ジェフリー・エプスタイン Epstein, Jeffrey
ジェフリー・エドワード・エプスタイン（Jeffrey Edward Epstein, 1953年1月20日 – 2019年8月10日）は、アメリカ合衆国の実業家、投資家。一部の日本語メディアではエプスティーンとも表記されている。
投資家として成功を収めたが、児童への性的暴行などの容疑で逮捕・有罪となり失脚。莫大な寄付などを通じて、欧米の政財界で有力者・王族らに極めて広い人脈を持っていたため、彼らへの売春斡旋が噂されて大きなスキャンダルに発展した。また公的機関の要職者らがエプスタインとの交友関係を咎められて、辞任するケースも相次いだ。
有罪判決後、拘留されていたニューヨークの矯正施設で死亡。自殺とする当局の発表に対して一部の法医学者などから他殺を疑う声が上がるなど、死後も注目を集める事件となった。
Jeffrey Edward Epstein[a] (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and convicted child sex offender. He began his professional career as a teacher at the Dalton School. After his dismissal from the school in 1976, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles, before starting his own firm. Epstein cultivated an elite social circle[6] and procured many women and girls whom he and his associates sexually abused.
In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent reported that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. Federal officials identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused. Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a controversial plea deal agreed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Alexander Acosta, and he served almost 13 months in custody but with extensive work release.
