Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata make clear his vibrant Hamptons way of life – and the rich associates who accompanied him

On a Friday in July practically 5 years to the day after being launched from jail for soliciting intercourse from a baby, financier Jeffrey Epstein launched into a packed day within the Hamptons with a number of the strongest and influential individuals in America.

The overcast Long Island morning started when Epstein arrived at an East Hampton helipad aboard a helicopter owned by Andrew Farkas, a Manhattan actual property mogul who co-owned a marina with Epstein in St. Thomas, just lately launched Epstein-related paperwork present.

He ate breakfast in East Hampton with then-New York Daily News writer Mort Zuckerman earlier than conferences with billionaire non-public fairness investor Leon Black and famend Manhattan restaurateur Steve Hanson, Epstein emails present.

Then he attended a Southampton birthday get together for Black’s son, Ben, who just lately took the helm of the little-known however highly effective U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, which invests in growth initiatives in lower- and middle-income international locations.

While there was intensive reporting on Epstein’s dalliances with the wealthy and highly effective at his non-public island within the U.S. Virgin Islands, his Upper East Side townhouse and Palm Beach, Florida, mansion, Epstein additionally had a vibrant however less-scrutinized life throughout occasional summer season visits to Long Island.

Last month, the U.S. Justice Department launched a trove of greater than 3 million paperwork from Epstein’s recordsdata, following months of strain from lawmakers to open its intensive recordsdata on the late financier, who was convicted of soliciting a baby for prostitution. He was awaiting federal sentencing on intercourse trafficking expenses when authorities mentioned he died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell.

Newsday reporters searched by means of tens of hundreds of information to deliver contemporary consideration to Epstein’s Gatsbyesque-life on Long Island, primarily within the Hamptons, and to his associations with present and former Island residents.

The non-public messages paint the image of a billionaire who used his wealth, privilege and elite community of associates to proceed his unique, jet-setting way of life — the place he dined with enterprise titans, well-known writers, modeling brokers, TV hosts and music producers — even after registering as a convicted intercourse offender in 2008.

Epstein’s 2008 conviction, for which he served lower than 13 months of an 18-month sentence, required him to register as a intercourse offender however didn’t have any journey restrictions.

Being named within the Epstein recordsdata doesn’t set up guilt, as people typically seem merely by means of e-mail correspondence, contact info or different information referencing the disgraced intercourse offender.

The emails make frequent mentions of unnamed girls who apparently had unfettered entry to Hamptons residences that Epstein typically borrowed from shut associates.

A May 30, 2016, e-mail to Epstein from a redacted title boasts of buying pink T-shirts studying “girls weekend” following time within the Hamptons. A July 5, 2012, e-mail from Lesley Groff, Epstein’s longtime government assistant, who didn’t reply to a request for remark, described plans for “the girls to all meet tomorrow for the heli to East Hampton.” 

The emails reviewed by Newsday provide few particulars on the identities or ages of the ladies who joined Epstein within the Hamptons.

And whereas the Long Island paperwork don’t implicate anybody in felony habits, they underscore how his wealth and connections in elite Hamptons social circles allowed the convicted intercourse offender to rebuild legitimacy in plain sight.

Private helicopter flights from the town and unique movie screenings with Hollywood stars had been frequent occurrences.

There was an invite to a $2,500-per head fundraiser with 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, hosted by Manhattan grocery store magnate John Catsimatidis.

Epstein convened conferences with attorneys, authors and public relations gurus — throughout a time main as much as his second arrest on federal intercourse trafficking expenses for allegedly abusing dozens of younger women earlier than his 2019 suicide.

Some of essentially the most well-known Epstein associates, together with President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, tech billionaire Elon Musk, legal professional Alan Dershowitz and the previous Prince Andrew don’t seem within the Long Island-centric emails.

But the names of different luminaries pepper the paperwork.

Some Epstein associates on Long Island have appeared on tv, bookshelves, runways, on the White House and hobnobbing at awards exhibits with music royalty.

Others lead Fortune 500 firms, modeling businesses, hedge funds and contracting companies.

Here are a few of Epstein’s Long Island connections:

Andrew Farkas, the billionaire founding father of Island Capital, a Manhattan-based actual property financial institution, was in common communication with Epstein, together with about visits to the Hamptons. Farkas beforehand owned a house in Southampton whereas Island Capital as soon as owned the Montauk Yacht Club. In emails, Epstein described Farkas as “one of the blessings in my life” and “one of the bravest men I’ve ever known.” Records and pictures present Farkas made visits to Epstein’s non-public island. During a 2018 go to, Farkas emailed Epstein that he was nonetheless ready on a “gift” and Epstein responded with a feminine’s title. In a 2013 go to, Farkas requested Epstein to offer “a masseuse.” Records present Epstein and Farkas co-owned a marina enterprise in St. Thomas, the place Epstein owned a personal island since 1998. In an announcement, a spokesman mentioned Farkas “deeply regrets ever associating with Jeffrey Epstein.”

Steve Hanson, a New York restaurateur whose properties embrace Blue Water Grill, Dos Caminos and Fiamma, was a detailed buddy of Epstein’s, and the lads exchanged common emails, information present. The two had common conferences, took walks and shared meals collectively, typically within the Hamptons, the place Hanson owned a house. During a September 2011 go to, an Epstein assistant requested Hanson if he may choose up Epstein at a Hamptons airport and requested if he ought to land in East Hampton or Westhampton. Hanson responded to land in East Hampton as Westhampton “is like landing in Harlem.” In a closely redacted Aug. 8, 2012, e-mail, an assistant says Hanson’s non-public aircraft would choose up Epstein within the Hamptons “and off they go to the ranch,” an obvious reference to Epstein’s New Mexico property. Hanson declined to touch upon his communication with Epstein.

Michael Borrico, the CEO of Certified Construction, a contracting agency that designs high-end industrial, residential and restaurant house, beforehand lived in Water Mill and seems a handful of instances within the Epstein emails. In one trade Borrico asks Ghislaine Maxwell, the jailed shut affiliate of Epstein, if she is free to satisfy “in case you want to frolic around Madison Avenue with me at lunch time.” When Maxwell responds that she is in Cuba, Borrico replies: “frolicking in havana sounds even better.” In 2021, Maxwell was discovered responsible of serving to Epstein run a sex-trafficking ring that preyed on younger girls and is serving a 20-year jail sentence. Another 2013 e-mail references a development venture Epstein, Hanson and Borrico had been engaged on collectively. Borrico’s agency constructed Primehouse, a Hanson-owned steakhouse, information present. Borrico, a Hamptons polo fanatic, didn’t reply to a number of requests for touch upon his communication with Epstein.

Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent who opened two companies with funding from Epstein, was a detailed affiliate of the late financier and seems in hundreds of emails, together with a number of referencing time spent within the Hamptons, information present. Brunel, who was arrested in 2020 as a part of a French inquiry into the Epstein allegations, hanged himself in a jail cell in 2022. Brunel, who denied any wrongdoing earlier than his loss of life, visited Epstein’s non-public island 25 instances, information present, and Virginia Giuffre, one in all Epstein’s main accusers — who later took her personal life — alleged she was pressured to have intercourse with him. A 2019 Justice Department memo into Epstein co-conspirators states: “Brunel brought a young girl, who was about 15 years old, to Epstein’s Virgin Islands residence.” 

Michael Wolff, the Amagansett-based creator, communicated usually with Epstein, offering the intercourse offender with recommendation and media help. In a Nov. 11, 2013, e-mail, Wolff described Epstein as “my good friend” who was searching for a brand new assistant. In a Feb. 25, 2011, e-mail, Wolff tells Epstein he has been “defending you to the world’s press — my pleasure, of course.” And in a July 19, 2011, e-mail, Wolff, who was reportedly engaged on a e book about Epstein earlier than his loss of life, writes: “I’d personally have a sense of satisfaction in both helping you out and, in addition, figuring out the process here and striking a blow for reason and sense. It’s a kind of journalistic effort in reverse.” Wolff didn’t reply to questions on his Epstein communication however informed Newsday he by no means met with the financier on Long Island.

Leon Black, a non-public fairness investor and former CEO of Apollo Global Management, who owns a house in Southampton, seems in hundreds of Epstein emails, together with dozens referencing journeys to Long Island. “The Dechert law firm investigated and reviewed more than 60,000 documents, interviewed more than 20 people and concluded that Mr. Black paid Epstein for estate planning and tax advice and that he had no awareness of Epstein’s criminal activities,” mentioned a spokesman for Black, Whit Clay. “It is in this context that Epstein knew Mr. Black and his son, Ben.” The probe discovered Black’s funds to Epstein totaled virtually $160 million between 2012 and 2017. Black stepped down from Apollo in 2021. Black has been accused 3 times publicly of sexual assault, together with in dismissed lawsuits by a Russian mannequin and a girl who alleged he raped her at Epstein’s Manhattan dwelling. A 2023 federal lawsuit accused Black of raping a 16-year-old lady with Down syndrome and autism at Epstein’s townhouse. Black has denied all of the allegations. The 2019 Justice Department memo says a masseuse supplied Black with oral intercourse throughout a therapeutic massage. In 2023, Black paid $62.5 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands to be launched from potential authorized claims associated to its probe of Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

Mort Zuckerman, the previous Daily News writer and proprietor of U.S. News & World Report, was in common contact with Epstein, together with invites for breakfast at Zuckerman’s East Hampton dwelling, information present. In an Oct. 9, 2009, e-mail, Epstein tried to strain Zuckerman to change protection of Epstein’s 2008 Florida conviction for soliciting prostitution. In the e-mail, Epstein denied having intercourse with underage prostitutes — noting that he pleaded responsible to procuring and soliciting the women however not intercourse — and including that it “would be wrong” and “defamatory” to publish an legal professional’s accusations in regards to the crimes. Zuckerman responded, “We r doing major editing over huge objections.” Epstein replied that he needed Maxwell faraway from the protection and thanked Zuckerman, who didn’t reply to repeated requests for remark about his communication with Epstein, for his assist.

Dick Cavett, the 1960-70s speak present host, who till a number of years in the past owned the enduring Montauk dwelling Tick Hall, dined usually with Epstein on the financier’s Manhattan dwelling, information present. Emails in 2016 between the pair present Epstein would ship a driver to select up Cavett for lunch. Cavett requested Epstein to fund an unspecified venture and pressed his assistant for solutions on the possible finances. “Sorry not trying to be a pest!” he wrote after asking about it once more. Epstein invited Cavett for dinner at his East 71st Street townhouse with Woody Allen and his spouse, Soon-Yi Previn, in January 2017, however the chat present host declined. Efforts to succeed in Cavett had been unsuccessful.

Tommy Mottola, the previous Sony Records CEO, Hofstra University scholar and ex-husband of Mariah Carey, carried on a decades-long friendship with Epstein, information present. Hundreds of emails, together with a number of centered on the Hamptons, volley forwards and backwards between the music mogul and Epstein — many with the message “Call me” or “Tried to call you.” In different emails, Mottola tried to get Epstein concerned in a music pageant and the 2 talk about the music app Spotify. Epstein tapped Mottola for the variety of Latin music singer Enrique Iglesias after listening to the star needed to promote his non-public jet, information present. Mottola sometimes expressed concern about Epstein’s well being or temper and in 2011, despatched Epstein a big field of Bridgewater Chocolates. The males had been launched round 2009 by Brunel, who informed Epstein that Mottola “is going to attempt to be the entertainment czar of cuba … you and tommy should meet.” During a 2010 deposition, Epstein was requested if he’d ever socialized with Mottola and underage girls. Epstein asserted his Fifth Amendment proper in opposition to self-incrimination. Mottola didn’t reply to requests for remark about his communications with Epstein.

Faith Kates, the Next Model Management co-founder, who grew up on Long Island, checked in with Epstein usually, together with after his 2008 conviction. Emails present Kates, whose company as soon as represented mannequin Kate Upton, expressing assist for Epstein after media consideration inbuilt March 2011, after an interview with Giuffre. Kates suggested Epstein to “lay very low and quiet.” In a March 4, 2022, e-mail, Kates mentioned: “I am sorry this is happening to you but you should know who your friends are … know I always have your best interest at hand even if you don’t listen.” Kates informed Epstein she “loved him like a brother” and prompt he take into consideration philanthropic initiatives to maintain his thoughts occupied whereas in self-imposed exile. “This will make people talk about you but in a positive way.” On Thanksgiving Day 2017, Kates checked on Epstein to see whom he was celebrating with. Epstein responded: “david fizel. hanson. trump.” Records presentTrump spent that Thanksgiving, throughout his first time period, at Mar-a-Lago.  “Epstein was a master manipulator,” Kates spokesman Ken Frydman told Newsday when reached for comment on Kate’s communication with Epstein. “People only knew what he wanted them to know. Ms. Kates was one of the people grossly misled by him. She was friends with Epstein and had a social relationship with him, but he did not reveal his sordid nature in any of her interactions with him. She believed the narrative about his Florida conviction that the government permitted Epstein to tell and she deeply regrets that she did. Had she known then what she — and everyone else — now knows, she would never have associated with him.”

Jes Staley, a former funding banker with JP Morgan and Barclays, who has a house in Southampton, had deep ties with Epstein. Staley exhibits up a number of instances in Epstein’s every day schedule and the 2 mentioned enterprise offers in Brazil, information present. Staley and his spouse additionally visited Epstein’s island, information present. Staley seems in a 2019 FBI memo, written months after Epstein died, relating to a girl who had been interviewed about her work with Epstein as a masseuse. In 2010 or 2011, the girl informed investigators she gave Staley a therapeutic massage. “STALEY then forcefully put her hands on his crotch area. This ended in rough sex. [Redacted] told STALEY she did not want this. told STALEY that EPSTEIN wouldn’t like this. STALEY said ‘it’s fine.'” The sufferer reportedly informed Epstein in regards to the incident, who declined to intervene. Staley was pressured to resign from Barclays when his relationship with Epstein surfaced, and was later banned by a British banking regulatory company from ever holding a senior administration function within the monetary providers trade. Staley, who didn’t reply to requests for remark about his communication with Epstein, has lengthy maintained that he and the late financier had a “close professional relationship” however weren’t associates.

Peggy Siegal, a Manhattan publicist and Hamptons mainstay, corresponded usually with Epstein whereas he was on Long Island, paperwork point out. Records present Siegal was current in December 2010 when Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, previously Prince Andrew, partied with Epstein two years after his responsible plea. When information of the occasion hit the gossip pages, Epstein appeared to carry Siegal chargeable for the leak. “Not good for andrew, not good for me — not good for you,” he wrote, attaching a Page Six article with the e-mail. “I thought you told her those things off the record. not good for many reasons.” In November 2017, the public relations skilled and Epstein mirrored on how he match into the reckoning from the #MeToo motion. Epstein mentioned: “charlie, harvey, brett. louis. . jeffrey is looking better and better L:),” referencing a number of high-profile people touched by scandal. She agreed. “I know!!!! The world is topsy turvey,” she wrote. “That has been going on since the beginning of time (and that is not an excuse).” Siegal, who didn’t reply to requests for remark about her communication with Epstein, added that Epstein “suffered for a few years and now you are the least of this witch hunt.”

Glenn Dubin, a co-founder of Highbridge Capital, seems within the recordsdata as a buddy and enterprise affiliate, together with in messages despatched whereas Epstein was within the Hamptons. Epstein was the godfather to Dubin’s kids, and Dubin is known as as an investor in a fund with Epstein going again to January 2006, two years earlier than Epstein pleaded responsible to intercourse crimes with minors, information present. When JP Morgan purchased Highbridge, Dubin reportedly paid Epstein a $15 million payment. Dubin’s spouse, Eva Andersson-Dubin, a Swedish physician and mannequin, dated Epstein earlier than the couple married in 1994, information present. Like Epstein, Dubin grew up in a working-class household, graduating from Stony Brook University, and has since donated generously to the college. The college’s 8,000-square-foot Dubin Family Athletic Performance Center carries his title. A 21-page FBI PowerPoint summarizing the Epstein investigation mentions Dubin below the “Prominent Names” web page. “[Redacted] acknowledged that Maxwell instructed her to present Dubin a therapeutic massage and do what she did for Epstein,” the note said. A family spokeswoman said that Dubin denies the claim. “When these allegations first surfaced virtually seven years in the past, the Dubins denied these defamatory claims, noting that they had been disproved by contemporaneous flight and different information,” Devon Spurgeon said. “Recent developments have definitively and publicly disproved Ms. Giuffre’s [Epstein’s alleged victim] claims together with the DOJ’s personal evaluation, launched within the Epstein recordsdata, through which DOJ acknowledged that Ms. Giuffre’s claims about being trafficked to males aside from Epstein himself couldn’t be corroborated regardless of their intensive investigation, and that a lot of Ms. Giuffre’s public statements had been ‘demonstrably inaccurate.’ As the Dubins have mentioned for years, they had been horrified by the allegations in opposition to Jeffrey Epstein. Had they been conscious of Epstein’s vile and unspeakable conduct, they might have minimize off all ties way back and definitely by no means allowed him to be within the presence of their kids.” 

Rich Kahn and Darren Indyke, Long Island attorneys who worked for Epstein for decades, setting up his Virgin Islands estate and helping him navigate legal issues, are mentioned repeatedly in the files. Both men were named as beneficiaries of Epstein’s $600 million estate, with Indyke left $50 million and Kahn $25 million, though it’s unclear whether they would receive the money after litigation and a compensation fund that was established for victims. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has subpoenaed both men to testify on Epstein. The lawyers, along with the Epstein estate, settled a lawsuit in 2022 filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands under the territory’s sex trafficking, anti-criminal enterprise, fraud and child exploitation laws, agreeing to pay $105 million and forfeit Little St. James island, the private compound where investigators say some of the abuse occurred. “Not a single lady has ever accused Mr. Indyke or Mr. Kahn of committing sexual abuse or witnessing sexual abuse, nor claimed at any time that she reported to them any allegation of Mr. Epstein’s abuse,” Dan Weiner, Indyke’s lawyer, said in a statement. Weiner said the two attorneys have been working with the House committee and have turned over “hundreds of pages of paperwork, pictures and different supplies.”

Howard Lutnick, the Jericho native and current U.S. commerce secretary, has been under fire and facing calls to resign in recent weeks for his dealings with Epstein and failing to disclose to Congress a visit to his private island. A Nov. 20, 2012, email from Groff, Epstein’s executive assistant, invited Lutnick, the former president and chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, to Epstein’s St. Thomas island “over the vacations.” Lutnick told Congress he cut off ties with Epstein in 2005. But on Feb. 10, Lutnick said during a Senate hearing that he had “lunch with him, as I used to be on a ship going throughout on a household trip.” Lutnick, who records show also had business dealings with Epstein, insisted during the Senate hearing that he “barely had something to do with that particular person.” Lutnick and Epstein had been additionally beforehand neighbors in Manhattan, information present. Other emails discuss with conferences, calls and drinks with Epstein and a 2017 invitation to attend a Wall Street dinner in Lutnick’s honor. Lutnick and Groff didn’t reply to requests for remark.