From: Lesley Groff <I To: Jefffrey Epstein Subject: Fwd: Budget discussion and sincere regrets for this evening Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:21:53 +0000 Begin forwarded message: From: Lisa Troland Subject: Fwd: Budget discussion and sincere regrets for this evening Date: January 20, 2017 at 4:21:12 PM EST To: Jeffrey Epstein < Lisa, please send this to Jeffrey Epstein's office as soon as you can along with our sincere regrets that we just can't join him this evening, unfortunately, but will ask for a rain check, as soon as we can all get together. Jeffrey -- Thanks for your interest in the Dick Cavett episode of American Masters. I know I'm prejudiced, but I believe my husband is a genius who deserves special recognition for his impact on the cultural history of the U.S. during his decades of tv work, moviemaking, and writing. His brain should be studied by scientists but quick, before it's available to them, we should encapsulate this history. American Masters is the best way to do this. Of course, I can't say any of this to the producers, so this will be our little secret. Your interest has gone a long way toward helping us make progress on this, because in the last few weeks, I've learned a lot about funding, and about production for American Masters. I have spoken with three potential producers. I have an appointment next week with Michael Cantor, who leads the American Masters series, and who has expressed interest in producing the "Dick Cavett" episode. Technically, the donors and subject (in other words, you and Cavett — or me) cannot have any influence on the film itself, to protect the integrity of the "documentary" process, even though of course we can be advocates. We also believe this can be done at a very high production level for lower cost than might be the case for two reasons: (1) We have reason to believe we can direct all the budget directly to producing the show, and none of it to general PBS funding coffers, and (2) We own all