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RE: 
JEFFREY E EPSTEIN 
NYSID ft: O81909 
DATE: 
8/23/2010 
CASE SUMMARY 
'Ibis assessment is based upon n review ante inmate's file which may include but is not limited to the 
pre-sentence investigation. prior criminal history and post-offense behavior. 
Jeffrey Epstein is a 57-year-old sex offender who pled guilty in the state of Florida on 6/30/2008 to two felony 
sex offenses. Procuring a Person Under 18 for Prostitution and Felony Solicitation of Prostitution. He was 
sentenced to12 months in jail followed by 12 months °I-Community Control. 
It would appear he was convicted in London England of Unlawful Possession of an Offensive Weapon, a Sword 
Stick, and was sentenced to a Conditional Discharge on 1/4/1973. 
Regarding the instant offense, Epstein was approximately 51 years of age on or about the year 2005 when he 
sexually assaulted numerous females between the approximate ages of 14 and 17. Most of the victims were 
recruited by one of Epstein's female employees front a local high school in the Palm Beach Florida area. Some of 
the female participants were age 18 or older. The contact included vaginal intercourse, mouth to vagina sodomy, 
the touching of the breasts and vagina, placing his fingers inside the vagina and Epstein using a vibrator on the 
victim's vaginal area. The available police reports from the Palm Beaeh.Police Department include conversations 
with numerous female victims who in most cases, did not know Epstein %Olen they were victimized. Most of the 
females were embarrassed to speak with police regarding what had happened to them while they were at Epstein's 
home. Sworn statements were taken from at least five victims and seventeen witnesses concerning massages and 
unlawful sexual activity that took place at the residence of Jeffrey Epstein. Most of the victims were paid at least 
$200.00 each time they performed a massage. 
The victims were told they would be giving Epstein a massage and they were escorted to his bedroom. Most 
victims noted numerous pictures of naked young females, (some of the photos depicted females who would be 
eventually interviewed by police). on display throughout the home. The offender would enter the room only 
wearing a towel. In most cases he would remove the towel and ask the victim to remove her clothing. In some 
casts he would masturbate into a towel while receiving a massage. In other cases lie would touch the breasts or 
vagina of the victim with his hands or use the vibrator. One 14 year old described how Epstein touched her 
vaginal area with a vibrator and thereafter, when contacted by law enforcement, she had to identify the offender 
through the use of a photo array. Another I6-year-old victim described giving Epstein massages for two years 
and at times, he grabbed her buttocks and caressed her butt cheeks as she gave hint a massage. Another 
16-year-old described going to the offender's home at least 100 times. He would touch her breasts, insert his 
lingers into her vagina and sometimes use the vibrator on her while masturbating. He would also pay this 
underage victim to have sex with a female friend while he watched. Occasionally, he would join both girls and 
perform oral sex on both. 11th 16-year-old victim described for police how one time, Epstein turned her over on 
the massage table and forcibly raped her. When she screanwd, "NO," he stopped and subsequently apologized for 
his actions. 
The offenders conduct while on Community Control will be considered.satisfactory and he does not have a 
history of substance abuse. Based upon his plea ofguilty, Epstein will he credited with accepting responsibility 
- for his actions. He will he scored for sexual and deviate sexual intercourse, forcible compulsion, numerous 
victims and their ages. a continued course of sexual misconduct. a prior misdemeanor conviction in England 
absent specific information. for his stranger relationship to most victims and for establishing a relationship with 
these underage girls for the purpose of victimization. 
The Board acknowledges correspondence received from the offender's attorney. 
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RE: 
JEFFREY E EPSTEIN 
NYSID /I: OS1909 
DATti: 
8/2)/2010 
CASE SUMMARY 
Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power in such a way so that he could take advantage of many teenage girls to 
satisfy his own sexual perversions. Ile scores as a Level Ill Scx Offender with absolutely no basis for downward 
departure. 
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Letter from Jay P. Letkowitz to Hon. Ruth Pickholz Requesting a Continuance of the Hearing, 
dated September 9, 2010 
09/07/2010 09:65 FAX 
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KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 
AND AlUATED PARTNERSHIPS 
601 Lexington Avenue 
Nov York. New York 10022 
Joy P. letkowitz, P.C. 
To Cal Wier Cathy: 
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September 7, 2010 
BY FACSIMILE 
The Honorable Ruth Pickholz 
New York County Supreme Court 
Part 66 
Ill Centre Street 
New York, NY 10013 
Re: 
SCID No. 30129-2010' 
Dear Justice Pickholz: 
I am writing regarding the hearing for Mr. Jeffrey Epstein in the above-referenced matter, 
which is currently scheduled for 9:304.m. on Wednesday, September 15, 2010. 
We respectfully request a continuance of the hearing. Kirkland & Eliis was only recently 
retained by Mr. Epstein to represent him in this matter and due to the holidays this week and 
because the matter arises out of Florida, we will need some time in order to collect information 
to prepare for the hearing. 
We are available on or after October 4, 2010 for a hearing on this matter if that would be 
acceptable to the Court. We are available to discuss at the Court's convenience. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Lefkowitz, P.C. 
Chicago 
Hong Kong 
London 
Los Angeles 
Munich 
Palo Alio 
San Francisco 
Shanghai 
Washington. D.C. 
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Letter from Supreme Court to Sex Offender Registry Unit Enclosing Final Determinations, 
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Transcript of SORA Hearing, dated January 18, 2011 
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SORA HEARING 
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TRIAL TERM 
PART 66 
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: INDICTMENT # 
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AGAINST 
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JEFFREY EPSTEIN 
Defendant. 
x SORA HEARING 
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New York, New York 10013 
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January 18, 2011 
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HONORABLE RUTH PICKHOLZ 
Justice of the Supreme Court 
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CYRUS R. VANCE, JR., ESQ., 
New York County District Attorney 
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One Hogan Place 
New York, New York 10013 
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BY: JENNIFER GAFFNEY, ESQ. 
Assistant District Attorney 
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For the Defense: 
KIRKLAND & ELLI, LLP 
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153 East 53rd Street 
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New York, New York 10022 
BY: JAY LEFKOWITZ, ESQ. 
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SANDRA MUSUMECI, ESQ. 
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Senior Court Reporter 
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COURT CLERK: This is number two on the calendar, 
matter of Jeffrey Epstein. 
Your appearances please. 
MS. GAFFNEY: Jennifer Gaffney for the People. 
Good afternoon, Your Honor. 
MR. LEFKOWITZ: Jay Lefkcmitz and Sandra Musumeci 
for Mr. Epstein. 
THE COURT: Mr. Epstein is not here. 
MR. LEFKOWITZ: That's correct. 
THE COURT: Are you waiving his appearance? 
MR. LEK4OWITZ: Yes. 
MS. GAFFNEY: Your Honor, this case is on for a 
SORA hearing this afternoon. 
The People did receive the board's recommendation 
of a Level Three. However, we received the underlying 
information from them and also had some contact with 
Florida, and we don't believe that we can rely on the entire 
probable cause affidavit. 
I don't know if the board sent that to you as 
well. 
THE COURT: I don't know why you cannot rely on 
it. 
MS. GAFFNEY: Because in Florida of all of the 
victims in that probable cause affidavit, they actually only 
went forward on one case. There was only an indictment for 
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one victim and that is what the defendant plead to. 
So it is unlike a situation where everything was 
indicted and then we get to sort of assess points for all of 
the victims, if it was part of a plea bargain. They did not 
actually choose to go forward on any except for the one 
victim. 
So under the board guidelines, the risk assessment 
interim guidelines, it actually says, you know, by way of 
contrast if an offender is not indicted for an offense, it • 
is strong evidence that the offense did not occur and I 
don't think --
THE COURT: Do you find that if somebody is not 
indicted it is strong evidence that it did not occur? 
MS. GAFFNEY: I don't know that we can rely on it 
as clear and convincing evidence if the prosecutor's office 
never went forward on it. The prosecution said that the 
victims, although they spoke to the police early on, did not 
cooperate with them. So we don't have any follow up 
information. 
THE COURT: But the board found a Level Three. 
I have to tell you, I am a little overwhelmed 
because I have never seen the prosecutor's office do 
anything like this. I have never seen it. I had a case 
with one instance it was a marine who went to a bar, and I 
wish I had the case before me, but he went to a bar and a 17 
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year old, he was an adult obviously, he was a Marine, a 17 
year old came up to him and one thing lead to another and he 
had sex with her and the People would not agree to a 
downward modification on that. 
So I am a little overwhelmed here because I see --
I mean I read everything here, I am just a little 
overwhelmed that the People are making this application. 
I could cite many many, I have done many SORAs 
much less troubling than this one where the People would 
never make a downward argument like this. 
MS. GAFFNEY: I agree with Your Honor, it is 
incredibly unusual for us to make a downward argument. But 
the problem is the one thing that we have from the board is 
it seems to be in contradiction to their own guidelines 
which if something was not indicted, you are not supposed to 
rely on it. 
THE COURT: They obviously took that into 
consideration. 
MS. GAFFNEY: And I tried to reach -- I reached 
the authorities in Florida to try to see if they had all the 
interview notes or other things that we can then 
subsequently rely on that might be considered clear and
convincing evidence, if they had interviewed these women on 
their own, and they never did. No one was cooperative and 
they did not go forward on any of the cases and none of them 
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were indicted. So I don't kncw. 
THE COURT: And you spoke to the prosecutor? 
MS. GAFFNEY: The actual prosecutor left the 
office. I spoke to the prosecutor that took over the case. 
THE COURT: Maybe you can find the prosecutor that 
left the office. 
You have done more in other cases looking into it. 
I have never seen the prosecutor's office do this. I have 
to tell you, I am shocked. 
MS. GAFFNEY: Right, but I spoke to the prosecutor 
that took over the case and they don't have anything, any 
affidavits, any statements, any notes. 
THE COURT: Why don't you speak to the prosecutor 
that did do the case, I am sure you could find that 
prosecutor. 
MS. GAFFNEY: I can find her, but based upon what 
the other prosecutor said, they did not speak to that 
prosecutor either. 
THE COURT: You did not speak to the prosecutor 
yourself, you did not speak to them, that is hearsay. You 
did not speak to the prosecutor that handled the case. 
MS. GAFFNEY: That's right. 
THE COURT: I don't think you did much of an 
investigation here. 
MS. GAFFNEY: I mean I called the prosecutor. 
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THE COURT: I would still call the prosecutor. 
MS. GAFFNEY: Anything from these women they would 
have forwarded it to us. 
THE COURT: I don't know that, I think you have to 
speak to the prosecutor. 
But be that as it may, I hear your argument. 
Anything else? 
MS. GAFFNEY: I mean that is why I don't think we 
can, I don't think we are entitled to rely on this because 
they did not go forward. 
THE COURT: The board made a recommendation. 
MS. GAFNEY: Correct. 
MS. MUSUMECI: May I speak, Your Honor? 
THE COURT: Yes. 
MS. MUSUMECI: Good afternoon. 
I would like to bring a few additional points to 
Your Honor's attention that don't come across in the board 
recommendation. 
The first is that Mr. Epstein is not a resident of 
New York, unlike most of these out of state, he has not 
changed his address and moved to New York, he maintains a 
vacation home in New York. His primary residence is the 
U.S. Virgin Islands. 
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He is registered in the U.S. Virgin Islands, he 
has been since his release from jail. He notifies the 
Virgin Island authorities every time he leaves that 
jurisdiction. Virgin Island authorities rated him at the 
lowest level of registration. 
He also registered in Florida, which is the state 
of this particular offense, and the only reason that this 
conviction is even before Your Honor. 
The offense for which he was convicted is not a 
registrable offense in New York. He is only registrable 
here arguably because based on the provision of SORA that 
says if a crime is registrable in the state of conviction, 
then it is registrable here in New York. And the Florida 
authorities that considered that rated him at the lowest 
level of their SORA statute. 
He additionally has a vacation home in New Mexico 
and is registered in New Mexico. The New Mexican 
authorities when they considered his offenses, determined he 
need not register at all. Nevertheless, he has voluntarily 
registered with New Mexico and maintains that registration. 
Additionally, because of his possession of a 
vacation home in New York, he has been voluntarily 
registered with New York SOMU, the Sex Offender Monitoring 
Unit since May of this year. He notifies them whenever he 
comes to travel to New York. He never comes to New York for 
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more than seven days or at least he has not since he has 
been registered. He has no intention to ever be here for 
longer than a period of ten days. 
Like I said, he does notify the authorities when 
he is here. He fully understands the reason for voluntary 
registration, he wants to be compliant with the Federal SORA 
law which requires wherever you own a property to register. 
To require Mr. Epstein to register as a Level 
Three offender in New York would actually require him to 
come to New York more than he does normally, it would 
require him to come every 90 days and renew his 
registration. 
He is very diligent in registering with New York 
authorities. 
All of the other jurisdictions that have 
considered his case have determined that he either not 
register at all or register at the lowest level, and he has 
been more than compliant with all of those requirements. 
Your Honor, we would join in the prosecutor's 
application. 
THE COURT: I am sure you would. 
MS. MUSUMECI: By way of background, we have been 
in contact with the prosecutor's office on this matter since 
I believe certainly since Mr. Epstein got his notification, 
which I believe was in August. We have met with the 
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prosecutor and provided numerous materials for the 
prosecutor to consider. We have included in that a 
deposition from the detective who headed this investigation 
who acknowledged in a sworn deposition that the lead 
prosecutor who originally had the case, whose name I cannot 
pronounce, Lanna Belohlavek, I apologize for the 
mispronunciation, said to the detective after her 
investigation, there are no real victims here. 
All of the alleged conduct that is cited in the 
board's write up MS commercial conduct. All of the alleged 
conduct the women went voluntarily, there are no allegations 
of force certainly none. 
THE COURT: There was no allegation of force in 
the marine either, who met a girl in a bar, a young girl 17, 
there was no force there. 
MS. MUSUMECI: It is our understanding that the 
prosecutor in Florida conducted a full investigation, as 
full as she was able with the cooperation afforded by these 
complainants, and determined that the only case that she 
could present to the grand jury was this indictment for a 
non registrable offense then --
THE COURT: But it is registrable here. 
I don't know what you mean non registrable 
offense. 
MS. MUSUMECI: Let me explain, Your Honor. 
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Mr. Epstein plead to two charges, one was an 
indictment which is an offense that is not registrable, it 
is a Florida indictment for --
THE COURT: Then why does he have to register 
here? 
MS. MUSUMECI: It was a second offense that he 
plead to --
THE COURT: That is registrable. 
MS. MUSUMECI: That is registrable. 
That offense was by information and that is the 
only registrable offense, that is what the DA's office is 
considering in doing their scoring. 
The indictment which was the only case that the 
prosecutor even prosecuted through grand jury is not even a 
registrable offense. 
THE COURT: He plead guilty to a registrable 
offense. 
MS. MUSUMECI: Yes. 
THE COURT: What did he plead guilty to? 
MS. GAFFNEY: He plead guilty to the procuring a 
person under 18 for prostitution. 
THE COURT: Procuring a person under 18 for 
prostitution. 
MS. GAFFNEY: Right. 
THE COURT: Haw old was she? 
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MS. GAFFNEY: It appears the first time they met 
she was either 16 or 17, then for the remainder of their 
relationship she was probably 17. 
THE COURT: How long was their relationship? 
MS. GAFFNEY: She met, she gave him approximately 
15 massages, including with sexual contact, and ultimately 
when she is 17 had intercourse with him. 
THE COURT: She is a child. 
MS. MUSUMECI: Your Honor, I would note that under 
SORA it is clear that prostitution offenses are only 
registrable when in fact by clear and convincing evidence 
the women or victim is 17, is under 17. 
THE COURT: Well, she met him at 16, he procured 
her at 16 from what I read. 
MS. MUSUMECI: There is evidence we challenged. 
THE COURT: He plead guilty to that, didn't he? 
MS. MUSUMECI: He plead guilty to under 18, which 
is the law in Florida, which is a different standard than 
what the law is in New York. And there is no evidence, 
there is no clear and convincing evidence as to her specific 
age at the time of the specific conduct. 
THE COURT: Well, the DA just told me she was most 
likely 17, she just said it on the record. 
MS. MUSUMECI: Your Honor, we agree that the 
evidence is that she was 17 on the one occasion she had 
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consensual intercourse with him and 17 is not registrable or 
criminal under New York law. 
And the prostitution aspect of having intercourse 
with a 17 year old is not registrable conduct. 
THE COURT: Why does he have to register here? 
MS. GAFFNEY: Because it is a register able 
offense in Florida, New York State board of examiners 
THE COURT: Recognizes it. 
MS. GAFFNEY: Recognizes it, yes. 
THE COURT: I have had many cases like that where 
it was not registrable here but it MS in the state where 
the person came from and New York recognized that. 
MS. MUSUMECI: Your Honor, we are not saying that 
he should not register. Mr. Epstein has already registered 
and recognizes his duty to register. 
THE COURT: I am glad of that, very glad of that. 
I am sorry he may have to come here every 90 days. 
He can give up his New York home if he does not 
want to come every 90 days. 
Anything else? 
I rely on the board. 
MS. MUSUMECI: Your Honor, we would reserve our 
right to appeal Your Honor's ruling. 
THE COURT: Of course, do so. 
MS. GAFFNEY: For the record, Your Honor, he is 
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