Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich

Reported by David EnrichSteve EderJessica Silver-Greenberg and Matthew Goldstein (Summary version featured below. To read full report, go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-money-scams-investigation.html) The Times investigation traces how Jeffrey Epstein built his fortune not through financial brilliance or secret intelligence work, but through a long pattern of deception, manipulation, and exploitation of elite networks. Beginning as a college dropout teaching […]