September 30, 2010 Jay P. Lefkowitz, Esq. Kirkland & Ellis LLP 601 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022 Re: Jeffrey Epstein Dear Mr. Lefkowitz: I am writing in response to your September 23, 2010 letter to The Daily Beast on behalf of your client Jeffrey Epstein concerning three articles published on the website in July 2010. The articles were published following Mr. Epstein's completion of his sentence for soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor child for prostitution, and also reported his status as a registered sex offender. Your letter also cautions against additional coverage of Mr. Epstein. Your letter identifies seven concerns Mr. Epstein has with statements in the three articles, the first of which is based on your assumption that the source identified in the articles as a former bookkeeper is a woman you name who was convicted of embezzlement from "the modeling agencies for which she was employed." The source was not identified by name in the articles, and therefore we will say nothing further about who it is. As a general matter, however, a criminal conviction does not preclude a source from providing accurate information. It is also not clear that your letter is actually disputing the accuracy of information that was attributed to the bookkeeper in the articles, in particular that girls working for MC2 flew on Mr. Epstein's private planes. Your letter attacks the report that Mr. Epstein transferred money to Mr. Brunel and his settlement with seven plaintiffs represented by Mr. Edwards, but the basis of Mr. Epstein's dispute with both of these points is not clear. On Mr. Brunel, your letter states that Mr. Epstein "did not ... give Mr. Brunel $1,000,000 to start his modeling agency." But it is not clear whether it is Mr. Epstein's position that he did send Mr. Brunel money at about that time, but not for that purpose, or that he sent a different amount then the very precise number in your letter, or that he sent no money e