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Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School in New York City before entering banking and finance. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and he was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting trial, and his death was ruled a suicide.

In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent reported that Epstein had paid her 14-year-old stepdaughter to strip and massage him. Investigators identified 36 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 with similar accounts of sexual abuse. Prosecutors had concerns about taking him to trial, citing victim reluctance to testify and witness credibility. This influenced a now-controversial plea deal negotiation, under which Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of procuring a minor for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute. He was registered as a sex offender and served 13 months in jail with work release.

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was born on January 20, 1953, in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. His parents, Pauline "Paula" Stolofsky and Seymour George Epstein, were of Lithuanian Jewish and Polish Jewish ancestry, respectively, and had married in 1952 shortly before his birth. Pauline worked as a school aide and was a homemaker. Seymour worked for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as a groundskeeper and gardener.

Epstein was the older of two siblings; he and his brother Mark grew up in the neighborhood of Sea Gate, a then working-class gated community in Coney Island. A childhood friend described Paula as "a wonderful mother and homemaker", and neighbors remembered the parents as being quiet and humble. Epstein attended local public schools, first Public School 188 and later nearby Mark Twain Junior High School, and often earned money by tutoring classmates. Acquaintances considered Epstein "sweet and generous" although "quiet and nerdy", and nicknamed him "Eppy".

In 1967, Epstein attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen Center for the Arts. He began playing the piano when he was five and was regarded as a talented musician by friends. He graduated in 1969 from Lafayette High School at age 16, having skipped two grades. Later that year, he attended advanced math classes at Cooper Union until he changed colleges in 1971. From September 1971, he attended the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he studied mathematical physiology, but left without receiving a degree in June 1974.

In September 1974, at age 21, Epstein started working as a calculus and mathematics teacher at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Donald Barr, who served as the headmaster until June 1974, was known to have made several unconventional recruitments at the time, although it is unclear whether he had a direct role in hiring Epstein. Three months after Barr's departure, Epstein began to teach at the school despite his lack of credentials.

In early 1976, Epstein attended an art event where he met a Dalton father who worked on Wall Street. The man thought Epstein was wasting his time at Dalton, given his knowledge of mathematics, and called Alan Greenberg, a senior executive at Bear Stearns, to recommend a potential hire. The timing was suitable, as Epstein was soon dismissed from Dalton due to poor performance.

In 1976, Epstein was interviewed at Bear Stearns, where he reportedly impressed Alan Greenberg, who preferred hiring men of modest backgrounds with a deep desire to become rich. Epstein met senior trader Michael Tennenbaum, who recalled Epstein as a strong salesman. Epstein began at the firm as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader. Later that year, Bear Stearns discovered that Epstein had falsely claimed to have two university degrees on his résumé. Epstein admitted it, and Tennenbaum agreed to give him another chance.

Epstein began advising clients on tax mitigation strategies. Jimmy Cayne, a senior partner at the firm and its later CEO, held Epstein in high regard and introduced him to many of Bear Stearns' wealthiest clients. Epstein was reportedly charismatic and offered complex trading strategies that could save ultrawealthy clients large amounts in taxes. He began having regular lunches with chief executives and establishing a network of contacts that supported his later success.

Following an internal investigation, Bear Stearns fined Epstein $2,500 and placed him on a two-month suspension. Epstein denied wrongdoing and resigned from the firm, ending his five-year tenure. His experience and contacts at Bear Stearns later helped him establish himself as an independent financial adviser on Wall Street. He remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and was a client of Bear Stearns until its collapse in 2008.

Steven Hoffenberg hired Epstein in 1987 as a consultant for Towers Financial Corporation, a collection agency that bought debts people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies. Hoffenberg set Epstein up in offices in the Villard Houses in Manhattan and paid him $25,000 per month for consulting work. Hoffenberg and Epstein then refashioned themselves as corporate raiders using Towers Financial as their vehicle. One of Epstein's first assignments was an unsuccessful attempt to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987. A similar unsuccessful bid was made for Emery Air Freight Corporation in 1988.

In 1993, Towers Financial Corporation imploded when it was exposed as one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in American history, losing over $450 million of its investors' money. In court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately involved in the scheme. Epstein had left the company by 1989 and was never charged for involvement in the investor fraud. It is unknown whether Epstein acquired any stolen funds from the scheme.

In November 2018, Julie Brown published a three-part series in the Miami Herald after she identified 80 victims and located about 60 of them. Brown argued that Epstein had not faced justice because of a plea deal she described as a deal of a lifetime. Her reporting prompted interest among New York authorities in reopening investigations. U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman later stated that the investigation was assisted by excellent investigative journalism.

On July 6, 2019, Epstein was arrested when he returned to the United States from France by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. He faced charges of sex trafficking during the years 2002 to 2005 and was jailed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.

On July 23, 2019, Epstein was found injured and semiconscious on the floor of his cell with marks around his neck. His cellmate was questioned and denied having any knowledge of what happened. Correctional staff suspected attempted suicide but did not rule out the possibility of assault. Epstein was placed on suicide watch, then taken off suicide watch six days later and placed in a special housing unit with another inmate.

When Epstein was placed in the special housing unit, the jail informed the Justice Department that he would have a cellmate and that a guard would look into the cell every 30 minutes. These procedures were not followed on the night of his death. On August 9, 2019, Epstein's cellmate was transferred out, but no one took his place. The two guards assigned to check his unit fell asleep and did not check on him for three hours, then falsified related records. Epstein died in his cell on August 10, and his death was ruled a suicide by hanging.

Epstein's estate was valued around $600 million at the time of his death and became the focus of extensive litigation and settlements. The estate created a victims' compensation program that paid about $121 million to 136 claimants. It later paid additional settlements and resolved civil claims brought by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands concerning allegations that Epstein used the territory for trafficking.

In November 2023, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $290 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit brought by Epstein accusers who alleged that the bank enabled his abuse by continuing to provide financial services. JPMorgan did not admit liability. Around the same time, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $75 million to settle a similar lawsuit concerning the period when Epstein was its client.

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