Daily Mail: “Demolition crews have pulled down the notorious Florida mansion where sex offender and financier Jeffery Epstein sexually assaulted young girls. Relieved developer Todd Michael Glaser, who purchased the sprawling Palm Beach estate for $18.5 million last month sighed ‘finally’ as the first bulldozers began razing the house of horrors to the ground Monday. Mr Glaser previously said it would be personally satisfying to tear down the mansion because of its horrific history. He plans to replace it with a 14,000-square-foot ‘Art Moderne home’. Brad Edwards, a Fort Lauderdale attorney who represents around 50 clients who say they were abused by Epstein, said the demolition is ‘symbolic’.”

“‘I think that the symbolic power of destroying the house of horrors cannot be overstated,’ he told The Palm Beach Daily News. ‘I can imagine there is going to be some amount of relief that the nightmare of what went on in the house [has] been buried to some degree.’ Breaking his rule not to comment publicly on his deals, Lawrence Moens, a Palm Beach real estate broker who represented Glaser, said: ‘I only got involved in the sale of Jeffrey Epstein’s residence to ensure it would be wiped off the map of Palm Beach.’ A large yellow digger was seen clawing at the luxury mansion where he forced school girls to massage him – sometimes in their underwear or naked – and tearing it down in large chunks. The property, which has stood since 1952 and was bought by Epstein in 1990, includes a main house, a pool cabana building and another staff house – all of which are being demolished. The swimming pool is also being destroyed and filled in.”