EPSTEIN'S CONNECTIONS WITH PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOLS AND CAMPS 🏫🎭 NEW DOCUMENTS RELEASED THIS WEEK FROM DOJ

Including a deep dive into the cabin on Interlochen Performing Arts campus that Epstein built with money from the Les Wexner Foundation.

This week, the Department of Justice released around 1,000 new documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein case. Here’s what we found:

🎭 New FBI files corroborate previous analysis from Stage Left Report that Epstein flew at least two of his victims to New York City and bought them tickets to Phantom of the Opera.

🏛️ (That explains this file the DOJ has on The Shubert Organization…)

🪄 Turns out Jeffrey Epstein and David Copperfield were also, like, really close, and he also got tickets for some of his victims to see David’s magic shows? Yuck.

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⏱️⏱️⏱️ The rest of today’s issue will be a list of timelines, divided by institution, on Epstein’s connections to performing arts schools and camps.

This timeline better informs us how he used a web of female assistants, young child victims-turned-recruiters, and other adults like Ghislaine Maxwell to scout children and very young adult girls to come in for “appointments” to his penthouse to get abused.

This recruitment of children was usually under the guise of giving massages for money, “dance lessons,” scholarships for camps and college, or other under-the-table opportunities for class mobility and industry connections for children pursuing careers in the arts who didn’t know any better.

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⏱️ INTERLOCHEN

AUGUST 1980: Epstein is thanked for a gift of $50,000 to Interlochen’s personal endowment. (pg 282)

FEBRUARY 1992: Ten tickets held for Epstein at the Lincoln Center performance of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra and Choir. (pg. 245)

AUGUST 1993: Letter from the Development Department talking about the ‘Jeffrey Epstein Scholarship Lodge’, including including a stone fireplace and a Silcraft whirlpool tub. It also mentions that Epstein is able to use the lodge for 14 days (presumably every year).

FEBRUARY 1994 Letter from Interlochen Development Department thanking Epstein for the $200,000 gift for the new scholarship lodge. (pg. 218)

APRIL 1994: An early victim’s accepted Application for Admission to Interlochen Summer Camp. Her first choice major was Theatre Arts/Musical, and second was Music/Vocal. It notes on her application that her father recently passed, who was a Conductor-Composer.

In later testimony, this victim states that EPSTEIN and MAXWELL seemed to be VICTIM’s family since she felt she did not have one.

AUGUST 1994: Email chain confirming that Epstein visited Interlochen campus by private jet the summer of 1994.

SUMMER 1994: FBI Agent interviewed about this victim, confirming she attended an arts camp at Interlochen starting at age 13 and that Epstein was a substantial donor to the school. (pg. 11)

She said that she was sitting at a picnic table with friends when Epstein and Maxwell walked by. They stopped to talk to her, engaged her in conversation, asked her if she liked her classes, her teachers. During that conversation, they found out that she was also from Palm Beach and that he said that he gives scholarships to students.

Epstein invited this victim’s mother to his Palm Beach house before he continued grooming this victim, explaining that he gives scholarships and likes to mentor people. The mother of this victim often referred to Epstein as her Godfather before she knew about the abuse. (pg. 18)

~ SUMMER 1995: [REDACTED VICTIM] attended Interlochen for about three summers. VICTIM told [REDACTED] that MAXWELL and EPSTEIN used to visit her at [REDACTED.] VICTIM would tell [REDACTED] that famous people would go to EPSTEIN’s house. [REDACTED] heard that a prince and DONALD TRUMP visited EPSTEIN’s house and this made [REDACTED] think that if they are there then how could Epstein be a criminal.

~ SUMMER 1995: [REDACTED VICTIM] recalled calling to talk to the principal to ask about EPSTEIN. She spoke with a receptionist who said they knew him. They said, “He is our guardian...He is trustworthy around the kids and there is no need to worry.” VICTIM told [REDACTED] that the first summer she was at Interlochen EPSTEIN was buying all the kids ice cream.

FEB 1996: Request from VP of Institutional Advancement at Interlochen to submit a request to the Wexner foundation for a gift of $40,000 for the performing arts school. (pg 288)

MARCH 1996: Request from the Associate Director of Development to review the plaque for the lodge with his name on it.

SEPTEMBER 1996: The VP of Institutional Advancement sends Epstein the final concert for the 1995 camp season, and promises to forward the 1996 one soon, one of the years a victim attended. (pg.254)

MAY 1997: Epstein hosts a cocktail reception and dinner in honor of Mike Wallace, the recipient of the 1997 Distinguished Alumni Award for Interlochen. (pg. 266)

SUMMER 1997: At Interlochen, he met and became friends with a 14-year-old cellist, Melissa Solomon, in 1997.

SEPTEMBER 1997: Interlochen thanking Epstein for a $50,000 check from The Jesse Philips Foundation, with $5,000 being used for a South Africa Scholarship Fund for a specific student he was interested in supporting. (pg. 234)

MAY 2000: Thank you letter from Director of Major Gifts to Epstein for $25,000 from his account to be used to pay tuition and expenses for a student’s senior year. Even though Interlochen has ‘discontinued the practice’ of accepting gifts that are restricted to a donor designated student, it is “only proper that we honor your original intentions as discussed with Tim Ambrose.” (pg. 241)

~Mid 90s: VICTIM met HARVEY WEINSTEIN at a Golden Globes party while with EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN introduces VICTIM to WEINSTEIN and states “hands off my girl”. EPSTEIN and WEINSTEIN laugh.

~Mid 90s: During a 2019 interview with this victim, she discussed meeting DONALD TRUMP. During this meeting TRUMP said to EPSTEIN something to the effect of “you have got a good one”.

~Mid 90s: Unclear if the same victim or a different one states in an interview with the FBI “REDACTED remembers sleeping at EPSTEIN’s cabin in Interlochen.”

~Mid 90s: In an interview with the FBI, VICTIM recalls “The news outlets were blackmailing saying that she needed to give an interview or they would write whatever they wanted. VICTIM thought that she may have paid an attorney to make the media go away. … VICTIM Expressed that she did not want this to ruin her life.

~Mid 90s: In an interview with the FBI, a redacted name stated that “EPSTEIN had a house at INTERLOCHEN. This person heard that EPSTEIN had approached REDACTED and REDACTED at the school there. At the time, this person knew of MAXWELL being with EPSTEIN. They viisited them at INTERLOCHEN approximately one time (this was prior to the REDACTED.)

~2002: DARREN INDYKE, EPSTEIN’s lawyer, called VICTIM and said that she owed $10,000 for the apartment in New York that her mother was subletting. VICTIM’S boyfriend at the time told her to ignore EPSTEIN. VICTIM’S boyfriend thought that EPSTEIN was her godfather.

2015: Interlochen donor records showing that they were potentially reaching out to Epstein for donations, stewardships, and Gala invites through the mid-2010s.

JUNE 2021: In an interview with the FBI, Tim Ambrose, former Development VP at Interlochen, recalled that during a visit to the cabin, “MAXWELL told him that she, EPSTEIN, and their personal masseuse was coming. … EPSTEIN’s lodge was separate from campus; people would not see others coming and going.

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⏱️ JUILLIARD

~1996 EPSTEIN told REDACTED that he and MAXWELL had seen REDACTED at REDACTED saying she was beautiful and talented and she needed to go to JUILLIARD. EPSTEIN said that he was a board member at JUILLIARD.

JUNE 1998: Victim’s application to the Professional Children’s School states that the President of Admissions at The Juilliard School, Ms. Mary Gray, referred me to your school.

~Mid 90s: Victim testimony to the FBI that while staying with Epstein at his house, “on one occasion, the dean of Interlochen was there for a cocktail party. REDACTED met him through EPSTEIN. This man was also the dean of admissions for Juilliard.”

~2000s: Melissa Solomon says Epstein insisted that she take the exam to enter Juilliard and agreed to pay for her studies there. … after she refused to attend a party with Prince Andrew, Epstein severed ties and stopped paying for school.

OCTOBER 2013: Email from REDACTED to Epstein: “At around 8.30-9.00 I should be on Broadway and 137th - there is Juilliard Master students’ party. I could stop at your home at around 8 if you are already back! I just finished rehearsal with pianist and going back to apartment.”

DECEMBER 2013: From Epstein to REDACTED: “can you see if there is bulletin board julliard„ so that ballerinas, can teach me, excercise. workout .”

JULY 2013: Email exchange with a potential victim “Even though it’s quite expensive here in Germany, I am trying to spend very little during the masterclass so that from the amount you genorously gave me for this mastcrclass I could save something for Juilliard..”

OCTOBER 2013: “I will meet at 3.45 at Juilliard music store to buy your school books, and hers too. I like buying you school books”

OCTOBER 2013: Epstein asking for massages from a redacted Juilliard student he previously asked for music lessons from

APRIL 2015: Flyer for student concert at Juilliard with violinist’s name redacted

APRIL 2015: Lesley Groff (Epstein’s associate) coordinating a box of chocolates being delivered to Juilliard

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⏱️ STEPS ON BROADWAY

2002: “The first meeting of EPSTEIN started when VICTIM was coming out of ballet class in New York “Steps on Broadway”. Someone asked VICTIM if she wanted to give EPSTEIN dance inspired work outs.”

VICTIM goes to EPSTEIN’s house about the next day. … There was a cleaning staff and doorman at the house. VICTIM met PRINCE ANDREW and a brunette there.”

2002: REDACTED is an Emergency Physician who was completing a fellowship for the Secret Service to provide support to the president and his family, and ended up traveling on Epstein’s plane. They reference a young ballerina: “On the jet with them was PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON and his staffers DAVID SLADE and DOUG BLAND, four to five Secret Services agents, KEVIN SPACEY, CHRIS TUCKER, RONALD BURKLE, CASEY WASSERMAN and his wife, RODNEY SLATER, who was the Secretary of Transportation, GHISLAINE MAXWELL, and about four young women aged 20 to 22 years old, including REDACTED and REDACTED. To REDACTED knowledge, REDACTED was a masseuse and REDACTED was a model and one of the other young women described herself as a ballerina. The reason for the trip was HIV research. They spent ten days flying to seven different countries.”

2004: VICTIM met JEAN-LUC, FREDRICK PACKIE and PRINCE ANDREW … and a little blonde South African girl. (Remember the Interlochen Scholarship from 2000? suspicious…)

~ MID 2000s: Witness Testimony “During one of my visits to the island … I recall seeing a particularly young, thin girl who looked well under 18 and recall asking her her age. I later learned was a ballerina. She refused to tell me or let me see her passport.”

~ MID 2000s: Witness Testimony “whilst I was in New York for deposition, they helped me reach out to another fellow survivor who was on the island with me. She was the young ballerina I tried to protect from Epstein and Maxwell and the co-conspirators.”

JAN 2011: Email from “Laura” to Epstein: “I’d be happy to go over to steps and ask dancers I’d they want to give private lessons, like how we met. Would this be okay?”

JAN 2013: Email from Laura to Epstein: “I just met someone I think you would LOVE!! She's an adorable ballerina. met her at Steps and asked her if she wd be interested in giving you a ballet/workout/stretch session. She would love to meet you if you're up for it :)”

SEPTEMBER 2013: Email coordinating a ‘ballerina’ to be brought to Epstein’s house

2013: Ms. Vostrikov, a former dancer, said Mr. Epstein tried to recruit her to give him dance lessons in 2013. … A young-looking woman approached her in the bathroom of the Steps on Broadway dance studio and said she was looking for someone to take over one of her private ballet clients.

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⏱️ MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY:

JUNE 2006: $10,000 given via check to Martha Graham Dance Company

SEPTEMBER 2009: Email from REDACTED to Epstein “until I left for CA I was making$ from massage and had just finished the grant you had given the martha graham dance co for me (thank u again for that)”

OCTOBER 2009: Email from Laura “Hi Jeffrey, The Martha Graham Co had just finished the donation you had given them for massages right before I left to the west coast. They just contacted me asking if it was possible to set up the same arrangement to continue now that I’m back.”

SEPTEMBER 2010: “…I had asked if it would be possible to continue doing massages for the Martha Graham company with another grant. … Would this still be possible?”

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Other institutions also appear in files that I have not been able to do a deep dive on yet: NYU, Harvard, Bard College, Columbia, The New School, New York Film Academy, Alvin Ailey Company.

That’s all for this week as we reach the Substack email limit.

Stay curious, y’all. See you in two weeks for Aries season ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥