Ruemmler previously downplayed her relationship with Epstein. She called him a \u201cmonster\u201d and said she regretted ever knowing him. Ruemmler has repeatedly described their relationship as professional, citing her job as a private defense attorney before she ever joined Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n
But documents released in recent weeks and reviewed by The Associated Press depict a deeper relationship than had previously been characterized by Ruemmler and Goldman Sachs. These included intimate email exchanges, social plans and gifts that went beyond formal legal work.<\/p>\n
Roughly 8,400 documents involved Ruemmler or referenced her. Some correspondence shows that Ruemmler was aware of the extent of the allegations that Epstein had faced involving underage girls in Florida. In some instances, she advised Epstein on how he might go about trying to repair his image and defend himself publicly against new claims of misconduct.<\/p>\n
The gifts Epstein gave to Ruemmler have been documented in news reports: the spa treatments, the handbags from Hermes, an Apple Watch, a Fendi coat, among many others. But some of the interactions between Epstein and Ruemmler described throughout their correspondence indicates that Epstein and Ruemmler did not simply have a lawyer-client transactional relationship, as Ruemmler previously attested to.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes him happy to see you happy,\u201d Epstein\u2019s assistant wrote to Ruemmler in 2016, after Epstein prepaid for a spa treatment for her.<\/p>\n
In October 2018, Epstein directed one of his assistants to send flowers and chicken soup to Ruemmler because she has \u201cnot been feeling well.\u201d It would not be the first time that Epstein would send her a small token of appreciation when she was sick. They talked about dating issues, made jokes about both the wealthy and everyday people, and shared laments about their careers and dating lives.<\/p>\n
They would message each other about mundane things like their mutual distaste for seeing babies in business class on flights and would repeatedly plan to have dinner or drinks in various places. Epstein even had Ruemmler as a backup executor of his will at one point.<\/p>\n
Setting aside the immense wealth and privilege and Epstein\u2019s legal troubles, many of the emails between the two would look no different from the banter that many Americans would share to in their own text messages, emails or group chats.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I adore him. It\u2019s like having another older brother!\u201d she wrote in an email in 2015.<\/p>\n
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A document that was included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, shows a Metropolitan Correctional Center report with photos of Epstein after a suicide attempt on July 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Jon Elswick)<\/p>\n