Machinations in a Manhattan Mansion, secrets of Jeffrey Epstein, the history of his Palatial Abode! Think Strauss family from Titanic, former hospital and school!
A Connector article as a follow up from this article I just did,
What you will find in this article,
History involving the Strauss family as Herbert Nathan Strauss was an original owner of Epstein's Manhattan Mansion.
What happened to Herbert's father who was one of the brother's, who Co-owned Macy's. Isidor and his brother (Herbert's uncle) Nathan. Who may have been integral in their demise.
All the owners of the Manhattan Mansion which included the Archbishopric of New York.
Hear more history involving Epstein and his dealings.
Hear what people who have known him have had to say about him over the years.
Find out what was in that mansion and many of it's oddities.
See an Archived NYT article about the mansion from 1996.
See who was a mentor of Epstein Before Wexner. Connector article coming on this including his nefarious dealings at Bear Stearns.
Many have talked about the oddities of Epstein's Manhattan Mansion reported given to him for just $10 by Leslie Wexner. It definitely came from Wexner's holdings, how much he paid appears to be debatable.
In an article written July 8, 2019 from Curbed,
(Investigators seized nude photographs from the home during a search over the weekend.) Prosecutors have ordered Epstein to hand over the mansion, along with “any property, real or personal, constituting or derived from any proceeds obtained, directly or indirectly, as a result of” those sex trafficking charges.
The 21,000-square-foot mansion at 9 East 71st Street
Known as the Herbert N. Straus Mansion, was built in 1933, and has previously been named as one of the city’s most valuable mansions. 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 $13.2 million. Wexner hired architect Thierry Despont and interior designer John Stefanidis to help gut the 40-room home.
In 1995, Wexner transferred the home to Epstein (no record of a sale exists in city property records), who was his protege and financial advisor. Epstein carried out his own renovation, and has held onto the home to this day. According to the New York Times, the property has been valued at approximately $56 million by the city’s Department of Finance, although prosecutors stated it was valued at $77 million. The property taxes are more than $347,000.
As a side note. . Very Interesting that he had to register as a sex offender in all of the states where he owned property Except New Mexico where his ranch is located and where he was wanting to do the following. . .
History of Manhattan Mansion leads back to a couple from the Titanic See more of the deep history and connections in Sources below.
According to Daytonian in Manhattan in an article written in 2012,
When Therese Kuhn married Herbert Nathan Strauss on July 15, 1907, she became part of one of New York’s wealthiest merchant families. Herbert and his brother Percy were the sons of Isidor and Ida Straus of the R. H. Macy & Co. department store and the young men already had fortunes of their own. The following year Herbert purchased the first parcel of land in New Jersey which would grow into their sprawling 100-acre country estate, Middleton Farm.
Tragedy would strike in April four years later when Isidor and Ida Strauss set sail for New York upon the H.M.S. Titanic. As the ship slowly began to sank, the elderly Ida withdrew her foot from the lifeboat and turned to her husband. “Where you go I will go,” she said.
Interesting what befell this family as history shows (see more in article in sources on Titanic)
Astor was, at the time, believed to be the wealthiest man on the planet. Guggenheim and Strauss weren’t far behind Astor. And these three powerful men opposed the Federal Reserve.
Back to the building of the Herbert Straus mansion
Ida’s maid took her seat in the lifeboat as the aged couple sat quietly on deck chairs holding hands.
As the years passed Herbert Strauss and his wife spent happy days in Middleton Farm; but what they lacked was a substantial Manhattan residence. Herbert began thinking about building a showplace.
East 71st Street just off Central Park in 1928 was lined with grand mansions. But it was also a time when most wealthy New Yorkers were giving up huge private homes in favor of luxurious apartments in modern buildings without the cost and bother of maintaining the houses .
On February 3 of that year it was announced that a syndicate had purchased six houses along East 71st to be replaced by a $5 million apartment building. Among them was the Edward H. Van Ingen mansion at No. 9. The Van Ingens had owned the house for decades.
When the ambitious apartment building plan fell through and the property became available once again, Herbert Strauss snatched it up. He commissioned architect Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia to design a 40-room French Renaissance palace. A few other millionaires were building new mansions simultaneously—Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt, William Goadby Loew and George F. Baker, for instance.
The Strauss home was meant to reflect taste, elegance and wealth. Europe was swept for antiques and fixtures. Entire 18th-century rooms were purchased to be shipped to New York and installed in the new mansion.
Whole rooms likely similar to this purchased,
The 6-story French limestone mansion rose quickly but then, on October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed. The good times were over and the Great Depression changed the faces of Americans.
Herbert Straus pressed on, however, and construction workers were retained for three more years. Then in 1931 he gave in, ordering work on the mansion—now 90 percent completed—stopped. To date he had spent approximately $600,000 on the project.
Herbert Straus would never see his dream home completed. Still living in the commodious apartment at 1144 Park Avenue he died in 1933 leaving an estate of just under $12 million.
The house on East 71st Street sat empty for over a decade. The New York Times would later report that “His heirs…never saw fit to spend the additional money necessary to put the finishing touches on this lavishly appointed home.” But there was the issue of real estate taxes.
On March 30, 1944 newspaper said “Mr. Straus and his estate had spent a sizable fortune in recent years in tax payments on the house. The taxes have amounted to as much as $17,000 in some years.”
To get rid of what they undoubtedly considered a white elephant, the Straus family donated the house to the Roman Catholic Archbishopric of New York in 1944. Now the Church had a problem: what to do with a lavish, uncompleted mansion on an exclusive Upper East Side block.
There was no need for another school or convent facility in the neighborhood and the residential needs of church executives was fully taken care of.
. But at least now the Catholic Church-owned property was tax-exempt; affording the Archdiocese time to think.
CREEPY!
Once it became a hospital, there were "good works" done. One wonders what always lied beneath this mansion as Catholic Properties All Over the World are known for having a maze residing underneath them.
At one point the former Strauss Mansion was a hospital.
St. Clare’s Hospital…what The Times would call a “sumptuous fifty-bed convalescent institution.” Between $250,000 and $300,000 was spent on the renovation by architect Robert J. Reiley and the equipping of the new hospital. Thankfully, at least two of the 200-year old interiors from France were removed and reinstalled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s period room collection.
Sort of an Odd way to put it.. .Sumptuous when referencing beds for patients isn't it?
We know Who loves their "double meanings" as above So below!
The facility was opened on September 8, 1945. The ground floor now housed a Romanesque-style chapel hung with 16th century Genovese red velvet donated by staff member Dr. John Morrisey. The Louis XV reception room remained as did the dining room and library. Administrative offices were also on the first floor.
So Epstein's Manhattan Mansion prior to becoming a school for children makes me ponder if he got some sort of "left over equipment."
Because we all saw This. .
Was there a Fire on Epstein Island to cover more evidence like the dentist cart or earthquake?
In the basement were a modern kitchen and the nurses’ dining room.
After 16 years in the Straus mansion, St. Clare’s closed the doors on July 24, 1961. The building was purchased by the Birch Wathen School, a college preparatory day school for well-to-do boys and girls from kindergarten through grade 12.
The school would remain here for over two decades before moving uptown. In 1989 retail mogul Leslie H. Wexner, founder of The Limited purchased No. 9 East 71st Street for $13.2 million. Wexner spent tens of millions of dollars in restoration, decoration and artwork to reconvert the 21,000 square foot mansion into a private home.
For the first time in half a century the magnificent French Renaissance mansion would be a home. Except Wexner never lived here. An advisor to the millionaire told The New York Times in 1996 that he spent no more than two months in the house.
Herbert Straus never had a chance to enjoy his glorious showplace. But after a long history of institutional use, it is unexpectedly a private family home today; home to disgraced financier billionaire Jeffrey Edward Epstein. Following his arrest on July 6, 2019, the magnificent oak entrance doors were crowbarred open by investigators seeking evidence of Epstein's alleged sexual abuse of underage girls. Otherwise the mansion externally shows little change from 1933.
“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,” wrote the Times. The townhouse is now reportedly owned by Wexner’s even more mysterious protégé, Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Epstein then undertook his own renovation, not wanting "to live in another person's house." He is said to have spent $10,000,000 redoing the place. 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 decor 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.”
Vicky Ward, in her 2003 Vanity Fair profile of Epstein, memorably captured the experience of touring the residence:
Described in this manner,
In Manhattan’s Upper East Side, home to some of the most expensive real estate on earth, exists the crown jewel of the city’s residential town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, huge arched windows, and nine floors, it sits on—or, rather, commands—the block of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of proportion with its four- and five-story neighbors, it seems more like an institution than a house. This is perhaps not surprising—until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private school. Now it is said to be Manhattan’s largest private residence.
Inside, amid the flurry of menservants attired in sober black suits and pristine white gloves, you feel you have stumbled into someone’s private Xanadu. This is no mere rich person’s home, but a high-walled, eclectic, imperious fantasy that seems to have no boundaries.
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.
Despite its eccentricity the house is curiously impersonal, the statement of someone who wants to be known for the scale of his possessions. Its occupant, financier Jeffrey Epstein, 50, admits to friends that he likes it when people think of him this way. A good-looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren, with thick gray-white hair and a weathered face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, and loafers. He tells people he bought the house because he knew he “could never live anywhere bigger.” He thinks 51,000 square feet is an appropriately large space for someone like himself, who deals mostly in large concepts—especially large sums of money.
Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the town house—Epstein usually refers to the former as “tea,” since he likes to eat bite-size morsels and drink copious quantities of Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or tobacco.) Tea is served in the “leather room,” so called because of the cordovan-colored fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding an opium pipe and caressing a snarling lionskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and guests by the menservants in white gloves.
Upstairs, to the right of a spiral staircase, is the “office,” an enormous gallery spanning the width of the house. Strangely, it holds no computer. Computers belong in the “computer room” (a smaller room at the back of the house), Epstein has been known to say. 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.
Really, pretty sure it means Far More than That considering all the heinous deeds Epstein has been found Guilty of!
Interesting as the house belonged to Strauss and one time and JP Morgan was involved in the Titanic.
In addition to the town house, Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico, on an $18 million, 7,500-acre ranch which he named “Zorro.” “It makes the town house look like a shack,” Epstein has said. He also owns Little St. James, a 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the main house is currently being renovated by Edward Tuttle, a designer of the Amanresorts. There is also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter, and a Boeing 727, replete with trading room, on which Epstein recently flew President Clinton, actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman’s grandson, Casey Wasserman, and a few others, on a mission to explore the problems of AIDS and economic development in Africa.
Epstein is charming, but he doesn’t let the charm slip into his eyes. They are steely and calculating, giving some hint at the steady whir of machinery running behind them. “Let’s play chess,” he said to me, after refusing to give an interview for this article. “You be white. You get the first move.” It was an appropriate metaphor for a man who seems to feel he can win no matter what the advantage of the other side. His advantage is that no one really seems to know him or his history completely or what his arsenal actually consists of. He has carefully engineered it so that he remains one of the few truly baffling mysteries among New York’s moneyed world. People know snippets, but few know the whole.
Okay, get a Big Bucket for This Part. . .
“He’s very enigmatic,” says Rosa Monckton, the former C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K. and a close friend since the early 1980s. “You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there’s something else extraordinary underneath. He never reveals his hand…. He’s a classic iceberg. What you see is not what you get.”
Even acquaintances sense a curious dichotomy: Yes, he lives like a “modern maharaja,” as Leah Kleman, one of his art dealers, puts it. Yet he is fastidiously, almost obsessively private—he lists himself in the phone book under a pseudonym. He rarely attends society gatherings or weddings or funerals; he considers eating in restaurants like “eating on the subway”—i.e., something he’d never do. There are many women in his life, mostly young, but there is no one of them to whom he has been able to commit. He describes his most public companion of the last decade, Ghislaine Maxwell, 41, the daughter of the late, disgraced media baron Robert Maxwell, as simply his “best friend.” He says she is not on his payroll, but she seems to organize much of his life—recently she was making telephone inquiries to find a California-based yoga instructor for him. (Epstein is still close to his two other long-term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher, a former associate of his at the brokerage firm Bear Stearns and now an opera producer, and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and onetime model. He tells people that when a relationship is over the girlfriend “moves up, not down,” to friendship status.)
Some of the businessmen who dine with him at his home—they include newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis Ranieri, Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, real-estate tycoon Leon Black, former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, Tom Pritzker (of Hyatt Hotels), and real-estate personality Donald Trump—sometimes seem not all that clear as to what he actually does to earn his millions. Certainly, you won’t find Epstein’s transactions written about on Bloomberg or talked about in the trading rooms. “The trading desks don’t seem to know him. It’s unusual for animals that big not to leave any footprints in the snow,” says a high-level investment manager.
So evidence some of his neighbors who Also have heated sidewalks definitely hobnobbed!
Unlike such fund managers as George Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, whose client lists and stock maneuverings act as their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his deals and clients secret, bar one client: billionaire Leslie Wexner, the respected chairman of Limited Brands. Epstein insists that ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1981 he has managed money only for billionaires—who depend on him for discretion. “I was the only person crazy enough, or arrogant enough, or misplaced enough, to make my limit a billion dollars or more,” he tells people freely. According to him, the flat fees he receives from his clients, combined with his skill at playing the currency markets “with very large sums of money,” have afforded him the lifestyle he enjoys today.
Does he now? Oh please, we've seen all the photos of Epstein with Bill Gates! Bill Gates and Soros are admittedly Tied at the Hip!
Why do billionaires choose him as their trustee? Because the problems of the mega-rich, he tells people, are different from yours and mine, and his unique philosophy is central to understanding those problems: “Very few people need any more money when they have a billion dollars. The key is not to have it do harm more than anything else…. You don’t want to lose your money.”
You mean problems like being bored and evil so needing your sick thrills of molesting children? Right, we've seen how you keep your profits by using and some of you being baby rapers!
He has likened his job to that of an architect—more specifically, one who specializes in remodeling: “I always describe [a billionaire] as someone who started out in a small home and as he became wealthier had add-ons. He added on another addition, he built a room over the garage … until you have a house that is usually a mess…. It’s a large house that has been put together over time where no one could foretell the financial future and their accompanying needs.”
Well, Bingo. . .it took "Architecture Genius" to set up that mansion to keep the money in the Controlling Pedos hands and be able to continue the "Honey Pot" that was Also part of Hefner's deal as a C_a asset! He Sure does give away a lot in his use of this interesting Metaphor where he compares what he does for his "clients" to what he has Actually needed to have done with his house which has a Very Interesting history as pointed out in this article!
Thereafter the details recede into shadow. A few of the handful of current friends who have known him since the early 1980s recall that he used to tell them he was a “bounty hunter,” recovering lost or stolen money for the government or for very rich people. He has a license to carry a firearm. For the last 15 years, he’s been running his business, J. Epstein & Co.
Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his life—Epstein has said this was in 1986; others say it was in 1989, at the earliest—he has gradually, in a way that has not generally made headlines, come to be accepted by the Establishment. He’s a member of various commissions and councils: he is on the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Institute of International Education.
Well, we've Certainly Hit a bounty there now haven't we? A bounty of orgs that go right back to the controlling, evil Rothschild family!
His current fan club extends to Cayne, Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Larry Summers, Harvard’s current president. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says, “I’m on my 20th book…. The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey.” Real-estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose, who has worked with Epstein on projects in New Albany, Ohio, for Wexner, says, “He digests and decodes the information very rapidly, which is to me terrific because we have shorter meetings.”
Also on the list of admirers are former senator George Mitchell and a gaggle of distinguished scientists, most of whom Epstein has helped fund in recent years. They include Nobel Prize winners Gerald Edelman and Murray Gell-Mann, and mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. When these men describe Epstein, they talk about “energy” and “curiosity,” as well as a love for theoretical physics that they don’t ordinarily find in laymen. Gell-Mann rather sweetly mentions that “there are always pretty ladies around” when he goes to dinner chez Epstein, and he’s under the impression that Epstein’s clients include the Queen of England. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand of a man named “Andrew” in Epstein’s house. “Andrew” turned out to be Prince Andrew, who subsequently arranged to sit in the back of Dershowitz’s law class.
Epstein gets annoyed when anyone suggests that Wexner “made him.” “I had really rich clients before,” he has said. Yet he does not deny that he and Wexner have a special relationship. Epstein sees it as a partnership of equals. “People have said it’s like we have one brain between two of us: each has a side.”
Better watch out Epstein, you don't want to Bite the hand that feeds you!
“I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns,” says Wexner. “But Jeffrey sees patterns in politics and financial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not in investment strategy, and, as everyone who knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fashion and design. We frequently discuss world trends as each of us sees them.”
By the time Epstein met Wexner, the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion empire—one that now includes Victoria’s Secret, Express, and Bath & Body Works—from $5,000 lent him by his aunt. “Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to realize his [Jeffrey’s] dreams,” says someone who has worked closely with both men. “He gave Jeffrey the ball, and Jeffrey hit it out of the park.”
Just curious, so do you suppose Epstein was integral in encouraging Wexner to hire Mike Jeffries who put out that Pedo mag advertisement for Abercrombie and Fitch in 2003?
Wexner, through a trust, bought the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported $13.2 million in 1989. In 1993, Wexner married Abigail Koppel, a 31-year-old lawyer, and the newlyweds relocated to Ohio; in 1996, Epstein moved into the town house. Public documents suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it, but Epstein has said that he now owns the house.
Wexner trusts Epstein so completely that he has assigned him the power of fiduciary over all of his private trusts and foundations, says a source close to Wexner. In 1992, Epstein even persuaded Wexner to put him on the board of the Wexner Foundation in place of Wexner’s ailing mother. Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled by splitting the foundation in two.
Epstein does not care that he comes between family members. In fact, he sees it as his job. He tells people, “I am there to represent my client, and if my client needs protecting—sometimes even from his own family—then it’s often better that people hate me, not the client.”
Well, isn't that Just Upstanding and Remarkable for a Known PEDOPHILE. Comes first ya know. . .even before Family!
I suppose that is how every "good" satanist conducts themselves!
“You’ve probably heard I’m vicious in my representation of my clients,” he tells people proudly; Leah Kleman describes his haggling over art prices as something like a scene out of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Even a former mentor says he’s seen “the dark side” of Epstein, and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meeting in which Epstein chewed out a team making a presentation for Wexner as being so brutal as to be “irresponsible.”
One reporter, in fact, received three threats from Epstein while preparing a piece. They were delivered in a jocular tone, but the message was clear: There will be trouble for your family if I don’t like the article.
Huh. ..you don't say, the wealthy and elitists having people threatened or even killed off? Surely not? You mean they have connections and money all over?
On the other hand, Epstein is clearly very generous with friends. Joe Pagano, an Aspen-based venture capitalist, who has known Epstein since before his Bear Stearns days, can’t say enough nice things: “I have a boy who’s dyslexic, and Jeffrey’s gotten close to him over the years…. Jeffrey got him into music. He bought him his first piano. And then as he got to school he had difficulty … in studying … so Jeffrey got him interested in taking flying lessons.”
That Poor little boy! Reminds me of Keith Raniere tutoring "client's" children as he raped them and actively preyed upon them!
Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling her that her daughter, Domenica, who suffers from Down syndrome, needed the sun, and that Rosa should feel free to bring her to his house in Palm Beach anytime.
Oh Yuck! This poor girl! Keep these sickos Away from All Children!
Some friends remember that in the late 80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the airline tickets of good friends by affixing first-class stickers; the only problem was that the stickers turned out to be unofficial. Sometimes the technique worked, but other times it didn’t, and the unwitting recipients found themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has claimed that he paid for the upgrades, and had no knowledge of the stickers.) Many of those who benefited from Epstein’s largesse claim that his generosity comes with no strings attached. “I never felt he wanted anything from me in return,” says one old friend, who received a first-class upgrade.
Really. . .You're really fooling yourselves! Many allow themselves to Be Fooled!
Epstein is known about town as a man who loves women—lots of them, mostly young. Model types have been heard saying they are full of gratitude to Epstein for flying them around, and he is a familiar face to many of the Victoria’s Secret girls. One young woman recalls being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert at Epstein’s town house, where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. “These were not women you’d see at Upper East Side dinners,” the woman recalls. “Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely.” This same guest also attended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was filled, she says, with young Russian models. “Some of the guests were horrified,” the woman says.
“He’s reckless,” says a former business associate, “and he’s gotten more so. Money does that to you. He’s breaking the oath he made to himself—that he would never do anything that would expose him in the media. Right now, in the wake of the publicity following his trip with Clinton, he must be in a very difficult place.”
I would say there is a LOT more to this story than even these seedy dealings we all are already aware of!
According to S.E.C. and other legal documents unearthed by VANITY FAIR, Epstein may have good reason to keep his past cloaked in secrecy: his real mentor, it might seem, was not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Hoffenberg, 57, who, for a few months before the S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 1993, was trying to buy the New York Post. He is currently incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts, serving a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history.
Now there's an Interesting Deep Dive! See far More of Epstein's dealings Before he was "better known," in this coming link.
In a non altered digitized archive of the New York Times article titled,
Mr. Wexner bought the house in 1989 for $13.2 million and lavished tens of millions on renovations, art and furnishings. Those curious to see the princely accommodations Mr. Wexner abandoned need look no further than the cover of last month's Architectural Digest. 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.
Well for starters, cost encodes yet Another 6.
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.
Interesting, so 2 Known pedophiles (fine, Cosby was ratted out for assault on women, were any of them underaged? Let's just say "alleged pedo" to be on the safe side) who have heated landscaping.
Wonder what could Possibly Lie Beneath?
The seven-story house was built by the society architect Horace Trumbauer in 1933 for Herbert N. Straus, an heir to the Macy's fortune, who died before it was completed. (Mr. Trumbauer also built Clarendon Court in Newport, R.I., the former home of Sunny and Claus von Bulow.) The Straus house later became a convalescent home and the Birch Wathen School, making Mr. Wexner the first private resident -- or at least, the first private nonresident.
I'm just going to say, Why do they keep taking one of the "S" out of Strauss. I have fixed it in their other sources, but Sure Makes me Wonder. . .do they Not want people connecting this family to the Titanic as JP Morgan was a Major Player and alleged caller of Hits on people he needed out of the way? Think the forerunner to strategically placed Arkancices.
You know what they say. . .always just One Generation away from forgetting history and the way Morgan's bud Rockefeller rights the curriculum in the annuls of what is considered "prestigious" yet Highly Questionable curriculum. . they Sure Do leave at Many Key Facts! Seems to suit the Controllers of His Story doesn't it?
Reached in Florida last week, Mr. Epstein said that the house was now his.
In New York, two other billionaires, David Geffen and Ronald O. Perelman -- and an almost-billionaire, Steven P. Jobs -- are also in the vanguard of this puzzling trend. And there are others.
Across the street from the Wexner house stands the balustraded neo-Renaissance house of Robert W. Miller, the duty-free-shop executive, and his wife, Chantal. Visitors describe the house as being resplendent with a collection of Old Master paintings and boulle furniture, including a Louis XIV desk whose twin is at Versailles. But the Millers choose to live on the 22d floor of the nearby Hotel Carlyle instead because Mrs. Miller prefers the view.
Awe. . ."Rich people decisions!"
Just look at how Connected all of these people surrounding Epstein are. . .
The magnificent Miller house, whose interior has been conjured by the Venetian designer Renzo Mongiardino, usually languishes unoccupied, though it is occasionally used by the Millers' daughter Marie-Chantal and her recent bridegroom, Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece.
Mr. Geffen, the entertainment executive, is currently selling the two town houses on East 64th Street that he purchased in 1994 with the intention of tearing them down. He commissioned three sets of plans -- by the architects Charles Gwathmey and Richard Meier and by the interior designer Rose Tarlow -- for a showpiece town house, but then changed his mind.
Mr. Geffen has also been playing cat-and-mouse with the famous Jack Warner house in Beverly Hills, Calif., which he bought in 1990 for $47.5 million. He at first decided not to move into it, Ms. Tarlow said, but has now decided he will use after all.
Although famously wealthy, Mr. Geffen appears content to divide his time primarily between a modest one-bedroom apartment on Fifth Avenue, which was overhauled by Mr. Gwathmey, and a small beach house in Malibu, Calif.
Yet Another connection between the East Coast and the West Coast of "movers, shakers and controllers!"
Ronald O. Perelman, the chairman of Revlon and, according to the 1995 Forbes 400 list, New York's richest self-made billionaire, lives in a town house in the East 60's but continues to own a large apartment on Park Avenue, which he bought in 1993 while separated from Claudia Cohen. (They are now divorced and she lives on a higher floor in the same building.) Mr. Perelman's apartment, which had been decorated by Mr. Mongiardino for the previous owner, was remodeled by the New York designer Peter Marino. Mr. Perelman lived there less than a year, and it is now unoccupied.
Stranger still, even in the annals of the super-rich, is the duplex penthouse apartment of Steven P. Jobs, in a skyline-defining building on Central Park West. Mr. Jobs, a founder of Apple Computer and the chairman of Next Computer and Pixar Animation Studios, engaged the New York architects Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners to renovate the apartment nearly a decade ago. A spokesman for the architectural firm conceded that reports of the job having cost $10 million were "conservative." Plans for furnishing it have not even begun. Nine years later, Mr. Jobs has yet to spend a night in his aerie.
Still, the Architectural Digest cover confirms Mr. Wexner as the leader of this rarefied pack. Inside the magazine, 10 pages are filled with pictures taken more than two years ago. The house has since undergone yet another transformation at the hands of the designer Alberto Pinto.
While the article does not mention the home's owner, its history is well known to many interior designers, who have long considered the house a plum assignment and are abuzz with speculation over why Mr. Wexner chose not to stay. Paige Rense, the editor in chief of Architectural Digest, declined to comment on the identity of the owner or on the vintage of the pictures.
Interesting. . .So appears to be done as a "Project" with the necessary "equipment" to pass on to his buddy and pedo orchestrator Epstein!
John Stefanidis, the interior designer who with the architect Thierry Despont wrought all this splendor for Mr. Wexner, showed philosophical acceptance of his client's decision. "He now goes to New York very, very seldom," Mr. Stefanidis said, "and some people just don't have the time to live in all their houses."
Right! But he had Time to visit this pedo filled mansion!
Mr. Stefanidis also pointed out that Mr. Wexner was a bachelor when the project began and that his domestic priorities changed when he married in 1993. Friends say that his wife, Abigail, expressed greater enthusiasm for bringing up their two young children in Columbus, Ohio, where the Limited has its headquarters and where Mr. Stefanidis and Mr. Despont have built what visitors describe as a French-style chateau of pre-guillotine splendor.
Linda Stein, a New York real estate broker with movie-star clients, marveled at this fickleness. "It's amazing these guys can ever make a business decision," she said.
Isn't it though? Perplexing! One must Never Forget there are #NoCoincidences!
Edward Lee Cave, another New York real estate broker, is more philosophical. "This is the privilege of the rich," he said. "It's rather like ladies who take pleasure in buying expensive clothes, put them in the closet, then forget to wear them."
So the question nowadays isn't where you live, it's where you don't live.
Sure it is Leslie Wexner member of the Mega Group
In 1991, Wexner formed with billionaire Charles Bronfman the Study Group, which is more widely known as the Mega Group. The group was a loosely organized club of some of the country's wealthiest and most influential businessmen who were concerned with Jewish issues. Max Fischer, Michael Steinhardt, Leonard Abramson, Edgar Bronfman, and Laurence Tisch were some of the members. The group would meet twice a year for two days of seminars related to the topic of philanthropy and Jewishness. In 1998, Steven Spielberg spoke about his personal religious journey, and later the group discussed Jewish summer camps. The group, which Wexner co-chaired with Charles Bronfman, went on to inspire a number of philanthropic initiatives such as the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, Birthright Israel, and the upgrading of national Hillel.
Just one Big YIKES after Another!
I believe you will find in this list Many Possible people to fit that co-conspirator list tied to Epstein.
For instance, Edgar Bronfman. ..Clare and Sara Bronfman's father. The two sisters who funded Keith Raniere of NEXIVM. See more info here,
Concerning Jeffries CARribean ISland,
This is a connection as this building's owner Owned the Strauss mansion prior to them .
It's Always important what surrounds the areas of these High Profile Pedophiles
So Edward H. Van Ingen owner Prior to rebuilding. Interesting because he also owned this building,
The Seemingly-Doomed Bancroft Bldg -- No. 7 West 29th St.
In February 1875 the Association of the Bar purchased the substantial brick home at No. 7 West 29th Street. Midway between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, the mansion sat in a most fashionable area for the club’s proposed headquarters. The neighborhood and the exceptional size of the property—75 feet wide, or about three full building lots—were reflected in the price; $100,000 or about $2 million today.
I point this out because of Who they are and Look at these numbers,
In February 1875 the Association of the Bar purchased the substantial brick home at No. 7 West 29th Street. Midway between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, the mansion sat in a most fashionable area for the club’s proposed headquarters. The neighborhood and the exceptional size of the property—75 feet wide, or about three full building lots—were reflected in the price; $100,000 or about $2 million today.
This is also Very interesting to note considering the area and all that was found at Epstein's mansion. . .
A variety of tenants, many of them architects and publishers, continued to come and go. In 1900 the American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society was here, as was the architectural firm of Hardy & Short. In 1903 the Moyea Automobile Company established its offices in the building and on May 1 of that year Frank Presbrey Company, “general advertising agents,” took over the entire 8th floor. The School Journal said at the time “This agency numbers among its patrons some of the most solid and representative advertisers in the world.” See more in sources below.
From an article in Curbed from 2015 titled,
The property holdings of financier Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein manages a hedge fund based in the U.S. Virgin Islands and has a home base in Palm Beach, Florida. (As part of a 2008 plea deal, Epstein “pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges and was required to register as a sex offender” in Miami, New York City, and the Virgin Islands—though not in New Mexico, where he also owns a ranch. As per Vox, Epstein served just 13 months “in the private wing of a Palm Beach County jail” and was “granted work release to go to a ‘comfortable office’ for 12 hours a day, six days a week.”)
New York Mag says he just paid a dollar for it,
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/index1.html
https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/08/why-are-they-sitting-on-the-epstein-evidence/
Sources,
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/03/08/the-real-titanic-love-story-of-ida-and-isidor-strauss/
https://www.curbed.com/2015/1/9/10004040/jeffrey-epstein-property-real-estate-holdings
https://theconsciousresistance.com/2018/11/bringing-down-jeffrey-epstein-2018-documentary/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/7/8/20686702/jeffrey-epstein-new-york-townhouse-seized
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-nyc-mansion.html
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-1933-herbert-straus-mansion-no-9.html
https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-seemingly-doomed-bancroft-bldg-no-7.html
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/11/garden/home-sweet-elsewhere.html
Sorry, but you Have to see what I found poking around in that 1996 NYT archived article. Totally unrelated, yet. ..it in the Scheme of the Big Picture. . .Definite Tie Ins!
Made this into yet another connector article, will come back in to put the link if there is room!