THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2008 PAGE 3 Palm Beach billionaire with ties to VI pleads guilty in prostitution case (Editors Note: its ankle tans cep- lordly published in the Pnbri heath Post on Monday. June 30. Jaffrey 4s/eta mins LadeSt.James Island off the coast of St. Thomas and mnploged first lady Cm*: de Jonah as director of his charitable J. Epstein Virgin Islands fbi endation.1 RY LARRY KEI.I.ER Palm Beach Post WEST PALM BEACH — He Ines in a Palm Beach waterfmnt man- sion and has kept company with the likes of Presklent Bill Clinton. PrinceAndrew and Donald Trump, but investment banker Jeffrey Epstein will call the Palm Beach County jail home for the next IS months. Epstein. 55. pleaded guilty this morning to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a per- son under the age of Ili for pros- titution. After nerving IS months in jail, he will be under house arrest for a year. And hr will now have n long obligation to register as a sex offender. He must submit to an HIV test within 48 hours, with the results bring pmvided to his vic- tims or their parents. As part of the plea deal. federal -investigators agreed to drop their • Footling Investigation of Epstein. . which they hail taken to a grand • jury. two law enforcement sources said. Epstein was indicted two years ago following an I I -month Imes- figalion by Palm Beach pollee after they received a comp Ldni from the relative of a 14-year-old girl who • had given him a naked massage at his five-bedroora 7.234-square- fool. 98.5 million Intracoastal home. Epstein Police concluded that there were several other young gain brought in 2004 and 2005 to an upstairs room at the home for similar massages and sexual touching. The Indictment charged Epstein only with felony solicitation of pros- titution. The state attorney's office later added the additional charge of procuring unftemge girls for that purpose. Prosecutor Lanna fielohlavek said of the plea: 1 took i