The shadow of the leader.
Posted on 06/30/2008 5:28:39 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire friend of Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton, has admitted soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida.
The 55-year-old financier has been sentenced to 18 months in jail followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex offender.
Epstein was arrested two years ago after he allegedly paid several girls under the age of 18 between $200 (£100) and $300 (£150) each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes led to sex.
He also faces multi-million pound lawsuits in state and federal courts filed by several women over similar allegations.
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Epstein's friendship with Mr Clinton began after the former US president left office. Epstein lent his private Boeing 727 jet to Mr Clinton and the actor Kevin Spacey for their trip to Africa in 2002.
Donald Trump, another celebrity friend, once described Epstein as a "terrific guy" and "a lot of fun to be with".
Speaking to New York magazine in 2002, Mr Trump added: "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What a STUPID bozo
“Epstein lent his private Boeing 727 jet to Mr Clinton “
did they double date?
The shadow of the leader.
After the accusations became public, several parties returned donations they had received from Epstein, including Eliot L. Spitzer, Mark A. Green, Bill Richardson,[4] and the Palm Beach police department.[8] Harvard announced that it would not return any money.
"Ah wonder if 'ol Jeffery would pass me the phone numbers for those 'lil hoes before he heads off to prison?"
55-year old Jeffrey Epstein, a former math teacher
Epstein, once a math teacher at an elite private school in New York, became rich as a financial adviser to the wealthy. His friendship with former President Clinton began after Clinton left office. Epstein lent his private 727 jet to Clinton for his 2002 trip to Africa. Epstein has contributed more than $100,000 to Democratic Party.
Not just a stupid Bozo, but a CHEAP stupid bozo, as well.
I guess some just want what is forbidden.
going after little underage girls......must be hung like Olbermann
DAMN!!!
If he started a religion he’d be free and have a whole following of men quoting Scripture and the Constitution to support their beliefs.
He owns what is said to be Manhattan’s largest private house yet runs his business from a 100-acre private island in St. Thomas.
Epstein is said to run $15 billion for wealthy clients, yet aside from Limited founder Leslie Wexner, his client list is a closely held secret.
Most everyone on the Street has heard of him, but nobody seems to know what the hell he is up to. Which is just the way he likes it.
Says another prominent Wall Streeter: “He is this mysterious, Gatsbyesque figure. He likes people to think that he is very rich, and he cultivates this air of aloofness. The whole thing is weird.”
He spends an hour and fifteen minutes every day doing advanced yoga with his personal instructor, who travels with him wherever he goes. He is an enthusiastic member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
those close to him say the reason he quit his board seat at the Rockefeller Institute was that he hated wearing a suit. “It feels like a dress,” he told one friend.
“Jeffrey is both a highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science,” Clinton says through a spokesman. “I especially appreciated his insights and generosity during the recent trip to Africa to work on democratization, empowering the poor, citizen service, and combating HIV/AIDS.”
Before Clinton, Epstein’s rare appearances in the gossip columns tended to be speculation as to the true nature of his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Oxford-educated Maxwell, described by many as a man-eater (she flies her own helicopter and was recently seen dining with Clinton at Nello’s on Madison Avenue), lives in her own townhouse a few blocks away.
From the get-go, his business was successful. But the conditions for investing with Epstein were steep: He would take total control of the billion dollars, charge a flat fee, and assume power of attorney to do whatever he thought was necessary to advance his client’s financial cause. And he remained true to the $1 billion entry fee. According to people who know him, if you were worth $700 million and felt the need for the services of Epstein and Co., you would receive a not-so-polite no-thank-you from Epstein.
What attracted Clinton to Epstein was quite simple: He had a plane (he has a couple, in fact — the Boeing 727, in which he took Clinton to Africa, and, for shorter jaunts, a black Gulfstream, a Cessna 421, and a helicopter to ferry him from his island to St. Thomas). Clinton had organized a weeklong tour of South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, and Mozambique to do what Clinton does. So when the president’s advance man Doug Band pitched the idea to Epstein, he said sure. As an added bonus, Kevin Spacey, a close friend of Clinton’s, and actor Chris Tucker came along for the ride.
Based on what I’ve read on the Smoking Gun, the article presents a sanitized version of the charges.
Haley Robson, a Palm Beach Community College coed, would at Epstein’s behest lure underage girls to his mansion, “ostensibly to give a wealthy man a massage for monetary compensation” but really so that he could touch their private parts and engage in other non age-appropriate behavior with them. Robson wrangled destitute girls because they would be “enticed by the money being offered—generally $200 to $300 per ‘massage’ session—and who were perceived as less likely to complain to authorities or have credibility if allegations of improper conduct were made.” (They were!)
Once inside the mansion, Epstein’s assistant, Sarah Kaplan, it is alleged, would take down the girl’s name and contact info and lead her up a flight of stairs lined with photos of nude women into a bedroom furnished with a massage table. Once the girl was inside, Kaplan would leave and Epstein would enter, wearing only a towel. He would proceed to “remove his towel, lay down naked on the massage table, and direct the girl to remove her clothes. He then would perform one or more lewd, lascivious and sexual acts, including masturbation and touching the girl’s vagina with a vibrator.”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL COMPLAINT HERE.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/Complaint.pdf
Sick pervert.
Billions? ... and he couldn't find a fly lady that could really use some financial help?
Major Investor No. 1 plays a big role in the indictment, which charges Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, two former hedge fund managers at Bear, with securities fraud and other crimes.
yitbos
What a dumb headline.
Like he’d have gotten away with it if he hadn’t paid the underage prostitutes.
Epstein’s legal team had tried to paint the girl as an untrustworthy and troubled scam artist from a troubled family, but “doesn’t today sort of say it all?” Leopold said. “He’s going to be deemed a sex offender and pedophile for the rest of his life, and that speaks volumes about what really happened here.”
Underage prostitutes? At what age is it OK?
Yes, see my comment 24.
Epstein hired a phalanx of high-priced lawyers - including Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz - and public relations people who questioned Reiter's competence and the victims' truthfulness.
Dersh the dipshi*, loses again !
Banker Epstein pleads in prostitution case, gets 18 months
Also
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer returned a $50,000 campaign contribution from Epstein after his indictment, then resigned this year amidst his own sex scandal.
Lol, pervs of a feather...
I think Dershowitz will sell his name and his Harvard connection to any criminal creep who puts up the bucks.
That figures. "It's all about 'sex'" after all.
Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. Dershowitz will always be remembered for the terrific work he did for Claus von Bulow.
If I am ever in the deepest kind of trouble, God forbid, I will call the guy who defended Robert Durst. Now that was impressive.
THAILAND?
great country
So I’m told.
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