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After long probe, Palm Beach billionaire faces 
solicitation charge 
By Larry Keller 
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein paid to have underage girls and young 
women brought to his home, where he received massages and sometimes sex, 
according to an investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department. 
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Palm Beach police spent months sifting through Epstein's trash and watching his waterfront home and 
Palm Beach International Airport to keep tabs on his private jet. An indictment charging Epstein, 53, 
was unsealed Monday, charging him with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. 
• Letter from Palm Beach Chief Michael Reiter to State Attorney Barry Krischer Palm Beach police 
thought there was 
probable cause to 
charge Epstein with 
unlawful sex acts with 
a minor and lewd and 
lascivious molestation. 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Billionaire 
financier 
Jeffrey 
Epstein has 
been indicted 
for felony solicitation of 
prostitution by a grand 
jury following 
accusations by teen girls. 
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Police Chief Michael 
Reiter was so angry 
with State Attorney 
Barry Krischer's 
handling of the case 
that he wrote a memo 
suggesting the county's 
top prosecutor 
disqualify himself. 
"I must urge you to 
examine the unusual 
course that your office's 
handling of this matter 
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these cases," Reiter wrote in a May 1 memo to Krischer. 
has taken and consider 
if good and sufficient 
reason exists to require 
your disqualification 
from the prosecution of 
While not commenting specifically on the Epstein case, Mike Edmondson, spokesman for the state 
attorney, said his office presents cases other than murders to a grand jury when there are questions about 
witnesses' credibility and their ability to testify. 
By the nature of their jobs, police officers look at evidence from a "one-sided perspective," Edmondson 
said. "A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader fashion," weighing the veracity of witnesses and 
how they may fare under defense attorneys' questioning, he said. 
Epstein's attorney, Jack Goldberger, said his client committed no crimes. 
"The reports and statements in question refer to false accusations that were not charged because the 
Palm Beach County state attorney questioned the credibility of the witnesses," Goldberger said. A 
county grand jury "found the allegations wholly unsubstantiated and not credible," and that's why his 
client was not charged with sexual activity with minors, he said. 
Goldberger said Epstein passed a lie detector test administered by a reputable polygraph examiner in 
which he said he did not know the girls were minors. Also, a search warrant served on Epstein's home 
found no evidence to corroborate the girls' allegations, Goldberger said. 
According to police documents: 
• A Palm Beach Community College student said she gave Epstein a massage in the nude, then brought 
him six girls, ages 14 to 16, for massage and sex-tinged sessions at his home. 
• A 27-year-old woman who worked as Epstein's personal assistant also facilitated the liaisons, phoning 
the PBCC student to arrange for girls when Epstein was coming to town. And she escorted the girls 
upstairs when they arrived, putting fresh sheets on a massage table and placing massage oils nearby. 
• Police took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. They contend that on three 
occasions, Epstein had sex with the girls. 
A money manager for the ultra-rich, Epstein was named one of New York's most eligible bachelors in 
2003 by The New York Post. He reportedly hobnobs with the likes of former President Clinton, former 
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers and Donald Trump, and has lavish homes in 
Manhattan, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. 
He has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic Party candidates and organizations, 
including Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid, and the Senate campaigns of Joe Lieberman, Hillary 
Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. 
Goldberger is one of five attorneys Epstein has retained since he became the subject of an investigation, 
Edmondson said. Among the others: Alan Dershowitz, the well-known Harvard law professor and 
author, who is a friend of Epstein. Dershowitz could not be reached for comment. 
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when she was questioned by police last October. She has an 
unlisted phone number and could not be reached for comment. 
said she met Epstein when, at age 
a friend asked her if she would like to make money giving 
him a massage. She said she was driven to his five-bedroom, 7 1/2 -bath home on the Intracoastal 
Waterway, then escorted upstairs to a bedroom with a 
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she said she didn't want to 
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Epstein said he'd pay her to bring him more girls — the younger the better, 
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lice. When 
she tried once to bring a 23-year-old woman to him, Epstein said she was too old, 
said. 
who has not been charged in the case, said she eventually brought six girls to Epstein who were 
paid $200 each time, 
said. "I'm like a Heidi Fleisifice quoted her as saying. The girls knew 
what to expect when they were taken to Epstein's home, 
said. Give a massage — maybe naked 
— and allow some touching. 
One 14-year-old girl 
took to meet Epstein led police to start the investigation of him in March 
2005. A relative of the girl called to say she thought the child had recently engaged in sex with a Palm 
Beach man. The girl then got into a fight with a classmate who accused her of being a prostitute, and she 
couldn't explain why she had $300 in her purse. 
The girl gave police this account of her meeting with Epstein: 
She accompanied 
and a second girl to Epstein's house on a Sunday in February 2005. Once 
there, a woman she thought was Epstein's assistant told the girl to follow her upstairs to a room featuring 
a mural of a naked woman, several photographs of naked women on a shelf, a hot pink and green sofa 
and a massage table. 
She stripped to her bra and panties and gave him a massage. 
Epstein gave the 14-year-old $300 and she and the other girls left, she said. She said 
told her 
that Epstein paid her $200 that day. 
Other girls told similar stories. In most accounts, Epstein's personal assistant at the time, 
now 27, escorted the girls to Epstein's bedroom. 
whose most recent known address is 
has not been charged in the case. 
Palm Beach police often conducted surveillance of Epstein's home, and at Palm Beach International 
Airport to see if his private jet was there, so they would know when he was in town. Police also 
arranged repeatedly to receive his trash from Palm Beach sanitation workers, collecting papers with 
names and phone numbers, sex toys and female hygiene products. 
One note stated that a female could not come over at 7 p.m. because of soccer. Another said a girl had to 
work Sunday — "Monday after school?" And still another note contained the work hours of a girl, 
saying she leaves school at 11:30 a.m. and would come over the next day at 10:30 a.m. 
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Only three months before the police department probe began, Epstein donated $90,000 to the department 
for the purchase of a firearms simulator, said Jane Struder, town finance director. The purchase was 
never made. The money was returned to Epstein on Monday, she said. 
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