Jeffrey Edward Epstein (born January 20, 1953) is an American financier and registered sex offender. Epstein began his career at the investment bank Bear Stearns before forming his own firm, J. Epstein & Co. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, for which he served 13 months in custody. He lives in the United States Virgin Islands. Early life Jeffrey Epstein was born in 1953 to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Coney Island. Epstein's father worked for New York City's parks. After graduating from Lafayette High School in 1969, he attended classes at Cooper Union and dropped out in 1971. He later attended at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University but left without receiving a degree. Career Epstein taught calculus and physics at the Dalton School in Manhattan from 1973 to 1975. Among his students was a son of Alan C. Greenberg, chairman of the investment bank Bear Stearns. In 1976, Epstein started work as an options trader at Bear Stearns, where he worked in the...