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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022965)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
| sourceUrl: "https://www.justice.gov/epstein" |
| date: "2026-01-01" |
| category: "House Oversight" |
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| were witty, poised, helpful as well as powerfully alluring (as though |
| stewardesses bygone times). |
| At one point, sliding into the seat beside me, Geraldine Laybourne, |
| then the head of the Nickelodeon network, whispered, with more awe than |
| horror, "This could be the closest I've ever come to pure evil." (One more |
| thing about this trip: Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, came |
| out to see the plane and, with a few other Googlers, literally ran whopping |
| from one end of the plan to the other. Then they described for Epstein, in |
| what I can not now remember as put on or entrepreneurial brainstorm, a |
| brand extension in which they would market a line of Google bras with the |
| Os as convenient cups.) |
| Not long after this trip, Epstein's assistant called to invite me for tea at |
| his house in New York, where Epstein, with what seemed to me little |
| understanding of the subject, began to ask me about media the upside, |
| downside, and nature of media coverage. This magazine was then soliciting |
| him for a profile, as was Vanity Fair, who had assigned the British tabloid |
| reporter, Vicki Ward, to the job. |
| Both profiles pivot on the Clinton connection and detail the same |
| quandary, how a man without clear institutional bona fides nevertheless |
| achieves wealth and influence. Ward, who would more recently assert in the |
| Daily Beast, that she was barred by Vanity Fair from writing about under- |
| age sex evidence (a fact that could be read the other way: Vanity Fair, even |
| looking to take down Epstein, did not find the evidence credible), went |
| down a rabbit hole of possible questionable contacts who might or might not |
| have been the source or sources for Epstein's wealth, seemed to get no |
| closer to an answer, beyond confirming her own sense of dubiousness. |
| Epstein, sensing that he might be exposing himself, tried to stop the |
| process (Ward, well known for an operatic view about her reporting exploits, |
| says he threatened her), called Carter and said he was having second |
| thoughts about being a public figure. |
| "Then you should live in a two bedroom apartment in Queens," |
| responded Carter. |
| And then the troubles began. |
| Epstein, in man-who-can-have-everything fashion, has, for many |
| years, ordered up a daily massage following his workout sessions. |
| "Often these were massage massages," says Epstein matter of factly, |
| "but sometimes these were happy ending massages, especially in Palm |
| Beach, where there are many massage parlors- 'Jack Shacks,' they're |
| called— that do outcalls. There was no sex. An often there was no happy |
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