

Įpstein attended local public schools, first attending Public School 188, and then Mark Twain Junior High School nearby. Jeffrey was the older of two siblings he and his brother Mark grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Sea Gate, a private gated community in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Seymour Epstein worked for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as a groundskeeper and gardener. Pauline worked as a school aide and was a homemaker. Epstein (1916–1991) were Jewish and had married in 1952 shortly before his birth. His parents Pauline ( née Stolofsky, 1918–2004) and Seymour G. 5.5 Interest in eugenics and transhumanismĪerial view of Epstein's childhood neighborhood of Sea Gate, BrooklynĮpstein was born in 1953 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy for helping him procure girls, including a 14-year-old, for child sexual abuse and prostitution. Epstein had a decades-long association with the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, leading to her 2021 conviction on U.S. Since Epstein's death precluded the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against him, a judge dismissed all criminal charges on August 29, 2019.

Epstein's lawyers have disputed the ruling, and there has been significant public skepticism about the true cause of his death, resulting in numerous conspiracy theories. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide. He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019. Įpstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a controversial plea deal federal officials had identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused. He served almost 13 months in custody, but with extensive work release. Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent reported that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. Epstein developed an elite social circle and procured many women and children he and some of his associates then sexually abused them. After his dismissal from the school, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles he eventually started his own firm.
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Epstein, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, began his professional life by teaching at the Dalton School in Manhattan, despite lacking a college degree. Jeffrey Edward Epstein ( / ˈ ɛ p s t iː n/ EP-steen January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American sex offender and financier.
