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A story worthy of horror movies was the one lived by the late financial tycoon, Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein was an American pedophile and sexual predator convicted of a network of child traffickers in the elite world.
His career began as fFinance officer at Bear Stearns investment bank, before founding his own firm, J. Epstein & Co.
He was known as a billionaire who had enormous political and social influence, until the time of the accusations for sex crimes in 2008.
Three years earlier, the Palm Beach, Florida, police began an investigation against him, after a father reported him for harassing his 14-year-old daughter.
Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted by a Florida court in 2008 of soliciting prostitution and enticing the prostitution of minors.
The financier born in NY He would have turned 70 years old on January 20, but ended his life while in prison in 2019.
He evaded justice for decades, was well connected to presidents, politicians and millionaires and paid teenagers $200 in a display of his abuses.
Epstein’s name became poison to those who went out of their way to participate in his events or travel with him. His name was crossed out of all the agendas.
His life was a story of rise and fall, of money power and impunity, it was full of heinous crimes, complicity and much pain.
And of course, it is also a story of many young lives that they were ruined.
His assets were over 600 million dollars and he had a legal team recognized as one of the best. Clinton Trump, among other politicians and celebrities, were his friends.
Nevertheless, Epstein will not be remembered for some of the last described, neither was his death, which was full of doubts and versions.
Now and in the future he will be associated with pedophilia and pimping. The official version is that on August 10, 2019, it was reported that the American had allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell, in the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center.
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