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Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Edward Epstein (flpstin/ EP-steenAl January
20, 1953 — August to, 2019) was an American financier and
convicted sex offender.13)[4] Epstein, who was born and raised
in Brooklyn, New York Citr, began his professional life by
teaching at the Dalton School in Manhattan, despite lacking a
college degree. After his dismiccsl from the school, he entered
the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in
various roles; he eventually started his own firm. Epstein
developed an elite social circle and procured many women and
children; he and some of his associates then sexually abused
them Is&DNA.
In zoo ice in Palm Beach Florida be an investi atin
Epstein after a parent complained that he had sexually abused
her 14-year-old dauv,hter.g. Epstein pleaded guilty and was
convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child
for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.a-9. 1 He served
almost 13 months in custody, but with extensive work release.
He was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a
controversial plea deal; federal officials had identified 6 •
some as young as 4 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly
sexually abused.RiEmi
Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges
for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New
York.1"][1g—He died in his jail cell on August to, 2o1.9.D1-31 The
medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.' Epstein's
lawyers have disputed the ruling, and there has been
significant public skepticism about the true cause of his death,
resulting in numerous conspiracy theories.paied Since
Epstein's death precluded the possibility of pursuing criminal
charges against him, a „judge dismissed all criminal charges on
August 29, 2019 ['Epstein had a decades-long association
with the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, leading to her
2021 conviction on U.S. federal charges of sex trafficking and
conspiracy for helping him procure girls, includin a 4-yeri
old, for child sexual abuse and prostitution.' I 19 [2o][21] 22
Epstein also maintained long-term relationships with various
high-profile individuals, including Donald Trump, Leslie
Wexner, Bill Clinton Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew,
Duke of Yorke
[C-ontents
Early life
Career Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein's final mugshot, 2019
Born
Died
Cause of
death
Resting
place
Occupation
Title
Criminal
charge
Penalty
Partner(s) Jeffrey Edward
Epstein
January 20, 1953
New York City, New
York, U.S.
August 10, 2019
(aged 66)
New York City, New
York, U.S.
Suicide by hanging
(disputed)
I. J. Morris Star of
David Cemetery,
Palm Beach, Florida
Financier • broker -
educator • socialite
Owner of Jeffrey
Epstein VI
Foundation
Procuring an
underage girl for
prostitution; sex
trafficking
13 months with work
release (2008)
Eva Andersson
(early 1980s)
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Teaching
Banking
Financial consulting
Towers Financial Corporation
Financial management firm
Media activities
Liquid Funding Ltd.
Investments
Video recordings
Legal proceedings
First criminal case
Civil cases
Second criminal case
Inyestigatiqn in France
Personal life
Wealth
Residences
Political donations
Philanthropy
Interest in eugenics and transhumanism
Death
Autopsy
Final will
Burial
Investigations
In popular culture
Notes and references
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References
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External links
Early life Victims
Date
apprehended
Website Ghislaine Maxwell
(late 1980s and
1990s)
Details
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July 6, 2019
(second criminal
case)
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Epstein was born in 1953 in the Brooklyn borough of New York
City. His parents Pauline (née Stolofsky, 1918-2oo4)N-J and
Seymour G. Epstein (1916-1991) were Jewish and had married
in 1952 shortly before his birth.11 Pauline worked as a school
aide and was a homeniaker. (2a261271[28] Seymour Epstein
worked for the New York City Department of Parks and
Recreation as a groundskeeper and gardener t'S11271 Jeffrey
was the oldest of two siblings; he and his brother Mark grew up
in the working-class neighborhood of Sea Gate, a private gated
community in Coney Island, Brooklyn J26i Aerial view of Epstein's childhood
neighborhood of Sea Gate, Brooklyn
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Epstein attended local public schools, first attending Public School 188, and then Mark Twain
Junior High School nearby. gl In 1967, Epstein attended the National Music Camp at the
Interlochen Center for the Axts.fa91 He began playing the piano when he was five. 1321 He graduated
in 1969 from Lafayette High School at age 16, having skipped two grades.(311[321 Later that year, he
attended classes at Cooper Union until he changed colleges in 1.97113-1] From September 1971, he
attended the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, but left without
receiving a degree in June 1.974.131"2-1
Career
Teaching
Epstein started working in September 1974 as a physics and mathematics teacher for teens at the
Dalton SchooLon the Upper East Side of Manhattan.[M [331 Donald Barr, who served as the
headmaster until June 1974, was known to have made several unconventional
recruitments at the time, although it is unclear whether he had a direct role in hiring
Epstein.(3 331373[381 Three months after Barr's departure, Epstein began to teach at the school,
despite his lack of credentials. s1 Epstein allegedly showed inappropriate behavior toward
underage students at the time.(33][37] He became acquainted with Alan Greenberg, the chief
executive officer of Bear Steams, whose son and daughter were attending the school. Greenberg's
daughter, Lynne Koeppel, pointed to a parent-teacher conference where Epstein influenced
another Dalton parent into advocating for him to Greenberg.(15-1 In June 1976, after Epstein was
dismissed from Dalton for "poor performance", [333[393[03 Greenberg offered him a job at Bear
Stearns.E3°R 41
Banking
Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader.M He swiftly
moved up to become an options trader, working in the special products division, and then advised
the bank's wealthiest clients, such as Seagram president Edgar Bronfman, on tax mitigation
strategies.b 2H43)[44 Jimmy Cayne, the bank's later chief executive officer, praised Epstein's skill
with wealthy clients and complex products. In 1980, four years after joining Bear Stearns, Epstein
became a limited partner.A
In 1981, he was asked to leave Bear Stearns for, according to his sworn testimony, being guilty of a
"Reg D violation".(451 321130) Even though Epstein departed abruptly, he remained close to Cayne
and Greenberg and was a client of Bear Stearns until its collapse in 2ootial
Financial consulting
In August 1981, Epstein founded his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc.
(IAG),1461 which assisted clients in recovering stolen money from fraudulent brokers and
lawyers.E3"1 Epstein described his work at this time as being a high-level bounty hunter. He told
friends that he worked sometimes as a consultant for governments and the very wealthy to recover
embezzled funds, while at other times he worked for clients who had embezzled fimds.a9-1[421
Spanish actress and heiress was one such wealthy client, whom Epstein helped in
1982 to recover her father's millions in lost investments, which had disappeared when Drysdale
Government Securities collapsed because of fraud.M1
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Epstein also stated to some people at the time that he was an
intelligence agent[493 During the 1980s, Epstein possessed an
Austrian passport that had his photo, but with a false name.
The pssr_t showed his place of residence in Saudi
Arabia-W* 5'J In 2017 "a former senior White House official"
reported that Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of Florida who had handled Epstein's
criminal case in 2008, had stated to Trump transition
interviewers, that "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence'
and to 'leave it alone'", and that Epstein was "above his pay
grade".[521[531
During this period, one of Epstein's clients was the Saudi
Arabian businessman Adnan Khashoggi, who was the
middleman in transferring American weapons from Israel to Iran, as part of the Iran-Contra affair
in the 1.980s.N-Khashoggi was one of several defense contractors that he knew (3°1[49] In the mid-
19805, Epstein traveled multiple times between the United States, Europe, and Southwest
Asia.(5°1[50 While in London, Epstein met Steven Hoffenberg. They had been introduced through
Douglas Leese, a defense contractor, and John Mitchell, the former U.S. Attorney General.Ll°1
Towers Financial Corporation Epstein in 1980
Steven Hoffenberg hired Epstein in 19872 as a consultant for Towers Financial Corporation
(unaffiliated with the company of the same name founded in 1998, and acquired by Old National
Bancorp in 201.4),IM-1 e agency that bought debts people owed to hospitals, banks, and
phone companies. 1551[56 Hoffenberg set Epstein up in offices in the "Villard Houses" in
Manhattan and paid him US$23,000 per month for his consulting work (equivalent to $60,000 in
2o21).E3LA
Hoffenberg and Epstein then refashioned themselves as corporate raiders using Towers Financial
as their raiding vessel. One of Epstein's first assignments for Hoffenberg was to implement what
turned out to be an unsuccessful bid to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987. A similar
unsuccessful bid in 1988,was made to take over Emery Air Freight Corp. During this period,
Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg's private
jet.1321
In 1993, Towers Financial Corporation imploded when it was revealed as being one of the biggest
Ponzi schemes in American history, losing its investors over US$43o million (equivalent to
$844,126,000 in 2021).(a21 In court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately
involved in the scheme.M [58] Epstein left the company by 1989 and was never charged for being
involved with the massive investor fraud committed. It is unknown if Epstein acquired any stolen
funds from the Towers Ponzi scheme.M
Financial management firm
In 1988, while Epstein was still consulting for Hoffenberg, he founded his own financial
management firm, J. Epstein & Company. 6 6 The company was said by Epstein to have been
formed to manage the assets of clients with more than US$1 billion in net worth, although others
have expressed skepticism that he was restrictive of the clients that he took.134
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The only publicly known billionaire client of Epstein was Leslie
Wexner, chairman and CEO of L Brands (formerly The
Limited, Inc.) and Victoria's Secret.(3°)[593 In 1986, Epstein
met Wexner through their mutual acquaintances, insurance
executive Robert Meister and his wife, in Palm Beach, Florida.
A year later, Epstein became Wexner's financial adviser and
served as his right-hand man. Within the year, Epstein had
sorted out Wexner's entangled finances.[321(O01 In July 1991,
Wexner granted Epstein full power of attorney over his affairs.
The power of attorney allowed Epstein to hire people, sign
checks, buy and sell properties, borrow money, and do
anything else of a legally binding nature on Wexner's
behalf.M Epstein managed Wexner's wealth
and different projects such as the
building of his yacht the
Limitless.M
By 1995, Epstein was a director of the Wexner Foundation and Wexner Heritage Foundation. He
was also the president of Wexner's Property, which developed part of the town of New Albany
outside Columbus, Ohio, where Wexner lived. Epstein made millions in fees by managing
Wexner's financial affairs. Although never employed by L Brands, he corresponded frequently with
the company executives. Epstein often attended Victoria's Secret fashion shows, and hosted the
models at his New York City home, as well as helping aspiring models get work with the
company.r§p1F611
In 1996, Epstein changed the name of his firm to the Financial Trust Company[ 321 and, for tax
advantages, based it on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. By relocating to the
U.S. Virgin Islands, Epstein was able to reduce federal income taxes by 90 percent. The U.S. Virgin
Islands acted as an offshore tax haven, while at the same time offering the advantages of being part
of the United States banking system.
Media activities
In 2003, Epstein bid to acquire New York magazine.M Other bidders included advertising
executive Donny Deutsch, investor Nelson Peitz, media mogul and New York Daily News
publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, and film producer Harvey Weinstein. The ultimate buyer was
Bruce Wasserstein, a longtime Wall Street investment banker, who paid US$5,5 million. 6P-1
In 2004, Epstein and Zuckerman committed up to US$25 million to finance Radar, a celebrity and
pop culture magazine founded by Maer Roshan. Epstein and Zuckerman were equal partners in
the venture. Roshan, as its editor-in-chief, retained a small ownership stake. It folded after three
issues as a print publication and became exclusively an online one.M
Liquid Funding Ltd.
Epstein was the president of the company Liquid Funding Ltd. between 2000 and 2007.1651[661
The company was an early pioneer in expanding the kind of debt that could be accepted on
repurchase, or the repo market, which involves a lender giving money to a borrower in exchange
for securities that the borrower then agrees to buy back at an agreed-upon later time and price.
The innovation of Liquid Funding, and other early companies, was that instead of having stocks
and bonds as the underlying securities, it had commercial mortgages and investment -grade
residential mortgages bundled into complex securities as the underlying security.M
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Liquid Funding was initially 4o percent owned by Bear Stearns. Through the help of the credit
rating agencies - Standard & Poor's, Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service — the new
bundled securities were able to be created for companies so that they got a gold-plated AAA rating.
The implosion of such complex securities, because of their inaccurate ratings, led to the collapse of
Bear Stearns in March 2008 and set in motion the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the
subsequent Great Recession. If Liquid Funding were left holding large amounts of such securities
as collateral, it could have lost large amounts of money.MX
Investments
Hedge funds
Between 2002 and 2005, Epstein invested $8o million in the D.B. Zwirn Special Opportunities
Fund, a hedge fund that invested in illiquid debt securities (6O691 In November 2006, Epstein
attempted to redeem his investment after he was informed of accounting irregularities in the
fund.o1 By this time, his investment had grown to $140 million. The D.B. Zwirn fund refused to
redeem the investment. Hedge funds that invest in illiquid securities typically have years-long
lockups* on their capital for all investors and require redemption requests to be made in writing
6o to 90 days in advanceJl The fund was closed in 2008, and its remaining assets of
approximately $2 billion, including Epstein's investment, were transferred to Fortress Investment
Group when that firm bought the assets in 2009.[68169) Epstein later went to arbitration with
Fortress over his redemption attempt. The outcome of that arbitration is not publicly 'mown. Vgg
In August 2006, Epstein, a month after the federal
investigation of him began,[Thi invested $57 million in the Bear
Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced
Leverage hedge fund.Wilini This fund was highly leveraged in
mortgage-backed collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).LTA 1.1•011.
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On April i8, 2007, an investor in the fund, who had
$57 million invested, discussed redeeming his investmentiN 'Jr: rt. NO 'Mr I On
At this time, the fund had a leverage ratio of r7a, which meant The government began negotiation
for every dollar invested there were seventeen dollars of with Epstein for a plea agreement in
borrowed funds; therefore, the redemption of this investment mid-2007, as the hedge fund began
would have been equivalent to removing $1 billion from the to collapse.
thinly traded CDO market.12-41 The selling of CDO assets to
meet the redemptions that month began a repricing process
and general freeze in the CDO market. The repricing of the CDO assets caused the collapse of the
fund three months later in July, and the eventual cow of Bear Stearns in March 2008. It is
likely Epstein lost most of this investment, but it is not known how much was his.t73J172I
By the time that the Bear Stearns fund began to fail in May 2007, Epstein had begun to negotiate a
plea deal with the U.S. Attorney's Office concerning imminent charges for sex with minors.(681[713
In August 2007, a month after the fund collapsed, the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta,
entered into direct disdissions about the plea agreementJal Acosta brokered a lenient deal,
according to him, because he had been ordered by higher government officials, who told him that
Epstein was an individual of importance to the government (52)1 As part of the negotiations,
according to the Miami Herald, Epstein provided "unspecified information" to the Florida federal
prosecutors for a more lenient sentence and was supposedly an unnamed key witness for the New
York federal prosecutors in their unsuccessful June 2008 criminal case against the two managers • as :as
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of the failed Bear Stearns hedge fund. Alan Dershowitz, one of Epstein's Florida attorneys on the
case, told Fox Business Network "We would have been touti that if he had [cooperated]. The
idea that Epstein helped in any prosecution is news to me."[' 68
Israeli startup
In 2015, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Epstein invested in the startup Reporty
Homeland Security (rebranded as Carbyne in 2018).(Z61(717131 The startup is connected with
Israel's defense industry. It is headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also
at one time the defense minister, and chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The CEO of
the company is Amir Elihai who was a special forces officer, and Pinchas Bukhris, who is a director
of the company, was at one time the defense ministry director general and commander of the IDF
cyber unit 8200.E Epstein and Barak, the head of Carbyne, were dose, and Epstein often offered
him lodging at one of his apartment units at 301 East 66th Street in Manhattan.ta°li$' 1 Epstein had
past experience with Israel's research and military sector. Ss In April 2008, he went to Israel and
met with a number of research scientists and visited different Israeli military bases. 82 During this
trip, he thought about staying in Israel in order to avoid trial, and possible jail, for charges he was
facing for sex crimes; however, he opted to return to the United StatesP
Video recordings
Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his properties to allegedly record
sexual activity with underage girls by prominent people for criminal purposes such as
blackmail $ Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's close companion, told a Mend that Epstein's private
island in the Virgin Islands was completely wired for video and the friend believed that Maxwell
and Epstein were videotaping everyone on the island as an insurance policy.185J When police
raided his Palm Beach residence in 2006, two hidden pinhole cameras were discovered in his
home. 86 It was also reported that Epstein's mansion in New York was wired extensively with a
video surveillance system.Q3Z1
an artist who worked for Epstein in 1996, noted that Epstein showed her a media
room in the New York mansion where there were individuals monitoring the pinhole cameras
throughout the house. The media room was accessed through a hidden door. She stated that in the
media room "there were men sitting here. And I looked on the cameras, and I saw toilet, toilet,
bed, bed, toilet, bed." She added that "It was very obvious that they were, like, monitoring private
moments."1- 2 1
Epstein allegedly lent" girls toyowerful people to ingratiate himself with them and also to gain
possible blackmail information. 891 According to the Department of Justice, he kept compact discs
locked in his safe in his New York mansion with handwritten labels that included the descnption:
"young [name] + [name]' .bq Epstein implied that he had blackmail material when he told a New
York Times reporter in 2018, off the record, that he had dirt on powerful people, including
information about their sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.1211
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First criminal case
Initial developments (2OO5-2OO6)
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In March 2005, a woman contacted Florida's Palm Beach Police
Department and alleged that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been
taken to Epstein's mansion by an older girl. While there, she was
allegedly paid $300 (equivalent to $42o in 2O21) to strip and massage
Epstein OA She had allegedly undressed, but left the encounter
wearing her underwear.( 93)
Palm Beach Police began a 13-month undercover investigation of
Epstein, including a search of his home.N[ 94] During the
investigation, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter publicly
accused the Palm Beach County state prosecutor, Barry ICrischer, of
being too lenient and called for help from the FBI.[J
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) then became involved.
Subsequently, the police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to
perform sexual acts with him 1139-1 Interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath,
a high-school transcript and other items found in Epstein's trash and home allegedly showed that
some of the girls involved were under 18, the youngest being 14, with many under 16.(951[96] The
police search of Epstein's home found two hidden cameras and large numbers of photos of girls
throughout the house some of whom the police had interviewed in the course of their
investigation.La , a former model from Poland who became an Epstein assistant,
reportedly removed computer drives and other electronic equipment from the financier's Florida
mansion before Palm Beach Police searched the home as part of their investigation. M The court
documents record that a search of Epstein's residence by Palm Beach Police detective Joseph
Recarey in 2005 uncovered an incriminating Amazon receipt containing books on S&M. The books
he ordered are titled: SM ion A Realistic Introduction, SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic
Servitude — Principles, Skills and Tools and Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for
Erotic Slaves and Their Owners.1-9-§]
A former employee told the police that Epstein would receive massages three times a day.[231
Eventually the FBI compiled reports on "34 confirmed minors" eligible for restitution (increased to
40 in the NPA) whose allegations of sexual abuse by Epstein included corroborating detaiLs.(291
Julie Brown's 2018 exposés in the Miami Herald identified about 8o victims and located about 6o
of ti-;7111-n. 70[100 She quotes the then police chief Reiter as sayin "This was 5o-something 'shes'
and one 'he'—and the 'shes' all basically told the same story:ill Details from the investigation
included allegations that 12-year-old triplets were flown in from France for Epstein's birthday, and
flown back the following day after being sexually abused by the financier. It was alleged that young
girls were recruited from Brazil and other South American countries, former Soviet countries, and
Europe, and that Jean-Luc Brunel's "MC2" modeling agency was also supplying girls to
Epstein.jsatoi] [Kai
In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed a probable cause affidavit saying that Epstein should be
charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one count of sexual abuse.1933[1°3] On
July 27, 2006, Epstein was arrested by the Palm Beach Police Department on state felony charges
of procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of a prostitute. He was booked at the Palm
Islivlite4X1051 State prosecutor KrischerBeach County jail and later released on a $3,000 bond.
later convened a Palm 'leach County d jury, which was usually only done in capital cases.
Presented evidence from only two victims, the grand jury returned a single charge of felony
solicitation of prostitution, 9-0 to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2oo6.(1137)
Epstein's defense lawyers included Roy Black, Gerald Lefcourt, Harvard Law School professor
Alan Dershowitz, and former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr.ril°1 Linguist Steven Pinker also Epstein's 2006 mugshot
assisted 1O
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Non-prosecution agreement (NPA) (2006-2008)
In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein,
nicknamed "Operation Leap year".Cal It resulted in a 53-page
indictment in June 2007.1,21Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney
for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal, which Alan
Dershowitz helped to negotiate,tud to grant immunity from all federal
criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators
and any unnamed "potential co-conspirators". According to the
Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down
an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other
powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes". At the time,
this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami
Herald said: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that
the deal would be kept from the victims."IU The controversial non-
prosecution agreement
Acosta later said-he offered a lenient plea deal because he was told
that Epstein "belonged to intelligence", was "above his pay grade" and to "leave it
2115,S2j Epstein agreed to plead guilty in Florida state court to two felony prostitution
charges, serve i8 months in prison, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen
victims identified by the FBI.M891The plea deal was later described as a "sweetheart deal" (1131
A federal judge later found that the prosecutors had violated
the victims' rights in that they had concealed the agreement
from the victims and instead urged them to have
"patience" .1141(115)
According to an internal review conducted by the Department
of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, which was
released in November 2020, Acosta showed "poor judgment"
in granting Epstein a non-prosecution agreement and failing
to notify Epstein's alleged victims about this agreement.EMO
Conviction and sentencing (2008-2011) External video
Documentary: Who is Jeffrey
Epstein, accused of sexually
abusing teen girls? (https:f/www.you
tube .com/watch?v=1jDPzW9C0s1.)/
Perversion of Justice, Miami Herald,
November 29, 2018.
On June 3o, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for
prostitution a girl below age 18,tu I he was sentenced to i8 months in prison. While most
convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private
wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriffs office, was after
3Y2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This
contravened the sheriffs own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of to months and
making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of
specified release hours.E15' 143
Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a television
was installed for him, btfore he was moved to the Stockade's previously unstaffed infirmary. He
worked at the office of a foundation he had created shortly before reporting to jail; he dissolved it
after he had served his time. The Sheriffs Office received $128,000 from Epstein's non-profit to
pay for the costs of extra services being provided during his work release. His office was monitored
by "permit deputies" whose overtime was paid by Epstein. They were required to wear suits, and
checked in "welcomed guests" at the "front desk". Later the Sheriffs Office said these guest logs
were destroyed per the department's "records retention" rules (although inexplicably the Stockade
visitor logs were not).ELIB He was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his
office and other appointments [1001(1181
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Epstein served almost 13 months before being released on July
22, 2009, for a year of probation on house arrest until August
2010.11191[120]11211 While on probation he was allowed
numerous trips on his corporate jet to his residences in
Manhattan and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was allowed long
shopping trips and to walk around Palm Beach "for
exercise" DIM
After a contested hearing in January 2011, and an appeal, he
stayed registered in New York State as a "level three" (high risk
of repeat offense) sex offender, a lifelong designation.I 122N1231
At that hearing the Manhattan District Attorney argued
unsuengsfully that the level should be reduced to a low-risk
level one" and was chided by the judge. Despite opposition
from Epstein's lawyer that he had a "main" home in the U.S.
Virgin Islands; the judge confirmed he personally must check
in with the New York Police Department every 90 days.
Though Epstein had been a level-three registered sex offender
in New York since 2010, the New York Police Department
never enforced the 90-day regulation, though non-compliance
is a felony.M
Reactions Epstein in 2013, photographed for
the sex offender registry
The immunity agreement and his lenient treatment were the subject of ongoing public dispute.
The Palm Beach police chief accused the state of giving him preferential treatment,E9- 2-1 and the
Miami Herald said U.S. Attorney Acosta gave Epstein "the deal of a lifetime".W Following
Epstein's arrest in Jul7 2019, on sex trafficking charges, Acosta resigned as Secretary of Labor
effective July 19, 2019.1
After the accusations became public, several persons and institutions returned donations that they
had received from Epstein, including Eliot Spitzer, Bill Ftichardson, (1251 and the Palm Beach Police
Department. [96] Harvard University announced it would not return any money.Ensi Various
charitable donations that Epstein had made to finance children's education were also
questioned. 11
On June 18, 2010, Epstein's former house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, was sentenced to
18 months' incarceration after being convicted on an obstruction charge for failing to turn over to
police, and subsequently trying to sell a journal in which he had recorded Epstein's activities. FBI
Special Agent Christina Pryor reviewed the material and agreed it was information "that would
have been extremely useful in investigating and prosecuting the case, including names and contact
information of material witnesses and additional victims 41263(127]
Civil cases
Jane Does v. Epstein (2008)
On February 6, 2008, an anonymous Virginia woman, known
as Jane Doe No. 2, filed a $50-million civil lawsuit 121 in
federal court against Epstein, saying that when she was a 16-
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her, and paid her $200 immediately afterward.Jio 6
A similar $50-million suit was filed in March 2008, by a different woman, who was represented by
the same lawyer.[' l These and several similar lawsuits were dismissed.! 3°
All other lawsuits have been settled by Epstein out of court. (1321 Epstein made many out-of-court
settlements with alleged victims (23°)
Victims' rights: Jane Does v. United States (2014)
A December 30, 2014, federal civil suit was filed in Florida by Jane Doe ( and
Jane Doe 2 against the United States for violations of the Crime Victims' Rights Act by the U.S.
Department of Justice's N and his limited 2008 state plea. There was a later
unsuccessful effort to add (Jane Doe 3) and another woman (Jane Doe 4) as
plaintiffs to that case.inal The addition accused Alan Dershowitz of sexually abusing a minor, Jane
Doe 3, provided by Epstein ['331 The allegations against Dershowitz were stricken by the judge and
eliminated from the case because he said they were outside the intent of the suit to re-open the
plea agreement5 1341351 A document filed in court alleges that Epstein ran a "sexual abuse ring",
and lent underage girls to "prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign
presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders".0 36-I
This long-running lawsuit is pending in federal court, aimed at vacating the federal plea agreement
on the grounds that it violated victims' rights-WA On An it 7, 2015, Judge Kenneth Marra ruled
that the allegations made by alleged victim I I against Prince Andrew had no bearing
on the lawsuit by alleged victims seeking to reopen Epstein's non-prosecution plea agreement with
the federal government; the judge ordered that 11 to be struck from the record. all Judge
Marra made no ruling as to whether claims by are true or false. Though he did not allow
Jane Does 3 and 4 to join the suit, Marra specifically said that may later give evidence
when the case comes to court [1381
On February 21, 2019, in the case of Two Jane Does v. United States, Senior Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of Florida Kenneth Marra said federal prosecutors violated
the law by falling to notify victims before they allowed him to plead guilty to only the two Florida
offenses. The judge left open what the possible remedy could be. [139]
v. Epstein (2015)
In a December 2014 Florida court filing by Bradley Edwards
and Paul G. Cassell meant for incluti in the Crime Victims
Rights Act lawsuit,EHLA (then known as 1 Where are they now? The
biggest players in the Jeffrey
, alleged in a sworn affidavit that at age 17, Epstein case (hups://www.youtube.c
she had been sexually trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine om/watch?v=yPjnercJqs1)
Maxwell for their own use and for use by several others, Perversion of Justice, The Miami
including Prince Andrewfi 1 and retired Harvard Law Herald, November 29, 2018.
professor Alan Dershowitz.M3421 also claimed that
Epstein, Maxwell and others had physically and sexually
abused herP431 She alleged that the FBI may have been involved in a cover-up. H41 She said she
had served as Epstein's sex slave from 1999 to 2002, and had recruited other underage girls.['451
Prince Andrew, Epstein, and Dershowitz all d having had sex with Dershowitz took
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491 defamatotyptatements" about herkll A diary
purported to belso was published online.1[15°,1 Epstein entered an out-of-court
settlement with M., as he had done in several other lawsuits.
In 2019, was interviewed by the BBC's Panorama where she continued to attest that
Epstein had trafficked her to Prince Andrew-7A She appealed directly to the public by stating "I
implore the people in the UK to stand up beside me, to help me fight this fight, to not accept this as
being ok."U1-] As of 2016, these accusations had not been tested in any court of law. M.
v. Ghislaine Maxwell (2015)
As a result of allegations and Maxwell's comments about them, sued Maxwell for
defamation in September 2015. After much legal confrontation, the case was settled under seal in
May 2017. The Miami Herald, other media, and Alan Dershowitz filed to have the documents
about the settlement unsealed. After the judge dismissed their request, the matter was appealed to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [k531
On March 11, 2019, in the appeal otct judge's refusal to unseal the documents relating to
the 2017 defamation settlement of v. tri Maxwell, the Second Circuit Court gave parties one
week to provide good cause as to why they should remain under seal, without which they would be
unsealed on March 19, 2019. Later the Court ordered these documents to be unsealed (after having
them redacted to protect innocent parties). In testimony, she claims that she was
"directed" by Maxwell to give erotic massages and engage in sexual activities with Prince Andrew;
Jean-Luc Brunel; Glenn Dubin; Marvin Minsky; Governor Bill Richardson; another unnamed
prince; an unnamed foreign president; "a well known Prime Minister"; and an unnamed hotel
si a chain owner from F ong others.L1541 The deposition does not claim that any of these men
in fact engaged with and as of August 2019, none of these men have been indicted or sued
for related sex crimes. 154 testified, "my whole life revolved around just pleasing these men
and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy. Their whole entire lives revolved around sex:4154153i
On August 9, less than 24 hours before Epstein's death, 2,000 pages of previously sealed
documents from the case were released. Two sets of additional sealed documents will be analyzed
by a federal judge to determine whether they should also be made public. A "John Doe" asked the
judge on September 3 to permanently keep the documents secret, claiming "unproven allegations
of impropriety" could damage his reputation, though he had no evidence his name was
included.i 155]
Jane Doe v. Epstein and Trump (2016)
A federal lawsuit filed in California in April 2016, against Epstein and Donald Trump by a
California woman alleged that the two men sexually assaulted her at a series of parties at Epstein's
Manhattan residence in 1994, when she was 13 years old. The suit was dismissed by a federal judge
in May 2016 because it did not raise valid claims under federal law. The woman filed another
federal suit in New York in June 2016, but it was withdrawn three months later, apparently
without being served ontthe defendants. A third federal suit was filed in New York in September
2016.
The two latter suits included affidavits by an anonymous witness who attested to the accusations
in the suits, asserting Epstein employed her to procure underage girls for him, and an anonymous
person who declared the plaintiff had told him/her about the assaults at the time they occurred.
The plaintiff, who had filed anonymously as Jane Doe, was scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles
press conference six days before the 2016 election, but abruptly canceled the event; her lawyer Lisa
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Bloom asserted that the woman had received threats. The suit was dropped on November 4, 2016.
Trump attorney Alan Garten denied the allegations, while Epstein declined to
comment [1.56][1s7lI15811159l11601
v. Epstein and Maxwell (2017)
In 2017, filed a suit against Epstein and Maxwell,
alleging that Maxwell had hired her to give massages to Epstein and
later threatened to physically harm her or destroy her career
prospects if she did not comply with their sexual demands at his
mansion in New York City and on his private Caribbean island, Little
Saint James. The suit was settled in 2018 under undisclosed
wan-A[162] terms.
Bradley Edwards' defamation v. Epstein (2018)
A state civil lawsuit in Florida filed by attorney Bradley Edwards
against Epstein was scheduled for trial in December 2018. The trial
was expected to provide victims with their first opportunity to make
their accusations in public. However, the case was settled on the first
day of the trial, with Epstein publicly apologizing to Edwards; other
terms of the settlement were confidentia1. 1 Jr 1j37 _163_
v. Epstein and Maxwell (2019) Epstein was accused of sex
trafficking of minors at his
mansion at 9 East 71st
Street.
On April 16, 2019, went public and filed a sworn affidavit in federal court in New
York, alleging that she and her 15-year-old sister had been sexually assaulted by Epstein
and Maxwell in separate locations in 1996. met Epstein and Maxwell at her graduate art
gallery reception at the New York Academy of Art in 1995. The following year, in the summer of
1996, they hired her to work on an art project in Leslie Wexner's Ohio mansion, where she was
then sexually assaulted.itl =reported the incident to the New York City Police Department
and the FBI [1611
affidavit also stated that during the same summer, Epstein flew her then-15-year-old
sister to his New Mexico property where he and Maxwell sexually abused her on a massage
table.k§§-]
v. Epstein and Maxwell (2019)
On July 22, 2019, while in jail awaiting trial, Epstein was served with a petition regarding a
pending state civil lawsuit filed by ll She stated that an associate for Epstein had
recruited her outside Talent Unlimited High School at age 14 and she was gradually groomed for
over a year before Epstein raped her in his New York City mansion when she was 15 L168
filed her suit on August 14, 2019, when New York State law was updated to allow one year for.
survivors of child sexual abuse to sue for previous offenses, regardless of how long ago the abuse
took place.111 In October 2019, amended her complaint to include over 20 corporate
entities associated with Epstein and named the additional individuals Lesley Groff and
as enablers.L1Za
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Three women (Katlyn Doe, Lisa Doe and Priscilla Doe) sued the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on August
20, 2019. Two of the women were 17 and one was 20 when they met Epstein. The women allege
they were recruited, subjected to unwanted sex acts, and controlled by Epstein and a "vast
enterprise" of co-conspirators. (1711723
Jane Doe v. Epstein's estate (2019)
A New York accuser of Epstein, known only as Jane Doe, announced a federal lawsuit against his
estate in the Southern District of New York on September 18, 2019, staling that she was recruited
in 2002 and sexually abused by Epstein for three years starting at age 14.1'733
, et al. v. Epstein's estate (2019)
Five women , and an unidentified
woman), represented by David Boies, sued Epstein's estate in Federal District Court in Manhattan
in November 2019, accusing him of rape, battery and false imprisonment and seeking unspecified
damages.[IN
Jane Doe 15 v. Epstein's estate (2019)
On November 18, 2019, a woman identified as Jane Doe 15 made a public appearance with her
attorney Gloria Allred to announce that she was suing the estate of Jeffrey Epstein in the District
Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that he manipulated, trafficked, and sexually
abused her in 2004, when she was 15 years old.ra51
It Epstein's estate (2019)
On November 21, 2019, appeared with her attorney Gloria Allred and announced her
lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Epstein's estateir's ][1771 Davies stated that after
meeting Epstein in 2002, he sexually assaulted and trafficked her in New York, New Mexico,
Florida, the Virgin Islands and France.M1
Jane Does 1-9 v. Epstein's estate (2019)
On December 3, 2019, lawyer Jordan Merson filed a lawsuit in New York on behalf of nine
anonymous accusers (Jane Does 1-9) and against Epstein's estate for battery, assault, and
intensional emotional distress.11781 The claims date from 1985 through the woos, and include
individuals who were 13, 14, and 15 when they first encountered Epsteinfla
JJ Doe v. Epstein's estate (2019)
The lawsuit was filed by Bradley Edwards on behalf of his client in late December 2019. The
accuser, JJ Doe, is described as being a 14-year-old resident of Palm Beach County at the time
Epstein abused her in 2004.1129-1
US Virgin islands v. Epstein's estate, et at (2020)
A lawsuit was filed in Superior Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands in January 2020 alleging that
Epstein ran a sex trafficking conspiracy for over two decades, through 2018, with children as
young as ii years old on Epstein's Caribbean islands. til° According to Attorney General Denise
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George, his alleged criminal activities on the islands were concealed through a complex network of
companies. 1801
Jane Doe v. Maxwell and Epstein's estate (2020)
In January 2020, a lawsuit was filed against Maxwell and Epstein alleging that they recruited a 13-
year-old music student at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in 1994 and subjected her to sexual
abuse X811 The suit states that Jane Doe was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Epstein over a four-
year period and that Maxwell played a key role in both her recruitment and by participating in the
assaults. tffi
Jane Does v. Epstein estate (2020)
In August zozo 9 Jane Does filed suit accusing Epstein of sexual abuse. The alleged victims in the
lawsuit include'a 11 and 13 year old and a victim who alleged abuse in 1975.L--I 182
Jane Doe v. Epstein estate (2020)
In August 2020 Epstein was sued by a Jane Doe accusing him of sexually abusing her for one and a
half years, beginning when she was an 18-year-old aspiring singer and model in New York. 18
Jane Doe v. Epstein estate (2021)
A civil suit was filed against Epstein's estate in March 2021 by a Broward County woman who
accused Epstein and Maxwell of trafficking her after repeatedly raping her in Florida in 2008.041
Second criminal case
Trafficking charges
On July 6, 2019, Epstein was arrested by the FBI-NYPD Crimes
Against Children Task Force at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on
sex trafficking charges.[27][185]b.sains He was jailed at the
Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, which has held
prisoners such as John Gotti, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, and Paul
manafortpsem.89)
According to witnesses and sources on the day of his arrest, about a
dozen FBI agents forced open the door to his Manhattan townhouse,
the Herbert N. Straus House, with search warrants. The search of his
townhouse turned up evidence of sex trafficldng and also found
"hundreds - and perhaps thousands - of sexually suggestive U.S. v. Jeffrey Epstein
photographs of fully 2-or partially — nude females". Some of the indictmentiA
photos were confirmed as those of underage females. In a locked safe,
,compact discs were found with handwritten labels including the
descriptions: "Young [Name] + Warner, "Misc nudes e, and "Girl pits nude" fii) Also found in
the safe were $70,000 in cash, 48 diamonds,V 9131 and a fraudulent Austrian passport, which
expired in 1987, that had Epstein's photo but another name. The passport had numerous entrance
and exit stamps, including entrance stamps that showed the use of the passport to enter France,
Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. The passport showed his place of 19CSM vin
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residence as Saudi Arabia.LsoLEst][191][192][1931 According to his attorneys, Epstein had been advised
to acquire the passport because "as an affluent member of the Jewish faith", he was in danger of
being kidnapped while traveling abroad E!241
On July 8, prosecutors with the Public Corruption Unit of the Southern District of New York
charged him with sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex. The grand jury
indictment alleges that "dozens" of underage girls were brought into Epstein's mansions for sexual
encounters [1.1][121[195] Judge Kenneth Marra was to decide whether the non-prosecution
agreement that protected Epstein from the more serious charges should still stand.119§1
Epstein requested to be released on bond, offering to post
$100 million with the condition that he would also submit to house
arrest in his New York City mansion.[ 911 U S District Judge Richard
M. Berman denied the request on July 18, saying that Epstein posed a
danger to the public and a serious flight risk to avoid prosecution. D91
On July 23, Epstein was found injured and semiconscious at 1:3o a.m.
on the floor of his cell, with marks around his neck that were
suspected to be the result of e
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