14 Bizarre Details From the Epstein Files That Prove Billionaires Are Not Normal People

Here are 14 of weird facts about Jeffrey Epstein’s daily life, all pulled directly from the files.

1. He tipped Instacart delivery drivers $2.

Epstein’s actual Instacart receipts were found in the DOJ document dump. A man worth close to a billion dollars, who owned a private island and multiple mansions, consistently tipped his grocery delivery drivers just $2. It’s a small detail, but it tells you everything about how he viewed the people around him.

2. He bought a prisoner costume on Amazon 10 months before his arrest.

According to his Amazon order history, Epstein purchased a novelty black-and-white prisoner costume in August 2018. He was arrested on sex trafficking charges in July 2019.

3. His Amazon orders included an FBI costume, size 12 Crocs, and Nilla Wafers.

The DOJ files contained over 1,000 Amazon receipts from 2014 to 2019. Among the purchases, as reported by Bloomberg: an FBI agent costume, teeth whitener, a leather bullwhip, a pair of size 12 Crocs, and a box of Nabisco Nilla Mini Wafers. The banality mixed with the bizarre is hard to process.

4. He ate like a kid at a gas station.

Despite his wealth, Epstein’s snack orders read like a middle schooler’s shopping list. According to reporting on his Amazon receipts, he regularly ordered Drake’s Coffee Cakes, Ring Dings, Twinkies, Devil Dogs, Apple Pies, Baby Ruths, Chunky Bars, Chocolate Tootsie Pops, and chocolate covered raisins.

5. He bought five copies of the book written about his own crimes.

Epstein ordered five copies of James Patterson’s Filthy Rich: The Jeffrey Epstein Story on Amazon. He also ordered multiple books by Vladimir Nabokov, including Lolita, and a biography of Adolf Hitler.

6. He ordered nine pairs of binoculars.

Nine. Not one. According to his Amazon history, they were shipped to his properties in Manhattan, West Palm Beach, and Little Saint James Island. Some were military-grade and cost over $200 each.

7. A staff member’s job was to fan out $100 bills on a table near his bed.

FBI interview notes released in the files describe an employee at Epstein’s Florida estate whose duties included fanning $100 bills on a table beside Epstein’s bed. The same employee was responsible for placing a gun between the mattresses in his bedroom.

8. Every car on his property had to have $100 cash in the glove compartment at all times.

According to a household manual introduced during the Maxwell trial and detailed in the Epstein files, every vehicle on his property had to have two bottles of water and $100 in cash in the glove compartment. Gas tanks had to be at least three-quarters full at all times.

9. He sent flowers to a high school student after her school play.

An employee told the FBI in 2007 that Epstein once had him buy flowers and deliver them to a student at Royal Palm Beach High School to celebrate her performance in a school play. The same employee told agents he believed some of the girls around Epstein were under the age of 18.

10. He took girls for ice cream and trips to the mall.

FBI agents noted in their interview records that Epstein “enjoyed getting ice cream from a local ice cream parlor with the girls” and sometimes had his staff take them shopping at a nearby mall. He also let some of them drive one of his cars.

11. His assistant emailed him about “sweet young coconuts from Thailand.”

In 2011, one of Epstein’s assistants wrote to him: “I ordered sweet young coconuts from Thailand for you and they just arrived… just so you don’t have to drink juices from old hairy things.” The language in the files is often like this. Mundane on the surface. Deeply unsettling when you consider the context.

12. Someone offered him a “fake wife.”

Buried in his email correspondence, as reported by Zeteo’s review of the files, someone offered Epstein a “fake wife” described as a 50-year-old Russian Jewish woman. The email reads like it was a perfectly normal business proposal.

13. When he died, the jail used a decoy body to trick reporters.

According to investigator interview notes in the files, when Epstein’s body was removed from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, jail staff constructed a fake body using boxes and sheets. They loaded the decoy into a white van labeled as belonging to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Reporters followed the van. Meanwhile, Epstein’s actual body was placed in a separate black vehicle that left the facility unnoticed.

14. He signed his will two days before he died, leaving $100 million to his girlfriend.

Two days before his death, Epstein signed a 32-page trust naming 40 beneficiaries of his $600 million estate. His girlfriend was set to receive $100 million. His personal lawyer was in line for $50 million. His accountant, $25 million. Ghislaine Maxwell was named for $10 million. The lawyer signed the trust eight days after Epstein’s death. The accountant signed it two days after that.