in 2008, he was arrested for paying an underage girl for prostitution. he spent 13 months in "custody with work release", which means that he was allowed to be outside of prison for up to 16 hours per day. epstein was arrested again on july 6, 2019. he was arrested because he did sex trafficking of minors in the states of florida and new york. epstein has been a registered sex offender since 2008.