Jeffrey Epstein email referencing Vanity Fair article and alleged ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew, and financial mystery

Date: Wednesday, March 9 2011 01:51 AM Subject: Re: To: jeevacation@gmail.com; Hey. Just landed from LA. You around for a call- no rush- when ur free /tell me Hope your ok XxX00 Sent from Steve Hanson's Blackberry Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail transmission and any file or previous e-mail attached to it is intended to be viewed only by the party to which it is addressed and may contain valuable business information that is confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, dissemination or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Thank you for your cooperation. From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: Steve Hanson Sent: Tue Mar 08 15:32:12 2011 Subject: Jeffrey and Ghislaine: Notes on New York's Oddest Alliance < http://www. vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/03/notes- on-new-yorks-oddest- couple-jeffrey-epstein-and-ghislaine-maxwell.html> by Vicky Ward <http:/www.vanitvfair.com/contributors/vicky-_ ward> March 8, 2011, 2:30 PM “T’ve got a story idea for you. The rebuilding of Indonesia. Or New Orleans. Or both. Go there. I’ve just been. You will never think the same way about anything again.” So spoke not Bill or Melinda Gates, but Ghislaine Maxwell, the 48-year-old woman being written up everywhere at the moment as the alleged “procurer” of young women for billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, 57, is the financier who spent a year in jail on charges of soliciting prostitutes—and now there is talk of another investigation because various women, now in their twenties and thirties, have come forward with allegations that he molested them when they were under-age. The allegations first surfaced in British newspapers, which have zeroed in on Epstein’s friendship with Prince Andrew, who has recently tried to publicly disassociate himself from his old pal. I wrote a piece for Vanity Fair in 2003 called “The Talented Mr. Epstein.” It was largely a business piece that focused on his mysterious exit from Bear Stearns in 1981, his close relationships with Jimmy Cayne, Les Wexner, the chairman of Limited Brands, and above all, the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of $450 million. The piece alluded to Epstein’s great friendship with Maxwell, and how she introduced him to young 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. This is not to say I didn’t hear stories about the girls. I did. But, not knowing quite who to believe, I concentrated on the intriguing financial mystery instead. But now the women have come back. Not the same ones, different ones. And their stories are bone- chilling. Journalists from England have phoned—and, in one case, flown—to ask me about Epstein and Maxwell. Who is he? And the British, especially, want to know: Who is she? At this point, Iam so bored of repeating myself to others—it was, after all, my 2003 Vanity Fairstory that really brought him into the limelight—that I have decided to write about this myself. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030420