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Palm —
Beacher
pleads in
SEX CaSE
Jeffrey Epstein will
serve 142 years on teen
Solicitation charges.
By. LARRY KELLER Palin Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH — He lives in a Palm Beach water-
_ front mansion and has kept
company with the likes of President Clinton, Prince An- drew and Donald Trump, but investment banker Jeffrey Ep-
. stein will call the Palm Beach
County Jail home for the next 18 months.
Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty Monday to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. After serving 18 months in jail, he will be
under house arrest for a year. .
And he will have a lifelong obligation to register as a sex offender. He must submit to an HIV test within 48 hours, with the results* being pro- vided to his victims or their parents.
As part of the plea deal, federal investigators agreed to drop their investigation of Epstein, which they had taken to-a grand jury, two law enforcement sources said.
Epstein was indicted two years ago after an 1i-month investigation by Palm Beach police, They received a complaint from a relative of a l4-yearold girl who had given Epstein a naked mas- sage at his five-bedroom, 7,234-square-foot, $8.5 million Intracoastal home.
Police concluded that there See EPSTEIN, 8A >
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Date: 7/1/2008
Title: Palm Beacher pleads in sex case
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UMA SANGHVY/Staff Photographer Investment banker Jeffrey Epstein waits in court Monday
before his guilty plea.
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