Jeffrey Epstein’s Townhouse and Its Strange, Sinister Decor

Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse had always been something people talked about: how he apparently got it for free from Les Wexner, the various heads of state and celebrities who came in and out of the Gilded Age mansion at 9 E. 71st Street, or the cash and passports that turned up there after his arrest in 2019. The décor has also been the subject of some intrigue. A 2003 Vanity Fair profile reported on a “row” of glass eyeballs in the entrance hall, the New York Post shared a painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and a description of “a mannequin hanging from the ceiling — dressed up in a…