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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 Peltz, 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.orpjwiki/Jeffrey Epstein
• http://nvmaa.comMvmetro/news/people/n 7912/
• htto://www.therichest.cornicelebnetworthicelebritv-businessimenheffrev-eastein-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 Edward Epstein (born January 20. 1953) is an American financier and registered sex offender in
Jeffrey Epstein
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 prostiudion, for which be
saved 13 months in prison.121 He lives in the US Virgin Islands.
Contents
• I Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Residences
• 4 Science philanthropy
Epstein at Hand University
• 5 Criminal proceedings
• 5.1 Sentencing Born Jeffrey Edward Epstein
• 5.2 Reactions January ZO, 1933
• 5.3 Suit against federal government re: pica deal Brooklyn. New York. US
• 6 Civil procee.r m Residence Lithe Saint James, U.S. Virgin islands
• 6.1 lawsuits
Palm Back Florida
• 7 References
New York City
• 8 External links
Nationality American
Citizenship United Suics
Early life Occupation Financier
Owner. kffiny Epstein VI Foundation
Epstein was born in Brooklyn, New York to a middle-class Jewish family. His father worked for New
York City's parksP1
Epstein attended Isfayette High School. He 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 1975.141Among his students was a son of Alan C. Greenberg. chairman
of Bear Stearns?'
In 1976, Epstein started work as an options trader at Bear Stearns,141 where he worked in the special products division, advising high-net-worth clients on
tax suategies.141Proving 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 clic:n.141 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 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 Any York Doily News, and film producer liarvicy Weinstein. They were ultimately outbid by Bruce
Wasserstein, a longtime Wall Street investor, who paid 555 million.")
In 2004, Epstein and Zuckerman committed up to $25 million to finance Radar, a celebrity and pop culture magazine founded by Meer Roshan. Epstein and
Zuckerman was equal partners in the venture. Roshan, as its editor-in-chief, retained a small ownership stake (M
In September 2002, Epstein flew Bill Clinton, Kevin Space"' and Chris Tucker to Africa in his private Boeing 727.1411
Epstein is also a longtime friend of Prince Andrew. Duke of York. and has partied with celebrities such as Katie Cedric, George Stephanopoules. Charlie
Rose, and Woody Allen.n1
Residences
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Epstein's New York home is reputedly the largest private residence in Manhattan:19 it was originally built as the Birch Wathen School. The 50.000square-
foot (4,600 m2). 9-story mansion is just off Fifth Avenue and overlooks the Frick Collection. The financier's other pwani ries include a villa in Palm Beach.
Florida; an apartment in Paris: a 10,000-ace 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 at 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, IIIV and other
viruses.1"1”1
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 turnor
cell technology, a blood test to identify genetic mutations to anti-inhibitor cancer dnigs.1141
Through such philanthropy, Epstein has associated with many well-known scientific figures. such as Gerald Edelman. Murray Cell: Mann. Stephen
Hawking. Kip Thome. Lawrence Krauss, Lee Smolin and Gregory Benford."1pm'et In 2006. Epstein's foundations sponsored a conference on St. Thomas in
the U.S. Virgin Islands with hawking Krauss. and Nobel laureates Gerard 'I Flooll, David Gross and Frank Wilm.ck, covering such topics as unified gravity
theory, neuroscience. the origins of language and global threats to the Earth.1141
The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has hacked research into artificial intelligence: it had been supporting Marvin Minsky at MIT (until his death) and is
supporting Ben Goiserel in Hong Kong."I'll
The Malt 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 repeated as trying to get informstion."91
Criminal proceedings
In March 2005, a woman contacted Palm Beach, Florida police and alleged that her I4-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.19
Subsequently. the police alleged that Epstein had paid several escorts to perform sexual acts on him. Interviews with five alleged victims and l'7 witnesses
under oath, a high school trans:rink and other items they found in Epstein's trash and home allegedly showed that some of the girls involved were under IS.
nn 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
count of their investigation"
The Iniernanonal 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 infomuition.19 In 2015. evidence cane to light that one of the powerful
men at Epstein's mansion may have been Prince Andrew of the UK.191
A former employee told the police that Epstein would receive massages three times a day Eventually the FBI received accounts from about 40 girls
whose allegations of molestation by Epstein included overlapping details!'"
Me Guardian said, 'Despite this. the US 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 sun him 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 individuals.'"'
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.129
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His team of defense lawyers included Gerald Info:Ask Alan Dershowitz and later Ken Epstein passed a polygraph test in which he was asked
whether he knew of the underage status of the girls.1131
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 Barry Krischer to complain of the state's 'highly unusual" conduct and asked him to remove himself
from the case.1111 The grand jury returned a single charge of felony solicitation of prostitution," to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2006.12"
Sentencing
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In June 2008. after Epstein pleaded guilty to a single state charge of soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14.1" he was sentenced to I8-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 resyffeitm) sex offender, a
lifelong designation.M"
Reactions
Oa the accusations became public, several persons and institutions roamed donations which they had received from Epstein, including Eliot Spitzer. Bill
Ridiardsonlill and the Palm Beach Police Department.E" Harvard University announced that it would not return any money." Various charitable
donations that Epstein had made to firrance children's education were also questioned"
On June 18, 2010, Epstein's former house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, was sentenced to IR months incarceration atia 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 mid agreed is was information "that would have been extremely useful in investigating and prosecuting the ease, including
names and contact information of material witnesses and additional victims'?"
Solt against federal government re: plea deal
In a separate case, on April 7, 2015, Judge Kenneth Mama ruled that the allegations made by against Prince Andrew had no bearing on a
current (and longrunning) lawsuit by alleged victims socking to reopen F:pstein's non-prosecution plea agreement with the federal government; he ordered it
to be struck from the record?" There was an ellen to add Robert and another woman as plaintiffs to that case. Judge Marra ntade no ruling as to whether
daims by Roberts am true or false.tl"I Man 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 lawsuitl" in federal court against Epstein, alleging that when she was a 16-
year-old minor in 20C4-2005, she was "reunited 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 S200 immediately afterward!" A similar 550 million suit was filed in March 2008 by a different woman, who was
reps: seated by the same lawyer.l" These and several similar lawsuits were dismissed. I"
All other lawsuits were settled by Epstein out of coun." Epstein has made many out-of-court settlements with alleged victims and, as of January 2015,
tame eases remain open.l"
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 I5ashowitz of sexually abusing a minor provided by Epstein.'" (See Two Jane
Does v. United Stares.) The allegations against DCTS11OWiti 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." I" 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'!JDI
Another woman, identified by the pseudonym "Katie Johnson" 1h1 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 w ye " g.
Trump was campaigning to become the Republican Party candidate for the office of U.S. President. Judges and
presided over the case against Epstein and Trump."
The suit, which Johnson had filed 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 tekphone 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 US. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
She excluded some of her previous accusations, such as that Trump threw money for an abortion at her and that he called Epstein a "Jew bastard".I "
Following a delay caused by the accuser failing to show that the defendants had been served with formal notice of the suiLl" the suit was voluntarily
dismissed on September 16.1411The woman's lawyer said she would re-tile 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".I"011 There was
no further information available on the allegations outside the claims made anonymously by the two women. They were not made available for contact by
the press.l" Civil rights lawyer and legal analyst Lisa Bloom wrote in a June 2016 !nog post for the Huffing:on Pose 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 Norm I.ubow, 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 celehrities".1`21
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 .Votl together with Bloom (whom the Doily Mad identified as her lawyer) and permitted photographs. Soon alter that. the woman dropped her lawsuit
tgainst Epstein and Trump on November 4, 2016.144"Emi The Deity Mad said their reporters were aware of the woman's identity but were honoring her
request to protect her 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"I
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In March 2017, some sources reported that President Donald Trump had been called as a witness in a new case against Epstein.
lawsuits
In January 2015, a 31-yore-old American woman1 . alleged in a sworn affidavit that at the age of 17, she had been held as a sex Slave by
Epstein. I lc uafficked her to several people, including Prince Andrew and Harvard Law prolessor Alan Uashowith She claimed that Epstein and others had
physically and sexually abused heel"'
She alleged that the FBI may have been involved in a cover-up."' Roberts said she served as Epstein's sex slave from 1999 to 2002, and recruited Miter
under-age girISPI Prince Andrew. Epstein and Dershowitz all deny having had sex with Roberts. DerthOwitz reportedly was taking legal action over the
allegationS.""°I A diary purported to belong to Roberts was published online.Sillsn 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!" As of 2016 these elaiMS had not been tested in any law court.le'll
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Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery
He's pals with a passel of Nobel Prbte—v, inning scientists, CEOs like Leslie Homer of the Limited, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell,
even Donald Trump. But It wasn't until he flew Bill Clinton, Kevin Spaccy, and Chris Tucker to Africa on his private Boeing ids. that
the world began to wonder who he b.
Bi L01331011”113.113 Jr. Maid sites Cis r.cestmess.
Ile comes with cash to burn a fleet of ariptanew and a lean ens for die
Indio; - to say nailing of a relentless brain that challenges Nobel Prize
-winning scientists across rite country and for financial markets
around the wofid liver since the Poses 'Page Sri' ran an same abort the
onside/ifs late-Sristertilier visit to Afrita with KtMn Spumy and Chris
Tucker — on his nrwbotericuir'l ewe raised Booing 727 the question
of the day has been 1Nmo in the workl is Jeffrey Epstein?
ti's a life ftgl of question marks. Epstein is said to run $15 Isillion (or
wealthy clients. yet aside from United founder Leslie Weiner. his
Cash Casual: haste:0
died list is a closely held secret A former Dalton math teacher, he
amino down. maintains a peripatetic salon of brdliais scientists yet PInserier no
bachelor's degree. For more than ten }wan. he's bens linked to
Manhattan-London society figure Ghislaitte Manrill.datighter of the myrieriotrity deceased meths, titan
Robert Maxwell. vet he lives theSleet a bachelor, togging 6nn hairs nyrar io his various planes as he
scours the world for ince:town! opponuniries. Ile owns what is said to be Manhattan's largest private
house yet nms his business (mm a too-arm private Wand in M. Thomas.
Poseur on Wall Sired has genentlly accrued to those who hate made their open bids (or it. Soros.
Warienatin. Knwis. Weill. The SWIM and Deans of their sueceries and failures has been plaw.ed out in
public. P-parin breaks the mold. Most everyone on the Street has heard of him. hot noboriv scents to
know what dse hell he is up to. Which is just the wav he likes it.
"My belkf ia that Jeff maimaisui some son of morriy.......mgdond firm. though you won't get a unites
',newer from him.' says one well.riansii 10VC.30t. lie mere told me Iri had goo proisk working for him.
and Ere 3130 heard that he manages Rod:genet aunt'. Rut one toner know,. It's like looking at the
Witted of Or there may be ten there than meets the de.'
Says another prominent Nall Streeter: 'Ile is this inymedous. Gotsbydque figure. He likes people to
think that he is very rich, and he eultivatin the. a' of lain ss The hole thing is weird.'
tie wizard that mitts the eye is spare and fit: with a long jaw and a camfully coiffed head ofr iled hair.
he looks like a taller. younger Ralph Lauren. A raspy itmoklyn accent betray, his Canty island origins,
Ile vent an hour and fifteen minutes every day {king arivanted yoga wish his pertr eal insinritnr. who
trawlswith him wherever Ix goes. He is an enthusiastic member of the Trilatemi Commission and the
Council on Foreirii Relations_
Ile drumlin casually -. *10131. open-necked shirts. and sneakers and is rarely trial in a tie. Indeed. than
dose to him 'ay the reason he quit his board seat at the Rockefeller Institute was that he hated wearing a
suit. "It feels like a dins.' be told one friencl
Epstein likes to till people that he's a loner. a man who's never touched *obit ov dnisis, and non weave
nightlife Is hat hoe energetic. And yet If you talk to Donald 'Entrap. a different Epiriein domes. 'fir
knew-nitrites fifteen years Lennie guy,"Tromp booms from a speakerphone. 'Ilris a Int of fun in be
with. It is even said that he likes beautiful %mown as much as I dn. and many of rim an. On the younger
side. No doubt abets it —Jeffrey enjoys his axial life:
Rot beautiful women are oak a pan Wit. Because hencs the thing about Epstein: As some collect
huttroilks. he nyllects beautiful min:W.1 own in people be it polities or science. Ifs what I do.' he
has said in friends. And his latest prise addition is the fornwr prdeident. In his eyes. Clinton as a species
represents the highest evolutionaryform of the political animal. To be up close to him. as he was during
the African journey. is skin to seeing the meat of beasts on a safari. As he put it to a friend upon his
return from Mies. `If >km were a boxer at the downtown vigils's/um at Lull Street and Mikerison
walked in. your lace would hasp the same leek as these foreign leaders had when Clinton entered the
room. Ile W the workts greatest politician.
Jeffrey is both 0 highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist with a keen rinse offglobal
markets and an in-depth kisowlydge of twyntrfirstrientun seklice." Clinton says through a spokesman.
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"I especially appreciated his InieNjus and generosity during the recent trip to Africa to mark on
dernotrataatiou. emputverim the 'ma. citizen sealer. and combating 'MAIDS:
Rehire Clinton. Epstein's rare appeal-awes in the gossip columns tended to he sperAation as to the time
nature of his relation:hip with Chislaine Marvell. While they am IOU! friends. the English tabloids have
postulated that klaxwell ha longed for a mom peon/ at palsies and that for undmerminett mamma
Epstein has not neipmeated in kind. "hX n mysterious tteatiottship that they have; says society
jountalin David Patrick Cohmthia, 'In one way. they are soli notes. 'el they are hardly companions
anymore. It's a nice conventional relationship. ..here they serveweb other's purposes;
Friends M the two sty that Mama, wham Writ' hie has always been higher-mane than Epsteins . lent
a link' pinata to the lourr.profile Epstein. Indeed, M n primal Maxwell's home, her (raids say, one is
jots its apt to See Russian labia:of the night SSW is to see Prince :midst's. the Oxfonlicducated
Maxwell, described by °tatty us a man-cuter (sbe flies her own behaves and was recently sam dining
with Clinton at Nell0 on Madison Avenue). lives in her oven tonithouse a few blocks any. Epstein is
frequently seen around tows: with a bevy of comely young women but diem has been no boldfaced name
to replace Maxwell You may mad shout Jeffrey in the social columns, but there Is much "sire to him
than that; mos JeffreyT. Leeds of the private equiW drm Wolk Weld ev Co -Iles a talented moor,:
manager and un extremely hardworking peon with brood interims. Mon IMMO]. though, Is that In
this media-obsessed age be ix not in any sense u self-promote.'
Born in WM and raised hi Coney Island. Epstein went to Lafayette High School. According to his bin,
he took mime &lam in physics at Cooper Union from 1969 to en. Ile Ott Cooper union in 1WJl and
attended NYlTs Clamant Institute, where he took courses in mathematical plosiologv of the beam
leaking that ailed. too. without a degree. Between uM3 and VMS. Epstein taught calm:lux and physics at
the Dalton Seho04.
By most accounts, he was something of a Robin Waliants-in-Dem/ Praia Soddy type of ft Lure, vowing
his high-school chum with passionate mathematical riffs. So Immersed was one Wall &rim father of a
student that he said to Epstein pointblank: '34/ 1tat ate you doing teaching math at Ihilione You should
he working on Wall Street why don't you give my friend Are Grernherg 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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