Financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for years rented six storage units across several US states where, according to Britain’s The Telegraph, he concealed a personal archive from the authorities. Documents obtained by the newspaper show that he hired private detectives to remove computers and other materials from his Florida home and from his private island in the Caribbean—apparently seeking to move these items out of investigators’ sight.
Epstein used one such facility in Florida from at least 2003, with regular rental payments continuing until 2019, when he died in jail. In the mid-2000s, after learning that a search was being prepared, he also paid detectives tens of thousands of dollars to transport the archive to a secret storage location in New York.
At the same time, law enforcement authorities never searched any of these facilities, which, according to The Telegraph, increases the likelihood that previously unexamined materials linked to the Epstein case still exist. The fate of the archive hidden in secret storage locations remains unknown.