Glenn And Eva Dubin

The American noir writer Jim Thompson (1901-1977) portrayed better than anyone else the strange bonds that hold people in orbit around pimps, con artists, and other crooks. Glenn Dubin, a New York hedge fund manager and philanthropist, was among those apparently unable to leave Epstein's orbit. He is married to Eva Andersson, a former Miss Sweden who, like Melanie Walker, dated Jeffrey Epstein and then became an MD. Although she married Dubin in 1994, she remained in Epstein's stable of senior women as a key fixer and enabler for the rest of his life.

The couple's social, financial, and philanthropic ties to Epstein were intricate. Vanity Fair published in September 2019,

One of Epstein’s more puzzling relationships was the one he had with Glenn Dubin, the billionaire hedge fund manager, and his wife, Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, the founder of the Dubin Breast Center of the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Could one of Manhattan’s most prominent power couples know more about the Epstein mystery?

The three were close, after all. Andersson-Dubin, a former Miss Sweden, dated Epstein for years before she and Dubin married in 1994. Even after Epstein’s conviction in 2008, the couple stayed in contact with the registered sex offender, inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner at their home in Palm Beach the following year. Andersson-Dubin also wrote an email to Epstein’s probation officer, asserting that she was “100% comfortable with Jeffrey Epstein around my children,” who were then all minors. Multiple sources told me last month that Epstein was the godfather to the Dubins’ three children, although a spokesman for Dubin disputed that assertion. (“The Dubins are Jewish and Jewish people do not typically do godparents,” he said.)

Epstein and Dubin had business ties as well. Epstein introduced Dubin to Jes Staley, then a senior executive at JPMorganChase & Co. and now the CEO of Barclays, the big British bank. After JPMorganChase bought control of Highbridge Capital, Dubin’s hedge fund, in stages, starting in 2004, Epstein reportedly received a $15 million fee. Dubin also directed some of Epstein’s money, for which Epstein was a fiduciary, to at least two hedge fund managers—Dan Zwirn and Joseph Kusnan—who once worked at Highbridge before starting their own firms.

By early 2020, Dubin's Epstein associations may have prompted his retirement as a hedge fund manager. According to Business Insider,

Billionaire Glenn Dubin is retiring from the hedge fund space, he told Reuters on Friday.

He'll relinquish his role and equity in quant fund Engineers Gate, which he founded in 2014, in the next week and focus on direct investing.

Dubin told Reuters the decision had nothing to do with his family's ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Last month, Business Insider detailed how the relationship between Epstein and the Dubin family was much more complex than previously known.

The Dubins are best known for helping to rehabilitate Epstein folloing his 2008 guilty plea to felony prostitution charges, providing a character reference to his probation officer and reintroducing him socially. More recently, Eva Dubin is reported to have "dropped by" an initial get-together with Bill Gates and Epstein. at which Gates recounted that he stayed "quite late".

Glenn Dubin's name comes up in a depositions for lawsuits from Epstein's victims, in which there is a strong implication that he participated in sex parties on Little St James Island:

During a 2010 deposition of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirator and “sex slave” Nadia Marcinkova, victims’ lawyer Brad Edwards asked various questions, including “Do you know Bill Clinton?” and “Do you know what Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship is with Alan Dershowitz?”

Marcinkova pleaded the Fifth in response to each query.

“Do you know Glenn Dubin?” he asked the young woman.

She pleaded the Fifth.

The allegation in one of the depositions is that Epstein regularly supplied underage women to Dubin. The marriage to Eva has strong echoes of the marriages in Jim Thompson's pulp thrillers.