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says she was used as a sex slave for Jeffrey Epstein for years starting at the age of 16. 
says that Epstein also lent her out to some of his wealthy, powerful acquaintances for sex. 
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He has never been in the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, largely 
because the magazine has never been able to determine the source or the size of 
his wealth. 
He has been dogged by questions about his financial dealings. A former business 
partner, Steven Hoffenberg, sued him in 2016, claiming that Epstein was the 
mastermind behind a $500 million Ponzi scheme that Hoffenberg was 
imprisoned for in 1995. Hoffenberg served 18 years for the scam, but he later 
dropped the lawsuit against Epstein. 
In August, two of Hoffenberg's former investors rekindled the lawsuit against 
Epstein, but the case was dropped in October. 
Epstein and his associate, British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, were also 
accused in a 2015 federal civil suit of organizing underage sex parties on his 
private plane, nicknamed "The Lolita Express," and at Epstein's various homes. 
Maxwell, who has never been charged with wrongdoing, has denied allegations 
made in the lawsuit that she was Epstein's "madam." The suit, filed by victim 
was settled in 2017. 
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was working at Mar-a-Lago when she was recruited to be a masseuse to Palm Beach hedge fund 
manager Jeffrey Epstein. She was lured into a life of depravity and sexual abuse. 
BY EMILY AUCHOT a I JULIE K. BROWN IS 
It was Epstein's contacts with powerful and famous people that first propelled him 
into the public spotlight. In 2002, he flew former President Bill Clinton, actor 
Kevin Spacey, comedian Chris Tucker and others to South Africa on his private jet 
as part of a fact-finding AIDS mission in support of the Clinton Foundation. 
But Epstein, a Clinton donor who contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to 
Democratic candidates and causes, realized that his Democratic connections 
weren't going to help him in 2006, when the federal prosecutor was Acosta, a 
conservative Republican appointed during the George W. Bush administration. 
ENTER KENNETH STARR 
Epstein's tactic: hire the most aggressive and politically connected lawyers that his 
money could buy. 
At the top of his list: Kenneth Starr, a Republican icon because of his pursuit of 
Bill Clinton during the Whitewater investigation, which led to the impeachment 
(but not conviction) of the president after it was revealed he'd had sex with a 
young White House intern. Like Acosta, Starr had worked at the prestigious law 
firm Kirkland & Ellis. Epstein also tapped Jay Lefkowitz, also of Kirkland, who 
worked as a domestic policy advisor and later as a special envoy to North Korea 
during the George W. Bush presidency. 
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Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr speaks to the San Antonio Bar Association in San Antonio, Friday 
afternoon, May 1,1998. With his own fight over executive privilege raging in secret, Starr today drew parallels 
between his plight and Watergate prosecutors. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) 
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Epstein also hired Bruce Reinhart, then an assistant U.S. attorney in South 
Florida, now a U.S. magistrate. He left the U.S. Attorney's Office on Jan. 1, 2008, 
and went to work representing Epstein's employees on Jan. 2, 2008, court records 
show. In 2011, Reinhart was named in the Crime Victims' Rights Act lawsuit, 
which accused him of violating Justice Department policies by switching sides, 
implying that he leveraged inside information about Epstein's investigation to 
curry favor with Epstein. 
Reinhart, in a sworn declaration attached to the CVRA case, denied the 
allegation, saying he did not participate in Epstein's criminal case and "never 
learned any confidential, non-public information about the Epstein matter." 
The U.S. Attorney's Office has since disputed that, saying in court papers that he 
did possess confidential information about the case. 
Contacted for this story, Reinhart, in an email, said he never represented Epstein 
— only Epstein's pilots; his scheduler, 
and 
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described by some victims as Epstein's sex slave. Reinhart also pointed out that a 
complaint filed against him by victims' lawyer Paul Cassell was dismissed by the 
Justice Department. 
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Bruce E. Reinhart, Member, McDonald Hopkins LLC. (PRNewsFoto/McDonald Hopkins LLC) 
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That same year, 2011, more girls continued to come forward, including 
who claimed in a British tabloid story that Epstein directed her — while she was 
underage by Florida standards — to have sex, not only with him, but with other 
powerful men, including his attorney, Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew. 
Dershowitz and Andrew denied her claims, but after she filed a sworn affidavit in 
federal court in Miami, the ensuing news media firestorm forced Acosta, then 
dean of the law school at Florida International University, to explain why he'd 
declined to prosecute Epstein. 
In a written, public statement on March 20, 2011, Acosta asserted that the deal 
he struck with Epstein's lawyers was harsher than it would have been had the case 
remained with the state prosecutor, Krischer, who favored charging Epstein with 
only a misdemeanor prostitution violation. 
Acosta also described what he called a "year-long assault" on prosecutors by 
Epstein's "army of legal superstars" who, he said, investigated individual 
prosecutors and their families, looking for "personal peccadilloes" to disqualify 
them from Epstein's case. 
Dershowitz, in an interview, denied that Epstein's lawyers would ever investigate 
prosecutors. 
Documents nevertheless show that Acosta not only buckled under pressure from 
Epstein's lawyers, but he and other prosecutors worked with them to contain the 
case, even as the FBI was uncovering evidence of victims and witnesses in other 
states, FBI and federal court documents show. 
A 53-page federal indictment had been prepared in 2007, and subpoenas were 
served on several of Epstein's employees, compelling them to testify before a 
federal grand jury. The court records reveal that emails began to fly back and 
forth between prosecutors and Epstein's legal team. Those emails show that 
federal prosecutors kept acquiescing to Epstein's demands. 
Prosecutors allowed Epstein's lawyers to dictate the terms of each deal that they 
drew up, and repeatedly backed down on deadlines, so that the defense 
essentially controlled the pace of the negotiations, the emails and letters show. 
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It's clear, from emails and other records, that prosecutors spent a lot of time 
figuring out a way to settle the case with the least amount of scandal. Instead of 
charging Epstein with a sex offense, prosecutors considered witness tampering 
and obstruction charges, and misdemeanors that would allow Epstein to secretly 
plead guilty in Miami instead of in Palm Beach County, where most of the victims 
lived, thereby limiting media exposure and making it less likely for victims to 
appear at the sentencing. 
"I've been spending some quality time with Title 18 [the U.S. criminal code] 
looking for misdemeanors," the lead prosecutor, A. Marie Villafaiia, wrote to 
Epstein's lawyers on Sept. 13, 2007, adding that she was trying to find "a factual 
basis" for one or more non-sex-related crimes to charge him with. 
The email chain shows that prosecutors sometimes communicated with the 
defense team using private emails, and that their correspondence referenced 
discussions that they wanted to have by phone or in person, so that there would 
be no paper trail. 
"It's highly unusual and raises suspicions of something unethical happening when 
you see emails that say `call me, I don't want to put this in writing.' There's no 
reason to worry about putting something in writing if there's nothing improper or 
unethical in the case," said former federal prosecutor Francey Hakes, who 
worked in the Justice Department's crimes against children unit. 
On Sept. 24, 2007, another agreement was reached, but Epstein still wasn't 
happy with it, emails show. 
Lefkowitz continued to pressure the U.S. Attorney's Office to keep the agreement 
secret, even though under the Crime Victims' Rights Act, prosecutors were 
required to inform the victims that a plea deal had been signed. 
"We ... object to your sending a letter to the alleged victims," Lefkowitz wrote on 
Nov. 28. "... Any such letter would immediately be leaked to the press, your 
actions will only have the effect of injuring Mr. Epstein and promoting spurious 
civil litigation directed at him. We also request that if your office believes that it 
must send a letter to go to the alleged victims ... it should happen only after Mr. 
Epstein has entered his plea." 
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The girls who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and the cops who championed their cause remain angry over what 
they regard as a gross injustice, while Epstein's employees and those who engineered his non-prosecution 
agreement have prospered. 
BY MARTA OLIVER CRAVIOTTO u I EMILY MICHOT u I JULIE K. BROWN BE 
By December, Epstein had still not agreed to a date for his plea hearing, and was 
technically in violation of the September agreement, which required him to 
appear in court by November, Acosta noted in a letter to Kenneth Starr in 
December 2007. 
"The [U.S. attorneys] who have been negotiating with defense counsel have for 
some time complained to me regarding the tactics used by the defense team," 
Acosta wrote. "It appears to them that as soon as resolution is reached on one 
issue, defense counsel finds ways to challenge the resolution collaterally. ... Some 
in our office are deeply concerned that defense counsel will continue to mount 
collateral challenges to provisions to the agreement, even after Mr. Epstein has 
entered his guilty plea and thus rendered the agreement difficult, if not 
impossible, to unwind." 
And that's exactly what happened. 
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Villafaria frequently showed her frustration. 
"I thought we had worked very well together in resolving this dispute. ... I feel 
that I bent over backwards to keep in mind the effect that the agreement would 
have on Mr. Epstein," Villafaria wrote to Epstein attorney Lefkowitz on Dec. 13, 
2007. 
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By then the deal had been signed for two months, and Jeffrey Sloman, Acosta's 
top assistant, told Lefkowitz he intended to begin notifying Epstein's victims. 
An indignant Leflcowitz wrote to Acosta: "You ... assured me that your office 
would not ... contact any of the identified individuals, potential witnesses or 
potential civil claimants and their respective counsel in this matter." 
As the months went on, with the agreement still in limbo, federal prosecutors 
once again began to prepare indictments against Epstein, court records show. The 
FBI investigation briefly resumed, and additional witnesses were interviewed in 
New York and New Mexico, the records show. In January 2008, several Epstein 
victims were sent letters informing them that the FBI investigation was "ongoing" 
as negotiations to finalize the plea bargain continued behind the scenes. 
Starr finally appealed to the Justice Department in Washington, challenging 
federal jurisdiction of the case, but in May 2008, the Justice Department affirmed 
Acosta's right to prosecute. 
`STILL AFRAID OF EPSTEIN' 
In recent court filings, the government was forced to answer questions about its 
negotiations, finally admitting in 2013 that federal prosecutors had backed down 
under relentless pressure by Epstein's attorneys. 
"The government admits that, at least in part as a result of objections lodged by 
Epstein's lawyers to victim notifications, the [United States Attorney's Office] 
reevaluated its obligations to provide notification to victims and Jane Doe #1 was 
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thus not told that the USAO had entered into a non-prosecution agreement with 
Epstein until after it was signed," wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney Dexter Lee. 
Said Hakes, the former federal prosecutor: "I have never heard of a case where 
federal prosecutors consult with a defense attorney before they send out standard 
victim notification letters. To negotiate what the letters would say and whether 
they would be sent at all suggest that the victims' rights were violated multiple 
times." 
Starr's aggressive advocacy for Epstein against allegations of improper sexual 
behavior was in stark contrast to the path he took investigating then-President 
Clinton. The Starr Report, the summary of his findings in the Whitewater 
investigation, which started as a probe of a land deal gone sour and veered into 
an investigation of sexual misconduct, savaged the president for his involvement 
with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and was the basis for impeachment. 
Starr himself would face criticism in 2016 — he stepped down as president of 
Baylor University amid allegations that he and other university officials 
mishandled sexual assault allegations brought by female students against 
members of the school's football team. 
The Herald reached out to Starr, through certified letter and through a spokesman 
for his current law firm, the Lanier Firm, but did not receive a response for this 
story. 
Palm Beach police detective Recarey, one of the most highly decorated officers on 
the Palm Beach Police Department, called the Epstein case the most troubling of 
his 23-year career. 
"Some of the victims were — and still are — afraid of Epstein," he said as part of 
a series of interviews with the Herald earlier this year. 
Privately, Reiter and Recarey said, they held onto a hope that Epstein would be 
brought to trial someday, but they said that that notion had faded. 
"I always hoped that the plea would be thrown out and that these teenage girls, 
who were labeled as prostitutes by prosecutors, would get to finally shed that label 
and see him go to prison where he belongs," Recarey said. 
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Recarey died in May after a brief illness. He was 50 years old. 
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DA's office `went easy' on sex offender Epstein 
By Rebecca Rosenberg and Danika Fear,
January 7.2015 I 2:38am 
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Jeffrey Epstein may be a convicted pedophile and accused sex- slave master — but that didn't stop him from getting some tender loving 
treatment from the Manhattan (Ws Office. 
Prosectors went to bat for the billionaire pervert at a 2011 legal hearing, asking a judge to cut the filthy- rich felon a break on the severity of 
his sex- offender status, according to court documents. 
ADA Jennifer Gaffney supported a request by Epstein — who allegedly peddled $15,0O0-a-night teen "sex slaves" to rich men like Britain's 
Prince Andrew — that he only be listed as a Level 1 pervert during a hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court, according to legal transcripts. 
The sicko Investment magnate has just finished serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence in Florida for soliciting a minor girl for 
prostitution. The hearing was to determine what kind of offender status he would have in New York. where he keeps a vacation home. 
The city ADA argued that since "there was only an indictment for one victim," Epstein shouldn't have to register as Level 3 — which would 
require he travel to New York every 90 days and check in with cops. 
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Judge Ruth Pickholz was flabbergasted. She couldn't understand why the DA would want to go easy on Epstein, after the New York State 
Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders recommended the Level 3 status because there was more than just the one victim for which he 
pleaded guilty. 
"I have to tell you, I'm a little overwhelmed because I have never seen the prosecutor's office do anything like this: the judge said at the 
hearing. 
Despite the DA's arguments, Pickholz slapped Epstein with Level 3 status, which was upheld on appeal. 
"The strong evidence that the offenses against the other victims did occur outweighs any inferences to be drawn from the manner in which 
this case was prosecuted in Florida," the New York Court of Appeals said in its ruling. 
When asked for comment, the DA's Office referred The Post to court documents stating that the prosecution's position was based largely 
on the mistaken notion' that only the formal charges against Epstein could be factors In the decision. 
The jetsetting financier has been making headlines in recent days afters 
3O, claimed he pimped her to Britain's Prince 
Andrew. 
Prince Andrew has denied the accusations against him. 
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The Manhattan DA's office once went to bat for billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein, after botching a review of his sex crimes and swallowing 
his lawyers' claim that "there are no real victims here," records obtained by the Post show. 
Assistant DA Jennifer Gaffney. then-deputy chief of Cyrus Vance Xs sex-crimes unit, in January 2011 asked a Manhattan judge to 
downgrade Epstein's status in the New York sex-offender registry from the most-dangerous Level 3 to least-restrictive Level 1, 
The judge was stunned. 
"I have never seen the prosecutor's office do anything like this." Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholz told Gaffney. 1 have done 
many [cases] much less troubling than this one where [prosecutors] would never make a downward argument like this." 
Pressed by the judge, Gaffney admitted that she never spoke to the Florida U.S. Attorney who handled a sprawling sex-crime Investigation 
into the financier. 
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"I don't think you did much of an investigation here," Pickholz said. "I am shocked." 
Vance's mishandling of the Epstein hearing has come under new scrutiny after a Miami Herald report last week revealed a secret "non-
prosecution agreement" in Florida that buried evidence Epstein had allegedly pimped out 80 girls and young women to his rich and 
powerful pals. 
The DA's office insists Vance "was not aware" of the hearing until years later and had nothing to do with it. 
"Our prosecutor made a mistake: Vance spokesman Danny Frost said of Gaffney. 
Gaffney. a prosecutor working in the Harvey Weinstein probe, left the DA's office in September. She declined to comment. 
A DA insider said the office was unaware of Epstein's secret plea deal in Florida, and never investigated his sexcapades in NYC. 
Some law enforcement sources don't believe Vance had no clue that his office had a sex-offender case involving a Manhattan mogul with 
close ties to Democrats. 
"This Is very unusual:* one said. "There is no way Vance didn't know. The question is why — and who asked for the favor." 
The FBI found Epstein recruited girls as young as 13, many runaways, from Florida, New Mexico, the Caribbean and New York, and paid 
them for nude massages that often led to sex, the Herald reported. Some girls worked for a Manhattan modeling agency and lived in a 
nearby apartment owned by Epstein. 
But Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta — now President Trump's labor secretary — sealed a 53-page federal Indictment that could have 
sent Epstein to prison for life, the Herald reported. 
Instead, Acosta let Epstein plead guilty to procuring a person under 18 for prostitution. Sentenced to 18 months, he served just 13 — most of 
it in his tony Palm Beach office. 
Epstein was required to register as a sex offender In New York because one of his many homes is in Manhattan. 
In the Jan. 18, 2011 hearing. Gaffney argued the evidence didn't justify the harshest status. 
"There is only an indictment for one victim,: she said. "If an offender is not indicted for an offense, it is strong evidence that the offense did 
not occur." 
Pickholz rejected Gaffney's arguments and gave Epstein the highest sex-offender status — Level 3. 
When Epstein appealed, Vance's office admitted it had misread the law. 
The appellate court upheld Pickholz, Saying Epstein 'committed multiple offenses against a series of underage girls: and that the victim in 
his indictment "was only one of defendant's many victims." 
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