We found Jeffrey Epstein's social media accounts. On Spotify, his tastes ranged from Louis C.K. to songs like 'Before You Accuse Me' and 'Hot for Teacher.'
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Jeffrey Epstein is seen in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2004.
- Business Insider found sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's public social media and music streaming accounts, including Pinterest, Twitter, and Spotify.
- His music tastes varied from Gospel music to Broadway show tunes to disgraced comic Louis C.K. One of his playlists shares the name of the 24-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend. His Pinterest focused on home design ideas.
- Registered sex offenders are allowed to use social media, according to a 2017 Supreme Court ruling. The state of New York, where Epstein had a home, requires offenders to report their social media accounts, among other information, to its sex offender registry.
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Every now and then, Jeffrey Epstein offered a winking reference to the well-known allegations against him. After his jail stint in 2008, for example, the moneyed sex offender commissioned a mural depicting him in prison garb. "I had this painted," he told a visitor who encountered the mural at his Manhattan mansion, "because there is always the possibility that could be me again."
The contents of Epstein's public Spotify account, recently identified by Business Insider, gesture in a similar direction. They illustrate a wildly varied taste in music, from Beethoven to Elton John and Pitbull to Céline Dion. They also suggest a preference for hard-rock songs from the 1970s that emphasized male sexual conquest, and the odd song about sexual attraction between children and adults - Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" and an Oscar Peterson performance of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy."
Meanwhile, a Pinterest page includes a painting of Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up and leads a young girl and her siblings out of their home.
Business Insider found three of Epstein's online accounts after reviewing his correspondence with the Florida probation officers who supervised his release in 2009 after serving 13 months in jail on charges that included soliciting a minor for prostitution. The correspondence indicates Epstein had an email address with the username "jeevacation" - a combination of his initials, JEE, and the word "vacation."
Business Insider found profiles with the same username on Twitter, Pinterest, and Spotify. The profiles on Twitter and Pinterest bear the name "Jeffrey Epstein." The Spotify account lacks his full name, but his followers on the music platform include accounts that appear to belong to women in his social network.
A lawyer for Epstein, contacted prior to the jailed multi-millionaire's apparent suicide earlier this month, did not respond to a request for comment.
A 2017 Supreme Court ruling allows sex offenders to use social media, though individual platforms can ban individual users. The state of New York, where Epstein had a townhouse, requires sex offenders to submit "Internet information," including email addresses and social media accounts, to the state sex offender registry. That information isn't publicly available, but social media companies with users under age 18 can request the information.
On the playlists: 'Before You Accuse Me' and Louis C.K.
Epstein's Twitter presence was insignificant: he never tweeted or followed anyone. On Pinterest, he has one board with eight pins of home decorations, including a painting of Peter Pan.
Epstein's Spotify account was much more heavily used. It has 19 playlists that were created between 2011 through 2015. Two playlists, "paris flight" and "paris_return," appear to be named for trips to and from Paris, where Epstein owned an apartment and frequently traveled via private jet. "Paris flight" features a number of classic rock stalwarts like Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and The Doors. "Paris_return," by contrast, is heavy on blues and jazz.
Other playlists focus on Elton John, classical music, Broadway tunes, the jazz artist Oscar Peterson, and the rapper Pitbull. Elsewhere, you can find Eric Clapton's "Before You Accuse Me"; Christian singer Morris Chapman's "Falling in Love with Jesus"; Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher"; and disgraced comic Louis C.K.'s album "Hilarious."
Jazz artist Oscar Peterson and his band take the top spot by number of songs on Epstein's playlists - 188 songs. Ludwig van Beethoven, with 130 songs, is the second artist by song count, followed by Céline Dion with 108. Behind them are Elton John, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, David Guetta, Tchaikovsky, and Beatles cover band The Yesteryears (including their recording of "Can't Buy Me Love").
Another playlist, largely drawn from the catalog of DJ David Guetta, is called "celina" and was created in 2011. Epstein has been publicly linked to two women named Celina. One, Celina Midelfart, is a Norwegian businesswoman who dated Donald Trump. She was on Epstein's private plane a number of times in 1996 and 1997, according to flight records made public on Friday, but has not been publicly tied to him since then.
The other is 24-year-old Celina Dubin, who four sources described as Epstein's goddaughter. Her parents, Glenn and Eva Dubin, were longtime friends of Epstein; her mother dated him in the 1980s. (A spokesperson for the family denies that Epstein was her godfather.) The billionaire family flew on Epstein's planes many times between 1995 and 2005, according to flight logs that run up to 2008. After Epstein was released from jail in 2008, the family maintained ties with him, even inviting him to a large Thanksgiving dinner in 2009.
That same year, when Epstein wanted to contribute to Eva Dubin's breast-cancer organization, he understood that a public donation from a registered sex offender might not be welcome, Business Insider previously reported. Eva established a new nonprofit, called the Celina Dubin United Fund, to receive $50,000 from Epstein and donate to her and other medical organizations. The foundation was wound down in 2013. A source familiar with the matter said Celina Dubin was not aware of the arrangement.
One woman that Epstein paid to give him erotic massages in the 2000s told Business Insider that Epstein had referred her to the Dubins as well, although she says the massage she gave the couple was not sexual in nature. A former employee for the couple said in recently unsealed deposition testimony that he spoke to a Swedish girl in the Dubin's kitchen who said she was 15 years old and had been asked for sex while working as Epstein's personal assistant, and was threatened when she refused. (She didn't say who had asked for sex.) The former employee said the girl later worked for the Dubins as a nanny for several weeks.
Through a spokesperson, the Dubin's denied the former employee's claims: "Glenn and Eva Dubin are outraged by the allegations in the unsealed court records, which are demonstrably false and defamatory. The Dubins have flight records and other evidence that definitively disprove that any such events occurred."
The family now says that they regret their relationship with Epstein and if they had known of the new allegations, they would have cut all ties to him. They thought he had rehabilitated himself after jail and "deserved a second chance."
Epstein's other music interests seem to include musicians Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, and Mick Jagger, who appeared in his "black book," a list of contacts obtained by Gawker in 2015. Michael Jackson is the only artist of the three to appear on Epstein's Spotify playlists.
With additional reporting by J.K. Trotter, Becky Peterson, and Angela Wang.
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