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zot to speak to Carter directly. ing women. And we still get to
te down the rest of what Carter
| her. “I’m Canadian.”
in the March issue, still created a
lented Mr. Epstein” in a sly refer-
lebrated suspense novel The Tal-
ition, by Anthony Minghella, was nity Fair’s readers. For Graydon Is Epstein some sort of scam artist, n enough. And throughout the ers wouldn't miss as they drew ystein’s life story. It came through t paragraph of Ward's 7,500-word it there is something innocent, ipstein.”
nt was rather ironic—so much so
»pposite.
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CHAPTER 39
Todd Meister: June 2015
arry Cipriani, on Fifth Avenue, is a New York institu- tion. The restaurant began its life as an American out- post of Harry’s Bar—which was itself a famous American outpost in Venice. Located inside the Sherry-Netherland hotel, its a theme restaurant—the theme being money. And today, a hedge-fund manager named Todd Meister is talking about a very
’ wealthy man—Jeffrey Epstein—whom he knows through his
7 father, Epstein’s sometime friend Bob Meister.
. “I've known Jeffrey since I was nineteen,” Meister says. “So | let me tell you what 1 know—whatever everyone knows and 7 everybody else says. First off, he’s no billionaire. Second off — : and here's why —he has no clue how to invest. He has people do ‘that for him.”
1 Meister knows how to invest. He does it for other people and, as e son of a superrich father, for himself. He also knows about the
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