Jeffrey Epstein
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Jeffrey Epstein (born 1953 in Coney Island, New York) is a wealthy financier and philanthropist.
He began his career as a math teacher, before becoming a trader at Bear Stearns, and eventually founding his own financial management firm located on his 80 acre private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He reportedly will not take clients with assets less than $1 billion. Epstein has been known to befriend high profile scientists and politicians such as Leonard Susskind, Marvin Minsky and Bill Clinton.
In addition to his private island in the Virgin Islands, he owns a 45,000 square foot five-story townhouse on East 71st Street in Manhattan called Villard House and a 41,000 square foot house on a 12,000 acre ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico called Zorro Ranch. [1]
Epstein has contributed significantly to scientific and mathematical research. A donation of $30 million funded the creation of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University in 2002.[2]
On July 27, 2006 Epstein was charged in Palm Beach, Florida with solicitation of prostitution, with female minors on several occasions, at his Palm Beach mansion. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Jeffrey Epstein: International Money Man of Mystery", New York Magazine, 2002-10-28
- ^ Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
- ^ "Billionaire in Palm Beach Sex Scandal", The Smoking Gun, 2006-07-26
