Disturbing contents of Epstein's 'secret storage locker' revealed: report

In an apparent attempt to thwart law enforcement investigations, Jeffrey Epstein had a tranche of his personal effects hidden in six storage lockers across the country, with the disturbing contents of one revealed Wednesday in a report by The Telegraph.

The Telegraph first revealed last weekend that Epstein had hired private investigators to “remove equipment from his Florida home” ahead of a 2005 law enforcement raid on his home in Palm Beach, Florida, suggesting that the disgraced financier had been “tipped off” about the impending search.

Since that report, The Telegraph has obtained an inventory of Epstein’s storage locker in Palm Beach, and revealed some of its contents for the first time on Wednesday.

“[The] secret storage locker rented by Jeffrey Epstein contained computers, video tapes, sex-slave manuals and photographs of naked women,” The Telegraph reported.

“Stashed items included three computers, 29 address books and a three-page list of masseuses in Florida. The hidden storage unit also contained nude photographs, believed to be of Epstein’s victims, as well as dozens of pornographic magazines, VHS tapes and DVDs [eroticizing] teenagers.”

Inside the storage unit was also an 8mm video cassette tape, on which was apparent footage of “someone in the shower and a woman in lingerie,” The Telegraph reported.

The raid on Epstein’s home in Florida ultimately led to his first and only criminal conviction, a conviction on child prostitution that saw Epstein offered a generous plea deal that granted broad immunity to him as well as to any potential co-conspirators, and in spite of the FBI having identified at least 40 potential minor victims of Epstein.

That plea deal was offered to Epstein by Alexander Acosta, then a federal prosecutor in Florida, and later, President Donald Trump’s Labor secretary. According to The Daily Beast, Acosta said he had offered Epstein the plea deal because he was told by an unspecified person that Epstein “belonged to intelligence,” that the matter was “above his paygrade,” and that he should “leave it alone.”