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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022042)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
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| 'ATTERSON |
| aring variations on a scheme Mrs. |
| perpetrated against her late hus- |
| is his mentor. Seckel took books |
| ok money and promised a book; |
| rty lost money." |
| , humorous," one of Seckel's marks |
| $75,000. When the time came to |
| o it." |
| al people whom Seckel had stiffed |
| uits he'd been involved in. In 2007, |
| jainst a man who'd edited his Wiki- |
| heimer spoke with Seckel's lawyer, |
| at he'd reached a settlement for the |
| irnalist wrote. "Hornberger added |
| im for his services." |
| I's wife, Isabel Maxwell. |
| id date and married in Malibu in or |
| p the dates in my head," Seckel |
| they moved to the South of France, |
| de in rare books and papers. While |
| I by a Virgin Islands company that |
| audulently attempting to sell rare |
| ury portrait of Isaac Newton. |
| ng to sell papers belonging to Isa- |
| ell's sister and the daughter of Rob- |
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| FILTHY RICH |
| It was an odd thing, Epstein's association with this self-professed |
| PhD who, on closer inspection, turned out to be a bit of a grifter. |
| But the Mindshift conference that Epstein and Seckel hosted |
| in the Virgin Islands did take place, in 2010. Murray Gell- |
| Mann was there, along with Leonard Mlodinow, a physicist who |
| coauthored books with Stephen Hawking. Gerald Sussman, an |
| expert on artificial intelligence who taught at MIT and also |
| attended the conference, said that he didn't remember too much |
| about it. |
| "We had scientific discussions, talked about various things," |
| he said vaguely. |
| When Mark Oppenheimer asked him if he'd given money to |
| Seckel, Sussman "got testy" with the reporter. |
| "I have had some dealings with him," Sussman said. "I don't |
| want to say what it's about, because I don't feel good about |
| it, okay?" |
| Today, Epstein's websites—JeffreyEpsteinFoundation.com and |
| JeffreyEpsteinScience.com-are down. Their domain names have |
| long since expired. Several recipients of Epstein's charitable con- |
| tributions, including New York's Mount Sinai Hospital and Ballet |
| Palm Beach, announced that they would not be accepting new |
| gifts. |
| "The further I can keep myself from anything like that the |
| better," said Ballet Palm Beach founder Colleen Smith. |
| But in 2012, Epstein held one more conference on Little Saint |
| Jeff's. Once again, three Nobel Prize winners were in attendance. |
| Stephen Hawking was also there. All in all, Epstein had gathered |
| twenty-one physicists— from Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and CERN |
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