To Catch A Predator’s Chris Hansen tried sting operation on Jeffrey Epstein

Former To Catch A Predator host Chris Hansen has revealed he tried to arrange a sting operation on Jeffrey Epstein.

The previous Dateline NBC host has instructed how he tried to snare the prolific millionaire paedophile in 2014 or 2015 following Epstein’s first jail sentence.

Epstein killed himself in his jail cell in New York on August 10, 2019, whereas awaiting trial for a variety of offences, together with trafficking minors for intercourse and a number of rapes.

Chris Hansen – famed for his hit sequence To Catch A Predator, which lured paedophiles to a location the place they believed they might meet a toddler for intercourse earlier than confronting them on digital camera – has instructed how he met with attorneys representing a few of Epstein’s victims following his launch from an 18-month jail time period in 2010 for prostituting minors.

“I met with these guys and so they had a giant file on it,” he instructed Hollywood Uncooked with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn, “and I used to be attempting to vogue a [To Catch A] Predator-like sting operation wherein we may catch him.”

However Hansen stated the “ranges of safety at his place in New York have been such that it was very tough to provide you with one thing; the Florida [home] was tough to provide you with one thing”.

Hansen, who hosted the notorious sting present from 2004 to 2007, instructed the hosts: “And actually guys, I received busy with different issues.”

He admitted that not being extra aggressive on pursuing Epstein was his “greatest profession remorse.”

Others stated to have been concerned within the ring embody Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, who’s at the moment on remand within the US after being charged with the intercourse trafficking of underage women and the enticement of minors.

She has denied all of the allegations in opposition to her and any wrongdoing .

Prince Andrew, 60, can be embroiled within the intercourse abuse claims, having visited Epstein’s properties, the place lots of the worst crimes in opposition to younger women are stated to have taken place.

He has additionally denied all allegations made in opposition to him.