![]() ![]() “Sometimes he’d turn to his left and ask some science-y questions. One scientist, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Slate that there was virtually no interaction between these two sets of guests. He would host dinners at his Upper East side Manhattan apartment and invite a mix of leading scientists and people from the world of fashion and modeling. He surrounded himself with prominent scientists, Harvard professors, multiple Nobel Prize winners, authors, almost exclusively men – Epstein kept his social gatherings stocked with some of the world’s most eminent figures in this world. ![]() One aspect of Epstein’s life of luxury seems incongruously out of place though. Photograph: Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images From left, Donald Trump and his future wife, Melania Knauss, financier Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at Mar-a-Lago in 2000. ![]()
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