Everyone knows about the Gilded Age mansion gifted to Jeffrey Epstein by Les Wexner, where he hosted dinner parties for famous men and lured underage girls to his massage room. That mansion, like Epstein’s Palm Beach compound and the complex on his private Caribbean island, was opulent and filled with creepy décor, including a bronze bride statue hanging in the stairwell, a taxidermied tiger and poodle, and cameras mounted in the corners of bedrooms.
But recently released emails detail how another Manhattan property just a few blocks east also played a central role in Epstein’s operations: an utterly ordinary, white-brick apartment building on 66th Street and Second Avenue.