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JEFFREY Epstein was abusing four women a day while serving a jail sentence for sex crimes, a lawyer for his accusers has said.

The paedophile friend of Prince Andrew cut a deal which allowed him to serve just 13 months in the private wing of a Florida prison and was allowed out 12 hours a day, six days a week.

 Jeffrey Epstein is facing fresh allegations
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Jeffrey Epstein is facing fresh allegationsCredit: Reuters
 Attorney Brad Edwards reveals details of Epstein's cushy jail sentence as accuser Courtney Wild looks on
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Attorney Brad Edwards reveals details of Epstein's cushy jail sentence as accuser Courtney Wild looks onCredit: Reuters

Epstein, 66, is currently facing new charges of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s.

In 2008 he was allowed to plead guilty to just two counts of sex solicitation, including one involving a minor despite having been accused of sexual abuse by scores more underage girls.

Brad Edwards, who is representing 13 of his new accusers, told a press conference in New York that Epstein had sex with three to four women a day, the DailyMail.com reported.

He said rather than spending time on release working - as he was supposed to - and instead “sex was his full-time job”.

“One of the questions I’ve received many, many times is what Jeffrey Epstein actually did on a daily basis,” he said.

“He was in his office most of the day, and what I can tell you he had visitors, female visitors.

“The female visitors were there not for business and engaged in very similar conduct of that which was described in the Palm Beach police report.”

In that report Epstein was accused of coercing dozens of girls and young women to perform “massages” on him and turning the sessions into sex.

Timeline of the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein

The allegations against him go back to the 2000s

2005 - Parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. A police search of the property found photos of girls throughout the house.

2006 - Charged with multiple counts of unlawful sexual acts with a minor.

2007 - Epstein’s lawyers put together a plea deal for Epstein, who was the 54.

He agreed to plead guilty to two felony prostitution charges in state court,

In exchange, he and his accomplices received immunity from federal sex-trafficking charges that could have sent him to prison for life.

2008 - Appears in court to plead guilty on two lesser counts and sentenced to a 18 months in jail and was released early in 2009

July 2019 - Arrested charges of child sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

Prosecutors accused him in a grand jury indictment of paying dozens of girls as young as 14 to engage in sex acts with him at his New York and Florida properties from 2002 to 2005.

Pleaded not guilty and could face up to 45 years in prison if convicted.

More than a dozen women have now come forward with more sex abuse allegations

“They believed were going there for something other than a sexual purpose and surprisingly to them this situation turned sexual,” continued Edwards.

As part of the agreement, Epstein was allowed out for 12 hours a day, six days a week, during which time he set up the private office next to one of his lawyers, said Edwards.

“There were some arguments in court by Mr Epstein’s lawyers that he was a model citizen while he was in jail,” the lawyer said.

“First of all, he just wasn’t in jail. He only slept there.”

Edwards separately told CBS that more potential victims have come forward since Monday and he estimates that there are "well in excess of 50".

Meanwhile, one of Epstein’s accusers Courtney Wild said that he had sex with her at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, when she was 14.

She criticised Florida prosecutors for the 2008 deal, which she said gave Epstein a “free pass” and he "will never stop sexually abusing children until he is in jail."

Epstein was arrested on Saturday at Teterboro Airport, in New Jersey, as he stepped from a private flight from France.

Cops then smashed into his 21,000 sq ft Manhattan man-sion — which features a heated pavement outside to keep it clear of snow — leaving the front door battered.

Claims about Prince Andrew

Secret files accusing Prince Andrew of having sex with Jeffrey Epstein's 17-year-old "sex slave" are going to be unsealed by a judge – claims he has strongly denied.

Around 2,000 files from a defamation case involving alleged trafficking victim Virgina Roberts are now due to be released following a US Court of Appeal ruling, The Sunday Times reports.

Roberts, now 35, claimed in 2015 she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew by Epstein in London, New York and the Caribbean.

The Duke of York was pictured with his arm around the then 17-year-old's waist at the home of Ghislane Maxwell -  a personal aide to the financier - in London in 2001 but has strongly denied the claims.

But a judge threw the accusations against Andrew out because they were "immaterial and impertinent" to Epstein's case.

The Duke of York, 59, has previously faced criticism over his relationship with the child abuser and was pictured walking in Central Park with him in December 2010.

That snap was taken during Andrew’s four-day stay at Epstein’s $77m mansion in Manhattan – shortly after the banker had been freed from prison after a previous child sex trafficking conviction in Florida.

It has also emerged he holidayed with Epstein in Thailand in 2001 and invited him to stay at Windsor Castle and the Queen’s Sandringham estate.

 Epstein in court in 2008 when he was sentenced to 18 months in jail
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Epstein in court in 2008 when he was sentenced to 18 months in jailCredit: Alamy
 The Duke of York, 59, was pictured walking in Central Park with Epstein, 66, in 2010 and has faced criticism over his relationship with the child abuser
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The Duke of York, 59, was pictured walking in Central Park with Epstein, 66, in 2010 and has faced criticism over his relationship with the child abuserCredit: Jae Donnelly
 In this courtroom artist's sketch, Epstein listens during a recent bail hearing
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In this courtroom artist's sketch, Epstein listens during a recent bail hearingCredit: Reuters


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