Was Epstein an intelligence agent? A debased financial genius? A sociopathic con man who fleeced billionaires and politicians with sexual blackmail? Two years after guards discovered Epstein unconscious in his Manhattan prison cell, the pedophile’s life and mysterious death remain a subject of fevered speculation and conspiracy theorizing. He applied for jobs using computers at the library and showered at state parks. I was living out of my car for a while,” Levin said. His wife filed for divorce, Levin said, and their three children stopped speaking to him. Friends told him Epstein was spreading rumors around Columbus and on Wall Street that Wexner had fired him for misappropriating funds. “Les sent me to Richmond, Virginia, to look at architecture he wanted to copy,” Levin said. Starting in the mid-1980s, Levin purchased thousands of acres of farmland in New Albany (population 414) on the outskirts of Columbus, where Wexner planned to build his very own town modeled on an 18th-century Georgian village. Wexner entrusted Levin with increasingly ambitious projects. “The kitchen was so clean, you could eat off the floor,” Levin remembered.
Once, the manager of the Regency Hotel arranged a private tour of Le Bernardin. “In New York, I had bankers constantly taking me out to dinner,” Levin told me. By 1986, Wexner ranked sixth on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, with a net worth estimated at $1.4 billion. He wasn’t making Masters of the Universe money-Wexner paid a salary of $250,000 a year-but it was enough for Levin to move his family into a 6,000-square-foot house across the street from Wexner in Bexley, Columbus’s most exclusive suburb. Levin landed the job after six months of grueling interviews.
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