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Palm Beach Post Editorial #1 
He was over 50. And they were girls 
By Elisa Cramer 
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Friday, August 04, 2006 
If the women whom Palm Beach police say a part-time town resident invited to his home 
and paid for sex acts were, in fact, women, the solicitation charge against Jeffrey Epstein 
might feel more sufficient. But, according to police records, they weren't. He was over 
50. And they were girls. 14. 15.16.17-year-old girls. That should count for something -
the difference between prostitution and pedophilia. 
So, it is baffling that Mr. Epstein, who was indicted last month by a grand July on one 
felony count of solicitation of prostitution, has not been charged, as Palm Beach police 
strenuously urged, with unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious 
molestation. 
Conviction of crimes against minors would mean steeper penalties than the maximum 
five-year prison term Mr. Epstein faces if convicted of the single count of felony 
solicitation. It also would help carry a message of intolerance to perverts who prey on 
girls. 
Prosecutors did not pursue charges against Mr. Epstein reflecting the age of the victims 
because they assumed a jury would view the girls not as victims but as promiscuous, 
untrustworthy, willing participants. The presumption is offensive. 
Mr. Epstein, a 53-year-old Manhattan money manager who has hired Harvard law 
professor Alan Dershowitz and defense attorney Jack Goldberger, has denied knowing 
how old the girls were. But police interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses 
under oath, as well as phone messages, a high school transcript and other items that 
police found from searching Mr. Epstein's trash and 7,234-square-foot waterfront home, 
provide evidence that he knew the girls were teenagers. 
One girl couldn't show up when Mr. Epstein wanted because she had soccer. Another 
time, Mr. Epstein had to wait for his "massage" session because the girl he wanted was 
still in class. 
Why didn't State Attorney Barry Krischer let a jury decide whether to believe the 
teenagers - including a 16-year-old who went to Mr. Epstein's house to "work" in 
December 2004 after being asked whether she needed to make money for Christmas 
gifts? 
Prosecutors gave greater weight to the details Mr. Dershowitz provided about the girls in 
an apparent effort to assail their character. Mr. Dershowitz pointed out to prosecutors that 
some of the teenagers had talked on myspace.com about marijuana and alcohol use. 
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The 20-year-old Royal Palm Beach woman who told police she recruited girls firli 
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Although no charges of witness tampering have been filed, the parents of at least one of 
the teenage victims complained to police of being followed and intimidated by two men. 
Police determined that their vehicles were registered to two private investigators. Mr. 
Goldberger denied knowing anything about it. 
Police also note in their reports that the state attorney's office offered Mr. Epstein a plea 
deal that would have placed him on probation for five years, allowing him ultimately to 
walk away with no criminal record at all. 
I asked Mr. Krischer's spokesman, Mike Edmondson, why the case was referred to a 
grand jury instead of Mr. Epstein being charged and facing a trial before a jury. And 
shouldn't the victims' credibility be a factor to determine whether a crime's been 
committed, not whether a jury will convict? (After all, as Mr. Goldberger told The Palm 
Beach Post of Mr. Epstein, "He's never denied girls came to the house.") 
Especially, I asked Mr. Edmondson to explain: Why shouldn't the public look at this case 
and think there are two kinds of justice - one for the wealthy and one for the rest of us? 
Mr. Edmondson said he could not comment on the case because it is active, but on the 
latter point, he offered, for the sake of "philosophical debate": "Whether wealth buys a 
different standard of justice across the country ... the answer to that would, of course, be 
yes.
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But in this case, he said, "regardless of the battery of attorneys, the outcome would be the 
same. Every issue that was debated in public was debated in our office before this case 
went to the grand July." 
In this case, it is not the victims' credibility but the state attorney's that deserves 
questioning. 
Palm Beach Post Editorial #2 
Massaging the system 
Palm Beach Post Editorial 
Thursday, August 10, 2006 
Palm Beach police say their 11-month investigation shows that 53-year-old part-time 
town resident Jeffrey Epstein committed unlawful sex acts with and lewd and lascivious 
molestation on five underage girls. Defense attorney Jack Goldberger claims that his 
client, Jeffrey Epstein, had no idea that the untrained girls he hired for massages were 
minors. 
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The Palm Beach Count State Attorney's Office could have let a jury decide whom to 
believe. Instead, State Attorney Barry Krischer left the public to wonder whether the 
system tilted in favor of a wealthy, well-connected alleged perpetrator and against very 
young girls who are alleged victims of sex crimes. 
Mr. Krischer took the unusual step of referring the case to a grand July, which last month 
indicted Jeffrey Epstein on one felony count of solicitation of prostitution. That decision 
came after Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz met with prosecutors to undermine 
the credibility of the 14- to 17-yearold girls who charged that Mr. Epstein had paid them 
$200 to $300 to undress and massage him in his five-bedroom, 7 1/2 -bath home on the 
Intracoastal Waterway. 
The girls, Mr. Dershowitz told prosecutors, had written on myspace.com about smoking 
marijuana and drinking alcohol. But if the girls have a credibility problem, what about 
Jeffrey Epstein? Mr. Goldberger, told The Post: "Mr. Epstein absolutely insisted anybody 
who came to his house be over the age of 18. How he verified that, I don't know." And 
prosecutors took him at his word? 
Police collected evidence that refutes Jeffrey Epstein's defense. Police searched his home 
and garbage and found phone messages about the girls' school schedules and even a high 
school transcript, suggesting that Mr. Epstein at least knew that the girls were teenagers. 
The state attorney's office has responded to criticism from Palm Beach police and others 
by noting the higher standard prosecutors face for conviction than law-enforcement 
officers do for arrest. But in this case, the state attorney bowed to the risk that a jury 
might look at both Jeffrey Epstein and the girls, and point fingers at both sides. 
Even if the girls could be impugned as prostitutes, solicitation of a minor is a crime. 
Former disc jockey and teacher Bruno Moore was charged with that Tuesday. 
Investigators say the 34-year-old used the Internet - myspace.com - to recruit a 13-year 
old. 
Police say Jeffrey Epstein used a 20-year-old woman who had a myspace.com 
account to recruit young girls. His actions were sleazy. It would have been good to ask a 
jury just how criminal they were. 
Palm Beach Post Editorial #3 
Spare us the outrage 
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 
An 11-month police investigation led to an indictment on one felony charge of 
solicitation of prostitution. That was in July 2006, and part-time Palm Beacher 
Jeffrey Epstein still has faced no repercussions for allegedly preying on underage 
girls. 
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So maybe Mr. Epstein is satisfied that he's getting his money's worth from his large 
legal team, which includes Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz 
(remember O.J. im son? and Kenneth Starr (remember Monica Lewinsky?). Jack 
Goldberger of 
, who's also on the team, told Post columnist Jose 
Lambiet in November: "This case is absolutely going to end without a trial within 
the next two months." 
He was wrong, but Mr. Goldberger remains on Mr. Epstein's payroll, feigning 
moral outrage at two lawsuits filed this year against the Manhattan money 
manager. The lawsuits allege sexual exploitation of teenaged girls, one of 
them as young as 14. Said Mr. Goldberger after the first lawsuit, seeking 
more than $50 million, was filed on Jan. 24: "We think this shows what this 
case is all about: money." Yes, it is - Mr. Epstein's effort to buy his way out 
of prosecution. 
Another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez dismissed it: 
"Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman." 
For those girls who claim that he did, Mr. Epstein's lawyers maintain that he did not 
know their ages, despite a police search of his home and garbage that found phone 
messages about the girls' school schedules and even a high school transcript. For all of 
his money, Mr. Epstein's best defense remains "I didn't know that I was a criminal 
pervert"? 
Palm Beach Post Editorial #4 
Rich man fought the law and he mostly won 
Palm Beach Post Editorial 
Monday, July 07, 2008 
Two years after a grand jury indicted him on a felony charge of solicitation of 
prostitution, Jeffrey Epstein finally admitted that he lured a teenage girl to his $8.5 
million, 13,000-square-foot Palm Beach mansion for sex. A week ago, the 55-yearold 
investment banker began serving 18 months in jail. 
But that plea deal - guilty of felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a 
person under the age of 18 for prostitution - does not account for all five of the girls, 
one as young as 14, who alleged that Epstein sexually abused them. And why is Epstein 
serving his term in the overcrowded Palm Beach County Jail and not a state prison, where 
inmates are sent if their sentences are longer than one year? 
The slow, dissatisfying resolution of the case sends a message to the public 
Post your that there's a different system of justice for the wealth who hire high-
comments powered lawyers. Epstein's legal team included 
defense 
on this attorney Jack Goldberger, Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, 
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who defended O.J. Simpson against murder charges, and Kenneth Starr, the 
prosecutor who pursued then-President Bill Clinton for lying about sex with 
young women. 
Palm Beach police spent 11 months investigating Epstein before State Attorney Barry 
Krischer sent the case to a grand jury, instead of charging Epstein so the man who once 
boasted of accepting only billionaire clients could face a trial. The police had taken a high 
school transcript, class schedules and phone messages from Epstein's home that showed 
he knew the girls were underage. Yet Mr. Krischer was more swayed by Epstein's 
lawyers, who attempted to impugn the girls' character by showing they had chatted on 
myspace.com about smoking marijuana and drinking. He should have let a jury decide 
whether the victims - and Epstein - were credible. 
Ultimately, one charge against Epstein finally reflected the age of one victim, and the 
plea agreement left Epstein labeled a sex offender. With that additional charge, if Epstein 
had been convicted at a trial, he could have been sentenced to anything from probation to 
15 years in prison, Assistant State Attorney 
Belohlavek said, adding that the 
recommended guideline sentence was 21 months. 
Epstein also won't have to certify to the court that he is receiving counseling, typically 
required of sex offenders, because he has a private psychiatrist. But without court 
supervision, who will ensure Epstein is in fact being treated? 
The plea deal also drops a federal investigation of Epstein. If a federal investigation was 
warranted, how does dropping it before completion benefit the public? 
Epstein preyed on girls and denied it. For three years, his wealth and the influence of his 
lawyers bought him the protection the state attorney owed to the victims. 
New York Post — 07/27/2008 
New York Post - New York, N.Y. 
Date: Jul 27, 2006 
Start Page: 014 
Section: Page Six 
Text Word Count: 395 
IT looks like New York billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein got off easy when he was hit 
with a charge of soliciting a prostitute for a "happy ending" in Palm Beach. 
Because if Palm Beach police had their way, Epstein, 53 - who surrendered last Sunday 
and is out on $3,000 bail - might have been whacked with far more serious charges of 
paying underage girls for sex. 
But a state grand jury found the witnesses in the case were not credible and threw out all 
but the single charge of soliciting a hooker in his luxurious Palm Beach home. Epstein's 
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law ers and friends now sa he's the ha less victim of a vendetta b 
According to the police investigation, a copy of which was obtained by the Palm Beach 
Post, detectives took statements from 17 witnesses and five alleged victims. 
She said they were paid $200 per session. 
Cops also allege that Epstein's personal assistant
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set up the liaisons and put fresh sheets on the massage table and supplied massage oils. 
Police searched through Epstein's garbage and retrieved sex toys and feminine hygiene 
products. 
Epstein's Palm Beach lawyer, Jack Goldberger, told Page Six that the Florida state 
attorney concluded the cops had looked at evidence from a "one-sided perspective." He 
added that Epstein had passed an extensive lie-detector test in which he was grilled about 
underage girls. 
Epstein's New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, said, "The prosecutor didn't want to bring 
any charges in this case, but because of the craziness of this police chief, we have the 
charge of solicitation." 
Last ni ht WPTV in Palm Beach re orted that one reas 
Co s also allege that [Jeffrey Epstein]'s personal assistant 
set up the liaisons and put fresh sheets on the massage table and supplied 
massage oils. Police searched through Epstein's garbage and retrieved sex toys and 
feminine hygiene products. 
Epstein's Palm Beach lawyer, Jack Goldberger, told Page Six that the Florida state 
attorney concluded the cops had looked at evidence from a "one-sided perspective." He 
added that Epstein had passed an extensive lie-detector test in which he was grilled about 
underage girls. 
NewYork Post — 09/20/2007 
JAIL LOOMS FOR SEX-CASE MOGUL 
September 20, 2007 -- THE sordid sex case involving Jeffrey Epstein may 
be coming to an unhappy ending -with a plea deal that would put the 
publicity-shy billionaire behind bars for 15 months for allegedly soliciting 
underage teen girls for sex at his Palm Beach mansion. 
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Sources tell Page Six that Epstein's high-powered lawyers - including Alan 
Dershowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black and Kenneth Starr - have been 
negotiating a deal with federal prosecutors who are pr bin amon 
ther 
things, whether the gray-haired money manager paid 
girls 
for sex or transported them across state lines. Epstein is currently charged by 
the State of Florida with soliciting young prostitutes for sex - but federal 
charges would be far more serious. 
The Palm Beach Post reported yesterday that Epstein is very close to a deal 
with the feds that would send him to jail for 11/2  to 2 years. Sources tell us that 
while a deal has not yet solidified, what's under discussion is a guilty plea to 
at least one charge in exchange for a sentence of 15 months in a Florida state 
prison, followed by 15 months of home confinement. That would be a fraction 
of the time he would have to serve if he were to be convicted by a jury. 
Epstein's spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, said his client would have no 
comment. Dershowitz also declined to comment late yesterday. 
Palm Beach police records show that on March 15, 2005, a 14-year-old girl 
alleged she had visited Epstein's estate, where she partially stripped and 
gave him a massage during which he "pulled out a purple vibrator" and used it 
on her in exchange for $300. A further probe uncovered five young women 
who said Epstein had masturbated and touched their genitals durin 
massages, the records state. A woman name 
according to cops. 
Despite the allegations, Epstein was only nailed on a single charge of 
soliciting a hooker - but it sparked a federal probe. Epstein's law ers and 
friends have insisted he was the hapless victim of a vendetta by 
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New York Times — 09/03/2006 
Questions of Preferential Treatment Are Raised in Sex Case Against Money Manager -
September 3, 2006 
By ABBY GOODNOUGH 
PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the summer and autumn of last year, when most of the 
mansions here stood empty behind their towering hedges, the police stealthily watched 
one at the end of a waterside lane. They monitored the comings and goings of its owner's 
private jet, subpoenaed his phone records and riffled through his trash. 
The owner was Jeffrey Epstein, 53, an intensely private New York money manager with 
several billionaire clients. Months earlier, the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl told the 
Palm Beach police that a wealthy older man, whom the girl later identified as Mr. 
Epstein, might have had inappropriate sexual contact with her. 
In sworn statements to the police, the 14-year-old and other teenage girls said a friend 
had arranged for them to visit Mr. Epstein's home and give him massages, usually in 
their underwear, in exchange for cash. 
Most of the girls, according to the police, said Mr. Epstein had masturbated during the 
massages, and a few said he had penetrated them with his fingers or penis. They 
identified him in photos and accurately described the inside of his home. Some recalled 
that his employees had fed them snacks or rented them cars. 
Mr. Epstein pleaded not guilty in August to the crime he was ultimately charged with, 
soliciting prostitution. But at a time when prosecutors around the nation have become 
increasingly severe in dealing with people accused of sex offenses, the case has raised 
questions about whether Mr. Epstein's prominence won him preferential treatment. 
By the account of the police, they found probable cause to charge Mr. Epstein with much 
more serious offenses: one count of lewd and lascivious molestation and four counts of 
unlawful sexual activity with a minor. 
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But instead of proceeding with such charges on his own, the Palm Beach County state 
attorney took the rare step of presenting a broad range of possible charges to a grand jury, 
which indicted Mr. Epstein in July on the lesser count. In Florida, prosecutors usually 
refer only capital cases to grand juries. 
Even before the indictment th 
In an editorial, The Palm Beach Post attacked Mr. Krischer, a Democrat whose post is 
elective, saying the public had been left "to wonder whether the system tilted in favor of 
a wealthy, well-connected alleged perpetrator and against very young girls who are 
alleged victims of sex crimes." 
The case has taken a toll on the reputation of Mr. Epstein, who owns a palatial home in 
Manhattan, has pledged $30 million to Harvard and once flew former President Bill 
Clinton on his 727. Politicians including Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic candidate for 
governor in New York, and Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, also a Democrat, have 
returned campaign contributions from him. 
But Mr. Epstein fought back, assembling a team of star lawyers, including Gerald B. 
Lefcourt and Alan M. Dershowitz, a friend of his, to look into the backgrounds of his 
young accusers. 
Mr. Lefcourt says that the police acted "outrageously" and that his client has been 
wrongfully dragged through the mud. 
"He disputes that he ever had sex with any under-age person or anything like that," said 
Mr. Lefcourt, whose clients have included Russell Crowe, Martha Stewart and Abbie 
Hoffman. 
Neither the police nor the state attorney's office would discuss the case in detail. But the 
police released a thick report on the 13-month investigation after the indictment was 
unsealed in late July. 
The police started investigating Mr. Epstein in March 2005, almost immediately after 
the were contacted b the ste mother of the 14- ear-old who according to the report, 
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The police then interviewed a total 
of 5 alleged victims and 17 witnesses, many of whom told similar stories about what they 
had .bserved or artici ated in at Mr. E.stein's home. According to the report.
Mr. Lefcourt his law er sai 
. He also said Mr. Epstein had passed a lie-detector test clearing 
him of any sexual involvement with under-age girls. 
A spokeswoman for the Palm Beach police said that early this year, the police went to 
Mr. Krischer, the state attorney, intending to apply for warrants to arrest Mr. Epstein. 
Instead, she said, they were told that Mr. Krischer would convene a grand jury to 
examine the evidence and decide what charges, if any, to bring. 
Around that time, the police report said, Mr. Dershowitz met with prosecutors to share 
information about the accusers, including statements they had posted on MySpace.com, 
the social networking site, concerning use of drugs and alcohol. According to the report, 
Mr. Krischer's office then decided to delay the grand jury session for several months. 
The Palm Beach police grew frustrated, the report said, and on May 1 the department 
asked prosecutors to approve warrants to arrest Mr. Epstein. 
Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for Mr. Krischer, said the state attorney's office 
sometimes sent noncapital cases to grand juries when there were questions about witness 
credibility. Mr. Krischer does not recommend a particular charge in such cases, Mr. 
Edmondson said, but gives the grand jury a list of possible charges. 
Bruce J. Winick, a law professor at the University of Miami, said that while prosecutors 
in Florida rarely referred noncapital cases to grand juries, they sometimes did so with 
sensitive cases to be extra-cautious. 
Mr. Lefcourt said the police were wrong to have released the report so soon, especially 
without correcting information that later proved wrong. He cited his assertion that one 
accuser had lied about her age, adding that she had also been arrested on drug charges 
and had been fired by her employer for stealing. 
"What I'm trying to focus on," Mr. Lefcourt said, "is, What's motivating the selective 
and misleading release of information to the public?" 
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New York Times - 06/30/08 
Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case -NYTimes.com Page 1 of 4 ge 1 of 4 
July 1, 2008 
Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case 
By LANDON THOMAS 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 70 and its 
flamingo-stocked lagoon, and flew to Florida. On Monday morning, he turned himself in 
and began serving 18 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, 10 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. 
"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." 
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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 Lilliput. 
"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 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. Stan and the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, was 
elated: Mr. Epstein would avoid prison. 
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. 
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. 
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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 100 letters a week asking for money or jobs as a 
masseuse. He 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 1980s. 
His business is something of a mystery. He says he manages money for billionaires, but 
the only client he is willing to disclose is Leslie H. Wexner, the founder of Limited 
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 $100 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 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. 
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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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