Jeffrey Epstein never stood trial for the heinous crimes he was accused of, but there was one place where he did suffer consequences for his actions: Xbox Live. One of the approximately 3 million pages released in the latest dump of files related to Epstein and his crimes is a 2013 email from Microsoft, informing him that his Xbox Live account had been “permanently suspended.” The notice, dated Dec. 19, 2013, and sent to Epstein’s personal email account, informed the convicted sex offender that he had been banned from the online video game platform for “harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players.” According to the email, Epstein had a history of “severe, repeated, and/or excessive” abuse of other players. This may have included threats of death, harm, profanity, verbal abuse, and more, directed at other players while participating in online games such as Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto. Epstein, who was 60 years old at the time of the incident, died in his jail cell in 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. One of his known associates, many of whom have been featured in the ongoing release of criminal documents about the financier, was Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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