127 Facts About Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.

Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a controversial plea deal, and served almost 13 months in custody but with extensive work release.

Jeffrey Epstein died in his jail cell on August 10,2019.

Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers have disputed the ruling, and there has been significant public skepticism about the true cause of his death, resulting in numerous conspiracy theories.

Since Jeffrey Epstein's death precluded the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against him, a judge dismissed all criminal charges on August 29,2019.

Jeffrey Epstein was born on January 20,1953, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

Jeffrey Epstein was the older of two siblings; he and his brother Mark grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Sea Gate, a private gated community in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

Jeffrey Epstein was referred to as "Bear" by his parents while Mark was known as "Puggie".

Jeffrey Epstein attended local public schools, first attending Public School 188, and then Mark Twain Junior High School nearby and usually earned money by tutoring classmates.

In 1967, Jeffrey Epstein attended the National Music Camp at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Jeffrey Epstein began playing the piano when he was five, and was regarded as a talented musician by friends.

Jeffrey Epstein graduated in 1969 from Lafayette High School at age 16, having skipped two grades.

At age 21, Jeffrey Epstein started working in September 1974 as a physics and mathematics teacher for teens at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Three months after Barr's departure, Jeffrey Epstein began to teach at the school, despite his lack of credentials.

Jeffrey Epstein allegedly showed inappropriate behavior toward underage female students at the time, paying them constant attention, and even showing up at a party where young people were drinking, according to a former student.

Greenberg's daughter, Lynne Koeppel, pointed to a parent-teacher conference where Jeffrey Epstein influenced another Dalton parent into advocating for him to Greenberg.

In June 1976, after Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed from Dalton for "poor performance", Greenberg offered him a job at Bear Stearns.

Jeffrey Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader.

Jeffrey Epstein 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.

In 1980, four years after joining Bear Stearns, Jeffrey Epstein became a limited partner.

In 1981, Jeffrey Epstein was asked to leave Bear Stearns for, according to his sworn testimony, being guilty of a "Reg D violation".

Jeffrey Epstein described his work at this time as being a high-level bounty hunter.

Jeffrey Epstein 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 funds.

Spanish actress and heiress Ana Obregon was one such wealthy client, whom Jeffrey Epstein helped in 1982 to recover her father's millions in lost investments, which had disappeared when Drysdale Government Securities collapsed because of fraud.

Jeffrey Epstein stated to some people at the time that he was an intelligence agent.

Hoffenberg and Jeffrey Epstein then refashioned themselves as corporate raiders using Towers Financial as their raiding vessel.

In court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was intimately involved in the scheme.

Jeffrey Epstein left the company by 1989 and was never charged for involvement in the massive investor fraud committed.

Jeffrey Epstein was said by Epstein to have been formed to manage the assets of clients with more than billion in net worth, although others have expressed skepticism that he was restrictive of the clients that he took.

In 1986, Jeffrey Epstein met Wexner through their mutual acquaintances, insurance executive Robert Meister and his wife, in Palm Beach.

The power of attorney allowed Jeffrey Epstein to hire people, sign checks, buy and sell properties, borrow money, and do anything else of a legally binding nature on Wexner's behalf.

Jeffrey Epstein managed Wexner's wealth and various projects such as the building of his yacht, the Limitless.

Jeffrey Epstein was the president of Wexner's Property, which developed part of the town of New Albany outside Columbus, Ohio, where Wexner lived.

Jeffrey Epstein made millions in fees by managing Wexner's financial affairs.

Jeffrey 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.

In 1996, Jeffrey 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 US Virgin Islands.

Jeffrey Epstein was the president of the company Liquid Funding Ltd.

Jeffrey Epstein 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.

In November 2006, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to redeem his investment after he was informed of accounting irregularities in the fund.

The fund was closed in 2008, and its remaining assets of approximately $2billion, including Jeffrey Epstein's investment, were transferred to Fortress Investment Group when that firm bought the assets in 2009.

Jeffrey Epstein later went to arbitration with Fortress over his redemption attempt.

Acosta brokered a lenient deal, according to him, because he had been ordered by higher government officials, who told him that Jeffrey Epstein was an individual of importance to the government.

The idea that Jeffrey Epstein helped in any prosecution is news to me.

In 2015, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Jeffrey Epstein invested in the startup Reporty Homeland Security.

Jeffrey Epstein had past experience with Israel's research and military sector.

Jeffrey Epstein allegedly "lent" girls to powerful people to ingratiate himself with them and to gain possible blackmail information.

Jeffrey Epstein had allegedly undressed, but left the encounter wearing her underwear.

Palm Beach Police began a thirteen-month undercover investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, including a search of his home.

The police search of Jeffrey 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.

On July 27,2006, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested by the Palm Beach Police Department on state felony charges of procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of a prostitute.

Jeffrey Epstein was booked at the Palm Beach County jail and later released on a $3,000 bond.

In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, nicknamed "Operation Leap Year".

On June 30,2008, after Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18, he was sentenced to eighteen months in prison.

Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours.

Jeffrey Epstein worked at the office of a foundation he had created shortly before reporting to jail; he dissolved it after he had served his time.

Jeffrey Epstein's office was monitored by "permit deputies" whose overtime was paid by Epstein.

Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments.

Jeffrey Epstein served almost thirteen months before being released on July 22,2009, for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010.

Jeffrey Epstein was allowed long shopping trips and walks around Palm Beach "for exercise".

Various charitable donations that Jeffrey Epstein had made to finance children's education were questioned.

Jeffrey Epstein was jailed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.

Jeffrey Epstein requested to be released on bond, offering to post $100million with the condition that he would submit to house arrest in his New York City mansion.

On February 6,2008, an anonymous Virginia woman, known as Jane Doe No 2, filed a $50-million civil lawsuit in federal court against Jeffrey Epstein, saying that when she was a 16-year-old minor in 2004 and 2005, she was "recruited to give Jeffrey Epstein a massage".

Jeffrey Epstein entered an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre, as he had done in several other lawsuits.

In 2019, Giuffre was interviewed by the BBC's Panorama where she continued to attest that Jeffrey Epstein had trafficked her to Prince Andrew.

Trump attorney Alan Garten denied the allegations, while Jeffrey Epstein declined to comment.

However, the case was settled on the first day of the trial, with Jeffrey Epstein publicly apologizing to Edwards; other terms of the settlement were confidential.

On July 22,2019, while in jail awaiting trial, Jeffrey Epstein was served with a petition regarding a pending state civil lawsuit filed by Jennifer Araoz.

In October 2019, Araoz amended her complaint to include over twenty corporate entities associated with Jeffrey Epstein and named the additional individuals Lesley Groff and Cimberly Espinosa as enablers.

The accuser, JJ Doe, is described as being a 14-year-old resident of Palm Beach County at the time Jeffrey Epstein abused her in 2004.

Previous long-term girlfriends of Jeffrey Epstein include Eva Andersson-Dubin and publishing heiress Ghislaine Maxwell.

Jeffrey Epstein dated Andersson-Dubin for an 11-year period mostly in the 1980s and the two later remained friendly well after her marriage to Glenn Dubin.

Jeffrey Epstein met Maxwell, daughter of disgraced media baron Robert Maxwell, by 1991.

Jeffrey Epstein had Maxwell come to the United States in 1991 to recover from her grief following the death of her father.

In 1995, Jeffrey Epstein renamed one of his companies the Ghislaine Corporation in Palm Beach, Florida; the company was dissolved in 1998.

Jeffrey Epstein was a longtime acquaintance of Prince Andrew and Tom Barrack, and attended parties with many prominent people, including Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Katie Couric, Woody Allen, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Naomi Campbell, Stephen Hawking, and Harvey Weinstein.

In 2003, Jeffrey Epstein flew to Cuba aboard his plane with Colombian president Andres Pastrana Arango at the invitation of Cuban president Fidel Castro.

Jeffrey Epstein later told The Washington Post that Trump flew "numerous times" on Epstein's airplane, although Mark was present on only one of the flights.

In September 2002, Jeffrey Epstein flew Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker to Africa in this jet.

In 2019, a Clinton spokesperson stated that, in 2002 and 2003, Clinton took four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane, making stops on three continents, all with his staff and Secret Service detail.

At the time Jeffrey 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.

Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House while Clinton was president on four known occasions.

Jeffrey Epstein, according to his own accounts, was heavily involved in the foreign exchange market and traded large amounts of currency in the unregulated forex market.

In 1995, Jeffrey Epstein attended a small political fundraiser dinner for Bill Clinton which included fourteen other people including Ron Perelman, Don Johnson, Jimmy Buffett, and dinner organizer Paul Prosperi.

In November 2004, Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's friendship ran into trouble when they became embroiled in a bidding war for a $40million mansion, Maison de L'Amitie, which was being auctioned in Palm Beach.

An assistant of Jeffrey Epstein stated that he got his fortune started through Robert Maxwell, the media mogul father of Ghislaine Maxwell.

When Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting and procuring prostitution, his lawyers stated he was a billionaire with a net worth of over one billion dollars.

An investigation by the Miami Herald of the Swiss Leaks documents indicated that Jeffrey Epstein had multiple financial accounts with millions of dollars in offshore tax havens.

Federal prosecutors on July 12,2019, stated in court documents that, based on records from one financial institution, Jeffrey Epstein was "extravagantly wealthy" and had assets worth at least $500million and earned more than $10million a year.

Jeffrey Epstein contended in the court filing, which the victims joined, that the estate executors had "mismanaged" the money.

Jeffrey Epstein moved into the mansion in 1995 after Wexner married and moved with his wife to Columbus, Ohio, to raise their family.

Jeffrey Epstein took full possession of the mansion in 1998, when he paid Wexner $20million for it.

Jeffrey Epstein, previous to his final Manhattan home, lived in a spacious townhouse, which was a former Iranian government building that had been taken over by the State Department during the Iranian revolution, at 34 East 69th Street for a rate of $15,000 a month from 1992 to 1995.

Jeffrey Epstein previously owned a mansion outside Columbus, Ohio, near Wexner's home from 1992 to 1998 which he purchased from his mentor.

Jeffrey Epstein rented offices for his business dealings in the Villard House at 457 Madison Avenue.

Wolff noted that Jeffrey Epstein's offices were a strange place which did not have a corporate feel at all.

Jeffrey Epstein rented multiple apartment units for his employees, models, and guests since the 1990s at 301 East 66th Street.

Jeffrey Epstein has housed some of his workers, including his pilot, housekeeper and office work staff, in the apartment complex.

Jeffrey Epstein has housed underage girls, who Brunel scouted for his MC2 modeling agency.

From 1989 until 2003, Jeffrey Epstein donated more than $139,000 to US Democratic Party federal candidates and committees and over $18,000 to US Republican Party candidates and groups.

Jeffrey Epstein contributed $50,000 to Democrat Bill Richardson's successful campaign for Governor of New Mexico in 2002 and again for his successful run for reelection in 2006.

Jeffrey Epstein later contributed $35,000 to King's 2014 unsuccessful campaign for Governor.

In 1991, Jeffrey Epstein was one of four donors who pledged to raise million for a Hillel student building Rosovsky Hall at Harvard University.

In May 2003, Jeffrey Epstein pledged a series of donations totaling million to create a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program at Harvard which was run by Martin Nowak.

Jeffrey Epstein co-organized a science event with illusionist and skeptic Al Seckel called the Mindshift Conference.

Jeffrey Epstein addressed the scientific community at various events and occasions and communicated his fascination with eugenics.

Jeffrey Epstein was an advocate of cryonics and his own idiosyncratic version of transhumanism, and had said that he intended to have his penis and head frozen.

On July 23,2019, Jeffrey Epstein was found injured and semiconscious at 1:30am on the floor of his cell, with marks around his neck.

Six days later, on July 29,2019, Jeffrey Epstein was taken off suicide watch and placed in a special housing unit with another inmate.

When Jeffrey Epstein was placed in the special housing unit, the jail informed the Justice Department that he would have a cellmate, and that a guard would look into the cell every thirty minutes.

Later in the evening, contrary to the jail's normal procedure, Jeffrey Epstein was not checked every thirty minutes.

Two cameras in front of Jeffrey Epstein's cell malfunctioned that night.

Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City at 6:30am EDT on August 10,2019.

The preliminary result of the autopsy found that Jeffrey Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones.

Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers said that the evidence concerning Jeffrey Epstein's death was "far more consistent" with murder than suicide.

Michael Baden, an independent pathologist hired by the Jeffrey Epstein estate, observed the autopsy.

Until this time, Jeffrey Epstein had been depositing money in other inmates' commissary accounts to avoid being attacked.

The union leader Young said it was unclear if there was video of Jeffrey Epstein's hanging or direct observations by jail officials.

Jeffrey Epstein said that while cameras are ubiquitous in the facility, he did not believe that the interior of inmates' cells were within their range.

Jeffrey Epstein had lifted the freeze and was working to recruit sufficient new officers to replace those who had departed.

Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys asked Judge Berman to probe their client's death, alleging they could provide evidence that the incident resulting in his death was "far more consistent with assault" than suicide.

One week after having signed his final will, it had been reported that at least one camera in the hallway outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell had footage that was unusable, although other usable footage was recorded in the area.

Two cameras that malfunctioned in front of Jeffrey Epstein's cell were sent to an FBI crime lab for examination.

On November 19,2019, federal prosecutors in New York charged Metropolitan Correctional Center guards Michael Thomas and Tova Noel with creating false records, and with conspiracy, after video footage obtained by prosecutors revealed that Jeffrey Epstein had, against regulation, been in his cell unchecked for eight hours prior to being found dead.

Jeffrey Epstein's death became the subject of widespread controversy and debate, with the belief that his death was a homicide becoming a popular meme.

The Lifetime documentary Surviving Jeffrey Epstein premiered in August 2020.

On July 1,2020, a statue of Jeffrey Epstein was left outside the City Hall in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a satirical commentary on opposition to the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials.