Jeffrey Epstein is an American financer and registered sex offender! He was arrested on July 6, 2019!
So let’s find out some more trivia and facts about him!
- His full name is Jeffrey Edward Epstein
- He was born in January 20, 1953
- He is an American financier and registered sex offender
- Epstein began his career in finance at the investment bank Bear Stearns
- Before forming his own firm, J. Epstein & Co.
- Until his conviction for sex crimes in 2008, Epstein was a well-connected multimillionaire who moved among the financial, political, and cultural elite of society
- In 2005, the Palm Beach police in Florida began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he molested her 14-year-old daughter
- Epstein eventually pled guilty and was convicted in a Florida state court in 2008 of soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an under 18 girl for prostitution
- He served 13 months in custody with work release
- As part of a plea deal
- Where federal officials had identified 36 girls as young as 14-years old who had been molested
- Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York
- Epstein was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents
- They were Pauline and Seymour G. Epstein
- Epstein’s parents were married in 1952
- Shortly before his birth
- Pauline worked as a school aide and was a homemaker
- Seymour Epstein worked for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as a groundskeeper and gardener
- Jeffrey Epstein is the older of two siblings
- Epstein and his brother Mark grew up in Sea Gate, Coney Island, Brooklyn
- In 1967, Epstein attended the National Music Camp at the Interlochen Center for the Arts
- He graduated in 1969 from Lafayette High School at age 16 having skipped two grades
- Later that year, he attended classes at Cooper Union until he changed colleges in 1971
- From September 1971, he attended the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
- But left without receiving a degree in June 1974
- Previous long term girlfriends associated with Epstein include publishing heir Ghislaine Maxwell
- Whom he met in 1992
- Maxwell was implicated by several of Epstein’s accusers as procuring or recruiting underage girls in addition to once being Epstein’s girlfriend
- According to the Wall Street Journal, in a 2009 deposition, several of Epstein’s household employees testified that Maxwell had a central role in both his public and private life
- Referring to her as his “main girlfriend” who also handled the hiring, supervising, and firing of staff starting around 1992
- In 1995, Epstein renamed one of his companies the Ghislaine Corporation in Palm Beach, Florida
- The company was later dissolved in 1998
- In the year 2000, as reported by The New York Times, Maxwell moved into a 7,000-square-foot townhouse, less than 10 blocks from Epstein’s New York mansion
- This townhome was purchased for $4.95 million by an anonymous limited liability company
- With an address that matches the office of J. Epstein & Co. Representing the buyer was Darren Indyke, Epstein’s longtime lawyer
- In a 2003, Vanity Fair exposé, Epstein simply refers to Maxwell as “my best friend”
- Epstein was a longtime acquaintance of Prince Andrew and Tom Barrack
- And has attended parties with many prominent people
- Including Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump,[130] Katie Couric, and Woody Allen
- His contacts also included Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and British prime minister Tony Blair.
- Both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump claimed that they never visited Epstein’s island
- Epstein owned a private Boeing 727 jet, nicknamed “Lolita Express” by the press, and traveled in it frequently, logging “600 flying hours a year (…) usually with guests on board”
- In September 2002, Epstein flew Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker to Africa in his private jet
- Flight records show Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane 26 times to at least a dozen international locations
- Flight logs did not list any secret service detail for five flights
- A Clinton spokesperson later stated Clinton took four trips on Epstein’s airplane
- Making stops on three continents, all with his staff and Secret Service detail
- In a profile of Epstein in New York magazine in 2002, former Democratic Senate leader George J. Mitchell said of Epstein, “I would certainly call him a friend and a supporter”
- In the same article, Donald Trump remarked, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life”
- In July 2019, Trump said “I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him,” stating four times he had not been “a fan” of Epstein and that he had not spoken to him in about fifteen years
- Video surfaced that month showing the two men partying together at Mar-a-Lago in 1992
- By 2007, Epstein was reported to have been banned from Trump’s club
- The ban allegation was included in court documents filed by attorney Bradley Edwards
- Although Edwards later said it was a rumor he tried but failed to confirm
- Bill Clinton lauded Epstein as “a committed philanthropist” with “insights and generosity”
- At the time Epstein was on the board of Rockefeller University, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations
- And was a major donor to Harvard University
- From 1989 up until 2003, Epstein donated more than $139,000 to Democratic federal candidates and committees
- And over $18,000 to Republican candidates and groups
- In April 2003, New York magazine reported Epstein hosted a dinner party in his Manhattan residence to honor Bill Clinton
- Who did not attend, although Trump did attend
- According to New York magazine, in 2008 when Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting prostitution, his lawyers stated he was a billionaire with a net worth of over one billion dollars
- A number of sources, however, have questioned the extent of Epstein’s wealth and his status as a billionaire
- According to an article in The New York Times, his “fortune may be more illusion than fact”
- Epstein lost “large sums of money” in the 2008 financial crisis, and “friends and patrons”
- Including retail billionaire Leslie H. Wexner, “deserted him” following his pleading guilty to prostitution charges in 2008
- New York magazine claimed that “there’s scant proof” of Epstein’s “financial bona fides”
- And Forbes also ran an article entitled “Why sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is not a billionaire”
- Spencer Kuvin, an attorney for three of Epstein’s alleged victims in the case where Epstein pleaded guilty to sexual activity with minors, stated that “he and his team ‘pursued every possible angle’ to find out Epstein’s net worth but found that much of his wealth is offshore”
- An investigation by the Miami Herald of the Swiss Leaks documents indicated that Epstein had multiple financial accounts with millions of dollars in offshore tax havens
- In the Paradise Papers, records showed that Epstein in February 1997 became a client of Appleby
- A Bermuda based law firm which specialized in the creation of offshore companies and investment vehicles for the ultra-wealthy
- A client profile of Epstein described his job cryptically as the “Manager of Fortune”
- Federal prosecutors on July 12, 2019 stated in court documents, that based on records from one financial institution
- That Jeffrey Epstein was “extravagantly wealthy” and had assets worth at least $500 million and earned more than $10 million a year
- The extent of his wealth, however, was not known since he had not filled out a financial affidavit for his bail application
- According to Bloomberg, “Today, so little is known about Epstein’s current business or clients that the only things that can be valued with any certainty are his properties”
- The Miami Herald in their investigation of the Paradise Papers and Swiss Leaks documents concluded that Epstein’s wealth is likely spread secretly across the globe
- On July 8, 2019, prosecutors with the Public Corruption Unit of the Southern District of New York charged him with sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex
- Court documents allege that at least 40 underage girls were brought into Epstein’s mansion for sexual encounters
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