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All these years later, the list of prominent people who were somehow connected to Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> continues to grow \u2014 including some whose ties to the notorious sex trafficker and longtime hobnobber were not previously known. In 2019, New York published an exhaustive list of Epstein\u2019s alleged high-society contacts<\/a>, according to public documents available at the time. Below, we\u2019ve adapted and expanded that list to include the many more names and details that have emerged in the various Epstein files<\/a>, including his private schedules, his infamous birthday book<\/a>, the recently released documents and files via the House Oversight Committee, and more. (Inclusion on this list only means the person has been linked to Epstein, not that they were necessarily involved in or aware of his crimes.)<\/p>\n From our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Epstein kept a photo of his friend Allen, the sexual pariah, on his wall and was photographed walking with him on the Upper East Side. They had more than a neighborhood in common. For years before his relationship with Mia Farrow, Allen had carried on with a 16-year-old girl he\u2019d met at Elaine\u2019s named Babi Christina Engelhardt. In an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter,\u00a0she wondered if she was the inspiration for\u00a0Manhattan,\u00a0Allen\u2019s 1979 movie about a man in his 40s who dates a high-school student, which was nominated for two Academy Awards. Engelhardt had sex with Allen more than 100 times,\u00a0she says, sometimes with Farrow. \u201cThe whole thing was a game that was being operated solely by Woody so we never quite knew where we stood,\u201d she said.\u00a0Engelhardt went on to become Epstein\u2019s assistant.<\/p>\n Contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n As our guide noted in 2019:<\/p>\n Epstein\u2019s ex-girlfriend and her husband, billionaire hedge funder Glenn Dubin, had Epstein over for Thanksgiving dinner in 2009, telling his probation officer they were \u201c100 percent comfortable\u201d with his being around their teenage daughter,\u00a0Insider\u00a0reported<\/a>. She also created a foundation so Epstein could donate to her breast-cancer charity without attaching his name. \u201cThe Dubins are horrified by the new allegations against Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d they said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>. \u201cHad they been aware of the vile and unspeakable conduct described in these new allegations, they would have cut off all ties and certainly never\u00a0have allowed their children to be in his presence.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n A onetime White House intern who climbed his way to being Bill Clinton\u2019s bag carrier, body man, fixer, and all-purpose gatekeeper, Band arranged for the former president to travel to Africa on Epstein\u2019s 727 in 2002. Band would go on to help his boss found the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, a choice platform from which he launched his own lucrative favor-trading corporate-advisory firm, Teneo. Throughout that time, he took a number of trips on Epstein\u2019s plane and attended parties at his townhouse. Band resigned from his position at CGI in 2012; leaked emails later showed Band and Chelsea Clinton trading accusations of conflicts of interest in a war of influence over her parents. More recently, Band\u2019s been teaching a \u201cPublic Service\u201d class at NYU.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Baldwin has denied knowing Epstein.<\/p>\n Bannon and Epstein regularly corresponded in 2018 and 2019, as the Washington Post reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Bannon\u2019s phone number and email address are redacted from the newly released files, but the messages include hyperlinks to media appearances and interviews he gave. In one exchange, Epstein suggests that a woman he is connected with will contact the email recipient. The person responds: \u201cOh \u2018the next future ex-mrs. bannon.\u2019\u201d Bannon spent much of spring 2019 in Europe, and Epstein frequently offered to send a private jet or charter a plane to ferry Bannon to meet him in Paris. Bannon appears to have stayed overnight at Epstein\u2019s home in spring 2019, the messages show.<\/p>\n In early 2018, Epstein began referring to Bannon as a friend in emails. Bannon regularly sent him links to his media appearances, and Epstein would offer feedback.<\/p>\n The longtime Israeli politician was a regular guest of Epstein\u2019s at his Upper East Side townhouse from 2013 to 2017, meeting with the financier monthly for large stretches of that time. He also flew on Epstein\u2019s jet and exchanged numerous emails with him.<\/p>\n From our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Barr was ousted shortly before Epstein, 21 and without a college degree, showed up for his first day of work teaching math and physics at the Manhattan\u2019s elite Dalton School in the early 1970s. Barr announced his resignation soon after, in February 1974: \u201cHe was disliked by the faculty, he was highly controversial, he hadn\u2019t raised much money, he was very conservative,\u201d said the board\u2019s chairman. Barr\u2019s leadership style was described as \u201cauthoritarian\u201d and \u201cundemocratic\u201d at the time. Memorably, several former students told the New York\u00a0Times<\/a>\u00a0that Epstein was overly familiar with teenage girls at the school. Donald\u2019s son William would intersect with Epstein\u2019s orbit while serving as a counsel at Kirkland & Ellis in 2009. The law firm secured Epstein his obscenely lenient 2007 non-prosecution deal, which the Justice Department is now reviewing. In July, Barr the son refused to recuse himself from the ongoing Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n The staunch Donald Trump ally was friends with Epstein and the former president\u00a0back when they were close<\/a>\u00a0in South Florida in the 1980s.\u00a0Epstein apparently tried to<\/a> revive the connection in 2016 after Trump cinched the Republican nomination. In August of that year, Epstein scheduled a lunch with Barrack, who was an informal adviser to the Trump campaign at the time. Barrack was also invited to Epstein\u2019s Upper East Side townhouse in September 2016 with Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin and Woody Allen.<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n As we noted in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n A wealthy executive whose family established the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, Berkman was sued in 2014 by his administrative assistant, who said she was forced to read emails Berkman had sent to a colleague containing \u201cpictures of random and unsuspecting women on the street\u201d \u2014 that is, creepshots. (The suit was settled.)<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Birley owned the club where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had their first date.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book \u2014 listed as Debbie.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Yes, those Bismarcks.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n From our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n He\u2019s perhaps best known for being sentenced to 42 months in prison for fraud, then writing a book about Trump and receiving a pardon. Vicky Ward, who profiled Epstein for\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a>\u00a0in 2003, said Epstein heavily leaned on Black, who is her ex-husband\u2019s uncle (and was her ex-husband\u2019s then-boss), to try to exert his influence on Ward.<\/p>\n The private-equity giant\u2019s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, whom he paid tens of millions of dollars to, eventually lead to Black stepping down as CEO of Apollo and to his\u00a0departure<\/a>\u00a0from his position as chairman of the Museum of Modern Art. Black contributed a poem to the birthday book. Their emails<\/a> have also come out, including one in which Epstein writes: \u201cLeon, As you are well aware, There is little I won\u2019t do for you, or at least try to do as a friend, and a great deal that I have already done (both known and some things that will need to remain unknown).\u201d Black has denied having any awareness of Epstein\u2019s crimes.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n The trial attorney and legal analyst\u2019s client roster has included Justin Bieber,\u00a0Girls Gone Wild\u00a0creator Joe Francis, and Rush Limbaugh. Black is perhaps best known for representing William Kennedy Smith against rape charges in Palm Beach in 1991. (The Kennedy nephew was acquitted.) In 2005, Black played the \u201cmanaging partner\u201d on NBC\u2019s\u00a0The Law Firm,\u00a0a knockoff of\u00a0The Apprentice\u00a0for up-and-coming lawyers.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book. They also emailed.<\/p>\n Blaine put on a private show for Epstein\u2019s dinner guests in 2003, doing card tricks for the likes of Sergey Brin, Mort Zuckerman, and Bill Clinton aide Doug Band. The dinner was organized by Ghislaine Maxwell and included a group of young women who were introduced as Victoria\u2019s Secret models. Included in the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee is one from Blaine supporting a visa application for an \u201camazing fashion model.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n As we noted in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Epstein had at least one meeting with the sultan when he traveled to Brunei in 2002 with Bill Clinton. Bolkiah and his brother are famous for their lavish spending, including a collection of 2,500 cars and a $1.5 billion palace. Bolkiah was once sued by Miss USA 1997, who claimed she had been held as a sex slave. The suit was dismissed on the grounds that Bolkiah had sovereign immunity.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The chairman and founder of Investindustrial was a key character in the Paradise Papers international tax-shelter scandal.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Described by\u00a0Social Life\u00a0magazine as the \u201cambassador of the all-important Hamptons polo culture,\u201d Borrico is known for hosting polo matches at his estate in Water Mill.<\/p>\n Epstein\u2019s private schedules<\/a> from 2013 to 2017 had roughly two dozen meetings scheduled with Botstein over the four years covered in the documents, mostly at his townhouse. Regarding his relationship with Epstein, Botstein told The\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0he was interested only in Epstein\u2019s money: \u201cI was an unsuccessful fundraiser and actually the object of a little bit of sadism on his part in dangling philanthropic support.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Bourke went to prison for a scheme to bribe government officials in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Her clients have included Matt Lauer and the crown prince and princess of Greece.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Like Epstein, Branson enjoys entertaining on a private island.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n A friend of Trump, a convicted card cheat, and an accused Formula 1 race fixer, Briatore was a longtime fugitive in the Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n According to a court filing, Epstein advised Brin from 2004 to 2007, including guidance on how to set up a tax shelter \u2014 a tax-saving trust for Brin\u2019s kids called a grantor-retained annuity trust, or GRAT \u2014 with bankers at JPMorgan Chase. Brin had become a client of the bank in 2004 following a referral from Epstein and subsequently held more than $4 billion in accounts there.\u00a0The Wall Street Journal\u00a0notes<\/a>\u00a0that Epstein helped billionaire and Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black set up a similar tax shelter. Epstein\u2019s relationship with Brin came to light in an August 2023 court filing by the U.S. Virgin Islands in its civil suit against JPMorgan over the bank\u2019s relationship with Epstein.<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The former Warner Music Group CEO, son of the late Seagram\u2019s CEO Edgar Bronfman Sr., is related to the NXIVM-sex-cult Bronfmans. His son has a child with singer-rapper M.I.A.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log. He also contributed to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Brunel was accused in court testimony of having used his agency to supply Epstein with girls. (He was not charged.) He also has a long history of allegations that he had abused his fashion-world position. In 1988, he was the subject of a\u00a060 Minutes\u00a0investigation alleging that he and a fellow agent sexually assaulted nearly two dozen models. He denied the claims but later told\u00a0Model\u00a0author Michael Gross, \u201cYou get laid tonight with a model, is that a crime?\u201d In 2005, Brunel co-founded the MC2 modeling agency; Epstein invested $1 million, according to a 2010 deposition.<\/p>\n Brunel killed himself in 2022 while in a Paris jail awaiting trial on charges of raping and trafficking minors.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n As we noted in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n In 2003, Buck met Maxwell at a fashion party at a New York City boutique. Buck had recently moved on from her seven-year tenure as the editor of\u00a0French Vogue\u00a0and was writing for its American counterpart and living in New Mexico. She was a lifelong resident of a rarefied social world. Maxwell, a regular on that particular circuit, quickly made a connection. \u201cOh, Jeffrey\u2019s got a ranch in Santa Fe, blah blah blah,\u201d Buck recently remembered their conversation going. She gave Maxwell her Santa Fe number and later asked a friend about Epstein and New Mexico. \u201cHis ranch?\u201d the friend replied. \u201cAs we say in Texas, all hat, no cattle.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Burkle took what were described as humanitarian trips to Africa with Bill Clinton on Epstein\u2019s private Boeing 727. According to a 2008\u00a0Vanity Fair\u00a0feature about former president Clinton, \u201cBurkle\u2019s usual means of transport is the custom-converted Boeing 757 that Clinton calls \u2018Ron Air\u2019 and that Burkle\u2019s own circle of young aides privately refer to as \u2018Air Fuck One.\u2019\u2005\u201d<\/p>\n According to his private documents, Epstein had three scheduled meetings in 2014 with Burns, who was at that point the deputy secretary of State during the Obama administration. They met both in Washington, D.C., and New York.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n During a custody battle with ex Uma Thurman, Thurman\u2019s lawyer asked Busson, a prominent hedge funder, if he had ever said he was \u201caddicted to prostitutes.\u201d (He said no.)<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n An investor in Uber, Calacanis was a fixture in the early aughts New York tech scene as the founder and editor of\u00a0Silicon Alley Reporter.\u00a0(\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many propositions I get, it\u2019s absolutely insane,\u201d he told the\u00a0Observer\u00a0in 2000.) In 2014,\u00a0Vice\u00a0awarded him Most Offensive Tweet of the Year for describing as racist the idea of white privilege.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the model\u2019s name was in Epstein\u2019s schedules after 2008, and that one of Epstein\u2019s accusers said that she was approached by an Epstein associate at a 2010 Campbell event in Paris and told that Epstein knew Campbell and could help her modeling career.<\/p>\n Names found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n According to journalist Vicky Ward, he killed portions of a 2003 story that accused Epstein of pedophilia after an office visit from Epstein. (Carter says there wasn\u2019t enough on-the-record sourcing.) \u201cI didn\u2019t invent the system. I just lived by the system,\u201d he said when\u00a0The New York Times Magazine\u00a0questioned him<\/a>\u00a0about it.<\/p>\n Contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Allegedly the former girlfriend of Prince Andrew.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Has hosted Prince William and Kate Middleton at his villa in Mustique.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n When 1990s playboy Chatwal settled down, Bill Clinton attended his wedding. In 2017, Chatwal pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation after being accused of trying to set a pair of dogs on fire on a Soho street.<\/p>\n According to Epstein\u2019s schedules he arranged several meetings with Chomsky in 2015 and 2016, who was then teaching at MIT where Epstein had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars. The scheduled meetings included a gathering of academics as well as a flight with Epstein aboard his private jet to New York for a dinner at his townhouse with film director Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn. Chomsky and Epstein also corresponded about news and politics via email between 2015 and 2017.<\/p>\n Epstein\u2019s emails contain correspondence with Chopra from 2016, including discussions about Trump. In one exchange, Chopra asked whether a woman had dropped civil charges against Epstein and replied \u201cgood\u201d when Epstein said she had.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The scene-y Cipriani Italian spots are known for inventing the Bellini cocktail \u2014 and more infamously for being Harvey Weinstein\u2019s \u201chunting ground.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The patriarch of a family so wealthy it operates practically as its own nation-state in Latin America.<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n From Rebecca Traister\u2019s entry on Clinton in our 2019 guide: <\/p>\n As soon as the Epstein news broke two weeks ago, the taunting and tallying began, suffocating in its familiarity. First were the jeering reminders, as if we didn\u2019t know it in our every molecule: It wasn\u2019t just Donald Trump who\u2019d be ensnared in this stygian nightmare of underage sexual assault and trafficking of girls, it was Bill Clinton, who\u2019d been a friend and repeat flier on Epstein\u2019s plane. Then came the numbers, the attempts to quantify the nature of the Clinton-Epstein relationship. Clinton issued a statement toting up four plane trips, one Epstein meeting in Clinton\u2019s Harlem office, one visit to Epstein\u2019s home, and zero trips to his island. Meanwhile, reporters recalled that Gawker\u2019s published flight logs had tallied 12 separate plane legs and that Epstein had more than 20 numbers and email addresses for Clinton and one signed photo of him in his home, along with one of Woody Allen and one of Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n All of this was presented as if these numbers could clarify some exact science of guilt or complicity. The reality is:\u00a0Yes, Clinton was grimy and had grimy friends, and, more broadly, this is how powerful men have behaved toward women and one another. Yes, we know it\u2019s dirty and mean and exhausting and true.<\/p>\n Ghislaine Maxwell attended the former First Daughter\u2019s wedding after Epstein had first been charged. This was shortly after she skipped a deposition for the Epstein case, claiming she needed to return to the U.K. to be with her deathly ill mother.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n According to a message-pad entry dated January 27, 2005, at 3:55 p.m., Copperfield rang Epstein\u2019s line while he was out. The handwritten entry reads, \u201cMagic David called.\u201d<\/p>\n Couric was among those who attended a dinner at Epstein\u2019s townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010.<\/p>\n Cosby lived across the street from Epstein in Manhattan.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Americans often imagine aristocrats floating on a cloud of above-it-all wealth, but even real-life princes, this one descended from a German royal family that long ago united with the most influential and wealthiest family of the Hapsburg Netherlands, could get something out of a relationship with a font of new American money like Epstein.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Wrote Andrew Rice in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n For around a decade, Dershowitz kept casual company with Epstein, who introduced him to his friends, like Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew. (Dershowitz says he and the prince ended up not getting along because they disagreed about Israel.) Dershowitz visited Epstein\u2019s mansions in New York and Palm Beach and occasionally accompanied him on his private plane. He says these trips were family oriented. Once, Epstein lent him the Palm Beach home so he could attend a granddaughter\u2019s soccer tournament. Another time, he and his nephew flew down to watch a space launch with another Epstein connection, a top NASA official. He and his wife, Carolyn Cohen, once stayed with Epstein on his island in the Caribbean, where they were joined by another Harvard professor and his family.<\/p>\n When Epstein first started to attract media attention in the early aughts, mainly because of his friendship with former president Bill Clinton, Dershowitz served as a character witness for the reclusive financier. He told\u00a0Vanity Fair\u00a0that he shared manuscripts of his books with Epstein before they were published and swore that his money was irrelevant. \u201cI would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas,\u201d he told the magazine.<\/p>\n But Dershowitz says their interactions changed in 2005, when Epstein faced a local police investigation into his relations with underage girls in Palm Beach and he hired Dershowitz as a lawyer. With his assistance, Epstein was able to whittle down the state\u2019s indictment against him to a single count of soliciting prostitution. But in the years to come, as Epstein\u2019s legal problems compounded, they would eventually ensnare Dershowitz himself. He is also accused of having sex with two of Epstein\u2019s alleged victims. \u201cThe stories are so phantasmological,\u201d Dershowitz says. He recognizes that the Me Too movement has surfaced countless accounts of preposterous-sounding sexual misbehavior by powerful men and almost all of them have turned out to be true. But Dershowitz swears he is different. \u201cMine is the only case, singular, the only one, where I never met the people,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence we\u2019ve ever met, no evidence we were ever in the same place at the same time, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n Today, Dershowitz claims he and Epstein were never really even friends, despite their proximity. \u201cHe was an acquaintance,\u201d he says. \u201cIn retrospect, I wish I hadn\u2019t taken the case, but I didn\u2019t see a problem with taking the case. We didn\u2019t have a close personal relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Joan Didion\u2019s nephew and a Martin Scorsese leading man.<\/p>\n Edelman received funding from the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation. \u201cJeff is extraordinary in his ability to pick up on quantitative relations,\u201d he told\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0in 2002. \u201cHe came to see us recently. He is concerned with this basic question: Is it true that the brain is not a computer? He is very quick.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The Clearstone founder contributed a letter to Epstein\u2019s birthday book in which he fondly recounts<\/a> a time he watched Epstein apparently seduce a woman.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Estrada is the ex-wife of the late Walid Juffali, who was a billionaire chairman of the largest privately owned enterprise in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Farkas emailed with Epstein<\/a> about Trump and then\u2013attorney general William Barr in 2019.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Fekkai\u2019s expensive salons are up and down the Upper East Side and in Palm Beach, and he\u2019s known for butter blondes, layered bobs, and participating in the polishing up of Hillary Clinton. Epstein\u2019s assistants were given house accounts for blowouts, waxing, nails, highlights \u2014 the works.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Epstein loaned Prince Andrew\u2019s then-wife $18,000 to\u00a0pay off some debts<\/a>. \u201cI personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me,\u201d Ferguson told the\u00a0Telegraph\u00a0in 2011. \u201cI abhor paedophilia.\u201d<\/p>\n Contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Epstein\u2019s former girlfriend met him through Bear Stearns where she was once an associate.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The connection between Epstein and Gates has been well known for years but, in 2023, The\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0published a\u00a0revelatory new story<\/a>\u00a0on their relationship. The paper reported that Gates had an affair with a bridge player named Mila Antonova in the early 2010s and that Epstein attempted to leverage his knowledge of the situation against the Microsoft co-founder.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book. Contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book. <\/p>\n In 1969, Gell-Mann won the Nobel Prize. In 2003 he told\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a>,\u00a0\u201c\u2018There are always pretty ladies around\u2019 when he goes to dinner chez Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Once a lawyer in the Clinton White House, Ginsberg joined\u00a0George,\u00a0then News Corp., then Time Warner. He has also done pro bono speechwriting for Benjamin Netanyahu and now works for SoftBank, a Japanese investment company with close ties to the Saudi government.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n \u201cI was invited to the TED conference in maybe 2000 (I can\u2019t remember), and they promised to buy me a plane ticket to California,\u201d Gladwell says now. \u201cThen at the last minute they said, \u2018We found you a ride on a private plane instead.\u2019 As I recall, there were maybe two dozen TED conferencegoers onboard. I don\u2019t remember much else, except being slightly baffled as to who this Epstein guy was and why we were all on his plane.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Wrote Jessica Pressler in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Jeffrey Epstein didn\u2019t have any formal training when he started working at Bear Stearns in 1976, but that wouldn\u2019t have mattered to then-CEO Alan \u201cAce\u201d Greenberg, who famously hired \u201cPSD degrees,\u201d short for \u201cpoor, smart, with a deep desire to be rich.\u201d As it happened, Epstein was all three. He came from a modest Coney Island background, had no college degree, and worked a job \u2014 as a math teacher at Dalton and a tutor to Greenberg\u2019s son \u2014 that was unlikely to support his tastes, which were apparently of the private islands\u2013and\u2013gilded desk\u2013purportedly\u2013belonging\u2013to\u2013J.\u2005P. Morgan variety. At Bear Stearns, Epstein made a name for himself in the \u201cspecial-products division,\u201d essentially figuring out how to help the rich pay less taxes. \u201cHe would recommend certain tax-advantageous transactions,\u201d Greenberg\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, James \u201cJimmy\u201d Cayne, told\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0in 2002. Cayne, who succeeded Greenberg in 1993, seems to have become the closer party to Epstein, whose mysterious departure from the firm he publicly defended decades after Epstein\u2019s departure. \u201cJeffrey said specifically, \u2018I don\u2019t want to work for anybody else. I want to work for myself,\u2019\u2005\u201d Cayne insisted, despite transcripts from an SEC deposition that suggest other concerns around them both. It\u2019s easier to imagine Cayne, a cigar-chomping, archetypal fat cat who was infamously off playing bridge when Bear Stearns collapsed in 2008, as a member of Epstein\u2019s inner circle than his mentor, a folksy, bow-tie-wearing soul who referred to his successor as \u201ccrude,\u201d \u201cfull of himself,\u201d and \u201cwarped\u201d in a memoir published shortly before his death. At the very least, it seems Cayne and Epstein were both capable of, ah, massaging the truth.<\/p>\n Greenberg was also one of the contributors to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n She was dubbed \u201cdebutante of the decade\u201d in 1986.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The overtanned C-lister that Hollywood turns to when casting any vaguely and\/or mysteriously aristocratic cameo role.<\/p>\n Handler attended a dinner at Epstein\u2019s townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010. \u201cIt was just one of those strange nights,\u201d she later said.<\/p>\n Epstein dated Haskell, one of Donald Trump\u2019s closest friends. \u201cJeffrey didn\u2019t talk about his past, although he claimed to have been a concert pianist,\u201d Haskell told the\u00a0Daily Mail\u00a0in 1992. \u201cHe told me he was a spy hired by corporations to find major amounts of money which had been embezzled.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2006, the world\u2019s most famous brain visited Little St.\u202fJames, Epstein\u2019s private island, which came to be known as\u00a0\u201cPedophile Island.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Hawking, who was in the Caribbean for a conference, was photographed at a barbecue on the island and aboard a submarine for a tour. According to the Telegraph<\/a>, \u201cEpstein is said to have paid for the submarine to be modified for Professor Hawking, who had never been underwater before.\u201d<\/p>\n Explained James D. Walsh in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Before Bernie Madoff, there was Hoffenberg, who in 1985 pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of $460 million \u2014 at the time, the largest Ponzi scheme ever. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and, after his release in 2013, began sounding the alarm on Epstein, who had worked at Hoffenberg\u2019s Towers Financial Corporation after leaving Bear Stearns. He claimed that Epstein had been his co-conspirator in the scheme and that Epstein\u2019s fortune was built on Towers Financial\u2019s fraud. \u201cHe was great at moving money illegally,\u201d Hoffenberg says. \u201cHe was the deeper architect to getting things accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n Hoffenberg claims he was introduced to Epstein by Douglas Leese, a mysterious British arms dealer, and that he paid Epstein $25,000 a month as Towers Financial began making risky plays to take over companies like Pan American World Airways and Emery Air Freight. Advisers on the Pan Am deal included Richard Nixon\u2019s attorney general John Mitchell, Nixon\u2019s brother Edward, and John Lehman, a former secretary of the Navy. The move fell apart after the Lockerbie bombing, and when Towers Financial later went belly-up, Hoffenberg says, the two of them engineered a Ponzi scheme to fill the hole.<\/p>\n \u201cHe has a magnificent personality,\u201d Hoffenberg says. \u201cHe\u2019s very easy to interact with, very social, very easy to bond with, an unusually nice person. And he\u2019s pretty dynamic on financial savvy. He could move money in different areas to get the stock prices to go up and down.\u201d<\/p>\n Hoffenberg still owes his victims some $1 billion in restitution, and in 2016 he sued Epstein to recover some of the money. (He eventually dropped the suit.) Last year, two victims brought a suit against Epstein making the same claims as Hoffenberg but voluntarily dismissed the suit two months later.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re about to see an entire story about this supposed billionaire and the story about his financial empire, which is as big as the tragedy with the girls,\u201d Hoffenberg says. \u201cIt\u2019s billions of dollars, and it\u2019s a fiasco.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that one of Epstein\u2019s accusers said he had shown her emails he had exchanged with Jagland, explaining that he wanted her to meet him. In Epstein\u2019s correspondence with Jagland<\/a> in 2018, when he was the secretary general of the Council of Europe, Epstein suggested Jagland put senior Russian officials in touch with him, and Jagland said he would and thanked him for a \u201clovely evening.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The director of the documentaries\u00a0Capturing the Friedmans,\u00a0about an accused pedophile, and\u00a0The Jinx,\u00a0which profiled Robert Durst, the madman at the center of another New York fortune.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Once a psychiatrist, Henry, Andrew\u2019s father, made his fortune in gold and silver speculation. In 2024, Jarecki acknowledged<\/a> having a \u201cconsensual, non-secretive and mutually respectful relationship\u201d with one of Epstein\u2019s accusers (who filed then later dropped<\/a> a civil lawsuit against Jarecki).<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Epstein was a co-trustee on 14 parcels of land the Johnson & Johnson heiress owned in Dutchess County, New York. He resigned as a trustee for Johnson\u2019s revocable trust at the end of 1998.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0reports that according to court filings made by JPMorgan Chase in response to the civil suit brought against the bank by the U.S. Virgin Islands, Cecile de Jongh allegedly began working for Epstein starting 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 \u201915). The court filings also allege Cecile de Jongh helped arrange visas for some of Epstein\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Wrote Lisa Miller in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n In a world where most women still work for men, and where their jobs are overwhelmingly in the \u201cservice\u201d or \u201ccaring\u201d professions, it should surprise no one that Epstein\u2019s procurers, schedulers, fixers, and enablers were female. Four women \u2014 Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff \u2014 were identified in the 2007 Florida case against Epstein as possible co-conspirators, though none was charged.<\/p>\n History is full of the self-serving enabling of men by women, ending with the Trump court but not starting there. Was it money? Probably. The word is that Epstein paid his \u201cexecutive assistants\u201d $200,000 a year and let them order takeout from Le Cirque. When Groff had a baby, Epstein gave her a Mercedes and paid for a full-time nanny. \u201cThere is no way I could lose Lesley to motherhood,\u201d he told the New York\u00a0Times<\/a>\u00a0in 2005 (for a front-page story on the indispensability of good help for Wall Street tycoons).<\/p>\n Marcinkova, referred to in court documents as Epstein\u2019s \u201csex slave,\u201d hails from the former Yugoslavia; Ross, a model, is from Poland. Kellen (who has since married a NASCAR driver) was a scheduler, making sure that Epstein always had a slate full of girls, and it was she who sometimes walked the girls up the stairs in the Florida mansion and laid the oils out on the massage table. Marcinkova would have sex with the girls for Epstein\u2019s viewing pleasure and sometimes all together. Groff booked travel, and Ross also helped with the calendar. After the Miami\u00a0Herald\u00a0published its investigation in 2018, Epstein wired the \u201cpossible co-conspirators\u201d $250,000 and $100,000, respectively, prosecutors say, to buy their silence. Since then, none of them have been reached for comment.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The vaccine skeptic turned MAHA leader and HHS secretary\u00a0flew<\/a> on Epstein\u2019s plane multiple times.<\/p>\n Name and home phone number found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide: \u201cThe seven numbers listed for Kerry in Epstein\u2019s address book include the direct line to his presidential campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n Explained Matt Stieb in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n To bolster their argument that private-jet owner Epstein is a massive flight risk, SDNY prosecutors produced an expired Austrian passport under an alias that listed Saudi Arabia as Epstein\u2019s primary country of residence. His lawyers claim the fake ID was for the \u201cpersonal protection\u201d of \u201can affluent member of the Jewish faith\u201d traveling in the Middle East, but it could also point to one of his more secretive income sources.<\/p>\n According to his former friend the journalist Jesse Kornbluth, in the mid-1980s Epstein said he \u201cworked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators\u201d and occasionally subcontracted to those same autocrats to \u201chelp them hide their stolen money.\u201d A source who spoke with journalist Vicky Ward said one of Epstein\u2019s clients was the late Saudi arms dealer Khashoggi, a middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal who helped smuggle cash for the Marcos family out of the Philippines. In 1988, Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland for concealing assets and later faced fraud and racketeering charges in the U.S. (He was later acquitted.) That year, he sold his 282-foot yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who soon flipped it to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n One of the past century\u2019s most notorious practitioners of cutthroat realpolitik, Kissinger served on the Council on Foreign Relations with Epstein.<\/p>\n Epstein and Kissinger served on the Rockefeller University board alongside Nobel laureate Joseph Goldstein, socialite Brooke Astor, and Texas billionaire Robert Bass.<\/p>\n She told\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a>\u00a0in 2003 that Epstein lived like a \u201cmodern maharaja\u201d and described his haggling over art prices as \u201csomething like a scene out of the movie\u00a0Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is amazing,\u201d Kosslyn said of Epstein in a 2002\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0profile. \u201cLike a honeybee \u2014 he talks to all these different people and cross-pollinates. Just two months ago, I was talking to him about a new alternative to evolutionary psychology. He got excited and sent me a check.\u201d<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Epstein was a major donor to his program at Arizona State University, and Krauss teamed with the financier to host a conference of Nobel laureates in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2012. \u201cJeffrey has surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women, but they\u2019re not as young as the ones that were claimed,\u201d he told the\u00a0Daily Beast<\/a>\u00a0in 2011. \u201cI always judge things on empirical evidence, and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him but I\u2019ve never seen anything else. So as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people. I don\u2019t feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey. I feel raised by it.\u201d This spring, Krauss retired amid allegations of his own sexual harassment.<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Co-founder of Nickelodeon and, with her husband, Kit, and pal Oprah Winfrey, the Oxygen network.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n As Matt Stieb explained in our 2019 guide: \u201cA white-collar defense attorney to the stars, Lefcourt has also represented Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Sid Vicious, Tracy Morgan, Russell Crowe, insider trader Michael Milken, and Murder Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti.\u201d<\/p>\n Noted Matt Stieb in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Lefkowitz negotiated the terms of Epstein\u2019s negligently lenient plea deal with his former Kirkland & Ellis colleague\u00a0Alexander Acosta<\/a>. Now at Columbia Law, he served in both Bush administrations, as director of Cabinet affairs for H.W. and deputy executive secretary to the Domestic Policy Council and special envoy for human rights in North Korea for W.<\/p>\n Contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Meister introduced Epstein to Leslie Wexner after Epstein met and charmed Meister on a plane to Palm Beach, according to James Patterson\u2019s book\u00a0Filthy Rich<\/a>.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book. Contributed a letter to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n The former senator was appointed the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland by President Clinton and was an architect of the Good Friday Agreement. He called Epstein a \u201cfriend,\u201d and the address book lists a dozen numbers for him under the heading \u201cPiper, Rudnick,\u201d the name of the Washington law firm where Mitchell was a partner.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Monckton was Epstein\u2019s \u201cclose friend since the early 1980s,\u201d according to the 2003 profile of Epstein written by Vicky Ward in\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a>: \u201cMonckton recalls Epstein telling her that her daughter, Domenica, who suffers from Down syndrome, needed the sun, and that Rosa should feel free to bring her to his house in Palm Beach anytime.\u201d<\/p>\n After years of mounting pressure, King Charles III<\/a> finally initiated the formal process for stripping Prince Andrew\u2019s royal titles and other benefits following his long fall from grace over his association with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Murdoch has two numbers \u2014 one New York, one California \u2014 listed in the address book.<\/p>\n The legendary patent troll turned impresario of molecular gastronomy dined at Epstein\u2019s home. He also contributed to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Epstein named Nikoli\u0107 as the \u201csuccessor executor\u201d of his will, which Nikoli\u0107 said<\/a> he was \u201cshocked\u201d to find out following Epstein\u2019s death. The pair also emailed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log. He was also a contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n The chief executive, secretary and treasurer, principal accounting officer, and principal financial officer of an insecticide-research company, Pagano even visited Epstein in jail.<\/p>\n He contributed entries to Epstein\u2019s birthday book, including a page that includes a photograph of Pashcow holding an oversize $22,500 check to Epstein from \u201cDJ TRUMP\u201d with the caption suggesting Epstein had sold a \u201cfully depreciated\u201d woman to Donald Trump. Notes the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n Mr. Pashcow appears to have contributed several consecutive pages to the book. On the page before the mock check is a vulgar cartoon depicting Mr. Epstein\u2019s grooming of young girls: On one side, marked 1983, Mr. Epstein is handing out balloons to a group of girls; on the other, labeled 2003, he is receiving a naked massage from four topless young women. \u201cWhat a great country!\u201d it reads at the bottom.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n The billionaire invited 14 guests, including Epstein, Jimmy Buffett, and DNC co-chair Don Fowler, to his Palm Beach home for a Bill Clinton fundraiser in 1995.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Noted Matt Stieb in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Pinker is one of the famous intellectuals most often linked to Epstein, but he says he flew on Epstein\u2019s private plane only once in 2002 and that he was involuntarily placed next to him for a picture at Lawrence Krauss\u2019s Origins Project\u2019s annual conference in 2014: \u201cIf I had more wherewithal, I would not have indulged my friend in sitting with him. Despite what various friends and colleagues all said about what a genius he was, I found him tedious and distasteful. Even before I knew about the criminality, I found it irritating to talk to him, all the more so because the reason he was in the conversation was because he had given money to these various projects. He likes schmoozing with smart and intellectual people, but he couldn\u2019t really or had very little interest in exploring an issue. He\u2019d wisecrack, change subjects, or get bored after a few seconds. He\u2019s a kibitzer more than a serious intellectual.\u201d Nevertheless, Pinker supplied some linguistic expertise that his friend Alan Dershowitz used to defend Epstein during the 2008 trial.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Wrote Wendy Goodman in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Forget for a moment the mural featuring Epstein in the middle of a prison yard complete with guards and barbed wire. Let\u2019s also forget the life-size doll hanging from a chandelier, and the chess set with figures of his staff as pieces to play with. Let\u2019s instead focus on the very lush Euro-Orientalist d\u00e9cor of Epstein\u2019s 21,000-square-foot seven-story Beaux-Arts mansion, decorated by none other than the late great Alberto Pinto, one of the world\u2019s top prestige interior designers. His clientele included princes, moguls, and wannabe princes, as captains of industry so frequently are, and Epstein clearly aspired to that provenance and history. He flew Pinto on his private plane, as he did other architects and designers (Jean-Michel Gathy, Ricardo Legorreta, and Peter Marino are also listed in Epstein\u2019s flight logs), and lived like a modern pasha in rooms lavished with money that bought custom-tooled gold leather walls (at least they were made to look like tooled-leather walls) and leopard-print upholstered armchairs in the dining room that appear to be covered in silk velvet. It was exactly the sort of project Pinto relished, flexing all the artisanal muscle that a designer of his stature can exercise when cushioning his client\u2019s home. <\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Pivar was close friends with Epstein and his art adviser, but he says he ended their friendship<\/a> after Epstein accuser Maria Farmer told him Epstein had assaulted her.<\/p>\n Files released by the House Oversight Committee include apparent text messages between Epstein and Plaskett during a congressional hearing with former Trump fixer Michael Cohen in 2019.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Former business partner of Marc Rich (who was famously indicted for tax evasion and trading with Iran before being even more famously pardoned by President Clinton) with whom he paired on deals in the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log. <\/p>\n As our 2019 guide pointed out, Pritzker was known to dine with Epstein in the early aughts. He also emailed with Epstein in 2013.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Radziwill is the daughter-in-law of Lee Radziwill and a Real Housewife of New York.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Ranieri was another Epstein dinner partner.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Epstein donated $50,000 to each of his gubernatorial campaigns. A spokeswoman for Richardson told the Albuquerque\u00a0Journal\u00a0that Richardson recalls visiting Epstein\u2019s New Mexico ranch only once, during his first run for governor in 2002.<\/p>\n Riggio was photographed with Epstein at the 1999 Edge Foundation Billionaires\u2019 Dinner and twice met him at the TED conference.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Wrote Irin Carmon in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n You learn things answering phones, and in the spring of 2005, answering Charlie Rose\u2019s phone at his PBS show, you would learn that his friend Jeffrey Epstein had some recommendations to make for whom Rose ought to hire as his next assistant. Written call logs from 2005 and 2006 show Epstein and his own assistant calling dozens of times, making plans for lunch and tea in Manhattan or to try to meet up in Paris. Epstein also called with a total of five women\u2019s names and phone numbers. One woman was described as \u201cworld\u2019s most perfect assistant she used to work for Harvey Weinstein he\u2019s lucky if he can get her.\u201d Another entry reads, \u201cJeffrey Epstein wants to talk to you before you call these two girls.\u201d A fourth woman shows up on the manifests of Epstein\u2019s jet, including on Bill Clinton\u2019s trip across Africa, and wound up working at the Clinton Foundation. Two former staffers remember another Epstein referral, a young woman not mentioned in the logs, who interned at the show. In all, Rose hired three (\u201cJeffrey Epstein from time to time recommended various candidates for open positions at the\u00a0Charlie Rose Show,\u201d Rose\u2019s representative said in a statement, but said the ex-host only learned about Epstein\u2019s alleged abuse years later, when he pleaded guilty in Florida). When I called one of these women recently, she was stunned to learn she was one of many women Epstein recommended for the job. \u201cI was being offered up for abuse,\u201d said the woman, who was 22 at the time she worked for Rose. It helped her understand not only how her boss Rose \u2014 whom in 2017 she would accuse,\u00a0along with 34 other adult women, of sexual harassment<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 had treated her, but also how the rest of the staff had seen her. And it helped her understand a grim version of networking among powerful men.<\/p>\n The former Harvard professor and dean, who died in 2022, is listed as a contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book, which includes \u201ctit print\u201d artwork \u201cspecially commissioned\u201d by Rosovsky.<\/p>\n Epstein\u2019s schedules<\/a> contained more than three dozen meetings with Ruemmler starting in 2014, and his emails contained multiple exchanges<\/a> between them as well, including discussions about Ruemmler\u2019s post\u2013White House career. \u201cI regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d Ruemmler said in 2023.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Per our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n The undisputed club queen of aughts New York, Sacco ran Lot 61 in Chelsea, which was famous for using fresh fruit in its drinks, and later Bungalow 8, which prided itself on discretion, the kind of place where celebrities could behave badly and not have to worry about appearing in \u201cPage Six.\u201d Sacco was a pioneer of marrying nightlife with concierge-style indulgences for the very rich: Her staff would get you whatever you needed: pizza delivery, peanut M&M\u2019s, a private flight to Miami leaving from Teterboro as soon as you could get there.<\/p>\n Schank visited Epstein in prison in 2008.<\/p>\n Schumer was one of the many politicians to receive donations from Epstein over the years. Epstein gave bipartisan-ly but not equally: Between 1990 and 2004, he gave more than $139,000 to Democrats and just over $18,000 to Republicans. Epstein also gave to a handful of politicians in New Mexico, where he\u2019d purchase the Zorro Ranch from former governor Bruce King and where he was not required to register as a sex offender. After Epstein\u2019s downfall, Schumer was one of the politicians who decided to make a donation to charity of the amount Epstein donated to them.<\/p>\n Contributed a letter to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name and two California phone numbers found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book. She also exchanged emails with him.<\/p>\n Explained Carl Swanson in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n A brazen and relentless publicist of the old school, Siegal understands one thing well: \u201cBringing people together. Everyone needs to feel that they belong.\u201d At least a certain kind of accomplished person, no matter, frankly, how they went about getting there (who was she to judge?). Known for her movie premieres and other guest-list-driven social events, she bragged that she \u201cruined the Hamptons\u201d to\u00a0Vanity Fair\u00a0in a profile back in 1996. Publicity-party invites are an amoral game, driven by status and FOMO. Like everyone, she worked with Harvey Weinstein when he was an Oscar machine, the toast of the town. So you can\u2019t blame Siegal for including someone who already knew all the boldface power people. In 2008, in the teeth of the accusations against Epstein, he was spotted by a\u00a0New York\u00a0party reporter, \u201cunshaven, smiling that feline-monkey grin,\u201d at the Siegal-engineered screening of the HBO film\u00a0Bernard and Doris\u00a0at the Time Warner Center. But after prison, apparently Epstein needed her more than ever: In a\u00a0Times\u00a0story on how Manhattan\u2019s A-list refused to shun him, Siegal in particular was willing to help him (for free, apparently), \u201cusing her gate-keeping powers to usher Mr. Epstein, a friend, into screenings and events.\u201d In 2010, she threw a dinner party at his Upper East Side townhouse for Prince Andrew, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, and Woody Allen. She and Epstein might have had other reasons to get along: Siegal, who has just turned 72, is a self-invention as well, without a particularly pedigreed background. Also notable is the fact that, as she told\u00a0Vanity Fair\u00a0in 2012, \u201cmy favorite way to travel\u201d to Cannes is \u201con a friend\u2019s G5 from Teterboro to Nice.\u201d<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Flight logs record Slater taking a flight from Ghana to Nigeria in September 2002.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n George Soros\u2019s name is not in there.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Flew with Bill Clinton to Africa (and, according to flight logs, the Azores) on Epstein\u2019s plane.<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Stanbury went on to star on Bravo\u2019s\u00a0Ladies of London.<\/p>\n Wrote Jonathan Chait in our 2019 guide:<\/p>\n Obviously, lawyers do not share guilt for their clients\u2019 crimes. But it\u2019s striking that Kenneth Starr chose to join Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s defense team in 2007, after his moral fulminations against Bill Clinton\u2019s sexual perfidy. His obsessive pursuit of President Clinton made him a folk hero on the right, representing the defense of traditional sexual virtue and the notion that it was under assault by Bill Clinton and the liberal elite. His special-prosecutor exploits propelled him to the presidency of the conservative Baptist Baylor University. During his tenure, the football program engaged in a horrific pattern of sexual abuse that led to the dismissal of the football coach and the removal of Starr after an investigation found \u201cactions by University administrators that directly discouraged some complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes.\u201d<\/p>\n It is perhaps coincidental, but Starr has tracked the broader conversion of the religious right from sexual shaming to sexual shamelessness. In an era when Donald Trump has exposed the hollowness of so many values conservatives allegedly hold dear, it is fitting that this Zelig of right-wing sexual hypocrisy has made yet another cameo.<\/p>\n Staley, who\u00a0resigned<\/a>\u00a0from Barclays in 2021 for his association with the sex criminal, had a close connection with Epstein. \u201cI deeply appreciate our friendship,\u201d Staley\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0to him in 2009 when he was working at JPMorgan Chase. \u201cI have few so profound.\u201d Emails obtained by the\u00a0Daily Beast<\/a>\u00a0show that Epstein helped connect him to his high-society associates, including Prince Andrew, Bill Gates, former New York Fed board member Lee Bollinger, and Dubai businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.<\/p>\n Stephanopoulos attended a dinner at Epstein\u2019s Upper East Side townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010. \u201cThat dinner was the first and last time I\u2019ve seen him,\u201d Stephanopoulos later said. \u201cIt was a mistake to go.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the files made public by the House Oversight Committee, Summers maintained a friendship with Epstein after his 2008 conviction, chatting frequently and exchanging creepy emails<\/a> with the financier, including ones about Summers pursuing an affair with a woman he was mentoring. The subsequent fallout for Summers<\/a> has been swift and intense.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Taymor was responsible for one of the biggest hits in Broadway history,\u00a0The Lion King,\u00a0and one of the biggest flops,\u00a0Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.<\/p>\n Thiel has acknowledged meeting Epstein multiple times, they exchanged emails, and Epstein also invited Thiel to his Caribbean island, but a spokesperson for Thiel denies he went.<\/p>\n In 2015, he defended Epstein, saying, \u201cBy the time they\u2019re 14 or 15, they\u2019re like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don\u2019t see these acts as so heinous.\u201d In 2019, he called his past statement \u201cstupid and offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s a whole lot<\/a> to dig into here, from their former friendship, to Epstein\u2019s many allegations about Trump, to Trump\u2019s lewd contribution to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Epstein has reportedly claimed that he\u2019s the one who introduced Melania to her future husband, which Melania vehemently denies<\/a>. The three have traveled together, however: She flew with Epstein on then-boyfriend Donald Trump\u2019s plane in 2000.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book and on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Tucker flew with Bill Clinton to Africa on Epstein\u2019s plane.<\/p>\n Name found on Epstein\u2019s private jet log.<\/p>\n Explained Max Read in our 2019 guide<\/a>:<\/p>\n Who built the temple? Tuttle, a designer of luxury resorts by trade, renovated the main compound on Epstein\u2019s 70-acre private island in 2003. Sometime between 2009 and 2013, a \u201ctemple\u201d appeared on the island: a large, boxy, blue-and-white-striped structure with a golden dome, surrounded by palm trees. In the days after Epstein\u2019s arrest, the temple became the object of fervent speculation online. It was the kind of irresistible conspiracy-bait that exemplifies the Epstein story: On the one hand, shouldn\u2019t it be enough that a mysteriously wealthy banker with connections to the globe\u2019s most powerful people was apparently operating a child sex-trafficking ring without dabbling in theories about occult island temples? On the other hand, though, once you\u2019ve accepted that, why would occult island temples be so out of the question? On the edges, the Epstein saga could seem less like a news story than like a brutal, unreadable fairy tales. Or maybe it was a desire to take a story about financial power and social privilege colluding to protect a criminal predator and transform it into something more terrible and monumental. After weeks of speculation, the first eyewitness account revealed that what the \u201ctemple\u201d contained wasn\u2019t a necromantic shrine but a gym, decorated with a framed photograph of a topless woman.<\/p>\n Wrote Irin Carmon in our 2019 guide<\/a>:<\/p>\n There are currently 475 level-three sex offenders registered in New York County, but in 2011, when an attorney from the office of Cy Vance, Manhattan DA, argued that Epstein\u2019s risk level should be reduced, Justice Ruth Pickholz responded, \u201cI have to tell you I am a little overwhelmed because I have never seen a prosecutor\u2019s office do anything like this.\u201d Pickholz denied the request \u2014 Epstein\u2019s risk assessment put him 20 points above the required threshold for the highest level of offender \u2014 and the DA\u2019s office later reversed its request. Though there\u2019s no indication Vance and Epstein were friendly, his office has been criticized previously for\u00a0declining to pursue sex-crimes charges against Harvey Weinstein<\/a>\u00a0that coincided with a donation from his attorneys (though Weinstein has since been charged by Vance\u2019s office) and fraud charges against Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Name found in Epstein\u2019s black book.<\/p>\n Listed on Epstein\u2019s schedules, contributor to Epstein\u2019s birthday book.<\/p>\n