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Filthy Rich

a Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal That Undid Him, and All the Justice That Money Can Buy : the Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein
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His love for science has inspired him to give millions to academics and institutions committed to studying mysteries of the brain and the arcana of physics. He’s given millions to Harvard. And he’s given money to politicians: Governor…
Once in a blue moon there are murders --- though these are so rare that they ten to be remembered for decades. Sometimes there are hurricanes to contend with, and, when the sea calms, human cargo washes up the shore. Sometimes traffickers…
When he was through with his girlfriends, Epstein would say, they graduated up, not down, the ladder, moving from the status of “lover” to “friend.” === How did Jeffrey Epstein make all his money? Epstein would tell stories over the years…
Before there was Bernie Madoff, there was Steven Hoffenberg. In 1987, Hoffenberg was the head of Towers Financial Corporation, a company that bought debts, such as unpaid medical bills, at a very steep discount while pressing the debtors…
When Wexner wanted to see Cats, Epstein arranged to have the cast perform in his mansion. === Wexner is also a steady, if indirect, source of beautiful women. After all, Wexner is the man in charge of Victoria’s Secret, part of the…
Epstein prefers diminutive women, but Nadia is tall. She’s rail-thin and blond like the sun, with glowing skin, a wide smile, and sky-high cheekbones. On a good day, she could pass for a Bond girl – a woman caught up in a web of crime and…
“The trading desks don’t seem to know him.” He says. “It’s unusual for animals that big to not leave any footprints in the snow.” === For Graydon Carter, just posing the question Is Epstein some sort of scam artist, like Rigley? had been…
As a result of this encounter with Epstein, Jane experienced confusion, shame, humiliation and embarrassment, and has suffered severe psychological and emotional injures. === “It’s the Icarus story, someone who flies too close to the sun,”…
At the time of this writing, that case is winding its way through the courts. It has all the earmarks of a modern-day Bleak House – The Charles Dickens novel about a legal case that is so massive and so complex that it drags on forever and…
R. Alexander Acosta’s letter to the general public March 20, 2011 ... The federal inquiry was eventually dropped after Epstein negotiated a deal with prosecutors in which he agreed to plead guilty to a relatively minor state charge…
Prince Andre also fares poorly in the wake of Epstein’s imprisonment. The two men are old friends. They have been ever since Ghislaine Maxwell introduced the prince to her then-beau, sometime in the 1990s. In 2000, Epstein had been…
“Consider a car.” Says Dr. Salter. “There’s a motor, and there are brakes. We all have sexual impulses we don’t think it would be a good idea to act on. Most of s have good control over our behavior. We have good brakes.” === “Sexual…
Andres; philandering had been tabloid fodder for years. Randy Andy, they called him in the UK. And in the circles that Jeffrey Epstein moved in, philandering wasn’t seen as a vice. Epstein came of age just as industrywide deregulation…