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Elite NYC school teacher, Jeopardy! champion arrested child sex crimes

Winston Nguyen is an ex-convict who swindled $300,000 from an elderly couple and a former “Jeopardy!” champion. However, the current teacher at an elite New York City private school has most recently made headlines for being arrested for the alleged “dissemination of intimate images via social media,” according to officials.

Nguyen is currently a math teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights. According to the school’s website, preschool tuition starts at $52,900 and goes up to $60,525 for high school students.

The elite NYC school has celebrity alumni, including actress Lena Dunham, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Maya Hawk – the daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.

Saint Ann hired Nguyen as a middle- and high-school math teacher in 2020 – just one year after he was released from the prison on Rikers Island.

While at Rikers Island, Nguyen reportedly called into a radio show to speak to then-Mayor Bill de Blasio to…

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