Financier in sex abuse case went from math whiz to titan
July 10, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — He has rubbed elbows with a prince and flown a former president on his private jet. He amassed a fortune that includes a 100-acre island in the Caribbean and one of the biggest mansions in New York.
He has donated tens of millions of dollars to Harvard and other causes, becoming a darling of professors and scientists — all without a college degree.
Jeffrey Epstein has long been an enigma, his ascent shrouded in mystery. Just how a middle-class Brooklyn math whiz became a Wall Street master of high finance with friends in very high places has been a subject of tabloid speculatio...
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