The Shell Game: Untangling Jeffrey Epstein’s Offshore Money Web

July 19, 2019, 1:15 PM UTC

One shell company, Plan D LLC, owns the Gulfstream G550. Another, Maple Inc., owns the Manhattan mansion. A third, Great St. Jim LLC, owns the bigger of two private islands.

Since Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested, more than a decade ago in Palm Beach, he has employed a web of companies and charities to try to mask part of his fortune, avoid taxes and stay close to the rich and powerful.

Jeffrey Epstein
Photographer: Rick Friedman/Corbis News

More than 30 entities linked to Epstein can be found in public filings in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York—in stark contrast to the bare-bones financial disclosure ...

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