[TERSON t her meet him. What sort of a | asks to meet her?” had become friendly with the e was like a mother,” Bjorlin’s s calling my house. ‘meet Epstein, but | did anyway, th Nadia. He said he wanted to CHAPTER 30 Td like to be like a godfather’ It and said, ‘Stop!’ I told him, ‘No, ur help’ | kept Nadia away from 1 4 e never went anywhere with him.” & -_ 10k Epstein's arrest to make Bjor- i 4 Leslie Wexner: 1993 Aaxwell and Epstein hadn't been 4 4 table of underage women. J c 4 b eslie Wexner, the richest man in Ohio, is a proud midwest- i q | om Born into the rag trade (Wexner’s parents were i a Russian-Jewish immigrants), he grew up to be a straight gy q shooter—taciturn and camera-shy. 4 q For several years running, his 315-foot boat, the Limitless, 3 was the largest yacht owned by an American. - 4 4 Wexner’s employees loved him, and he was known to be 3 : _ fiercely loyal to them. q 4 In time, he’d come to see the same qualities in Jeffrey Epstein. ] ce “Everyone was mystified as to what [Epstein’s] appeal was,” § 1 Says Robert Morosky, a former vice chairman of the clothing 4 q retailer the Limited, founded by Wexner. 4 . “Almost everyone at the Limited wondered who he was,” ! another former employee of Wexner’s recalls. “He literally came j “out of nowhere.” 118 ; 4 ue HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021977