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Butterfly Trust

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tagsentity, trust, deutsche-bank, epstein-finances, banking
aliasesThe Butterfly Trust, The 2013 Butterfly Trust, Butterfly Trust (2006)

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TypePersonal trust settled by Jeffrey E. Epstein12
Trust agreementDated December 27, 2006, between Jeffrey E. Epstein as Grantor and Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn as Trustees1
Power to change beneficiariesArticle Third, Paragraph B: the acting trustees, acting jointly, may during the Grantor’s lifetime add beneficiaries “by an acknowledged instrument delivered to the Grantor”1
Acting trustees, 2014–2015 instrumentsHarry I. Beller and Erika A. Kellerhals13
BeneficiariesThree are named on this page and the rest are not: Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn, added as beneficiaries in December 2014, and Ghislaine Maxwell, deleted as a beneficiary by the same instrument; see What this page does not name3
BankDeutsche Bank: checking and money market business accounts opened January 24, 2014; money market account closed July 8, 20192
Bank’s internal groupingCarried under the label “SOUTHERN FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIP”4
Route into the releaseDeutsche Bank’s production to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, marked confidential under Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)12

The Butterfly Trust was a personal trust settled by Jeffrey Epstein on December 27, 2006, with his lawyer Darren K. Indyke and his accountant Richard Kahn as its trustees.1 Its documentary interest lies in one clause and what was done with it: Article Third, Paragraph B of the trust agreement let the acting trustees add and remove beneficiaries at will during Epstein’s lifetime, and from 2011 to at least the winter of 2016–17 they did so repeatedly, by short notarised instruments delivered back to Epstein himself.1532 Deutsche Bank held the trust’s accounts from January 2014, grouped them with Epstein’s other accounts under an internal label, and by September 2019 had made the trust the subject of four of the nineteen exhibits in its presentation to federal prosecutors.46

This page is about the instrument and the institutions that handled it: what the trust agreement permitted, who exercised it and when, how a bank and a tax office treated the trust, and what the record does not say. It names three of the trust’s beneficiaries and withholds the rest. The reasons are set out below.

What this page does not name

The instruments on this page add and delete beneficiaries of a personal trust. Beneficiaries of a personal trust are private individuals, not officials acting in an official capacity, and the desk’s rule is that nothing may identify a victim or survivor who has not come forward publicly, or a cooperating witness. This page cannot establish, from the documents it has read, that no beneficiary falls into either class. It therefore names no beneficiary except the three set out in the paragraphs below, and otherwise reports only that the instruments added or deleted beneficiaries.

Two men are named, and the reason is not that they were anything other than beneficiaries. The December 2014 instrument adds Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn “as a beneficiary under Article Third of the Trust Agreement,” in those words, twice, in its recital and in its operative clause (B), and Deutsche Bank’s timeline lists them among the eight beneficiaries added in the 2016–17 round.32 They are named here because they are documented actors in this structure with pages of their own on this wiki, because the producing party left their names in the clear on the instrument and in the bank’s own exhibit, and because neither of the two classes above is in reach for either of them.

A third added name stands in the clear in the same clause, and it is withheld. The reason is not that this page has established that the person falls into either protected class; it is that this page has established nothing about them at all, and it will not complete an identification it has not made. That is a statement about the limits of this page’s work and must not be read as a finding about the person.

The name withheld in that clause is not the only one the producing party left in the clear. All nineteen sheets of the file were read in order for this page, and on that reading three beneficiary names stand unredacted and are withheld here: the one in that clause and two others.5 Which sheet carries which is not stated here, because that would be a route to the name. Apart from those three and the three this page does name, every beneficiary named in these instruments was blacked out by the producing party, and this page identifies none of them.

The third beneficiary this page names is not one of those added but one deleted: Ghislaine Maxwell, whom the December 2014 instrument deletes as a beneficiary and whom the producing party left in the clear both on that instrument and in several rows of the bank’s own timeline of the trust.32 She is named here on the same footing as the two men above: a documented actor in this structure with a page of her own on this wiki, left unredacted by the producing party, and neither of the two classes above in reach. Her deletion from the trust is already reported on Harry Beller’s page and on Nadia Marcinkova’s page; the trust agreement’s original beneficiary class is set out in full on the latter and is not repeated here.

The producing party did not withhold beneficiary names consistently. On some instruments in the file every added or deleted name is blacked out on the image; on others the redaction is partial; and the first page of the file, headed “Butterfly Trust / List of Beneficiaries”, is a table of three columns and four rows, twelve cells in all, of which three carry a name in the clear and the rest are covered by black bars, one bar running continuously across the rule between two cells.7 No count of the names on that page is given here, for the reason this page gives elsewhere: a bar may cover more than one entry, and on that page one demonstrably does. Beyond the three names given above, this page reproduces no beneficiary name from any of them. The inconsistency is a fact about the production, not a licence to complete it.

The clause

The trust agreement itself is dated December 27, 2006 and is between Jeffrey E. Epstein, as Grantor, and Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn, as Trustees.1 Every later amendment recites the same authority: pursuant to Article Third, Paragraph B, “the acting trustees of the Trust, acting jointly, have the right, during the lifetime of the Grantor, to add beneficiaries under Article Third of the Trust Agreement by an acknowledged instrument delivered to the Grantor.”1

Three conditions are stated on the face of that recital and each of them is testable against the instruments: the trustees must act jointly, the power runs only while Epstein is alive, and the instrument must be acknowledged before a notary and delivered to Epstein. The instruments in the release are built to those conditions: two signature rules, a notarial certificate, and a printed receipt line opening “Received this” and closing “by:”, standing over a rule captioned “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor.” On six of the seven receipt blocks in the file the date on that line is machine-printed in full, as on the second page of the March 30, 2015 counterpart, which reads “Received this 30th day of March, 2015 by:”; on the seventh the day is left blank and completed by hand. All seven were read at the image.8910

The original beneficiary class named in Article Third, Paragraph A is quoted, from the trust agreement itself, on Nadia Marcinkova’s page, and is not repeated here.

The amendment file

The release carries a nineteen-page file of these instruments, produced by Deutsche Bank to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and stamped confidential under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e).5 It opens with the beneficiary list described above and then runs through a sequence of short instruments, each headed “BUTTERFLY TRUST” over “ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” “ADDITION OF BENEFICIARY” or “DELETION AND ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES.”5 The file is not in date order.

The earliest instrument in it is dated March 28, 2011, and is the only one executed by the original trustees: Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn sign it, and it adds two beneficiaries, neither of whom is named here.11 Its two notarial certificates, one for each trustee, are executed by Harry I. Beller as a notary public of the State of New York. He would himself become a trustee of the trust three years later.11 Beneath them, a line reading “Received this 28th day of March, 2011 by:” stands over a rule captioned “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor,” and a pen mark crosses that rule.9

By late 2014 Beller and Erika A. Kellerhals were signing as the acting trustees. The instrument headed “DELETION AND ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES” runs to two sheets, numbered “1” and “2” at their feet. On the first it deletes several beneficiaries, all but one of them blacked out on the image, the exception being Ghislaine Maxwell, and adds several others, among whom Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn stand in the clear.3 Both Beller and Kellerhals have signed that sheet.3 Its printed New York acknowledgment reads “On this ___ day of November, 2014”; the blank carries a manuscript “9” with a superscript “th,” the printed word “November” is struck through, and “December” is written above it, in the same blue ink as the two signatures.12 Deutsche Bank’s own timeline of the trust dates the same event to December 9, 2014, independently of the manuscript correction.2

The second sheet does more than complete that acknowledgment. It completes the New York acknowledgment begun on the first sheet, which is signed and stamped there by a New York notary, Habibe Avdiu, qualified in Richmond County.13 Beneath it stands a second and separate acknowledgment, headed “TERRITORY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS / DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS & ST. JOHN,” reciting that Erika A. Kellerhals personally appeared, its day blank carrying a manuscript “5,” its printed “November” struck through and “December” written above in the same blue ink as the notarial signatures on that sheet, signed and stamped by Gina Marie Bryan, notary public of St. Thomas and St. John.13 Beneath that again is a receipt block, “Received this 5 day of November, 2014 by:” with the same struck month and the same manuscript correction, standing over a rule captioned “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor” and crossed by a broad blue pen mark; this page reports the mark and does not characterise it.10

So the December 2014 instrument carries two acknowledgments, made four days apart before two notaries in two jurisdictions, with the Virgin Islands acknowledgment the earlier of the two. Both trustees signed the same sheet, so this instrument was not executed in counterpart as the 2015 instruments were; but the twice-acknowledged, two-notary, two-jurisdiction structure set out below is already present in it, and this is the earliest sheet in the file that carries it.

Five further instruments follow in 2015, the first acknowledged on 27 January and the last on 24 April, each adding one or more beneficiaries, and each signed on two counterpart sheets. On nine of those ten sheets every added name is blacked out; on the tenth one added name stands in the clear in the operative clause, while the recital of that same sheet blacks it out and the other sheet of the same instrument blacks it out in both places. That name is not reproduced here.5 Their notarial acknowledgments are dated January 27, February 6, February 11, March 30 and April 24, 2015.1415161718 Deutsche Bank’s timeline of the trust lists an addition of beneficiaries on each of those five dates and on no other date in 2015.2

The amendment file ends there, but the bank’s timeline does not. It records a further round between December 2016 and February 2017 in which, on the bank’s own count, “Three beneficiaries are removed” and “Eight beneficiaries are added”, with Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn again among those added.2 The compliance correspondence that accompanied that round is documented on Bank Records of the Epstein Entity Network. No instrument for it is among the pages of the amendment file read for this page.

Executed apart

The 2015 instruments recite that the trustees act “jointly,” and the release shows them executing in counterpart rather than together. This is not a feature of one instrument. The nineteen-page file is built as five matched pairs, one pair for each 2015 date, each pair followed by a Virgin Islands certificate: pp.2 and 3 with the certificate at p.4 (February 6), pp.5 and 6 with p.7 (February 11), pp.8 and 9 with p.10 (March 30), pp.11 and 12 with p.13 (April 24), and pp.14 and 15 with p.16 (January 27).19

The two halves of every pair differ in the same way, and each was read at the image. On the first sheet of each pair Harry I. Beller’s signature stands over his rule, Erika A. Kellerhals’s rule is blank, and Eli Z. Mendlowitz has signed and stamped the New York notarial rule.1516201814 On the second, Kellerhals’s signature stands over her rule, Beller’s rule is blank, and the New York notarial rule is blank, although the printed New York acknowledgment on that sheet still recites Beller’s appearance, because it is the same form.2119 No sheet of any of these pairs carries both signatures.

The certificate that follows each pair is what acknowledges the second half. It is headed “TERRITORY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS / DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS & ST. JOHN,” recites that Kellerhals personally appeared on the same day as the New York acknowledgment, and is signed and stamped by a Virgin Islands notary: Gina Marie Bryan on four of the five, and William A. Thomas on the January 27 certificate.2219 Beneath each certificate is a receipt line over the “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor” rule.

So each of the five 2015 instruments was acknowledged twice on one day, in New York and in the U.S. Virgin Islands, before two different notaries: the same structure the December 2014 instrument shows across two dates.

The March 30 instrument survives in at least three sheets rather than two. Two of them carry Beller’s signature over his rule with Mendlowitz’s signature and stamp on the notarial rule: EFTA01282297 p.8 and the single-sheet copy that circulated on its own at EFTA01364006 p.1, which bear different production numbers. The third, EFTA01282297 p.9, is the Kellerhals counterpart.201721 The single-sheet copy is numbered “1” at its foot and has no second page, so no Virgin Islands certificate and no receipt line are attached to it.17 The conclusion is unchanged by the count: no copy of this instrument carries both signatures.

The receipt line

Article Third, Paragraph B requires the acknowledged instrument to be delivered to the Grantor, and the instruments provide for that with a printed receipt line over a rule captioned “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor.”8 A receipt block of that kind appears on seven sheets of the file: the five Virgin Islands certificates, the second sheet of the December 2014 instrument and the 2011 instrument. On every one of them a pen mark crosses the rule.19109

On the second page of the March 30, 2015 counterpart, that block carries a single continuous blue ink stroke: two large connected loops with a long straight diagonal tail, drawn across the receipt line, across the rule and through the printed caption, and extending below them. Examined at magnification of the native raster, no letterforms are resolvable within it, and nothing else is written on the rule.8 This page reports the marks and does not characterise any of them. Whether the delivery condition was satisfied on any of these instruments is not something the images settle.

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank opened a business checking account and a money market business account for the trust on January 24, 2014, and carried them inside the internal client grouping it labelled the “Southern Financial Relationship.”24 The label is the bank’s own and is not the name of any entity; that point is made on Southern Trust Company’s page and on Bank Records of the Epstein Entity Network.

An annual review that ran late

On January 29, 2015 Kimberly Hart, a managing director of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas in Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, sent Paul Morris and Amanda Kirby a message marked “Importance: High” and classified “For internal use only,” with the subject line “Please complete January ACUs ASAP [I].”4 The body opens: “January ACUs must be completed by EOD tomorrow. Please submit the following as soon as possible:”4 Beneath it is a four-column table with a single row: customer owner Paul Morris, relationship “SOUTHERN FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIP,” customer name “Butterfly Trust,” and, under the heading “Annual Client Update Due Date,” the date 1/24/2015. Beneath the table the message closes “Thanks!” over “Kim.”4 That due date falls five days before the message, and one year to the day after the accounts were opened.42

Deutsche Bank’s own timeline of the trust records that a know-your-customer update was in fact conducted on the money market and checking accounts on February 24–27, 2015, a month after the due date on Hart’s table, and the bank’s timeline adds its own parenthesis about that review: “unclear why the checking account was included in the review.”2 The bank’s timeline separately records that the checking account “appears to close after four months of inactivity” on April 25, 2014.2

That same February 2015 entry records the bank catching up with a change the instruments had already made: “The beneficiaries remain the same, but Epstein replaces Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke as trustees with Harry Beller and Erika Kellerhals.”2 The instruments in the amendment file show Beller and Kellerhals signing as the acting trustees from at least January 27, 2015, and Indyke’s page documents his February 2015 letter to the bank reporting the change.14

A balance on a daily report

An automated Deutsche Bank daily deposit report for one relationship manager’s code, headed “LARGE, ZERO AND NEGATIVE BALANCES” and covering March 9, 2015, lists twenty-two accounts and gives the Butterfly Trust a balance of $320,816.73.23 The message carrying it has an RFC Date: header with a −0400 offset, which in March 2015 is Eastern daylight time, so it was sent shortly after 2 a.m. Eastern on March 10, 2015; the report itself is headed with the previous day’s date.23 The report is one relationship manager’s whole book of business rather than a compilation about Epstein; this page names no account on it but the trust’s, and reproduces no account number from it.23

Four exhibits out of nineteen

Deutsche Bank’s presentation to the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, dated September 12, 2019, sets out nineteen exhibits lettered A to S.6 Four consecutive exhibits, E through H, are about this one trust: “Timeline of The Butterfly Trust,” “Biographical Information on Female Butterfly Trust Beneficiaries,” “Summary of Payments to Butterfly Trust Beneficiaries,” and “Timeline of Direct Payments to Butterfly Trust Beneficiaries.”6 The presentation’s contents and the wider findings it supports are described on the Deutsche Bank page and are not repeated here.

Exhibit H carries a footnote stating its threshold: “For the sake of brevity, we have only included payments equaling or in excess of $10,000.”24 Its dated rows run from December 2013 to February 2016; its beneficiary column is blacked out on every row but three, and the column that is blacked out throughout is headed “JE ACCOUNT #”, which holds the payer’s account numbers, not the beneficiaries’.24 Its rightmost identifying column, headed “JE ACCOUNT,” names as the source of these payments not only “Butterfly Trust” but also “Jeffrey Epstein” and “NES, LLC,” so payments the bank classed as payments to the trust’s beneficiaries were made from accounts other than the trust’s own.24 This page prints no row from that exhibit: on the image the horizontal rules of the date column do not align with those of the amount and bank columns, so a date cannot safely be paired with an amount by eye.24

Deutsche Bank’s compliance review of a change to the trust’s beneficiaries in December 2016, and the closure of the trust’s money market account on July 8, 2019, are documented on Bank Records of the Epstein Entity Network and Southern Trust Company’s page respectively, and are not repeated here.

The Epstein office

The trust appears on the working agenda of Epstein’s own office. On March 31, 2012 Richard Kahn forwarded to Epstein, under the subject “FW: Open Items,” a message he had sent two days earlier under the subject “RE: Open Items,” opening “I will bring a hard copy with backup to our meeting later at 5:30pm.”25 Item 5 is “April 15th Tax Returns & Extensions,” and beneath it a lettered list runs: Epstein’s own Form 1040, his gift tax position, then “c) Zorro Trust”, “d) Haze Trust”, “e) Butterfly Trust”, “f) Financial Ballistics Trust - we are waiting on direction from Erika”, “g) KCAC LLC”.25 The Butterfly Trust line carries no annotation; the office’s note about waiting on direction sits on the Financial Ballistics Trust line beneath it, and the document gives no surname for “Erika.”25

The trust is therefore one of a set of Epstein trusts and companies handled together for tax filing purposes by the same office. What returns were filed for it, and what it held, are not shown by this document.

What the record here does not show

These documents establish that a power to change beneficiaries existed, who exercised it and on what dates, that a bank held accounts for the trust and reviewed them late, and that Epstein’s office carried the trust on a tax worklist. They do not establish who chose any beneficiary, on whose instruction, or for what purpose; the December 2016 compliance question about the trust’s purpose, asked because the purpose “is not cleared within the original trust agreement”, is documented on Bank Records of the Epstein Entity Network, where the answer went by telephone. They do not establish what the trust held or what it was worth at any date other than the single balance reported above. They do not establish whether the receipt line on any instrument was signed. Appearing in these documents is not evidence of wrongdoing by any person named on this page.

Notes

Footnotes

  1. “BUTTERFLY TRUST / ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” reciting Article Third, Paragraph B of the Trust Agreement dated December 27, 2006 between Jeffrey E. Epstein as Grantor and Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn as Trustees. Read at the image; the added beneficiary’s name is blacked out on the image and is not reproduced. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01364006 p.1. The same recital appears on every amendment instrument cited below, with two variations read at the image: the March 2011 and December 2014 instruments read “the then acting trustees,” and the December 2014 instrument recites the power to delete as well as to add. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. Deutsche Bank presentation to the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, September 12, 2019, Exhibit E, “Timeline of The Butterfly Trust.” Read at the image, which is a spiral-bound copy carrying a blue manuscript loop drawn across the December 9, 2014 and January 27, 2015 rows. The exhibit is the bank’s own compilation, prepared for prosecutors; its first row is sourced by the exhibit itself to a Miami Herald article. Several rows leave a beneficiary name in the clear — among them the December 2006, January 2014, December 9, 2014 and December 2016–February 2017 rows — and the rest are blacked out. Of the names the exhibit leaves in the clear, this page reproduces Darren K. Indyke, Richard Kahn and Ghislaine Maxwell, and no others. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01681865 p.14. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  3. “BUTTERFLY TRUST / DELETION AND ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” executed by Harry I. Beller and Erika A. Kellerhals as current acting trustees. Read at the image: pen signatures appear over both rules; the deleted names are blacked out except GHISLAINE MAXWELL; of the added names three stand in the clear, of which this page reproduces two, DARREN K. INDYKE AND RICHARD KAHN, and the rest are blacked out. Both the recital and operative clause (B) read “as a beneficiary under Article Third of the Trust Agreement.” No count of the blacked-out entries is given here, because a redaction box may cover more than one entry. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.17. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  4. Deutsche Bank internal email, Kimberly Hart to Paul Morris and Amanda Kirby, dated January 29, 2015, subject “Please complete January ACUs ASAP [I],” Importance High, classification “For internal use only.” Read at the image in full, including the four-column table and its single row, the sign-off “Thanks! / Kim” beneath the table and the signature block below that; the senders’ and recipients’ email addresses and a block in the signature are blacked out on the image and are not reproduced. The Sent: header carries no time zone, so no clock time is printed here; the date falls on January 29, 2015 in Eastern time whether the header is Eastern or coordinated universal time. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01456530 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  5. Nineteen-page file of Butterfly Trust beneficiary instruments produced by Deutsche Bank, each sheet stamped “CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e)” and carrying Deutsche Bank and SDNY production numbers. All nineteen pages were read at the image for this page, in order and in full: each was extracted at the scan’s own resolution (816 × 1073 at 96 pixels per inch) and magnified, rather than re-rendered above it. On every instrument sheet the reading covered the heading, the recital, the operative clause and both signature rules, and the two counterpart sheets of each 2015 instrument were also read against each other; on every sheet carrying one it covered the notarial block, the Virgin Islands certificate and the receipt block. Whether a beneficiary name was blacked out was recorded separately for each place it appears on each sheet, and was not carried over from any other sheet. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 pp.1–19. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. The same presentation, contents page listing nineteen exhibits lettered A to S with their page numbers. Exhibit letters, titles and the page numbers 14, 15, 17 and 19 for Exhibits E to H read at the image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01681865 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. Page headed “Butterfly Trust / List of Beneficiaries”. Measured on the native raster: five horizontal rules, each continuous across the full width of the table, and four vertical rules — a table of three columns by four rows, twelve cells, with no merged cell. Three cells carry a name in the clear; the rest are covered by black bars, and the bar in the left-hand column runs continuously across the rule between the second and third rows, so it covers two cells. Of the three names in the clear, this page names two, Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn, for the reasons set out under “What this page does not name” and sourcing them to the instrument at p.17 rather than to this page; the third is not reproduced here. No count of entries is given. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.1. ↩

  8. The receipt block on the second page of the March 30, 2015 counterpart: “Received this 30th day of March, 2015 by:” over a rule captioned “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor.” Read at the image and then re-examined by magnifying the native raster three and four times rather than re-rendering at a higher resolution: the block carries one continuous blue stroke of two large connected loops with a long straight diagonal tail, crossing the receipt line, the rule and the printed caption; no letterforms are resolvable in it, and no other mark is on the rule. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.10. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. The receipt block on the same sheet: “Received this 28th day of March, 2011 by:” over a rule captioned “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor.” Read at the image: a pen mark crosses the rule. This page does not characterise the mark. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.19. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. The receipt block at the foot of the same sheet: “Received this 5 day of November, 2014 by:” — with the same manuscript “5,” the same struck “November” and the same “December” written above — over a rule captioned “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor.” Read at the image: a broad blue pen mark crosses the rule. This page does not characterise the mark. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.18. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. “BUTTERFLY TRUST / ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” acknowledged March 28, 2011, executed by Darren K. Indyke and Richard Kahn as the then acting trustees, with two New York notarial certificates both executed by Harry I. Beller as notary public. Read at the image: pen signatures appear over both trustees’ rules. Neither added beneficiary is reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.19. ↩ ↩2

  12. The New York acknowledgment on the same sheet. Read at the image at magnification of the native raster: the printed line reads “On this ___ day of November, 2014”; the blank carries a manuscript “9” with a superscript “th”; the printed word “November” is struck through and “December” is written above it, in blue ink matching the two signatures on the same sheet. The stroke through “November” is not horizontal: measured on the native raster it begins below the baseline at the left of the word and ends above its x-height at the right, rising about thirteen pixels over about seventy of run, a little over ten degrees. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.17. ↩

  13. The second sheet of the same instrument, numbered “2” at its foot. Read at the image on the native raster: it completes the New York acknowledgment begun on the first sheet, over a notarial rule signed and stamped by Habibe Avdiu, notary public of the State of New York, qualified in Richmond County; beneath it stands a separate acknowledgment headed “TERRITORY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS / DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS & ST. JOHN,” reading “On this ___ day of November, 2014 … personally appeared ERIKA A. KELLERHALS,” with a manuscript “5” in the day blank, “November” struck through and “December” written above, signed and stamped by Gina Marie Bryan, notary public, St. Thomas/St. John, USVI. The commission numbers on both stamps are not reproduced here. The manuscript additions were tested against the known ink on the same sheet: sampled on the native raster, they carry the same blue as the two notarial signatures, and the printed text of the sheet carries none. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.18. ↩ ↩2

  14. “BUTTERFLY TRUST / ADDITION OF BENEFICIARY,” New York acknowledgment dated January 27, 2015 before Eli Z. Mendlowitz, notary public. Read at the image: Harry I. Beller’s signature appears over his rule and Erika A. Kellerhals’s rule is blank; the added beneficiary is blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.14. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. “BUTTERFLY TRUST / ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” New York acknowledgment dated February 6, 2015 before Eli Z. Mendlowitz. The heading is quoted from the image; the corpus text layer for this page renders it “6DDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” so an exact-string search will not find it here. Read at the image: Beller’s signature appears over his rule and Kellerhals’s rule is blank; the added beneficiaries are blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.2. ↩ ↩2

  16. “BUTTERFLY TRUST / ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” New York acknowledgment dated February 11, 2015 before Eli Z. Mendlowitz. Read at the image: Beller’s signature appears over his rule and Kellerhals’s rule is blank; the added beneficiary is blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.5. ↩ ↩2

  17. “BUTTERFLY TRUST / ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” New York acknowledgment dated March 30, 2015 before Eli Z. Mendlowitz. Read at the image: Harry I. Beller’s signature appears over his rule, Erika A. Kellerhals’s rule is blank, the notarial rule carries a signature and stamp, the sheet is numbered “1” at its foot, and the added beneficiary is blacked out. This identifier is a one-page run in the release and carries no second page. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01364006 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  18. “BUTTERFLY TRUST / ADDITION OF BENEFICIARIES,” New York acknowledgment dated April 24, 2015 before Eli Z. Mendlowitz. Read at the image: Beller’s signature appears over his rule and Kellerhals’s rule is blank; the added beneficiary is blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.11. ↩ ↩2

  19. The counterpart structure of the file, read at the image on the native raster of every sheet named. Five matched pairs, each followed by a Virgin Islands certificate: February 6, 2015 at pp.2–3 with the certificate at p.4; February 11 at pp.5–6 with p.7; March 30 at pp.8–9 with p.10; April 24 at pp.11–12 with p.13; January 27 at pp.14–15 with p.16. On the first sheet of each pair Harry I. Beller’s signature stands over his rule, Erika A. Kellerhals’s rule is blank, and the New York notarial rule carries the signature and stamp of Eli Z. Mendlowitz; on the second sheet Kellerhals’s signature stands over her rule, Beller’s rule is blank, and the New York notarial rule carries no signature and no stamp. The printed New York acknowledgment recites Beller’s appearance on both sheets of each pair. Each certificate recites Kellerhals’s appearance at St. Thomas on the same date as the New York acknowledgment and is signed and stamped by Gina Marie Bryan on pp.4, 7, 10 and 13 and by William A. Thomas on p.16; each carries a receipt block beneath it, over the “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Grantor” rule, crossed by a pen mark. Commission numbers on the stamps are not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 pp.2–16. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. A second sheet of the March 30, 2015 instrument bearing Beller’s signature, immediately preceding the Kellerhals counterpart. Read at the image: Harry I. Beller’s signature over his rule, Erika A. Kellerhals’s rule blank, the New York notarial rule signed and stamped by Eli Z. Mendlowitz, New York acknowledgment “On this 30th day of March, 2015,” the sheet numbered “1” at its foot, the added beneficiary blacked out. Its production numbers differ from those on the single-sheet copy at EFTA01364006 p.1. The notary’s stamp does not distinguish the two sheets: measured on the native raster of each, it sits in the same position relative to the notarial rule, twenty-four pixels below it on this sheet and twenty-five on the other, and twenty pixels to the right of the rule’s left end on both. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.8. ↩ ↩2

  21. The counterpart of the same instrument. Read at the image: Erika A. Kellerhals’s signature appears over her rule, Harry I. Beller’s rule is blank, the New York notarial rule on this sheet is blank, and the added beneficiary is blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.9. ↩ ↩2

  22. Page 2 of the same counterpart: a Virgin Islands certificate, “TERRITORY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS / DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS & ST. JOHN,” reciting that on March 30, 2015 Erika A. Kellerhals personally appeared, signed and stamped by Gina Marie Bryan, notary public, St. Thomas/St. John, USVI. Read at the image; the commission number on the stamp is not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01282297 p.10. ↩

  23. Deutsche Bank automated daily deposit report for relationship-manager code 81851, headed “LARGE, ZERO AND NEGATIVE BALANCES” and dated 03/09/15 in its body, carried by a message whose RFC Date: header reads “Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:22:05 -0400”, an Eastern daylight time offset for that date. Read at the image: twenty-two account rows, of which the row named BUTTERFLY TRUST carries category “M” and balance 320,816.73. No account number from the report is reproduced here. The corpus text layer for this page serialises the columns separately and returns fewer names than the image shows, so the name-to-balance pairing here was taken from the image only. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01472529 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  24. The same presentation, Exhibit H, “Timeline of Direct Payments to Butterfly Trust Beneficiaries,” with its footnote 23. Read at the image on the native raster: the header row runs DATE, BENEFICIARY, AMOUNT, BANK, JE ACCOUNT, JE ACCOUNT #. There is no beneficiary account-number column on the exhibit. The beneficiary column is blacked out inconsistently across the rows, and a name standing on that page is not reproduced here; the column blacked out throughout is the one headed “JE ACCOUNT #,” which is the payer’s. The dated rows run from December 2013 to February 2016, and the values appearing in the “JE ACCOUNT” column include “Butterfly Trust,” “Jeffrey Epstein” and “NES, LLC.” The horizontal rules of the date column sit above those of the amount and bank columns on the image, so no date is paired with an amount here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01681865 p.19. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  25. Email from Richard Kahn to Jeffrey Epstein, forwarded March 31, 2012, subject “FW: Open Items,” carrying a quoted message with an RFC Date: header of “Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:00:07 -0400” and the subject “RE: Open Items.” Read at the image, including the lettered sublist under item 5; the forward’s own Sent: field carries no time zone and no clock time is taken from it. Email addresses printed on the page are not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02006457 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

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