How Epstein tried to amass money, power and women in Africa, records show

[Uncle Joe]

From left: Karim Wade, son of the former Senegal president, who was convicted of corruption charges. Epstein paid $600,000 in his legal fees; Jide Zeitlin, the Nigerian-born former CEO of a New York fashion house who turned to Epstein for advice; Jeffrey Epstein. The email references plan to go after Libya’s frozen assets. Designed by Luis Castro/Miami Herald staff Getty Images, U.S. Department of Justice

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When Senegal was investigating the son of a former president for corruption, Epstein offered him his Palm Beach mansion and spent hundreds of thousands on his legal fees, including hiring a top law firm to lobby Congress and the State Department to apply pressure on Senegal to release him.

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He attempted to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi, the strongman who ruled over oil-rich Libya in North Africa in late 2010. But when Gaddafi’s hold over Libya started weakening a few months later, Epstein turned his attention to the leaders of the anti-regime rebels, one of whom now lives in West Palm Beach.

In a meeting at his Palm Beach mansion in 2018, he offered advice to a Nigerian-born businessman who the following year would become CEO of a high-end New York fashion house. The investor was trying to make a deal with the Swiss company operating lucrative mines in Central Africa. The U.S. had imposed sanctions on the company due to its ties with a Russian oligarch.

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Epstein wasn’t merely trying to ingratiate himself to amass money and power. On at least two occasions, he was on the prowl for women who could be sent to him, preferably younger and white, the files show.

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