 "Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 in a US prison. Reuters/File Photo")
A bizarre custom chess set, commissioned by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has surfaced. The set features Epstein himself along with nine young women, all posed suggestively as the chess pieces.
The American entertainment news platform TMZ obtained photos of the pieces, showing Epstein depicted as the king, wearing a gilded crown and a black-and-white robe corresponding to each side of the board.
The making of the set began in 2016 when a group of women in their twenties visited a photo studio in New York City to have photos taken that would later be used to create the chess pieces, according to TMZ.
The women returned multiple times for additional photo sessions, resulting in around 600 pictures. These were then used to produce 3D sculptures to complete the full set of 36 pieces, including pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, and queens.
The women said they were part of a chess club but did not disclose who the club president was, the report stated.
Epstein appeared toward the end of the project to have his own photos taken. However, the studio employee working with him apparently did not realise who he was. Epstein even admitted he wasn’t sure how many pieces a chessboard actually had, TMZ said.
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More ShortsThe entire custom chess set cost $5,000—a modest amount for someone valued at nearly $600 million at the time of his death by suicide in 2019 at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre.
Elon Musk, the newest entrant in the Jeffrey Epstein files
Elon Musk publicly denied any association with Epstein’s island, where the sex offender committed abuses, stating that Epstein “tried to get” him there but he “REFUSED."
“Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED, yet they name me even before Prince Andrew, who did visit,” Musk said in a post on X.
Musk made the statement on X shortly after his name appeared in the controversial Epstein files, which also listed Bill Gates and Steve Bannon to name a few.
The newly released documents included a December 6, 2014, itinerary listing Musk with a question about whether the visit was “still happening,” but the files offer no clear evidence that he actually visited the island.