{"id":80324,"date":"2025-12-24T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80324\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:56:08","slug":"ucla-brain-doc-backed-epstein-as-pedophile-planned-guilty-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80324\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA brain doc backed Epstein as pedophile planned guilty plea"},"content":{"rendered":"

A UCLA neuroscience professor pledged his loyalty to Jeffrey Epstein, newly unearthed emails show \u2014 even after finding out he was going to plead guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Professor Mark Tramo, who teaches neuroscience course \u201cMusic, Mind and Brain\u201d \u2014 referred to himself and the convicted pedophile as \u201cboys from The Bronx\u201d who \u201cstay true to their friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

The email came in 2007 after Tramo read reports that Epstein was going to enter a guilty plea to solicitation charges \u2014 for which he served a 13-month sentence, Bloomberg reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ProfessorUCLA neuroscience professor Mark Tramo pledged his loyalty to Jeffrey Epstein in newly unearthed emails. Don Liebig\/ASUCLA<\/p>\n

\u201cI read the newspapers this morning. \u2026 Please remind him that boys from The Bronx (even if they end up at Harvard) have long memories, know all about cops, and stay true to their friends through thick and thin (no less peccadilloes),\u201d Tramo said in the email.<\/p>\n

Epstein was also charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors in July 2019. He died in jail two months later. <\/p>\n

Since then, the pedophile has been linked to former President Bill Clinton, Mick Jagger<\/a>, Michael Jackson and disgraced former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a statement to the Harvard Crimson<\/a>, Tramo denied knowing what had happened in 2006-2007.<\/p>\n

He claimed he had been \u201cduped to believe\u201d Epstein committed minor offenses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"JeffreyTramo emailed Epstein in 2007 backing him despite his plan to plead guilty to solicitation charges. DOJ<\/p>\n

\u201cI never visited Epstein\u2019s island, never flew on his planes, and never saw him with young girls,\u201d he told the Crimson.<\/p>\n

In a 2018 email Tramo also spoke about Kanye West\u2019s meeting with President Trump, telling Epstein that he planned to analyze the interaction and give the information to him, \u201cgiven your interest in creativity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

UCLA is reported to have received donations from Epstein over the years. The Institute for Music and Brain Science, founded by Tramo, allegedly received grants from the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation between 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n

The disgraced financier also allegedly made donations<\/a> to the Institute of International Education, UCLA, between 2010 and 2012, via different charities.<\/p>\n

Reaction from Tramo\u2019s students has been mixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t say that you didn\u2019t know what was going on if then you\u2019re still contacting him past his initial arrest,\u201d one UCLA student told Daily Bruin<\/a>, on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Another student, Grace Wang, who took the neuroscientist\u2019s class fall 2025, told the news outlet that the she doesn\u2019t think the emails say much about Tramo\u2019s connection to Epstein. <\/p>\n

Wang added that the professor seems like the type of person to email \u201canyone of even remote interest to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Epstein is pictured wearing a UCLA shirt in several images released in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

The trove of documents \u2014 released by the \u200b\u200bJustice Department under bipartisan mandate \u2014 includes FBI files, court records and photographs.<\/p>\n

Large sections remain heavily redacted<\/a>, which the DOJ said was done to protect victims.<\/p>\n

In a letter to lawmakers, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department sifted through hundreds of thousands of pages of material \u2014 including investigative files, digital records and photographs \u2014 using teams of attorneys to determine what could legally be disclosed.<\/p>\n

More Epstein-related material is expected in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UCLA neuroscience professor pledged his loyalty to Jeffrey Epstein, newly unearthed emails show \u2014 even after finding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,6769,9,24,63,87,129,131,130,1069,39833,58],"class_list":["post-80324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-trump","tag-ucla","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}