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# CHAPTER 62

## Jeffrey Epstein: February 2, 2011

t's Groundhog Day, and once-reclusive Jeffrey Epstein is hit- ting the peak of his fame in a ripped-from-the-headlines epi- sode of Law & Order: SVU that tracks, eerily well, with his own legal history.

The setup for this episode is the rape of a very young French girl. One who's been flown to New York on a very rich man's pri- vate jet, then flown back-coach class-to Paris.

On the plane, she has a freak-out. She thinks the middle-aged guy sitting next to her is trying to rape her. In Paris, the local police get involved.

"It was just a birthday party," the tearful girl tells the SVU cops via videoconference from France. "We were his present."

The cops ask: Whose present?

"The billionaire. The one who owns the jet."

Does the French girl know his name?

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