Tara Brown

So as you identified, he came from kind of a working class background.

He didn't go to any special schools or universities, but he had this drive to get out of that neighborhood and he had a drive to be rich, according to people who went to school with him.

And he set himself on a trajectory of making contacts.

He seemed to understand that to get rich,

far in this world, in the world he wanted to be in, it came down to who you knew.

And so he was very adept at making those connections, and he was very adept at scamming and lying and selling himself as some sort of financial whiz.

He just sort of seemed to have a play going on all the time.

Well, it's a theory at this point.

And, in fact, while that theory is being very popular today,

There doesn't yet seem to be any evidence of that.

Certainly a sex trafficking ring, yes, but in terms of blackmailing influential people, I don't know that you can say it didn't happen, but so far there's no evidence it did.

Well, I think it starts, again, it has parallels with how he was able to sexually abuse so many young people.

Because I think the relationship with Les Wexner to begin with was one of...

trust and friendship.

Jeffrey Epstein sold himself as a financial whiz.

He was the only guy who knew what was going on.

He could find all those missing assets that your other advisors have lost, that he could bring something new.

I think as a businessman, Les Wexner was very attracted to that and

And again, Jeffrey Epstein was very good at selling himself, and so we have a situation where Epstein becomes pretty much Les Wexner's sole financial advisor.

is given power of attorney, which means that he can make lots of financial decisions on Les Wexner's part.