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Jeffrey EpsteinEpstein's final mugshot, July 9, 2019BornJeffrey Edward Epstein January 20, 1953 , New York City, U.S.DiedAugust 10, 2019 (aged 66) , New York City, U.S.Cause of death; ruled a EducationOccupationTeacher, financier, ownerCriminal charge(s)Procuring an ; Criminal penalty13 months with work release (2008)Jeffrey Edward Epstein ( ; January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American and convicted . He began his professional life as a teacher but then switched to the banking and finance sector in various roles, working at before forming his own firm. He developed an elite social circle and procured many women, including underage girls, who were then sexually abused by Epstein and some of his contacts.

In 2005, police in , began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring an and of soliciting a prostitute. He served almost 13months in custody, but with extensive . He was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a plea deal; federal officials had in fact identified 36girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused.

Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the of minors in Florida and New York. on August 10, 2019. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide, although Epstein's lawyers have disputed the ruling. Because his death eliminated the possibility of pursuing criminal charges, a judge dismissed all criminal charges on August 29, 2019.

Contents Early life Aerial view of Epstein's childhood neighborhood of Epstein was born in 1953 in the New York City borough of to Jewish parents Pauline (née Stolofsky, 1918–2004) and Seymour G. Epstein (1916–1991). His parents were married in 1952, shortly before his birth. Pauline worked as a school aide and was a homemaker. Seymour Epstein worked for the as a groundskeeper and gardener. Jeffrey Epstein was the older of two siblings. Epstein and his brother Mark grew up in the working-class neighborhood of , , Brooklyn.

Epstein attended local public schools, first Public School 188 and then nearby. In 1967, Epstein attended the National Music Camp at the . He began playing the piano when he was five. He graduated in 1969 from at age 16, having skipped two grades. Later that year, he attended classes at until he changed colleges in 1971. From September 1971, he attended the at , but left without receiving a degree in June 1974.

Career Teaching Epstein started working in September 1974 as a physics and mathematics teacher for teens at the on the of . He was hired by (father of ), who was the headmaster until June 1974. Epstein taught at the exclusive private school from late 1974 until he was dismissed in June 1976 for "poor performance". While teaching at the school, Epstein became acquainted with , the chief executive officer of , whose son and daughter were going to 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. Greenberg, impressed with Epstein's intelligence and drive for financial success, offered him a job at Bear Stearns.

Banking Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader. He swiftly moved up to become an , working in the special products division, and then advised the bank's wealthiest clients, such as president , on strategies. , 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 .

In 1981, he was asked to leave Bear Stearns for, according to his sworn testimony, being guilty of a " violation". Even though Epstein departed abruptly, he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and was a client of Bear Stearns until .

Financial consulting Epstein in 1980In August 1981, Epstein founded his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc. (IAG), which assisted clients in recovering stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers. Epstein described his work at this time as being a high-level . He told friends that he worked sometimes as a consultant for governments and the very wealthy to recover funds, while at other times he worked for clients who had embezzled funds. 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 .

Epstein also stated to some people at the time that he was an . Whether this statement was truthful is not clear. During the 1980s, Epstein possessed an Austrian passport that had his photo but a false name. The passport showed his place of residence in Saudi Arabia. Investigative journalist said she was told in 2017 by "a former senior White House official" that U.S. Florida District Attorney , who handled Epstein's criminal case in 2008, said to interviewers "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone" and that Epstein was "above his ".

During this period, one of Epstein's clients was the Saudi Arabian businessman , who was the middleman in transferring American , as part of the in the 1980s. Khashoggi was one of several defense contractors that he knew. In the mid-1980s, Epstein traveled multiple times between the United States, Europe, and Southwest Asia. While in London, Epstein met . They had been introduced through Douglas Leese, a defense contractor, and , the former .

Tower Financial Corporation Steven Hoffenberg hired Epstein in 1987, as a consultant for Tower Financial Corporation (unaffiliated with the company of the same name founded in 1998, and acquired by in 2014), a that bought debts people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies. Hoffenberg set Epstein up in offices in the "" in Manhattan and paid him US$25,000 per month for his consulting work (equivalent to $56,000 in 2019).

Hoffenberg and Epstein then refashioned themselves as using Tower 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 in 1987. A similar unsuccessful bid in 1988 was made to take over . During this period, Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg's private jet.

In 1993, Tower Financial Corporation imploded as one of the biggest in American history, losing its investors over US$450million (equivalent to $796,441,000 in 2019). In court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately involved in the scheme. Epstein left the company by 1989 before it collapsed and was never charged for being involved with the massive committed. It is unknown if Epstein acquired any stolen funds from the Tower Ponzi scheme.

Financial management firm Epstein managed Wexner's wealth and different projects such as the building of his yacht the .In 1988, while Epstein was still consulting for Hoffenberg, he founded his own financial management firm, J. Epstein & Company. The company was said by Epstein to have been formed to manage the assets of clients with more than US$1billion in net worth, although others have expressed skepticism that he was this restrictive in the clients he took.

The only publicly known billionaire client of Epstein was , chairman and CEO of (formerly The Limited, Inc.) and . In 1986, Epstein met Wexner through their mutual acquaintances, insurance executive 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. In July 1991, Wexner granted Epstein full over his affairs. The power of attorney allowed 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.

By 1995, Epstein was a director of the and Wexner Heritage Foundation. He was also the president of Wexner's Property, which developed part of the town of outside 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 , and hosted the models at his , as well as helping aspiring models get work with the company.

In 1996, Epstein changed the name of his firm to the Financial Trust Company and, for , based it on the island of in the . By relocating to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Epstein was able to reduce by 90 percent. The U.S. Virgin Islands acted as an offshore , while at the same time offering the advantages of being part of the .

Media activities In 2003, Epstein bid to acquire magazine. Other bidders included advertising executive , investor , and publisher , and film producer . The ultimate buyer was , a longtime , who paid US$55million.

In 2004, Epstein and Zuckerman committed up to US$25million to finance , a celebrity and pop culture magazine founded by . 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.

Liquid Funding Ltd. Epstein was the president of the company Liquid Funding Ltd. between 2000 and 2007. The company was an early pioneer in expanding the kind of debt that could be accepted on repurchase, or the , which involves a lender giving money to a borrower in exchange for 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 and as the underlying securities, it had and investment-grade bundled into as the underlying security.

Liquid Funding was initially 40percent owned by Bear Stearns. Through the help of the – , and – 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 and set in motion the and the subsequent . If Liquid Funding was left holding large amounts of such securities as collateral, it could have lost large amounts of money.

Investments Hedge funds Epstein invested $80million between 2002 and 2005, in the D.B. Zwirn Special Opportunities . In November 2006, Epstein, while under federal investigation for sex crimes, attempted to redeem his investment after he was informed of accounting irregularities in the fund. By this time, his investment had grown to $140million. Zwirn refused to redeem the investment. Zwirn worried that Epstein's redemption could cause a "" at the hedge fund. It is unknown how much Epstein personally lost when the fund was wound down in 2008.

The government began negotiation with Epstein for a plea agreement in mid-2007, as the hedge fund began to collapse. The fund's collapse would trigger the (2007-2009) and lose Epstein millions.In August 2006, Epstein, a month after the federal investigation of him began, invested $57million in the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage hedge fund. This fund was highly leveraged in (CDOs).

On April 18, 2007, an investor in the fund, who had $57million invested, discussed redeeming his investment. At this time, the fund had a of 17:1, which meant for every dollar invested there were seventeen dollars of borrowed funds; therefore, the redemption of this investment would have been equivalent to removing $1billion from the thinly traded CDO market. 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 . It is likely Epstein lost most of this investment, but it is not known how much was his.

By the time that the Bear Stearns fund began to fail in May 2007, Epstein had begun to negotiate a plea deal with the concerning imminent charges for sex with minors. In August 2007, a month after the fund collapsed, the U.S. attorney in Miami, , entered into direct discussions about the plea agreement. 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. As part of the negotiations, according to the , 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 of the failed Bear Stearns hedge fund. , one of Epstein's Florida attorneys on the case, told "We would have been touting that if he had [cooperated]. The idea that Epstein helped in any prosecution is news to me."

Israeli startup In 2015, the Israeli newspaper reported that Epstein invested in the startup Reporty Homeland Security (rebranded as in 2018). The startup is connected with Israel's defense industry. It is headed by former Israeli Prime Minister , who was also at one time the defense minister, and chief of staff of the (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 . Epstein and Barak, the head of Carbyne, were close, and Epstein often offered him lodging at one of his apartment units at 301 East 66th Street in Manhattan. Epstein had past experience with Israel's research and military sector. In April 2008, he went to Israel and met with a number of research scientists and visited different . 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 States.

Video recordings Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his properties to allegedly record sexual activity with girls by prominent people for criminal purposes, such as . , Epstein's close companion, told a friend 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. When police raided his Palm Beach residence in 2006 two hidden pinhole cameras were discovered in his home. It was also reported that Epstein's mansion in New York was wired extensively with a video surveillance system.

, who visited Epstein's mansion in New York, noted that Epstein showed her a media room in the 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."

Epstein allegedly "lent" girls to powerful people to ingratiate himself with them and also to gain possible blackmail information. 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 description: "young [name] + [name]". Epstein partially confirmed 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.

Legal proceedings First criminal case Initial developments (2005–2006) Epstein's 2006 mugshotIn March 2005, a woman contacted Florida's and alleged that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been taken to Epstein's mansion by an older girl. There she was allegedly paid $300 (equivalent to $390 in 2019) to strip and massage Epstein. She had allegedly undressed, but left the encounter wearing her underwear.

Police began a 13-month undercover investigation of Epstein, including a search of his home. The (FBI) also became involved. Subsequently, the police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to perform sexual acts with him. 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. 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.

A former employee told the police that Epstein would receive massages three times a day. Eventually the FBI compiled reports on "34 confirmed minors" eligible for restitution (increased to 40 in the NPA) whose allegations of sexual abuse by Epstein included corroborating details. 's 2018 exposé in the identified about 80 victims and located about 60 of them. She quotes the then police chief, Michael Reiter, "This was 50-something 'shes' and one 'he'—and the 'shes' all basically told the same story." 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, , and Europe, and that 's "MC2" modeling agency was also supplying girls to Epstein.

In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed a saying that Epstein should be charged with four counts of and one count of .

Epstein's defense lawyers included , , professor , and former U. S. Solicitor General .

After press reports that Epstein would be charged with one count of with no intent to commit a , Palm Beach Police Chief accused the Palm Beach County state prosecutor, Barry Krischer, of being too lenient and was instrumental in bringing in the FBI. Instead Krischer convened a , which was usually only done in capital cases. Presented evidence from only two victims, the grand jury returned a single charge of felony , to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2006.

Non-prosecution agreement (NPA) (2006–2008) External video Perversion of Justice, , November 29, 2018.In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed "Operation Leap Year". It resulted in a 53-page in June 2007. , then the , agreed to a plea deal, which helped to negotiate, 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 deal would be kept from the victims."

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 alone". Epstein agreed to plead guilty in Florida state court to two felony prostitution charges, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI. The plea deal was later described as a "".

A federal judge later found that the prosecutors had violated the in that they had concealed the agreement from the victims and instead urged them to have "patience".

Conviction and sentencing (2008–2011) On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18, he was sentenced to 18months 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 sheriff's office, was after 31⁄2months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12hours a day, 6days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours.

Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a television was installed for him, before 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 Sheriff's 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 Sheriff's Office said these guest logs were destroyed per the department's "records retention" rules (although inexplicably the Stockade visitor logs were not). He was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments.

Epstein in 2013, photographed for Epstein served almost 13months before being released for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010. While on probation he was allowed numerous trips on his corporate jet to his residences in Manhattan and the . He was allowed long shopping trips and to walk around Palm Beach "for exercise".

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) , a lifelong designation.At that hearing the Manhattan District Attorney argued unsuccessfully 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 every 90days. Though Epstein had been a level-three registered sex offender in New York since 2010, the New York Police Department never enforced the 90-day regulation, though non-compliance is a felony.

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, and the Miami Herald said U.S. Attorney Acosta gave Epstein "the deal of a lifetime". Following Epstein's arrest in July 2019, on sex trafficking charges, Acosta resigned as effective July 19, 2019.

After the accusations became public, several persons and institutions returned donations that they had received from Epstein, including , , and the Palm Beach Police Department. announced it would not return any money. Various charitable donations that Epstein had made to finance children's education were also questioned.

On June 18, 2010, Epstein's former house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, was sentenced to 18months' 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."

Civil cases Jane Does v. Epstein (2008) External video Perversion of Justice, Miami Herald, November 30, 2018.On February 6, 2008, an anonymous Virginia woman, known as Jane Doe No. 2, filed a $50million civil lawsuit in federal court against Epstein, saying that when she was a 16-year-old minor in 2004–05, she was "recruited to give Epstein a massage". She claims she was taken to his mansion, where he exposed himself and had sexual intercourse with her, and paid her $200 immediately afterward.

A similar $50million suit was filed in March 2008, by a different woman, who was represented by the same lawyer. These and several similar lawsuits were dismissed.

All other lawsuits have been settled by Epstein out of court. Epstein made many with alleged victims.

Victims' rights: Jane Does v. United States (2014) A December 30, 2014, federal civil suit was filed in Florida by Jane Doe 1 (Courtney Wild) and Jane Doe 2 against the United States for violations of the by the 's NPA with Epstein and his limited 2008 state plea. There was a later unsuccessful effort to add Virginia Roberts (Jane Doe 3) and another woman (Jane Doe 4) as plaintiffs to that case. The addition accused Alan Dershowitz of sexually abusing a minor, Jane Doe 3, provided by Epstein. The allegations against Dershowitz were 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. A document filed in court alleges that Epstein ran a "", and lent underage girls to "prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders".

This long-running lawsuit is pending in federal court, aimed at the federal plea agreement on the grounds that it violated victims' rights. On April 7, 2015, Judge ruled that the allegations made by alleged victim Virginia Roberts 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 allegation to be struck from the record. Judge Marra made no ruling as to whether claims by Roberts are true or false. Though he did not allow Jane Does 3 and 4 to join the suit, Marra specifically said that Roberts may later give evidence when the case comes to court.

On February 21, 2019, in the case of the , Senior Judge of the said federal prosecutors violated the law by failing to notify victims before they allowed him to plead guilty to only the two Florida offenses. The judge left open what the possible remedy could be.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre v. Epstein (2015)

External video Perversion of Justice, The Miami Herald, November 29, 2018.In a December 2014 Florida court filing by Bradley Edwards and meant for inclusion in the Crime Victims Rights Act lawsuit, (then known as Virginia Roberts), alleged in a sworn affidavit that at age 17, she had been sexually trafficked by Epstein and for their own use and for use by several others, including and retired professor . Giuffre also claimed that Epstein, Maxwell and others had physically and sexually abused her. She alleged that the FBI may have been involved in a . She said she had served as Epstein's sex slave from 1999 to 2002, and had recruited other underage girls. Prince Andrew, Epstein, and Dershowitz all denied having had sex with Giuffre. Dershowitz took legal action over the allegations. Giuffre filed a defamation suit against Dershowitz, claiming he purposefully made "false and malicious defamatory statements" about her. A diary purported to belong to Giuffre was published online. Epstein entered an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre, as he had done in several other lawsuits.

In 2019, Giuffre was interviewed by the 's where she continued to attest that Epstein had trafficked her to Prince Andrew. 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.” As of 2016, these accusations had not been tested in any court of law.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell (2015) As a result of Giuffre's allegations and Maxwell's comments about them, Giuffre sued Maxwell for in September 2015. After much legal confrontation, the case was settled 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 .

On March 11, 2019, in the appeal of the district judge's refusal to unseal the documents relating to the 2017 defamation settlement of Giuffre v. Maxwell, the Second Circuit Court gave parties one 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 Giuffre's testimony, she claims that she was directed by Maxwell to give erotic massages and engage in sexual activities with ; Jean-Luc Brunel; ; ; Governor ; another unnamed prince; an unnamed foreign president; "a well known Prime Minister"; and an unnamed hotel chain owner from France, among others that she could not name. As of August 2019, none of these men has been indicted or sued for related sex crimes, and the deposition does not say which of these men (if any) in fact engaged with Giuffre. Giuffre testified, "my whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy. Their whole entire lives revolved around sex."

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.

Jane Doe v. Epstein and Trump (2016) A federal lawsuit filed in California in April 2016, against Epstein and 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 13years 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 without being served on the defendants. A third federal suit was filed in New York in September 2016.

The two latter suits included affidavits by an anonymous witness who attested to the accusations in the suits, asserting Epstein employed her to underage girls for him, and an anonymous person who declared the plaintiff had told him/her about the assaults at the time they occurred. The plaintiff, who had filed anonymously as , was scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles press conference six days before the , but abruptly canceled the event; her lawyer asserted that the woman had received threats. The suit was dropped on November 4, 2016. Trump attorney Alan Garten flatly denied the allegations, while Epstein declined to comment.

Sarah Ransome v. Epstein and Maxwell (2017) Epstein was accused of sex trafficking of minors at his .In 2017, Sarah Ransome filed a suit against Epstein and Maxwell, alleging that Maxwell had hired her to give massages to Epstein and later threatened to physically harm her or destroy her career prospects if she did not comply with their sexual demands at his mansion in New York City and on his private Caribbean island, . The suit was settled in 2018 under undisclosed terms.

Bradley Edwards' defamation v. Epstein (2018) A state civil lawsuit in Florida filed by attorney Bradley Edwards against Epstein was scheduled for trial in December 2018. The trial was expected to provide victims with their first opportunity to make their accusations in public. However, the case was settled on the first day of the trial, with Epstein publicly apologizing to Edwards; other terms of the settlement were confidential.

Maria Farmer v. Epstein and Maxwell (2019) On April 16, 2019, went public and filed a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York, alleging that she and her 15-year-old sister, Annie, had been sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell in separate locations in 1996. Farmer met Epstein and Maxwell at her graduate art gallery reception at the in 1995. The following year, in the summer of 1996, they hired her to work on an art project in Leslie Wexner's Ohio mansion, where she was then sexually assaulted. Farmer reported the incident to the New York City Police Department and the FBI.

Farmer's affidavit also stated that during the same summer, Epstein flew her then-15-year-old sister to his New Mexico property where he and Maxwell sexually abused her on a massage table.

Jennifer Araoz v. Epstein and Maxwell (2019) On July 22, 2019, while in jail awaiting trial, Epstein was served with a petition regarding a pending state civil lawsuit filed by Jennifer Araoz. She stated that an associate for Epstein had recruited her outside at age 14 and she was gradually groomed for over a year before Epstein raped her in his New York City mansion when she was 15. Araoz filed her suit on August 14, 2019, when New York State law was updated to allow one year for adult survivors of child sexual abuse to sue for previous offenses, regardless of how long ago the abuse took place. In October 2019, Araoz amended her complaint to include over 20 corporate entities associated with Epstein and named the additional individuals Lesley Groff and Cimberly Espinosa as enablers.

Katlyn Doe, et al. v. Epstein's estate (2019) Three women (Katlyn Doe, Lisa Doe and Priscilla Doe) sued the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on August 20, 2019. Two of the women were 17 and one was 20 when they met Epstein. The women allege they were recruited, subjected to unwanted sex acts, and controlled by Epstein and a "vast enterprise" of co-conspirators.

Jane Doe v. Epstein's estate (2019) A New York accuser of Epstein, known only as Jane Doe, announced a federal lawsuit against his estate in the Southern District of New York on September 18, 2019, stating that she was recruited in 2002 and sexually abused by Epstein for three years starting at age 14.

Teresa Helm, et al. v. Epstein's estate (2019) Five women (Teresa Helm, Annie Farmer, Maria Farmer, Juliette Bryant, and an unidentified woman), represented by , sued Epstein’s estate in Federal District Court in Manhattan in November 2019, accusing him of rape, battery and false imprisonment and seeking unspecified damages.

Jane Doe 15 v. Epstein's estate (2019) On November 18, 2019, a woman identified as Jane Doe 15 made a public appearance with her attorney to announce that she was suing the estate of Jeffrey Epstein in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that he manipulated, trafficked, and sexually abused her in 2004, when she was 15 years old.

Teala Davies v. Epstein's estate (2019) On November 21, 2019, Teala Davies appeared with her attorney Gloria Allred and announced her lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Epstein's estate. Davies stated that after meeting Epstein in 2002, he sexually assaulted and trafficked her in New York, New Mexico, Florida, the Virgin Islands and France.

Jane Does 1-9 v. Epstein's estate (2019) On December 3, 2019, lawyer Jordan Merson filed a lawsuit in New York on behalf of nine anonymous accusers (Jane Does 1-9) and against Epstein’s estate for battery, assault, and intensional emotional distress. The claims date from 1985 through the 2000s, and include individuals who were 13, 14, and 15 when they first encountered Epstein.

JJ Doe v. Epstein's estate (2019) The lawsuit was filed by Bradley Edwards on behalf of his client in late December 2019. The accuser, JJ Doe, is described as being a 14 years old resident of Palm Beach County at the time Epstein abused her in 2004.

US Virgin Islands v. Epstein's estate, et al. (2020) A lawsuit was filed in Superior Court of the US Virgin Islands in January 2020 alleging that Epstein ran a sex trafficking conspiracy for over two decades, through 2018, with children as young as 11 years old on Epstein's Caribbean islands. According to Attorney General Denise George, his alleged criminal activities on the islands were concealed through a complex network of companies.

Jane Doe v. Maxwell and Epstein's estate (2020) In January 2020, a lawsuit was filed against Maxwell and Epstein alleging that they recruited a 13-year-old music student at the in 1994 and subjected her to sexual abuse The suit states that Jane Doe was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Epstein over a four year period and that Maxwell played a key role in both her recruitment and by participating in the assaults.

Second criminal case Trafficking charges U.S. v. Jeffrey Epstein indictmentOn July 6, 2019, Epstein was arrested at in on sex trafficking charges. He was jailed at the in New York City, which has held prisoners such as , , and .

According to witnesses and sources on the day of his arrest, about a dozen FBI agents forced open the door to his Manhattan townhouse, the , with search warrants. The search of his townhouse turned up evidence of sex trafficking and also found "hundreds – and perhaps thousands – of sexually suggestive photographs of fully – or partially – nude females". Some of the photos were confirmed as those of females. In a locked safe, compact discs were found with handwritten labels including the descriptions: "Young [Name] + [Name]", "Misc nudes 1", and "Girl pics nude". Also found in the safe were $70,000 in cash, 48 diamonds, and a fraudulent Austrian passport, which expired in 1987, that had Epstein's photo but another name. The passport had numerous entrance and exit stamps, including entrance stamps that showed the use of the passport to enter France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and in the 1980s. The passport showed his place of residence as Saudi Arabia. According to his attorneys, Epstein had been advised to acquire the passport because "as an affluent member of the Jewish faith", he was in danger of being kidnapped while traveling abroad.

On July 8, prosecutors with the Public Corruption Unit of the charged him with sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex. The grand jury indictment alleges that "dozens" ofunderage girls were brought into Epstein's mansions for sexual encounters. Judge was to decide whether the non-prosecution agreement that protected Epstein from the more serious charges should still stand.

Federal paperwork regarding Jeffrey Epstein being denied bailEpstein's lawyers urged the court to allow Epstein to post bail, offering to post up to a $600million bond (including $100million from his brother, Mark) so he could leave jail and submit to house arrest in his New York City mansion. US District Judge denied the request on July 18, saying that Epstein posed a danger to the public and a serious flight risk to avoid prosecution.

On July 23, Epstein was found injured and semiconscious at 1:30a.m. on the floor of his cell, with marks around his neck that were suspected to be the result of either a suicide attempt or an assault. His cellmate, former New York City police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who is charged with four counts of murder, was questioned about Epstein's condition. He denied having any knowledge of what happened. Epstein himself said he recollected nothing. According to , two sources said that Epstein might have tried to hang himself, a third said the injuries were not serious and could have been staged, and a fourth source said that an assault by his cellmate had not been ruled out.

On August 29, 2019, following Epstein's death 10 days prior, the case against Epstein was closed after Judge Berman dismissed all sex trafficking charges. However, he also expressed support for Epstein's accusers. Prosecutors objected to the ruling and stated they would continue an investigation for potential co-conspirators.

Investigation in France On August 23, 2019, the prosecutor's office in Paris, France opened a preliminary investigation into Epstein. He is being investigated for rape and sexual assault of minors under and over the age of 15, criminal association with a view to committing crimes, and association with criminals with a view to committing offenses. The prosecutors said that the goal of the investigation is to find possible crimes committed in France and elsewhere against French citizens.

Personal life Previous long-term girlfriends associated with Epstein include and publishing heiress . Epstein was romantically linked to Andersson-Dubin for an 11 year period in the 1980s and the two later remained friendly well after her marriage to . Epstein met Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of disgraced media baron , by 1991. Epstein had Maxwell come to the United States in 1991 to recover from her grief following the death of her father. Maxwell was implicated by several of Epstein's accusers as or recruiting underage girls in addition to once being Epstein's girlfriend. 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 dissolved in 1998. In 2000, Maxwell moved into a 7,000-square-foot townhouse, less than 10blocks from Epstein's New York mansion. This townhome was purchased for $4.95million 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 exposé, Epstein refers to Maxwell as "my best friend".Epstein was a longtime acquaintance of and , and attended parties with many prominent people, including , , , , , and . His contacts included , , , , , the , and . His contacts also included Israeli prime minister , British prime minister , and Saudi Arabian crown prince . Both Clinton and Trump claimed that they never visited Epstein's island.

Epstein owned a private jet, nicknamed the Lolita Express, and traveled in it frequently, logging "600 flying hours a year ... usually with guests on board". The jet got its nickname the Lolita Express from the locals in the Virgin Islands, because of its apparent frequent arrival with underage teenage girls to Little Saint James. In 2003, Epstein flew to Cuba aboard his plane with Colombian president at the invitation of Cuban president . According to Fabiola Santiago of the , Epstein was likely considering relocating to Cuba in order to escape U.S. law enforcement; Epstein was under investigation from U.S. law enforcement at the time. In 2009, Epstein's brother Mark claimed Trump had flown on Epstein's plane at least once. He later told that Trump flew "numerous times" on Epstein's airplane, although Mark was only present on one of the flights. According to Michael Corcoran, Trump flew Epstein on his own airplane at least once. In September 2002, Epstein flew Clinton, , and to Africa in this jet. Flight records obtained in 2016 show flew 27times to at least a dozen international locations. Flight logs did not list any detail for at least five flights, all in Asia, and Secret Service stated that there is no evidence of the former President making a trip to Epstein's private island. In 2019, a Clinton spokesperson stated that, in 2002 and 2003, Clinton took four trips on Epstein's airplane, making stops on three continents, all with his staff and Secret Service detail. At the time of Epstein's 2019 arrest, Clinton's spokeswoman Angel Ureña stated that Clinton had "not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida."

President Trump states "I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him." July 2019 video from the .In a profile of Epstein in magazine in 2002, former Democratic Senate leader said of Epstein, "I would certainly call him a friend and a supporter". In the same article, 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. A video shot in 1992 surfaced showing the two men partying together at Mar-a-Lago. By 2007, Trump reportedly banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club. The ban allegation was included in court documents filed by attorney Bradley Edwards, although Edwards later said it was a rumor he tried to but could not confirm.

Bill Clinton lauded Epstein as "a committed philanthropist" with "insights and generosity". At the time Epstein was on the board of , a member of the and the , and was a major donor to .

Epstein visited the while Clinton was president on four known occasions. In 1993, he went to a donor event at the White House with his companion Ghislaine Maxwell. Around the same time, he also met with President Clinton's aide Mark Middleton on at least three occasions at the White House. In 1995, financier discussed "Jeffrey Epstein and currency stabilization" with Clinton. Epstein, according to his own accounts, was heavily involved in the and traded large amounts of currency in the . In 1995, Epstein also attended a small political fundraiser dinner for Bill Clinton which included 14 other people such as , , , and dinner organizer Paul Prosperi.

From the 1990s to mid-2000s, Epstein often socialized with the future President . Author wrote that Trump, Epstein, and were at the time like a "set of nightlife musketeers" on the social scene. Epstein and Trump socialized both in New York City and Palm Beach, where they both had houses. In April 2003, 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 The Washington Post, one person who knew Epstein and Trump during this time noted that "they were tight" and "they were each other's ". In November 2004, Epstein and Trump's friendship ran into trouble when they became embroiled in a bidding war for a $40million mansion, , which was being auctioned in Palm Beach. Trump won the auction for $41million, and successfully to the Russian billionaire . That month was the last time Epstein and Trump were recorded to have interacted.

Wealth files indicate Epstein had millions stored in . Map shows global extent of account holders in the leaked files.The exact origin of Epstein's wealth is unknown. was one source of Epstein's original wealth. An assistant of Epstein also stated that he got his fortune started through , the media mogul father of Ghislaine Maxwell.

When 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. A number of sources, however, have questioned the extent of Epstein's wealth and his status as a billionaire. According to an article in , his "fortune may be more illusion than fact". Epstein lost "large sums of money" in the , and "friends and patrons"—including retail billionaire Leslie 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 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 ." An investigation by the Miami Herald of the documents indicated that Epstein had multiple financial accounts with millions of dollars in offshore . In the , records showed that Epstein in February 1997, became a client of , a -based law firm which specialized in the creation of and for the . 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 $500million and earned more than $10million 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 , "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.

Residences Epstein's private island of in the US Virgin Islands.Epstein owned the on 9 East 71st Street in the of in New York City. It was originally purchased for $13.2million in 1989 by Epstein's mentor, , who renovated it completely. Epstein moved into the mansion in 1995 after Wexner married and moved with his wife to , to raise their family. He took full possession of the mansion in 1998, when he paid Wexner $20million for it. The house was valued in 2019 by federal prosecutors at $77 million, while the city assessed its value at $56 million. The mansion is reputedly the largest private residence in Manhattan at 21,000 sq ft (2,000 m2). Hidden under a flight of stairs, there is a fitted with its own screens and a telephone, both concealed in a cabinet under the sink. It also has its own heated sidewalk to melt away the snow. The entrance hall is lined with rows of individually framed prosthetic eyeballs that were made in England for injured soldiers.

The financier's other properties include a residence in , purchased in 1990; Seven units in an apartment building near the at 22 in , ; a 7,500-acre (30 km2) ranch named Zorro Ranch near , purchased in 1993; a private island near in the U.S. Virgin Islands called , which includes a mansion and guest houses, purchased in 1998; and the neighboring island of purchased in 2016. Epstein was building a compound on the latter including an amphitheater and "underwater office & pool" but ran into problems when a stop-work order was issued in late 2018; work continued despite the order.

Epstein, previous to his final Manhattan home, lived in a spacious townhouse, which was a former building that had been taken over by the during the , at 34 East 69th Street for a rate of $15,000 a month from 1992 to 1995. He also previously owned a mansion outside Columbus, Ohio, near Wexner's home from 1992 to 1998 which he purchased from his mentor. Before the Herbert Straus house was purchased, Wexner purchased in 1988 the adjacent townhouse at 11 East 71st Street. Like in the case of the 9 East 71st Street house, Epstein was on the deed of the 11 East 71st Street house as the trustee. The townhouse was sold in 1996 to the Comet trust which holds part of the assets of the .

Epstein rented offices for his business dealings in the at 457 Madison Avenue. originally set up the offices for Epstein in 1987 when he was consulting for Tower Financial. Epstein used these offices until at least 2003. Around this time, saw the financier in his office, which in the past were the offices of . Wolff noted that Epstein's offices were a strange place which did not have a corporate feel at all. Wolff stated that the offices were "almost . It's old—old-fashioned, unrehabbed in its way." Wolff continued that "the trading floor is filled with guys in yarmulkes. Who they are, I have no idea. They're like a throwback, a bunch of guys from the fifties. So here is Jeffrey in this incredibly beautiful office, with pieces of art and a view of the courtyard, and he seems like the most relaxed guy in the world. You want to say 'What's going on here?' and he gives you that ."

Epstein rented multiple apartment units for his employees, models, and guests since the 1990s at 301 East 66th Street. The majority of the apartment complex at this address is owned by Ossa properties, which is owned by Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark, who purchased the complex in the early 1990s from Wexner. Over the years Epstein has housed different friends at 11 East 71st Street, including his ex-girlfriend Eva Andersson, who is now married to his hedge-fund friend , MC2 Models founder Jean-Luc Brunel, and on occasions former Israeli Prime Minister . He has housed some of his workers, including his pilot, housekeeper and office work staff, in the apartment complex. Epstein has also housed , who Brunel scouted for his MC2 modeling agency. On August 6, 2012, a model and party promoter associated with MC2, Pedro Gaspar, who lived above another of the modeling agency's locations in Manhattan, died of what some consider to be a suspicious drug overdose.

Political donations From 1989 until 2003, Epstein donated more than $139,000 to federal candidates and committees and over $18,000 to candidates and groups.

Epstein contributed $50,000 to Democrat 's successful campaign for in 2002 and again for his successful run for reelection in 2006. Also that year, he contributed $15,000 to Democrat 's successful campaign for . He later contributed $35,000 to King's 2014 unsuccessful campaign for Governor. Other contributions in New Mexico included Epstein $10,000 toward 's campaign to become head of the land commission and $2,000 toward Sheriff Jim Solano's bid for reelection. In 2010, Epstein received a notice from which said, "You are not required to register [as a sex offender] with the state of ." This was in contravention of federal law, which would seem to say that the conviction in Florida required him to register in New Mexico.

Philanthropy Epstein donated millions of dollars to Harvard University over the years for different causes.In 1991, Epstein was one of four donors who pledged to raise US$2million for a student building Rosovsky Hall at . In 2000, Epstein established the , which funds science research and education. Prior to 2003, the foundation funded 's research at the in . In May 2003, Epstein pledged a series of donations totaling US$30million to create a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program at Harvard which was run by . According to , the actual amount received from Epstein was US$6.5million. In 2019, deleted a 2013 article that called Epstein "one of the largest backers of cutting edge science" after The New York Times revealed its author, Drew Hendricks, had been paid $600 to submit it falsely as his own.

According to attorney , Epstein was "part of the original group that conceived of the ".Epstein co-organized a science event with illusionist and skeptic called the Mindshift Conference. The conference took place in 2010 on Epstein's private island Little Saint James. In attendance were scientists , , and .

The true extent of Epstein's donations is unknown. The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation fails to disclose information which other charities routinely disclose. Concerns have been raised over this lack of transparency. In 2015, the was reported to be trying to gain information but was refused since the charities were based outside of the state and did not solicit in . Epstein, besides making donations through the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, also made a number of charitable donations through his three private charities: Epstein Interest, the COUQ Foundation, and Gratitude American Ltd. According to federal tax filings, Epstein donated $30million between 1998 and 2018, through these three charities. Following his death, a number of scientists and institutions (notably ) came under criticism for accepting money from Epstein and his foundation, with some individuals offering to give away money donated by Epstein.

Interest in eugenics and transhumanism According to various sources, Epstein, beginning in the early 2000s, showed a strong interest in improving the human race through and , including using his own sperm. He addressed the scientific community at various events and occasions and communicated his fascination with . It was reported in August 2019 that Epstein had planned to "seed the human race with his " by impregnating up to 20 women at a time using his New Mexico compound as a "baby ranch", where mothers would give birth to his offspring. He was an advocate of and his own idiosyncratic version of , and had said that he intended to have his penis and head frozen.

, director of the at the said: "Scientists need funding for important work ... if the funding is for legitimate scientific work, there is nothing wrong with accepting support from a billionaire. However it would have been wrong for scientists to accept his funding if they were aware that he was planning a eugenics experiment that might draw legitimacy from his association with them." Professor also publicly apologized for meeting Epstein after his 13-month sentence, saying "There should have been more conversations about, should we be doing this, should we be helping this guy? There was just a lot of nerd ."

Death Main article: At the time of his death, Epstein was being held at the (pictured here in 2010), awaiting trial for sex-trafficking. On July 23, 2019, three weeks prior to his death, Epstein was found unconscious in his jail cell with injuries to his neck. Epstein believed that he was attacked by his cellmate, who was awaiting trial for four counts of murder, while the correctional staff suspected attempted suicide. After that incident, he was placed on . Six days later, on July 29, 2019, Epstein was taken off suicide watch and placed in a special housing unit with another inmate. Epstein's close associates said he was in "good spirits".

When 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 30 minutes. These procedures were not followed on the night of his death. On August 9, 2019, Epstein's cellmate was transferred out, and no new replacement cellmate was brought in. Later in the evening, in violation of the jail's normal procedure, Epstein was not checked every 30 minutes. The two guards who were assigned to check his jail unit that night fell asleep and did not check on him for about three hours; the guards falsified related records. Two cameras in front of Epstein's cell also malfunctioned that night.

Epstein was found dead in his cell at the (MCC) in New York City at 6:30a.m. on August 10, 2019. The Bureau of Prisons said lifesaving measures were initiated immediately upon the discovery of Epstein's body. Emergency responders were called and he was taken to a hospital. On August 10, 2019, the and U.S. Attorney General William Barr called the death an apparent suicide, although no final determination had been made. The circumstances leading up to his death are being investigated by the .

Autopsy Epstein's body moved from New York hospital to medical examiner's office, video from On August 11, 2019, an autopsy was performed. The preliminary result of the autopsy found that Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones. Among the bones broken in Epstein's neck was the . Such breaks of the hyoid bone can occur from those who hang themselves, but they are more common in victims of by strangulation. A 2010 study found broken hyoids in one-fourth of cases of hangings, and a larger study conducted from 2010 to 2016 found hyoid damage in just 16 of 264 cases, or six percent of cases of hangings. Hyoid bone breaks are more common in older individuals, as the bones become more brittle upon reaching middle age. noted that hanging by leaning forward would not result in broken cervical bones.

On August 16, 2019, , the , ruled Epstein's death a . The medical examiner, according to Epstein's defense counsel, only saw nine minutes of footage from one security camera to help her arrive at her conclusion. Epstein's defense lawyers were not satisfied with the conclusion of the medical examiner and were conducting their own independent investigation into the cause of Epstein's death, including taking legal action, if necessary, to view the pivotal camera footage near his cell during the night of his death. Epstein's lawyers said that the evidence concerning Epstein's death was "far more consistent" with murder than suicide. , an independent pathologist hired by the Epstein estate, observed the autopsy. In October 2019, Dr. Baden said that Mr. Epstein, 66, experienced a number of injuries – among them a broken bone in his neck – that "are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation...I think that the evidence points to homicide rather than suicide."

Final will On August 18, 2019, it was reported that Jeffrey Epstein had signed his on August 8, 2019, two weeks after being found injured in his cell and two days before his death. Until this time, Epstein had been depositing money in other inmates' commissary accounts to avoid being attacked. The signing of the will was witnessed by two attorneys that knew him. The will named two longtime employees as executors, and immediately gifted all of his assets, and any assets remaining in his estate, to a trust.

Burial Following the autopsy, Epstein's body was claimed by an "unidentified associate," later revealed to be his brother, Mark. On September 5, Epstein's body was buried in an unmarked grave next to those of his parents at the IJ Morris Star of David cemetery in , Florida. The names of his parents were also removed from their tombstone in order to prevent vandalism.

Investigations Attorney General Barr ordered an investigation by the in addition to the investigation by the , saying that he was "appalled" by Epstein's death in federal custody. Two days later Barr said there had been "serious irregularities" in the prison's handling of Epstein, promising "We will get to the bottom of what happened, and there will be accountability."

On August 14, 2019, Manhattan federal court Judge , who was overseeing Epstein's criminal case, wrote to the Metropolitan Correctional Center warden Lamine N'Diaye inquiring as to whether an investigation into the millionaire's apparent suicide would include a probe into his prior (July 23) injuries. Judge Berman wrote that to his knowledge it has never been definitely explained what they concluded about the incident.

The national president of the Council of Prison Locals C-33, E. O. Young, stated that prisons "can't ever stop anyone who is persistent on killing themselves". Between 2010 and 2016, around 124 inmates killed themselves while in federal custody, or around 20 prisoners per year, out of an inmate population of 180,000. The previous reported inmate suicide in the MCC facility in Manhattan was in 1998. The union leader Young said it was unclear if there was video of Epstein's hanging or direct observations by jail officials. He said that while cameras are ubiquitous in the facility, he did not believe that the interior of inmates' cells were within their range. Young said union officials had long been raising concerns regarding staffing, as the had imposed a hiring freeze and budget cuts on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), adding "All this was caused by the administration."

President Serene Gregg, of the Local 3148, said MCC is functioning with fewer than 70 percent of the needed correctional officers, forcing many to work mandatory overtime and 60 to 70-hour workweeks. In previous congressional testimony, Attorney General Barr admitted the BOP was "short" about 4,000 to 5,000 employees. He had lifted the freeze and was working to recruit sufficient new officers to replace those who had departed.

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 Epstein's cell had that was unusable, although other usable footage was recorded in the area. Two cameras that malfunctioned in front of Epstein's cell were sent to an for examination. Federal prosecutors subpoenaed up to 20 correctional officers concerning the cause of Epstein's death.

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

In popular culture Further information: Epstein's death became a popular . is creating a limited series on Epstein's life and death. , , and also have similar works in progress.

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Ghislaine MaxwellMaxwell in 2007Born25 December 1961 , , FranceNationalityBritish, AmericanEducationOccupationSocialite, businesspersonParentsRelativesGhislaine Maxwell ( ; born 25 December 1961) is a British known for her involvement in the sexual abuse affair. The youngest child of publishing tycoon and fraudster , she moved to the United States after her father's death in 1991 and became a close associate of the financier and subsequently convicted sex offender . Maxwell has faced persistent allegations of and sexually trafficking underage girls for Epstein and others, charges she has denied.

Maxwell founded the ocean-advocacy group in 2012. The organization announced closure on 12 July 2019, a week after the sex trafficking charges brought by New York federal prosecutors against Epstein became public. On 27 December 2019, reported that Maxwell was among those under investigation for facilitating Epstein. Since Epstein's arrest, Maxwell has been in hiding, communicating with the courts only through her lawyers who, as of 30 January 2020, have refused to accept service of three lawsuits on Maxwell's behalf. On 12 March 2020, she filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in the U.S. Virgin Islands against Epstein's estate seeking compensation for her legal fees.

Contents Early life[] Headington Hill HallGhislaine Maxwell was born in 1961, in , France, the ninth and youngest child of (née Meynard), a French-born scholar, and , a Czechoslovak-born British . Her father was from a family and her mother was of descent. Maxwell was born two days before a car accident left her older brother Michael in a prolonged coma at age 15, unresponsive for several years until his death in 1967. Her mother reflected that the accident had an effect on the entire family, with Ghislaine becoming while still a toddler. Throughout childhood, Ghislaine resided with her family in at , a 53-room mansion, where the offices of , a publishing company run by Robert Maxwell, were also located. Her mother said all her children were brought up . Maxwell attended , and .

Maxwell had an unusually close relationship with her father and was widely credited with being her father's favourite child. reported that Robert Maxwell did not permit Ghislaine to bring her boyfriends home or to be seen with them publicly, after she started attending the University of Oxford.

Career[] Maxwell was a prominent member of the London social scene in the 1980s. She founded a women's club named after the original and was a director of , during her father's ownership. She also worked at , a publication Robert Maxwell had started. According to of , in 1986 Ghislaine's father invited her to visit his new yacht in a shipyard in Holland to celebrate its christening in her honour as the . Maxwell was reported to have spent a large amount of time in the late 1980s aboard her father's yacht, which was equipped with a jacuzzi, a sauna, a gym and private disco. said Robert Maxwell had also "tailor made a New York company for her". The company, which focused on corporate gifts, was not profitable.

The Times reported that Maxwell flew to New York on 5November 1990 to deliver an envelope on her father's behalf that, unknown to her, was part of "a plot initiated by her father to steal $200m" from shareholders.

Dancing Hare yacht, formerly known as the Lady GhislaineAfter Maxwell's father purchased the in January 1991, he sent her to New York City to act as his emissary. In May 1991, Maxwell and her father took the on business to New York, where he quickly departed for Moscow and left her to represent his interests at an event honouring . In November 1991, Robert Maxwell's body was found floating in the sea near the and his luxury yacht the Lady Ghislaine. Immediately following his death, Ghislaine flew to , where the yacht was stationed, to attend to his business paperwork. Though a verdict of death by accidental drowning was recorded, Maxwell has since said she believes her father was murdered, commenting in 1997, "He did not commit suicide. That was just not consistent with his character. I think he was murdered." After his death, Robert Maxwell was found to have fraudulently appropriated the pension assets of , a company that he ran and in which he held a large share of ownership, to support its share price. There were reportedly over £440m in pension funds missing, which left the surviving Maxwell family members and the British government in a bind to repay the 32,000 people affected. Two of Maxwell's brothers, and , who were the most involved with their father in daily business dealings, were arrested on 19 June 1992 and charged with fraud related to the Mirror Group pension scandal. The brothers were acquitted of the charges three and a half years later in January 1996.

Maxwell moved to the United States in 1991, just after her father's death. She was photographed boarding a Concorde to cross the Atlantic, causing outrage amidst the pension scandal due to the high cost of flights on that aircraft. She reportedly receives "an £80,000 annual legacy from a trust set up by her father". In 1992, she had moved to an apartment of an Iranian friend overlooking . At the time, Maxwell worked at a real estate office on and was reported to be socializing with a group that included and 's son. She quickly rose to wider prominence as a New York City socialite.

Association with Jeffrey Epstein[] Maxwell first met American financier in the early 1990s at a New York party following "a difficult break-up with Count Gianfranco Cicogna" of the Ciga Hotels clan.

Maxwell had a romantic relationship with Epstein for several years in the early 1990s and remained closely associated with him for decades afterwards. The nature of their relationship remains unclear. In a 2009 deposition, several of Epstein's household employees testified that Epstein referred to her as his "main girlfriend" who also hired, fired, and supervised his staff starting around 1992. She has also been referred to as the "Lady of the House" by Epstein's staff and as his "aggressive assistant". In a 2003 profile on Epstein, author said Epstein referred to Maxwell as "my best friend". Ward also observed that Maxwell seemed "to organize much of his life".

Epstein in 2006Maxwell has attracted press coverage for her friendship with , the second son of , who attended social functions with her in New York. She introduced Epstein to Prince Andrew, and the three often socialized together. In 2000, Maxwell and Epstein attended a party thrown by Prince Andrew at the queen's estate in , reportedly for Maxwell's 39th birthday. In a November 2019 interview with the BBC, Prince Andrew confirmed that Maxwell and Epstein had attended an event at his invitation but he denied that it was anything more than a "straightforward shooting weekend".

Maxwell has also been associated and photographed with , , and lawyer .

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

In 2008, Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution and served 13 months of an 18-month jail sentence. Following Epstein's release from jail, although Maxwell continued to attend prominent social functions, she and Epstein were no longer seen together publicly.

By late 2015, Maxwell had largely retreated from attending social functions.

Civil cases and accusations[] Virginia Roberts Giuffre v. Maxwell (2015)[] Details of a civil lawsuit, made public in January 2015, contained a deposition from "Jane Doe3" that accused Maxwell of recruiting her in 1999, when she was a minor, and grooming her to provide sexual services for Epstein. A 2018 exposé by in the revealed Jane Doe3 to be , who was previously known as Virginia Roberts. Giuffre met Maxwell at Donald Trump's Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where Giuffre was working at the time. She asserted that Maxwell had introduced her to Epstein, after which she was "groomed by the two [of them] for his pleasure, including lessons in Epstein's preferences during oral sex".

Maxwell has repeatedly denied any involvement in Epstein's crimes. In a 2015 statement, Maxwell rejected allegations that she has acted as a for Epstein and denied that she had "facilitated Prince Andrew's acts of sexual abuse". Her spokesperson said "the allegations made against Ghislaine Maxwell are untrue" and she "strongly denies allegations of an unsavory nature, which have appeared in the British press and elsewhere, and reserves her right to seek redress at the repetition of such old defamatory claims".

Giuffre asserted that Maxwell and Epstein had her and other underage girls, often at sex parties hosted by Epstein at his homes in New York, , Palm Beach, and the . Maxwell called her a liar. Giuffre sued Maxwell for in federal court in the in 2015. While details of the settlement have not been made public, in May 2017 the case was settled in Giuffre's favour, with Maxwell paying Giuffre "millions".

Sarah Ransome v. Epstein and Maxwell (2017)[] In 2017, Sarah Ransome filed a suit, in the , against Epstein and Maxwell, alleging that Maxwell hired her to give massages to Epstein and later threatened to physically harm her or destroy her career prospects if she did not comply with their sexual demands at his mansion in New York and on his private Caribbean island, . The suit was settled in 2018 under undisclosed terms.

Affidavit filed by Maria Farmer (2019)[] On 16 April 2019, went public and filed a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York, alleging that she and her 15-year-old sister, Annie, had been sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell in separate locations in 1996. Farmer's affidavit was filed in support of a defamation suit between Virginia Giuffre against Alan Dershowitz. According to the affidavit, Farmer had met Maxwell and Epstein at a New York art gallery reception in 1995. The affidavit says that in the summer of the following year, they hired her to work on an art project in billionaire businessman Ohio mansion, where she was then sexually assaulted by both Maxwell and Epstein. Farmer reported the incident to the New York Police Department and the FBI. Her affidavit also stated that during the same summer, Epstein flew her then 15-year-old sister, Annie, to his New Mexico property where he and Maxwell molested her on a massage table.

Farmer was interviewed for in November 2019 where she detailed the 1996 assault and alleged that Maxwell had repeatedly threatened both her career and her life after the assault.

Jennifer Araoz v. Epstein's estate, Maxwell, and Jane Does 1–3 (2019)[] On 14 August 2019, Jennifer Araoz filed a lawsuit in against Epstein's estate, Maxwell, and three unnamed members of his staff; the lawsuit was made possible under New York state's new Child Victims Act, which took effect on the same date. Araoz later amended her complaint on October 8, 2019 with the names of the previously unidentified women enablers to include Lesley Groff, Cimberly Espinosa, and the late Rosalyn Fontanilla.

Priscilla Doe v. Epstein's estate (2019)[] Ghislaine Maxwell was named in one of three lawsuits filed in New York on 20 August 2019 against the estate of Jeffery Epstein. The woman filing the suit, identified as "Priscilla Doe", claimed that she was recruited in 2006 and trained by Maxwell with step-by-step instructions on how to provide sexual services for Epstein.

Annie Farmer v. Maxwell and Epstein's Estate (2019)[] Annie Farmer, represented by , sued Maxwell and Epstein's estate in Federal District Court in Manhattan in November 2019, accusing them of rape, battery and false imprisonment and seeking unspecified damages.

Jane Doe v. Maxwell and Epstein's Estate (2020)[] In January 2020, a lawsuit was filed against Maxwell and Epstein alleging that they recruited a 13-year-old music student at the in 1994 and subjected her to sexual abuse The suit states that Jane Doe was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Epstein over a four year period and that Maxwell played a key role both in her recruitment and by participating in the assaults.

Maxwell v. Epstein's Estate, Darren K. Indyke, Richard D. Kahn, and NES LLC (2020)[] Maxwell filed a lawsuit on 12 March 2020 against Epstein's estate, which claimed she had been a longtime employee of Epstein (from 1998 to 2006) who had served to manage his property holdings in the U.S. Virgin Islands, New York, New Mexico, Florida and Paris while continuing to deny any knowledge or involvement in his criminal activities. According to the lawsuit, filed in Superior Court in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Maxwell was seeking damages for legal fees (associated with defending herself against her accusers) that she claims Epstein had promised to cover for her.

Dispute over release of court documents[] On 2 July 2019, the ordered the unsealing of documents from the earlier civil suit against Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre. Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on 6July 2019 at in New Jersey and charged with and sex trafficking conspiracy.

Maxwell requested a rehearing in a federal appeals court on 17 July 2019, in an effort to keep documents sealed that were part of a suit by Virginia Giuffre. On 9August 2019 the first batch of documents were unsealed and released from the earlier defamation suit by Giuffre against Maxwell. Epstein was found dead on 10 August 2019, after reportedly hanging himself in his Manhattan prison cell.

Later in August 2019, the magazine and online newspaper reported that the surroundings of the Epstein case and Ghislaine Maxwell are continuously followed by investigators.

Maxwell and her lawyers continued to argue against the further release of court documents in December 2019. Reuters confirmed on 27 December 2019 that Maxwell and others are under investigation by the FBI for facilitating Epstein's criminal activities.

Attempts to locate Maxwell to serve new lawsuits[] said that by 2016 Maxwell was no longer being photographed at events. By 2017, her lawyers claimed before a judge that they did not know her address; they further stated that she was in London but they did not believe she had a permanent residence.

Maxwell has a history of being unreachable during legal proceedings. During the lawsuit filed in 2017 from Ransome against Maxwell, District Judge granted a motion for "alternative service" on the grounds that the plaintiff's efforts to reach Maxwell were persistently thwarted; these included hiring a private investigation firm that attempted service at three physical addresses, sending information to several email addresses, and reaching out to the lawyers actively representing Maxwell in another lawsuit who refused to become a "general agent of process" to relay the information to her.

According to court documents from a lawsuit filed by Epstein against Bradley Edwards (a representative for several of his accusers), in 2010 Maxwell had agreed to provide a deposition in the case but reportedly left the country one day before Edwards was scheduled to fly to New York to take her deposition, "claiming she needed to return to the UK to be with her deathly ill mother" with no intention of returning to the United States. However, Maxwell returned within a month to attend 's wedding.

In January 2020, it was reported that Maxwell had refused to allow her lawyers to be served with several lawsuits in which she has been directly named in 2019 and 2020, including one by Farmer and from Araoz. While Maxwell's lawyers continue to argue on her behalf against the release of additional court documents from the Giuffre v. Maxwell lawsuit, they claim to not know where she is or to have permission to accept the recent lawsuits filed against her.

TerraMar Project[] In 2012, Maxwell founded , a nonprofit organization which advocated the protection of oceans. She gave a lecture for TerraMar at the and a , at TEDx Charlottesville in 2014. Maxwell accompanied , a 2013 TerraMar board member, to two meetings to discuss the project.

The TerraMar Project announced closure on 12 July 2019, less than a week after charges of sex trafficking brought by New York federal prosecutors against Epstein became public. An associated, UK-based company, Terramar (UK), listed Maxwell as a director. An application for the UK organization to be officially closed was made on 4September 2019, with the first notice in made on 17 September 2019. The company Terramar (UK) was listed as officially dissolved on 3December 2019.

Personal life[] Since at least 1997, Maxwell has maintained a residence in , London. In 2000, Maxwell moved into a 7,000-square-foot townhouse on East 65th Street less than 10blocks from her friend . The house was purchased for $4.95million by an anonymous , with an address that matches the office of J. Epstein & Co. Representing the buyer was Darren Indyke, Epstein's longtime lawyer. In April 2016, the New York townhouse where she had lived was sold for $15 million.

Following her personal and professional involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell was romantically linked for several years to , founder of . She attended the wedding of Chelsea Clinton in 2010 as Waitt's guest. Maxwell helped Waitt obtain and renovate a luxury yacht, the Plan B, and used it for travel to France and Croatia before their relationship ended, in late 2010 or early 2011.

In August 2019, reports surfaced that Maxwell had been living in , Massachusetts, in the home of Scott Borgerson, the CEO of CargoMetrics, a investment company involved in maritime . Maxwell and Borgerson were described as having been in a romantic relationship for several years. Locals in the town of Manchester by the Sea said Maxwell had kept a low profile, went by "G" instead of her full first name, and had been seen on several occasions walking a dog along the beach. According to court documents, in a civil court dispute which was filed by Borgerson and Maxwell, a neighbouring property manager attested that Maxwell and Borgerson were living together at the property in question. Others have said they had been seen repeatedly running together in the mornings. Borgerson said in August 2019 that Maxwell was not currently living at the home and that he did not know where she was.

In August 2019, the published photographs of her allegedly dining at a fast-food restaurant in Los Angeles, but doubts have been raised over the veracity of the report. On 8December 2019, the British tabloid offered 10,000 (13,333) to anyone who could reveal her whereabouts, which were unknown. As of that date, Maxwell had not appeared at any public events for several months.

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Little Saint JamesA view of Little Saint JamesLittle Saint JamesLocation in the CaribbeanShow map of the U.S. Virgin IslandsShow map of CaribbeanShow allGeographyLocationCoordinates: AdministrationArea covered0.28–0.32 km2 (0.11–0.12 sq mi)Little Saint James is a of the , off the coast of and belongs to the subdistrict . The 70–78 acres (28–32 ha) island was owned by American and convicted from 1998 until his 2019 death. During Epstein's ownership, the island acquired local nicknames such as "Island of Sin" and "Pedophile Island," as it was alleged to be a location where sexual abuse of underage girls occurred.

Contents Ownership[] Little Saint James Island in the Virgin Islands, while owned by Jeffrey EpsteinIn 1997, Little St. James was owned by Arch Cummin and was for sale for $10.5 million. In April 1998, a company called L.S.J. purchased the island for $7.95 million, and documents showed that Jeffrey Epstein was the sole member of L.S.J. In 2019, the island was valued at $63,874,223. The island was Epstein's and he called the island "Little St. Jeff". The main house on the island was renovated by Edward Tuttle, a designer of the . In 2008, Epstein's estate on Little Saint James had 70 staff. According to a former staffer, Epstein insisted on secrecy from his employees.

In 1997, the island had a main house, three guest cottages, a caretaker's cottage, a private system, a and a dock. By 2015, the island had a , , , and . In addition, there is also a blue-striped boxlike building that initially was topped by a golden dome. The purpose of this construction is unclear, as it deviates in substantial ways from the plans for the music pavilion that had been submitted for approval in 2010 by Epstein's architects. The original building in the plans was of an octagonal footprint, rectangular in cross-section, and had two side-rooms extending from the outside walls - It was also much lower in perspective, and the dome extended from the octagon over onto the roofs of the side-buildings. The building that was eventually constructed was much taller, in the shape of a cube, and did not have any side-rooms. The dome was also well within the footprint of the cube, and the building did not have any of the proposed finishes applied to the walls, nor be constructed out of materials in those plans, namely stone.

Visitors[] Court papers allege that visitors included "prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well known prime minister and other world leaders". According to flight logs, paid at least one visit aboard Epstein's to the island, although former staff claimed he visited Little St. James several times. According to a former employee, models were among the guests he saw there, and visited the island at least once.

In March 2006, before Epstein was charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor, visited the island with of a group of , and , including three and experts on , and . All had been invited to attend a conference funded by Epstein. A March 2006 photograph on Little St. James shows Hawking, and at a barbecue during the conference. Other visitors have included , , and . Krauss said most of the conference took place on the neighbouring island of St. Thomas, but Epstein had thrown a party on Little St. James.

is widely reported to have visited Little St. James. According to , Clinton flew on Epstein's private jet to Little St. James on multiple occasions between 2002 and 2005. According to , Bill Clinton had been to Little St. James as part of Epstein's circle. Virginia Roberts, later known as Virginia Giuffre, claims in a lawsuit that she was lured into a ring run by Epstein, and while traveling with Epstein she saw Clinton on the island. In a 2011 conversation with her lawyers, Roberts claimed Clinton traveled to Epstein's retreat on Little St. James in 2002. A request for records of visits Clinton may have made to Little St. James produced no such evidence. According to Epstein's flight logs, Clinton never flew near the U.S. Virgin Islands. In July 2019, a Clinton spokesperson issued a statement saying Clinton never visited the island.

According to magazine, proposed to on Little St. James, three months after meeting her in 1993.

Alleged sexual abuse[] According to , "Epstein's island developed a reputation for depravity, and it is alleged that underage girls were made to take part in orgies on Little St. James." It has acquired such nicknames as "Island of Sin," "Pedophile Island," " Island," and the "Isle of Babes".

According to for Epstein's alleged victims, Little St. James is where many of the worst crimes against minors were committed by Epstein and friends who traveled there with him. Court documents allege that the then 17-year-old Virginia Roberts was forced by Epstein to have sex with on three occasions – in , , and as part of an orgy on Little St. James. has denied this allegation. A lawyer for Epstein has described the allegations of orgies by Roberts as "old and discredited".

According to locals, Epstein continued to bring underage girls to the island in 2019, after he was registered as a sex offender, and authorities did nothing to stop him. In August 2019, following Epstein's death, agents searched his residence on Little St. James.

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