Category Archives: Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein’s will set up trust fund to shield $577m fortune days before death

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  • Financier created fund in new will two days before suicide
  • Experts say prying open fund will be difficult for accusers

The will that disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein signed just two days before his jailhouse suicide puts more than $577m in assets into a trust fund that could make it more difficult for his dozens of accusers to collect damages.

Estate lawyers and other experts say prying open the trust and dividing up the financier’s riches is not going to be easy and could take years.

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The murky life and death of Robert Maxwell – and how it shaped his daughter Ghislaine

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Was it murder? Suicide? Or just an accident? Almost 30 years before Jeffrey Epstein’s demise, Ghislaine Maxwell was caught up in another shocking and scandal-ridden mystery

At one time, everyone knew where to find Ghislaine Maxwell. The former aide-de-camp of the disgraced, now deceased, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was a fixture in Manhattan’s most fashionable salons. With an impressive list of contacts, including Prince Andrew and Chelsea Clinton, she was a regular at fundraisers, book launches and society weddings.

The last place anyone would have expected to see her was a Los Angeles shopping mall, where the 57-year-old was photographed in a burger joint last week, just days after Epstein’s suicide in a New York jail, where he was being held on charges of sex trafficking underage girls.

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Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before his death

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Court papers detail no beneficiaries for $577m estate, opening a potentially lengthy battle as victims seek justice

Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a lengthy battle over the disgraced financier’s fortune.

Court papers filed last week in the US Virgin Islands list no details of beneficiaries but value the estate at more than $577m, including more than $56m in cash.

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Top-ranking House Democrat favors Trump impeachment inquiry – live

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Representative Ben Ray Luján, the assistant House speaker, endorses opening an impeachment inquiry, Politico reports

Representative Ilhan Omar has promised to post a live stream of her imminent press conference with Representative Rashida Tlaib on the topic of their being banned from travel to Israel and Palestine in her Twitter feed here.

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Prince Andrew urged to tell all he knows about Jeffrey Epstein

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Lawyer for abuse victim asks prince to support investigation into late financier’s crimes

Prince Andrew should give sworn testimony on “everything he knows” about his friend Jeffrey Epstein after saying he was appalled by the disgraced financier’s sex crimes, lawyers for some of Epstein’s victims have said.

Representatives of women including Virginia Giuffre, who was pictured with Andrew in a now notorious photograph and alleges she was made to have sex with him, urged the prince to help them secure justice for the women Epstein abused.

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Prince Andrew ‘appalled’ by Epstein sex abuse claims

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Royal makes statement following release of video showing him in paedophile’s mansion in 2010

The Duke of York has said he is “appalled” by recent sex abuse claims surrounding his former friend Jeffrey Epstein. Prince Andrew released a statement after new footage emerged showing him inside the convicted paedophile’s Manhattan mansion in 2010.

The video, obtained by MailOnline, was reportedly shot on December 6 2010, around the time Andrew was photographed with the disgraced billionaire in New York’s Central Park. It shows the duke looking out from a large door of the mansion waving goodbye to a woman after Epstein leaves and enters a chauffeur-driven car.

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Revealed: how Ghislaine Maxwell fought those who accused her over Jeffrey Epstein

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Socialite’s lawyers combed through life of billionaire’s alleged abuse victim when she was sued for libel

The lengths to which Ghislaine Maxwell went to contest allegations that she conspired with Jeffrey Epstein to groom underage girls for sex is laid bare in an analysis of hundreds of pages of legal documents unsealed this month.

The documents form part of a defamation action brought four years ago by Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that the British socialite was instrumental in grooming her to become one of his underage “sex slaves”, allegations Maxwell has previously denied. Giuffre accused Maxwell of libelling her by calling her a liar in public.

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Jeffrey Epstein: how will investigators find potential co-conspirators?

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The financier is dead but the investigation has continued – and it’s possible any participants may have fled into hiding

Jeffrey Epstein is dead but the investigation that snared on sex trafficking charges has continued as authorities seek to make good on their promise not to let the convicted sex offender’s apparent suicide mark an end to their quest for justice.

Given the nature of the wealthy financier’s elite international social scene, it’s possible potential co-conspirators or other participants in the alleged trafficking would have the means to flee into hiding, in the US or abroad.

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Jeffrey Epstein: two jail guards placed on leave and warden reassigned, DoJ says

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Move comes after Donald Trump calls for ‘full investigation’ into billionaire’s death

The US justice department said on Tuesday that two guards assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein at the New York jail in which he died have been placed on leave and the warden temporarily reassigned.

The billionaire sex offender was found dead on Saturday morning, having apparently hanged himself in his cell at the Metropolitan correctional center (MCC) in lower Manhattan.

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FBI raids Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island

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Expert says financier’s death may reduce legal issues with evidence as search begins

The FBI has raided Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, in a further sign the death of the financier will not halt scrutiny of his alleged sex trafficking crimes.

Mobile phone footage broadcast by NBC news showed agents arriving on Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands, on Monday morning.

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Barr vows Epstein inquiry will continue as new questions about jail conditions emerge

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  • Barr under pressure to explain apparent lapses in protocol
  • Attorney general: ‘Any co-conspirators should not rest easy’

William Barr, the attorney general, has criticised “serious irregularities” at the Metropolitan correctional center (MCC) in New York where the billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in an apparent suicide on Saturday. Barr also vowed to pursue the federal sex-trafficking case against Epstein and said: “Any co-conspirators should not rest easy.”

Related: Ghislaine Maxwell: the woman accused of helping Jeffrey Epstein groom girls

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McConnell warns Beijing any violent crackdown of Hong Kong protests ‘unacceptable’ – live

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Federal agents descended upon the private island of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as part of an ongoing investigation into the late financier, the FBI announced Monday.

Epstein died of an apparent suicide on Saturday while in federal custody at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center after being arrested on federal sex trafficking charges last month.

The New York Police Department is investigating attacks on Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn early Monday morning as a hate crime.

The hate crimes unit and local precinct are investigating the assaults, which were carried out against at least three people between the ages of 56 and 71.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators ‘should not rest easy’, says William Barr – video

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The US attorney general has criticised what he described as serious irregularities at the Metropolitan correctional center in New York where the billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in an apparent suicide on Saturday. Barr also vowed to pursue the federal sex-trafficking case against Epstein

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Jeffrey Epstein’s death: the end of the scandal?

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The key facts behind the sexual offences saga

How did Jeffrey Epstein fall from well-connected financier to disgraced sex offender?

Epstein, 66, grew up in Coney Island in Brooklyn and initially worked as a teacher for private schools in Manhattan, before starting a career in Wall Street. There is some mystery around exactly how he made his money but he became wealthy after forming his own company J Epstein&Co and linking up with powerful businessmen including Leslie Wexner, the founder of the company that owns the Victoria’s Secret lingerie brand.

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‘We live with scars’: accusers demand Epstein’s death not derail investigations

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Anger and regret after Epstein was found dead in jail by apparent suicide: ‘He will never face the consequences of his crimes’

Victims of an international sexual trafficking scheme allegedly operated by Jeffrey Epstein reacted to his death with expressions of outrage and regret, and demanded that investigations of the scheme not be derailed.

Epstein, 66, who faced charges of sex trafficking and a related conspiracy charge, was found dead in jail in New York City on Saturday morning.

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FBI and DoJ launch investigations into Jeffrey Epstein’s death

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Investigations into Epstein’s death to ask why he was taken off suicide watch as autopsy is carried out

Fallout from the death by apparent suicide of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in a New York City jail cell intensified on Sunday, as authorities in three separate jurisdictions opened investigations into the death and alleged victims expressed outrage at not being able to confront Epstein in court.

Related: Jeffrey Epstein dies in apparent suicide in New York jail

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‘His conduct left an impression that lingered’: the life of Jeffrey Epstein

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The wealthy financier, who died by apparent suicide, lived freely for years despite the multitude of sex abuse allegations

When Jeffrey Epstein first appeared in Manhattan federal court to face sex trafficking charges last month, gone were the trappings of a high-flying financier who had once counted the rich and powerful as his associates and for whom the whole world seemed a fantasy playground.

Epstein, whose navy blue jail scrubs and mussed-up hair gave him an air of fatigued dishevelment, pleaded not guilty to allegations that he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls” between 2002 and 2005 at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.

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Who were the rich and powerful people in Jeffrey Epstein’s circle?

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The wealthy financier was connected to well-known names including Trump, Clinton and Prince Andrew before his July arrest

Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, whose apparent suicide in jail has stunned the US, courted many rich, powerful and famous people over his lifetime as a mover and shaker on the party circuits of New York and Florida

Related: Jeffrey Epstein: sex abuse allegations against billionaire socialite began in 2005

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Jeffrey Epstein dies in apparent suicide in New York jail

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Wealthy financier, 66, had been accused of sex trafficking and was being held without bail after being arrested on 6 July

Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein has killed himself at a New York jail, according to authorities in New York and media reports.

“Saturday, August 10, 2019, at approximately 6.30am, inmate Jeffrey Edward Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell … subsequently pronounced dead by hospital staff,” reads a statement from the Metropolitan Correctional Center where Epstein, 66, had been held without bail since his arrest on 6 July on charges of sex trafficking girls as young as 14.

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Prince Andrew groped young woman’s breast at Epstein house, court files allege

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  • Prince accused of touching young woman’s breast
  • Allegation contained within files in Ghislaine Maxwell case

Prince Andrew was accused in court documents of touching a young woman’s breast at the Manhattan mansion of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier now facing federal sex trafficking charges in New York.

The allegation was contained within a tranche of just unsealed court papers in a defamation case involving Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and media heiress accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein and his social circle of the rich, famous and powerful.

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