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Jeffrey Epstein’s Xbox LIVE account was banned because he was registered as a sex offender in 2013, according to emails released in the latest document dump on the deceased pedophile.
Microsoft canned Epstein’s gaming profile as part of an agreement with the New York State Attorney General’s office that required the tech giant to remove all sex offenders to protect the online gaming community, especially children.
“This message is to notify you that Xbox LIVE has permanently suspended the Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address,” said the notice sent to Epstein’s “jeevacation” email address on Dec. 19, 2013.
“This action is based on the New York Attorney General’s partnership with Microsoft and other online gaming companies to remove New York registered sex offenders from online gaming services to minimize the risk to others, particularly children. As a result, any Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address will not be able to connect to Xbox LIVE.”
The disgraced financier received an automated email earlier in the day that notified him of his account’s doom, saying it was permanently suspended due to “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.
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