All About Epstein

At age 21, Epstein starts working in September 1974 as a physics and mathematics teacher for teens at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, despite his lack of credentials, having studied mathematical physiology at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, but leaving without a degree in June 1974.

Epstein allegedly showed inappropriate behavior toward underage female students at the time, paying them constant attention, and even showing up at a party where young people were drinking, according to a former student. Other former students also often saw him flirting with female students.

While there, Epstein became acquainted with Alan Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Bear Stearns, whose son and daughter were attending the school. Greenberg's daughter, Lynne Koeppel, mentioned a parent-teacher conference where Epstein influenced another Dalton parent into advocating for him to Greenberg.

  In June 1976, after Epstein was dismissed from Dalton for "poor performance", Greenberg offers him a job at Bear Stearns.

Epstein joins Bear Stearns as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader.

In 1980, Epstein becomes a limited partner at Bear Stearns.

In 1981, Epstein was asked to leave Bear Stearns for a "Reg D violation", according to his sworn testimony.

In August 1981, Epstein founds his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc. (IAG), which assisted clients in recovering stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers. 

Epstein described his work as being a high-level bounty hunter. He told friends that he worked sometimes as a consultant for governments and the very wealthy to recover embezzled funds, while at other times he worked for clients who had embezzled funds.

Steven Hoffenberg hired Epstein in 1987 as a consultant for Towers Financial Corporation, a collection agency that bought debts people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies. Hoffenberg set Epstein up in offices in the Villard Houses in Manhattan and paid him US$25,000 per month for his consulting work.

Hoffenberg and Epstein refashioned themselves as corporate raiders using Towers Financial as their raiding vessel. Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg's private jet.

In 1988, while Epstein is still consulting for Hoffenberg, he founds his financial management firm, J. Epstein & Company. 

 Epstein leaves Towers Financial Corporation.

Epstein meets Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of disgraced media baron Robert Maxwell and has Ghislaine come to the US to recover from her grief following her father's death.

Towers Financial Corporation implodes when it was exposed as one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in American history, losing over $450 million of its investors' money. Epstein was never charged for involvement in the massive investor fraud committed. It is unknown if Epstein acquired any stolen funds from the Towers Ponzi scheme.

Epstein buys Little Saint James, a small private island in the United States Virgin Islands, southeast of Saint Thomas. 

A 14-year-old girl and her parents claim that she went to Epstein's house with a female acquaintance from Royal Palm Beach High School. The girl said she gave Epstein a massage in exchange for money.

Palm Beach investigators speak with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses as part of their probe into Epstein.

According to NBC, "The investigative files alleged Epstein brought the girls to his house under the guise that they would give him massages, which police said would turn sexual. Some of the girls told police Epstein would use sex toys on them while he got a 'massage.' In another instance, one said she was paid to have sex with one of Epstein's female assistants, and several girls reported that Epstein touched their vaginas while he masturbated."

Police said Epstein paid the girls anywhere between $200 and $1,000 for the massages, then offered them additional money to recruit other girls, NBC reported.

Federal prosecutors announced sex trafficking and conspiracy charges against Jeffrey Epstein.

 Police seek to have Epstein charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation, but the case is instead referred to a grand jury.

 After hearing from one girl, the grand jury charges Epstein with one count of solicitation of prostitution.

  The FBI prepares a 53-page indictment against Epstein, but his lawyers start plea negotiations with Alexander Acosta, then the US District Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.

The U.S. Attorney's Office offers to end its investigation if Epstein pleads guilty to two state charges and agrees to accept a prison term, register as a sexual offender, and set up a way for his victims to obtain monetary damages.

The deal includes a nonprosecution agreement, or NPA, in which the federal prosecutor's office grants immunity to Epstein, four co-conspirators, and "any potential co-conspirators," the Justice Department says. Prosecutors agree not to tell Epstein's victims about the NPA, which is filed under seal.

  Epstein pleads guilty to one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18, and is sentenced to 18 months in jail.

Epstein is allowed to leave for 12 hours a day to  work at a foundation that he recently incorporated, according to the  Justice Department. 

A victim identified as "Jane Doe" files a  federal lawsuit under the Crime Victims' Rights Act, saying she and  other victims were not informed that the Epstein case was being resolved  with a plea deal. 

 Epstein is released after serving less than 13 months.

  Two years after the nonprosecution deal was signed, a Florida judge orders that the document giving Epstein federal immunity should be made public, in response to lawsuits from Epstein's victims and news outlets.

 Epstein has settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by his victims. 

Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre sues longtime Epstein confidante and associate Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation, after Maxwell called her a liar for claiming to be a victim of a sexual conspiracy run by Maxwell and Epstein.

Maxwell settles Giuffre's lawsuit, a matter in which Epstein had repeatedly sought to avoid testifying. But journalist Julie K. Brown and the Miami Herald later file motions to unseal records from the case, citing the public right of access and its coverage of the abuse of "dozens of underage minors."

The Miami Herald publishes a series of investigative reports into Epstein and the role of then-U.S. Attorney Acosta in Epstein's plea deal. The reports spark intense interest in Epstein's actions, including the notion that powerful people might have known about or been involved in his illegal actions.

The Miami Herald publishes a series of investigative reports into Epstein and the role of then-U.S. Attorney Acosta in Epstein's plea deal. The reports spark intense interest in Epstein's actions, including the notion that powerful people might have known about or been involved in his illegal actions.

A week after the Herald report, Epstein reaches a last-minute settlement in a defamation case with attorney Bradley Edwards, who represented women alleging that Epstein abused them when they were minors. The settlement puts an end to a case that had been anticipated to bring court testimony from Epstein's victims for the first time.

Federal agents arrest Epstein. He is charged in the Southern District Court of New York with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.

 Acosta resigns as labor secretary, saying the Epstein matter is a distraction from his agency's work.

Epstein is found dead in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal detention facility where he was being held in Manhattan. The New York City chief medical examiner later concludes that Epstein died by suicide.

 U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman holds a hearing on a motion to dismiss the indictment against Epstein. In a remarkable move, he also says the court will hear "the testimony of victims here today" — an offer taken up by many women that day, under their own names or as "Jane Doe."

Courtney Wild, who had helped start the first proceedings against Epstein in Florida more than 10 years earlier, is among those who step forward.

"Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused me for years, robbing me of my innocence and mental health," she said. "Jeffrey Epstein has done nothing but manipulate our justice system, where he has never been held accountable for his actions, even to this day."