 Lennon said years later: "On the business end he [Epstein] ripped us off on the Seltaeb thing." McCartney also said: "He [Epstein] looked to his dad for business advice, and his dad knew how to run a furniture store in Liverpool." Richard DiLello later wrote about the financial mistakes made by The Beatles themselves in The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary of The Beatles, Their Million-dollar Apple Empire and Its Wild Rise and Fall.
