“Yes, that’s Jeffrey Epstein. In 2015 I was assigned by New York Magazine to make a portrait of Epstein to accompany an article by Michael Wolff. I didn’t know much about him, other than the fact that he had heavy connections to powerful men. He wanted to meet me before the shoot to negotiate buying out the pictures after publication. A young woman with an Eastern European accent answered the door (I would later see the same girl setting up a massage table in a room just off one of his offices) followed quickly by his private secretary, Lesley Groff. When Epstein arrived, his eyes sized me up like someone always looking for the angles. He quizzed me about my pictures and how the shoot would go and how much I thought my pictures were worth. He said he didn’t want anyone else to have the pictures after the magazine published them, and offered me $20k to own them after publication. It was all the money in the world to me at the time.”
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