From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacationggmail.com> To: Subject: Re: Jewish Mom 101 Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:11:26 +0000 this one is easy.. give her the gift that she wants.. add to it.. yes add to it.. it will evetually be yours anyway. do not go cheapo on her at hr age... many problems after On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:39 PM, < > wrote: Dilemma: Steve says to me "don't get her a present, she is ungrateful and she will turn it into a mind game." After some discussion, we decide that we will take her and a handful of her closest friends/family to Las Vegas to celebrate (her choice of location), all expenses for everyone. GIFT #1. Then, because Steve's father is not alive and there is no one else to celebrate her birthday or get her gifts, we decide to get her a gift that would be celebratory of this "monument" year (70). I spent a lot of time looking and finally decided on a Chanel watch. One that was first designed in the year of her birth. And I made sure it had 70 diamonds. All around, what I believed to be a thoughtful and appropriate gift. Steve liked it because it was classy, and he thought that she would like it because of the diamonds. He suggested we engrave it so that she couldn't return it, but in a million years I never thought she would return it. So on one of the Vegas nights at dinner, I gave her the watch. She acted very excited and proud and grateful. The next day she had her friend ask me for the receipt. Steve and I were both heartbroken but Steve cautioned me that this was part of a bigger game that I could not win. And so it begins. She returned the custom watch, we get a (not full) refund. Chanel contacts me, concerned. A few days later I get the returned watch receipts with a note that says "here's the receipt" Steve takes that to mean that she expects the full value of the gift as another gift (like a debit card) — and that she feels entitled to the value of the gift and not the gift. She emails me and says that she is ret