Epstein allegedly showed inappropriate behavior toward underage female students at the time, paying them constant attention, and even showing up at a party where young people were drinking, according to a former student. Other former students also often saw him flirting with female students. Eventually, Epstein became acquainted with Alan Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Bear Stearns, whose son and daughter were attending the school. "
Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader. He swiftly moved up to become an options trader, working in the
special products division,
and then advised the bank's wealthiest clients, such as Seagram president Edgar Bronfman, on tax mitigation strategies.
Jimmy Cayne, the bank's later chief executive officer, praised Epstein's skill with wealthy clients and complex products.
In 1980, four years after joining Bear Stearns, Epstein became a limited partner.
In 1981, Epstein was asked to leave Bear Stearns for, according to his sworn testimony, being guilty of a "Reg D violation". Even though Epstein departed abruptly, he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and
was a client of Bear Stearns until its collapse in 2008."
In August 1981, Epstein founded his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc. (IAG), which assisted clients in recovering stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers.
Epstein described his work at this time as being a high-level bounty hunter
Epstein also stated to some people at the time that he was an intelligence agent.
During the 1980s, Epstein possessed an Austrian passport that had his photo, but with a false name.
The passport showed his place of residence as Saudi Arabia.
2017, "a former senior White House official" reported that Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who had handled Epstein's criminal case in 2008, had stated to interviewers of President Donald Trump's first transition team:
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to 'leave it alone'", and that Epstein was "above his pay grade".
During this period, one of Epstein's clients was the Saudi Arabian businessman Adnan Khashoggi, the uncle of Dodi Al Fayed who was the middleman in transferring American weapons from Israel to Iran as part of the Iran–Contra affair in the 1980s.
Khashoggi was one of several defense contractors that he knew.
In the mid-1980s, Epstein traveled multiple times between the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
While in London, Epstein met Steven Hoffenberg. They had been introduced through Douglas Leese, a defense contractor, and
John Mitchell, the former U.S. Attorney General.
"Steven Hoffenberg hired Epstein in 1987 as a consultant for Towers Financial Corporation (unaffiliated with the company of the same name founded in 1998, and acquired by Old National Bancorp in 2014),[64] a collection agency that bought debts people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies.
In 1993, Towers Financial Corporation imploded when it was exposed as one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in American history, losing over US$450 million of its investors' money (equivalent to $1 billion in 2024)"
The only publicly known billionaire client of Epstein was Leslie Wexner, chairman and CEO of L Brands (formerly The Limited, Inc.) and Victoria's Secret.
In 1986, Epstein met Wexner through their mutual acquaintances, insurance executive Robert Meister and his wife, in Palm Beach. A year later,
Epstein became Wexner's financial adviser and served as his right-hand man. Within the year, Epstein had sorted out Wexner's entangled finances.
In July 1991, Wexner granted Epstein full power of attorney over his affairs
often attended Victoria's Secret fashion shows, and hosted the models at his New York City home, as well as
helping aspiring models get work with the company.
2015, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Epstein invested in the startup Reporty Homeland Security (rebranded as Carbyne in 2018).
The startup was connected with Israel's defense industry.
It was headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also at one time the defense minister, and chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
The CEO of the company is Amir Elihai, a special forces officer, and Pinchas Bukhris, a director of the company and former defense ministry director general and commander of IDF cyber unit 8200.
Epstein and Barak, the head of Carbyne, were close, and Epstein often offered him lodging at one of his apartment units at 301 East 66th Street in Manhattan.
Epstein had past experience with Israel's research and military sector. In April 2008, he went to Israel and met with a number of research scientists and visited different Israeli military bases.
"Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his properties
to allegedly record sexual activity with underage girls or prominent people for criminal purposes such as blackmail"
Epstein allegedly "lent" girls to powerful people
to ingratiate himself with them
and also to gain possible blackmail information.
According to the Department of Justice, he kept compact discs locked in his safe in his New York mansion with handwritten labels that included the description: "young [name] + [name]".
Epstein implied that he had blackmail material when he told a New York Times reporter in 2018, off the record, that
he had dirt on powerful people,
including information about their sexual proclivities and recreational drug use."
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Epstein was a longtime acquaintance of
Prince Andrew
and Tom Barrack, and attended parties with many prominent people, including
Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Mark Zuckerberg,
Donald Trump,
[219] Katie Couric, Woody Allen,[220]
Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin,
Naomi Campbell, Stephen Hawking,[222] and Harvey Weinstein.[223]
Contacts listed in his printed phone directory included
Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, John Kerry,
Richard Branson, Alec Baldwin, David Koch,
[225] and Michael Jackson.[226]
The "black book" also included
Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, British prime minister Tony Blair, and Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
According to Michael Wolff, former Trump chief Strategist Steve Bannon and Epstein were introduced in December 2017
Bannon met with Epstein several times at his mansion in New York.
Also according to Wolff, Bannon coached Epstein for a 60 Minutes interview which never occurred.
A New York Times article reported that Bill Gates's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein started in 2011, just a few years after Epstein's conviction, and continued for some years.
In August 2021, Gates said the reason he had meetings with Epstein was because
Gates hoped Epstein could provide money for philanthropic work
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"Epstein owned a private Boeing 727 jet, nicknamed the "Lolita Express" by local residents, and traveled in it frequently, logging "600 flying hours a year ... usually with guests on board".
The jet was nicknamed the Lolita Express by the locals in the Virgin Islands, because of its frequent arrivals at Little Saint James with apparently underage girls."
In 2009, Epstein's brother Mark claimed Trump had flown on Epstein's plane at least once. He later told The Washington Post that
Trump flew "numerous times" on Epstein's airplane,
although Mark was present on only one of the flights.
According to Michael Corcoran, Trump flew Epstein on his own airplane at least once.
In September 2002, Epstein flew Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker to africa
In 2002, a spokesman of Bill Clinton lauded Epstein as "a committed philanthropist" with "insights and generosity".
At the time Epstein was on the board of Rockefeller University, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a major donor to Harvard University
Epstein visited the White House while Clinton was president on four known occasions
From the 1990s to mid-2000s, Epstein often socialized with Donald Trump.
Author Michael Wolff wrote that Trump, Epstein, and Tom Barrack were at the time like a "set of nightlife musketeers" on the social scene.
In a 2017 recording, Epstein stated that he was "Donald's closest friend for ten years."
Epstein and Trump socialized both in New York City and Palm Beach, where they both had houses
November 2004, Epstein and Trump's friendship ran into trouble when they became embroiled in a
bidding war for a $40 million mansion, Maison de L'Amitié, which was being auctioned in Palm Beach.
Trump won the auction for $41 million, and successfully sold the property four years later for $95 million to the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.
That month was the last time Epstein and Trump were recorded to have interacted."
In 2002 Epstein said "I invest in people — be it politics or science.
It's what I do"
Epstein was rumored to be associated with Intelligence agencies
The U.S. journalists Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin and James Robertson linked Epstein to the Israeli Mossad in their book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales. They relied for the most part on the former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe.
According to him, Epstein's activities as a spy served to gather compromising material on powerful people in order to blackmail them.
"As U.S. Attorney in Florida, the later U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta
reached a settlement with Epstein's lawyers (including Alan M. Dershowitz) in 2008, which allowed him to receive a very light prison sentence.
Acosta later reportedly stated that he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence"
and that the issue was above his "pay grade." According to Acosta, he was pushed to give him a good deal.
Former CIA Director and diplomat William J. Burns met with Epstein three times.
According to a CIA spokesperson, Burns hoped that Epstein would help him "transition to the private sector "
"According to various sources, beginning in the early-2000s Epstein developed a strong interest in "improving" the human race through genetic engineering and artificial intelligence,
including using his own sperm. He addressed the scientific community at various events and occasions and communicated his fascination with eugenics.
It was reported in August 2019 that Epstein had planned to "seed the human race with his DNA"
by impregnating up to 20 women at a time
using his New Mexico compound as a "baby ranch",
where mothers would give birth to his offspring.
He was an advocate of cryonics and his own idiosyncratic version of transhumanism, and had said that he intended to have his penis and head frozen.
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