Yes he was a sex offender. Lots of people are, including 17-year-old boys who have sex with their underage girlfriends. The sex offender laws in the US are so d

Yes he was a sex offender. Lots of people are, including 17-year-old boys who have sex with their underage girlfriends. The sex offender laws in the US are so draconian that there's no distinction made between somebody who's seen urinating in an alley and a violent rapist. In my state (New Mexico) Epstein had a ranch where we now know he was raping girls. But guess what? He did not have to register as a sex offender in NM because the age of consent here is different than it is in Florida (that loophole has since been fixed by our legislature.) My point is that the sex offender laws in the US are meaningless. They encourage the public to assume that minor offenses are heinous and that major criminals might actually be minor offenders who got a raw deal.