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Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach estate has been demolished

The Florida mansion where prosecutors say Jeffrey Epstein raped underage girls and women for many years has “finally” been demolished.

Developer Todd Michael Glaser said the sprawling Palm Beach property met the wrecking ball on Monday, according to a report in the Palm Beach Daily News.

Glaser bought 358 El Brillo Way for $18.5 million in March, and announced his plans to raze the property.

The funds from the sale have been allocated to the Victims’ Compensation Program to make payments to Epstein’s victims, after the convicted pedophile managed to kill himself in a Manhattan jail in 2019.

A usually tight-lipped local real estate broker told the newspaper he helped put the sale together to ensure that the troubled property would be demolished.

Demolition crews tear down the Palm Beach home of late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Post-USA Today Network

“I only got involved in the sale of Jeffrey Epstein’s residence to ensure it would be wiped off the map of Palm Beach,” Lawrence Moens reportedly said.

The 14,223-square-foot, six-bedroom, 1952 mansion, staff house and pool house on the Intracoastal Waterway were demolished to make way for a new property.

A shot of the debris left of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach estate after the wrecking ball. The Palm Beach Post-USA Today Network

“The former owner of this house did unmeasurable damage to the lives of countless children and was able to corrupt the legal system to the point that the courts have called it a national disgrace” former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter told the paper.

Epstein’s East 71st Street townhouse in Manhattan also sold for $50 million last month, helping to pay more than 175 sex abuse victims more than $67 million at the time.

The remnants of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion. The Palm Beach Post-USA Today Network