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Jeffrey Epstein’s push to cleanse his past online
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Jeffrey Epstein (left) became deeply invested in hiding his criminal past in Google searches and on Wikipedia.
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Tiffany Hsu and Ken Bensinger
An e-mail sent to Jeffrey Epstein in September 2010 presented an intriguing opportunity. “Would you be interested,” it read, “in having all that crap that comes up on Google search on your name basically disappear?”
Epstein had been released from jail about a year earlier after a conviction for sex crimes involving a minor. His online reputation was a shambles. Less than two hours after receiving the e-mail, he responded:
