The nefarious sex offender was worth $600m when he died, but exactly how Jeffery Epstein acquired his fabulous wealth remains a mystery. Between his collection of lavish homes in New York, Palm Beach and Paris, two private Caribbean islands, two jets and helicopter, Epstein held nearly $380m in cash and investments. Epstein's wealth arrived suddenly. According to associates, until the end of the 1990s, Epstein was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side close to the river. Steven Hoffenberg, a former business partner of Epstein convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, claimed that Maxwell's father, disgraced press baron and alleged Israeli and Russian spy Robert Maxwell, introduced his daughter Ghislaine to Epstein in the late 1980s. After her arrival Epstein's lifestyle dramatically elevated. He moved to a townhouse on 68th Street and later to a 28,000-sq-ft mansion on 71st Street.
A 2022 Miami Herald expos showed complex Maxwell family transactions passing through companies in Jersey, the British Virgin Islands and Panama that it called "a decades-long modus operandi of financial deception." Jeffrey Epstein moved like a zombie through the upper echelons of wealth and politics. "He operated a circle with many points of entry," says an acquaintance, "but now he's like a wrecking ball rolling across countries." Endnote: The family of Virginia Guiffre said Prince Andrew needs to be fully investigated over allegations he sexually abused her. Giuffre was one of the most prominent victims of the despicable sex trafficker. In 2001, at the age of 17, she said Epstein introduced her to Prince Andrew, who she said sexually abused her three times. The prince, who has denied all claims against him, reached an out-of-court settlement with Virginia Giuffre in 2022 which contained no admission of liability or apology. Giuffre took her own life in April after many years of campaigning. US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid out a blueprint for the DOJ to track Jeffrey Epstein's mysterious, ill-gotten gains: Blueprint
