Epstein's Mentor, Leslie Wexner of Victoria's Secret Fame (from archived Pizzagate post) Les Wexner was Epstein's "mentor," and possibly his only financial client, which apparently raised some suspicions over the years. Wexner also gave Epstein a mansion in New York that he rarely spent time in.  Media stories on the New York mansion suggest that Epstein's taste was similar in many ways to the circle of the Podestas, Alefantis and Marina Abramovic, including statues of naked men and dog feces, and framed prosthetic eyeballs: In 2007, when model Maximilia Cordero filed suit against Epstein for statutory rape and sexual assault (the suit was later dismissed), her lawyer included a description of what has by now become a legendary piece of puerile decor in chez Epstein: "[The] defendant gave plaintiff a tour of his mansion, showing her a huge crystal staircase with a huge crystal ball by the railing, ceiling chandeliers, a lounge room with red chairs, a statute [sic] of a dog with a statute [sic] of dog feces next to it"... http://www.curbed.com/2015/1/9/10004040/jeffrey-epstein-property-real-estate-holdings > http://archive.is/9MX5F And from a Vanity Fair article:  The entrance hall is decorated not with paintings but with row upon row of individually framed eyeballs; these, the owner tells people with relish, were imported from England, where they were made for injured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer, which does have a painting, in the manner of Jean Dubuffet … but the host coyly refuses to tell visitors who painted it. In any case, guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior. ...The office features a gilded desk (which Epstein tells people belonged to banker J. P. Morgan), 18th-century black lacquered Portuguese cabinets, and a nine-foot ebony Steinway “D” grand. On the desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de Sade’s The Misfortunes of Virtue was recently spotted. Covering the floor, Epstein has explained, “is the largest Persian rug you’ll ever see in a private home—so big, it must have come from a mosque.” Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator Alberto Pinto, who has worked for Jacques Chirac and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there is one particularly startling oddity: a stuffed black poodle, standing atop the grand piano. “No decorator would ever tell you to do that,” Epstein brags to visitors. “But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog.” People can’t help but feel it’s Epstein’s way of saying that he always has the last word. http://archive.is/AvUiv http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303 The Epstein/Wexner mansion is profiled in "Home Sweet Elsewhere," a 1996 New York Times article on properties owned by very wealthy people who spend little time in them (referred to in Curbed as "pied-à-terre" - literally "foot on the ground" - properties. David Geffen, Ronald O. Perelman, Steve Jobs and duty-free shop executive Robert W. Miller are also discussed.)  The New York Times article describes some oddities of the house when remodeled for Wexner, especially a bizarre bathroom. And apparently Bill Cosby lived across the street: ...When asked how long Mr. Wexner had occupied the property, Jeffrey Epstein, his protege and one of his financial advisers, replied, "Les never spent more than two months there." Thus the prorated cost of Mr. Wexner's sejours would appear to have been in excess of a million dollars a day. Visitors described a bathroom reminiscent of James Bond movies: hidden beneath a stairway, lined with lead to provide shelter from attack and supplied with closed-circuit television screens and a telephone, both concealed in a cabinet beneath the sink. The house also has a heated sidewalk, a luxurious provision that explains why, while snow blankets the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, the Wexner house (and Bill Cosby's house across the street) remains opulently snow-free, much to the delight of neighborhood dogs... Reached in Florida last week, Mr. Epstein said that the house was now his. http://archive.is/G18hZ http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/11/garden/home-sweet-elsewhere.html Not surprisingly Gawker speculated on whether or not there was some sort of sexual relationship between Epstein and Wexner:  Monday's creepily gentle profile in the New York Times ( http://archive.is/nYlL5 ) suggested that Epstein charged annual fees upward of $25m a year for "superelite financial advice"- leading Portfolio's Felix Salmon to remark on the profitability of private banking. Bullshit. Epstein's wealth is built on a "bizarre relationship" with single acknowledged client, Abercrombie & Fitch creator Leslie Wexner, one of America's most successful retailers. Now that loaded quote comes only from an unnamed Wall Street acquaintance of Epstein who spoke to New York magazine for a profile of the money manager in 2002. There is no evidence whatsoever that their relationship went beyond that of aide to mentor. Epstein is pretty obviously heterosexual, or else going to extreme lengths to prove the point. The Limited owner Wexner himself is married with four children. It's bizarre to imagine any romantic connection between two men who are now 70 and 55 years old, a right-wing Ohio tycoon and a sex offender. http://archive.is/DxRY2 http://gawker.com/5021581/teen-loving-epsteins-own-client Wexner founded The Limited, which just closed all its stores, but apparently sold it some years ago. His company does still own Victoria's Secret, Bath and Body Works, and Pink, however (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Brands ).  This is an interesting profile of "low-key" Leslie Wexner from Forbes: Parts One and Two http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2014/09/30/victorias-other-secret-the-low-key-billionaire-behind-the-lingerie-giant/#6e96c1c112be  http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2014/09/30/victorias-other-secret-the-low-key-billionaire-behind-the-lingerie-giant/2/#6e06dfea3682  http://archive.is/uUAUZ http://archive.is/pHhRw Both the New York mansion and another property owned by Epstein in New Mexico are made of stone:  From "Every Property Owned by Sleazy Financier Jeffrey Epstein"   ...His portfolio also includes a "stone fortress" in New Mexico and the Herbert N. Straus Mansion in Manhattan, both of which are mentioned in the current round of allegations. Often referred to as one of the largest townhouses in Manhattan—possessing 21,000 square feet and seven stories, 45,000 square feet and eight stories, or 50,000 square feet and nine stories, depending on who's describing it and when—the stone mansion at 9 East 71st Street was built in 1933. It was designed by society architect Horace Trumbauer for Herbert N. Straus, one of the heirs to the Macy's department store fortune, who died before it was completed. In 1961, the mansion became home to the Birch Wathen School, which it remained until Leslie H. Wexner, the founding chairman of the Limited Inc., bought it in 1989 for $13.2M. Wexner hired architect Thierry Despont and interior designer John Stefanidis to help gut-renovate the 40-room home, showing it off in the December 1995 issue of Architectural Digest (sadly, the magazine's online archives don't go back that far). In 1996, the New York Times referred to the sumptuously decorated, expensively renovated pied-à-terre as the latest "puzzling" "status symbol of the ultra-rich," when it reported that Wexner never spent more than a few months in the home... http://www.curbed.com/2015/1/9/10004040/jeffrey-epstein-property-real-estate-holdings > http://archive.is/9MX5F