Jeffrey Epstein's UES Mansion Hits Market At $88M, Report Says

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The Upper East Side mansion belonging notorious child sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein has hit the real estate market following months of speculation about how much the property could fetch, according to reports.

Epstein's East 71st Street home, a 50-foot-wide townhouse between Fifth and Madison avenues, was listed with an asking price of $88 million, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The New York City property was listed alongside Epstein's former Palm Beach home at a combined $110 million, according to the report.

The Upper East Side home has attracted investors since Epstein died in his jail cell on Aug. 10. Epstein had been arrested and charged with federal sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges the month before.

Epstein pleaded guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution following a wide-ranging investigation detailing his trafficking of young girls for sex at his Florida, New York, New Mexico and Caribbean properties, the Miami Herald first reported. The deal was truck with former Trump Administration Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who resigned following the Herald's report.

Epstein counted influential figures such as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family as connections. Clinton praised him as "a committed philanthropist" in a 2002 New York Magazine profile, while Trump called him a "(t)errific guy" in the same story.

An indictment unsealed in Manhattan Federal Court this year accused Epstein of luring young girls to the Upper East Side home for sexual encounters from at least 2002 to 2005. Epstein sought out girls who were minors and knew some of them were underage because they told him how old they were, the indictment says.

Authorities also found hundreds of photographs of what appeared to be nude and partially nude underage girls in his Manhattan mansion on the night he was arrested, according to a court filing. Epstein's lawyers argued that the billionaire hedge funder should have been allowed to stay in the East 71st Street home during his detention, but judges ordered him held without bail.

The opulent home just off Fifth Avenue spans at least 21,000 square feet and was previously owned by Leslie H. Wexner, the retail magnate to whom Epstein served as a financial adviser, according to news reports on the house.