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In 2013, Jeffrey Epstein’s Xbox LIVE account faced a ban after it was revealed he was a registered sex offender, as shown in recently released documents. This development is a part of the ongoing revelations surrounding the late sex offender.
Microsoft took action against Epstein’s gaming account following an agreement with the New York State Attorney General’s office. The tech company was obligated to eliminate all sex offenders from its platform to safeguard the gaming community, particularly young players.
A notification sent to Epstein’s email, “jeevacation,” on December 19, 2013, stated, “This is to inform you that the Xbox LIVE account linked to this email has been permanently suspended.”
The notification emphasized that this decision stemmed from a collaboration between the New York Attorney General and Microsoft, along with other gaming companies, to ensure registered sex offenders in New York were removed from online gaming platforms, thereby reducing potential risks to children. Consequently, any Xbox LIVE account connected to this email was barred from accessing the service.
Earlier that day, Epstein received an automated message alerting him that his account was permanently suspended for “harassment, abuse, or threats to other players.”
“This conduct has been determined to be severe, repeated, and/or excessive,” the initial warning read.
Epstein had been a registered sex offender since 2008, when he was convicted in Florida on two counts of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
Epstein’s victim, who was 14-years-old at the time, claimed that she was paid $200 for a massage at his Palm Beach mansion in 2005.
In court papers, she said he used a vibrator on her while he masturbated.
He was sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security prison, but only served 13 and was placed on the national sex offender registry as part of a plea deal.
Here’s the latest on the release of the Epstein files
Epstein appeared to have created his account on or around Oct. 31, 2012, according to a “Welcome to Xbox Live” email he received, Friday’s file release showed.
Esptein’s account history was not shown in the files.
It wasn’t clear if Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates knew about Epstein’s permanent suspension, as the two men had known each other.
Epstein claimed, in an email in July 2013, that Gates asked one of his advisers to provide him with medicine to treat sexually transmitted diseases that he had allegedly caught from having “sex with Russian girls.”
Epstein appeared to be making the claims in a draft statement on behalf of Gates’ longtime science adviser, Boris Nikolic, announcing his intent to leave the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
“During the past few weeks I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill,” Epstein wrote in Nikolic’s voice on July 18, 2013.
“… In my role as his right hand I had been asked on mulitple occassion [sic] and in hindsight, wrongly acquiesced into participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate, to the ethically unsound and had been repeatedly asked to do other things that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal,” Epstein continued.
“… From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilictating [sic] his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall [for] bridge [tournaments] . I feel I owe it to my friends and futre [sic] colleagues to admit a moral failure , to ask forgiveness and to move on with my life.”
A Gates spokesperson denied the claims, calling them “absolutely absurd and completely false,” according to the Daily Mail.
The emails were part of a trove of 3.5 million pages of documents put out by the Department of Justice Friday, in response to a law that President Trump signed on Nov. 19.