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Table Of Content

• Storied and Sordid: The History of Jeffrey Epstein’s Just-Sold Mansion
• Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion to be demolished Monday: What we know
• Biden and Democrats Seize on Trump’s Striking Interview
• Abcarian: With every release of court documents, the damage Jeffrey Epstein did confronts us anew
• Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls
• Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse case
• U.S. Virgin Islands reaches $105-million settlement with Jeffrey Epstein estate

Bookended to the west by the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue and the 1810 St. James’ Church just across Madison Avenue in the east, is not usually the kind of place that FBI agents use a crowbar to access. According to Curbed, Straus died before the home could be completed and his heirs donated it to the Catholic Church. It was initially used as a hospital, and then a private school, before it was bought by Epstein's mentor, Leslie Wexner, for $13.2 million in 1989, which set a record for Manhattan at the time. Epstein obtained the house under what Curbed described as "vaguely suspicious circumstances" in 1998.

Storied and Sordid: The History of Jeffrey Epstein’s Just-Sold Mansion

While Gates has spoken about having spent time with Epstein, his name was not in the unsealed court records. The scale of Epstein's activities would require a host of participants and enablers — including those who didn't sexually exploit young women themselves, but instead helped Epstein maintain a sprawling enterprise of wealth and access that allowed him to live outside of the law. The allegations are extraordinary, as they claim acts of illegal sexual predation took place within an elite world of power and influence. For people following the story, the unsealed documents contain the most detailed allegations yet of how a trafficking ring intersected with the highest social circles. Horowitz called the Bureau of Prisons’ failures troubling not only because staff did not keep watch over a person in their custody, but also because Epstein’s death prematurely ended the process of criminal justice. The staff’s failures “effectively deprived Epstein’s numerous victims of the opportunity to seek justice through the criminal justice process,” the report said.

Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion to be demolished Monday: What we know

FBI analyst Kimberly Meder, who went through all the photos, testified Tuesday that some of the photos were of Epstein and Maxwell together, including one of her in a skimpy top, rubbing his feet aboard a plane. On the third floor, inside what looked like a dressing room, the agents found a safe stashed inside a closet — which they opened using a saw, Maguire told the jury. “As you sit here today, do you have personal knowledge of why there was evidence tape on these boxes? One of the snaps depicts a marble-walled room decked out with a massage table and a black desk. Hanging over it is a black-and-white portrait of Maxwell holding what appears to be a Yorkshire terrier dog.

Biden and Democrats Seize on Trump’s Striking Interview

Breaking ground at the beginning of the Great Depression, the house got off to what is in hindsight an ominous start. It was built by architect Horace Trumbauer for Herbert N. Straus, the son of Macy’s owners (and Titanic victims, whose death is depicted in the movie) Isidor and Ida Straus. The younger Straus died in 1933 and never lived in it himself; his heirs donated it to the Catholic Church in 1944, when work had still not been completed on it, and it became a hospital. The Birch Wathen School, a private academy that serves kindergarteners through 12th graders, bought the house in 1962, then sold it to Epstein’s mentor Leslie Wexner in 1989 for $13.2 million, which was at the time the highest-ever sale price for a  Manhattan townhouse. Despite dumping millions into subsequent renovations, Wexner never really lived in it either, and he and the house were featured in a 1996 New York Times story about rich people who buy homes they never use. Epstein acquired the house in 1998 under somewhat opaque, vaguely suspicious circumstances — it was placed in a trust he controlled jointly with Wexner, and the title was transferred for a price of $0 —  and moved in.

The report also noted that the video camera surveillance system in the special unit did not work — a long-standing issue in the detention center. While cameras provided live feeds to the staff’s monitoring stations, nearly all of the cameras in and around the special unit where Epstein was being housed stopped recording video in late July 2019 and were not working at the time of Epstein’s death, according to the report. Initially, Epstein told staff at the corrections center that his cellmate had tried to kill him, but later he said he did not know what happened and didn’t want to talk about his injuries.

Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls

Palm Beach Sgt. Michael Dawson took the stand during Maxwell’s trial and said cops were looking for massage tables and oils and sex toys, as well as journals and correspondence, when they raided the home. The Little St. James report features five maps, one of which reveals locations of devices observed on the island over more than three years prior to Epstein’s arrest. Two of the maps indicate the inferred “Common Evening Locations” and “Common Daytime Locations” for each device that had visited the island.

According to the Vista report, these metrics are meant to show visitors’ “most frequented location on weekdays” as well as weeknights and weekends. According to information released during a $100 million funding round in 2019, Near claims to have information on roughly 1.6 billion people in 44 countries. Near Intelligence’s maps of Epstein’s island reveal in stark detail the precision surveillance that data brokers can achieve with the aid of loose privacy restrictions under US law.

Scott had known Altman for years, and in summer 2018, he arranged a meeting between Altman and Nadella. Later that year, the three men hammered out an initial deal, and the rest is history. Publicly, Gates has been almost entirely out of the picture at Microsoft since 2021, following allegations that he had behaved inappropriately toward female employees. In fact, Business Insider has learned, Gates has been quietly orchestrating much of Microsoft's AI revolution from behind the scenes. Current and former executives say Gates remains intimately involved in the company's operations — advising on strategy, reviewing products, recruiting high-level executives, and nurturing Microsoft's crucial relationship with Sam Altman, the cofounder and CEO of OpenAI. In early 2023, when Microsoft debuted a version of its search engine Bing turbocharged by the same technology as ChatGPT, throwing down the gauntlet against competitors like Google, Gates, executives said, was pivotal in setting the plan in motion.

As Epstein’s property sits on the water, there was little question of whether the plot of land would lie vacant for long. After the mansion is razed, Glaser intends to build a new home on the lot and then resell the property. Town building codes prohibit demolitions during the busiest months of the winter tourist season — from the Monday before Thanksgiving to the end of March. The house stands on the opposite end of the Estate Section from Mar-a-Lago on one of the area’s famous “El” streets. Neighboring roads to the north and south are named El Bravo Way and El Vedado Road.

The late sex offender's New York City townhouse and Florida mansion were put on the market in July 2020 for a combined $110 million. A former Goldman Sachs executive has been revealed as the buyer of the Manhattan townhouse. Near’s data is notably missing any locations in Europe, where citizens are safeguarded by comprehensive privacy laws. From inside Epstein's enigmatic waterfront temple to the pristine beaches, pools, and cabanas scattered across his 71-acres of prime archipelagic real estate, the data compiled by Near captures the movements of scores of people who sojourned at Little St. James as early as July 2016. The recorded surveillance concludes on July 6, 2019—the day of Epstein’s final arrest.

Another inmate in the same unit reported hearing Epstein’s cellmate call for help and explain that Epstein tried to hang himself from his bunk-bed ladder, according to the report. In the special unit, staff were required to observe all inmates; conduct rounds and inmate counts; and search inmate cells, the inspector general’s report said. JPMorgan Chase will pay $290 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by abuse victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019. In addition to “hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of sexually suggestive photographs of fully- or partially-nude females,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller revealed in a filing this week that the house also contained a massage table with sex toys and lubricant. Disgraced financier Jeffery Epstein’s Manhattan mansion has been sold to an unnamed buyer for $51m, which will directly benefit the restitution fund providing compensation for Epstein’s sexual abuse victims.

Chris Pratt has drawn ire from architecture aficionados after news broke that the actor and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, had razed a historic, mid-century modern home to make way for a sprawling 15,000-sq-ft mansion. But Diem Boyd, director of neighborhood watch group LES Dwellers, isn’t buying it. She points to the fact that one of the minority owners, Erik McManus, is still the same, and that the building is still racking up a slew of violations.

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At the time, he had pleaded not guilty to numerous charges and was facing up to 45 years in prison involving allegations of sex trafficking that dated to the early 2000s. The wealthy hedge fund manager, who once counted as friends former presidents Clinton and Trump, Britain’s Prince Andrew and lawyer Alan Dershowitz, died while in custody. Epstein purchased the 7,500-acre property in Stanley, New Mexico, from the family of the state's former governor Bruce King, expanded it to 10,000 acres, and named it Zorro Ranch. In addition to the 26,700 square-foot house, there is an airplane hangar and landing strip. Last week, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that State Attorney General Hector Balderas had opened an investigation into whether Epstein had committed sex crimes at the ranch.

The private islands that were a nexus in Jeffrey Epstein's depraved abuse and trafficking of young women and underage girls will be turned into a resort destination by a U.S. billionaire. Great St. James and Little St. James have been in limbo since Epstein's death in 2019. As of February, Epstein’s estate has contributed $55 million to an independent fund that goes to his victims, and more than 150 women have applied for payouts. But the administrator of the fund announced last month that the program was suspending payments because it was having trouble selling off Epstein’s illiquid assets, including his real estate. A group of victims and the government of the Virgin Islands countered by demanding a freeze on the estate’s assets, hinting that they think something irregular is going on.

On July 23, 2019, after an apparent suicide attempt, he was placed on suicide watch, according to the report. Epstein, 66, was able to kill himself amid lax oversight at the Metropolitan Correctional Center a little over a month after federal authorities took him into custody, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said in a report released Tuesday. Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of orchestrating a sex-trafficking ring involving girls, was able to kill himself amid lax oversight at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, according to a Justice Department report. The $51m sale of the Manhattan mansion earlier this week is already being transferred to the compensation program so it can “resume issuing new claims determinations”, per an email from one of the estate’s lawyers, Daniel Weiner. The fund has received more than 150 applications since beginning operations last June and has paid out $55m in compensation for an undisclosed number of victims. While in Epstein’s possession, a 2005 raid by Palm Beach Police on the 1953 six-bedroom spread revealed the innards of his sex lair, including sex toys, kinky photos and paintings of nude women on the walls.