Financier Jeffrey Epstein, 66, died by suicide on August 10 while being held at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. Epstein was arrested on July 6 in New York City on suspicion of sex trafficking underage girls in the early 2000s. As a businessman and criminal, Epstein has a long documented history. After attending Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, Epstein dropped out of Manhattan’s Cooper Union in 1971. He then enrolled in New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences but left without a degree. Despite the gaps in his education, Epstein taught calculus and physics at Dalton between 1973 and 1975.
The firm only accepted clients with $1 billion or more of assets and has been shrouded in secrecy since its founding. Les Wexner, the founder of the clothing brand The Limited and a high-flyer in the fashion industry, has been the only identified client of the firm. Epstein’s philanthropic efforts culminated in the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, which made headlines for a 2003 donation of $30 million to Harvard University to establish a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program.
