The Fantasist

The Fantasist Page 1 of 9 c_j. ..,H6){9103.1(2 Ct PRINTTHIS Features The Fantasist Accused of paying underage girls for sex, superrich money manager Jeffrey Epstein is finding that living in a dream world is dangerous-even if you can pay for it. • By Philip Weiss • Published Dec 10, 2007 Corbis) Jeffrey Epstein is under indictment for sex crimes in Palm Beach, Florida, and I'd expected that when he came into the office of PR guru Howard Rubenstein, he would be sober and reserved. Quite the opposite. He was sparkling and ingenuous, apologizing for the half-hour lateness with a charming line- "I never realized how many one-way streets and no-right-turns there are in midtown. I finally got out and walked"-and as we went down the corridor to Rubenstein's office, he asked, "Have you managed to talk to many of my friends?" Epstein had been supplying me the phone numbers of important scientists and financiers and media figures. "Do you understand what an extraordinary group of