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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016444)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
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| Licata said the questions from Epstein's civil lawyers were so intimate that she |
| became paranoid that people were following her. |
| "His lawyers were just in my life inside and out. They asked if I had a baby, if I |
| had an abortion, 'did you sleep with 30 different guys' and 'do you think that |
| played a part?' I said, 'you're going to come at me like that when you represent a |
| guy who is doing this to hundreds of girls? How do you sleep at night?' " |
| BROOKLYN TO PALM BEACH |
| Jeffrey Epstein was born in Brooklyn, the son of a New York parks department |
| worker. In one of several depositions he gave as part of the lawsuits filed against |
| him, he said he attended the Cooper Union school for the advancement of |
| science and art and then studied physics at New York University. But he never |
| obtained a degree, instead going on to teach at the Dalton School, an elite K-12 |
| private academy on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Various news profiles over the |
| years have speculated about how he made his vast fortune, calling him an |
| "International Moneyman of Mystery" and "The Talented Mr. Epstein." |
| He then struck out on his own, opening J. Epstein & Co. His fortunes improved |
| when he became a financial advisor for Leslie Wexner, founder of The Limited |
| stores and owner of Victoria's Secret brands. Later, Epstein would boast that he |
| would manage the portfolios of only those clients who had $1 billion or |
| more. This much is known: He got his start on Wall Street after being offered a |
| job by the father of one of his students. At Bear Stearns, he became a derivative |
| specialist, applying complex math formulas and computer algorithms to evaluate |
| financial data and trends. |
| Through Wexner, he acquired a seven-story stone mansion that is considered the |
| largest private residence in Manhattan - a 21,000-square-foot fortress with |
| heated sidewalks that spans the entire block on 71st Street between Fifth and |
| Madison Avenues. |
| He also owns a 10,000-acre ranch, named "Zorro," in New Mexico, a private |
| island called "Little St. James" in the Virgin Islands, the $13 million house in |
| Palm Beach, a Gulfstream jet and, at one point, owned a Boeing 727. |
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