Documents obtained by the British daily The Telegraph indicate that convicted U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept computers and other materials in storage units across the U.S., apparently to keep them out of investigators’ reach.
According to the newspaper, Epstein paid private detectives to remove equipment from his Florida home after he was tipped off about a possible police raid in the mid-2000s. The documents indicate the computers were moved into multiple storage facilities.
The report says Epstein rented six storage units across the U.S. Credit card receipts cited by the newspaper show regular payments for at least one unit from 2003 until 2019, the year of his death. Some of the items reportedly stored included computers from Little Saint James, his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Search warrants reviewed by the newspaper suggest U.S. authorities did not raid the storage units. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declined to say whether any such lockers were ever searched.
Epstein, who owned several large properties in the U.S. and France, was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges.
