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ng 301 East 66th Street. He to join him? He did." ups and downs. At one point, y the Epstein brothers. There, bout a little-known side of Jef- o lived in South America, des- splant. Epstein paid for the g says. "That's who he always

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's another old classmate, James was nothing special about it." stal worker. He lives in South tein, he'd grown up in Sea Gate. at Lafayette," Rosen recalls. "It at one time, 90 percent Italian. vs moved in, and there was I't want the Jews to be there." in, too, he remembers, and His- the animosity was aimed at Jews. schools. They thought we were

ade friends easily. Even then, his >py-could see he was special. ach, Epstein played the piano. Did ted stamp collection.

## Jeffrey Epstein: 1969–1976

"t's the height of the Vietnam War. Students collide with col- lege administrators. Hippies collide with hard hats. Kids with long hair collide with their parents. Jeffrey Epstein does not go in for any of that. At the age of sixteen, he's taking advanced math classes at Cooper Union, an august institution in the East Village where Abraham Lincoln once spoke.

Thanks to a generous endowment, the school is tuition-free, though the application process is famously rigorous.

Epstein sails through it.

At Harvard or Yale, his accent would give him away. Epstein tawks like the Brooklyn boy he is. But Cooper Union is more open than any Ivy League school. It's full of boys from Brooklyn, and, aside from his prodigious intellect, Epstein doesn't stand out. He starts to make money by tutoring his fellow students. And în 1971, he leaves Cooper Union for the greener pastures of New York

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