months in the Palm Beach county jail), and now awaits an additional sentence on Aug. 24 in federal court in Miami for transporting firearms, another deal he says he made to pay the bills after he lost his job. In a deposition given for the civil suits, Rodriguez testified that he was instructed to always have $2,000 in cash on hand, so that he could pay both the girls who gave massages and recruiters such as Haley Robson who brought them to the house. He also testified that Epstein made large contributions to the Palm Beach Police Department, and in return was given PBPD baseball hats to put on the dashboard of his various cars to avoid being stopped or ticketed by local police. Retired Police Chief Michael Reiter, in his own deposition, acknowledged that, in addition to earlier donations to the police department (which are fairly common in well- heeled Palm Beach), Epstein had recently given the department $100,000 for some sophisticated equipment. The police were still researching the purchase when Epstein came under suspicion, and Reiter ordered the money returned. (Guy Frostin, one of Epstein’s local attorneys, told police that Epstein also gave $100,000 to the Florida Ballet for massages, because he was “very passionate” about massages being “therapeutically and spiritually” beneficial. Yet victims told police they had no massage training.) Perhaps most disturbing, in terms of possible sex trafficking, was Epstein’s relationship with Jean Luc Brunel, owner of the MC2 m

You would think these professional television reporters would have done their homework prior to accepting his invitation no matter how desperate they were to rub elbows with Prince Andrew. According to a 53-page sealed indictment Epstein was facing 10 years to life on multiple counts of statutory rape, and child sex trafficking. Court documents in that case claimed he routinely sought out girls as young as 14 and paid them $200 to $1,000 for sexually explicit massages in his homes in Palm Beach, Fla., and Manhattan. In the New York sex-offender database, Epstein isn't registered under a zip code rather a "name search" option that does not list his New York address. The reason for this is because Epstein's Upper East Side home is considered "temporary" and by NY state law, he is required to provide only his permanent address to the database. Epstein is currently listed under his Florida home even though he is no longer a Florida resident either (after his arrest he immediately became a US VI resident), but then again who's keeping count? Once again these are mere technicalities when 1t comes to Epstein's sexual predator case. The two most disturbing parts of this story are that this could easily happen again and that once again there will be no justice. Had Epstein been a caring benefactor contributing to society and these young girl's education and well being then the world would have judged him differently. What he has done instead is the exact opposite -- causing eno

From: Darren Indyke Sent: 4/3/2011 4:54:56 PM To: Lesley Groff [lesley.jee@gmail.com] CC: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] Subject: Re: raw text Importance: — High I also could only open 1st doc and don't have Je's highlights from the other docs. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 3, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Lesley Groff <lesley.jee@gmail.com> wrote: Scott was able to send me the attachments below but there are no highlights. Darren, 1f you want to call me and read me the highlights, I can type them on a Word Doc as you dictate...(?) (Even when Scott opened them on his end he had no highlights) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Scott Denett Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM Subject: raw text To: Lesley Groff <lesley.jee@gmail.com> According to Friday's NY Post Jeffrey Epstein returned to New York City "making wisecracks about his just- ended jail stint for having sex with an underage girl". "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'" the Wall Street hedge fund manager told 7he Post. "It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel," said Epstein. Well that's not exactly the correct analogy... Not only are Epstein's comments brazen, they are arrogant and self-implicating. By telling a reporter "I'm an offender", he seems to be admitting guilt. Which brings me to the big question of the day. Why did Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan D.A., allow a Level 3 sex offender (the most dangerous kind) to reside -- even for ten minutes -- in a

Because Epstein’s predatory habits stretch back many years and involved dozens of young-looking girls, there may well be more evidence to uncover. Under the concept of double jeopardy, Epstein can no longer be prosecuted for any of the charges covered by his non-prosecution agreement, in which he agreed to serve a short term of incarceration, fund the civil suits of named victims, and register as a sex offender. The victims who accepted cash settlements in these civil suits agreed not to testify against him or speak publicly about the case. However, new evidence developed by the Department of Justice on other offenses not covered by the agreement, including allegations by additional victims who come forward, could lead to new charges. There is no statute of limitations in the federal sex- trafficking law, which was also enacted by the state of Florida in 2002. Because his predatory habits stretch back many years and involved dozens of young-looking girls, there may well be more evidence to uncover. (Several young women who claim to be Epstein victims have recently contacted a Ft. Lauderdale lawyer, but to date no new civil complaints have been filed.) ¢ Conchita Sarnoff: The Billionaire Pedphile'’s Sex Den ¢ Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free These new developments come one week after the publication of two articles in The Daily Beast about Epstein’s pattern of sexual contact with underage girls, which Palm Beach police began investigating in 2005 and the U.S. Attorney’s off

¢ Victims alleged that Epstein molested underage girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet republics, including three 12-year-old girls brought over from France as a birthday gift. ¢ The victims also alleged trips out of state and abroad on Epstein’s private jets, which would be evidence of sex trafficking—a much more serious federal crime than the state charges Epstein was convicted of. ¢ Epstein’s attorneys investigated members of the Palm Beach Police Department, while others ordered private investigators to follow and intimidate the victims’ families; one even posed as a police officer. ¢ Then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told The Daily Beast that he “would have instructed the Justice Department to pursue justice without making a political mess.” Film director Roman Polanski is not the only convicted pedophile to walk free this month and return to a life of privilege. On Wednesday, hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein completes his one-year house arrest in Palm Beach, which has been even less arduous than Polanski’s time at a Swiss ski chalet. Watch Jeffrey Epstein Storm Out of a Deposition When Asked About His Penis During Epstein’s term of “house arrest,” he made several trips each month to his New York home and his private Caribbean island. In the earlier stage of his sentence for soliciting prostitution with a minor—13 months in the Palm Beach Stockade—he was allowed out to his office each day. Meanwhile, Epstein has settled more than a dozen la

heeled Palm Beach), Epstein had recently given the department $100,000 for some sophisticated equipment. The police were still researching the purchase when Epstein came under suspicion, and Reiter ordered the money returned. (Guy Frostin, one of Epstein’s local attorneys, told police that Epstein also gave $100,000 to the Florida Ballet for massages, because he was “very passionate” about massages being “therapeutically and spiritually” beneficial. Yet victims told police they had no massage training.) Perhaps most disturbing, in terms of possible sex trafficking, was Epstein’s relationship with Jean Luc Brunel, owner of the MC2 modeling agency. According to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, an alleged victim said that Epstein, Maxwell, Brunel, Rodriguez, and Marcinkova “deliberately engaged in a pattern of racketeering that involved luring minor children through MC2, mostly girls under the age of 17, to engage in sexual play for money.” (Which would amount to trafficking.) Brunel is a 50-plus French playboy who was formerly part owner of Karin, a Paris-based modeling agency. He lives in New York and South Beach, Florida, and owns 85 percent of MC2, which has offices in New York, Miami, and Tel Aviv. (The remaining 15 percent is owned by his partner, Jeff Fuller.) Brunel has been observed as a house guest at Epstein’s Palm Beach home and may well have had contact with him also in New York, where Epstein owns a lavish home, a

particularly if the girl was 16 or younger. But what is particularly disturbing about this case—judging by arrangements at the Palm Beach house—is that Epstein, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, organized his life around this sexual compulsion in an open and methodical way that suggests he felt he was beyond the law. ¢ Conchita Sarnoff: Epstein Faces Sex Traffic Probe ¢ Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free According to police who executed a search warrant, the house was decorated with large, framed photos of nude young girls, and similar images were found stashed in an armoire and on the computers seized at the house (although police found only bare cables where other computers had been). Some bathrooms were stocked with soap in the shape of sex organs, and various sex toys, such as a “twin torpedo” vibrator and creams and lubricants available at erotic specialty shops, were stowed near the massage tables set up in several rooms upstairs. Epstein also enlisted his staff in the predatory activity, and four—Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, and Marcinkova—figured in the FBI investigation. The Non Prosecution Agreement stipulated that they would not be charged. According to police reports and sworn statements 1n the civil suits, all four women, among their other duties, worked to ensure that an appointment book for twice- or thrice-daily “massages” was stocked with fresh recruits. Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late Czechoslovakian-born press baron Robert Maxwell, who

The reason for this is because Epstein's Upper East Side home is considered "temporary" and by NY state law, he is required to provide only his permanent address to the database. Epstein is currently listed under his Florida home even though he is no longer a Florida resident either (after his arrest he immediately became a US VI resident), but then again who's keeping count? Once again these are mere technicalities when 1t comes to Epstein's sexual predator case. The two most disturbing parts of this story are that this could easily happen again and that once again there will be no justice. Had Epstein been a caring benefactor contributing to society and these young girl's education and well being then the world would have judged him differently. What he has done instead is the exact opposite -- causing enormous damage to hundreds of underage girls who could have been sponsored towards a better education. With respect to Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, I'm confused by his decision to allow this sexual predator to live at his Fifth Avenue house all this time (since August 2010), given his rather tough stance on gun control as witnessed by his testimony in Friday's NYPost when asked about a Florida driver cleared in a Manhattan weapon's charge, "guns brought illegally into New York City" he said, " for any reason violate well established state laws and are a threat to our public safety”. Then wouldn't a registered sex offender living 500 feet from a park (Central Park where you

From: Lesley Groff [lesley.jee@gmail.com] Sent: 4/3/2011 2:08:59 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]; Darren indyke i Subject: Fwd: raw text Importance: — High Scott was able to send me the attachments below but there are no highlights. Darren, 1f you want to call me and read me the highlights, I can type them on a Word Doc as you dictate...(?) (Even when Scott opened them on his end he had no highlights) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Scott Denett a Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10: Subject: raw text To: Lesley Groff <lesley.jee@gmail.com> According to Friday's NY Post Jeffrey Epstein returned to New York City "making wisecracks about his just- ended jail stint for having sex with an underage girl". "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an ‘offender,’ " the Wall Street hedge fund manager told 7he Post. "It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel," said Epstein. Well that's not exactly the correct analogy... Not only are Epstein's comments brazen, they are arrogant and self-implicating. By telling a reporter "I'm an offender", he seems to be admitting guilt. Which brings me to the big question of the day. Why did Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan D.A., allow a Level 3 sex offender (the most dangerous kind) to reside -- even for ten minutes -- in a house that is right next to Central Park and a school? Isn't that unlawful given the housing guidelines for sex offenders? According to the NYPost, Epstein's Level 3 designation

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ERSON t for the Palm Beach Police at Mar-a-Lago, Detective Joe ‘ach Police Foundation Police several honors he received in ir career in Palm Beach. Two and took a job as director of Beverage company. olice Department] longer than told a reporter for the Palm m going to miss a majority of , obviously, I’m going to miss mily. Like many families, you mily members. But you over- ind you're a team. I’m going to yple I've worked with.” el Reiter left the department in the job. He now runs his own nel sued his old friend Jeffrey | from grace had cost him milk od him “severe emotional stress.” E Brunel is emotionally destroyed 5 ng RE en ne te ee ee Fittuy RicH as a result of Epstein’s actions and the resulting effects on his busi- ness. He has been on medications to deal with the effects of this.” It continues: “Defendant Epstein recklessly inflicted emotional distress on Plaintiff Brunel by engaging in illegal conduct with under-aged girls, which was falsely linked to Plaintiff. ... This ille- gal conduct was extreme and outrageous by any standard.” The suit went on to quote Brunel's doctor, who said that the modeling scout had gone into psychotherapy “due to a subjective sense of depression related to what he believes is a loss of business in his modeling agency as a result of slander published against his business.” Brunel had gone on prescription drugs— Prozac, Rivotril—as a result. The fashion world had frozen him out, he said, after his relation- ship with Jeffrey

JAMES PATTERSON The Cops Michele Pagan is now a sergeant for the Palm Beach Police Department. In early 2012, at a reception at Mar-a-Lago, Detective Joe Recarey received the first Palm Beach Police Foundation Police Officer of the Year award— one of several honors he received in the course of his twenty-three-year career in Palm Beach. Two years later, he left the department and took a job as director of loss prevention for the Gold Coast Beverage company. “lye been [at the Palm Beach Police Department] longer than my children have been alive,” he told a reporter for the Palm Beach Daily News when he left. “I’m going to miss a majority of the people I’ve worked with, and, obviously, I'm going to miss the work. This is my extended family. Like many families, you have disagreements with some family members. But you over- look that, and you work together and you're a team. I'm going to look back and miss a lot of the people I've worked with.” Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter left the department in 2008 after twenty-eight years on the job. He now runs his own security company in Palm Beach. Jean-Luc Brunel In January of 2015, Jean-Luc Brunel sued his old friend Jeffrey Epstein, claiming that Epstein’s fall from grace had cost him mil- j ” a lions of dollars in business and caused him “severe emotional stress. 4 The lawsuit claimed, “Plaintiff Brunel is emotionally destroyed Z _ Senne as a result of Epstein’s actic ness. He has been on medic It continues: “Defend

ERSON with that. But in the end she d another rich man as Epstein of the Palm Beach Stockade. n her relationship with the d the field until she met and Brian Vickers. Along the way changing her name to Sarah trname to Marcinko and, after school, became a commercial yr. Calling herself Gulfstream ier social media presence until any filed a trademark intringe- 1e suit was settled out of court, stream” to “Global.” “About Me” page on her web- reneurial spirit by selling invi- he continued on to manage a ness and soon she was disco- immersed into the marketing person and international fash- y Epstein. But on her YouTube 4 - cockpit of a Gulfstream Il that F ulfstream, sitting beside a man ki, a pilot for Epstein. ? Fittuy RicwH Marcinko’s Manhattan address belongs to a building where Jettrey Epstein’s brother, Mark, owns the majority of apartments. Sarah Kensington uses the same address in New York. The Girls One of the girls who gave Jeffrey Epstein massages moved to Los Angeles and became an actress, starring for a time in a soap opera and appearing in several films. She is now pursuing a career in country music. Several girls have been arrested for drugs, prostitution, and other nonviolent crimes. One girl is dead—murdered by her boyfriend for reasons that had nothing to do with Epstein. One of the girls who claimed to have been raped by Epstein is now a successful real estate broker in South Florida. Mary moved back in with her parents, finished high school, an

JAMES PATTERSON Kellen might have gone along with that. But in the end she didn’t need to. Sources say she found another rich man as Epstein whiled away his hours in and out of the Palm Beach Stockade. She reinvented herself, and when her relationship with the wealthy man fell apart, she played the field until she met and married a race-car driver named Brian Vickers. Along the way she reinvented herself yet again, changing her name to Sarah Kensington. Nadia Marcinkova Nadia Marcinkova changed her surname to Marcinko and, after training at a Palm Beach flight school, became a commercial pilot and certified flight instructor. Calling herself Gulfstream Girl on Facebook, she cultivated her social media presence until 2013, when the Gulistream company filed a trademark infringe- ment lawsuit against her. When the suit was settled out of court, in 2014, Marcinko changed “Gulfstream” to “Global.” “As a child.” she wrote for the “About Me” page on her web- site, “Nadia channeled her entrepreneurial spirit by selling invi- sible pets to neighboring kids. She continued on to manage a successful family marketing business and soon she was disco- vered by a modeling agency and immersed into the marketing and advertising world as a spokesperson and international fash- ion model.” There is no mention of Jeffrey Epstein. But on her YouTube channel, Marcinko appears in the cockpit of a Gulfstream II that 4 looks very much like Epstein’s Gulfstream, sitting beside a man = who looks

[TERSON illegations that have no basis wsuit was merely a desperate ‘0 prevent being held account- using minor females. Epstein's prosecuting this lawsuit are iavior is another clear demon- bove the law and that because e the system and pay for law- n to the extent of having them other members of the Florida st Edwards and LM is nothing fairy-tale with absolutely no rt his preposterous claims. It escape the public disclosure the nature, extent, and sordid al child molester. Edwards's nt should be granted without 1 for malicious prosecution. “He tp, falsified facts, Edwards says. to extort me into abandoning suing against him on behalf of RA suit. He ultimately had to n the morning our Summary hen sued him. We were set for iunitive damages in my claim. n Florida, one of the appellate OE ae a Re FittHy RicuH courts basically abolished the tort of malicious prosecution in Florida. My case was dismissed. I then appealed that. And our district ruled that my malicious prosecution claim can stand and the tort is not abolished in Florida. They sent it back to the trial court and Jeffrey Epstein appealed that to the State Supreme Court, and that’s where that stands. Sarah Kellen “She said her name was Clara something on the rental applica- tion,” says a real estate agent in Palm Beach. “It wasn’t until much later that I realized she was associated with Epstein.” In April of 2009, that agent rented Clara a bungalow in Palm Beach. For Clara, that little home was a step down fr

JAMES PATTERSON More than a decade had passed since Epstein’s case first landed on the state attorney’s desk. “The New York Times has called me,” said Krischer. “The British papers. I'm not interested in being pulled into that con- versation. I know that the police chief didn’t think the case was handled right, but that’s why he’s a cop and I’m a prosecutor.” Krischer, who left the state attorney's office in 2009, is stilla member of the Criminal Justice Commission in Palm Beach County. Since his retirement, he’s volunteered one morning a week at the office of the state attorney and two mornings a week at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. He still remains active in child welfare issues, working with the Florida Department of Children and Families. Despite his continued involvement with local law entorce- ment, he hasn’t spoken to Michael Reiter in yeats. Bradley Edwards In December of 2009, Jeffrey Epstein filed suit, under Florida’s RICO act, against Scott Rothstein, the jailed Ponzi king; Bradley Edwards, the lawyer who'd worked, briefly, in Rothstein's law firm, RRA, and represented several of Epstein’s victims; and one of those victims, an individual referred to in the lawsuit as Be: “| MM.” RRA as a front for the massive Ponzi scheme and/or were Se an alleged interest or investment in the Civil Actions (and other ‘ claims) involving Epstein.” The suit also claimed that, “By usimg = 278 “Upon information and belief,” the suit stated, “EDWARDS © knew

TTERSON -e sold the home, which he and their 1986 wedding. He got into hat the buyer, a Kazakh billion- had paid three million pounds ce: n announced that she was mov- d ski chalet in Switzerland. ig, sometimes sordid story of the ot the end of the scandals that ound the prince. a Roberts’s allegations about her _and the photo of him with his -appeared in the press. Prince ta skiing holiday to confer with issue a statement denying Rob- vas widely seen as being without ‘oyal family. Jorld Economic Forum in Davos, tin forced to “reiterate and to real- Je by Buckingham Palace that he ionship with Roberts, who had the start of the year that Prince ~ in feet.” Prince Andrew said at the time. = you be making a statement?” the zi oberts signed a sworn statement ing exual contact with him as I ha jE Siven what he knows and has sé " aply voluntarily tell the truth about & 276 | Fittuy RicuH everything. 1 hope my attorneys can interview Prince Andrew under oath about the contacts and that he will tell the truth.” According to several reports, Roberts’s lawyers had written to the prince, asking him to respond to her allegations in court. Reportedly, Buckingham Palace refused delivery of the letter. “I knew he was a member of the British royal family, but I 729 just called him ‘Andy,” Roberts had said in her statement. “I got news from Maxwell that I would be meeting a prince. Later that day, Epstein told me I was meeting a ‘major prince.’ Epstein told me ‘to exceed’ ever

JaMes PATTERSON Prince Andrew had long since sold the home, which he and Sarah had received as a gift after their 1986 wedding. He got into hot water when it was revealed that the buyer, a Kazakh billion- aire named Timur Kulibayev, had paid three million pounds more than the home’s asking price. For her part, Sarah Ferguson announced that she was mov- ing into a thirteen-million-pound ski chalet in Switzerland. It was a fitting end to the long, sometimes sordid story of the prince’s marriage. But it was not the end of the scandals that seemed always to be swirling around the prince. On January 2, 2015, Virginia Roberts's allegations about her relationship with the prince—and the photo of him with his arm around Roberts's waist—appeared in the press. Prince Andrew was forced to cut short a skiing holiday to confer with his mother, the queen, and to issue a statement denying Rob- erts’s allegations —a step that was widely seen as being without precedent for a member of the royal family. That same month, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the prince was again forced to “reiterate and to reai- firm” the repeated denials made by Buckingham Palace that he had any sort of sexual relationship with Roberts, who had announced in papers filed at the start of the year that Prince Andrew has a “sexual interest in feet.” “My focus is on my work,” Prince Andrew said at the time. ~ Asked by a reporter, “Will you be making a statement?” the prince refused to answer.