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[{"sender": null, "recipients": ["Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>"], "timestamp": "Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:44 PM", "subject": "Fwd:", "body": "PLEASE READ CAREFULLY ,\n\nIn the spirit in which it is sent. our friendship is intact and solid , though ,it has taken a hit.\n\nMark was here this morning , the proposed transactions are extremely complex . and would take a\ngreat deal of my detailed time. I do not know how, and even, if ,to move forward - . After months of\nhearing that you would have no problem paying a large fee if you could only ascertain value. The last\ntransaction. a transaction which you saved over 600 million in tax. declared bullet proof by your attnys,\nand even if you want to disoccount for its future realization, creating a savings of over 300 million real\ndollars. For some reason you chose to ignore our agreements , verbal written and emailed -and at the\nvery last minute , after the deal was complete decided that it was only worth 8 million dollars to you and\nyour family. . ( assuming phaidon -richard happens. there is a 24m savings not including artspace and\ndebt write down benefits- certain to come later .. IMPORTANT NOTE\n\nthe phaidon transaction as currently contemplated will not work . WILL NOT !!\n\nWhen we had our meeting in your home in Bedford. You asked me for my help. I told you multiple\ntimes that i thought it was a very bad idea, in that I greatly preferred to have no financial interactions. I\ndon't have many friends and didn't want money in any way to interfere with our unique relationship.\nReminder, For five years you had the kind, but very goofy Eileen Alexandersson as the sole manager of\nyour massive accounting , legal, investments. reporting, trusts etc. When I first told you in no uncertain\nterms that I firmly believed she was incompetent you admonished me for \" speaking out of both sides of\nmy mouth\". With regard Brad Wechsler , there has never been a \" both sides. \". I have consistantly\nmaintained since day one that he was highly unsuited for the job. When you initially asked me to help\n\nfirst to point out that our agreement would cost you too much money, therefore\n\nFrom day one I proposed to discount our agreement toa 50-60 million range. An extremely fair price\nfor all the transactions just completed . including Phaidon. - I was never told that this was out of\nrange. in fact, alternative methods of payment . ie my plane, or an -in-kind payment were discussed (ie\nincluding keeping the 30m portion of the fee outstanding till March ) ,I provided , only because you\nspecifically requested a detailed step by step execution plan and reviewed all documents that i was given\naccess to. ( Phaidon was never forthcoming ) in order to make my many corrections . ( as i said more\nneeded on phaidon ). Iwas then told that Alans involvement warranted a discount . Even in the best\nof light , though it is beyond question that not one time in the three years of his retainer has he ever\nproposed a unique idea. (including any way to deal with the use issue on debras death ,or even the most\nbasic review of your largest asset by far , the BRH agreement. ) O.K. - lets say he made a contribution to\nthe plan and stretch reality beyond the pale and say it was 50 %. though no one could posit such a large\namount unless they were wearing a clown suit. , the payment and our formula of 37 percent associated\nwith the deal was known . It had both sent in writing and spoken about on the phone numerous times ,\n\na detailed execution plan was provided . then and only then, after the entire transaction was laid out for\nthe group to follow You told me that after a number of conversations with brad karp that a total of only\n20m would be paid , (and even that was more than you originally contemplated ) for both transactions .\nLeon I feel It was remarkably unfair. Did brad even knew of our prior agreements.? ?, I would ask that\nyou I and Brad karp sit together if you think it would be helpful. . I would like to send him this email, with\nyour consent of course. Ifthe transactions were never consummated , 1 would not be owed a dime,\nhowever , the expected fee was known up front. , the detailed step by step plan was followed and\noverseen by me, the amount that I had requested before the transaction had even begun, had already\nbeen heavily discounted, out of friendship, . I believe the decision re only paying 20m has frankly , left\nme felling quite uneasy. and colors the view about the Athene or Rothschild transaction."}]