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he had to loan Epstein money which had seized Epstein's car

s that Epstein didn't have two says that Epstein always had re to his friends so they didn't

v he got them," Crane recalls. her times they didn't. I remem- ing a Concorde jacket. He asked or so. My friend never got the ell people he always flew on the

h, Les Wexner would have been

vife, Wendy, had her suspicions
e presented himself and the way
her circle.

ing Epstein the virus. s weren't the point. Wexner was. stand why the billionaire would ked with a Ponzi king like Steven Wexner and Epstein would get

# CHAPTER 29

## Ghislaine Maxwell: 1991

obert Meister was not the only friend who helped Jeffrey R Epstein, the boy from Coney Island, on his way up the social ladder. There was also Ghislaine Maxwell, a wealthy heiress from the United Kingdom who'd retained her ties to some of the world's most glamorous and scandalous jet-setters.

Maxwell was the youngest and most favored child of one of the most famous-even infamous-men in Europe. Her father, Robert Maxwell, was a Czech refugee who had fought in the French Foreign Legion and with the British in World War II and had gone on to become a member of Parliament. By the 1960s, he'd become a media baron. Born into a Hasidic family-his birth name was Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch-Maxwell died in disgrace in 1991 after falling or perhaps jumping off the side of his supersize yacht, the Lady Ghislaine.

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