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Edge Foundation, Inc.

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aliasesEdge Foundation, EDGE Foundation, Inc., Edge Foundation Inc., Edge.org, EDGE

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What its own publication says it is”EDGE Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code,” printed in the closing block of its own 2005 mailing, and repeated on its 2010 mailing over the name “Edge Foundation, Inc.” with the section number unbroken12
Named on the documents as”Edge Foundation, Inc.”, “EDGE Foundation, Inc.”, “Edge Foundation”, and, in one instruction from Epstein to his accountant, “edge/ brockman 501 c3”23
Its officer, in his own wordsJohn Brockman signs “President” over “Edge Foundation, Inc.”; the same publication’s masthead calls him “Editor and Publisher” and Russell Weinberger “Associate Publisher”425
Published address5 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022 on its own 2005 and 2010 footers and on Brockman’s 2012 signature block; 260 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10001 from 2014 onward1246
Websiteedge.org2
Recorded activitiesan annual dinner, variously named and widely called the Billionaires’ Dinner; the EDGE Annual Question; private Master Classes; smaller London and New York dinners7891011
Recorded receipts from Epstein’s charitiessix entries totalling $330,000 in the C.O.U.Q. Foundation’s Form 990-PF statements for the years to February 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006; $50,000 in an office summary of giving for 2011; $50,000 in a list of a foundation’s “2014 recipients”; $75,000 in Enhanced Education’s own three-year summary; and $60,000 in August 2018 recorded on Epstein’s own valuation report as “Enhanced 25k & Gratitude 35k”1213141516171819
Not in the releaseno incorporation instrument, no employer identification number, no Form 990 of its own, no bank record, and no gift acknowledgement or grant agreement naming it20

Edge Foundation, Inc. is the New York non-profit through which John Brockman published edge.org and ran the conferences, master classes and annual dinner of the circle he called the third culture. The released files contain no instrument of its own: not a certificate of incorporation, not a tax return, not a bank statement. What they do contain is the Foundation described in its own words in the footer of its own mailings, and its money described in somebody else’s books, because between 2001 and 2018 Jeffrey Epstein’s charitable vehicles paid it repeatedly and those payments were written down.11219 Six entries in the C.O.U.Q. Foundation’s Form 990-PF contribution statements record $330,000 to it between August 2001 and June 2005; later office ledgers, instructions and one valuation report record further sums in 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2018.12131415161719 The Foundation’s annual dinner is the activity the correspondence records most fully, and the record of it is a record of invitations, acceptances and refusals rather than of attendance.7621

Nothing set out here is an allegation against the Foundation or against anyone invited to its dinner. Publishing a website, holding a dinner and accepting a charitable cheque are ordinary acts. What the documents carry is an unusually complete picture of who paid for one of them.

Several of the emails quoted below come from productions whose printed pages carry transmission damage, so that a character is replaced by ”=” or a word runs into its neighbour. Damage is reproduced as printed and identified in the footnote. No character inside a quotation has been mended, and no value the production withholds has been supplied from another copy.

What the documents say it is

The Foundation’s own account of its legal status is a single sentence at the foot of its mailings. A 2005 mailing preserved in the release closes: “Copyright © 2005 by EDGE Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Published by EDGE Foundation, Inc., 5 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022 EDGE Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code.”1 A 2010 mailing repeats it with the section number unbroken, gives the same street address, and prints a masthead of three: Brockman as “Editor and Publisher,” Russell Weinberger as “AssociatePublisher” and an editorial assistant not named here.2 A 2006 printout of the Foundation’s own dinner page carries the same two-line masthead above a copyright notice whose rendering has collapsed to “Copyright C 2006 by Edoe_fogn_d_ation,inc”.5

Brockman’s own signature block describes him as “President” over “Edge Foundation, Inc.” at 5 East 59th Street in 2012 and at 260 Fifth Avenue in 2016 and 2018.4622 No document read for this page names any other officer, director or trustee, states the Foundation’s state of incorporation, gives its employer identification number, or reports its assets, income or expenditure.

Two file indexes of Epstein’s charitable entities record that his own organisations kept folders on it. The index of the C.O.U.Q. Foundation’s “Charitable Contributions/Consulting Agreements” lists “Edge Foundation Inc.” as its second item; the index of Enhanced Education’s papers lists “Edge Foundation/John Brockman” as its thirteenth.2324 Neither index shows what either folder contained, and neither folder is in the release.

Money from Epstein’s charities

The tax returns, 2001 to 2005

The Foundation appears by name in four of the C.O.U.Q. Foundation’s Form 990-PF contribution statements, filed under that charity’s own employer identification number. Every entry that carries a purpose column is marked unrestricted:

Return year endingDateRecipient as printedAmount
Feb. 28, 20028/24/01Edge Foundation$25,000
Feb. 28, 20032/25/03Edge Foundation, Inc.$50,000
Feb. 28, 20058/5/04Edge Foundation, Inc.$50,000
Feb. 28, 20059/28/04Edge Foundation, Inc.$5,000
Feb. 28, 20064/19/2005Edge Foundation, Inc.$50,000
Feb. 28, 20066/20/2005Edge Foundation, Inc.$150,000
Total$330,000

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These are the most solid figures on this page, because a Form 990-PF statement of contributions paid is the payer’s own return to the Internal Revenue Service rather than a mention in a letter. The $150,000 of June 2005 is the largest single sum the released files attach to the Foundation, and it falls in the same return year as the $50,000 of April 2005. No statement read here records a contribution to it in the years ending February 2001, 2004 or 2007, and the C.O.U.Q. returns after 2007 are not among the documents cited here. The C.O.U.Q. Foundation page records the February 2003 entry; the other five are added here.

2010 and 2011: an instruction, a lost address and a ledger line

On the morning of June 30, 2010 Epstein wrote to his accountant Richard Kahn: “send ‘ohn brockman 50k from foundation for edge..” followed by a second, unrelated instruction.25 Kahn asked which vehicle to use, noting that one of them “only has 47,000 in checking account”; Epstein answered, “enhanced ed”.25 Later the same day the payment stalled on a signature, and Epstein’s answer to that was one word: “wait”.26 What happened next is not shown by the documents cited here. See John Brockman, where this exchange is set out in full.

On June 3, 2011 Epstein sent Kahn a one-line message with an empty subject field: “send 50k to edge/ brockman 501 c3”.3 Five days later Kahn wrote to Lesley Groff under the subject “Brickman - Edge Foundation”: “I have a $50,000 check Jeffrey asked to send to Brickman / Can you arrange or give me instructions to fed ex or messenger to him”. Groff first produced the details of a different man of a similar name; Kahn corrected himself, “i made mistake it is john brockman”; and Groff replied, “Ah brockman makes sense! Here are his detAils: / Well o don’t seem to have an address for him. Let me email him and ask where he wants it sent. I will get back to you”.27 The following day a calendar alarm in Epstein’s office read “Need address from Brockman to send check”.28

A summary of charitable giving for 2011, transmitted in January 2012 by Cecile de Jongh with Darren Indyke copied, carries a line dated June 7, 2011 for “Edge Foundation. Inc.” in the sum of $50,000, classified “C” for charitable general.1629 The ledger dates the payment to June 7 and the office did not know where to send it until June 9 or later, which is the difference between the date a cheque is written and the date it goes out. The sheet does not name the entity whose giving it summarises, although its transmitting email attaches a file named “2011_Summary_of Charitable_Giving.pdf” and its other lines are dominated by Virgin Islands recipients.1629

The three-year summary and the 2014 list

An undated “SUMMARY OF ENHANCED EDUCATION,” which describes that foundation as “incorporated over 13 years ago in the U.S. Virgin Islands on July 13, 2000” and names Epstein, Indyke and Erika Kellerhals as its trustees, lists “Edge Foundation, Inc. $75,000” among the not-for-profit entities supported “over the past three years.”18 The document does not break that figure into payments or give any date within the three years, and it may overlap the 2011 and 2014 entries rather than add to them.

On April 14, 2015 a correspondent whose name the production withholds sent Epstein what the covering message calls “the Foundation’s 2014 recipients,” a list of recipients and sums that includes “Edge Foundation, Inc. 50,000.00.”17 The sheet does not say which of his foundations the list belongs to.

August 2018: one promise, two charities, and a reconciliation

The August 2018 sequence is the most completely documented payment to the Foundation in the release, because every step of it is on a separate sheet.

On August 21, 2018, shortly after noon Eastern time, Groff wrote to Kahn and to Epstein, copying Bella Klein, under the subject “John Brockman”:

John Brockman received a check for $25,000. He says jeffrey had promised $60,000. John says he will hold on to the $25,000 and not deposit. He is hoping it was just an error.

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Twenty-five minutes later Epstein replied to her in five words: “Tell him two different charities”.31 Groff forwarded that to Kahn with the single word “FYI”, and Kahn answered “thanks”.3233

Six days later, on August 27, Kahn wrote to Groff and Klein: “jee just instructed me to send brockman (edge foundation) 35,000 from Gratitude”, and asked that the cheque be processed and Brockman informed.34 Groff then wrote to Brockman: “Hello John… I wanted to let you know you will receive a check for $35,000 from “Gratitude” entity from Jeffrey…check will be cut today! Please advise what address is best to send to…”35 Brockman answered, “Send to the office please, below,” above his Edge Foundation signature block at 260 Fifth Avenue.22 On August 28 Klein wrote to him, “John, / Check will be mailed today.”36

Three days after that the arithmetic closes in Epstein’s own books. His valuation report as at August 31, 2018 lists, under cash activity in items over $50,000, a single line reading “Edge Foundation - Enhanced 25k & Gratitude 35k” against a figure of 60,000 shown as a deduction.19 A promise of $60,000 was met with two cheques of $25,000 and $35,000 drawn on two different charities, and Epstein’s own asset summary books both of them to one payee. The two vehicles named on that line are Enhanced Education and a “Gratitude” entity; the entity of that name in the release is Gratitude America, Ltd, and no sheet read here states that the two are the same body. Brockman’s own acknowledgement of receipt, eleven days later, is recorded on his page.37

On August 29 and 30, 2018, the day after the office said the second cheque would be posted and two days before the balance-sheet date on which the $60,000 was booked, Epstein sent the New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. the address of the Foundation’s own dinner page. Those dates are set out here in order because a chronology is a chronology, and nothing cited on this page establishes any connection between the payment and the approach to the reporter. The exchange itself is described below.

The annual dinner

The dinner is the Foundation’s best-documented activity, and the documents that record it are invitations.

Brockman’s invitation of February 25, 2014 gives the event’s own history of its own names:

Please join Katinka Matson and myself for the sixteenth annual EDGE dinner. The “Dinner” actually began 29 years ago at a Mexican restaurant during the 1985 Comdex in Las Vegas as “The Millionaires’ Dinner” (branded by the WSJ in a front page article). It became an annual event beginning in 1998 with our first dinner in Monterey, and then, in 2010, we moved it to Long Beach. It’s been called “The Digerati Dinner”, “The Billionaires’ Dinner” (thanks to the WSJ again in 1999), “The EDGE Science Dinner”, “The Last Digerati Dinner”, and our favorite iteration, “The New Age of Wonder Dinner”, characterized by Freeman Dyson as the new era dominated by computational biology.

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The same invitation sets the 2014 dinner for 7:30 in the evening on Monday, March 17, in Vancouver, with the place “To Be Announced” and an RSVP deadline of Monday, March 10, and closes: “Confidential, please. We will book a private room for a dinner limited to about 20 people. For this dinner, less is more, so please keep this invitation, which is for you only, under the radar, as well as our presence in Vancouver.”8

That invitation was sent as one email to a single addressee line naming twenty-five people, Epstein among them, each of whom was told the invitation was “for you only.” The addressee line is not reproduced on this page. A name on an invitation records that an invitation was sent and nothing else: not that the person accepted, not that the person attended, and not that the person knew who else had been asked. The same circular is produced repeatedly in the release, and a roster of names who did nothing is not a finding.

Four years later Brockman put a figure on the same dinner in a private note to Epstein: “An interesting ancillary benefit: The net worth of the 40 guests at my 2014 “billionaires dinner” was equal to combined wealth of 60% of all Americans.”38 Epstein’s reply was one word: “Ok.”38 The two statements do not agree with each other: the invitation limited the table to “about 20 people” and the note four years later counts forty guests. Neither figure is corroborated by any attendance record in the release.

Epstein’s invitations, acceptances and refusals

The release records Epstein being invited to the Foundation’s dinners repeatedly, and records what he said each time.

In 2014 he forwarded the invitation to Groff, who asked, “Do you wish me to RSVP with an “unfortunately no” reply?”39 Nine days later his office wrote to Brockman instead: “Hi John! Jeffrey would like to attend your dinner! He will come alone…Has the place for dinner announced as of yet!?”40 The next day another message from the office reported to a third party, “Jeffrey will be attending John Brockman’s dinner party in Vancouver March 17th…once John send more details I will pass along to you…”41 Three days after the dinner date Brockman wrote to Epstein under the subject “Edge dinner!” with nothing but a link to the Foundation’s page for that year.42

For 2015 Brockman wrote on February 28 under the subject “Confidential - The Annual Dinner,” inviting him to Vancouver on Wednesday, March 18.43 Epstein declined four minutes later: “how are you. I wont be there this year. = will be in santa fe, with chomsky and group”.44

For 2016 Brockman wrote on January 22, “Please join Katinka and myself for this year’s dinner in Vancouver, which marks the 20th anniversary of EDGE,” naming the Blue Water Cafe and its private dining room “The Oceans,” and repeating the confidentiality line.6 Epstein answered, “great thanks”.45 On February 9 Groff asked him, “Shall I RSVP YES for you?” and he answered, “Yes”; she then told Brockman, “Hello John…I wanted to let you know Jeffrey WILL attend your dinner! thank you!”4621 Brockman replied, “Excellent. When does he get in and where is he staying??”, and Groff answered that she was working on it.47

Epstein’s printed schedule for that week sets out the plan. It records TED in Vancouver from February 15 to 19 with a conference room at the Fairmont Waterfront “Booked under ENHANCED EDUCATION,” a dinner with Brockman and sixteen friends on February 16, and on Wednesday February 17 a “Pre Dinner Reception in your Conference Room” at 5:30 followed at 7:30 by “THE EDGE DINNER w/John Brockman & Katinka” at the Blue Water Cafe.4849 A schedule is a plan and not a record of attendance, and the surrounding entries for that week carry the same form.

Two messages from the same week show what the pre-dinner reception was for. On February 16 Epstein wrote to Joi Ito, “The cheakamus conference room is ours. Listed under enhanced education”.50 Ito’s reply ended, ” … we’re going to Brockman’s dinner right?”, and Epstein answered, “Yes and you can invite anyone smart to conference room for pre dinner snack= talk etc”; Ito’s answer was “Roger.”5152 The hotel room in which guests gathered before the Foundation’s dinner was booked in the name of Epstein’s charity, and he was inviting people into it.

What Epstein said about the dinner

On February 9, 2014 a correspondent asked him about it. Epstein’s first answer was that he did not know of it: “sorry, steve has no interest, in one off restaurants. I asked and thought i had responded, / dnt / know of any billionaire dinner , or are you refereing to ted conference”.53 She replied, “I was referring to the Edge ‘Billionaire’s dinner …sounds like your crowd”, with a link.54 Fourteen minutes after his first answer, he sent a second: “These dinenrs were at Ted , don’t you remember. i funded. … ”55

Within a quarter of an hour Epstein wrote that he knew of no such dinner and that he had funded it. This page does not resolve which statement is true. Both are quoted as printed, and the spellings “refereing” and “dinenrs” are the sheets’ own. No document read for this page records a payment described as being for a dinner; what the returns and ledgers record are contributions to the Foundation itself.

On November 15, 2016 he wrote to David Stern, “I met carlos salinas with john brockman at the billionaire dinner … ”56 The message continues into other matters, and the remainder of that thread is not reproduced here. The name as he printed it is not the name on the 2014 addressee line.

In August 2018 he offered the dinner to a reporter. Writing to Landon Thomas Jr. of the New York Times on August 15, he named the man he called “The real master of ceremonies” as “SAUL ( ricky ) Warman,” dated the occasion to “Ted conference in 1996,” listed seven technology figures whose names are not reproduced here, and continued: “later same evening- John Brockman s billionaire dinner. With all the above in one restaurant.” He added, “You might want to talk on background with either or both . I can arrange”.57 Thomas answered, “Wow. That is fucking it. Amazing. I knew it was Brockman. What a super cool story.”57 Epstein’s date conflicts with the Foundation’s own account, which puts the first annual dinner in Monterey in 1998, and no document read for this page records who attended any 1996 event.7 A second copy of his message prints the surname as “Wurman.”58

Two weeks later, on August 29, he sent Thomas the Foundation’s dinner page and nothing else.59 Thomas asked, “Are they still going on? The Edge dinners?” Epstein answered: “no. but more private now. but i thought you d like seeing all the players”.60 Thomas replied the next day: “I know — I went back to 1999. I am surprised no one has done a big piece on this; how these dinners launched so many influential brains. Should be a major part of your memoir:)“61

Brockman’s own difficulty with it

On January 3, 2012 Brockman wrote to Epstein about the event at length, and asked him for advice:

Don’t know what to do about the Billionaires’ Dinner. I like seeing this crowd, and this is the opportunity, but I find attending TED and being in Long Beach too painful.

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He went on that “Anderson is now inviting lots and lots of my clients,” that “[m]ixing the academics up with the moguls doesn’t work … ” and that “Hence last year I had to do the dinner in absolute secret, which was a real strain since I have a business and its not a good idea to insult the people who make money for you. What to do? … Any feedback appreciated.”62 Epstein’s reply was: “im here in ny.. yes come to ted.. we can do lunches and dinners fuck Chris”.63

The dinner Brockman describes holding “in absolute secret” is the one for which he had circulated final details on February 28, 2011 in an email headed “Edge Dinner - Tuesday Night - Final Details,” whose body begins, “Re: the annual dinner Tuesday Night, EDGE doesn’t do SWAG (Stuff We All Get), but there are benefits!” and goes on to offer its addressees first access to a redesigned edge.org and the manuscript of a forthcoming book.64 Epstein was among its addressees; as with the 2014 circular, that line is not reproduced here.

Other recorded activities

The Annual Question. On November 6, 2009 Brockman told Epstein he had approached the deputy director for policy of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and enclosed his own letter of November 4, describing it as “proposing that President Obama ask this year’s EDGE question.”9 The letter itself reads: “I invite President Obama to ask this year’s question, toward the goal of renewing a national discussion to “restore science to its rightful place.""65 It describes the Foundation’s work in institutional terms: “In a similar fashion, EDGE, through its Master Classes, its dinners and special events, gathers together intellectuals and technology pioneers.” It lists the Annual Question, the Master Classes and “THE ANNUAL “BILLIONAIRES” DINNER[1998-2009]” among its programmes.65 Brockman closed, “Please give me a call to discuss,” and told Epstein, “I await his reply.”965 The sheet spells the official’s surname two ways. Whether he replied is not shown by the documents cited here.

Master Classes and special events. The same letter lists master classes in synthetic genomics, behavioural economics and thinking, held in Los Angeles, Sonoma and Rutherford between 2007 and 2009, and special events at Eastover Farm in 2001, 2002 and 2007.65 In July 2010 Brockman told Epstein of a forthcoming event, “The scientists and press. None of the usual Billionaires Dinner crowd. Just as well because this is the real deal science-wise … ” and named its speakers and the journalists who had confirmed.66

Smaller dinners. The Foundation also held dinners in London and New York, which Brockman distinguished from the annual one. Inviting Epstein to a London dinner in April 2014 he wrote, “We’re having our our annual EDGE London dinner on Tuesday night. It would be great if you could come. This is usually a fun dinner, in contrast to the better-known annual “Billionaires’ Dinner""; Epstein answered, “Unfortunatley cannot make it .”6768 A second London invitation followed in October 2017, in a message whose last paragraph also suggested that Epstein consider providing support for a book project and the meetings Brockman was convening for it; Epstein replied, “im always willing to support anything you think is fun”.6970 In May 2012 Brockman wrote, in a postscript, ” … that’s what we had at The EDGE dinner at II Buco last Thursday. It=was scintillating.” above a heading reading “EDGE DINNER @ IL BUCO - MAY 24, 2012.”11

The Foundation as a route of access

Two documents show the Foundation’s membership and its dinner being used to open doors.

In June 2011 Brockman sent a cold pitch to Gavin Andresen, whose work on Bitcoin the letter says he had been following, offering to represent a book, describing his literary agency and its clients, and mentioning that “Among our other activities is Edge Foundation, Inc, a nonprofit foundation, which publishes “Edge” … a website which, although not related to the business, is a good indicator of our network and range of interests.”, with links to the master classes and “the EDGE Annual “Billionaires” Dinner, which began, much more humbly as the “digerati” dinner at Comdex in 1985.”71 The letter ends with a postscript: “Finally, speaking of the billionaires at the EDGE dinner, Jeffrey Epstein, (“International Moneyman of Mystery”, NY Ma azine , has expressed an interest in talking to you about a business matter. You can email him, if interested, at … It’s probably worth doing so.”72 Brockman forwarded the pitch to Epstein the same day with the note, “This is the guy: / Gavin Andresen / No one has his number that I know. So, here’s my best shot (I mention you in the ps).”73

In March 2012 Brockman wrote to Ian Osborne: “Nice to see you at Jeffrey’s house last week. It occurs to me that =iven the various connections you might be interested in being part of =he very loosely affiliated Edge community which is run under my =onprofit Edge Foundation, Inc.” He offered a place on a private mailing list and added, “In addition, we run private Master =lassed … and the annual billionaires dinner … ”10 Osborne answered, “It was a pleasure to see you again at Jeffrey’s,” and, “Many thanks for the kind invitation. I would be delighted to be part of =he Edge community.”74 The membership was offered off the back of a meeting at Epstein’s house, and the dinner was named as one of its benefits.

What the documents do not show

  • Nothing about the Foundation’s own affairs. No certificate of incorporation, no state of incorporation, no employer identification number, no Form 990, no balance sheet, no bank account, no officer other than its president, and no board.20
  • No payment tied to a dinner. Every recorded sum is a contribution to the Foundation, and the four tax-return entries that carry a purpose column are expressly unrestricted. No document read here earmarks money for a dinner, a venue or a guest.1415
  • No record of anyone attending anything. The release carries invitations, acceptances, refusals, a schedule and a photograph gallery reproduced from the Foundation’s own website. It carries no attendance list, no signed register and no bill. Whether Epstein was present at any Edge dinner is not established by the documents cited here, and his office’s “Jeffrey WILL attend your dinner” is a statement of intention made eight days beforehand.21
  • No corroboration of “i funded.” Epstein wrote in February 2014 that he had funded the dinners. The returns and ledgers show him funding the Foundation. No document read here connects the two, and no document read here contradicts him either.55
  • No receipts from anyone else. Every payment to the Foundation in the documents cited here comes from an Epstein vehicle. That is a fact about this release, which is a production of Epstein’s papers, and not a fact about the Foundation’s funding.
  • No acknowledgement, agreement or bank record. No gift acknowledgement, grant agreement, cancelled cheque, wire confirmation or bank statement naming the Foundation is among the documents cited here.20
  • What became of it. No document read here records the Foundation being dissolved, ceasing to publish, or ending the dinner. The last word on the dinner in the release is Epstein’s: “more private now.”60

Chronology

DateEventSource
1985The dinner’s own account of its origin, as “The Millionaires’ Dinner” at a Las Vegas restaurant during Comdex7
1998First annual dinner, in Monterey, on the Foundation’s own account7
Aug. 24, 2001C.O.U.Q. Foundation contribution of $25,00012
Feb. 25, 2003C.O.U.Q. Foundation contribution of $50,00013
Aug. 5 and Sep. 28, 2004C.O.U.Q. Foundation contributions of $50,000 and $5,000, unrestricted14
Apr. 19 and Jun. 20, 2005C.O.U.Q. Foundation contributions of $50,000 and $150,000, unrestricted15
2005A mailing prints the Foundation’s own statement of its 501(c)(3) status and its 5 East 59th Street address1
Mar. 13, 2006An Edge dinner page, 1998 to 2006, is printed from edge.org and kept in Epstein’s papers75
Nov. 6, 2009Brockman tells Epstein he has proposed that President Obama ask the EDGE Annual Question9
2010The dinner moves to Long Beach, on the Foundation’s own account7
Jun. 30, 2010Epstein instructs his accountant to “send ‘ohn brockman 50k from foundation for edge”; the payment stalls the same day2526
Feb. 28, 2011Brockman circulates “Edge Dinner - Tuesday Night - Final Details”64
Jun. 3, 2011Epstein instructs, “send 50k to edge/ brockman 501 c3”3
Jun. 7, 2011An office giving summary dates a $50,000 payment to “Edge Foundation. Inc.”16
Jun. 8 and 9, 2011The office cannot find an address for the cheque2728
Jun. 11, 2011Brockman’s pitch to Gavin Andresen offers an introduction to Epstein in a postscript72
Jan. 3, 2012Brockman asks Epstein what to do about the Billionaires’ Dinner, having held the last one “in absolute secret”62
Mar. 18, 2012Brockman offers Ian Osborne Edge membership and the annual dinner, after meeting him at Epstein’s house10
May 24, 2012”EDGE DINNER @ IL BUCO”11
Feb. 9, 2014Epstein writes that he knows of no billionaire dinner, and, fourteen minutes later, that he funded the dinners5355
Feb. 25, 2014The 2014 invitation, to twenty-five addressees, each told it is “for you only”78
Mar. 6, 2014Epstein’s office accepts: “Jeffrey would like to attend your dinner! He will come alone”40
Mar. 17, 2014Date set for the sixteenth annual dinner, Vancouver8
Apr. 8, 2014London Edge dinner; Epstein declines6867
2014A list of “the Foundation’s 2014 recipients” carries “Edge Foundation, Inc. 50,000.00”17
Mar. 18, 2015Date set for the 2015 dinner; Epstein declines four minutes after the invitation4344
Feb. 17, 2016Date set for the 2016 dinner, marking the twentieth anniversary of EDGE; Epstein’s office has said he will attend621
Feb. 16, 2016Epstein tells Joi Ito the hotel conference room is “Listed under enhanced education” and invites him to bring others to a pre-dinner gathering5051
Nov. 15, 2016Epstein writes that he met a guest “with john brockman at the billionaire dinner”56
Oct. 5, 2017London Edge dinner; Epstein replies that he is “always willing to support anything you think is fun”6970
Mar. 18, 2018Brockman puts the net worth of “the 40 guests at my 2014 “billionaires dinner"" to Epstein38
Aug. 21, 2018A $25,000 cheque is reported against a promised $60,000; Epstein: “Tell him two different charities”3031
Aug. 27, 2018Kahn is instructed to send “brockman (edge foundation) 35,000 from Gratitude”34
Aug. 28, 2018”Check will be mailed today”36
Aug. 29 and 30, 2018Epstein sends the Foundation’s dinner page to a New York Times reporter and writes that the dinners are “more private now”5960
Aug. 31, 2018Epstein’s valuation report books “Edge Foundation - Enhanced 25k & Gratitude 35k” at $60,00019

Footnotes

  1. Edge mailing, closing block, copyright 2005. The sheet breaks the section number as “501(c) (3)”. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00577431 p.7. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Edge mailing, closing block, copyright 2010, printing the status sentence with the section number unbroken, the 5 East 59th Street publication address, and a masthead of three. The sheet runs “AssociatePublisher” together. The third name on the masthead, an editorial assistant, is not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00740586 p.6. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  3. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to Richard Kahn, June 3, 2011, one line, reproduced here in full with its double space before “501 c3” as printed. The subject field is printed and empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00912608 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Email, John Brockman, September 21, 2012, signature block reading “John Brockman / Mobile / President / Edge Foundation, Inc. / 5 East 59th Street / New York, NY 10022”. Telephone values on the sheet are barred and none is reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00404407 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. Printout of the Foundation’s dinner page, final page of the run, masthead and copyright notice; the copyright line’s rendering has collapsed. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00261202 p.31. ↩ ↩2

  6. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, copied to Lesley Groff, January 22, 2016, “Confidential - Dinner Invitation - Wednesday, February 17th - Vancouver,” with the signature block giving Edge Foundation, Inc. at 260 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Telephone and fax values are not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00330736 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, February 25, 2014, “Confidential - Invitation - Edge Dinner - Vancouver - Monday, March 17th, 7:30pm,” as forwarded by Epstein to Lesley Groff the same day. The passage is quoted from this copy, which prints the addressee names and the quoted press matter without damage. The invitation continues past the words quoted here into a passage quoting Freeman Dyson at length, which is not reproduced. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01934300 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  8. The same invitation, continuation sheet, carrying the Vancouver details, the RSVP deadline and the closing paragraph quoted here in full. The RSVP value is barred in some produced copies and is not reproduced here from any copy. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01934512 p.2. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  9. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, November 6, 2009, subject “The Edge Annual Question,” covering his own letter to the deputy director for policy of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy of November 4. The sheet spells the official’s surname two ways, once in the salutation and once in the address line. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00768429 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. Email, John Brockman to Ian Osborne, March 18, 2012, 17:26, as quoted in Osborne’s reply. The quoted passages are as printed: “=iven”, “=he”, “=onprofit” and “=lassed” are the sheet’s transmission damage, standing for “given”, “the”, “nonprofit” and “Classes”. The second quotation’s sentence closes with a parenthesised edge.org address and runs across the two sheets of the run, and the spaced ellipses mark those cuts. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02551254 pp.1-2. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to John Brockman, May 31, 2012, 10:52 AM, quoting Brockman’s message of 01:42 the same day. The quoted sentences are from Brockman’s postscript and the heading beneath it. The leading ellipsis marks a cut: the sentence begins “I want the real thing a=d”. “It=was” and “II Buco” are the sheet’s renderings of “It was” and “Il Buco” and are reproduced as printed. The message’s main proposal concerns a prospective Italian host, who takes no act on the sheet and is not named here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02555613 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. The C.O.U.Q. Foundation, Inc., Form 990-PF for the year ending February 28, 2002, Statement 4, contributions paid, entry of 8/24/01, “Edge Foundation,” 25,000. The statement’s total is 845,000. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00192298 p.110. A second copy is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00224262 p.65, whose rendering of the date reads “8124/01”. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  13. The C.O.U.Q. Foundation, Inc., Form 990-PF for the year ending February 28, 2003, Statement 2, contributions paid, entry of 2/25/03, “Edge Foundation, Inc.,” 50,000. The statement’s total is 1,245,000. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00192298 p.140. A second copy is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00224262 p.80. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. The C.O.U.Q. Foundation, Inc., Form 990-PF for the year ending February 28, 2005, Statement 5, contributions paid, entries of 8/5/04 (“Edge Foundation, Inc.,” 50,000, Unrestricted) and 9/28/04 (“Edge Foundation, Inc.,” 5,000, Unrestricted). The statement continues on the following sheet. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00224262 pp.134-135. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  15. The C.O.U.Q. Foundation Inc., Form 990-PF for the year ending February 28, 2006, Statement 5, contributions paid, entries of 4/19/2005 (“Edge Foundation, Inc.,” 50,000, Unrestricted) and 6/20/2005 (“Edge Foundation, Inc.,” 150,000, Unrestricted). The statement’s total is 1,125,133. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01714002 p.10. A second copy is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00224262 p.149. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  16. “Summary of Charitable Giving / 2011,” line for “Edge Foundation. Inc.,” 50,000, classification “C.” The produced text renders thousands separators as periods and the date as “06107/201 1”; the reading given here is of that text and has not been checked against the image. The sheet does not name the entity whose giving it summarises. The summary’s stated total of charitable contributions is 789,775. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00284556 pp.1-2. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  17. Email, April 14, 2015, in which Epstein’s correspondent writes “Below is the Foundation’s 2014 recipients” above a list of recipients and sums including “Edge Foundation, Inc. 50,000.00.” The correspondent’s name is barred throughout. The sheet does not name the foundation. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00859437 pp.1-2. The incoming message alone is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00716820 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. “SUMMARY OF ENHANCED EDUCATION,” undated, listing not-for-profit entities supported “over the past three years,” including “Edge Foundation, Inc. $75,000,” against a stated total of $3,708,740. The document describes the foundation as incorporated “over 13 years ago” on July 13, 2000, which places it no earlier than 2013. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01119775 pp.1-2. ↩ ↩2

  19. “Valuation Report / 8/31/2018,” second sheet, “SUMMARY OF ASSETS - AUGUST 31, 2018,” under “Cash Activity - Items over 50,000.” The line is quoted as printed and the figure is shown on the sheet as a deduction. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00811866 pp.1-2. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  20. The statements of absence on this page are bounded to the documents cited here. No incorporation instrument, registration, employer identification number, Form 990, financial statement, bank record, cancelled cheque, wire confirmation, grant agreement or gift acknowledgement for Edge Foundation, Inc. is among them. The only description of the Foundation’s legal status in the documents cited here is its own, in the closing block of its own mailings. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  21. Email, Lesley Groff to John Brockman, February 9, 2016, 22:30:54, body quoted here in full above the January 22 invitation. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00329332 p.1. Her separate forward of the same evening, “I believe Jeffrey will be attending this at TED!!!”, is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00329322 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  22. Email, John Brockman, August 27, 2018, 19:39:18 +0000, subject “Re: Jeffrey Epstein,” above the office’s message, with his signature block giving Edge Foundation, Inc., 260 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10001. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00480761 p.1. A second copy is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02254983 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  23. File index of Epstein’s charitable entities, “COUQ Foundation Charitable Contributions/Consulting Agreements,” item 2, “Edge Foundation Inc.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00299850 p.2. ↩

  24. The same index, “Enhanced Education” section, item 13, “Edge Foundation/John Brockman.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00299850 p.3. A later version of the index carries the same entry at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00299927 p.16. ↩

  25. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to Rich Kahn, June 30, 2010, body “enhanced ed,” above Kahn’s message of 9:34 AM and Epstein’s own of 8:04 AM. The 8:04 AM line continues past the words quoted here into a second, unrelated instruction and a barred identifier. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00894469 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. Same day, later. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to Rich Kahn, June 30, 2010, body “wait,” above Kahn’s message of 1:53 PM, which reports that the sole signatory on the account was out of the office and asks whether the cheques can wait. That sheet renders the signatory’s forename twice and differently, and no identification is made from it here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01815358 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  27. Email thread, Richard Kahn and Lesley Groff, June 8, 2011, subject “Re: Brickman - Edge Foundation.” Kahn’s two quoted lines are followed on the sheet by “Thank you” and his business address. Groff’s line is quoted as printed, including “detAils” and “Well o don’t”. The details she first supplied were of a different man of a similar name, and nothing from them is reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00432751 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  28. Calendar alarm in Epstein’s office, June 9, 2011, “Alarm - Need address from Brockman to send check.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02187340 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  29. Email, Cecile de Jongh, January 5, 2012, subject “Charitable Giving - Specifics,” body “As per our discussion.”, addressed to a recipient whose value is barred and copied to Darren Indyke and one further barred recipient, with an attachment named “2011_Summary_of Charitable_Giving.pdf.” The documents cited here do not state that the summary at the preceding note is that attachment. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00421766 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  30. Email, Lesley Groff to Rich Kahn and Jeffrey Epstein, copied to Bella Klein, August 21, 2018, 16:31:56 +0000, subject “John Brockman.” The body is quoted here in full; the sheet breaks the line before “John says,” and nothing follows the body but the sign-off. The +0000 stamp converts to 12:31 PM Eastern, and the copy quoted back in the thread prints the time as 12:32 PM. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00480410 p.1. A further copy, with the sender’s value barred, is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01007998 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  31. Email, Jeffrey Epstein, August 21, 2018, 16:57:22 +0000, subject “Re: John Brockman,” body reproduced here in full. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01008007 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  32. Email, Lesley Groff to Richard Kahn, copied to Bella Klein, August 21, 2018, 17:10:42 +0000, body “FYI,” above Epstein’s message and her own. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00480412 p.1. ↩

  33. Email, Richard Kahn to Lesley Groff, August 21, 2018, 19:47:09 +0000, body “thanks.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00480422 p.1. ↩

  34. Email, Richard Kahn to Lesley Groff, copied to Bella Klein, August 27, 2018, 18:59:31 +0000, subject “Re: John Brockman.” Only his first body line is quoted here; his second line asks that the cheque be processed and Brockman informed, and the two produced copies differ in that line, one printing a forename where the other prints a barred value and the other printing a forename where the first renders a word. No value is supplied here from either copy. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00480701 p.1 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02256494 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  35. Email, Lesley Groff to John Brockman, copied to Bella Klein, August 27, 2018, 19:13:41 +0000, subject “Jeffrey Epstein,” quoted here as printed, including its ellipses; the sheet breaks the line after “from “Gratitude"". https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00480706 p.1. ↩

  36. Email, Bella Klein to John Brockman, August 28, 2018, 15:16:55 +0000, subject “Re: Jeffrey Epstein,” quoted here in full. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00480762 p.1. A second copy is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02255025 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  37. See John Brockman, which sets out eleven documents putting money beside his name, including his own acknowledgement of September 7, 2018 that “both checks did arrive.” ↩

  38. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, March 18, 2018, subject “An idea - PRIVATE,” fifth bullet, quoted as printed; a damaged short link follows it. Epstein’s reply of March 19, 2018, 01:24:49, is the single word “Ok” at the head of the same sheet. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00859299 p.1. A second copy is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02503969 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  39. Email, Lesley Groff to Jeffrey Epstein, February 25, 2014, 21:38:52, subject “Re: Confidential - Invitation - Edge Dinner - Vancouver - Monday, March 17th, 7:30pm,” body quoted here in full. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01934512 p.1. ↩

  40. Email from Epstein’s office to John Brockman, March 6, 2014, 20:00, forwarding the invitation. The sender’s name is barred. The body is quoted here in full as printed, including its ellipsis and the interrobang. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02112575 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  41. Email from Epstein’s office, March 7, 2014, 11:54:39, forwarding the same invitation to a third party whose forename alone is printed and who is not named here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02112805 p.1. ↩

  42. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, March 20, 2014, subject “Edge dinner!”, body a single edge.org address for that year’s dinner. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02582494 p.1. ↩

  43. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, February 28, 2015, subject “Confidential - The Annual Dinner,” carrying the heading “THE EDGE DINNER 2015 - INVITATION” and the Blue Water Cafe details. This sheet prints “this years dinner”; the copy quoted back in Epstein’s reply prints “this year’s dinner.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01746355 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  44. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to John Brockman, February 28, 2015, 3:11 PM, subject “Re: Confidential - The Annual Dinner.” The body is quoted here in full. The ”=” is the sheet’s own transmission damage, standing where the message had “i”. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02508455 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  45. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to John Brockman, January 22, 2016, 18:58:52, body quoted here in full. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00836020 p.1. ↩

  46. Email thread, Lesley Groff and Jeffrey Epstein, February 9, 2016, 22:21:15 and 22:29:49, bodies “Shall I RSVP YES for you?” and “Yes.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00834775 p.1 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00834777 p.1. ↩

  47. Email, Lesley Groff to John Brockman, February 9, 2016, 23:17:35, quoting his reply “Excellent. When does he get in and where is he staying??” and answering “Working on all that! But I think he will arrive 16th and stay at the Fairmont Waterfront Or Hyatt…” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00329337 p.1. ↩

  48. Epstein’s printed schedule, week of February 13, 2016, entries for Monday February 15 (“TED in Vancouver / Fairmont Waterfront Hotel-Conference Room Feb. 15-19 / Booked under ENHANCED EDUCATION”) and Wednesday February 17 (“7:30pm THE EDGE DINNER w/John Brockman & Katinka / BLUE WATER CAFE / The Oceans (private dining room)”). The hotel contact named on the sheet is not a public figure and is not named here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00285224 p.4. ↩

  49. The same schedule in a second production, carrying the February 16 entry “7:00pm DINNER w/John Brockman and 16 friends / Market by Jean Georges in Shangri-La Hotel” and, for February 17, “5:30pm Pre Dinner Reception in your Conference Room” above the Edge dinner entry. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00285218 p.5. A congressional production of the same pages is https://epstein-data.com/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_002101 p.1. ↩

  50. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to Joi Ito, February 16, 2016, 2:18 AM, body quoted here in full; a quoted-printable artifact follows it on the sheet. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02471698 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  51. Email, Joichi Ito to Jeffrey Epstein, February 16, 2016, 7:33 AM, subject “Re: Tomorrow morning?”. Only the closing question of his message is quoted, and the ellipsis marks the cut; the sheet prints “=nd” for “And” immediately before it. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02347379 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  52. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to Joichi Ito, February 16, 2016, 1:22 PM, body quoted here as printed; the ”=” in “snack=” is the sheet’s own transmission damage and a second copy prints “snacks.” Ito’s reply, “Roger.”, is on that second copy. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02472407 p.1 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02473418 p.1. ↩

  53. Email, Jeffrey Epstein, February 9, 2014, 22:29:04, subject “Re: Fw: Restaurant in Manchester.” The message is quoted here in full and its line breaks are marked; “refereing” is the sheet’s spelling. The correspondent’s name is barred on this copy and printed on another, and is not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00983071 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  54. The correspondent’s reply, February 9, 2014, 22:38:07, in the same thread. Only the first clause is quoted; an edge.org address follows it on the sheet in a damaged rendering. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00983071 p.1. ↩

  55. Email, Jeffrey Epstein, February 9, 2014, 22:43:34, in the same thread. The two sentences are quoted as printed, including “dinenrs”; the spaced ellipsis marks a cut, and the message continues into three further sentences about a third party which are not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00983071 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  56. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to David Stern, November 15, 2016, 11:46:03. Only the opening clause is quoted and the spaced ellipsis marks the cut; the sentence continues into a statement about a third party’s property, and the thread that follows it turns to matters not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01062078 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  57. Email thread, Jeffrey Epstein and Landon Thomas Jr. of the New York Times, August 15, 2018, 22:01 and 22:17 +0000. Epstein’s message is quoted in three parts; the elided span is a run of seven forenames and surnames of technology figures, which is not reproduced here because a recollection offered twenty-two years after the event is not a record of attendance. The spacing and punctuation of the quoted fragments, including “John Brockman s” and the space before the full stop in “either or both .”, are the sheet’s. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01007372 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  58. A second copy of the same message, in which the surname is printed “Wurman” and other characters are damaged. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02605535 p.1. ↩

  59. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to Landon Thomas, August 30, 2018, 00:58:00 +0000, whose body is a single edge.org address for the Foundation’s dinner page followed by the standing confidentiality notice. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01026373 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  60. Email thread, August 30, 2018, 02:30 and 02:35 +0000. Landon Thomas Jr.’s question is at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02626334 p.1. Epstein’s reply is quoted here in full from the copy at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01026331 p.1, which prints it without damage and without a closing full stop; the sheet at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02626308 p.1 carries the same line with one character lost. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  61. Email, Landon Thomas Jr. to Jeffrey Epstein, August 30, 2018, 13:00:27 +0000, quoted here in full, with the double hyphen and the emoticon as printed. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01026331 p.1. ↩

  62. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, January 3, 2012, 01:11:23 +0000. The quoted paragraphs are consecutive in the message; the ellipsis in the second marks a cut between “What to do?” and “Any feedback appreciated.” The square bracket in “[m]ixing” marks only a change of case. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00660952 p.1. The sheet prints “Anderson” in the second quoted paragraph and Epstein’s reply prints “chris”; no identification of either is made here. Two further copies are https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01844618 p.1 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02028417 p.1, one of which renders “see” as “sec”. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  63. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to John Brockman, January 3, 2012, 02:05:26 +0000, body quoted here in full. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00927528 p.1. ↩

  64. Email, John Brockman, February 28, 2011, 01:07:56 +0000, subject “Edge Dinner - Tuesday Night - Final Details,” with an attachment named on the sheet. The addressee line names about twenty-five people and is not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00705334 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  65. The same letter, continuation sheets, carrying the proposal that President Obama ask the question, the description of EDGE’s master classes and dinners, and the list of programmes including the annual dinner for 1998 to 2009. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00768429 pp.2-3. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  66. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, July 15, 2010, 02:16:45 +0000, subject “who,” answering a quoted question, “who is attending?”. The speakers and journalists it names are not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00739451 p.1. A second copy is https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02409620 p.1. ↩

  67. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to John Brockman, April 6, 2014, 17:19:43, body quoted here in full as printed, including the misspelling and the space before the full stop, above John Brockman’s invitation of 16:09 the same day, from which the invitation’s own words are quoted because this copy prints them undamaged. The duplicated “our our” is the sheet’s. The invitation sets the dinner for Tuesday April 8 at The Red Fort, Dean Street, Soho, and its sentence closes with a parenthesised edge.org address. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01928442 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  68. The standalone copy of the same invitation, which renders “contrast” with a character lost. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02712678 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  69. Email, John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein, copied to Lesley Groff, September 30, 2017, subject “check in, please - Edge London dinner,” inviting him to The Red Fort on Thursday October 5 and, in a later paragraph, suggesting he consider providing support for a book project and its meetings. That sentence is not quoted because both produced copies lose a character inside it, one in “think” and the other in “providing.” The sheet carries heavy transmission damage and also reports a family bereavement, which is not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02365431 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  70. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to John Brockman, September 30, 2017, 7:26 PM, body quoted here in full; the trailing markup on the sheet is not reproduced. The support he answers is the book project named in the preceding message and not the dinner. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02591321 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  71. Email, John Brockman to Gavin Andresen, June 11, 2011, as forwarded to Epstein the same day. The quoted sentence is from the paragraph describing the Foundation; the client list that follows it is not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00629471 p.1. ↩

  72. The same letter, continuation sheet, postscript, quoted here in full. The spaced ellipsis stands where an email address is barred on the sheet. “NY Ma azine ,” with no closing parenthesis before the comma, is the sheet’s rendering and is reproduced as printed. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00629471 p.2. ↩ ↩2

  73. The covering note to Epstein at the head of the same run, quoted here in full. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00629471 p.1. ↩

  74. Email, Ian Osborne to John Brockman, copied to Jeffrey Epstein, March 21, 2012, 17:57, quoted as printed; one value in the first sentence is barred on the sheet and the clause containing it is not reproduced. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02551254 p.1. ↩

  75. Printout of “Edge: THE EDGE DINNER: 1998 - 2006,” twelve web pages from edge.org, kept in Epstein’s papers. The date “3/13/2006” in the footer of each sheet is the browser’s print date and not the date of any dinner. The pages are a photograph gallery interleaved with excerpts from published press reports, and one of the photograph labels reads “Jeffrey Epstein.” Many further names appear across the run, and this page compiles none of them. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00261202 pp.22-32. ↩

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