Who Are the Newly Revealed Jeffrey Epstein Associates?

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Because of court docket filings and information stories, the listing of distinguished individuals who had been associates of Jeffrey Epstein continues to develop. For a lot of, their ties to the infamous intercourse trafficker and longtime high-society hobnobber weren’t beforehand identified. We’ve additionally realized about deeper ties between Epstein and a few boldface names with whom he has already been related, together with how steadily Epstein met together with his high-flying friends.

In 2019, New York printed an exhaustive listing of all of Epstein’s alleged high-society contacts, in response to public paperwork accessible on the time. Beneath, a take a look at the brand new names and particulars revealed within the newer stories and court docket paperwork, how these associates have been linked to Epstein, and extra developments on this ongoing saga.

On December 18, 2023, federal decide Loretta Preska dominated that sealed paperwork from Virginia Giuffre’s settled 2015 defamation lawsuit towards Ghislaine Maxwell could be made public. That began occurring on January 3, when 45 paperwork had been launched. (Not one of the paperwork straight implicates any of the Epstein associates named apart from Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year sentence for her position in Epstein’s trafficking scheme.) Between the flight logs, Epstein’s black e-book, and all of the reporting on his society connections, many of the names within the unsealed paperwork are already identified — a cause Choose Preska cited when she dominated to launch the paperwork.

Beneath are some particulars from the paperwork that look like new to the general public, summarized in reverse chronological order as they had been launched.

Seven extra court docket paperwork from Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit towards Maxwell had been launched on January 9 — the ultimate doc launch of the much-anticipated cycle. These previous few paperwork are for much longer than the beforehand unsealed information, some 1,500 pages together with the 2016 deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell, the 2016 deposition of Jeffrey Epstein, and the 2016 deposition of Virginia Giuffre.

Below oath, Giuffre claimed that she was compelled to have intercourse with “Prince Andrew for one” in addition to one other prince who “did communicate [a] overseas tongue” and “spoke English effectively.” Giuffre additionally claimed she was paid $15,000 to have intercourse with Prince Andrew. (In 2022, Prince Andrew settled a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by Giuffre; underneath the phrases, he was not required to confess guilt.) Later, Giuffre is requested: “What distinguished American politicians apart from those we’ve already named had been you trafficked to?” She answered Invoice Richardson and a reputation that’s redacted. (A spokesperson for Richardson, who died final yr, denied any wrongdoing.)

Seventeen extra court docket paperwork from Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit towards Maxwell had been launched on January 8. They embrace a salacious declare from a girl named Sarah Ransome, who mentioned that her buddy had intercourse with Invoice Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Richard Branson whereas working for Epstein and that she had video of a few of the encounters. Emails from Ransome to a New York Submit reporter in 2016 even declare to know Donald Trump’s sexual proclivities. Ransome later emailed the reporter, saying she wished to “retract every thing I’ve mentioned to you and stroll away from this.” In 2019, Ransome additionally advised The New Yorker she by no means really had any video.

The paperwork additionally embrace what look like new photos of alleged victims on Little St. James island.

Seventy-three extra court docket paperwork from Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit towards Maxwell had been launched on January 5. They embrace a partial transcript of Maxwell’s July 2016 deposition, wherein she was steadily suggested by her legal professional to not reply questions relating to Epstein — together with one about her being conscious of Epstein’s allegedly having intercourse with a 13-year-old.

The paperwork embrace a telling e-mail change wherein Maxwell knowledgeable Epstein of Gawker’s publication of his little black e-book of contacts in 2015. “Shouldn’t be authorized,” Epstein emailed again. Additionally they include a deposition from his former home supervisor Juan Alessi, who claimed Prince Andrew spent “weeks” at Epstein’s Palm Seaside mansion, throughout which he had “day by day massages.”

“A therapeutic massage was like a deal with for everyone,” Alessi mentioned.

The docs additionally embrace a memo from 2004 informing Epstein that Harvey Weinstein had known as him. (“On the time, Epstein was seen as a rich energy dealer with entry to many individuals of varied industries and for a lot of causes,” Weinstein’s spokesman, Juda Engelmayer, advised the Related Press.)

Nineteen extra court docket paperwork from Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit towards Maxwell had been launched on January 4. A lot of the info within the launch has already been made public in some capability — together with one eye-popping however unsubstantiated allegation about Invoice Clinton. In an e-mail change with reporter Sharon Churcher from 2011, Giuffre claimed the previous president had as soon as “walked into” the workplace of Vainness Honest and “threatened them to not write sex-trafficing articiles about his good buddy J.E.” The declare — which first appeared as an unverified tip on Gawker in 2007 — has by no means been verified. Quickly after the paperwork had been made public, a consultant for former Vainness Honest editor Graydon Carter advised the Telegraph that “this categorically didn’t occur.”

Vulture’s Zoe Man explains:

In a single deposition, alleged sufferer Johanna Sjoberg is examined by legal professional Laura Menninger, who requested Sjoberg about press stories saying she met Cate Blanchett and Leonardo DiCaprio. Sjoberg affirms that she by no means met both Blanchett or DiCaprio, solely that Epstein name-dropped and claimed to be taking calls from the 2 A-list actors in entrance of her. “He could be on the telephone so much at the moment, and one time he mentioned, ‘Oh, that was Leonardo,’ or, ‘That was Cate Blanchett,’ or Bruce Willis,” she advised the legal professional, in response to paperwork reviewed by Vulture. Sjoberg added that she didn’t meet Cameron Diaz or Naomi Campbell, both.

A number of new particulars got here from a 2016 deposition by Johanna Sjoberg, an alleged Epstein sufferer who claimed to have been trafficked by him between 2001 and 2006. Sjoberg was requested in her deposition if Epstein had ever talked about Invoice Clinton.

“He mentioned one time that Clinton likes them younger, referring to ladies,” Sjoberg mentioned underneath oath. (She famous that she by no means met the previous president.) In one other doc, Maxwell claimed Clinton had by no means been to Epstein’s island.

Sjoberg additionally claimed she was as soon as on a non-public aircraft with Epstein when it made an sudden cease in Atlantic Metropolis. “Nice, we’ll name Trump,” she mentioned, paraphrasing Epstein. (Each Trump and Clinton have denied any wrongdoing within the years wherein they related to Epstein.)

On the day the court docket paperwork had been unsealed, Mark Epstein, the youthful brother of the late financier, advised the New York Submit that his brother as soon as advised him he knew damning particulars about each Hillary Clinton and Trump. “Right here’s a direct quote: ‘If I mentioned what I learn about each candidates, they’d should cancel the election,’” Mark Epstein mentioned, paraphrasing his brother. Mark additionally advised the Submit that he believed there was a conspiracy concerned in his brother’s demise. “It looks like a cover-up,” he mentioned. “Why can’t I discover his pre-hospital care report and why can’t I get the 911 name?”

Mark Epstein later advised NewsNation that his brother “was simply having an excellent time.”

Sjoberg additionally supplied two new Epstein associates in her deposition: David Copperfield and Michael Jackson. She claimed she met Jackson at Epstein’s Palm Seaside mansion. On one other event at one in all Epstein’s properties, she met Copperfield, who she mentioned “did some magic tips.” Sjoberg claimed Copperfield “questioned me if I used to be conscious that women had been getting paid to seek out different women.” Sjoberg, who was in faculty, recalled seeing a youthful woman at dinner with Copperfield and thought she gave the impression to be of high-school age however she wasn’t sure: “I needed to assume for my very own sanity that she was a daughter of one in all his buddies.”

In an e-mail from January 2015, Epstein advised Maxwell he would “subject a reward to any of Virginia [Giuffre’s] buddies” prepared to “come ahead and assist show her allegations are false.” In the identical e-mail, Epstein wrote, “The strongest is the clinton dinner, and the brand new model within the Virgin Islands that stven hawking partica-ted in an underage orgy.” (Hawking, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, was photographed on Epstein’s Little St. James island in 2006, the yr Epstein was first charged.)

Whereas Epstein’s madam as soon as claimed she had little contact with him after his sweetheart jail deal resulted in 2009, emails between the 2 present an change as late as 2015. “You will have carried out nothing mistaken,” Epstein wrote Maxwell in January of that yr. “I’d urge you to begin appearing prefer it. Go outdoors, head excessive, not as an escaping convict. Go to events. Take care of it.” Earlier that month, Epstein despatched Maxwell the e-mail asking her to seek out sources to counter Virginia Giuffre’s claims.

In a deposition from 2009, former Epstein housekeeper Alfredo Rodriguez mentioned that Ghislaine Maxwell threatened him to maintain quiet about Epstein’s alleged intercourse trafficking. “She mentioned one thing like don’t open your mouth or one thing like that,” he mentioned. “I’m 55 and I’m afraid. To start with, I don’t have a job, however I’m glad that is on tape as a result of I don’t need nothing to occur to me.”

Rodriguez additionally acknowledged within the deposition that he was supposed to hold money “always” at hand over to ladies at Epstein’s Palm Seaside mansion. He died in 2015 after being sentenced to 18 months in jail for trying to promote Epstein’s little black e-book — the identical sentence size Epstein was given for his crimes.

The paperwork embrace new allegations relating to a number of contacts already identified to have had associations with Epstein:

Buckingham Palace declined to remark to the Each day Beast on Prince Andrew’s behalf. When the paperwork had been launched, Dershowitz — who helped negotiate Epstein’s soft jail deal — went on Fox Information to deny the allegations.

Some social media posts have have claimed that the newly launched paperwork include the names from Jeffrey Epstein’s shopper listing, however these claims are false.

Reporting from a number of shops continues to uncover boldfaced names who hadn’t initially been linked to Epstein, however who got here into contact with him over time.

Within the spring of 2023, the Wall Road Journal found a number of new names after it obtained a beforehand unreported trove of paperwork, together with hundreds of emails and Epstein’s non-public schedules courting from 2013 to 2017. (The New York Instances obtained Epstein’s scheduling paperwork via a public-records request to the U.S. Virgin Islands legal professional basic.) The paperwork all pertain to the time interval after Epstein pleaded responsible in 2008 to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution in Florida, and not less than a few of the interval was after Epstein was publicly accused of intercourse trafficking by sufferer Virginia Giuffre in 2015.

The schedules embrace particulars of quite a few conferences Epstein deliberate and with whom — however the Journal famous on the time that it couldn’t confirm whether or not the entire conferences really occurred. Lots of the conferences befell at Epstein’s Higher East Facet townhouse, one of many places the place he’s alleged to have sexually abused ladies and women.

Beneath, a working listing of these names:

In response to the Wall Road Journal, the designer was one of many folks listed on Epstein’s schedules after 2008, and a few victims who the Journal spoke with mentioned that Epstein had used Wang’s title whereas main the victims to imagine he would assist them with their vogue careers. Per the Journal, “Wang mentioned she regrets ever associating with Epstein. ‘I by no means knew he was utilizing my title in any capability, and it horrifies and repulses me to now hear that he did so,’ she mentioned.”

The Wall Road Journal additionally stories that the mannequin’s title was in Epstein’s schedules after 2008, and that one in all Epstein’s accusers went with him to a Campbell occasion in Paris:

The Ukrainian mannequin mentioned she attended a 2010 vogue occasion for Naomi Campbell in Paris when Epstein noticed her and despatched a Russian girl to speak to her. The lady described Epstein to her as a rich philanthropist who was a buddy of Campbell and will assist her modeling profession. “She appeared very upper-class,” the Ukrainian mentioned of the Russian girl. “I noticed her standing subsequent to the celebrities within the VIP crowd.” Campbell “had no concept Epstein was utilizing her title to draw younger women excited about modeling, and as he did with many others, he overstated their acquaintanceship,” mentioned a spokeswoman for the mannequin. “She deeply regrets having had any contact with Epstein after his conviction.”

The Wall Road Journal stories that one in all Epstein’s accusers mentioned he had proven her emails he had exchanged with Jagland, explaining that he wished her to satisfy him.

Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. mentioned in a Fox Information interview that he twice flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft, as Intelligencer’s Matt Stieb explains:

“I used to be on it in 1993,” Kennedy mentioned. “And I went to Florida with my spouse and two youngsters to go to my mother over Easter. My spouse had some form of relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.” He mentioned the second journey was additionally together with his spouse on the time, Mary Richardson, and his 4 youngsters to go fossil-hunting in South Dakota. You understand, normal family-trip fare …

Kennedy claimed that he was on a flight to Palm Seaside, Florida, for Easter in 1993. However Epstein’s flight logs from the early ’90s present that RFK Jr. and relations flew with Epstein and Maxwell from Teterboro airport to Florida on February 17 and that they flew again on February 27 — virtually two months earlier than the Easter vacation that yr. There may be additionally no report in any publicly accessible Epstein flight logs of the Kennedy household’s fossil-collecting journey to South Dakota.

In response to a court docket submitting, Epstein suggested Brin from 2004 to 2007, together with steering on find out how to arrange a tax shelter — a tax-saving belief for Brin’s youngsters known as a grantor-retained annuity belief, or GRAT — with bankers at JPMorgan Chase. Brin had turn into a shopper of the financial institution in 2004 following a referral from Epstein and subsequently held greater than $4 billion in accounts there. The Wall Road Journal notes that Epstein helped billionaire and Apollo International Administration co-founder Leon Black arrange an identical tax shelter. Epstein’s relationship with Brin got here to gentle in an August 2023 court docket submitting by the U.S. Virgin Islands in its civil swimsuit towards JPMorgan over the financial institution’s relationship with Epstein.

The Wall Road Journal stories that in response to court docket filings made by JPMorgan Chase in response to the civil swimsuit introduced towards the financial institution by the U.S. Virgin Islands, Cecile de Jongh allegedly started working for Epstein beginning in 2000 and continued working for him when her husband, John de Jongh, was serving as governor of the U.S. territory (from 2007 to 2015). The court docket filings additionally allege Cecile de Jongh helped prepare visas for a few of Epstein’s victims. Per the Journal’s report:

De Jongh helped get visas for a number of alleged victims of Epstein, JPMorgan mentioned in court docket filings. She linked one girl to an area immigration lawyer and labored to get others scholar visas by arranging particular courses for them on the College of the Virgin Islands, the financial institution mentioned. De Jongh helped prepare and enroll Epstein victims in an English as a second language, or ESL, course on the college, in response to emails she despatched to school employees and Epstein.

“They’re structuring the category across the girls. Please let me know in order that they know what to do or to not do,” de Jongh wrote to Epstein in June 2013, in response to the court docket filings.

In response to the paperwork, the longtime Israeli politician was an everyday visitor of Epstein’s at his Higher East Facet townhouse within the years from 2013 to 2017, assembly with the financier month-to-month for big stretches of that point. He additionally flew on Epstein’s jet. Reached by the Journal, Barak acknowledged that he met with Epstein when visiting New York Metropolis and that Epstein “usually introduced different fascinating individuals, from artwork or tradition, regulation or science, finance, diplomacy or philanthropy.” He mentioned he by no means met Epstein “with women or minors, and even grownup ladies in improper context or conduct,”

The connection between Epstein and Gates has been well-known for years, however in late Might, the Journal printed a revelatory new story on their relationship. The paper reported that Gates had an affair with a bridge participant named Mila Antonova within the early 2010s and that Epstein tried to leverage his information of the state of affairs towards the Microsoft co-founder.

By Antonova’s account, Gates, an avid bridge participant, had met her at a event in 2010 whereas Gates was nonetheless married to his now ex-wife, Melinda. Antonova later sought cash to fund a start-up that may assist folks be taught the sport on-line. Boris Nikolic, a buddy after which–scientific adviser to Gates, launched Antonova to Epstein in 2013. Epstein didn’t conform to fund the enterprise however did pay for Antonova to go to software-coding college.

Then, in 2017, effectively after the Gates-Antonova relationship had ended, Epstein reportedly emailed Gates requesting that he reimburse him for the price of the education. That message got here shortly after Gates rebuffed Epstein’s efforts to get a significant charitable fund with JPMorgan Chase off the bottom. From the Journal:

The implication behind the message, in response to individuals who have seen it, was that Epstein may reveal the affair if Gates didn’t sustain an affiliation between the 2 males.

However Gates reportedly by no means paid Epstein.

“I had no concept that he was a prison or had any ulterior motive,” Antonova advised the Journal of Epstein. “I simply thought he was a profitable businessman and wished to assist.” She mentioned, “I’m disgusted with Epstein and what he did.” And Nikolic mentioned, “I deeply remorse that I ever met Epstein. His crimes had been despicable. I by no means noticed something like his unlawful conduct. My coronary heart goes out to his victims and their households.”

Epstein had roughly two dozen conferences scheduled with Botstein over the 4 years coated within the paperwork, principally at his townhouse. Concerning his relationship with Epstein, Botstein advised the Journal he was solely excited about Epstein’s cash: “I used to be an unsuccessful fundraiser and truly the article of a little bit little bit of sadism on his half in dangling philanthropic help.”

Botstein mentioned he first met with Epstein in 2012 to thank him for making unsolicited donations to the school’s excessive faculties, then he continued assembly with him to attempt to safe extra. Epstein donated 66 laptops to Bard in 2015, in response to the paperwork, and Botstein twice invited Epstein to musical performances on the faculty, however the longtime Bard president mentioned he finally concluded that Epstein wasn’t excited about making extra donations and “he was merely stringing us alongside.”

A follow-up report from the Journal discovered that Botstein accepted $150,000 in checks from an account linked to Epstein in 2016. Botstein claims that cash was then donated to Bard, which was confirmed by the varsity. A spokesperson for Botstein added that the cash was for his yearlong position on an advisory board for Gratitude America, Epstein’s charity.

That Epstein was a convicted intercourse offender who had admitted to procuring a toddler for prostitution didn’t dissuade Botstein and Bard from looking for his monetary help. “We appeared him up, and he was a convicted felon for a intercourse crime,” Botstein advised the Journal, however “we imagine in rehabilitation.” He mentioned they saved his prison historical past in thoughts when Epstein visited the varsity: “Due to his earlier report, we had safety prepared. He didn’t have any free entry to anyone.” In response to the plans within the paperwork, Epstein introduced a few of his younger feminine assistants on his journeys to Bard.

The paperwork point out that Epstein had three scheduled conferences in 2014 with Burns, who was at that time the deputy secretary of State within the Obama administration. They met each in Washington, D.C., and New York, per the Journal:

A lunch was deliberate that August on the workplace of regulation agency Steptoe & Johnson in Washington. Epstein scheduled two night appointments that September with Mr. Burns at his townhouse, the paperwork present. After one of many scheduled conferences, Epstein deliberate for his driver to take Mr. Burns to the airport.

The longtime diplomat left the State Division in October of that yr and have become president of the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace, the place he remained till President Biden nominated Burns to run the CIA in 2021.

CIA spokesperson Tammy Kupperman Thorp launched an announcement to the Journal denying Burns had any type of relationship with Epstein: “The director didn’t know something about him, apart from that he was launched as an professional within the monetary providers sector and provided basic recommendation on transition to the non-public sector,” she mentioned. “That they had no relationship.”

In response to the paperwork, Epstein organized a number of conferences with Chomsky in 2015 and 2016, when he was instructing at MIT, the place Epstein had donated tons of of hundreds of {dollars}. The scheduled conferences included a gatherings of teachers in addition to a flight with Epstein aboard his non-public jet to New York to have a dinner at his townhouse with movie director Woody Allen and his spouse, Quickly-Yi Previn.

When the Journal requested Chomsky in regards to the conferences, the 94-year-old replied in an e-mail that his “first response is that it’s none of your enterprise. Or anybody’s. Second is that I knew him and we met often.” Chomsky mentioned he and Epstein mentioned politics and teachers, and “if there was a flight, which I doubt, it will have been from Boston to New York, half-hour. I’m unaware of the precept that requires that I inform you about a night spent with an important artist.”

“What was identified about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a criminal offense and had served his sentence,” Chomsky advised the Journal. “In response to U.S. legal guidelines and norms, that yields a clear slate.” He additionally mentioned Epstein organized for him to satisfy Barak so they might speak about “Israel’s insurance policies with regard to Palestinian points and the worldwide area.”

A follow-up report from the Journal confirmed that Chomsky obtained a switch of round $270,000 from an account linked to Epstein in March 2018. “My late spouse died 15 years in the past after a protracted sickness. We paid no consideration to monetary points,” Chomsky defined by e-mail. “We requested Epstein for recommendation. The best means gave the impression to be to switch funds from one account in my title to a different, by means of his workplace.”

Rød-Larsen will not be a family title, however he’s a giant deal in diplomatic circles, having helped put collectively the landmark Oslo Accords within the early Nineteen Nineties. Per the Journal, he was such a fixture at Epstein’s New York townhouse between 2013 and 2017 that the employees knew to have cucumbers prepared for his gin. He additionally obtained a private mortgage from Epstein in addition to a donation to his nonprofit.

Rød-Larsen stepped down from that nonprofit when his ties to Epstein had been initially revealed in 2020. He gave no extra remark to the Journal.

The Journal stories that Epstein scheduled greater than a dozen conferences over the 4 years with Ramo, who was at that time a co-CEO of Henry Kissinger’s consulting firm. Ramo additionally served on the board of Starbucks and nonetheless serves on the board of FedEx. A lot of the conferences had been scheduled within the night at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. Epstein additionally invited him to a 2013 breakfast on the townhouse that Barak attended.

Ramo didn’t reply to the Journal’s requests to touch upon the conferences.

In 2019, the non-public Swiss financial institution Edmond de Rothschild Group falsely claimed it and its chairwoman, Ariane de Rothschild, had no ties to Epstein. In response to the paperwork reviewed by the Journal:

Mrs. de Rothschild, who married into the well-known banking household, had greater than a dozen conferences with Epstein. He sought her assist with staffing and furnishings in addition to mentioned enterprise offers along with her, in response to the paperwork. In September 2013, Epstein requested Mrs. de Rothschild in an e-mail for assist discovering a brand new assistant, “feminine … multilingual, organized.”

“I’ll ask round,” Mrs. de Rothschild emailed again. 

She purchased practically $1 million price of public sale gadgets on Epstein’s behalf in 2014 and 2015, the paperwork present. Mrs. de Rothschild was named chairwoman of the financial institution in January 2015. That October, she and Epstein negotiated a $25 million contract for Epstein’s Southern Belief Co. to offer “threat evaluation and the appliance and use of sure algorithms” for the financial institution[.]

In a response to the Journal, the financial institution admitted that its 2019 assertion was inaccurate and mentioned that de Rothschild had business-related conferences with Epstein from 2013 to 2019, that he had launched the financial institution to U.S. finance leaders, supplied tax and threat consulting, and had beneficial regulation corporations. The financial institution additionally mentioned that Epstein “solicited her personally on a pair events for recommendation and providers on property administration” and that she “was equally unaware of any questions relating to his private conduct” on the time.

The paperwork reveal that Epstein scheduled greater than three dozen conferences with Ruemmler, beginning in 2014, after she left the White Home counsel’s workplace and joined the non-public sector as a accomplice on the regulation agency Latham & Watkins. Epstein additionally scheduled her to fly with him to Paris in 2015 and to his now-notorious island property within the U.S. Virgin Islands, he checked out residences she was excited about, and he mentioned together with his employees whether or not the younger ladies working at his Manhattan townhouse would make Ruemmler uncomfortable. In response to emails obtained by NBC Information, Epstein additionally referred her as a shopper to JPMorgan Chase in 2019, simply months earlier than his closing arrest. “Jeffrey simply thought that Kathy is without doubt one of the strongest ladies in Washington and thought you two would bond,” Epstein’s assistant wrote to a JPMC staffer.

In 2020, Ruemmler took a job as a prime lawyer on the Goldman Sachs Group, the place she co-chairs the agency’s reputational-risk advisory committee. A Goldman spokesperson advised the Journal that Ruemmler’s relationship with Epstein was skilled and associated to her work at Latham & Watkins:

Within the regular course, Epstein additionally invited her to conferences and social gatherings, launched her to different enterprise contacts and made referrals. It was the identical sorts of contacts and engagements she had with different contacts and shoppers.

The spokesperson additionally mentioned that Ruemmler by no means seen something untoward at his townhouse, that she by no means flew anyplace with him, that she by no means visited his island, and that her remark was “I remorse ever realizing Jeffrey Epstein.”

Ties between Epstein and the ex–Treasury secretary and Harvard president had been already well-known. However the Journal gives extra element about their connection. Although Harvard stopped accepting donations from Epstein after his 2008 conviction, Summers continued to satisfy with him steadily.

The paper uncovered an e-mail Summers despatched to Epstein in 2014, wherein he requested the financier’s recommendation on find out how to elevate cash for a nonprofit poetry initiative spearheaded by his spouse, Harvard professor Elisa New. “I would like small scale philanthropy recommendation. My life will probably be higher if i elevate $1m for Lisa,” Summers wrote. “Principally it would go to make it a pbs sequence and for trainer coaching. Concepts?” Epstein and Summers made plans for dinner close to Summers’s Massachusett house two days later, and in 2016, an Epstein-linked nonprofit gave $110,000 to New’s venture.

In an announcement to the Journal, Summers and New mentioned that Summers “deeply regrets being in touch with Epstein after his conviction,” New “regrets accepting funding from Epstein,” and that New’s nonprofit had made a donation “exceeding the quantity obtained” from Epstein to an anti-sex trafficking group.

The New York Instances stories that in response to Epstein’s scheduling information, Epstein had a number of conferences with the PayPal co-founder in 2014:

The information — within the type of emails that Mr. Epstein’s assistant despatched to remind him of upcoming occasions — present that in September 2014 Mr. Thiel was scheduled to satisfy with Mr. Epstein on not less than three events, both in one-on-one conferences or with others over lunch or dinner. Two different occasions, Mr. Thiel was listed amongst greater than a dozen different well-known folks Mr. Epstein ought to attempt to see whereas at his New York mansion. It’s unclear from the information whether or not all of the conferences with Mr. Thiel befell. Some had been listed as tentative or “TBD” — for “to be decided.”

The Wall Road Journal stories that Epstein additionally scheduled conferences between Thiel, himself, and Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin. “I used to be reasonably naïve,” Thiel mentioned of the 2016 assembly. “I didn’t assume sufficient about what Epstein’s agenda may need been.”

Shut Trump ally and private-equity supervisor Tom Barrack was buddies with Epstein and the previous president again once they had been shut in South Florida within the Nineteen Eighties. The Wall Road Journal stories that Epstein tried to revive the connection in 2016 after Trump cinched the Republican nomination. In August of that yr, Epstein schedule a lunch with Barrack, who was a casual adviser to the Trump marketing campaign on the time. Barrack was additionally invited to Epstein’s Higher East Facet townhouse in September 2016 with Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin and Woody Allen.

The private-equity large’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was made public years in the past, ultimately resulting in his departure from his place as chairman of the Museum of Fashionable Artwork. However Leon Black remains to be dealing with scrutiny for his connections to Epstein. On July 25, the Senate Finance Committee introduced it will examine the Apollo International Administration co-founder’s dealings with Epstein. The probe will look into the $158 million that Black paid Epstein over time for tax and estate-planning recommendation — a nine-figure sum to a person who didn’t graduate faculty. 4 days earlier, on July 21, Black additionally agreed to pay $62.5 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands in a settlement that may clear him from any allegations made through the territory’s investigation into Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking ring on Little St. James.

Black may be again in civil court docket for his Epstein connections. On July 26, an nameless girl with Down syndrome and autism sued Black in New York for allegedly raping her when she was 16. The alleged assault befell in 2002 at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion — after which Epstein refused to take her to see a physician, leaving her within the care of Ghislaine Maxwell. Black’s lawyer has known as the allegations “frivolous and sanctionable.”

One of many dealings Black had with Epstein, the New York Instances stories, was when, in 2016, Epstein helped Black keep away from taxes when Black offered a $25 million Alberto Giacometti sculpture and used the proceeds to purchase $30 million Cezanne portray.

Staley, too, has been a well known affiliate of Epstein for years. However the banker’s connections to Epstein have confronted a brand new stage of inspection over the previous yr. Staley, who resigned from Barclays in 2021 for his affiliation with the intercourse prison, had a detailed reference to Epstein. “I deeply recognize our friendship,” Staley wrote to him in 2009 when he was working at JPMorgan Chase. “I’ve few so profound.” Emails obtained by the Each day Beast present that Epstein helped join him to his high-society associates, together with Prince Andrew, Invoice Gates, former New York Fed board member Lee Bollinger, and Dubai businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.

The biggest financial institution on this planet by market capitalization has been in bother for years for its connections to Epstein. However over the previous yr, JPMorgan Chase has needed to reply about how many individuals knew of their dealings with the alleged intercourse trafficker because of the U.S. Virgin Islands lawsuit alleging the financial institution helped allow Epstein’s operation. The newest element got here out in late August when USVI prosecutors claimed that JPMorgan processed over $1 billion for Epstein throughout his 16 years as a shopper.

The territory has sued the financial institution for $190 million in damages. In oral arguments on September 12, a lawyer for the U.S. Virgin Islands claimed that, in 2019, the financial institution had had knowledgeable the federal government of their enterprise collectively courting again to 2003, reporting it “suspicious exercise.”

“Epstein’s complete enterprise with JPMorgan and JPMorgan’s complete enterprise with Jeffrey Epstein was human trafficking,” legal professional Mimi Liu acknowledged. “The one cause that JPMorgan lastly after 16 years reported the billion {dollars} in suspicious transactions for Jeffrey Epstein is as a result of he was arrested, after which he was lifeless.” JPMorgan Chase has denied any legal responsibility and acknowledged that its enterprise was a “mistake.”

Rather less than a month forward of the trial scheduled for October 23, JPMorgan Chase settled with the U.S. Virgin Islands’s Legal professional Basic’s Workplace. The financial institution agreed to pay $75 million with $20 million of that going to charities, $20 million to attorneys’ charges, and $10 million to a victims’ mental-health fund. JPMorgan additionally reached a confidential settlement with Jes Staley for an undisclosed quantity.

As New York’s Kevin T. Dugan wrote, the settlement marked “the actual starting of the tip into the official inquiries into the cabal of rich and highly effective individuals who helped make — and who benefited mightily from — Epstein’s monstrous crimes.”

The royal’s connections to Epstein have been public for years now, however a brand new documentary on the king’s youthful brother have positioned him again within the tabloid headlines. Within the A&E documentary Secrets and techniques of Prince Andrew, mannequin Lisa Phillips claims that she noticed Prince Andrew at Little St. James in 2000, the place Epstein allegedly advised her buddy to have intercourse with the royal. “It was traumatic for her and after that, she was not the identical,” Phillips mentioned within the doc. “Her life went fully uncontrolled.”

Royal biographer Andrew Lownie mentioned within the documentary that Epstein and Prince Andrew had been “actual finest buddies” and that “there have been seven totally different numbers for Andrew in Epstein’s little black e-book.” In response to Lownie, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had been invited to royal getaways like Balmoral and Sandringham and to “private birthday events at Windsor.” (Certainly, there’s a picture of Epstein and Maxwell at a cabin on the Balmoral property.)
“Epstein and Ghislaine had been invited to the guts of the British monarchy,” Lownie mentioned. He added that Epstein allegedly as soon as mentioned: “There’s just one one who likes intercourse greater than me, and that’s Andrew.”

In response to Buckingham Palace press secretary Dickie Arbiter, Andrew would have needed to search “permission from the queen” to ask Epstein to personal occasions. “The queen would imagine her youngsters,” Arbiter mentioned.

Beneath, listed in alphabetical order, are extra of Epstein’s associates and contacts — tailored from the great listing New York compiled and printed as a canopy story in 2019.

Epstein saved a photograph of his buddy Allen, the sexual pariah, on his wall and was photographed strolling with him on the Higher East Facet. That they had greater than a neighborhood in widespread. For years earlier than his relationship with Mia Farrow, Allen had carried on with a 16-year-old woman he’d met at Elaine’s named Babi Christina Engelhardt. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she puzzled if she was the inspiration for Manhattan, Allen’s 1979 film a couple of man in his 40s who dates a high-school scholar, which was nominated for 2 Academy Awards. Engelhardt had intercourse with Allen greater than 100 occasions, she says, generally with Farrow. “The entire thing was a sport that was being operated solely by Woody so we by no means fairly knew the place we stood,” she mentioned. Engelhardt went on to turn into Epstein’s assistant.

Title present in Epstein’s black e-book.

Title discovered on Epstein’s non-public jet log.
Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and her husband, billionaire hedge-funder Glenn Dubin, had Epstein over for Thanksgiving dinner in 2009, telling his probation officer they had been “one hundred pc comfy” together with his being round their teenage daughter, Insider reported. She additionally created a basis so Epstein may donate to her breast-cancer charity with out attaching his title. “The Dubins are horrified by the brand new allegations towards Jeffrey Epstein,” they mentioned in a assertion. “Had they been conscious of the vile and unspeakable conduct described in these new allegations, they might have lower off all ties and positively by no means have allowed their youngsters to be in his presence.”

Title present in Epstein’s black e-book.
Began the Higher East Facet establishment Serafina.