— Fittuy Ricw Seymour and Paula took Gary “There is nothing but nice we can say about him. He is actually their third son. “Paula was a the reason I went to college.” iker”” Grossberg remembers, Beverly lost contact with Epstein over the years. But not long Ltime job.” after Epstein’s fiftieth birthday, she got a call out of the blue. y, with curly hair and a high, “He had a photo of us on the beach,” she says. “A friend Donatelli recalls.* Beverly was noticed it at his birthday party. And Jeffrey said to the friend: ‘1 t thanks to his precocious tal- bet she has a big ass now. So Jeffrey called me and invited me to wo grades, they graduated from his home on 71st Street. We hung out. We reminisced. He was together, in 1969. . the same Jeffrey. A gentleman.” smembers. “He tutored my girl- | The two never did speak again, but to this day Beverly sym- He taught me geometry in just pathizes with her high school sweetheart. a “I feel so bad for him,” Beverly says. “That's how much I a now, she recalls gentler times— , liked him.” d boardwalk, roller-coaster rides, : 1001, I think he kind of loved me,” 3 : he kissed me. In fact, our history ; q Gary Grossberg was a year younger than Epstein and in the same g invitation for Jeffrey and myself . a class as Epstein’s kid brother, Mark, with whom Grossberg sretty inappropriate now. But back 4 remains very friendly, though he hasn’t seen or spoken with Jef- y. Jews and the Italians, that was a __ frey in some time. Both brothers are good people, he says. te High School. They didn't social- 4 q “Jeffrey’s a brilliant and good person. He is also incredibly mother was crazy about him, she q > generous.” Halians” ... a 7 Grossberg says he’s talked to Epstein about “the problem in ral decades, Beverly remembers } 4 Florida.” As he sees it, Epstein “got carried away...perhaps he and something of a prodigy—a 3 q was hanging around with the wrong people.” a math whiz. 4 q Grossberg wonders, too, if the things that made Epstein spe- f