Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 122-cv-10904 (S.D.N.Y. 2022)/238-24.pdf

EXHIBIT 49 Case 1:22-cv-10904-JSR Document 238-24 Filed 07/25/23 Page 1 of 24 Case 1:22-cv-10904-JSR Document 238-24 Filed 07/25/23 Page 2 of 24 From: Sent: To: BCC: Subject: mary.rieth@jpmorgan .com [mary .rieth@jpmorgan .com] 5/21/2003 1:32:48 PM paul.lahiff@jpmorgan.com assentor@jpmorgan.com Your question on Financial Trust Just got the DOR back this morning; will have it approved by the afternoon . I was waiting to pull everything together before sending down Vanity Fair article, so you'll get everything at once . Thanks . Mary C. Rieth tel: (212) 464-1747 fax: (212)464-1312 ---- Forwarded by Mary Rieth/JPMCHASE on 05/21/2003 09 : 31 AM----- Vanessa A Budhu 05/21/2003 09:27 AM A Due Diligence Report has been signed off by Security Services in the USCG Due Diligence Report database for Financial Trust Company, Inc .. The DOR is now Awa iting Client Manager approval. Please check the 'Client Advisor Approval' view in the database at your earliest convenience . Confidential EXHIBIT '/ WIT: f1),,o,~ DATE: Y: ;,1-__:3 C. Ca mpbell , ROR CRR CSR #13 921 JPM-SDNYLIT-00137281 Case 1:22-cv-10904-JSR Document 238-24 Filed 07/25/23 Page 3 of 24 3/31/23, 3:08 PM The Talented Mr. Epstein I Vanity Fair SOCIETY MARCH 2003 ISSUE THE TALENTED MR. EPSTEIN Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New York's largest private residence, 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. 0 BY VICKY WARD MARCH I, 2003 n Manhattan's Upper East Side, home to some of the most expensive real estate on earth, exists the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, huge arched windows, and nine floors, it sits on-or, rather, commands-the block of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of proportion with its four- and five-story neighbors, it seems more like an institution than a house. This is perhaps not surprising-until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's largest private residence. Inside, amid the flurry of menservants attired in sober black suits and pristine white gloves, you feel you have stumbled into someone's private Xanadu. This is no mere rich person's home, but a high-walled, eclectic, imperious fantasy that seems to have no boundaries. THE IDVE NEWSLETTER Daily updates from Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303 1/22 Case 1:22-cv-10904-JSR Document 238-24 Filed 07/25/23 Page 4 of 24 3/31/23, 3:08 PM l'"'"'em,n Enter your email The Talented Mr. Epstein I Vanity Fair SUBMIT By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement The entrance hall is decorated not with paintings but with row upon row of individually framed eyeballs; these, the owner tells people with relish, were imported from England, where they were made for injured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer, which does have a painting, in the manner of Jean Dubuffet ... but the host coyly refuses to tell visitors who painted it. In any case, guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior. Despite its eccentricity the house is curiously impersonal, the statement of someone who wants to be known for the scale of his possessions. Its occupant, financier Jeffrey Epstein, 50, admits to friends that he likes it when people think of him this way. A good-looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren, with thick gray-white hair and a weathered face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, and loafers. He tells people he bought the house because he knew he "could never live anywhere bigger." He thinks 51,000 square feet is an appropriately large space for someone like himself, who deals mostly in large concepts-especially large sums of money. Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at the town house-Epstein usually refers to the former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite-size morsels and drink copious quantities of Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or tobacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," so called because of the cordovan-colored fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding an opium pipe and caressing a snarling lionskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and guests by the menservants in white gloves. Upstairs, to the right of a spiral staircase, is the "office," an enormous gallery spanning the width of the house. Strangely, it holds no computer. Computers belong in the "computer room" (a smaller room at the back of the house), Epstein has been known to say. The office features a gilded desk (which Epstein tells people belonged to banker J.P. Morgan), 18th-century black lacquered Portuguese cabinets, and a nine-foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de Sade's The Misfort:unes of Virt:ue was recently spotted. Covering the floor, Epstein has explained, "is the largest Persian rug you'll ever see in a private home-so big, it must have come from a mosque." Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator Alberto Pinto, who has worked for J acaues Chirac and the roval https:l/www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303 2122 Case 1:22-cv-10904-JSR Document 238-24 Filed 07/25/23 Page 5 of 24 3/31/23, 3:08 PM The Talented Mr. Epstein I Vanity Fair families of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there is one particularly startling oddity: a stuffed black poodle, standing atop the grand piano. "No decorator would ever tell you to do that," Epstein brags to visitors. "But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog." People can't help but feel it's Epstein's way of saying that he always has the last word. In addition to the town house, Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico, on an $18 million, 7,500-acre ranch which he named "Zorro." "It makes the town house look like a shack," Epstein has said. He also owns Little St. James, a 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the main house is currently being renovated by Edward Tuttle, a designer of the Amanresorts. There is also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter, and a Boeing 727, replete with trading room, on which Epstein recently flew President Clinton, actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's grandson, Casey Wasserman, and a few others, on a mission to explore the problems of AIDS and economic development in Africa. Epstein is charming, but he doesn't let the charm slip into his eyes. They are steely and calculating, giving some hint at the steady whir of machinery 1unning behind them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, after refusing to give an interview for this article. ''You be white. You get the first move." It was an appropriate metaphor for a man who seems to feel he can win no matter what the advantage of the other side. His advantage is that no one really seems to know him or his history completely or what his arsenal actually consists of. He has carefully engineered it so that h