## JAMES PATTERSON

FILT

good life. Parties in Vegas; weekends in the Hamptons; affairs with beautiful women that end up getting splashed all over the tabloids.

It makes sense that, once upon a time, he and Epstein would have gotten along.

"As for the girls," Meister says, "that was just business. He'd seat them strategically at client dinners. When he went to the movies, he'd take three or four girls with him. They'd take turns massaging his back, arms, and legs."

According to Meister, Epstein used to boast that he "liked to go into insane asylums because he liked to fuck crazy women."

"Who knows if it's true?" Meister adds. "But I'm telling you, he used to say it."

From time to time, Epstein's friends and acquaintances would see sides of Epstein that he'd grown much less shy about sharing.

Epstein encouraged Alan Dershowitz to invest with a prominent hedge-fund manager named Orin Kramer. Dershowitz did, and he made a lot of money at first. But in 2008, the fund Dershowitz had invested in lost a substantial amount. Afterward, according to a for- mer associate of Epstein's, Epstein appeared in Kramer's midtown Manhattan office. There, sources say, he told Kramer: "It's very much in your interest to make Alan Dershowitz whole."

Epstein's intervention worked, and Dershowitz recovered his
money.

To people who'd known Epstein back in the 1980s, this kind of behavior was out of character. But the thing about Epstein was that you never could figure him out. One minute he was charming.

The most charming man you'd
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