Here is your Forbes daily briefing for Friday, February 6th.

Today on Forbes, how Jeffrey Epstein got so rich.

Two more billionaire clients.

Buried within the more than 3 million documents released by the Department of Justice last Friday,

are contracts and payment records identifying two previously unreported billionaire

clients of Jeffrey Epstein, real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman, and Ariane Dorothschild,

a Rothschild heir by marriage. According to the files, Epstein provided estate planning

and possibly other financial services for Zuckerman and D'roth's

child. Together, they appear to have paid him $45 million, an unusually high sum for the work

he said he was performing, according to two estate planning experts, who spoke with Forbes

anonymously given the sensitivity of the topic. One said, quote,

The industry rules of ethics require fees to be reasonable.

Those fees are insane.

There's also, of course, the fact that Epstein was not a lawyer or an accountant,

and so lacked the usual credentials for performing such work.

The clients appear to have paid Epstein between 2013 and 2015, years after he had pled guilty

in 2008 in Florida State Court to two felony prostitution-related charges.

Zuckerman, Dorothschild, and former Norwegian diplomat, Tarié Rud Larson, who appears as a third party in one

of the contracts, did not respond to requests for comment.

These revelations resolve at least a few of the mysteries about the origins of Epstein's wealth.

Forbes previously reported that the sex criminal, who was worth nearly $600 million at the time of

his death, grew his fortune in the last two decades largely through his U.S. Virgin

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