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From: Boris Nikolic Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 8:59 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: RE: &nbs=; What is this??? When this wi=l stop. This is crazy. And you are NOT=57 ;) </=pan> And certainly you are NOT socially awk=ard. Who is that i=iot. Boris From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:[email protected]) Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 3:28 PM =b>To: Boris Nikolic Subject: Jeffrey and Ghislaine: Notes on New York's Oddest Alliance =Ithttp://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/03/notes=on-new-yorks-oddest-couple-jeffrey-epstein-and-ghislaine- maxwell.html <http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/=3/notes-on-new-yorks-oddest-couple-jeffrey-epstein- and-ghislaine-maxwell.h=ml> aspan» by Vicky Ward=<http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/vicky-=ard <http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/=icky-ward» Marc= 8, 2011, 2:30 PM "I've got a story idea for you. =he rebuilding of Indonesia. Or New Orleans. Or both. Go there. I've =ust been. You will never think the same way about anything again."So spoke not Bill or Melinda Gates, but Ghislaine Maxwell, the 48-year-ol= woman being written up everywhere at the moment as the alleged "pro=urer" of young women for billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, 57= is the financier who spent a year in jail on charges of soliciting prosti=utes—and now there is talk of another investigation because various =omen, now in their twenties and thirties, have come forward with allegatio=s that he molested them when they were under-age. The allegations first su=faced in British newspapers, which have zeroed in on Epstein's frien=ship with Prince Andrew, who has recently tried to publicly disassociate h=mself from his old pal. I wrote a piece for Vanity Fair in 2003 =alled "The Talented Mr. Epstein." It was largely a business pi=ce that focused on his mysterious exit from Bear Stearns in 1981, his clos= relationships with Jimmy Cayne, Les Wexner, the chairman of EFTA_R1_00151461 EFTA01805194 limited Brand=, and above all, the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenb=rg, who is currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors=in Towers Financial out of $450 million. The piece alluded to Epst=in's great friendship with Maxwell, and how she introduced him to yo=ng women with whom he had sexual relationships. But, in the end, the story=didn't really go there, focusing instead on the issue that remains a=mystery—how Jeffrey made his money, and how Ghislaine made hers. =br>This is not to say I didn't hear stories about the girls. I did. =ut, not knowing quite who to believe, I concentrated on the intriguing fin=ncial mystery instead. But now the women have come back. Not the same ones= different ones. And their stories are bone-chilling. Journalists from Eng=and have phoned—and, in one case, flown—to ask me about Epstei= and Maxwell. Who is he? And the British, especially, want to know: Who is=she? At this point, I am so bored of repeating myself to others—it w=s, after all, my 2003 Vanity Fairstory that really brought him into=the limelight—that I have decided to write about this myself. after my piece than before it. I kept running into both of them, se=arately, at parties. Jeffrey is not a social animal so he usually has a co=ple of young women with him who stand two feet behind him, as if serving a=monarch. "Do they speak?" I remember asking him once, nodding =t his lookalike blondes. He laughed. "Not like you,Vicky,R=1; was his riposte. I remembered that when we'd once discuss=d math—in particular, an isosceles triangle—and I revealed I h=dn't studied math since I was 14 (such is, or was, the way of the Br=tish educational system), I received a package at home via messenger. It w=s a book: "Math for idiots." So he is not without humor= even though he doesn't drink or smoke, and hates restaurants. "Jeffrey knows a good deal about most subjects," newspaper pu=lisher Mort Zuckerman told me last week. He was certainly preaching to the=converted. The truth is, Epstein does know a lot about a lot of thi=gs. Just a few moments in his company and you know this to be true. And Ghislai=e? Full disclosure: I like her. Most people in New York do. Itc;s almost impossible not to. She is always the most interesting, th= most vivacious, the most unusual person in any room. I've spent hou=s talking to her about the third world at a bar until 2am. She is as passi=nate as she is knowledgeable. She is curious. She has spent weeks at the b=ttom of the ocean, literally going deeper than anyone else. She has sent m= a DVD of the fish there. Her rolodex would blow away almost anyone else&ft=217;s I can think of—probably even Rupert Murdochs'. She is ve=y well-read and can talk about most things for hours. She is passionate ab=ut Bill Clinton with whom she is close friends. Yet, touchingly, w=en she had to give a speech at the 40th birthday party of her best friend,=Ariadne Calvo-Platero, (known fondly to her close friends as "the Te=nis Goddess") Ghislaine shook a little with nerves. When it comes do=n to things she really cares about—and Ariadne is one of them—=hislaine shows her vulnerability. 2 EFTA_R1_00151462 EFTA01805195