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worked for Les Wexner at The Limited for many years. I knew later that he also worked for the Rothschild family, but I don't think I knew that earlier on when you're asking about. He basically said he had done tax work and estate planning work for half a dozen or so families but was not at liberty to tell me other than Wexner. Q And you listed quite a lot of information about him. How did you come to learn all of that information after meeting him at that lunch? A I think a lot of it from him. A lot of it -- oftentimes, when I spent time with him, he also had other people come to those meetings. He actually introduced me to a lot of interesting people over the years. You have to understand -- and this is something -- right now -- and, by the way, I should say I'm in no way defending him. But, clearly, everything that's known about him in the last 5 years is that this was a horrific, reprehensible, criminal pedophile. But in those earlier years, before any of that was known, he was also a very interesting person. He had dinners. He'd have cocktails for three or four people. He'd call me up and say, "Hey, I'm having this Nobel Prize winner over for a drink. Do you want to join? You'll find him interesting. Why don't you meet this fellow Larsen from Norway who helped put together the Oslo Accords? I think you'll find him interesting." He had a dinner for Woody Allen and Dick Cavett. Did I want to join? He had something for magicians where he had three of the world's most famous magicians there. "If you're around, would you like to join?" He'd have -- that's where I met Bill Gates. He brought him up to my office to talk about philanthropy for 2 hours. That's where I met Elon Musk. That's where I met Deepak Chopra.