Before publishing in 2023 The Shrew Boythe book in which Ana Obregón narrates her testimony about the loss of her son, Álex Lequio, after a long and difficult illness, the actress and presenter already released her memoirs in 2012, under the name That’s how I am. In them, he referred to a certain Jeff as his “guardian angel in New York,” referring to the period in the early eighties in which he settled in the Big Apple to study acting. “Goodbye to Jeff, the perfect man I never fell in love with,” she described him 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 serving a sentence for sex trafficking of minors — and with whom he poses in one of the photos inside the book. “He was my best friend in New York. A couple of years ago my representative called me to tell me that there was a journalist from The Wall Street Journal that he wanted to talk to me because they were preparing a documentary about Epstein. I said I didn’t want to talk about anything. I thought: ‘Let’s see if now they come to kill me,’ Obregón confessed in 2021 in an interview with Vanity Fair.
This Tuesday, December 16, has not been The Wall Street Journalbut if The New York Timeswhich has published an investigation about the deceased billionaire and mentions his ties with the actress of Ana and the 7. “Around 1982, a mutual acquaintance introduced Epstein to Ana Obregón, a young Spanish actress and socialite. On their first date, he took her speeding through Manhattan in a Rolls-Royce. She was fascinated by his charm and beauty, but in the end she just wanted to be his friend,” says the prestigious American media, which has brought together the main journalists who have followed the Epstein case since 2019 to shed light on the origin of his fortune. And, as his research has confirmed, the Obregón surname is more related to the magnate’s success than had been known until now.
“While Epstein was dating Obregón, he had a serious girlfriend: Eva Andersson, a model and former Miss Sweden. They started dating shortly after she moved to New York from a small town in her native country, and many of Epstein’s friends and acquaintances have said that she was the love of his life,” the New York media puts in context. “But that didn’t stop him from pursuing other women, especially those with money or connections. During his affair with Obregón, the stock brokerage firm Drysdale Securities collapsed. The Obregóns (Ana’s parents, who made a huge fortune mainly through construction and real estate), along with other wealthy Spanish families, soon hired Epstein to help them find their missing millions. Now he was a bounty hunter,” he continues pulling the thread. which James Petterson already threw in the 2016 book Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy. In his interview in 2021, where, apparently, the mention of Epstein caught him by surprise, Obregón already stated that his parents and the tycoon met personally. “He came to see me in Madrid and I introduced him to my parents! Several times! In New York we were always a group of four: Jeff, Ludovico, who died of AIDS, Anna Chu, who was Marlon Brando’s niece, and me,” he recalled then.
After describing their relationship as “close” friends, telling how Epstein called her at 6:30 in the morning for breakfast and then sent her a limousine to drop her off at her acting school — “I was embarrassed that my friends saw me and I got off a block early” — Obregón detailed in Vanity Fair his reaction to finding out that his great friend was a sexual predator. “I’m in Miami one day, when I lived there, around 2014, and I start watching a series about a guy who takes young girls to his house and gives them massages and sleeps with them. And I think: ‘Look how filthy’. And suddenly I see: Jeffrey Epstein. I say: ‘I can’t believe it!’. I call my sister: ‘Amalia, you won’t believe this’. I almost died. I had been in jail! Look, Look! And in a few days I’m going to take some photos for the magazine. People or I don’t know why, and they give me a stylist… It was Anna Chu! Do you believe it? I say, ‘Anna, have you heard about Jeff? Could it be true?’ We decided to locate it and Anna managed to find it. “I was about to go to his house, but at the last moment I gave up,” he admitted in that interview four years ago.
As concluded The New York TimesEpstein kept his word to the Obregón family and the rest of the wealthy Spanish families and, after more than a year, found the missing assets. “One day in 1984, Gold (Bob Gold, former federal prosecutor and ally of the late magnate in this search) went to Epstein’s apartment and found him playing a Rachmaninoff concerto on the piano (Obregón already highlighted in his interview that he “played movie piano”). Suddenly, says Gold, Epstein began going through a stack of documents and announced that he had solved the mystery: client funds had ended up in the branch of a Canadian bank in the Cayman Islands. Gold is still missing. sure how Epstein discovered it,” says the American media.
Epstein benefited handsomely from those efforts he made to help his wealthy clients, including Ana Obregón’s family. “Added to the fruits of his Stroll scam (Michael Stroll, who invested part of his fortune in an alleged Epstein oil business that never existed), the payday meant that Epstein had almost certainly passed an impressive milestone: he was a millionaire,” he reveals. The New York Times about that origin of his great fortune. Epstein was 31 years old at the time. For Ana Obregón, who met him when she was 27 years old, that way of making money from such a young age was worthy of admiration, as she highlighted in her interview with Vanity Fair: “He was a genius. At 28 he was already a super millionaire.”
Ana Obregón’s reaction
This Tuesday, after several media outlets reported the news, Ana Obregón herself expressed her opinion on the conclusions of the investigation in And now Sonsoleswhere she works as a collaborator. “I’m freaking out about all this because it’s not a dish of good taste. It makes me nervous to attach my name to such a depraved person,” she lamented.
After recalling the beginnings of their friendship as he did in 2021, and emphasizing that it was just that, a friendship and not a love relationship – “Who wouldn’t love him, being alone in New York, he appears to you like a handsome prince with money…” – he wanted to deny that there was any type of economic link between the pedophile and his family. “My father started working when he was 11 years old and worked like an animal his entire life. There was no economic relationship at all, it has nothing to do with my family,” he clarified.
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