot playroom equipped with a cross, bondage boards, harness power hoists and other X-rated paraphernalia, out of his penthouse apartment in Manhattan. Quadracci claims that he only ran a Web site describing a bondage-themed bed and breakfast that he planned to open one day. Eventually, his condominium board sued him and the case was settled in early 2005. Other notorious cases include Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was charged with felony solicitation of a prostitute for hiring underage girls to give him massages at his Palm Beach mansion. In that case, some of Epstein's lawyers including famed barrister Alan Dershowitz, reportedly embarrassed the girls by unearthing their MySpace pages on which they recounted their drug use. 8/31/2007 EFTA00188323 Above the Law: Billionaires in the Bedroom Page 2 of 2 The Palm Beach Police requested an investigation by the FBI after the state's attorney reduced the charges in that case. Currently, prosecutors are expecting the case to go to trial and a case disposition hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16. The types of sex and erotic indulgences may vary in each case but they're all made possible by having money. "The rich aren't more prone to extreme sex but they are more likely to have the resources to spend on it," said Manhattan-based therapist Ian Kerner. "There are the $2 toothless hookers and the $20,000 call girl virgins but there's still work for all of them." Kemer believes that extreme sexual appetites have less to do with money than with core desires and instincts shaped by genetics and your upbringing. But being wealthy and powerful allows you to indulge those cravings -- sometimes with unexpected results. "I've had cases working with Wall Street bankers who always have to be about testosterone and they never get to explore their feminine side or their vulnerable side and these guys often go to dominatrixes and explore being whipped and spanked," said Kemer. They also may feel that their wealth is undeserved and that they need to be humiliated. "The investment banker who's mastered the universe just wants to chill out and be dominated." Wealthy men and women who are in the public eye may already feel above the law but they seek the thrill of putting themselves in high-risk situations. "These are people who feel they can do what they want all the time," said Gini Graham Scott, the author of "Homicide by the Rich and Famous." "The money lets them indulge every whim and eccentricity and they have the freedom to experiment," she explained. "But once they achieve a certain thrill, they need to expand that. After a while, it gets boring and they keep pushing the envelope on extreme behavior." That certainly seemed to be the case with Fiat heir Lapo Elkann, who was hospitalized in 2005 after overdosing at the apartment of a 53-year-old transvestite named Patrizia. After a stint in rehab in Arizona, Elkann moved to Manhattan, launched a new line of sunglasses and started indulging new passions: speeding in his family's racecars. Bravo! Copyright O 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures ant-mann. i.e. new., Invint9iii-TAQQ9Rq 8/31/2007 EFTA00188324 Describe your relationship with Mr. Epstein. How long have you known Mr. Epstein? How did you meet? What was your role at the New York Academy of the Arts? What was Epstein's involvement with the NYAA? Did Epstein express any interest in one particular style of artwork or interest in a specific artist attending NYAA? Did any NYAA students work for Mr. Epstein or yourself? Were there ever any complaints filed against Mr. Epstein by young female students while he was active with the NYAA? Did Mr. Epstein ever show any noticeable attention or exhibit any questionable or inappropriate behavior towards young females while he was involved with the NYAA? (Believed to have brought a young female as his date to a formal function sponsored by NYAA) Did Mr. Epstein leave the NYAA on good terms? Did any of the students paint portraits of any of your family members during this time period?(=ainted portraits onhen? Where? What did the art depict? When was your last contact with Mr. Epstein? What was it in reference too? EFTA00188325 Page 1 of 1 BLAME GAME rake mychic. reel deteclivc: June 21, 2007 -- DID legal eagle Alan Dershowitz and alleged pervy billionaire Jeffrey Epstein use their clout to get a speech canceled at Harvard? That's the belief of Rutgers University biologist Robert Trivers, whose talk at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) was axed after he called Dershowitz a "Nazi-like apologist" for his "rationalization of Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians." Trivers told the Harvard Crimson a PED official said he was "sworn to secrecy" about who pulled the plug. But Trivers blames Dershowitz, who sits as a faculty affiliate on PED, or Epstein, who donated $6.5 million to create PED and has retained Dershowitz as a defense lawyer against his 2006 indictment for soliciting underage prostitutes. Epstein's lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, had no comment. Dershowitz told us Trivers "has a reputation as a barroom brawler and has threatened to beat me up"- but he insisted he had nothing to do with the cancellation. Click Here For Great CffilebRics W:V/`;,-M.CV:::.:1A1f TONIGHT 10/9C boys are brick! over lo gel psyched! Hate NEW YORK POST Is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings, Inc. NYPOST.COM, NYPOSTONLINE.COM, and NEWYORKPOST.COM we trademarks of NYP HoldIngS, Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. . at: nlm9Tirttlittn•//unutv nvnnct rnmkeven/0671 9n 7/11/2(107 EFTA00188326 .e Bad News for Jeff Epstein? - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds ... Page 1 of 3 HOME PAGE 1 MY TIMES TODAY'S PAPER gbexclu ork (ilAnt Friday, July is, 2007 VIDEO MOST POPULAR 1 TIMES TOPICS 1 Tralol Business 1 WORLD U.S. N.Y./REGION BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE I lEALTH SPORTS OPINION ARTS AUTOS MEDIA & ADVERTISING WORLD BUSINESS SMALL BUSINESS YOUR MONEY DEALBOOK MARKETS RESEARC DeaRlook Edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin DEALBOOK I MERGERS & mammon HOME ' ACQUISMONS RANKING JOBS LP.O. / r PRIVATE OFFERINGS I EQUITY More Bad News for Jeff Epstein? July U, 2007,12:26 Pm Link to This TOPICS Investment Banking E-mall This INDUSTRIES HEDGE FUNDS It was just about a year ago that Jeffrey Epstein, the reclusive financier, was being charged with soliciting prostitutes in Palm Beach, Fla. He may now have another image problem on his hands. BusinessWeek reports that Mr. Epstein's Virgin Islands-based money-management firm, Financial Trust Company, is listed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a stakeholder in Bear Stearns's High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund, which became much easier to refer to in recent weeks as "Bear Stearns' collapsing hedge fund." SEARCH D PEN CAP LATEST It is a tantalizing nugget of information about someone who rarely discloses anything MERGER about his business or his billionaire clients. Despite his penchant for privacy, Mr. Epstein Mark runs in prominent circles: he once flew former President Bill Clinton on his 727. the Cul Playtex Regulatory filings show that Mr. Epstein's firm had voting power over 10 percent of the Deal to equity in the Bear Stearns fund, which, aided by loans from some of Wall Street's biggest Dutch. LaSalle banks, bet heavily on the securities linked to the market for subprime mortgages, or those INVESTM to homeowners with weak credit histories. Banks Role in As the subprime mortgage market has been rocked by a rise in defaults, many of those bets Deutse Bank C have gone bad. As of the end of April, the Bear fund was down 23 percent for the year. ti,1".1t.nnl, hInne rewi ;111PC rni-n/7007/07/11/more-bad-news-for-ieff-enstein/ 7/13/2007 EFTA00188327 , More Bad News for Jeff Epstein? - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds ... Page 2 of 3 Mr. Epstein did not respond to BusinessWeek's calls, and his lawyer had no comment. Of course, Mr. Epstein is not alone in his exposure to the fund. A fund-of-funds managed by Paris-based BNP Paribas is listed in the S.E.0 filing as well. That fund was also heavily invested in Wood River Partners, a $127 million fund that imploded in 2005. Bear Stearns says it will reveal the details of the fund's losses next week. Another Bear Stearns fund that got into trouble recently (with the same ridiculously long name as the other fund, except without the words "enhanced leverage") is being propped up by loans from the firm. It was down about to percent as of April. The younger, "enhanced" fund is more heavily leveraged, and Bear Stearns has said it won't provide any financing for it. Go to Article from Busintss ek* Go to Earlier DealBook Rein Add your comments... Name E-mail Comment Required Required (will not be published) Submit Comment Comments are moderated and will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive. They may be edited for length and clarity. For more information see our Member Agreement. Massa( Investi. Investr I.P.OJOR Tax Lo Deal to Indian' $1.1 Bil Permir Share I PRIVATE More S Buyout Coldm. China] Fund Ex-Sea Buyout DEALER Airlines Autos Basic Industrii Consun Goods Get Dc How Also if 4 Ho + Tip kils.imanthnnfr Mane mitimes r.nrri/2007/07/1 Umore-bad-news-for-ieff-enstein/ 7/13/2007 EFTA00188328 Bear Steams' Collateral Damage Page 1 of 3 h it How BlackBerry Curve"' only hum AT&T, the world's leading provider of IllackRunry" service, ailiNaCkeettyCLIVe• f Rot I RF In by Thea$46K5v-H fICenicaNis BusinessWeek Register Sign In TOP NEWS July 11, 2007, 12:01AM EST Bear Stearns' Collateral Damage Money manager Jeffrey Epstein, BNP Paribas, and other investors are mired in Bear's troubled hedge fund that bet big on subprime mortgages by Matthew Goldstein The implosion of a hedge fund often sheds some unwanted attention on the wealthy investors who those to sink money into the venture. That's certainly the case with an 11-month-old Bear Stearns hedge fund that bet heavily on risky bonds backed by subprime mortgages and is teetering on the verge of collapse (see BusinessWeek.com, 7/9/07, "Mutually As_sured Mayhem.). One of the bigger investors in the troubled Bear Steams fund is Jeffrey Epstein, a former Bear Stearns trader turned money manager for the super-rich, according to regulatory filings. Over the past year, Epstein has garnered his fair share of notoriety and sensational headlines. Last July, prosecutors in Florida charged the onetime math teacher with soliciting sex from prostitutes at his Palm Beach (Fla.) mansion. Palm Beach police also alleged that the 53-year-old Epstein paid teenage girls to give him nude massages, but prosecutors did not charge him with that offense. "MONEY MAN OF MYSTERY" The racy allegations involving Epstein—once labeled New York's most eligible bachelor by the New York Post— have been good fodder for the New York tabloids and gossipy Wall Street Web sites such as Dealbreaker.com. Now it appears Epstein may have another public relations headache on his hands over an ill-fated big bet on a hedge fund set up by Bear Steams (BSC) last summer—right around the time he was getting into trouble with the law. Epstein's Virgin Islands-based money-management firm, Financial Trust Company, is listed in the SEC filing as a "beneficial owner" of the Bear Steams High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage fund. A January filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission describes Epstein's firm as having "the power to vote or dispose of" 10% or more of the equity of the hedge fund, which raised $642 million from investors last summer. But the hedge fund's purchasing power was much bigger, given its ability to borrow billions of dollars from banks such as Barclays (BCS), Goldman Sachs (GS), Deutsche Bank (DB), Citigroup (C), and Bank of America (BAC). Epstein, who splits his time between Manhattan, Palm Beach, and St. Thomas, didn't return several phone calls. Gerald Lefcourt, one of the criminal defense lawyers helping Epstein fend off the solicitation charge, had no n"rrartrindiviwinilv/rinfinchirnnfent/inI2007/clh20070710 434383... 7/13/2007 EFTA00188329 Bear Steams' Collateral Damage Page 2 of 3 comment. Epstein, once described by New York magazine as an "international money man of mystery," reportedly won't take on any clients who aren't billionaires. One of Epstein's longtime clients is Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder and CEO of the Limited Brands (LTD) retail chain. BIG LOSERS Even beyond his money-management business, Epstein has cut a high-profile figure. Over the years, he has befriended powerful politicians, celebrities, and academics, including former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and law professor Alan Dershowitz. Epstein isn't the only supposedly savvy money manager to the super-rich to throw money into the Bear Stearns funds. A so-called hedge fund-of-funds managed by Paris-based BNP Paribas (BNPQY) also is listed on an SEC filing as a beneficial owner of the same beleaguered Bear Stearns fund in which Epstein invested. A BNP spokeswoman declined to comment. A person familiar with BNP's Ozcar Multi-Strategy fund, which invests in a variety of different hedge funds, says the problems at Bear Stearns should have minimal impact on Ozcar's performance. Still, this isn't the first time the BNP fund has made a disastrous bet on a hedge fund. The Ozcar fund, and other affiliated BNP funds, invested about $49 million in Wood River Partners, a onetime $127 million hedge fund that went bust in October, 2005, amid allegations of fraudulent trading. On May 30, John Whittier, the former manager of the hedge fund, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to charges of carrying out a scheme to defraud investors in the fund. The Ozcar fund, of which little is publicly known, is looking at having invested in two big losers in its brief four-year existence. TAINTED REPUTATION? The hedge fund that Epstein and BNP invested in is barely holding on after using billions in borrowed money to buy risky bonds backed by ailing subprime mortgages. The fund was down 23% for the year as of the end of April. Bear Stearns says it will provide a full accounting for the funds' losses sometime next week. In June, Bear Stearns suspended investor redemptions. Some frustrated Investors are offering to sell their shares in the beleaguered hedge fund for as little as 10 cents on the dollar in the secondary market. Other investors are contemplating litigation. The Securities and Exchange Commission, meanwhile, has launched a preliminary investigation into the events leading up to the collapse of the fund (see BusinessWeek.com, 6/25/07, "Bear's Big Loss Attracts SEC Attention"). A sister fund also run by Bear Stearns is faring a bit better, but that's only because the big Wall Street firm has opted to prop up that entity with $1.6 billion in loans (see BusinessWeek.com, 6/22/07, "Bear Stearns to the Rescue—Sort Of"). The four-year-old Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Leverage fund was down about 10% as of the end of April. Bear Stearns has suspended investor redemptions in that fund, too. The Wall Street firm, however, has decided not to provide any financing to the younger fund, which was more heavily leveraged and indebted. The near-collapse of the two Bear Stearns funds has sparked widespread concern on Wall Street because both hedge funds used billions in borrowed money to buy sophisticated securities called collateralized debt obligations. Popularly known as CDOs, these bond-like securities are hard-to-value investments that rarely trade. There is fear that the mass liquidation of the CDOs still held by the two hedge funds could cause a widespread devaluation in CDO prices. The trouble with the two hedge funds has already forced a management shakeup at Bear Stearns' asset management division and ultimately may end up sullying its reputation. einni/nriritIlltztrkiluhinflaCivienntentlit112007/clh20070710 434383 7/13/2007 EFTA00188330 20A THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2O08 W S C The Palm Beach Post TOM GIUFFRIDA Rublisiter JOHN BARTOSEK. Editor CHARLES GERARD!, General Manager Blli. ROSE, Managing Editor RANDY SCHUI.17., Editor of the Editorial Page JAN TUCKWOOD, Associate Editor BARRY BERG, PP Cimdation LARRY SIEDLIK. VP& Treasurer JOHN KELLY, VP Advertising GALEHOWDEN, VP Community Relations turd Mathetiotg LINDA MURPHY, VP Human Resources BOB BALER, VP Operations LAURA DECK CUNNINGHAM, Director, Marketing Services DAN SHORTER. General Manager, PalmBeadtPostrom Spare us the outrage An 11-month police investigation led to an indictment on one felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. That was in July 2006, and part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein still has faced no repercussions for al- legedly preying on underage girls. So maybe Mr. Epstein is satisfied that he's getting his money worth from his large legal team, which includes Harvard Law School Pro- fessor Alan Dershowitz (remember • OJ. Simpson?) and Kenneth Starr (remember Monica Lewinsky?). Jack Goldberger of West Palm Beach, who also on the team, told Post columnist Jose Lambiet in November: "This case is absolutely • going to end without a trial within the next two months." He was wrong, but Mr. Gold- berger remains on Mr. Epsteink • payroll, feigning moral outrage at two lawsuits filed this year against • the- Manhattan money manager. The lawsuits allege sexual exploita- tion of teenaged girls, one of them as young as 14. Said Mr. Goldberger ifter the first lawsuit, seeking more Lawyers for accused sex predator sound foolish. than $50 million, was filed on Jan. 24: "We think this shows what this case is all about: money." Yes, it is — Mr. Epstein's effort to buy his way out of prosecution. According to the lawyer of a 17- year-old whose parents are suing him, Mr. Epstein masturbated in front of her (she was 14 at the time) and used a vibrator on her at his home in February 2005. Another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez dismissed it: "Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman." For those girls who claim that he did, Mr. Epsteint.lawyers maintain that he did not know their ages, de- spite a police search of his home and garbage that found phone messages about the girls' school schedules and even a high school transcript. For all of his money, Mn Epstein's best defense remains "I didn't know 'that I was a criminal pervert'? • EFTA00188331 THE PALM BEACH POS1 • TUFSOAY, FEBRUARY 12.2008 Girl in sex-abuse suit alleges harassment The defendant .the accuses is a part-time Palm Beach resident. By LARRY KELLER Palm froth Post Staff Writer SWEET PALM BEACH — A lawyer representing one of two girls who recently sued part-time Palm Beach resi- dent Jeffrey Epstein in fed- eral court, claiming sexual assault, has asked a judge to stop Epstein and his attor- neys from "continuous and systematic harassment" The girl, identified in court documents as "Jane . Doe," 1Z says a process server showed up at her place of employment on Feb. 1 to serve a subpoena for her deposition, originally scheduled for Feb. 6, even though her attorney had told Epstein attorney twice that he would accept the sub- poena on her behalf. Also, Jane Does attorney said he and Epstein% lawyer already had agreed to reschedule the deposition for another date. The girl's mother, who lives near Atlanta, also was served. About the same time, another man came to Jane Does workplace and said he was a lawyer who needed to contact her, the motion filed by West Palm Beach lawyer Ted Leopold alleges. "It can only be concluded that Epstein and/or his coun- sel are purposefully attempt- ing to harass Jane Doe and her mother," Leopold said in his motion. Epstein attorney Jack Goldberger filed a writ- ten response saying there was no harassment, only a simple, routine serving of a subpoena. Its not the first time one of Jane DoeS parents has complained of harassment by the Epstein. camp: Her father said in 2006 that private investigators ag- gressively followed his car, photographed his home and chased off visitors after his daughter accused Epstein. Jane Doe contends that when she was 14, she was recruited to go to Epstein mansion to give him a mas- sage. She says he engaged in sexual conduct with her at that time. Epstein is a wealthy Manhattan money manager who was indicted by a Palm Beach County grand jury in July 2006 on a single count of felony solicitation of prostitu- tion. Police investigated him for 11 months, concluding that he engaged in sexual activity with several under- age girls whom he paid to give him massages at his wa- . terfront home. Epstein .has maintained he did not know the girls were minors. 0 larry_keueripbposttorn EFTA00188332 to be choosy neighborhood. Conditi prompted a tornado , Storms could he on the MAO Poo!ovaphn, moon county. Another suit alleges sex during massage By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach That Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH - Another woman filed a federal lawsuit against Jef- frey Epstein on Wednesday, alleging that he turned a massage she gave him at his Palm Beach mansion into a sexual episode when she was 16 years old. Identified as "Jane Doe No. 3," she is seeking more than $50 million, the same as two other lane Does" who filed similar lawsuits in the past six weeks. All three suits were filed by Miami lawyer Jeffrey Herman. Herman subsequently withdrew the first Jane Does lawsuit because of squabbling by her patents over the litiga- tion. The girl may refile the suit after she turns 18 in May and can make her own deci- sions, Herman said. Other alleged victims also have contartpd him, Herman said. "I do anticipate more cases," he said. In the latest litigation, Jane Doe No. 3 alleges that she was recruited lege student, to give Epste money at his waterfront home late in 2004 or early in 2005. The lawsuit alleges that, while on the massage table, Epstein sexually touched Jane Doe No. 3, then mas- turbated. She is suing on grounds of sexual assault and intentional infliction of emo- tional distress. • "She felt intimidated. She felt scared," Herman said. Jane Doe No. 3 made only the one visit to Epsteinb home, he said. "It's just another copycat lawsuit filed by the same lawyer who appears less interested in the truth than in grandstanding with these press conferences," said Jack Goldberger, one of Epsteinb attorneys. "We now have sworn testimony that girls lied about their age to Jeffrey Epstein, and they were care- ful in being convincing that they were over the ag Herman said instructed Jane Doe '140. , "When he asks how old you are, tell him 18 or 19 years old." But he said it doesn't matter. "They were underage girls," Herman said. "They were sexually assaulted." In addition to the civil law- suits, Epstein was indicted on a single count of felony solicitation of prostitution in July 2006 after a lengthy Palm Beach Police Depart- ment investigation into his activities with underage girls at his home. A resolution has been delayed continually. The case is on Monday's court docket but is expected to be rescheduled once again. "One of the reasons (Jane Doe It. 3) came forward is she is tired of waiting for jus- tice," Herman said. elany kelleattpbpost.com It Anti-Semitic incidents drop for second year part of our society." It marked the second straight year Florida's num- bers have declined and the third consecutive decline na- tionally. Florida ranks fourth in anti-Semitic incidents, behind New York, New Jersey and California. But an audit shows a worrisome continued use of swastikas. By KEVIN DEUTSCH Palm Roark Pm/ Rtaff EFTA00188333 Daily News Photo byJeffrry Langlois edge to be able to see traffic on South County Road on Wednesday afternoon. if greenery has to go ILLIAM KELLY News Staff Writer r not to bring out those heavy- ;commendations of the town ionsultant, the Planning and voted 5.2 Tuesday to reject tandards for intersections. would force owners of corner s and other structures and cut taller than 30 inches within to drivers would have a better ing commissioners said they of the new rules would start a to have a huge uproar," einnts' iy Dowell said. He added then en" with existing intersection ;ht rules. dsion is a recommendation to owners make improvements equal to at least 25 accessory Percent of the value of their homes, ac buildings or structures within the new sight tri- angle measurements. Commissioner Gene said that would result in a dramatic loss of greenery at many intersections along North Lake Way. "Landscaping is extremely town," he said. important to this Brian Mirson, a traffic engineer and urban planner with American Consulting Engineers, said the new standards would reduce the town's legal exposure if Poor intersection sight distance is found e relevant to a crash. Tor a car to be required to pull 8 feet out in the road to have safe space to make a turn — we don't think it's defensible" in court, Mirson said. The consultant's review of town intersections showed that trees, shrubs hedges, walls and oth- er obstacles to night could cause or contribute to a vehicle crash at 235 of the town's 278 intersec- tions. The new Sight +.1..-.-1-- ----14 r-..-- sl--- -- nother suit filed against Epstein Lawsuit seeks $50 million, alleges billionaire touched girl, then 16, inappropriately during a massage at his PB home. By WILLIAM KELLY Daily News Staff Writer Another young woman is seeking more than $50 million in damages from part-time Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, alleging he sexually assault- ed her at his Palm Beach home when she was 16 years old. The federal law- suit, filed Wednes- day, claims the 55-year-old Man- hattan money man- ager touched the girl inappropriately while she gave him a massage on one occasion in 2004 or 2005.The girl's attor- ney, Jeffrey M. Herman of Miami, an- nounced the suit Wednesday at a news conference at Peruvian Park. It is the third lawsuit Herman has filed on behalf of young women who al- lege Epstein sexually assaulted them while they were underage and while they performed massages on him at his El Brillo Way home. One of the earlier suits was dropped last week because the 17- year-old girl's divorced parents couldn't agree on how to pursue the case, Her- man said. None of the alleged victims have been publicly identified. The young woman on whose behalf Wednesday's suit was filed is called Jane Doe No. 3. She is now 19, Herman said. Epstein's attorney, Guy Lewis of Mi- Epstein Miami attorney files third lawsuit against the part-time Palm Beacher. EFTA00188334 Daily News Photo by Jeffrey Langlois edge to be able to see traffic on South County Road on Wednesday afternoon. if greenery has to go .LIAM KELLY lews staff Writer not to bring out those heavy- onunendations of the town nsultant, the Planning and voted 5-2 Tuesday to reject indards for intersections. ould force owners of corner and other structures and cut alter than 30 inches within drivers would have a better g commissioners said they the new rules would start a have a huge uproar," Corn- Dowell said. He added that " with existing intersection t rules. ion is a recommendation to vhich has the final say. :ommended enforcement of whenever affected property owners make improvements equal to at least 25 percent of the value of their homes, accessory buildings or structures within the new sight tri- angle measurements. Commissioner Gene said that would result in a dramatic oss of greenery at many intersections along North Lake Way. "Landscaping is extremely important to this town," he said. Brian Mirson, a traffic engineer and urban planner with American Consulting Engineers, said the new standards would reduce the town's legal exposure if poor intersection sight distance is found relevant to a crash. "Thar a car to be required to pull B feet out in the road to have safe space to make a turn — we don't think it's defensible" in court, Mirson said. The consultant's review of town intersections showed that trees, shrubs, hedges, walls and oth- er obstacles to sight could cause or contribute to a vehicle crash at 235 of the town's 278 intersec- tions. The new sight triangles would force the re- moval of vegetation from 284 private proper- Please see RULES, Page Al2 4StiOliet eges billionaire toiichedgirl, then 16, inappropriately during a massage at his PB home. 13y WILLIAN1 KELLY Daily Nem Scoff W,iirr Another young woman is seeking more than $50 million in damages from part-time Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, alleging he sexually assault- ed her at his Palm Beach home when she was 16 years old. The federal law- suit, filed Wednes- day, claims the 55-year-old Man- hattan money man- ager touched the girl inappropriately while she gave him a massage on one occasion in 2004 or 2005. The girl's attor- ney, Jeffrey M. Herman of Miami, an- nounced the suit Wednesday at a news conference at Peruvian Park. It is the third lawsuit Herman has filed on behalf of young women who al- lege Epstein sexually assaulted them while they were underage and while they performed massages on him at his El Brillo Way home. One of the earlier suits was dropped last week because the 17- year-old girl's divorced parents couldn't agree on how to pursue the case, Her- man said. None of the alleged victims have been publicly identified. The young woman on whose behalf Wednesday's suit was filed is called Jane Doe No. 3. She is now 19, Herman said. Epstein's attorney, Guy Lewis of Mi- ami, issued a statement dismisshig the Epstein Miami attorney files third lawsuit against the part-time Palm Reacher. Please see EPSTEIN, Page Al2 PERSPECTIVES to PONDER Winslow Homer's etchings, illustrations a contrast to blurry, large-scale photos by Seton Smith, both on view at Eaton. By IAN siOSTIteNt — nyhibitions }Lal,?. Art have little EFTA00188335 EPSTEIN His attorney says lawsuit is `wholly without merit' From Page Al latest allegations as "another copycat law- suit." "This one repeats the identical allega- tions of the first three lawsuits, including the absurd demand for $50 million," Lewis said. "These women, who are not 'victims' by any stretch of the imagination, have all confessed to lying about their ages. The latest lawsuit, like the three before it, is wholly without mer- it. We will vigorously fight these allegations in court." The suit says Epstein engaged in a scheme to get access to minor girls at his home, sexu- ally assaulted them, then gad A young woman named crusted Jane Doe No. 3 and o er no to give Epstein the massages, Herman said. Jane Doe No. 3 told Epstein that she was 18 years old or older after being advised to do so before giving him the massage, Herman said. Jane Doe No. 3 was alone in a room with a massage table when Epstein arrived wearing only a towel to cover himself, the suit says. He told her to partially undress, then touched her inappropriately during the massage, the suit says. The girl then accepted a payment of $200 to $300 and left, Herman said. "She was sort of in a state of shock," Her- man said. "She felt intimidated. She felt vul- nerable." She never returned and did not tell her par- ents about the incident until a criminal inves- tigation began, he said. The girl decided to sue Epstein because she wants justice, he said. "For victims, it's very empowering to hold someone accountable," said Herman, who spe- cializes in sex abuse cases. Herman said "a number of other young girls" have contacted him with similar allega- tions against Epstein. An investigation by Palm Beach Police al- leged that Epstein induced several underage girls to give him massages at his home. He was indicted in July 2000 on one felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. The charge is pending. — wkelly@pbclaibmews.com UNION CUSP sends e-mail urging residents to show police support From Page Al when buying a house or a car. "It's good job security," he said. "It's overdue." • The residents' groups also sent out e-mail messages to 800 residents, asking them to contact police directly by call- ing 838.6460, by mail at Palm Beach Police Department, • P.O. Box 2029, Palm Beach, FL 33480 or by e-mail at chief® palmbeachpolice.com. Sgt. Fred Hess said he re- • ceived a copy of Tuesday's let- ter from the two groups in his , department mall slot. "Unions may have their „place in some situations," he kaid. "I don't think it Is right for Palm Beach." Citizens United for Sen- sible Planning, a loosely knit group of primarily North End and Midtown bloggers, sent an e-mail message to about 250 recipients Monday ask- ing them to support the Police Department. The message says a union would create distance be- tween the police and the residents. It urges town residents to "speak out directly to the po- lice officers." "... the message they need to get loud and clear in the next few. days is that we are beldlid them ... ," the CUSP e-mail says. Co-chairwoman Jere Ze. nko said unions "don't sit well with a lot of people." "We come from northern communities where unions are anathema," she said. For either union to be se- lected in next week's ballot- ing, it must receive a majority vote. Tho department's chief, majors, captains and a ser- geant who serves in the pro- fessional standards unit are excluded from the union vote, as are non-sworn department employees. — mkacoha @pbdailynews. coon "NANTUCKI "Sunshine Cot ShinSks,Old a Sea-Side Cow 1Gtchen Anita N. Gabkr Reakor/Associas Cell: (561) 676- email: anitaCitn Visit [a 225 Per . . • . AM, 1110a7 .it uana 'esneoaq os ssai knOlls ....... inveln mint, EFTA00188336 20A THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2007 The Palm Beach Post Tom GIUFFRIDA, Publisher JOHN BARTO$EK, Editor. CHARLES GERARLM, General Manager Ma ROSE, Managing Editor RANDY SCHULTZ, Editor of the Editorial Page JAN TUCKWOOD, Associate Editor BARRY BERG, VP Civets:anon LARRY SIEDLIK, VP & Thentuvr JOHN BELLY, VPAdoertisited GALE }LOWDEN, VPCommunity Relations and Marketing LINDA MURPHY, VP Human Resources BOB HALVE, VP Operations LAURA DECK CUNNINGHAM, Hinder, Marketing Strokes DAN SHORTER, &trend Manager, Palmated:Postcam How will system judge Palm Beach predator? We soon will find out whether big money can buy from the crimi- nal justice system what everyone assumes that big money can buy. The penalty news reports say part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein is expected to face suggests that he will plead guilty to something more than one felony count for solicitation of proititution. A Palm Beach County grand jury indicted the Manhattan money manager on that charge in July 2006. But a guilty plea that does not recognize the age of the girls whom police say the billionaire paid for sex would be a disservice to the girls, an insult to the investigators who pressed the case and, for good measure, a general outrage. • Palm Beach police have said that Jeffrey Epstein, 54, paid underage girls, one as young as 14, to come to his 7,200-square-foot waterfront home .for "massage" sessions. Police said interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, phone messages, a high school transcript and other items they found in Mr. Epstein's trash and home show that he knew how young the girls were. But after Mr. Epsteink attorneys told prosecutors about the girls' MySpace pages, which mentioned marijuana and alcohol use, State Attorney Barry Krischer sent the case to a grand jury, instead of filing charges himself. Blaming these victims, however, stow not make them any more de- of what happened. And Mr. unnecessary handoff to a after an 11-month police n reinforced Jeffrey Epstein case comes to turning point. the public understanding that the more money the accused has, the bigger the break he gets. Mr. Epsteith legal team includes West Palm Beach defense attorney Jack Goldberger, Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, who worked on the OJ. Simpson murder case, and Kenneth Starr, who once pursued a president based on his lies about sex with young women. Federal authorities also stepped in, which stalled the state's case for another year. On Nov. 9, citing an unnamed source close to Jeffrey Epstein, Jose Lambiet of The Post wrote that the federal investigation is over, and Mr. Epstein is expected to serve up to 18 months and could be labeled a sex offender in crimi- nal records. The charge the grand jury returned more than a year ago carries a maximum five-year prison term and no "sea offender label. 'his case," Mr. Goldberger told Lambiet, "is absolutely going to end without atrial within the next two months." State attorney spokes- man Michael Edmondson would not confirm any plea deal. But, he noted: "The state attorney's hands are not tied by there being a single grand jury tharge. That does not preclude additional charges." Jeffrey Epstein, like too many mentilorida, preyed on teenaged girls. The system should not let him buy his way out of that reality. This time "With so much corruf around us, we are grateful to Palm Beach Post for reporting helped remove County Com sioners 'Ibny Masilotti and Wa Newell and City Commissio Ray Liberti and Jim aline," gie Williams wrote to The Fos( month. "... Now we want mor tention paid to stopping gangs gun-related lence." • "You see, w not elected vials. We are b newspaper us as a 'mug she a brief. We an MAMAS, Mo Against Munk sociation. As r ers of children who have been 1 by guns, we all wonder. Whet the guns coming from and w benefiting? We know we aren1 "We are single mothers at work. Most of us work two job are the nurses you see in the EFTA00188337 2itter- edly cheated on her, police said. Norman lege-.iffy enlisted the help of McGee, a crack Caine dealer, police also contend. 111 the August 2006 attack, llicicaberry killed and Elijah's throat was slashed. fin 'Packaberry discovered them after ar- • jog home from a date. Prosecutors are seeking the death pen- ty for Norman and McGee, said attorney ren Lerman, who represents Norman. erry's relatives filled the courtroom onday for the brief hearing, he said. A trial to for the pair may be set at their next urt appearance scheduled for May. Norman, who had no criminal history, et McGee at a gas station. When McGee offered to sell Norman drugs, she declined, "i amt anawcs um - he said. McGee also denied stabbing or slashing Elijah, who survived. "Don't do nothing to a little kid, man." He said that he entered the Tackaberry home to rob it to buy more crack. "A robbery that went bad," McGee said. Norman gave a much longer and detailed statement. She said McGee slashed Elijah's throat, then eventually admitted she cut the boy across the chest The wound was a stab, not a cut, an officer told her. "I didn't think I jugged him that hard," Norman said. "I didn't want him to die. I did it to spite John." Osusan_spencer_wendeltipttpostcom Girl in sex: abuse suit alleges harassment The defendant she . accuses is a part-time Palm Beach resident. poena on her behalf. Also, by the Epstein camp. Her Jane Doe% attorney said he father said in 2006 that and Epstein lawyer already private investigators ag- had agreed to reschedule the photographed followed his car, deposition for another date. photographed his home and The girrs mother, who chased off visitors after his lives near Atlanta, also was daughter accused Epstein. served. About the same Jane Doe contends that time, another man came to when she was 14, she was WEST PALM BEACH — A Jane Does workplace and recruited to go to Epstein% lawyer representing one of said he was a lawyer who mansion to give him a mas- two girls who recently sued needed to contact her, the saga She says he engaged part-time Palm Beach resi- motion filed by West Palm in sexual conduct with her dent Jeffrey Epstein in fed- Beach lawyer Thd Leopold at that time. eral court, claiming sexual alleges. Epstein is a wealthy assault, has asked a judge "It can only' be concluded Manhattan money manager to stop Epstein and his attor- that Epstein and/or his coun- who was indicted by a Palm neys from 'continuous and' set arepurposefully attempt- Beach County grand jury in systematic harassment. ing to Jane Doe and July 2006 on a single count of The girl, identified in her mother," Leopold said in felony solicitationof rbstitu- court documents as "Jane his Motion. . lion. Police investigated him Doe," 1Z says a process Epstein attorney Jack for 11 months, concluding server showed up at her Goldberger filed a writ- that he engaged in sexual place of employment on Feb. ten response saying there activity with several under- 1 to serve a subpoena for was no harassment, only a age girls whom he paid to her deposition, originally simple; routine serving of a give him massages at his wa- scheduled for Feb. 6, even subpoena. terfront home. Epstein has though her attorney had It's not the first.time one maintained he did not know told Epstein attorney twice of Jane Doe's parents has the girls were minors. that he would accept the sub- complained of harassment 0 larry_kellerepbpostcom B LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer tort. Stnnif Wednesday InriantiII Attl Riart,nedmield.HFriiday. Young & P lion om Stuart. Visit Wednesday t and Thur ; daykr;efuitznie Mass sta Thursday Beach, sr Mary, of Jens tin led Thum,' nerai H . M tort', Stuart. ome rem St. Lucie County Luceinealid.st, Anne, 88, of Port S Funerlalad Thursday. Yat Home and Crem tort', Port St. Lucie. Galln M S ineral ra e, died Friday, Tillman Is, Scott 1., 40, of Po .1 Home, West Palm Beach. Funeral today. Okeechobee County n:Tufts, Ernest Woodrow, 90, of v8r;dtrionee, died Saturday. Mineral Home and Crematory Okeechobee. ICES DOLORES H. ROSS 75, manor, avid golfer, bridge enthusiast Mrs. Ddcees H. (nee Heinizelman) Ross died peacefully Sunday afternoon. February 10 2000 surrounded by her family al her home In the Hawk Pointe community of Washington Town. shin, NJ. Sho was 75. •Born In Sunbury. PA., Mrs. Roes was raised in Groton, CT, and had lived in Conyngharn. PA, Flourlown, PA, and Ponta Wedge Beach, FL before manna to Chatham Tovmshlp where she had lived for 30 years before recently moving to Washington Township. She and her husband Bob Ross also maintained a home at the PGA NatIonal in PaM Beach Gardens, FL for many years (Mrs. Ross had wooed as ere& estate broker .4i nP ai sFare mmolit recently, `Ir;c:jairel.crhaV ass bridge enlhuslast and and goiter G Club at Palm eeach EFTA00188338 signs all of thicityla checks and has the right to inspect all documents through- out the city. He suggested the original framers of the charter put the measure in place to provide some "checks and balances? within city government. Elected in March 200Z Masters has not suspended anyone. "Ira one thing to amend the char- ter," Masters said. "But it's another thing to change the original intent of the charter." The city charter hasn't been amended since 1973. The council created a charter re- view advisory board to comb the docu- ment, which produced the 21 proposed amendments. The proposals include See RIVIERA, 5B 00 PALM BEACH GARDENS - Jill Coulter of Palm Bea, Ash Wednesday at St. Ignatius Loyola Cathedral. ( for Christians, the faithful turned out at churches ti Gerald Barbarito, head of the Diocese of Palm Beac Part-time Palm Beacher faces another sex suit WEST' PALM BEACH, — For the second time in two weeks, part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein has been sued for more than $50 million by a woman who contends that he engaged in sexual activity with her when she was a minor after enticing her to give him a massage at his home. More lawsuits may follow, Miami lawyer Jef- frey Herman said. "I'm aware of oth- er he said. "I have been victims con- . lacted:' -1mrman filed a similar suit against Epstein on 2 en behalf of a girl ldcntilicd as "Jane Doe," her lather ant ateptnother The i, csi now 17, says she 11 when :he gay: Epstein a . In a Epstein sexually tinged massage at his home. The latest alleged victim is identified as "Jane Doe No. 2." She went to Epsteinh Palm Beach mansion in 2004 or 2005 when she was 16, the lawsuit alleges. She says another girl recruited her to go there to give Epstein a massage. Once there, she alleges, she was led to an upstairs room with a maggsge table. Epstein came in wearing only a towel around his waist and told her to remove her clothes. She did, except for her bra and panties, accord- ing to the lawsuit. Epstein removed his towel, rolled onto his back, mastur- bated and touched Jane Doe' No. 2 sexually, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in West Palm Beach on Wednesday. Jane Doe No. 2 was paid $200 afterward, and the girl 'who recruited her was given See EPSTEIN, 5B O. Emily Minor's column will return. Col EFTA00188339 i s parents at odds over suit ► EPStEIN from 18 $100, according to the lawsuit. The two attended. the same Palm Beach County high school Jane Doe No. 2 is now 19 and living itrVirginia, Her man said: Both lawsuits contend that Epstein, 55, targeted "economically disadvantaged ghis from western Palm Beach County" who were perceived as less likely to complain to authorities, or whose credibility would be questioned if they did. "Both complaints are full of lies," said Guy Lewis, former US. attorney in Miami and one of Epstein many attor- neys. Jane Doe No. 2k lawsuit "is an outrageous, defamatory copycat of the first." There has been a twist in the first Jane Doe lawsuit Her mother in .Georgia contends that her former hushand. — Jane Doek father — con- sulted with neither of them before filing the lawsuit She is asking a judge to halt the litigation until her daughter turns 18 in May and can make her own decisions. . The mother asked in court filings to be added to the law- . suit, saying she "has suffered and will continue to suffer severe mental anguish and pain" as a result of Epstein% "reckless conduct" Jane Doe just didn't want the lawsuit going forward wjth the father's involve- ment," said 'led Leopold, the Mother's attorney. 'She wanted to pursue it on her own. :The father essentially did this on his own." Jane Doe has been es- tranged from her father since Thanksgiving, Leopold said. "That's why itS even stranger what he did," he said. The girl's mother is asking a judge in their divorce case to find the father in contempt of court for violating their divorce decree by not con- ferring with her on a matter involving their daughter. "The father has sole custo- dy and has the right to make decisions• on his daughter's rights," Herman-'said. Epstein is a wealthy New York money manager who has counted Bill Clinton, Donald 'Blimp and Britaink Prince Andrew among his friends. He was the target of a lengthy investigation into his activities with girls by the Palm Beach Police Depart- ment that resulted in his in- dictment in July 2006 on one 'count of felony solicitation of prostitution. That case is pending. Epstein has been sued in New York by a woman who says he had sex with her when she was 16. Herman Said he has received calls from others snaking the same assertions in that state. Herman convened a news conference Wednesday .on the middle bridge connecting West Palm Beach and Palm Beach. "This is the bridge... these girls were recruited to come over and give a massage," he said. "When they crossed this bridge, they had no idea what was an store for them. This is a bridge of tears." Herman has described both Jane Does as typical teenage girls Epstein robbed of their innocence. But Harvard University la* Professor Alan Dershowitz, another Epstein attorney, pro- vided the state attorney's of- fice with information gleaned from the myspace.com Web site two years ago showing that some of Epsteink alleged victims boasted of their alco- hol and marijuana use. Herman said the girls backgrounds aren't relevant to Epsteint purported be- havior. "They don't have the mental capacity to consent to something like this with a grown man," he said. kuly_keternatpotttom 1 - • ir-n• me% +c T Tft t erg WEEKEND FUN Emmy Friday TGIF HELPS REMO Er OK Oust, Sedt ^ Mold Spores Patten • Bacteria Oust Mlles Mildew • • Animal Dander UE <Whole House Air Dud Cleaning rI,he Palm Beach Post 0TO A NAME YOU SiDecioneare & hnonce options coailob;0 Ihiough BMW finonciul SemC gavERTIBLES AND 3-SERIES 2006 BMW 325i ..................... $24,975 White/Beige leather, A 1806465 2004 BMW 3251 ..................... $25,975 Steel Blueiffolge Leather, 20K ages, 01.134106 2005 BMW 32$Ci ................. ... $28,900 Si&erlslack leather, 26,000 miles tri06616 MAVaggai ES 2005 BMW 5251 leather, 16,000 2004 BMW OW Sedn. 610e/Cccam. SW. NW, 34 2006 BMW 5251 BRAWN.," Mathrn. 9.00 0 2006 MAWS 5301 EFTA00188340 Epstein's Palm Beach mansion at 358 El Brillo Way. Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends and, investigators say, underage girls By ANDREW MARRA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WINGED GARGOYLES guarded the gate at Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. Inside, hidden cameras trolled two rooms, while the girls came and went. For the police detectives who sifted through the gar- bage outside and kept records of visitors, it was the lair of a troubling target. Epstein, one of the most mysterious of the country's mega-rich, was known as much for his secrecy as for his love of fine things: mag- nificent homes, private, jets, beautiful women, friendships else: the regular arrival of teenage girls he hired to give him massages and, police say, perform sexual favors. Epstein was different from most sexual abuse sus- pects; he was far more pow- erful. He counted among his friends former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, along with some of the most prominent legal. scientific and business EFTA00188341 Epstein's Palm Beach mansion at 358 El Brillo Way. Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends and, investigators say, underage girls By ANDREW MARRA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WINGED GARGOYLES guarded the gate at Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. Inside, hidden cameras trolled two rooms, while the girls came and went. For the police detectives who sifted through the gar- bage outside and kept records of visitors, it was the lair of a troubling target. Epstein, one of the most mysterious of the country's mega-rich, was known as much for his secrecy as for his love of fine things: mag- nificent homes, private jets, beautiful women, friendships with the world's elite. But at Palm Beach police headquarters, he was be- coming known for something else: the regular arrival of teenage girls he hired to give him massages and, police say, perform sexual favors. Epstein was different from most sexual abuse sus- pects; he was far more pow- erful. He counted among his friends former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, along with some of the most prominent legal, scientific and business minds in the country. When detectives started See EPSTEIN, 6A ► Epstein's mysterious lifestyle began to unravel after claims of sexual activity with minors. ■ Epstein's lawyers take on Palm Beach police chief. Local, 1B State suspends Boynton doctor, says he violated previous order By STACEY SINGER Paint Beath Post Staff Writer Mondays are supposed to be scalpel days for Boynton Beach plastic surgeon Mark D. Schreiber. But not today. The Florida Department of Health issued an emergency suspension order against the doctor late Friday, saying it believed that the last time the state suspended Schreiber's license, he continued to oper- C Hostilities escalat Lebanon's Cabinet seems torn over Hezboi By HENRY CHU and BORZOU DARAGAHI Los Angeles Tinto BEIRUT- By air and on land, Is- raeli forces and Hezboliah. fighters battled fiercely to maximize their positions Sunday in a last-minute surge of bloodletting before an 01E. anese goven of the U.N.-b day, after sh Cabinet fonr ed Nations . cease-fire. Through, EFTA00188342 THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006 Jeffrey Epstein has donated more than $1009000 to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kerry's presider the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the SE of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Set Powerful legal team stymie EPSTEIN from 1,4 king questions and teenage girls tried talking, a wave of legal sistance followed. If Palm Beach police didn't know ite who Jeffrey Epstein was, they md out soon enough. Epstein, now 53, was a quintes- ntial man of mystery. He amassed 3 fortune and friends quietly, ways in. the background as he vigated New York high society. When he first attracted notice in e early 1990s, it was on account of e woman he was dating: Ghislaine axwell, daughter of the late British edia tycoon Robert Maxwell. In a lengthy article, headlined he Mystery of Ghislaine Max- ill's Secret Love," the British Mail Sunday tabloid laid out specula- •e stories that the socialite's beau is a CIA spook, a math teacher, .a ncert pianist or a corporate head- inter. "But what is the truth about rn?" the newspaper wondered. ike Maxwell, Epstein is both anboyant and intensely private." The media frenzy did not begin full until a decade later. In Sep- mber 2002, Epstein was flung into e limelight when he flew Clinton id actors Kevin Spacey and Chris mker to Africa on his private jet. Suddenly everyone wanted, to tow who Epstein was. New York agazine and Vanity Fair published ngthy profiles. The New York Post ted him as one of the city's most igible bachelors and began !scribing him in its gossip columns ith adjectives such as "mysterious" id "reclusive." Although Epstein gave no inter- ews, the broad strokes of his past arced to come into focus. ailding a fife of extravakance A life of luxury and secrecy TINA FINIBIRG/Tho At33clated Pins Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhousellominates a block on the Upper East Side. Thought to be the largest private residence in Manhattan, it is reported fuel extraordinary de In March 2005, a v contacted Palm Bea said another parent h conversation betwe' dren. Now the mother 14-year-old daught molested by a man o The phone call extensive investigal would lead detective: leave them frustrate( Palm Beach poll( attorney's office ha discuss the case. Bu police report detailit probe offers a wine detectives faced as close in on Epstein. Detectives intery who told them a frk her to a rich man's hi a massage. She said her to say she was 18 house, she said she after stripping to h massaging the man turbated. Police Interview 5 a The investigatioi after the girl identifi photo as the man wt Police arranged for to set aside Epstein't could sift through it video camera to fee( and goings at his ho itored an airport han his private jet's arri tures. They quickly le woman who took the to Epstein's house son, a Palm Beach ( lege student from Le sworn su it a quarters„ th she had en a eas EFTA00188343 Lein has donated more than $100,000 s' campaigns, including John Kerry's presidential bid, I New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the Senate bids ry Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. 1 al team stymies detectives 'TINA fir4113FRG/Itie ASSOSICd PIOSI ittan townhouse dominatoc a block nn the UDDer East fuel extraordinary desires. . • In March 2005, a worried mother contacted Palm Beach police. She said another parent had overheard a conversation between their chil- dren. Now the mother was afraid her 14year-old daughter had been molested by a man on the island. The phone call triggered an extensive investigation, one that would lead detectives to Epstein but leave them frustrated. Palm Beach police and the state szp attorney's office have declined to discuss the case. But a Palm Beach zp police report .detailing the criminal probe offers a window into what detectives faced as they sought to close in on Epstein. Detectives interviewed the girl, who told them a friend had invited her to a rich man's house to perform a massage. She said the friend told her to say she was 18 if asked. At the house, she said she was paid $300 after stripping to her panties and massaging the man while he mas- turbated. Police Interview 5 alleged victims ' The iniestigation began in full after the. girl identified Epstein in a photo as the man who had paid her. Police arranged for garbage trucks to set aside Epstein's trash so police could sift through it. They set up a video camera to record the comings and goings at his home. They mon- itored an airport hangar for signs of his private jets arrivals and depar- tures. They quickly learned that the wonian who took the 14- d girl to Epstein's house minor a Palm Beach Co Col- lege student from Loxahatchee. In a sworn statement at police head- rtn.rfaro Rnhcan then 1R admit/PA enough dirt on the girls to make prosecutors skeptical. Not only did some of the girls have issues with drugs or alcohol hit also some had criminal records and other troubles, Epstebts legal team claimed. And at least one of them, they said, lied when she told police she was younger than 18 when she started performing massages for Epstein. After the meeting, prosecutors postponed their decision to take the case to a grand jury. In the following Weeks, police received complaintt that two of the victims or their families had been harassed or threatened. Epstein's legal team maintains that its private investigators did nothing illegal or unethical during their research. By then, relations between police and prosecutors were fraying. At a. key meeting with prosecutors and the defense, Detective Joseph . Recarey, the lead investigator, was a no-show, according to Epstein's attorney. 'The embarrassment on the prosecutor's face was evident when the police officer never showed up for the meeting," attorney Jack Goldberger said. Later in April, Recarey walked into a prosecutor's office at the state attorney's office. and learned the case was taking in Unexpected turn. The prosecutor, ,• Leanne Belohlavek, told Recarey: the state attorney's office had offered Epstein a plea deal that, woidd- not require him to serve jail time or receive a felony conviction. • Recarey told her he disapproved of the plea offer." • The 'deal 'wirer came to pass, however. Mum unclear after charge EFTA00188344 TINA FINEKRG/Ibe Associated Ness ninon townhouse dominates a block on the Upper East le largest private reSidehce In Manhattan, it is reported television and a heated sidewalk to melt fallen snow. in his i flaxwoll, a lite parties msely ghter of a on, dated he 1990s. PaIrritieachPost.corn avious stories on the Epstein investigation. is I never met :k Dunne, the f the trials and -y rich. "I wasn't 7 except for a hip with Clinton ist attention. ton as early as I tend of thou- join him at an g dinner in Palm M arances, to close friends Ithe Oval Office rated more than' ratic candidates' John Keny's the reelection A former friend claimed Epstein backed, out of a promise to reim- burse him hundreds of thousands of dollars after their failed investment in Texas oil wells. A judge decided Epstein owed him nothing. It's a bad memory: I would rather not have ever met Jeffrey Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the retired former president of WMiams Electronics and Seg. a Corp. "Suffice it to say I have nothing good to say about him." Among the characteristics most attributed to Epstein is a penchant for women. • He has been linked to Maxwell, a fixture on the high-society party circuits in both New York and Lon- don. Previous girlfriends are said to Police interview 5 alleged victims The investigation began in full after the.girl identified Epstein in a photo as the man who had paid her. Police arranged for garbage trucks to set aside Epstein's trash so police could sift through it. They set up a video camera to record the comings and goings at his home. They mon- itored an airport hangar for signs of his private jet's arrivals and depar- tures. They quickly learned that the wonian who took the 14-y d girl 's house was Palm Beach lege Col- student from Loxahatchee. in a sworn t quarters, en 18, admitted ic police head- she had six girls to visit Epstein, all between the ages of 14 and 16. Epstein paid her for each visit, she said. house, id detectives, 'Tin like a drive j back to her . 'Police interviewed five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. Their report shows some of the girls said they had been instructed to have sex with another woman in front of Epstein, and one said she had direct intercourse with him. In October, police searched the Palm Beach mansion. They discov- ered photos of naked, young-looking females, just as several of the girls had described in interviews. Hidden cameras were found in the garage area and inside a clock on Epstein'S desk, alongside a girl's high school transcript. • Two of Epstein's former employees told investigators that young-looking girls showed up to perform massages two or three times a day when Epstein was in town. They said the girls were permit- ted many indulgences. A. chef cooked for them. Workers gave them rides and handed out hun- dreds of dollars at a time. One employee told detectives he was told to send a dozen roses to one teenage girl after a high school drama. performance. Others were given rental cars. One, according to police, received a $200 Christmas bonus. The cops moved to cement their case. But as they tried to tighten the noose, they encountered other forces at work. In Orlando they interviewed a possible victim who told them noth- mg inappropriate had happened between her and Epstein. They asked her whether she had spoken to amone else. She said yes; a pri- vate investigator had asked her the am. im• • a neanna lilt fralla". e jiaa Goldberger said. Later in April, Recarey walked into a prosecutor's office at the state attorney's office and learned the case was taking an unexpected turn. The prosecutor, Lanna Belohlavek, told Recarey' the state attorney's office had offered Epstein a plea deal that. would -not require him to serve jail time or receive a felony conviction. Recarey told her he disapproved of the plea offer.'. The 'deal never came to pass, however. Future unclear after charge On May 1, the department asked prosecutors to approve warrants to arrest Epstein on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and to his personal assistant, now 27, for her alleged role the visits. Police officials also wanted to charge Rob- son, the selkescribed Heidi Fleiss, with lewd and lascivious acts:. By then, the departmetit was frustrated with the way the state attorney's office had handled the case. On the same day the warrants were requested, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter wrote a letter to State Attorney Barry Krischer suggesting he disqualify himself from the case if he would not'act. Two weeks 'later, Recarey was told that proseCtitarS had decided once again to take the case ..to the grand jury. It is not known how many of the girls testified before the grand jury. But Epstein's defense team said one girl who was subpoenaed — the one who said she had sexual intercourse with Epstein —never showed tip.' The grand jury's indictment was handed down in July. It was not the one the police department had wanted. • • Instead of being. slapped with a charge of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, Epstein was charged with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution, which carries • a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He was booked into the Palms Beach County Jail early July 23 and released hours -later. Epstein's legal team "doesn't dispute that he had girls over for massages," Goldberger said. But he said their claims that they had sex- ual encounters with him lack credi- bility. • 'They are incapable of being believed," he said. "They had crimi- nal records. They had accusations of thee nmAn no?Inat H,nm Iw thear. EFTA00188345 ung into e flew Clinton d actors Kevin Spaoey and Chris Tucker to Africa on his private jet. Sudd everyone wanted, to enlyEr know who tein was. New York magazine an Vattity 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 Island neighbor- hood. He left college without a bachelor's degree but became a math teacher at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. The story goes that the father of one of Epstein's students was so impressed with the man that he put him in touch with a senior partner at Bear Stearns, the global investment bank and securities firm. In 1976, Epstein left Dalton for a job at Bear arris. By the early 1980s, he had started J. Epstein and Co. That is when he began making his millions in earnest Little is known or said about Epstein's business except this: He manages money for the extremely wealthy. He is said to handle accounts only of $1 billion or great- er. • It has been estimated he has roughly 15 clients, but their identi- ties are the subject of only specula- tion. All except for one: Leslie Wex- ner, founder of The Limited retail chain and a former Palm Beacher who is said to have been a mentor to Epstein. Wexner sold Epstein one of his most lavish residences: a massive townhouse that dominates a block on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It is reported to have, among its finer features, closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt away fallen snow. That townhouse, thought to be the largest' private residenee in Manhattan, is only a piece of the extravagant world Epstein built over time. • In New Maim, he constructed 27,000-square-foot hilltop mansion on a 10,0007acre ranch outside Santa • Fe. Many believed it to be the largest home in the state. In Palm Beach, he bought a TINA FINELIEAG/The Astodatea Pou Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse dominates a block on the Upper Eas Side. Thought to be the largest private residehce in Manhattan, It is reported to have closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt fallen snow. Women in his ilf Ghistaine Maxwell, a fixture at elite parties and the intensely private daughter of a media tycoon, dated Epstein in the 1990s. 'he odd thing is I never met him," said Dominick Dunne, the famous chronicler of the trials and tribulations of the very rich. "I wasn't even aware of him," except for a Vanity Fair article. Epstein's friendship with Clinton has attracted the most attention. Epstein met Clinton. as early as 1995, when he paid tent of thou-. sands of dollars to join him at an intimate fund-raising dinner in Palm Beach. But from all appearances, they did not beconte cloge friends until after Clinton left the Oval Office and moved to New York.. Epstein has donated more than' $100,000 to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kenya presidential bid, the • reelection campaiiin of New Mexico Gov. Bill PalmBeachPost.com Read previous stories, on the Epstein investigation. A former friend claimed Epstein backed, out of a promise ter reim- burse him hundreds of thousands of dollars after their failed investment in Texas oil wells. A judge decided Epstein owed him nothing. 'It's a bad memory. I would rather not have ever met Jeffrey Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the retired former president of Williams Electronics and Sega Corp- "Suffice it to say I have nothing good to say about him." Among the characteristics most attributed to Epstein is, a penchant for women. He has been linked to Maxwell, a fixture on the high-society party circuits in both New York and Lon- don. Previous girlfriends are said to include a former Ms. Sweden and a Ponce lei The in after the .g photo as tt Police am to set aside could sift I video cam( and going( itored an a his private tures. They q woman wit. to Epstein' son, a Pahl lege studer sworn stall quarters, R she had tak Epstein, all and 16. Ep visit., she sa During house, Rob like a Heidi Police i victims an report shoe they had be with anoth Epstein, am intercourse • In Octol Palm Beach ered photos females, jus had describe cameras we area and ins desk, along( transcript • "No o: employees young-lookii perform nu times a day town. They sal( ted many cooked for them rides dreds of doll: One tamp] was told to se teenage girl drama perfo given rental ( police, receh bonus. The cops case. But as ti noose, they forces at worl In Orland possible vitt( mg inapprof between her asked her wh to anyone els vete investi?a same questtor EFTA00188346 :rept tor a dal Clinton tention. as early as is of thou-. him at an ter in Palm pearances, ise friends Oval Office more than' :andidates' hn Kerry's reelection d Gov. Bill ate bids of • Rodham )odd and vales Be found stein's life aid he left if a federal unties and Although he was not a fre- iolation. It quenter of the Palm Beach social bank once scene, he made his presence felt. on a $20 Among his charitable donations, he gave $90,000 to the Palm Beach that one of Police Department and $100,000 to 1 previous Ballet Florida. offenb erg, hi Pan Beach, he lived in luxu- erm after ry. Three black Mercedes sat in his tore than garage, alongside a green Harley- he largest Davidson. His jet waited at a hangar can histo- at Palm Beach Internal-logeAirport At home, a private chef and a small s wealth, staff stood at the ready. From a disputes window in his mansion, he could sued the look out on the Intracoastal Water- him. his way and the West Palm Beach sky- a Beach line. He seemed to be a man who t less than had evetYlllinil- . t,. But extraordinary wealth 'tan in texas on wells. A Judge decided Epstein owed him nothing. "les a bad memory. I would rather not have ever met Jeffrey Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the . retired former president of Williams Electronics and Sega Corp. "Suffice it to say I have nothing good to say about him." Among the characteristics most attributed to Epstein is a penchant for women. ' He has been linked to Maxwell, a fixture on the high-society party circuits in both New York and Lon- don. Previous girlfriends are said to include a former Ms. Sweden and a Romanian model. • "He's a lot of fun to be with," Donald Thunp told New York maga- zine in 2002. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. , No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life." Investigation leads to Epstein teenage girt alter a high school 'drama performance. Others were given rental cars. One, according to police, received a $200 Christmas bonus. The cops moved to cement their case. But as they tried to tighten the noose, they encountered other forces at work. In Orlando they interviewed a possible victim who told them noth- mg inappropriate had happened between her and Epstein. They asked her whether she had spoken to anyone else. She said yes; a pri- vate investigator had asked her the same questions. When they subpoenaed one of Epstein's former employees, he told them the same thing. He and a pri- vate eye had met at a restaurant days earlier to go over what the man would tell investigators. Detectives received complaints that private eyes were posing as police officers. When they told Epstein's local attorney, Guy Frons- tin, he said the investigators worked for Roy Blitck, the high-powered Miami kwyer who has defended the likes of Rush Llinbaugh and William Kennedy Smith. While the private eyes were conducting a parallel investigation, Dershowitz, the Harvard law pro- fessor, traveled to West Palm Beach with information about the girls.. From their own profiles on the pop- ular Web site MySpace.com, he obtained copies of their discussions about their use of alcohol and mari- juana. He took his research to a meet- ing with prosecutors in early 2006, where he sought to cast doubt on the teens' reliability. The private eyes had dug up 11101AA 3q noA ane wats a minor, cpstem was cnarged with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail early July 23 and released hours later. Epstein's legal team "doesn't dispute that he had girls over for massages," Goldberger said. But he said their claims that they had sex- ual encounters with him lack credi- bility. 'They are incapable of behag believed," he said. 'hey had crimi- nal records. They had accusations of theft made against them by their. employers. There was evidence of drug use by some of them." What remains for Epstein is yet to be seen. The Palm Beach Police Depart- ment has asked the FBI to investi- gate the case. It also has returned the $90,000 Epstein donated in 2004. In New York, candidates for governor and state attorney general have vowed to return a total of at least $60,000 in campaign contribu- tions from Epstein. Meanwhile, Epstein's powerful friends have remained silent as tabloids and Internet blogs feast on the public details of the police'investigation. Goldberger maintains Epstein's innocence but says the legal team has not ruled out a future plea deal. He insists Epstein will emerge in the end with his reputation untarnished. "He will recover from this," he said. Staff writer Larry Keller and staff researchers Bridget Bulger, Angelica Cortez, Amy Hanaway and Melanie Mena contributed to this story. 0 andrew marrapbpostcom ue imam Sup au -1103 a2ppq am Mall storied pasearaut sett pren9 aseo3 'SU aft — tiallal a$ppq unAtiowg ABU do pedderi sit/Med 'Flannaol gellana lilt* Luanne Builltqn sganel -tem amp snail awea ii • uentai, tit luapteaA cum IOW ttsnlitrala rallnillEnos ucti am paianpuou easily& aim UttlISAtall sgo „Tuna-PEW all Pat llnIWEI amyl pueq agt aas ara 'to -snea 1001 alp JOJ manias am q •sallpaqe of Butpuodsar toast at leg; aas pecampeurmi III9041 am EFTA00188347 Via Manhattan Atpper East Side. It is reported to have, among its finer features, closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt away fallen snow. That townhouse, thought to be the largest private residence in Manhattan, is only a piece of the extravagant wind Epstein built over time. In New Mexico, he constructed a 27,000-square-foot hilltop mansion on a 10,0004cre ranch outside Santa • Fe. Many believed it to be the largest home in the state. In Palm Beach, he bought a waterfront home on El Brillo Way. And he owns a 100-acre private island in the Virgin Islands. Perhaps as remarkable as his lavish homes is his extensive net . work of friends and associates at the highest echelons of power. This includes not only socialites but also business tycoons, media moguls, politicians, royalty and Nobel Prize- winning scientists whose research he often.funds. "Just like other people collect art, he collects scientists," said Martin Nowak, who directs the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University and was reportedly the recipient of a $30 million research donation from Epstein. Epstein is said to have befriended former Harvard Presi- dent Larry Stinuners, prominent law Professor Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump and New York Daily News Publisher Mort Zuckerman. And yet he managed for decades to maintain a low profile. He avoids eating out and was rarely photo- ' graphed. a Vanity Fair article. Epstein's friendship with Clinton has attracted the most attention. Epstein met Clinton as early as 1995, when he paid tens of thou- sands of dollars to join him at an intimate fund-raising dinner in Palm Beach. But from. all appearances, they did not become close friends until after Clinton left the Oval Office and moved to New York. Epstein has donated more than' $100,000 to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kerry's presidential bid, the reelection campaign of New Mexico Got. Bill Richardson and the Senate bids of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. PoWeiful friends and enemies A Vanity Fair profile found cracks in the veneer of Epstein's life • story. The 2003 article said he left Bear Stearns in the wake of a federal probe and a possible Securities and Exchange Commission violation. It' also pointed out that Citibank once sued him for defaulting on a $20 million loan. The article suggested that one of his business mentors and previous employers was Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term after "bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American histo- ry?" • As he amassed his wealth, Epstein made enemies in disputes both large and small. He sued the man who in 1990 sold him his multimillion-dollar Palm Beach home over a dispute about less than $16,000 in furnishings. t: IV I CA.C1b VII wens. It judge decided Epstein owed him nothing. "It's a bad memory. I would rather not have ever met Jeffrey Epstein," said Michael Stroll, the retired former president of Williams Electronics and Sega Corp. "Suffice it to say I have nothing good to say about him." Among the characteristics most attributed to Epstein is a penchant for women. He has been linked to Maxwell, a fixture on the high-society party circuits in both New York and Lon- don. Previous girlfriends are said to include a former Ms. Sweden and a Romanian model. "He's a lot of fun to be with," Donald Trump told New York maga- zine in 2002. "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life." Investigation leads to Epstein Although he was not a fre- quenter of the Palm Beach social scene, he made his presence felt. Among his charitable donations, he gave $90,000 to the Palm Beach Police Department and $100,000 to Ballet Florida. In Palm Beach, he lived in luxu- ry. Three black Mercedes sat in his garage, alongside a green Harley- Davidson. His jet waited at a hangar at Palm Beach Intematioqal Airport. At home, a private chef and a small staff stood at the ready. From a window in his mansion, he could look out on the Intracoastal Water- way and the West Palm Beach sky- line. He seemed to be a man who had everything. But extraordinary wealth `tan teenage gii drama pert given rental police, rece bonus. The cope case. But as noose, the. forces at wo: In Orlan possible vict ing inappro between he asked her w. to anyone el tate investig same questk When th. Epstein's fon them the san vate eye hadi earlier to g( would tell inv Detective that private 'ce office in's tom tin, he said th for Roy Bit Miami lawyer likes of Rush I Kennedy Snit While tit( conducting a Dershowitz, fessor, travele with informal From their ot ular Web sit obtained coin( about their us. juana. He took hi ing with prose where he song teens' reliabiht The privet NiaaLAM • -.:plOaq :00A. OR EFTA00188348 YORK TIMES NATIONAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 PI.Littv ATh. by Peter Davelet The ere Yoe: nee: y large crowd of brides- and grooms-to-be dashed to the y Marriage License Bureau just before midnight on Friday. Ity were sent notices of nd asked for feedback, iirre said, but she had We had an open public no one showed up;' she ally puzzling to me." , the city's marriage in- bustling. There were • flowing gowns, some ters looking slightly ter- suple — he with a cigar ween his teeth, she un- ere wed under a tree at tile Chapel. When it was le gave her groom a pat Iht, outside the wedding mu in the courthouse, Ink neon lettering above "chapel rats," so called city guards for their fling of chapel services bewildered couples. tic tannins were etddv. or drive In. They think, 'Well, we need to do this, there are no lines, let's just do it now.' " Weddings have been a mainstay of the Las Vegas experience since the 1920's, taking off with the wide- spread use of the automobile in the 1940's, when the Hitching Post and the Wee Kirk o' the Heather opened their doors. Inspired by the lax li- censing laws— no blood test, no wait- ing — couples flocked from around the region, and eventually the coun- try, to wed. Among the earliest celebrity cli- ents were the actors Clara Bow and Rex Bell, who tied the knot here in 1931, said Guy Rocha, the state archi- vist. Just like its casinos, restaurants, hotels and adult entertainers, Las Vegas wedding chapels cater to all tastes. Couples can combine a wed- ding with a day package to the most Florida Sex Case Raises Questions About Charges By ABBY GOODNOUGH PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the sum- mer and autumn of last year, when most of the mansions here stood empty behind their towering hedges, the police stealthily watched one at the end of a waterside lane. They monitored the comings and goings of its owner's private jet, subpoenaed his phone records and riffled through his trash. The owner was Jeffrey Epstein, 53, an intensely private New York money manager with several billion- aire clients. Months earlier, the step- mother of a 14-year-old girl told the Palm Beach police that a wealthy older man, whom the girl later Iden- titled as Mr. Epstein, might have had inappropriate sexual contact with her. In sworn statements to the police, the 14-year-old and other teenage girls said a friend had arranged for them to visit Mr. Epstein's home and give him massages, usually in their underwear, in exchange for cash. Most of the girls, according to the police, said Mr. Epstein had mastur- bated during the massages, and a few said he had penetrated them with his fingers or penis. They identi- fied him in photos and accurately de- scribed the inside of his home Some recalled that his employees had fed them snacks or rented them cars. Mr. Epstein pleaded not guilty In August to the crime he was ulti- mately charged with, soliciting pros- titution. But at a time when prosecu- tors around the nation have become increasingly severe in dealing with people accused of sex offenses, the case has raised questions about whether Mr. Epstein's prominence won him preferential treatment. By the account of the police, they found probable cause to charge Mr. Epstein with much more serious of- fenses: one count of lewd and lascivi- ous molestation and four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a mi- nor. But instead of proceeding with such charges on his own, the Palm Beach County state attorney took the rare step of presenting a broad range of possible charges to a grand jury, which indicted Mr. Epstein In July on the lesser count. In Florida, prosecu- tors usually refer only capital cases to grand Juries. Even before the indictment, the Palm Beach police chief, Michael Reiter, had accused prosecutors of giving Mr. Epstein special treatment and asked the state attorney, Barry E. Krlscher, to remove himself from 17 college student, told the girl to say she was IS If Mr. Epstein asked, the report said. The girl told the police that Mr. Epstein's assistant had led her up- stairs to a room with a massage ta- ble and that Mr. Epstein had come in and told her to remove her clothes. She said Mr. Epstein had masturbat- ed as she massaged him, had pressed a vibrator against her underwear and had given her $300 afterward. In mi., the police interviewed Ms. then 19, who told them Mr. Epstein had routinely paid her to bring teenage girls to his home. The police then interviewed a total of 5 al- leged victims and 17 witnesses, many of whom told similar stories about what they had observed or par- ticipated in at Mr. Epstein's home. According to the report, at least one said Mr. Epstein had engaged in in- tercourse with her. Mr. Lefcourt, his lawyer, said one girl who told the police of having had sex with Mr. Epstein as a minor had lied about both the sex and her age and had not shown up for grand Jury questioning. He also said Mr. Epstein had passed a liedetector test clear- ing him of any sexual Involvement with under-age girls. A spokeswoman for the Palm Beach police said that early this year, the police went to Mr. Krischer, the state attorney, intending to apply for warrants to arrest Mr. Epstein. Instead, she said, they were told that • PIlam lute Canty ihnItes Office Jeffrey Epstein faces lesser charges than police wanted. Mr. Krlscher would convene a grand beet to examine the evidence and de- EFTA00188349 e • &obi keeps careful watch oitl 1, said that scores more in normal showed up Fri- Mating the closing hoer. deadline won't stop drunk in getting married in the night," Mr. Williams said. n up drunk all day long. I from getting married." raguIrre said the majority who showed up for a wed- se during the graveyard o intention of racing off to anyway. "We think there inception here." she said. le coining in during those normally not planning int- night weddings, they fly in mute ceremony. For $365, you can get in the spirit of Lancelot, or step out of a coffin and bare fangs at your betrothed during a gothic ceremony. Several chapel owners said they were indifferent to the change. "They probably were losing money, and there is no point in it," said the Rev. David Nye, who is a co-owner of A Las Vegas Wedding Chapel. "Who would this affect? Britney Spears, that's all," Mr. Nye said. "I am not sure why there is a contro- versy. Most people are shocked to death that it was open in the middle of the night to begin with. If 8 to mid- night isn't enough, I don't know what is.,, Tell that to poor Mr. Harris. ties for Indian Veterans dense Department's most y, from December 2005. By 2006, there will be an esti- it " .,361 Native K lean vet- sirding to the . Ile Na- ive American e erans As- estimates that 22 patent of nericans 18 years or older ms. about recognizing that it's gates that have rights — ), should have rights," Mr. I in a recent Interview. ire 562 federally recognized he United States. New blex- nas 22 tribal reservations; tpulation of Mr. Udall's dis- Percent Indian. ling the importance of be- rtnitl ottlie /me vt,N I ) more titan 300 gray,* Ing buried close to home, Thomas Berry, a Navy veteran and a founder of the two-year-old National Native A mer lean Veterans Association, said tribes have sacred ceremonies and rituals to honor the dead and ease passage into the next life. "If a Native American Is buried In a national cemetery, a lot of the ritu- als cannot be performed because of coding restrictions and regulations," Mr. Berry said. "So it's important to us to have a place on tribal land to bury our veterans." Leo Chischilly, 57, the department manager for the Department of Nav- ajo Veterans Affairs in the Navajo capital, Window Rock, Ariz., said having veterans' cemeteries on trib- al land was a matter of practicality as well as tradition. "The Navajo Nation would like to bury their loved ones within the four sacred mountains on Navajo land," Mr. Chischilly said. "But the closest veterans' cemetery is in Santa Fe, N.M., four hours' drive from Window Rock. Some families visit the grave sites on Veterans Day or Memorial Day, but most people would prefer something closer to home." Some reservations have cemeter- ies dedicated to veterans, but they are maintained and paid for by the tribal %gilt-Mation or volunteers, not by the M. Fort Defiance Veterans Cemetery In Arizona is one such exmple. graves It is s full with more than 300 Navajo veterans. Ten acres have been set aside in Chinle, Ariz., fora new veterans' cemetery, ne yis needed. hischilly said, but m o Mr "Hopefully if president Bush signs t cemetery on the legislation we can submit a pm- posal to get a veteran: the Navajo Nation, • ., " Mr Chischilly said. "We'll be able to provide the land, but we will have to get other sources of funding for the opera- Mr. Epstein is SAM b.. k...... A • Scott Wiseman foe ThoNew Vett Times Post an . . , • ci at whose post is elective, saying the public had been left "to wonder whether the system tilted in favor of a wealthy, well-connected alleged perpetrator and against very young girls who are alleged victims of sex crimes." The case has taken a toll on the reputation of Mr. Epstein, who owns a palatial home in Manhattan, has pledged $30 million to Harvard and once flew former President Bill Clin- ton on his 727. Politicians including Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic candi- date for governor in New York, and Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, also a Democrat, have returned campaign contributions from him. But Mr. Epstein fought back, as- sembling a team of star lawyers, in- cluding Gerald B. Lefcourt and Alan M. Dershowitz, a friend of his, to look into the backgrounds of his young ac- cusers. Mr. Lefcourt says that the police acted "outrageously" and that his cli- ent has been wrongfully dragged through the mud. "He disputes that he ever had sex with any under-age person or any- thing like that," said Mr. Lefcourt, whose clients have included Russell Crowe, Martha Stewart and Abbie Hoffman. Neither the police nor the state at- torney's office would discuss the case in detail. But the police released a thick report on the 13-month in- vestigation after the indictment was unsealed in late July. The police started investigating Mr. Epstein in March 2005, almost immediately after they were con- tacted by the stepmother of the 14- year-old, who, according to the re- port, was in a special school for stu- dents with disciplinary problems. The girl, the report said, told the police that an older friend had "of- fered her an opportunity to make money" and had driven her to Mr. Epstein's house one Sunday. The ed by the police as a local community I said, Mr. Denbo* it z met with pros- ecutors to share information about the accusers, Including statements they had posted on MySpace.com, the social networking site, concern- ing use of drugs and alcohol. Ac- cording to the report, Mr. Krischer's office then decided to delay the grand Jury session for several months. The Palm Beach police grew frus- trated, the report said, and on May 1 the department asked prosecutors to approve warrants to arrest Mr. Ep- stein. Chief Reiter also wrote Mr. Krlscher questioning "the unusual course that your office's handling of this matter has taken" and suggest- ing that Mr. Krlscher disqualify him- self. Chief Reiter refused several re- quests to be interviewed, and his spokeswoman would not say explicit- ly why he had urged the prosecutor to step aside. Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for Mr. Krischer, said the state at- torney's office sometimes sent non- capital cases to grand juries when there were questions about witness credibility. Mr. Krischer does not recommend a particular charge in such cases, Mr. Edmondson said, but gives the grand jury a list of possible charges. Bruce J. Winick, a law professor at the University of Miami, said that while prosecutors in Florida rarely referred noncapital cases to grand juries, they sometimes did so with - sensitive cases to be extra-cautious. Mr. Letcourt said the police were wrong to have released the report so soon, especially without correcting information that later proved wrong. He cited his assertion that one accus- er had lied about her age, adding that she had also been arrested on drug charges and had been fired by her employer for stealing. "What I'm trying to focus on," Mr. Lefcourt said, "is, What's motivating the selective and misleading release of information to the public?" tinnol mate" r EFTA00188350 dismal-ter-a—aid himself" by sh on the Iraq also disliked ush but said it im the primary. e Manning said party doesn't Lieberman ther sad corn- : always felt Party has been capable of han- view," Mea- ts a big exit" ivist Andre ieberman's loss se of the school t week% Gold >dation Great lob Magian deliv- cal Terry Pereira. non doesn't make 'inning the lot- at did, doesn't Kanjian said. :et to respond as ed with a mixture d expressions. part of an 11- f divided a $5.38 to prize to be ars. Kanjian said because Perei- cM1 disclosure show any 2005 ery payout s share was less he arranged to m several years interest in the ace company. downside: Repub. aission hopeful Ed moved into west- ie could run, Debate. He never ;herd said, moved out to my il Palm Beach, all SUM ptaas by DAM HIGGACS GREENACRES — Michael Shible waves an Israeli flag as a rally supporting Israel's war effort in Lebanon gets under way Sunday at Temple Beth Tikvah. The public was invit- ed to hear speakers including Michael Ha- dar, executive director of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and Col 13th Sharon of the Israel Defense Forces. At the close of the rally, a man (right) participates in a congregational reading of a prayer for the state of Israel. Palm Beach chief focus of fire in Epstein case Defendant's lawyers take him on; he slams state attorney By LARRY allER Palm Beacit Pac Ste Writer In the case of Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Ep- stein, it seems, at times, as if two men are accused of wrongdoing: Epstein and Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter. Epstein, 53, was indict- edlast month on a charge of felony solicitalion of prosti- tution solely because of Re- iter's "craziness," one of Epstein's lawyers said. His department disseminated "a distorted view of the case" and behaved in a "childish" manner when the grand jury didn't indict Ep- stein on the charges it sought. another Epstein lawyer complained. To hear the Epstein camp tell it Reiter, 48, is a loose cannon better suited to be the sheriff of Mayber- ry. They whisper that he's embroiled in a messy di- vorce. Reiter did in fact file for divorce from his wife, Jill, last year, after 24 years of marriage. They have a son, 18, and a daughter; 14. The couple is scheduled to go to mediation Wednesday. Nothing in the court file suggests their split is par- ticularly ugly. Reiter incurred the wrath of the Epstein camp as well as the state attar- See MIER, 78 LAKE WORTH — Jane Tackaber- ry's son, John, Grieving for Mom, sister ELECIIONS 2006 • Mate House District 78 Machek faces challenge e Hewn /1.C/reit EFTA00188351 W S C Colleagues cite chief's professionalism, P; REITER from IB rey's office for two reasons. First, he pressed for Epstein :o be charged with the more serious crimes of sexual ac- ivity with minors. Second, he slammed State Attorney Bar- ry Krischer in blunt language seldom used by one law- enforcement official con- cerning another because of what he perceived as that of. fice's mishandling of the case. In a letter to Krischer written May 1, Reiter called his actions in the Epstein case "highly unusual." He added, "Imusturge you to ... consider if good and suffi- cient reason exists to require your disqualification from the prosecution of these cases." In short, Reiter told the county's top prosecutor for the past 13. years that he ought to get off the case. "It looks hire a departure from . professionalism," Miami- Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said of Reiter's letter. Following Epstein's in- dictment, Reiter referred the case to the FBI to determine whether the super-rich, super-connected defendant had violated any federal laws. Reiter won't discuss the case or the broadsides aimed at him. But others almost uniformly use one word to describe the chief: profes- sional "I have always been im- pressed by Milce's profes- sionalism and his leader- ship," said Rick Lincoln, chief of the Lantana Police Depart- ment and a Palm Beach County cop for 32 years. "The town of Palm Beach has a very professional police department. We all consider Mike to be our peer and a man of integrity." Reiter Town Manager Peter Elwell says the Palm Beach police chiefs well worth his $144,000 sal- ary. • Juno Beach Police Chief H.C. Clark II agreed. Al- though he doesn't know Re- iter well, he has, met with him on countywide law enforce- ment issues. "I've never seen him lose his cool. I've never seen anything but a profes- sional demeanor from him." Reiter joined the Palm Beach Police Department in 1981, leaving a $20,000-ayear patrol job at the University of Pittsburgh. . His personnel jacket shows consistently ex- cellent job evaluations. Posh Palm Beach is no hotbed of crime, and in his first year on the job, a resi- dent confined to his home with a sick child thanked Re- iter for delivering a few Cokes to the house. Reiter refused payment for the beverages. Another resident thanked Reiter for shutting off his car's headlights in his drive- way, saying a valet must have been at fault Reiter worked everything from road patrol to organized crime, vice and narcotics. And he's no novice at investi- gations involving the island's rich and famous. He was the lead detective probing the drug overdose death of David Kennedy in 1984. He also was one of the officers who worked the investigation of William Kennedy Smith, who was charged in 1991 — and later acquitted —with raping a woman at the Kennedy family compound in Palm Beach Reiter, who has a master's degree in human resource ME PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY, AUGUST 14, integrity development from Palm Beach Atlantic UniversiW, al- so has attended the FBI Na- tional Academy in Quantico, Va., and management cours- es at Harvard. He's been ac- tive in countywide interagen- cy law enforcement organizations and has a "top secret" national security clearance. "He has a perspective that's broader than just ad- dressing the needs of the town," said Town Manager Peter Elwell, who promoted Reiter from assistant chief to chief in March 2001. Reiter makes more than $144,000 as the town's top cop. Elwell thinks he's worth it. "He's very businesslike, very straightforward. He's not easily agitated or flam- boyant. He's about the work," Elwell said. "I think that his service as chief has been outstanding in, five-plus years." lany_keuennoboostcom want to go back for my last two years and complete a lot of these things which are so vital for Southeast Florida.' RICHARD A. MACHEK, District 78 incumbent • ••• ••••• ems -_- -Lem -c crj.er. `Many lawmakers have) challenged same-party Democrats because they believed they could do a better job. I'm no exception to that.' • l• STEVE PERMAN, Boca Raton chiropractor Inma Moo* draw new P. HIV/torn / she pushed measure thro lature last e crease HIV b county jail 53 ing Pan Bea We're a' able to make HIV unless v pact in the pri said Dr. Job gional direc Correctional es, which pr care at the ja A study : County Jail, rapid testini 2004 as part gram for tt Disease Co vention, higl portance of efforts in jail Among ( learned th through rapi jail during a • oil: a third full-blown Al Those w EFTA00188352 Won in new in property val r it - tem, rams parks city's year -e the value of the p by 25 percent — helping to b $14 million of new-isen be spent — city stoners are geari debate on whe crease the tax ra The result IONG LOCAL sty Ma upside doom': iced Friday with her h ights of the 1960s ati, fed in Palm Beach Co ,rby table in the larfie here televisions biros iguagesirogranujungi tee schools after a, d reshape the early bus- t draft, which was released s week. A budget workshop is heduled for Aug. 24, to be flowed by public hearings pt. 6 and 18. But by the e the public hearings are id, cities traditionally don't eke many significant changes. As it stands now, here are the key new items and capital jects in the $358 million dget. GARY CORMWO/Saft Phobeophet 1 the Cuban American Club, oast for Cuba's Fidel Castro. expressed similar senti- eating codfish fricassee and black beans, she Castro is either dead rt. See CUBAN CLUB, 48 l• OOLIONVU Kai Ma... w.. A police positions, including three new officers and four civilian staffers who will free up officers to do more actual policing. • $1 million on youth programs. Mayor Lois Frankel said this is all new revenue. But she is only sure how $400,000 of that will be spent. It's been set aside for two "youth empowerment centers" that will provide job training, help with school- teenagers. I• $22 million on curb, street, and sidewalk repair around the city. if $1 million for city road entryways and landscaping. • $500,000 on park im- provements, including re- vamping the ball fields at Phipps Park. II $120,000 to create a strategy for redeveloping the See BUDGET, 49 ► Expert: Ignorance of age isn't defense in sex eases By LARRY KEU ER Palm Beath Post Site Writer Even if Palm Beach mon- ey manager Jeffrey Epstein didn't know that girls who police say gave him sexual massages at his Intracoastal home were under the legal age, that alone wouldn't have exempted him from criminal charges of sexual activity with minors. "Ignorance is not a valid defense," said Bob Delde, a legal skills professor who was a Lake City prosecutor for nearly 30 years, half of that time specializing in sex crimes against children. 'There is no knowledge element as far as the age is concerned," Dekle said. After an 11-month investi- gation, Palm Beach police said there was probable cause to charge Epstein, 53, with unlawful sex acts with a minor Emily J. Minor's column will return soon. _ Gunfire scatters crowd at National Bikers Rpundup, 3B Epstein: Two politicians have returned dona- tions since he was charged with soliciting minors. and lewd and lascivious mo- lestation. They contend that Epstein — friend of the rich and famous and financial pa- tron of Democratic Patty or- ganizations and candidates— committed those acts with five underage girls. In the past week, New York Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer has returned about $50,000 in campaign contri- butions he received from Ep- , stein, and Mark Green, a / candidate to replace Spitzer in / See EPSTEIN, 580' EFTA00188353 Lawyer: Jurors often believe adults over ki ► EPSTEIN from IB his current job, has returned $10,000 to him because of the Palm Beach scandal, the New York Daily News has reported. Rather than file charges, the state attorney's office presented the case to a • county grand jury. The panel indicted Epstein last week on • a single, less serious charge of felony solicitation of pros- titution. The case raised eyebrows ' because the state attorney's office rarely, if ever, kicks such charges to a grand jury. And it increases the difficulty of prosecuting child sex abuse cases, especially when the defendant is enormously wealthy and can hire high- priced, top-tier lawyers. At least one of Epstein's alleged victims told police he knew she was underage when the two of them got naked for massages and sex- ual activity. She was 16 years old at the time and said Ep- stein asked her questions about her high school, ac- cording to police reports. • A girl who said she met Epstein when she was 15 said he told her if she told any- body what happened at his house, bad things could hap- . pen, the police reports state. Epstein's youngest al- leged victim was 14 when she ' says she gave him a massage that included some sexual activity. She is now 16. The girl's father says he doesn't know whether she told Ep- stein her age. "My daughter has kept a lot of what happened from me because of sheer embarrass- ment," he said. "But she very much looked 14. Any prudent man would have had second thoughts about that" Defense attorney Jack Goldberger maintains that not only did Epstein pass a polygraph test showing he did not know the girls were minnre hitt their Atnrioe Child sex abuse cases often are difficult to prosecute, an attorney says. If two teens are in a sexual relationship and the boy turns 18 before the girl, he could be charged with a sex crime if the sex continues. There would be no public in- terest in pursuing that, Dekle said. But where there is al e gap in ages — and espec y m cases of teachers with stu- dents — there is a public in- terest in prosecuting, he said. Likewise if the accused has a track record of sex with mi- nors. Still there is a "universal constant" in prosecuting these cases, Dekle said. Men who exploit underage chil- dren for sex often carefully choose their victims in ways that will minimize the risk to them, he said. Victims usually are from a lower social status, and they may suffer from psychologi- cal problems, Dekle said. "Lots of child sexual abuse victims have been vic- timized by multiple people over a period of time. Then the act of abuse produces behavior in the victims that further damages their credi- bility." Examples include promiscuous behavior and drug abuse. Some of the alleged vic- tims in the Epstein case re- turned to his home multiple times for the massage ses- sions and the $200 to $300 he typically paid them per visit "That would be a definite problem for the prosecutor," said Betty Resch, who prose- cuted crimes against children in Palm Beach County for five years and now is in private practice in Lake Worth. 'Ile victim becomes less sympathetic" to a jury, Resch said. "But she's a victim nev- ertheless. She's a kid." Most men charged with sex crimes against minors look normal, Dekle said. A jury expecting to see a mon- ster seldom will. And the vio- tins' ages work again and in favor of the deft in a trial, Dekle said. If a child and an ad different stories and swear they're telling truth, adult jurors are likely to believe the Dekle said. "You have all these l working against you in sex abuse case. Preset normally try to be very ful in filing those cast cause they knowwhattl getting into. There is nc thing as an iron-clad sexual abuse case." la ny_ken er(o)pbpost.com Mit title ANTIQUES 641NEC0ta Purchasing the individual pi to the entire estate 1201 US. 'Warty Oat • N 561-625.9569 3926 NoriNake Blvd • eat 561.694.2812 lotuuttruelreasuresine.coi Palnilleachnist.com The Poses Storm 2006 Web site will use every resource to keep you informed.,. and safe. Log on anytime. Females Over 55 SI CON. CI We will ma only show within you working on j we can co EFTA00188354 Defense attorney Jack Goldberger maintains that not only did Epstein pass a polygraph test showing he did not know the girls were minors, but their stories weren't credible. The state attorney's office also implied that their credibility was an issue when it decided not to charge Epstein directly, but instead give the case to the grand jury. "A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader fash- ion," a state attorney's spokesman said last week. Epstein hired Harvard law Professor Alan Der- showitz when he became aware he was under investi- gation, and Dershowitz gave prosecutors information that some of the alleged victims had spoke of using alcohol and marijuana on a popular Web site, according to a Palm Beach police report. Prosecutors typically consider two things in decid- ing whether to charge some- body with sex-related offens- es against minors — whether there is sufficient evidence and whether there is a public interest in doing so, Delde said. America's Last Soapbox 'papers aft a rare pu• I • arum for everyone. Make yourself heard. Repress your opinion on a local or national Issue in a (otter to' he Post. Mail to: Letters to the Editor The Palm Beach Post P.O. Box 24700 West Palm Beach, FL 33416 In. 881.620.4728 e-malb letterseplspostoom via ie an; ra" - • We're conducting assessments for participation in an AND research study for children ages 6-12 years. Qualified participants viol compensated for time & travel & will receive medical care & study medication at no cost. §JANUS CENTER Pt PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH 561-238-3030 Females Over 55 You may have Postmenopausal Osteoporosis You may be able to participate In a Clinical Research Trial Not taking any prescription meracalion for osteoporosis? Qualified Participants Receive: - AN Study Related Care & Meocation - Reimbursement for Time & Travel Cal! Dr. Surowifz Today For More Information! • Heatth Awarenass, 561 -741.2033 £mai' be1,11,,,rhY.,t1c ,,,;11L art Jupiter, t "flood Attention DelanlHyperact.vdvill,.01 hr Goes VOW child. Have difficulty staying focused? V Have trouble following directions? V Often interrupt others? Not follow your rules? Not listen when spoken to directly? IStlkl-95 in YRS Do You Like Saving Money? Of course you do! And you will...with the ValueSaver Magazine. It's loaded with money-saving offers from local businesses. Look for it this Sunday in The Palm Beach Post and Wednesday in The Pennysaver. SPI 420' CALL Pit rn Peli 1137 Nortl (561) Was 537 N North (561). Auto 14501 West I (561) EFTA00188355 pr--- .- Bye-bye preschool Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls By LARRY KELLER RIMBeftch IS SteMiter Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm Beach 'County State Attorney's Office and pro- vided damaging information about ?teen- age girls who say they gave his client, Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, sexually charged massages, according to police reports. The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain that would have allowed Epstein to have no criminal record. His current attorney de- nies this happened. • And the doctiraents also reveal that the father of at leant one girl complained that private investigators aggressively fol- lowed his car,johotographed his home and chased off vihitors. Police altio• talked to somebody who said she was offered money if she refused to cooperate with the Palm Beach Police Department probe of, EP- stein. The state attorney's office said it presented the Epstein case to a county grand jury this month former former attorney rather than directly charging Epstein because pag d t° leamebargain, of concerns about the girls' credibility. The Police say. grand jury indicted Ep- stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic- itation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Police believed there was probable cause to charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molesta- tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case. The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but was postponed after Dershowitz pro- duced information gleaned from the Web site myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol and marijuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective Joseph Re- a 20-year-old Royal PaknTeacliwoman who told police she EFTA00188356 DAMON FRIGNSIStall PhoWriiifrhe ACIl — liana Young. 3, receives some instructions Friday from Easter iCristi Wilson before marching 'Iowa the aisle during her preschool st of the graduates now will enter kindergarten. Drbids woman's testimony 41—/ Cf 6y LARRY KELLER Paha Reath Post Staff Miter Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm. Beach County State Attorney's Office and pro- viagededgirdrs whgine gsayinfothrmey itan gaseabhrisut eliest teen- Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, sexually charged massages, according to police reports. The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain that would have allowed Epstein to haven criminal record. His current attorney.0e- nies this happened. • And the documents also reveal that the father of at lent one girl complained that private investigators ,aggressively fol- lowed his cart photographed his home and chased off vihitors. Poke also talked S. somebody who' said she was offered money if she refused to cooperate with the Palm Beach Police Department probe of Ep- The state attornmi office said it presented the F.perein case to a Epstein: His grand jury this mon former attorney rather than directly charging Epstein because apfenled a bargain, of concerns about the girls' credibility. The Nike saY• grand jury indicted Ep- stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic- itation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Police believed there was probable' cause to charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molesta- tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case. The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but was posoned after Dershowitz pro- duced information gleaned from the Web site myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol and marijuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective Joseph Re- car :awn woman who told police she a 20-year-old Royal recruited girls for Epstein, also is profiled on myspace.com. Her page includes pho- tos of her and her friends, including one See EPSTEIN, 78 Turnpike to tap into information superhighway EFTA00188357 I W S C Polygraph shows he didn't know girls' ages, lawyer says ► EPSTEIN from IB using the "Pimpin' Made EZ." , who was not charged" e case, is a potential prosecution wit- ness. According to Recarey, prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek offered Epstein attorneys Dershowitz and Guy &origin a plea deal in April. Fronstin, after speaking with Epstein; accepted the deal, in which Epstein would plead guilty to one count of aggravated as- sault with intent to commit a felony, be placed on five years' probation and have no criminal record. The deal al- so called for Epstein to sub- mit to a psychiatric and sex- ual. evaluation and have no unsupervised visits with mi- nors, according to Recarey's report The plea bargain was made in connection with only one of the five alleged vic- tims, the report states. Fronstin — who declined to comment on the case — was subsequently fired and veteran defense attorney Jack Goldberger was hired. He denies there was any agreement by any of Ep- stein's attorneys to a plea deal. "We abiolutely did not agree to a plea in this case," he said. Neither BeJohlavek nor a state attorney's spokesman could be reached for comment. The parent or parents of alleged • victims who. com- . planted of being harassed by private investigators provid- ed lkense tag numbers of two of the men. Police found the vehicles were registered to a private eye in West Palm Beach and another in Jupiter, according to Recarey's re- Port "I have no knowkdge of it" defense attorney Gold- berger said. The report also says a woman connected to the Ep- stein case was contacted by somebody who was still in touch with Epstein. That person told her she would be compensated if she didn't cooperate with police, Re- carey's report says. Those who did talk "will be dealt with," the woman said she was told. Phone records show the woman talked with the person who allegedly in- timidated her around the time she said, Recarey re- ported. Phone records also show that the person said to have made the threat then placed a call to Epstein's personal as- sistant who in turn called a New York corporation affili- ated with Epstein, the report states. The issue in the Epstein case is not whether females came to his waterfront home, but whether he knew their ages. "He's never denied girls came to the house," Gold- berger said. But when Ep- stein was given a polygraph test "he passed on knowl- edge of age," the attorney said. After the indictment against Epstein was unsealed this week Police Chief Reiter referred the matter to the FBI. "We've received the re- ferral, and we're reviewing it," said FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela in Miami. The chief himself has come under attack from Er, stein's lawyers and friends in New York, where he has a home. The New York Post quoted Fob-la's prominent New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, as saying his client was indicted only "because of the craziness of the police chief." Reiter has declined to comment on the case. Prosecutors have not presented a sex-related case like Epstein's to a grand Fury before, said Mike Edmond- son, spokesman for the state attorney's office. "That's what you do with a case that falls into a gray area," he said. The state' ttorney's office did not recommend a partic- ular criminal charge on which to indict Epstein, Ed- mondson said. The grand ju- ry was presented with a list of charges from highest to low- est then deliberated with the prosecutor out of the room, he said. . "People are surprised at the grand jury proceeding," West Palm Beach defense attorney Richard Tendler said. "Ws a way for the pros- ecutor's office to not take the full responsibility for not fil- ing the (charge), and not do- ing what thh Palm Beach Po- lice Department wanted. I think something fell apart with those underage wit- nqsses." Defense attorney Robert Gersbman was a prosecutor for sbc years. 'Those girls must have been incredible or untrustworthy, I don't know," he said. Other attorneys said Ep- stein's case raises the issue of whether wealthy, connected defendants like Epstein — whose friends include former President Clinton and Donald Thimp are treated differently from others. Once he 'mew he was the subject of a criminal probe, Epstein hired a phalanx of powerful attorneys such as Dershowitz and Lefcourt, who is a past president of the National As- sociation of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Miami lawyer Roy Black — who became nationally known when he successfully defended William Kennedy Smith on a rape charge in Palm Beach — also was in- volved at one point. Said defense attorney Michelle Suslcauer. "I think Ws unfortunate the public may get the perception that with power, you may be treated differently than the average Joe." 0 lato_iwileatonostwo Get Organized in YOWL • • 1/05 N. Cowes. Ave . I1C2 enyn too Br6th. it 561.734.8777 Save an additional 10% off current sale items already marked 20% oft Malt 884e Fr ino nix o Club OWN THE WATER, NOT THE BOAT r -tlia 54 .1. WO per BUM al • i wiled Boiling oh; Join um gil 1. - e it 2 ycnr. lo • . . .41 \ ` 17r 2 .'2 h9)i, (, k The PALM HIPLI.SE EFTA00188358 Simkin, 27, also a yoga teacher. • The loss of talented teachers pains members of the local yoga community. "It's a terrific thing for him, but it's ter- rible to have him leave," said Merrill Katz, who taught Simkin and sent her to Elsner for further training. "He's one of the most knowledgeable teachers we have in this ar- ea, and she was always very talented." Elsner, who lives in Delray Beach, spe- kicks teaches Thai massage. Simkin, of Boynton Beach, took her first yoga classes with Katz as a college stu- dent and almost immediately decided to become a teacher. She specializes in flow yoga, which, like Ashtanga, consists of a series of postures connected by breathing techniques. They are not the first to make the See YOGA, 6B P. lAYLORJONES/SWIPheiofimplut its British Soccer Camp at Okeeheelee ; Blake Weger (center), 5, of Wellington; • drills. After long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charge By LARRY KELLER Pall &adz Post Staff Writer • Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein paid to have underage girls and young women brought to his home, where he re- ceived massages and sometimes sex, ac- cording to an investigation by the Palm. Beach Police • Department, Palm Beach police spent months sifting through Ep- stein's trash and watching his waterfront home and Palm Beach 'International Airport to keep tabs on his private jet. An indictment charging Epstein, 53, was unsealed Monday, charging him with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. Palm Beach police thought there was probable cause to charge Epstein with un- lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. . Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry with State Attorney Barry Krischei's han- dling of the case that he wrote a memo Epstein See EPSTEIN, 5B No. newly negotiated proposal for beachfront commission at 4 p.m. Thursday. If the com- mission approves the agreement, the city will take it to the county to secure $5 million from a recreation bond that was slated for beach redevelopment three years ago. County com- missioners extended the deadline unfilJuly 31 so the city could present a beach redevelop- ment plan to keep the bond money. If city commissioners endorse the $19.1 million plan, city staff will draft development, lease and financial agreements with Greater Bay over the next few weeks. Greater Bay proposes to overhaul the casino building, the pool and parking lot and provide landscaping. This week, negotiations centered on the developer's and city's obligations for the project including fiscal, maintenance and See BEACH, 6B IP ; ti EFTA00188359 w s C THE Police kept watch on home, airport, sift Iss. EPSTEIN from 18 suggesting the county's top prosecutor disqualify himself q must urge you• to ex- amine the unusual course that your office's handling of this matter has taken and consider if good and sufficient reason exists to require your dis- qualification from the prose- cution of these cases," Reiter wrote in a May 1 memo to Krischer. While not commenting specifically on the Epstein case, Mike Edmondson, spokesman for the state at- torney, said his office pre- sents cases other than mur- ders to a grand jury when there are questions shout witnesses'. credibility and their ability to testify. By the nature of their jobs, police officers look at evi- dence from a "one-sided per- spective," Edmondson .said. "A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader fashion," weighing the veracity of wit- nesses and how they may fare under defense attorneys' questioning, he said.. Wein's attorney, Jack Gold rger, said his client committed no crimes. silte reports and state- ments in question refer to false accusations that were not charged because the Palm Beach County state attorney questioned the credibility of the witnesses," Goldberger said. A county grand jury "found the allegations wholly unsubstantiated and not credible," and that's why his client was not charged with sexual activity with minors, he said. Goldberger said Epstein passed a lie detector, test ad- ministered by a reputable polygraph examiner in which he said he did not know the girls were minors. Also, a search warrant served on Epstein's home found no evi- dence to corroborate the girls' allegations, Goldberger said. According to police docu- ments: II A Palm Beach Commu- nity College student said she gave Epstein a massage in the nude, then brought hint six girls, ages 14 to 16, for mas- sage and sex4inged sessions at his home. WA 27-year-old woman who worked as Epstein's persong assistant also facili- tated the liaisons, phoning the PBCC student to arrange for girls when Epstein was coming to town. And she es corted the girls upstairs when they arrived, puffing fresh sheets on a massage table and placing massage oils nearby. ■ Police took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. They contend that on three occasions, Epstein had sex with the girls. The chiefs letter See the letter Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter wrote to State Attorney Barry Krischer on the Epstein case. PaImBeachPost.com A money manager for the ultra-rich, Epstein was named one of New York's most eligi- ble bachelors in 2003 by The New York Post. He reportedly hobnobs with the likes of former President Clinton, former Hailt rersity President Sum- mers and Dona p, and . has lavish homes in Manhat- tan, New Mexico and the Vir- gin Islands. He has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Dean-. ocratic Party candidates and organizations, including Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid, and the Senate cadSigns of Joe Lieberman, CUR- ton, Christopher D d and Charles Schumer. Goldberger is one of five attorneys Epstein has re- tained since he became the subject of an investigation, Edinondson said. Among the others: Man Dershowitz, the well-known Harvard law pro- fessor and author, who is a friend of Epstein. Dershowitz could not be reached for comment. Police said the woman who enlisted Epstein was 20, of Royal Palm Beach. Robion has worked at an 01 We Garden restaurant in Wellington and said she was a Journalism major' at Palm Beach Community College when she was questioned by police last October. She has an unlisted phone number and could not be reached for comment. Mel.", at age 17, a friend said she met Ep- asked her if she would like to' make money giving him a massage. She said she was driven to his five-bedroom, 71/2-bath home on the Intra- coastal Waterway, then es- corted upstairs to a bedroom with a massagad oils. and were Epstein both naked mas- sage, she said, but when he grabbed her buttocks, she said . she didn't want' to be touched.. • Epstein said he'd pay her to bring him more younger the better, told police. When once to bring a 23-year-old woman to' him, said t she was too old, 'd. ho een c the case, said she eventually brought six girls to Epstein wl 00 ip:aid $2 each time, said. "I'm like a • Hei * police quoted her as saying. The girls knew what to expect when they were to Ep- stein's home, d. Give ked toucl 0 son f t Pao onm relati she t centl Palm then elaAs beini c.ouk $300 T scan Epsti S and a hous ary 2 nail assis her u ing a sever worn. and g table SI and I mass old S er gu Robs paid I 0 stork EWE the t 27,e KITCHEN & BA'LI! 111,01V-OIT Up To Cabin --ciginetkuldstorixorn Ban 5O All Wood Cabinets Delivered In miays. OF your measurements In so we can dear our kitchen! _ 208 US Hwy 1, lake Park 201 S.W. Monlerey Rd., Stuart 561.228.8680 772.463.5380 www-ca Imp I • ui ators-corn NOME SITES TO 100 ACNE PUCE' Prollulins In Inward, Cala Marione, MK CIa Hagler, Gadsden, Midst MS Monikv, Bali Now only 15% DOWN P EFTA00188360 s c THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2006 In home, airport, sifted through trash The chief's letter See the letter Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter wrote to State Attorney Barry Krischer on the Epstein case. PalmBeachPost.com A money mahager for the ultra-rich, Epstein was named one of New York's most e tie bachelors in 2003 by New York Post He reportedly hobnobs with the likes of former President Clinton, former Haillersity President Sum- men and Dona p, and has lavish homes in Manhat- tan, New Mexico and the Vir- gin Islands. He has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Dem- ocratic Party candidates and organizations, including Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid, and the Senate campaigns of Joe Lieberman, Hillary ton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. Goldberger is one of five attorneys Epstein has re- tained since he became the subject of an investigation, Edinondson said. Among the others: Alan Dershowitz, the well-known Harvard law pro- fessor and author, who is a friend of Epstein. Dershowitz could not be reached for comment. Police said the woman who enlisted Nogg Epstein was Palm Beach. orked at an Ol- restaurant in Wellington and said she was a journalism major' at Palm Beach Community College. • when she•was questioned by • police last October. She has an unlisted phone number and could not be reached for CO said she met Ep- stei wen, at age 17, a friend asked her if she would like to make money giving him a massage. She said she was driven to his five-bedroom, 71/2-bath home on the Intra- coastal Waterway, then es- corted upstairs to a bedroom with a massagellid oils. Epstein and were both naked during e mas- sage, she said, but when he grabbed her buttocks, she said she didn't want: to be touched. Epstein said he'd pay her to bring him more gi younger the better, told police. When she once to bring a 23-year-old woman to him, said she was Wp old, said. who not been charges m the case, said she eventually brought six girls to sad. time, "I'm Epstein wi t / paid $200 each like a Herr ems; police • quoted her as saying. The gins knew what to exped to Ep- stein's home, said. when they wereda Give a massage — maybe na- ked — and allow some touching. One 14-year-old girl. Rob- son took to meet Epstein led police to start the mvestiga- doh of him in March 2005. A relative of the girl called to say she thought the child had re-, cently engaged in sex with a Palm Beach man. The girl then got into a fight with a classmate who accused her of being a prostitute, and she couldn't explain why she had $300 in her purse. • The girl gave police this account of her meeting with Epstein: She accompanied and a second girl to ps em s house on a Sunday in Febru- ary 2005. Once. there, a wom- an she thought was Epstein's assistant told the girl to follow her upstairs to a room featur- ing a mural of a naked woman, several photographs of naked women on a shelf, a hot pink and green sofa and a massage She stripped to her bra and panties and gave hint a massage. Epstein gave the 14-year- old $300 and she and the oth-• eft, she said. She said told her that Fpctein ep er $200 that day. Other. girls .told similar stories. In most accounts; the EPAsn time's,Peis° Sarah now tat 27, escorted the s :o Ep- steillilit ioom whose most re- cen cnown address is in North Carolina, has not been charged in the case. Palm. Beach police often conducted surveillance of Epstein's home, and at Palm Beach International Airport to see if his private jet was there, so they would know when he was in town. Police also arranged repentediy to receive his trash from Palm Beach sanitation workers, • collecting papers with names and phone numbers, sex toys and female hygiene products. One note stated that a fe- male could not come over at 7 p.m. because of soccer. -An- other said a girl had to work Sunday "Monday after school?" And still another note contained the Work hours of a girl, saying the leaves school at 11:30 a.m. and would come over the next day at 10:30 am. Only three months before the police department probe began, Epstein donated $90,000 to the department for the purchase of a firearms sitnulator, said Jane &ruder, town finance director. The purchase Was never made. The money was returned. to Epstein on Monday, she said. • SYttff writers Andrew Mara; arid Tim °MMus and staff re- searcher Angelica Cortez con- tributed to this story. larry_kelleOpbpostcom PUBLIC AUCTIO 20° LAND N PROPERTIES TO BE SOLO! • HOME SITES TO 100 ACRE PARCELS -'BIDS AS LOW AS $100 Properties in Brevard, Canton, Cliarlette, Citrus, Moy, Mend* Cumberland, Duda, Escambia, Hagler, Gadsden, Minis!, Gull, Beano, Hendry, Hernando,111 lids em NNW MOM counties' Now only 15% DOWN PAYMENT required. EFTA00188361 48 THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY, JULY25, 2006 Indictment: Billionaire solicited 3 times Palm Beach police will report today about their prostitution probe of the money manager. By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Ste' Wnter Billionaire. money manager and Palm Beach part-time resident Jeffrey Epstein solicited or procured prostitutes three or more times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last year, according to an in- dictment charging him with felony so- licitation of prostitution. Epstein, 53, was booked at the Palm Beach County jail at 1:45 a.m.. Sunday. He was released on $3,000 bond. Epstein's case is unusual in that suspected prostitution johns are usually charged with a misdemeanor, and even a felony charge is typically made in a criminal information — an alternative to an indictment charging a person with the commission of a crime. His attorney, Jack Goldberger, declined to discuss the charge. State attorney's of- fice spokesman Mike Edmondson also had little to say. "Generally speak- ing, there is a case that has a number of different aspects to it," Edmondson said of a prostitution- related charge being submitted to a grand jury. "We first became aware of the case months ago by Palm Beach police." Prosecutors and police worked to- gether to bring the case to the grand jury, he said. Palm Beach police confirmed that and said the department will release a report today regarding its investigation. Epstein has owned a five-bedroom, 71/2-bath, 7,234-square-foot home with a pool and a boat dock on the Intracoastal Epstein Waterway since 1990, according to property records. A man answering the door there Monday said that Epstein wasn't home. A Cadillac Escalade reg- istered to him was parked in the drive- way, which is flanked by two massive gargoyles. Epstein sued Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits in 2001, contending that the assessment of his home exceeded its fair market value. He dismissed his lawsuit in December 2002. A profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair magazine said he owns what are be- lieved to be the largest private homes in Manhattan — 51,000 square feet — and in New Mexico — a 7,500-acre ranch. Those are in addition to his 70-acre is- land in the U.S. Virgin Islands and fleet of aircraft Epstein's friends and admirers, ac- cording to the magazine, include prom- inent businessmen, academics and sci- entists and famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. 0 larry_keaeritpepostcom Children's book on Cuba must stay in Miami-Dade schools, judge rules By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ 7heAssociatedPrtss MIAMI - A federal judge Monday temporarily barred the Miami-Dade County School District from remov- ing a children's book about Cuba from school libraries and in a strongly worded opinion ordered the district the series on children living around the globe. The Miami-Dade Student Government Association and the ACLU said the board's decision violated students' constitutional right of access to information under the First Amendment Crhnnl hnorel rnawnhar Schreier, is geared toward children ages 4 to 8 and in- cludes statements such as, "The people in Cuba eat, work and study like you." Los Angeles and New York City school districts al- so carry the book. The Miami-Dade board overrode two cnrnmitteraa' and ffe ctti HARDWOOD FI.00RI LUMBE yA.F.I LQUII:1AT 0„„NG L V/000 FL vas • OP • PIC • NC • 10 LA 1-8E 50 South US Hithw GRAND OPENING. PREVIEW For a New Gated Community in Western Be 12 Mo. 36 Mo. 60 Mo. CDs insured up to 5100,1 _ terms available. $25,000 I effective 7/16106. May re t insured banks. Early suit! i~tliillB1111FiGJq~sIT! ti EFTA00188362 forwarded a July 16 e-mail he from Epstein, who worked on s victorious 2000 campaign against ate Rep. Curt Levine. not going to work on a ion basis, period, and you should me on the payroll," read Epstein's tememberwho got you where you u don't want to be another Curt io you? You have everyone else in 3 on the payroll, and your most it closest confidante who has been rou right from the gitgo you throw .±1 says Slosberg ignored his advice ng peace with U.S. Rep. Robert rho has become Slosberg's chief id for calming the ruckus that led to . is removal from the county Health strict board. Had he been "on the ' Epstein says, Slosberg might have a more heed. ■ ≥ already had President Bush and VP aey in South Florida to headline gn fund-raisers, so it's only natural S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw, R-Fort :dale, would turn to the next figure in adenfial line of succession. Shaw's km says it has lined up House :ex Dennis Hastert for an Aug. 3 money in FortLauderdale. ■ temotrafic National Chairman Howard is speaking gig at a sold-out Wednesday a in West Palm Beach is the latest coup to Democratic Professionals Forum, 0-month-old group led by Gunster ley attorney Bryan Miller that has drawn dial 2008 Democratic presidential Ms Evan Bayh and warit warner to MIS >. . Lifesaver Lifesaver struggles with dead weight WELLINGTON - Shadoe Stein, 17, of Palm Beach Gardens reacts to the weight of a mannequin — 130 to 165 pounds when wet — as she starts her leg of a mannequin pull relay GARY CORONADD/Suff Amp race in the annual American Red Cross lifeguard Competi- tion at the Aquatics Complex. Teams from Wellington, Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens vied in six events on Sunday. Mystery money man faces soliciting charg By MCOLEJANOK Palm Read Post S&vf Writer A part-time Palm Beecher who has socialized with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey was jailed early Sunday with accused drug dealers. drunken drivers and wife beaters after . he was charged with soliciting a prosti- tute. Manhattan money manager Jeffrey Epstein, 53, was picked up at his hogne on El Brillo Way at 1:45 am. He tas released hours later on $3,000 bond. Epstein was indicted last week by a state grand jury, according to state at- torney's spokesman Mike Edmondson. Despite Epstein's arrest, the indictment containing the allegations remained sealed Sunday and Edmondson provid- ed no details. Unlike most accused johns. Epstein was charged with a third-degree felony instead of a misdemeanor. Under state th I :, a solicitation charge usually is de- mi to a more serious felony when the efendant has at least two solicitation convictions. However, checks of court records here and in New York Sunday turned up no such convictions. Epstein could not be reached. Ed- mondson said he was being represented by West Palm Beach attorney Jack Goldberg, who declined comment Epstein is the president of3 Epstein & Co., a money management company based in Manhattan that caters to ultra- wealthy clientele, according to pub- See SOLICITING, 66 Ir.. Jeffrey Eps Indictment related to prostitution Lake Worth ponders ideas for affordable L fl re ran : •-• va EFTA00188363 `Mysterious billionaire' has been on probation ► SOUCITING from /B lished reports. National nmgazines have described him as a "mysterious billion- aire" who lives in a 45,000- square-foot New York City mansion. He has been in trouble before. in 1993 he and two other defendants were charged in federal court with three counts of postal larceny and theft and one count of property theft Epstein plead guilty to a single charge of conspiring to steal U.S. Treasury checks from resi- dential mailboxes and re- ceived 5 years' probation. The remaining charges were dropped. Since then, Epstein's name has turned up in New York City's tabloids. The New York Post noted he flew Pres- ident Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his pri- vate Boeing 727.1n 2003, the paper dubbed him one of the Big Apple's lop studs." In 2004, Epstein bid against 'frump for a 43,000- square foot Palm Beach es- tate once owned by health- care magnate Abe Gosman. Trump topped Epstein with a $41.35 million bid. Staff Researcher Angelica Cortez contributed to this story. f l i c o e j a n o l a p b p o s t e O M FHP: Injured boy properly restrained when SW hit IP. CRASH from 1.8 "People were coming up over that hill and there's a wet road and it's boom, boom, boom. A chain reac- tion," said Lt Tim Frith, an FHP spokesman. Frith said the boy, who was flown by helicopter to St Mary's, was properly re- strained in the back seat of a car hit by the SUV believed to be the initial cause of the crashes. There were no re- ports of life-threatening inju- nes, Frith said. FHP had cleared the in- terstate by 4:50 p.m., but drivers experienced backups Traffic watch View Instant reports and I.95 camera Images. Check out Chuck McGlnness' blog, The Cone Zone. PalmBeechPost.com/trafflc for hours as I-95 'was inter- mittently closed so damaged vehicles could be removed and the road cleaned up. Investigators are still gathering details of the acci- dents and charges are pend- ing, Frith said. "Ifs going to take them a little while to sort this one out," Frith said. go klmberly_miller@pbpost.com The Post doesn't pull any funny stuff: Monday through Saturday you'll find Ala naming an the hark MTP.n. of Accent. tiri f WVIIW.MO11 I 0041C0 &Oven, I FREE ESTIMATES! Esthetes include a Mil cost for a complete job! RELIABLE II ON TIME NO DEPOSITS a PAY UPON COMPLETION CRIIllifeRin "MEDIC HORIZON ROOFINC 561.842.6121 NCORPORATED IIC I CCCII2S613 RESIDENTIAL • COMM *STATECERTIFIEDROO SOCIAL SECUR DISABILITY Bissi &Ass* Disability Advocates, If you are under 65 and r from any of the follow' Rheumatoid Art Hepatitis C, Seizun Fibromyalgia, Crohns Disease, entitled h disabi Coll 61-642-8060 for ( FREE ersonal Consultatk HYPERTENSI HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? You May Be Eligible To Participate In A Research Study • 18 Years or Older Partldpants Receive: • All Study Related Care and Investigational Medication • Compensation for Time and Travel Call Dr. Stirowitr Today! (561) 7 47 - 20 litinh aWdr k'ne‘C' brikOtah.net Health elvhdenv‘,.. I nc n ow Blvd. 4102 !Iupilin, II. P. REMEMBER TO -‘P Need Bins? No 118661 EFTA00188364 vtho uses s means one Palm Beach tobee Bottle- iat translates overall. onsequences, such as the net service ke rest stops lestions. How in airport in cample, know before they ts? Even driv- tronic tolling iot know that amt Martha's People who rs preloaded of tolls could state without d their Sun- it the unused ritable done- ants may be pike officials iom the new serve best. workers, wealthy as worth up nunent audi- 8,200 people average tax iich will cost t $700 billion art The loss 'rally lead to grams for the om the wage o help. ative packag- oppose creat- for the rich ;he nation is in Iraq —also sing the mini- t for devising ms to Senate List, Rann., ;elf to run for nts to deliver P promise to latest ploy is le cleanup of we raised the ago, and for Ad it hostage onstituents is t its worst. He was over 50. And they were girls If the women whom Palm Beach police say a part-time town resident invited to his home and paid for sex acts were, in fact, women, the solicitation charge against Jeffrey Epstein might feel more sufficient. But, according to police records, they weren't. He was over 50. And they were girls. Elise Cramer 14. 15. 16. 17-yeavold girls. That should count for some- thing — the dif- ference between prostitution and pedophilia. So, it is baffling that Mr. Epstein, who was indicted last month by a grand jury on one felony count of solicitation of pros- titution, has not been charged, as Palm Beach police strenuously urged, with unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. Conviction of crimes against mi- nors would mean steeper penalties than the maximum five-year prison term Mr. Epstein faces if convicted of the single count of felony solicita- tion. It also would help carry a mes- sage of intolerance to perverts who prey on girls. Prosecutors did not pursue charg- es against Mr Epstein reflecting the age of the victims because they assumed a jury would view the girls not as victims but as promiscuous, untrustworthy, willing participants. The presumption is offensive. Mr. Epstein, a 53-year-old Man- hattan money manager who has hired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and defense attor- ney Jack Goldberger, has denied knowing how old the girls were. Jury should have decided if Epstein is a pedophile. But police interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, as well as phone mes- sages, a high school transcript and other items that police found from searching Mr. Epstein trash and 7,234-square-foot waterfront home, provide evidence that he knew the girls were teenagers. One girl couldn't show up when Mr. Epstein wanted because she had soccer. Mother time, Mr. Ep- stein had to wait for his "massage" session because the girl he wanted was still in class. Why didn't State Attorney Barry Krischer let a jury decide whether to believe the teenagers — in- cluding a 16-year-old who went to Mr. Epsteinb house to "work" in December 2004 after being asked whether she needed to make money for Christmas gifts? Prosecutors gave greater weight to the details Mr. Dershowitz pro- vided about the girls in an apparent effort to assail their character. ME Dershowitz pointed out to prosecu- tors that some of the teenagers had talked on myspace.com about mari- juana and alcohol use. The 20-yeaeold Royal Palm Beach woman who told police she recruited girls for Mr. Epstein has a Web page on myspace.com that features one girl using the name "Pimpin' Made EZ." Although no charges of witness tampering have been filed, the par- ents of at least one of the teenage victims complained to police of be- ing followed and intimidated by two men.' Police determined that their vehicles were registered to two pri- vate investigators. Mr. Goldberger denied knowing anything about it. Police also note in their reports that the state attorneyb office of- fered Mr. Epstein a plea deal that would have placed him on proba- tion for five years, allowing him ultimately to walk away with no criminal record at all. I asked Mr. Krischer% spokes- man, Mike Edmondson, why the case was referred to a grand jury in- stead of Mr. Epstein being ch and facing a trial before a j shouldn't the victims credibility be a factor to determine whether a crime's been committed, not wheth- er a jury will convict? (After all, as Mr. Goldberger told The Palm Beach Post of Mr. Epstein, "He's never de- nied girls came to the house.") Especially, I asked Mr. Edmond- son to explain: Why shouldn't the public look at this case and think there are two kinds of justice — one for the wealthy and one for the rest of us? Mr. Edmondson said he could not comment on the case because it is active, but on the latter point, he offered, for the sake of "philosophi- cal debate": "Whether wealth buys a different standard of justice across the country ... the answer to that would, of course, be yes." But in this case, he said, "regard- less of the battery of attorneys, the outcome would be the same. Every issue that was debated in public was debated in our office before this case went to the grand jury." In this case, it is not the victims' credibility but the state attorneys that deserves questioning. Elisa Cramer is an editorial writer* The Palm Beach Post. Her e-mail address is elisa_ctumerepbpostcom David Ignatius Turning disaster to opportunity Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East I find myself looking back- ward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. That long-ago war, like the cue rent one in Lebanon, began with an Arab sneak attack — a potentially devastating Egyptian thrust across the Suez Canal, cruelly launched on Israel's holiest day. The Israelis bag past when Arab fighters would see the advancing Israeli army, dis- card their boots and flee in terror. The strategy of Israel's (and Americab) enemies today is to lure the military superpower into a pro- tracted conflict 'lb accept the bait, as the Israelis did in assaulting Leb- anon and as America did in Iraq, is to risk stepping into a trap. As Law- EFTA00188365 The Palm Beach Post B TUESDAY, AUGUST $,2006 Palat3eOarastecat Building overhang fans on Waste Management truck, trapping driver, Count on Cal projeci Epstein camp calls female accusers liars By LARRY K.FilFR Pads Beach Post Sete TfLiter Attorneys and publicists for Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein went on the offensive Monday, contending that teenage girls who have ac- cused Epstein of sexual she- nanigans at his waterfront home are liars and saying that the Palm Beach Police De- partment is "childish." "There never was any sex between- Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein any underage women," his lead attorney, Jack Gold- berger, said from Idaho where he was vacationing with his land- 13r. Epstein did have young women come to his house to give him massages, Goldberg- er said. "Mr. Epstein absolute- ly insisted anybody who came to his house be over the age of 18. How he verified that, I don't know. The question is, did anything illegal occur. The law was not violated here." He had no explanation as to why Epstein would pay girls or women with no massage train- ing — as the alleged victims said was the case — $200 to $300 for their visits. "the credibility of these witnesses has been seriously ques- tioned," Goldberger said. Epstein, 53, was indicted by a county grand jury last month on a charge of felony solicitation of prostitution. Af- ter an 11-month investigation that included sifting through Epstein's trash and surveilling his home, Palm Beach police concluded there was enough evidence to charge him with sexual activity with minors. When the grand jury indicted Epstein on the less serious charge, Police Chief Michael Reiter referred the case to the FBI to determine whether there were federal law viola- tions. After a spate of stories about the case last week, New York publicist Dan Klores — whose client list has included Paris Hilton andJenniferLoppeeZz — said on Saturday that Ep stein's camp was ready "to get their story out" See EPSTEIN, 98 ► w hi 01 JAC EPst 2-year-old boy in serious condition City on try EFTA00188366 A' rmed ovies, ne I from IB aly ending a mplished so n me every Dubov said tome in West h. "He would rid dance. It it. We were When you sing, you of 23 years ay were part- tas showgirl, lead singer. tuxedo and a he held her s, escorting in glittery l, pink feath- at swayed as r were stage is City, then fell in love, d two chil- W S C THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY, AUGUST 8,2006 96 Attorney: Police gave media `distorted view' ► EPSTEIN from M They did that Monday via Gold- berger and a Los Angeles publicist for Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black, who also has represented Epstein in the case. We just think there has been a distorted view of this case in the me- dia presented by the Palm Beach po- lice," Goldberger said. Reiter has consistently declined to comment on the case and did not respond to a request for comment Monday. The implication that State Attor- ney Barry Krischer was easy on Ep- stein by presenting the case to a grand jury rather than filing charges directly against him is wrong, Gold- berger said. The Palm Beach Police Depart- ment was "happy and ecstatic" that the panel was going to review the evidence. "I think what happened is they weren't happy with the result. They decided to use the press to embarrass Mr. Epstein." But records show that Reiter wrote Krischer on May 1— well be- fore the case went to the grand jury— suggesting that Krischer "consider if good and sufficient reason exists to require your disqualification from the prosecution of these cases." Rather than flat-out decline to charge Epstein, Krischer referred the case to the grand jury to "ap- pease" the chief, Goldberger said. A state attorney's spokesman would say only that the office refers cases to the grand jury when there are issues with the viability of the evidence or witnesses credibility. Both the state attorney and the grand jury concluded there was not sufficient evidence that Epstein had sex with minors, according to Gold- berger. "It was just a childish perfor- mance by the Palm Beach Police Department," Goldberger said. The defense attorney said one of the alleged victims who claimed she was a minor was in fact over the age of 18. Another alleged victim who was subpoenaed to testify to the grand jury failed to do so. Epstein's Epstein investigation Read a letter from Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter to State Attorney Barry Krischer on the Epstein probe. PalmBeachPostcom accusers, he added, have histories of drug abuse and thefts. 'These wom- en are liars. We've established that" But why would they all invent their stories about meeting Epstein for sexual massages? "I don't have an answer as to what was the motivation for these women to come forward and make these al- legations," Goldberger said. 0 lany_kellergpbposLcom $300,000 from license plates to aid 4 dolphin programs %, RACHEL SIMMONSEN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Four dolphin research and edu- cation programs will split about $300,000 that was raised in the past year by the "Protect Wild Dolphins" specialty license plate program, ac- cording to Harbor Branch Oceano- graphic Institution, which adminis- ters the program. Mote Marine Laboratory in Sara- sota will use $100,000 for public ser- vice announcements on the dangers of feeding dolphins and another $60,000 to study how hurricanes and red tides in Port Charlotte have af- fected dolphin habitats. Florida State University will use about S70,000 to study the use of acoustic technologies to phins, and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society's DolphinS- MART project has been awarded about $72,000 to develop a voluntary code of conduct for dolphin tour op- erators. Since it was created in 1999, the dolphin specialty license plate pro- gram has raised more than 54.5 mil- Harbor Branch, a research facility north of Fort Pierce, as well as $2.8 million in grants for other dolphin research and conservation groups. Each year, an additional $30,000 is set aside to reimburse groups that provide care to sick and injured ma- rine mammals. • • . EFTA00188367 he said. "It's not a competitive thing" he said. The role reversal was part of a charity event of the PGA lbur Wives Association, a fund-raising group that supports needy children and families during tours. It takes place every other year, and this was the first time it made the switch from Phoenix to Palm Beach Gaits. wane ap., via of their significant other. "It's a nice change of pace," de- fending champ Mark Wilson said. Wilson said the event showed him what hard work goes into caddying. Keeping score. Raking the sand traps. And the pressure of trying to give the perfect piece of advice. "You're just hoping it was the players at SEW VLs Others had a little more trouble spotting them. When Bill Wallace learned that the man with the red polo shirt was Mark Calcavecchia, the fan couldn't help but be a little surprised. "Doesn't look like him with his pink bib," he said • giana_ceroodahoostoom Take an online tour Preview the PGA Tours Honda Classic PahnBeachPost.com Girl drops lawsuit against Palm Beach man By LARRY KELLER Patin Beach Post Staff Writer A girl who says that wealthy money manager and parttime Palm Beath resident Jeffrey Epstein engaged in • sexual activity with her when she was 14, has dropped her lawsuit against him because her divorced parents are squabbling over the litigation. "It has to do with the fact that the parents aren't on the same page right c. now," said Jeffrey Herman, the attorney for the girl, identified in court papers only as Jane Doe. "It's like a sideshow." The girl turns 18 in May and can sue again at that time, without her parents' involvement, Herman said. Herman sued Epstein last month on ° behalf of the girl, her father and her stepmother. Her birth mother, who lives near Atlanta, then asked to intervene on her daughifert behalf and asked that. 4 the litigation be halted until her daughter turns 18. The mother com- plained that Jane Does father did not consult with her or their daughter before suing Epstein for $50 mil- Epstein lion. The lawsuit al- Accused of leges sexual assault sexuality intentional infliction assaultingthen. of emotional distress 14-year-old girl. and loss of parental consortium. Herman also represents a Jane Doe No. 2 who, like Jane Doe, claims Epstein summoned her to his home for a massage when she was a minor and sexually touched her. Epstein, 55, induced several under- , age girls to give him sexual massages at his Intracoastal home, a Palm Beach Police Department investigation con- chided. He was indicted in July 2006 on a single count of felony solicitation of prostitution. The case is pending. Jane Doet parents separated two months after she was born at Good Sa- maritan Medical Center, according to court records. The couplet subsequent divorce has been contentious. Each has had primary custody of the girl at various times. The father pleaded guilty to fed- eral fraud charges in 2001 and was sen- tenced to 21 months in federal prison, plus three years' probation. The US. attorney overseeing his prosecution Was Guy Lewis. Now in private practice, Lewis was hired by Epstein to defend him against the father's lawsuit filed on behalf of Jane Doe. Oiarry_ketientpbpost.com A rival company is questioning the deal. Bar BENNET! Palm Beach Ant Su aciter est of tl voting But Ut or $73. Naztec $16 is red WEST PALM BEACH ness a — Palm Beach County corn- percen missioners Tuesday approved An a $456,000 contract to buy United 6,000 new collapsible voting asked booths needed for the transi- minute Lion this fall from electronic objecti touch-screen voting machines insteac to paper ballots. utes, tl In keeping with the c,oun- tirne a ty's reputation for elections ment a controversy, the contract with Cou West Palm Beach-based Nat- confide tec International Group came to deli, over the objections of a rival the fir company that said Naztec with t] lacks the capacity to make ness the booths and shouldn't have send a been eligible for a small-busi- commi ness preference that enabled Con it to win the bid. 0, wit 'With Florida outlawing Green paperless electronic voting the c after June 30, the county will and switch to *paper ballots that Betan are read by optical scanners. have To allow voters to mark their piu-su ballots in privacy, the county Th wants 6,000 plastic tables that tom; have privacy shields on three year sides. Artly South Carolina-based boot! United American Election or S1 Services submitted the low- • get EFTA00188368 pan sewer r Point 4; residents oppose 30-6 on the barrier ;0-31 on the Point. ROGERS :ws Staff Writer — A long-discussed mi. anitary-sewer system in )(id at a cost of more than ) be dead. :ommission's direction, ig Dunham on May 9 led a letter to residents )th parts of town asking ther they want to replace • septic systems with a ary sewer system. Epstein Now jailed, also to serve house arrest. And not in the good way. The Lake Worth City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to support a le- gal challenge to the state's plans to issue Palm Beach a permit to dredge new sand onto the Reach 8 beach. The challenge was filed with the Depart- ment of Environmental Protection by the Surfrider and Snook foundations and several individuals. The vote came at a packed meeting where even standing room was hard to come by. The large but well-behaved crowd of hundreds spilled out of the commission chambers, into the hallway and nearly out the door of Lake Worth City Hall. Please see REACH 8, Page A6 Federal judge studying Epstein deal He asks for more information about victims' involvement, if any, in the plea negotiations for the billionaire sex offender. By MARGIE KACORA Daily News Staff Writer A federal judge is seeking more in- formation before deciding whether to quash a plea agreement that put Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein be- hind bars for 18 months. Brad Edwards, a Hollywood attor- ney representing three girls who claim they were sexually abused by Epstein, appeared before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra late last week in an at- tempt to have the judge throw out the deal reached in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. That deal, which calls for 12 months of house arrest at Epstein's El Brillo Way home and community ser- vice after he leaves the Palm Beach Please see EPSTEIN, Page A9 Historic Casa Nana listed for $72.5M By DAVID ROGERS Daily News Staff Writer Casa Nana is again on the market, and its price has more than doubled since the last sale in 2003. To see more of Casa Nana, visit PalinBcachDailyNews.com • Donald Trump, buyer dose EFTA00188369 Hires took his commercial a beer to the public at the Dadelphia Centennial Exhibi- a. It was a huge success and, ere long, Hires root beer was tied and available in local rkeis• verance drink Of course, none of these reci- i contain alcohol, so what's with the "beer" part of root ir? One record states that dur- the 18th century, farmers re brewing spiked root beer iememade stills by ferment- ; a solution of the extract and nr with yeast. The alcohol dent was marginal at best, I much less than regular Ts available today. The use of the word "beer" cause some angst for Mr. es. His drink was all the rage he height of Prohibition. It m't until lab results proved t the beverage contained less ihol than bread that temper- e advocates endorsed it and )0pularity soared. (Hires n used the words "Temper- e drink" in its marketing ing this period.) proves toxic Root beer hit another snag 960 when the U.S. Food and g Administration banned use of sassafras oil based on conclusion that it was a car- igen. Sassafras root had been key ingredient in creating beer, and the ban all but ru- t its place on the soda radar. uter experimenting with -natives, root beer makers e up with a solution. They ad that sassafras could be if is it treated first to re• e sweeteners used. Root beer flavor also can be found in candies, popcorn and cough drops. There is even a root beer shampoo. Frothy and flirty Now's a perfect time to grab a bottle of root beer and add it to your favorite recipes. Try a spicy root-beer glaze on bar- becued baby-back ribs, juicy ham steaks or boneless chicken breast. Paired with a smooth, creamy sweet-potato purée, steamed vegetables and fresh, crisp greens, root beer-inspired entrees create an easy, tasty summertime supper. At the end of the day, it's the classic root-beer float that will bring a smile. Take a scoop of vanilla ice cream and drop it into a tall glass. Gently pour root beer over the ice cream. Add another scoop of ice cream and another pour of the soda. If you have enough room, repeat again. For a gourmet touch, add a flirty swirl of whipped cream and top it off with a shiny-red maraschino cherry. Here's another variation to prepare with ice-cream pop molds. Pour 4 cups root beer into a pitcher and place in the refrig- erator for about 15 minutes. This will "flatten" the liquid and re- move the excess foam. Then take the cold root beer and place it in the freezer for 10 minutes. In the meantime, place a maraschino cherry into each pop mold, then pour in root beer until half-full. Gently place a small scoop of ice cream in the mold and add a little bit of root beer until full. Freeze the molds for a cou- ple of hours and wait until the . . cycling. The hotel skis it will "plant a tree. for every RSVP." presenters will include Eco Decor, the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce and the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation. General manager Jennifer Reichert said the state does a good job of connect- ing hotels with services and products that can improve their environmental impact. The DEP helped Biba find highly efficient HEPA filters for its air-conditioning sys- FfoPertY, we ha direction our property is going." Reichert ' said. "In order for there to be Biba, there has to be Florida tourism. We want to sus- tain Florida's environment." For information on the celebration, call (800) 789-9843. For environmental tips and news, visit the Green Wave blog at www.palmbeachdailynews.com — DAVID ROGERS EPSTEIN Attorney: Victims not consulted in plea negotiations From Page Al County Jail, includes an agreement that the federal government will not prosecute Epstein. Edwards said his clients were not con- sulted when the plea deal was negotiated. The girls, each identified public- ly as a "Jane Doe," were about to be named as victims in a federal indictment against Epstein, Ed- wards said. U.S. Attorney said during Friday's hearing that the federal District Court has no ju- risdiction over the plea agree- ment approved in state Circuit Court. "The court has taken the mo- tions under advisement and not ruled yet," U.S. District Court spokeswoman Alicia Valle wrote in an e-mail. "The parties are conferring to determine if an evidentiary hearing is necessary." Marra did not rule but asked for more information about the girls' involvement, if any, in the plea negotiations. Marra, ac- cording to Edwards, also expressed con- cern about the issue of federal versus state jurisdiction. Epstein, a 55-year-old Manhattan in- vestment banker, was handcuffed and tak- en to the Palm Beach Counts, Jail at the Ma U.S. Dist judge has rra rict Court not ruled. could not be reached for comment regard- ing the question before the federal court. Guy Lewis, another of Epstein's attor- neys, also was unavailable by telephone at his Miami office. The case drew the ire of Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, whose depart- ment conducted a nearly year- long investigation of Epstein that found he paid underage girls for massages and some- times sex at his mansion. Reiter turned the findings over to State Attorney Barry Krischer's office with a rec- ommendation that Epstein be arrested on four counts of un- lawful sex acts with a minor, a second-degree felony, and one count of lewd and lascivious mo- lestation, also a second-degree felony. But Krischer did not arrest Epstein, instead choosing to send the case to a grand jury, which indicted Epstein on one third-degree felony count of solicita- tion of prostitution. Epstein's plea acknowledged solicita- tion of one underage girl for prostitution. Edwards, the victims' attorney, on Tuesday referred to Epstein as a "serious sexual predator" who is receiving "clear, transparent, favorable treatment" and "'mina hie woulth a.- data:stork July15 -.26 Kourtney 20$ North Federal It Lake Worth. Honda (561)-233-99 Summer h•a Tuesday - Sate:day. 12pr. A Nurses' Regist Nurses providing tl quality Nursing C Palm Beach as Martin Counties fi 20 years. Rite 12.N.. CBS Companion • Don LICIICSE • tell.102I Convenientlylocate( to Good Samaritan H in the VICTORFABIUS BUT Suite #3901 1411 North Plaster I West Palm Bead Florida 33401 PHONE: (561) 671-; FAX: (561) 671.1% ANursesRegistry@aol EFTA00188370 I..ea..• Gans ibas %non tia• yea u Id %An18111g V1 ClgC AJ it was about the economy, immigration, and health cam. At the mention of Florida Atlantic University by moderator Brian Williams, from NBC Nightly News, a collective chant of F-A-U, F-A-U erupted uu netu — Known unnitionauy as a com- muter university with little school spirit — and the answers were nearly all the same. "This has been a big year for FAU. We won the New Orleans Bowl and now this is happening" said Krysta Barrett, Hardball had a backdrop of the Marching Owls band, and this morning, MSNBC correspondent Joe Scarborough will film his Morning Joe show from campus. "We're part of history. We're on our See DEBATE, 66 ► 'This was a typical 14-year-old girl.... What happened here was despicable: JEFFREY HERMAN, lawyer for parents of girl, now 17, who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault Palm Beach man faces lawsuit in teen sex case By LARRY KELLER Palm Beath Past Staff Writer WEST PAIAM BEACH — The parents of a teenage girl sued part-time Palm Beach resi- dent Jeffrey Epstein for more than $50 million on Thursday, alleging that the wealthy money manager had her brought to his mansion for a massage, then engaged in sexual activity with her. The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 14 at the time. She was the youngest of sev- eral alleged victims of Epstein, according to Palm Beach police, who spent 11 months investigating him. The federal lawsuit, filed by Miami at torney Jeffrey Herman, says "Epstein has a sexual preference and obsession for under- age minor girls." Epstein "gained access to primarily disadvantaged minor girls in his -T home, sexually assaulted these girls, and then gave them money." Herman, who specializes in child sex abuse litigation, sued on behalf of the girl, her father and her stepmother on grounds of sexual assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of parental con- sortium. "Jane Doe ... fell into Epstein's trap and became one of his victims," the lawsuit says. "We're dismayed by the filing of the law- suit, but not surprised," said Jack Goldberger, one of Epain's attorneys. "We think this = + shows what this case is all about money." He and another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez launched an immediate counterof- fensive, even showing up at Herman's news conference outside the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach They distributed copies of documents showing that the girl's father and Lawyer Jeffrey Her- man (left) conducts a news conference Thursday with the fa- ther and stepmother of a girl who claims wealthy money man- ager Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her in 2005. The parents seek more than S50 million, in their lawsuit Epstein, who faces a prostitution solicitation charge, is scheduled to enter a plea March 10. BILL INGRAM Staff Photographer stepmother have prior arrests for financial crimes the lawyers say show the lawsuit is fi- nancially motivated. Another Epstein lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, a prominent New York crim- inal defense attorney, provided some of those See EPSTEIN, 78 ► „ Palm& Da Pr( of a trim he did, Lopez] leaving car to c Circ Pet, 25 pleader felony mansla first sb also mt hours c "Mai for his Haddac coopen thoritie probath After retume with hi two old forgot Galant, Lope televisit ized Se diately JFK ME Lope boy, aft longer 1 Semino • larry_k EFTA00188371 mar- Records investigators obtained d nearly 5833,000 from another bank account show cunnrmed n is investigating based on other information it had received. •susan_mIller@pbpost.com er wants new home MIEN EYESI0NE/Sla Photographer I (left) at a Yes on 1 rally Thursday e for the amendment because he lomes benefit to a new home. het seen show support at 60 percent, but he has declined to release that internal poll. • He applauded the tax lief steps taken by the relief steps taken by the 3egislahzre: both the man- dates for governments to 'roll back their tax rates and 'the proposed constitutional 'the Crist continued to emphasize that "we're just ketting started," but also is- ju ed words of concern. tri "If this were to not pass n Tuesday, I think it would ke the wind out of the sails f cutting property taxes in lorida," he said. "It's very portant to keep that Eno- entail) going." deana_pooletlpbpostcom d0:1 Jordan gbp0M torn Epstein paid girl $300, 00. EPSTEINfrom M documents to Goldberger "Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman," Sanchez said. Herman suggested that Epstein masturbated in front of the alleged victim and used a vibrator on her after she was brought to his home in February 2005. The girl is now 17. "This was a typical 14- year-old girl at the time she met Epstein," Herman said. "What happened here was despicable." The girl told police inves- tigators that she informed Epstein she was 18 when she met him, and she said that was her age oh her Web page, Sanchez said. The girl's father and step- mother also attended the news conference, "We're very angry," the father said. "It's not right that this wealthy man can fly into town and destroy my daugh- tert innocence." He did not take questions. Ej stein, 55, is a mysteri- ous?slew York money man- ager who owns a Manhattan mansion, as well as homes in Palm Beach, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. A Palm Beach County grand jury indicted him m July 2006 on one count of felony solicitation of prostitu- tion atbrorting from alleged incidents between Aug 1 and Oct 31, 2005. Epstein is scheduled to enter a plea in the case on March 10, but he has Post- ported other court dates to resolve the case His in- dictment followed an Epstein exhaustive i gion by the Palm Beachnve Po investigation De- partment, which concluded that Epstein paid unde girls and young women to brought to his' fwe-bedroom, 71/2-bath Intracoastal home for massages and sometimes sex play. Much of the language in the Jane Doe suit mirrors that of police reports in the case. Herman client said her mee " ' was set up by of Loxa- hatchee, w o was a Palm Beach Community College student at the time. When Jane Doe arrived at Epsteinb home, she was escorted by an. Epstein assistant, Sarah Kel- len, to a room with a massage table, police reports and the lawsuit say Epstein walked in Wear- suit claims ing only a towel, removed it and lay naked on the mas- sage table, the lawsuit says. He demanded that Jane Doe remove her clothing, and she did, except for her under- wear, the lawsuit alleges. The sexual activity followed, the suit says. Epstein $300 af- terward, and got $200 for bringing to him, t s n E rred aaar Iped r liai- .sons with girls, Palm Beach police concluded. Neither was changed. This is not the first time Epstein has been sued over purported activities with teenage girls. He was sued in New York in October by a woman who says she had sex with Epstein when she' was 16 and had sought his help in becoming a model. The lawsuit filed Thurs- day also alleges that Epstein has assaulted girls on his private island in the Virgin Islands. Herman declined to elaborate on that assertion. • larty_lcellerOpbposteom t, BANKRUPTCY • Save Your Home! You Ma y • Stop The Calls! • Eliminate Debt! FREE IMMEDIATE CONSULTATION Low Fees, Easy Payment Plan Attorney Gregg H. Wexler Ion handled thousands of Bankruptcy cases. MAIN OFFICE: WEST PALM BEACH, FL (561) 641-8020 What's about to become Florida history? MI the following Scratch-Off Games of the Florida Lottery. $250 ▪0 00 Pay Day /683 - p, 24 Karat Gold 4692 OXIMLEIMEL Bankroll ASS DOS,,, Cash Bonanza /544 tIEWEitiataf Cowboy Cash #686 rmtrshiln— Doubt° Dough #671 Gold Rush 4650 'Dottie UMW 79 Got16t Rush 03 /584 Golden Spin kola& Monopoly Game 1598 /523 Joker's Wild 1695 EFTA00188372 care enough auuut pi tiv imam schools, police, reliable power and water. Mc Powell, the Rand report says, had reconstruction plans, but they weren't practical. Gen. ibmmy Franks, who ran military opera- tions in Iraq, had a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the role the military should play in postwar Iraq. Gen. Franks retired in mid-2003. with perfect timing. Baghdad had fallen, and he left the mess from that "fundamental misunderstand- ing" for someone else to dean up. The Army is supposed to publish unclassified reports as soon as it can review them, to be sure that they don't contain sensitive mate- rial. More than 21/2 years later, the Army hasn't published the report and has done little to circulate the classified version to Pentagon leaders. Asked why, an Army spective the report "lacked" also was "too broad." As for planning, the report emphasized the impor- tance of helping the civilian popula- tion — the strategy finally adopted last year by Gen. David Petraeus. Of course, lack of planning by the White House and Pentagon was evident both before and after the 2005 Rand report — evident to everybody but the White House and Pentagon, apparently. Rather than censor the report, the administra- tion could have acted on it two years before political and public pressure forced a change in strategy. Now, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged this week with his comments on troop levels, the next president will be responsible for ending what Mr. Bush secretly and recklessly started. Plan on it. Spare us the An 11-month police investigation led to an indictment on one felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. That was in July 2006, and part-time Palm Reacher Jeffrey Epstein still has faced no repercussions for al- legedly preying on underage girls. So maybe Mr. Epstein is satisfied that he% getting his money's worth from his large legal team, which includes Harvard Law School Pro- fessor Alan Dershowitz (remember • OJ. Simpson?) and Kenneth Starr (remember Monica Lewinsky?). Jack Goldberger of West Palm Beach, who% also on the team, told Post columnist Jose Lambiet in November "This case is absolutely • going to end without a trial within the next two months." He was wrong, but Mr. Gold- berger remains on Mt Epstefifs • payroll, feigning moral outrage at two lawsuits filed this year against • the Manhattan money manager. The. lawsuits allege sexual exploita- tion of teenaged girls, one of them as young as 14. Said Mr. Goldberger •after the first lawsuit, seeking more —‘t outrage Lawyers for accused sex predator sound foolish. than $50 million, was filed on Jan. 24: "We think this shows what this rase is all. about: money." Yes, it is — Mt Epstein% effort to buy his way out of prosecution. According to the lawyer of a 17- year-old whose parents are suing .him, Mt. Epstein masturbated in front of her (she was 14 at the time) and used a vibrator on her at his home in February 2005. Another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez dismissed it "Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman." For those girls who claim that he did, Mr. Epstein% lawyers maintain that he did not ImoW their ages, de- spite a police search of his home and garbage that found phone messages about the girls' school schedules and even a high school transcript For all of his money, Mr. Ermtein% bestdefense remains "I didn't know that I was a criminal pervert'? k .1.113U Kamikaze Repubh those who say amyll i for John McCain Nen conservative enough _ what they deserve. The Clinton. Many on the right, Rush Limbaugh, Glt Ann Coulter, James D others, have declared i er vote for Hillary not vote at all— ( for Sen. McCain. Tin pointed spokesmen : vatism insist that voti Clinton is a matter o Better to go doWn on one% convictions than compromised placebo lb be sure, politic makes for interestin versation, but the wii starves to death It isn't necessary thing Sen. McCain h for him should he b But it isn't possible there no difference McCain and Sen. Cli Obaina), as some Red A form of irration has taken hold whe oneself or to the pm more important th: over the country to to raise taxes and in health care. Principles should idle that strict adhe worse alternative. Exactly which o cilitates the garnisl to pay for insuran Sen. Clinton has pn terview with ABCs nopoulos, Sea Clin government-orderer gram would requin mechanism that nt know, going after p Where. are thos' when a Democratii pointing justices Court? Given that justices will be 70 vembet it% a near EFTA00188373 THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13,2008 Eclectic mix visits jailed tycoon A scientist, a stuntman and a reputed sex slave'. visit Epstein LARRY U.ER Palm elleach Posti(Ea Writer WEST PALM BEACH - 1)rcoon Jeffrey Epstein mingled with an eclectic mix of people, including beautiful young women, before he got into trouble for paying teen- age girls to give him sexual massages at his Palm Beach mansion. Not much has changed, even though he now resides in a dorm at the Palm Beach County Sheriff% Offices 17-acre, 967-bed stockade near the fairgrounds. During his first month of confinement, Epstein was visited by the female assis- tant who, girls told police, had escorted them to the room at his mansion where they gave him naked massages. Also trekking to the jail was a young woman whom Epstein purportedly de- scribed as his Yugoslavian sex slave. The wealthy financier and science wonlc also has been visited by an expert on artificial intelligence, as well as a man who is a mixed martial arts aficionado and sometime movie stuntman. The only other people to visit him at the jail, according to records, are a Singer Island man and an individual who listed Epstein% Palm Beach address as his OWL Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty on June 30 to two prostitution-related charges and was sentenced to 18 months in jail, fol- lowed by a year of house arrest. Epstein See EPSTEIN, 85 ► Epstein Serving 18 months at the county stockade. ' • 4 EFTA00188374 Expert on art i icial intelligence pays visit ► EPSTEIN/rem1B paid teenage girls $200 to $300 in 2004 and 2005 for massages in his home that sometimes included sexual touching Palm Beach police said. HigAl in July included: 29, who some of the teen masseuses said phoned them when Epstein was in town and escorted them upon their arrival at his Palm Be_ach waterfront home to an upstairs room, where she prepared the mac-cage table and provided r their encoun- ters with him. visited Epstein three times i according to a jail visitor% log lists a Manhattan home address. ached by telephone, she dieclii~pstein. ■ 23, whose fam- ily in ugos via ps in paid money to so that he could bring her to the United States to be his "sex slave," two teenage - tikrthlkat. -LE S-Cirtunk- I cloy -Sivt Is Icovk -1 351N feillo -1 • • • girls told police. One gir that Epstein instructed and her to kiss and have watched and masturbated. she engaged in se at Epstein urging. Epstein in jail four days. She lists her address as on the Upper East side of Manhattan, not far from Epstein enormous apartment ■ Roger Schank, 62. founder of the Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University and an expert on artificial intelligence, paid one visit to Epstein. Schank has written numer- ous books on that subject and has a doctorate degree from Yale University in linguistics. He was one of 19 people who applied to be president of Florida Atlantic University in 2003. He became "chief learning officer" at the online 111-ump University in 2005. Schank listed his address as being in Stuart, • and records show he also owns a home in Lake Worth. Epstein has financed a number of scientists . over the years, including Nobel Prize winners. He gave $30 mil- lion to Harvard University in 2003. in November, he formed the not-for-pmfit Florida Science Foundation, which he said finances scientific research. ■ Igor Zinoviev, a Russian mixed mar- tial arts fighter, who coaches a Chicago team in the International Fight Lea;ve. He also has worked as a personal tra celebrity bodyguard and movie sny:t- man, according to the league% Web wte. The New Jersey resident visited Epszeir seven times in July. Zinoviev, Schank and could not be reached for co Staff researcher Niels Heimetiks contrib- uted to this story. * larry_keller@pbpostcom • f • • EFTA00188375 DIE PAL H " THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 2008 Girls lawsuit claims sex assaults The minors are seeking millions from financier Jeffrey Epstein. By BILL DIPAOLO Patin Beach Pas! Ste Writer Two underage girls are ac- cusing Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting them in a federal civil lawsuit filed Wednesday by their Miami attorney. Epstein has been in jail since pleading guilty in June to solicitation of prostitution of underage girls. He is serv- ing an 18-month sentence. "Both girls are seeking a measure of justice. This is a beginning of their healing process," said attorney Jef- frey Herman. Herman is seeking damag- es of more than $100 million. Epstein has the assets to cover the punitive damages, said Herman, adding that the financier owns an island off St. Thomas and property in New Mexico and New York. There are four pending federal civil lawsuits and one in state court pertaining to Epstein'; relationships with minors. At least one woman has sued him in New York. Upon his release, Epstein, 55, will be under house arrest for a year and musk register BILL ReGRAWSIall PhologalThat Attorney Jeffrey Berman, whose clients are suing Palm Beacher Jef- frey Epstein, speaks Wednesday outside the county stockade. for life as a sex offender. He will be under a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and must have no unsupervised con- tact with anyone younger than 18. He also cannot own nor possess pornographic or sexual materials, according to court documents. The two girls, ages 13 and 16, met with investigators dur- ing the 11-month investigation by Palm Beach police. They are identified as "Jane Doe No. 6" and "Jane Doe No. 7" in documents filed Wednesday in the West Palm Beach sec- tion of US. District Court. The 13-year-old visited Epsteinb $8.5 million Intra- coastal mansion once and had sex with him, according to the lawsuit. The 16-year- old visited the mansion many times in two years for the same reason, Herman said. Both were brought to the mansion by friends, he said. The charges against Ep- stein stemmed from a corn- ' plaint to Palm Beach police about two years ago from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had given him a naked massage at his 7,234-square- foot home. He paid the girls $200 to $300 each after the ' massage sessions, police said. Police concluded that there were several other girls brought to the home in 2004 and 2005 for similar reasons. Staff writer Larry Keller con- tributed to this story S bilt..dipaolo@pbpost.com EFTA00188376 UMA SAMCHYySiallthatographyr Investment banker Jeffrey Epstein waits In court Monday before his guilty plea. Palm Beacher pleads in sex case Jeffrey Epstein will serve Ph years on teen solicitation charges. • By LARRY KELLFS Paint Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — He lives in a Palm Beach water- front mansion and has kept company with the like's of President Clinton, Prince An- drew and Donald 'frump, but investment bankerjeffrey Ep- stein will call the Palm Beach County Jail home for the next 18 months. Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty Monday to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. After serving 18 months in jail, he will be under house arrest for a year. And he will have a lifelong obligation to register as a sex offender. He must submit to an HIV test within 48 hours, with the results being pro- vided to his victims or their parents. FHE PAW BEACH POST • TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008 As part of the plea deal, federal investigators agreed to drop their investigation of Epstein, which they had taken to a grand jury, two law enforcement sources said. Epstein was indicted two years ago after an 11-month investigation by Palm Betch police. They received a complaint from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had given Epstein a naked mas- sage at his five-bedroom, 7,234-square-foot, $8.5 million Intracoastal home. Police concluded that there See EPSTEIN, 8A 0- Crime coverage ■ Read past stories on the Epstein case. ■ See photos of fugitives, unsolved cases, police blotters, a blog, special reports and more. Palm8eachPost.com EFTA00188377 Epstein faces civil lawsuits; more clients may be added 0. EPSTEIN from IA were several other girls brought in 2004 and 2005 to an upstairs room at the home for similar massages and sexual touching. The indictment charged Epstein only with felony so- licitation of prostitution. The state attorney% office later added the charge of procur- ing underage girls for that purpose. Prosecutor Lanna Be- lohlavek said of the plea: "I took into consideration the length, the trial would have been and witnesses having to testify" about sometimes embarrassing incidents. Einstein may . have made a serious mistake soon after he was charged. He rejected an offer to plead guilty to one count of aggravated assault with intent to commit a felo- ny, according to police docu- ments. He would have gotten five years probation, had no Criminal record and not been a registered sex offender, the documents indicate. Epstein arrived in court Monday with at least three attorneys.. He wore a blue blazer, blue shirt; blue jeans and white and gray sneakers. After Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo accepted the plea, he was fingerprinted. Epstein then removed his blazer and was handcuffed for the trip to jail while his. attorneys tried to shield him froth photographers' lenses. When he eventually is released to house arrest, Ep- stein will have to observe a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m..curfew, have no unsupervised contact with anyone younger than 18 and neither own nor pos- sess pornographic or sexual materials "that are relevant to your deviant behavior," the judge said. Epstein will be allowed to leave home for work. The New York-based money manager told the judge he has formed the not-for-profit Florida Science Foundation to finance scientific re- search. "Itn them every day," Epstein said. The foundation was in- corporated in November. Epstein said he already has awarded money to Harvard and MTE When he is released from jail, there is a chance that Ep- stein will be forced to move. Sex offenders are not allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a school, park or other areas where children may gather. No determination has been made as to whether Epstein home complies, but attorneys said it likely does. Sex offenders also typi- cally must attend counseling sessions. Belohlavek said that was waived for Epstein because his private psychia- trist is working with him. 'It's validation of what we're saying in the civil cases.' ILI FREY HERMAN Attorney who represents alleged victims, commenting on the plea The judge was skeptical but agreed to it. Epstein legal woes don't end with Monday's plea. There are four pending fed- eral civil lawsuits and one in state court related to. his behavior. At least one woman has sued him in New York, where he owns a 51,000- square-foot Manhattan man- sion. "It'a validation of what we're saying in the civil cases," said Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman, who repre- sents the alleged victims in the federal lawsuits. West Palm Beach attorney Ted Leopold represents one al- leged victim in a civil suit in state court. He said he antici- pates amending that lawsuit to add "a few other clients" as well. In the criminal case, po- lice went so far as to Scour Epsteinh trash and conduct surveillance at Palm Beach International Airport, where they watched for his private jet so they would know when he was in town. They con- cluded that Epstein paid girls $200 to $300 each after the massage sessions. Heidi Fleiss," now 22, told police a et efforts in recruiting girls for Epstein. There was probable cause to charge Epstein with un- lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious mo- lestation, police concluded. The state attorney% of- fice said questions about the girls' credibility led it to take the unprecedented step of presenting the evidence against Epstein to a grand jury, rather than directly charging him. Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter was furious with State Attorney Barry. Krischer, saying in a May 2006 letter that the prosecu- tor should disqualify himself. "I continue to find your offices treatment of these cases highly unusual," he wrote. He Meal asked for and got a federal investigation. EFTA00188378 Epstein hired a phalanx of high-priced lawyers —includ- ing Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz — and public relations people who questioned Reiterk com- petence and the victims' truthfulness. In addition to mansions in Palm Beach and Manhat- tan, Epstein owns homes in New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. He a frequent con- tributor to Democratic Party candidates. He also donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003. Former New ' York Gov. Eliot Spitzer returned a $50,000 campaign contribu- tion from Epstein after his indictment, then resigned this year during his own sex scandal. And the same Palm Beach Police Department that vigorously investigated Epstein returned his $90,000 donation for the purchase of a firearms simulator. Staffwriter Eliot Xleinberg and staff researcher Michelle Quig- ley contributed to this story. elarry_kellerapbposteom IllAA SAMNA/Stall Photovapher effrey Epstein (left) appears in court Monday. Soon after he was charged two years ago, Epstein reject- ed a deal that would have given him five years' probation and no criminal record, documents show. EFTA00188379 The Night We Saw Jeffrey Epstein in Real Life - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer Page 1 of 2 New York Magazine News & Features 1/31/08 Photo: Patrick McMullan Party Lines The Night We Saw Jeffrey Epstein in Real Life 5:3o pm With free-flowing top-shelf liquor, truffle-oily foods, megabyte venues, and scores of A-to-D-listers poised to shun our goofy questions, most Peggy Siegal parties fill us with a heady mix of wonder and self-loathing. Last night's private screening of the HBO film Bernard and Doris at the Time Warner Center was no exception. At an event that seemed especially saturated with befuddling celebrity sightings: Why is Mo Rocca following Bebe Neuwirth like a puppy dog? Why is Cindy Adams photo- opping with Rush Limbaugh? Catherine Crier is still around? We were rendered speechless by one boldfacer we saw shuffling into the screening room with a beautiful woman: Jeffrey Epstein! That's right, Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey. Ep. Stein. Unshaven, smiling that feline-monkey grin, wearing a slightly tattered sweater and jeans, he reeked of money and massage oil. Well, we didn't get dose enough to say for sure, but we could imagine. We knew he and Peggy are friends, and Tye only ever seen him in jeans," she told New York in December. But really? The week after another lawsuit was filed against him by a teenage girl, he showed up to a movie premiere? With a young woman? (She looked to be in her twenties, at least, by the way.) Words failed us. Hell, even our fingers failed us as we fumbled to text a colleague about this turn of events. The film began, and it seemed to dovetail thematically with Epstein's saga: all about eccentric billionaires Doris Duke and her bizarre relationship with the hired help. When the lights went back up, Epstein and his comely companion were gone. No photographs of them on any of the wire services. Was it all a dream? — http://nymag.com/daily/inte1/2008/01/the_night we_sawjeffrey_epste.htinl 1/31/2008 EFTA00188380 The Night We Saw Jeffrey Epstein in Real Life - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer Page 2 of 2 Justin Rauitz Related: The Fantasist [NYM] Share 61 U Email 1,0 Link Li Print YOU WILL BE PROMPTED TO REGISTER OR LOGIN WHEN POSTING. COMMENT NEW MUSEUM • User Guidelines A 0 of 350 words allowed. HTML and URLs prohibited PREVIEW POST CO) http://nymag.com/daily/inte1/2008/01/the_night_we_sawjeffrey_epstc.html 1/31/2008 EFTA00188381 Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Jane Doe's $50 Million Civil Suit Against Jeffrey Epst... Page I of 3 41 BACK NEXT =al FEATURES REVIEWS FAME-O-METER RADAR OUI < BACK TO FRESH INTELLIGENCE ON THE DOCKET JANE DOE'S $50 MILLION CIVIL SUIT AGAINST JEFFREY EPSTEIN Back in November, we reported that Jeffrey Epstein, the tacky pervert billionaire accused of sexually assaulting able-bodied, underage girls up and down the Eastern seaboard, opted to take his chances in court rather than cop a plea. Today we bring you the details of the first suit. The complaint, filed by one "Jane Doe," seeks to extract from Epstein "damages in excess of $50 million," which actually seems an appropriate payout for having a creepy old dude fondle you with a brightly colored vibrator. THE ACCUSED Epstein The pertinent facts presented in the complaint (downloadable pdf after the jump): Epstein, "a man of tremendous wealth, power, and influence," also happens to have a "sexual preference and obsession with underage minor girls." To satiate this appetite, "he engaged in a plan and scheme in which he gained access to primarily economically disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually assaulted them, and then gave them money? One of these girls, the plaintiff "Jane Doe," was only 14! Epstein's scheme, according to the complaint, is as follows: , a Palm Beach Community College coed, would at Epstein's behest lure underage girls to his mansion, "ostensibly to give a wealthy man a massage for monetary compensation" but really so that he could touch their parts and engage in other non age-appropriate behavior with them. wrangled destitute girls because they would be "enticed by the money being offered—generally $200 to $300 per 'massage' session—and who were perceived as less likely to complain to authorities or have credibility If allegations of improper conduct were HOMC ASS CO LOG IN Usemame Password Joln Ftadar On It's free and ef Forgot Your Pi FRESH IN' Obama's Pi The Failure Down Own' American I( Machine Looking Ba Murdoch R' Theater of of Souls: B Off What We're Internets Dear Tionn. up to What' Still Be Me; The Not Re Heath Ledg han://www.radarmanzine.com/exclusives/2008/01/jane-does-50-million-civil-suit-against... 1/31/2008 EFTA00188382 Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Jane Doe's $50 Million Civil Suit Against Jeffrey Epst... Page 2 of 3 made." (They were!) Once inside the mansion, Epstein's assistant, Sarah Kaplan, it is alleged, would take down the girl's name and contact info and lead her up a flight of stairs lined with photos of nude women into a bedroom furnished with a massage table. Once the girl was inside, Kaplan would leave and Epstein would enter, wearing only a towel. He would proceed to "remove his towel, lay down naked on the massage table, and direct the girl to remove her clothes. He then would perform one or more lewd, lascivious and sexual acts, including masturbation and touching the girl's vagina with a vibrator." For this, Jane Doe received $300 and MIE $200. DOWNLOAD THE FULL COMPLAINT HERE. By Neel Shah 01/24/08 1:54 PM File Under: Jeffrey Epstein, ON THE DOCKET Comment I Print I E-mail I Recommend It (4)I Share It AMY YVINEHOUSE TO BE FULLY CURED OF DRUGLUST BACK TO FRESH INTELLIGENCE WALL STREET JOURNAL WILL STILL 4 0 COST YOU Comments Be the first to respond. Post your comment below. Ad verkse moot Post a comment You must be logged In to comment. (Join Now — It's Tree and easy!) Username: Password: Submit Trump Tak( Wesley Snl You Squat EXECUTIVE Alex Balk EDITED BY Tyler Gray,. CONTRIBU Sarah Horn( Raymond, I' others KNOW SOMETI WE DO Email us at: tIps@radan or IM: TIpRi THE RA[ TODAY'S I No One Pul Corner Baby Dee,/ preeminent tricycle-ridin musician, w' Catholics, C how to play wearing a lx Full Court F Charles Kai! report card, road to Iraq I Jew Radar's sine this year's h a Jewish hu ESPN's Sta httn://www.radannagazine.cotn/exelusives/2008/01/jane-does-50-million-civil-suit-against... 1/31/2008 EFTA00188383 Click here to find out more! Page I of 1 Now that's Progressive wate ; . PROORIEWF COMMERCIAL hun://ad.doubleelick.net/adi/N4492.Advertising.com/B2688598.2;sz=160x600;cliek—http:/... 1/31/2008 EFTA00188384 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of I SOCIETY GIRL AT TWITS' END Neal Travis. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 1, 2000. pg. 009 Abstract (Document Summary) THINGS may be turning sour for gal-about-town Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the fat and fraudulent former owner of the Daily News, the late Robert Maxwell. I hear that some of the 39-year-old Ghislaine's friends on the Manhattan and London party circuit are cutting her because she's had so much adverse press over her relationship with Prince Andrew, Fergie's ex, with whom she recently attended a downtown S&M-themed party. Her relationship with "Randy Andy" is said to be platonic, but the socially prominent women in Ghislaine's "set" have recently sworn off any kind of publicity. Full Text (328 words) Copyright New York Post Corporation Dec 1, 2000 THINGS may be turning sour for gal-about-town Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the fat and fraudulent former owner of the Daily News, the late Robert Maxwell. I hear that some of the 39-year-old Ghislaine's friends on the Manhattan and London party circuit are cutting her because she's had so much adverse press over her relationship with Prince Andrew, Fergie's ex, with whom she recently attended a downtown S&M-themed party. Her relationship with "Randy Andy" is said to be platonic, but the socially prominent women in Ghislaine's "set" have recently sworn off any kind of publicity. A series of lacerating articles - and the publication of the vapid "Bright Young Things," written by one of their own, Brooke de Ocampo - has portrayed this crowd as a bunch of twits living off their trust funds. Ghislaine's own funds are something of a mystery. Her father lavished money on her and set her up In at least one business in New York. But Maxwell's own ill-gotten gains were seized after he took a dive off his yacht, which was named for her. There are plenty of British pensioners who lost their only means of support in the crash of Maxwell's house of cards and who find it obscene that Ghislaine manages to own an apartment on the Upper East Side and a mews house in London. She is said to be on some kind of retainer from mysterious New York financier Jeffrey Epstein, who reportedly has holdings in several major companies. Epstein also likes the company of attractive young women, and it's said that Ghislaine has been very good about introducing him to some of her pals. Ghislaine and her two elder sisters don't talk about where their money is coming from, but they are said to be heavily involved in some kind of Internet company. It would be awful luck for Ghislaine if her social standing were diminished at the same time as tech stocks are going down the toilet. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Maxwell, Ghislaine Section: Neal Travis' New York Text Word Count 328 Document URL: EFTA00188385 MURKY WORLD OF CLINTON PAL New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 20, 2002. pg. 010 People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Clinton, Bill, Trump, Donald J, Boardman, Samantha, Truman, James Section: Page Six Text Word 1147 Count Document URL: Abstract (Document Summary) fait& Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for $15,000. [Jeffrey Epsteinj's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial digs to him for just $1. Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the interior. SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman EFTA00188386 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 3 MURKY WORLD OF CLINTON PAL New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 20, 2002. pg. 010 Abstract (Document Summary) Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for $15,000. (Jeffrey Epsteinj's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial digs to him for just $1. Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the interior. SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman, last year for man-about-town Todd Meister. According to our spies, Boardman ditched Meister after she caught him in flagrante with a 19-year-old coed. But don't feel too bad for her. Women's Wear Daily reports Boardman has a new man - Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. Truman must not be too pleased. When Boardman dumped him, he needed to recuperate at a Buddhist retreat upstate. Editorial meetings at Conde Nast must be a hoot these days. "DISCO Bloodbath" author James St. James is following up his notorious tell-all about killer club kid Michael Alig with another true-crime tome. He's shopping around "Killer Grandpa," his investigation into a lynching that his grandfather led in 1935. "My grandfather was a sheriff in Fort Lauderdale, and he lynched a black man that allegedly raped a white woman," James told us. "About 100 people gathered to watch, and they passed a gun around and everyone took a shot at the body. It became this big town secret, and I write about what really happened." James, a 1980s club kid who fell in with Alig's inner circle, is played by Seth Green in "Party Monster," the movie adaptation of "Disco Bloodbath." But James said he was "shocked" when he watched a few scenes of Green mincing it up with Macaulay Culkin, who plays Alig. "I didn't know I was so gayl I thought I was more like Steve McQueen, but Seth is flouncing around the whole time. Seth is much cuter than me, actually, and looks better in drag." Full Text (1147 words) (Copyright 2002, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) PAGE SIX'S scoop last month that mysterious money manager Jeffrey Epstein had flown Bill Clinton, Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his private 727 has sent journalists all over town trying to find out just who Epstein really is. Vanity Fair has a reporter on his trail, but New York magazine beats them to the punch with a feature this week on Epstein's strange history. Epstein, 49, a former Dalton School math teacher from Coney Island, is said to manage $15 billion for super- wealthy clients he'll only take on if they have at least $1 billion in assets. "According to people who know him," New York reports, "if you were worth $700 million and felt the need for the services of Epstein & Co., you would receive a not-so-polite no-thank-you." Noted mergers/acquisitions lawyer Dennis Block of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft recalls trying to give Epstein a client whose funds were below the $1 billion cutoff. "I sent him a $500 million client a few years ago and he wouldn't take him," Block reports. "Said the account was too small. Both the client and I were amazed. But that's Jeffrey." Most Wall Streeters, however, aren't even certain what Epstein actually does for a living. "My belief is that Jeff maintains some sort of money-management firm, though you won't get a straight answer from him," says one powerful investor. "He once told me that he has 300 people working for him, and I've also heard he manages Rockefeller money. But one never knows. It's like looking at the Wizard of Oz." Some say that Epstein once quit his seat on the board of the Rockefeller Institute because he hates wearing a suit, supposedly telling a friend, "It feels like wearing a dress." EFTA00188387 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 3 One power player who doesn't find Epstein to be all that hard to figure is Donald Trump. "I've known Jeffrey for 15 years," The Donald tells the magazine. "Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." Another thing Epstein - who's said to pocket at least $75 million a year in fees - and Trump have in common is a taste for extravagant living. Epstein lives in a 45,000-square-foot, eight-story mansion on East 71st Street. Leslie Wexner, founder and chair of the Limited clothing-store chain, bought the place in 1989 for $15,000. Epstein's mentor and one of his clients, Wexner is rumored to have sold the palatial digs to him for just $1. Epstein quickly spent $10 million to gut the place and completely redo the interior. "I don't want to live in another person's house," Epstein told New York. Blind dater CHRIS Noth wasn't lonely on a recent trip to London. The "Law & Order hunk was set up on a blind date with Rose Keegan, an actress and the daughter of historian Sir John Keegan. The two spent much of the evening at the Century Club, and they were chaperoned by Kyle MacLachlan, who is pals with Noth from their days on the set of "Sex and the City." MacLachlan is in London co-starring in a play with hemp-happy Woody Harrelson. 'Rockets' soars "ROCKETS Redglarel" - a posthumous tribute to the late East Village actor and downtown icon - won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Directed by Luis Fernandez De La Reguera, it features interviews with Rockets' pals Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi and Julian Schnabel. Rockets, the beloved 350-pound former bodyguard of punk legend Sid Vicious who appeared in several of Buscemi's and Jarmusch's movies, died last year after years of drug abuse. Bizarre union BOB Crane was a sex addict, but his second wife, Pat Crane, didn't care. "He treated women like the rest of the world treats toilet paper. Who's going to be jealous of toilet paper?" she told "20/20" contributing correspondent Chris Connelly. Despite Crane's penchant for seducing other women and documenting his trysts on film and videotape, Pat insists: "We had a wonderful sex life. We had a wonderful marriage." Crane was bludgeoned to death in 1978 with a camera tripod. Plot device GAY writers love PAGE SIX. Everyone's favorite gossip column is prominently featured in the new novel "The Night We Met," a romantically swishy comedy by Rob Byrnes about a guy and his mafioso boyfriend. After making references to this page and The Post throughout the book, Byrnes even attempts to replicate one of our items in the climax. Byrnes' fictional item may lack the flawless prose of a real PAGE SIX scoop, but he does have us outsmarting yet another mendacious mouthpiece. Change partners SOCIALITE Samantha Boardman ditched her beau, Conde Nast editorial director James Truman, last year for man-about-town Todd Meister. According to our spies, Boardman ditched Meister after she caught him in flagrante with a 19-year-old coed. But don't feel too bad for her. Women's Wear Daily reports Boardman has a new man - Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. Truman must not be too pleased. When Boardman dumped him, he needed to recuperate at a Buddhist retreat upstate. Editorial meetings at Conde Nast must be a hoot these days. Well protected EFTA00188388 ' Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 3 SEAN "Puffy" Combs confirmed our account of how Heath Ledger scuffled with his bodyguards at the VH1Nogue Awards after-party Combs threw at Lotus. "Heath is from Australia, and he parties hard now," Combs told "Access Hollywood." The two became pals on the set of "Monster's Ball." "He's coming at me, he's like, 'Puff, people don't know that we're the best of friends,' so it's like my security held him up for a second . . . and I was like, 'No, that's my brother.' " Sins of his grandfather "DISCO Bloodbath" author James St. James is following up his notorious tell-all about killer club kid Michael Alig with another true-crime tome. He's shopping around "Killer Grandpa," his investigation into a lynching that his grandfather led in 1935. "My grandfather was a sheriff in Fort Lauderdale, and he lynched a black man that allegedly raped a white woman," James told us. "About 100 people gathered to watch, and they passed a gun around and everyone took a shot at the body. It became this big town secret, and I write about what really happened." James, a 1980s club kid who fell in with Alig's inner circle, is played by Seth Green in "Party Monster," the movie adaptation of "Disco Bloodbath." But James said he was "shocked" when he watched a few scenes of Green mincing it up with Macaulay Culkin, who plays Alig. "I didn't know I was so gayl I thought I was more like Steve McQueen, but Seth is flouncing around the whole time. Seth is much cuter than me, actually, and looks better in drag." Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Clinton, Bill, Trump, Donald J, Boardman, Samantha, Truman, James Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1147 Document URL: EFTA00188389 HOTSHOT EPSTEIN NOT SO HOT: VF PAUL THARP. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Feb 4, 2003. pg. 036 People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Hoffenberg, Steve Section: Business Text Word Count 249 Document URL: r. 41)stract 02pp:taw; turupary) "...SP4-4trw [Jeffrey Epstein], a 50-year-old Ralph Lauren lookalike who claims to manage a billionaires-only fund, has made headlines for his high- society lifestyle; among his attention-grabbing moves was flying President Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on a private jet. The article says that when Epstein worked for [Steve Hoffenberg], he cooked up some of Hoffenberg's questionable financing deals - a claim Epstein has denied. EFTA00188390 Airchives: New York Post Page 1 of 1 HOTSHOT EPSTEIN NOT SO HOT: VF PAUL THARP. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Feb 4, 2003. pg. 036 Abstract (Document Summary) [Jeffrey Epstein), a 50-year-old Ralph Lauren lookalike who claims to manage a billionaires-only fund, has made headlines for his high- society lifestyle; among his attention-grabbing moves was flying President Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on a private jet. The article says that when Epstein worked for [Steve Hoffenberg), he cooked up some of Hoffenberg's questionable financing deals - a claim Epstein has denied. Full Text (249 words) (Copyright 2003, The New York Post. Ali Rights Reserved) Jeffrey Epstein - a self-proclaimed billionaire who hobnobs with moguls and pledged $25 million to Harvard - is actually a small potatoes ex-bounty hunter with a questionable financial background, says a report. Epstein, a 50-year-old Ralph Lauren lookalike who claims to manage a billionaires-only fund, has made headlines for his high- society lifestyle; among his attention-grabbing moves was flying President Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on a private jet. But a report in the March issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands this week, unmasks Epstein's mystery image. Epstein wasn't exactly the top gun at Bear Stearns, as he claims - and left the firm amid a swirl of rumors and an SEC violation, the article said. His mentor in high finance was Steve Hoffenberg, the bill collector turned hustler now serving 20 years in prison for running the nation's costliest Ponzi scheme, the report says. The article says that when Epstein worked for Hoffenberg, he cooked up some of Hoffenberg's questionable financing deals - a claim Epstein has denied. Epstein has also been involved in numerous lawsuits, including one in which Citibank is suing him for defaulting on $20 million in loans from its private banking arm. Epstein and his lawyer, Jeffrey Schantz, couldn't be reached for comment on the article. The article said that Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret, except for one - retail magnate Leslie Wexner, who calls Epstein "smart . [with] high standards . . . and a loyal friend." Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Epstein, Jeffrey, Hoffenberg, Steve Section: Business Text Word Count 249 Document URL: EFTA00188391 • MORE HEAT FOR BEL AIR BURGLAR New York Post. New York, N.Y.: May 26, 2005. pg. 012 Companies: Miami Heat (NAICS: 711211, Sic:7941 ) Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1671 Document URL: • ,Rgtaftfraigs Abstract (Document Summary) • kleelKaii,ir NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be settling down with his former gal pal. Model has been flashing a massive canary-yellow diamond engagement ring Ratner recently gave her, were told. , a Romanian stunner, used to date reclusive billionaire Jeffity Epstein. Epstein, who handles Leslie Wexner's fortune, helped land her a gig modeling EFTA00188392 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 4 MORE HEAT FOR BEL AIR BURGLAR New York Post. New York, N.Y.: May 26, 2005. pg. 012 Abstract (Document Summary) NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be settling down with his former gal pal. Model Alina Pascau has been flashing a massive canary-yellow diamond engagement ring Ratner recently gave her, we're told. Pascau, a Romanian stunner, used to date reclusive billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who handles Leslie Wexner's fortune, helped land her a gig modeling for Wexner's Victoria's Secret brand, wehear, and paid for her to live in high style. After they broke up she and Ratner dated for a while before his fling with Williams. "She's beautiful, but dumb as paint," one pal of Pascau told us. "She never washes her hair and she always has a cellphone glued to her ear. Without Jeffrey she would never have gotten the Victoria's Secret job." Pascau, who likes high-profile men, also used to bed down with Formula I driver Eddie Irvine. Ratner's rep did not return calls. YOU can't watch Arthur Chi'en on WCBS/Ch. 2 any more - the reporter was fired last week for uttering the "f word" on-air - but you can buy a plethora of products with his face on it. Cafepress.com is hawking a line of Chi'en-branded mugs, T-shirts, buttons, tote bags, messenger bags, barbecue aprons, teddy bears and even a "Chi'en Classic Thong." Some are emblazoned with the words, "What the (bleep) is your problem, man?" - the question Chi'en, who thought he was off the air, yelled out to twohecklers. David Yee, who is selling the Chi'en merchandise, said he was inspired by the popular T-shirts of revolutionary Che Guevara. "Chi'en sort of sounds like Che," he explained. "People are buying it." Meanwhile, Chi'en's friend Ian Gerard, the founder of Gen Art, has circulated an e-mail calling the firing "ridiculous," and urging recipients to complain to various Viacom and Channel 2 executives. Chi'en tells us he was "devastated" by his dismissal, and says he's currently looking for a new job. "I've got bigger things to worry about than the shirts, basically," he said. Full Text (1671 words) (Copyright 2005, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) YOUNG Hollywood can rest easier now that police have arrested the man suspected of committing a string of burglaries in the Beverly Hills and Bel Air area. Darnell Riley, 28, was officially busted two months ago in connection with a burglary/robbery at "Girls Gone Wild" gazillionaire Joe Francis' home in January 2004 - but he's also being investigated for break-ins at the homes of Paris Hilton, baby oil heiress Casey Johnson, club promoter Tommy Alastra and other L.A. celebs. A source said the crime ring used a gorgeous Elite model, still at large, to infiltrate the Hollywood party scene: "She would befriend the men, get the security codes to their homes and then send Riley in." Just before the 2004 Golden Globes, Francis returned to his Bel Air home as it was being robbed. The intruder Francis recently identified as Riley held him at gunpoint and stole $300,000 in cash and valuables. Sources added that Francis was "being blackmailed." Francis would only say, "I can confirm I was robbed at gunpoint." When Hilton's home was burgled in September of 2004, it looked eerily similar to the Francis break-in. At the time, Hilton spokesman Elliot Mintz confirmed that a "very, very professional" gang swiped more than $100,000 worth of jewelry, cash, video tapes and other items from the Hollywood Hills house Paris was renting with her sister, Nicky. After the burglary, more Hilton sex tapes mysteriously appeared, and damaging reports surfaced of a tape where Hilton supposedly used the "n-word." . Insiders say Hilton paid dearly to make sure the tape was never found. A source said, "She was blackmailed. She paid $20,000 a month to have that tape not released." Hilton told PAGE SIX via her rep, "Anyone who http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/844991031.html?MAC=b1d21f354a3eec5270f91258... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188393 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 blackmails should be prosecuted to the full extent of theliw." Hollywood insiders say Frankie Muniz and Wes Anderson may also have been burglarized, but their reps deny it. Steve Coleman, a Los Angeles police officer who worked the case, told PAGE SIX: "Darnell Riley is in custody and charged with burglary, robbery, and home invasion. This is an ongoing investigation." Asked if the cops were looking into whether or not Riley had pulled the heists at the homes of Hilton, Johnson and the others, Coleman said, "That's fair to say." Wacky lackeys AND you thought P. Diddy forcing Farnsworth Bentley to hold his umbrella was bad? Mariah Carey retains a "petite Colombian woman" whose duties include "keeping Mariah's long skirts from touching the floor and humping around a Louis Vuitton backpack filled with bottled water," reports Stuff magazine. Nelly keeps a "personal jewelry jockey" to ensure the safekeeping of all his carat- encrusted bling. Ludacris has a minion whose sole role is to make sure his boss' Gameboy is always loaded with fresh batteries. And rapper N.O.R.E. has a hype man, Ching Bing, who has just one job: to stand onstage and swing around a towel. We hear ... THAT Eva Longoria - milking her man-eating "Desperate Housewives" image to the max - has taped a spot for Sirius Satellite Radio where she huskily pants: "Some women have to guess what a man wants, but I know what a man really wants, something that will keep a smile on his face for a really long time - over 120 channels, enough to satisfy any man" . . . THAT a visitor to Japan - where extreme modesty and close quarters prevail - reports that new public toilets have an unusual feature, the Flush Noise button, so that you can conceal the sound of actual bathroom functions with an artificial flushing noise. Sightings DALLAS Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder powwowing at Caf Milano . . . BEN Affleck sitting front row at the Red Sox-Blue Jays game in Toronto, then getting mobbed for photos before escaping through the Sox dugout .. . TRACY Morgan lifting up his shirt a la his character in "The Longest Yard" to do a striptease for Burt Reynolds, Adam Sandler and Chris Rock at their movie premiere after-party at Plus, the new lounge in Chelsea . . . HARRY Shearer dedicating his song, "82 Facelifts," to Barbara Walters during a performance at the Cutting Room. Romanian babe scores rock NOW that his romance with Serena Williams has gone south, randy director Brett Ratner seems to be settling down with his former gal pal. Model Alina Pascau has been flashing a massive canary-yellow diamond engagement ring Ratner recently gave her, we're told. Pascau, a Romanian stunner, used to date reclusive billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who handles Leslie Wexner's fortune, helped land her a gig modeling for Wexner's Victoria's Secret brand, wehear, and paid for her to live in high style. After they broke up she and Ratner dated for a while before his fling with Williams. "She's beautiful, but dumb as paint," one pal of Pascau told us. "She never washes her hair and she always has a pellphone glued to her ear. Without Jeffrey she would never have gotten the Victoria's Secret job." Pascau, who likes high-profile men, also used to bed down with Formula I driver Eddie Irvine. Ratner's rep did not return calls. Publicity-hungry A ROMAN restaurateur is trying to exploit a near-miss with Bill Clinton, who recently canceled a dinner for 18 at the fashionable Agata e Romeo eatery. Owner Romeo Caraccio is whining to the press that Clinton's people ordered nearly $2,000 of special food and wines but never canceled, leaving him to take a loss. But his tale is baloney, says Clinton rep Jim Kennedy. "An advance person made a reservation, canceled it, and compensated the restaurant for it," Kennedy said. He quipped, "A restaurant trying to get publicity out of a canceled reservation? I'm shocked." http://pgasb.pgarchiver.corn/nypost/844991031.html?MAC=b1d21f354a3eec5270f91258... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188394 Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 Protein power HOW did Shaquille O'Neal prepare for last night's Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Finals pitting his Miami Heat against the Detroit Pistons? By devouring a 48-oz. porterhouse ($76) at South Beach's trendiest steakhouse, Prime 112, the night before. The 7-foot-1, 320- lb. center joined fellow carnivores Jamie Foxx and TNT analyst Charles Barkley, who as usual was trashing the Knicks. There's one menu item Shaq steers clear of - the $20 "Kobe Hot Dog." Keepin' it real IS life imitating art? Blond bombshell Katheryn VVinnick, who was so good as lvana Trump in Tuesday night's "Trump Unauthorized" on ABC, must have liked her brush with real estate fame. The Post's Lois Weiss reports the actress was seen canoodling with one of the city's top real estate investment-sale brokers, Douglas Harmon of Eastdil, Tuesday afternoon, before she got into a black Lincoln in front of 40 W. 57th St., the building where Harmon is headquartered. Paris burger ad not for kids? PARIS Hilton is too hot for Washington. Lawmakers are working behind the scenes to get her sizzling W ad for eatery chain Carl's Jr. - in which she writhes half-naked on a Bentley, cavorts with a garden hose and sucks her finger - banished to late night. Sources say several influential pots have quietly told networks the commercial, labeled "basically soft-core porn" by the Parents Television Council, isn't fit for children and shouldn't air before 10 p.m. The eye-popping ad, in which Paris looks like she's getting ready for her next Rick Solomon, is great publicity for Carl's Jr., which hired the hotel hottie to hawk its new Spicy Burger. The fast- food firm's official response to those who are seeing red? "Get a life." Sudden dash DAMON Dash, with gorgeous wife Rachel Roy in tow, basked in the glory of receiving an AAFA American Image Award from Kevin Bacon at the Grand Hyatt, but dashed out without offering a donation to the event's charity partner, the Alzheimer's Association. The hip-hop mogul was apparently the only honoree who didn't donate to the event. Dash's publicist told us he did make a donation - but nobody connected to the event was aware of it. Axed reporter branded YOU can't watch Arthur Chi'en on WCBS/Ch. 2 any more - the reporter was fired last week for uttering the "f word" on-air - but you can buy a plethora of products with his face on it. Cafepress.com is hawking aline of Chi'en-branded mugs, T-shirts, buttons, tote bags, messenger bags, barbecue aprons, teddy bears and even a "Chi'en Classic Thong." Some are emblazoned with the words, "What the [bleep) is your problem, man?: the question Chi'en, who thought he was off the air, yelled out to twohecklers. David Yee, who is selling the Chi'en merchandise, said he was inspired by the popular T-shirts of revolutionary Che Guevara. "Chi'en sort of sounds like Che," he explained. "People are buying it." Meanwhile, Chi'en's friend Ian Gerard, the founder of Gen Art, has circulated an e-mail calling the firing "ridiculous," and urging recipients to complain to various Viacom and Channel 2 executives. Chi'en tells us he was "devastated" by his dismissal, and says he's currently looking for a new job. "I've got bigger things to worry about than the shirts, basically," he said. Call to mouths KELLY Osboume thinks her Hollywood friends are too thin. "Sure they're beautiful in photographs. But when you see them in person, they look hungry and miserable," she tells Teen Vogue. "I hate to name names, so I'm not going to, but there's one in particular I think of often. I saw her last summer and remember thinking, 'You're so beautiful, you're at the most perfect weight.' And then I ran into her in the winter and she literally looked near death. I was like, 'What are you doing to yourself? You're 18 years old." Interestingly, the magazine's June/July issue features shrunken Lindsay Lohan on the cover. [Illustration] -Shaquille O'Neal; Katheryn Winnick -IN A CONTROVERSIAL TV SPOT, PARIS HILTON REWARDS http://pqasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/844991031.html?MAC=b1d2If354a3eec5270f91258... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188395 Archives: New York Post Page 4 of 4 HERSELF AFTER WASHING A BENTLEY IN HER SKIMPY SWIMSUIT. [Jeff Vespa /INirelmage] -LATINA LOVELY THALIA CHANNELS ELVIS PRESLEY AS SHE SHOOTS HER NEW VIDEO FOR "AMAR SIN SER AMADA" IN BROOKLYN. [Sara Jaye Weiss] Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. Companies: Miami Heat (NAICS: 711211, Sic:7941 ) Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1671 Document URL: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.cont/nypost/844991031.11tml?MAC=b1d21f354a3eec5270f91258... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188396 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 4 PROBED POL'S SON BLAMES PLOT New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Jan 14, 2005. pg. 014 Abstract (Document Summary) IS billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein making a bid for IMG Models? As we reported last summer, Epstein tried to buy Elite Models when the bankrupt agency was auctioned off. In 2003, we reported that Epstein, who's been described as "a connoisseur of beautiful women," was talking to Karin Models owner Jean-Luc Brunel about doing a deal, but it went nowhere. Epstein has also met with Elite's Gerald Marie and 1 Management's Scott Lipps. Now we hear Epstein has been having talks with fellow billionaire Teddy Forstmann, who paid $750 million for the IMG group a few months ago, about buying the company's modeling division, which reps the likes of Gisele Bundchen, Kate Moss and Heidi Klum. Reps for IMG and Forstmann deny any such negotiations are taking place. Epstein's rep did not return calls. Forstmann has been talking to top Hollywood talent agencies about a possible merger. PAUL Allen, 51, the bachelor Microsoft co-founder worth $20 billion (according to Forbes), rang in the New Year with British blonde Kate Reardon, 36 (above), a former fashion director for Tatter magazine who now writes about jewelry for the Times of London. The couple ushered in 2005 in St. Barts aboard Allen's 413- foot yacht, "Octopus," equipped with two helicopters and a 60-foot submarine. There were scores of other guests but Allen seemed mesmerized by Reardon, who had a similareffect on another billionaire, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith. Reardon attended Goldsmith's funeral in 1997, along with his widow and his second wife. "Conveniently, Allen has a house in London," said our source. [TRUMAN CAPOTE], dead for over 20 years, is suddenly a hot property in Hollywood. The author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood" is the subject of two new biopics - Warner Independent's "Every Word Is True," based on Plimpton's 1997 oral history, and United Artists' "Capote," based on the landmark 1988 Gerald Clarke bio.rny. "Capote," due out this fall, stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who is talented but a bit burly to play the "tiny terror." "Every Word" stars relatively unknown Toby Jones with an all-star supporting cast including Alan Cumming, Anjelica Huston, Sandra Bullock (as "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee), Ashley Judd, Kevin Kline, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver. Hollywood columnist Jeffrey Wells reports that "Capote" has the advantage of Hoffman in the starring role, while "Every Word," which just started filming, is said to have a much better screenplay. Full Text (1520 words) (Copyright 2005, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) THE loose-cannon son of a subpoenaed Bronx state senator claims Republicans are behind a federal probe of the Bronx Democratic machine because they want to destroy Fernando Ferrer's campaign for mayor. Efrain Gonzalez III, whose dad, State Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., is one of nine Bronx politicians subpoenaed to testify, wrote to the Riverdale Review: "The GOP controls the White House, the N.Y. State House and City Hall, so if they want to attack the members of the Bronx Democratic Party, who is going to stop them?" Fifteen subpoenas reportedly have been served, six of them to nonprofit organizations that employ relatives of the elected officials. Young Gonzalez is president of the Latino Affirmation Council, which isn't listed in The Bronx or Manhattan. Gonzalez letter to the Riverdale paper said: "When my father and the 14 other members were issued subpoenas, that alone was a message being sent by the GOP, that they will do anything in their power to keep Mayor Bloomberg in power, because all those members being probed are working to support Ferrer in next year's mayoral race." The elder Gonzalez's lawyer, "Don't Worry Murray" Richman, told PAGE SIX: "This is the over-excited imagination of a young man. We do not support these allegations which were not authorized and don't represent the views of the senator or myself." In a strange e-mail posted on YonkersTribune.com last fall, after The Post broke the news of the investigation, young Gonzalez said: "They couldn't find any weapons [of mass destruction), so they said instead of killing more frfr http://pqasb.pqarchiver.corn/nypost/778885231.htmIMAC=d480c38ad9d4655614f3d46d... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188397 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 camels, they are trying to get rid of all the donkeys over here instead . . . they forgot that a Puerto Rican donkey knows how to climb high mountains, and are stronger than any elephant." One federal subpoena went to the elder Gonzalez's longtime girlfriend, Lucia Sanchez. Investigators are also looking into the $1 million in campaign funds Gonzalez has spent over the years in uncontested elections, with much of the money going to a mystery campaign worker identified in filings as Ricardo Santiago. "At issue is whether or not borough politicos funneled state and city funds into pet programs to then turn those funds into salaries for friends and relatives," the Riverdale Review reports. One of the non-profits being probed is the West Bronx Neighborhood Association, a favorite of Gonzalez's housed in the same building as his office on the Grand Concourse. Talent shortfall THUMB-size thespians looking for a little work would do well to book a trip to London, where dwarf actors are in short supply. Producers for the BBC's "Doctor Who" are searching for undersize actors to play little blue aliens in the remake of the classic 1970s sci-fi show. But most of Britain's tiny talents have already been snapped up for the new "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie or to play Gringotts Bank staff in the new "Harry Potter" film. Executive producer Russell T. Davies complained to London's Daily Mirror: "It's very difficult to employ persons of restricted growth when these other movies are filming at the same time." We hear .. . THAT it could get crowded for the Democrats in 2008. John Kerry has said he won't rule out running again, and now comes word Tipper Gore is telling friends that Al Is eyeing another race himself. Words of gold DONALD Trump will be paid a record-breaking $1 million an hour for Learning Annex appearances in three cities this year. That's over $16,000 a minute. Since it was founded in 1980, the Learning Annex has featured such celebrity teachers as Sarah Jessica Parker, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Henry Kissinger. The previous highest fee was $28,000 - paid to Ron Wood nearly 20 years ago when he was a member of the Rolling Stones. Trump's "How toSucceed in Real Estate" hits Los Angeles on May 1, Chicago on Oct. 23 and New York on Nov. 6. Learning Annex president/founder Bill Zanker said, "Last time he taught for us, over 20,000 students came - and this year he's even bigger." Mogul lusts for model shop IS billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein making a bid for IMG Models? As we reported last summer, Epstein tried to buy Elite Models when the bankrupt agency was auctioned off. In 2003, we reported that Epstein, who's been described as "a connoisseur of beautiful women," was talking to Karin Models owner Jean-Luc Brunel about doing a deal, but it went nowhere. Epstein has also met with Elite's Gerald Marie and 1 Management's Scott Lipps. Now we hear Epstein has been having talks with fellow billionaire Teddy Forstmann, who paid $750 million for the IMG group a few months ago, about buying the company's modeling division, which reps the likes of Gisele Bundchen, Kate Moss and Heidi Klum. Reps for IMG and Forstmann deny any such negotiations are taking place. Epstein's rep did not return calls. Forstmann has been talking to top Hollywood talent agencies about a possible merger. Aspen captive SOCIALITE Denise Rich has fired her yoga instructor after his girlfriend told police that he locked her in a room of Rich's Aspen mansion for three days over the Thanksgiving holiday. The unidentified woman alleged that Jules Paxton attacked her first and then locked her in a room when she threatened to call the cops. A spokesman for Rich said the ex-wife of pardoned tax cheat Marc Rich was traveling abroad during the incident, but confirmed that Paxton was staying at herhome. "Mrs. Rich has decided to discontinue his services as her yoga instructor," the rep said. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/778885231.html?MAC=d480c38ad9d4655614f3d46d... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188398 Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 Happy holiday PAUL Allen, 51, the bachelor Microsoft co-founder worth $20 billion (according to Forbes), rang in the New Year with British blonde Kate Reardon, 36 (above), a former fashion director for Tatler magazine who now writes about jewelry for the Times of London. The couple ushered in 2005 in St. Barts aboard Allen's 413- foot yacht, "Octopus," equipped with two helicopters and a 60-foot submarine. There were scores of other guests but Allen seemed mesmerized by Reardon, who had a similareffect on another billionaire, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith. Reardon attended Goldsmith's funeral in 1997, along with his widow and his second wife. "Conveniently, Allen has a house in London," said our source. Super at 14 THE 44 contestants in the Ford Supermodel of the World contest learned evasive maneuvers at the after-party at the Tunnel, where they met such studs as Jesse Palmer of the Giants, Trevor Ariza of the Knicks, Jamie ("Born Rich") Johnson and Kelly ("The Apprentice") Perdew. New husband Fabian Basabe showed, too, without bride Martina Borgomanero, and worked the red carpet The winner, who also got a $250,000 modeling contract, was Brazilian Camila Finn (above), all of 14. She might look even better when she grows up. IT'S THE TRUMAN CAPOTE SHOW TRUMAN Capote, dead for over 20 years, is suddenly a hot property in Hollywood. The author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" " Cold Blood" is the subject of two new biopics - Warner Independent's "Every Word Is True," based on Plimpton's 1997 oral history, and United Artists' "Capote," based on the landmark 1988 Gerald Clarke biograp y. "Capote," due out this fall, stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who is talented but a bit burly to play the "tiny terror." "Every Word" stars relatively unknown Toby Jones with an all-star supporting cast including Alan Cumming, Anjelica Huston, Sandra Bullock (as "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee), Ashley Judd, Kevin Kline, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver. Hollywood columnist Jeffrey Wells reports that "Capote" has the advantage of Hoffman in the starring role, while "Every Word," which just started filming, is said to have a much better screenplay. Own show COURTNEY Fine, a former aide to Mayor Bloomberg who left politics to become an actress, is showcasing "Me 2," a play she wrote about a woman jailed for breaking into the bar where she left her cell- phone. Among those invited to last night's opening at the Producers Club 2: Victoria Gatti, Amy Fine Collins and Bloomberg's sister Marjorie Tiven. The show closes after tomorrow's performance. Never mind Parnham, the lawyer for Andrea Yates, is quick to cash in after winning her a new trial for the murder o er we kids. Parnham, who will try to get Yates off using the insanity defense, is shopping a book, "States of Mind," which will focus on his favorite tricks for defending female killers: postpartum depression, premenstrual syndrome and post-traumatic stress. And he'll include similar cases: Clara Harris, who allegedly ran over her unfaithful husband with herMercedes Benz, and Lisa Montgomery, who strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett and then surgically removed her fetus last month. [Illustration] -Kate Reardon; Camila Finn -SINGER ALICIA KEYS KEEPS HER BOD BUFF BY JOGGING ON THE BEACH IN BARBADOS YESTERDAY. [ZUMA PRESS) -ANY MAN WHO WINS THE HEART OF NICOLE KIDMAN, PICTURED HERE IN A SHOOT FOR THE NEW ISSUE OF IN STYLE, IS A LUCKY DOG. HER LATEST CRUSH, SHE TELLS THE MAG, IS PHILIP ROTH, 71, WHO WROTE THE NOVEL "THE HUMAN STAIN," THE BASIS FOR HER 2003 FILM. [RUVEN AFANADOR FOR IN STYLE] Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/778885231.html?MAC=d480c38ad9d4655614f3d46d... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188399 Archives: New York Post Page 4 of 4 permission. People: Gonzalez, Efrain III, Epstein, Jeffrey, Rich, Denise, Allen, Paul, Reardon, Kate Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1520 Document URL: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.corn/nypost/778885231.httnl?MAC=d480c38ad9d4655614f3d46d... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188400 RADAR COMEBACK - ROSHAN GETS BIG-TIME BACKERS WITH BANKROLL KEI7.1-1.1. KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 19, 2004. pg. 037 People: Roshan, Maer, Zuckerman, Mort, Epstein, Jeffrey Companies: Radar Media LLP Section: Business Text Word Count 484 Document URL: tAbilitict(bizietirtiOritSittrirralY) H Macr Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to bankroll him with millions. Roshan had tried to get [Mort Zuckerman] and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell apart, but at first nothing came of the talks. "That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, ... cwt „ tifti r,191 EFTA00188401 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 2 RADAR COMEBACK - ROSHAN GETS BIG-TIME BACKERS WITH BANKROLL KEITH J. KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Oct 19, 2004. pg. 037 Abstract (Document Summary) Maer Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to bankroll him with millions. Roshan had tried to get [Mort Zuckerman] and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell apart, but at first nothing came of the talks. "That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, an attorney who handled the negotiations with Zuckerman and [Jeffrey Epstein] on Roshan's behalf. Full Text (484 words) (Copyright 2004, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) Maer Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to bankroll him with millions. How many millions is open to debate. Mort Zuckerman, owner of the Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, has teamed with Jeffrey Epstein as the primary backers of a new and improved Radar, set to launch as a monthly in April 2005. Radar put out only two issues before it ran out of money last year, with the third issue stranded on the drawing board. "Its not a Daily News or a U.S. News publication," said Roshan. "It's a new publishing company." Radar Media LLP, the previous company, is selling assets only to the new company. The old company will be dissolved and there is already a dispute as to how the money will be divvied up among the still unpaid creditors, which includes freelancers. "I don't know if it will be possible to pay everyone in full," said Michael North, the attorney handling the dissolution. But Roshan insisted, "There is no reason to assume they won't be paid." It's not the first time that Roshan has talked with Zuckerman about a magazine venture. Zuckerman, Epstein and a collection of media heavyweights that included Harvey Weinstein, Nelson Peltz and media critic Michael Wolff had tried to buy New York magazine but lost out to Bruce Wasserstein at the eleventh hour. Roshan was being talked about as a potential editor in chief. Roshan had tried to get Zuckerman and company to back Radar after the New York bid fell apart, but at first nothing came of the talks. Roshan next turned to a French Moroccon businesswoman, Maria Oufkin, but after a brief flurry of publicity, she faded. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/716729581.html?MAC=b465a1b44f88a88e53d9c38c... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188402 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 2 "That deal just didn't work out on terms that were acceptable to us," said Doug Hand, an attorney who handled the negotiations with Zuckerman and Epstein on Roshan's behalf. How much is committed this time is open to speculation. One source said that it would take a miniumum of $20 million to launch a magazine but more realistically, it would take several times that over a five or six year period. Talk magazine, where Roshan was deputy editor near the end of its run, cost its joint venture partners Miramax and Hearst about $55 million before it shut down in early 2002 after nearly two and a half years of publication. "I can't tell you the commitment," said Hand of the new backers. "It's significant and we're happy with it." Said Roshan, "Just because we have backers, doesn't mean we're going to turn into Talk. We're still going to be lean. We'll have the funding to do what we like, but I'm not interested in town cars." He said he hopes to have about a half million in circulation eventually for the new Radar. [Illustration] -MAER ROSHAN Patience pays off. -MORT ZUCKERMAN Ponies up $$. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Roshan, Maer, Zuckerman, Mort, Epstein, Jeffrey Companies: Radar Media LLP Section: Business Text Word Count 484 Document URL: http://pqasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/716729581.html?MAC=b465a1b44f88a88e53d9c38c... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188403 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 3 RADAR HITS RELAUNCH TARGET - PARTY HIGHLIGHT: GAWKER'S DENTON GETS PIE IN EYE Keith J. Kelly. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: May 20, 2005. pg. 034 Abstract (Document Summary) CONTROVERSY flared at the Radar launch party when [GAWKER] founder Nick Denton was hit with a creamy gooey pie as he sidled up next to magazine founder Maer Roshan for a photo op. Denton then promptly dumped his glass of red wine on Roshan's head. Roshan professed to be as surprised as anyone (and in fact was one of several bystanders hit with splatter from the Unknown Pie Guy). They later retreated to Roshan's hotel suite, Roshan changed clothes and even let Denton shower. SMASHED: Gawker's Nick Denton smiles after getting pied at the Radar relaunch party. Maer Roshan (top, right), the mag's founder, was nearby. [Suzanne Boyd), Suede editor before it folded, was also at the soiree. [Wrelmage, Marina Gamier] Full Text (876 words) (Copyright 2005, The New York Post. All Rights Resented) CONTROVERSY flared at the Radar launch party when Gawker founder Nick Denton was hit with a creamy gooey pie as he sidled up next to magazine founder Maer Roshan for a photo op. Gawker, a media-centric Web site which for weeks has had been needling Radar and its self promoting founder, sarcastically calling it, "Radar, the Greatest American Magazine Launch." The photo op was seen as a chance to make nice between Roshan and Denton to prove they were willing to let bygones be bygones, blah, blah. Then the peace accord was ruptured as a burly unknown person broke through the throng and smashed the custard pie squarely into the face of Denton and dashed out, leaving no clue as to his identity. He was wearing an English-soccer style shirt and a New York Knicks hat. Denton, his face and clothes a mess from the ambush, assumed he had been set up by Roshan. (In an early version of the event that he posted on his own Web site, he insisted he had only been hit with a glancing blow from the pie tosser, but had to retract that version when photos turned up). Denton then promptly dumped his glass of red wine on Roshan's head. Roshan professed to be as surprised as anyone (and in fact was one of several bystanders hit with splatter from the Unknown Pie Guy). They later retreated to Roshan's hotel suite, Roshan changed clothes and even let Denton shower. He also rummaged around and found a T-shirt and pants for Denton to wear for the rest of the night. Denton, despite the good turn done by Roshan still feels it was a set-up by event planner Nadine Johnson. "It is pretty clear it was one of Nadine Johnson's hires," said Denton. "It was nicely staged, but the execution left a lot to be desired since Maer was hit too." "What baffles me is why they would want their launch event hijacked by that kind of publicity?" asked Denton. "I heard Mort Zuckerman slipped in the goo," said Denton. "He had to have the whole thing explained to him, including what a blog is." Daily Snooze owner Zuckerman and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein were both on hand, but were out of http://pqasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/842504731.html?M AC=7 bce35alce53b22e38507a31... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188404 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 3 range when the pie started flying. The two billionaires are 50-50 partners in the venture. Drew Kerr, a spokesman for Roshan, and the party planner, both deny that it was a Radar plant. "No one was hired by anyone to throw a pie," said a spokesperson for Johnson. On the business side, William Holiber, the president of U.S. News & World Report, which is also owned by Zuckerman, was on hand. Media Ink on April 8 reported that he had been drafted into action when launch publisher Linda Sepp, a Zuckerman pal, was given the boot weeks before the launch. At the time, a Zuckerman spokesman was insisting that Holiber was only helping out on Radar in an "informal and advisory role" and had no official title on Radar. But when the debut issues were handed out, there was Holiber, proudly pointing out his designation as Radar's president. Sepp was nowhere in sight at the party or on the masthead but a former Sports Illustrated associate publisher, Grayle Howlett was, handing out his very own Radar publisher card. Also on hand was Suzanne Boyd, who was the editor-in-chief of Time Inc.'s short-lived urban-fashion magazine Suede. She quit the publishing company and took a buyout on the remaining year of her two-year contract rather than accept a position as an editor-at-large in magazine development. That move is considered a blow to Time Inc. A company spokesman confirmed that she had declined the company offer. The statuesque fashion editor had been running Flare, the Toronto- based fashion bible of Canada for 7 years when she was picked by Ed Lewis, then the head of Essence Communications, and Isolde Motley, the corporate editor of Time, to launch Suede, which was envisioned as a hot new fashion magazine for women of color. Boyd arrived in March of last year and cranked out the first issue by the end of the summer - considered a breakneck pace in magazine land. As the launch was progressing, Time was in the process of negotiating to convert Essence Communications into a 100 percent- owned subsidiary by buying out Lewis. Suddenly, in the weeks before the buyout was finalized, a stunned Boyd got the word that the plug was being pulled on the new magazine after publishing only two issues. In its public announcement, Time Inc. had insisted that it was only suspended, but the staff was let go. Now Boyd, the last link, has quit the company and is weighing her options. Insiders believed that Time Inc. was disappointed by the costs and the lower-than-hoped-for newsstand sales of the first two issues. Industry sources say the biggest obstacle to Suede's funding may have been the losses that Life magazine was piling up as a weekly insert into daily newspapers. [Illustration] SMASHED: Gawker's Nick Denton smiles after getting pied at the Radar relaunch party. Maer Roshan (top, Intp://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/842504731.html?MAC-7bcc35alce53b22e38507a31... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188405 Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 3 right), the mag's founder, was nearby. Suzanne Boyd, Suede editor before it folded, was also at the soiree. tWirelmage, Marina Gamier) Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. Companies: Time Inc(TickerTL, NAICS: 511120, Duns:00-121-3446 ) Section: Business Text Word Count 876 Document URL: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/842504731.html?MAC=7bee35alce53b22€38507a31... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188406 Adchives: New York Post Page 1 of 4 SINGLING OUT APPLE'S TOP STUDS Richard Johnson. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 28, 2003. pg. 012 Abstract (Document Summary) ANDRE BALAZS, 46. The ever-smiling hotelier - who owns The Mercer in Soho, Chateau Marmont and the Standard in L.A., the Raleigh in Miami, Sunset Beach on Shelter lasland, and a new place in St. Barts -just split from his wife Katie Ford. Pro: Recently was reported skinny-dipping. Con: Seems to be giving Uma Thurman more than his shoulder to cry on. JEFFREY EPSTEIN, 50. Mystery billionaire was a math teacher at Dalton just a few years ago. Then he started handling Leslie Wexner's money. Now he lives in Manhattan's biggest mansion. Pro: Has a private plane which he used to take Bill Clinton to Africa. Con: Was one of Mort Zuckerman's partners in failed attempt to buy New York magazine. CHRIS BARISH, 30. The son of Planet Hollywood tycoon and movie producer Keith Barish recently sold out his interest in three Las Vegas nightclubs to Kirk Kerkorian for $10 million. Pro: You'll never have to wait on line or pay for a drink at Marquee, his new club. Con: You might never get to sleep before 3 a.m. JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, 41. Since dropping out of high school, he's built a four-restaurant empire with eateries in the Bronx, Harlem, Sutton Place and City Island. Pro: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Con: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Full Text (1905 words) (Copyright 2003, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) New York has the smartest, toughest, most ambitious men in the world, and some of them are still single - or newly single, having gotten divorced. We went through our multiple data bases, interviewed the experts, polled our readers, and came up with this definitive PAGE SIX list of the city's most eligible guys. They come from all sorts of backgrounds and generations, with different talents and widely divergent incomes. The only thing they have in common is they like women. We rejected some men because they seem to be in long-term romances heading toward marriage, others because it seems they'll never marry. To the many men who think they belong on the list, there's always next year. DEREK JETER, 29. The Yankee shortstop's sex-symbol status has only grown since he was stalked by Mariah Carey, and mocked in American Express ads for his propensity to party. Pro: Great seats for the World Series. Con: Demands near-perfection - at least visually - in his dates. ED SKYLER, 30. Tall, dark, super-serious mayoral press secretary went to Collegiate, then the University of Pennsylvania. His sister is a successful playwright. Pro: He can give you a private tour of City Hall and Gracie Mansion. Con: A romantic evening would end early bcause Skyler works 18 hours a day, starting before dawn. JOHN UTENDAHL, 46. He's 6-foot-3, with movie star looks - and he is chairman and CEO of Utendahl Capital Partners, the largest minority-owned investment bank in America. Pro: Plenty of closet space in his Brooklyn Heights townhouse and his weekend place in Quogue. Con: Plan on being a golf widow - he runs a charity tournament every year in Boca Raton, Fla. JEREMY SHOCKEY, 23. The Giants' tight end became a fan favorite with his first tackle-breaking game. Now he's the biggest local gridiron personality since Joe "Willie" Namath. Pro: Quite single despite his friendship with babelicious Britny Gastineau. Con: His big mouth often misfires, as when he blasted Giants fans because they had the nerve to boo him and his disappointing teammates. ANDRE BALAZS, 46. The ever-smiling hotelier - who owns The Mercer in Soho, Chateau Marmont and the Standard in L.A., the Raleigh in Miami, Sunset Beach on Shelter lasland, and a new place in St. Barts - just split from his wife Katie Ford. Pro: Recently was reported skinny-dipping. Con: Seems to be giving Uma Thurman http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/519943651.html?MAC=dd6e0556b501381670461379... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188407 • Aithives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 more than his shoulder to cry on. ETHAN HAWKE, 33. The adulterer/actor finally shed his pretty-boy image this summer, brazenly cheating on wife Uma Thurman. Pro: Plenty of women would like a shot at taming this rogue bull. Con: Might guilt you into reading one of his weak novels. ROCCO DiSPIRITO, 37. The dashing owner of Union Pacific and star of his own reality show has cooked for just about every hip hottie in town. Pro: He might be ready to settle down in the next few years (Yeah, right). Con: If you haven't already dated him, one of your friends has. ANDRE 3000, 28. With this year's smash hit "Hey Ya," the fun half of hip-hop duo Outkast has gone from cult figure to mainstream superstar. Pro: His minimalist posse includes as few as four members. Con: Recently moved to Brooklyn and might not realize that only the lamest of the lame frequent Williamsburg nightspots. PHARRELL WILLIAMS, 30. Pop production whiz's maddeningly catchy beats legitimized Justin Timberlake, and cameos of his Curtis Mayfield-like falsetto are becoming ubiquitous on hits by Jay-Z and others. Pro: Makes more than you do in a year to tweak a Britney Spears song. Con: Approaching a P. Diddy-like level of oxerexposure. JIMMY FALLON, 29. We don't know if it's his cuddly demeanor or uncanny impersonation skills, but the resident hunk on "Saturday Night Live" is catnip to the ladies. Pro: Likes to play the jukebox at Hell's Kitchen dive bars. Con: If he stays over your house, make sure to have extra hair product for his artfully mussed 'do. DAMON DASH, 32. Brash CEO of Rocawear clothing line and Roc-a- Fella Records also owns a film company, vodka line, nightclub, and he's undoubtedly planning a new project as you read this. Pro: One of the city's reigning rapresarios. Con: Is prone to obnoxious harangues against his underlings or those who question his importance. JULIAN CASABLANCAS, 25. Doe-eyed son of Elite Models founder John Casablancas sings for hot rock band The Strokes. Pro: His band is actually good. Con: Wears "ironic" 1980$ concert T-shirts by Def Lepard and Michael Jackson. SHEPHERD SMITH, 39. Next to the blustery Bill O'Reilly, this Southern-fried anchorman is probably the most recognizable face on the top-rated Fox News Channel. Pro: His sprawling Lower East Side pad has a pool table. Con: A road rager who was arrested in 2000 for hitting a reporter with his car in a dispute over a parking space in Tallahassee, Fla. PAOLO ZAMPOLLI, 33. Italian owner of ID Models can usually be found sitting in a corner banquette of whatever club just opened surrounded by a bevy of beauties. Pro: Throws great parties in his downtown loft. Con: If you're not 5-foot-11 with cheekbones that cut glass, he probably won't remember your name. ADRIEN BRODY, 30. Haunted-looking actor famously kissed Halle Berry while accepting his Oscar for "The Pianist." Pro: Makes moody trip-hop music under the alias, "A. Ranger." Con: Is serious with girlfriend Michelle Dupont, a music-industry personal assistant. JEFFREY EPSTEIN, 50. Mystery billionaire was a math teacher at Dalton just a few years ago. Then he started handling Leslie Wexner's money. Now he lives in Manhattan's biggest mansion. Pro: Has a private plane which he used to take Bill Clinton to Africa. Con: Was one of Mort Zuckerman's partners in failed attempt to buy New York magazine. CHRIS BARISH, 30. The son of Planet Hollywood tycoon and movie producer Keith Barish recently sold out his interest in three Las Vegas nightclubs to Kirk Kerkorian for $10 million. Pro: You'll never have to wait on line or pay for a drink at Marquee, his new club. Con: You might never get to sleep before 3 a.m. BILLY CRUDUP, 35. The hunky actor dumped Mary Louise Parker when she was 81/2 months pregnant and ran off with Claire Danes, but that might not last too long either. Pro: Critics loved his performance in Tim Burton's "Big Fish." Con: A true heart-breaker. LENNY KRAVITZ, 39. The super-modelizer had a big hit with "Let Love Rule," but hasn't fallen in love himself littp://pqasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/519943651.html?MAC=t16e0556b501381b7046b79... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188408 Aichives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 since the end of his marriage to Lisa Bonet that produced a daughter, Zoe, 15. Pro: Has a beautiful loft downtown he rented to Nicole Kidman, who then statrted dating him. Con: The funky fashions make him seem narcissistic. DONALD TRUMP JR., 25. The first-born son of The Donald and his first wife Ivana is following in his father's footsteps, not only developing buildings, but taking center stage to sell the apartments. Pro: Weekend flights down to Mar-a-lago on the family jet. Con: his dad, who owns Miss Universe, has extremely high standards when it comes to the female form. CHRIS HEINZ, 30. The billionaire ketchup heir has captured the attention of many Manhattanites, including Gwyneth Paltrow (pre- Chris Martin). Pro: Tall, dark and handsome, he even has a sense of humor. Con: Likes lost causes - he quit his banking job to work for his stepfather John Kerry's foundering campaign. JONATHAN TISCH, 50. The charming Loews hotel chain chairman is a regular on the social and charity circuit. Back on the market and looking for a date after breaking off his wedding to Jill Swid. Pro: Has deep pockets and hotels in every port. Con: Notoriously marriage- phobic. ANDREW CUOMO, 46. After a nasty split with his wife Kerry Kennedy, the failed gubernatorial candidate has been quietly dating again. Pro: He's capable and articulate and has nowhere to go but up from here. Con: Sometimes comes off as arrogant and self-absorbed. CHARLES ROCKEFELLER, 30. The tall, blond Rockefeller heir has got looks, money, and impeccable manners and, duhl . . . he's a Rockefeller! Pro: Occasionally entertains at the dynastic estate, Pocantico Hills. Con: Is it boyish charm, or just boyish? MARCUS SAMUELSSON, 33. The studly chef/owner of Aquavit - who once made People magazine's Sexiest list - has a new eatery, Riingo, in the new Alex Hotel. Pro: He cooks and does dishes! Con: All chefs keep late' hours, and they fraternize after hours with the waitresses. JONATHAN KRAMER, 29. Grungy artist has been making a living out of painting since he was in college. Not new to the spotlight (he did date Sophie Dahl), Kramer can be found frequenting Rene Risque concerts. Pro: Is good company and may offer to paint you. Con: Likes to travel around town on a skateboard - with no sidecar for a date. DAN ABRAMS, 36. The MSNBC newsdude, the son of legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, is one of the few talking heads smart enough to cover legal issues. Pro: Your mother will love him. Con: MSNBC ratings are so low, no one gets to see him. JAMIE JOHNSON, 23. The Johnson & Johnson heir burst onto the scene last year at Sundance with his documentary "Born Rich," which showed the pathetic underbelly of his - and his pals' - "blessed" lives. Pro: The kid's got talent! Con: He sold out his friends, and that nasal voice could cut glass. ROFFREDO GAETANI, 50. The strapping former boxer is an Italian count distantly related to a pope. He was a close friend of late Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, who set Roffredo up with Ferrari dealerships. Pro: The old world charm Is such that he kisses women's hands. Con: Has been very busy, especially with models. Ivana Trump was just his most famous conquest. REP. ANTHONY WEINER, 38. The Brooklyn Democrat is ambitious and hard-working, and had the good sense to hire the extremely capable Serena Torrey as one of his aides. Pro: Being touted as a possible candidate for mayor. Con: Could be cruelly described as a pencil- necked geek. ERIC VILLENCY, 28. Dashing president and creative director of Maurice Villency, a chain of furniture stores founded by his grandfather in 1932. Pro: He sponsors fashion designers so he gets front-row seats to all the shows. Con: Seems serious with his girlfriend of over a year, gorgeous Olivia Chantecaille. ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, 41. The state assemblyman resembles his legendary father, the congressman for whom a boulevard in Harlem is named. His mother was a famous beauty in Puerto Rico, where young Adam http://pqasb.pqarchiver.comThypost/519943651.html?MAC=dd6e0556b50138167046b79... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188409 Archives: New York Post Page 4 of 4 grew up. He plans someday to oust his nemesis, Rep. Charlie Rangel, and take over his seat. Pro: Has a yacht at City Island where he entertains bikini babes. Con: Has a tendency to back losers. FREDERIC FEKKAI, 44. Handsome French haircutter has charmed the pants off Libet Johnson, Patricia Duff and other blondes too numerous to mention. Meanwhile, he's been branding his name and marketing hair care products. Pro: You'll never have a bad hair day. Con: He might be a bit spoiled. One rich girlfriend supposedly gave him a Gulfstream jet, and it wasn't even Christmas. JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, 41. Since dropping out of high school, he's built a four-restaurant empire with eateries in the Bronx, Harlem, Sutton Place and City Island. Pro: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Con: Is pals with hip-hop stars, Yankees and Knicks. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. Companies: Apple Computer Inc(Ticker:AAPL, NAICS: 334111, Duns:06-070-4780 ) Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1905 Document URL: http://pciasb.pciarchiver.com/nypost/519943651.html?MAC=dd6e0556650138167046679... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188410 THE TITLE FIGHT: NEW YORK - THE MAGAZINE, THAT IS - AWAITS NEW OWNER KEITH.]: KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 14, 2003. pg. 031 People: Kravis, Henry, Deutsch, Donny, Weinstein, Harvey, Wolff, Michael, Zuckerman, Mort Section: Business Text Word 441 Count Document URL: 7Rfracra IR ;n4-.-C"ecc lit& titar r ik-WV IRMA 411.,, Prrylva""wjtjtprira .2419' BIDDER: David Pecker's American Media BIDDER: Investor group of U.S. News and World Report boss Mort Zuckerman, Miramax co-Chairman [Harvey Weinstein], Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, bigtime adman [Donny Deutsch] and New York Columnist [Michael Wolff]. The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought in Deutsch and [Jeffrey Epstein], the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects to be picked as some ... EFTA00188411 Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 2 THE TITLE FIGHT: NEW YORK - THE MAGAZINE, THAT IS - AWAITS NEW OWNER KEITH J. KELLY. New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Dec 14, 2003. pg. 031 Abstract (Document Summary) BIDDER: David Pecker's American Media BIDDER: Investor group of U.S. News and World Report boss Mort Zuckerman, Miramax co-Chairman (Harvey Weinstein], Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, bigtime adman [Donny Deutsch] and New York Columnist [Michael Wolff]. The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought in Deutsch and [Jeffrey Epstein], the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects to be picked as some kind of editorial uber boss. Weinstein is in the coalition but is still smarting over the drubbing he took in Wolff s book, "Autumn of the Moguls." Full Text (441 words) (Copyright 2003, The New York Post. All Rights Reserved) In the weeks to come, the city's chattering classes will be consumed with handicapping who'll be editor-in-chief of New York magazine after Henry Kravis and Primedia get through selling it. Nobody was talking officially last week, pending a deal as final bids arrived Thursday. The consensus is the highest offer is for about $55 million - coming from a motley team of millionaires and billionaires around Mort Zuckerman. The coalition includes: Zuckerman, the owner of the Daily News and U.S. News & World Report; billionaire financier Nelson Peitz; mysterious money manager Jeffrey Epstein; ad executive Donny Deutsch, Miramax co- chairman Harvey Weinstein; and non-cash contributors Michael Wolff of New York magazine and possibly Jim Dolan, CEO of Cablevision. The other two rival bidders are almost diametrically opposite: Bill Curtis' Curtco Media publishes super-upscale glossies, The Robb Report and Worth. American Media publishes the downmarket supermarket tabloids National Enquirer, Star and Globe, plus health and fitness magazines such as Men's Fitness and Shape. "Whoever the editor is has to have a strong point of view," offers Clay Felker, who launched the magazine as an independent weekly in 1967. It was not a particularly bright time in the city. But Felker and his young writers took on the challenges, exposing the best and the worst of the city. "We believed the city was the imperial center of the United States and possibly the world," he said. The editing question has mostly centered on the Zuckerman team. Since Wolff bought in Deutsch and Epstein, the New York mag columnist undoubtedly expects to be picked as some kind of editorial uber boss. Weinstein is in the coalition but is still smarting over the drubbing he took in Wolff's book, "Autumn of the Moguls." Weinstein is thought to favor Radar founder Maer Roshan as editor. New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan's name has surfaced - but he and Wolff have had a public feud. A deal on the winning bid could be announced early next week. The announcement would probably be delayed until after the annual New York Awards, being staged tomorrow at the Four Seasons. The world has changed and the question now is: can the new owners regain that old glory - or will there be too many sacred cows in the ownership mix? As one observer asked as the Zuckerman coalition emerged as the favorite, "Who will be left to make fun of?" Henry Kravis, watch out. http://pgasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/503203971.html?MAC=8562d59151d6ab55b4753a2... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188412 Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 2 [Illustration] BIDDER: David Pecker's American Media BIDDER: Investor group of U.S. News and World Report boss Mort Zuckerman, Miramax co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein, Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, bigtime adman Donny Deutsch and New York Columnist Michael Wolff. Reproduced with permission. People: Section: Text Word Count Document URL: permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without Kravis, Henry, Deutsch, Donny, Weinstein, Harvey, Wolff, Michael, Zuckerman, Mort Business 441 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/503 203971.html?MAC=8562d59151d6ab55 b4753a2... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188413 'Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 4 BILL, STARS ENJOY AFRICAN TREK New York Post. New York, N.Y.: Sep 25, 2002. pg. 010 Abstract (Document Summary) JASON Mewes is alive and well. Mewes, who played the long- haired, drug-loving "Jay" in Kevin Smith's "Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," was reportedly on the lam or even feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they hadn't seen him in 10 months. An arrest warrant had been issued for him after he violated probation on a heroin conviction. But last month, Mewes made an appearance at a film festival in Malibu to promote his new indie movie "RSVP," and he'll host a talent show Oct. 17 at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. "The rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated," chuckled Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the phone with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just moved to L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as being dead. IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and become the running mate of Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John Weaver, has become a Democrat and is now working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative director, Christine Dodd, last worked for a liberal congressman - a Democrat. Now Kerry of Massachusetts, who has made clear his plans to run in 2004, is making overtures towards McCain. A rumored head- to-head between Kerry and McCain is said to be scheduled at McCain's cabin in Sedona, Ariz., next month. And for "Man of the People," the new McCain biography by Paul Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like a love letter. After noting that McCain's 2000 presidential campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage, and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on common groundwith John McCain, and I look forward to fighting side by side with him on yet another day to make our country stronger." Full Text (1634 words) (Copyright 2002, The New York Post, All Rights Reserved) CALL it "The Three Amigos' Most Excellent African Adventure." Former President Bill Clinton is on a trip through Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa with Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, the star of "Rush Hour' and its sequel. The three are being flown around Africa on the private plane of financial wizard Jeffrey Epstein. The secretive Epstein handles the billions of Leslie Wexner, head of the retail empire that includes The Limited, Victoria's Secret and Express. How Clinton, who took off on Saturday, hooked up with his traveling companions is a mystery - as is his relationship to Epstein. Little is known about Epstein except that his offices are in the landmarked Villard House across from Le Cirque, and he once employed Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late British press lord Robert Maxwell, in an unspecified capacity. But Tucker is playing America's first black president in "Mr. President," a movie he's been working on since 1999. Tucker has already shot footage of Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and Bahrain's crown prince endorsing his candidacy, and the comic accompanied U2 frontman Bono and Treasury Secrtary Paul O'Neill on their debt- relief tour of Africa this summer. At the Congressional Black Caucus' annual awards dinner earlier this month, Clinton mentioned that Tucker had asked to visit him in the Oval Office to prepare for playing the first black president. "I didn't have the heart to tell him that I've already taken the position," Clinton joked. In an October 1998 essay in The New Yorker, author Toni Morrison argued that Clinton, "white skin notwithstanding, (is] our first black president." Kevin Spacey has no presidential aspirations we know of. Last we heard, he wanted to portray Bobby Darin. He might be bored during some parts of the trip. littn://oaasb.oaarchiver.com/nypost./1 95152701.html?MAC=8282d8da 1 05ae0258d6c121 31.. 11/30/2005 EFTA00188414 'Archives: New York Post Page 2 of 4 In Ghana, Clinton will launch a new initiative with Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto to give deeds and land titles to poor people who now have no legal status and are considered squatters. In South Africa, Clinton will deliver a speech and join Mandela in promoting prevention of AIDS. Clinton will also meet in that country with the first class of Clinton Democracy Fellows -11 young South African men and women who just completed three months in the U.S. Clinton will also meet with the presidents of the other nations on his itinerary. Perfect angel THE producer of Tara Reid's latest flick says she's a perfect angel and that Us Weekly misquoted him as saying that he and the bar- friendly hellcat "went out drinking all the time." J. Todd Harris, producer of "Heaven's Pond," blasts Us in a letter to the editor: "I specifically said that our working relationship with the actress was nothing short of spectacular." He also shoots down the mag's source who claims Reid needed to have a baby sitter escort her out every night tomake sure she didn't wake up with any regrets. We hear . . . THAT eyebrows are flexing over tonight's U.N. black-tie dinner honoring Muhammad Ali, Mayor Bloomberg and Paul and Heather Mills McCartney. Seems Heather insists on being referred to as "Lady Heather Mills McCartney" ... THAT Steve Martin, Paul Morrissey, Glenda Bailey and Elizabeth Kieselstein-Cord attended last night's 15th anniversary party of Modern Painters magazine at the Cheim and Read Gallery. Headlines heal SARAH Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, credits the media for keeping her weight down. Once dubbed the "Duchess of Pork" by the British press, the now stunning and skinny Weight Watchers rep says every time she thinks of pigging out, she remembers the old headlines. Among those she cited during an appearance at an Albany Weight Watchers seminar, according to The Post's Kenneth Lovett: "Fat, Selfish, Greedy Fergie" and "82 Percent Would Rather Sleep With a Goat." "It does help me when I read articles that [say] the 'slim svelte Fergie,'" Ferguson said. "I don't want them to have a go at me again. I'm tired of that." Lost actor pops up in L.A. JASON Mewes is alive and well. Mewes, who played the long- haired, drug-loving "Jay" in Kevin Smith's "Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," was reportedly on the lam or even feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they hadn't seen him in 10 months. An arrest warrant had been issued for him after he violated probation on a heroin conviction. But last month, Mewes made an appearance at a film festival in Malibu to promote his new indie movie "RSVP," and he'll host a talent show Oct. 17 at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. "The rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated," chuckled Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the phone with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just moved to L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as being dead. Sex sells ABERCROMBIE & Fitch has outdone itself. The store chain's new "magalog," a catalog disguised as a magazine, is even more salacious than past efforts, with a naked Heidi Klum on the cover - one hand hiding her nipples, the other holding a Santa hat over a naked man's crotch. The tag line reads: "180 pages of sex and Xmas fun! Heidi Klum adds inches, Spike Lee catches it on tape, Larry Flynt breaks tapes, Heidi Fleiss gets what she wants, streetcorner Santa brawls and morel" One spy said: "There Is a ton of bums and breasts inside. Everyone is naked." The quarterly, targeted at teens and college students, will be featured on "Entertainment Tonight" later this week. Janney's' jam http://pgasb.pqarchiver.corthypost/195152701.html?MAC=8282d8da105ae0258d6d2131.. 11/30/2005 EFTA00188415 • Archives: New York Post Page 3 of 4 THE ex-fianc of Emmy-winning "West Wing" star Allison Janney (above) is being evicted from her Central Park West pad. Janney has been illegally subletting the rent-stabilized, $1,100- a-month apartment to former beau Dennis Gagomiros, says Keith Rubenstein, a lawyer for landlord Michael Tauber. "We are starting the eviction process," says Rubenstein, who estimated the "fair market" value of Janney's joint at $3,000 a month. Janney's lawyer, Sam Himmelstein, insists Janney "surrendered possession" of her pad several weeks ago to the landlord. "Her ex-fianc belives that he has the succession rights to the apartment, but she has nothing to do with that," he said. Flasher chic WONDER why Stella McCartney never took her black satin coat off during the opening of her boutique last Friday? She had nothing under it but a very sexy bra and satin knickers. The highlight of the afterparty at Gaslight was Stella, Gwyneth Paltrow and Usher singing karaoke for the likes of Bono, Britney Spears, Liv Tyler, Debbie Harry, Russell Simmons, Graydon Carter, Christy Tur lington, Karolina Kurkova, Helena Christensen and others too fashionable to mention. Dueling Dems DON'T invite Ed Koch and Pete Grannis to the same political party. The former mayor has no use for the assemblyman who has represented the Upper East Side for 28 years. The feud began with Koch's endorsement of Andrew Eristoff, a Republican challenger for the State Senate seat currently occupied by Democrat Liz Krueger. Grannis observed in community weekly Our Town: "Our former mayor seems to have a thing for Republicans and an aversion to endorsing women of either party." Now Koch has responded in a letter to Our Town to Grannis' "gutter attack" and "vile comments." Koch lists no fewer than 9 women he's endorsed for election over the years, plus seven women he appointed to office, and concludes, "I am sure Grannis has harbored thoughts of higher office, indeed ran for Congress and lost. I doubt that he will ever attain higher office, and I truly believe he does not deserve the office he currently holds and has held for 28 years." Single again THIS year's ladies' man, Matthew Perry, is single again. After squiring around Amanda Peet, Jennifer Capriati and a host of other hot young things this summer, the "Friends" star was on the prowl Sunday night. After losing the Emmy to his co-star Matt LeBlanc, Perry and Hank Azaria showed up in fine spirits to the Glamour/ Entertainment Weekly post-Emmy party at the Mondrian in Los Angeles and flirted with a gaggle of girls. "He was so excited he startedto sweat and had to massage his head," said our spy. Perry eventually left alone. MCCAIN MUTINY IN WORKS? IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and become the running mate of Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John Weaver, has become a Democrat and is now working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative director, Christine Dodd, last worked for a liberal congressman - a Democrat. Now Kerry of Massachusetts, who has made clear his plans to run in 2004, is making overtures towards McCain. A rumored head- to-head between Kerry and McCain is said to be scheduled at McCain's cabin in Sedona, Ariz., next month. And for "Man of the People," the new McCain biography by Paul Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like a love letter. After noting that McCain's 2000 presidential campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage, and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on common groundwith John McCain, and I look forward to fighting side by side with him on yet another day to make our country stronger." lustratIonj -Allison Janney, Stella McCartney -Just call him David Cop-a-feel. Modelizing magician David Copperfield seems to have cast his spell over two babealicious blondes. We caught Copperfield holding hands with Marilyn Guma (above), 21, an Estonian-born assistant manager at Nello's. Copperfield has been wooing the gorgeous Gurna for a few weeks now t stop him from stepping out with another squeeze (below) on Madison Avenue just a week earlier. Schwartzwatd (above); Adam Nemser/PHOTOLink (below) [color] - Matthew Perry. LFI [color] http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/195152701.html?MAC=8282d8da105ae0258d6d2131.. 11/30/2005 EFTA00188416 Archives: New York Post Page 4 of 4 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. People: Clinton, Bill, Tucker, Chris, Epstein, Jeffrey, McCain, John, Kerry, John F Section: Page Six Text Word Count 1634 Document URL: http://pciasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/195152701.1ilm1MAC=8282d8da105ae0258d6d213f... 11/30/2005 EFTA00188417 Page 1 2 of 2 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2003 The Conde Nast Publications Inc. All Rights Reserved Vanity Fair March 2003 SECTION: The Talented Mr. Epstein; No. 511; Pg. 300 LENGTH: 7494 words HEADLINE: The Talented Mr. Epstein; Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor nancier lives in New York's largest private residence, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and ies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARD explores Epstein's investment career, his ties to retail magnate IsFilie—Agaer, and his complicated past BYLINE: Vicky Ward, Contributing Editor BODY: On Manhattan's Upper East Side, home to some of the most expensive real es- tate on earth, exists the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, huge arched windows, and nine floors, it sits on-or, rather, commands-the block of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Ave- nues. Almost ludicrously out of proportion with its four- and five-story neighbors, it seems more like an institution than a house. This is perhaps not surprising-until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's largest private residence. Inside, amid the flurry of menservants attired in sober black suits and pris- tine white gloves, you feel you have stumbled into someone's private Xanadu. This is no mere rich person's home, but a high-walled, eclectic, imperious fan- tasy that seems to have no boundaries. The entrance hall is decorated not with paintings but with row upon row of individually framed eyeballs; these, the owner tells people with relish, were imported from England, where they were made for injured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer, which does have a painting, in the manner of Jean Dubuffet ... but the host coyly refuses to tell visitors who painted it. In any case, guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior. Despite its eccentricity the house is curiously impersonal, the statement of someone who wants to be known for the scale of his possessions. Its occupant, financier Jeffrey Epstein, 50, admits to friends that he likes it when people think of him this way. A good-looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren, with thick gray-white hair and a weathered face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, and loafers. He tells people he bought the house because he knew he "could never live anywhere bigger." He thinks 51,000 square feet is an appropriately large space for someone like himself, who deals mostly in large concepts-especially large sums of money. EFTA00188418 Page 2 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the town house-Epstein usually re- fers to the former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite-size morsels and drink copious quantities of Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or tobacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," so called because of the cordovan-colored fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding an opium pipe and caressing a snarling lionskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and guests by the menservants in white gloves. Upstairs, to the right of a spiral staircase, is the "office," an enormous gallery spanning the width of the house. Strangely, it holds no computer. Com- puters belong in the "computer room" (a smaller room at the back of the house), Epstein has been known to say. The office features a gilded desk (which Epstein tells people belonged to banker J. P. Morgan), 18th-century black lacquered Por- tuguese cabinets, and a nine-foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the desk, a pa- perback copy of the Marquis de Sade's The Misfortunes of Virtue was recently spotted. Covering the floor, Epstein has explained, "is the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home-so big, it must have come from a mosque." Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator Alberto Pinto, who has worked for Jacques Chirac and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there is one particularly startling oddity: a stuffed black poo- dle, standing atop the grand piano. "No decorator would ever tell you to do that," Epstein brags to visitors. "But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog." People can't help but feel it's Epstein's way of saying that he always has the last word. In addition to the town house, Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico, on an $18 million, 7,500-acre ranch which he named "Zorro." "It makes the town house look like a shack," Epstein has said. He also owns Little St. James, a 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Is- lands, where the main house is currently being renovated by Edward Tuttle, a de- signer of the Amanresorts. There is also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter, and a Boeing 727, replete with trading room, on which Epstein recently flew President Clin- ton, actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's grandson, Casey Wasserman, and a few others, on a mission to explore the problems of aids and economic development in Africa. Epstein is charming, but he doesn't let the charm slip into his eyes. They are steely and calculating, giving some hint at the steady whir of machinery running behind them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, after refusing to give an interview for this article. "You be white. You get the first move." It was an appropriate metaphor for a man who seems to feel he can win no matter what the advantage of the other side. His advantage is that no one really seems to know him or his history completely or what his arsenal actually consists of. He has carefully engineered it so that he remains one of the few truly baffling myster- ies among New York's moneyed world. People know snippets, but few know the whole. "He's very enigmatic," says Rosa Monckton, the former C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K. and a close friend since the early 1980s. "You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath. He never reveals his hand... He's a classic iceberg. What you see is not what you get." Even acquaintances sense a curious dichotomy: Yes, he lives like a "modern maha- raja," as Leah Kleman, one of his art dealers, puts it. Yet he is fastidiously, EFTA00188419 Page 3 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style almost obsessively private-he lists himself in the phone book under a pseudonym. He rarely attends society gatherings or weddings or funerals; he considers eat- ing in restaurants like "eating on the subway"-i.e., something he'd never do. There are many women in his life, mostly young, but there is no one of them to whom he has been able to commit. He describes his most public companion of the last decade, Ghislaine Maxwell, 41, the daughter of the late, disgraced media baron Robert Maxwell, as simply his "best friend." He says she is not on his payroll, but she seems to organize much of his life-recently she was making telephone inquiries to find a California-based yoga instructor for him. (Epstein is still close to his two other long-term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher, a for- mer associate of his at the brokerage firm Bear Stearns and now an opera pro- ducer, and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and onetime model. He tells people that when a relationship is over the girlfriend "moves up, not down," to friendship status.) Some of the businessmen who dine with him at his home-they include newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis Ranieri, Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, real-estate tycoon Leon Black, former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, Tom Pritzker (of Hyatt Hotels), and real-estate personality Donald Trump-sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he actually does to earn his millions. Cer- tainly, you won't find Epstein's transactions written about on Bloomberg or talked about in the trading rooms. "The trading desks don't seem to know him. It's unusual for animals that big not to leave any footprints in the snow," says a high-level investment manager. Unlike such fund managers as Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, whose client lists and stock maneuverings act as their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret, bar one client: billionaire Leslie Wexner, the respected chairman of Limited Brands. Epstein insists that ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1961 he has managed money only for billionaires-who depend on him for discretion. "I was the only person crazy enough, or arrogant enough, or misplaced enough, to make my limit a billion dollars or more," he tells people freely. According to him, the flat fees he receives from his clients, combined with his skill at playing the currency markets "with very large sums of money," have afforded him the lifestyle he enjoys today. Why do billionaires choose him as their trustee? Because the problems of the mega-rich, he tells people, are different from yours and mine, and his unique philosophy is central to understanding those problems: "Very few people need any more money when they have a billion dollars. The key is not to have it do harm more than anything else... You don't want to lose your money." He has likened his job to that of an architect-more specifically, one who spe- cializes in remodeling: "I always describe (a billionaire) as someone who started out in a small home and as he became wealthier had add-ons. He added on another addition, he built a room over the garage ... until you have a house that is usually a mess... It's a large house that has been put together over time where no one could foretell the financial future and their accompanying needs." He makes it sound as though his job combines the roles of real-estate agent, accountant, lawyer, money manager, trustee, and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, myths and rumor swirl around Epstein. Here are some of the hard facts about Epstein-ones that he doesn't mind peo- ple knowing: He grew up middle-class in Brooklyn. His father worked for the city's parks department. His parents viewed education as "the way out" for him and his younger brother, Mark, now working in real estate. Jeffrey started to EFTA00188420 Page 4 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style play the piano-for which he maintains a passion-at five, and he went to Brook- lyn's Lafayette High School. He was good at mathematics, and in his early 20s he got a job teaching physics and math at Dalton, the elite Manhattan private school. While there he began tutoring the son of Bear Stearns chairman Ace Greenberg and was friendly with aJAlightsr of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear Stearns, where, under the mentorship of both Greenberg Ind current Bear Stearns C.E.O. James Cayne, he did well enough to become a limited partner-a rung be- neath full partner. He abruptly departed in 1981 because, he has said, he wanted to run his own business. Thereafter the details recede into shadow. A few of the handful of current friends who have known him since the early 1980s recall that he used to tell them he was a "bounty hunter," recovering lost or stolen money for the govern- ment or for very rich people. He has a license to carry a firearm. For the last 15 years, he's been running his business, J. Epstein & Co. Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his life-Epstein has said this was in 1986; others say it was in 1989, at the earliest-he has gradually, in a way that has not generally made headlines, come to be accepted by the Establishment. He's a member of various commissions and councils: he is on the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the In- stitute of International Education. His current fan club extends to Cayne, Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Larry Summers, Harvard's current president. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says, "I'm on my 20th book... The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jef- frey." Real-estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose, who has worked with Epstein on projects in New Albany, Ohio, for Wexner, says, "He digests and decodes the information very rapidly, which is to me terrific because we have shorter meetings." Also on the list of admirers are former senator Mitchell and a gaggle of distinguished scientists, most of whom Epstein has helped fund in recent years. They include Nobel Prize winners Gerald Edelman and Murray Gell-Mann, and mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. When these men describe Epstein, they talk about "energy" and "curiosity," as well as a love for theoretical physics that they don't ordinarily find in laymen. Gell-Mann rather sweetly mentions that "there are always pretty ladies around" when _m goes to dinner chezippatein, and he's under the impression that Epstein's clients include the Queen of England. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit in the back of Dershowitz's law class. Epstein gets annoyed when anyone suggests that Wexner "made him." "I had really rich clients before," he has said. Yet he does not deny that he and Wex- ner have a special relationship. Epstein sees it as a partnership of equals. "People have said it's like we have one brain between two of us: each has a side." "I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns," says Wexner. "But Jeffrey sees patterns in politics and financial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not in investment strategy, and, as everyone who knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fashion and design. we fre- quently discuss world trends as each of us sees them." By the time Epstein met Wexner, the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion empire-one that now includes Victoria's Secret, Express, and Bath & EFTA00188421 Page 5 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Body Works-from $5,000 lent him by his aunt. "Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to realize his (Jeffrey's) dreams," says someone who has worked closely with both men. "He gave Jeffrey the ball, and Jeffrey hit it out of the park." Wexner, through a trust, bought the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported $13.2 million in 1969. In 1993, Wexner married Abigail Koppel, a 31- year-old lawyer, and the newlyweds relocated to Ohio; in 1996, Epstein moved into the town house. Public documents suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it, but Epstein has said that he now owns the house. Wexner trusts Epstein so completely that he has assigned him the power of fi- duciary over all of his private trusts and foundations, says a source close to Wexner. In 1992, Epstein even persuaded Wexner to put him on the board of the Wexner Foundation in place of Wexner's ailing mother. Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled by splitting the foun- dation in two. Epstein does not care that he comes between family members. In fact, he sees it as his job. He tells people, "I am there to represent my client, and if my client needs protecting-sometimes even from his own family-then it's often bet- ter that people hate me, not the client." "You've probably heard I'm vicious in my representation of my clients," he tells people proudly; Leah Kleman describes his haggling over art prices as something like a scene out of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Even a for- mer mentor says he's seen "the dark side" of Epstein, and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meeting in which Epstein chewed out a team making a presentation for Wexner as being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." One reporter, in fact, received three threats from Epstein while preparing a piece. They were delivered in a jocular tone, but the message was clear: There will be trouble for your family if I don't like the article. On the other hand, Epstein is clearly very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has known Epstein since before his Bear Stearns days, can't say enough nice things: "I have a boy who's dyslexic, and Jeffrey's gotten close to him over the years... Jeffrey got him into music. He bought him his first piano. And then as he got to school he had difficulty ... in studying ... so Jeffrey got him interested in taking flying lessons." Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling her that her daughter, Domenica, who suffers from Down syndrome, needed the sun, and that Rosa should feel free to bring her to his house in Palm Beach anytime. Some friends remember that in the late 80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the airline tickets of good friends by affixing first-class stickers; the only prob- lem was that the stickers turned out to be unofficial. Sometimes the technique worked, but other times it didn't, and the unwitting recipients found themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and had no knowledge of the stickers.) Many of those who benefited from Epstein's largesse claim that his generosity comes with no strings attached. "I never felt he wanted anything from me in return," says one old friend, who received a first- class upgrade. Epstein is known about town as a man who loves women-lots of them, mostly young. Model types have been heard saying they are full of gratitude to Epstein for flying them around, and he is a familiar face to many of the Victoria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert EFTA00188422 Page 6 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style at Epstein's town house, where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. "These were not women you'd see at Upper East Side dinners," the woman recalls. "Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely." This same guest also at- tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was filled, she says, with young Russian models. "Some of the guests were horri- fied," the woman says. "He's reckless," says a former business associate, "and he's gotten more so. Money does that to you. He's breaking the oath he made to himself-that he would never do anything that would expose him in the media. Right now, in the wake of the publicity following his trip with Clinton, he must be in a very difficult place." According to S.E.C. and other legal documents unearthed by Vanity Pair, Epstein may have good reason to keep his past cloaked in secrecy: his real mentor, it might seem, was not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Hoffenberg, 57, who, for a few months before the S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 1993, was trying to buy the New York Post. He is currently incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts, serving a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. When Epstein met Hoffenberg in London in the 1980s, the latter was the char- ismatic, audacious head of the Towers Financial Corporation, a collection agency that was supposed to buy debts that people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies. But Hoffenberg began using company funds to pay off earlier investors and service a lavish lifestyle that included a mansion on Long Island, homes on Manhattan's Sutton Place and in Florida, and a fleet of cars and planes. Hoffenberg and Epstein had much in common. Both were smart and obsessed with making money. Both were from Brooklyn. According to Hoffenberg, the two men were introduced by Douglas Leese, a defense contractor. Epstein has said they were introduced by John Mitchell, the late attorney general. Epstein had been running International Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.), a consult- ing company, out of his apartment in the Solo building on East 66th Street in New York. Though he has claimed that he managed money for billionaires only, in a 1989 deposition he testified that he spent 80 percent of his time helping peo- ple recover stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers. He was also not above entering into risky, tax-sheltered oil and gas deals with much smaller in- vestors. A lawsuit that Michael Stroll, the former head of Williams Electronics -Int, filed against Epstein shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an investment from Stroll of $450,000, which Epstein put into oil. In 1984, Stroll asked for his money back; four years later he had received only $10,000. Stroll lost the suit, after Epstein claimed in court, among other things, that the check for $10,000 was for a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net worth never exceeded four and a half million dollars," Stroll has said. Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really liked Jeffrey... Jeffrey has a way of getting under your skin, and he was under Hoffenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg were Epstein's social connections; they included oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the designer Vera) and Mohan Murjani, whose clothing company grew into Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then. One friend recalls that when he took Canadian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he hired a Rolls- Royce especially for the occasion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) In 1987, Hoffenberg, according to sources, set Epstein up in the offices he still occupies in the Villard House, on Madison Avenue, across a courtyard from the restaurant Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new protege as a consultant at EFTA00188423 Page 7 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style $25,000 a month, and the relationship flourished. "They traveled everywhere to- gether-on Hoffenberg's plane, all around the world, they were always together," says a source. Hoffenberg has claimed that Epstein confided in him, saying, for example, that he had left Bear Stearns in 1981 after he was discovered executing "illegal operations." Several of Epstein's Bear Stearns contemporaries recall that Epstein left the company very suddenly. Within the company there were rumors also that he was in- volved in a technical infringement, and it was thought that the executive com- mittee asked that he resign after his two supporters, Ace Greenberg and Jimmy Cayne, were outnumbered. Greenberg says he can't recall this; Cayne denies it happened, and Epstein has denied it as well. "Jeffrey Epstein left Bear Stearns of his own volition," says Cayne. "It was never suggested that he leave by any member of management, and management never looked into any improprieties by him. Jeffrey said specifically, 'I don't want to work for anybody else. I want to work for myself.'" Yet, this is not the story that Epstein told to the S.E.C. in 1981 and to lawyers in a 1989 deposition involving a civil business case in Philadelphia. In 1981 the S.E.C.'s Jonathan Harris and Robert Blackburn took Epstein's tes- timony and that of other Bear Stearns emicrWann part of what became a pro- tracted case about insider trading around a tender offer placed on March 11, 1981, by the Seagram Company Ltd. for St. Joe Minerals Corp. Ultimately several Italian and Swiss investors were found guilty, including Italian financier Giuseppe Tome, who had used his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about the tender offer. After the tender offer was announced, the S.E.C. began investigating trades involving St. Joe at continued on page 343 continued from page 305 Bear Stearns and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped off that Epstein had information on insider trading at Bear Stearns, and it was therefore obliged to question him. In his S.E.C. testimony, given on April 1, 1981, Epstein claimed that he had found "offensive" the way Bear Stearns management had handled a disciplinary action following its discovery that he had committed a possible "Reg D" violation-evidently he had lent money to his closest friend. (In the 1989 deposition he said that he'd lent approxi- mately $20,000 to Warren Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an action could have been considered improper, although Epstein claimed he had not realized this un- til afterward. According to Epstein, Bear Stearns management had questioned him about the loan around March 4. The questioners, Epstein said, were Michael (Mickey) Tar- nopol and Alvin Einbender. In his 1989 deposition Epstein recalled that the partner who had made an "issue" of the matter was Marvin Davidson. On March 9, Epstein said, he had met with Tarnopol and Einbender again, and the two partners told him that the executive committee had weighed the offense, together with previous "carelessness" over expenses, and he would be fined $2,500. "There was discussion whether, in fact, I had ever put in an airline ticket for someone else and not myself and I said that it was possible, ... since my secretary handles my expenses," Epstein told the S.H.C. In his 1989 testimony he stated that the "Reg D" incident had cost him a shot at partnership that year. What the S.E.C. seemed to be especially interested in was whether there was a connection between Epstein's leaving and the alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals by other people at Bear Stearns: Q: Sir, are you aware that certain rumors may have been circulating around your firm in connection with your reasons for leaving the firm? A: I'm aware that there were many rumors. EFTA00188424 Page 8 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Q: What were the rumors you heard? A: Nothing to do with St. Joe. Q: Can you relate what you heard? A: It was having to do with an illicit affair with a secretary. Q: Have you heard any other rumors suggesting that you had made a presentation or communication to the Executive Committee concerning alleged improprieties by other members or employees of Bear Stearns? A: I, in fact, have heard that rumor, but it's been from Mr. Harris in our con- versation last week. Q: Have you heard it from anyone else? A: No. A little later the interview focuses on James Cayne: Q: Did you ever hear while you were at Bear Stearns that Mr. Cayne may have trader or insider information in connection with St. Joe Minerals Corporation? A: No. Q: Did Mr. Cayne ever have any conversation with you about St. Joe Minerals? A: No. Q: Did you happen to overhear any conversations between Mr. Cayne and anyone else regarding St. Joe Minerals? A: No. And still later in the questioning comes this exchange: Q: Have you had any type of business dealings with Mr. Cayne? A: There's no relationship with Bear Stearns. Q: Pardon? A: Other than Bear Stearns, no. Q: Have you been a participant in any type of business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: No. Q: Do you have any expectation of participating in any business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: No. Q: Have you had any business participations with Mr. Theram? A: No; nor do I anticipate any. Q: Mr. Epstein, did anyone at Bear Stearns tell you in words or substance that you should not divulge anything about St. Joe Minerals to the staff of the Secu- rities and Exchange Commission? A: No. Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way, either directly or indirectly, in words or substance, that your compensation for this past year or any future mon- ies coming to you from Bear Stearns will be contingent upon your not divulging information to the Securities and Exchange Commission? A: No. Despite the circumstances of Epstein's leaving, Bear Stearns agreed to pay him his annual bonus-which he anticipated as being approximately $100,000. The S.E.C. never brought any charges against anyone at Bear Stearns for in- sider trading in St. Joe, but its questioning seems to indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's answers. Some sources have wondered why, if he was such a big producer at Bear Stearns, he would have given it up over a mere $2,500 fine. Certainly the years after Epstein left the firm were not obviously prosperous ones. His luck didn't seem to change until he met Hoffenberg. One of Epstein's first assignments for Hoffenberg was to mastermind doomed bids to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. Hoffenberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before a grand jury in Illinois that EFTA00188425 Page 9 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Epstein came up with the idea of financing these bids through Towers's acquisi- tion of two ailing Illinois insurance companies, Associated Life and United Fire. "He was hired by us to work on the securities side of the insurance compa- nies and Towers Financial, supposedly to make a profit for us and for the compa- nies," Hoffenberg reportedly told the grand jury. He also alleged that Epstein was the "technician," executing the schemes, although, having no broker's li- cense, he had to rely on others to make the trades. Much of Hoffenberg's subse- quent testimony in his criminal case has proven to be false, and Epstein has claimed he was merely asked how the bids could be accomplished and has said he had nothing to do with the financing of them. Yet Richard Allen, the former treasurer of United Fire, recalls seeing Epstein two or three times at the com- pany. He and another executive say they had direct dealing with Epstein over the finances. And in his deposition of 1989, Epstein stated that he was the one who executed "all" Hoffenberg's instructions to buy and sell the stock. He called it "making the orders." He could not recall whether he had chosen the brokers used. To win approval from the Illinois insurance regulators for Towers's acquisi- tion of the companies, Hoffenberg promised to inject $3 million of new capital into them. In fact, in his grand-jury testimony Hoffenberg claimed that he, his chief operating officer, Mitchell Brater, and Epstein came up with a scheme to steal $3 million of the insurance companies' bonds to buy Pan Am and Emery stock. "Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater arranged the various brokerage accounts for the bonds to be placed with in New York, and I think one in Chicago, Rodman & Renshaw," Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then, said Hoffenberg, while making it appear as though they were investing the bonds in much safer financial instru- ments, they used them as collateral to buy the stock. "Epstein was the person in charge of the transactions, and Mitchell Brater was assisting him with it in co- ordination on behalf of the insurance companies' money," Hoffenberg claimed at the time. At one point, according to Hoffenberg, a broker forged the documents neces- sary for a $1.8 million check to be written on insurance-company funds. The check was used to buy more stock in the takeover targets. Meanwhile, in order to throw the insurance regulators off, the $1.8 million was reported as being safely invested in a money-market account. United Fire's former chief financial officer Daniel Payton confirms part of Hoffenberg's account. He says he recalls making one or two telephone calls to Epstein (at Hoffenberg's direction) about the missing bonds. "He said, 'Oh, yeah, they still exist.' But we found out later that he had sold those assets ... leveraged them ... (and) used some margin account to take some positions in ... Emery and Pan Am," says Payton. Epstein's extraordinary creativity was, according to Hoffenberg, responsible for the purchase by the insurance companies of a $500,000 bond, with no money down. "Epstein created a great scheme to purchase a $500,000 treasury bond that would not be shown ... (as) margined or collateralized," he reportedly told the grand jury. "It looked like it was free and clear but it actually wasn't," he said. Epstein has denied he ever had any dealings with anyone from the insurance companies. But Richard Allen says he recalls talking to Epstein at Hoffenberg's direction and telling him it was urgent they retrieve the missing bonds for a state examination. According to Allen, Epstein said, "We'll get them back." He had "kind of a flippant attitude," says Allen. "They never came back." Epstein, according to Hoffenberg, also came up with a scheme to manipulate the price of Emery Freight stock in an attempt to minimize the losses that occurred EFTA00188426 Page 10 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style when Hoffenberg's bid went wrong and the share price began to fall. This was al- leged to have involved multiple clients' accounts controlled by Epstein. Eventually, in 1991, insurance regulators in Illinois sued Hof fenberg. He settled the case, and Epstein, who was only a paid consultant, was never deposed or accused of any wrongdoing. Barry Gross, the attorney who was handling the suit for the regulators, says of Epstein, "He was very elusive... It was hard to really track him down. There were a substantial number of checks for significant dollars that were paid to him, I remember... He was this character we never got a handle on. Again we presumed that he was involved with the Pan Am and Emery run that Hoffenberg made, but we never got a chance to depose him." "From the government's discovery in the main sentencing against Hoffenberg it would seem the government was perhaps a bit lazy," says David Lewis, who repre- sented Mitchell Brater. "They went for what they knew they could get ... and that was the fraudulent promissory notes (i.e., the much larger and unrelated part of Hoffenberg's fraud, based in New York State)... What they couldn't get, they didn't bother with." Another lawyer involved in the criminal prosecution of Hoffenberg says, "In a criminal investigation like that, when there is a guilty plea, to be quick and dirty about it, discovery is always incomplete... They don't have to line up witnesses; they don't have to learn every fact that might come out on cross- examination." Epstein was involved with Hoffenberg in other questionable transactions. Finan- cial records show that in 1988 Epstein invested $1.6 million in Riddell Sports Inc., a company that manufactures football helmets. Among his co-investors were the theater mogul Robert Nederlander and attorney Leonard Toboroff. A source close to this transaction claims that Epstein told Nederlander and Toboroff that he had raised his share of the money from a Swiss banker, whose identity they could not be allowed to know. But Hoffenberg has claimed the money came from him, and Towers's financial statements for that year show a loan to Epstein of $400,000. (Epstein has said he can't remember the details and has disputed the accuracy of the Towers financial reports.) Around the same time, Nederlander and Toboroff let Epstein come in with them on a scheme to make money out of Pennwalt, a Penns lvania chemical company. The plan was to group together with two other parties to ta e a substantial declared position in the stock. According to a source, Epstein was supposed to help Ned- erlander and Toboroff raise $15 million. He seemed to fail to find other inves- tors, say those familiar with the deal. (Epstein has said he was merely an in- vestor.) He invested $1 million, which he told his co-investors was his own money. But in his 1989 deposition he said that he put in only $300,000 of his own money. Where did the rest come from? Hoffenberg has said it came from him, in a loan that Nederlander and Toboroff didn't know about. Two things happened that alarmed Nederlander and Toboroff. After the group signaled a possible takeover, the Pennwalt management threatened to sue the would-be raiders. Epstein was reluctant initially to give a deposition about his share of the money, telling Toboroff there were "reasons" he didn't want to. Then, after the opportunity for new investors was closed, co-investors recall Epstein announcing that he'd found one at last: Dick Snyder, then C.E.O. of the publisher Simon & Schuster, who wanted to put up approximately $1O0,000. (Nei- tnerEpstein nor Snyder can now recall the investment. Yet in the 1989 deposi- tion Epstein said that he had recruited Snyder, whom he had met socially, into the deal.) EFTA00188427 Page 11 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style According to a source, Toboroff and Nederlander told Epstein that Snyder was too late, but, without their realizing it, Hoffenberg has claimed, Snyder wrote a check to Hoffenberg and bought out some of his investment. But then Snyder wanted out. "Nederlander started to get these irate calls from (Snyder,) who wasn't part of the deal, saying he was owed all this money," says someone close to the deal. Toboroff and Nederlander were baffled. Eventually, a source close to Hoffenberg says, Hoffenberg paid Snyder off. Just as Nederlander and Toboroff were growing wary of Epstein, he became in- creasingly involved with Leslie Wexner, whom he had met through insurance execu- tive Robert Meister and his late wife. Epstein has told people that he met Wex- ner in 1986 in Palm Beach, and that he won his confidence by persuading him not to invest in the stock market, just as the 1987 crash was approaching. His story has subsequently changed. When asked if Wexner knew about his connection to Hof- fenberg, Epstein said that he began working for Wexner in 1989, and that "it was certainly not the same time." Wherever and whenever it was that Epstein and Wexner actually met, there was an immediate and strong personal chemistry. Wexner says he thinks Epstein is "very smart with a combination of excellent judgment and unusually high stan- dards. Also, he is always a most loyal friend." Sources say Epstein proved that he could be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" ideas about investments. "Wexner had a couple of bad investments, and Jeffrey cleaned those up right away," says a former associate of Epstein's. Before he signed on with Wexner, Epstein had several meetings with Hargis) Levin, then head of Wexner Investments in which he enunciated ideas about cur- rencies that Levin found incomprehensible. "In fact," says someone who used to work very closely with Wexner, "almost everyone at the Limited wondered who Ep- stein was; he literally came out of nowhere." "Everyone was mystified as to what his appeal was," says Robert Morosky, a former vice-chairman of the Limited. Much of Epstein's work is related to cleaning up, tightening budgets, and effi- ciencies. One person who worked for Wexner and who saw a contract drawn up be- tween the two men says Epstein is involved in "everything, not just a little here, a little there. Everythingi" In addition, he says, "Wexner likes having a hatchet man... Whenever there is dirty work to be done he'd stick Jeffrey on it... He has a reputation for being ruthless but he gets the job done." Epstein has evidently been asked to fire personal-staff members when needed. "He was that mysterious person that everyone was scared to death of," says a former employee. Meanwhile, he is also less than popular with some people outside Wexner's company with whom he now deals. "He 'inserted' himself into the construction process of Leslie Wexner's yacht... That resulted in litigation down the road between Mr. Wexner and the shipyard that eventually built the vessel," says are Forsberg, a lawyer whose firm at the time, Dickerson and Reily, was hired to deal with litigation stemming from the construction of Wexner's Limitless-at 315 feet, one of the largest private yachts in the world. Evidently, Epstein stalled on paying Dickerson and Reily for its work. "It's probably once or twice in my legal career that I've had to sue a client for payment of services that he'd re- quested and we'd performed ... without issue on the performance," says Forsberg. In the end the matter was settled, but Epstein claims he now has no recollection of it. EFTA00188428 Page 12 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style A< The incident is one of a number of disputes Epstein has become embroiled in. Some are for sums so tiny as to be baffling; for instance, Epstein sued invest- ment adviser Herbert Glass, who sold him the Palm Beach house in 1990, for $13,444-Epstein claimed this was owed him for furnishings removed by Glass. In 1998 the U.S. Attorney's Office sued Epstein for illegally subletting the. former home of the deputy consul general of Iran to attorney Ivan Fisher and others. Epstein paid $15,000 a month in rent to the State Department, but he charged Fisher and his colleagues $20,000. Though the exact terms of the agree- ment are sealed, the court ruled against Epstein. Wexner offers some insight into his friend's combative style. "Many times people confuse winning and losing," Wexner says. "Jeffrey has the unusual qual- ity of knowing when he is winning. Whether in conversations or negotiations, he always stands back and lets the other person determine the style and manner of the conversation or negotiation. And then he responds in their style. Jeffrey sees it in chivalrous terms. He does not pick a fight, but if there is a fight, he will let you choose your weapon." One case is rather more serious. Currently, Citibank is suing Epstein for de- faulting on loans from its private-banking arm for $20 million. Epstein claims that Citibank "fraudulently induced" him into borrowing the money for invest- ments. Citibank disputes this charge. The legal papers for another case offer a rare window into Epstein's fi- nances. In 1995, Epstein stopped paying rent to his landlord, the nonprofit Mu- nicipal Arts Society, for his office in the Villard Hpust. He claimed that they were breaking the terms of the lease by not letting his staff in at night. The case was eventually settled. However, one of the papers filed in this dispute is Epstein's financial statement for 1988, in which he claimed to be worth $20 mil- lion. He listed that he owned $7 million in securities, $1 million in cash, zero in residential property (although he told sources that he had already bought the home in Palm Beach), and $11 million in other assets, including his investment in Riddell. A co-investor in Riddell says: "The company had been bought with a huge amount of debt, and it wasn't public, so it was meaningless to attach a figure like that to it ... the price it cost was about $1.2 million." The co- investors bought out Epstein's share in Riddell in 1995 for approximately $3 million. At that time, when Epstein was asked, as a routine matter, to sign a paper guaranteeing he had access to a few million dollars in case of any subse- quent disputes over the sale price, Wexner signed for him. Epstein has explained that this was because the co-investors wanted an indemnity against being sued by Wexner. One of the investors calls this "bullshit." Epstein's appointment to the board of New York's Rockefeller University in 2000 brought him into greater social prominence. Boasting such social names as Nancy Kissinger, Brooke Astor, and Robert Bass, the board also includes such pre- eminent scientists as Nobel laureate Joseph Goldstein. "Epstein was thrilled to be elected," says someone who knows him. After one term Epstein resigned. According to New York magazine, this was be- cause he didn't like to wear a suit to meetings. A spokesperson for the Rocke- feller board says Epstein left because he had insufficient time to commit; a board member recalls that he was "arrogant" and "not a good fit." The spokesper- son admits that it is "infrequent" for board members not to be renominated after only one term. Still, the recent spate of publicity Epstein has inspired does not seem to have fazed him. In November he was spotted in the front row of the Victoria's EFTA00188429 Page 13 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style Secret fashion show at New York's Lexington Avenue Armory; around the same time the usual coterie of friends and beautiful women were whisked off to Little St. James (which he tells people has been renamed Little St. Jeff) for a long week- end. Thanks to Epstein's introductions, says Martin Nowak, the biologist finds himself moving from Princeton to Harvard, where he is assuming the joint posi- tion of professor of mathematics and professor of biology. Epstein has pledged at least $25 million to Harvard to create the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics, and Epstein will have an office at the uni- versity. The program will be dedicated to searching for nature's algorithms, a pursuit that is a specialty of Nowak's. For Epstein this must be the summit of everything he has worked toward: he has been seen proudly displaying Harvard president Larry Summers's letter of commitment as if he can't quite believe it is real. He says he was reluctant to have his name attached to the program, but Summers persuaded him. He rang his mentor Wexner about it, and Wexner told him it was all right. An insatiable, restless soul, always on the move, Epstein builds a tremendous amount of downtime into his hectic work schedule. Yet there is something almost programmed about his relaxation: it's as if even pleasure has to be measured in terms of self-improvement. Nowak says that, when he goes to stay with Epstein in the Caribbean, they'll get up at six and, as the sun rises, have three-hour con- versations about theoretical physics. "Then he'll go off and do some work, re- appear, and we'll talk some more." Another person who went to the island with Epstein, Maxwell, and several beautiful women remembers that the women "sat around one night teasing him about the kinds of grasping women who might want to date him. He was amused by the idea... He's like a king in his own world." Many people comment there is something innocent, almost childlike about Jef- frey Epstein. They see this as refreshing, given the sophistication of his sur- roundings. Alan Dershowitz says that, as he was getting to know Epstein, his wife asked him if he would still be close to him if Epstein suddenly filed for bankruptcy. Dershowitz says he replied, "Absolutely. I would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas." N GRAPHIC: LEFT, BY JAMES ESTRIN; RIGHT, BY DUBLIN CAINE; MR. BIG Jeffrey Epstein in New York, 2001. Left, Epstein's nine-floor, 51,000-square- foot town house. He also owns a 7,500-acre ranch in New Mexico, a house in Palm Beach, and a Car- ibbean island.; TOP TO BOTTOM: BY ALBERTO PINTO, LISA HINGE, J. B. SCHMITKA; un- real estate From top: the "leather room" in Epstein's house, where "tea" is served to guests; Epstein at his Zorro ranch in 1991 with his "best friend," Ghislaine Maxwell; Epstein in 1979.; TOP TO BOTTOM: BY LISA HINGE, SARAH ADAM SCULL; SPOILS OF SUCCESS From top: Epstein's 70- acre island, Little St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands-he now calls it Little St. Jeff; Epstein with President Clinton in Brunei, 2002; Leslie Wexner with his future wife, Abigail, at the 1990 C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards, in New York, 1991.; ALBERTO PINTO; OFFICE SPACE The "office" in Epstein's house. It has no computers, but it does have a desk that Epstein tells people once belonged to banker J. P. Morgan, and "the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home."; Pages 300-301: Left, from The New York Times. Page 304: Bottom, from Globe Photos. LOAD-DATE: January 24, 2005 EFTA00188430 Prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 1 of 4 thaestertalondIon.co.uk nment gue from lb, Evening Standard PRINCE ANDREW'S BILLIONAIRE FRIEND IS ACCUSED OF PREYING ON GIRL OF 14 28.04.07 Add your view One of Prince Andrew's closest friends is being Investigated by the FBI for allegedly paying under-age girls for tawdry sexual encounters. Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has stayed at Sandringham and holidayed with the Prince in Thailand, while Andrew has visited his luxurious New York townhouse at least twice. Police in Florida are so concerned by claims that the bachelor financier had sexual encounters with under- age girls at his exclusive Palm Beach villa that they have passed the case files to the FBI. Epstein, 54, leads a hedonistic lifestyle that has troubled Royal courtiers ever since he was introduced to the Prince by their friend Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell. During his Thai holiday with Epstein, Andrew was photographed surrounded by topless women on a yacht. And Epstein was a guest at the Queen's birthday party in 2000 at Windsor and has attended a weekend house party at Sandringham. According to official documents seen by this newspaper, Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter has asked the FBI to determine whether Epstein broke laws designed to protect children from prostitution and pornography. Some such offences carry minimum sentences of ten to 15 years. The documents reveal that Epstein was the subject of an 11-month undercover investigation by police after a complaint in 2005 from the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl, who claimed she was paid £150 to give him an erotic massage at his flamingo-pink villa. The girl is said to have been taken there by 18-year-old student who claims in a sworn statement that she was recruited at the age of 17 to provide the billionaire with a £100 nude massage. She told police he grabbed her after she began to rub him with oil. After the massage,' according to a police department affidavit, Epstein stated that he Concerns: Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is under investigation for alleged sexual encounters with underage girls http://www.thisisiondon.co.ukinews/article-23394287-details/Prince+Andrew%27s+billiona... 5/3/2007 EFTA00188431 Prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 2 of 4 understood she s not comfortable, but he would pay her I over some girls. He told her the younger the better.' The student claims she found at least six girls aged 14 to 16. Every girl knew what to expect,' the affidavit continues. They were told they would provide a massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching.' One of the girls cried hysterically', according to a police report, as she recalled how she was recruited to provide services for Epstein when she was 16. She claims in a sworn statement that he introduced her to a woman whom he said he had brought from Yugoslavia to be his sex slave'. The girl claims that Epstein persuaded her to have sex with the woman. He allegedly also forcibly' held the girl's head as he tried to have sex with her, but stopped after she screamed no'. Epstein apologised for his actions and paid her £500 for that visit,' the records claim. Additionally, [he] gave her a 2005 Dodge Neon, blue in colour, for her personal use.' When police searched the villa, they say they found a pink and green couch In the master bedroom, matching a description by the alleged victims. They say the stairway to the room was lined with photos of naked young girls. Two hidden cameras were found ecks, and police also discovered pictures of nd other witnesses on a computer. The allegations came to light after Epstein was accused of soliciting a prostitute. He Is due to stand trial next month. Palm Beach police believe that the relatively light charge, which makes no mention of sex with minors, was the result of intimidation by private inves-tigators and high-powered lawyers representing Epstein. Police claim that local prosecutors were deterred from aggressively pursuing the case. One of his legal team, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, told The Mall on Sunday that Epstein had Epstein's friend Prince Andrew http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23394287-details/Prince+Andrew%27s+billiona... 5/3/2007 EFTA00188432 'prince Andrew's billionaire friend is accused of preying on girl of 14 I News I This is Lon... Page 3 of 4 passed a lie detector test showing he was innocent of all allegations. The financier had paid for massages, but had not engaged in sex or erotic massages with any minors, the lawyer insisted. He said that the girl who accused Epstein of forcible sex had a long record of lying, theft and blaming others for her crimes'. The hidden cameras, he said, had been installed at the behest of Palm Beach police following a theft from the villa. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed: We received the referral from the Palm Beach police chief. We have a pending case.' Epstein's friends include entrepreneur Donald Trump, who once said: He likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.' What is this? Digg Reddit READER VIEWS (o) Del.iclo.us No comments have so far been submitted. ADD YOUR COMMENT Name: Email: Town and country: Your comment: Newsvine NowPublic Add your view Your email address will not be published _ __11111 Terms and conditions You have 1500 characters left. make text area bigger r Remember me - this will save your name, location and email address for when you leave your next comment. r Email me a link to these comments. Clear I submit comment DAILY MAIL MAIL ON SUNDAY THIS IS TRAVEL THIS IS MONEY METRO Loot I JobsIte I Homes & property I London jobs I FIndaProperty.com I Primelocation.com I Educate London http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23394287-details/Prince+Andrew%27s+billiona... 5/3/2007 EFTA00188433 United States Attorney's Office Southern District of Florida NEWS BRIEFING To: R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney Jeffrey H. Sloman, First Assistant James Swain, Executive Assistant Alicia O. Valle, Special Counsel Robert Senior, Chief, Criminal Division Kenneth Noto, Deputy Chief, Criminal Division Anne Schultz, Chief, Appellate Division Gerardo Simms, Chief, Asset Forfeiture Division Wendy A. Jacobus, Chief, Civil Division David Weinstein, Chief, PINS Karen Gilbert, Chief, Narcotics Eric Bustillo, Chief, Economic and Environmental Crimes Section Rick Del Toro, Chief, Major Crimes Section Ben Greenberg, Chief, Special Prosecutions Roger Stefin, Deputy Chief, Ft. Lauderdale Rolando Garcia, Deputy Chief, West Palm Beach Diana Acosta, Acting Deputy Chief, Ft. Pierce From: Annette Castillo Cyndee Campos Executive Division July 1, 2008 EFTA00188434 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 1 of 4 be Niu fork times rlytmnor:.corn July 1, 2008 rRICNOLY IOYMAI SM VSC.00 II GO Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case By LANDOMTHOMAS Jr. The bad news arrived by phone last week on Little St. James Island, the palm-fringed Xanadu in the Caribbean where Jeffrey E. Epstein, adviser to billionaires, lives in secluded splendor. Report to the Palm Beach County jail, the caller, Mr. Epstein's lawyer, said. So over the weekend Mr. Epstein quit his pleasure dome, with its staff of 7o and its flamingo- stocked lagoon, and flew to Florida. On Monday morning, he turned himself in and began serving i8 months for soliciting prostitution. "I respect the legal process," Mr. Epstein, 55, said by phone as he prepared to leave his 78-acre island, which he calls Little St. Jeff's. "I will abide by this." It is a stunning downfall for Mr. Epstein, who grew up in Coney Island and went on to live the life of a billionaire, only to become a tabloid monument to an age of hyperwealth. Mr. Epstein owns a Boeing 727 and the largest town house in Manhattan. He has paid for college educations for personal employees and students from Rwanda, and spent millions on a project to develop a thinking and feeling computer and on music intended to alleviate depression. But Mr. Epstein also paid women, some of them under age, to give him massages that ended with a sexual favor, the authorities say. Federal prosecutors initially threatened to bring him to trial on a variety of charges and seek the maximum penalty, to years in prison. After years of legal wrangling, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges. Upon his release from jail, he must register as a sex offender wherever he goes in the United States. People from all walks of life break the law, of course. But for the rich, wrapped in a cocoon of immense comfort, it can be easy to yield to temptation, experts say. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/0lepstein.html? y=l&sq=epstein&st=nyt8cad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188435 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 2 of 4 "A sense of entitlement sets in," said Dennis Pearne, a psychologist who counsels people on matters related to extreme wealth. The attitude, he said, becomes, "I deserve anything I want, I can have anything I want — and I can afford it." To prosecutors, Mr. Epstein is just another sex offender. He did what he did because he could, and because he never dreamed he would get caught, they say. Mr. Epstein's defenders counter that he has been unjustly persecuted because of his wealth and lofty connections. Sitting on his patio on "Little St. Jeff's" in the Virgin Islands several months ago, as his legal troubles deepened, Mr. Epstein gazed at the azure sea and the lush hills of St. Thomas in the distance, poked at a lunch of crab and rare steak prepared by his personal chef, and tried explain how his life had taken such a turn. He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among the diminutive denizens of I.illiput. "Gulliver's playfulness had unintended consequences," Mr. Epstein said. "That is what happens with wealth. There are unexpected burdens as well as benefits." Those benefits are on full display on his island where, despite his time in jail, Mr. Epstein has commissioned a new estate. The villa will occupy the island's promontory, which offers views of the Atlantic on one side and the Caribbean on the other. It will have a separate library to house Mr. Epstein's 90,000 volumes, a Japanese bathhouse and what he calls a "Ziegfeld" movie theater. For now, however, those visions of a private paradise have been replaced by the cold reality of a jail cell. The legal drama began in 2005, when a young woman who gave Mr. Epstein massages at his Palm Beach mansion told the local police about the encounter. She was 14 at the time, and was paid $200. The police submitted the results of their investigation to the state attorney, asking that Mr. Epstein be charged with sexual relations with minors. His lawyers say Mr. Epstein never knew the young women were under age, and point to depositions in which the masseuses — several of whom have filed civil suits — admitted to lying about their age. In July 2005, a Florida grand jury charged Mr. Epstein with a lesser offense, soliciting prostitution. Mr. Epstein's legal team, which would eventually include the former prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr and the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, was elated: Mr. Epstein would avoid prison. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/Olepstein.html?J=1&screpstein8cst=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188436 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 3 of 4 But then the United States attorney's office in Miami became involved. Last summer, Mr. Epstein got an ultimatum: plead guilty to a charge that would require him to register as a sex offender, or the government would charge him with sexual tourism, according to people who were briefed on the discussions. David Weinstein, an attorney in the government's Miami office, declined to discuss the specifics of the case. But he did address the subject of Mr. Epstein's means and prominent legal team, and dismissed a proposal by Mr. Epstein's lawyers — who opposed the application of federal statutes in the case — that he be confined to his house in Palm Beach for a probationary period. "In their mind that would be an adequate resolution," Mr. Weinstein said. "Our view is that is not enough of a punishment to fit the crime that occurred." The lurid details of the case have captivated wealthy circles in Palm Beach and New York and transformed Mr. Epstein, who shuns publicity and whose business depends on discretion, into a figure of public ridicule. He said he has been trailed by stalkers and has become the target of lawsuits. In recent months, he said, he received over too letters a week asking for money or jobs as a masseuse. lie recently received a package of gold-tinted condoms. It has been a long, strange journey from Coney Island, where Mr. Epstein grew up in middle- class surroundings. He taught briefly at Dalton, the Manhattan private school, and then joined Bear Stearns, becoming a derivatives specialist. He struck out on his own in the 198os. Ills business is something of a mystery. He says he manages money for billionaires, but the only client he is willing to disclose is Le3lien Wexner, the founder of Limitesi Brands. As Mr. Epstein explains it, he provides a specialized form of superelite financial advice. He counsels people on everything from taxes and trusts to prenuptial agreements and paternity suits, and even provides interior decorating tips for private jets. Industry sources say he charges flat annual fees ranging from $25 million to more than $too million. As it became clear that he was headed for jail, Mr. Epstein has tried to put on a brave face. "Your body can be confined, but not your mind," he said in a recent interview by phone. But the strains were showing. "I am anxious," he said in another recent interview, referring to how inmates would treat him. "I make a great effort to treat people equally, but I recognize that http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/01 epstein.html7 _r=1&sq=epstein&st=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188437 Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case - NYTimes.com Page 4 of 4 I might be perceived as one of the New York arrogant rich." Jail will certainly be a big change. Mr. Epstein is a man of precise, at times unconventional, habits. He starts his mornings with a secret-ingredient bran muffin prepared by his chef. He seems to have a germ phobia. He never wears a suit, preferring monogrammed sweatsuits and jeans. And he rarely attends meetings — "I never have to be anywhere," he tells his pilots, when he cautions them to avoid flying through chancy weather. Looking back, Mr. Epstein admits that his behavior was inappropriate. "I am not blameless," he said. He said he has taken steps to make sure the same thing never happens again. For starters, Mr. Epstein has hired a full-time male masseur (the man happens to be a former Ultimate Fighting champion). He also has organized what he calls a board of directors of friends to counsel him on his behavior. And Mr. Epstein has changed his e-mail address to alert people that he will be unavailable for the next 18 months. The new address indicates he is "on vacation." C9920914 2094 The New 10. .1"Imee CLemilanY efletiey Poky I Sew I carackons I RSS I I FklaStok I tictip I continua I Work fotlJo I wimp http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/Olepstein.html?J=1&screpstein&st=nyt&ad... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188438 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge - NYTimes.com Page 1 of I tie Nell; gOrk a' ntes ilytisties.corn June 30, 2008 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:02 p.m. ET SAIIP4CLY PQM11 /41 Sr* ,410110 PC WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida. Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 months in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex offender. Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 $200 to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes became sexual. He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. retNalie Associated Press Ethempafey I Smith I cargetlene I ass I I ter I HS I Cantata's I Wed' labile I me-take . . . . http://www.nytimes.corn/aponline/us/AP-Billionaire-Prostitution.html7sq=epstein&st=nyt&... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188439 JUL. 1.2000 10:13AM USA() WPB FL NO.340 P.1 laM 51NOWSIMIPhotintaphar Investment banker Jeffrey Epstein waits in court Monday before his guilty plea. Palm Beacher pleads in sex case Jeffrey Epstein will serve years on teen solicitation charges. ay LARRY KELLER Pd., BaaehJWt Stte Ron WEST PALM BEACH — He lives in a Palm Beach water front mansion and has kept company with the 'Ikea of President Clinton, Prince An- drew and Donald 'frump, but inveabnent bankerJeffrey Ep- stein will call the Palm Beach County Jail home for the next 18 months, Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty Monday to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. After serving IS months in jail, he will be under house arrest for a year And he will have a lifelong obligation to register aa a sex offender. He must submit to an HIV teat within 48 hours, with the results being pro- vided to his victims or their parents THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY, JULY 1,2008 • ■ Read past stories on the Epstein case. • See photos of fugitives, unsolved cases, police blotters, a bldg, special reports and moro. • PalmBeaehhst.com As part of the plea deal, federal investigators agreed to drop their investigation of Epstein, which they had taken to a grand jury, two law enforcement sources said. Epstein was indicted two years ago after an lbmonth investigation by Palm Boaph police. They received r a complaint from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had given Epstein a naked nuts• sage at his five-bedroom, 7,2.34-square-foot, $8.5 million Intracoastal home. Police concluded that there Sea EPSTEIN, BA l• • Crime coverage EFTA00188440 hi_ 1 2H 10: 1:111vi Sq2 'AN] IL N0.348 P.2 Epstein faces civil lawsuits; more clients may be added • Ile EPSTEIN/nee IA were several other girls brought In 2004 and 2005 to an upstairs room at the home for similar, massages and sexual touching. The indictment charged Epstein only with felony so- licitation of prostitution. The state attorney's office later added the charge of procur- ing underage girls for that purpose- Prosecutor Lama Be- lohlavek said of the plea: "I took into consideration the length, the trial would have been • ind witnesses having to testify" about sometimes embarrassing incidents. Epstein may .have made a serious mistake soon after he was charged. He rejected an offer to plead guilty to one count of aggravated assault with Intent to commit a felo- ny,. according to police docu- ments. He would have gotten five years' probation, had no Criminal record and not been a registered sex offender, the documents indicate. Epstein arrived in court Monday with at least three atterneys: He wore a blue blazer, blue !AUK- blue jeans and white and gray sneakers, After Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Puente accepted the plea, he *was fingerprinted. E. stein then removed his blazer and was handcuffed for the trip to jail while his. attorneys tried to shield him froth photographers' tepees. When he eventually is released to house arrest Ep- stein will have to observe a 10 pm. to 6 a.m. curfew, have no unsupervised contact with anyone younger than 18 and neither own nor pot-'• sere pornographic or sexual materials "that are relevant to your deviant behavior," the judge said. Epstein will be allowed to leave home for woik. The New York-based money manager told the judge he has formed the not-feePrefit Florida Science Ibundatlen to finance scientific re- search. "I'm there every day," Epstein said. The foundation was In- corporated in November Epstein said he already has awarded money to Harvard and kar. When he is released from jail, there is a chance-that Ep- stein will be forced to move. Sex offenders are not allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a echool, park or other areas where children may gather No determination has been made as to whether Epsteints home complies, but attorneys said it likely does, Sex offenders also typi- cally must attend counseling sessions. Belohlavek bald that was waived for Epstein because hie private psychia- trist is working with him. 'It's validation of what we're saying in the civil cases. JEFFREY HERMAN Attorney who reneged& alleged victims, commenting on the plea The judge was skeptical but agreed to it Epstein legal woes don't end with Monday's plea. There are four pending fed- eral civil lawsuits and one in state court related to, his behavior At least one woman has sued him In New York, where he. owns a 51,000- square-foot Manhattan man- sion. Ifs validation of what we're saying In the civil cases," Said Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman, who tem.& sante the alleged victims In the federal lawsuits. West Palm Beach attorney Ted Leopold represents one al- leged victim in a civil suit in state court. He said he antici- pates *ending that lawsuit to •add 'a few other clients" as well In the criminal case, po- lice went so far as to Scour Epsteinis trash and conduct surveillance at Palm Beach International Airport, where they watched for his private jet so they would know when he was .in town. They con- cluded that Epstein paid girls $200 to $300 each after the massage sessions. idi Reiss," 22, told po ce a ou efforts in recruiting girls for Epstein. There was probable cause to charge Epstein with un- lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious mo- lestation, police concluded. The state attorney's of- fice said questions about' the girls' credibility led it to take the unprecedented step of presenting the evidence 'against Epstein to a grand jury, rather than directly charging Mtn, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Eeiter was furious with State Attorney Barry. &lecher, saying in a May 2006 letter that the prosecu- tor should disqualify himself. "I continue to find your office's treatment of these cases highly unusual," he 'note. He then asked for and got a federal Investigation. EFTA00188441 JUL. 1.2008 10:13AM USPO kPB FL NO.348 P.3 Epstein hired a phalanx of high-priced lawyers —Includ- ing Harvard law professor and author Alan Derehowitz — and public relations people Who questioned getter% com- petence and the victims truthfulness. In addition to mansions in Palm Beach and Manhat- tan, Epstein owns homes in New Mexico and the Virgin. Islande. He% a frequent con- tributor to Democratic Party candidates. He also donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003, Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer returned a $50,000 campaign contribu- tion from Epstein after his indictment. then resigned this year during his own sex • scandal. And the Barrie Palm Beach Police Departinent that vigorously investigated Epstein returned his $90,000 donation for the purchase of a firearins simulator StqflwriferEliotlatinbergand staff researcher Michelle Quig- ley confributed to Ail story. CHarry.:41400,Postom • UMA SAW:MI/U.1u Priatomptior )effrey Epstein (lett) appeirs In court Monday. Soon after ha was charged two years ago, Epstein relent- ed a deal that would have given him five years' probation and no criminal record, documents show. EFTA00188442 Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Page 1 of 2 sun-sentinel.cominews/local/palmbeachisfl-flpepstein0701sbjul01,0,1047755.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges By Missy Diaz South Florida Sun-Sentinel 11:28 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH Billionaire Palm Beach- New York-Virgin Islands money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a jail uniform Monday after pleading guilty to hiring underage Palrnatackeounty girls for erotic massages and sex. The 55-year-old will be designated a sex offender, requiring him to register annually with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Epstein, who lives in a 13,000-square-foot mansion on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, will spend 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout the hearing, read off a litany of other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, including a 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity log and a stern warning that he not possess, watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually stimulating material relative to your deviant behavior." The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact — direct or indirect -- with his victims, something Pucillo clarified explicitly, saying it includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and text messages. "That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third parties. ... Is that clear?" she asked. Epstein told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the very rich and counts among his friends former President Bill Clinton. His real estate holdings include a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and a 50,000-square-foot townhouse on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side. According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005 Epstein paid , tf o find girls — "the younger the better"— to "work" for him. Epstein rejected a 23-year-old who brought to Epstein's home. once referred to herself as Heidi Fleiss, the Hoist madam whose client list included celebrities. "The more you do, the more you get paid," reportedly told the he going rate was $200 to $300 per massage. All of the girls knew what to expect, according to : "provide a massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching." Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty Monday to two counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony offer to commit prostitution. The http://www.sun-sentinel.cominews/locaVpalmbeach/sfl-flpepstein0701sbjul01,0,697175,pri... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188443 Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges -- South Florida Sun-Sentincl.com Page 2 of 2 maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court filed by four girls seeking in excess of $50 million each. "We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. Missy Diaz can be reached at mdiaz@sun-sentinet&orri or 561-228-5505. Copyright O 2008, South Florida SuP7Sentimel http://wvvvv.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpcpstein0701sbjul01,0,697175,pri... 7/1/2008 EFTA00188444 Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex -- South Florida... Page 1 of 2 sun-sentinel.cominews/local/palmbeach/sfl-630epstein,0,69 I 3787.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex By Missy Diaz Sun-Sentinel.com 12:25 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH Mega-rich Palm Beach-New York-Virgin Islands money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a jail uniform today after pleading guilty to hiring underage Palm Beach County girls for erotic massages and sex. As a result, Epstein will be designated a sex offender, a moniker that will require he register annually with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and any other jurisdiction that so requires. Epstein, 55, will spend 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout today's hearing, read off a litany of other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, including a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity log and a stem warning that he not possess, watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually stimulating material relative to your deviant behavior." The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact -- direct or indirect -- with his victims, something Pucillo explained includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and text messages. "That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third panics is that clear?" she asked. Epstein, a billionaire who lives in a five bedroom, 7'/ bath, 13,000-square-foot mansion on El BrilloWay in Palm Beach, told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the super wealthy and counts among his friends former President Bill Clinton. According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005, Epstein used a then 20-year-old girl to find 14- to 16- year-old girls from her school to "work" for him. http://www.sun-sentineLcom/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-630cpstein,0,3606120,print.story 6/30/2008 EFTA00188445 Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage girls for sex -- South Florida... Page 2 of 2 In return, according to police, Epstein paid her $200 for each girl she found. Epstein's assistant kept the recruiter apprised of when Epstein would be in Palm Beach and the recruiter would take the girls to the mansion. Once there, Epstein's assistant escorted the girl to a bedroom furnished with a massage table and oils. Epstein would enter in only a towel and would touch himself during some sessions and try fondling the girls with sex toys in others, according to police. Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty today to two counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution, and felony offer to commit prostitution. The maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. Epstein told the judge he takes no prescription medication other than for his cholesterol. He works in the Virgin Islands, he said, but while on house arrest he plans to do charitable work at a non-profit he formed charity called The Florida Science Foundation. State records show the foundation was formed in November for the purpose of providing grants to organizations in science and research. "My background is in physics," Epstein told Pucillo. Harvard and MIT have been recipients of grants from the organization, he said. While the criminal ease may have been disposed today, Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court filed by four of the girls who are each seeking in excess of $50 million. "We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. "An important measure of justice is that he'll be a registered sex offender." As deputies fingerprinted Epstein, who was dressed in a navy sport coat, jeans and sneakers, a phalanx of his handlers congregated outside the courtroom. His attorney, Jack Goldberger, along with two other men, one in a seersucker suit, the other typing furiously on a laptop computer, stayed with Epstein until lawmen escorted him from the courtroom. Copyright O 2008, South. Florida autt-.Ssnlinel http://www.sun-se ntinel.cominews/local/pal mbeach/s11-630epstei n,0,3606 I 20,print.story 6/30/2008 EFTA00188446 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge - 06/30/2008 - Miamillerald.com Page 1 of I MlamiHerald.com 0 Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2008 Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida. Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 months in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex offender. Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 $200 to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes became sexual. He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. © 2008 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved. http://www.miamihcrald.com html 7/1/2008 EFTA00188447 ILLVI IV" LIM EFTA00188448 MR. BIG Jeffrey Epstein in Ness York. 200I. Left. Epstein% nine-Moor, M.000-square. foul loon house. Ile also nuns a 75110-acre ranch in Nos Nlesico, a house in Palm Beach, and a Caribbean island. Lately, leffrey Epstein's high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New Ifork's largest private residake, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and flies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. VICKY WARP explores Epstein's investment career, his ties to retail magnate Leslie Wexner, and his complicated past EFTA00188449 n Manhattan's Upper Lip Side, home to some of the most expensive real estate on earth, exists the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, huge arched windows, and nine floors. it sits on—or. rather. commands—the block of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of pro- portion with its four- and five-story neigh- bors, it seems more like an institution than a house. This is perhaps not surprising— until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's largest private residence. Inside, amid the flurry of menservants attired in sober black suits and pristine white .gloves, you feel you have stumbled into someone's private Xanadu. This is no mere rich person's home, but a high- walled, eclectic, imperious fantasy that seems to have no boundaries. The entrance hall is decorated not with paintings but with row upon row of indi- vidually framed eyeballs: these. the owner tells people with relish. were imported from England. where they were made for in- jured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer. which does have a painting, in the man- ner of Jean Dubufftt ... but the host coyly refuses to tell visitors who palmed it. In any case, guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior. Despite its eccentricity the house is curi- ously impersonal, the statement of someone who wants to be known for the scale of his possessions. Its occupant. financier Jeffrey Epstein, 50. admits to friends that he likes it when people think of him this way. A good- looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren. with thick gray-white hair and a weathered face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, and loafers. He tells people he bought the house because he knew he "could never lite anywhere bigger." He thinks 51.000 square feet is an appropriately large space for some- one like himself, who deals mostly in large Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the town house—Epstein usually rekrs to the former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite- size morsels and drink copious quantities of Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or to- bacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," so called because of the cordovan-colored fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding an opium pipe and caressing a snarling li- onskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and guests by the menservants in white glows. Upstairs, to the right of a spiral stair- case, is the "office," an enormous gallery spanning the width of the house. Strangely, it holds no computer. Computers belong in the "computer room" fa smaller room at the back of the house). Epstein has been known to say. The office features a gilded desk (which Epstein tells people belonged to banker J. R Morgan). 18th-century black lacquered Portuguese cabinets. and a nine- foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de Sack's The Misfinunes of Time was re- cently spotted. Covering the floor. Epstein has explained. "is the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home—so big. it must have come from a mosque." Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator .Alberto Pin- to. who has worked for Jacques Chime and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Ara- bia, there is one particularly startling oddi- ty: a stuffed black poodle. standing atop the grand piano. "No decorator would ever tell you to do that." Epstein brags to visi- tors. "But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog.- People can't help but feel it's Epstein's way' of saying that he always has the last word. in addition to the town house. Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico. on an S IS million. 7.500-acre ranch which he named "Zono." "It makes the town house look like a shack,- Epstein has said. He also owns Little St. James. a 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. where the main house is currently being renovated by Edward Tit- tle, a designer of the Amanresorts. There is also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter. and a Boeing 727. replete with trading room, on which Epstein re- cently flew President Clinton. actors Chris 'Ricker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's grandson. Casey Wasserman, and a few oth- ers, on a mission to explore the problems of AIDS and economic development in Africa. • • • the charm slip into his eyes. They arc steely and calculating, giving some hint at the steady whir of machinery running behind them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, af- ter refusing to give an interview for this arti- cle. "You be white. You get the first mow." It was an appropriate metaphor hr a man who seems to feel he can win no matter what the advantage of the other side. //is advantage is that no one really seems to know him or his history completely or what his arsenal actually consists of. He has care- fully engineered it so that he remains one of the few truly baffling mysteries among New York's moneyed world. People know snippets, but few know the whole. "He's very enigmatic." says Rosa Month- ton, the Farmer C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K. and a close friend since the early 1980s. - You think you know him and then you peel oil' another 'ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath. He never reveals his hand.... He's a classic iceberg. What you see is not what you get." ven acquaintances sense a curious dichotomy: Yes. he lives like a "modern ma- haraja." as Loh Rieman, one of his art dealers. puts it. Yet he is fastidiously, al- most obsessively private—he lists himself in the phone book under a pseudonym. He rarely attends society gath- erings or weddings or funerals: he considers eating in restaurants like "eating on the sub- way"—i.e.. something he'd never do. There are many women in his life. mostly young, but there is no one of them to whom he has been able to commit. He describes his most public companion of the last decade, Ghislaine Maxwell, 41. the daughter of the late, disgraced media baron Robert Max- well, as simply his "best friend:' He says she is not on his payroll, but she seems to organize much of his life—recently she was making telephone inquiries to find a California-based yoga instructor for him. (Epstein is still close to his two other long- term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher. a for- mer associate of his at the brokerage firm Bear Stearns and now an opera producer, and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and onetime model. He tells people that when a relationship is over the girlfriend -moves up. not down," to friendship status.) Some of the businessmen who dine with him at his home—they include newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis Ranieri. Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, real-estate tycoon Leon Black. former Mi- crosoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. Tom • • 4. •• •• . • k • Op lc 110110.4 ili ...... 0 rie•in EFTA00188450 personality Donald Trump—sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he ac- tually does to earn his millions. Certainly, you won't find Epstein's transactions writ- ten about on Bloomberg or talked about in the trading rooms. "The trading desks don't seem to know him. It's unusual for animals 'hat big not to leave any footprints in the mow" says a high-level investment mai Unlike such fund managers as Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, whose client lists and stock maneuverings act as their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret, bar one client: bib lionaire Leslie Wexner, the respected chair- man of Limited Brant's. Epstein insists that ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1981 he as managed money only for billionaires- -Am depend on him for discretion. "I was the only person crazy enough, or arrogant enough, or misplaced enough, to make my limit a bib lion dollars or more," he tells peo- ple freely. According to him, the flat fees he receives from his clients. combined with his skill at playing e currency markets "with very I rge sums of money," have afforded f.:m the lifestyle he enjoys today. Why do billionaires choose him as their trustee? Because the prob- lems of the mega-rich. he tells peo- ple. are different from yours and mine, and his unique philosophy is central to understanding those problems: " /ery few people need any more money len they have a billion dollars. The key is not to have it do harm more than any- thing else.... You don't want to lose your money." 1 e has likened his job to specifically, one who that of an architect—more spe- cializes in remodeling: "I always describe [a billion- aire] as someone who started out in a small home and as he became wealthier had add- ons. He added on another addition, he built a room over the garage ... until you have a house that is usually a mess.... It's a large house that has been put together over time where no one could foretell the financial fu- tut: and their accompanying needs." -le makes it sound as though his job :ombines the roles of real-estate agent, ac- :ountant, lawyer, money manager, trustee. and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, nyths and rumor swirl around Epstein. Here are some of the hard facts about parks department. His parents viewed educa- tion as "the way out" for him and his young- er brother, Mark, now working in real estate. Jeffrey started to play the piano—for which he maintains a passion—at five. and he went to Brooklyn's Lakette High School. He was good at mathematics. and in his early 20s he got a job teaching physics and math at Dalton, the elite Manhattan pri- vate school. While there he began tutoring the son of Bear Stearns chairman Ace Greenberg and was friendly with a daugh- ter of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear Stearns. where. under the mentorship of both Greenberg and current Bear Stearns C.E.O. James Cayne, he did well enough to become a limited partner—a rung be- neath full partner. He abruptly departed in 1981 because, he has said, he wanted to run his own business. Thereafter the details recede into shad- UNREAL ESTATE From tor the "leather room" in Epstein's house. where "tea" is served to guests: Epstein at his Zorro ranch in 1991 with his "best friend," Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein in 1979. "bounty hunter: recov- ering lost or stolen mon- ey for the government or for very rich people. He has a license to carry a firearm. For the last 15 years. he's been running his business, J. Epstein & Co. Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his life—Epstein has said this was in 1986: others say it was in 1989. at the earliest— he has gradually, in a way that has not generally made headlines, come to be ac- cepted by the Establishment. He's a mem- ber of various commissions and councils: he is on the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Insti- tute of International Education. EFTA00188451 SPOILS OF SUCCESS Awn tqr Epstein's 70- acre island. Little St. lames. in the U.S. Virgin Islands—he now calls it Little St. Jett Epstein with President Clinton in Brunei. 2002: Leslie Wexner with his future wife. Abigail at the 1990 C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards. in New York. 1991. Larry Summers. Harvard's current presi- dent. Harvard law professor Alan Dersho- witz says. "I'm on my 20th book.... The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey." Real-estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose, who has %tacked with Epstein on projects in New Albany, Ohio. for Wexner. says. "He digests and decodes the information very rapidly, which is to me terrific because we have shorter meetings." Also on the list of admirers are former senator Mitchell and a gaggle of distinguished scientists, most of whom Epstein has helped fund in recent years. EdeIn= and 3ilunay Gel Mann. and mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. When these men describe Epstein. they talk about **energy" and "curiosity: as well as a love for theoreti- cal physics that they don't ordinarily find in laymen. Ge11-Mann rather sweetly mentions that **there are al- ways pretty ladies around" when he goes to dinner cht Epstein. and he's under the impression that Epstein's clients include the Queen of En- gland. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit in the back of Dershowitz's law class. Epstein gets annoyed when anyone sug- gests that Wexner "made him." "I had real- ly rich clients before:' he has said. Yet he does not deny that he and Wexner have a special relationship. Epstein secs it as a partnership of equals. "People have said it's like we have one brain between two of us: "I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns;' says Wexner. "But Jef- frey sees patterns in politics and fmaria cial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not in in- vestment strategy, and, as everyone who knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fash- ion and design. We frequently discuss world trends as each of us sees them:' y the time Epstein met Wexner, the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion em- pire—one that now in- cludes Victoria's Secret. Express, and Bath & Body Works—from $5,000 lent him by his aunt. "Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to real- ize his (Jeffrey's) dreams." says some- one who has worked closely with both men. "He gave Jeffrey the ball and Jeffrey hit it out of the park." Wexner, through a trust. bought the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported $13.2 million in 1989. In 1993. Wex- ner married Abigail Koppel. a 31-year-old lawyer. and the newlyweds relocated to Ohio: in 1996. Epstein moved in- . - to the town house. Public documcnts suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it. but Epstein has said that he now owns the house. Wexner trusts Epstein so completely that he has assigned him the power of fidu- ciary over all of his private trusts and foun- dations, says a source close to Wexner. In 1992. Epstein even persuaded Wexner to put him on the board of the Wexner Foun- dation in place of Warices ailing mother. Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled by splitting the foundation in two. Epstein does not care that he comes be- tween family members. In fact, he sees it as his job. He tells people. "I am there to .1 represent my client. and if my client needs protecting—sometimes even from his own family-then it's often better that people hate me, not the client." "You've probably heard I'm vicious ins my representation of my clients,- he tells people proudly; Leah Kiernan describes his haggling over art prices as something like ; a scene out of the movie Mad Mar Be- yond Thunderdome. Even a former mentor g says he's seen "the dark side- of Epstein. 5 and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meet- ing in which Epstein chewed out a team :. 1 t: a e: h. • • EFTA00188452 0 S t 0. being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." One reporter, in fact, received three threats from Epstein while preparing a piece, They were delivered in a jocular tone, but the message was clear: There' will be trouble for your family if I don't like the article. On the other hand, Epstein is clearly very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has known Epstein since before his Bear Stearns days, can't say enough nice things: "1 have a boy who's dyslexic, and Jeffrey's gotten close to him over the years.... Jeffrey got him into music. He bought him his first piano. And then as he got to school he had difficulty ... in studying ... so Jeffrey got him interestel in taking flying lessons?' Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling her that her. daughter. Domenica. who suf- . krs from Down syndrome. needed the sun, and that Rosa should feel free to bring her to his house in Palm Beach anytime. Some friends remember that in the late 80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the air- line tickets of good friends by affixing first- class stickers: the only problem was that the stickers turned out to be unofficial. Some- times the technique ‘Corked. but other times it didn't. and the unwitting recipients found themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and had no knowiedge of the stickers.) Many of those who benefited from Epstein's largesse claim that his generosity comes with no strings attached. "I never felt he wanted anything from me in return." says one old friend. who received a first-class upgrade. Fl pstein is known about town as a man who loves wom- en—lots of them, mostly young. Model types have been heard saying they are full of gratitude to Epstein for flying them around. and he is a familiar face to many of the Victo- ria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert at Epstein's town house. where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. "These were not women you'd see at Upper East Side dinners." the woman recalls. "Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely." This same guest also at- tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was tilled. she says. with young Russian mod- els. "Some of the guests were horrified," the woman says. "He's reckless," says a former business associate, "and he's gotten more so. Mon- ey does that to you. He's breaking the oath he made to himself—that he would never media. Right now, in the wake of the pub- licity following his trip with Clinton, he must be in a very difficult place." A ccording to S.E.C. and other legal documents un- earthed by Vanity Fair, Epstein may have good reason to keep his past cloaked in secrecy: his real mentor. it might seem, was not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Hoffen- berg, 57, who, for a few months before the S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 093, was trying to buy the New York Asst. He is cur- rently incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center in Devens. Massachusetts, serving a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than 5450 trillion in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. When Epstein met Hoffenberg in Lon- don in the 1980s, the latter was the char- ismatic, audacious head of the Towers Financial Corporation. a collection agency that was supposed to buy debts that peo- ple owed to hospitals. banks, and phone companies. But Hoffenberg began using company funds to pay off earlier investors and service a lavish lifestyle that included a mansion on Long Island. homes on Man- hanan's Sutton Place and in Florida, and a fleet of cars and planes. Hoffenberg and Epstein had much in common. Both were smart and obsessed with making money Both were from Brook- lyn. According to Hotlenberg. the two men were introduced by Douglas Leese. a de- fense contractor. Epstein has said they were introduced by John Mitchell. the late attor- ney. general. Epstein had been running International Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.). a consulting company. out of his apartment in the Solo building on East 66th Street in New York. Though he has claimed that he managed money for billionaires only, in a 1989 dep- osition he testified that he spent SO per- cent of his time helping people recover stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers. He was also not above entering into risky. tax-sheltered oil and gas deals with much smaller investors. A lawsuit that Michael Stroll. the former head of Wil- liams Electronics Inc.. filed against Epstein shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an in- vestment from Stroll of S450,000. which Epstein put into oil. In 1984. Stroll asked for his money back: four years later he had received only $10.000. Stroll lost the suit, after Epstein claimed in court, among oth- er things, that the check for $10,000 was for a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net worth never exceeded four and a half mil- Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really liked Jeffrey.... Jeffrey has a way of getting under your skin, and he was under Hof- fenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg were Epstein's social connections; they in- cluded oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the designer Vera) and Mohan Murjani, whose clothing company grew into Gloria Van- derbilt Jeans. Epstein lived large even then. One friend recalls that when he took Cana- dian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he hired a Rolls-Royce especially for the oc- casion. (Epstein has claimed he owned it.) In 198'Z Hoffenberg. according to sources, set Epstein up in the offices he still occu- pies in the Villard House. on Madison Av- enue, across a courtyard from the restaurant Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired his new pro- tégé as a consultant at 525.000 a month. and the relationship flourished. "They trav- eled everywhere together—on Hoffinberis plane. all around the world, they were al- ways together." says a source. Hoffenberg has claimed that Epstein confided in him. saying. for example, that he had left Bear Stearns in 1981 after he was discovered ex- ecuting "illegal operations.- Several of Epstein's Eizar Stearns contem- poraries recall that Epstein left the compa- ny very suddenly: Within the company there were rumors also that he was involved in a technical infringement. and it was thought that the executive committee asked that he resign after his two supporters. Ace Green- berg and Jimmy Clyne. were outnumbered. Greenberg says he can't recall this: Cayne denies it happened. and Epstein has de- nied it as well. "Jeffrey Epstein left Bear Stearns of his own volition:' says Cayne. "It was never suggested that he leave by any member of management. and' manage- ment never looked into any improprieties by him. Jeffrey said specifically. 'I don't want to work for anybody else. I want to work for myself.— let. this is not the story that Epstein told to the S.E.C. in 1981 and to lawyers in a 1989 deposition involving a civil business ease in Philadelphia. In 1981 the SEC's Jonathan Harris and Robert Blackburn took Epstein's testimony and that of other Bear Steams employees in part of what became a protracted case about insider trading around a tender offer placed on March IL 1981. by the Seagram Company Li.J. for St. Joe Minerals Corp. Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in- vestors were found guilty. including Italian financier Giuseppe Tome, who had used his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about the tender offer. After the tender offer was announced. the S.E.C. began investigating trades in- EFTA00188453 contains a parody of Affleck and Matt Da- mon making Good Will Hunting 11, Affleck says to Damon, "What do I keep telling you? You gotta do the safe picture, then you do the art picture. Then sometimes you gotta do the payback picture because your friend says you owe him. Then sometimes you got- ta go back to the null." "Sometimes you do Reindeer Gaines," Damon says derisively. "That's just mean," Aifieck whines. But it's a pretty accurate description of his career to date. "Ben takes these franchise properties so he can go and experiment," says Harvey Weinstein. "He believes in trying to stretch himself and notikecp doing the same thing," ob- serves Bruce Willis. who starred with Aleck in Armageddon. "He's an awesome actor, and I think he's going to do great things." Several years ago, in a televised interview on Inside the Anon Studio, Affleck said that his goal was to make big commercial movies. He has since rested his ambitions. "That's an adolescent aspiration, in a way. I'd rather be in movies like Magnolia, which I think is a towering achievement. I'll con- tinue to act, but I won't act in a way that requires me to hang my name out there and do a lot of publicity. I'll do character roles and focus on writing and directing. It doesn't require the same kinds of sacri- fice, in terms of quality of life and person- al life, and it's a more holistic approach to the process. It's become increasingly frus- trating for me to have my role in the story- telling process limited to one character. You have to be respectful and judicious about your input when is somebody else's project." Affleck has always impressed colleagues with his voracious appetite for information and skills. "He has made it a point to learn everything he can about how the business works—not just the craft of acting, but from the producing standpoint, from the studio standpoint," says Jon Gordon, exec- utive vice president of production at Mira- max. "He knows how deals work. It's what sets him apart. If he wanted to run a studio at some point, he could. He's about as sharp as they come A °leek is already juggling his acting with screenwriting and such other commit- ments as Project Greenlight. the contest he and Damon started to help launch the ca- reers of young filmmakers. Afileck's friends are certain net be directing soon. "There's no question," Weinstein says. "Both he and Matt. I think they're going to rewrite the rules. These guys can fix anything. There'll be home runs in both instances?' But there are other thoughts tickling the back of Affleck's mind as well. A passion- ate liberal, he campaigned for Al Gore. cares deeply about political issues. and is extremely well informed. He entertains him- self by writing imaginary political speeches in his head. He would rather discuss Acts in Africa than his movie career. When Lopez goes to Affieck's mother's house for dinner. Weinstein reports. "J.Lo told me that the conversation at the table is always about politics—about government initiatives. educational initiatives. what's go- ing on in the day.- So is Affleck planning to become the lib- teha raist haencswe nterlains t° RotnhaledthReouni ghltn:ifilea someday drniis running for Congress at least "I think there's a real nobility to public service. It walkd be fun to run on a platform I really beb....ed in, without any of the kind of common: people make—without being beholden • the win-at-all-costs mentality." And the invasion of privacy would he nothing new. "What are you going to say about me that hasn't already been said? I don't cheat, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I live a clean lik," Mika says, his eyes twinkling. "He's only 30 years old," says Jennifer Todd, who co-produced Boiler Room. "He still has an enormous amount of time to do things?' Tune, and drive.."I think he's incredibly hungry," says Sean Bailey. who founded the media and production company Live- Planet with Affleck, Damon, and Chris Moore. "I think the guy has very grand aspirations. I don't think he's going to be content with just being a movie star. He knows he has the potential to do very big things." Such ambitions could be derailed by any number of miscalculations. including a pd. sate life that generates too many sensational headlines, but Affieck has a clear idea of the ultimate goal. "On my deathbed. I have to be one who looks back and feels I lived a good and substantial and meaningful Ilk.- he says. In the meantime. however there's a wed- ding to plan. Z Jeffrey Epstein CONTINUED PROM PAGE i s Bear Stearns and other firms. Epstein resigned from Bear Steams on March 12. The S.E.C. was tipped oil that Epstein had information on insider trading at Bear Stearns. and it was therefore obliged to question him. In his S.E.C. testi- mony, given on April I. 1981, Epstein claimed that he had found "offensive" the way Bear Stearns management had handled a disci- plinary action following its discovery that he had committed a possible "Rea D" viola- tion—evidently he had lent money to his clos- est friend. (In the 1989 deposition he said that he'd lent approximately $20.000 to War- m Eisenstein, to buy stock.) Such an action could have been considered improper, al- though Epstein claimed he had not realized this until afterward. According to Epstein. Bear Stearns man- agement had questioned him about the loan _ . Alvin Einbender.. In his 1989 deposition Ep- stein recalled that the partner who had made an "issue" of the matter was Marvin David- son. On March 9. Epstein said. he had met with Tarnopol and Einbendcr again. and the two partners told him that the oxalate com- mittee had weighed the offense. together with previous "carelessness" over expenses. and he would be lined 51.500. "There was discussion whether, in fact. I had ever put in an airline ticket for some- one else and not myself and I said that it was possible. ... since my secretary han- dles my expenses?' Epstein told the S.E.C. In his 1989 testimony he stated that the -Reg D" incident had cost him a shot at partnership that year. What the S.E.C. seemed to be especially interested in was whether there was a con- nection between Epstein's leaving and the alleged insider trading in St. Joe Minerals by other people at Bear Steams: nection with your reasons for leaving the firm? A: I'm aware that there were many rumors. Q: What were the rumors ynu heard? A: Nothing to do with St. Joe. Q: Can you relate what you heard? A: It was having to do with an Wien affair with a secretary. Q: Have you heard any other rumors suggest- ing that you had made a presentation or com- munication to the Executive Committee con- cerning alleged improprieties by other mem- bers or employees of Bear Stearns? A: I. in fact, haw heard that rumor, but it's been from Mr. Harris in our conversation last week. Q Have you heard it from anyone else? A: No. A little later the interview focuses on James Caync: Q: Did you ever hear while you were at Bear Steams that Mr. Cayne may have trader or iv. sider information in connection with Si t- • Minerals Corporation? A: No. Q: Did Mr. Cayne ever have any conversation with you about SI Joe Minerals? EFTA00188454 Jeffrey Epstein lions between Mr. Cayne and anyone else re- garding St. Joe Minerals? A: No. And still later in the questioning comes this exchange: Q: Have you had any type of business deal- ings with Mr. Cayne? A: There's no relationship with Bear Steams. Q: Pardon? A: Other than Bear Steams, no. Q: Have you been a participant in any type of business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: No. Q: Do you have any expectation of participat- ing inpny business venture with Mr. Cayne? A: Nd. Q: Have you had any business participations with Mr. Therm? A: No; nor do I anticipate any. Q: Mr. Epstein. did anyone at Bear Steams tell you in words or substance that you should not divulge anything about St. Joe Minerals to the staff of the Securities and Exchange Com- mission? A: No. Q: Has anyone indicated to you in any way either directly or indirectly, in words or sub- stance. that your compensation for this past year or any future monies coming to you from Bear Stearns will be contingent upon your not divulging information to the Securities and Exchange Commission? A: No. Despite the circumstances of Epstein's leaving. Bear Stearns agreed to pay him his annual bonus--which he anticipated as be- ing approximately S100.000. The S.E.C. never brought any charges against anyone at Bear Stearns for insider trading in St. Joe. but its questioning seems to indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's answers. Some sources have wondered why. if he was such a big producer at Bear Stearns. he would have given it up over a mere 32.500 fine. Certainly the years after Epstein left the Firm were not obviously prosperous ones. His luck didn't seem to change until he met Hoffenberg. O ne of Epstein's first assignments for Hof- fenbcrg was to mastermind doomed bids to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. Hofknberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before a grand jury in Illinois that Epstein came up with the idea of financing these bids through Towers's acquisition of two ailing Illinois insurance companies. Associated Life and United Fire. "He was hired by us to work on the securities side of the insurance companies and Towers Financial. supposedly to make a profit for us and for the companies," Hoffen- berg reportedly told the grand jury. He also ecuting the schemes, although, having no broker's license, he had to rely on others to make the trades. Much of Hoffenberg's sub- sequent testimony in his criminal case has proven to be false, and Epstein has claimed he was merely asked how the bids could be accomplished and has said he had nothing to do with the financing of them. Yet Rich- ard Allen, the former treasurer of United Fire, recalls seeing Epstein two or three times at the company. He and another a- ecutive say they had direct dealing with Ep- stein over the finances. And in his deposition of 1989, Epstein stated that he was the one who executed "all" Hoffenberg's instructions to buy and sell the stock. He called it "mak- ing the orders." He could not recall whether he had chosen the brokers used. To win approval from the Illinois insur- ance regulators for Towers's acquisition of the companies, Hoffenberg promised to in- ject S3 million of new capital into them. In fact. in his grand-jury testimony Hoffenberg claimed that he, his chief operating officer. Mitchell Brater, and Epstein came up with a scheme to steal S3 million of the insurance companies bonds to buy Pan Am and Em- ery stock. "Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater arranged the various brokerage accounts for the bonds to be placed with in New York. and I think one in Chicago. Rodman & Ren- shaw.- Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then. said Hoffenbetg, while making it appear as though they were investing the bonds in much staler financial instruments, they used them as collateral to buy the stock. -Ep- stein was the person in charge or the trans- actions. and Mitchell Bracer was assisting him with it in coordination on behalf or the insurance companies' money." Hoffinberg, claimed at the time. At one point. according to Hoffinberg. a broker forged the documents necessary for a SI.S million check to be written on insurance- company funds. The check was used to buy more stock in the takeover targets. Mean- while. in order to throw the insurance regula- tors off the S 1.8 million was reported us being safely invested in a money-market account. United Fire's former chief financial officer Daniel Payton confirms part of Hotknberg's account. He says he recalls making one or two telephone calls to Epstein tat Rotten- berg's direction) about the missing bonds. "He said, 'Oh. yeah, they still exist.' But we found out later that he had sold those assets ... leveraged them ... (and) used some mar- gin account to take some positions in ... Emery and Pan Am." says Payton. Epstein's extraordinary creativity was, ac- cording to Hoffenberg, responsible for the purchase by the insurance companies of a $500,000 bond, with no money down. "Ep- stein created a great scheme to purchase a 5500.000 treasury bond that would not be he reportedly told the grand jury. "It looked like it was free and clear but it actually wasn't," he said. Epstein has denied he ever had any deal- ings with anyone from the insurance com- panies. But Richard Allen says he recalls talking to Epstein at Hofknberg's direction and telling him it was urgent they retrieve the missing bonds for a stale examination. According to Allen, Epstein said, "We'll get them back." He had "kind of a flippant atti- tude," says Allen. "They never came back." E pstein, according to Hoffenberg, also came up with a scheme to manipulate the price of Emery Freight stock in an at- tempt to minimize the losses that occurred when HotTenberg's bid went wrong and the share price began to fall. This was alleged to have imohed multiple clients' accounts con- trolled by Epstein. Eventually. in 1991, insurance regulators in ffinois sued Hoffenberg. He settled the case. and Epstein. who was only a paid consul- tant, was never deposed or accused of any wrongdoing. Barry Gross. the attorney who was handling the suit for the regulators. says of Epstein. "He was vety elusive.... It was hard to really track him down. There were a substantial number of checks for significant dollars that were paid to him. I remem- ber.... He was this character we never got a handle on. Again we presumed that he was involved with the Pan'Am and Emery run that Hoffenberg made, but we never got a chance to depose him." "From the government's discovery in the main sentencing apinst Hoffenberg it would seem the government was perhaps a bit lazy;" says David Lewis. who represented Mitchell Bruer. "They went for what they knew they could get ... and that was the fraudulent promissory notes [i.e., the much larger and unrelated part of Hoffenbetg's fraud. based in New York State].... What they couldn't get. they didn't bother with:' Another lawyer involved in the criminal prosecution of Horknberg says. "In a crim- inal investigation like that, when there is a guilty plea. to be quick and dirty about it. discovery is always incomplete.... They don't have to line up witnesses: they don't have to learn every fact that might come out on cross-examination." E pstein was involved with Hoffcnberg in other questionable transactions. Finan- cial records show that in 1988 Epstein in- vested S1.6 million in Riddell Sports Inc., a company that manufactures football helmets. Among his co-investors were the theater mogul Robert Nederlander and attorney Leonard Toboroff. A source close to this transaction claims that Epstein told Neder- !ander and Toboroff that he had raised his • •• • .•• • .11. • ••• • • • EFTA00188455 whose identity they could not be allowed to know. But Hof enberg has claimed the mon- ey came from him, and Towers's financial statements for that year show a loan to Ep- stein of $400,000. (Epstein has said he can't remember the details and has dis- puted the accuracy of the Towers financial reports.) Around the same time, Nederlander and Toboroff let Epstein come in with them on a scheme to make money out of Pennwalt, a Pennsylvania chemical company. The plan was to group together with two other parties to take a substantial declared position in the stock. According to a source. Epstein was supposed tp help Nederlander and Toboroff raise SIS million. He seemed to fail to find other investors, say those familiar with the deal. (Epstein has said he was merely an in- vestor.) He invested SI million, which he told his co-investors was his own money. But in his 1989 deposi- tion he said that he put in only S300,000 of his own money. Where did the rest come from? Hof- Feilberg has said it came from him. in a loan that Nederlander and Toboroff didn't know about. Two things happened that alarmed Nederlander and Toboroff. After the group signaled a possible takeover. the Pennwalt management threatened to sue the would-be raiders. Epstein was reluctant ini- tially to give a deposition about his share of the money. telling Toboroff there were "reasons- he didn't want to. Then, after the opportunity for new investors was closed, co-investors recall Epstein announcing that he'd found one at last: Dick Snyder then C.E.O. of the publisher Simon S: Schuster. who want- ed to put up approximately S500.000. (Nei- ther Epstein nor Snyder can now recall the investment. Yet in the 1989 deposition Epstein said that he had recruited Sny- der, whom he had met socially. into the deal.) According to a source. Toboroff and Ne- derlander told Epstein that Snyder was too late. but, without their realizing it. Hoffen- herg has claimed, Snyder wrote a check to lioffenberg and bought out some of his in- vestment. But then Snyder wanted out. "Nederlander started to get these irate calls from [Snyder.' who wasn't part of the deal, saying be was owed all this money." ; says someone close to the deal. Toboroff Tug as Nederlander and Toboroff were j growing wary of Epstein, he became in- creasingly involved with Leslie Werner, whom he had met through insurance executive Robert Meister and his late wile. Epstein has told people that he met Wexner in 1986 in Palm Beach, and that he won his confidence by persuading him not to invest in the stock market, just as the 1987 crash was approach- ing. His story has subsequently changed. When asked if Wexner knew about his con- nection to Hoffenberg, Epstein said that he began working for Wexner in 1989, and that "it was certainly not the same time." Wherever and whenever it was that Ep- stein and Wexner actually met. there was an immediate and strong personal chem- istry. Werner says he thinks Epstein is "very smart with a combination of excellent judg- ment and unusually high standards. Also. he is always a most loyal friend." OFFICE SPACE The "office" in Epstein's house. It has no computers. but it does have a desk that Epstein tells people once belonged to banker J. P Morgan. and "the largest Persian rue you'll ever see in a ornate home Sources say Epstein proved that he could be useful to Wexner as well, with "fresh" ideas about investments. "Wexner had a cou- ple of bad investments. and Jeffrey cleaned those up right away." says a former associ- ate or Epstein's. Before he signed on with Wexner. Epstein had several ineetines with Harold Levin. then head of Wexner Investments, in which he enunciated ideas about currencies that Lain found incommthensibk. "In W." says some- one who used to work very closely with Wex- ner. "almost everyone at the Limited won- dered who Epstein was: he literally came out of nowhere." uch of Epstein's work is related to clean- ing up, tightening budgets, and efficien- cies. One person who worked for Werner and who saw a contract drawn up between the two men says Epstein is involved in "every- thing, not just a little here. a little there. Everything!" In addition, he says. "Wexner likes having a hatchet man.... Whenever there is ditty work to be done he'd stick Jef- frey on it.... He has a reputation for being ruthless but he gets the job done." Epstein has evidently been asked to fire personal-staff members when needed. "He was that mysterious person that aerate was scared to death of." says a former employee. Meanwhile. he is also less than popular with some people outside %amt.'s company with whom he now deals. "He 'inserted' himself into the construction process of Les- lie Weamer's yacht.... That resulted in liti- gation down the road between Mr. Wexner and the shipyard that eventually built the ves- sel: says Lars Forsberg. a lawyer whose firm at the rime. Dickerson and was hired to deal with litigation stemming from the construction of Wexner's Limitless— at 3IS feet. one of the 'largest private yachts in the world. Evidently. Ep- stein stalled on paying Dickerson and Reily for its work "It's pntably once twice in my le- gal career that I've had to sue a client for payment of services that he'd re- quested and we'd per- formed ... without issue on the performance." says Forsberg. In the end the matter was settled. but Ep- stein claims he now has no recollection of it. The incident is one of a number of disputes Epstcin has become embroiled in. Some are for sums so tiny as to be baffling: for instance. Epstein sued investment adviser Herbert Glass, who sold him the Palm Beach house in 1990. for 513,444—Epstein claimed this was owed him for furnishings removed by Glass. In 1998 the U.S. Attorney's Office sued Epstein for illegally subletting the former home of the deputy consul general of Iran to attorney Ivan Fisher and others. EPA. CIO paid 515.000 a month in rent to die Wu. Department. but he charged fisher • an his colleagues $20.000. Though the mi. terms of the agreement are set tr: court ruled against Epstein. Wexner ofkrs some insight nth) :r. int EFTA00188456 E pstein's appointment to the board of New York's Rockefeller University in 2000 brought him into greater social promi- nence. Boasting such social names as Nancy Kissinger. Brooke Astor, and Robert Bass. the board also includes such pre-eminent scientists as Nobel laureate Joseph Gold- stein. "Epstein was thrilled to be elected." says someone who knows him. After one term Epstein resigned. Accord- ing to New York magazine, this was because he didn't like to wear a suit to meetings. A Jeffrey Epstein he is winning. Whether in conversations or negotiations, he always stands back and lets the other person determine the style and manner of the conversation or negotiation. And then he responds in their style. Jeffrey sees it in chivalrous terms. He does not pick a fight, but if there is a fight, he will let you choose your weapon." One case is rather more serious. Currently, Citibank is suing Epstein for defaulting on loans from its private-banking arm for S20 million. Epstein claims that Citibank "fraud- ulent induced" him into borrowing the moire for investments. Citibank disputes this charge. The legal papers for another case offer a rare window into Epstein's finances. In 1995, Epstein stopped paying rent to his landlord, the nonprofit Municipal Arts Society, for his office in the Vi lard House. He claimed that they were breaking the terms of the lease by not letting his staff in at night. The case was eventually settled. However. one of the papers filed in this dispute is Epstein's financial state- ment for 1988. in which he claimed to be worth 520 million. He listed that he owned 57 million in securities, SI million in cash. zero in residential property (although he told sources that he had already bought the was "arrogant" and "not a good lit." The spokesperson admits that it is "infrequent" for board members not to be renominated after only one term. Still, the recent spate of publicity Ep- stein has inspired does not seem to have fazed him. In November he was spotted in the front row of the Victoria's Secret fashion show at New York's Lexington Avenue Ar- mory; around the same time the usual co- terie of friends and beautiful women were whisked off to Little St. James (which he tells people has been renamed Little St. Jeff) for a long weekend. Thanks to Epstein's introductions, says Martin Nowak, the biologist finds himself moving from Princeton to Harvard. where he is assuming the joint position of profes- sor of mathematics and prokssor of biolo- • gy. Epstein has pledged at least S25 million to Harvard to create the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics, and Epstein will have an office at the university. The program will be dedi- cated to searching for natures algorithms, a pursuit that is a specialty of Nowak's. For Epstein this must be the summit of every- thing he has worked toward: he has been seen proudly displaying Harvard president Larry Summers's letter of commitment as if he can't quite believe it is real. He says he was reluctant to have his name attached to FASHION Coven Ben Affleck's Double RL T-shirt from Dosiolo Rt. NXC. and LA. oe go to wwwPolacom. for Lents leans. cod 800-USA-LEVI; Deborah IMAM-. for Ad Ithe Agency/. Page 96: Chrome Hearts shirt from Chrome Hearts, NYC, a call for Ray-San sunglasses, call )388-l. Page 123: Peter Cinceni's Emporia Armani shirt from Emporio Amon boutimes nationwide: Ralph Lauren suspenders from selected Polo Ralph Laren storm: km Meehan for WSW ScImpfer Management Page 140: Noes Cocottes shirt by Thomas Pink; nil by Giorgio Annoni; lie by DKNY; Brioni mat by special ceder from selected Bocci men Par. 151: lay Glannon and Mina Roytberg styled by Aloe Henhips. Page 160: Styled by Angelo Grata- Emir. Inc Page 214: For June Havoc's Giro Simonelli Design start amiable by special order. coil 978.499.2°15. Page 220: Bernadette Peters's Donna Koran Na.. York dress 'rpm Donna <. non New York Pores natiorsece and Beegocel Goodman NYC. Paul Smith Women coat :ram Henn Bendel. NYC. and 'Fa9x. LA.: Chanel mwelty and gloss. from Chanel baArearationsode. or cat 800-550-000S; home in Palm Beach), and S II million in the program. but Summers persuaded him. Norc50 Rockily.. shoes fro„, Kohl. soma other assns. including his investment in He rang his mentor Wexner about it. and monica Cori_ and Carol Oxalate. N.C.: Riddell. A co-investor in Riddell sins: "The Wexner told him it was all right. Lamberison &we handbag by special order R.— company had been bought with a huge An insatiable, restless soul. always on the Bergdorf OCCO^NIA NYC.: Glsurka luggoge !IC." amount of debt. and it wasn't public. so it move. Epstein builds a tremendous amount was meaningless to attach a figure like that to of downtime into his hectic work schedule. it ... the price it cost was about S1.2 mil- Yet there is something almost programmed hon." The co-investors bought out Epstein's about his relaxation: it's as if even plea- share in Riddell in 1995 for approximately sure has to be measured in terms of self- 53 million. At that time, when Epstein was improvement. Nowak says that. when he asked. as a routine matter, to sign a paper goes to stay with Epstein in the Caribbean. guaranteeing he had access to a few million they'll get up at six and. as the sun rises. dollars in case of any subsequent disputes have three-hour conversations about theoret- over the sale price. Wexner signed for him. ical physics. "Then he'll go off and do some Epstein has explained that this was because work. re-appear. and we'll talk some more." the co-investors wanted an indemnity against Another person who went to the island being sued by Wexner. One of the investors with Epstein. Maxwell. and several beautiful calls this "bullshit." women remembers that the women "sat around one night teasing him about the kinds of grasping women who might want to date him. He was amused by the idea.... He's like a king in his own world:' Many people comment there is some- thing innocent, almost childlike about Jef- frey Epstein. They see this as refreshing, given the sophistication of his surroundings. Alan Dershowitz says that. as he was getting to know Epstein, his wife asked him if he would still be close to him if Epstein suddenly filed for bankruptcy. Dershowitz says he replied, "Absolutely. I would be as interested in him hod bomb.. eon< r,n rhp Ghurbo. NYC. cr col 800.587.684. Par 223: Agnes Stockpot's Tom Ford for is es Saint Laurent Rive Gaucho dross from Yves SCR- Laurent Rive Gaucho boum_es. NYC. and Houston Page 226: Nan Cannon styled by Linea Mechene: sap and pants by Delco & Gabbana, from Dolce & Gabbono. Beverly HI& tems-BY by Wendy Wale.. from %%reedy Walker, LA: ;noes oy Jimmy Choo. from Jimrr CM°. Beset& Has. ***** 276-77: Ben Nieck's Guess shirt from Guess stores nosonwido. or go so weneguessrom, Venom boon from leen«. bouts:tuts worldwide. or go to ,WAV.VOISCK0 corn. or col 888.3VERSACE. Pars 278-79: Double RL T.shes Iron Double RL NYC. and LA.. or go to .....o.palocom: Chrome Hearts bng.skavect she Iron Chrome Hearn. NYC ..:r cat for Ray- an sug sun. call BBB- LUXOTITCA Page 281: Tommy Haire t. Oaf from Tommy Hager stores worldwide. or col S00- TOMMY4U; Double RL T-snet from Double Rt. NYC. and IA, • EFTA00188457 The Hari and Crimson :: News :: Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women Page 1 of 2 The Harvard Critii"§"a News Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women Dershowitz assisted Epstein in his defense, discredited witnesses with online profiles Published On 8/412006 1:05:25 AM By KATHERINE EA, GRAY Crimson Staff Writer Billionaire money manager Jeffrey E. Epstein, who donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003, has been charged with soliciting sex from prostitutes in his Palm Beach, Florida mansion. And though Epstein's case was originally to be presented to a grand jury in February, it was postponed after Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, a longtime friend of Epstein, produced information weakening some the accusers' credibility, according to the Palm Beach Post. New York State Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot L. Spitzer and New York attorney general candidate Mark A. Green have both returned gifts of $50,000 and $10,000 from Epstein, respectively, according to the New York Daily News. University President Derek C. Bok did not respond to requests for comment this week, and it is unclear what, if any, action will be taken against Epstein's $30 million, which was given in February 2003 to fund the research of mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak. According to an indictment that was unsealed last week, Epstein allegedly solicited sex at least three times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last year. Epstein's charges stem from alleged sexual encounters with of-age women. The Palm Beach Police Department believed it had probable cause to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and of lewd and lascivious molestation, according to an affidavit. But a grand jury found the witnesses in the affidavit released by the police department not credible, according to Epstein 's defense attorney, Jack A. Goldberger. In an attempt to discredit the reliability of the girls' testimony, Dershowitz gave the police copies of two myspace.com profiles of girls who testified in the affidavit against Epstein, according to a Palm Beach Police report, One girl's profile showed messages from her friends that 'contain some profanity,' according to the report. The report further says that the other girl's profile "states that her interests include music, theater and weed (Marijuana)." Dershowitz declined to comment on this issue through an assistant. When asked whether Dershowitz was hired by Epstein or was working for him pro bono, Goldberger declined comment, and said only that Dershowitz and Epstein have been friends "for many years." In April, then-Epstein lawyer Guy Fronstin accepted a plea deal that would have the billionaire plead guilty to one count of aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, and would give him five years' probation but no criminal record, according to the Post. That deal was to only apply to charges from one of the five alleged victims. Fronstin has since been fired, and Goldberger said that no such plea deal was made by any of Epstein's attorneys, according to the Post. it was absolutely clear to both the state attorney and grand jury that Epstein had no knowledge that any girl that came to his house was underaged," Goldberger told The Crimson Wednesday. "He passed a polygraph examination on that very issue." According to the probable cause affidavit released by the Palm Beach Police Department, one of the girls Epstein solicited was a 16-year- old girl who performed sexual acts for him in his bedroom on several occasions over a span of two years. The woman, whose name was blotted from the affidavit, told the police that she would completely remove her clothes and begin massaging Epstein's back, while he lay on a massage table, wearing only a towel. She would then massage his chest, and Epstein would begin to masturbate both himself and the woman. But "the woman referred to in the police report wasn't in the country at the time," Lefcourt said Wednesday, referring to the affidavit. "I do know that it was impossible to have happened the way it did." Prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek could not be reached for comment this week. Epstein, who in 2003 was named one of New York's most eligible bachelors by the New York Post, achieved fame after he took President Clinton, Chris Tucker, and Kevin Spacey on an African AIDS awareness tour via his personal jet in 2002. hi tn• //ninny therrim enn rnm /nrinterfrienrilv actve9ref=5 1 rIfIA 1 R/1 innnA EFTA00188458 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Donor Charged With Soliciting Sex from Women Page 2 of 2 In a 2002 New York Magazine article, Donald Trump described long-time friend Epstein as 'a lot of fun to be with? "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life," Trump said. —Materia/ from the Associated Press was used in the reporting of this article. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray©fas.haryard.edu. htipliwww.thecrimson.comlartIcle.aspx?ref=514961 httn•Min !!!!! the.° ri m et-in re-trn n terfri end Iv a snx?ref=514061 8/11/2006 EFTA00188459 Jeffrey Epstein plea hearing moved to March Page 1 of 2 PalmBeachDailyNewscom Jeffrey Epstein plea hearing moved to March €K PRINTTHIS Powered by riakkability By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer Thursday, January 03, 2008 A plea hearing for part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein will be rescheduled to March, his New York attorney confirmed Wednesday. The Manhattan money manager is expected to plead guilty to a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. The hearing originally was scheduled for Friday. Sources have confirmed that the deal will put Epstein in prison for 18 months, followed by house arrest. "The plea conference will be moved to March, but it will be resolved, we believe," attorney Gerald Lefcourt said by phone. Although he declined to give a reason, Lefcourt said the date change was agreed to by both the defense and the prosecution. Mike Edmondson, spokesman for State Attorney Barry Krischer, declined to comment. "It's a matter of policy we don't comment on active cases," Edmondson said. In exchange for his guilty plea, federal authorities are expected to drop their probe into whether Epstein broke any federal laws, sources have said. Epstein, 54, was indicted in July 2006 on a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. After completing an 11-month investigation, Palm Beach police said Epstein paid five underage girls for massages and sometimes sex at his El Brillo Way home. The investigation began after police received a call from a woman who said her 14-year-old stepdaughter might have been molested by a man in Palm Beach. Investigators watched Epstein's 7,234-square-foot waterfront home and private jet, and rummaged through his trash to build their case. They took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. http://cox.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Jeffrey+Epstein+plea+hearing+... 1/3/2008 EFTA00188460 Jeffrey Epstein plea hearing moved to March Page 2 of 2 Find this article at: http://vAinv.paimbeachdailynews.cominewsicontent/newsfepstein0103.html F Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright 2007 Palm Beach Daily News. All rights reserved. http://cox.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Jeffrey+Epstcin+plea+hearing+... 1/3/2008 EFTA00188461 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 1 of 9 QN. ,1,WY 0 RIC .,„„Ag.,„m Features The Fantasist Gra PRINTTHIS Accused of paying underage girls for sex, superrich money manager Jeffrey Epstein is finding that living in a dream world is dangerous—even if you can pay for it. • By Philp Weiss • Published Dec 10, 2007 Jeffrey epstein is under indictment for sex crimes in Palm Beach, Florida, and I'd expected that when he came into the office of PR guru Howard Rubenstein, he would be sober and reserved. Quite the opposite. He was sparkling and ingenuous, apologizing for the half-hour lateness with a charming line— "I never realized how many one-way streets and no-right-turns there are in midtown. I finally got out and walked"—and as we went down the corridor to Rubenstein's office, he asked, "Have you managed to talk to many of my friends?" Epstein had been supplying me the phone numbers of important scientists and financiers and media figures. "Do you understand what an extraordinary group of people Hinwwww.nrintthis.clickabilitv.com/nt/cot?action=cnt&title=A+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188462 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 2 of 9 they are, what they have accomplished in their fields?" One of the accusers—a girl of 14—had put his age at 45, not in his fifties, and you could see why. His walk was youthful, and his face was ruddy with health. He had none of the round-shouldered, burdened qualities of middle age. There was nothing in his hands, not a paper, a book, or a phone. Epstein had on his signature outfit: new blue jeans and a powder-blue sweater. "I've only ever seen him in jeans," his friend the publicist Peggy Siegal had reported, saying there was a hint of arrogance in that, Epstein's signal that he doesn't have to wear a uniform like the rest of us. I told Epstein and Rubenstein the sort of story New York wanted to do, and Epstein seemed to find ironic delight in every word. "A secretive genius," I'd said. "Not secretive, private," he corrected in his warm Brooklyn accent. "And if I was a genius I wouldn't be sitting here." "A guy with sex issues." A smile formed on Epstein's bow-shaped lips. "What do you mean by sex issues?" Well ... He was 54, had never married—I didn't finish. "Are you channeling my mother?" When I said we were interested in the agony of his ordeal, Rubenstein wrote out the word agony in capital letters on his pad. But agony seemed the last thing on Epstein's soul. "It's the Icarus story, someone who flies too close to the sun," I said. "Did Icarus like massages?" Epstein asked. Two years before, he had tried to explain himself to the Palm Beach police in the same way. After they came into his mansion with a search warrant and carted off massage tables and photos of naked girls and soaps shaped like genitalia, Epstein conveyed an urgent message to the detectives through his attorney. "Mr. Epstein is very passionate about massages ... The massages are therapeutic and spiritually sound for him; that is why he has had many massages." Epstein had even given $100,000 to Ballet Florida's massage fund, so that the dancers might also be treated. I never got to interview Epstein at length. His dream team of lawyers led by Gerald Lefcourt was negotiating a plea with Florida state prosecutors in advance of a January 7 trial date. It is expected that Epstein will plead guilty to soliciting prostitution and get an eighteen-month sentence—not that there's likely to be a shameful admission. He has always had the confidence that comes with the power to dazzle and, though accused of "doing everything in Sodom and Gomorrah," as one friend put it, seemed to believe that he could convince any halfway sophisticated person that he wasn't the least bit tawdry. "He lives in a different environment," says Siegal. "He's of this world. But he creates this different environment. He lives like a pasha. The most magnificent townhouse I've ever been in, and I've been in everything. I've seen a model of the house in Santa Fe ... a stone fortress. A model of the house in the Caribbean—it is not to be believed. I've seen photographs of the apartment in Paris ... How did he get himself into that pickle? That's the mystery of Jeffrey Epstein. He's very mysterious. Not that many people get close to him. Not that many people know him." The descriptions of Epstein's character veer between visionary and big talker. His world seems to be at an astral distance from normal humanity. He lives in what is described as the largest private residence in Manhattan, about 50,000 square feet in nine stories between Fifth and Madison on 71st. Visitors report a stuffed poodle is on the piano. The house, said one visitor, is like what Hollywood might imagine when it tries to show the superrich. When Epstein noticed the visitor's astonishment at his surroundings, he leaned against a wall with a soft smile and tapped the paneling. "It's all fake," he said. Epstein grew up in Coney Island, the son of a Parks Department employee. He never got a college degree. He studied science at Cooper Union and then NYU before migrating inevitably toward wealth. For two years, he was a charismatic teacher of physics and math at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side, till Ace Greenberg, a friend of the father of one of Epstein's students, offered him a job at Bear Stearns. In one httn://www.nrintthis.clickabilitv.cotn/nt/cot?action=ent&title=A+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188463 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 3 of 9 of the charmingly inevitable accidents of Epstein's rise, Greenberg was a senior partner of the house; Bear Steams CEO Jimmy Cayne later told New York that Epstein's forte was dealing with wealthier clients, helping them with their overall portfolios. Leslie Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, reportedly made Epstein his financial adviser and was instrumental in building his fortune. Epstein was no footman; he loved luxury and, in his own words, saw himself as a financial architect, someone who could show the rich how to live with their money. "I want people to understand the power, the responsibility, and the burden of their money," he once wrote. At times, his powers seemed magical. "I think it's all done with mirrors," says Michael Stroll, a Chicago businessman who sued Epstein (and lost) when an oil deal didn't work out. Next: Epstein's Icarus momenta The New York not,' Redux) Stroll says he could never get a straight line from Epstein. "Everybody who's his friend thinks he's so darn brilliant because he's so dam wealthy. I never saw any brilliance, I never saw him work. Anybody I know that is that wealthy works 26 hours a day. This guy plays 26 hours a day." Those who believe in Epstein say that his intelligence works in a lofty and synthetic manner. "His mind goes through a cross section of descriptions," says Joe Pagano, a financier. "He can go from mathematics to psychology to biology. He takes the smallest amount of information and gets the correct answer in the shortest period of time. That's my definition of IQ." A Columbia University geneticist says Epstein has that insight in science, too. "He has the ability to make connections that other minds can't make," says Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize winner. "He is extremely smart and probing. He can very quickly acquire information to think about a problem and also to identify biological problems without having all the data that a scientist would have ... He also has an extremely short attention span. Why?—it's not that he's bored. He has enough information after fifteen httn.//wwwnrintthiR.clickahilitv.com/nt/cot1action=crit&tifirA+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188464 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 4 of 9 minutes so that you can see his mind thrashing about, as if in a labyrinth. And even to doubt an expert's statements." Epstein has been a munificent supporter of cutting-edge research. Axel met Epstein during the early biotech days of the eighties. The writer Michael Wolff met him in the Internet bubble, in the late nineties, when Epstein invited him and a group of scientists and media types to fly to a conference on the West Coast in his beautiful 727. "It was all a little giddy," Wolff says. "There's a little food out, lovely hors d'oeuvre. And then after fifteen to twenty minutes, Jeffrey arrives. This guy comes onboard: He was my age, late forties, and he had a kind of Ralph Lauren look to him, a good-looking Jewish guy in casual attire. Jeans, no socks, loafers, a button-down shirt, shirttails out. And he was followed onto the plane by—how shall I say this?—by three teenage girls not his daughters. Not adolescent girls. These are young, 18, 19, 20, who knows? They were model-like. They towered over Jeffrey. And they immediately began serving things. You didn't know what to make of this ... Who is this man with this very large airplane and these very tall girls?" Soon after, Wolff was invited to tea at the house on East 71st Street. He understood that there was a purpose to the cultivation. Epstein was shifting his view to media, in his Ober-way. "What does the media mean, where does he fit into it?" Then Epstein began to show up in the press. In 2002, he flew Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his plane to discuss aids policy, and suddenly he was being written about. In 2003, he became a discreet confidant to Wolff during the period when Wolff was involved in a bid for New York Magazine. Sometime after that, Wolff saw the financial architect in his office at 457 Madison Avenue, the Villard House, where Random House once had its offices. "His literal office is where Bennett Ceres was. It's an incredibly strange place. It has no corporate affect at all. It's almost European. It's old—old-fashioned, unrehabbed in its way." Nearby, Wolff went on, "the trading floor is filled with guys in yarmulkes. Who they are, I have no idea. They're like a throwback, a bunch of guys from the fifties. So here is Jeffrey in this incredibly beautiful office, with pieces of art and a view of the courtyard, and he seems like the most relaxed guy in the world. You want to say 'What's going on here?' and he gives you that Cheshire smile." Epstein likes to say he's private, but you don't fly Bill Clinton to Africa without wanting attention. One friend says the Africa trip was Epstein's Icarus moment. There was tremendous risk that the natural forces of resentment would bring the too-smart, too-rich spirit back to earth. This is the friends' theory of the Palm Beach case: an overzealous police chief battened onto a rich man because he was not living in a box like everyone else. The dazzling arc of Epstein's comet came to an end—without his knowing it—in March 2005. That was when a distraught woman called the police in Palm Beach and, after at first refusing to give her name, said that she believed her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been molested by a wealthy man. The stepmother had learned about the matter in a roundabout way. The girl lived during the week at an "involuntary-admitted juvenile educational facility" because of behavior problems. She had shown up at the school with $300 in her purse, and it became the talk of her classmates. One friend called the girl a "whore," another friend put a fist through the wall in anger, the girl left school. The stepmother got a call from another student's mother. Soon, a policewoman was talking to the girl with a therapist present. The girl cried and dug her finger into her thigh and told the story, of going to a big house on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and climbing a spiral staircase to the master bedroom, where a blonde woman of 25 who wasn't very friendly laid out sheets and lotions on a massage table and left, then Jeff came in, naked but for a towel, and sternly ordered the girl to take off her clothes. As she rubbed his chest, he touched himself, then applied a vibrator to her crotch. httn./Ainum rwirothic rlirknhilitv rnm/nt/nnt?action=enthtitle=A+Sex-Crime+Investiflatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188465 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 5 of 9 • Next: The police lock onto Epstein's sybaritic lifestyle, OUR MIMI Await Linka Rednib.7” DUI Rain putaer.67 initial 1111th llon•snl ph/v.0,4st 101IIINAN lAklAt JEFFREY EPSTEIN Wsktrauryployky Splash News; Palm Beach Pasr; David Levenson Getty Images; Patrick McMullan; Donna Ward/Getty Images; AP) The lengthy police narrative in the case doesn't make clear how police connected gray-haired Jeff with Jeffrey Epstein, but when the girl identified his picture in an instant in a photo lineup, police threw themselves into an investigation of the modem and palatial house on El Brillo Way. Palm Beach Island is a 3.75-square-mile spit of land famous for towering ficus privacy hedges on Mediterranean-influenced architecture that begins at over $5 million for a single-family home. But the police did their work miles across the water, in the sprawling, drab subdivisions of West Palm Beach, where, according to police reports, high-school girls had • ifairstein's house. The 14- year-old was used to set up her 18-year-old go-between, had massaged him once and thereafter refused, but had agreed to procure girls, for $200 a head. "I'm like Heidi Fleiss," she said. The police net went wider, to malls and community colleges, and Olive Garden restaurants and trailer parks, and the story was always the same. Skinny, beautiful young girls were approached by other girls, who said they could make $200 by massaging a wealthy man, naked. said Epstein had told her the younger the better—which she said meant 18 to 20. The rules were simple. Tell him you're 18. There might be some touching; you could draw the line. "The more you do, the more you are paid." A couple of the girls said they went all the way into the experience—one olice she visited 50 times, another hundreds of times, both having sex with Epstein and , a then-19-year-old beauty who Epstein told one of them was his "sex slave"; he'd purchased her from her family back in Yugoslavia. Epstein's friends' belief that he was targeted for his big life reflects the fact that the police locked onto Epstein's sybaritic lifestyle. They made careful note of the girls' thong panties, the shape and color of hitn./Ainuus nrintthic nlir.4ahility e.nmintinnt?actinn=crit&titletA+Sex-Crime+Investieatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188466 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 6 of 9 the sex toys Epstein favors, and the erotic art in his home, from photos to the mural of a woman to the statue of the man with a bow. Police repeatedly pulled his trash to dig out phone messages and kept an eye on his private planes. Once, they even reported on Wexner's plane, noting the procession of Cadillac Escalades that made its way across the tarmac. After word of the investigation got back to Epstein, through his girls, police served a search warrant at the house right under the noses of New York decorator Mark Zeff and architect Douglas Schoettle, who were there planning a renovation, and seized a dozen or so photographs of naked women the girls had described as well as the penis- and vagina- shaped soaps. Those soaps were even in guest bathrooms. No wonder; Epstein didn't see his sex life as tawdry, wasn't hiding it from his circle. Wolff believes that Epstein had created an idealized world from "a deep and basic cultural moment" once epitomized by Hugh Hefner. "Jeffrey is living a life that once might have been prized and admired and valued, but its moment has passed ... I think the culture has outgrown it. You can't describe it without being held to severe account. It's not allowed. It may be allowed if you're secretive and furtive, but Jeffrey is anything but secretive and furtive. I think it represents an achievement to Jeffrey." Some girls who "worked" for Epstein—the term favored by the unfriendly assistant, , who allegedly kept the Rolodex—seem to have embraced that fantasy, too. One girl said she was "so in love with Jeff Epstein and would do anything for him." Two college girls/aspiring models were matter-of- fact about what they'd done, and surveillance reports describe a fleet of girls jogging into the house. But generally the girls' feelings as portrayed by police interviews ranged from disgust to fear. Epstein was the hairy troll under the bridge they had to pass over to get quick money. One girl "stated she was very uncomfortable during the incident but knew it was almost over." Another kept looking at the clock, and Epstein said she was ruining his massage. Other girls said they were weirded out, grossed out. They didn't like his egg-shaped penis, definitely didn't want it inside them. Some couldn't say just what Epstein was doing because they kept their eyes averted. Two or three girls started crying when they talked to police, one hysterically. One wanted to tell the police but knew that he was "powerful" and was afraid he would come after her family. A 17-year-old model described an uncomfortable encounter in which Epstein offered to help her get jobs, then belittled her modeling portfolio before cajoling her to model the underwear he'd bought for her. A 16-year-old who needed money for Christmas said she was so upset by Epstein's removing her underwear as she massaged him that she broke off her friendship with the girl who brought her. Mother called Epstein "a pervert." Epstein clearly did not see it that way. The girls knew what they were getting into and came willingly and were well paid. He was a sexy guy who was working to give the girls pleasure. The master bedroom was a sensual place, with a mural of a naked woman and a hot-pink couch, and a wooden armoire with sex toys. The lights dimmed, music came on. Still, it is a stretch to say Epstein's love shack was like Hugh Hefner's. Playboy was state-of-the-art pornography for the sixties. Today, cutting-edge porn is men with bankrolls picking up young amateurs, say, high-school cheerleaders or college girls on break, and daring them to go further and further for more cash, all the way to sex toys and lesbian sex. At 52, Epstein was outside the demographic of the makeout artists of The Bang Bros, Girls Gone Wild, and Coeds Need Cash, but he surely saw himself in that erotic milieu, and seems to have been shocked that his activities would result in a police investigation. His claim that he'd given a total of $100,000 to Ballet Florida for massage was absolutely true. "The massage and therapy fund is excruciatingly important to us. It's part of a dancer's life to have daily massages," says the ballet's marketing director, Debbie Wemyss, who notes that Epstein's generosities preceded his public troubles. Police were not impressed. They interviewed a licensed deep-tissue masseuse whom Epstein frequently employed. She said she got $100 an hour, and there were no happy int,obaniny nrinithig riinirahilifv.e.nm/nt/cnt?action=cnt&titleA+Sex-Crime+Investiaatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188467 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 7 of 9 endings. Next: Epstein mounts an ggressive counterinvestikation, The 14-year-old told Epstein she was 18 and in the twelfth grade. In Florida, this is not a defense. The law protects the young by placing the burden on the adult to learn the truth. And while Epstein's girls might have fooled a lot of people—they were tall and grown-up—it's difficult to believe Epstein wouldn't have suspected some were underage. (Though Epstein later passed a lie-detector test saying that he believed the girls were 18.) Girls needed to be driven home or given rental cars. Offered whatever they wanted from Epstein's chef, they often gobbled cereal and milk. One 16-year-old told police that Epstein told her repeatedly not to tell anyone about their encounter or bad things could happen. Alfredo Rodriguez, a houseman, told police that at his boss's direction, he brought a pail of roses to a girl to congratulate her on her performance in a high-school drama. "He has never been secretive about the girls," Wolff says. "At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, `Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.' " Epstein mounted an aggressive counterinvestigation. Epstein's friend Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, provided the police and the state attorney's office with a dossier on a couple of the victims gleaned from their MySpace sites—showing alcohol and drug use and lewd comments. The police complained that private investigators were harassing the family of the 14-year-old girl before she was to appear before the grand jury in spring 2006. The police said that one girl had called another to say, "Those who help [Epstein] will be compensated and those who hurt him will be dealt with." By then, the case was politicized. The Palm Beach police had brought stacks of evidence across the waterway to the Palm Beach County state attorney's office, but the state attorney apparently saw the main witnesses as weak. One had run away from home, lied about her age, and bragged about her ass on MySpace. Mother had a drug arrest and had stolen from ' ' ret. o • nted numerous felony charges against Epstein as well as charges against and . Then they heard that the state attorney was preparing a deal with Epstein giving him five years on probation and sending him for psychiatric evaluation. The police chief, Michael Reiter, accused the state attorney of bending over backward for a rich man and then turned the matter over to the FBI. Finally, in July 2006, the Palm Beach County state attorney's office handed down one indictment of Epstein on a felony count of soliciting prostitution. There is no reference to minors in the indictment. Reiter was enraged. He released a letter he had sent out to five underage girls that read "I do not feel that justice has been sufficiently served." Epstein's lawyer said that Reiter was out of control, but the police chief was having an effect, The U.S. Attorney's office began an investigation, and the dream team added another member, Kenneth Starr, the former Clinton prosecutor. One of Epstein's friends told me, "He thinks there's an anti-Semitic conspiracy against him in Palm Beach. He's convinced of that. Maybe it's a defense mechanism." Palm Beach was historically a bastion of Gentile privilege. Vanderbilt and Glendinning and Dillman and Warburton are still engraved on the public fountains, and the Everglades Club with its espaliered trees and brass plates reading private seems stuck in the time of the Gentlemen's Agreement. Yet the anti-Semitic charge disturbed Jews whom I asked about it in Palm Beach. Michael Resnick, rabbi at the oldest synagogue on the island, Temple Emanu-El (circa the sixties), says he strongly doubts that Epstein is a modern Dreyfus. "There's no way, htteritunmuf rlinkahilitv rnm/nt/cnt?action=ent&tithrA+Sex-Ciime+Investi2atio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188468 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 8 of 9 shape, or form that you can say that Palm Beach is a bastion with respect to religion. Individuals, yes. And there are some places that it is not an asset to be a Jew." Once Palm Beach tried to keep synagogues from opening. There are now four on the little island, including an Orthodox shul started by Slim-Fast founder Danny Abraham. Jose Lambiet, gossip columnist for the Palm Beach Post, says, "Half my sources on the island are Jewish socialites." Lambiet says the case has fed rage within the community over Palm Beach rules: The rich never have to do time. William Kennedy Smith in 1991, Rush Limbaugh, lately Ann Coulter for a voting infraction. Maybe it was inevitable that religion would come into the case. Peggy Siegal says Epstein's two big charitable causes are science and Israel. His Brooklyn homies Dershowitz and Rubenstein are also major Israel supporters. Dershowitz has written a book about lingering anti-Semitism in elite life. Now throw in the fact that the Palm Beach police asked at least three of the girls whether they had noticed whether Epstein was circumcised. "I asked ... if she knew what being circumcised meant," the officer stated in regard to the 14-year-old. Of course, that might be evidence. But other details in the police narrative seem to derive more from Edgar Allan Poe's psychological tragedies than from Philip Roth's sociological comedies. Epstein is licensed in Florida to carry a concealed weapon—he has a Glock—and a shower on the first floor was given over to a gun safe. One girl said his chest was so pumped up he appeared to be on steroids. He had a Harley next to the many black Mercedeses, but his Florida license was expired. Now he was licensed in the Virgin Islands and gave his "permanent residence" as the same address as Island Yachts. Notwithstanding the room on the first floor with floor-to-ceiling books, the general aura is cold and joyless and lonely, that of a • ivi ' self over com letely to the sensual life, with the help of Next: Epstein maintainthe's clone nothing wrong. The police narrative has overtones of a man avoiding all connection or intimacy. For years, Epstein had had a companion in a woman who could take him on if any woman could: Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell, the British newspaper baron, a Jew born in Czechoslovakia, who died mysteriously off his yacht in 1991. The British tabloids say that Epstein reminded Maxwell of her father and that she brought him into a Continental world. The Broadway and movie producer Jonathan Farkas says he and his wife used to double-date with the couple. Maxwell spent time at the Palm Beach house, and the police narrative says that she even hired an assistant-cum-masseuse for Epstein. But that was five years ago, and the girl was 23, at a local college. Maxwell never showed up in all the surveillance, only her stationery. Epstein's activities seem to have devolved in recent years. Juan Alessi, his longtime houseman, told police that toward the end of his employment, the girls were "younger and younger," and he often had to wash off vibrators and "a long rubber penis" left in the sink. The next houseman, Alfredo Rodriguez, said that he found the sex toys he had to wash "scattered on the floor." No need to worry about dirty laundry, if there's someone to do it. The U.S. attorney's investigation put Epstein in a bind. If the Feds brought a case and he lost, he would be imprisoned for a mandatory minimum ten-year sentence. Given the choice, it appears that Epstein will not gamble on a trial but make a deal with the state attorney on the prostitution charge. htto://www.printthis.clickabilitv.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&titleA+Sex-Crime+Investigatio... 12/10/2007 EFTA00188469 A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein's Dangerous Dream World -- New Yo... Page 9 of 9 Not that he is likely to admit that he did anything wrong. Throughout his ordeal, Epstein maintained the air that there was nothing sordid about his actions. His wealth seems to have endowed him with utter shamelessness, the emperor's new clothes with an erection. Even Alan Greenspan has lately raised the moral questions brought on by the gap between the rich and poor: The poor will begin to feel that the social contract was not made in good faith. Epstein's friends say that on this matter, he has a philosophical position. "Fundamentally," Wolff says, "it's about math. That on a macro level it inevitably happens that the rich get richer. And then at some level the rich get richer on a geometric basis. Jeffrey's point is that this whole issue is—it's just mathematics at this point. This is the nature of a successful economy. The more successful the economy is, and that would be the goal of everybody, a successful economy, the greater the discrepancy actually is." There is no better place to observe how Epstein's mathematics work than Palm Beach. The only signs of life are crews of Spanish-speaking laborers on teetering ladders clipping the high hedges, not far from Bulgari and Valentino and Tiffany. It is a few miles on the other side of the bridge to where the girls came from, the shabby sprawl of West Palm Beach, with trailer parks, boys crouched on motor scooters, and pickup trucks under sun tents. house is on an unpaved road by an irrigation ditch. An attractive blonde in her forties answers the door wearing pistachio Capri pants, and promptly slams it. "We have absolutely no comment about the Epstein case." Driving home with their $500, said to the 14-year-old that if they did this every Saturday they'd be rich, and it's understandable that a teenager in West Palm Beach might feel that way. The coldest stories in the police narrative are about money and service. Maria Alessi, the previous houseman's wife, said she had cleaned house and shopped for Epstein for eight years and never had a direct conversation with him. He made it clear that he did "not want to encounter the Alessis during his stay in Palm Beach." One girl said that when she had sex with Epstein she closed her eyes and thought about cash. "In my mind, I'm like, 'Oh my God, when this is over you're getting so much money." Jose Lambiet says the case went forward in Palm Beach despite the efforts of the dream team because of community rage arising from the class issues in the case—Epstein found the girls not from his own fancy neighborhood but from the struggling suburbs. He has never shown a glimmer of understanding that a high-school girl could be damaged by a powerful 50-year-old's demands, or that some of the girls were already emotionally damaged. For someone who could dream anything, it seems a little small. Find this article at: http://www.nymag.coinfnewsifeatures/41826 F Check the box to Include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright New York Magazine Holdings LLC. All Rights Reserved. For the city that never Sitiel/S The magazine that never rests Just 44C an issue. 1•44.• I I/ninny. ...:n.14110 "1;tar01111itU nomInt/rint?antinn=r.ntgrittle=A+Sex-Crime+Investioatio.. 12/10/2007 EFTA00188470 Page 1 of 8 VVestlaw. QUERY - (TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE")( /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT' 1. I DATABASES(S) - CTA U.S. McIver, 186 F.3d 1119, 1999 WL 587573, 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6304, 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6425, 1999 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8052, C.A.9 (Mont.), August 06, 1999(Nos. 98-30145, 98-30146.98-3014698-30145) ...held that: (1) placement of motion-activated cameras near marijuana plants in national forest without search warrant did not violate Fourth Amendment; (2) as matter of first impression, placement of magnetic electronic tracking device on undercarriage of vehicle did not violate Fourth Amendment; (3) officers had probable cause to search vehicle; (4) convictions were supported by sufficient evidence; (5) District Court did not ... ...to obtain photographs of defendants visiting and harvesting marijuana plants, did not violate defendant's reasonable expectation of privacy protected by Fourth Amendment; it was beyond dispute that Forest Service could have stationed officers to conduct surveillance of plants, visual observation of site ... ...to the public which may be viewed by any passing visitor or law enforcement officer are not protected by the Fourth Amendment because there can be no reasonable expectation of privacy and such circumstances. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [6] 349 Searches and Seizures... 2. H U.S.I. Remsing, 874 F.2d 817, 1989 WL 41686, Unpublished Disposition, C.A.9 (Alaska), April 20, 1989(No. 88-3130.88-3130) ...with Remsing. On May 15, ground surveillance at the airstrip observed Remsing and three male companions depart in Remsing's two airplanes. The electronic tracking devices enabled officers to follow the aircraft to the Noatak National Preserve. A subsequent ground search yielded physical evidence of a ... ...evidence to coerce the coconspirators into testifying. The exclusionary rule bars the use of evidence obtained in violation of gic fourth amendment in a criminal trial against the victim of the illegal search and seizure. Weelcsl. United States, 232 U.S. 383... 3. C U.S... Alonso, 790 F.2d 1489„ C.A.10 (Utah), May 16, 1986(No. 84-1082.84-1082) ...Object 349 164 k. Particular Concrete Applications. Defendant lacked privacy interest in the plane and thus lacked standing to assert Fourth Amendment violation based on installation of transponder in airplane, and its failure to be removed after its order had expired. U.S.C.A ...In General 349 25 Persons, Places and Things Protected 349 26 k. Expectation of Privacy. Focus in determining whether one's Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure has been violated is whether that person has reasonable or justifiable ... ...Concerned; Consent. (Formerly 372k495 Government's tracking of airplane, in which transponder had been installed, did not violate any of defendant's Fourth Amendment rights, since defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the movement of the airplane in public airways. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. /.. rnminrindruintstream.asnlisv=Fullecorft=liTMLE8cfn= ton&rs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188471 Page 2 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT' DATABASES(S) - CTA 4. I U.S. I. Amuny, 767 F.2d 1113, C.A.5 (Tex.), July 29, 1985(No. 84-2376.84-2376) ...of plane; and (9) government agent's conduct in climbing plane and peering in windshield constituted unreasonable search within meaning of Fourth Amendment. Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded. Robert Madden Hill, Circuit Judge, filed special concurring opinion. West Headnotes [I ... ...for Stop or Investigation 35 63 5(4) k. Reasonableness; Reasonable or Founded Suspicion, Etc. Law enforcement officers may, consistent with Fourth Amendment, stop person and detain him briefly for routine questioning when they have reasonable suspicion to believe that person may be ... ...Effect of Illegal Conduct; Trespass 349 80 1 k. In General. (Formerly 349k80 349k7(10) Although trespass does not always result in Fourth Amendment violation, government's trespass is usuall unreasonable and violative of legitimate expectation of privacy. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 n 8] 8 Aviation 48B1... P' U 5. S. . Little, 735 F.2d 1049„ C.A.8 (Ark.), May 22, 1984(Nos. 82-1591, 82-1592, 82-1 i 3.82-159182-159282-1593) ...k. Reliability or Credibility; Corroboration. (Formerly 372k5I5 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warrants or Judicial Authorization. (Formerly 372k541 Search warrant affidavit was insufficient and magistrate's order authorizing installation of transponder in airplane was therefore invalid where affidavit recited bits of information attributed to "confidential informants" but afliant did not add the conclusory ... ...States Magistrate in Memphis, Tennessee, an order allowing him to install a transponder on the plane. A transponder is a tracking device, also called a beeper. Before the beeper was installed, a government agent approached Scott Whitney, a service administrator of Memphis ... ...the hangar. Later that day, the transponder was installed on the plane. The operation involved detaching a panel inside the airplane, secreting the beeper behind it, and then replacing the panel. On June 8, 1981, Harmon, Sager, and Fulbright left for... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. ...... Instre.nintnrint/nrintgtresim.asnx7sv=Full&orft=HTMLE&In= tov&rs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188472 Page 3 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT DATABASES(S) - CfA 6. H U.S.'. Buns, 729 F.2d 1514„ C.A.5 (Tex.), April 23, 1984(No. 82.1260.82-1260) ...customs officials of signal that disclosed presence of aircraft in public airspace was not unconstitutional search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment because terms of warrant authorizing signalling device required it to be removed before its signal was recorded. Reversed and ...officials' monitoring of signal that disclosed presence of aircraft in public airspace was not unconstitutional search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment because terms of warrant authorizing signalling device required it to be removed before its signal was recorded. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [2] 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1486 k. Transponders or "Beepers" in General; Warrantless Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(10) Monitoring signals from electronic tracking device that tells officers no more than that specific aircraft is flying in public airspace does not violate any reasonable expectation of privacy and thus no Fourth Amendment violation results from public detection; movement of airplane in sky, like that of automobile on highway, is not something in which person can claim reasonable expectation of privacy ... ...General. Purpose of exclusionary rule is to deter improper police conduct that violates person's reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment, and rule does not purport to reach all illegal conduct by officers. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [4] 372 Telecommunications 372X Intergeption... 7. 1> U.S.I. Butts, 710 F.2d 1139„ C.A.5 (Tex.), August 01, 1983(No. 82-1260.82-1260) ...Circuit Judge, held that: (1) physical attachment of electronic " ' to interior of aircraft constituted a "search" within meaning of Fourth Amendment, and 2) where beeper installed inside aircraft pursuant to valid search warrant remained present in aircraft after expiration of court ...of electronic tracking device in the interior of a vehicle or conveyance is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 (2] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or Seizure 349 21 ... ...Devices or "Beepers.". (Formerly 349k1 Physical attachment of electronic "beeper" to interior of aircraft constituted a "search" within meaning of Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 4 [31 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Elec c Surveillance 372X(B) Authorization by Courts... 8. F" U.S.I.g Stewart, 700 F.2d 702„ CA.11 (Fla.), March 18, 1983(No. 81-607081-6070) ...L.Ed.2d 408 (1965) (deliberate choice by counsel to delay objeglion to tainted evidence may waive defendant's rights under the fourth amendment); Winters,. Cook, 489 F.2d 174 (5th Cir.1973) (intentional strategic waiver by counsel of defendant's nght to object ... ...Appellants attempted to prove that the detection of their aircraft was made possible by an electronic device attached to their airplane as part of an ongoing investigation by the Customs Department. This was rejected by the district court as without merit ... ...presented absolutely no evidence supporting their allegations that their apprehension was due to the use of an illegally placed electronic tracking device, that the Coast Guard had probable cause to arrest in time to obtain a warrant or that they were forced... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. mamba... rnminrint/nrintstresmasnx?sv=Full&vrft=141'MLE&fn= totArs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188473 Page 4 of 8 QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT" DATABASES(S) - CTA 9. P' U.S. I Parks, 684 F.2d 1078„ C.A.5 (Tex.), August 20, 1982(No. 79-5497.79-5497) ...to distribute, and they appealed. The Court of Appeals, Garwood, Circuit Judge, held that defendants failed to establish that their Fourth Amendment rights were violated by installation, maintenance or monitoring of electronic transponder inside airplane. Affirmed. West Headnotes [I] 349 Searches and ... ...only plane and he was never on it, installation, maintenance and monitoring of beeper invaded no interest of defendant that Fourth Amendment was designed to protect. 11.S.C.A.ConstAmend. 4 [3] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object 349 164 lc. Particular Concrete ... ...marihuana to landing site, prior entry into plane by government agents and installation of electronic transponder did not infringe defendant's Fourth Amendment rights. U.S.C.A.Const.Amend. 4 [4] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object 349 164 k. Particular Concrete Applications. (Formerly 349k7(26)... 10. C U.S. I Long, 674 F.2d 848, 10 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 438„ C.A.11 (Ala.), April 30, 1982(No. 81-7290.81-7290) ...the transponder in defendant's airplane and monitoring of the device for 90 days, was reasonable and did not violate the Fourth Amendment; (2) magistrate's finding that probable cause existed to issue the order authorizing installation of the transponder in defendant's airplane was ... ...assistance of counsel. Affirmed. West Headnotes [1) 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warrants or Judicial Authorization. (Formerly 3721c54I 349k7(10) Operating transponder for one week under court order, which authorized installation of the transponder in defendant's airplane and monitoring of the device for 90 days, was reasonable and not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. U.S.C.A.Const.Amend. 4 [4 349 Searches and Seizures 349VI Judicial Review or Determination 349 200 k. Scope of Inquiry or Review ... ...Object 349 162 k. Privacy Interest or Expectation, in General. (Formerly 349k7(26) A person can claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment only if he can show some legitimate ex lion of privacy in the area or object searched. U.S.C.A.Const.Amend. 4 [ 114... 11. C U. s. I Dickerson, 655 F.2d 559, C.A.4 (Va.), July 30, 1981(No. 80-5210.80-52 0) ...arose that defendant did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the aircraft to entitle him to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. Affirmed. West Headnotes [1] 349 Searches and Seizures 349VI Judicial Review or Determination 349 192 Presumptions ... ...proof was on defendant to establish a legitimate expectation of privacy in aircraft that would entitle him to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. U.S.CA.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 349 Searches and Seizures 3491V Standing to Object 349 161 k. In General. (Formerly hi 349k7(26) Only an owner of roperty may raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [3 349 Searches and Seizures 349IV Standing to Object 349 161 k. In General. (Formerly 3491(7(2 A person who is unlawfully in possession of an aircraft has no right to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [4] 349 Searches and Seizures 349IV Standing to Object 349 164 k Particular ... ...arose that defendant did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the aircraft to entitle him to raise a Fourth Amendment objection to its search. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [5] 410 Witnesses 410111 Examination 41011I(D) Privilege of Witness 410 299 Privilege... 02007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. • • •I . - actiV9Cv=F1111knrfST -TTMT .F.Rifn= tnnkss= 12/27/2007 EFTA00188474 Page 5 of QUERY - ((TRACKER "TRACKING DEVICE") /P AIRPLANE) & "FOURTH AMENDMENT DATABASES(S) - CTA 12. N U.S. A Chavez, 603 F.2d I43„ C.A.10 (N.M.), August 02, 1979(Nos. 78-1128, 78-1 9.78-112978-1128) ...k. In General. (Formerly 372k514.1 372k514 349k3.6(1) 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1487 k. Warrants or Judicial Authorization. (Formerly 372k541 349k3.6(1) Court orders, authorizing the use of a beeper for surveillance ... ...officer or an attorney for the government"; and the fact that the federal authorities participated in the tracking of the airplanes did not affect the validity of the state court orders previously issued. [4] 110 Criminal Law 110XVII Evidence 110XVII(1... ...trial the defendants filed a motion to suppress on the ground that the installation and use of the beeper violated Fourth Amendment rights. After an evidentiary hearing, the trial court denied the mot to suppress. This ruling is the only matter urged.. 13. H U.S. I Nelson, 593 F.2d 543, C.A.3 (Pa.), March 08, 1979(No. 78-1587.78-1587) ...of this appeal is whether six tons of marijuana seized at the Mount Pocono Airport in Pennsylvania from a private airplane should have been suppressed as evidence. Appellant contends that the evidence was illegally seized because United States Customs Service agents, acting without a warrant, installed in the plane a locational tracking device called a "transponder," which they used to monitor the plane's route. While the district court held the use of the ... ...11 [2] For purposes of this appeal, the court will assume, without deciding, that appellant has standing to raise these fourth amendment claims. [FN I] It is well settled that the taint on evidence obtained as a result of an illegal search and ... ...SS L.Ed.2d 118 (1978) Even assuming, without deciding, that the installation and/or monitoring of the airplane violated appellants fourth amendment rights, the marijuana to which appellant l obje was seized by the use of information " 'sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of... 14. U.S. P &mean, 594 F.2d 1190, 57 A.L.R. Fed. 632, C.A.8 (Minn.), March Dl, 1979(Nos. 78-1 6, 78-1550.78-155078-1526) ...transponder, commonly known as a beeper device, to track an aircraft in public airspace did not constitute a "search" within Fourth Amendment; (2) even if Government had a duty to disclose informants' identity to defendant prior to trial, defendant was not materially ... ...papers. U.S.C.A.Const. Amend. 4 [2] 961i Controlled Substances 96H1V Searches and Seizures 96111V(B) Search Without Warrant 9614 118 k. Airplanes and Airports. (Formerly 138k183.5 138k182 Drugs and Narcotics) 372 Telecommunications 372X Interception or Disclosure of Electronic Communications; Electronic Surveillance 372X(C) Tracking Devices 372 1486 k. Transponders or "Beepers" in General; Warrantless Proceedings. (Formerly 372k540 349k7(10) Although the installation or attachment of a beeper device to airplane could potentially violate Fourth Amendment, no Fourth Amendment rights were violated by installation by Drug Enforcement Agency agents who had installed the transponder, commonly known as a beeper ... ...Searches and Seizures 3491 In General 349 13 What Constitutes Search or Seizure 349 21 k. Use of Electronic Devices; Tracking Devices or "Beepers.". (Formerly 3491O(10) No one flying an airplane can reasonably expect that he has a right to keep his flying, landing, or takeoff location private, and thus the... O 2007 Thomson/West. No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works. • a nenv7CILF111112rnr11=HTMT.P.Riln. tetn&.rs=... 12/27/2007 EFTA00188475 Page 6 of