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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022885)" |
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| first to take formal media note of the Clinton-Epstein |
| connection, hinting at a sex and money bromance. "I |
| suppose travel with Clinton changed the arc of my life," |
| Epstein tells me. "There were, I knew, lots of obvious |
| reasons not to do it, but having the ability to spend 100 |
| hours with a former president just doesn't happen to |
| many people." |
| I met Epstein around this time, on the flight out to |
| TED. (Epstein had become an active backer of advanced |
| scientific research and a TED fixture.) A small group |
| assembled at the private plane terminal at JFK, most of |
| us unfamiliar with our benefactor, and as we headed in |
| the direction of the discreet private plans we were gently |
| pointed to our ride: Epstein's 727. |
| It was like something out of a men's magazine |
| fantasy of the luxe life. The quiet of the plane, |
| engineered into acoustic perfection, seemed spooky. |
| Epstein was accompanied by three young women who |
| were witty, poised, helpful, as well as powerfully |
| alluring. And Epstein, tanned, relaxed, with a wide open |
| smile, was an attentive host, soliciting every guest's |
| story and views. (One more thing about this trip: Google |
| founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with their |
| company still in its infancy, came out to see the plane on |
| the Monterey tarmac and, with a few other Googlers, |
| literally ran whooping from one end of the plane to the |
| other. Then they described for Epstein, in what I cannot |
| now remember was a put-on or entrepreneurial |
| brainstorm, a brand extension in which they would |
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