In this July 30, 2008, file photo, Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Fla. At
the center of Epstein’s secluded New Mexico ranch sits a sprawling residence the financier built decades
ago, complete with plans for a 4,000-square-foot (372-square-meter) courtyard, a living room roughly the
size of the average American home and a nearby private airplane runway. Known as the Zorro Ranch, the
high-desert property is now tied to an investigation that the state attorney general’s office says it
has opened into Epstein with plans to forward findings to federal authorities in New York. (Uma
Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)