Mindful of the number of records the group was selling in the United States, Capitol Records sent a well-spoken Yorkshire woman, Wendy Hanson, to the Plaza Hotel to act as Epstein's secretary and to filter his calls. Hanson later worked solely with Epstein in his Albemarle Street office in London, which was separate from the NEMS office. Lennon later said, "On the business end he ripped us off on the Seltaeb thing." McCartney said years later, "He [Epstein looked to his dad for business advice, and his dad knew how to run a furniture store in Liverpool."