Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Emily Glazer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
229 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

And his estate...

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

when he, according to court papers filed after Epstein's death, put his worth at at least $577 million, which includes his private island and properties.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

It is.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

Yes, that's been a big question over the years and subject to a lot of, I think, elements of lawsuits and investigations.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

And it's hard to fully divorce what Epstein was doing with trafficking women and trying to like understand his whole empire because he had a lot of things going on at once.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

And oftentimes, not always, his relationships with different people, you know, would have this like sort of business component and then also sometimes this social or like sexual component.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

He was, yes.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

And it's really interesting to see how sometimes he would get tips and then somewhat soon after would advise his bankers or his accountant to purchase shares of these companies that he was getting information about.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

Boris Nikolic started working for Bill Gates at the Gates Foundation in the mid-2000s.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

Nikolic was advising Bill Gates on tens of millions of dollars in investments, and his specialty was to go and scout for investments and then often work with Bill and help him decide where he should be investing, especially in healthcare and biotech companies.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

That is the time when Nikolic started emailing Jeffrey Epstein about this molecular diagnostic testing company called Foundation Medicine.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

And it is also around the time that Bill Gates took a significant stake in that startup.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

So we know that at this time, Bill Gates and Nikolic are receiving access to non-public information about companies that they invest in.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

We know that happened with Foundation Medicine.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

Nikolic, in turn, sent some documents discussing the investment to Jeffrey Epstein.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

And over time, there's kind of this drumbeat of emails that Nikolic is sending to Epstein discussing Gates' investment in Foundation Medicine and attaching some documents and financial terms about Bill Gates' investment.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

So Foundation Medicine goes public in September of 2013.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

And in January 2014, Epstein tells his finance people to buy 25,000 shares of Foundation Medicine.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

About two days later, Nikolic emailed Epstein.

The Journal.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made Millions From His Connections

Did you see Foundation Medicine?