Before publishing in 2023 The chico of the musarañasthe book in which Ana Obregón tells her testimony about the loss of her son, Álex Lequio, after a long and lasting illness, the actress and presenter left her memories in 2012, under the name of This is how I am. He spoke of a certain Jeff as his “guardian angel in New York”, in reference to the scene in the early 80s where he was installed in the great manzana to study interpretation. “Adiós to Jeff, the perfect man who never fell in love with me,” he describes in the book. He was referring to Jeffrey Epstein, the American tycoon who seven years later, in 2019, committed suicide in his cell, where he was convicted of sex trafficking of minors. “I was my best friend in New York. A few years ago, I called my rep to tell me there was a reporter from The Wall Street Journal who wanted to talk to me because they were making a documentary on Epstein. I said I didn’t want to talk about anything. I thought: ‘To see if now I saw myself committing suicide,’ Obregón confessed in 2021 in an interview with Vanity Fair.
This December 16 on Mars was not The Wall Street Journalbut if The New York Timeswhich published an investigation into the deceased billionaire and discusses his links with the actress Ana and the 7. “Around 1982, a mutual acquaintance introduced Epstein to Ana Obregón, a young Spanish actress and socialite. On his first date, she sped across Manhattan in a Rolls-Royce. She was fascinated by his charm and beauty, but in the end she just wanted to be his friend,” assures the prestigious American media, which gathered with the main journalists who have followed the Epstein affair since 2019 to shed light on the origins of his fortune. And, according to the investigation, the Obregón surname is more linked to the success of the tycoon known so far.
“When Epstein released Obregón, he had a new girlfriend: Eva Andersson, model and former Miss Sweden. They began moving away shortly after she moved to New York from a small town in her home country, and many of Epstein’s friends and acquaintances said she was the love of his life,” the New York outlet puts it in context. “But it is impossible for him to persecute other women, especially those with money or connections. During his affair with Obregón, the stock brokerage company Drysdale Securities collapsed. Los Obregón (Ana’s fathers, who made their fortune mainly through construction and the real estate sector), as well as other Spanish families, were ready to hire Epstein to help them find their missing millions. Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal That Destroyed Him, and All the Justice Money Can Buy. In his 2021 interview, where apparently the mention of Epstein came as a surprise, Obregón said that his parents and the mogul met personally. “If I came to Madrid and I was present to my priests! Several times! In New York, we always had a group of four: Jeff, Ludovico, who died of AIDS, Anna Chu, who was the niece of Marlon Brando, and you”, he remembers then.
After describing their relationship as that of “intimate” friends, recounting how Epstein called him at 6:30 a.m. to say goodbye and sent him off in a limousine that left him at his acting school – “To me I gave vergüenza que me vieran mis compis y me bajaba una manzana anterior” – Obregón details in Vanity Fair his reaction to realizing that his great friend was a sexual predator. “I spend a day in Miami, when I lived there, in 2014, and I watch a series of a guy who takes young girls to his house, gives massages and sits with them. And I think: ‘Mira que guarro’. And suddenly I see: Jeffrey Epstein. I say: ‘I can’t believe it!’. I called my sister: ‘Amalia, I’m not going to believe you’. I’ve been in prison ever since a few days now! People But I don’t know what it’s for, and I’m a stylist… It was Anna Chu! Do you believe it? I say, “Anna, did you walk into Jeff?” “Will it be true?” We decided to locate it and Anna found it. I was about to go to your house, but at the last moment I got angry,” he admitted in this interview four years ago.
Second conclusion The New York TimesEpstein kept his word to the Obregón family and the rest of the attached Spanish families, and after more than a year, he found the missing possessions. “One day in 1984, Gold (Bob Gold, a federal tax lawyer and ally of the deceased tycoon in this research) went to Epstein’s apartment and found him playing a Rachmaninov concert on the piano (Obregón emphasized in his interview that he was “playing the movie piano”). Suddenly, Gold says, Epstein began looking through a stack of documents and announced that he had the mystery revealed: the clients’ funds ended up in the branch of a Canadian bank in the Cayman Islands.
Epstein benefited handsomely from his efforts to help his wealthy clients, including Ana Obregón’s family. “Added to the fruits of Stroll’s exhaustion (Michael Stroll, who invested part of his fortune in an alleged Epstein oil company that never existed), the day of the payment meant that Epstein had certainly overcome impressive success: he was a millionaire,” he reveals. The New York Times on this origin of his great fortune. Epstein was 31 at the time. For Ana Obregón, who met him at the age of 27, this way of earning money from a very young age was worthy of admiration, as highlighted in her interview with Vanity Fair: “He was a genius. At 28, he was a super millionaire.”
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