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guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculp- ture of a naked African warrior."

The journalist had confirmed that several prominent names— Mort Zuckerman, the famous real estate mogul and publisher; Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold; and Donald Trump among them had dined at the residence. She'd interviewed ― several of Epstein's friends and ex-friends: Nobel Prize-winning scientists, financiers who worked with Epstein at Bear Stearns. She'd handled Steven Hoffenberg with aplomb. And, working with Vanity Fair's editors, she'd figured out ways to slip even more information between the lines, in ways that would allow readers to form their own questions about Epstein's finances.

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- Visible caption text at top: "Good flight!"
- Two people seated at the controls: left person wearing a pilot uniform with epaulet stripes on the shoulder; right person wearing a headset.
- They are touching hands/fist-bumping over the yoke/control column.
- Cockpit instruments, overhead panel and windshield visible.

In that respect, she'd fulfilled her original assignment perfectly.

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What Carter needed to figure out was what to do with the artist, her sister, and their mother's story. But before he could swipe his key card to let himself into the magazine's offices, Car- ter saw a man standing in the reception area.

The man was motionless. He'd been waiting for Carter.

It was Jeffrey Epstein. Nonplussed, Carter invited him into his office.

The image shows a man in a polo shirt and jeans standing in front of a building. He is wearing a watch. The building has archways and windows. There is a palm tree to the left.

Epstein denied the claims involving underage women. No crimi- nal charges had been filed. And so Vanity Fair decided not to include the claims in Ward's article. But, according to Ward, when her editor Doug Stumpf called her, she cried.

She'd worked so hard on the piece, gotten so stressed out that one of her twins had begun to grow more slowly than the other. On doctor's orders; she'd been put on bed rest.

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