[Via Intelligencer]

Page2Live.com pulled the billionaire money manager and massage fanatic's visitors list. He was hardly lonely. Among Epstein's visitors:

• Nadia Marcinkova—a former realtor who allegedly put on lesbian sex shows with underage girls for Epstein's pleasure. One girl said of Marcinkova: "Epstein had purchased her from her family in Yugoslavia. Epstein bragged he brought her into the United States to be his Yugoslavian sex slave." She reportedly visited Epstein in jail 67 times.
• Sarah Kellen—Epstein's former assistant, who allegedly helped him with the logistics of his massages, etc. from underage girls.
• Igor Zinoviev—"a Russian extreme fighter whose address in New York City, 301 East 66th Street, is the same as Epstein's."

[Page2Live.com. Pic via]

Epstein became a billionaire money manager thanks in large part to a single client, and went on to become "very friendly" with fellow billionaire Ron Burkle and Burkle pal Bill Clinton. But—in addition to allegations that he manipulated a young transgendered girl into sexual favors with promises of a "modeling career"—he had a fondness for hiring underage teen girls for erotic massages. He was sentenced to 18 months for hiring underage prostitutes, but he's served 12, and what with his good behavior of not enlisting any more young teens to come massage him, in jail, he's getting out early. Now he gets to go register as a sex offender and give a DNA sample to the state, so they can check and see if he's involved in any future sex crimes.

Sporting an ankle bracelet and always tailed by an off-duty Sheriff's deputy he paid for, Epstein actually was on "work release" since October. He was free from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays and even on weekends. According to jail records, Epstein was working 16 hours a day for The Florida Science Foundation, his own science-related non-profit created a few months before he was sentenced.

He's paid a harsh price. Legally speaking, he's no promiscuous slut.
[Page2Live.com]

Cordero first made the news when she alleged that Epstein told her he could help her get a "modeling" career and used her for sex when she was 16. Then the Post reported she was born a man! And that she had talked about "masturbatory" fantasies on Myspace! And then they ran off and got a dismissive quote about Cordero from Epstein's flack, Howard Rubensteing—who is also the Post's own flack! A fact which they did not disclose, which is shady as fuck.

So Cordero sued the paper for libel, and now, the judge has ruled. In favor of the Post! Basically the judge said that, yes, they reported that she had sexy fantasies, but not that she actually did the sexy things, and the average person wouldn't think she's a "promiscuous slut" (exact legal language!) just because she had dreams of getting triple-teamed. Hell, the judge himself has animal fantasies that would make you sick, but he's a straitlaced guy in real life. We made that up. But if you want to call somebody a slut in print, just make sure you call them a fantasy slut. Relevant portion of the ruling:

Plaintiff's libel cause of action is predicated on the theory that the October 23 article was libelous per se because the statement that "[o]n one [of the Myspace pages], [plaintiff] gives a graphic depiction of a masturbatory fantasy' she has of being with multiple men and then multiple women" implies that she is "a promiscuous slut." Obviously enough, plaintiff can only recover damages on her libel cause of action if she can establish that the article was in fact defamatory - "tend[ing] to expose [her] to public contempt, ridicule, aversion or disgrace, or induce an evil opinion of [her] in the minds of right-thinking persons, and to deprive [her] of their friendly intercourse in society" (Rinaldi, 42 NY2d at 379). The Post defendants argue that the statement does not have a defamatory meaning because the statement only reported that plaintiff had a sexual fantasy; it did not report that plaintiff actually engaged in sexual conduct with multiple men and multiple women or otherwise acted on the fantasy. For that reason, according to the Post defendants, the statement does not imply that plaintiff is promiscuous and therefore is not actionable. Plaintiff argues that the statement suggests that she is so perverted that she publishes an online diary of masturbatory fantasies of group sex and therefore implies that she is promiscuous. Thus, according to plaintiff, the statement is defamatory...

At bottom, plaintiff's claim of defamation rests on the contention that the average reader reasonably would infer that someone with such a lewd fantasy also is in fact sexually promiscuous. That some readers might draw this inference does not render it reasonable.

[via THR, Esq.]

• Tom Cruise will let you watch "Valkyrie" at his house if you first proclaim your love for the movie in the media. Unfortunately, this offer appeals only to people who haven't read reviews of "Valkyrie," or know anyone who's seen it. [Scoop]
• Paris Hilton isn't saying who, but she thinks she knows who stole $2 million of her jewels and so forth. But other Hollywood types think a serial stealth burglar is on the loose.
• Shia LaBeouf is ashamed of his DUI hand injury, which was more severe than previously thought and only finally fixed two weeks ago. Ben Stiller is ashamed of breaking his hand snowboarding, so he had secret surgery at Mt. Sinai Sunday. [Gatecrasher]
  
• Jennifer Lopez used to send an assistant on tour with now-estranged husband Mark Anthony to make sure he wasn't cheating on her. [P6]
• Michael Jackson denied that he's dying of a terrible lung disease, then coughed. [People]
• Creepy billiionaire Jeffrey Epstein is out of jail five days a week and his former teen prostitutes are understandably revolted at the thought of running into him. [P6]
• Apparently some married couples will go on double dates with a cheating husband and his mistress. Because it could help one of them come up with another gem like "Legally Blonde." [P6]

• Lindsay Lohan called Sarah Palin a "narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe" on Lohan's MySpace page, citing a conference her church on "converting" gays. "She can suck it." [MySpace, Daily News]
• Anna Wintour really, really loved her 30 minutes with LeBron James. Even though it was at a screening. [R&M]
• Vogue's Andre Leon Talley does not appreciate being sprayed with champagne. [P6]
• NBC executive Ben Silverman wisely lets Jeff Zucker win at golf. He's still totally fired. [P6]
• More alleged underage sex victims sued billionaire and Bill Clinton buddy Jeffrey Epstein. [P6]
• Sidney Poitier will steal your wife and then not marry her. And then call her all kinds of un-Sidney-Poitier names! [P6]
• Swimmer Ryan Lochte doesn't have enough gold medals to get laid like Michael Phelps. [P6]
• Spike Lee declared himself done feuding with Clint Eastwood and moved on to Judd Apatow, "whatever that guy is." [Nikki Finke]
• Scarlett Johansson is a total prima donna now that she's Woody Allen's muse. Because that's what's made her a hot commodity. [P6]
• At George "Sulu" Takei's wedding, Chekhov was best man and Uhura was best lady. The husband was Brad Altman, 27 years younger. [ET]
• Amy Winehouse felt she was too ugly to go to her own 25th birthday party, supposedly. [Sun]
• Jennifer Lopez ran a triathlon in 2 hours 23 minutes, compared with 1 hour 30 minutes for Matthew McConaughey. [Us]

• John Mayer dumped Jennifer Aniston after the actress pushed him for "a timetable" and to promise not to tour so much when they eventually make babies together. (Sounds clingy.) There was a trial split first. Aniston was said "furious" initially but now is pretending that she's "already dating someone else in LA."
• Keith Olbermann is not so sure MSNBC should be teaming up with Rupert Murdoch on some stupid "citizen journalism" project involving MySpace, so in retaliation the Post ran the absolute fattest, least attractive picture of the Countdown anchor it could find. [P6]
• Jeffrey Epstein has been visited in prison by the 29-year-old woman who used to find him "willing young women," and also the 23-year-old he once supposedly dubbed his "Yugoslavian sex slave." [P6]
• Samantha Ronson, 31, on Lindsay Lohan: "She's great. She's also 22 years old." [E!]
• Britney Spears doesn't want her kids to go into show business, and her Dad says Kevin Federline's "heart is right." [Scoop]
• Shelley Malil, who co-starred in the movie 40-Year-Old-Virgin, is suspected of having stabbed his ex-girlfriend 20 times. [LA Times]
• Some British boutique made an ad featuring a fur coat draped over a woman wearing a Stella McCartney bra. Stella's kind of a big time animal-rights activist who detests fur coats. Hilarity ensues, LOL. [P6]

Monday's creepily gentle profile in the New York Times suggested that Epstein charged annual fees upward of $25m a year for "superelite financial advice"—leading Portfolio's Felix Salmon to remark on the profitability of private banking. Bullshit. Epstein's wealth is built on a "bizarre relationship" with single acknowledged client, Abercrombie & Fitch creator Leslie Wexner, one of America's most successful retailers.

Now that loaded quote comes only from an unnamed Wall Street acquaintance of Epstein who spoke to New York magazine for a profile of the money manager in 2002. There is no evidence whatsoever that their relationship went beyond that of aide to mentor. Epstein is pretty obviously heterosexual, or else going to extreme lengths to prove the point. The Limited owner Wexner himself is married with four children. It's bizarre to imagine any romantic connection between two men who are now 70 and 55 years old, a right-wing Ohio tycoon and a sex offender.

But no clients other than Wexner have ever emerged despite detailed profiles of Epstein in New York and Vanity Fair; the most plausible explanation is that Wexner has been Epstein's sole patron. And Epstein himself has done more than a normal money manager would: New York reported in the late 1980s Epstein even helped arrange a visit to Wexner's home by the crew of Cats. So close were they that Epstein was allocated a house near Wexner's in New Albany, Ohio; and he later took over the fashion mogul's vast Upper East Side townhouse.

Socialite and columnist Taki Theodoracopulos wrote last year: "Epstein got his start when Lesley Wexner, the Limited department store tycoon, took him under his wing and showed him the ropes, so to speak. Needless to say, there were a hell of a lot of rumours flying around about the tutelage, but what is certain is that Epstein ended up becoming a multi-billionaire financial adviser and close friend to Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell."

It's no wonder that Manhattan gossips have long wondered whether Wexner's attachment to Epstein was at one point romantic, even if unrequited. Wexner only married at the age of 56, several years after he first met Epstein. And blue-eyed Epstein wasn't always the weary pervert portrayed in his mugshot photographs. It would be ironic if the teen-loving masturbator had himself—two decades ago—got a little hand from an older and richer patron.

And who came out best from this bizarre relationship? Polly Adler said it best: "The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid — these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth."

"The editor of Esquire— he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it."

"You know he didn't use a single name, cite a single source in all those things he said. It's just slimy. It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's the most biased press coverage in history. It's another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn't do anything about it. The first day he said 'Ah, ah, ah well.' Because that's what they do— he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain— maybe I better quit the church. It's all politics. It's all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don't think anything about it."

So, just to recap: Clinton utterly trashed a reporter based on a story Clinton had never read; dragged a competing editor into the fight based on a private email (that he may or may not have quoted accurately); then insinuated without substantiation that Obama pushed a preacher to make racial remarks about Hillary Clinton. It's getting hard to keep track of who, exactly, is sliming who with poorly-checked facts.

[Huffington Post]

Ron Burkle
Relation to Bill Clinton: They became friends back in 1992 because both were self-made men who came from nothing and now could have sex with anyone they wanted. Burkle, a wealthy supermarket magnate, gave Bill a job after Bill left the White House.
Sexual Misadventures: "Good friends" with Gisele Bundchen! Also, flies around on his private jet with random NYU girls.
Net Worth: $3.5 billion.
Youngest known special friend: The NYU girl supposedly on Air Burkle with President Bill is supposedly 19. The lady Burkle was with in the VF story was also 19! (He gets older, they stay the same age.)

Steve Bing
Relation to Bill Clinton: Bing is a big donor to the Democratic party. Also, he has a private jet that Bill likes to ride on!
Sexual Misadventures: Well. There was a paternity fight with Elizabeth Hurley. And another with the ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.
Net Worth: Around $1 billion.
Youngest known special friend: Unknown!

Jeffrey Epstein
Relation to Bill Clinton: Unclear! We know he once flew Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker to Africa on his jet, once. That was before the various lawsuits and allegations, obv.
Sexual Misadventures: Well. He enjoyed massages. From underaged ladies! He was sued by a trangendered woman who claimed he made her his sex slave. Another anonymous lady is suing him for sexually assaulting her.
Net Worth: Totally unknown. We will accept guesses and estimates.
Youngest known special friend: 14. Yeesh.
Distinguishing characteristic of penis: Allegedly egg-shaped.

Bill Clinton
Relation to Bill Clinton: Is Bill Clinton.
Sexual Misadventures: Sued for sexual harassment by Paula Jones, accused of assault by two other women. Clinton admitted to one extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers, and, well, there was that Monica Lewinksky thing.
Net Worth: $10-50 million (w/ Hillary)
Youngest known special friend: Well, Monica was 22.
Distinguishing characteristic of penis: Allegedly bent.

New York found Epstein at a Siegal event. She's quoted talking about him more-or-less glowingly in New York's December feature on the disgraced financier. And today Page Six reports on a public sighting that would've really been too terrible to conceive:

May 8, 2008 — JEFFREY Epstein, who made a trip to Israel last month, thought about staying there, as Roman Polanski did in France, rather than face trial and possibly jail on charges of soliciting sex from prostitutes. But the money manager came home. "Would you want to live in Israel?" he asked Vanity Fair's Vicky Ward yesterday. At the screening the night before of HBO's documentary about Polanski, the crowd - including Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Bewkes, Dustin Hoffman, Emmy Rossum , Alec Baldwin and filmmaker Michael Mailer - was buzzing that Epstein had absconded. In fact, he was in his Upper East Side mansion. Ward wrote yesterday on the VF Web site, "He'd even thought about going to the Polanski screening until various friends e-mailed him to say, in so many words, 'Are you in- sane?' "

We'd guess "various friends" means "Peggy Siegal." Or, hell, Howard Rubenstein, Epstein's flack, who also reps the Post, as you may remember. Still, it's a good sign that they're finally advising him not to go out, especially to see movies about famous people who run away to foreign countries to avoid jail time for sex crimes.

Ugh.

Ms. Cordero will be happy to attend a televised nude settlement conference or celebrity charity benefit nude tea party with Rupert Murdoch and Lucifer Carne if the NY Post feels this would clear up the matter. Both Ms Cordero and Mr. Murdoch can appear nude and state their positions on this matter of grave public concern.

Is he maybe the best lawyer ever? Where beginning to think so! This must be strategy 112!

'Ms. Cordero Will be Happy to Attend a Televised Nude Settlement Conference' [NYM]
Earlier: A Letter From The Epstein Accuser's Lawyer
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Takeaway points:

• The Post's claim that Ms. Cordero is transgendered is not a part of her suit against them because it is so ridiculous as to not be "worth wasting the ink."
• This is called Strategy 111
• We "obviously have bad reporters who write opinions as fact and do no researching."
• Mr. Unroch hopes this is the last time he will be writing anything to us. We don't!

From: William Unroch
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:47:55 -0500
Subject: Your publishing.

Alleged Epstein Rape Vic Sues 'Post' article was not only a cheap, poor opinionated knock off of Radar Magazine's article it was stupid and uninvestigated. Where not suing the post for being the post and reporting the FACTUAL news! Where suing them for printing horrible, malicious lies they knew were false (if you saw the law suite you would know that) and printed away for a juice story! The fact that the majority of their publishing(s) were based on two web pages (that News Corp. is the parent company for) that the post was well informed several times were not Ms. Cordero's but published away as her words! N Y Post reporters working for the same company that owns myspace.com could have made 1 phone call to find out who created the web pages in question if they didn't believe me. How ever instead they printed it as if what the web pages said came from my clients own mouth ignoring my repeated pleas for them to at else investigate the authenticity of the pages before the write the article if they didn't believe me. I repeat what took me a day and a half to find out (yes I subpoenaed the web pages) could have took one phone for them. That fact that I didn't sue on the basis Ms. Cordero is a transgender is because frankly that issue is so ridiculous that it wasn't worth wasting the ink!!! That issue will be brought up by them and when they subpoena the birth certificate it will look much better for my clients case not only because they raised the issue by because of the outcome (it's called a strategy 111)! Further more the Post reports went around telling my clients friends and family that she suffered from a serious sexual disease which happens to be a criminal matter since the illness is statue protected. Not to mention it was completely false! Basically the whore article was a malicious defamatory lie to assassinate my client's charter cook up be Rubenstein and the post (which they conveniently left out the fact that they share the same publicist as Epstein!). So you say I'm suing the post for being the post! Be guided carefully or I'll bring you into the case for being involved with the post to dismiss and further defame my client as well as this being a effort to poison the future jury pool in News Corp.'s favor! You obviously have bad reporters who write opinions as fact and do no researching! I hope this is the last time I will be writing anything to you!

Sincerely,
William Unroch

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