Epstein’s signed will two days before taking his life away in prison
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Jeffrey Epstein signed a will two days before his death, according to The New York Post, which obtained the document.
The will was dated August 8 — two days before Epstein was found dead by suicide in a federal jail in New York, according to The Post.
Court papers list assets of about $577 million. Court papers indicate Epstein’s brother, Mark, is the only heir.
Among the assets, the will lists more than $56 million in cash and another $14 million in fixed income investments.
New York’s ‘THE POST’ report says
“Jeffrey Epstein signed his will just two days before he hanged himself in his Manhattan jail cell — leaving behind a nearly $600 million fortune, according to court papers exclusively obtained by The Post on Monday.
The court document, filed in the US Virgin Islands, where the convicted sex molester owned two isles — including one that locals dubbed “Pedophile Island’’ — was filed Aug. 8.
The 66-year-old former hedge-fund manager was worth $577,672,654, or about $18 million more than he previously stated in court papers while futilely trying to land bail on federal sex-trafficking charges, the new documents show.
He put all of his holdings in a trust, called The 1953 Trust, after the year he was born.
“It’s done that way for privacy reasons,’’ a city estate lawyer told The Post. “It’s pretty boiler-plate. It’s what we call a ‘pour-over will,’ which means everything pours over to a trust.
“What is more unusual is the date, the fact that all of this was done just days before he died,’’ said the source, who asked to remain anonymous.”
