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After Jeffrey Epstein's July 6 arrest on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, investigators have pored over the late financier's high-profile connections and multiple properties that could be key details in the disturbing allegations of orchestrated abuse against him.
Though many of Epstein's former high-society acquaintances have distanced themselves from the case after he died by apparent suicide while awaiting trial in a Manhattan prison, his lesser-known brother Mark has emerged at the center of the questions surrounding the fate of the financier's estate.
Mark is Jeffrey's younger brother who started as an artist before pursuing numerous business ventures in their native New York City.
From scandals in higher education to a majority stake in a mysterious Manhattan apartment building, see everything that's known about the other Epstein.
Mark, like Jeffrey, has spent his life in the Epsteins' native New York City.
Mark Epstein grew up in Brooklyn, New York and attended the art school Cooper Union in Manhattan and Stony Brook University.
The Daily Beast says that childhood neighbors "have only good things to say about the Epstein they still call Puggie," and he had a knack for business that started out as an artistic venture around his time at Cooper Union.
Neighbors told the...