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Mystery money man faces soliciting charge
By NICOLE JANOK Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
A part-time Palm Beacher who has socialized with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey was jailed early Sunday with accused drug dealers, drunken drivers and wife beaters after he was charged with soliciting a prosti- tute
Manhattan money manager Jeffrey Epstein, 53, was picked up at his home on El Brillo Way at 1:45 am. He was
Epstein was indicted last week by a state grand jury, according to state at torney’s spokesman Mike Edmondson. Despite Epstein’s arrest, the indictment containing the allegations remained sealed Sunday and Edmondson provid- ed no details.
Unlike most accused johns, Epstein was charged with a third-degree felony instead of a misdemeanor. Under state law, a solicitation charge usually is ele- vated to a more-serious felony when the defendant has at least two solicitation
released hours later on $3,000 bond.
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lished reports. National magazines have described him as a “mysterious billion- aire’ who lives in a 45,000- square-foot New York City mansion.
He has been in trouble before. In 1993, he and two other defendants were charged in federal court with three counts of postal larceny and theft and one count of property theft. Epstein plead guilty to a single charge of conspiring to steal U.S. Treasury checks from resi- dential. mailboxes and _re- ceived 5 years’ probation. The remaining charges were
dropped.
Since then, Epstein’s name has turned up in New York City’s tabloids. The New York Post noted he flew Pres- ident Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his pri- vate Boeing 727. In 2003, the paper dubbed him one of the Big Apple’s “top studs,”
in 2004, Epstein bid against Trump for a 43,000- square foot Palm Beach es- tate once owned by health- care magnate Abe Gosman. Trump topped Epstein with a $41.35 million bid. Staff Researcher Angelica Cortez contributed to this story,
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convictions.
However, checks of court records here and in New York Sunday turned up no such convictions.
Epstein could nos be reached. Ft mondson said he was being represente i by West Palm Beach attorney Jack Goldberg, who declined comment.
Epstein is the president of J Epstein & Co., a money management company based in Manhattan that caters to ultra- wealthy clientele, according to pub
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