But in 2007, he cut a secret deal with then-US Attorney Acosta that granted Epstein immunity from federal prosecution, and Epstein pleaded guilty only to solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution. Epstein only ended up serving a 13-month jail sentence, during which he was reportedly allowed to leave jail six days a week to work out of his Palm Beach office. The Herald’s Julie Brown reported that court documents detailed Epstein paying underage girls to give him massages, during which he would often subject them to further abuse and later offer them money to recruit other young girls.
The Journal subsequently reported that the book also included letters from several others, including former President Bill Clinton, the founder of The Limited company Leslie Wexner, and Alan Dershowitz, the former Harvard University law professor who once represented Epstein during criminal investigations. Maxwell told Blanche that the idea for the birthday book came about after she described to Epstein a similar project her mother had created for the 60th birthday of her father, the British publishing titan Robert Maxwell.
