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The Last Will And Testament Of Jeffrey Epstein (Part 1) (9/27/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  Speaker 1: While everybody else is busy talking about a bunch of bulljunk,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to continue diving in to the actual facts
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  Speaker 1: of Jeffrey Epstein's life and the bullshit that he was
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  Speaker 1: up to while he was still amongst us and breathing.
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  Speaker 1: And to continue our journey down that sordid path, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take a look at this scumbag's last will
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  Speaker 1: and testament. The last will and testament... A. I direct
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  Speaker 1: my executor to pay from my estate as compensation to
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  Speaker 1: each executor for serving as executor hereunder the sum of $ 250, 000
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  Speaker 1: to each executor upon the completion of probate of my estate.
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  Speaker 1: No executor shall receive any other compensation for serving as
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  Speaker 1: executor hereunder provided, however, that my executor shall be reimbursed
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  Speaker 1: from my estate for all reasonable costs, expenses, charges, and
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  Speaker 1: liabilities incurred or paid in respect thereto, including fees and
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  Speaker 1: expenses of counsel or any other agents hired by my executor,
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  Speaker 1: and my executor shall not be liable therefore individually. B.
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  Speaker 1: I direct my executor to pay from my estate the
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  Speaker 1: federal and state transfer taxes described in paragraph B. 1 of
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  Speaker 1: Article 7th. C. I direct my executor to pay from
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  Speaker 1: my estate all expenses of storing, insuring, packing, shipping, and
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  Speaker 1: delivering my tangible personal property in accordance with the provisions
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  Speaker 1: of Article 2. 2. I give all of my property,
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  Speaker 1: real and personal, wherever situated, after the payments and distributions
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  Speaker 1: provided in Article I to the then-acting trustees of the
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  Speaker 1: 1953 Trust, created under that certain trust agreement of the
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  Speaker 1: 1953 Trust, the trust agreement dated August 8, 2019, as
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  Speaker 1: the same may be amended from time to time to
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  Speaker 1: be held in accordance with the provisions comprising the trust
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  Speaker 1: agreement at the time of my death. 3. I appoint
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  Speaker 1: Darren K. Endyke and Richard D. Kahn to serve as
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  Speaker 1: the executors of my will. If any one or more
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  Speaker 1: of my executors fails to qualify, is unable or unwilling
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  Speaker 1: to serve, or ceases to act, I appoint Boris Nikolic
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  Speaker 1: as successor executor. If any successor executor fails to qualify,
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  Speaker 1: is unable or unwilling to serve, or ceases to act,
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  Speaker 1: I authorize the last acting executor to designate his or
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  Speaker 1: her successor. such designation shall be made by a written
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  Speaker 1: instrument delivered to such designated successor executor. a. If my
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  Speaker 1: estate must be administered in whole or in part in
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  Speaker 1: any jurisdiction other than the state or territory of my
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  Speaker 1: domicile at the date of my death, and if my
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  Speaker 1: executor is unable or unwilling to serve In such a jurisdiction,
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  Speaker 1: then I appoint the successor executor of my estate designated
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  Speaker 1: in paragraph A of Article 3rd as successor executor in
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  Speaker 1: such jurisdiction only, provided that he or she is able
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  Speaker 1: and willing to serve in such jurisdiction. If no executor
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  Speaker 1: or successor executor is able and willing to serve in
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  Speaker 1: such jurisdiction, my executor shall designate a successor executor to
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  Speaker 1: serve in such jurisdiction. Such designation shall be made by
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  Speaker 1: a written instrument delivered to such successor executor. B. No
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  Speaker 1: bond or other security shall be required of any executor
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  Speaker 1: in any jurisdiction. C. Any executor may resign in the
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  Speaker 1: manner provided for by the governing statutes of the State
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  Speaker 1: or Territory having jurisdiction of the administration of my estate,
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  Speaker 1: or in the absence of such statutory guidance, by filing
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  Speaker 1: a written notice of resignation, with the court having jurisdiction
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  Speaker 1: of the administration of my estate. Any executor who resigns
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  Speaker 1: shall not be entitled to any compensation hereunder for any
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  Speaker 1: services rendered as executor prior to his or her resignation. D.
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  Speaker 1: My executor shall not be accountable or responsible for to
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  Speaker 1: any person interested in my estate for the manner in
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  Speaker 1: which my executor in good faith exercises or declines to
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  Speaker 1: exercise any discretionary authority or power of my executor. My
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  Speaker 1: executor shall not be liable for any loss or depreciation
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  Speaker 1: in value occasioned by reason of any negligence, error, or
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  Speaker 1: mistake of judgment in entering in any transaction, in making
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  Speaker 1: any sale or investment, in continuing to hold any property,
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  Speaker 1: or by reason, or any action, or omission, whether by
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  Speaker 1: my executor, or any other fiduciary, unless my executor has
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  Speaker 1: acted in bad faith. In the absence of proof, by
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  Speaker 1: affirmative evidence, to the contrary, each executor shall be deemed
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  Speaker 1: to have acted within the scope of my executor's authority,
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  Speaker 1: to have exercised reasonable care, diligence, and prudence, and have
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  Speaker 1: acted impartially as to all interested persons. An executor shall
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  Speaker 1: not be liable for the acts or defaults of another executor. 4.
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  Speaker 1: The following provisions shall apply to my estate and to
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  Speaker 1: my executor except as it is otherwise specifically provided in
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  Speaker 1: this will. a. My executor has the entire care and
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  Speaker 1: custody of all assets of my estate. My executor has
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  Speaker 1: the power to do everything my executor, in good faith,
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  Speaker 1: deems advisable without necessity of any judicial authorization or approval,
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  Speaker 1: even though, but for this power, it would not be
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  Speaker 1: authorized or appropriate for fiduciaries under any statutory or other
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  Speaker 1: rule of law. My executor shall exercise my executor's best
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  Speaker 1: judgment and discretion for what my executor believes is in
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  Speaker 1: the best interest of the beneficiaries hereunder. except as otherwise
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  Speaker 1: specifically provided in this will, if two executors are empowered
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  Speaker 1: to participate in the decision to exercise or not to
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  Speaker 1: exercise any fiduciary power granted by this will or or
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  Speaker 1: by law such decision shall be made by such executors
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  Speaker 1: acting unanimously. If more than two executors are empowered to
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  Speaker 1: participate in the decision to exercise or not exercise any
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  Speaker 1: fiduciary power granted by this will or by law, a
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  Speaker 1: majority of such executors shall be empowered to make such decisions. b.
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  Speaker 1: Except as otherwise provided herein, my executor shall have the
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  Speaker 1: power 1. to enter upon and take possession of the
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  Speaker 1: assets of my estate, and collect the income and profits
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  Speaker 1: from such assets, and to invest and reinvest such assets
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  Speaker 1: in real, personal, or mixed assets, including the common trust
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  Speaker 1: funds of a corporate fiduciary, or in undivided interest therein,
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  Speaker 1: without being limited by any present or future investment laws. 2.
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  Speaker 1: To retain all or any part of the assets of
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  Speaker 1: my estate without regard to the proportion that any one
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  Speaker 1: asset class of assets may bear to the whole, in
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  Speaker 1: the form in which such assets were received or acquired
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  Speaker 1: by my executor. 3. To sell or dispose of, exchange, transfer,
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  Speaker 1: investor loan, or any part of the assets of my
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  Speaker 1: estate which may at any time be held by my executor,
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  Speaker 1: for such sums or upon such terms as to payment, security,
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  Speaker 1: or otherwise, as my executor determines, either by public or
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  Speaker 1: private transactions, or to buy and sell options, warrants, puts, calls,
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  Speaker 1: or other rights to purchase or sell collectively options relating
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  Speaker 1: to any security or securities, regardless of whether such security
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  Speaker 1: or securities are then held by my executor, and whether
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  Speaker 1: such options are purchased or sold, with respect to oil,
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  Speaker 1: natural gas, minerals, and all other natural resources and rights
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  Speaker 1: to and interests therein, together with all equipment pertaining thereto,
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  Speaker 1: including without limiting the generality of the foregoing oil and
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  Speaker 1: gas royalties, leases, or other oil and gas interests of
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  Speaker 1: any character, whether owned in fee, as leasee, leasor, licensee, concessionaire,
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  Speaker 1: or otherwise, or alone or jointly with others as partner,
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  Speaker 1: joint tenant, or joint venture in any other non-corporate manner. A.
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  Speaker 1: To make oil, gas, and mineral leases or subleases. B.
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  Speaker 1: To pay delay rentals, lease bonuses, royalties, overriding royalties, taxes, assessments,
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  Speaker 1: and all other charges. C. To sell, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge,
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  Speaker 1: or otherwise. D. To surrender or abandon, with or without consideration,
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  Speaker 1: any or all of such rights and interests. E. To
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  Speaker 1: make farm-out pooling and utilization agreements. F. To make farm-out
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  Speaker 1: pooling and utilization agreements. make reservations or impose conditions on
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  Speaker 1: the transfer of any such rights or interests. G. To
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  Speaker 1: employ the business that gives you the most advantage in
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  Speaker 1: form in which properly to exploit such rights and interests,
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  Speaker 1: whether as corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, mining partnerships, limited liability companies,
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  Speaker 1: co-tenancies or otherwise exploit any and all such rights and interests. H.
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  Speaker 1: To produce, process, sell or exchange all products recovered through
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  Speaker 1: the exploitation of such rights operations of absorption, reprocessing or
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  Speaker 1: other processing plants. I. To carry any or all such
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  Speaker 1: interests in the name or names of a nominee or nominee,
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  Speaker 1: to delegate, to the extent permitted by law, any or
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  Speaker 1: all of the powers set forth herein, to the operator
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  Speaker 1: of such property, and k. to employ personnel, rent, office space,
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  Speaker 1: buy or lease office equipment, contract and pay for geological
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  Speaker 1: surveys and studies, procure appraisals, and generally to conduct and
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  Speaker 1: engage in any and all activities incident to the foregoing powers,
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  Speaker 1: with full power to borrow and pledge in order to
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  Speaker 1: finance such activities, together with the power to allocate between
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  Speaker 1: principal and income, any net proceeds received as consideration, whether
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  Speaker 1: as royalties or otherwise, for the permanent severance from the
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  Speaker 1: lands of oil, natural gas, minerals, and all other natural resources. 6.
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  Speaker 1: To hold all or any part of the assets of
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  Speaker 1: my estate in cash or in bank accounts without the
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  Speaker 1: necessity of investing the same. 7. To improve, repair, partition, plat,
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  Speaker 1: or subdivide all or any part of the assets of
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  Speaker 1: my estate. Eight, to litigate, defend, compromise, settle, abandon, or
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  Speaker 1: submit to arbitration on such terms and conditions as my
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  Speaker 1: executor determines any claims in favor of or against my
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  Speaker 1: estate or the assets of my estate. All right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up with part one right there.
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  Speaker 1: In the next episode, we're going to pick up with
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  Speaker 1: part two of Jeffrey Epstein's will and testament. All of
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  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  Speaker 1: in the description box.