Every indexed document

” says someone who has worked closely with both men. “He gave

000 lent him by his aunt. “Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to

the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion

and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not

” says Wexner. “But Jeffrey sees patterns in

giving some hint at the steady whir of machinery running behind them. “Let’s play

but he doesn’t let the charm slip into his eyes. They are steely and

where the main house is currently being renovated by Edward Tuttle

” Epstein has said. He also owns Little St. James

Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling

standing atop the grand piano. “No decorator would ever tell you to do that

there is one particularly startling oddity: a stuffed

who has worked for Jacques Chirac and the

it must have come from a mosque.” Amid such splendor

and a nine-foot ebony Steinway “D” grand. On the desk

Epstein has been known to say. The office features a

it holds no computer. Computers belong in the “computer room” (a

plates of finger sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and guests by the

Oriental fantasy of a woman holding an opium pipe and caressing a snarling

” since he likes to eat bite-size morsels and drink copious quantities of Earl Grey. (He does