Epstein has spent the bulk of his adult life cultivating relationships with the world\u2019s most powerful men. Flight logs show that from 2001 to 2003, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein\u2019s private plane, dubbed \u201cThe Lolita Express\u201d by the press, 26 times. After Epstein\u2019s arrest in July 2006, federal tax records show Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation that year.<\/p>\n Epstein was also a regular visitor to Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago, and the two were friends. According to the Daily Mail, Trump was a frequent dinner guest at Epstein\u2019s home, which was often full of barely dressed models. In 2003, New York magazine reported that Trump also attended a dinner party at Epstein\u2019s honoring Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n Last year, The Guardian reported that Epstein\u2019s \u201clittle black book\u201d contained contact numbers for A-listers including Tony Blair, Naomi Campbell, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Bloomberg and Richard Branson.<\/p>\n In a 2006 court filing, Palm Beach police noted that a search of Epstein\u2019s home uncovered two hidden cameras. The Mirror reported that in 2015, a 6-year-old civil lawsuit filed by \u201cJane Doe No. 3,\u201d believed to be the now-married Giuffre, alleged that Epstein wired his mansion with hidden cameras, secretly recording orgies involving his prominent friends and underage girls. The ultimate purpose: blackmail, according to court papers.<\/p>\n \u201cJane Doe No. 3\u201d also alleged that she had been forced to have sex with \u201cnumerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe uncovered a lot of details about the police investigation and a lot about the girls, what happened to them, the effect on their lives,\u201d Patterson says.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reader has to ask: Was justice done here or not?\u201d<\/p>\n Epstein, now 63, has always been something of an international man of mystery. Born in Brooklyn, he had a middle-class upbringing: His father worked for the Parks Department, and his parents stressed hard work and education.<\/p>\n \u2018We uncovered a lot of details about the police investigation and a lot about the girls, what happened to them, the effect on their lives.\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a0–\u00a0James Patterson<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Epstein was brilliant, skipping two grades and graduating Lafayette High School in 1969. He attended Cooper Union but dropped out in 1971 and by 1973 was teaching calculus and physics at Dalton, where he tutored the son of a Bear Stearns exec. Soon, Epstein applied his facility with numbers on Wall Street but left Bear Stearns under a cloud in 1981. He formed his own business, J. Epstein & Co.<\/p>\n The bar for entry at the new firm was high. According to a 2002 profile in New York magazine, Epstein only took on clients who turned over $1 billion, at minimum, for him to manage. Clients also had to pay a flat fee and sign power of attorney over to Epstein, allowing him to do whatever he saw fit with their money.<\/p>\n Still, no one knew exactly what Epstein did, or how he was able to amass a personal billion-dollar-plus fortune. In addition to a block-long, nine-story mansion on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, Epstein owns the $6.8 million mansion in Palm Beach, an $18 million property in New Mexico, the 70-acre private Caribbean island, a helicopter, a Gulfstream IV and a Boeing 727.<\/p>\n \u201cMy belief is that Jeff maintains some sort of money-management firm, though you won\u2019t get a straight answer from him,\u201d one high-level investor told New York magazine. \u201cHe once told me he had 300 people working for him, and I\u2019ve also heard that he manages Rockefeller money. But one never knows.\u00a0It\u2019s like looking at the Wizard of Oz \u2014 there may be less there than meets the eye.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s very enigmatic,\u201d Rosa Monckton told Vanity Fair in 2003. Monckton was the former British CEO of Tiffany & Co. and confidante to the late Princess Diana. She was also a close friend of Epstein\u2019s since the 1980s. \u201cHe never reveals his hand .\u2009.\u2009. He\u2019s a classic iceberg. What you see is not what you get.\u201d<\/p>\n Both profiles intimated that Epstein had a predilection for young women but never went further. In the New York magazine piece, Trump said Epstein\u2019s self-professed image as a loner, an egghead and a teetotaler was not wholly accurate.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve known Jeff for 15 years,\u201d Trump said. \u201cTerrific guy. He\u2019s a lot of fun to be with. 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 \u2014 Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\u201d<\/p>\n Three years after that profile ran, Palm Beach Police Officer Michele Pagan got a disturbing message. A woman reported that her 14-year-old stepdaughter confided to a friend that she\u2019d had sex with an older man for money. The man\u2019s name was Jeff, and he lived in a mansion on a cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n Pagan persuaded the woman to bring her stepdaughter down to be interviewed. In his book, Patterson calls the girl Mary. And Mary, like so many of the other girls who eventually talked, came from the little-known working-class areas surrounding Palm Beach.<\/p>\n A friend of a friend, Mary said, told her she could make hundreds of dollars in one hour, just for massaging some middle-aged guy\u2019s feet. Lots of other girls had been doing it, some three times a week.<\/p>\n Mary claimed she had been driven to the mansion on El Brillo Way, where a female staffer escorted her up a pink-carpeted staircase, then into a room with a massage table, an armoire topped with sex toys and a photo of a little girl pulling her underwear off.<\/p>\n Epstein entered the room, wearing only a towel, Mary said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe took off the towel,\u201d Mary told Pagan. \u201cHe was a really built guy. But his wee-wee was very tiny.\u201d<\/p>\n Mary said Epstein got on the table and barked orders at her. She told police she was alone in the room with him, terrified.<\/p>\n Pagan wrote the following in her incident report:<\/p>\n \u201cShe removed her pants, leaving her thong panties on. She straddled his back, whereby her exposed buttocks were touching Epstein\u2019s exposed buttocks. Epstein then turned to his side and started to rub his penis in an up-and-down motion. Epstein pulled out a purple vibrator and began to massage Mary\u2019s vaginal area.\u201d<\/p>\n Palm Beach assigned six more detectives to the investigation. They conducted a \u201ctrash pull\u201d of Epstein\u2019s garbage, sifting through paper with phone numbers, used condoms, toothbrushes, worn underwear. In one pull, police found a piece of paper with Mary\u2019s phone number on it, along with the number of the person who recruited her.<\/p>\n On Sept. 11, 2005, detectives got another break. Alison, as she\u2019s called in the book, told Detective Joe Recarey that she had been going to Epstein\u2019s house since she was 16. Alison had been working at the Wellington Green Mall, saving up for a trip to Maine, when a friend told her, \u201cYou can get a plane ticket in two hours .\u2009.\u2009. We can go give this guy a massage and he\u2019ll pay $200,\u201d according to her statement to the police.<\/p>\n Alison told Recarey that she visited Epstein hundreds of times. She said he had bought her a new 2005 Dodge Neon, plane tickets, and gave her spending money. Alison said he even asked her to emancipate from her parents so she could live with him full-time as his \u201csex slave.\u201d<\/p>\n She said Epstein slowly escalated his sexual requests, and despite Alison\u2019s insistence that they never have intercourse, alleged, \u201cThis one time .\u2009.\u2009. he bent me over the table and put himself in me. Without my permission.\u201d<\/p>\n Alison then asked if what Epstein had done to her was rape and spoke of her abject fear of him.<\/p>\n An abridged version of her witness statement, as recounted in the book:<\/p>\n Alison<\/strong>: Before I say anything else .\u2009.\u2009. um, is there a possibility that I\u2019m gonna have to go to court or anything? Alison also told Recarey that Epstein got so violent with her that he ripped out her hair and threw her around. \u201cI mean,\u201d she said, \u201cthere\u2019s been nights that I walked out of there barely able to walk, um, from him being so rough.\u201d<\/p>\n Two months later, Recarey interviewed Epstein\u2019s former house manager of 11 years, documented in his probable-cause affidavit as Mr. Alessi. \u201cAlessi stated Epstein receives three massages a day .\u2009.\u2009. towards the end of his employment, the masseuses .\u2009.\u2009. appeared to be 16 or 17 years of age at the most . . . [Alessi] would have to wash off a massager\/vibrator and a long rubber penis, which were in the sink after the massage.\u201d<\/p>\n Another house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, told Recarey that very young girls were giving Epstein massages at least twice a day, and in one instance, Epstein had Rodriguez deliver one dozen roses to Mary, at her high school.<\/p>\n In May 2006, the Palm Beach Police Department filed a probable-cause affidavit, asking prosecutors to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor \u2014 a second-degree felony \u2014 and one count of lewd and lascivious molestation of a 14-year-old minor, also a second-degree felony.<\/p>\n Today, Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, albeit one who routinely settles civil lawsuits against him, brought by young women, out of court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Palm Beach prosecutors said the evidence was weak, and after presenting the case to a grand jury, Epstein was charged with only one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. In 2008, he pleaded guilty and nominally served 13 months of an 18-month sentence in a county jail: Epstein spent one day a week there, the other six out on \u201cwork release.\u201d<\/p>\n Today, Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, albeit one who routinely settles civil lawsuits against him, brought by young women, out of court. As of 2015, Epstein had settled multiple such cases.<\/p>\n Giuffre has sued Ghislaine Maxwell in Manhattan federal court, charging defamation \u2014 saying Maxwell stated Giuffre lied about Maxwell\u2019s recruitment of her and other underage girls. Epstein has been called upon to testify in court this month, on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n The true number of Epstein\u2019s victims may never be known.<\/p>\n He will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life, not that it fazes him.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not a sexual predator, I\u2019m an \u2018offender,\u2019\u2009\u201d Epstein told The Post in 2011. \u201cIt\u2019s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/president_bill_clinton_134672394.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=231&strip=all\")
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\nRecarey<\/strong>: I mean, what he did to you is a crime. I\u2019m not gonna lie to you.
\nAlison<\/strong>: Would you consider it rape, what he did?
\nRecarey<\/strong>: If he put himself inside you without permission .\u2009.\u2009. That, that is a crime. That is a crime.
\nAlison<\/strong>: I don\u2019t want my family to find out about this .\u2009.\u2009. \u2019Cause Jeffrey\u2019s gonna get me. You guys realize that, right? .\u2009.\u2009. I\u2019m not safe now. I\u2019m not safe.
\nRecarey<\/strong>: Why do you say you\u2019re not safe? Has he said he\u2019s hurt people before?
\nAlison<\/strong>: Well, I\u2019ve heard him make threats to people on the telephone, yeah. Of course.
\nRecarey<\/strong>: You\u2019re gonna die? You\u2019re gonna break your legs? Or\u2009\u2014
\nAlison<\/strong>: All of the above!<\/p>\n