A Convenient Death

by Alana Goodman

  4. Edward Klein, “The Trouble with Andrew,” Vanity Fair, Aug. 2011, archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/ac60f552-4163-4d39-a36b-d2014fe20062.

  5. Jon Swaine, “Sarah Ferguson ‘Continually on Verge of Bankruptcy,’” Telegraph, June 13, 2011, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8571793/Sarah-Ferguson-continually-on-verge-of-bankruptcy.html.

  6. Virginia Roberts, “The Billionaire’s Playboy Club,” www.documentcloud.org/documents/6251258-Virginia-Roberts-Memoir.html/#document/p40.

  7. “Prince Andrew Interview: Jeffrey Epstein Stay Was ‘Wrong Thing to Do,’” BBC, Nov. 16, 2019, www.bbc.com/news/uk-50431163.

  8. Cathy Burke, “Prince Andrew Tours Manhattan with Billionaire Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein,” New York Post, Feb. 21, 2011, nypost.com/2011/02/21/prince-andrew-tours-manhattan-with-billionaire-sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein/.

  9. Tatiana Siegel and Marisa Guthrie, “Jeffrey Epstein Moved Freely in Hollywood Circles Even After 2008 Conviction,” Hollywood Reporter, July 10, 2019, www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-moved-freely-hollywood-circles-2008-conviction-1223336.

  10. “A Statement by His Royal Highness the Duke of York,” Royal Family, Nov. 20, 2019, www.royal.uk/statement-his-royal-highness-duke-york.

  11. Sara Nathan and Kate Sheehy, “Prince Andrew Refuses to Cooperate with Feds in Jeffrey Epstein Probe,” New York Post, Jan. 27, 2020, nypost.com/2020/01/27/prince-andrew-refuses-to-cooperate-with-feds-in-jeffrey-epstein-probe/.

  CHAPTER 12: THE POLITICIAN

  1. Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence), “Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen #JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead I see #TrumpBodyCount trending,” Twitter, Aug. 10, 2019, 2:26 p.m., twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1160256105399967744.

  2. Landon Thomas Jr., “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,” New York, Oct. 29, 2002, nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/.

  3. Alana Goodman, “Bill Clinton in 2001: ‘I’ve Never Had More Money in My Life,’” Washington Free Beacon, Oct. 13, 2015, freebeacon.com/issues/bill-clinton-in-2001-ive-never-had-more-money-in-my-life/.

  4. Taylor Nicole Rogers, “Here Are All the Politicians Jeffrey Epstein, the Money Manager Arrested on Charges of Sex Trafficking, Has Donated To,” Business Insider, July 11, 2019, www.businessinsider.in/miscellaneous/here-are-all-the-politicians-jeffrey-epstein-the-money-manager-arrested-on-charges-of-sex-trafficking-has-donated-to/slidelist/70183512.cms.

  5. Emily Shugerman and Suzi Parker, “Jeffrey Epstein Visited Clinton White House Multiple Times in Early ’90s,” Daily Beast, July 24, 2019, www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-visited-clinton-white-house-multiple-times-in-early-90s.

  6. Shugerman and Parker, “Jeffrey Epstein Visited Clinton White House Multiple Times in Early ’90s.”

  7. Pilar Melendez, “Bill Clinton Failed to Mention His Intimate 1995 Dinner with Epstein,” Daily Beast, July 11, 2019, www.thedailybeast.com/bill-clinton-failed-to-mention-his-intimate-1995-dinner-with-epstein.

  8. Angelo Fichera and Saranac Hale Spencer, “The Epstein Connections Fueling Conspiracy Theories,” FactCheck.org, Aug. 15, 2019, www.factcheck.org/2019/08/the-epstein-connections-fueling-conspiracy-theories/.

  9. Carol Felsenthal, Clinton in Exile: A President out of the White House (New York: Harper, 2008).

  10. Thomas, “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.”

  11. Thomas, “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.”

  12. Conchita Sarnoff, TrafficKing: The Jeffrey Epstein Case (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020).

  13. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Giuffre-unseal.pdf.

  14. Martha Ross, “Chelsea Clinton Denies She Was Ever Close Friends with Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged ‘Madam,’” Mercury News, July 22, 2019, www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/22/chelsea-clinton-denies-she-was-ever-close-friends-with-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-madam/.

  15. Angel Ureña (@angelurena), “Statement on Jeffrey Epstein,” Twitter, July 8, 2019, 6:27 p.m., twitter.com/angelurena/status/1148357927625023490?lang=en.

  16. Jacob Bernstein, “Whatever Happened to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Plan to Save the Oceans?,” New York Times, Aug. 14, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/style/ghislaine-maxwell-terramar-boats-jeffrey-epstein.html.

  17. “Sustainable Oceans Alliance: Impacting the SGDs,” Clinton Foundation, Dec. 22, 2016, www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/sustainable-oceans-alliance-impacting-sgds.

  18. Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (New York: Penguin, 2019).

  19. Kat Tenbarge, “Trump Addresses Jeffrey Epstein Connection, Claims the Two Haven’t Spoken in 15 Years After a ‘Falling Out,’” Business Insider, July 9, 2019, www.businessinsider.com/trump-epstein-had-falling-out-havent-spoken-in-15-years-2019-7.

  20. Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman, “Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy,’ Donald Trump Once Said. Now He’s ‘Not a Fan,’” New York Times, July 9, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-epstein.html.

  21. Vicky Ward, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight,” Daily Beast, July 9, 2019, www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight.

  22. Julie K. Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member Gave a Serial Sex Abuser the Deal of a Lifetime,” Miami Herald, Nov. 28, 2018, www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html.

  23. Kevin Breuninger and Valerie Block, “Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta Resigns amid Pressure from Jeffrey Epstein Sex Traffic Case,” CNBC, July 12, 2019, www.cnbc.com/2019/07/12/labor-secretary-alex-acosta-is-resigning-as-pressure-mounts-from-jeffrey-epstein-case.html.

  24. Sara Nathan and Mara Siegler, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Gal Pal Ghislaine Maxwell Spotted at In-N-Out Burger in First Photos Since His Death,” New York Post, Aug. 16, 2019, nypost.com/2019/08/15/jeffrey-epsteins-gal-pal-ghislaine-maxwell-spotted-at-in-n-out-burger-in-first-photos-since-his-death/.

  25. Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence), “Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen #JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead I see #TrumpBodyCount trending,” Twitter, Aug. 10, 2019, 2:26 p.m., twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1160256105399967744.

  26. Quint Forgey, “Trump Defends Sharing Clinton-Epstein Conspiracy Theory,” Politico, Aug. 13, 2019, www.politico.com/story/2019/08/13/trump-clinton-epstein-conspiracy-theory-1460646.

  27. Kelsey Tamborrino, “Kellyanne Conway on Epstein’s Death: Trump Wants Everything Investigated,” Politico, Aug. 11, 2019, www.politico.com/story/2019/08/11/jeffrey-epstein-kellyanne-conway-trump-clinton-1457217.

  28. Rebecca Morin, “Spokesman: Bill Clinton ‘Knows Nothing’ About ‘Terrible Crimes’ Alleged Against Epstein,” USA Today, July 8, 2019, www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/08/bill-clinton-knows-nothing-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-crimes/1679345001/.

  CHAPTER 13: EPSTEIN’S SECRET

  1. Mary Hanbury, “Victoria’s Secret Head Les Wexner Describes How He Met Convicted Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein in a 500-Word Letter to Members of His Charitable Foundation,” Business Insider, Aug. 8, 2019, www.businessinsider.com/les-wexner-describes-how-he-met-jeffrey-epstein-2019-8.

  2. William D. Cohan, “How Jeffrey Epstein Got His Hooks into Les Wexner,” Vanity Fair, Aug. 8, 2019, www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-jeffrey-epstein-got-his-hooks-into-les-wexner.

  3. Cohan, “How Jeffrey Epstein Got His Hooks into Les Wexner.”

  4. Landon Thomas Jr., “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,” New York, Oct. 29, 2002, nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/.

  5. Hanbury, “Victoria’s Secret Head Les Wexner Describes How He Met Convicted Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein in a 500-Word Letter to Members of His Charitable Foundation.
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  6. int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1500-alicia-arden-police-report/04e6cef6bfb8b25c8684/optimized/full.pdf.

  7. Emily Steel et al., “How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth and Women,” New York Times, July 25, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html.

  8. “Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Maria Farmer Says Ghislaine Maxwell Threatened Her Life, FBI ‘Failed’ Her,” CBS News, Nov. 19, 2019, www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-maria-farmer-says-ghislaine-maxwell-threatened-her-life-after-assault-fbi-failed/.

  9. Steel et al., “How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth and Women.”

  10. Joe Nocera, “More Questions About How Jeffrey Epstein Got Island-Owning Rich,” Bloomberg, July 17, 2019, www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-17/more-questions-about-how-jeffrey-epstein-got-island-owning-rich.

  11. Mark Remillard, “Billionaire Businessman Leslie Wexner Refuses to Reveal Full Scope of Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Multimillion-Dollar Theft,” ABC News, Jan. 23, 2020, www.abcnews.go.com/US/billionaire-businessman-leslie-wexner-refuses-reveal-full-scope/story?id=68461262.

  12. Julie Baumgold, “The Bachelor Billionaire: On Pins and Needles with Leslie Wexner,” New York, Aug. 5, 1985.

  CHAPTER 14: THE SMART SET

  1. Leland Nally, “Jeffrey Epstein, My Very, Very Sick Pal,” Mother Jones, Aug. 23, 2019, www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-my-very-very-sick-pal/.

  2. Robert M. Braceras, Jennifer L. Chunias, and Kevin P. Martin, “Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,” Goodwin Procter LLP, Jan. 10, 2020, factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf.

  3. Emily Flitter and James B. Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past,” New York Times, Oct. 12, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html.

  4. Evgeny Morozov, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler,” New Republic, Aug. 22, 2019, newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-intellectual-enabler.

  5. Tyler Cowen, “The American Wealthy Have Been Redefining Social Status Through a Practice Known as ‘Countersignaling,’” Business Insider, March 4, 2017, www.businessinsider.com/wearing-casual-clothes-at-work-to-show-wealth-2017-2.

  6. Nally, “Jeffrey Epstein, My Very, Very Sick Pal.”

  7. James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race with His DNA,” New York Times, July 31, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html.

  8. Nally, “Jeffrey Epstein, My Very, Very Sick Pal.”

  9. Steve Eder and Matthew Goldstein, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Charity: An Image Boost Built on Deception,” New York Times, Nov. 26, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/business/jeffrey-epstein-charity.html.

  10. Eder and Goldstein, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Charity.”

  11. Nick Bryant, “Here Is Pedophile Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book,” Gawker, Jan. 23, 2015, gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epsteins-little-b-1681383992.

  12. “Who Was Jeffrey Epstein Calling? A Close Study of His Circle—Social, Professional, Transactional—Reveals a Damning Portrait of Elite New York,” New York, July 22, 2019, nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html.

  13. Martin Gould, “Houseman Who Cleaned Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Toys Takes Secrets to Grave,” Daily Mail, Jan. 6, 2015, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2897939/Houseman-cleaned-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-sex-toys-feared-billionaire-make-disappear-takes-secrets-grave.html.

  14. Joe Pompeo, “Decoding Jeffrey Epstein’s Mysterious, Star-Studded Black Book,” Vanity Fair, July 18, 2019, www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-black-book-nick-bryant.

  CHAPTER 15: THE MEDIA

  1. Trilby Beresford, “‘Sex and the City’ Author on Middle-Aged Romance and Getting Kicked Out of Jeffrey Epstein’s Home,” Hollywood Reporter, July 29, 2019, www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sex-city-author-middle-aged-romance-jeffrey-epstein-1226532.

  2. Jesse Kornbluth, “I Was a Friend of Jeffrey Epstein; Here’s What I Know,” Salon, July 9, 2019, www.salon.com/2019/07/09/i-was-a-friend-of-jeffrey-epstein-heres-what-i-know/.

  3. Maureen O. Connor, “Peggy Siegal Sends Her Regrets,” Vanity Fair, Jan. 21, 2020, www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/peggy-siegal-sends-her-regrets.

  4. Cathy Burke, “Prince Andrew Tours Manhattan with Billionaire Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein,” New York Post, Feb. 21, 2011, nypost.com/2011/02/21/prince-andrew-tours-manhattan-with-billionaire-sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein/.

  5. Connor, “Peggy Siegal Sends Her Regrets.”

  6. Tiffany Hsu, “Jeffrey Epstein Pitched a New Narrative. These Sites Published It,” New York Times, July 21, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-media.html.

  7. Vicky Ward, “I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003,” Daily Beast, Jan. 6, 2015, www.thedailybeast.com/i-tried-to-warn-you-about-sleazy-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-in-2003.

  8. David Carr, “Post-mortems for a Media Deal Undone,” New York Times, Dec. 22, 2003, www.nytimes.com/2003/12/22/business/media-post-mortems-for-a-media-deal-undone.html.

  9. David Carr, “Radar Magazine Lines Up Financing,” New York Times, Oct. 19, 2004, www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/arts/radar-magazine-lines-up-financing.html.

  10. Katharine Q. Seelye, “Three Issues into New Life, Radar Magazine Is Being Shut Again,” New York Times, Dec. 15, 2005, www.nytimes.com/2005/12/15/business/media/three-issues-into-new-life-radar-magazine-is-being-shut.html.

  11. Joe Pompeo, “What the Media Knew About Epstein, the Monster Hiding in Plain Sight,” Vanity Fair, July 10, 2019, www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/manhattan-media-remembers-jeffrey-epstein.

  12. “Jack Abramoff: The Lobbyist’s Playbook,” 60 Minutes, CBS, May 30, 2012, www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-abramoff-the-lobbyists-playbook-30-05-2012/.

  CHAPTER 16: THE ARREST

  1. Benjamin Weiser, “Before Arrest, Jeffrey Epstein Was Seen with Girls Exiting His Jet,” New York Times, Sept. 16, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-investigation.html.

  2. Philip Weiss, “The Fantasist: A Sex-Crime Investigation Reveals Jeffrey Epstein’s Dangerous Dream World,” New York, Dec. 7, 2007, nymag.com/news/features/41826/.

  3. Landon Thomas Jr., “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,” New York, Oct. 29, 2002, nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/.

  4. vicourts.hosted.civiclive.com/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=16364025.

  5. David Enrich and Jo Becker, “Jeffrey Epstein Moved Money Overseas in Transactions His Bank Flagged to U.S.,” New York Times, July 23, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/business/jeffrey-epstein-deutsche-bank.html.

  6. Tom Winter and David K. Li, “Jeffrey Epstein Had Cash, Diamonds, and a Foreign Passport Stashed in Safe, Prosecutors Say,” NBC News, July 15, 2019, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-had-cash-diamonds-foreign-passport-stashed-safe-prosecutors-n1029851.

  7. casetext.com/case/united-states-v-epstein-23.

  CONCLUSION

  1. Mary Hanbury, “L Brands CEO Steps Down as Company Sells Majority Share in Victoria’s Secret,” Business Insider, Feb. 20, 2020, www.businessinsider.com/l-brands-ceo-steps-down-company-sells-majority-share-in-victorias-secret-2020-2/.

  2. Thornton McEnery, “Billionaire Glenn Dubin Retiring from Hedge Fund amid Fury over Jeffrey Epstein Ties,” New York Post, Jan. 24, 2020, nypost.com/2020/01/24/billionaire-glenn-dubin-retiring-from-hedge-fund-amid-fury-over-jeffrey-epstein-ties/.

  3. Spencer Neale, “Cindy McCain Admits ‘We All Knew’ About Epstein,” Washington Examiner, Jan. 24, 2020, www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cindy-mccain-admits-
we-all-knew-about-epstein.

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  Alana Goodman is a senior investigative reporter at the Washington Free Beacon. Previously, she was a reporter at the Washington Examiner and the Daily Mail, where she broke the story of politician Anthony Weiner's online relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Goodman was named one of Politico's "16 Breakout Media Stars." She has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, and C-SPAN.

  Daniel Halper is the bestselling author of Clinton, Inc. Previously, he was Washington bureau chief for the New York Post and online editor for the Weekly Standard. Halper has appeared on the Fox News Channel, Fox Business, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, and numerous radio shows.

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