A few weeks ago I wrote about the apparent business connections between Jeffrey Epstein and his brother Mark, the former chairman of the Cooper Union board of trustees. Obviously, with the shocking death of Jeffrey in federal detention, the story has mushroomed and attention has shifted to the orbit of figures surrounding Jeffrey including his brother Mark.

My suspicions about Mark have been confirmed now by multiple reporters working for Crain’s, Business Insider, the Daily Beast, New York Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Gretchen Morgenson, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist is on the story for the Journal and vows “to get to the bottom of it.”

From the Journal article:

“Mark Epstein started a number of businesses, including a silk-screen T-shirt company, called Izmo, that he created in 1986, incorporation records show. There was Atelier Enterprises Inc., a charter/leasing company he headed in 1984; Epstein Acquisitions, set up in 1987 and dissolved in 2015; and Saint Model and Talent, incorporated in 2005. He has previously said he began investing in New York real estate in the early 1990s.”

“By the late 2000s, he became a major donor to Cooper Union, the New York art, architecture and engineering college from which he graduated in 1976. By 2009, he had donated between $500,000 and $999,000 to the school, according to a donor report published by the college. That year, he was named chairman of its board of trustees; he resigned from the board in 2015, following the board’s controversial decision to drop the school’s longstanding policy of full tuition scholarships for all students.”

How one goes from silk screening T-shirts to owning multiple buildings in Manhattan remains a mystery that none of the articles solve. The one thing that is clear, Mark’s building on East 66th Street was a nexus of Jeffrey’s nefarious activities.

A tenant of East 66th Street quoted in the Daily Beast:

“The only person that I remember for sure being here was Jeffrey,” said the tenant, who said she later called Jeffrey Epstein about a building maintenance matter, assuming he was the owner. “I do not actually remember ever meeting Mark Epstein.”