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She would only say there was more than one adult victim and more than one under-aged victim. After 18 months in the Palm Beach Detention Facility. Epstein will serve another 12 months house arrest at his Palm Beach home. He'll be confined to his home except for work and other activities approved by his probation officer. Twelve months of community service will be served at Epstein's own non-profit, the Florida Science Foundation. The guilty plea and deal end a years long process that could have sent Epstein to jail for 15 years. Wthin two days of Epstein's release he will have to register as a sexual offender - a designation he'll have to keep for the rest of life. Story posted 2008.06.30 at 10:35 AM EDT EFTA01682734 I I t faces another sex suit By LARRY KELLER Paint Beath Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — For the second time in two weeks, part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein has been sued for more than -60 million by a woman who contends that he engaged in sexual activity with her when she was a minor after enticing her to give him a massage at his home. More lawsuits may follow, Miami lawyer Jef- frey Herman said. "I'm aware of oth- er victims," he said. 1 have been con-tacted." Herman filed a similar lawsuit against Epstein on Jan. 24 on behalf of a girl identified as "Jane Doe," her father and stepmother. The girl, now 17, says she was 14 when she save Epstein a • • • 1 plaintiff's parents Part-time Palm Beacher at odds over suit sexually tinged massage at his home. The latest alleged victim is identified as lane Doe No. 2." She went to Epstein's Palm Beach mansion in 2004 or 2005 when she was 16, the lawsuit alleges. She says another girl recruited her to go there to give Epstein a massage. Once there, she alleges, she was led to an upstairs mom with a massage table. Epstein came in wearing only a towel around his waist and told her to remove her clothes. She did, except for her bra and panties, accord-ing to the lawsuit. Epstein removed his towel, rolled onto his back, mastur-bated and touched Jane Doe No. 2 sexually, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in West Palm Beach on Wednesday. Jane Doe No. 2 was paid $200 afterward, and the girl who recruited her was given See EPSTEIN, 58 ► _6+4, tVin9 90;i+ trots% Shame Itee rd- madco elvecievo-1 roil Cr e ocksier • ► EPSTEIN from 18 $100, according to the lawsuit. The two attended the same Palm Beach County high school. Jane Doe No. 2 is now 19 and living in Virginia, Her- man said. Both lawsuits contend that Epstein, 55, targeted "economically disadvantaged girls from western Palm Beach County" who were perceived as less likely to complain to authorities, or who whose credibility would be questioned if they did. "Both complaints are full of lies," said Guy Lewis, former US. attorney in Miami and one of Epstein's many attor- neys. Jane Doe No. 2's lawsuit "is an outrageous, defamatory copycat of the first." There has been a twist in the first Jane Doe lawsuit. Her mother in Georgia contends that her former husband — Jane Doe's father — con- sulted with neither of them before filing the lawsuit. She is asking a judge to halt the litigation until her daughter turns 18 in May and can make her own decisions. The mother asked in court filings to be added to the law- suit, saying she "has suffered and will continue to suffer severe mental anguish and pain" as a result of Epstein's "reckless conduct." Jane Doe lust didn't want the lawsuit going forward with the father's involve- ment," said Ted Leopold, the mother's attorney. "She wanted to pursue it on her own. The father essentially did this on his own." Jane Doe has been es- • tranged from her father since Thanksgiving, Leopold said. "That's why it's even stranger what he did," he said. The girl's mother is asking a judge in their divorce case to find the father in contempt • of court for violating their divorce decree by of con-ferrhig with her on f matter involving their daughter "The father has sole custo- dy and has the right to make decisions on his daughter's rights," Herman said. Epstein is a wealthy New York money manager who has counted Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Britain's Prince Andrew among his friends. He was the target of a lengthy investigation into his activities with girls by the Palm Beach Police Depart- ment that resulted in his in- dictment in July 2006 on one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. That case is pending. Epstein has been sued in New York by a woman who says he had sex with her when she was 16. Herman said he has received calls from others making the same assertions in that state. Herman convened a news conference Wednesday on the middle bridge connecting West Palm Beach and Palm Beach. "This is the bridge ... these girls were recruited to come over and give a massage," he said. "When they crossed this bridge, they had no idea what was in store for them. This is a bridge of tears." Herman has described both Jane Does as typical teenage girls Epstein robbed of their innocence. But Harvard University law Professor Alan Dershowitz, another Epstein attorney, pro- vided the state attorney's of-fice with information gleaned from the myspace.com Web site two years ago showing that some of Epstein's alleged victims boasted of their alco- hol and marijuana use. Herman said the girls' backgrounds aren't relevant to Epstein's purported be-havior "They don't have the mental capacity to consent to something like this with a grown man," he said. elarry_kelletbposlcom EFTA01682735 2C THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15.200' METRO REPORT Weather, traffic, COURTS WEST PALM BEACH — Manhattan money manager and part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein is scheduled for a plea conference at the Palm Beach County Courthouse on Most of Jan. 4 — days before his Odd-numbi felony solicitation of pros- titution case is set to go to a.m. Wain( trial. A county grand jury Even-numb indicted Epstein, 54, in July properties 2006 on the single charge. 4-8 a.m. Th. He was accused accusedof arrang- Lake Wor ing to have teenage girls South Pal Epstein brought to his manse and Beach are paying them. The charge week wall is punishable by up to five years in prison. Epstein also faces the possibility of being Odd-numbs marked a sex offender for life. 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Ng° taste vas, veSS1 vie Gsq e Sectstsci of ea to OVe V‘N EFTA01682737 EMINIIIMINIFIIPPIPnieses•••••siViiirrin"nlr • • • Woman sues billionaire investor, says they had sex when she was 16 The Assonated Press NEW YORK - A billionaire investor, already facing jail in Palm Beach County on charges of soliciting under- age prostitutes, is being sued by a young woman who says he had sex with her when she was 16 and had sought his help becoming a model. The lawsuit, filed late Tuesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, says finan- cier Jeffrey Epstein had the teen perform a sex act when she brought photographs of herself for him to review in his Upper East Side mansion sometime in 2000. Epstein, 54, a money manager, told the teen he managed finances for Victoria's Secret and "could get you into the catalog" if she were "nice" to him, court papers say. The papers say being "nice" included massages and other favors. When the girl told Epstein, "I am 16 years old and just want to model," he replied, "Don't worry, I won't tell any- body," court papers say. Epstein, said by London's Epstein Mail on Sunday to be a close friend of England's Prince Andrew, has been indicted in Palm Beach on charges of so- liciting underage prostitutes. That case is pending. The girl visited Epstein "several times over the sev- eral months and engaged in bizarre and unnatural sex acts" while she was a minor, the lawsuit says. Epstein "repeatedly re- quested that (the girl) return with her 14-, 15-, and 16- year-old girlfriends, stating, 'Come by with your friends your age next time. Don't bring Sherrie (a mutual friend in her 40s). I girls your age.' " The young woman, now A kept returning to Epstein because she has "mental issues," said her lawyer, Wil- liam J. Unroch He refused to elaborate, but court papers say she was "disabled as a re- sult of severe mental disease and defect." Epstein's lawyer in New York, Gerald Lefcourt, said, "The girl has admitted she is insane, but she can read a newspaper and recognize the word 'rich.'" Lefcourt also said the statute of limitations has expired for the woman's case criminally and civilly, and will almost certainly be r dismissed. He refused to comment on Epstein's Florida charges. Meanwhile, Unroch, 57, also acknowledged that his client was living with him and was at the center of a $10 million lawsuit he filed last year against a neighbor who said he was having sex with underage girls. That case is pending. "What she was doing at 22 is irrelevant to what hap- pened to her when she was 16," Unroch said Wednesday. He went on the say he hoped Epstein would agree to "do right" by his client and re- solve the case out of court. ACrThr AFFOT RET' Tx- EFTA01682738 • • Girl sues Epstein, two others she says conspired in massages Jane Doe,' 17, sues in state court after dropping a federal suit. By LARRY KELLER Palm Reach Post Staff Weiler WEST PALM BEACH - A former Palm Beach Community College student who police say procured underage girls to give Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages at his Palm Beach mansion, and Epstein's personal assis-tant have been sued along with Epstein over their alleged conduct. The girl behind the lawsuit was 14 years old when she contends he engaged in sexual conduct with her after she went to his water-front home in 2005 to give him a massage. Her lawsuit, filed under the name Jane Doe. seeks unspecified damages from Epstein for sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She also sued of Loxahatchee and o ew ork City on grounds o conspiracy and civil rack-eteering. "We just want a full measure of justice for this" said her attorney, Ted Leopold. , who attended Palm Beach Com-munity College, was paid by Epstein to bring girls to his mansion for massages and more, according to Palm Beach police. "I'm like a Heidi Fleiss," they said she told them. Her attorney could not be reached immediately fo ent. was an Epstein personal assistant w o arranged the encounters, even escort-ing the girls to his massage room, police alleged. Epstein "These two conspired with him to help with the criminal enterprise," Leopold said. Jane Doe, through her father and stepmother, filed a federal lawsuit against Epstein in January. She dis-missed it after her mother said she wasn't consulted about the litigation and sought to intervene. The mother is acting on her daughter's behalf in the latest lawsuit. Epstein's lawyer has denied the girl's al-legations and said her family is simply at-tempting to get money from a very rich man. Epstein, 55, is a Manhattan money manager who has homes there, in New Mexico and the Virgin Islands, in addition to his $8.5 million Palm Beach mansion. Two other Jane Does have sued Epstein in federal court this year, making similar al-legations to thok of the first Jane Doe. Those cases remain active. Also pending against Epstein in state court is a felony charge of solicitation of prostitu-tion arising from the same alleged incidents with several girls. That case is set for trial in July, two years after he was indicted. Jane Doe's new lawsuit, filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, is the most explicit in the only suit to include and detailing Epstein's allege ' nduiiiii itas defendants, and the on y one to make con-spiracy and racketeering allegations. Jane Doe will turn 18 in May. She lives with other family members in Palm Beach County, is nearing graduation from high school and is working part time, Leopold said. • [email protected] • EFTA01682739 Girls' lawsuit claims sex assaults • The minors are seeking millions from financier Jeffrey Epstein. By BILL DIPA010 Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Two underage girls are ac- cusing Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting them in a federal civil lawsuit filed Wednesday by their Miami attorney. Epstein has bt‘en in jail since pleading guilty in June to solicitation of prostitution of underage girls. He is serv- ing an 18-month sentence. "Both girls are seeking a measure of justice. This is a beginning of their healing process," said attorney Jef- frey Herman. Herman is seeking damag- es of more than $100 million. Epstein has the assets to cover the punitive damages, said Herman, adding that the financier owns an island off St. Thomas and property in New Mexico and New York. There are four pending federal civil lawsuits and one in state court pertaining to Epstein's relationships with minors. At least one woman has sued him in New York. Upon his release, Epstein, 55, will be under house arrest for a year and must register BILL INGRAM/Staff Pitotovapher Attorney Jeffrey Herman, whose clients are suing Palm Beadier Jef- frey Epstein, speaks Wednesday outside the county stockade. for life as a sex offender. He will be under a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and must have no unsupervised con- tact with anyone younger than 18. He also cannot own nor possess pornographic or sexual materials, according to court documents. The two girls, ages 13 and 16, met with investigators dur- ing the 11-month investigation by Palm Beach police. They are identified as "Jane Doe No. 6" and "Jane Doe No. 7" in documents filed Wednesday in the West Palm Beach sec- tion of U.S. District Court. The 13-year-old visited Epstein's $8.5 million Intra- coastal mansion once and had sex with him, according to the lawsuit. The 16-year-old visited the mansion many times in two years for the same reason, Herman said. Both were brought to the mansion by friends, he said. The charges against Ep- stein stemmed from a com- plaint to Palm Beach police about two years ago from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had given him a naked massage at his 7,234-square- foot home. He paid the girls $200 to $300 each after the massage sessions, police said. Police concluded that there were several othergirls brought to the home in 2004 and 2005 for similar reasons. Staff writer Larry Keller con- tributed to this story. [email protected] • EFTA01682740 `This was a typical 14-year-old girl.... What happened here was despicable.' JEFFREY HERMAN, lawyer for parents of girl, now 17, who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault Palm Beach man faces lawsuit in teen sex case By LARRY KELLER Palm Beath Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH - The parents of a teenage girl sued part-time Palm Beach resi- dent Jeffrey Epstein for more than $50 million on Thursday, alleging that the wealthy money manager had her brought to his mansion for a massage, then engaged in sexual activity with her. The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 14 at the time. She was the youngest of sev- eral alleged victims of Epstein, according to Palm Beach police, who spent 11 months investigating him. The federal lawsuit, filed by Miami at- ' torney Jeffrey Herman, says "Epstein has a sexual preference and obsession for under- age minor girls." Epstein "gained access to primarily disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually assaulted these girls, and then gave them money." • Herman, who specializes in child sex abuse litigation, sued on behalf of the girl, her father and her stepmother on grounds of sexual assault, intentional infliction of . emotional distress and loss of parental con- sortium. "Jane Doe ... fell into Epstein's trap and • became one of his victims." the lawsuit says. "We're dismayed by the filing of the law- it, but not surfflised," said Jack Goldberger; one of Epstein's attorneys. "We think this shows what this case is all about: money." He and another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez, launched an immediate counterof- fensive, even showing up at Herman's news conference outside the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. They distribaed copies of documents showing that the girl's father and Lawyer Jeffrey Her- man (left) conducts a news conference Thursday with the fa- ther and stepmother of a girl who claims wealthy money man- ager Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her in 2005. The parents seek more than $50 million in their lawsuit. Epstein, who faces a prostitution solicitation charge, is scheduled to enter a plea March 10. Battik/GRAM Staff Photographer stepmother have prior arrests for financial crimes the lawyers say show the lawsuit is fi- nancially motivated. Mother Epstein lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, a prominent New York crim- inal defense attorney, provided some of those V See EPSTEIN, 7B ► • • • EFTA01682741 • Epstein paid girl $300, suit claims • • IP. EPSTEIN from 18 documents to Goldberger. "Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman," Sanchez said. Herman suggested that Epstein masturbated in front of the alleged victim and used a vibrator on her after she was brought to his home in February 2005. The girl is now 17. "This was a typical 14- year-old girl at the time she met Epstein," Herman said. "What happened here was despicable." The girl told police inves- tigators that she informed ' Epstein she was 18 when she met him, and she said that was her age on her Web page, Sanchez said. The girl's father and step- mother also attended the news conference. "We're very angry," the father said. "It's not right that this wealthy man can fly into town and destroy my daugh- ter's innocence." He did not take questions. Epstein, 55, is a mysteri- ous New York money man- ager who owns a Manhattan mansion, as well as homes in Palm Beach, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. A Palm Beach County grand jury indicted him in July 2006 on one count of felony solicitation of prostitu- tion stemming from alleged incidents between Aug 1 and Oct. 31, 2005. Epstein is scheduled to enter a plea in the case on Epstein March 10, but he has post- poned other court dates to resolve the case. His in- dictment followed an exhaustive investigation by the Palm Beach Police De- partment, which concluded that Epstein paid underage girls and young women to be brought to his five-bedroom, 7M-bath Intracoastal home for massages and sometimes sex play. Much of the language in the Jane Doe suit mirrors that of police reports in the case. Herman's client said her meeti up by hatches, a Palm Beach Community College student at the time. When Jane Doe arrived at Epstein's home, she was esco E stein assistant, to a room with a massage to le, police reports and the lawsuit say. Epstein walked in wear-ing only a towel, removed it and lay naked on the mas- sage table, the lawsuit says. He demanded that Jane Doe remove her clothing, and she did, except for her under- wear, the lawsuit alleges. The sexual activity followed, the suit says. Epstein p • $300 af- terward, and got $200 for bringing e IIIto him, that say andahelped Epstein arran e 0 er liai- sons with girls, Palm Beach police concluded. Neither was charged. This is not the first time Epstein has been sued over purported activities with teenage girls. He was sued in New York in October by a woman who says she had sex with Epstein when she was 16 and had sought his help in becoming a model. The lawsuit filed Thurs- day also alleges that Epstein has assaulted girls on his private island in the Virgin Islands. Herman declined to elaborate on that assertion. 0 [email protected] EFTA01682742 Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls By LARRY KELLER Palm Both Eta $14 wntn Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office and pro- vided damaging information about teen- age girls who say they gave his client. Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, sexually charged massages, according to police reports. The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain that would have allowed Epstein to have no criminal record. His current attorney de- nies this happened. And the documents also reveal that the father of at least one girl complained that private investigators aggressively fol- lowed his car, photographed his home and chased off visitors. Police also talked to somebody who said she was offered money if she refused to cooperate with the Palm Beach Police Department probe of Ep- stein. The state attorney's office said it presented the Epstein case to a county grand jury this month rather than directly charging Epstein because of concerns about the girls' credibility. The grand jury indicted Ep- stein, 53. on a single count of felony solic- itation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Police believed there was probable cause to charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molesta- tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case. The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but was postponed after Dershowitz pro- duced information gleaned from the Web site myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol and marijuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective Joseph Re- a 20-year-old Royal ac woman who told police she recruited girls for Epstein, also is profiled on myspace.com. Her page includes pho- tos of her and her friends, including one Epstein: His former attorney agreed to a plea bargain, police say. • • EFTA01682743 Polygraph shows he didn't know girls ages, lawyer says ► EPSTEIN from 18 susin the name so w no was not charged in the case, is a potential prosecution wit- ness. According to Recarey, prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek offered Epstein attorneys Dershowitz and Guy Fronstin a plea deal in April. Fronstin, after speaking with Epstein, accepted the deal, in which Epstein would plead guilty to one count of aggravated as- sault with intent to commit a felony, be placed on five years' probation and have no criminal record. The deal al- so called for Epstein to sub- mit to a psychiatric and sex- ual evaluation and have no unsupervised visits with mi- nors, according to Recarey's report. The plea bargain was made in connection with only one of the five alleged vic- tims, the report states. Fronstin — who declined to comment on the case — was subsequently fired and veteran defense attorney Jack Goldberger was hired. He denies there was any agreement by any of Ep- stein's attorneys to a plea deal. "We absolutely did not agree to a plea in this case," he said. Neither Belohlavek nor a state attorney's spokesman could be reached for comment The parent or parents of alleged victims who com-plained of being harassed by private investigators provid- ed license tag numbers of two of the men. Police found the vehicles were registered to a private eye in West Palm Beach and another in Jupiter, according to Recarey's re- port. "I have no knowledge of it," defense attorney Gold- berger said. The report also says a woman connected to the Ep- stein case was contacted by somebody who was still in touch with Epstein. That person told her she would be compensated if she didn't cooperate with police. Re- carey's report says. Those who did talk "will be dealt with," the woman said she was told. Phone records show the woman talked with the person who allegedly in- timidated her around the time she said, Recarey re ported. Phone records also show that the person said to have made the threat then placed a call to Epstein's personal as- sistant, who in turn called a New York corporation affili- ated with Epstein, the report states. The issue in the Epstein case is not whether females came to his waterfront home, but whether he knew their ages. "He's never denied girls came to the house." Gold- berger said. But when Ep- stein was given a polygraph test, "he passed on knowl- edge of age." the attorney said. After the indictment against Epstein was unsealed this week, Police Chief Reiter referred the matter to the FBI. "We've received the re feral, and we're reviewing it," said FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela in Miami. The chief himself has come under attack from Ep- stein's lawyers and friends in New York, where he has a home. The New York Post quoted Epstein's prominent New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, as saying his client was indicted only "because of the craziness of the police chief." Reiter has declined to comment on the case. Prosecutors have not presented a sex-related case like Epstein's to a grand jury before, said Mike Edmond- son, spokesman for the state attorney's office. "That's what you do with a case that falls into a gray area," he said. The state attorney's office did not recommend a partic- ular criminal charge on which to indict Epstein, Ed- mondson said. The grand ju- ry was presented with a list of charges from highest to low- est, then deliberated with the prosecutor out of the room, he said. "People are surprised at the grand jury proceeding," West Palm Beach defense attorney Richard Tendler said. "It's a way for the pros- ecutor's office to not take the full responsibility for not fil- ing the (charge), and not do- ing what the Palm Beach Po- lice Department wanted. I think something fell apart with those underage wit- nesses." Defense attorney Robert Gershman was a prosecutor for six years. "Those girls must have been incredible or untrustworthy, I don't know," he said. Other attorneys said Ep- stein's case raises the issue of whether wealthy, connected defendants like Epstein — whose friends include former President Clinton and Donald Trump — are treated differently from others. Once he knew he was the subject of a criminal probe, Epstein hired a phalanx of powerful attorneys such as Dershowitz and Lefcourt, who is a past president of the National As- sociation of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Miami lawyer Roy Black — who became nationally known when he successfully defended William Kennedy Smith on a rape charge in Palm Beach — also was in- volved at one point. Said defense attorney Michelle Suskauer: "I think it's unfortunate the public may get the perception that with power, you may be treated differently than the average Joe." Iarry_kelleSpbpost.com • • EFTA01682744 • • EFTA01682745 After long probe, sh billionaire faces solicitation charge By LARRY KELLER Palm Beath Post Staff Writer Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein paid to have underage girls and young women brought to his home, where he re-ceived massages and sometimes sex, ac-cording to an investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department. Palm Beach police spent months sifting through Ep- stein's trash and watching his waterfront home and Palm Beach International Airport to keep tabs on his private jet. An indictment charging Epstein, 53, was unsealed Monday, charging him with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. Palm Beach police thought there was probable cause to charge Epstein with un-lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry C with State Attorney Barry Krischer's han-n" dling of the case that he wrote a memo Epstein ► EPSTEIN from a suggesting the county's top prosecutor disqualify himself. "I must urge you to ex- amine the unusual course that your office's handling of this matter has taken and consider if good and sufficient reason exists to require your dis- qualification from the prose- cution of these cases," Reiter wrote in a May 1 memo to Krischer. While not commenting specifically on the Epstein case, Mike Edmondson, spokesman for the state at- torney, said his office pre-. cents cases other than mur- ders to a grand jury when there are questions about witnesses' credibility and their ability to testify. By the nature of their jobs, police officers look at evi- dence from a "one-sided per- spective," Edmondson said. "A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader fashion," weighing the veracity of wit- nesses and how they may fare under defense attorneys' questioning, he said. Epstein's attorney, Jack Goldberger, said his client committed no crimes. "The reports and state- ments in question refer to false accusations that were not charged because the Palm Beach County state attorney questioned the &edibility of the witnesses,"tr . Goldberger said. A county grand jury "found the allegations wholly unsubstantiated and not credible," and that's why his client was not charged with sexual activity with minors, he said. Goldberger said Epstein passed a lie detector test ad- ministered by a reputable polygraph examiner in which he said he did not know the girls were minors. Also, a search warrant served on Epstein's home found no evi- dence to corroborate the girls' allegations, Goldberger said. According to police docu- ments: • A Palm Beach Commu- nity College student said she gave Epstein a massage in the nude, then brought him six girls, ages 14 to 16, for mas- sage and sex-tinged sessions at his home. • A 27-year-old woman who worked as Epstein's personal assistant also facili- tated the liaisons, phoning the PBCC student to arrange for girls when Epstein was coming to town. And she es- coiled the girls upstairs when they arrived, putting fresh sheets on a massage table and placing massage oils nearby. • Police took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. Ines contend that on three occastipg, Epstein had sex with th‘giris. EFTA01682746 The chiefs letter See the letter Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter wrote to State Attorney Barry Ktischer on the Epstein case. PalmBeachPost.com A money manager for the ultra-rich, Epstein was named one of New York's most eligi- ble bachelors in 2003 by The New York Post. He reportedly hobnobs with the likes of former President Clinton, former Harvard University President Lawrence Sum- mers and Donald Trump, and has lavish homes in Manhat- tan, New Mexico and the Vir- gin Islands. He has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Dem- ocratic Party candidates and organizations, including Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid, and the Senate campaigns of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clin- ton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. Goldberger is one of five attorneys Epstein has re- tained since he became the subject of an investigation, Edmondson said. Among the others: Alan Dershowitz, the well-known Harvard law pro- fessor and author, who is a friend of Epstein. Dershowitz could not be reached for comment. Police said the woman who enlisted Epstein was Royal Palm Beach. has worked at an 01- we Garden restaurant in Wellington and said she was a journalism major at Palm Beach Community College when she was questioned by police last October. She has an unlisted phone number and could not be reached for said she met Ep- stein w en, at age 17. a friend asked her if she would like to make money giving him a massage. She said she was driven to his five-bedroom, 71/2-bath home on the Intra- coastal Waterway, then es- corted upstairs to a bedroom with a massag d oils. Epstein and were both naked dunng e mas- sage, she said, but when he grabbed her buttocks, she said she didn't want to be touched. Epstein said he'd pay her to bring him more gir s— he younger the better, told police. When s once to bring a 23-year-old woman to him, s ' said i i ii she was too old said. who charrl in the case, said she as not been eventually brought six girls to each time, said. "I'm Epstein wk. " paid $200 like a Herr eiss," police quoted her as saying. The girls knew what to expect when they were taken to Ep- stein's home, said. Give a massage — maybe na- stei ked — and allow some touching. One 14-year-old girl Rob- son took to meet Epstein led police to start the investiga- tion of him in March 2005. A relative of the girl called to say she thought the child had re- cently engaged in sex with a Palm Beach man. The girl then got into a fight with a classmate who accused her of being a prostitute, and she couldn't explain why she had $300 in her purse. The girl gave police this account of her meeting with Epstein: She accompanied and a second girl to Epstein's house on a Sunday in Febru- ary 2005. Once there, a wom- an she thought was Epstein's assistant told the girl to follow her upstairs to a room featur- ing a mural of a naked woman, several photographs of naked women on a shelf, a hot pink and green sofa and a massage table. She stripped to her bra and panties and gave him a massage. Epstein gave the 14-year- old $300 and she and the oth- er is left, she said. She said told her that Epstein par er $200 that day. Other girls told similar stories. In most accounts, Epstein's t at the time, now 27, escorte the girls to Ep-room. whose most re cent own address is in North Carolina, has not been charged in the case. Palm Beach police often conducted surveillance of Epstein's home, and at Palm Beach International Airport to see if his private jet was there, so they would know when he was in town. Police also arranged repeatedly to receive his trash from Palm Beach sanitation workers, collecting papers with names and phone numbers, sex toys and female hygiene products. One note stated that a fe- male could not come over at 7 p.m. because of soccer. An- other said a girl had to work Sunday — "Monday after school?" And still another note contained the work hours of a girl, saying she leaves school at 11:30 a.m. and would come over the next dayrat 10:30 a.m. Only three months before the police department probe began, Epstein donated $90,000 to the department for the purchase of a firearms simulator, said Jane Sunder, town finance director. The purchase was never made. The money was returned to Epstein on Monday, she said. Staff writers Andrew Marra and Tim OMeilla and staff re- searcher Angelica Cortez con- tributed to this story. Larry kelleraptapostcom • allele Ilk EFTA01682747 I I I I I I I Jeffrey Epstein Opens Up About Sex Crime investigation I1I New York I Phatp Weiss I December 10, 2007 09.55 AM Rosa More: Beat Steams. Dalton School. Gerold Lef0Ourt. HOwted Rubenstein. Jeff Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein. Palm Beath Island. Peggy Siegal. Breaking I BuSintSS News Clid '. - ' 1 Jeffrey Epstein is under indictment fOr sex crimes in Palm Beach. Flonda and RI expected Mat when he came into the office of PR guru Howard Rubenstein. he would be sober and reserved Quite IT* opposite. He was sparkling and ingenuous, apologizing for the hall-hour lateness with a Channing line-1 never realized how many one-way streets and no-night-turns there are in midtown I finally got out and walked'-arid as we went down the corridor to Rubenstan's office. he asked. -Have you managed to talk to many of my Mender Epstein had been supplying me the phone numbers of important scientists and finanDers and media !gores "Do you understand what an extraordinary group of people they are, what they have accomplished in their fields? One of the apcusers-a gin of 14-had put his age at 45, not in his fife's, and you could see why. His walk was youthful, arid his face was ruddy with health He had none of the rourdsho ldered. burdened qualities of middle age There was nothing in his hands, not a paper, a book, or a phone Epstein had on his signature outfit new blue teens and a powder-blue sweater "I've only ever seen ben in pans." Ns friend the publicist Peggy Siegal had reported saying there was a hint of arrogance in that Epeteins signal that he doesn't have to wear a uniform lee the rest of us I told Epstein and Rubenstein the sort of story New York wanted to do. and Epstein seemed to fed ironic delight in every word. "A secretive genius: re said -NM secrete. Ovate- he corrected in his WWII Stooldyn accent 'And if I was a genius I wouldn't be sitting here "A guy with sex issues A sem* formed on Epstian's tow-shaped lips. -Atm do you mean by sex tastier Wes . He was 54, hid near awned-I Writ finish "Are you channeling my mother?' • 'Other gins said they were worded cut grossed out. They didn't like his egg-shaped pen*. defindely den't want it inside them - Am I naive? I'm not sure what an egg-shaped penis looks like. There define* should be a picture of it on the Memel Mr Epstein seems to want people to see rt He is in the same league as a subway flasher, except he has a on of money end melees girls lAhat you would get if you put Jeffrey Epstein, stnking Hollywood writers and YouTube tcgetbe0 Is Andy Sarnterg available? Of course. Mr Epstein probably needs therapy not ndicule Favorite Flag as abvese Posted 08.44 AM on 1211112007 reconcaa Ste Ptcifile Dr a For of reelnOie Perrnalink Ant Ike Bill OReilly describing his falafel creature on the Ogre and salivating all over himself Sex addiction is bad enough but with HGH or steroids rfs a monger. Bias wife understands perfectly. EFTA01682748 • SEX CASE 'VICTIMS' LINING UP October 15 2007 - LAWYERS for Manhattan billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein - who's agreed to plead guilty to soliciting underage hookers - are bracing for a sew of lawsuits from as many as 40 young women who came to his Palm Beach mansion for massage sessions, Page Six has learned. And in a bid to squash a possible pile-up of messy civil actions, Epstein's legal eagles, led by Gerald Lefcourt, are mulling a possible lump-sum offer to settle the claims all at once, said sources close to the police investigation. But the attorneys believe many of the suits could be frivolous. "You are a girl who is broke who uses drugs. Here's your shot at getting some money," one insider said During the probe that led to Epstein's plea deal, which will put him behind Individual Rc bars for 18 months, underage girls told cops they claimed to be 18 or over and gave the finanoer massages for hundreds of dollars per session. One Getting started i girl. described in court documents as just 14, said Epstein used a "purple vibrator" on her while she partially stripped. Cops say Epstein's assistant, helped arrange the massages Open Bane of Amerka Investment Savkas, I ALL CLASSIFIEDS DATING JOBS "The lawyers have identified up to 40 women who could come forward, even though some of them didn't even see Epstein - they just accompanied their friends and stayed in the kitchen and had lunch." the source said. Epstein's legal team is also fighting to get some portions of the police report chronicling the sleazy activities changed 'For example, the state police reported finding in Mr Epstein's garbage a 'sex toy.' But it later turned out this 'sex toy' was really a broken salad fork," the insider said. Lefcourt had no comment Meanwhile, the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach last night confirmed a Web site report that Epstein has been banned there "He would use the spa to try New Cars to procure girls. But one of them, a masseuse about 18 years old, he tried to get her to do things" a source told us. 'Her father found out about it and went Select a rear absolutely ape-ibleepl Epstein's not allowed back" Epstein denies he is banned from Mar-a-Lago and says, in fact, he was recently invited to an event Select a Make there. • EFTA01682749 I 4,frp 4)46- e;it, eo,s7to so, • fr,.„ 947steew ido Poo 6/0 ' ezts,.. toed° ,e_ t,54 oei, e/J leor mDfo . 70. /ea /4/ co, e to, °ea e'en, -oto . •-fr at. eaeo SCr0 80 41 'bn, G /7, 06r ‘71-1470/0 °COO> arch 14)01/45/1/ckso -47/1 . CS12.67/t./7..6;59o„. 72:00 44.ee Pe::::tele::: 979tier e9 5 ri, 94 ofr fr ertf to a c9 Or py coo t. 4 so r, rood % • °et • es. cite/ 42- 96> Of /0e Or 9-0/ O9.0 es .4, Or 4 /- %%6%4 flair he k/ .,0,4wefrfro :a: /4 / t./A "1 14 %hi, t e etor, 9% 17/4. %, -Cr* wse -#007 k 894te 45 e GI %it. ,k), •9 to 9(4°' s:be • e r0/cvai 0/7 as the/. . 40 k r ozfi. po /4,e op/ sksa, ok 4, Dus, 'tette ece osi t/ °of ea g 6'e Op Cs p.. 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Jeffrey Epstein v,i financier • Jeffrey „7 , Epstein has been sentenced to IS months for felony solicitation of prostitution following accusations by teen girls. Past coverage More local news Latest breaking news, photos and all of today's Post stones. "If and when such alleged mischaracterizations become relevant to an issue to be decided by the court, the parties will be given the On the beat, behind the agenda. Post reporters cover your area in City Pulae.o—unortu • nitv to advance their positions and the court will resolve the issue,' he wrote. "If disclosure of the agreement will be required for the Share This Story court to resolve this ISSue, appropriate disclosure will be ordered " Oyu owl .00 use Ole ht.* inn* coedit TeCtiriOrtli ene00014 Twitter Fed, Mort Mitt Ell thee*,The U.S. Attorney's Office and Epstein's lawyers reached the agreement before Epstein pleaded guilty to state felony charges. and the document is under seal in Epstein's state criminal file. Representing two of Epstein's victims, attorney Brad Edwards asked to have the document unsealed as part of his federal lawsuit against the Manhattan money manager. Although Edwards and his victims have seen the agreement. Edwards s in his pleadings thai the iswerranent has "inaccurately described the agreement . creating a false impression that the agreement protects the victims." US District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that the claims, even if true, haven't damaged Edwards' case. Se.'king to keep the agreement sealed. Assistant U S Attorney Dexter Lee argued that the agreement is not part of any case before Marta "The non-prosecution agreement has never been filed under seal in federal court," he wrote. lie also dented that the agreement has been inaccurately described Maria sided with Lee on the argument that the agreement was not filed in federal court "under seal or otherwise." On Aug. 14. Marta ruled that the non-prosecution agreement would be unsealed for Edwards and any of the victims who "ant to sec it But the ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who sees the document from disclosing the terms to anyone else. In his motion to unseal, Edwards said he wants to be able to discuss the terms of the agreement with other victims and their attorneys as well as with other victims' rights groups such as the National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys. The desire to discuss the agreement with third parties is not justification for unsealing the document. Marra ruled "If a specific tangible need arises in a civil case relief should be sought in that case," he wrote. Epstein, 56, is serving IS months in jail for soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution Under the agreement, federal prosecutors will defer their decision on whether to prosecute Epstein on federal charges until 90 days after Epstein Judge: Palm Beach sex offender Jeffrey Epstein agreement to remain sealed Page 2 of 3 completes all requirements of his state sentence. If he abides by all court conditions and restrictions, the federal case would be dropped. In addition to the state criminal case, there arc nine federal and seven state lawsuits pending against Epstein All contain similar allegations: The Manhattan money manager. through his employees and assistants, brought minor girls to his Palm Beach home 358 El Brillo Way for erotic massages and sometimes sex —44 EFTA01682751 Moral philosophy - The general moral philosophy behind age of consent laws is the assumed need for the protection of minors. It is a common belief in many societies that minors below a certain age lack the maturity or life experience to fully understand the ramifications of engaging in sexual acts. These fears may include but are not limited to resulting pregnancies and psychological or physical damage. There is an ongoing debate in many cultures regarding child sexuality as it relates to age and an appropriate age of consent ill It is these debates that have informed the various laws in different jurisdictions and account for their disparity. Law - - Sexual relations with a person under the age of consent is in general a criminal offence, with punishments ranging from community service up to and including the death penalty. Many different terms exist for the charges laid and include child sexual abuse, statutory rape, illegal carnal knowledge, or corruption of a ' minoril] • The enforcement practices of age of consent laws tend to vary depending on the social sensibilities of the particular culture (see above). Often enforcement is not exercised to the letter of the law, with legal action being taken only when a sufficiently socially-unacceptable age gap exists between the two individuals, or if the perpetrator is in a position of authority over the minor — e.g., a teacher, priest or doctor. The gender of each actor can also influence perceptions of an individual's guilt and therefore enforcementi ll In many jurisdictions, age of consent is interpreted to mean mental or functional age. EFTA01682752 PRISON PATROL WHITEWATER'S STARR GETTING EPSTEIN OFF? By the time you read this. Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr will likely have touched down in Palm Beach, Florida, to meet with fede