Court documents expected to be unsealed soon could implicate “hundreds of other people” in the sex trafficking allegations surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell’s attorney said during a hearing on Wednesday. The criminal charges against Epstein were dismissed after he died by suicide in August, but a civil lawsuit filed against Maxwell…
(JTA) — A federal judge in New York formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein, the Jewish financier who authorities say killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York shelved the indictment on Thursday charging Epstein, 66, with sex…
A mere two days before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead by suicide he signed a will, according to documents from the Court of the Virgin Islands, the New York Times reported. Epstein’s dead body was discovered in his Metropolitan Correctional Center cell on August 10th amid a lawsuit accusing him of running a sex-trafficking ring…
Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy found multiple broken bones in his neck, injuries that occur more commonly in those who have been strangled, The Washington Post reported. One broken bone was the hyoid, near the Adam’s apple. It is possible that the hyoid can break if one hangs themselves, forensics experts told the Post, but it is…
(JTA) — A prominent New York synagogue has canceled a planned event featuring a mock trial in which prominent Jewish jurist Alan Dershowitz was to defend biblical characters accused of “kidnapping and child trafficking.” Temple Emanu-El’s decision came several days after Jeffrey Epstein, a former Dershowitz client and associate, was found hanged in a New…
Updated 9:40 a.m. When a Jew dies, it swiftly sets in motion a succession of ancient customs, often carried out by the local community. The body is guarded until burial. A special group — called a “holy society” in Hebrew — prepares the body for burial in a custom called the tahara, the purification. Prayers…
When the news that Jeffrey Epstein had died of suicide arrived on Saturday morning, it was not a question of whether conspiracy theories would quickly take hold, but of which ones. Epstein, the disgraced financier accused of sex trafficking underage girls, was connected to an ungodly number of elite circles: Wall Street, highly-ranked academic institutions,…
Fashion retail mogul and philanthropist Les Wexner said in a letter Wednesday that his former financial broker Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking last month, had “misappropriated vast sums of money” from him and his family. In the letter, Wexner condemned Epstein’s alleged sexual relationships with minor girls. In an email to supporters…
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