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.
