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In this episode of Crime on the Line, Akaija and Chloe discuss the life and crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. They provide details about his upbringing in Brooklyn, his education, and his career in finance. They also mention his association with powerful businessmen and his alleged involvement in a Ponzi scheme. Epstein's personal wealth and mysterious sources of income are highlighted, as well as his ownership of private islands and properties. The hosts mention his involvement in sex trafficking, his use of hidden cameras for blackmail, and his connections to prominent individuals such as Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew. The episode concludes with a mention of Epstein's arrest and the charges brought against him. Hey Lancers, it's Akaija and Chloe. Welcome to Crime on the Line. Before we start, we want to thank Mr. B for giving us the idea for today's episode. It's a fun one. Okay, please note that this podcast features themes of violence, suicide, and descriptions of sexual acts and desires. Some episodes also contain themes that may be triggering and feature content on it. Please take care of yourself and don't hesitate to ask for help if you need it. So, today's episode is Diddy, the new Epstein. Okay, in this episode, we're going to talk more about who's Epstein, his early life, the crimes he committed, the victims, and his sentencing. Before next week's episode, we'll talk about Sean Diddy. We can't compare the two if you don't know anything about them. So, we look at them individually first and then compare. So, let's dive in. Who is Jeffrey Epstein? Jeffrey Epstein, born January 20, 1953, Brooklyn, New York, U.S., died August 10, 2019. Epstein was the first of two children born by Paula Epstein and Seymour Epstein, who were themselves children of Jewish immigrants. His mother, Pauline, worked part-time at the school aside, and his father, Seymour, was a groundskeeper for New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Epstein, along with his younger brother, Mark, were raised in a middle-class environment in Brooklyn known as Seagate, situated on the western shore of Coney Island. Epstein was a talented student who exceeded in mathematics. He was also a skilled pianist. He attended Lafayette High School in Gravestead, whose student body was mostly Italian Americans. Remarkably bright, Epstein skipped two grades and graduated from the school in Brooklyn. At the age of 16, he enrolled at Copper University for the Advancement of Science and Art, where he studied until 1971 and later transferred to the current Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, NYU. He studied at NYU for three years but did not graduate. Still, Epstein got a job teaching calculus and physics at the Dalton School, an upper-class Eastside prep school, in 1974. During his time at Dalton, Epstein behaved inappropriately according to some former students. For example, he allegedly appeared at a party for high schoolers where he was over-attentive towards the females, though he was not accused of sexual abuse at that time. During a parent-teacher conference in 1976, Epstein so impressed a student's father with his intelligence that that the parent referred Epstein to Alan A. Greenberg, then the CEO of the Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns, and also the Dalton parent, following 1955-76 school year. However, his employment was short-lived. He was fired two years later for quote-unquote poor performance. He began working at the Bear Stearns soon afterwards. In 1980, four years after joining Bear Stearns, Epstein quickly climbed the ladder, eventually advising some of the company's wealthiest clients. He was made a limited partner. In 1981, however, he left the company in order to run his own business, Intercontinental Asset Group Inc., in which he helped clients recover embezzled money and also assisted clients who were embezzlers. Some of his associates during the 1980s stated that he referred to himself as a bounty hunter. It was around this time that he began telling friends and colleagues that he worked as an intelligence agent, a claim that has never been verified. However, his association with powerful businessmen who did deals with a variety of governments, as well as his extensive travels overseas in the mid-1980s, all pointed to the possibility that this claim could be true. About this time, Epstein's personal financial situation, as well as his business practices, became increasingly murky. In 1987, Epstein began working with Tower Financial Corporation executive Stephen J. Hoffenberg. The two attempted but mostly failed in their attempts at corporate takeovers. In 1987, Epstein began consulting for a collection agency called Tower Financial Corporation, which ended up being a half-a-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Epstein was said to be one of the masterminds behind this scheme, but he ended up getting away unscathed, leaving Tower a few years before it fell apart in 1993. In 1988, Epstein set up Bay Epstein Company, which was later renamed the Financial Trust Company, a financial management firm that purportedly only served billionaires. It was during this time he became the financial advisor to billionaire Leslie Wexner, who was the CEO of L Brands and Victoria's Secret. Starting in the mid-1990s, he moved his company to the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands to avoid paying taxes. To this day, no one has uncovered the various sources of his exceptional wealth. The U.S. Virgin Islands is a tax haven where he bought an adjacent 72-acre island called Little James for just shy of $8 million in 1998. It is alleged that this is where he operated his sex trafficking activities, and where most of his pedophilic acts occurred. Some of the youngest girls who were trafficked onto this island were said to be just as young as 12 years old. He later purchased another island in the same vicinity, Drake St. James. He also owned what was then the largest private mansion in Manhattan, as well as properties in Palm Beach, Florida, Paris, and New Mexico. It was said that Epstein used hidden cameras at his Manhattan residence to record sex acts performed by the wealthiest associates, probably for blackmail purposes. He also kept a log of those who traveled on this private jet to locals in the Virgin Islands referred to as Lolita Express, in reference to Val D'Aniel's novel Lolita in 1955, whose anti-hero is a middle-aged man who obsessively lusts over very young girls. I don't know about you, but like doesn't that sound really familiar? Anyways, so among the persons listed was from a former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Donald Trump. The president's attorney, Harvard University law professor, Alan Dershowitz. I'm hoping I'm pronouncing his name right. I can't have y'all sue me for not pronouncing somebody's name right, guys. I'm not rich. Okay, and Prince Andrew, Duke of York. The last of whom was married in controversy for years after young women, who was procured by Epstein, told the media she was forced to have sexual relations multiple times with the prince when she was a teenager. Starting in 1999, Andrew, who stepped back from law duties in 2019, paid a settlement to his accuser in 2022. In Palm Beach in 2005, Epstein was first accused of sexual abuse. March 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a family of a 14-year-old girl reports she was molested at his mansion. Multiple underage girls from high school would later tell the police that Epstein hired them to give sexual massages. May 2006, Palm Beach police officials signed paperwork to charge Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex with a minor, but the country's top prosecutor, St. Anthony Barney Kishiner, takes the unusual step of sending the case to the grand jury. January 2006, Epstein is arrested after a grand jury indicates him on a single count of soliciting prostitution. The relatively minor change draws almost immediate attention from the critics, including Palm Beach police leaders who