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5122a 2, 1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wikipedia WIKIPEDIA Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Edward Epstein (flpstin/ EP-steenAl January 20, 1953 — August to, 2019) was an American financier and Jeffrey Epstein convicted sex offender.13)[4] Epstein, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York Citr, began his professional life by teaching at the Dalton School in Manhattan, despite lacking a college degree. After his dismiccsl from the school, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles; he eventually started his own firm. Epstein developed an elite social circle and procured many women and children; he and some of his associates then sexually abused them Is&DNA. In zoo ice in Palm Beach Florida be an investi atin Epstein after a parent complained that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old dauv,hter.g. Epstein pleaded guilty and was Epstein's final mugshot, 2019 convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.a-9.1 He served Born Jeffrey Edward almost 13 months in custody, but with extensive work release. Epstein He was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a January 20, 1953 controversial plea deal; federal officials had identified 6 • New York City, New some as young as 4 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly York, U.S. sexually abused.RiEmi Died August 10, 2019 Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges (aged 66) for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New New York City, New York.1" ][1g—He died in his jail cell on August to, 2o1.9.D1-31 The York, U.S. medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.' Epstein's Cause of Suicide by hanging lawyers have disputed the ruling, and there has been death (disputed) significant public skepticism about the true cause of his death, Resting I. J. Morris Star of resulting in numerous conspiracy theories.paied Since place David Cemetery, Epstein's death precluded the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against him, a„judge dismissed all criminal charges on Palm Beach, Florida August 29, 2019 ['Epstein had a decades-long association Occupation Financier • broker - with the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, leading to her educator • socialite 2021 conviction on U.S. federal charges of sex trafficking and Title Owner of Jeffrey conspiracy for helping him procure girls, includin a 4-yeri Epstein VI old, for child sexual abuse and prostitution.' 19I[2o][21] 22 Foundation Epstein also maintained long-term relationships with various high-profile individuals, including Donald Trump, Leslie Criminal Procuring an Wexner, Bill Clinton Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew, charge underage girl for Duke of Yorke prostitution; sex trafficking Penalty 13 months with work [C-ontents release (2008) Early life Partner(s) Eva Andersson Career (early 1980s) httpsiren.v.iikipedia.orghelki/Jeffney_Epstein 1160 EFTA00263107 5/22/22, 1.31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wikipedia Teaching Ghislaine Maxwell Banking (late 1980s and Financial consulting 1990s) Towers Financial Corporation Details Financial management firm 36111 Victims Media activities Date July 6, 2019 Liquid Funding Ltd. apprehended (second criminal Investments case) Video recordings Website www.ieffreyepstein Legal proceedings .org (httpi/www.jeffr First criminal case eyepsteln.org/) Civil cases Second criminal case Inyestigatiqn in France Personal life Wealth Residences Political donations Philanthropy Interest in eugenics and transhumanism Death Autopsy Final will Burial Investigations In popular culture Notes and references Notes References I Further reading External links Early life Epstein was born in 1953 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His parents Pauline (née Stolofsky, 1918-2oo4)N-J and Seymour G. Epstein (1916-1991) were Jewish and had married in 1952 shortly before his birth.11 Pauline worked as a school aide and was a homeniaker.(2a261271[28] Seymour Epstein worked for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as a groundskeeper and gardener t'S11271 Jeffrey was the oldest of two siblings; he and his brother Mark grew up Aerial view of Epstein's childhood in the working-class neighborhood of Sea Gate, a private gated neighborhood of Sea Gate, Brooklyn community in Coney Island, BrooklynJ26i https://en.wikipedia.orp/wild/Jeffretgpstein 2./60 EFTA00263108 5/22/22, 1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wikipedia Epstein attended local public schools, first attending Public School 188, and then Mark Twain Junior High School nearby. gl In 1967, Epstein attended the National Music Camp at the Interlochen Center for the Axts.fa91 He began playing the piano when he was five.1321 He graduated in 1969 from Lafayette High School at age 16, having skipped two grades.(311[321 Later that year, he attended classes at Cooper Union until he changed colleges in 1.97113-1] From September 1971, he attended the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, but left without receiving a degree in June 1.974.131" 2-1 Career Teaching Epstein started working in September 1974 as a physics and mathematics teacher for teens at the Dalton SchooLon the Upper East Side of Manhattan.[M[331 Donald Barr, who served as the headmaster until June 1974, was known to have made several unconventional recruitments at the time, although it is unclear whether he had a direct role in hiring Epstein.(3331373[381 Three months after Barr's departure, Epstein began to teach at the school, despite his lack of credentials. s1 Epstein allegedly showed inappropriate behavior toward underage students at the time.(33][37] He became acquainted with Alan Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Bear Steams, whose son and daughter were attending the school. Greenberg's daughter, Lynne Koeppel, pointed to a parent-teacher conference where Epstein influenced another Dalton parent into advocating for him to Greenberg.(15-1 In June 1976, after Epstein was dismissed from Dalton for "poor performance",[333[393[03 Greenberg offered him a job at Bear Stearns.E3°R41 Banking Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader.M He swiftly moved up to become an options trader, working in the special products division, and then advised the bank's wealthiest clients, such as Seagram president Edgar Bronfman, on tax mitigation strategies.b2H43)[44 Jimmy Cayne, the bank's later chief executive officer, praised Epstein's skill with wealthy clients and complex products. In 1980, four years after joining Bear Stearns, Epstein became a limited partner.A In 1981, he was asked to leave Bear Stearns for, according to his sworn testimony, being guilty of a "Reg D violation".(451 321130) Even though Epstein departed abruptly, he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and was a client of Bear Stearns until its collapse in 2ootial Financial consulting In August 1981, Epstein founded his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc. (IAG),1461 which assisted clients in recovering stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers.E3"1 Epstein described his work at this time as being a high-level bounty hunter. He told friends that he worked sometimes as a consultant for governments and the very wealthy to recover embezzled funds, while at other times he worked for clients who had embezzled fimds.a9-1[421 Spanish actress and heiress was one such wealthy client, whom Epstein helped in 1982 to recover her father's millions in lost investments, which had disappeared when Drysdale Government Securities collapsed because of fraud.M1 httpslien.wikipedia.orghviki/Jeffrey_Epstein EFTA00263109 5/22/22, 1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wildpedie Epstein also stated to some people at the time that he was an intelligence agent[493 During the 1980s, Epstein possessed an Austrian passport that had his photo, but with a false name. The pssr_t showed his place of residence in Saudi Arabia-W*5'J In 2017 "a former senior White House official" reported that Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who had handled Epstein's criminal case in 2008, had stated to Trump transition interviewers, that "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to 'leave it alone'", and that Epstein was "above his pay grade".[521[531 Epstein in 1980 During this period, one of Epstein's clients was the Saudi Arabian businessman Adnan Khashoggi, who was the middleman in transferring American weapons from Israel to Iran, as part of the Iran-Contra affair in the 1.980s.N-Khashoggi was one of several defense contractors that he knew (3°1[49] In the mid- 19805, Epstein traveled multiple times between the United States, Europe, and Southwest Asia.(5°1[50 While in London, Epstein met Steven Hoffenberg. They had been introduced through Douglas Leese, a defense contractor, and John Mitchell, the former U.S. Attorney General.Ll°1 Towers Financial Corporation Steven Hoffenberg hired Epstein in 19872 as a consultant for Towers Financial Corporation (unaffiliated with the company of the same name founded in 1998, and acquired by Old National Bancorp in 201.4),IM-1 e agency that bought debts people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies.1551[56 Hoffenberg set Epstein up in offices in the "Villard Houses" in Manhattan and paid him US$23,000 per month for his consulting work (equivalent to $60,000 in 2o21).E3LA Hoffenberg and Epstein then refashioned themselves as corporate raiders using Towers Financial as their raiding vessel. One of Epstein's first assignments for Hoffenberg was to implement what turned out to be an unsuccessful bid to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987. A similar unsuccessful bid in 1988,was made to take over Emery Air Freight Corp. During this period, Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg's private jet.1321 In 1993, Towers Financial Corporation imploded when it was revealed as being one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in American history, losing its investors over US$43o million (equivalent to $844,126,000 in 2021).(a21 In court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately involved in the scheme.M[58] Epstein left the company by 1989 and was never charged for being involved with the massive investor fraud committed. It is unknown if Epstein acquired any stolen funds from the Towers Ponzi scheme.M Financial management firm In 1988, while Epstein was still consulting for Hoffenberg, he founded his own financial management firm, J. Epstein & Company. 6 6 The company was said by Epstein to have been formed to manage the assets of clients with more than US$1 billion in net worth, although others have expressed skepticism that he was restrictive of the clients that he took.134 https://enmikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein 4/60 EFTA00263110 5122/22.1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wildest/a The only publicly known billionaire client of Epstein was Leslie Wexner, chairman and CEO of L Brands (formerly The Limited, Inc.) and Victoria's Secret.(3°)[593 In 1986, Epstein met Wexner through their mutual acquaintances, insurance executive Robert Meister and his wife, in Palm Beach, Florida. A year later, Epstein became Wexner's financial adviser and served as his right-hand man. Within the year, Epstein had sorted out Wexner's entangled finances.[321(O01 In July 1991, Epstein managed Wexner's wealth Wexner granted Epstein full power of attorney over his affairs. and different projects such as the The power of attorney allowed Epstein to hire people, sign building of his yacht the checks, buy and sell properties, borrow money, and do Limitless.M anything else of a legally binding nature on Wexner's behalf.M By 1995, Epstein was a director of the Wexner Foundation and Wexner Heritage Foundation. He was also the president of Wexner's Property, which developed part of the town of New Albany outside Columbus, Ohio, where Wexner lived. Epstein made millions in fees by managing Wexner's financial affairs. Although never employed by L Brands, he corresponded frequently with the company executives. Epstein often attended Victoria's Secret fashion shows, and hosted the models at his New York City home, as well as helping aspiring models get work with the company.r§p1F611 In 1996, Epstein changed the name of his firm to the Financial Trust Company[321 and, for tax advantages, based it on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. By relocating to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Epstein was able to reduce federal income taxes by 90 percent. The U.S. Virgin Islands acted as an offshore tax haven, while at the same time offering the advantages of being part of the United States banking system. Media activities In 2003, Epstein bid to acquire New York magazine.M Other bidders included advertising executive Donny Deutsch, investor Nelson Peitz, media mogul and New York Daily News publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, and film producer Harvey Weinstein. The ultimate buyer was Bruce Wasserstein, a longtime Wall Street investment banker, who paid US$5,5 million.P-1 6 In 2004, Epstein and Zuckerman committed up to US$25 million to finance Radar, a celebrity and pop culture magazine founded by Maer Roshan. Epstein and Zuckerman were equal partners in the venture. Roshan, as its editor-in-chief, retained a small ownership stake. It folded after three issues as a print publication and became exclusively an online one.M Liquid Funding Ltd. Epstein was the president of the company Liquid Funding Ltd. between 2000 and 2007.1651[661 The company was an early pioneer in expanding the kind of debt that could be accepted on repurchase, or the repo market, which involves a lender giving money to a borrower in exchange for securities that the borrower then agrees to buy back at an agreed-upon later time and price. The innovation of Liquid Funding, and other early companies, was that instead of having stocks and bonds as the underlying securities, it had commercial mortgages and investment-grade residential mortgages bundled into complex securities as the underlying security.M https://en.wikipedia.onywiki/Jeffrey_Epstein EFTA00263111 . 5122/22. 1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wikipedia Liquid Funding was initially 4o percent owned by Bear Stearns. Through the help of the credit rating agencies - Standard & Poor's, Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service — the new bundled securities were able to be created for companies so that they got a gold-plated AAA rating. The implosion of such complex securities, because of their inaccurate ratings, led to the collapse of Bear Stearns in March 2008 and set in motion the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the subsequent Great Recession. If Liquid Funding were left holding large amounts of such securities as collateral, it could have lost large amounts of money.MX Investments Hedge funds Between 2002 and 2005, Epstein invested $8o million in the D.B. Zwirn Special Opportunities Fund, a hedge fund that invested in illiquid debt securities (6O 691 In November 2006, Epstein attempted to redeem his investment after he was informed of accounting irregularities in the fund. o1 By this time, his investment had grown to $140 million. The D.B. Zwirn fund refused to redeem the investment. Hedge funds that invest in illiquid securities typically have years-long lockups* on their capital for all investors and require redemption requests to be made in writing 6o to 90 days in advanceJl The fund was closed in 2008, and its remaining assets of approximately $2 billion, including Epstein's investment, were transferred to Fortress Investment Group when that firm bought the assets in 2009.[681 69) Epstein later went to arbitration with Fortress over his redemption attempt. The outcome of that arbitration is not publicly 'mown.Vgg In August 2006, Epstein, a month after the federal 1.1•011. • investigation of him began,[Thi invested $57 million in the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage hedge fund.Wilini This fund was highly leveraged in ...a*a mortgage-backed collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).LTA •I au. On April i8, 2007, an investor in the fund, who had I On • as :as $57 million invested, discussed redeeming his investmentiN 'Jr: rt . NO ' Mr The government began negotiation At this time, the fund had a leverage ratio of r7a, which meant with Epstein for a plea agreement in for every dollar invested there were seventeen dollars of mid-2007, as the hedge fund began borrowed funds; therefore, the redemption of this investment to collapse. would have been equivalent to removing $1 billion from the thinly traded CDO market.12-41 The selling of CDO assets to meet the redemptions that month began a repricing process and general freeze in the CDO market. The repricing of the CDO assets caused the collapse of the fund three months later in July, and the eventual cow of Bear Stearns in March 2008. It is likely Epstein lost most of this investment, but it is not known how much was his.t73J172I By the time that the Bear Stearns fund began to fail in May 2007, Epstein had begun to negotiate a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney's Office concerning imminent charges for sex with minors.(681[713 In August 2007, a month after the fund collapsed, the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, entered into direct disdissions about the plea agreementJal Acosta brokered a lenient deal, according to him, because he had been ordered by higher government officials, who told him that Epstein was an individual of importance to the government(52)1 As part of the negotiations, according to the Miami Herald, Epstein provided "unspecified information" to the Florida federal prosecutors for a more lenient sentence and was supposedly an unnamed key witness for the New York federal prosecutors in their unsuccessful June 2008 criminal case against the two managers https.//en.wkipedia.orghviki/Jeffrey_Epstein EFTA00263112 5/22/22, 1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wikipedia of the failed Bear Stearns hedge fund. Alan Dershowitz, one of Epstein's Florida attorneys on the case, told Fox Business Network "We would have been touti that if he had [cooperated]. The idea that Epstein helped in any prosecution is news to me."[' 68 Israeli startup In 2015, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Epstein invested in the startup Reporty Homeland Security (rebranded as Carbyne in 2018).(Z61(717131 The startup is connected with Israel's defense industry. It is headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also at one time the defense minister, and chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The CEO of the company is Amir Elihai who was a special forces officer, and Pinchas Bukhris, who is a director of the company, was at one time the defense ministry director general and commander of the IDF cyber unit 8200.E Epstein and Barak, the head of Carbyne, were dose, and Epstein often offered him lodging at one of his apartment units at 301 East 66th Street in Manhattan.ta°li$'1 Epstein had past experience with Israel's research and military sector. Ss In April 2008, he went to Israel and met with a number of research scientists and visited different Israeli military bases. 82 During this trip, he thought about staying in Israel in order to avoid trial, and possible jail, for charges he was facing for sex crimes; however, he opted to return to the United StatesP Video recordings Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his properties to allegedly record sexual activity with underage girls by prominent people for criminal purposes such as blackmail $ Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's close companion, told a Mend that Epstein's private island in the Virgin Islands was completely wired for video and the friend believed that Maxwell and Epstein were videotaping everyone on the island as an insurance policy.185J When police raided his Palm Beach residence in 2006, two hidden pinhole cameras were discovered in his home. 86 It was also reported that Epstein's mansion in New York was wired extensively with a video surveillance system.Q3Z1 an artist who worked for Epstein in 1996, noted that Epstein showed her a media room in the New York mansion where there were individuals monitoring the pinhole cameras throughout the house. The media room was accessed through a hidden door. She stated that in the media room "there were men sitting here. And I looked on the cameras, and I saw toilet, toilet, bed, bed, toilet, bed." She added that "It was very obvious that they were, like, monitoring private moments."1-21 Epstein allegedly lent" girls toyowerful people to ingratiate himself with them and also to gain possible blackmail information. 891 According to the Department of Justice, he kept compact discs locked in his safe in his New York mansion with handwritten labels that included the descnption: "young [name] + [name]' .bq Epstein implied that he had blackmail material when he told a New York Times reporter in 2018, off the record, that he had dirt on powerful people, including information about their sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.1211 Legal proceedings First criminal case Initial developments (2OO5-2OO6) https://en.wikipedia.orghinki/Jeffrey_Epstein 7/60 EFTA00263113 . 5r22122.131 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wildpedia In March 2005, a woman contacted Florida's Palm Beach Police Department and alleged that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been taken to Epstein's mansion by an older girl. While there, she was allegedly paid $300 (equivalent to $42o in 2O21) to strip and massage Epstein OA She had allegedly undressed, but left the encounter wearing her underwear.(93) Palm Beach Police began a 13-month undercover investigation of Epstein, including a search of his home.N[94] During the investigation, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter publicly accused the Palm Beach County state prosecutor, Barry ICrischer, of being too lenient and called for help from the FBI.[J Epstein's 2006 mugshot The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) then became involved. Subsequently, the police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to perform sexual acts with him 1139-1 Interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, a high-school transcript and other items found in Epstein's trash and home allegedly showed that [ some of the girls involved were under 18, the youngest being 14, with many under 16.(951 96] The police search of Epstein's home found two hidden cameras and large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house some of whom the police had interviewed in the course of their investigation.La , a former model from Poland who became an Epstein assistant, reportedly removed computer drives and other electronic equipment from the financier's Florida mansion before Palm Beach Police searched the home as part of their investigation.M The court documents record that a search of Epstein's residence by Palm Beach Police detective Joseph Recarey in 2005 uncovered an incriminating Amazon receipt containing books on S&M. The books he ordered are titled: SM ion A Realistic Introduction, SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude — Principles, Skills and Tools and Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and Their Owners.1-9-§] A former employee told the police that Epstein would receive massages three times a day.[231 Eventually the FBI compiled reports on "34 confirmed minors" eligible for restitution (increased to detaiLs.(291 40 in the NPA) whose allegations of sexual abuse by Epstein included corroborating Julie Brown's 2018 exposés in the Miami Herald identified about 8o victims and located about 6o n. 11-70[100 She quotes the then police chief Reiter as sayin "This was 5o-something 'shes' -of ti;71 and one 'he'—and the 'shes' all basically told the same story:ill Details from the investigation included allegations that 12-year-old triplets were flown in from France for Epstein's birthday, and flown back the following day after being sexually abused by the financier. It was alleged that young girls were recruited from Brazil and other South American countries, former Soviet countries, and Europe, and that Jean-Luc Brunel's "MC2" modeling agency was also supplying girls to Epstein.jsatoi][Kai In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed a probable cause affidavit saying that Epstein should be 3] charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one count of sexual abuse.1933[1° On July 27, 2006, Epstein was arrested by the Palm Beach Police Department on state felony charges of procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of a prostitute. He was booked atr the Palm Islivlite4X1051 State prosecuto Krischer Beach County jail and later released on a $3,000 bond. later convened a Palm 'leach County d jury, which was usually only done in capital cases. Presented evidence from only two victims, the grand jury returned a single charge of felony solicitation of prostitution, 9-0 to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2oo6.(1137) Epstein's defense lawyers included Roy Black, Gerald Lefcourt, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, and former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr.ril°1 Linguist Steven Pinker also assisted 1O https://en.wikipedia.orgiwki/Jetfrey_Epstein EFTA00263114 5/22/22, 1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wikipedia Non-prosecution agreement (NPA) (2006-2008) In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed "Operation Leap year".Cal It resulted in a 53-page indictment in June 2007.1,21Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal, which Alan Dershowitz helped to negotiate,tud to grant immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators and any unnamed "potential co-conspirators". According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes". At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald said: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that The controversial non- the deal would be kept from the victims."IU prosecution agreement Acosta later said-he offered a lenient plea deal because he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence", was "above his pay grade" and to "leave it 2115,S2j Epstein agreed to plead guilty in Florida state court to two felony prostitution charges, serve i8 months in prison, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI.M891The plea deal was later described as a "sweetheart deal" (1131 A federal judge later found that the prosecutors had violated External video the victims' rights in that they had concealed the agreement Documentary: Who is Jeffrey from the victims and instead urged them to have Epstein, accused of sexually "patience".1141(115) abusing teen girls? (https:f/www.you According to an internal review conducted by the Department tube .com/watch?v=1jDPzW9C0s1.)/ of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, which was Perversion of Justice, Miami Herald, released in November 2020, Acosta showed "poor judgment" November 29, 2018. in granting Epstein a non-prosecution agreement and failing to notify Epstein's alleged victims about this agreement.EMO Conviction and sentencing (2008-2011) On June 3o, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18,tu I he was sentenced to i8 months in prison. While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriffs office, was after 3Y2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriffs own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of to months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours.E15'431 Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a television was installed for him, btfore he was moved to the Stockade's previously unstaffed infirmary. He worked at the office of a foundation he had created shortly before reporting to jail; he dissolved it after he had served his time. The Sheriffs Office received $128,000 from Epstein's non-profit to pay for the costs of extra services being provided during his work release. His office was monitored by "permit deputies" whose overtime was paid by Epstein. They were required to wear suits, and checked in "welcomed guests" at the "front desk". Later the Sheriffs Office said these guest logs were destroyed per the department's "records retention" rules (although inexplicably the Stockade visitor logs were not).ELIB He was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments [1001(1181 9/60 https://en.wildpedia.orgamikitleffrey_Epstein EFTA00263115 5122122,1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wddpedia Epstein served almost 13 months before being released on July 22, 2009, for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010.11191[120]11211 While on probation he was allowed numerous trips on his corporate jet to his residences in Manhattan and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was allowed long shopping trips and to walk around Palm Beach "for exercise" DIM After a contested hearing in January 2011, and an appeal, he stayed registered in New York State as a "level three" (high risk of repeat offense) sex offender, a lifelong designation.I122N1231 At that hearing the Manhattan District Attorney argued unsuengsfully that the level should be reduced to a low-risk level one" and was chided by the judge. Despite opposition from Epstein's lawyer that he had a "main" home in the U.S. Virgin Islands;the judge confirmed he personally must check in with the New York Police Department every 90 days. Epstein in 2013, photographed for Though Epstein had been a level-three registered sex offender the sex offender registry in New York since 2010, the New York Police Department never enforced the 90-day regulation, though non-compliance is a felony.M Reactions The immunity agreement and his lenient treatment were the subject of ongoing public dispute. The Palm Beach police chief accused the state of giving him preferential treatment,E9-2-1 and the Miami Herald said U.S. Attorney Acosta gave Epstein "the deal of a lifetime".W Following Epstein's arrest in Jul7 2019, on sex trafficking charges, Acosta resigned as Secretary of Labor effective July 19, 2019.1 After the accusations became public, several persons and institutions returned donations that they had received from Epstein, including Eliot Spitzer, Bill Ftichardson,(1251 and the Palm Beach Police Department.[96] Harvard University announced it would not return any money.Ensi Various charitable donations that Epstein had made to finance children's education were also questioned. 11 On June 18, 2010, Epstein's former house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, was sentenced to 18 months' incarceration after being convicted on an obstruction charge for failing to turn over to police, and subsequently trying to sell a journal in which he had recorded Epstein's activities. FBI Special Agent Christina Pryor reviewed the material and agreed it was information "that would have been extremely useful in investigating and prosecuting the case, including names and contact information of material witnesses and additional victims 41263(127] Civil cases Jane Does v. Epstein (2008) External video On February 6, 2008, an anonymous Virginia woman, known How teen runaway 121 in as Jane Doe No. 2, filed a $50-million civil lawsuit became one of Jeffrey federal court against Epstein, saying that when she was a 16- Epstein's victims (https://www.youtu year-old minor in 2004-05, she was "recruited to give be.corn/watch?v=ciLAzub0pOtg) 10'60 innos.fien.wthipeclia.orgiwantJeffreY_EPfftnin EFTA00263116 . 5/22/22, 1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein • Wilepedia Epstein a massage". She claims she was taken to his mansion, Perversion of Justice, Miami Herald, where he exposed himself and had sexual intercourse with November 30, 2018. her, and paid her $200 immediately afterward.Jio6 A similar $50-million suit was filed in March 2008, by a different woman, who was represented by the same lawyer.[' l These and several similar lawsuits were dismissed.! 3° All other lawsuits have been settled by Epstein out of court.(1321 Epstein made many out-of-court settlements with alleged victims (23°) Victims' rights: Jane Does v. United States (2014) A December 30, 2014, federal civil suit was filed in Florida by Jane Doe ( and Jane Doe 2 against the United States for violations of the Crime Victims' Rights Act by the U.S. Department of Justice's N and his limited 2008 state plea. There was a later unsuccessful effort to add (Jane Doe 3) and another woman (Jane Doe 4) as plaintiffs to that case.inal The addition accused Alan Dershowitz of sexually abusing a minor, Jane Doe 3, provided by Epstein ['331 The allegations against Dershowitz were stricken by the judge and eliminated from the case because he said they were outside the intent of the suit to re-open the plea agreement51341351 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".036-I This long-running lawsuit is pending in federal court, aimed at vacating the federal plea agreement on the grounds that it violated victims' rights-WA On An it 7, 2015, Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that the allegations made by alleged victim I I against Prince Andrew had no bearing on the lawsuit by alleged victims seeking to reopen Epstein's non-prosecution plea agreement with the federal government; the judge ordered that 11 to be struck from the record. all Judge Marra made no ruling as to whether claims by are true or false. Though he did not allow Jane Does 3 and 4 to join the suit, Marra specifically said that may later give evidence when the case comes to court [1381 On February 21, 2019, in the case of Two Jane Does v. United States, Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Kenneth Marra said federal prosecutors violated the law by falling to notify victims before they allowed him to plead guilty to only the two Florida [139] offenses. The judge left open what the possible remedy could be. v. Epstein (2015) External video In a December 2014 Florida court filing by Bradley Edwards 1 Where are they now? The and Paul G. Cassell meant for incluti in the Crime Victims the Jeffrey Rights Act lawsuit,EHLA (then known as biggest players in Epstein case (hups://www.youtube.c , alleged in a sworn affidavit that at age 17, om/watch?v=yPjnercJqs1) she had been sexually trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for their own use and for use by several others, Perversion of Justice, The Miami including Prince Andrewfi1 and retired Harvard Law Herald, November 29, 2018. professor Alan Dershowitz.M3421 also claimed that Epstein, Maxwell and others had physically and sexually she abused herP431 She alleged that the FBI may have been involved in a cover-up. H41 She said[' 451 had served as Epstein's sex slave from 1999 to 2002, and had recruited other underage girls. Prince Andrew, Epstein, and Dershowitz all d having had sex with Dershowitz took legal action over the allegationsP46][147][1481 filed a defamation suit against Dershowitz, 11/60 https://en.wikipeclia.orgNnkikleffrey Epstein EFTA00263117 5122122,1:31 PM Jeffrey Epstein - lupedta claiming he purposeful) made and malicious defamatotyptatements" about herkll A diary purported to belso was published online.1491[15°,1 Epstein entered an out-of-court settlement with M., as he had done in several other lawsuits. In 2019, was interviewed by the BBC's Panorama where she continued to attest that Epstein had trafficked her to Prince Andrew - 7A She appealed directly to the public by stating "I implore the people in the UK to stand up beside me, to help me fight this fight, to not accept this as being ok."U1-] As of 2016, these accusations had not been tested in any court of law.M. v. Ghislaine Maxwell (2015) As a result of allegations and Maxwell's comments about them, sued Maxwell for defamation in September 2015. After much legal confrontation, the case was settled under seal in May 2017. The Miami Herald, other media, and Alan Dershowitz filed to have the documents about the settlement unsealed. After the judge dismissed their request, the matter was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[k531 On March 11, 2019, in the appeal otct judge's refusal to unseal the documents relating to the 2017 defamation settlement of v. Maxwell, the Second Circuit Court gave parties one tri week to provide good cause as to why they should remain under seal, without which they would be unsealed on March 19, 2019. Later the Court ordered these documents to be unsealed (after having them redacted to protect innocent parties). In testimony, she claims that she was "directed" by Maxwell to give erotic massages and engage in sexual activities with Prince Andrew; Jean-Luc Brunel; Glenn Dubin; Marvin Minsky; Governor Bill Richardson; another unnamed prince; an unnamed foreign president; "a well known Prime Minister"; and an unnamed hotel chain owner from Fsi aong others.L1541 The deposition does not claim that any of these men in fact engaged with and as of August 2019, none of these men have been indicted or sued for related sex crimes. 154 testified, "my whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy. Their whole entire lives revolved around sex:4154153i On August 9, less than 24 hours before Epstein's death, 2,000 pages of previously sealed documents from the case were released. Two sets of additional sealed documents will be analyzed by a federal judge to determine whether they should also be made public. A "John Doe" asked the judge on September 3 to permanently keep the documents secret, claiming "unproven allegations of impropriety" could damage his reputation, though he had no evidence his name was included.i155] Jane Doe v. Epstein and Trump (2016) A federal lawsuit filed in California in April 2016, against Epstein and Donald Trump by a California woman alleged that the two men sexually assaulted her at a series of parties at Epstein's Manhattan residence in 1994, when she was 13 years old. The suit was dismissed by a federal judge in May 2016 because it did not raise valid claims under federal law. The woman filed another federal suit in New York in June 2016, but it was withdrawn three months later, apparently r without being served ontthe defendants. A third federal suit was filed in New York in Septembe 2016. ns The two latter suits included affidavits by an anonymous witness who attested to the accusatio us in the suits, asserting Epstein employed her to procure underage girls for him, and an anonymo person who declared the plaintiff had told him/her about the assaults at the time they occurred. The plaintiff, who had filed anonymously as Jane Doe, was scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles Lisa press conference six days before the 2016 election, but abruptly canceled the event; her lawyer 12/60 Rene wilting/11A nmhvikitleffrev Enstein EFTA00263118 5/22(22. 131 PM Jeffrey Epstein - Wkipedia Bloom asserted that the woman had received threats. The suit was dropped on November 4, 2016. Trump attorney Alan Garten denied the allegations, while Epstein declined to comment [1.56][1s7lI15811159l11601 v. Epstein and Maxwell (2017) In 2017, filed a suit against Epstein and Maxwell, alleging that Maxwell had