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He was a boy genius. A prodigy of some obscure brass instrument or something. He graduated school at like 14. And he went to the most prestigious art conservatory in the US on a scholarship at that. He played Carnagie Hall at like 8 or something.
He was likely abused for the first time at this conservatory, as he would return there to commit abuse himself.
Anyways, after that he went to college for a bit. He then went backpacking around Europe with a friend. They spent a good while walking around continental Europe before going to England.
There they met and befriended a very famous cello player, who introduced them to the royal family. They hung out there with them for a bit.
After that he and his friend returned to the US and went to New York. There he started attending high society parties.
He was then hired to teach at Dalton shortly after that.
This means he likely made connections in the parties that led to that job. But that job was likely a front.
Because from that teaching job he was handpicked to start working at Bear Sterns.
He rose super quickly at Bear Sterns, allegedly because of his genius with numbers, but also likely due to the connections he started making.
He became a VP super fast, but left just as fast. His boss, Alan Greenberg was being investigated for financial crimes, and Epstein took the fall for him.
He then opened his own firm, and became a “free agent” for some time. He was a “financial bounty hunter”, finding and hiding stolen money for the uber wealthy. He was really good at this as well. One of his main customers at this time was an aristocratic family from Spain. Epstein allegedly helped them find hundreds of millions of stolen euros.
After this, he met his first mentor. He was a “client” of Epstein’s firm for years, but he was really his mentor. Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer.
So Epstein was already a very prolific financial operator, and became an arms dealer. Epstein was likely involved in getting arms to many groups in Africa and the Middle East.
After that he got involved with his second mentor, Robert Maxwell. A spy, with a blackmail ring.
So Epstein was a high level financial operator, an arms dealer, and a blackmail ring owner.
Also, he was involved in so many financial crimes. He was involved with the second biggest Ponzi scheme in history. His partner was arrested, convicted for decades, and Epstein’s name was dropped from the case after 3 months…
His other financial firm was the first to use mortgage amortization. Like they were the first to use the instrument they caused the 08 crash.
Epstein was NOT a dumb guy, who just got rich from giving children to billionaires. That was maybe his hobby.
He was one of the biggest financial criminals in history, a massive arms dealer, and a spy.
What did I just read?
🤷♂️ dude I’m sure we’ll have a movie on his life in some years. He is the most evil dude ever, but his life was insane.
And I tried to be as brief as possible on the main moments that shaped his life imo. There’s more ofc. I’d suggest reading Whitney Webb’s books on him.