Jeffrey Edward Epstein
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Date: 2019-08-12

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953&nbsp;– August 10, 2019) was an American financier and convicted sex offender. Epstein began his career in finance at the investment bank Bear Stearns, before forming his own firm, J. Epstein &amp; Co., until his conviction for sex crimes in 2008, for running an underage prostitution ring for well-connected financial, political, and cultural elites.
In 2005, the Palm Beach, Florida, police began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he molested her 14-year-old daughter. Epstein eventually pleaded guilty and was convicted in a Florida state court in 2008 of soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an under-18 girl for prostitution. He served 13 &nbsp; months in custody with work release, as part of a plea deal, where federal officials had identified 36 &nbsp; girls as young as 14 years old who had been molested. Epstein had additionally faced allegations from numerous individuals of holding women as sex slaves, including individuals who were underage.
Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died on August 10, 2019, reportedly after hanging himself in his Manhattan prison cell. Three weeks earlier, Epstein had been found unconscious in his jail cell with injuries to his neck and was placed on suicide watch, which lasted six days, and ended twelve days before he died. An autopsy was performed on August 11; the New York City medical examiner's office announced that it needed more information before the cause of death could be determined, though it is presumed to be suicide.