That contract, June 6 -- The 2016 contract was precise in a way that Jeffrey Epstein's life rarely was. Should he die, the sperm he had deposited with California Cryobank were not to be discarded. Control would pass instead to his estate - or to whatever legal representative came after him. The financier and convicted sex offender was, in other words, planning for a future in which he would not be around, but his biology still could be.

and that the institutions involved appear reluctant to resolve. The New York Times first reported the discovery on Sunday, drawing on emails and documents that place Epstein's contact with the cryobank as early as October 2012. He renewed the arrangement four years later.

The where-is-it question has no ...