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Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail and a lucrative 'hot list'

By Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Emily Steel, Jacob Bernstein and David Enrich
New York Times·
25 mins to read
Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail and a lucrative 'hot list'
Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail and a lucrative 'hot list'

A shadowy hacker claimed to have the financier's sex tapes. Two top lawyers wondered: What would the men in those videos pay to keep them secret?

Soon after sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein died in August, a mysterious man met with two prominent lawyers.

Towering, barrel-chested and wild-bearded, he was a

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