To: Jeffrey Epsteinfleevacationagmail.comj Fran: Mortimer Zuckerman Sent Sat 2/1/2014 12:45:02 AM Subject Re: Jeffrey. I have now consulted with three tax specialists and they do not see the issues as you do especially on the step up. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 31, 2014, at 5:44 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <[email protected]> wrote: mon, I understand the myriad of strains that you arc laboring under. To be fair , you first told me to work on your documents and i should feel comfortable that we would reach an agreement. I spent weeks of my time and my teams time. we found and corrected errors that would have cost over 100 million dollars based on faulty drafting. Alan halperin charged you only 34k. You then told me that I should stand down and Ellen had everything under control. However after spending hours with her. She didn't even know the basis in your billion dollars notes. you then asked me to come see you with Terje , and agreed and shook hands with both terje and i a fee of 21 million dollars and argued for Tetje to receive a million of it. This is roughly half the fee I told you is my standard. I hired two people , had many meetings, some with Chris to revivew all your documents . again though you had my contracts since september told me that now as the daily news would be merged the post. I should wait another week. I have told you all along that a performance based fee would be a percentage of tax savings and cost a lot more money. I told you that your trust statements were problematic as they had notes due form the daily news. the statement givein to the bank to support your loans was an issue. . I have repeatedly said there are ways to deal with all these issues. , but this is what I do for a living. you are my very good friend and I have given you great advice. I then recievd a call from LEon Black , telling me that you had asked to find a sophisticated tax person, and he also pointed you to me. I am aware of the diflicutly