Billionaire Epstein jailed for soliciting sex with minors, Tue 1 Jul 2008 12.31 EDT

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Billionaire Epstein jailed for soliciting sex with minors
Elana Schor in Washington
Tue 1 Jul 2008 12.31 EDT
A mysterious Wall Street money man who holidayed with Prince Andrew and lent his private jet to Bill Clinton has begun serving an 18-month jail term after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from girls as young as 14.

Jeffrey Epstein, 55, faces a year of house arrest after he is released from prison in Florida. He must submit to an HIV test today and give the results to the families of his underage victims, four of whom have filed multimillion-dollar lawsuits against him.

It was the cause of combating HIV that helped Epstein befriend Bill Clinton after the former president left the White House. Clinton flew to Africa for an anti-Aids mission in 2002 on Epstein's Boeing 727 jet, joined by actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker.