{"id":118249,"date":"2026-01-31T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118249\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:36:13","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-was-banned-from-xbox-live-due-to-microsoft-ny-sex-offender-policy-new-files-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118249\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Xbox Live due to Microsoft-NY sex offender policy, new files reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Xbox LIVE account was banned because he was registered as a sex offender in 2013, according to emails released in the latest document dump<\/a> on the deceased pedophile.<\/p>\n

Microsoft canned Epstein\u2019s gaming profile as part of an agreement with the New York State Attorney General\u2019s office that required the tech giant to remove all sex offenders to protect the online gaming community, especially children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis message is to notify you that Xbox LIVE has permanently suspended the Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address,\u201d said the notice sent to Epstein\u2019s<\/a> \u201cjeevacation\u201d email address on Dec. 19, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis action is based on the New York Attorney General\u2019s partnership with Microsoft and other online gaming companies to remove New York registered sex offenders from online gaming services to minimize the risk to others, particularly children. As a result, any Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address will not be able to connect to Xbox LIVE.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s gaming account was banned because he was registered as a sex offender in 2013, according to emails released in the latest document dump on the deceased pedophile. AP<\/p>\n

Microsoft canned Epstein\u2019s Xbox LIVE account as part of an agreement with the New York State Attorney General\u2019s office. Department Of Justice<\/p>\n

The disgraced financier received an automated email<\/a> earlier in the day that notified him of his account\u2019s doom, saying it was permanently suspended due to \u201charassment, abuse or threats to other players.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis conduct has been determined to be severe, repeated, and\/or excessive,\u201d the initial warning read.<\/p>\n

Epstein had been a registered sex offender since 2008, when he was convicted in Florida<\/a> on two counts of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.<\/p>\n

Epstein\u2019s victim, who was 14-years-old at the time, claimed that she was paid $200 for a massage<\/a> at his Palm Beach mansion in 2005.<\/p>\n

In court papers, she said he used a vibrator on her while he masturbated.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security prison, but only served 13 and was placed on the national sex offender registry as part of a plea deal.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on the release of the Epstein files<\/p>\n

Epstein appeared to have created his account on or around Oct. 31, 2012, according to a \u201cWelcome to Xbox Live\u201d email he received, Friday\u2019s file release showed.<\/a><\/p>\n

Esptein\u2019s account history was not shown in the files.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t clear if Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates knew about Epstein\u2019s permanent suspension, as the two men had known each other.<\/p>\n

Epstein claimed, in an email in July 2013,<\/a> that Gates asked one of his advisers to provide him with medicine to treat\u00a0sexually transmitted diseases<\/a>\u00a0that he had allegedly caught from having \u201csex with Russian girls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Epstein appeared to have created his account on or around Oct. 31, 2012, according to a \u201cWelcome to Xbox Live\u201d email he received, the Friday\u2019s file release showed. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

Epstein appeared to be making the claims in a draft\u00a0statement\u00a0on behalf of Gates\u2019 longtime science adviser, Boris Nikolic, announcing his intent to leave the\u00a0Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the past few weeks I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill,\u201d Epstein wrote in Nikolic\u2019s voice on July 18, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 In my role as his right hand I had been asked on mulitple occassion\u00a0[sic] and in hindsight, wrongly acquiesced into participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate, to the ethically unsound and had been repeatedly asked to do other things that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal,\u201d Epstein continued.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilictating\u00a0[sic] his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall [for] bridge [tournaments] . I feel I owe it to my friends and futre\u00a0[sic] colleagues to admit a moral failure , to ask forgiveness and to move on with my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Gates spokesperson denied the claims, calling them \u201cabsolutely absurd and completely false,\u201d according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

The emails were part of a trove of 3.5 million pages of documents put out by the Department of Justice Friday, in response to a law that President Trump signed on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Xbox LIVE account was banned because he was registered as a sex offender in 2013, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6769,2778,9,11,10,58,26209,52061],"class_list":["post-118249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-microsoft","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news","tag-video-games","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}