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Psalm100 ago

Some more about the Epstein connection to Wexner and a mansion in New York City that Wexner might have given to Epstein:

"Every Property Owned by Sleazy Financier Jeffrey Epstein" [including at least two stone buildings]

...His portfolio also includes a "stone fortress" in New Mexico and the Herbert N. Straus Mansion in Manhattan, both of which are mentioned in the current round of allegations.

Often referred to as one of the largest townhouses in Manhattan—possessing 21,000 square feet and seven stories, 45,000 square feet and eight stories, or 50,000 square feet and nine stories, depending on who's describing it and when—the stone mansion at 9 East 71st Street was built in 1933. It was designed by society architect Horace Trumbauer for Herbert N. Straus, one of the heirs to the Macy's department store fortune, who died before it was completed.

In 1961, the mansion became home to the Birch Wathen School, which it remained until Leslie H. Wexner, the founding chairman of the Limited Inc., bought it in 1989 for $13.2M. Wexner hired architect Thierry Despont and interior designer John Stefanidis to help gut-renovate the 40-room home, showing it off in the December 1995 issue of Architectural Digest (sadly, the magazine's online archives don't go back that far). In 1996, the New York Times referred to the sumptuously decorated, expensively renovated pied-à-terre as the latest "puzzling" "status symbol of the ultra rich," when it reported that Wexner never spent more than a few months in the home. This was back when the scarcely used pied-à-terre was a smaller part of the Manhattan real estate makeup.

http://www.curbed.com/2015/1/9/10004040/jeffrey-epstein-property-real-estate-holdings >

http://archive.is/9MX5F


The Curbed article quotes at length from "Home Sweet Elsewhere," a 1996 New York Times article on New York properties owned by wealthy people who spend little time in them, referred to in Curbed as "pied-à-terre" (literally "foot on the ground") properties. David Geffen, Ronald O. Perelman, Steve Jobs and duty-free shop executive Robert W. Miller are also discussed.

...When asked how long Mr. Wexner had occupied the property, Jeffrey Epstein, his protege and one of his financial advisers, replied, "Les never spent more than two months there." Thus the prorated cost of Mr. Wexner's sejours would appear to have been in excess of a million dollars a day.

Visitors described a bathroom reminiscent of James Bond movies: hidden beneath a stairway, lined with lead to provide shelter from attack and supplied with closed-circuit television screens and a telephone, both concealed in a cabinet beneath the sink. The house also has a heated sidewalk, a luxurious provision that explains why, while snow blankets the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, the Wexner house (and Bill Cosby's house across the street) remains opulently snow-free, much to the delight of neighborhood dogs...

Reached in Florida last week, Mr. Epstein said that the house was now his.

http://archive.is/G18hZ

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/11/garden/home-sweet-elsewhere.html


Note, too, that the Limited just announced they are closing all of their stores.

"Surprised shoppers take advantage of Limited's closing sale," 1/8/17

http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/surprised-shoppers-take-advantage-of-limiteds-closing-sale

http://archive.is/fEHee

Psalm100 ago

And from Gawker:

Monday's creepily gentle profile in the New York Times suggested that Epstein charged annual fees upward of $25m a year for "superelite financial advice"-leading Portfolio's Felix Salmon to remark on the profitability of private banking. Bullshit. Epstein's wealth is built on a "bizarre relationship" with single acknowledged client, Abercrombie & Fitch creator Leslie Wexner, one of America's most successful retailers.

Now that loaded quote comes only from an unnamed Wall Street acquaintance of Epstein who spoke to New York magazine for a profile of the money manager in 2002. There is no evidence whatsoever that their relationship went beyond that of aide to mentor. Epstein is pretty obviously heterosexual, or else going to extreme lengths to prove the point. The Limited owner Wexner himself is married with four children. It's bizarre to imagine any romantic connection between two men who are now 70 and 55 years old, a right-wing Ohio tycoon and a sex offender.

http://archive.is/DxRY2

http://gawker.com/5021581/teen-loving-epsteins-own-client

NY Times piece mentioned:

http://archive.is/nYlL5

carmencita ago

Not saying there is a relationship. But there are married bisexuals and others that have relationships for various reasons though married. Scalia was married and had 8 children. There was info on here saying he might have been into pedophelia. Someone might be willing to exchange certain favors for a residence quite opulent.

Psalm100 ago

Exactly. It seems you hear that many pedophiles are married and often have children of their own.