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Jeffrey Epstein Source of Wealth
Jeffrey Edward Epstein (born January 20, 1953) is an American financier and registered sex
offender in the United States. He worked at Bear Steams early in his career and then formed his
own firm, J. Epstein & Co. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for
prostitution, for which he served 13 months in prison. He lives in the US Virgin Islands. Epstein
taught calculus and physics at the Dalton School in Manhattan from 1973 to 1975. Among his
students was a son of Alan C. Greenberg, chairman of Bear Steams.
In 1976, Epstein started work as an options trader at Bear Steams where he worked in the
special products division, advising high-net-worth clients on tax strategies. Proving successful in
his financial career, in 1980 Epstein became a partner at Bear Stearns.
In 1982, Epstein founded his own financial management firm, J. Epstein & Co., managing the
assets of clients with more than $1 billion in net worth. In 1987, Leslie Wexner, founder and
chairman of Ohio-based The Limited chain of women's clothing stores, became a well-known
client. Wexner acquired Abercrombie & Fitch the following year. In 1992 he converted a private
school on the Upper East Side into an enormous residence. Epstein later bought that property,
in the wealthiest part of Manhattan. In 1996, Epstein changed the name of his firm to the
Financial Trust Company and, for tax advantages, based it on the island of St. Thomas in the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
In 2003, Epstein bid to acquire New York magazine. Other bidders were advertising executive
Donny Deutsch, investor Nelson Peitz, media mogul and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, who
had the New York Daily News, and film producer Harvey Weinstein. They were ultimately outbid
by Bruce Wasserstein, a longtime Wall Street investor, who paid $55 million.
In 2004, Epstein and Zuckerman committed up to $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. Below are the links
to support this source of wealth. Attached are copies of the articles from the links below.
• httos://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey Epstein
• http://nvmaa.comMvmetro/news/people/n 7912/
• http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/menheffrev-epstein-net-worth/
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/02/ieffrey-epstein-rise-and-fall-of-teacher-
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Jeffrey Epstein
From W0cipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeffrey F.dward Epstein (born January 20. 1953) is an American financier and registered sex offender in
Jeffrey Epstein
the United States.r'I 1-k worked at Bear Steams early in his career and then formed his own firm, J.
Epstein & Co. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, for which be
saved 13 months in prison.nI He lives in the US Virgin Islands.
Contents
• I Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Residences
• 4 Science philanthropy
Epstein et Bend Una crsity
• 5 Criminal proceedings
• 5.1 Sentencing Born Jeffrey Edward Epstein
• 5.2 Reactions January 20. 1953
• 5.3 Suit against federal government re: plea deal Brooklyn. New York. US
• 6 Civil proceedings Residence Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin islands
• 6.1 Virginia Roberts lawsuits Palm Back Florida
• 7 References New York Ciry
• 8 External links
Nationality Amencan
Cditensalp United Suits
Early life Occupation Financier
Owner, Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation
Epstein was born in Brooklyn, New York. to a middle-class Jewish family. His father worked for New
York City's parks,"
Epstein attended Lafayette High School. Ile attended classes at Cooper Union from 1969 to 1971 and later at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
at NYU. He left without a degree.
Career
Epstein taught calculus and physics at the Dalton School in Manhattan from 1973 to 1975.81 Among his students was a son of Alan C. Greenberg, chairman
of Bear Stearns."
In 1976, Epstein started work as an options trader at Bear &camel where he worked in the special products division, advising high-net-worth clients on
tax suategies." Proving successful in his financial career, in 1980 Epstein became a partner at Bear Stearns!'
In 1982, Epstein founded his own financial management firm, J. Epstein & Co.. managing the assets of clients with more than SI billion in net worth. In
1987, Leslie Wexner, founder and chairman of Ohio-based The Limited chain of women's clothing stores, became a well-known elicati'l Wexner acquired
Abercrombie & Fitch the following year. In 1992 he converted a private school on the Upper East Side into an enormous residence. Epstein later bought
that property, in the wealthiest pan of Manhattan. In 1996, Epstein changed the name of his firm to the Financial Trust Company and, for tax advantages,
based it on the Island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Island:Lill
In 2003. Epstein bid to acquire New York magazine. Other bidden were advertising executive Donny Deutsch, investor Nelson Peitz. media mogul and
publisher Mortimer Zuckerman. who had the We,. York Daily Wows, and film producer lianny Weinstein. They were ultimately outbid by Brute
Wasserstein, a longtime Wall Street investor, who paid 555 millionPI
In 2004, Epstein and Zuckerman committed up to $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-chicf, retained a small ownership saalce.I4I
In September 2002, Epstein flew Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa in his private Boeing 727.14in
Epstein is also a longtime friend of Prince Andrew. Duke of York_ and has partied with celebrities such as Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos. Charlie
Rose, and Woody Allen.Pi
Residences
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Epstein's New York home is reputedly the largest private residence in Manhattan,'" it was originally built as the Birch Wathen School. The 50.000-square-
foot (4,600 m2). 9-scot) mansion is just off Fifth Avenue and overlooks the Frick Collection. The financier's other pruµrr;es include a villa in Palm Beach,
Florida; an apartment in Paris; a 10,000-acre ranch with a hilltop mansion in Stanley, New Mexico:lul l" and a private island near St. Thomas in the U.S.
Virgin Islands called Little Saint James that includes a mansion and guest houses.
Science philanthropy
In 2000 he established the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, which funds science research and education. Prior to 2003. Epstein's foundation funded Martin
Nowak's research a the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In May 2003. Epstein established the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
at Harvard University with a 530 million gift to the university?" Under the direction of Martin Nowak. the Program for Evolutionary. Dynamics is a
graduate department that studies the evolution of molecular biology with the use of mathematics, focusing on diseases such as cancer, HIV and other
virses."3"I
The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has also funded genetic research leading towards advances in such fields as Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis.
ovarian cancer. breast cancer. colitis and Crohn's disease. Epstein has given funds to the American Cancer Society, for projects such as circulating tumor
cell technology, a blood test to identify genetic mutations to anti-inhibitor cancer drugs!'"
Through such philanthropy, Epstein has associated with many well-known scientific figures, such as Gerald Edelman Murray Gal- Mann. Stephen
Hawking, Kip Thome, Lawrence Krauss, Lee Smolin and Gregory Benford.'"Ilsill" In 2006. Epstein's foundations sponsored a conference on St. Thomas in
the U.S. Virgin Islands with Hawking. Krauss. and Nobel laureates Gerard t Hoof), David Gross and Frank Wilcock, covering such topics as unified gravity
theory, neuroscience. the origins of language and global threats to the EarthlIc'
The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has hacked research into aniticial intelligence: it had been supporting Marvin Minsky at MIT (until his death) and is
supporting Ben Gonad in Hong Kong."1'q
The extern of Epstein's claimed philanthropy is unknown. This foundation fails to disclose information which other charities routinely disclose. Concerns
have been raised ova this lack of transparency. and in 2015 the New York Attorney General has reported as eying to get information."91
Criminal proceedings
In March 2005, a woman contacted Palm Beach, Florida police and alleged that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been taken to Jeffrey Epstein's mansion by
an older girl. There she was paid $300 to strip and massage Epstein?" She had undressed. but left the encounter wearing her underwear."
Police started an 11-month undercover investigation of Epstein, followed by a search of his home. The FBI also became involved in the investigation's"
Subsequently. the police alleged that Epstein had paid several escorts to perform sexual acts on him. Interviews with five alleged victims and I') v. ithethes
under oath, a high school transcript. and other items they found in Epstein's uash and home allegedly showed that sonic of the girls involved were under IS.
12" The police search of Epstein's home found large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house, some of whom the police had interviewed in the
course of their investigation"
The Iraernational Business Times reported that papers filed in a 2006 lawsuit alleged that Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his
property to record sexual activity with underage girls by prominent people for criminal purposes such as blackmail." Epstein allegedly "loaned' girls to
powerful people to ingratiate himself with them and also to gain possible blackmail infomuitionn In 2015. evidence cane to light that one of the powerful
men at Epstein's mansion may have been Prince Andrew of the UK.IM
A former employee told the police that Epstein would receive massages three times a day.""' Eventually the FBI received accounts front about 40 girls
whose allegations of molestation by Epstein included overlapping details.'"
the Guardian said, lkspite this. the LIS government eventually agreed to allow Epstein to plead guilty to just one count of soliciting prostitution from an
underage girl under Florida state law.... Epstein agreed not to contest civil claims brought by the 40 women identified by the FBI, but escaped a prosecution
that could have seen hint jailed for the rest of his life.... Prosecutors agreed not to bring far more serious federal charges against Epstein. and not to charge
'potential co-conspirators". including four named individuah.'14
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 molestation count?"
His tam of defense lawyers included Gerald Lefeourt, Alan Dershowitz and later Ken Starr" Epstein passed a polygraph test in which he was asked
whether he knew of the underage status of the girls.'23I
After the federal government agreed to charging Epstein on one count under state law, the prosecution convened a grand jury. Former chief of Palm Beach
police Michael Reiter later wrote to State Attorney Harry Krischer to complain of the state's 'highly unusual- conduct and asked him to remove himself
font the case."" Thc grand jury returned a single charge of felony solicitation of prostitution?" to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2006.?"
Sentencing
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In June 2008. after Epstein pleaded guilty to a single state charge of soliciting prostitution (roan girls as young as la?" he was sentenced to 18-months in
prison. He served 13 months before being released. At release, he was registered in New York State as a level three (high risk of re-offense) sex offender, a
lifelong designationg42"
Reactions
After the accusations became public, several persons and institutions aimed donations which they had received front Epstein, including Eliot Spitzer. Bill
Ristardsoulill and the Palm Beach Police Department.E2" Harvard University announced that it would not return any money."" Various charitable
donations that Epstein had made to finance children's education were also questioned.P1
On June 18.2010. Epstein's former house manages, Alfredo Rodriguez, was sentenced to IS 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'?"
Solt against federal government re: plea deal
In a separate ease, on April 7.2015, Judge Kenneth Mama ruled that the allegations made by against Prince Andrew had no bearing on a
current (and longmnning) lawsuit by alleged victims socking to reopen Epstein's non-prosecution plea agreement with the federal government; he ordered it
to be struck from the record." There was an effort to add Roberts and another woman as plaintiffs to that case. Judge Marra made no ruling as to whether
deans by Roberts am true or false.n" Marra specifically said that Roberts may later give evidence when the ease conies to court.,"
Civil proceedings
On February 6, 2008, an anonymous Virginia woman filed a S50 million civil lawsuie" in federal court against Epstein. alleging that when she was a 16-
year-old minor in 2004-2005, she was " reauited to give Epstein a massage". She claims she was taken to his mansion, where he exposed himself and had
sexual intercourse with her, and paid her $200 immediately enervate', A similar S50 million suit was filed in March 2008 by a different woman, who was
represented by the same lawyer!" These and several similar lawsuits were dismissed. IMI
All other lawsuits were settled by Epstein out of coun.frl Epstein has made many out-of-court settlements with alleged victims and. as of January 2015,
tome eases remain open Ml
A December 30, 2014, federal civil suit was filed in Florida against the United States for violations of the Crime Victims' Rights Act by the Department of
Justice's agreement to Epstein's limited 2008 plea: the suit also accuses Alan lksshowitz of sexually abusing a minor provided by Epstein!'" (See Two Jane
Does v. United Slates.) 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 agreement.P lunl 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-P(4
Another woman, identified by the pseudonym ICAlif Johnson".IIII filed a lawsuit in California federal court on April 26, 2016, accusing Epstein and real
estate businessman Donald Trump (now President of the United States) of raping her in 1994, when she was 13 years old.'"lanal At the time of filing.
Trump was campaigning to become the Republican Party candidate for the Mike of U.S. President. Judges Ronnie Abrams and James C. Francis IV
presided over the case against Epstein and Trump.t"1
The suit, which Johnson had tiled without counsel. was dismissed on technical grounds after the court determined that the address listed for "Katie Johnson'
was a foreclosed abandoned home whose resident had died and the provided tekplione contact information was also not a functioning contact.'" The
woman (now using the pseudonym "Jane Doe) filed a new lawsuit in June 2016, this time in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
She excluded some of her previous accusations, such OS that Trump threw money for an abortion at her and that he called Epstein a -Jew bastard".l'el
Following a delay caused by the accuser failing to show that the defendants had been served with formal notice of the sine the suit was voluntarily
dismissed on September 16.0" The woman's lawyer said she would re-file the lawsuit and would provide an additional witness to substantiate the claims.'"
On September 30. 2016. the woman re-filed the lawsuit in New York. with an additional witness identified by the pseudonym "Joan Doe".'"5" There was
no further inhumation available on the allegations outside the claims made anonymously by the two women. They were not made available for contact by
the press.l'tl Civil rights lawyer and legal analyst Lisa Bloom WOW in a June 2016 hlog post for the Huffing:on Past that the claims by the anonymous
individuals were credible enough to warrant further investigation?" Journalist Jon Swathe reported in The Guardian in July 2016 that the "Katie Johnson"
lawsuits appeared to be orchestrated by Nonn Lubow, a former producer on the The Jerry Springer Show. He described Lubow as "an eccentric anti-Trump
campaigner with a record of making outlandish claims about celebrities". '"4
The woman failed to appear at a press conference announced by her attorneys, saying she was fearful because of threats. She granted an interview to The
Daily Mod together with Bloom (whom the Doily Mad identified as her lawyer) and permitted photographs. Soon alter that. the woman dropped her lawsuit
ugainst Epstein and Trump on November 4, 2016.I.Iral The Dan), Mad said their reporters were aware of the woman's identity but were honoring her
request to protect ha privacy and not release her name. Her attorneys said the woman dropped her suit out of fear, based on having received "numerous
threats" against her life.'"I
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In March 2017. same sources reported that President Donald Trump had been called as a witness in a new case against Epstein.
Virginia Roberts lawsuit&
In January 2015, • 31-ycar-old American woman. Virginia Roberts, alleged in a sworn affidavit that at the age of 17, she had been held as a sex slave by
Epstein. I lc UallIcked her to several people, including Prince Andrew and Harvard Law worming Alan Uashowitz_ She claimed that Epstein and Ohms had
physically and sexually abused heal"'
She alleged that the FBI may have been involved in a cover-up.P4I Roberts said she served as Epstein's sex slave horn 1999 to 2002, and recruited Miter
underage girlS.P71 Prince Andrew. Epstein and Dershowitz all deny having had sex with Roberts. DeratOwitz reportedly was taking legal action over the
allegationann°I A diary purported to belong to Roberts was published tmline.telleil Epstein made a settlement with Roberts out of court as he did in
several other lawsuits?*
The BBC television series Panorama planned an investigation of the scandal.l6P As of 2016 these Claims had not been tested in any law court.PAI
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Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery
He's pals with a passel of Nobel Prize-winning scientists, CEOs like Leslie Wexner of the Limited, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell,
even Donald Trump. But It wasn't until he flew Bill Clinton, Kevin Spatcy, and Chris Tucker to Africa on his private Boeing 7a7 that
the world began to wonder who he Lc.
Bf Landes Maas Jr. tErrual vitas Cr., r£ use
this comes with cash to burn. a fleet of airplanes. and a keen eye for the
ladies to say ambit's of a relentless brain that challenge* Nobel Price
-winning scientists across the country "and (or financial markets
around the world. Ever since the Poste 'Page Sie ran an item about the
president's late-Sementber visit to Africa with Kevin Spaccy and Chris
Tricker — on his newbenefactor's cuss minx! Raving 7r," • • the question
of the day has been: Who in the work' is Jeffrey Epstein?
les a life full of qua:lion marks. Epstein is said to run $15 billion for
wealthy clients. yet aside from Limited founder Leslie %Prance. his
Cash Casual: I..ontv:.i
diem list is a closely held secret. A former Dalton math teacher, he
diem% down. maintains a peripatetic salon of brilliant nientisa yet Plawnse* no
buitelor's degree. For more than tea years. he's btarst linked to
Manhattan-Loden society Comm Ghislaiite Maxwell.daughter of the mmiteriowity deceased meths titan
Robert Maxwell. yet he Ins the lifeof a bachelor, legging 6nn hours n year in his various planes as he
scours the world for immanent opportunities. Ile owns %hal it‘ said to be Manhattan's largest private
house yet Mos Iris business (mm a too-acre private Wand M R. Thomas.
Power on Wall Street has genially accrued to those who haw madetheir open bids for it. Soros.
Warangal,. Knwis. Weill. The Rutin and Drang of their successes and failures has been played out in
• Eparin breaks the mold. Most canyon on the Street has heard of him. ben nob.* seen to
know what the hell he is up ID. Which is just the wav he likes It.
"My belief is that Jeff maionitur some son of moncy.mmagemas firm. thumb yen won't mr a Mnd.len
ammo. from him.' sass one %rendition invent lc mere told me he had goo tweak working for him.
and Tee also heard that he Mail:igen Rockefeher imam% Rut one never knows It's like looking at the
annual of Ch --there may be lea there than meets the me.'
Sass another prominent Wall Streeter: 'fie is this insattious. Cotsbotsque figure. He likes people to
think that he awn-rich, unit he cultivates this air of oloofness.lhe whole thing is weird.'
tie wizard that meets the eye is spare and fit: with a loin jaw and a carefully coiffed head ofs alar hair.
he looks like a taller. younger Ralph Lauren. A raspy Rmoklyn accent betrosa his Cooty Island origins.
Be spends an hour and fifteen mined every day dein mkonted yoga wish his annul insi mbar. who
traveiswith him wherever he goes. He is an enthusiastic member of the Trilateml Commission and the
Council on Foreign gelatins_
the Mani can jeans. open- necked shirts. and sinkers and is rarely men in a tic. Indeed. those'
dose to him ray the reason he quit his board seat at the Rockefelkt Institute was that he hated wearing a
suit. "It feels like a Mess.' be told one friend.
Epstein likes to tangent that he's a lames man who's ismer touched ale foal or dregs, and one whore
nightlife Is star from energetic. And yet if you talk to Donald Tromp a different Epiaein emerge.. "Eve
known Jeff for fifteen yeara Terrific guy,"Trnmp booms from a spenkerplione.'ne% it Ira of fun in be
with. It is mem said that he likes beautiful %mown as much as I dn. and many of thin are on the younger
side. No doubt about it--Jeffrey mows his social fife:
Rut beautiful mimeo are only a pan of it. Recause hencs the thing about Epstein: As sonic collect
huttralks. he relleca Scout iful imam in people he it politics or wiener:. It's what I do.' he
has said to friends. And his latest prim addition in the fomwr prLwident. In his eyes. Clinton as a special
represents the highest evolutionary fonn of the political animal. To he up close to him, as he was during
the. frican journey. is skin to seeing the Tana of beasts on a safari. AS he put it to a friend upon his
return from Mica. -If you were a bearer at the downtown promasium at Lull Street and Mike ' sron
walked in. your lace would trace the same look as these foreign leaders had when Clinton sneered the
mutant is the worlds greatest politician:
"Jeffres is both a highly sucmssful finantier and a committed phdanthrupial with a keen sense of glelaal
rliarke% and an in-depth luswardge of turnly.firstwentiy science.' Clinton says through a spokesman.
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'I especial* appreciated his imeNalus and generosity dining the want trip to Mica to mirk on
dernocratiodiou, empootring the poor. citizen noire. anticombatiog
}robot(' Clinton. Epoch:a net appeas=es in the gossip ctdumns tended to he spersdation as to the true
nature of his relationship with Chislaine Mar ell. While they ate tent Mends. the English tabloids have
ponidawil that alas-well has longed for a mote permanent paising and that for undetermined :etyma
Epstein has not wcipmcated in kind. "Its o mysterious relationship that they have; says society
jountalin David Patrick Columbia, 'In one way. they are said mates. yet they are hardly companions
anymore. Ws a nice conventional relationship. whew they servo each other's purposes?
Friendent the two say Ihot Mama, wMar Weill' life has always been higher-octane than Epstein's. lent
a link:pignut to the lourr.profde Epeatin. Indeed. at a porgy at Magnell's house. her friends my, one is
frUM as opt a sae Russu m ladies of the night ascot is to see Prince Andrew the Oxford.ettucated
described by many-us a mun.cucer (the Aire her ovm helicopter and was retrenty stun dining
with Clinton at Relies on Madison Avenue). Ines In bee own townhouse a few blocks away. Epstein Is
frequently seen around team with a hay- at coin* yang; women but Mar hat been no boldfaced name
to replace Marvell. "You 'nay read about Jeffrey in these:ail column, but there Is mud: Rant to him
than that; mys Jeffrey-7. lee& of tlw private *quite rem Leeds Weld lc Co, lido a talented morns'
manager and on extremely hardworking person with brood interims. Most minim]. though, Is that In
this media-oh:eyed age he is net in any sense o self-mon:atty.-
Born in t953 and raised in Coney Island. Epstein went to Lafayette Iliglt School. According to his bin,
he kink some classes in physics at Cooper Union from 1969 to min Ile kit Cooper Union in 1973 and
=coded NYtTsl'ourata Institute, where he took courses in mathematical plo:Wology of the heart
laming that sehod. too. without a degree. Between 1973 and 1973. Epstein taught caltadtd tied physics at
the Dalton School.
By moo accounts. ho wassomething of a Robin Walianu-in- Dead Pula Sotto type of figure. wasting
his high-selwol classes with passionate mathematical riffs. So imenweed was one Wall Street father of a
surdcml that he said to Epetein point.blank: ',Altar ate yen doing teaching ninth at thilion7 You should
he working on Wall Street why don't you giw toy friend Are ('reer:berg a call'
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Jeffrey Epstein: the rise and fall of teacher
turned tycoon
Investment banker maintained impressive list of powerful contacts before downfall
Paul Lewis in New York
Sunday 4 January 2015 06.44 EST
The rise and fall of Jeffrey Epstein, Wall Street investment banker turned disgraced sex
offender, could be a plot line in an F Scott Fitzgerald novel.
Raised in a tough Brooklyn neighbourhood, Epstein was working as a maths teacher at a
Manhattan private school when, the legend goes, the father of one of his students put
him in touch with a partner at the global investment bank Bear Steams.
That was 1976. Within six years Epstein had risen through the ranks, working as a trader,
before striking out on his own and convincing some of America's wealthiest plutocrats to
let him manage their portfolios.
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Profiting from the 1980s boom, Epstein quickly amassed his own fortune. Often referred
to as a billionaire, Epstein's true net worth remains unknown - in part because much of
his wealth is concealed, according to Forbes, in a financial entity in the US Virgin Islands,
a tax shelter where he owns his own private island.
However, over his career Epstein, 61, acquired properties across the world, including a
ranch in New Mexico, a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, and a 40-room mansion in New
York, which is reportedly the largest residential property in Manhattan.
With huge wealth came great influence, and Epstein built friendships with powerful
figures in the establishment: celebrities, politicians, business moguls and royalty. His list
of clients has never been publicly disclosed, although it is well known that one is the
billionaire retail magnate Les Wexner, whose empire includes the Victoria's Secret chain.
Wexner is understood to have since cut his ties with Epstein. However, the investment
banker maintained an impressive contacts list, from Hollywood to Washington. He was a
generous philanthropist, donating millions of dollars to Harvard and other institutions
engaged in cutting-edge scientific research.
He once counted Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Kevin Spacey and Naomi Campbell among
his associates, frequently lent his private jet to powerful contacts and became famed for
his extravagant parties.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Epstein found himself described as a modem-day Great Gatsby.
His downfall, which began almost a decade ago, has been just as dramatic as the
eponymous protagonist in Fitzgerald's novel. Epstein was arrested in 2005, after the
stepmother of a 14-year-old girl told Florida police he had paid $200 for an erotic
massage with her daughter, and later became the subject of an FBI investigation.
By the following year prosecutors said they had identified 40 young women who may
have been illegally procured by Epstein. Dozens of his alleged victims are reported to
have settled with Epstein out of court.
The federal inquiry was eventually dropped after Epstein negotiated a deal with
prosecutors in which he agreed to plead guilty to a relatively minor state charge relating
to soliciting paid sex with a minor. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence and is
now a registered sex offender.
A lawsuit against the US government brought by two of Epstein's alleged victims, who
are unhappy with the terms of the plea deal, has been ongoing for more than six years.
In the latest twist, lawyers for the two women filed a motion in a Florida court this week
attempting to add two new plaintiffs to the case. That document surfaces new
allegations against Epstein and his associates.
The motion portrays Epstein as running a "sexual abuse ring", loaning out underage
women to "prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign
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presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders". Epstein's lawyers did
not respond to repeated requests for comment but others identified in the court
document have strenuously denied the woman's accusation.
Those forcefully rejecting the allegations contained in the court filing on Friday include
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. His friendship with Epstein stems back to the early
1990s. Epstein was also a friend of Andrew's former wife, Sarah Ferguson, once lending
her £15,000 to reduce some of her debts. Ferguson later said she regretted taking
Epstein's money, which she described as "a gigantic error of judgment".
After reports on Friday that the motion filed in the Florida court named Prince Andrew
in connection with Epstein's alleged sex trafficking, Buckingham Palace released a rare
public statement.
"This relates to long-running and ongoing civil proceedings in the United States to which
the Duke of York is not a party," it said. "As such we would not comment in detail.
However, for the avoidance of doubt, any suggestion of impropriety with underage
minors is categorically untrue!'
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