FILE PHOTO: U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS.
PARIS (Reuters) – French authorities have carried out searches at the Paris property of deceased sex offender and U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein and at the French model agency’s office of one of his associates, said a source from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The source, who was confirming an earlier report from France Info radio, said the searches were now over.
Epstein was arrested on July 6 and pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls as young as 14. He died on Aug. 10 in his jail cell at age 66, and an autopsy report concluded he hanged himself.
Reporting by Simon Carraud and Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Andrew Heavens