Palm Beach police report on 2003 burglary and theft at Jeffrey Epstein's home

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Location Type	RESIDENCE-SINGLE FAMILY
Beat Assignment	SHIFT 9
Dept Class	BURGLARY RESIDENCE
Case Status	EXCEPTIONALLY CLEARED
Supervisory Dt.	10/05/03
Entry Date	10/06/03
Names?	Property?
Vehicles?	Offenses?
Narrative?	Related Cases?
Interfaces?

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Information	Description
Case Number	: 1-03-001498	Last Name	: FRIEDMAN, MICHAEL DAVID
Street Number	: 358 EL BRILLO WY
City	: PALM BEACH, FL 000033480
Birth Date/Age	: 10/27/1970 32	Employer?	:
Occupation	: HOUSE MANAGER	Oper Lic No.	: U6084172 CA
Home Phone No.	:	Race	: White
Sex	: Male	Height	: 601
Weight	: 190	Other Phone Nbr:

Information	Description
Case Number . : 1-03-001498	Last Name . . :
Street Number . : 358 EL BRILLO WY
City . . . . . : PALM BEACH, FL 000033480
Birth Date/Age : 11/03/1974 28	Employer? . . :
Occupation . . : HOUSE MANAGER	Oper Lic No. . . : D5571369 CA
Home Phone No. . :	Race . . . . . : Oriental/Asian
Sex . . . . . : Female	Height . . . . . : 504
Weight . . . . . : 135	Other Phone Nbr:

******* PERSON REPORTING	INFO	-#4********
Case Number	: 1-03-001498	Last Name	: COTRIN, VALDSON VIEIRA
Street Number	: 22 AVENUE FOCH
City	: PARIS,
Birth Date/Age	: 0/00/0000 0	Employer?	:
Occupation	:	Oper Lic No.	:
Home Phone No.	:	Race	:
Sex	:	Height	0
Weight	0	Other Phone Nbr:

Information	Details
Case Number . : 1-03-001498	Prompt valid in: EPSTEIN, JEFFREY EDWARD
Street Number . : 358 EL BRILLO WY
City . . . . : PALM BEACH, FL 000033480
Birth Date/Age : 1/20/1953 50	Employer? . . :
Occupation . . : BANKER/SELF	Oper Lic No. . : 090443348/VIRGIN IS.
Home Phone No. :	Race . . . : White
Sex . . . . : Male	Height . . . : 600
Weight . . . . : 0	Misc. ID# . . :
Be On Look Out?:	Other Phone Nbr:
Victim Type . :	Residency Type :
Residency Sts . :	File Charges . :
Can Identify . :	Victim Sobriety:
Injury Extent :	Injury Type 1 :
Injury Type 2 :	Hospital ID . :
Med Treatment :	Phys First Name:
Phys Last Name :

	***EMPLOYER INFORMATION***
Case Number	: 1-03-001498	Employer Name :
Address	. . . :

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City/State/Zip : PALM BEACH, FL 000033480¶

Phone Number . :¶

OTHER PERSON		INFORMATION - #1
Case Number	: 1-03-001498	Last Name	: ALESSI,
Street Number	: 1515 SO FLAGLER	.#1901
City	: WEST PALM BEACH, FL	33407
Birth Date/Age	: 10/27/1946 56	Employer?	: :
Occupation	: :	Oper Lic No.	: :
Home Phone No.	: :	Race	: White
Sex	: Female	Height	: 0
Weight	: 0	Person Type	: OTHER PERSON
Other Phone Nbr:

On Sunday 10/5/03 at approximately 0824 hours, I was dispatched to a burglary at 358 El Brillo Way. Upon arrival, I met with reporting party/victim Jeffrey Epstein, white male, /012053. Epstein advised he and his personal assistant, white female, /052579, arrived in the residence on Friday evening, 10/3/03. Epstein advised that on Saturday evening 10/4/03, he left his briefcase at his desk and went to bed at approximately 1230 am. Epstein said when he left his briefcase, it contained approximately $5000 U.S. currency. Epstein advised the case was in $100 bills and kept in a white envelope inside the briefcase. Epstein stated at approximately 0715 hours on Sunday, 10/5/03, while sitting at his desk, he noticed the briefcase had been opened and some of the cash was missing. Epstein believed approximately $3500 was taken from the briefcase. Epstein advised that he did not know if the cash was sequential or recorded. Epstein further advised a black Glock handgun was taken from the bookshelf located behind his desk. Epstein advised he suspected cash had been taken from his briefcase on two other occasions while he was in town for the weekend. The first was over Labor Day weekend Aug. 30-Sept 1, 2003. The second time was a weekend in mid September, 2003. Epstein stated he did not¶

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report these incidents because he was not sure the money was accounted for. Possible footage of the incident may exist. I next met with who advised she went to bed at approximately 1130 pm on 10/4/03 and did not hear or see anything unusual through the night or on the morning of 10/5/03. Cotrin, the resident chef advised that he went to bed at approximately 1030 pm on 10/4/03 and began work at approximately 6:20 am on 10/5/03. Cotrin stated that he did not see or hear anything unusual from the staff residence locate don the east side of the property. I next spoke to Mike and who are the house managers. Mike stated that he went to the staff residence at approximately 8:30 hours on 10/4/03 and got up at approximately 11:30 pm same night to move the Mercedes into the garage. Mike said he returned to the residence at approximately 6:20 am on 10/5/03 but did not notice anything unusual. Rosalie stated that she checked the exterior of the residence at approximately 7:30pm on 10/4/03 as part of her duties. Rosalie stated at that time, she saw no one and everything appeared in order. Rosalie stated she left the main house at approximately 11:30 pm and returned at approximately 8:30 on 10/5/03. It should be noted that Mike and have been employed as the house managers since 9/24/03. Prior to them, the live on site house managers were and Evelyn, Epstein was unsure of the last name. Evelyn were employed at 358 El Brillo approximately 9 months. Prior to the house manager was John Alessi who was employee at 358 El Brillo approximately 10 years. Epstein signed an affidavit of prosecution, it is attached to this report. Crime Scene manager responded and processed the scene. Det. also responded. See Det. report for further information. Officer responded and conducted a neighborhood canvas which is also attached to this report. It should be noted that Epstein will contact Palm Beach Police Department with the serial number of the stolen handgun so that it may be entered into FCIC.¶

On 10/05/03, at 1000 hours, I responded to 358 El Brillo Way reference a burglary that had occurred at the residence during the night. Upon my arrival, I met with the homeowner who verbally identified himself as Jeffrey Epstein, 01/20/53.¶

Epstein told me that over the last couple of months, when he has come into town, he has money he had left in his carry on bag, has turned up missing. Epstein said he wasn’t sure of the amount of money in the carry on bag on any specific incident and thought that he possibly had misplaced the money. Epstein¶

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told me that he had purchased a spy camera from a store on Okeechobee Blvd. and had set up the camera which was in a clock in his office facing the briefcase with the money in it. Epstein then placed $4,000. in U.S. currency, one hundred dollar bill increments and left the bag on his desk as he always does when he is in town. Epstein said that he went to bed with the camera system monitoring the bag and desk area, only to wake up and twice to have $100. missing from the bag and the suspects image on his computer hard drive. It should be noted that there were thirteen one hundred dollar bills still in the white envelope and that nothing else in the house appeared to be disturbed by the suspect.¶

Epstein took me to the computer room where he showed me a computer monitor that was displaying a still frame of the suspect. The computer indicated a time of 0428 a.m., when the suspect came into the office area, walked behind the desk, opened the hand bag, and then opened the center drawer to the desk. It appeared as though the suspect was familiar with the house and the desk. Epstein told me that he did not know who the suspect in the photo was but thought it might be his former houseman because of his size and shape. Epstein also pointed out that the suspect in the video was wearing moccasin type shoes like his former houseman did due to his back injury. The suspect was a white male who was 5’10” in height, 250 lbs., wearing tan pants, white shirt, and a hat. Epstein provided me with the former houseman’s information which was Juan P. Alessi, living at West Palm Beach, Florida.¶

I advised Epstein that I would need to obtain a copy of the surveillance video from his computer hard drive in order to have in hands. Epstein told me that he had limited working knowledge of the system but he would contact the company who had installed the system and have them make a copy by Monday. Epstein told me he would call when he had more information.¶

Epstein took me to the desk where the carry on bag was and told me that he believed that the suspect might have gained entry into the house from the sliding glass doors on the south side of the house but not the west side of house because he had personally locked all the sliders on that side of the house. It is believed that the suspect also left the house by the same sliding door that was unlocked as there were no pry marks or indication of forced entry into the house. Epstein also showed me the bookcase behind the desk where he kept his Glock 9 mm handgun between the books which was now missing. Epstein could not supply me with the serial number for the handgun at this time but advised he would contact Gator Gun on Okeechobee Blvd. to obtain the information.¶

Crime Scene Manager processed the crime scene and collected the envelope that the money had been taken out of.¶

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Officer conducted a neighborhood canvas and failed to produce any new information as most of the neighbors were not home at this time.¶

Officer 1 collected the names of the house guests which included 1, 1, who is from Slovakia, 1, 02/20/85, who is a massage therapist from California. All the subjects advised that they hadn’t heard anything during the night.¶

Officer also collected the names of the live in employees were Michael Friedman, 0, Rosilee Friedman, 11/03/74, and Chef Valdwon Cotrin, . All the subjects advised that they hadn’t heard anything during the night.¶

The criminal history search of Alessi revealed no criminal history other than being a naturalized United States citizen and that his full name was Juan Patricio Alessi Munoz.¶

ATTN POLICE CLERKS; Please show a stolen value for the U.S. currency as $2,700. Please show a stolen value for the Glock 9 mm handgun as $1,000.**¶

Invest.Cont.¶

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GREENE¶

Reported By: 10/08/07¶

Entered By.: 10/08/0¶

At 8:42 a.m., Sunday morning, 10/05/03, I was notified at home by the communication unit of the Palm Beach Police Dept. that a burglary had been reported at 358 El Brillo. I responded to the scene and proceeded directly to headquarters where I picked up the necessary equipment and the crime scene vehicle to process the crime scene.¶

I went in service at 9:32 a.m. and arrived on the scene at 9:33 a.m. Upon arrival I noted that the house is located at the extreme west end of the street and is located on the south side of the street with the front of the house facing north. The house is basically a two story CBS type of structure having a white flat tile roof. The trim is painted white and there are walls approximately 8’ tall with metal closing gates which are controlled with a electronic touch pad on the outside. There are white gargoyle figures on the tops of the entrance of the gate as well as black numerals approximately 6” high indicating the address numerics of 358. The east most drive way is a large flagstone type of drive way leading to a three car garage.¶

The dwelling has in addition to the main entrance to the garage two other gated entrances which have black floral lighted tops on them. These gates were metallic. The central gate which leads¶

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into a circular flagstone drive way was in the open position. The western most gate was in the closed position. The front was locked on my approach and I continued traveling to the west where there is a small double gate which has a sign, “Please keep gate closed”. This gate was opened and leads to a large patio with a swimming pool. To the west of the swimming pool is a walkway leading to a dock which then leads directly across to the intracoastal waterway. The dock was examined and checked for any signs of a boat tying up or the presence of anyone that may have left either debris such food containers, cigarettes, cigars etc. None was found. It should be noted that the exterior temperature was 79 degrees and the humidity was 63 percent. There is a small cabana at the southern end of the pool which had computer equipment as well as exercise equipment. None of this had been touched or tampered with.¶

On the south side of the residence in the southwest corner Mr. Epstein indicated that he believed this was the area that the intruder made entry to the residence. The room is a computer room and Florida type room and has three double sliding glass windows present. The eastern most and western most are identical in shape having two glass panels. The central one has three glass panels and is the only one of the three that has a set of 14 flagstones leading directly into the room. The flooring is a wood type of flooring and the western set of sliding doors was found ajar, however the sandy area directly outside of the door did not indicate the presence of shoe prints or barefoot prints. The central window was found ajar and still had the lock mechanism in the extended outward position. The two windows believed to have been entered were processed and no latent fingerprints were found on the western most, no fingerprints were found on the eastern most. There was one mark that was found that was not a fingerprint but could have been made from either a cloth or a rubber glove and this was found on the interior of the central window.¶

Once inside the residence, the person went over to a desk which is a veneer covered desk and there was a black bag underneath. The black bag is approximately 2’ long by 1’ high and was placed on the southern side of the interior of the desk by the pedestal. The individual knelt down and pulled the case open and removed cash from a white envelope. There were thirteen one hundred dollar bills left, still in the envelope when I examined it. The thirteen one hundred dollar bills were removed in the presence of Det. and Mr. Epstein and they were counted and turned directly over to Mr. Epstein for security purposes. The top of the desk, sides of the desk and bottom of the desk was processed for latent fingerprints and no latent fingerprints of value were found on those areas. The envelope will be transported to headquarters and processed chemically for latent fingerprints. There will be a supplement to that effect that will follow.¶

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GREENE¶

Reported By: C.¶

C. 10/09/03¶

Entered By.: C. 10/09/03¶

On 10/06/03, at 1100 hours, Det. and I went to 358 El Brillo and met with Mr. Epstein’s personal assistant in regards to obtaining the video footage of the suspect burglar.¶

Det. obtained a video of the footage starting at 0426 hrs, and ending at 0430 hours. The before mentioned video shows a white male inside the Epstein residence moving a duffle bag and opening a desk drawer. A copy of this video footage was captured onto a compact disk and was placed into evidence via a property receipt.¶

At 1400 hours, Det. and I went to the Towers Condominium, 1515 South Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach, where the suspect currently resides. I observed several video cameras on the outside of the building and a doorman at the main entrance on the south side of the building.¶

At 1550 hours, I was advised by Crime Scene Manager that he had located fingerprints for the suspect Alessi from a Town of Palm Beach identification card application.¶

At 1630 hours, I called the Towers Condominium and spoke with the manager of the condominium who verbally identified himself to me as Donald Dement. Dement gave me his direct business number 561-833-8170, and his home phone number¶

Dement told me that he was familiar with the name Alessi but he advised he wouldn’t recognize him. Dement told me that they had several video cameras and that they did record the surveillance camera but the recording system had broken on Sunday night and he didn’t have anything on the tapes.¶

Dement told me that the condo does have a midnight doorman who stands duty at the desk in the lobby and anyone coming in the building regardless of what door they come in, would have to pass the doorman. Dement told me that the desk man for Sunday morning, 2300 to 0700 hours was and he next worked on Wednesday, 10/08/03. Dement was not familiar with what Alessi drives or which parking spot was his but he advised that he would check and call me back in the morning.¶

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A Palm Beach County property search revealed that, one Alessi owns the property at and has resided there since 2001.¶

Invest.Cont.¶

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GREENE¶

Reported By:¶

Entered By.:¶

10/15/03¶

10/15/03¶

On Monday, 10/13/03, at 2:00 p.m., Mr. Jeffrey Epstein came into the police department and informed me that earlier today he met with his former houseman Juan Alessi at Green’s Pharmacy in Palm Beach. Epstein stated that he presented Alessi with a photograph obtained off the video surveillance system, whereby Alessi admitted to breaking into the house and taking the money. Alessi told Epstein that he broke into the house to take a gun that Epstein usually keeps behind his desk. He could not find the gun so he took the money. Alessi said he and his wife are having problems and they no longer live together. He wanted the gun because he was contemplating suicide.¶

Epstein stated that Alessi has already returned $2,000. of the stolen money and that he will be making arrangements with Alessi to pay off the remaining funds. I asked Epstein if he knew of Alessi’s current address or phone number and Epstein said that Alessi was going to call him at 5:00 p.m. today and he would make arrangements for Alessi to come into the police station to be interviewed. Epstein stated he no longer wants to prosecute Alessi but is concerned over the fact that the gun Alessi said he broke into the house to steal is still missing, yet Alessi said he does not have it.¶

ATTN POLICE CLERKS: As Alessi has returned $2,000. to Epstein and arrangements have been made for the return of the rest of the money, please show a full recovery of the $2700. cash. **¶

Reported By:¶

Entered By.:¶

10/15/03¶

10/15/03¶

On Monday, 10/13/03, Det. and I responded to 1515 South Flagler Drive where we met with Mrs. Mary Alessi. Mrs. Alessi stated she does not know her husbands current address and provided us with a cell phone for him. While speaking to Mrs. Alessi, Det. made telephone contact with Juan Alessi and made arrangements to meet with him back at the Palm Beach Police Department. According to Mrs. Alessi, the last time she saw her husband Juan P. Alessi, was today, 10/13/03. According to Mrs. Alessi, she was at Ross Department Store located on Okeechobee Blvd. when she saw her husband drive by. She stated she received a telephone call from him on her cell phone¶

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at which time she did not talk to him per instructions by her divorce attorney. Mrs. Alessi stated prior to that she last saw her husband on 10/08/03, in which she responded to the apartment building, 1515 South Flager Drive, at approximately 2:00 a.m. Mrs. Alessi stated she contacted West Palm Beach Police Department via 911, and officer’s responded. I contacted the West Palm Beach Police Department which queried their CAD system and confirmed Officer Sean Phillips responded to that address in reference to a 911 phone call. There is no report on file and list said CAD entry only that Juan P. Alessi was in the building reference to a civil matter. They have no current information for Mr. Alessi. This concludes my involvement in the matter.¶

Reported By:¶

Entered By.:¶

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and I went to¶

attempt to locate suspect Juan Alessi. As we were getting into the elevator on the ground floor, we came in contact with Alessi’s wife, Alessi. I explained to why we were there and she agreed to speak to us.¶

said she and her husband, Juan Alessi, have been separated for approximately two months and they are going through divorce proceedings. said Juan no longer lives with her at this address and she has a court order which states Juan is to have no contact with her. said on this date, at approximately 1100 hours, Juan drove by her as she was walking out of the Ross Department Store located on the southeast corner of Okeechobee Blvd. and Military Trail. said Juan waved at her and that was the extent of their contact. said she does not know where Juan is living. She said he is driving a white Caravan. supplied me with Juan’s cell phone number, 309-5439. advised Juan has been depressed lately, due to their separation. I advised to be aware of her surroundings and be on the lookout for Juan and if she comes in contact with him to call the police immediately. also supplied me with her son’s phone number, John Alessi,¶

I called Juan Alessi on his cell phone. Juan agreed to come to the Palm Beach Police Station for an interview. Juan arrived at the police department and I placed him in the interview room in the Detective Bureau. I read Juan his Miranda Rights from a prepared rights card in which he stated he understood and signed.¶

I asked Juan what his connection was with Mr. Epstein,¶

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he lives at 358 El Brillo. Juan said he worked for Mr. Epstein from January 1991 to until September 2002, as the house manager. Juan said he was very familiar with Epstein’s schedule and the lay out of the house. I asked Juan if he took money and a gun from Epstein in the past weeks and Juan said he did not take the gun but did take money from Epstein’s house. Juan explained approximately six weeks ago he became very depressed about his break up with his wife along with a cancerous medical condition he was fighting. Juan advised he became suicidal and decided to steal a gun from Mr. Epstein in order to kill himself. Juan said he knew Mr. Epstein had a gun in his office because he helped Mr. Epstein put it there. Juan described the gun as a silver revolver with a medium barrel that was holstered. Juan did not know the exact date, but he said it was approximately six weeks ago at about 0500 hours on a Sunday morning, he decided to enter Mr. Epstein’s house at 358 El Brillo Avenue, in an attempt to steal the gun. Juan said he drove his white Caravan and parked it in the driveway of the house. Juan said he entered the house through an unlocked sliding glass door located near Epstein’s office. Juan said he entered the office and attempted to locate the gun. Juan said he searched the office but could not find the gun. Juan said he then went into Epstein’s briefcase and removed approximately $1900. in one hundred dollar bills from a white envelope. Juan said after taking the money he immediately left the house.¶

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Juan said on Sunday morning, 10/05/03, at approximately 0500 hours, he decided to return to 358 El Brillo in order to steal money once again from Epstein. Juan said he once again drove his white Caravan to the house and parked in the driveway. Juan entered the house through the sliding glass door and entered the office. Juan said he opened the briefcase and removed $5600. in one hundred dollar bills from a white envelope. Juan said he left through the same glass door and drove away. Juan said he believed he wore a creme colored loafers, light colored pants, a short sleeve shirt, and a baseball hat. Juan said he did not wear gloves on his hands. Juan said he needed the money to pay for his girlfriends immigration papers.¶

I asked Juan if he was still suicidal. Juan said he was not and that he was seeing a psychologist on a weekly basis. (this was verified by Juan’s son, John Alessi) Juan once again denied taking a gun from Epstein’s house. Juan said he had a talk with Mr. Epstein on 10/12/03, and they agreed Juan would pay Epstein back for all the money that was taken.¶

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I placed the Miranda Rights card along with the VCR tape of Juan’s admission, into evidence.¶

ATTN POLICE CLERKS: Please add the following names and their information into the system.¶

Alessi, [ ] , [ ] , [ ]¶

West Palm Beach, Florida 33407. John¶

Alessi, W/M, [ ] 0 unknown address, Juan¶

Alessie [ ] , [ ]¶

Invest.Cont.¶

On 10/08/03, Officer advised me that he had located Juan Alessi, the vehicle parked in parking space #6, at the Towers Condominium. Officer further advised that Alessi’s vehicle was a Ford Explorer, dark in color, bearing Florida tag U72UGL.¶

On 10/13/03, I was advised by Sgt. Trylch that Epstein had met with Alessi and had reached an agreement to pay back the money taken and subject Epstein did not wish to prosecute at this time. I was also advised that Det. had interviewed Alessi and had obtained a full confession on the theft of the money but had denied taking the Glock hand gun.¶

In previous conversations, Epstein was not sure of the location of the hand gun but believed it had possibly been between the books behind his desk. The surveillance video does not show Alessi taking the hand gun and Alessi denies taking the gun.¶

On 10/15/03, at 1400 hours, I faxed the affidavit of prosecution to Epstein asking that he complete the document indicating that he does not wish to prosecute and fax it back to me along with mailing the original back to me for my case file.¶

At 1500 hours, Det. removed the video surveillance equipment from Epstein’s residence located at 358 El Brillo.¶

Several attempts to obtain the affidavit of prosecution indicated that Epstein did not wish to prosecute were met with no response from his staff. It should be noted that Epstein had personally met with Capt. and at that time advised he no longer wished to prosecute Juan Alessi for the burglary and theft from his residence.¶

ATTN POLICE CLERKS: Please show a full recovery of the U.S. Currency. Please do not show the Glock hand gun as stolen.¶

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Please show this case as Except.Cleared as the identity of the suspect was established, there was enough information to support an arrest, the exact location of the offender is known and the victim declines to prosecute.¶