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understood she 
s not comfortable, but he 
would pay her I 
over some girls. He told 
her the younger the better.' 
The student claims she found at least six girls aged 14 
to 16. Every girl knew what to expect,' the affidavit 
continues. 
They were told they would provide a massage, possibly 
naked, and allow some touching.' 
One of the girls cried hysterically', according to a police 
report, as she recalled how she was recruited to provide 
services for Epstein when she was 16. 
She claims in a sworn statement that he introduced her 
to a woman whom he said he had brought from 
Yugoslavia to be his sex slave'. 
The girl claims that Epstein persuaded her to have sex 
with the woman. 
He allegedly also forcibly' held the girl's head as he tried 
to have sex with her, but stopped after she screamed 
no'. 
Epstein apologised for his actions and paid her £500 for 
that visit,' the records claim. 
Additionally, [he] gave her a 2005 Dodge Neon, blue in 
colour, for her personal use.' 
When police searched the villa, they say they found a 
pink and green couch In the master bedroom, matching 
a description by the alleged victims. 
They say the stairway to the room was lined with photos 
of naked young girls. 
Two hidden cameras were found ecks, 
and 
police also discovered pictures of 
nd other 
witnesses on a computer. 
The allegations came to light after Epstein was accused 
of soliciting a prostitute. He Is due to stand trial next 
month. 
Palm Beach police believe that the relatively light 
charge, which makes no mention of sex with minors, 
was the result of intimidation by private inves-tigators 
and high-powered lawyers representing Epstein. 
Police claim that local prosecutors were deterred from 
aggressively pursuing the case. 
One of his legal team, Harvard law professor Alan 
Dershowitz, told The Mall on Sunday that Epstein had 
Epstein's friend Prince Andrew 
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passed a lie detector test showing he was innocent of all 
allegations. The financier had paid for massages, but had not engaged in sex or erotic 
massages with any minors, the lawyer insisted. He said that the girl who accused Epstein of 
forcible sex had a long record of lying, theft and blaming others for her crimes'. 
The hidden cameras, he said, had been installed at the behest of Palm Beach police following 
a theft from the villa. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed: We received the referral from the Palm 
Beach police chief. We have a pending case.' Epstein's friends include entrepreneur Donald 
Trump, who once said: He likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on 
the younger side.' 
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United States Attorney's Office 
Southern District of Florida 
NEWS BRIEFING 
To: 
R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney 
Jeffrey H. Sloman, First Assistant 
James Swain, Executive Assistant 
Alicia O. Valle, Special Counsel 
Robert Senior, Chief, Criminal Division 
Kenneth Noto, Deputy Chief, Criminal Division 
Anne Schultz, Chief, Appellate Division 
Gerardo Simms, Chief, Asset Forfeiture Division 
Wendy A. Jacobus, Chief, Civil Division 
David Weinstein, Chief, PINS 
Karen Gilbert, Chief, Narcotics 
Eric Bustillo, Chief, Economic and Environmental Crimes Section 
Rick Del Toro, Chief, Major Crimes Section 
Ben Greenberg, Chief, Special Prosecutions 
Roger Stefin, Deputy Chief, Ft. Lauderdale 
Rolando Garcia, Deputy Chief, West Palm Beach 
Diana Acosta, Acting Deputy Chief, Ft. Pierce 
From: 
Annette Castillo 
Cyndee Campos 
Executive Division 
July 1, 2008 
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By LANDOMTHOMAS Jr. 
The bad news arrived by phone last week on Little St. James Island, the palm-fringed Xanadu 
in the Caribbean where Jeffrey E. Epstein, adviser to billionaires, lives in secluded splendor. 
Report to the Palm Beach County jail, the caller, Mr. Epstein's lawyer, said. 
So over the weekend Mr. Epstein quit his pleasure dome, with its staff of 7o and its flamingo-
stocked lagoon, and flew to Florida. On Monday morning, he turned himself in and began 
serving i8 months for soliciting prostitution. 
"I respect the legal process," Mr. Epstein, 55, said by phone as he prepared to leave his 78-acre 
island, which he calls Little St. Jeff's. "I will abide by this." 
It is a stunning downfall for Mr. Epstein, who grew up in Coney Island and went on to live the 
life of a billionaire, only to become a tabloid monument to an age of hyperwealth. Mr. Epstein 
owns a Boeing 727 and the largest town house in Manhattan. He has paid for college 
educations for personal employees and students from Rwanda, and spent millions on a project 
to develop a thinking and feeling computer and on music intended to alleviate depression. 
But Mr. Epstein also paid women, some of them under age, to give him massages that ended 
with a sexual favor, the authorities say. 
Federal prosecutors initially threatened to bring him to trial on a variety of charges and seek 
the maximum penalty, to years in prison. After years of legal wrangling, Mr. Epstein pleaded 
guilty to lesser state charges. 
Upon his release from jail, he must register as a sex offender wherever he goes in the United 
States. 
People from all walks of life break the law, of course. But for the rich, wrapped in a cocoon of 
immense comfort, it can be easy to yield to temptation, experts say. 
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"A sense of entitlement sets in," said Dennis Pearne, a psychologist who counsels people on 
matters related to extreme wealth. The attitude, he said, becomes, "I deserve anything I want, I 
can have anything I want — and I can afford it." 
To prosecutors, Mr. Epstein is just another sex offender. He did what he did because he could, 
and because he never dreamed he would get caught, they say. Mr. Epstein's defenders counter 
that he has been unjustly persecuted because of his wealth and lofty connections. 
Sitting on his patio on "Little St. Jeff's" in the Virgin Islands several months ago, as his legal 
troubles deepened, Mr. Epstein gazed at the azure sea and the lush hills of St. Thomas in the 
distance, poked at a lunch of crab and rare steak prepared by his personal chef, and tried 
explain how his life had taken such a turn. He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among 
the diminutive denizens of I.illiput. 
"Gulliver's playfulness had unintended consequences," Mr. Epstein said. "That is what happens 
with wealth. There are unexpected burdens as well as benefits." 
Those benefits are on full display on his island where, despite his time in jail, Mr. Epstein has 
commissioned a new estate. The villa will occupy the island's promontory, which offers views of 
the Atlantic on one side and the Caribbean on the other. It will have a separate library to house 
Mr. Epstein's 90,000 volumes, a Japanese bathhouse and what he calls a "Ziegfeld" movie 
theater. 
For now, however, those visions of a private paradise have been replaced by the cold reality of a 
jail cell. 
The legal drama began in 2005, when a young woman who gave Mr. Epstein massages at his 
Palm Beach mansion told the local police about the encounter. She was 14 at the time, and was 
paid $200. 
The police submitted the results of their investigation to the state attorney, asking that Mr. 
Epstein be charged with sexual relations with minors. His lawyers say Mr. Epstein never knew 
the young women were under age, and point to depositions in which the masseuses — several 
of whom have filed civil suits — admitted to lying about their age. 
In July 2005, a Florida grand jury charged Mr. Epstein with a lesser offense, soliciting 
prostitution. Mr. Epstein's legal team, which would eventually include the former prosecutor 
Kenneth W. Starr and the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, was elated: Mr. Epstein 
would avoid prison. 
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But then the United States attorney's office in Miami became involved. Last summer, Mr. 
Epstein got an ultimatum: plead guilty to a charge that would require him to register as a sex 
offender, or the government would charge him with sexual tourism, according to people who 
were briefed on the discussions. 
David Weinstein, an attorney in the government's Miami office, declined to discuss the 
specifics of the case. But he did address the subject of Mr. Epstein's means and prominent legal 
team, and dismissed a proposal by Mr. Epstein's lawyers — who opposed the application of 
federal statutes in the case — that he be confined to his house in Palm Beach for a probationary 
period. 
"In their mind that would be an adequate resolution," Mr. Weinstein said. "Our view is that is 
not enough of a punishment to fit the crime that occurred." 
The lurid details of the case have captivated wealthy circles in Palm Beach and New York and 
transformed Mr. Epstein, who shuns publicity and whose business depends on discretion, into 
a figure of public ridicule. 
He said he has been trailed by stalkers and has become the target of lawsuits. In recent 
months, he said, he received over too letters a week asking for money or jobs as a masseuse. 
lie recently received a package of gold-tinted condoms. 
It has been a long, strange journey from Coney Island, where Mr. Epstein grew up in middle-
class surroundings. He taught briefly at Dalton, the Manhattan private school, and then joined 
Bear  Stearns, becoming a derivatives specialist. He struck out on his own in the 198os. 
Ills business is something of a mystery. He says he manages money for billionaires, but the 
only client he is willing to disclose is Le3lien Wexner, the founder of Limitesi Brands. 
As Mr. Epstein explains it, he provides a specialized form of superelite financial advice. He 
counsels people on everything from taxes and trusts to prenuptial agreements and paternity 
suits, and even provides interior decorating tips for private jets. Industry sources say he 
charges flat annual fees ranging from $25 million to more than $too million. 
As it became clear that he was headed for jail, Mr. Epstein has tried to put on a brave face. 
"Your body can be confined, but not your mind," he said in a recent interview by phone. 
But the strains were showing. "I am anxious," he said in another recent interview, referring to 
how inmates would treat him. "I make a great effort to treat people equally, but I recognize that 
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I might be perceived as one of the New York arrogant rich." 
Jail will certainly be a big change. Mr. Epstein is a man of precise, at times unconventional, 
habits. He starts his mornings with a secret-ingredient bran muffin prepared by his chef. He 
seems to have a germ phobia. He never wears a suit, preferring monogrammed sweatsuits and 
jeans. And he rarely attends meetings — "I never have to be anywhere," he tells his pilots, when 
he cautions them to avoid flying through chancy weather. 
Looking back, Mr. Epstein admits that his behavior was inappropriate. "I am not blameless," 
he said. He said he has taken steps to make sure the same thing never happens again. 
For starters, Mr. Epstein has hired a full-time male masseur (the man happens to be a former 
Ultimate Fighting champion). He also has organized what he calls a board of directors of 
friends to counsel him on his behavior. 
And Mr. Epstein has changed his e-mail address to alert people that he will be unavailable for 
the next 18 months. The new address indicates he is "on vacation." 
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to 
soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida. 
Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 
months in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be 
designated a sex offender. 
Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 
$200 to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes 
became sexual. 
He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. 
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Investment banker Jeffrey 
Epstein waits in court Monday 
before his guilty plea. 
Palm 
Beacher 
pleads in 
sex case 
Jeffrey Epstein will 
serve 
years on teen 
solicitation charges. 
ay LARRY KELLER 
Pd., BaaehJWt Stte Ron 
WEST PALM BEACH — He 
lives in a Palm Beach water 
front mansion and has kept 
company with the 'Ikea of 
President Clinton, Prince An-
drew and Donald 'frump, but 
inveabnent bankerJeffrey Ep-
stein will call the Palm Beach 
County Jail home for the next 
18 months, 
Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty 
Monday to felony solicitation 
of prostitution and procuring 
a person under the age of 18 
for prostitution. After serving 
IS months in jail, he will be 
under house arrest for a year 
And he will have a lifelong 
obligation to register aa a sex 
offender. He must submit to 
an HIV teat within 48 hours, 
with the results being pro-
vided to his victims or their 
parents 
THE PALM BEACH POST 
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• See photos of fugitives, 
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As part of the plea deal, 
federal investigators agreed 
to drop their investigation 
of Epstein, which they had 
taken to a grand jury, two law 
enforcement sources said. 
Epstein was indicted two 
years ago after an lbmonth 
investigation by Palm Boaph 
police. They received r a 
complaint from a relative of 
a 14-year-old girl who had 
given Epstein a naked nuts• 
sage at his five-bedroom, 
7,2.34-square-foot, $8.5 million 
Intracoastal home. 
Police concluded that there 
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were several other girls 
brought In 2004 and 2005 to 
an upstairs room at the home 
for similar, massages and 
sexual touching. 
The indictment charged 
Epstein only with felony so-
licitation of prostitution. The 
state attorney's office later 
added the charge of procur-
ing underage girls for that 
purpose-
Prosecutor Lama 
Be-
lohlavek said of the plea: "I 
took into consideration the 
length, the trial would have 
been • ind witnesses having 
to testify" about sometimes 
embarrassing incidents. 
Epstein may .have made 
a serious mistake soon after 
he was charged. He rejected 
an offer to plead guilty to one 
count of aggravated assault 
with Intent to commit a felo-
ny,. according to police docu-
ments. He would have gotten 
five years' probation, had no 
Criminal record and not been 
a registered sex offender, the 
documents indicate. 
Epstein arrived in court 
Monday with at least three 
atterneys: He wore a blue 
blazer, blue !AUK- blue jeans 
and white and gray sneakers, 
After Circuit Judge Deborah 
Dale Puente accepted the 
plea, he *was fingerprinted. 
E. stein then removed his 
blazer and was handcuffed 
for the trip to jail while his. 
attorneys tried to shield him 
froth photographers' tepees. 
When he eventually is 
released to house arrest Ep-
stein will have to observe a 
10 pm. to 6 a.m. curfew, have 
no 
unsupervised 
contact 
with anyone younger than 
18 and neither own nor pot-'• 
sere pornographic or sexual 
materials "that are relevant 
to your deviant behavior," the 
judge said. 
Epstein will be allowed 
to leave home for woik. 
The New York-based money 
manager told the judge he 
has formed the not-feePrefit 
Florida Science Ibundatlen 
to finance scientific re-
search. "I'm there every day," 
Epstein said. 
The foundation was In-
corporated 
in 
November 
Epstein said he already has 
awarded money to Harvard 
and kar. 
When he is released from 
jail, there is a chance-that Ep-
stein will be forced to move. 
Sex offenders are not allowed 
to live within 1,000 feet of a 
echool, park or other areas 
where children may gather 
No determination has been 
made as to whether Epsteints 
home complies, but attorneys 
said it likely does, 
Sex offenders also typi-
cally must attend counseling 
sessions. Belohlavek bald 
that was waived for Epstein 
because hie private psychia-
trist is working with him. 
'It's validation 
of what we're saying 
in the civil cases. 
JEFFREY HERMAN 
Attorney who reneged& alleged 
victims, commenting on the plea 
The judge was skeptical but 
agreed to it 
Epstein legal woes don't 
end with Monday's plea. 
There are four pending fed-
eral civil lawsuits and one 
in state court related to, his 
behavior At least one woman 
has sued him In New York, 
where he. owns a 51,000-
square-foot Manhattan man-
sion. 
Ifs validation of what 
we're saying In the civil 
cases," Said Miami attorney 
Jeffrey Herman, who tem.& 
sante the alleged victims In 
the federal lawsuits. West 
Palm Beach attorney Ted 
Leopold represents one al-
leged victim in a civil suit in 
state court. He said he antici-
pates *ending that lawsuit 
to •add 'a few other clients" 
as well 
In the criminal case, po-
lice went so far as to Scour 
Epsteinis trash and conduct 
surveillance at Palm Beach 
International Airport, where 
they watched for his private 
jet so they would know when 
he was .in town. They con-
cluded that Epstein paid girls 
$200 to $300 each after the 
massage sessions. 
idi Reiss," 
22, told 
po ce a ou 
efforts in 
recruiting girls for Epstein. 
There was probable cause 
to charge Epstein with un-
lawful sex acts with a minor 
and lewd and lascivious mo-
lestation, police concluded. 
The state attorney's of-
fice said questions about' 
the girls' credibility led it to 
take the unprecedented step 
of presenting the evidence 
'against Epstein to a grand 
jury, rather than directly 
charging Mtn,
Palm Beach Police Chief 
Michael Eeiter was furious 
with State Attorney Barry. 
&lecher, saying in a May 
2006 letter that the prosecu-
tor should disqualify himself. 
"I continue to find your 
office's treatment of these 
cases highly unusual," he 
'note. He then asked for and 
got a federal Investigation. 
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Epstein hired a phalanx of 
high-priced lawyers —Includ-
ing Harvard law professor 
and author Alan Derehowitz 
— and public relations people 
Who questioned getter% com-
petence and the victims 
truthfulness. 
In addition to mansions 
in Palm Beach and Manhat-
tan, Epstein owns homes in 
New Mexico and the Virgin. 
Islande. He% a frequent con-
tributor to Democratic Party 
candidates. He also donated 
$30 million to Harvard in 
2003, 
Former New York Gov. 
Eliot Spitzer returned a 
$50,000 campaign contribu-
tion from Epstein after his 
indictment. then resigned 
this year during his own sex • 
scandal. And the Barrie Palm 
Beach Police Departinent 
that vigorously investigated 
Epstein returned his $90,000 
donation for the purchase of 
a firearins simulator 
StqflwriferEliotlatinbergand 
staff researcher Michelle Quig-
ley confributed to Ail story. 
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com 
Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges 
By Missy Diaz 
South Florida Sun-Sentinel 
11:28 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 
WEST PALM BEACH 
Billionaire Palm Beach- New York-Virgin Islands money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport 
coat for a jail uniform Monday after pleading guilty to hiring underage Palrnatackeounty girls for 
erotic massages and sex. The 55-year-old will be designated a sex offender, requiring him to register 
annually with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. 
Epstein, who lives in a 13,000-square-foot mansion on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, will spend 18 
months in the Palm Beach County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. 
Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout the hearing, read off a litany of 
other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, including a 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity 
log and a stern warning that he not possess, watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually 
stimulating material relative to your deviant behavior." 
The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact — direct or indirect -- with his victims, 
something Pucillo clarified explicitly, saying it includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and text 
messages. 
"That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third parties. ... Is that clear?" 
she asked. 
Epstein told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the very rich and counts among 
his friends former President Bill Clinton. His real estate holdings include a private island in the U.S. 
Virgin Islands and a 50,000-square-foot townhouse on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side. 
According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005 Epstein paid 
, tf
o find girls — "the 
younger the better"— to "work" for him. Epstein rejected a 23-year-old who 
brought to 
Epstein's home. 
once referred to herself as Heidi Fleiss, the Hoist 
madam whose client list included 
celebrities. "The more you do, the more you get paid," 
reportedly told the
he going rate 
was $200 to $300 per massage. All of the girls knew what to expect, according to 
: "provide a 
massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching." 
Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty Monday to two 
counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony offer to commit prostitution. The 
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maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. 
Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court filed by four girls seeking in excess of $50 million each. 
"We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the 
claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. 
Missy Diaz can be reached at mdiaz@sun-sentinet&orri or 561-228-5505. 
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com 
Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage 
girls for sex 
By Missy Diaz 
Sun-Sentinel.com 
12:25 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 
WEST PALM BEACH 
Mega-rich Palm Beach-New York-Virgin Islands money 
manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a 
jail uniform today after pleading guilty to hiring 
underage Palm Beach County girls for erotic massages 
and sex. 
As a result, Epstein will be designated a sex offender, a 
moniker that will require he register annually with the 
Florida Department of Law Enforcement and any other 
jurisdiction that so requires. 
Epstein, 55, will spend 18 months in the Palm Beach 
County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. 
Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his 
attorneys throughout today's hearing, read off a litany of other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, 
including a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity log and a stem warning that he not possess, 
watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually stimulating material relative to your deviant 
behavior." 
The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact -- direct or indirect -- with his victims, something 
Pucillo explained includes things like Facebook, MySpace, e-mail and text messages. 
"That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third panics 
is that clear?" she 
asked. 
Epstein, a billionaire who lives in a five bedroom, 7'/ bath, 13,000-square-foot mansion on El 
BrilloWay in Palm Beach, told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the super 
wealthy and counts among his friends former President Bill Clinton. 
According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005, Epstein used a then 20-year-old girl to find 14- to 16-
year-old girls from her school to "work" for him. 
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In return, according to police, Epstein paid her $200 for each girl she found. 
Epstein's assistant kept the recruiter apprised of when Epstein would be in Palm Beach and the recruiter 
would take the girls to the mansion. 
Once there, Epstein's assistant escorted the girl to a bedroom furnished with a massage table and oils. 
Epstein would enter in only a towel and would touch himself during some sessions and try fondling the 
girls with sex toys in others, according to police. 
Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty today to two 
counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution, and felony offer to commit prostitution. 
The maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. 
Epstein told the judge he takes no prescription medication other than for his cholesterol. He works in the 
Virgin Islands, he said, but while on house arrest he plans to do charitable work at a non-profit he 
formed charity called The Florida Science Foundation. 
State records show the foundation was formed in November for the purpose of providing grants to 
organizations in science and research. 
"My background is in physics," Epstein told Pucillo. 
Harvard and MIT have been recipients of grants from the organization, he said. 
While the criminal ease may have been disposed today, Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court 
filed by four of the girls who are each seeking in excess of $50 million. 
"We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the 
claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. "An 
important measure of justice is that he'll be a registered sex offender." 
As deputies fingerprinted Epstein, who was dressed in a navy sport coat, jeans and sneakers, a phalanx 
of his handlers congregated outside the courtroom. 
His attorney, Jack Goldberger, along with two other men, one in a seersucker suit, the other typing 
furiously on a laptop computer, stayed with Epstein until lawmen escorted him from the courtroom. 
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Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge 
New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls 
in South Florida. 
Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 months 
in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex 
offender. 
Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 $200 
to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes became sexual. 
He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. 
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MR. BIG 
Jeffrey Epstein in 
Ness York. 200I. Left. Epstein% 
nine-Moor, M.000-square. 
foul loon house. Ile also nuns 
a 75110-acre ranch 
in Nos Nlesico, a house 
in Palm Beach, and a 
Caribbean island. 
Lately, leffrey Epstein's 
high-flying style has been 
drawing oohs and aahs: the 
bachelor financier lives 
in New Ifork's largest 
private residake, claims to 
take only billionaires as 
clients, and flies celebrities 
including Bill Clinton and 
Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 
727. But pierce his air 
of mystery and the picture 
changes. VICKY WARP 
explores Epstein's investment 
career, his ties to retail 
magnate Leslie Wexner, and 
his complicated past 
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n Manhattan's 
Upper Lip Side, home to some of the 
most expensive real estate on earth, exists 
the crown jewel of the city's residential 
town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, 
huge arched windows, and nine floors. it 
sits on—or. rather. commands—the block 
of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison 
Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of pro-
portion with its four- and five-story neigh-
bors, it seems more like an institution than 
a house. This is perhaps not surprising—
until 1989 it was the Birch Wathen private 
school. Now it is said to be Manhattan's 
largest private residence. 
Inside, amid the flurry of menservants 
attired in sober black suits and pristine 
white .gloves, you feel you have stumbled 
into someone's private Xanadu. This is 
no mere rich person's home, but a high-
walled, eclectic, imperious fantasy that 
seems to have no boundaries. 
The entrance hall is decorated not with 
paintings but with row upon row of indi-
vidually framed eyeballs: these. the owner 
tells people with relish. were imported from 
England. where they were made for in-
jured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer. 
which does have a painting, in the man-
ner of Jean Dubufftt ... but the host coyly 
refuses to tell visitors who palmed it. In any 
case, guests are like pygmies next to the 
nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked 
African warrior. 
Despite its eccentricity the house is curi-
ously impersonal, the statement of someone 
who wants to be known for the scale of his 
possessions. Its occupant. financier Jeffrey 
Epstein, 50. admits to friends that he likes it 
when people think of him this way. A good-
looking man, resembling Ralph Lauren. 
with thick gray-white hair and a weathered 
face, he usually dresses in jeans, knit shirts, 
and loafers. He tells people he bought the 
house because he knew he "could never lite 
anywhere bigger." He thinks 51.000 square 
feet is an appropriately large space for some-
one like himself, who deals mostly in large 
Guests are invited to lunch or dinner at 
the town house—Epstein usually rekrs to the 
former as "tea," since he likes to eat bite-
size morsels and drink copious quantities of 
Earl Grey. (He does not touch alcohol or to-
bacco.) Tea is served in the "leather room," 
so called because of the cordovan-colored 
fabric on the walls. The chairs are covered 
in a leopard print, and on the wall hangs a 
huge, Oriental fantasy of a woman holding 
an opium pipe and caressing a snarling li-
onskin. Under her gaze, plates of finger 
sandwiches are delivered to Epstein and 
guests by the menservants in white glows. 
Upstairs, to the right of a spiral stair-
case, is the "office," an enormous gallery 
spanning the width of the house. Strangely, 
it holds no computer. Computers belong in 
the "computer room" fa smaller room at 
the back of the house). Epstein has been 
known to say. The office features a gilded 
desk (which Epstein tells people belonged 
to banker J. R Morgan). 18th-century black 
lacquered Portuguese cabinets. and a nine-
foot ebony Steinway "D" grand. On the 
desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de 
Sack's The Misfinunes of Time was re-
cently spotted. Covering the floor. Epstein 
has explained. "is the largest Persian rug 
you'll ever see in a private home—so big. it 
must have come from a mosque." Amid 
such splendor, much of which reflects the 
work of the French decorator .Alberto Pin-
to. who has worked for Jacques Chime and 
the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Ara-
bia, there is one particularly startling oddi-
ty: a stuffed black poodle. standing atop 
the grand piano. "No decorator would ever 
tell you to do that." Epstein brags to visi-
tors. "But I want people to think what it 
means to stuff a dog.- People can't help 
but feel it's Epstein's way' of saying that he 
always has the last word. 
in addition to the town house. Epstein 
lives in what is reputed to be the largest 
private dwelling in New Mexico. on an S IS 
million. 7.500-acre ranch which he named 
"Zono." "It makes the town house look like 
a shack,- Epstein has said. He also owns 
Little St. James. a 70-acre island in the 
U.S. Virgin Islands. where the main house 
is currently being renovated by Edward Tit-
tle, a designer of the Amanresorts. There is 
also a $6.8 million house in Palm Beach, 
Florida, and a fleet of aircraft: a Gulfstream 
IV, a helicopter. and a Boeing 727. replete 
with trading room, on which Epstein re-
cently flew President Clinton. actors Chris 
'Ricker and Kevin Spacey, supermarket 
magnate Ron Burkle, Lew Wasserman's 
grandson. Casey Wasserman, and a few oth-
ers, on a mission to explore the problems of 
AIDS and economic development in Africa. 
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the charm slip into his eyes. They arc steely 
and calculating, giving some hint at the 
steady whir of machinery running behind 
them. "Let's play chess," he said to me, af-
ter refusing to give an interview for this arti-
cle. "You be white. You get the first mow." 
It was an appropriate metaphor hr a man 
who seems to feel he can win no matter 
what the advantage of the other side. //is 
advantage is that no one really seems to 
know him or his history completely or what 
his arsenal actually consists of. He has care-
fully engineered it so that he remains one 
of the few truly baffling mysteries among 
New York's moneyed world. People know 
snippets, but few know the whole. 
"He's very enigmatic." says Rosa Month-
ton, the Farmer C.E.O. of Tiffany & Co. in 
the U.K. and a close friend since the early 
1980s. - You think you know him and then 
you peel oil' another 'ring of the onion skin 
and there's something else extraordinary 
underneath. He never reveals his hand.... 
He's a classic iceberg. What you see is not 
what you get." 
ven acquaintances sense a 
curious dichotomy: Yes. he 
lives like a "modern ma-
haraja." as Loh Rieman, 
one of his art dealers. puts 
it. Yet he is fastidiously, al-
most obsessively private—he 
lists himself in the phone book under a 
pseudonym. He rarely attends society gath-
erings or weddings or funerals: he considers 
eating in restaurants like "eating on the sub-
way"—i.e.. something he'd never do. There 
are many women in his life. mostly young, 
but there is no one of them to whom he 
has been able to commit. He describes his 
most public companion of the last decade, 
Ghislaine Maxwell, 41. the daughter of the 
late, disgraced media baron Robert Max-
well, as simply his "best friend:' He says 
she is not on his payroll, but she seems 
to organize much of his life—recently she 
was making telephone inquiries to find a 
California-based yoga instructor for him. 
(Epstein is still close to his two other long-
term girlfriends, Paula Heil Fisher. a for-
mer associate of his at the brokerage firm 
Bear Stearns and now an opera producer, 
and Eva Andersson Dubin, a doctor and 
onetime model. He tells people that when 
a relationship is over the girlfriend -moves 
up. not down," to friendship status.) 
Some of the businessmen who dine with 
him at his home—they include newspaper 
publisher Mort Zuckerman, banker Louis 
Ranieri. Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, 
real-estate tycoon Leon Black. former Mi-
crosoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. Tom 
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personality Donald Trump—sometimes 
seem not all that clear as to what he ac-
tually does to earn his millions. Certainly, 
you won't find Epstein's transactions writ-
ten about on Bloomberg or talked about in 
the trading rooms. "The trading desks don't 
seem to know him. It's unusual for animals 
'hat big not to leave any footprints in the 
mow" says a high-level investment mai 
Unlike such fund managers as 
Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, whose 
client lists and stock maneuverings act as 
their calling cards, Epstein keeps all his 
deals and clients secret, bar one client: bib 
lionaire Leslie Wexner, the respected chair-
man of Limited Brant's. Epstein insists that 
ever since he left Bear Stearns in 1981 he 
as managed money only for billionaires-
-Am depend on him for discretion. "I was 
the only person crazy enough, or 
arrogant enough, or misplaced 
enough, to make my limit a bib 
lion dollars or more," he tells peo-
ple freely. According to him, the 
flat fees he receives from his clients. 
combined with his skill at playing 
e currency markets "with very 
I rge sums of money," have afforded 
f.:m the lifestyle he enjoys today. 
Why do billionaires choose him 
as their trustee? Because the prob-
lems of the mega-rich. he tells peo-
ple. are different from yours and 
mine, and his unique philosophy is 
central to understanding those problems: 
" /ery few people need any more money 
len they have a billion dollars. The key 
is not to have it do harm more than any-
thing else.... You don't want to lose your 
money." 
1 
e has likened his job to 
specifically, one who 
that of an architect—more 
spe-
cializes in remodeling: "I 
always describe [a billion-
aire] as someone who 
started out in a small 
home and as he became wealthier had add-
ons. He added on another addition, he built 
a room over the garage ... until you have a 
house that is usually a mess.... It's a large 
house that has been put together over time 
where no one could foretell the financial fu-
tut: and their accompanying needs." 
-le makes it sound as though his job 
:ombines the roles of real-estate agent, ac-
:ountant, lawyer, money manager, trustee. 
and confidant. But, as with Jay Gatsby, 
nyths and rumor swirl around Epstein. 
Here are some of the hard facts about 
parks department. His 
parents viewed educa-
tion as "the way out" 
for him and his young-
er brother, Mark, now 
working in real estate. 
Jeffrey started to play 
the piano—for which he 
maintains a passion—at 
five. and he went to 
Brooklyn's Lakette High 
School. He was good at 
mathematics. and in his 
early 20s he got a job teaching physics and 
math at Dalton, the elite Manhattan pri-
vate school. While there he began tutoring 
the son of Bear Stearns chairman Ace 
Greenberg and was friendly with a daugh-
ter of Greenberg's. Soon he went to Bear 
Stearns. where. under the mentorship of 
both Greenberg and current Bear Stearns 
C.E.O. James Cayne, he did well enough 
to become a limited partner—a rung be-
neath full partner. He abruptly departed in 
1981 because, he has said, he wanted to 
run his own business. 
Thereafter the details recede into shad-
UNREAL ESTATE 
From tor the "leather 
room" in Epstein's house. 
where "tea" is served 
to guests: Epstein at his 
Zorro ranch in 1991 
with his "best friend," 
Ghislaine Maxwell: 
Epstein in 1979. 
"bounty hunter: recov-
ering lost or stolen mon-
ey for the government or for very rich 
people. He has a license to carry a firearm. 
For the last 15 years. he's been running his 
business, J. Epstein & Co. 
Since Leslie Wexner appeared in his 
life—Epstein has said this was in 1986: 
others say it was in 1989. at the earliest—
he has gradually, in a way that has not 
generally made headlines, come to be ac-
cepted by the Establishment. He's a mem-
ber of various commissions and councils: 
he is on the Trilateral Commission, the 
Council on Foreign Relations, the New 
York Academy of Sciences, and the Insti-
tute of International Education. 
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