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Jeffrey Elwyn* in
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find loan knew. Ile Wtio) mirl•
7.50lbutre ranch
in Nen Ink°, a house
in Palm Koch. and a
Caribbean Wand.
Lately, leffrey Epstein's
high-flying style has been
drawing oohs and aahs: the
bachelor financier lives
in New Ifork's largest
private resideece, claims to
take only billionaires as
clients, and flies celebrities
including Bill Clinton and
Kevin Spacey on his Boeing
727. But pierce his air
of mystery and the picture
changes. VICKY WARD
explores Epstein's investment
career, his ties to retail
magnate Leslie Wexner, and
his complicated past
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Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the charm slip into his eyes. They arc steely
the town house—Epstein usually refers to the and calculating. giving some hint at the
former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite- steady whir of machinery running behind
size morsels and drink copious quantities of them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, af-
Earl Gisy. (He does not touch alcohol or to- ter 'reusing to give an interview for this arti-
bacco.) Tea is served in the "leather mom," cle. "You be white. You get the first mow."
so called because of the cordovan-colored It was an appropriate metaphor for a man
fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered who seems to feel he can win no matter
in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a what the advantage of the other side. /lir
huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding advantage is that no one really seems to
an opium pipe and caressing a snarling a know him or his history completely or what
onskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger his arsenal actually consists of He has care-
sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and fully engineered it so that he remains one
guests by the menservants in white gloves. of the few truly baffling mysteries among
Upstairs, to the right of a spiral stair- New York's moneyed world. People know
n Manhattan's case, is the "office." an enormous gallery snippets, but few know the whole.
Upper EEaapp Side. home to some of the spanning the width of the house. Strangely, "He's wry enigmatic." says Rosa Mond-
most ezpdtsive real estate on earth, exists it holds no computer. Computers belong in ton, the former C.E.O. of
Tiffany & Co. in
the crown jewel of the city's residential the "computer room" to smaller mom at the U.K. and a dose friend
since the early
town houses. With its IS-foot-high oak door, the back of the house). Epstein has been 1980s. "You think you know him and
then
huge arched windows, and nine floors, it known to say. The office features a gilded you peel off another ring
of the onion skih
sits on—or. rather. commands—the block desk (which Epstein tells people belonged and there's something else extraordinary
of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison to banker J. P. Morgan). 18thwentury black underneath. He never reveals his hand....
Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of pro- lacquered Portuguese cabinets. and a nine- He's a classic iceberg. What you see
is not
portion with its four- and five-story neigh- foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the what you get:'
bors, it seems more Like an institution than desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de
a house. This is perhaps not surprising - Sade's The Miyanunes of Hrwe was it- ven acquaintances sense a
until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private cently spotted. Covering the 9oor. Epstein curious dichotomy: Yes he
school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's has explained. "is the lamest Persian rug lives like a "modem ma-
largest private residence. you'll ever see in a private home—so big. it haraja: as Leah Kiernan,
Inside. amid the flurry of menservants must have come from a mosquc." Amid one of his art dealers. puts
attired in sober black suits and pristine such splendor, much of which reflects the it. Yet he is fastidiously. al-
white gloves. you feel you have stumbled work of the French decorator .Alberto Pin- most obsessively private—he
into someone's private Xanadu. This is to. who has worked for Jacques Chirac and lists himself in the phone book under
a
no mere rich person's home, but a high- the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Ara- pseudonym. He rarely attends
society gath-
walled. eclectic. imperious fantasy that bia. there is one particularly startling oddi• erings or weddings or funerals: he
considers
seems to hint no boundaries. ty: a stuffed black poodle. standing atop eating in restaurants like -eating on the sub-
The entrance hall is decorated not with the grand piano. "No decorator would ever way"—i.e.. something he'd never do. There
paintings but with row upon row of indi- tell you to do that." Epstein brags to visi- are many women in his
vidually framed eyeballs: these, the owner tors. "But I want people to think what it but there is no one of
r*. mostly young,
them to whom he
tells people with relish, were imported from means to stuff a dog." People can't help has been able to commit.
He describes his
England. where they were made for in- but feel it's Epstein's way of saying that he most public companion
of the last decade,
jured soldiers. Nen comes a marble foyer, always has the last wont. Ghislaine Mansell. 41. the daughter of the
which does have a painting, in the man- In addition to the town house. Epstein Late, disgraced media baron Robert Max'
ner of Jean Dubutiet ... but the host coyly lives in what is reputed to be the largest well, as simply his "best friend.' He
says
refuses to tell visitors who painted it. In any private dwelling in New Mexico. on an SIB she is not on his payroll, but she
seems
case. guests are like pygmies next to the million. 7.500-acre ranch which he named to organize much of his life—recently
she
nearby mice-life-size sculpture of a naked "Zorro." "It makes the town house look was making telephone inquiries to find a
African warrior. a shack." Epstein has said. He also owns California-based yoga instructor for him.
Despite its eccentricity the house is curi- Little St. James. a 70-acre island in the (Epstein is still close to his two other long-
ously impersonal. the statement of someone U.S. Virgin Islands. where the main house term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher.
a for-
who wants to be known for the scale of his is currently being renovated by Edward Tut- ma associate of his at the brokerage firm
possessions. Its occupant, financier Jeffrey tle, a designer of the Amanresorts. There is Bear Stearns and now an
opera producer,
Epstein, 50, admits to friends that he likes it also a S6.8 million house in Palm Beach, and Eva Andersson Dubin.
a doctor and
when people think of him this way. A good- Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulftutain onetime mode/. He
tells people that when
looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren, IV, a helicopter. and a Boeing 727. replete a relationship is over the girlfriend "mows
with thick gray-white hair and a weathered with trading room, on which Epstein re- up, not down." to friendship
status.)
face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shins, cently flew President Clinton. actors Chris Some of the businessmen who dine with
and loafers. He tells people he bought the Tucker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket him at his home —they include newspaper
house because he knew he "could never live magnate Ron Bustle. Lew Wasserman's publisher Mon Zuckerman. banker
Louis
anywhere bigger." He thinks 51.000 square grandson, Casey Wasserman, and a kw oth- Ranieri. Revlon chairman
Ronald Perelman,
ket is an appropriately large space for some. ers on a mission to explore the problems of real-estate tycoon Leon
Black. former Mi- 0
one like himself, who deals mostly in large AIDS and economic development in Africa. crosoft executive
Nathan Myhrvold. Tom
concepts—especially large sums of money. Epstein is charming. but he doesn't let Pritzker (or Hyatt Hotels), and real-estate a
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personality Donald Trump—sometimes
seem not all that clear as to what he ac-
tually does to earn his millions. Certainly,
you won't find Epstein's transactions writ-
ten about on Bloomberg or talked about in
the trading rooms. "The trading aim don't
seem to know hurt It's unusual for animals
that big not to leave any footprints in the
snow," says a high-laid investment manager.
Unlike such fund managers as George
Soros and Stanley Druciceruniller, whose
client fists and stock maneuverings act as
their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his
deals and clients secret. bar one client: bil-
lionaire Leslie Warner, the respected chair-
man of Limited &grids. Epstein insists that
ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1981 he
has managed money only for billionaires—
who depend on him for discretion. "I was
the only person crazy enough, or
arrogant enough. or misplaced
enough, to make my limit a bil•
lion dollars or more," he tells peo-
pk freely. According to him, the
Bat fees he receives from his clients.
combined with his skill at playing
the currency markets - with very
large sums of money," have afforded
hint the lifestyle he enjoys today.
Why do billionaires choose him
as their trustee? Because the prob-
lems of the mega-rich. he tells peo-
ple. are different from yours and
mine. and his unique philosophy is
central to understanding those problems: parks department. His
"Very kw people need any more money patents viewed educa- UNREAL ESTATE
when they have a billion dollars. The key tion as "the way: out" Fown top the -leather
is not to have it do harm more than any- for him and his young- room' in Epstein's house.
thing else.... You don't want to lose your er brother. Mark, now where "tea" ts until
to guess: Epstein at his
money." working in real estate. Zorro ranch in 1991
Jeffrey started to play wth his "ben Iliend:
e has likened his job to the piano—for which he Ghislaine
that of an architect—more maintains a passion—at Epstein in 1979.
specific*. one who spe- five, and he went to
cializes in remodeling: - I Brooklyn's Laken, High "bounty hunter.- recov-
always describe (a billion- School. He was good at ;- 4- c"•—• ering lost or stolen mon-
aire) as someone who mathematics, and in his ey for the government or for very rich
started out in a small early 20s he got a job teaching physics and people. He has a license to carry a tinorm.
2 home and as he became wealthier had add- math at Dalton. the elite Manhattan pri- For the last 15 years, he's been running his
: a He added on another addition. he built vate school. While there he began tutoring business. J. Epstein & Co.
- a morn Over the garage ... until you have a the son of Bear Stearns chairman Ace Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his
house that is usually a mess.... It's a large Greenberg and was friendly with a daugh- life—Epstein has said this was in :986:
house that has been put together over time ter of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear others say it was in 1989 at the earliest—
where no one could foretell the financial fil- Stearns. where. under the mentorship of he has gradually, in a way that has not
e tun and their accompanying needs." both Greenberg and current Bear Stearns generally mad: headlines, come to be ac-
(4
He makes it sound as though his job C.E.O. James Clyne, he did well enough cepted by the Establishment. He's a mem-
combines the roles of real-estate agent. ac- to become a limited partner—a rung be- ber of various commissions and councils:
;, cowman', lawyer, money manager, trustee, neath full partner. He abruptly departed in he is on the Trilateral Commission, the
and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, 1981 because, he has said, he wanted to Council on Foreign Relations, the New
myths and rumor swirl around Epstein. run his own business. York Academy of Sciences, and the Insti-
Here are some of the hard facts about Thereafter the details recede into shad- tute of International Education.
Epstein—ones that he doesn't mind people ow. A kw of the handful of current friends His current fan club extends to Cayne.
knowing: He-grew—actg.- middle-class in who have known him since the early 1980s Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of Har-
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"I think we both possess the skill of
seeing patterns," says Planer. "But Jef-
frey sees patterns in politics and linen-
cial markets. and I see patterns in hist)*
and fashion trends. My skills are not in in-
vestment strategy, and, as everyone who
knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fash-
ion and design. We frequently discuss
‘vodd trends as each of us sees them."
y the time Epstein met
Wexner, the latter was a
retail legend who had
built a S3 billion em-
pire—one that now in-
cludes Victoria's Secret,
Express, and Bath &
Body Works—from 55.000 lent him by his
aunt. "Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of
person who had the potential to real-
ize his [Jeffrey's) dreams," says some-
one who has worked closely with
both men. 'He gale Jeffrey the ball
and Jeffrey hit it out of the park:
Wexner. through a trust. bought
the town house in which Epstein
now lives for a reported SI3.2
million in 1989. In 1991 Wex-
ner married Abigail Koppel.
a 31.year-old lawyer. and the
newlyweds relocated to Ohio:
in 1996, Epstein moved in-
to the town house. Public
documents suggest that the house
is still owned by the trust that bought it.
SPOILS OF SUCCESS Edelman and Murray Gell- but Epstein has said that he now owns the a
From 9µr Epswin's 70- Mann. and mathematical house. Ir
acre island. little St biologist Martin Nowak. Wexner trusts Epstein so completely
lames. in the LS. Vbitin When these men describe that he has assigned him the poster of fidu-
Islands—he now calls
it Little St. kit Epstein Epstein. they talk about ciary over all of his private trusts and foun-
with President Clinton in "energy" and "curiosity," as dations. sass a source close to Wexner. In
Brunei. 2002: Leslie well as a love for theoreti- 1992. Epstein even persuaded Wexner to
Wexner with his future cal physics that they don't put him on the board of the Planer Foun-
ssife..Abevul. at the 1990 ordinarily find in laymen. dation in place of Wexner's ailing mother.
C.EDA. Fashion Awards. Gell-Mann rather sweetly Bella Wexner recovered and demanded to
in New York. 1991. mentions that "there are al- be reinstated. Epstein has said they settled he
ways pretty ladies around" by splitting the foundation in two. riot;
when he goes to dinner the Epstein does not care that he comes be- beir
Larry Summers. Harvard's current presi- Epstein. and he's under the impression that tween family members. In fact. he sees its a cx
dent. Harvard law professor Alan Dersho- Epstein's clients include the Queen of En- as his job. He tells people. "I am there to 3 the •
witz says. "I'm on my 20th book.... The gland. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were represent my client. and if my client needs by E.
only person outside of my immediate family thrilled to find Nernst-Ives shaking the hand protecting-sometimes even from his own U
that I send drafts to is Jeffrey: Real-estate of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's family—then it's often better that people rad
dedoper and philanthropist Marshall Rose, house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince hate me, not the client." ) a littl
who has worked with Epstein on projects in Andrew. who subsequently arranged to sit "You've probably heard I'm vicious in : tende
New Albany. Ohio, for Wexner. says. "He in the back of Dershowitz s law class. my representation of my clients." he tells : that I
digests and decodes the information very Epstein gets annoyed when anyone sug- People proudly; Leah Klcman describes his filled.
rapidly, which is to me terrific because we gests that Wexner "made him." "I had real- haggling over art prices as something like els. "!
have shorter meetings." ly rich clients before." he has said. Yet he a scene out of the movie Mad ,1fitc: Be- the m
Also on the list of admirers are former does not deny that he and Wexner have a yond Thunderdome. Even a former mentor "It
senator George Mitchell and a gaggle of special relationship. Epstein sees it as a says he's seen "the dark side" of Epstein. associ
distinguished scientists, most of whom partnership of equals. "People have said ifs and a Bear Stearns source recalls a meet- ey doe
Epstein has helped fund in recent years. like we have one brain between two of us: ing in which Epstein chewed out a team he mai
They include Nobel Prize winners Gerald each has a sidPe." making a presentation for Wexner as do any'
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being so brutal as to be "irresponsible." media. Right now, in the wake of the pub- Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really
One reporter in fact, received three threats licity following his trip with Clinton, he liked Jeffrey....
Jeffrey has a way of getting
from Epstein while preparing a piece. They must be in a very difficult place." under your skin, and he was under Hof-
were delivered in a jocular tone, but the Embers's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg
message was clear: Thera. will be trouble
A
ecording to S.E.C. and were Epstein's social connections; they in-
for your family if I don't like the article. other legal documents un- eluded oil mogul Cede Wang (father of the
On the other hand, Epstein is clearly earthed by Vanity Fair, designer Wm) and Mohan Murjani, whose
wry generous with friends. Joc Pagano, an Epstein may have good clothing company grew into Gloria Van-
Aspen-based venture capitalist. who has reason to keep his past data Jeans. Epstein lived large even then.
known Epstein since before his Bear Steams cloaked in secrecy his real One friend recalls that when he took Cana-
days. can't say enough nice things: have mentor, it might seem, vas dian heiress Wendy Belzberg on a date he
a boy who's dyslexic. and Jeffrey's gotten not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Reifen- hired a Rolls-Royce
especially for the oc-
close to him over the years.... Jeffrey got berg. 57 who, for a few months before the casion. (Epstein has claimed
he owned it.)
him into music. He bought him his first S,E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 1991 was In 1987, Reifenberg according to sources,
piano. And that as he got to school he had trying to buy the Aar NA Post. He is cur- set Epstein up in the offices
he still occu-
difficulty ... in studying ... so Jeffrey got rently incarcerated in the Federal Medical pies in the Villard House.
on Madison Av-
him interestel in taking flying lessons." Center in Deans. Massachusetts. 'ening a enue. across a courtyard from the restaurant
Rosa Monckton recalls Epstein telling 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of Le Cirque. Hoffenberg hired
his new pro-
her that her daughter. Domenica, who sub more than 5450 million in one of the largest tégé as a consultant at
515.000 a month.
fen from Down syndrome. needed the sun, Paul schemes in American history, and the relationship flourished. "They trav-
and that Rosa should feel free to bring her When Epstein met Reifenberg in Lon- eled everywheie together—on Holrenberg's
to his house in Palm Beach anytime. don in the 1980s. the latter was the char- plane. all around the world. they were al-
Some friends remember that in the late ismatic. audacious head of the Towers ways together," says a source.
Hoffenberg
80s Epstein would otter to upgrade the air- Financial Corporation. a collection agency has claimed that Epstein
confided in him,
line tickets of good friends by affixing fiat- that was supposed to buy debts that peo- saying. for example. that
he had left Bear
class stickers: the only problem was that the pk owed to hospitals. banks. and phone Steams in 1981 after he
was discovered ex-
stickers turned out to be unofficial. Some- companies. But HotTenbera began using ecutine "illegal operations"
times the technique worked. but other times company funds to pay off earlier investors Several of Epstein's bar Stearns contem-
didn't. and the unwitting recipients found and service a lavish lifestyle that included a poraries recall that Epstein
left the compa-
themselves exiled to coach. (Epstein has mansion on Long Island. homes on Man- ny van suddenly. 1%ithin the
company there
claimed that he paid tbr the upgrades, and hattan's Sutton Place and in Florida. and a were rumors also that he was
invoked in a
had no knowledge of the stickers] Many of fleet of ears and planes. technical infringement. and it was thought
those who benefited from Epstein's largesse Floffenberg and Epstein had much in that the executive committee asked that he
claim chat his generosity comes with no common. Both were smart and obsessed resign after his two supporters..Xce
Green-
strings attached. "1 never felt he wanted with making money. Bah were from Brook- berg and Jimmy Cmne. were
outnumbered.
anything from me in return." says one old lyn. According to Holfenberg. the ovo men Greenberg says he can't recall this:
Cayne
friend. who received a first-class upgrade. were introduced by Douglas Leese. a de- denies it happened. and
Epstein has de-
knse contractor. Epstein has said they were nied it as well. - JetTrey Epstein left Bear
f.1 wan is known about town introduced M. John Mitchell. the late attor- Steams of his own volition." says Cayne.
as a man who loves wom- ney general. "It was never suggested that he leave by
en—lots of them. mostly Epstein had been running Internatienal any member of management. and manage-
young. Model types have Assets Group Inc. (I.A.G.1. a consulting ment never looked into any improprieties
been heard saying they are company. out of his apartment in the Solo by him. Jeffrey said specifically. 'I don't
full of gratitude to Epstein building on East 66th Street in Nen York. want to work for anybody else. I want
to
for thing them around, and Though he has claimed that he managed work for myself— Net, this
is not the story
he is j 413111i:1r face to many of the Victo- money for billionaires only. in a laiee dep- that Epstein told to the S.F..C.
in 1981 and
ria's Secret girls. One young woman recalls osition he testified that he spent SO per- to lawyers in a 1989 deposition invoh
ing a
being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to cent of his time helping people recover civil business case in Philadelphia.
a concert at Epstein's town house. where stolen money from fraudulent brokers and In 1981 the S.E.C.'s Jonathan Harris and
the women seemed to outnumber the men lawyers. lie was also not above entering Robert Blackburn took Epstein's testimony
by far. "These were not women you'd see into risky. tax-sheltered oil and gas deals and that of other Beat Steams employres
in
at Upper East Side dinners." the woman with much smaller investors. A lawsuit that part of what became a protracted ease
recalls. "Many seemed foreign and dressed Michael Stroll, the former head of Wil- about insider trading around a tender
offer
a link bizarrely." This same guest also at- liams Electronics Inc.. filed against Epstein placed on March II. 1981. by the Seagram
tended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell shows that in 1982 I.A.G. received an in- Company Ltd for St. Joe Minerals
Corp.
that Prince Andrew attended, which was vestment from Stroll of 5450.000. which Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in-
tilled, she says, with young Russian mod- Epstein put into oil. In 1984. Stroll asked vestors were found guihy. including Italian
els. "Some of the guests were horrified." for his money back: four years later he had financier Giuseppe Tome, who had used
the woman says. received only 510.000. Stroll lost the suit. his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar
"He's reckless," says a former business after Epstein claimed in court, among oth- Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about
associate, "and he's gotten more so. Mon- er things, that the check for 510.000 was for the tender of
ey does that to you. He's breaking the oath a horse he'd bought from Stroll. "My net After the tender offer was announced.
he made to himself—that he would never worth never exceeded four and a half mil- the S.E.C. began investigating trades in-
do anything that would expose him in the lion dollars.' Stroll has said. volving St Joe at COVTI•LE.1) rvt:. 1,
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contains a parody of ASTleek and Man Da- your input when it's somebody else's project"
mon making Good Will Hunting II. MTleek Affieck has always impressed colleagues S° Mimi Planning to nc.ome the lb
says to Damon, "What do I keep telling you? with his voracious appetite for information that cals. annver to Ronald Rowan' He admits
he entertains
You gotta do the safe picture. then you do and skills. "He has made it a point to learn the thought of someday
the art picture. Then sometimes you gotta everything he can about how the business a
^ aggress, at least: "I think theca
real nobility
do the payback picture because your friend works —not just the craft of acting, but fun to run to public service. It would be
on a
says you owe him. Then sometimes you ga- from the producing standpoint. from the in, without any platform I really be!::' ed
of the kind of oompron:
la go back to the well." studio standpoint." says Jon Gordon, at- people make -:5
"Sometimes you do Reindeer Games." utive vice president of production at Mira- the win-at-all -without being beholden
-costs mentality"
Damon says derisively. max. "He knows how deals work. It's what And the invasion of privacy would
"That's just mean," Mika whines. sets him apart. If he wanted to tun a studio nothing new. "What are h:
But it's a pretty accurate description of at some point, he could. He's about as about me that you going to say
hasn't already been said? I
ha career to date. "Ben takes these franchise sharp as they come." don't cheat. I don't drink, Idea% do drugs.
properties so he can go and experiment," I live a clean life." Arnett says, his eyes
says Haney Weinstein. A filed( is already juggling his acting with twinkling.
"He believes in trying to stretch himself screenwiting and such other commit- "He's only 30 years old," says Jennifer
and noff keep doing the same thing," ob- ments as Project Greenlight. the contest he Todd. who co-p
roduced Boiler Room. "He
sent Bruce Willis, who starred with AffierJr and Damon started to help launch the ca- still has an enormous
amount of time to
in Armageddon. "He's an awesome actor, mas of young filmmakers. Affleck's friends do things."
and I think he's going to do great things." are certain he'll be directing soon. "There's lime, and drive. "I think he's incredibly
Several years ago. in a televised interview no question: Weinstein says. "Both he and hungry." says Sean Bailey.
who founded
on Inside the Actors Studio. Meek said that Matt. I think they're going to rewrite the the media and production
company Live-
his goal was to main big commercial movies. rules. These guys can fix anything. There'll Planet with ./fleck. Damon.
and Chris
He has since revised his ambitions. "That's be home runs in both instances." Moore. "I think the guy has very grand
an adolescent aspiration, in a way. I'd But there are other thoughts tickling the aspirations. I don't think he's going to be
rather be in movies like Magnolia, which I back of Affleck's mind as well. A passion content with just being a
movie star. He
think is a towering achievement. I'll con- ate liberal, he campaigned for Al Gore. knows he has the potential
to do very big
tinue to act. but I won't act in a way that cares deeply about political issues. and is things."
requires me to hang my name out there extremely well informed He entertains him- Such ambitions could be derailed by any
and do a lot of publicity. I'll do character self by writing imaginary political speeches number of mrscalculanons.
including a pd-
roles and focus on writing and directing. It in his head. He would rather discuss .vats vale life that generates zoo man).
sensational
doesn't require the same kinds of sac& in Africa than his mot ie career. headlines, but Arnett has a clear idea of
Ike. in terms of quality of life and person- When Lopez goes to Affleck's mother's the ultimate goal. "On ny deathbed. I hate
al We. and it's a more holistic approach to house for dinner. Weinstein reports. "J.Lo to be one who looks back
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