# Jeffery Epstein has been arrested for sex trafficking a minor **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658 "2019-07-07T05:03:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/321 "2019-07-25T21:01:32Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I sure hope he isn’t in the prison general population. Yet. Where else would they put him? Juvie? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/322 "2019-07-25T21:01:53Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Reports this early morning are not very clear. One report I read (or heard) said that the injury is very superficial and may have been played up a bit. Yet a different report claims that they are investigating another inmate. But he is now on suicide watch. I would be surprised if they allowed a billionaire client accused of sexual predation to be anywhere near other inmates without constant protective custody. As I recall, Little Nemo either works, or has worked, in the prison system (my apologies in advance if I’m mistaken). Assuming that’s accurate, he or anyone with similar experience can weigh in. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/323 "2019-07-25T23:14:11Z")
According to [this story](https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/jailed-ex-cop-questioned-about-jeffrey-epsteins-injuries/): > [@](#): > > Earlier this month, The Post exclusively revealed that Epstein was being housed in the “10 South” unit, a block of six cells known as the “terror wing” because it’s where the city’s most dangerous federal inmates, including alleged terrorists, are held. And if suicide watch is anything like it is in our county jails, it sucks. Paper gown, no bedding or pillow, no reading matter allowed, basically just a paper gown and 24 hour solitary. No commissary, don’t go to the mess or get outside time, no phone privileges. Not fun. Only advantage is the only people who have access to you are CO’s which might or might not be a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/324 "2019-07-26T00:11:46Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > My guess is that another inmate was paid off to send Epstein a message about why he should never, ever turn on Trump. I’m not sure that they’ll actually need him to testify against anyone. The videos they found sound quite interesting. > **[Does Jeffrey Epstein have 'blackmail tapes'?](https://theweek.com/speedreads/851513/does-jeffrey-epstein-have-blackmail-tapes)** > > The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week > [@](#): > > Back in 2015, a woman named Virginia Roberts alleged that U.S. authorities had footage of her having underage sex with powerful friends of billionaire Epstein > … > after Epstein was arrested on Saturday, a law enforcement search of his Upper East Side apartment reportedly revealed compact discs in a locked safe labeled “Young [Name] + [Name],” which, as The Intercept’s Ryan Grim points out, could buttress Roberts’ allegations. In an article about a 2005 raid (I’m putting the link in a spoiler box as it’s possibly NSFW): [Shocking VIDEO from inside Florida mansion of Bill Clinton's friend Jeffrey Epstein | Daily Mail Online](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3688656/A-fully-equipped-dentist-s-chair-close-photos-young-girls-backsides-eerie-images-videotaped-walk-billionaire-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-Florida-mansion.html) > [@](#): > > The walk-through video does not show everything the cops found, such as video cameras hidden in clocks — one in the garage and the other on Epstein’s desk. He is believed to have used the cameras to tape his famous friends in sex acts with underage girls for blackmail purposes. As an aside, they also found a fully equipped dental chair in one of his bathrooms, which is somewhat disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/325 "2019-07-26T00:51:53Z")
A DENTAL CHAIR? Just when you think this story can’t get any weirder, it does. I second the likelihood of autoerotic asphyxiation. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/326 "2019-07-26T01:06:52Z")
I’m going with an inmate with a daughter. Short eyes don’t prosper in prison. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/327 "2019-07-26T01:16:24Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > A DENTAL CHAIR? Just when you think this story can’t get any weirder, it does. > > I second the likelihood of autoerotic asphyxiation. I don’t know that there’s sufficient information for the moment to really posit a guess at what the cause was. Though, it is probably true that he’s a sex addict, so he’s probably going through a form of detox at the moment. If someone was violent towards him, obviously I don’t condone that but it is probably good news for the world. If he hurt himself, then it shows that he’s desperate. A desperate man is much more likely to try and cut a deal. If someone else hurt him, then he’s liable to realize that he needs to fear for his safety and is unlikely to secure that unless he cuts a deal. If he’s also jonesing for sex, he’s probably also not thinking terribly straight right now. We might see some fast action on this one. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/328 "2019-07-26T01:56:20Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > A DENTAL CHAIR? Just when you think this story can’t get any weirder, it does. > > … Maybe he has a fetish for dental hygienists. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/329 "2019-07-26T02:15:47Z")
Good NYT article on Epstein and Wexner. Apparently Epstein, on at least a couple of occasions, pretended to be an agent of Victoria’s Secret and used that to lure and assault women. Victoria’s Secret is one of Wexner companies. The women thought he was legit because they knew he was close to Wexner. > **[How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth...](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html)** > > Mr. Epstein, charged with sex trafficking, cultivated an intimate, yearslong relationship with Leslie Wexner — and proceeded to get extraordinarily rich. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/330 "2019-07-26T02:22:33Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Maybe he has a fetish for dental hygienists. Who doesn’t? Back in the summer after high school my dentist hired the megahot daughter of my chemistry teacher. I was every bit as too scared to ask her out as I had been when she was a year ahead of me. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/331 "2019-07-26T03:18:38Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Who doesn’t? Back in the summer after high school my dentist hired the megahot daughter of my chemistry teacher. I was every bit as too scared to ask her out as I had been when she was a year ahead of me. But do you have a fully equipped (drills, etc.) dental chair in your bathroom? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/332 "2019-07-26T13:40:34Z")
“How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth and Women” > **[How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth...](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html)** > > Mr. Epstein, charged with sex trafficking, cultivated an intimate, yearslong relationship with Leslie Wexner — and proceeded to get extraordinarily rich. > [@](#): > > In the mid-1990s, two senior executives had discovered that the same man, a close adviser to the company’s chief executive, Leslie H. Wexner, was trying to pitch himself as a recruiter for Victoria’s Secret models. Mr. Wexner was alerted, according to the two executives. > > It is unclear what if any action Mr. Wexner took in response. But the man — Jeffrey E. Epstein, a New York financier — had developed an unusually strong hold on Mr. Wexner… > > Within years of meeting Mr. Epstein., Mr. Wexner handed him sweeping powers over his finances, philanthropy and private life… > > Mr. Wexner authorized him to borrow money on his behalf, to sign his tax returns, to hire people and to make acquisitions. Over the years, Mr. Epstein obtained a New York mansion, a private plane and a luxury estate in Ohio — today valued at roughly $100 million all together — previously owned by Mr. Wexner or his companies. Why would someone like Wexner give so much control over his finances to Epstein, a two time college dropout? It seems to me that the most likely explanation is that Epstein was blackmailing Wexner. We may be about to see a number of powerful businessmen and politicians in deep shit. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/333 "2019-07-26T13:52:53Z")
Well, there it is. Epstein got wealthy by blackmailing rich men, and he got lucky early by being smart enough to leave NYC, searching for easier marks. Leslie Wexner is the current CEO (and founder) of L Brands and brought to the fore such brands as Victoria’s Secret, Bed Bath & Body Works, and the Limited. I don’t know how he will continue to hold this position after this article - I hope it isn’t long. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/334 "2019-07-26T14:36:41Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > According to [this story](https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/jailed-ex-cop-questioned-about-jeffrey-epsteins-injuries/): > > And if suicide watch is anything like it is in our county jails, it sucks. Paper gown, no bedding or pillow, no reading matter allowed, basically just a paper gown and 24 hour solitary. No commissary, don’t go to the mess or get outside time, no phone privileges. Not fun. Only advantage is the only people who have access to you are CO’s which might or might not be a good thing. OK, the rest I follow, but no reading ? What are they afraid of, particularly vicious paper cuts ? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/335 "2019-07-26T15:16:26Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > OK, the rest I follow, but no reading ? What are they afraid of, particularly vicious paper cuts ? There’s probably a way to make a somewhat decent spike or of paper and sperm out some other substance. Obviously, not an ideal way to go. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/336 "2019-07-26T15:25:58Z")
“Lawmaker says she’s been told to back off call for probe of Jeffrey Epstein’s work release” [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233102457.html](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233102457.html) > [@](#): > > Florida Sen. Lauren Book has reached out to Capitol police after receiving an anonymous warning connected to her demand for a state inquiry into Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s handling of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient work release program, the Miami Herald has learned. > … > On Monday, Book, a Democrat, wrote a letter to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis asking him to authorize a probe into how Epstein, accused of molesting dozens of underage girls and a registered sex offender, was permitted to leave the Palm Beach County Jail and spend much of his 2008-2009 incarceration in an office in West Palm Beach. > … > Meanwhile, Book, in an interview with the Herald, said she had asked the Capitol police, who handle security for state lawmakers, to look into claims made on a Russian website alleging that Bradshaw was behind an effort to access her phone and emails by using the pretext of “imminent danger’’ to obtain her personal information. > > “I’ve received countless phone calls saying ‘Little girl you don’t know what you’re getting into,’ and telling me that I should just stop,’’ said Book, a child sexual abuse survivor herself who has worked to pass strict sex offender laws in Florida. So now Russians are involving themselves in this? Who knows if that website’s allegations are true or not, but why the Russian interest? And who’s threatening her? Curiouser and curiouser. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/337 "2019-07-26T15:28:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Putting him into a medically-induced coma following his first suicide attempt would be WRONG, wouldn’t it? Drat. > [@Atamasama](#): > > And far too merciful. He should be awake to suffer. Perhaps I failed to make my meaning clear. My suggestion was intended merely as a tactic to ensure he remains alive long enough to have his appeal[s] fail, so that his conviction could never be vacated. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/338 "2019-07-26T15:43:33Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > “How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth and Women” > [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html) > > Why would someone like Wexner give so much control over his finances to Epstein, a two time college dropout? > > It seems to me that the most likely explanation is that Epstein was blackmailing Wexner. That’s the question posed in the NYT article; why did Leslie Wexner give so much control of his money, his companies, foundations, real estate and other properties to this guy who doesn’t seem all that qualified. The article mentions that Epstein bought houses and a plane from Wexner at what sound like below market prices. And it also mentions that Wexner gave money (like over twenty million) to a charity set up by Epstein. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/339 "2019-07-26T15:51:10Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I sure hope he isn’t in the prison general population. Yet. Must you? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/340 "2019-07-26T23:53:36Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Must you? It feeds his blood-lust-driven masturbatory fantasy of “justice”. So, yes, sadly, he must. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658.md?page=18)