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UpInArms

(55,377 posts)
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 09:23 AM Sep 2025

Vanity Fair EPSTEIN article from 2003

Epstein is known about town as a man who loves women—lots of them, mostly young. Model types have been heard saying they are full of gratitude to Epstein for flying them around, and he is a familiar face to many of the Victoria’s Secret girls. One young woman recalls being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert at Epstein’s town house, where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. “These were not women you’d see at Upper East Side dinners,” the woman recalls. “Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely.” This same guest also attended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was filled, she says, with young Russian models. “Some of the guests were horrified,” the woman says.


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303

Was pointed to this story by Dershowitz’s birthday card to Epstein

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gab13by13

(32,789 posts)
2. If the list of names that the victims come up with
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 09:33 AM
Sep 2025

is ever read on the House floor, forgive me, but I hope that Dershowitz's name is first. Yeah, I know, he didn't take off his underwear.

Midnight Writer

(25,752 posts)
4. Why would Dersh try to shift the focus away from Epstein if he didn't know what Epstein was doing with kids?
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 11:46 AM
Sep 2025

tanyev

(49,688 posts)
5. "Some of the businessmen....seem not at all that clear as to what he actually does to earn his millions."
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 01:27 PM
Sep 2025
At least they don’t want to talk about it to Vanity Fair….

Some of the businessmen who dine with him at his home—they include newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis Ranieri, Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, real-estate tycoon Leon Black, former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, Tom Pritzker (of Hyatt Hotels), and real-estate personality Donald Trump—sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he actually does to earn his millions.

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