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Subject: Times: Lawsuit Claims Epstein Trafficked Girls in Caribbean Until 2018 
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:20:25 +0000 
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-virgin-islands.html 
Lawsuit Claims Epstein Trafficked Girls in 
Caribbean Until 2018 
The attorney general of the Virgin Islands says Mr. Epstein and his associates used a database to track 
victims as young as n years old. 
A new lawsuit significantly expanded the scope of wrongdoing in which Mr. Epstein was said to have 
engaged.Credit...New York State Sex Offender Registry, via Associated Press 
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By Ali Watkins 
Jan. 15, 2020Updated 2:41 p.m. ET 
New evidence shows Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked hundreds of young women and 
girls on his private Caribbean island, some as recently as 2018, significantly expanding the scope of his 
alleged conduct, a top law enforcement official said in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday. 
Mr. Epstein, a wealthy financier who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail last year, was bringing girls as 
young as 11 and 12 to his secluded estate in the Virgin Islands, known as Little Saint James, and kept a 
computerized database to track the availability and movements of women and girls, the lawsuit said. 
The lawsuit, which was filed by Denise N. George, the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, 
broadened the dimensions of the wrongdoing in which Mr. Epstein was said to have engaged. He had 
been charged by Manhattan prosecutors in July with sexually exploiting dozens of women and girls in 
New York and Florida, but they did not point to any actions beyond 2005. 
In August, Mr. Epstein hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he was being 
held awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Prison guards had not checked on 
him for hours on the night he died, and the circumstances surrounding his death are now the subject 
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