NEW York: In a startling reversal of fortune, billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged Monday (Tuesday in Manila) with sexually abusing dozens of underage girls in a case brought more than a decade after he secretly cut a deal with federal prosecutors to dispose of nearly identical allegations.

The 66-year-old hedge fund manager, who once socialized with some of the world’s most powerful people, was charged in a newly unsealed federal indictment with sex trafficking and conspiracy during the early 2000s. He could get up to 45 years in prison if convicted.

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