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Jeffrey Epstein (born 1953 in Coney Island, New York) is a reclusive American billionaire financier and philanthropist.

He attended Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, NY. He began his career as a math teacher at Dalton before becoming a trader at Bear Stearns. He subsequently founded his own financial management firm, located on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He reportedly will not take clients with assets less than $1 billion. Epstein befriended high profile scientists and politicians such as Leonard Susskind, Dr. Richard Axel, Dr. Gerald Edelman, Murray Gell-Mann, Marvin Minsky and Bill Clinton.

In addition to his private island in the Virgin Islands (Little St. James Island), he owns a home in Manhattan and a ranch in New Mexico.

Epstein has donated money to the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a former board member of Rockefeller University, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University. He has also funded microbiology experiments in Bangladesh, high energy physics in South Africa and M theory in India and was a founding member of the Scholar Rescue Fund.

Epstein is a former trustee of the International Institute for Education, the parent organization of the Fulbright Scholarship program. He has held conferences on artificial intelligence, cosmology and the origin of life with prominent scientists. His donation of $6.5 million funded the creation of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard in 2002.

Accusations of Child Molestation

In 2005 Palm Beach police began investigating underage girls who were working as masseuses and prostitutes, and their investigation led to Epstein. Prosecutors allege Epstein paid several underage girls, one as young as 14, to perform sexual acts on him. Interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, phone messages, a high school transcript and other items they found in Mr. Epstein's trash and home show that he knew how young the girls were.

In September 2006, Palm Beach police said in an affidavit that Epstein should be charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one molestation count. In September 2007, various media reported he was about to plea guilty to reduced charges and spend about 15 months in jail.

In a related case Epstein is being sued by Maximilia Cordero, a transgender model who claims Epstein forced her into a sexual relationship at the age of 16.

References

  1. "Jeffrey Epstein: International Money Man of Mystery". New York Magazine. 2002-10-28.
  2. Harvard to Keep Epstein Gift, Harvard Crimson 2006-09-13. Accessed 2007-09-13.
  3. Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
  4. "Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends - and, investigators say, underage girls". Palm Beach Post. 2006-08-14.
  5. "COPS' FLOPS LETTING MOGUL GET OFF EASY". New York Post. 2007-11-12.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0726062epstein1.html

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11122007/news/nationalnews/cops_flops_letting_mogul_get_off_easy_303421.htm

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