US EditionProfessors in the Epstein Files Say They Hoped Friendship Would Lead to Research Funding
Justice Department files show Epstein gave over $9 million to Harvard and funded researchers at multiple top universities, prompting resignations and reviews of academic ties.
- Justice Department files reveal professors cultivated friendships with Jeffrey Epstein to seek research funding, with dozens of emails and calls over more than a decade, mixing personal topics with funding discussions.
- Facing tighter federal grants, professors and researchers sought Epstein because private donations could guarantee jobs, fund graduate students, and underwrite risky research amid competitive federal grant systems.
- Dr. Mark Tramo at UCLA described exchanging dozens of emails with Epstein, estimating about $200,000 received and sending a 2009 email reading `Only 13 days to go, buddy!!!!!`.
- Immediate fallout includes at least one scholar resigning, Yale University removing a professor from teaching pending review, and UCLA removing Tramo's profile after more than 6,000 signatures, according to KTLA.
- Experts say the episode highlights reputational risks for universities and warns that reliance on donors amid federal cuts forces university leaders to debate long-term funding strategies.
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Epstein files show how he got the VIP treatment in Vegas
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reviewed hundreds of the millions of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice in late January. Communications revealed how disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and other wealthy patrons get the VIP treatment while visiting the Strip.
Epstein chaos hits academia as documents reveal secrets of professors and donors from top universities
Colleges and universities nationwide are reeling as newly released Justice Department files reveal extensive ties between Jeffrey Epstein and high-profile individuals within academia. It has forced administrators at schools from state universities to the Ivy League to launch investigations, face calls to rename buildings, and cut ties with powerful fundraisers. President Leon Botstein of Bard College in New York was found to have maintained ties…
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Jeffrey Epstein's imagined master race
In today’s letter: Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators didn’t just think that other people were beneath them — they wanted to remake humanity in their own image.If The Ink helps you understand these times and this community keeps you sane, join us today.Subscribe nowJeffrey Epstein, striking an academic poseIt probably comes as little surprise that the members of Jeffrey Epstein’s circle — given their ability to look away from the rest of hu…
Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘philosophy’ wasn’t deep — it was dirty
Anyone can search the currently available Epstein files and see what turns up. As a professor at Arizona State University, I searched for my own school. I did not expect to find so much ASU-related material.One reason: ASU employed Lawrence Krauss, paying him a substantial salary to write books arguing that the universe created itself from nothing.Epstein’s philosophy collapses under its own weight because it begins with a lie about God.That cla…
Griff has organized for 20 years appointments and trips of the paedophile financier. Neither she, nor Sarah Kellen (accused of keeping the list of girls) nor Nadia Marcinkova (accused of entertaining with younger girls in front of Epstein) have ever been incriminated
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