NEW YORK, June 8 -- The email arrived while Jeffrey Epstein was still under house arrest. A friend of the convicted sex offender was proposing a gift to mark his release from jail: a model, 5-foot-11, described in terms that left little ambiguity about the sender's intentions. "I was blown away the first time I met her in person, wanted to tear her clothes off immediately," the friend wrote, according to a Washington Post investigation published Monday.

The investigation, based on documents released by the Justice Department as part of the ongoing Epstein files disclosure, identifies a modeling agent who sent women from his client roster to meet Epstein at a moment when Epstein's legal status as a registered sex offender was a matter of ...