Jeffrey Epstein secretly stashed computers, photographs, and other equipment in storage units scattered across the US — and paid private detectives to move the material around as investigators closed in on him, according to a new report.
Financial records and emails reviewed by The Telegraph revealed that the dead pedophile rented at least six storage lockers nationwide, some starting in 2003, and paid for them until 2019, the year he died by suicide in lock-up.
The units were used to house items from Epstein’s homes, including computers and CDs from his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, the outlet reported.
Search warrants — which were part of the tranche of 3 million Epstein-related documents released by the Justice Department — also revealed that US authorities possibly never raided the storage spaces and could contain never-before-seen evidence in the sex trafficking case.
Emails reviewed by the publication further revealed that Epstein had private eyes move materials out of his homes into the storage facilities before authorities could execute search warrants at his residences.
The convicted sex offender made regular payments to multiple facilities, including one near his Palm Beach mansion, according to credit card statements discovered by the outlet.
Additional files showed that Epstein’s private investigators were instructed to rent a Manhattan storage unit on the disgraced financier’s behalf, and were paid tens of thousands of dollars to do so, the outlet reported.
In August 2009, a month after his release from jail on a child sex crime conviction, the financier was emailed by a private investigator who informed him that Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre had requested missing computer material, the outlet said.
Giuffre — the powerful creep’s most vocal victim who took her own life in April –– had filed a civil lawsuit that year alleging Epstein sexually abused her while she was a minor and trafficked her internationally.
“Over the weekend I learned that plaintiff’s counsel are looking to get from me the computers and
paperwork I took from Jeff’s house prior to the Search Warrant,” Bill Riley of the Riley Kiraly private detective agency emailed Epstein and his lawyer, according to the outlet.
“I have them locked in storage and would like to know what to do with them. They are no longer needed in the criminal case, I assume. Is it possible to give you these items for your review and safekeeping or give it to Darren Indyke [Epstein’s lawyer] or back to Jeff, etc.?” Riley wrote.
The email also stated the computer drives in the storage unit had been copied, or “cloned,” though it’s unknown what happened to the copies.
Emails in the file dump also indicated Epstein instructed private investigators to remove computers from his Florida home after he was allegedly tipped off about a police raid in the mid-2000s.
His staff also discussed transporting some computers and CDs from his private island to the units and wiping them. Some of the material in the units could predate the earliest material in the Epstein files released by the DOJ, according to the publication.
As Epstein was serving his sentence at Palm Beach County Jail in May 2009, he also emailed Riley, “You were going to send me a copy of [redacted’s] picture,” the outlet said.
“I thought I had a copy of it on my computer, but it is in storage with everything else. I will get it out next time I go to the storage unit,” Riley replied.
Epstein also rented another storage lock-up five minutes from his New York mansion, with his accountant, Richard Kahn, writing in June 2012 that it contained mostly furniture, but also “a lot of excess equipment” including “computers, supplies, etc.,” according to the outlet.
The FBI did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on whether Epstein’s storage facilities were ever searched.
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