The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files?

All these years later, the list of prominent people who were somehow connected to Jeffrey Epstein continues to grow — including some whose ties to the notorious sex trafficker and longtime hobnobber were not previously known. In 2019, New York published an exhaustive list of Epstein’s alleged high-society contacts, according to public documents available at the time. Below, we’ve adapted and expanded that list to include the many more names and details that have emerged in the various Epstein files, including his private schedules, his infamous birthday book, the recently released documents and files via the House Oversight Committee, and more. (Inclusion on this list only means the person has been linked to Epstein, not that they were necessarily involved in or aware of his crimes.)

Woody Allen: Director

From our 2019 guide:

Epstein kept a photo of his friend Allen, the sexual pariah, on his wall and was photographed walking with him on the Upper East Side. They had more than a neighborhood in common. For years before his relationship with Mia Farrow, Allen had carried on with a 16-year-old girl he’d met at Elaine’s named Babi Christina Engelhardt. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she wondered if she was the inspiration for Manhattan, Allen’s 1979 movie about a man in his 40s who dates a high-school student, which was nominated for two Academy Awards. Engelhardt had sex with Allen more than 100 times, she says, sometimes with Farrow. “The whole thing was a game that was being operated solely by Woody so we never quite knew where we stood,” she said. Engelhardt went on to become Epstein’s assistant.

Charles Althorp: Princess Diana’s brother

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin: Doctor and former Miss Sweden

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

As our guide noted in 2019:

Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and her husband, billionaire hedge-funder Glenn Dubin, had Epstein over for Thanksgiving dinner in 2009, telling his probation officer they were “100 percent comfortable” with his being around their teenage daughter, Insider reported. She also created a foundation so Epstein could donate to her breast-cancer charity without attaching his name. “The Dubins are horrified by the new allegations against Jeffrey Epstein,” they said in a statement. “Had they been aware of the vile and unspeakable conduct described in these new allegations, they would have cut off all ties and certainly never have allowed their children to be in his presence.”

Vittorio Assaf: Restaurateur

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Doug Band: Influence peddler

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Per our 2019 guide:

A onetime White House intern who climbed his way to being Bill Clinton’s bag carrier, body man, fixer, and all-purpose gatekeeper, Band arranged for the former president to travel to Africa on Epstein’s 727 in 2002. Band would go on to help his boss found the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, a choice platform from which he launched his own lucrative favor-trading corporate-advisory firm, Teneo. Throughout that time, he took a number of trips on Epstein’s plane and attended parties at his townhouse. Band resigned from his position at CGI in 2012; leaked emails later showed Band and Chelsea Clinton trading accusations of conflicts of interest in a war of influence over her parents. More recently, Band’s been teaching a “Public Service” class at NYU.

André Balazs: Celebrity hotelier

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Alec Baldwin: Actor

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Baldwin has denied knowing Epstein.

Steve Bannon: Trump strategist, MAGA podcaster

Bannon and Epstein regularly corresponded in 2018 and 2019, as the Washington Post reports:

Bannon’s phone number and email address are redacted from the newly released files, but the messages include hyperlinks to media appearances and interviews he gave. In one exchange, Epstein suggests that a woman he is connected with will contact the email recipient. The person responds: “Oh ‘the next future ex-mrs. bannon.’” Bannon spent much of spring 2019 in Europe, and Epstein frequently offered to send a private jet or charter a plane to ferry Bannon to meet him in Paris. Bannon appears to have stayed overnight at Epstein’s home in spring 2019, the messages show.

In early 2018, Epstein began referring to Bannon as a friend in emails. Bannon regularly sent him links to his media appearances, and Epstein would offer feedback.

Donald Barr: Dalton School headmaster

From our 2019 guide:

Barr was ousted shortly before Epstein, 21 and without a college degree, showed up for his first day of work teaching math and physics at the Manhattan’s elite Dalton School in the early 1970s. Barr announced his resignation soon after, in February 1974: “He was disliked by the faculty, he was highly controversial, he hadn’t raised much money, he was very conservative,” said the board’s chairman. Barr’s leadership style was described as “authoritarian” and “undemocratic” at the time. Memorably, several former students told the New York Times that Epstein was overly familiar with teenage girls at the school. Donald’s son William would intersect with Epstein’s orbit while serving as a counsel at Kirkland and Ellis in 2009. The law firm secured Epstein his obscenely lenient 2007 non-prosecution deal, which the Justice Department is now reviewing. In July, Barr the son refused to recuse himself from the ongoing Epstein investigation.

Sandy Berger: National-security adviser for Bill Clinton

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Nicolas Berggruen: Billionaire investor

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Bill Berkman: New York businessman

Names found in Epstein’s black book.

As we noted in our 2019 guide:

A wealthy executive whose family established the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, Berkman was sued in 2014 by his administrative assistant, who said she was forced to read emails Berkman had sent to a colleague containing “pictures of random and unsuspecting women on the street” — that is, creepshots. (The suit was settled.)

Robin Birley: Nightclub impresario

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Birley owned the club where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had their first date.

Debonnaire von Bismarck: Countess

Name found in Epstein’s black book — listed as Debbie.

Leopold von Bismarck: Count

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Yes, those Bismarcks.

Vanessa von Bismarck: Heiress and publishing entrepreneur

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Conrad Black: Media mogul

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

From our 2019 guide:

He’s perhaps best known for being sentenced to 42 months in prison for fraud, then writing a book about Trump and receiving a pardon. Vicky Ward, who profiled Epstein for Vanity Fair in 2003, said Epstein heavily leaned on Black, who is her ex-husband’s uncle (and was her ex-husband’s then-boss), to try to exert his influence on Ward.

Roy Black: An Epstein lawyer

Per our 2019 guide:

The trial attorney and legal analyst’s client roster has included Justin Bieber, Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, and Rush Limbaugh. Black is perhaps best known for representing William Kennedy Smith against rape charges in Palm Beach in 1991. (The Kennedy nephew was acquitted.) In 2005, Black played the “managing partner” on NBC’s The Law Firm, a knockoff of The Apprentice for up-and-coming lawyers.

David Blaine: Magician

Name found in Epstein’s black book. They also emailed.

Blaine put on a private show for Epstein’s dinner guests in 2003, doing card tricks for the likes of Sergey Brin, Mort Zuckerman, and Bill Clinton aide Doug Band. The dinner was organized by Ghislaine Maxwell and included a group of young women who were introduced as Victoria’s Secret models. Included in the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee is one from Blaine supporting a visa application for an “amazing fashion model.”

Tony Blair: Former British prime minister

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Michael Bloomberg: Billionaire and former mayor

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Hassanal Bolkiah: Sultan of Brunei

As we noted in our 2019 guide:

Epstein had at least one meeting with the sultan when he traveled to Brunei in 2002 with Bill Clinton. Bolkiah and his brother are famous for their lavish spending, including a collection of 2,500 cars and a $1.5 billion palace. Bolkiah was once sued by Miss USA 1997, who claimed she had been held as a sex slave. The suit was dismissed on the grounds that Bolkiah had sovereign immunity.

Annabelle Bond: British socialite

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Andrea Bonomi: Italian businessman

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The chairman and founder of Investindustrial was a key character in the Paradise Papers international tax-shelter scandal.

Michael Borrico: Long Island contractor

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Described by Social Life magazine as the “ambassador of the all-important Hamptons polo culture,” Borrico is known for hosting polo matches at his estate in Water Mill.

Frederic Bourke: A founder of Dooney & Bourke

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Bourke went to prison for a scheme to bribe government officials in Azerbaijan.

Hamish Bowles: European editor-at-large for Vogue

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Muriel Brandolini: Interior designer

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Her clients have included Matt Lauer and the Crown Prince and Princess of Greece.

Richard Branson: Founder of Virgin Group

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Like Epstein, Branson enjoys entertaining on a private island.

Flavio Briatore: Italian millionaire businessman

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

A friend of Trump, a convicted card cheat, and an accused Formula 1 race fixer, Briatore was a longtime fugitive in the Virgin Islands.

John Brockman: Literary agent

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.: Executive

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The former Warner Music Group CEO, son of the late Seagram’s CEO Edgar Bronfman Sr., is related to the NXIVM-sex-cult Bronfmans. His son has a child with pop star M.I.A.

Jean-Luc Brunel: Model scout

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log. He also contributed to Epstein’s birthday book.

Per our 2019 guide:

Brunel was accused in court testimony of having used his agency to supply Epstein with girls. (He was not charged.) He also has a long history of allegations that he had abused his fashion-world position. In 1988, he was the subject of a 60 Minutes investigation alleging that he and a fellow agent sexually assaulted nearly two dozen models. He denied the claims but later told Model author Michael Gross, “You get laid tonight with a model, is that a crime?” In 2005, Brunel co-founded the Mc2 modeling agency; Epstein invested $1 million, according to a 2010 deposition.

Brunel killed himself in 2020 while in a Paris jail awaiting trial on charges of raping and trafficking minors.

Joan Juliet Buck: Fashion editor

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

As we noted in our 2019 guide:

In 2003, Buck met Maxwell at a fashion party at a New York City boutique. Buck had recently moved on from her seven-year tenure as the editor of Paris Vogue and was writing for its American counterpart and living in New Mexico. She was a lifelong resident of a rarefied social world. Maxwell, a regular on that particular circuit, quickly made a connection. “Oh, Jeffrey’s got a ranch in Santa Fe, blah blah blah,” Buck recently remembered their conversation going. She gave Maxwell her Santa Fe number and later asked a friend about Epstein and New Mexico. “His ranch?” the friend replied. “As we say in Texas, all hat, no cattle.”

Ron Burkle: Supermarket magnate

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Burkle took what were described as humanitarian trips to Africa with Bill Clinton on Epstein’s private Boeing 727. According to a 2008 Vanity Fair feature about the former president, “Burkle’s usual means of transport is the custom-converted Boeing 757 that Clinton calls ‘Ron Air’ and that Burkle’s own circle of young aides privately refer to as ‘Air Fuck One.’ ”

Candace Bushnell: Columnist who inspired Sex and the City

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Arpad Busson: French financier

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Per our 2019 guide:

During a custody battle with ex Uma Thurman, her lawyer asked Busson, a prominent hedge-funder, if he had ever said he was “addicted to prostitutes.” (He said no.)

Jason Calacanis: Businessman

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

An investor in Uber, Calacanis was a fixture in the early-aughts New York tech scene as the founder and editor of Silicon Alley Reporter. (“I can’t tell you how many propositions I get, it’s absolutely insane,” he told the Observer in 2000.) In 2014, Vice awarded him Most Offensive Tweet of the Year for describing as racist the idea of white privilege.

Nicky Caledon: Earl

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Nicholas and Christian Candy: British property-developer brothers

Names found in Epstein’s black book.

Graydon Carter: Former editor of Vanity Fair

According to journalist Vicky Ward, he killed portions of a 2003 story that accused Epstein of pedophilia after an office visit from Epstein. (Carter says there wasn’t enough on-the-record sourcing.) “I didn’t invent the system. I just lived by the system,” he said when The New York Times Magazine questioned him about it.

Aurelia Cecil: PR chairman

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Allegedly the former girlfriend of Prince Andrew.

Mark Cecil: Hedge-funder

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Has hosted Prince William and Kate Middleton at his villa in Mustique.

Vikram Chatwal: Hotelier

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

When the 1990s playboy settled down, Bill Clinton attended his wedding. In 2017, Chatwal pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation after being accused of trying to set a pair of dogs on fire on a Soho street.

Giuseppe Cipriani: Restaurant magnate

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The scene-y Cipriani Italian spots are known for inventing the Bellini cocktail — and more infamously for being Harvey Weinstein’s “hunting ground.”

Gustavo Cisneros: Venezuelan billionaire

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The patriarch of a family so wealthy it operates practically as its own nation-state in Latin America.

Bill Clinton: U.S. President

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

From Rebecca Traister’s entry on Clinton in our 2019 guide:

As soon as the Epstein news broke two weeks ago, the taunting and tallying began, suffocating in its familiarity. First were the jeering reminders, as if we didn’t know it in our every molecule: It wasn’t just Donald Trump who’d be ensnared in this stygian nightmare of underage sexual assault and trafficking of girls, it was Bill Clinton, who’d been a friend and repeat flier on Epstein’s plane. Then came the numbers, the attempts to quantify the nature of the Clinton-Epstein relationship. Clinton issued a statement toting up four plane trips, one Epstein meeting in Clinton’s Harlem office, one visit to Epstein’s home, and zero trips to his island. Meanwhile, reporters recalled that Gawker’s published flight logs had tallied 12 separate plane legs and that Epstein had more than 20 numbers and email addresses for Clinton and one signed photo of him in his home, along with one of Woody Allen and one of Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

All of this was presented as if these numbers could clarify some exact science of guilt or complicity. The reality is: Yes, Clinton was grimy and had grimy friends, and, more broadly, this is how powerful men have behaved toward women and one another. Yes, we know it’s dirty and mean and exhausting and true.

Chelsea Clinton: First daughter

Ghislaine Maxwell attended her wedding after Epstein had first been charged. This was shortly after she skipped a deposition for the Epstein case, claiming she needed to return to the U.K. to be with her deathly ill mother.

Nicholas Coleridge: Chairman of Condé Nast Britain.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Phil Collins: Musician

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

David Copperfield: Magician

According to a message-pad entry dated January 27, 2005, at 3:55 p.m., Copperfield rang Epstein’s line while he was out. The handwritten entry reads, “Magic David called.”

Katie Couric: Journalist

Among those who attended a dinner at Epstein’s townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010.

Bill Cosby: Comedian, convicted rapist

Lived across the street from Epstein in Manhattan.

Andrew Cuomo: Governor of New York

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Prince Pierre d’Arenberg: Royal

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Per our 2019 guide:

Americans often imagine aristocrats floating on a cloud of above-it-all wealth, but even real-life princes, this one descended from a German royal family that long ago united with the most influential and wealthiest family of the Hapsburg Netherlands, could get something out of a relationship with a font of new American money like Epstein.

Louis Albert de Broglie: Political scion, founder of luxury garden brand

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Charlene de Carvalho-heineken: Heiress

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Jacques de Crussol: 17th Duke of Uzès

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Sophie Dahl: Former model, granddaughter of Roald Dahl

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Alan Dershowitz: Epstein lawyer

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Wrote Andrew Rice in our 2019 guide:

For around a decade, Dershowitz kept casual company with Epstein, who introduced him to his friends, like Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew. (Dershowitz says he and the prince ended up not getting along because they disagreed about Israel.) Dershowitz visited Epstein’s mansions in New York and Palm Beach and occasionally accompanied him on his private plane. He says these trips were family oriented. Once, Epstein lent him the Palm Beach home so he could attend a granddaughter’s soccer tournament. Another time, he and his nephew flew down to watch a space launch with another Epstein connection, a top NASA official. He and his wife, Carolyn Cohen, once stayed with Epstein on his island in the Caribbean, where they were joined by another Harvard professor and his family.

When Epstein first started to attract media attention in the early aughts, mainly because of his friendship with former president Bill Clinton, Dershowitz served as a character witness for the reclusive financier. He told Vanity Fair that he shared manuscripts of his books with Epstein before they were published and swore that his money was irrelevant. “I would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas,” he told the magazine.

But Dershowitz says their interactions changed in 2005, when Epstein faced a local police investigation into his relations with underage girls in Palm Beach and he hired Dershowitz as a lawyer. With his assistance, Epstein was able to whittle down the state’s indictment against him to a single count of soliciting prostitution. But in the years to come, as Epstein’s legal problems compounded, they would eventually ensnare Dershowitz himself. He is also accused of having sex with two of Epstein’s alleged victims. “The stories are so phantasmological,” Dershowitz says. He recognizes that the #MeToo movement has surfaced countless accounts of preposterous-sounding sexual misbehavior by powerful men and almost all of them have turned out to be true. But Dershowitz swears he is different. “Mine is the only case, singular, the only one, where I never met the people,” he says. “There’s no evidence we’ve ever met, no evidence we were ever in the same place at the same time, ever.”

Today, Dershowitz claims he and Epstein were never really even friends, despite their proximity. “He was an acquaintance,” he says. “In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t taken the case, but I didn’t see a problem with taking the case. We didn’t have a close personal relationship.”

Janice Dickinson: Model, actress, TV personality

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Pedro Diniz: Agroforester, businessman, former Formula 1 racing driver

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Minnie Driver: Actress

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Stephen Dunbar-Johnson: President, international, of the New York Times Company

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Griffin Dunne: Director

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Joan Didion’s nephew and a Martin Scorsese leading man.

Gerald Edelman: Nobel Prize winner

Edelman received funding from the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation. “Jeff is extraordinary in his ability to pick up on quantitative relations,” he told New York in 2002. “He came to see us recently. He is concerned with this basic question: Is it true that the brain is not a computer? He is very quick.”

Eric Ellenbogen: Former CEO of Marvel Enterprises

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Christina Estrada: Model

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Ex-wife of the late Walid Juffali, billionaire chairman of the largest privately owned enterprise in Saudi Arabia.

Frédéric Fekkai: Celebrity hairstylist

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Fekkai’s expensive salons are up and down the Upper East Side and in Palm Beach, and he’s known for butter blondes, layered bobs, and participating in the polishing up of Hillary Clinton. Epstein’s assistants were given house accounts for blowouts, waxing, nails, highlights, the works.

Sarah Ferguson: Duchess of York

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Epstein loaned Prince Andrew’s then-wife $18,000 to pay off some debts. “I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me,” Ferguson told the Telegraph in 2011. “I abhor paedophilia.”

Ralph Fiennes: Actor, producer, director

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Paula Heil Fisher: Opera producer

Epstein’s former girlfriend met him through Bear Stearns, where she was once an associate.

Steve Forbes: Chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Tom Ford: Designer

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Murray Gell-Mann: Physicist

Name found in Epstein’s black book. Contributor to Epstein’s birthday book.

In 1969, Gell-Mann won the Nobel Prize. In 2003, he told Vanity Fair, “ ‘There are always pretty ladies around’ when he goes to dinner chez Epstein.”

Mark Getty: Co-founder and chairman of Getty Images

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Gary Ginsberg: Communications pooh-bah

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Once a lawyer in the Clinton White House, Ginsberg joined George, then News Corp., then Time Warner. He has also done pro bono speechwriting for Benjamin Netanyahu and now works for SoftBank, a Japanese investment company with close ties to the Saudi government.

Malcolm Gladwell: Writer

Per our 2019 guide:

“I was invited to the TED conference in maybe 2000 (I can’t remember), and they promised to buy me a plane ticket to California,” Gladwell says now. “Then at the last minute they said, ‘We found you a ride on a private plane instead.’ As I recall, there were maybe two dozen TED conferencegoers onboard. I don’t remember much else, except being slightly baffled as to who this Epstein guy was and why we were all on his plane.”

Gerald Goldsmith: Rothschild North America

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Ace Greenberg: Bear Stearns chairman, Epstein’s first patron

Wrote Jessica Pressler in our 2019 guide:

Jeffrey Epstein didn’t have any formal training when he started working at Bear Stearns in 1976, but that wouldn’t have mattered to then-CEO Alan “Ace” Greenberg, who famously hired “PSD degrees,” short for “poor, smart, with a deep desire to be rich.” As it happened, Epstein was all three. He came from a modest Coney Island background, had no college degree, and worked a job — as a math teacher at Dalton and a tutor to Greenberg’s son — that was unlikely to support his tastes, which were apparently of the private islands–and–gilded desk–purportedly–belonging–to–J. P. Morgan variety. At Bear Stearns, Epstein made a name for himself in the “special-products division,” essentially figuring out how to help the rich pay less taxes. “He would recommend certain tax-advantageous transactions,” Greenberg’s protégé, James “Jimmy” Cayne, told New York in 2002. Cayne, who succeeded Greenberg in 1993, seems to have become the closer party to Epstein, whose mysterious departure from the firm he publicly defended decades after Epstein’s departure. “Jeffrey said specifically, ‘I don’t want to work for anybody else. I want to work for myself,’ ” Cayne insisted, despite transcripts from an SEC deposition that suggest other concerns around them both. It’s easier to imagine Cayne, a cigar-chomping, archetypal fat cat who was infamously off playing bridge when Bear Stearns collapsed in 2008, as a member of Epstein’s inner circle than his mentor, a folksy, bow-tie-wearing soul who referred to his successor as “crude,” “full of himself,” and “warped” in a memoir published shortly before his death. At the very least, it seems Cayne and Epstein were both capable of, ah, massaging the truth.

Greenberg was also one of the contributors to Epstein’s birthday book.

Cornelia Guest: Socialite

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

She was dubbed “debutante of the decade” in 1986.

John Gutfreund: CEO of Salomon Brothers

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

George Hamilton: Actor

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The overtanned C-lister that Hollywood turns to when casting any vaguely and/or mysteriously aristocratic cameo role.

Chelsea Handler: Comedian

Attended a dinner at Epstein’s townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010. “It was just one of those strange nights,” she later said.

Nikki Haskell: Socialite

Epstein dated Haskell, one of Donald Trump’s closest friends. “Jeffrey didn’t talk about his past, although he claimed to have been a concert pianist,” Haskell told the Daily Mail in 1992. “He told me he was a spy hired by corporations to find major amounts of money which had been embezzled.”

Stephen Hawking: Physicist

In 2006, the world’s most famous brain visited Little St. James, Epstein’s private island, which came to be known as “Pedophile Island.” Hawking, who was in the Caribbean for a conference, was photographed at a barbecue on the island and aboard a submarine for a tour. According to the Telegraph, “Epstein is said to have paid for the submarine to be modified for Professor Hawking, who had never been underwater before.”

Steven Hoffenberg: A mentor and a con man

Explained James D. Walsh in our 2019 guide:

Before Bernie Madoff, there was Hoffenberg, who in 1985 pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of $460 million — at the time, the largest Ponzi scheme ever. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and, after his release in 2013, began sounding the alarm on Epstein, who had worked at Hoffenberg’s Towers Financial Corporation after leaving Bear Stearns. He claimed that Epstein had been his co-conspirator in the scheme and that Epstein’s fortune was built on Towers Financial’s fraud. “He was great at moving money illegally,” Hoffenberg says. “He was the deeper architect to getting things accomplished.”

Hoffenberg claims he was introduced to Epstein by Douglas Leese, a mysterious British arms dealer, and that he paid Epstein $25,000 a month as Towers Financial began making risky plays to take over companies like Pan American World Airways and Emery Air Freight. Advisers on the Pan Am deal included Richard Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell, Nixon’s brother Edward, and John Lehman, a former secretary of the Navy. The move fell apart after the Lockerbie bombing, and when Towers Financial later went belly-up, Hoffenberg says, the two of them engineered a Ponzi scheme to fill the hole.

“He has a magnificent personality,” Hoffenberg says. “He’s very easy to interact with, very social, very easy to bond with, an unusually nice person. And he’s pretty dynamic on financial savvy. He could move money in different areas to get the stock prices to go up and down.”

Hoffenberg still owes his victims some $1 billion in restitution, and in 2016 he sued Epstein to recover some of the money. (He eventually dropped the suit.) Last year, two victims brought a suit against Epstein making the same claims as Hoffenberg but voluntarily dismissed the suit two months later.

“You’re about to see an entire story about this supposed billionaire and the story about his financial empire, which is as big as the tragedy with the girls,” Hoffenberg says. “It’s billions of dollars, and it’s a fiasco.”

Dustin Hoffman: Actor

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Elizabeth Hurley: Actress

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Lauren Hutton: Model and actress

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Walter Isaacson: Bestselling biographer, former editor of Time

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Mick Jagger: Musician

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Andrew Jarecki: Filmmaker

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The director of the documentaries Capturing the Friedmans, about an accused pedophile, and The Jinx, which profiled Robert Durst, the madman at the center of another New York fortune.

Henry Jarecki: Billionaire

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Once a psychiatrist, Henry, Andrew’s father, made his fortune in gold and silver speculation. In 2024, Jarecki acknowledged having a “consensual, non-secretive and mutually respectful relationship” with one of Epstein’s accusers (who filed then later dropped a civil lawsuit against Jarecki).

Elizabeth Johnson: Heiress

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Epstein was a co-trustee on 14 parcels of land the Johnson & Johnson heiress owned in Dutchess County, New York. He resigned as a trustee for Johnson’s revocable trust at the end of 1998.

Richard Johnson: Gossip journalist for “Page Six”

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Sarah Kellen: An alleged enabler

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Wrote Lisa Miller in our 2019 guide:

In a world where most women still work for men, and where their jobs are overwhelmingly in the “service” or “caring” professions, it should surprise no one that Epstein’s procurers, schedulers, fixers, and enablers were female. Four women — Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff — were identified in the 2007 Florida case against Epstein as possible co-conspirators, though none was charged.

History is full of the self-serving enabling of men by women, ending with the Trump court but not starting there. Was it money? Probably. The word is that Epstein paid his “executive assistants” $200,000 a year and let them order takeout from Le Cirque. When Groff had a baby, Epstein gave her a Mercedes and paid for a full-time nanny. “There is no way I could lose Lesley to motherhood,” he told the New York Times in 2005 (for a front-page story on the indispensability of good help for Wall Street tycoons).

Marcinkova, referred to in court documents as Epstein’s “sex slave,” hails from the former Yugoslavia; Ross, a model, is from Poland. Kellen (who has since married a NASCAR driver) was a scheduler, making sure that Epstein always had a slate full of girls, and it was she who sometimes walked the girls up the stairs in the Florida mansion and laid the oils out on the massage table. Marcinkova would have sex with the girls for Epstein’s viewing pleasure and sometimes all together. Groff booked travel, and Ross also helped with the calendar. After the Miami Herald published its investigation in 2018, Epstein wired the “possible co-conspirators” $250,000 and $100,000, respectively, prosecutors say, to buy their silence. Since then, none of them have been reached for comment.

Ethel Kennedy: Human-rights advocate

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Ted Kennedy: U.S. Senator

Name and home phone number found in Epstein’s black book.

Geoffrey Kent: High-end safari entrepreneur

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

John Kerry: U.S. Senator, Secretary of State

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Per our 2019 guide: “The seven numbers listed for Kerry in Epstein’s address book include the direct line to his presidential campaign.”

Adnan Khashoggi: Saudi Arabian man of mystery

Explained Matt Stieb in our 2019 guide:

To bolster their argument that private-jet owner Epstein is a massive flight risk, SDNY prosecutors produced an expired Austrian passport under an alias that listed Saudi Arabia as Epstein’s primary country of residence. His lawyers claim the fake ID was for the “personal protection” of “an affluent member of the Jewish faith” traveling in the Middle East, but it could also point to one of his more secretive income sources.

According to his former friend the journalist Jesse Kornbluth, in the mid-1980s Epstein said he “worked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators” and occasionally subcontracted to those same autocrats to “help them hide their stolen money.” A source who spoke with journalist Vicky Ward said one of Epstein’s clients was the late Saudi arms dealer Khashoggi, a middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal who helped smuggle cash for the Marcos family out of the Philippines. In 1988, Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland for concealing assets and later faced fraud and racketeering charges in the U.S. (He was later acquitted.) That year, he sold his 282-foot yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who soon flipped it to Donald Trump.

Henry Kissinger: Secretary of State and national-security adviser

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

One of the century’s most notorious practitioners of cutthroat realpolitik, Kissinger served on the Council on Foreign Relations with Epstein.

Nancy Kissinger: Philanthropist

Epstein and Kissinger served on the Rockefeller University board alongside Nobel laureate Joseph Goldstein, socialite Brooke Astor, and Texas billionaire Robert Bass.

Leah Kleman: Art dealer

She told Vanity Fair in 2003 that Epstein lived like a “modern maharaja” and described his haggling over art prices as “something like a scene out of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”

David Koch: Plutocrat

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Stephen Kosslyn: Harvard psychologist

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

“He is amazing,” Kosslyn said of Epstein in a 2002 New York profile. “Like a honeybee — he talks to all these different people and cross-pollinates. Just two months ago, I was talking to him about a new alternative to evolutionary psychology. He got excited and sent me a check.”

Lawrence Krauss: Cosmologist

Per our 2019 guide:

Epstein was a major donor to his program at Arizona State University, and Krauss teamed with the financier to host a conference of Nobel laureates in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2012. “Jeffrey has surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women, but they’re not as young as the ones that were claimed,” he told the Daily Beast in 2011. “I always judge things on empirical evidence, and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him but I’ve never seen anything else. So as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people. I don’t feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey. I feel raised by it.” This spring, Krauss retired amid allegations of his own sexual harassment.

Geraldine Laybourne: TV executive

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Co-founder of Nickelodeon and, with her husband, Kit, and pal Oprah, the Oxygen network.

Simon Le Bon: Duran Duran frontman

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Gerald Lefcourt, Epstein’s attorney

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

As Matt Stieb explained in our 2019 guide: “A white-collar defense attorney to the stars, Lefcourt has also represented Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Sid Vicious, Tracy Morgan, Russell Crowe, insider trader Michael Milken, and Murder Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti.”

Jay Lefkowitz: Epstein’s attorney

Noted Matt Stieb in our 2019 guide:

Lefkowitz negotiated the terms of Epstein’s negligently lenient plea deal with his former Kirkland & Ellis colleague Alexander Acosta. Now at Columbia Law, he served in both Bush administrations, as director of Cabinet affairs for H.W. and deputy executive secretary to the Domestic Policy Council and special envoy for human rights in North Korea for W.

Courtney Love: Singer

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Patrick McMullan: Photographer

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Robert Meister: Insurance executive

Introduced Epstein to Leslie Wexner after Epstein met and charmed Meister on a plane to Palm Beach, according to James Patterson’s book Filthy Rich.

Marvin Minsky: MIT professor and pioneer of artificial intelligence

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

George Mitchell: U.S. Senate majority leader

Name found in Epstein’s black book. Contributed a letter to Epstein’s birthday book.

The former senator was appointed the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland by President Clinton and was an architect of the Good Friday Agreement. He called Epstein a “friend,” and the address book lists a dozen numbers for him under the heading “Piper, Rudnick,” the name of the Washington law firm where Mitchell was a partner.

Rosa Monckton: Former CEO of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Epstein’s “close friend since the early 1980s,” according to the 2003 profile of Epstein written by Vicky Ward in Vanity Fair: “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.”

Rupert Murdoch: Media mogul

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Murdoch has two numbers — one New York, one California — listed in the address book.

Nathan Myhrvold: Businessman

The legendary patent troll turned impresario of molecular gastronomy dined at Epstein’s home. He also contributed to Epstein’s birthday book.

Joe Pagano: Venture capitalist

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log. He was also contributor to Epstein’s birthday book.

The chief executive, secretary and treasurer, principal accounting officer, and principal financial officer of an insecticide-research company, Pagano even visited Epstein in jail.

Andrés Pastrana Arango: Former Colombian president

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Ronald Perelman: Revlon chairman

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The billionaire invited 14 guests, including Epstein, Jimmy Buffett, and DNC co-chair Don Fowler, to his Palm Beach home for a Bill Clinton fund-raiser in 1995.

Itzhak Perlman: Violinist

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Steven Pinker: Linguist, Harvard professor, and author

Noted Matt Stieb in our 2019 guide:

Pinker is one of the famous intellectuals most often linked to Epstein, but he says he flew on Epstein’s private plane only once in 2002 and that he was involuntarily placed next to him for a picture at Lawrence Krauss’s Origins Project’s annual conference in 2014: “If I had more wherewithal, I would not have indulged my friend in sitting with him. Despite what various friends and colleagues all said about what a genius he was, I found him tedious and distasteful. Even before I knew about the criminality, I found it irritating to talk to him, all the more so because the reason he was in the conversation was because he had given money to these various projects. He likes schmoozing with smart and intellectual people, but he couldn’t really or had very little interest in exploring an issue. He’d wisecrack, change subjects, or get bored after a few seconds. He’s a kibitzer more than a serious intellectual.” Nevertheless, Pinker supplied some linguistic expertise that his friend Alan Dershowitz used to defend Epstein during the 2008 trial.

Alberto Pinto: Interior designer

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Wrote Wendy Goodman in our 2019 guide:

Forget for a moment the mural featuring Epstein in the middle of a prison yard complete with guards and barbed wire. Let’s also forget the life-size doll hanging from a chandelier, and the chess set with figures of his staff as pieces to play with. Let’s instead focus on the very lush Euro-Orientalist décor of Epstein’s 21,000-square-foot seven-story Beaux-Arts mansion, decorated by none other than the late great Alberto Pinto, one of the world’s top prestige interior designers. His clientele included princes, moguls, and wannabe princes, as captains of industry so frequently are, and Epstein clearly aspired to that provenance and history. He flew Pinto on his private plane, as he did other architects and designers (Jean-Michel Gathy, Ricardo Legorreta, and Peter Marino are also listed in Epstein’s flight logs), and lived like a modern pasha in rooms lavished with money that bought custom-tooled gold leather walls (at least they were made to look like tooled-leather walls) and leopard-print upholstered armchairs in the dining room that appear to be covered in silk velvet. It was exactly the sort of project Pinto relished, flexing all the artisanal muscle that a designer of his stature can exercise when cushioning his client’s home.

Bob Pittman: Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia, Inc

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Felix Posen: Philanthropist

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Former business partner of Marc Rich (who was famously indicted for tax evasion and trading with Iran, before being even more famously pardoned by President Clinton), with whom he paired on deals in the Soviet Union before the fall of communism.

Tom Pritzker: Executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

As our 2019 guide pointed out, Pritzker was known to dine with Epstein in the early aughts. He also emailed with Epstein in 2013.

Carole Radziwill: Author and television personality

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

The daughter-in-law of Lee Radziwill and a Real Housewife of New York.

Lewis Ranieri: The “father” of mortgage-backed securities.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Another Epstein dinner partner.

Bill Richardson: Former New Mexico governor.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Per our 2019 guide:

Epstein donated $50,000 to each of his gubernatorial campaigns. A spokeswoman for Richardson told the Albuquerque Journal that Richardson recalls visiting Epstein’s New Mexico ranch only once, during his first run for governor in 2002.

Steve Riggio: Barnes & Noble CEO

Photographed with Epstein at the 1999 Edge Foundation Billionaires’ Dinner, and twice met him at the TED conference.

Joan Rivers: TV host, actress, and comedian

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Charlie Rose: Television journalist

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Wrote Irin Carmon in our 2019 guide:

You learn things answering phones, and in the spring of 2005, answering Charlie Rose’s phone at his PBS show, you would learn that his friend Jeffrey Epstein had some recommendations to make for whom Rose ought to hire as his next assistant. Written call logs from 2005 and 2006 show Epstein and his own assistant calling dozens of times, making plans for lunch and tea in Manhattan or to try to meet up in Paris. Epstein also called with a total of five women’s names and phone numbers. One woman was described as “world’s most perfect assistant she used to work for Harvey Weinstein he’s lucky if he can get her.” Another entry reads, “Jeffrey Epstein wants to talk to you before you call these two girls.” A fourth woman shows up on the manifests of Epstein’s jet, including on Bill Clinton’s trip across Africa, and wound up working at the Clinton Foundation. Two former staffers remember another Epstein referral, a young woman not mentioned in the logs, who interned at the show. In all, Rose hired three (“Jeffrey Epstein from time to time recommended various candidates for open positions at the Charlie Rose Show,” Rose’s representative said in a statement, but said the ex-host only learned about Epstein’s alleged abuse years later, when he pleaded guilty in Florida). When I called one of these women recently, she was stunned to learn she was one of many women Epstein recommended for the job. “I was being offered up for abuse,” said the woman, who was 22 at the time she worked for Rose. It helped her understand not only how her boss Rose — whom in 2017 she would accuse, along with 34 other adult women, of sexual harassment — had treated her, but also how the rest of the staff had seen her. And it helped her understand a grim version of networking among powerful men.

Amy Sacco: Nightlife impresario

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Per our 2019 guide:

The undisputed club queen of aughts New York, Sacco ran Lot 61 in Chelsea, which was famous for using fresh fruit in its drinks, and later Bungalow 8, which prided itself on discretion, the kind of place where celebrities could behave badly and not have to worry about appearing in “Page Six.” Sacco was a pioneer of marrying nightlife with concierge-style indulgences for the very rich: Her staff would get you whatever you needed: pizza delivery, peanut M&M’s, a private flight to Miami leaving from Teterboro as soon as you could get there.

Roger Schank: Chief learning officer at Trump University

Visited Epstein in prison in 2008.

Chuck Schumer: U.S. Senator

One of many politicians to receive donations from Epstein over the years. Epstein gave bipartisanly but not equally: Between 1990 and 2004, he gave more than $139,000 to Democrats and just over $18,000 to Republicans. Epstein also gave to a handful of politicians in New Mexico, where he’d purchase the Zorro Ranch from former governor Bruce King and where he was not required to register as a sex offender. After Epstein’s downfall, Schumer was one of the politicians who decided to make a donation to charity of the amount Epstein donated to them.

Maria Shriver: Journalist and former First Lady of California

Name and two California phone numbers found in Epstein’s black book.

Peggy Siegal: Elite New York publicist

Name found in Epstein’s black book. She also exchanged emails with him.

Explained Carl Swanson in our 2019 guide:

A brazen and relentless publicist of the old school, Siegal understands one thing well: “Bringing people together. Everyone needs to feel that they belong.” At least a certain kind of accomplished person, no matter, frankly, how they went about getting there (who was she to judge?). Known for her movie premieres and other guest-list-driven social events, she bragged that she “ruined the Hamptons” to Vanity Fair in a profile back in 1996. Publicity-party invites are an amoral game, driven by status and FOMO. Like everyone, she worked with Harvey Weinstein when he was an Oscar machine, the toast of the town. So you can’t blame Siegal for including someone who already knew all the boldface power people. In 2008, in the teeth of the accusations against Epstein, he was spotted by a New York party reporter, “unshaven, smiling that feline-monkey grin,” at the Siegal-engineered screening of the HBO film Bernard and Doris at the Time Warner Center. But after prison, apparently Epstein needed her more than ever: In a Times story on how Manhattan’s A-list refused to shun him, Siegal in particular was willing to help him (for free, apparently), “using her gate-keeping powers to usher Mr. Epstein, a friend, into screenings and events.” In 2010, she threw a dinner party at his Upper East Side townhouse for Prince Andrew, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, and Woody Allen. She and Epstein might have had other reasons to get along: Siegal, who has just turned 72, is a self-invention as well, without a particularly pedigreed background. Also notable is the fact that, as she told Vanity Fair in 2012, “my favorite way to travel” to Cannes is “on a friend’s G5 from Teterboro to Nice.”

Rodney Slater: Secretary of Transportation under Bill Clinton

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Flight logs record Slater taking a flight from Ghana to Nigeria in September 2002.

Peter Soros: Nephew of George Soros

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

George Soros’s name is not in there.

Kevin Spacey: Actor

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Flew with Bill Clinton to Africa (and, according to flight logs, the Azores) on Epstein’s plane.

Warren Spector: Bear Stearns executive

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Caroline Stanbury: Socialite

Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Went on to star on Bravo’s Ladies of London.

Kenneth Starr: Former United States solicitor general

Wrote Jonathan Chait in our 2019 guide:

Obviously, lawyers do not share guilt for their clients’ crimes. But it’s striking that Kenneth Starr chose to join Jeffrey Epstein’s defense team in 2007, after his moral fulminations against Bill Clinton’s sexual perfidy. His obsessive pursuit of President Clinton made him a folk hero on the right, representing the defense of traditional sexual virtue and the notion that it was under assault by Bill Clinton and the liberal elite. His special-prosecutor exploits propelled him to the presidency of the conservative Baptist Baylor University. During his tenure, the football program engaged in a horrific pattern of sexual abuse that led to the dismissal of the football coach and the removal of Starr after an investigation found “actions by University administrators that directly discouraged some complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes.”

It is perhaps coincidental, but Starr has tracked the broader conversion of the religious right from sexual shaming to sexual shamelessness. In an era when Donald Trump has exposed the hollowness of so many values conservatives allegedly hold dear, it is fitting that this Zelig of right-wing sexual hypocrisy has made yet another cameo.

George Stephanopoulos: Journalists, former White House communications director

Attended a dinner at Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010. “That dinner was the first and last time I’ve seen him,” Stephanopoulos later said. “It was a mistake to go.”

Julie Taymor: Director

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Responsible for one of the biggest hits in Broadway history, The Lion King, and one of the biggest flops, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Robert Trivers: Evolutionary biologist

In 2015, he defended Epstein, saying, “By the time they’re 14 or 15, they’re like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don’t see these acts as so heinous.” In 2019, he called his past statement “stupid and offensive.”

Ivana Trump: Donald Trump’s first ex-wife

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Ivanka Trump: Daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Melania Trump: Wife of Donald Trump

Epstein has reportedly claimed that he’s the one who introduced Melania to her future husband, which Melania vehemently denies. The three have traveled together, however: She flew with Epstein on then-boyfriend Donald Trump’s plane in 2000.

Chris Tucker: Actor

Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.

Flew with Bill Clinton to Africa on Epstein’s plane.

Edward Tuttle: Architect of Epstein’s island compound

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Explained Max Read in our 2019 guide:

Who built the temple? Tuttle, a designer of luxury resorts by trade, renovated the main compound on Epstein’s 70-acre private island in 2003. Sometime between 2009 and 2013, a “temple” appeared on the island: a large, boxy, blue-and-white-striped structure with a golden dome, surrounded by palm trees. In the days after Epstein’s arrest, the temple became the object of fervent speculation online. It was the kind of irresistible conspiracy-bait that exemplifies the Epstein story: On the one hand, shouldn’t it be enough that a mysteriously wealthy banker with connections to the globe’s most powerful people was apparently operating a child sex-trafficking ring without dabbling in theories about occult island temples? On the other hand, though, once you’ve accepted that, why would occult island temples be so out of the question? On the edges, the Epstein saga could seem less like a news story than like a brutal, unreadable fairy tales. Or maybe it was a desire to take a story about financial power and social privilege colluding to protect a criminal predator and transform it into something more terrible and monumental. After weeks of speculation, the first eyewitness account revealed that what the “temple” contained wasn’t a necromantic shrine but a gym, decorated with a framed photograph of a topless woman.

Cyrus Vance Jr.: Manhattan district attorney

Wrote Irin Carmon in our 2019 guide:

There are currently 475 level-three sex offenders registered in New York County, but in 2011, when an attorney from the office of Cy Vance, Manhattan DA, argued that Epstein’s risk level should be reduced, Justice Ruth Pickholz responded, “I have to tell you I am a little overwhelmed because I have never seen a prosecutor’s office do anything like this.” Pickholz denied the request — Epstein’s risk assessment put him 20 points above the required threshold for the highest level of offender — and the DA’s office later reversed its request. Though there’s no indication Vance and Epstein were friendly, his office has been criticized previously for declining to pursue sex-crimes charges against Harvey Weinstein that coincided with a donation from his attorneys (though Weinstein has since been charged by Vance’s office) and fraud charges against Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr.

Linda Wachner: Head of the textile corporation behind Calvin Klein and Speedo

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Mike Wallace: 60 Minutes journalist

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Barbara Walters: Broadcast journalist and TV personality

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Bob Weinstein: Former co-chairman of Miramax Films and the Weinstein Company

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Leslie Wexner: Billionaire retail magnate

Name found in Epstein’s black book, contributor to Epstein’s birthday book.

Wrote Michelle Celarier and Carl Swanson in our 2019 guide:

Retailing billionaire Leslie Wexner was Epstein’s only known client, the man who transferred the rights to that famous townhouse to him for free in 2011, years after they were supposed to no longer be in contact. The relationship stretches back to the late 1980s, a time when Wexner’s star was on the rise. A 1985 cover story for New York visited him in Columbus, Ohio, where his retail empire was built. Journalist Julie Baumgold described how he, not unlike Epstein, was a self-made man, addicted to self-improvement, how he didn’t know how to pronounce La Grenouille correctly and wanted to have his picture taken at the Whitney, and noted that “Wexner is what used to be known as a ‘confirmed bachelor.’ ” (He later married and has four children.) Not long after that piece, he was introduced to Epstein, who had left Bear Stearns under a cloud and was broke. He and Wexner hit it off, and Epstein soon began managing Wexner’s finances. Wexner’s credibility lent plausibility to the notion that Epstein managed billions from his Caribbean-island redoubt. Associates of Wexner, who is now worth $6.6 billion, didn’t understand the attraction. Soon after the men began working together, Epstein moved into Wexner’s Upper East Side mansion. Wexner bought the seven-story townhouse in 1989 for $13.2 million but apparently lived there only for a few months. The title was transferred in 2011 to a Virgin Islands entity controlled by Epstein. It is now worth $56 million.

Elie Wiesel: Nobel Prize winner.

Name found in Epstein’s black book.

Nina and Jim Zagat: Publishers

Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.

Mort Zuckerman: Media mogul and newspaper publisher

Zuckerman went into business with Epstein — briefly — in 2004, spending $25 million to invest in Radar, but he pulled the plug after just three issues. He first attempted a deal with Epstein in 2003, when he was part of a consortium with Michael Wolff, Donny Deutsch, Nelson Peltz, and Harvey Weinstein to buy New York Magazine. Zuckerman also contributed a satirical letter to Epstein’s birthday book.

This post has been updated throughout.