In 2013, the world’s wealthiest man flew to a convicted sex trafficker’s estate on his private plane. The federal documents show what surrounded that visit — and what was signed five months later.
This article is part of my Epstein Files series, the reporting I published as I worked through the federal record in real time. That reporting became the foundation of Shadow Empire: The Epstein Files.
The articles followed individual threads as I found them. The book follows how they connect: thirty-four chapters, in the order events happened, with every claim footnoted to a document at justice.gov/epstein and its federal Bates number. Where an article and the book differ, the book reflects the fuller record.
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