10 Interesting Facts About Jeffrey Epstein

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#001
In 2011, Epstein told the New York Post he was not a sexual predator but an "offender", likening the difference to that between a murderer and someone who steals a bagel.
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#002
Columnist Michael Wolff recalled Epstein saying to him as his troubles began, "What can I say, I like young girls," and that he suggested Epstein say "young women" instead.
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Epstein owned a private Boeing 727 and flew it often, recording "600 flying hours a year ... usually with guests on board". Locals in the Virgin Islands called the jet the Lolita Express because it arrived so frequently at Little Saint James with apparently underage girls.
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#004
Epstein hinted at blackmail material in 2018, telling a New York Times reporter off the record that he had damaging information on powerful people, including details of their sexual habits and recreational drug use.
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Prosecutors alleged that Epstein "lent" girls to powerful figures both to curry favor with them and to collect material he might use for blackmail.[87] The Department of Justice stated that his safe in his New York mansion held compact discs with handwritten labels, one of which read: "young [name] + [name]".
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#006
Nicholas Tartaglione, a former New York City police officer held in the same cell while awaiting trial on four murder counts, was asked about Epstein's condition. He said he knew nothing about what had occurred. Prison staff leaned toward a suicide attempt but left open the possibility that the scene had been staged or that another inmate had attacked him.
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#007
Rosa Monckton, former CEO of Tiffany & Co, described Epstein to Vanity Fair in 2003 as "very enigmatic" and "a classic iceberg", saying what you see is not what you get.
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#008
A 2005 police search of Epstein's Palm Beach home turned up photographs of girls throughout the house. Police Chief Michael Reiter said the case was not a "he said, she said" situation but roughly 50 "shes" and one "he".
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In the mid-1970s, Epstein taught maths and physics at New York's private Dalton School even though he had never graduated from university, where he had studied those subjects.
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The father of one of Epstein's Dalton students was reportedly so impressed that he introduced him to a senior partner at the Wall Street bank Bear Stearns, where Epstein made partner within 4 years.
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