Jeffrey Epstein stowed an array of items that he didn't want police to find in a secret storage locker, it has been claimed.
The sex offender, who took his own life in 2019, has been accused of paying private detectives to stash computers, video tapes, photographs and other possessions before cops raided his Florida mansion.
According to The Telegraph, Epstein rented at least half a dozen storage lockers across the US where he left some of his belongings.
Financial records seen by the publication revealed that he started hiring out these lock-ups in 2003. Some payments reportedly continued up until his 2019 death.
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One of these lockers is alleged to have been filled by private detectives, who were acting on the orders of Epstein, prior to police conducting a raid at his Palm Beach property in 2005.
Officials had obtained a search warrant for the pad while investigating allegations about Epstein having sexual relationships with underage girls.
But the disgraced financier is alleged to have emptied his home of computers, sex-slave manuals, nude photographs of women and video tapes before cops arrived, The Telegraph reports.
These potentially incriminating items are understood to have stayed in a Palm Beach storage facility for several years as authorities looked into the various claims made against him.
It is alleged that the Riley Kiraly detective agency rented these on his behalf.
The publication stated that it obtained an inventory that was emailed to Epstein and his lawyers in August 2009, which described the contents of the lock-up.
Pornographic magazines, VHS tapes, DVDs sexualising teenagers, sex toys, women's lingerie, body massagers and an 8mm video cassette tape were reportedly among the items in the locker.
Three computers, 29 address books, and a three-page list of masseuses in Florida were also allegedly hidden there, as well as cash and a concealed weapon permit.
It appears Epstein may have transferred this items to the storage unit in an apparent attempt to avoid authorities finding them.
Former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter previously claimed that it appeared as though the sex offender had been tipped off about the planned police raid before it took place.
Speaking to NBC News in 2019, he explained that although some evidence was obtained by officers, a computer containing surveillance camera footage for the Palm Beach property had vanished.
"All the wires were left hanging there," Reiter said of the missing gadget, while saying of the mansion as a whole: "The place had been cleaned up."
Reiter also claimed that sensitive information about the force's investigation into Epstein 'ended up with the defence attorneys' who were representing the paedophile.
"Minute details that nobody else knew that were in those documents were being refuted and contrary information provided by the defence," he added.
The Telegraph also reported that receipts for items found by police - such as one for two training manuals for sex slaves - were found in the property, although the books were not.
These were reportedly among the possessions that Epstein stashed in the storage unit prior to the police raid.
It is believed that officials did not raid any of the six storage lockers Epstein rented out.
Topics: US News, Jeffrey Epstein
Olivia Burke