Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender. He developed an elite social circle and procured many women and children who were then sexually abused by Epstein and some of his contacts. Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019. Medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.

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Summary Jeffrey EpsteinJeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender. He developed an elite social circle and procured many women and children who were then sexually abused by Epstein and some of his contacts. Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide. Epstein had a decades-long association with Ghislaine Maxwell, who has faced persistent allegations of procuring and sexually trafficking underage girls for Epstein. Epstein also maintained a years-long friendship with Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Epstein and his brother Mark grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Sea Gate, Coney Island, Brooklyn. Epstein attended local public schools, first Public School 188 and then Mark Twain Junior High School nearby. In 1967, Epstein attended the National Music Camp at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. He graduated in 1969 from Lafayette High School at age 16, having skipped two grades. He attended classes at Cooper Union until he changed colleges in 1971. From September 1971, he attended the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, but left without receiving a degree in June 1974. 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. He was dismissed from Dalton for “poor performance” in June 1976. Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader.

He swiftly moved up to become an options trader, working in the special products division, and then advised the bank’s wealthiest clients, such as Seagram president Edgar Bronfman, on tax mitigation strategies. In 1981, Epstein founded his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc, which assisted in recovering stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers. Epstein described his work at this time as being a high-level bounty hunter. In 1980, four years after joining Bear St earns, he became a limited officer to partner to a limited company. In 1982, he was asked to leave Bear St Earns for being guilty of a d violation, though he departed abruptly. Epstein remained close to his client, Jimmy Cayne, and was a client of Bear StEARns until it collapsed in 2008. Epstein described himself as a “bounty hunter” and said that he sometimes embezzled funds for governments and the very wealthy to recover funds while other times he worked as a consultant to recover stolen funds. In 2002, Epstein became a partner to the limited company, which he left abruptly in 2008, according to his sworn testimony. In 2003, Epstein was asked by Bear StEarns to leave for being a “registration d violation” and he left the firm abruptly. In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procured a child for prostitution.