Palm Beach indictment charges billionaire money manager Jeffrey Epstein with felony solicitation of prostitution

G- 20Q01- WA-BIC 4B THE PALM BEACH POST = * TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2006 Indictment: Billionaire solicited 3 times } Palm Beach police will report today about their prostitution probe of the money manager. By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Billionaire money manager and Palm Beach part-time resident Jeffrey Epstein solicited or procured prostitutes three or more times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last year, according to an in- dictment charging him with felony so- licitation of prostitution. Epstein, 53, was booked at the Palm Beach County jail at 1:45 am. Sunday. He was released on $3,000 bond. Epstein’s case is unusual in that suspected prostitution johns are usually charged with a misdemeanor, and.even a felony charge is typically made in a criminal information — an alternative to an indictment charging a person with aE 2 the commission of a crime. é His attorney, Jack |* Goldberger, declined to | discuss the charge. a State attorney's of |} fice spokesman Mike Edmondson also had little to say. “Generally speak- ing, there is a case that has a number of different aspects to it,” Edmondson said of a_prostitution- related charge being submitted to a grand jury. “We first became aware of the case months ago by Palm Beach police.” Prosecutors.and police worked to- gether to bring the case to the grand jury, he said. Palm Beach police confirmed that and said the department will release a report today regarding its investigation. Epstein has owned a five-bedroom, 7%-bath, 7,234-square-foot home with a pool and a boat dock on the Intracoastal Epstein Waterway since 1990, according to property records. A man answering the door there Monday said that Epstein wasn’t home. A Cadillac Escalade reg- istered to him was parked in the drive- way, which is flanked by two massive gargoyles. Epstein sued Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits in 2001, contending that the assessment of his home exceeded its fair market value. He dismissed his lawsuit in December 2002. A profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair magazine said he owns what are be- lieved to be the largest private homes in Manhattan — 51,000 square feet — and in New Mexico — a 7,500-acre ranch. Those are in addition to his 70-acre is- | land in the U.S. Virgin Islands and fleet: of aircraft. Epstein’s friends and admirers, ac- cording to the magazine, include prom- inent businessmen, academics and sci- entists and famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. @ [email protected] nao ‘@) =a > of i) 32.68 eeo 8 > @ Oo cm 98 = o g = 2. 8. s oO z2 2. aos w ° a 3 z = 2 o = HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018917 SMEUOT[IG USLU}OIPU| ‘ayeq JA ‘yoeag Wed Isa sO yoeeg Wied syl / ay UON IPS (‘eyeys pue Ayo “wadedsmeu 900Z/SC20 (mojag soedg ut BuiddyO juno jo atueu ‘ebed ayeoIpul) (L8-8-g “AeY) OSe-ds