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Numerous lustful escapades that
involved beatings, robbery and black-
mail peel away a hitherto unknown
duality in Epstein's projected aplomb of
a proper English gentleman.
In fact, Epstein was a thrill seeker,
Geller concludes. He passionately loved
the art of bullfighting and he was irre-
sistibly attracted to "hyped-up, intense
and dramatically violent situations." In
the book, New York lawyer Nat Weiss,
one of Epstein's closest confidants in
America, recounts how Epstein would
insist that he take him to the roughest
bars in Manhattan, just to satisfy his
sense of adventure.
Weiss, additionally, personally inter-
vened in stopping two blackmail
attempts by a New York actor/model
named John "Diz" Gillespie whom
Epstein befriended in 1965. Epstein was
so enamoured with the con man, who
once threatened to slash his throat and
who later stole his briefcase containing
illegal drugs, contracts and money, that
his weakness of judgment stood in harsh
contrast to his business acumen.
Privately, Epstein treated his unhappi-
ness with amphetamines, depressants,
marijuana and LSD. But on Aug. 27,
1967, when news of his death reached
the Beatles, who were on a spiritual
retreat with the Maharishi in North
Wales, they were as baffled as the rest of
the world concerning the widely report-
ed cause of his demise as a suicide.
"The major reason that I don't think it
was suicide was that his father had died
six weeks earlier, and his mother had
come down to London and lived with
him for about two weeks," Geller
explains. "He was trying to find a house
for her near him, and because he was so
close to his mother, I don't think he
would have killed himself and left her
bereft like that."
Epstein's death was officially ruled an
accidental Seconal overdose, most like-
ly caused by disorientation from alco-
hol. Two days later, the man who was
said to have revolutionized music for-
ever was buried in a Jewish cemetery
near his father.
The Beatles, wearing black paper
yarmulkes, were present at the memo-
rial service.
If Epstein had lived, the Beatles would
not have broken up for the reasons they
did, opines Geller.
"My undercurrent of a purpose is to
say that Brian Epstein did a lot and he
should not be given short shrift," Geller
says. "He had a large view of his place
in the world, and despite the pressures
he felt, his life did account for believing
in possibilities." ❑

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