JAMES PATTERSON
iend says that he had to loan Epstein money
One estranged fr which had seized Epstein’s car
to pay the pill at Epstein's garage:
for nonpayment. Another estranged frie
nickels to rub together. a former model, says
e to his
nd says that Epstein didn't have two
Diana Crane, that Epstein always had friends so they didn’t
first-class upgrades he would giv
have to fly economy class. “No one knew where OF
“Sometimes they worked, and ot
how he got them,” Crane recalls. her times they didn’t. | remem- saw a friend of mine wearing a Concorde jacket. He asked
My friend never got the
a day or SO. 1d tell people he always flew on the
ber he if he could borrow it for
jacket back. But Epstein wou Concorde—a to tal lie.”
But even if Epstein were flu
a big fish to catch.
From the get-go, Meister’s wile,
about Epstein. About the way he pres
he worked himself into their inner circle. Before long, Wendy was calling Epstein the virus. But for Epstein, the Meisters weren't the point. Wexner was.
And hard as it is to understand why t associate with a man who'd worked with a Ponzi king lik
Hoffenberg, it turned out that Wexner and Ep
along perfectly well.
Wendy, had her suspicions
sh, Les Wexner would have been a
ented himself and the way
he billionaire would | e Steven
stein would get 4
. 4 Ghislaine Maxwell
obert Meister v
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