Over tea in his town house, she noticed, Epstein ate all the

James PATTERSON Over tea in his town house, she noticed, Epstein ate all the finger food that had been put out for both of them. She found it odd that the only book this supposedly brilliant man had left for s a paperback by the Marquis de Sade. And then of Epstein’s assistants — a ‘Jeffrey wanted me her to see wa there was the call afterward from one woman Ward did not know— who told her, * to tell you that you looked so pretty.” Ward is pretty, with fine English fe hair. She was also very pregnant then, ing sickness. She threw up often, sometimes in clumsy advances on Epstein’s part only added to her ever-present a man who was supposedly brilliant, he’d struck her, atures and flowing blond with a bad case of morn- public, and these nausea. For oddly, as not very smart. “Epstein is charming, but his eyes,” she wrote. “They are steely and calculating, giving t the steady whir of machinery running behind them. me, after refusing to give an inter- white. You get the first move. It was he doesn’t let the charm slip into some hint a ‘Let’s play chess, he said to view for this article. ‘You be hor for a man who seems to feel he can win an appropriate metap no matter what the advantage of the other side. His advantage is m or his history completely that no one really seems [Oo know hi or what his arsenal actually consists of. He has carefully engi- neered it so that he remains one of the few truly baffling myste™ ies among New York's moneyed world. Peo but few know the whole.” The testimonials Ep think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns » Les Wexnel = nd financial markets, : d fashion trends. My skills are 7 told her. “Jeffrey sees patterns in politics a and I see patterns in lifestyle an ple know snippets, j stein’s friends gave were glowing: 1a not in investment strateg knows, his are not in fast world trends as each of us “Pm on my 20th boc Epstein in 1997. “The onl ily that I send drafts to is But Ward also talked questions and qualms ab in lawsuits against him. C with him. One who had \ board of Rockefeller Univ One powerful investn conspicuous absence frot ing desks don’t seem to animals that big to not le: Ward uncovered lega view with the SEC, given Stearns. She visited a fed at length with Steven Ho made a major mistake in told him to stay below the accusations, about Epste denied—and Ward kne mastermind, was not to b "throughout the reporting - concerned with what sh 4 with what she’d uncovere q Time and again, he _ have on the girls?” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022002