GEEK. CREEP. CHEAT.
CONMAN. PERVERT. PREDATOR.
A convicted sex offender signs his last will and testament in a prison cell. Two days later, he is dead. The will names 43 beneficiaries. His hundreds of victims get nothing. Follow the money to unlock the truth.
2019. Jeffrey Epstein signs his last will and testament in a prison cell. Two days later, he is dead. Epstein's will names 43 beneficiaries: his latest girlfriend, a Belorussian dentist who came into his orbit when she was 20, gets $100 million and everything he owned; Epstein's lawyer is left $50 million, his accountant, $25 million.
Epstein's hundreds of victims don't get anything.
With exclusive access to close associates, friends, and confidants, some of whom knew Epstein long before he achieved global notoriety, this documentary uses the will as a roadmap to unpack the life of a college dropout from Brooklyn who amassed a fortune that brought him into the inner circle of presidents, scientists, spymasters, and bought him decades of impunity. The newly released Epstein Files, the largest data dump of investigative records in US legal history, provide the evidence.
Exclusive access to Epstein's closest confidants and associates, some speaking for the first time.
The will as a map of loyalty, complicity, and silence.
Over 3.5 million pages of investigative records have been released so far, with millions more still under seal.
Deutsche Bank opened 40 accounts for Epstein, processing hundreds of millions in suspicious transactions. Internal compliance flags were raised and ignored. The bank was later fined $150M by US regulators.
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A private jet from Paris touches down at Teterboro. Inside, Jeffrey Epstein, wealthy financier and registered sex offender, prepares to disembark. On the tarmac, hard to make out in the glow of the late afternoon sun, a joint FBI-NYPD task force is getting ready to board the plane.
Before he understands what is happening, Epstein is surrounded by federal agents. They charge him with sex trafficking of minors. At his Manhattan townhouse, 20 officers execute a search warrant. They find a safe full of cash, loose diamonds, dozens of photographs of young women, some of whom may be minors. Epstein pleads not guilty. He is refused bail.
In his cell, Epstein signs a new will. He transfers everything he owns, $600 million, into a trust fund with 43 named beneficiaries. Two days later, he is found dead. The official ruling: suicide by hanging.
Many questions remain. Why was his cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, moved the night before? How did both guards on duty, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, fall asleep? Why were the security cameras not working? Why was his body not examined where it was found? Why were no photographs taken? And why are the injuries to his neck compatible with strangulation?
The will is all that remains: a document that maps his loyalties, his debts, his silences. It becomes the key to our investigation.
On August 8th 2019, Epstein divides $600 million among 43 names. What does the money tell us about his inner circle, and those notably absent from it?
Epstein had drafted a will just six months earlier. Two days before his death, he replaced it entirely. What changed, and why? Nine names in the will remain blacked out in the public record. Who are they, and why were they protected?
A geeky kid from Brooklyn with a gift for maths, no qualifications, and a talent for blagging.
Mark Epstein remembers his happy and unremarkable childhood with his older brother Jeffrey in a close-knit working-class community in Brooklyn. But how exactly did Jeffrey Epstein, a college dropout, become a multi-millionaire?
The simple answer: by blagging and bagging a billionaire client.
Against the advice of his advisers, business entrepreneur Les Wexner hires Epstein to manage his wealth. Wexner gives him power of attorney over his finances and ownership of his exclusive Manhattan townhouse. Today, Wexner claims he was conned and robbed of at least $46 million.
Stuart Pivar, a chemist, businessman and art collector, befriends Epstein and introduces him to the New York art world, where Epstein finds some of his earliest young victims.
Ghislaine Maxwell, a well-connected socialite who has just lost her father, media tycoon Robert Maxwell, hooks up with Epstein. She opens the doors to high society and royalty. Epstein puts her on the payroll.
The golden years: private islands, private planes, and the most powerful people on earth.
Using Les Wexner's money, Epstein builds an impressive property portfolio, including two private islands in the Caribbean. His money and Ghislaine's social capital grant him access to the inner circles of royalty, politicians, scientists, and celebrities. He hosts them on his properties and flies them on his private plane.
Ghislaine Maxwell ($10M) was also a regular, in charge of providing a constant supply of young women, masseuses, aspiring models, and underage schoolgirls for Epstein to abuse.
His Paris butler Valdson Vieira Cotrin ($10M) doesn't think any of the women visiting Epstein was a minor ("they looked mature") but quickly adds that he didn't check their IDs.
The key figures in Epstein's financial labyrinth, Darren Indyke ($50M) and Richard Kahn ($25M), set up companies and offshore trusts. Neither can recall ever seeing or hearing anything untoward. Until 2008, when Epstein is arrested. His lawyer Alan Dershowitz negotiates an extraordinarily lenient deal: only 13 months in an open prison. No federal charges are brought.
New billionaire clients, Israeli intelligence connections, and one determined journalist.
Upon release, Epstein shifts his attention to women over 18, often from Eastern Europe. Karyna Shuliak ($100M) is one of them.
Having fallen out with Wexner, Epstein hooks his second billionaire client: private equity investor Leon Black, who pays him $170 million for "tax advice and estate planning." The Epstein Files reveal that Epstein was also acting as Black's fixer, paying "hush money" and surveilling women involved with Black.
By 2013, all banks have dropped Epstein, until Deutsche Bank takes him on as a client, sets up 40 accounts handling massive transactions: lawyers' fees, rent, college expenses for Russian models. Suspicious transactions are flagged internally but not investigated.
Epstein forges close links with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak and invests in Israeli surveillance technology. He becomes involved with Black Cube, a private intelligence firm staffed by ex-Mossad operatives.
But Epstein is living on borrowed time. In 2018, Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown publishes her investigation into the "sweetheart deal." It sparks national outrage and prompts New York investigators to reopen the case. Within months, Epstein is arrested. Barely a month later, he is dead.
3.5 million pages. 180,000 images. 2,000 videos. The greatest data dump of investigative records in US legal history.
The Epstein Files expose elements of Epstein's life, connections, and crimes. The sheer volume is overwhelming. In an unprecedented move, individual members of Congress have encouraged citizen investigators and online communities to help comb through the files.
The case has become more than a criminal investigation. It is a symbol of elite impunity, of institutional failure, and of the questions a society asks itself when wealth and power operate above the law. That is why it commands so much public attention, and why it matters now more than ever.
Leon Black faces intense scrutiny as Congress investigates his $170M payments to Epstein for "tax advice." Darren Indyke ($50M) and Richard Kahn ($25M) are deposed and testify they knew nothing. Ironically, they are among the main beneficiaries of Epstein's will but, at the same time, are in charge of compensating his victims. A conflict of interest if there ever was one.
Meanwhile, Karyna Shuliak ($100M), the Belorussian dentist who became Epstein's ultimate heir, has received death threats and is lying low, waiting for the claims to be settled so she can receive whatever remains of the fortune.
Epstein's will is not just a legal document. It is a map of complicity, silence, and power. This film follows that map.
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