May 3 (UPI) — Alexander Historical Auctions said Friday it will offer infamous financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein‘s address book at auction.
The Maryland-based auction house, known for its sale of historic letters and documents, in a release said it will accept sealed bids on the relic from May 15 to June 15 on the Alexander Historical Auctions website.
If the book doesn’t attract a satisfactory bid, it will go up for public auction in mid-July.
Epstein’s “little black book,” as it is called in a release from the auction house, was found on a Fifth Avenue in New York City sidewalk in the mid-1990s and was later sold to a party in the Northeast.
Business Insider submitted the book for a forensic analysis to prove its authenticity, which produced a positive result, according to the auction house.
The 64-page book contains 386 printed entries that each contain a contact’s name, address, and telephone number.
Notable entries include former President Donald Trump, current presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attorney Alan Dershowitz, celebrity hair stylist Frederic Fekkai, Christy Hefner and Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The book also contains entries that hint at the billionaire financier’s illicit activities, such as an entry for “Masseuse/Masseur” that lists 24 women’s names and numbers.
Alexander Historical Auctions stressed that a person’s name being in the book does not imply a connection to Epstein’s criminal activities.
Epstein had been mired in sexual abuse accusations for years. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to state soliciting a minor for prostitution charges while dodging federal charges that accused him of running an international sex trafficking operation.
After the federal case was reopened, Epstein was arrested in 2019. He committed suicide while in custody at a federal prison in Manhattan.
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