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This document is the Last Will and Testament of Jeffrey E. Epstein, executed on January 27, 2012. It directs the transfer of all his property to 'The Jeffrey E. Epstein Trust One' (a pour-over will) and appoints Darren K. Indyke, Joseph Pagano, and Lawrence Newman as Executors, with Jes Staley and Andrew Farkas named as successors. The will includes broad powers for the Executors and a strict 'in terrorem' clause to disinherit any beneficiary who contests the validity of the will or the trust.

People (8)

Name Role Context
Jeffrey E. Epstein Testator
The individual creating the Will, revoking prior wills, and distributing assets.
Darren K. Indyke Executor
Appointed as a primary Executor of the Will.
Joseph Pagano Executor
Appointed as a primary Executor of the Will.
Lawrence Newman Executor and Witness
Appointed as a primary Executor of the Will; also signed as a witness.
Jes Staley Successor Executor
Appointed as a successor Executor if the primaries fail to qualify/act.
Andrew Farkas Successor Executor
Appointed as a successor Executor (second in line) if the primaries fail to qualify/act.
Richard Barnett Witness
Signed the will as a witness residing in Port Washington, NY.
Harry I. Beller Notary Public
Notarized the signatures on the will.

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2012-01-27
Execution of Last Will and Testament by Jeffrey E. Epstein
New York, USA

Relationships (4)

Jeffrey E. Epstein Testator/Executor Darren K. Indyke
Appointed as Executor in Article THIRD
Jeffrey E. Epstein Testator/Executor Joseph Pagano
Appointed as Executor in Article THIRD
Jeffrey E. Epstein Testator/Successor Executor Jes Staley
Appointed as Successor Executor in Article THIRD
Jeffrey E. Epstein Testator/Successor Executor Andrew Farkas
Appointed as Successor Executor in Article THIRD

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"I give all of my property, real and personal, wherever situated... to the then acting Trustees of The Jeffrey E. Epstein Trust One."
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"If any beneficiary under The Jeffrey E. Epstein 2001 Trust One... shall in any way directly or indirectly (a) contest or object to the probate of my Will... then I direct that (a) any and all provisions in the trust for such beneficiary and his issue in any degree shall be null and void."
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"No executor shall directly or indirectly buy or sell any property for the estate from or to himself... No executor shall lend estate funds to himself..."
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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN
I, JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, of Little St. James Island, United States Virgin Islands, do make,
publish and declare this to be my Will hereby revoking all prior Wills and Codicils made by me.
FIRST: A. I direct my Executor to pay from my estate my funeral and
burial expenses, the administration expenses of my estate and all of my debts duly proven and
allowed against my estate.
B. I direct my Executor to pay from my estate the
federal and state transfer taxes described in Paragraph B(1) of Article SEVENTH.
C. I direct my Executor to pay from my estate all
expenses of storing, insuring, packing, shipping and delivering my tangible personal property.
SECOND: I give all of my property, real and personal, wherever situated,
after the payments and distributions provided in Article FIRST, to the then acting Trustees of
The Jeffrey E. Epstein Trust One created under that certain Trust Agreement (the "Trust
Agreement") dated November 8, 2001, as amended from time to time, and as amended and
restated contemporaneously with the execution of this Will, and as the same may be amended
from time to time, to be held in accordance with the provisions comprising the Trust Agreement
at the time of my death.
THIRD: A. I appoint DARREN K. INDYKE, JOSEPH PAGANO and
LAWRENCE NEWMAN to be the Executors of this Will. If any one or more of my Executors
fails to qualify or ceases to act, I appoint JES STALEY and ANDREW FARKAS, singly and in
the order named, as successor Executors. I authorize the last acting Executor to designate his
successor as Executor.
B. If my estate must be administered in whole or in
part in any jurisdiction other than the state of my domicile at the date of my death and if my
Executor is unable or unwilling to serve in such jurisdiction, then I appoint the first successor
Executor of my estate designated in Paragraph A of Article THIRD who is able and willing to
serve in such jurisdiction. If no Executor or successor Executor is able and willing to serve in
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such jurisdiction, my Executor shall designate a successor Executor to serve in such jurisdiction.
Such designation shall be made by written instrument delivered to such successor Executor.
C. No bond or other security shall be required of any
Executor in any jurisdiction.
D. Any Executor may resign by filing a written notice
of resignation with the Court having jurisdiction of the administration of my estate. All of my
Executor's fees and expenses (including attorneys' fees) attributable to the appointment of a
successor Executor shall be paid by my estate.
E. My Executor shall not be accountable or
responsible to any person interested in my estate for the manner in which my Executor in good
faith exercises or declines to exercise any discretionary authority or power of my Executor. My
Executor shall not be liable for any loss or depreciation in value occasioned by reason of any
negligence, error or mistake of judgment in entering into any transaction, in making any sale or
investment, in continuing to hold any property or by reason of any action or omission, whether
by my Executor or any other fiduciary, unless my Executor has acted in bad faith. In the absence
of proof by affirmative evidence to the contrary, each Executor shall be deemed to have acted
within the scope of my Executor's authority, to have exercised reasonable care, diligence and
prudence and to have acted impartially as to all interested persons. An Executor shall not be
liable for the acts or defaults of another Executor.
FOURTH: The following provisions shall apply to my estate and to my
Executor, except as is otherwise specifically provided in this Will:
(1) My Executor has the entire care and
custody of all assets of my estate. My Executor has the power to do everything my Executor in
good faith deems advisable without necessity of any judicial authorization or approval, even
though but for this power it would not be authorized or appropriate for fiduciaries under any
statutory or other rule of law. My Executor shall exercise my Executor's best judgment and
discretion for what my Executor believes to be in the best interests of the beneficiaries
hereunder. If more than two Executors are empowered to participate in the decision to exercise
or not exercise any fiduciary power granted by this Will or by law, a majority of such Executors
shall be empowered to make such decision.
B. Except as otherwise provided herein, my Executor
shall have the power:
(1) to enter upon and take possession of the
assets of my estate and collect the income and profits from such assets, and to invest and
reinvest such assets in real, personal or mixed assets (including the common trust funds of a
corporate fiduciary) or in undivided interests therein without being limited by any present or
future investment laws;
(2) to retain all or any part of the assets of my
estate (without regard to the proportion that any one asset or class of assets may bear to the
whole) in the form in which such assets were received or acquired by my Executor;
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(3) to sell or dispose of, exchange, transfer,
invest or loan all or any part of the assets of my estate which may, at any time, be held by my
Executor for such sums or upon such terms as to payment, security or otherwise as my Executor
determines, either by public or private transactions;
(4) to buy and sell options, warrants, puts, calls
or other rights to purchase or sell (collectively "options") relating to any security or securities,
regardless of whether such security or securities are then held by my Executor, and whether
such options are purchased or sold on a national securities exchange, and to exercise with
respect to such options all powers which an individual owner thereof could exercise, including,
without limitation, the right to allow the same to expire;
(5) with respect to oil, natural gas, minerals,
and all other natural resources and rights to and interests therein (together with all equipment
pertaining thereto) including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, oil and gas
royalties, leases, or other oil and gas interests of any character, whether owned in fee, as lessee,
lessor, licensee, concessionaire or otherwise, or alone or jointly with others as partner, joint
tenant, or joint venture in any other noncorporate manner, (a) to make oil, gas and mineral
leases or subleases; (b) to pay delay rentals, lease bonuses, royalties, overriding royalties,
taxes, assessments, and all other charges; (c) to sell, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge or
otherwise hypothecate any or all of such rights and interests; (d) to surrender or abandon, with
or without consideration, any or all of such rights and interests; (e) to make farm-out, pooling,
and unitization agreements; (f) to make reservations or impose conditions on the transfer of
any such rights or interests; (g) to employ the most advantageous business form in which
properly to exploit such rights and interests, whether as corporations, partnerships, limited
partnerships, mining partnerships, joint ventures, co-tenancies, or otherwise exploit any and all
such rights and interests; (h) to produce, process, sell or exchange all products recovered
through the exploitation of such rights and interests, and to enter into contracts and agreements
for or in respect of the installation or operation of absorption, reprocessing or other processing
plants; (i) to carry any or all such interests in the name or names of a nominee or nominees; (j)
to delegate, to the extent permitted by law, any or all of the powers set forth herein to the
operator of such property; and (k) to employ personnel, rent office space, buy or lease office
equipment, contract and pay for geological surveys and studies, procure appraisals, and
generally to conduct and engage in any and all activities incident to the foregoing powers, with
full power to borrow and pledge in order to finance such activities; together with the power to
allocate between principal and income any net proceeds received as consideration, whether as
royalties or otherwise, for the permanent severance from lands of oil, natural gas, minerals, and
all other natural resources;
(6) to hold all or any part of the assets of my
estate in cash or in bank accounts without the necessity of investing the same;
(7) to improve, repair, partition, plat or
subdivide all or any part of the assets of my estate;
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(8) to litigate, defend, compromise, settle,
abandon or submit to arbitration on such terms and conditions as my Executor determines any
claims in favor of or against my estate or the assets of my estate;
(9) to loan or borrow money in such amounts
and upon such terms and conditions as my Executor determines, assume such obligations or give
such guarantees as my Executor determines, for the purpose of the acquisition, improvement,
protection, retention or preservation of the assets of my estate, or for the welfare of the
beneficiaries of my estate;
(10) to carry on for as long and in such manner
as my Executor determines any business enterprise in which I owned any interest at my death,
either individually, or as a partner, joint venture, stockholder or trust beneficiary; to sell such
business enterprise as an ongoing business; to consolidate, merge, encumber, dissolve, liquidate
or undertake any other extraordinary corporate transaction relating to such business enterprise;
(11) to vote in person or by proxy any and all
stock or securities and to become a party to any voting trusts, reorganization, consolidation or
other capital or debt readjustment of any corporation, association, partnership, limited liability
partnership, limited liability company or individual with respect to stocks, securities or debts
held by my estate;
(12) to enter into any good faith transactions
with my Executor individually or with any corporation, partnership or other entity in which my
Executor has an ownership interest;
(13) to lease, mortgage, pledge, grant a security
interest in or otherwise encumber all or any part of the assets of my estate for any term of years
whether or not beyond the duration of my estate (including, without limitation, any such action
for the benefit of any of the beneficiaries of my estate);
(14) to abandon any property, real or personal,
which my Executor may deem worthless or not of sufficient value to warrant keeping or
protecting; to abstain from the payment of taxes, water rents or assessments and to forego
making repairs, maintaining or keeping up any such property; and to permit such property to be
lost by tax sale or other proceedings or to convey any such property for a nominal consideration
or without consideration so as to prevent the imposition of any liability by reason of the
continued ownership thereof;
(15) to elect the mode of distribution of the
proceeds payable to my estate from any profit-sharing plan, pension plan, employee benefit
plan, individual retirement plan, insurance contract or annuity contract pursuant to the terms of
such plan;
(16) to allocate, in my Executors discretion, any
adjustment to basis provided to my estate under the provisions of Federal and State law with
respect to property comprising my estate, without any obligation to make a compensatory
adjustment among the beneficiaries hereunder on account of such allocation;
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(17) to conduct any audit, assessment or
investigation with respect to any asset of my estate regarding compliance with any law or
regulation having as its object protection of public health, natural resources or the environment
("Environmental Laws"); to pay from the assets of my estate to remedy any failure to comply
with any Environmental Law (even to the exhaustion of all of the assets of my estate); and, as
may be required in my Executor's judgment by any Environmental Law, to notify any
governmental authority of any past, present or future non-compliance with any Environmental
Law; and
(18) to sell to the Trustee under the Trust
Agreement any stocks, bonds, securities, real or personal property or other assets or borrow
from the Trustee under the Trust Agreement even though the same person or persons occupy the
office of the Executor of my estate and the Trustee under the Trust Agreement.
(19) No executor shall directly or indirectly buy
or sell any property for the estate from or to himself, or from or to his relative, employer,
employee, partner, or other business associate.
(20) No executor shall lend estate funds to
himself, or to his relative, employer, employee, partner, or other business associate.
C. Except as otherwise provided herein, my Executor
shall have the power:
(1) to employ agents, attorneys-at-law,
consultants, investment advisers (to whom my Executor has discretion to delegate my
Executor's investment authority and responsibility), other executors and other fiduciaries in the
administration of my Executor's duties; to delegate to such persons, or to one or more of my
Executors, the custody, control or management of any part of my
estate as my Executor determines and to pay for such services from the assets of my estate,
without obtaining judicial authorization or approval;
(2) to delegate, in whole or in part, to any
person or persons the authority and power to (a) sign checks, drafts or orders for the payment or
withdrawal of funds, securities and other assets from any bank, brokerage, custody or other
account in which funds, securities or other assets of my estate shall be deposited, (b) endorse for
sale, transfer or delivery, or sell, transfer or deliver, or purchase or otherwise acquire, any and
all property, stocks, stock warrants, stock rights, options, bonds or other securities whatsoever,
(c) gain access to any safe deposit box or boxes in which my assets or assets of my estate may
be located or which may be in the name of my Executor and remove part or all of the contents of
any such safe deposit box or boxes and release and surrender the same, and (d) take any other
action that my Executor may have the power to take with respect to my estate and the property
thereof; no person or corporation acting in reliance on any such delegation shall be charged with
notice of any revocation or change of such delegation unless such person or corporation receives
actual notice thereof;
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(3) to pay any property distributable to a
beneficiary under a legal disability, without liability to my Executor, by paying such property
(a) to such beneficiary, (b) for the use of such beneficiary, (c) to a legal representative of such
beneficiary appointed by a court or if none, to a relative for the use of such beneficiary, or (d) to
a custodian for such beneficiary designated by my Executor;
(4) to distribute to any of the beneficiaries of
my estate in kind or in cash, or partly in kind and partly in cash, and to allocate different kinds
or disproportionate shares of assets or undivided interests in assets among all of such
beneficiaries;
(5) to have evidence of ownership of any
security maintained in the records of a Federal Reserve Bank under the Federal Reserve Book
Entry System; to deposit funds in any bank or trust company; to carry in the name of my
Executor or the nominee or nominees of my Executor and with or without designation of
fiduciary capacity, or to hold in bearer form, securities or other property requiring or permitting
of registration; and to cause any securities to be held by a depository corporation of which an
Executor is a member or by an agent under a safekeeping contract; provided, however, that the
books and records of my Executor shall at all times show that such investments are part of my
estate;
(6) to renounce and disclaim, in whole or in
part, and in accordance with applicable law, any assets, interests, rights or powers (including
any power of appointment) which are payable to (or exercisable by) me or my estate, which are
includible in my estate or Gross Estate or over which I have any right, title, interest or power;
and
(7) to make, execute and deliver any and all
such instruments in writing as shall be necessary or proper to carry out any power, right, duty or
obligation of my Executor or any disposition whatsoever of my estate or any asset of my estate
and to exercise any and all other powers incidental or necessary to carry out or to fulfill the
terms, provisions and purposes of my estate.
D. In connection with any insurance policy or annuity
on the life of an Executor which is included in my estate, such Executor shall not participate in
the decision to exercise or not exercise any fiduciary power in connection with any incidents of
ownership for such policy or annuity, including, without limitation, any decision to continue,
assign, terminate or convert such policy or annuity or to name the beneficiary of such policy or
annuity.
E. An Executor hereunder may by a written notice
delivered to the other Executor (or Executors) decline to participate in the decision to exercise or
not exercise any fiduciary power granted by this Will or by law.
F. If an Executor is not empowered (because of a
conflict of interest, declination to act or otherwise) to participate in the decision to exercise or
not exercise any fiduciary power granted by this Will or by law, then the remaining Executor or
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Executors shall be empowered to make such decision. If no Executor is empowered to
participate in such decision, then the first successor Executor of my estate designated in
Paragraph A of Article THIRD and able and willing to act shall be empowered to make such
decision. If no Executor or successor Executor is empowered to participate in such decision, my
Executor may designate a successor Executor to serve as Executor of my estate who shall be
empowered to make such decision but shall have no other power or authority of my Executor.
Such designation shall be by written notice delivered to such successor Executor.
G. (1) Except as otherwise specifically provided
herein and except as provided in Paragraph G(2) of this Article, my Executor shall allocate
receipts and disbursements in accordance with sound trust accounting principles and shall have
discretion to allocate receipts and disbursements when the treatment is uncertain under
applicable laws or generally accepted accounting principles in the judgment of my Executor.
(2) Except as otherwise specifically provided in
this Will, my Executor shall not treat any part of the principal amount of the proceeds of sale of
any asset of my estate as income distributable to or for the benefit of any beneficiary entitled to
distributions of income; provided, however, that my Executor shall treat a portion of any
proceeds of sale of any financial instrument originally issued or acquired at a discount equal to
the amount which (a) has previously been characterized as ordinary income for income tax
purposes or (b) will be characterized as ordinary income for income tax purposes in the year of
such sale, as income for trust accounting purposes.
FIFTH: Where a party to any proceeding with respect to my estate has the
same interest as a person under a disability, it shall not be necessary to serve legal process on the
person under a disability.
SIXTH: If any beneficiary under The Jeffrey E. Epstein 2001 Trust One
("the trust") shall in any way directly or indirectly (a) contest or object to the probate of my Will
or to the validity of any disposition or provision of my Will or of the trust or (b) institute or
prosecute, or be in any way directly or indirectly instrumental in the institution or prosecution
of, any action, proceeding, contest, objection or claim for the purpose of setting aside or
invalidating my Will or the trust or any disposition therein or provision thereof, then I direct that
(a) any and all provisions in the trust for such beneficiary and his issue in any degree shall be
null and void and (b) my estate, whether passing under my Will or the trust or pursuant to the
laws of intestacy, shall be disposed of as if such beneficiary and his issue in any degree had all
failed to survive me.
SEVENTH: A. As used herein:
(1) The term "Executor" of a person's estate
means all persons or entities who occupy the office of executor, administrator, personal
representative, or ancillary administrator while such persons or entities occupy such office,
whether one or more persons or entities occupy such office at the same time or times, and
includes any successor or successors to that office. The term "Trustee" means all persons or
entities who occupy the office of Trustee under the Trust Agreement while such persons or
entities occupy such office, whether one or more persons or entities occupy the office of Trustee
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at the same time or times, and includes any successor Trustee or Trustees. A reference to a
person's estate or probate estate means that person's estate which is subject to probate
administration. A reference to a person's Will means such person's Last Will and Testament and
any Codicil or Codicils thereto.
(2) The term "IRC section" means a section of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the corresponding provision of any
successor Internal Revenue law, as in effect as of the date of my death.
(3) A reference to any tax also includes any
interest or penalties thereon. A reference to a person's "Gross Estate" means such person's gross
estate as finally determined for purposes of computing such person's federal estate tax.
(4) Whenever the singular number is used, the
same shall include the plural, and the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter
genders.
B. (1) The federal and state transfer taxes which
my Executor shall be obligated to pay pursuant to Paragraph B of Article FIRST shall consist of
all federal and state estate, inheritance, succession, and similar taxes (including any federal or
state generation-skipping transfer tax) imposed upon my probate estate or by reason of my death
in respect to all assets which pass under this Will or the Trust Agreement. Subject to Paragraph
B(2) of this Article, all federal estate taxes with respect to assets not passing under this Will or
the Trust Agreement (such assets are referred to as the "Apportionment Assets") and any
applicable state estate taxes with respect to the Apportionment Assets shall be apportioned
among all persons interested in the Apportionment Assets. My Executor shall make reasonable
efforts to collect all federal estate taxes and state estate, inheritance, succession and similar taxes
allocable to the Apportionment Assets from the recipients of the Apportionment Assets. Without
changing the apportionment of taxes in this Paragraph B(1), my Executor has discretion, but is
not required, to pay all or part of such taxes allocable to the Apportionment Assets. To the
extent my Executor pays such taxes allocable to the Apportionment Assets, my Executor shall
seek reimbursement for such taxes from the recipients of the Apportionment Assets. My
Executor shall not be personally liable for any of such taxes if my Executor is unable, with
reasonable efforts, to collect payment (or reimbursement) from any recipient of any
Apportionment Assets for any or all of such taxes allocable to such assets.
(2) My Executor has discretion to direct the
Trustee of the Trust Agreement to pay all or any portion of the taxes which my Executor is
directed or obligated to pay pursuant to Paragraph B of Article FIRST and this Paragraph B
pursuant to a written direction delivered to the Trustee under the Trust Agreement. Any taxes
which my Executor directs the Trustee under the Trust
Agreement to pay shall be allocated and paid from the trusts under the Trust Agreement as
provided under the Trust Agreement.
C. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this
Will, a bequest or devise to an individual who does not survive me shall lapse notwithstanding
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any law to the contrary.
D. To the extent that the distribution to the Trustee
under the Trust Agreement pursuant to Article SECOND shall not be effective, I give all the
rest of my property, real and personal, wherever situated, after the payments and distributions
provided in Article FIRST, to the person or persons named as Trustee or Trustees under the
Trust Agreement, be to held in trust under this Will in accordance with the provisions
comprising the Trust Agreement at the time of my death, which provisions are incorporated in
this Will by reference.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have duly executed this Will the 27th day of
January, 2012.
[Signature]
JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN
The foregoing written instrument was on the date thereof, signed, published and
declared by the Testator therein named as the Testator's Will in the presence of us and of each
of us, who, at the Testator's request, in the Testator's presence and in the presence of each
other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
[Signature] Richard Barnett residing at [Redacted] Port Washington NY 11050
Richard Barnett
[Signature] Lawrence Newman residing at [Redacted] Sands Point, N.Y. 11050
Lawrence Newman
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We, JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Richard Barnett and, Lawrence Newman the Testator
and the witnesses, respectively, whose names are signed to the foregoing instrument, having
been sworn, declared to the undersigned officer that the Testator, in the presence of the
witnesses, signed the instrument as his Will, that he signed, and that each of the witnesses, in the
presence of the Testator and in the presence of each other, signed the Will as a witness.
[Signature]
JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN
[Signature]
Richard Barnett
[Signature]
Lawrence Newman
STATE OF NEW YORK )
COUNTY OF NEW YORK) SS:
Subscribed and sworn to before me by JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, the Testator, who is personally
known to me or who has produced [blank] as identification, and by Richard Barnett a witness
who is personally known to me or who has produced [blank] as identification, and
Lawrence Newman, a witness who is personally known to me or who has produced
[blank] as identification, on January 27, 2012.
Sworn to before me this 27 day of
January, 2012
[Signature] Harry I Beller
Notary Public
HARRY I. BELLER
Notary Public, State of New York
No. 01BE4653924
Qualified in Rockland County
Commission Expires Feb. 17, 2014
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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN
Dated [blank], 2012
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