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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018004)" |
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| Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-8 Filed 04/16/19 Page 6 of 16 |
| http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303 |
| "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 frequently 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 & 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 1989. 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 fiduciary 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 foundation 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 better 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 former 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. |
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