Posted on 07/11/2019 1:55:13 PM PDT by TigerClaws
When federal prosecutors announced sex-trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein this week, they described him as a man of nearly infinite means. They argued that his vast wealth and his two private jets made him a flight risk. Mr. Epstein is routinely described as a billionaire and brilliant financier, and he rubbed elbows with the powerful, including former and future presidents. Even after his 2008 guilty plea in a prostitution case in Florida, he promoted himself as a financial wizard who used arcane mathematical models, and he often dropped the names of Nobel Prize-winning friends. He told potential clients that they had to invest a minimum of $1 billion. At his peak in the early 2000s, a magazine profile said he employed 150 people, some working out of the historic Villard Houses on Madison Avenue. Much of that appears to be an illusion, and there is little evidence that Mr. Epstein is a billionaire.
quote: Mr. Epsteins wealth may have depended less on his math acumen than his connections to two men Steven J. Hoffenberg, a onetime owner of The New York Post and a notorious fraudster later convicted of running a $460 million Ponzi scheme, and Leslie H. Wexner, the billionaire founder of retail chains including The Limited and the chief executive of the company that owns Victorias Secret.
quote: Mr. Epsteins firm, Financial Trust Company, has released no audited financial statements or performance reports to back up his claims of investment prowess. In a 2002 court filing, Mr. Epstein said he had 20 employees, far fewer than reported figures around that time
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Wealthy media moguls and their publications or news outlets seem strangely concerned and fascinated with this story. I wonder why....
George Clooney would be a perfect match
He’s a good choice........
Travolta at right - Epstein at left.
ya had to make me look!!!
George Hamilton took the role of lawyer because Duvall wanted too much $$ they said.
But he must be really old too now!!
80...not old in today’s world.
But epstein is 65.
Travolta is 66.
Hey, George Hamilton was famous for that tan.
But the “events” took place in the early 2000’s.............
Epstein? he’s dead, Jim............
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Now we’re talking 40s???!?!
I dont know enough actors that age to give an answer :)
Vince Vaughn? Conservative and a good actor.
But he wouldn’t do a lifetime movie.
Ya don’t think there will be a big screen production? :)
He makes Trump look white as a ghost :)
If only the public had access to his income tax returns. That would provide fodder for the media types with CPA's who can analyze the details and tell us once and for all how much he is worth....
Ron Perlman
Good choice, but he’s huge!.........
Horshack died. I think Epstein is still alive.
I'm getting old.
Ty Burrell would work...........
Nope. George Hamilton
A comedian?
Well, Robin Williams played a GREAT bad guy in that movie with Al Pacino.
A couple other actors did really well in their first serious roles.
That’s why they are called actors, I guess :)
Cool.
Yeah, he took over the Robert Duvall character.............
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