Yes, Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch Trust Won $85 Million in the Oklahoma Lottery Two Days After He Went to Prison
In 1993, former New Mexico governor Bruce King and his son Gary King, who later served as New Mexico’s attorney general, were in deep shit, financially. This, despite Bruce King, a democrat, having been the longest-serving governor in the state’s history, with three non-consecutive 4-year terms under his big ole cowboy belt.
Archives from the Albuquerque Journal show the King family businesses owed nearly $21 million in loans they couldn’t pay that year. So they reorganized their assets, and made the heartbreaking decision to sell off about half of Bruce’s beloved Pine Canyon Ranch and King Land and Cattle company in Stanley, New Mexico.
The buyer —who paid $12 million for the nearly 7000-acre portion of the ranch, including water rights — was something ridiculously named Zorro Trust, headed by a man named Jeffrey Epstein and based in that hotbed of ranching, New York City. That amount is equivalent to $27 million today.
