14 strange details from the Epstein files prove that billionaires are not ordinary people
Here are 14 strange facts about Jeffrey Epstein’s daily life, all pulled straight from the files.
1. You gave Instacart delivery drivers $2.
Epstein’s original Instacart receipts were found in a DOJ document dump. A man worth nearly a billion dollars, who owns a private island and many mansions, always tipped his grocery delivery drivers for just $2. It’s a small detail, but it tells you everything about how he viewed the people around him.
2. He bought an inmate costume on Amazon 10 months before his incarceration.
According to his Amazon order history, Epstein purchased a black and white inmate costume in August 2018. He was arrested on sex trafficking charges in July 2019.
3. Her Amazon orders include an FBI outfit, size 12 Crocs, and Nilla Wafers.
The DOJ files contain more than 1,000 Amazon receipts from 2014 to 2019. Among the purchases, as reported by Bloomberg: an FBI agent costume, teeth whitener, a leather bullwhip, a pair of size 12 Crocs, and a box of Nabisco Nilla Mini Wafers. The banality mixed with the fortress is hard to process.
4. He ate like a kid at a gas station.
Despite his wealth, Epstein’s snack orders read like a middle schooler’s shopping list. According to reports on his Amazon receipts, he used to order Drake’s Coffee Cakes, Ring Dings, Twinkies, Devil Dogs, Apple Pies, Baby Ruths, Chunky Bars, Chocolate Tootsie Pops, and Chocolate Chip Raisins.
5. He bought five copies of a book written about his crimes.
Epstein ordered five copies of James Patterson Filthy Rich: The Story of Jeffrey Epstein on Amazon. He also ordered many books by Vladimir Nabokov, including Lolitaand a biography of Adolf Hitler.
6. He ordered nine pairs of binoculars.
It is nine. There is no one. According to his Amazon biography, they are shipped to his locations in Manhattan, West Palm Beach, and Little Saint James Island. Some were military grade and cost over $200 each.
7. The member’s job was to take out hundred dollar bills from the table next to his bed.
FBI interview notes released from the files describe an employee at Epstein’s Florida estate whose work included making $100 bills on Epstein’s bedside table. The same employee was responsible for placing the gun between the mattresses in his room.
8. Every car in his lot had to have $100 in cash in the glove compartment at all times.
According to a household letter introduced at Maxwell’s trial and detailed in Epstein’s filings, every car in his possession was supposed to have two bottles of water and $100 in cash in the glove compartment. Fuel tanks had to be at least three-quarters full at all times.
9. He sent flowers to a high school student after his school performance.
An employee told the FBI in 2007 that Epstein once asked her to buy flowers and deliver them to a student at Royal Palm Beach High School to celebrate her performance in a school play. The same employee told agents he believed some of Epstein’s girls were under 18.
10. He took the girls out for ice cream and trips to the mall.
FBI agents noted in their interview transcripts that Epstein “enjoyed getting ice cream at the ice cream parlor with the girls” and sometimes told his employees to go shopping at a nearby store. He also let others drive one of his cars.
11. His assistant sent him an email about “sweet Thai coconuts.”
In 2011, one of Epstein’s assistants wrote to him: “I ordered you some delicious coconuts from Thailand and they just arrived… so you don’t drink the juices of the old hairy things.” The language in the files usually looks like this. Mundane on earth. It’s very disappointing when you consider the context.
12 Someone promised him a “fake wife.”
Buried in his email, as reported by Zeteo’s review of the files, someone provided Epstein with a “fake wife” described as a 50-year-old Russian Jewish woman. The email reads like it was a standard business proposal.
13. When he died, the prison used a fake corpse to deceive journalists.
According to the investigator’s interview notes in the files, when Epstein’s body was removed from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, prison staff constructed a fake body using boxes and sheets. They loaded a decoy into a white van labeled as belonging to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Journalists followed the van. Meanwhile, Epstein’s actual body was placed in a separate black car that left the scene undisclosed.
14. He signed a will two days before he died, leaving $100 million to his girlfriend.
Two days before his death, Epstein signed a 32-page trust naming 40 beneficiaries of his $600 million estate. His girlfriend was expected to receive $100 million. His personal attorney was listed at $50 million. His accountant, $25 million. Ghislaine Maxwell was nominated for $10 million. The attorney signed the trust eight days after Epstein’s death. The accountant signed it two days later.
