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The house at 358 El Brillo Way was a waterfront mansion in the Town of Palm Beach, Florida, owned by [[Jeffrey Epstein]] from 1990 until his 2019 death. The 2005 investigation by the [[Palm Beach Police Department]] into conduct at the house produced the first criminal case against Epstein and identified dozens of teenage girls who said they had been abused there.[^1]
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The house at 358 El Brillo Way was a waterfront mansion in the Town of [[Palm Beach, Florida]], owned by [[Jeffrey Epstein]] from 1990 until his 2019 death. The 2005 investigation by the [[Palm Beach Police Department]] into conduct at the house produced the first criminal case against Epstein and identified dozens of teenage girls who said they had been abused there.[^1]
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### Acquisition and the House
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Epstein purchased 358 El Brillo Way in 1990 for about 2.5 million dollars.[^2] The roughly 14,000-square-foot, six-bedroom house sat on about eight-tenths of an acre fronting the Intracoastal Waterway and had been designed by the Palm Beach architect [[John Volk]].[^2] The previous long-term owner had been Owen Ray Skelton, a founder and chief engineer of Chrysler, who held the property until his death in 1969.[^3]
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The house became Epstein's Florida residence, and he traveled frequently between it, the [[9 East 71st Street]] townhouse in Manhattan, his [[New Mexico]] ranch and his U.S. Virgin Islands island.[^1] Staff at the Palm Beach house arranged appointments described as massages, and visitors were directed to an upstairs room set up with a massage table.[^4]
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The house became Epstein's Florida residence, and he traveled frequently between it, the [[9 East 71st Street]] townhouse in Manhattan, his [[New Mexico]] ranch and his [[U.S. Virgin Islands]] island.[^1] Staff at the Palm Beach house arranged appointments described as massages, and visitors were directed to an upstairs room set up with a massage table.[^4]
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The waterfront location placed the house a short distance from other prominent Palm Beach estates, and Epstein maintained it as a household with domestic and scheduling staff whose later statements and records became evidence in the police investigation.[^4]
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The grand jury heard the case on July 19, 2006. Recarey testified first, and Assistant State Attorney [[Lanna Belohlavek]] called two of the girls, out of the roughly two dozen police had interviewed, questioning them in terms that cast doubt on their credibility. The grand jury returned one count of felony solicitation of prostitution under Florida Statute 796.07.[^4][^9] Recarey and Reiter objected that the charge did not reflect the conduct against minors that detectives had documented, and the police chief's referral moved the matter into federal jurisdiction.[^6] The transcript remained sealed until Circuit Judge [[Luis Delgado]] released it on July 1, 2024 under a statute enacted that year.[^9]
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Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida, led by U.S. Attorney [[Alexander Acosta]], prepared a sex-trafficking case but in 2007 negotiated a [[Epstein non-prosecution agreement|non-prosecution agreement]] with Epstein's lawyers.[^10] On September 21, 2007 Krischer wrote to the federal line prosecutor: "Glad we could get this worked out for reasons I won't put in writing." The agreement was signed on September 24, 2007, and that day the line prosecutor wrote that the colleague calling Reiter "knows not to tell Chief Reiter about the money issue" and was "telling Chief Reiter not to disclose the outcome to anyone."[^11] Under the 2008 resolution Epstein pleaded guilty in state court to two prostitution-related charges, registered as a sex offender, and served about thirteen months in the Palm Beach County stockade with extensive work-release privileges, while the agreement also conferred immunity on potential co-conspirators and was not disclosed to the victims.[^10] During his incarceration Epstein spent his work-release days at the [[Florida Science Foundation]], an entity he had incorporated, co-located at the West Palm Beach office of one of his attorneys, and the foundation paid the [[Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office]] 128,136 dollars.[^12] In August 2019, after a letter from Sheriff [[Ric Bradshaw]], Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] ordered the [[Florida Department of Law Enforcement]] to investigate; its May 2021 reports found that Epstein "received differential treatment" in the sheriff's custody, that the off-duty deputies had been hired mainly for his protection rather than to monitor him, and that there was no evidence of bribery or influence or of any crime by sheriff's or prosecutors' staff.[^13] A federal judge later ruled that the failure to notify the victims violated the [[Crime Victims' Rights Act]].[^10][^11]
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Federal prosecutors in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida|Southern District of Florida]], led by U.S. Attorney [[Alexander Acosta]], prepared a sex-trafficking case but in 2007 negotiated a [[Epstein non-prosecution agreement|non-prosecution agreement]] with Epstein's lawyers.[^10] On September 21, 2007 Krischer wrote to the federal line prosecutor: "Glad we could get this worked out for reasons I won't put in writing." The agreement was signed on September 24, 2007, and that day the line prosecutor wrote that the colleague calling Reiter "knows not to tell Chief Reiter about the money issue" and was "telling Chief Reiter not to disclose the outcome to anyone."[^11] Under the 2008 resolution Epstein pleaded guilty in state court to two prostitution-related charges, registered as a sex offender, and served about thirteen months in the Palm Beach County stockade with extensive work-release privileges, while the agreement also conferred immunity on potential co-conspirators and was not disclosed to the victims.[^10] During his incarceration Epstein spent his work-release days at the [[Florida Science Foundation]], an entity he had incorporated, co-located at the West Palm Beach office of one of his attorneys, and the foundation paid the [[Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office]] 128,136 dollars.[^12] In August 2019, after a letter from Sheriff [[Ric Bradshaw]], Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] ordered the [[Florida Department of Law Enforcement]] to investigate; its May 2021 reports found that Epstein "received differential treatment" in the sheriff's custody, that the off-duty deputies had been hired mainly for his protection rather than to monitor him, and that there was no evidence of bribery or influence or of any crime by sheriff's or prosecutors' staff.[^13] A federal judge later ruled that the failure to notify the victims violated the [[Crime Victims' Rights Act]].[^10][^11]
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### Work Release Visits and Home Detention
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Epstein's work release ran through the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Extra Duty Permits System, where the paid deputy detail was carried as Permit No. 7804, "Florida Science Foundation," with a "Plain Clothed Position" and an "Unmarked only - Plain Clothed Position," and a work summary reading "Provide security for Jeffrey Epstein." Deputies' July 2009 overtime reports record the midday trips to the house. On July 5, 2009 a deputy maintained front office security until 11 a.m., then "FOLLOWED MR. EPSTEIN TO HIS RESIDENCE" and kept security until 2:45 p.m. before following him back to the office. On July 11, 2009 the deputy on the day shift wrote that Epstein arrived at the office at about 7:15 a.m., that "At 1149 hours we departed the office and arrived at 1200 hours at his residence at 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach," that he "backed into the drive way and provided security to prevent unwelcome guest from entering his property. I did not go into the residence," and that Epstein left the house at 2:31 p.m.; he added that when he asked a sheriff's official about his duties "at the residence," he was told "the function is to provide security." Another report reads: "At approximately 1200, escorted Mr. Epstein to his residence. At approximately 1430, escorted Mr. Epstein back to the office." The sheriff's media relations office faxed the July reports on July 21, 2009, the day before Epstein's release from the stockade to home confinement.[^14][^15]
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A retired deputy who escorted Epstein home told the [[Associated Press]] in 2019: "I didn't do an interior sweep of the residence. I followed instructions to the letter." In August 2009, during his home detention, Epstein was stopped by police while walking on the beach and said he was walking "to work" at an office nearly eight miles from his home. Michael Gauger, the sheriff's chief deputy during Epstein's incarceration, acknowledged coming to the mansion for dinner with Epstein; emails released in 2026 dated the dinner to September 2009. In the privacy waiver his lawyer filed with the FBI in 2010 for a records request, later reused for a request to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], Epstein listed a St. Thomas address as his current residence and 358 El Brillo Way as his prior address.[^15][^16][^17][^18]
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A retired deputy who escorted Epstein home told the [[Associated Press]] in 2019: "I didn't do an interior sweep of the residence. I followed instructions to the letter." In August 2009, during his home detention, Epstein was stopped by police while walking on the beach and said he was walking "to work" at an office nearly eight miles from his home. Michael Gauger, the sheriff's chief deputy during Epstein's incarceration, acknowledged coming to the mansion for dinner with Epstein; emails released in 2026 dated the dinner to September 2009. In the privacy waiver his lawyer filed with the FBI in 2010 for a records request, later reused for a request to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], Epstein listed a [[St. Thomas]] address as his current residence and 358 El Brillo Way as his prior address.[^15][^16][^17][^18]
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The Palm Beach investigation and the non-prosecution agreement became the factual basis for the 2018 [[Miami Herald]] series that renewed national attention on Epstein, leading to his July 2019 federal indictment in New York on sex-trafficking charges.[^10]
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Leslie Wexner, the founder of The Limited and [[L Brands]], bought the townhouse through a trust in 1989 for a reported 13.2 million dollars. Wexner married Abigail Koppel in 1993 and the couple moved to Ohio; in 1996 Epstein moved into the house. Vanity Fair reported in 2003 that "public documents suggest that the house is still owned by the trust that bought it, but Epstein has said that he now owns the house."[^1] Epstein, who held a sweeping power of attorney over Wexner's finances granted in 1991, used the house as his Manhattan residence while title remained with Wexner-linked entities. A 1998 purchase and sale agreement for the house involved a 10 million dollar promissory note and a personal guaranty signed by Epstein.[^5] An [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] internal memo released in 2026 stated that Epstein "controlled all of Wexner's personal finances with virtually no oversight" and described his sale to himself of a New York home that had belonged to Wexner at a discounted price; the financial mechanics of that transfer are detailed on the Leslie Wexner page.[^6]
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By 2011 the house was held by Nine East 71st Street Corporation, which the Virgin Islands government described as "owned by Epstein." In November 2011, after registering as a sex offender in the Virgin Islands, Epstein formed three Virgin Islands corporations, [[Cypress Inc.|Cypress, Inc.]], Maple, Inc. and [[Laurel Inc.|Laurel, Inc.]], with himself as president and director, [[Darren Indyke]] as vice president, secretary and director, and [[Richard Kahn]] as treasurer and director. Maple acquired the townhouse from Nine East 71st Street Corporation "on or about December 23, 2011," a transfer between two companies Epstein controlled; Cypress took the [[Zorro Ranch]] and Laurel the Palm Beach house the same month. The territory alleged that Epstein "transferred ownership of them to the Virgin Islands, and then concealed this fact even from Virgin Islands authorities in an attempt to shield the properties from any judgment in the states where they are located."[^2]
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By 2011 the house was held by Nine East 71st Street Corporation, which the Virgin Islands government described as "owned by Epstein." In November 2011, after registering as a sex offender in the Virgin Islands, Epstein formed three Virgin Islands corporations, [[Cypress Inc.|Cypress, Inc.]], Maple, Inc. and [[Laurel Inc.|Laurel, Inc.]], with himself as president and director, [[Darren Indyke]] as vice president, secretary and director, and [[Richard Kahn]] as treasurer and director. Maple acquired the townhouse from Nine East 71st Street Corporation "on or about December 23, 2011," a transfer between two companies Epstein controlled; Cypress took the [[Zorro Ranch]] and Laurel the [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]] house the same month. The territory alleged that Epstein "transferred ownership of them to the Virgin Islands, and then concealed this fact even from Virgin Islands authorities in an attempt to shield the properties from any judgment in the states where they are located."[^2]
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Maple's annual reports to the Office of the [[Lieutenant Governor of the Virgin Islands]], signed by Epstein and Kahn under the attestation "ALL STATEMENTS CONTAINED IN THIS APPLICATION, AND ANY ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS, ARE TRUE AND CORRECT," never listed the house or its expenses for 2011 through 2016. For 2017 Maple reported cash of 18,281 dollars as its only asset and expenses of 150 dollars while paying 327,497.48 dollars and 6,487.04 dollars in New York City property taxes; for 2018 it reported cash of 21,265 dollars and expenses of 300 dollars while paying 336,471.87 dollars. The territory alleged that Indyke and Kahn "knew or should have known that their attestations were false" and that the transfers "were made for the sole purpose of sheltering these assets from collection." When Epstein died in August 2019, the estate valued its shares in the corporation holding the townhouse at 56 million dollars.[^2]
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Epstein listed Manhattan as his residence in legal filings, and a 2018 federal complaint by investors in [[Towers Financial Corporation]] gave his residence as 9 East 71st Street; the townhouse functioned as the hub of his New York operations, with staff, a large household and the art and furnishings later catalogued during the federal search.[^7][^8] After his death a plaintiff identified as "VE" sued the estate's co-executors, Nine East 71st Street Corporation, [[Financial Trust Company]] and NES, LLC in the Southern District of New York (No. 1:19-cv-07625); all were represented by Troutman Sanders, the firm that had defended Epstein against Towers claims.[^9]
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Epstein listed Manhattan as his residence in legal filings, and a 2018 federal complaint by investors in [[Towers Financial Corporation]] gave his residence as 9 East 71st Street; the townhouse functioned as the hub of his New York operations, with staff, a large household and the art and furnishings later catalogued during the federal search.[^7][^8] After his death a plaintiff identified as "VE" sued the estate's co-executors, Nine East 71st Street Corporation, [[Financial Trust Company]] and NES, LLC in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]] (No. 1:19-cv-07625); all were represented by Troutman Sanders, the firm that had defended Epstein against Towers claims.[^9]
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Epstein sought to buy Great St. James from Christian Kjaer, described as one of Denmark's wealthiest men, who according to later reporting did not want to be publicly associated with Epstein given his sex-offender status. Epstein structured the purchase through the shell entity Great St. Jim LLC and arranged for the name of the Dubai businessman [[Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem]], the longtime chairman of the ports operator DP World, to appear as the ultimate beneficial owner on contractual paperwork. Reporting indicated that bin Sulayem had declined Epstein's request to use his name and that no signature of his appeared on the documents.[^2]
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Epstein sought to buy Great St. James from Christian Kjaer, described as one of Denmark's wealthiest men, who according to later reporting did not want to be publicly associated with Epstein given his sex-offender status. Epstein structured the purchase through the shell entity Great St. Jim LLC and arranged for the name of the Dubai businessman [[Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem]], the longtime chairman of the ports operator [[DP World]], to appear as the ultimate beneficial owner on contractual paperwork. Reporting indicated that bin Sulayem had declined Epstein's request to use his name and that no signature of his appeared on the documents.[^2]
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Great St. Jim, LLC was organized under Virgin Islands law on October 26, 2015, three months before the purchase, with Epstein as manager and member and its business described as "holding assets." According to the Recorder of Deeds, it acquired three parcels on January 28, 2016: Parcel 109801010100 (3.5 million square feet, valued at 17.5 million dollars), Parcel 109801010200 (450,000 square feet, valued at 2.8 million dollars), and Parcel 109801010300 (1.2 million square feet, valued at 2.7 million dollars). The warranty deed shows Epstein paid 5 million dollars each for the two smaller parcels, about 10 million dollars against their combined valuation of 5.5 million. The territory's complaint gives no purchase price for the largest parcel; reporting at the time of the 2023 sale put the total price at about 22.5 million dollars. The estate's petition for probate listed a second Epstein company, Poplar, Inc., incorporated November 22, 2011 with Indyke and Kahn as officers, as holding title to Great St. James, and a certificate of incumbency filed with the Department of Planning and Natural Resources authorized Poplar to handle "transactions related to permitting matters submitted on behalf of Great St. Jim, LLC."[^1][^4]
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summary: "Palm Beach estate built for Marjorie Merriweather Post, briefly federal property, bought by Donald Trump in 1985, where Virginia Giuffre worked when recruited for Jeffrey Epstein and the FBI searched in 2022."
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Mar-a-Lago is an estate of about seventeen acres at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard in the town of [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], [[Florida]], running from the Atlantic to Lake Worth. It was built in the 1920s for the cereal heiress [[Marjorie Merriweather Post]], deeded by her to the [[United States]] in 1972 as a residence for visiting heads of state and executive officials, returned to her foundation by act of Congress in 1980, and bought by [[Donald Trump]] in 1985. Trump opened it as a private club in 1995. [[Virginia Giuffre]] was a teenage locker-room attendant at its spa in 2000 when, by her account, [[Ghislaine Maxwell]] recruited her for [[Jeffrey Epstein]]; Trump said in 2025 that Epstein had "stole" her and other spa workers. In August 2022 the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] searched the estate for classified documents under a warrant signed by Magistrate Judge [[Bruce Reinhart]], who in 2011 had sought to intervene against Epstein's victims in their suit over his [[Epstein non-prosecution agreement|non-prosecution agreement]].[^1][^2][^3][^4][^5]
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### The Post Estate
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The house is an adaptation of the Hispano-Moresque style, crescent-shaped around a patio facing Lake Worth, with a seventy-five-foot tower. Its exterior walls were built of Doria stone brought in three boatloads from Genoa, its roof tiles came from old Cuban houses, and its sculpted ornament was designed by [[Joseph Urban]]. A tunnel under South Ocean Boulevard leads to the beach, where the private cabana and pool adjoin the [[Bath and Tennis Club]]. The boulevard in front was depressed so that passing traffic would not obscure the view. The National Park Service's landmark nomination described the estate as "representative of the affluent society's way of life in the 1920's," exemplifying "the baronial way of life adopted by the affluent society of the 1920's during the land boom that opened Florida to winter resort development."[^1]
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The Secretary of the Interior designated the Mar-A-Lago National Historic Site on January 16, 1969. An act of October 21, 1972 authorized the Secretary to accept and administer it "as a temporary residence for visiting foreign dignitaries or heads of state or members of the executive branch of the United States Government," and Post conveyed the property to the United States by deed of December 18, 1972. Public Law 96-586, of December 23, 1980, repealed the designation, designated the property the Mar-A-Lago National Historic Landmark, and directed the Secretary, consistent with the terms of Post's deed, to transfer it to the [[Marjorie Merriweather Post Foundation]] of the District of Columbia within 120 days.[^3]
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Trump bought the 128-room estate and its furnishings in 1985 for 9 million dollars and used it as a private residence until 1995, when he opened it as a club with a 100,000 dollar initiation fee. He had first sought to subdivide the land for mansions; after a year of hearings the Palm Beach Town Council voted the plan down, Trump sued the town for 50 million dollars, and the town approved a club with restrictions on traffic and noise. At the time only one Palm Beach club was open to Jews, and Mar-a-Lago was the first to accept African Americans and openly gay couples; the author [[Laurence Leamer]] credited Trump's lawyer [[Paul Rampell]] with persuading him of the business value of a wider membership. In December 1996, after the council refused to lift its restrictions, Trump sued again, alleging that the town discriminated against Mar-a-Lago in part because it was open to Jews and African Americans; the town denied the allegation and said it was deciding a zoning matter.[^4]
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Trump and Epstein socialized in Palm Beach and New York from the late 1980s, and archival [[NBC]] footage from 1992 shows the two together at Mar-a-Lago watching dancers. In 2002 Trump told [[New York Magazine]] he had known Epstein for fifteen years and called him a "terrific guy." Social Security records filed in Giuffre's defamation suit against Maxwell show that she was a locker-room spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in the summer of 2000. In 2009, as "Jane Doe 102," she said that Maxwell recruited her there while she was a minor to be Epstein's masseuse. Maxwell disputed Giuffre's account, and Giuffre sued her for defamation.[^2][^6][^7]
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On July 28, 2025, at his course in Turnberry, Scotland, Trump said that he had broken with Epstein because "He stole people that worked for me. I said, 'Don't ever do that again.' He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata." The next day, aboard Air Force One, he said of Giuffre, "I think (Giuffre) worked at the spa. He stole her." [[White House|The White House]] communications director, [[Steven Cheung]], had said on July 23 that Trump expelled Epstein for "being a creep," and told PolitiFact that "taking employees is most definitely creepy." Reporters for the [[Miami Herald]] and [[The Wall Street Journal]], citing a club member, wrote that Trump barred Epstein after he harassed the teenage daughter of a member, around October 2007, when the club's registry listed Epstein's account as "closed"; the lawyer [[Bradley Edwards]] said Trump told him that account in 2009. The two men had also bid against each other in 2004 for the Palm Beach mansion [[Maison de l'Amitie]], which Trump bought for 41.35 million dollars.[^2][^8]
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On March 4, 2018 [[Jonathan Farkas]] wrote to Epstein that he had gone to "the trump mar a lago speech trump gave Saturday," then described an evening at the house of a businessman and closed, "I am going to get to know him better"; Epstein replied, "i like him i know him," without identifying whom he meant. On July 17, 2019, as prosecutors in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]] opposed Epstein's bail, the office's press staff circulated a New York magazine story on archival footage of Epstein and Trump at Mar-a-Lago.[^9][^10]
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On August 5, 2022 Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart of the [[U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida]] signed a warrant to search "1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480," described as "a resort, club, and residence" with "approximately 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, on a 17-acre estate," including the "45 Office" and all storage rooms used or available to "FPOTUS and his staff," for documents with classification markings and presidential records created between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021, as evidence of violations of 18 U.S.C. sections 793, 2071 and 1519. Agents executed it on August 8, 2022 and listed numbered boxes in their receipts for property. Reinhart ordered the government to respond to motions to unseal from news organizations, including The Palm Beach Post, and the warrant and receipts were unsealed on August 12, 2022.[^5]
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Reinhart had been a federal prosecutor in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]]. On May 3, 2011 he moved to intervene in [[Doe v. United States]], the suit of Epstein's victims under the [[Crime Victims' Rights Act]], to seek sanctions over their allegations that he had violated Florida Bar rules and [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] regulations "by representing employees of Jeffrey Epstein ('Epstein') in civil litigation after the undersigned retired from the United States Attorney's Office," and had engaged "while still employed by the Office" in "improper conduct relating to Epstein." He called the allegations false and "irrelevant, slanderous accusations against a non-party."[^11]
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[^1]: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form, "Mar-A-Lago," 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida, prepared by the National Park Service Southeast Regional Office, August 31, 1981, sections 7 and 8. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NHLS/80000961_text
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[^2]: Czopek, Madison, and Gabrielle Lazor. "The facts and timeline of Trump and Epstein's falling out." *PolitiFact,* republished by *PBS NewsHour,* July 31, 2025. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-facts-and-timeline-of-trump-and-epsteins-falling-out
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[^3]: 16 U.S.C. section 467a (repealed), and Pub. L. 96-586, section 4, December 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 3386, set out as a note, United States Code, 2021 edition, Title 16, chapter 1A. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2021-title16/html/USCODE-2021-title16-chap1A.htm
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[^4]: "Trump did open Mar-a-Lago to blacks and Jews, but in a business move, not a crusade." *PolitiFact,* February 11, 2020. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/11/viral-image/trump-did-open-mar-lago-blacks-and-jews-business-m/
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[^5]: United States v. Sealed Search Warrant, No. 9:22-mj-08332-BER (S.D. Fla.), Search and Seizure Warrant with Attachments A and B and FBI Receipts for Property, ECF No. 17 (entered August 11, 2022, unsealed August 12, 2022), and docket. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.17.0_32.pdf ; https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64872441/united-states-v-sealed-search-warrant/
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[^6]: "Trump called Epstein a 'terrific guy' who enjoyed 'younger' women before denying relationship with him." *Washington Post,* July 8, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-called-epstein-a-terrific-guy-before-denying-relationship-with-him/2019/07/08/a01e0f00-a1be-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html
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[^7]: "Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide," *NBC News,* April 2025. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/virginia-giuffre-one-jeffrey-epsteins-prominent-abuse-survivors-dies-s-rcna203027
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[^8]: "What we know about the Trump-Epstein falling out." *PolitiFact,* July 31, 2025. https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/31/what-we-know-about-the-trump-epstein-falling-out/ ; "President Donald Trump explains why he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago." *Fox News,* 2025. https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeffrey-epstein-thrown-out-mar-a-lago-hiring-help-trump
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[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00868435, DataSet 9, email exchange, Jonathan Farkas and Jeffrey Epstein, March 4, 2018 (duplicates EFTA00868586, DataSet 9; EFTA02516392, DataSet 11). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00868435.pdf
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[^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00016747, DataSet 8, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York internal email, July 17, 2019. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00016747.pdf
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[^11]: Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2 v. United States, No. 9:08-cv-80736-KAM (S.D. Fla.), Motion to Intervene or in the Alternative for a Sua Sponte Rule 11 Order, by Bruce E. Reinhart, ECF No. 79 (May 3, 2011), pp. 1 to 3. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.317867/gov.uscourts.flsd.317867.79.0.pdf
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