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ell-connected group of Spanish families — including But if Ana had ly—had invested with Drysdale. already see thz
hundreds of millions of dollars. } paaintainatha | who helped se
Avery W members of Spain's royal fami Those investors stood to lose And Ana’s father was one of those investors.
What Ana wanted from Jeffrey Epstein was
ing her father’s money. “My father, he's done something stupid,” she told him. | A Spanish accent. A Brooklyn accent. They blended well : d Ana was so very lovely. It turned out that Epstein was willing to help. “Something stupid, you see, with the money. The family i i q District of New A scheme. He knew some of a Barce He wasa
t do you call it? him, And now the money is gone.” 7 he was buildin;
help in recover- G3 _ wome : £ n he'd cu A whole other kir : ag Ones that n
together, an Andrew Levanc
money. Some—wha
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Epstein bringir
People who knew Jeffrey Epstein recall that he was bad off after j _ Epstein came tc his exit or ouster — whatever it was—from Bear Stearns. Mov- — ing from couch to couch for a while. Sleeping in his lawyer's f offices before settling down in an apartment in the Solow: Tower, © on East 66th Street. : 2
It's a bit hard to believe. After with a good deal of money. But Epstein’s lifestyle was expensive. He was a man on the make then, and Ana was still in her wen
The woman
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himself, was as! hunt for the mo _ In effect, Dc
tea dfalls. And «
all, Epstein left Bear Stearns
ties, plying her craft at the Actors Studio—the New York City See were less theater institution that Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Ja ) the US atton
Nicholson, and Jane Fonda had all been members of. ad violated tk
Epstein told Ana that he’d formed a company, Inter Assets Group.
To Ana, this sounded very small operation that Epstein wa
natio nal
impressive. In fact, IAG 5 running out of his apartmé
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