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Multimillionaire Palm Beach sex offender's secret 
plea deal to be unsealed Friday 
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL 
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 
Thursday, September 17, 2009 
WEST PALM BEACH - Billionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's 
secret deal struck with federal prosecutors is due to be unsealed and released to the 
public tomorrow. 
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Following requests by the Palm Beach Post and attorneys for some of his alleged victims, the document 
- improperly sealed in state court - is expected to be unsealed by Circuit Judge Jeffery Colbath. Epstein's 
attorney has unsuccessfully fought its release in court. 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Billionaire 
financier 
Jeffrey 
Epstein has 
been 
sentenced to 18 months 
for felony solicitation of 
prostitution following 
accusations by teen girls. 
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The back room deal with federal prosecutors is potentially all the more 
interesting in light of the legal powerhouses who have worked for Epstein, 
including Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr of Bill 
Clinton impeachment fame. 
Epstein ended up avoiding federal charges, and pleaded guilty in state court 
to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 
18 for prostitution. In July 2008, he was sentenced to 18 months in jail, and 
later allowed out up to six days a week on work release. 
Epstein left the jail in late July 2009 after serving not quite 13 months of the 
sentence, having earned gain time for good behavior. 
Palm Beach Police began an I I-month investigation of the "international 
moneyman of mystery," as the New York magazine dubbed him, after they 
received a complaint from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had given 
Epstein a naked massage at his home, an $8.5 million mansion on the 
Intracoastal Waterway. 
Police sought and found in poor neighborhoods a variety of tall, thin, model-
like young women, who told stories of being recruited, then going to 
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Epstein's home, massaging him and stimulating him - and walking away with 
between $200 and $1,000. 
The investigation triggered tensions between poli 
rs, with then-Chief 
saying in a May 2006 letter to then-State Attornetill 
that the chief prosecutor should 
disqualify himself. 
"I continue to find your office's treatment of these cases highly unusual," Reiter wrote. He then asked for 
and got the federal investigation that ended in the sealed deal. 
"The Jeffrey Epstein matter was an experience of what a many-million-dollar defense can accomplish," 
Reiter told the Palm Beach Daily News upon his retirement. 
Epstein now faces at least 20 civil lawsuits filed by young woman represented b 
rominent torneys. 
The civil litigation intensified recently with a lawyer for the one of the women,
 made a 
request to inspect and photograph Epstein's genitalia. One of the young women - who told police she 
was Epstein's "number one girl" - described his genitalia as being deformed and "egg-shaped", 
according to a police record. 
Attorneys, including former Cirucit Judge William Berger, sought the release of the sealed deal as part 
of their legal strategy in those civil suits. 
Epstein has repeatedly invoked his right to remain silent and not incriminate himself when being 
deposed in the civil lawsuits. The attorneys sought to unseal the deal to clarify whether Epstein faces the 
possibility of further prosecution, which may or may not impact his right to remain silent. 
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