1953: Jeffrey Epstein was born and grew up in Coney Island, attending Lafayette High School in Brooklyn.
1958: Roy Cohn hosted one of his blackmail parties, attended also by Lew Rosenstiel and his wife, at the Plaza Hotel, suite 233, in Manhattan. Rosenstiel had been Bronfman's middleman operating out of a Kentucky distillery before Prohibition. J. Edgar Hoover was said to be in drag at this party, whom Cohn introduced as “Mary”. The honey pots were underage boys, with whom all three engaged in sexual abuse. At other parties held in the same location,was Cohn's close friend, Cardinal Francis Spellman of the Archdiocese of New York, who himself condoned pedophilia in the Catholic church and ordained known pedophiles, among them Cardinal Ted McCarrick. Many priests in NY called Spellman “Mary.” Of course, Hoover had a file one him as well, and it indicated Spellman was a member of the pedophile ring and its protection racket along with Cohn and Hoover. (Note: Trump purchased the Plaza Hotel in 1988, and at that time he was an FBI informant against the mob. THIS is why Roy Cohn was his "friend".) Many of the same people with whom Cohn hung out in the late 80's were the same names found in Epstein's black book. Cohn would also be connected to Bill Clinton, through Dick Morris, Cohn's cousin and close associate, and through his communications director, George Stephanopoulos.
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Summer, 1967, Epstein attended Interlochen Center for the Arts, a music camp for kids, 15 miles southwest of Traverse City, Michigan. In later years he would be a donor, and would own a rental lodge on the property, visiting Traverse City withGhislaine Maxwell.As it happens, there was another millionaire in those days, in Michigan, also engaging in the same activities as Epstein. Francis D. Sheldon, as well as having a house in Ann Arbor, owned an island he had purchased in 1960, 19 miles off the coast Leelanau, Peninsula, with miles of dirt tracks. Sheldon, once in the Michigan Air National Guard, had an airstrip in which he could come and go as he liked in privacy on North Fox Island. In 1975, he opened his charity, Brother Paul's Nature Camp, a summer camp on the island for disadvantaged boys with cottages in the midst of thick trees, with promises of "remedial tutoring, counseling, temporary lodging, boarding retreats, and emergency care for runaways" as well as hiking, swimming, and nature lessons among other children. Sheldon operated a child pornography ring on the island, and "sponsors" would receive such for their donations, among whom were wealthy or influential people visiting the island. Sounds like a blackmail/extortion operation. Police investigated in the 1970s after a number of kidnapping and child killings in Oakland County in 1976 and 77 northwest of Detroit, but Sheldon disappeared. Another high powered partner in crime, caught and suspected of least 3 of 4 murders of kidnapped children, suspiciously died in 1978. Authorities ruled it a suicide. The survivors spoke of entrapment and child pornography. Although Epstein wasn't in Michigan after the camp opened, he was in Michigan when he was about 14 years old, after Sheldon had owned the island for some time, well on his way to running child pornography in the Detroit area in the '60s. Sheldon had come from old Michigan blood, a descendant of lumber baron, Russell Alger, who was the 20th governor of Michigan and secretary of war in the McKinley Administration. Sheldon was a Yale graduate, had a master's in geology from Wayne State, and was the heir of a large trust fund.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/07/12/financier-jeffrey-epstein-has-ties-interlochen-center-arts/1712587001/