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A woman found an address book on a New York City sidewalk in the 1990s. Here's how we figured out that it belonged to Jeffrey Epstein.

awang@businessinsider.com (Angela Wang) 2 hrs ago

On July 6, Insider published the contents of a never-before-seen address book that belonged to Jeffrey Epstein and dates to 1997.

The 1997 book predates Epstein's original "little black book" by at least seven years. The original book dates to 2004 and was published in 2015.

A woman found the 1997 book on the sidewalk of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in the 1990s and kept it as a souvenir. She rediscovered it in a storage unit last year and sold it on eBay to a graduate student living on a farm in Vermont.

Insider took extensive steps to verify the authenticity of the book, including hiring a forensic document examiner to determine whether it had been recently forged or altered.

More than a dozen prominent people listed in the book told Insider on the record that they knew Epstein in the 1990s. None had previously been tied to Epstein.