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Ada Clapp

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tagsperson, leon-black, elysium-management, black-family-partners, estate-planning, trusts, lawyer, apollo-global-management, us-trust
aliasesAda Clapp, Clapp, Ada, Ma Clapp, Ada Clap, A. Clapp

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Ada Clapp

⚠ what this page is about, and what it is not

Ada Clapp is the lawyer who handled Leon D. Black’s trusts and estate plan, first as an outside wealth strategist at U.S. Trust, then from inside the Black family’s own vehicles, and finally as chief legal officer of Elysium Management LLC. This page records documents she wrote and instruments she sent, and one thing Jeffrey Epstein wrote about her position that bears on who controlled that office. She appears nowhere in the litigation or investigative record reviewed for this page, and no allegation against her is made here. Her telephone, fax and e-mail values are barred on the sheets cited and are not reproduced, and neither are any bank account identifiers or the home addresses of the trust beneficiaries she wrote to. Characterisations of her competence made by a third party in the same documents are withheld: they are one man’s account of a living private individual, and the acts recorded below do not depend on them.

RoleLawyer to Leon D. Black on trusts, gift and estate tax, and the governance of his family office12
Title, as it changesA U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management block giving managing director and wealth strategist, December 2012; a Black Family Partners block care of Apollo Management, March 2013; an Elysium Management LLC block giving chief legal officer, by October 2014. Each is a stacked field set and is described, not quoted234
Span in the releaseEarliest dated sender row 15 January 2010; latest 17 April 201756
Volume, metadata store1,511 sender rows across 1,221 distinct documents; 1,534 to-recipient rows across 1,165 documents; 392 cc rows across 298 documents; 1,994 documents in any of the three roles7
Volume, full text2,279 documents carry “Ada Clapp”; the bare surname reaches 2,357; a floor across every measured form is 2,50289
Act rate926 of 2,279 documents (40.6%) put her at the head of the sender field on the document’s own first sheet. Of the 1,631 documents in which a sender field was parsed at all, 56.8%. Both are floors: 61 documents were declined by the parser10
Litigation recordNone found in the material reviewed for this page. The searches run are named at 11

Ada Clapp is a lawyer who spent the years from 2012 to 2017 rebuilding the trust and estate structure of Leon D. Black, the chairman and chief executive of Apollo Global Management, during the same years in which Black paid Jeffrey Epstein for advice on that structure. She wrote the statutory notices that moved trust principal from one instrument to another, she drafted and negotiated the agreements that governed how the family’s entities were owned, and she argued with outside counsel about what the Internal Revenue Service would accept. She is not a transmittal clerk and her file is not other people writing about her. Of the 2,279 documents in the release that carry her full name, 926 put her at the head of the sender field on the document’s own first sheet, and the writing in them is her own composed prose, not a system-generated form.10

What lifts this page above a competent lawyer’s correspondence is a single sentence she wrote to Epstein on 26 March 2013, and two sentences Epstein wrote about her afterwards.

Identification, and the name forms

Her own signature blocks give the identification three times, in three different institutional homes, and the three are the spine of this page.

On 13 and 14 December 2012 she signed an argument with a McDermott Will & Emery partner over the Black children’s gift tax exemptions as “Ada Clapp / Managing Director, Wealth Strategist / U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management”, above a West 47th Street address, with the telephone, fax and e-mail lines beneath it empty on the sheet.2 On 26 March 2013, writing to Epstein, the block reads “Ada Clapp / Black Family Partners / c/o Apollo Management / 9 W 57th Street / New York NY 10019”, with the telephone and e-mail lines covered by bars.3 By 30 October 2014 it reads “Ada Clapp / Chief Legal Officer / Elysium Management LLC / 445 Park Avenue / Suite 1401”, with the direct dial line covered by a bar.4 These are stacked field sets and they are described here rather than quoted as running text, because this desk has fabricated a quotation by stitching one before. No document read for this page records either move taking place; what the record gives is three dated states.

The name forms, measured

The bare surname is barely broader than the full name and it is not a ceiling. "Ada Clapp" reaches 2,279 documents and Clapp alone 2,357, a difference of only 78. Of those 78, 23 are not her: a Juilliard violin teacher, a Polar Capital fund manager, an actor, a pair of unrelated homeowners, two Florida appellate citations rendered CLApp, and six sheets of unreadable OCR. The remaining 55 are hers under a damaged or inverted form, chiefly Ma Clapp, where the extraction welds the Ad of her forename into a single glyph, and Clapp, Ada, the corporate directory form.

The productive finding is that she is reachable by forename alone and that no query on her surname can see those documents. "Eileen Ada Rich" reaches 133 documents, 125 of them outside every Clapp query: these are Epstein office day sheets and calendar reminders that list her with Eileen Alexanderson and Richard Joslin by forename only. "From Ada" adds 33 more and "Ada Clap", the truncated surname, 16. The union of all four forms is 2,526 documents; subtracting the 23 that are other people and one message from an unrelated Ada gives a floor of 2,502, with one 2011 sheet left uncertain. This is a floor and not a total: no convergence is claimed, and the measurement scope is the extracted text layer of the release.9

⚠ A method correction this pass owes the desk. The first version of the disjoint measurement wrote the column filter as text_content : (A OR B OR C) NOT D and returned 179 documents outside the surname set. Rebuilt as explicit Python set differences, the true figure is 169. The column filter does not scope the whole expression, and the error inflated every component. The figures above are the reconciled ones.

The outside adviser, 2012

The earliest sustained work in the file is an argument she lost, or at least did not win outright, and it shows her judgement rather than her diligence.

In December 2012 the Black children were being asked to use their gift and generation-skipping transfer tax exemptions before the year ended. Elyse G. Kirschner, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, had proposed that the four children create an LLC, give it promissory notes of $5 million each for a quarter interest, and transfer those interests to new 2012 trusts. Clapp wrote to her on Thursday, 13 December 2012 with “a few questions about this proposal and one big concern”, and the concern was that two of the four children had nothing to pay a note with.2

“It is my understanding that only one or possibly two of the children have any real entitlement to assets at this point” (p. 3)

She set out what she thought the Service would do with it, and she named the case: “Or are you suggesting a formula gift to be followed by an appraisal later (in which case, are you not concerned about the Service’s non-acquiescence in Wandry?)”. (p. 3)2

Kirschner replied the next morning agreeing that if the children lacked their own assets, the better course was to distribute out of the non-exempt trusts and have the children re-gift.2 Clapp’s summary of where that left them went to Alexanderson, who forwarded the chain to Epstein at 1:21 PM on 14 December 2012 over the line “Are you good with this as a plan?”, and Epstein forwarded it on to Black’s assistant eight minutes later. That last leg is set out on Melanie Spinella’s page.2

”I will wait for your green light”

On Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 21:04:20 +0000 she sent Epstein a tracked-changes draft of a Release and Indemnification Agreement for Leon Black, copying Alexanderson. The attachment is named on the sheet as Clapp_comments-_Leon_Black_Release_Agreement_(New)-_41510967v2_.doc, and the body is four sentences long.3

“Nice speaking with you earlier. Attached is a new track changes version of the Release & Indemnification Agreement. I believe I have removed the proposed revisions you objected to, but if not, please let me know. I will wait for your green light to forward the attached t▮” (p. 1)

The bar at the end of that sentence covers the name of the person the draft was to go to.3 The message is a documented fact about the architecture of this office and it needs no gloss: Leon Black’s lawyer removed from a legal agreement for Black the revisions to which Jeffrey Epstein objected, and then waited for Epstein’s permission before sending it anywhere. Epstein held no office in the Black family, was not a trustee, and was not a lawyer.

⚠ The extraction of this sheet is damaged in both of the ways this desk has catalogued. It renders “revisions you objected to” as “revisicisou objected to”, and it drops the terminal redaction bar and closes the gap, so the text layer reads “forward the attached t” and gives the reader no sign that anything was covered. Both were settled at the image.3

The decanting notices, February 2014

The largest single act recorded in her own name is a set of six letters sent on 26 February 2014 on Elysium Management LLC letterhead, each VIA CERTIFIED MAIL / RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, to Leon D. Black, Debra R. Black and the four Black children.1 The letter to Black states what the trustees had done and why he was being told:

“This is to let you know that the Independent Trustees (i) created a new trust under a Declaration of Trust dated February 20, 2014 (the “APO2 Declaration”) and (ii) exercised their power to invade the principal of the Non-GST Exempt Trust and, in accordance with New York law, appointed all of such principal to themselves as Trustees under the APO2 Declaration (a “decanting”).” (p. 7)1

“New York law requires that you receive notice of the decanting by Certified Mail. Accordingly, on behalf of the Independent Trustees, enclosed are the following documents” (p. 7)1

The independent trustees are named on the sheet as Richard Ressler, John Hannan and Barry Cohen, and the enclosures are listed as a notice of appointment, an instrument of appointment under New York Estates Powers and Trusts Law §10-6.6, the 1997 trust agreement and instrument of division, and the APO2 declaration.1 The second sheet closes: “The decanting will be effective 30 days after the date of this letter. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me.” (p. 8)1

⚠ She is not recorded as having signed it. The subscription reads “Very truly yours,” and the region where a signature would sit is covered by a solid bar, with her typed name printed beneath it and partly under the bar’s lower edge.1 A name, a title and a date are each compatible with nobody having signed, and no other copy of this letter was found for this page. The letter is described here as sent over her typed name, which is what the sheet supports.

⚠ And a second correction the extraction invited. The text layer of the Debra Black letter renders that barred signature region as SAda I M Clapp, which reads as a middle initial. It is not: "Ada M Clapp" returns 0 documents, the string is noise off the bar’s edge, and the image shows no middle initial anywhere on the run.1

The overview, April 2014

On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 4:13:10 PM she sent Epstein, copying Alexanderson, a report on the draft Estate Planning Overview she had prepared for Leon and Debra Black. It is the clearest single document in the file for what her work actually was, and for who signed off on it.12

She explains that the draft values everything except the grantor retained annuity trusts as of 16 April 2014 and models the GRATs “as if Leon survived each of the terms, received back all his annuity payments and paid a remainder to the Heritage Trust based on income and appreciation projections Eileen provided.” (p. 1)12

“This is a “quick and dirty” way of showing how the assets would pass if the GRATs are successful. It is not “technically accurate” from an estate tax standpoint.” (p. 1)12

She had taken the approach to “Alan”, and reports that a fuller answer would mean engaging Paul Weiss’s fiduciary accountant to test each GRAT against the April §7520 rate and to project the remainders.12 The closing paragraph is the one that records the decision structure:

“However, I wanted to confirm with you that you and Leon would benefit from the more detailed analysis before engaging Paul Weiss to prepare it. I ask because, as you may recall, Leon’s only comment when I gave him the last Overview was “What did this cost me?"" (p. 1)12

⚠ The corpus text layer of this sheet renders the recipient line as Jeffrey EpsteinDeeva / i n / mil. m. The image reads a single clean recipient line. The quotation above is the image’s.12

The valuation, August 2014

On Thursday, 14 August 2014 she asked Joslin, then Elysium’s chief financial officer, who was reviewing the engagement letter for the valuation of an entity carrying Black’s initials, and whether the valuer had gone ahead without one.13 Joslin answered at length and took the question as an accusation. Her reply, timed Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:38:33 +0000 on the sheet, is two short paragraphs:

“Rich—you are misreading my email. I was not inferring anything—just trying to understand the status of the LLC valuation to complete the restructuring.” (p. 1)13

“I did not speak with Scott. He left me a voicemail. As you know, I already told him that you were responsible for valuations which is why I have not returned his call.” (p. 1)13

That second sentence is given whole here. A shorter form of it drops her reason for not returning the valuer’s call, which is the only part of it that says anything about how the office divided responsibility. Joslin’s side of the same exchange is set out on Richard Joslin’s page.13

⚠ Two clock conventions sit on this one sheet. Her own message carries an explicit +0000 and is a zoned value. The two messages quoted beneath it are stamped “Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:25 AM” and “8:50 AM” with no zone at all. The order of the three is established by the thread’s own structure, quoted material being earlier; no interval across the two conventions is asserted here.13

Non-disclosure agreements for the photocopiers, October 2014

On Thursday, 30 October 2014 at 11:40 AM she answered a request from Joslin about engaging per diem staff, in one sentence, over the Elysium chief legal officer block:

“Please provide the nam=s of the individuals and a description of their engagement and we will pre=are them for you.” (p. 1)4

The = characters are printed on the sheet, not introduced by the extraction; the message carries quoted-printable damage that survived into the production, and the same sheet prints “=hotocopy”, “e=forts”, “nda=” and “th=”.4 Epstein replied at 12:21 PM: “in what role .? careful. nda= are useless in real life with the wrong person.” (p. 1)4 Joslin then explained that the role was “clerical/ staffing agency to =hotocopy Raiche records” and that if a non-disclosure agreement was not useful he would “make other e=forts to secure/ protect info.” (p. 1)4 Epstein closed the thread at 5:02 PM: “take a para from paul weiss. dn’t worry about th= money” (p. 1)4

What Epstein wrote about her position

Two sentences in the release record Epstein telling Black what should happen to her job. Both were read at the image; the characterisations of her work that surround them in the same documents are withheld here, for the reason given at the head of this page.

The first is in a message Epstein wrote on 17 February 2014 and later quoted back to Black under the heading ONE YEAR AGO. Its subject is who should run the family office. After proposing that Lawrence Delson be put in charge and that his own team do the complex work, Epstein wrote: “Ada should be only a trust, grat administrator.” (p. 3)14 That is three weeks before her six decanting notices went out over her own name.

The second is in a message of Friday, 20 November 2015 at 10:50 AM, subject “agenda”, sent to Black’s executive assistant and addressed to Black in the second person throughout: “I have made my views re ada and the office clear . no hedging. . THEY should go. no hesitation .” (p. 6)14

No document read for this page records Black acting on either. The opposite is on the record: her sender rows continue through 2016 and her latest dated message in the release is of 17 April 2017, seventeen months after the second sentence was written, to Epstein’s own lawyer Darren Indyke, copying Epstein, Brad Wechsler, Richard Kahn and a colleague, about a loan and guaranty: “Email received. Wire will be confirmed by someone in our accounting group (probably Joe). Please send me the original signature pages when you have them.” (p. 1)6

What this page does not establish

  • When she moved between institutions. The file gives three dated signature blocks, at U.S. Trust in December 2012, at Black Family Partners in March 2013 and at Elysium Management LLC by February 2014. No document read for this page records a hire, a resignation or a start date, and the claim here is scoped to the sheets cited.
  • Whether she signed the decanting notices. The signature region is barred on the only copy read.
  • What happened after April 2017. Her sender rows stop there in the released metadata. That is a statement about this release, not about her employment.
  • What was in the Release and Indemnification Agreement. The attachment named on the sheet is not in the release as a separate document, and no draft of it was read for this page.
  • Who the barred recipient of that draft was. The bar is on the sheet and nothing is recovered from any other copy here.
  • The litigation record. Clapp with deposition, with subpoena and with Dechert was run and returned nothing relevant in the material reviewed for this page.11 That is a claim about three searches, not about the release.
  • Meetings. The Epstein office day sheets list her at appointments with Alexanderson and Joslin on 24 April 2014, 13 March 2014, 6 November 2013 and others. ⚠ Every one of those sheets was written before the day it describes. A diary entry is evidence of an arrangement, not of attendance, and no document read for this page records any of those meetings taking place. The 24 April 2014 entry is quoted on Roger Schank’s page.15

Timeline

dateeventstatussource
15 Jan 2010Earliest dated sender row in the released metadata, subject “Re: Leon Black” ⚠ derived year, unverified at the imageoccurred5
13 Dec 2012Writes to McDermott Will & Emery objecting to the children’s LLC and note plan; signs as U.S. Trust managing directoroccurred2
14 Dec 2012Her exchange reaches Epstein through Alexanderson over “Are you good with this as a plan?“occurred2
26 Mar 2013Sends Epstein a tracked draft of Leon Black’s Release and Indemnification Agreement: “I will wait for your green light”occurred3
1 to 2 Apr 2013Writes to Epstein and Alexanderson on the new will and revocable trust; set out on Black Family Partnersoccurred16
23 May 2013Answers Epstein’s question on who owns Black Family Partners from a schedule; set out on Black Family Partnersoccurred16
17 Feb 2014Epstein writes to Black that “Ada should be only a trust, grat administrator”occurred14
26 Feb 2014Sends six certified-mail notices of the 1997 trust decanting to Leon, Debra and the four Black childrenoccurred1
30 Apr 2014Reports to Epstein on the draft Estate Planning Overview and asks him to confirm before Paul Weiss is engagedoccurred12
14 Aug 2014Presses Joslin on the LDB 2011 LLC valuation engagement letter and records why she had not returned the valuer’s calloccurred13
30 Oct 2014Offers to prepare non-disclosure agreements for per diem staff engaged to photocopy records; Epstein warns against themoccurred4
20 Nov 2015Epstein writes to Black’s assistant, addressing Black: “THEY should go”occurred14
1 Aug 2016Epstein conveys Black’s instruction on the general-partner succession to Brad Wechsler and to her; set out on Black Family Partnersoccurred16
17 Apr 2017Latest dated message in the release: writes to Darren Indyke on a revised loan and guaranty, copying Epsteinoccurred6

See also

Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. Six letters of 26 February 2014 on Elysium Management LLC letterhead, each headed VIA CERTIFIED MAIL and RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, to Leon D. Black, Debra R. Black, Joshua M. Black, Benjamin E. Black, Alexander S. Black and Victoria R. Black, re “Decanting of the Non-GST Exempt Trust Created under the Black Family 1997 Trust”. EFTA00623032 pp. 7 and 8, the letter to Leon D. Black, read at the image at 700 dpi; the other five letters, at pp. 1 to 6 and 9 to 12 of the same twelve-sheet run, at the text layer only. ⚠ The run is homogeneous: twelve sheets, six two-page letters of identical text with different addressees. The residential addresses of the five other addressees print on those sheets and are not reproduced here, being beneficiaries rather than subjects of this page. ⚠ The subscription on p. 8 reads “Very truly yours,” above a solid bar covering the region where a signature would appear, with the typed name beneath it partly under the bar’s lower edge. Nothing on this copy establishes that the letter was signed. ⚠ The text layer of the corresponding sheet in the Debra R. Black letter renders that barred region as SAda I M Clapp; "Ada M Clapp" returns 0 documents in the release and the image shows no middle initial, so the apparent initial is noise off the bar’s edge. The letterhead block naming her is at the head of p. 7 with the telephone, fax and e-mail values covered by bars. ⚠ A checker will report the subscription as unlocatable: EFTA00623032 p. 8 renders “Very truly yours,” in its text layer as “Ver trul” and “ours” on two broken lines, and p. 7 renders the letterhead name “Ada Clapp” as “Ada Oa”. The pin is correct and no pin was moved. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. Ada Clapp to Elyse G. Kirschner, copying Eileen Alexanderson, Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 9:59 AM, subject “Leon Black Children-use of Gift and GST tax exemptions”; Kirschner’s reply of Friday, 14 December 2012 at 6:19 AM; Clapp’s summary of Friday, 14 December 2012 at 1:09 PM; Alexanderson’s forward to Epstein at 1:21 PM; and Epstein’s forward to Melanie Spinella at 1:23 PM. EFTA00700136 p. 1 for the last four messages and p. 3 for the message of 13 December 2012. Text layer only; not rendered for this page. Her signature block on pp. 1 and 3 gives “Managing Director, Wealth Strategist”, “U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management” and a West 47th Street address on separate lines, with the telephone, fax and e-mail lines empty; it is described rather than quoted because a signature block is a stacked field set. The same run carries the sheet on which Melanie Spinella’s page is built, read there at the image at 700 dpi. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  3. Ada Clapp to Jeffrey Epstein, copying Eileen Alexanderson, Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:04:20 +0000, subject “Release & Indemnification Agreement”. EFTA00628281 p. 1. Read at the image at 700 dpi. ⚠ Two extraction faults were settled by that render and both matter. EFTA00628281 p. 1 prints “revisicisou objected to” in its text layer where the sheet reads “revisions you objected to”, and prints “do Apollo Management” in the signature block where the sheet reads “c/o Apollo Management”; and the sentence ends on the sheet at a solid bar covering the intended recipient, which the text layer drops entirely, closing the gap so that nothing signals a redaction. The bar is marked ▮ in the quotation above. The attachment filename is reproduced as it prints on the sheet. The signature block gives her name, “Black Family Partners”, “c/o Apollo Management”, “9 W 57th Street” and “New York NY 10019” on separate lines in blue, with the telephone and e-mail lines beneath covered by bars; it is described rather than quoted. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. Jeffrey Epstein to Richard Joslin, Thursday, 30 October 2014 at 5:02 PM, subject “Re: per diem staffing”, carrying Joslin’s message of the same day at 12:44 PM, Epstein’s of 12:21 PM and Ada Clapp’s of 11:40 AM. EFTA02593272 p. 1. Read at the image at 700 dpi. ⚠ The quoted-printable damage in these messages is printed on the sheet and is not an artefact of the extraction; the sheet reads “nam=s”, “pre=are”, “=hotocopy”, “e=forts”, “nda=” and “th=” exactly as reproduced above, and this was settled by rendering. Her signature block on the same sheet gives her name, “Chief Legal Officer”, “Elysium Management LLC”, “445 Park Avenue”, “Suite 1401” and the city line on separate lines, with stray HTML fragments printed at the end of four of them and the direct dial line covered by a bar; it is described rather than quoted. One sender address in the quoted block is covered by a bar. ⚠ EFTA02593272 p. 1 renders “paul weiss” in its text layer as “paul weirs”; the image was the source for the quotation above. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  5. Released e-mail metadata, emails_merged, sender field. Earliest dated sender row Friday, January 15, 2010 2:14 PM, subject “Re: Leon Black”, at EFTA01192563; a second 2010 row at Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:47 AM. ⚠ The derived year in this store is unreliable outside roughly 2012 to 2019 because four-digit years are truncated in some records, and neither 2010 row has been read at an image. The sustained record begins in June 2012. By year, distinct documents: 2010 2, 2012 25, 2013 363, 2014 533, 2015 190, 2016 79, 2017 15. ↩ ↩2

  6. Ada Clapp to Darren Indyke, copying Brad Wechsler, Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein and a colleague, April 17, 2017 at 12:57:33 PM EDT, which is zoned, subject “RE: Revised Loan and Guaranty”, as it appears within a thread between Richard Kahn and that colleague later the same day. EFTA01048938 p. 1. Text layer only; not rendered for this page. Contact values appearing in this thread are not reproduced. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. Released e-mail metadata, emails_merged. sender containing “Clapp”: 1,511 rows across 1,221 distinct documents. to_recipients: 1,534 rows across 1,165 documents. cc_recipients: 392 rows across 298 documents. Any of the three: 1,994 distinct documents. ⚠ Every one of the 107 distinct sender values containing “Clapp” resolves to her; there is no second Clapp in the sender field anywhere in this store. The 107 are one clean form and 106 damaged renderings of it, the commonest being Ma Clapp. Against the store as a whole, which holds 1,117,562 distinct documents of which 965,210 carry a parsed sender, her 1,221 sender documents are 0.109% and 0.126% respectively. ↩

  8. Full text corpus, FTS5, phrase "Ada Clapp": 2,279 distinct documents across 2,942 pages. Bare token Clapp: 2,357 documents across 3,045 pages. ↩

  9. Name-form measurement, run over the full text corpus as FTS5 phrases and reconciled as explicit set differences in Python rather than with an FTS NOT clause. "Ada Clapp" 2,279 · Clapp 2,357 · "Ada Clap" 45 · "From Ada" 1,070 · "Eileen Ada Rich" 133 · "Clapp Ada", which is the same query as the directory form “Clapp, Ada” because the tokeniser splits on the comma, 53 · "A Clapp" 3 · "Ada M Clapp" 0. Union of the four productive forms 2,526. Outside the bare surname: "Eileen Ada Rich" 125, "From Ada" 33, "Ada Clap" 16, total 169. All 78 documents in the surname set but outside "Ada Clapp" were read as snippets and hand-classified: 55 hers, 23 not, the 23 being a violin teacher at one conservatory (7 documents), an actor (5), a Polar Capital fund manager (2), two unrelated homeowners (2), two Florida appellate citations rendered CLApp (2) and six sheets of unreadable OCR. The 169 were classified the same way: 167 carried a readable context, 138 of them in the family-office neighbourhood and 29 read individually, of which one is a different Ada and one 2011 sheet is left uncertain. Floor 2,502. ⚠ This is a floor with named bounds and no convergence is claimed. The enumeration scope is the extracted text layer of the release; a Damerau-Levenshtein sweep of the corpus token vocabulary over the length window 3 to 8 against clapp was attempted and abandoned after fifteen minutes without producing output, so no systematic OCR-variant enumeration underlies these figures. ↩ ↩2

  10. scripts/act_rate.py '"Ada Clapp"' Clapp Ada, run over all 2,279 documents. Sender-field act 926 (41%); addressed only 705 (31%); header-less and authored 27 (1%); header-less press 0; neither 560; parser refused 61 (3%). The 56.8% figure is 926 of the 1,631 documents in which a sender field was parsed at all, which is the sum of the act and addressed-only rows. ⚠ Both figures are floors: the 61 declined documents were not read, and the tool counts neither. ↩ ↩2

  11. Clapp with deposition, Clapp with subpoena and Clapp with Dechert were run against the full text corpus for this page and returned nothing bearing on her. ⚠ That is a statement about three searches over the extracted text layer, not about the release. No result set was opened in full. ↩ ↩2

  12. Ada Clapp to Jeffrey Epstein, copying Eileen Alexanderson, Wed 4/30/2014 4:13:10 PM, subject “Estate Planning Overview”. EFTA01927566 p. 1. Read at the image at 700 dpi. ⚠ The clock on this sheet carries no zone and none is supplied here. ⚠ The corpus text layer renders the recipient line as Jeffrey EpsteinDeeva / i n / mil. m; the image reads a single clean line, and the quotations above are the image’s text and punctuation. “Alan” is not given a surname in the message; Alan S. Halperin of Paul Weiss is copied on other documents in this family and no identification is asserted here. One recipient address on the sheet is covered by a bar. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  13. Ada Clapp to Richard Joslin, copying Eileen Alexanderson, Lawrence Delson and Jeffrey Epstein, Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:38:33 +0000, subject “RE: LDB 2011 LLC”, carrying beneath it Joslin’s message of the same morning at 9:25 AM and her own of 8:50 AM. EFTA00693922 p. 1. Read at the image at 700 dpi. ⚠ Her own header is zoned; the two quoted messages beneath it carry bare clock times with no zone, so the two stamps are not comparable and no interval is asserted. Three recipient addresses and one address in the quoted block are covered by bars. ⚠ EFTA00693922 p. 1 renders “just trying to understand” in its text layer as “just Hying to understand”; the image was the source for the quotation above, and a checker searching the text layer for the clean form will not find it. Her signature block at the foot of the sheet gives her name, “Elysium Management LLC” and “445 Park Avenue” on separate lines. The entity’s name is given here as the subject line gives it. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  14. Jeffrey Epstein to Melanie Spinella, a compilation of his own messages to and about Leon Black. EFTA00812184 p. 3 for the passage headed ONE YEAR AGO / Feb 17 2014 i wrote :, and p. 6 for the message of Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:50 AM, subject “agenda”. Both read at the image at 500 dpi. ⚠ This identifier holds a 102-sheet run and is cited here by page range only: its contents were not surveyed beyond the two sheets named, and no description of the run as a whole is offered. ⚠ Parts of p. 3 are printed in red on the sheet, which is Epstein’s own emphasis; neither sentence quoted above falls in the red text. The 20 November 2015 message is addressed to Black’s executive assistant in its header and is written to Black in the second person throughout; it is attributed here to Epstein, who wrote it. ⚠ Both sheets carry extended characterisations of the competence of named living individuals, including this page’s subject. They are withheld. They are one man’s account of private individuals, they are not independently corroborated anywhere in the material reviewed for this page, and the two acts recorded above do not depend on them. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. The day sheets. An Epstein office diary block for Thursday 24 April 2014 listing “3:00pm Appt w/Eileen Alexanderson, Ada Clapp, Rich Joslin” is quoted on Roger Schank, from the sheet cited there. Further blocks naming her by forename alongside Alexanderson and Joslin are dated 13 March 2014 and 6 November 2013. ⚠ Every one of these sheets was written before the day it describes, and no document read for this page records any of the meetings taking place. ↩

  16. The 2013 will and ownership messages, and the 2016 general-partner succession. Her messages of 1 and 2 April 2013 on the new will and revocable trust, her answer of 23 May 2013 on who owned the partnership, and Epstein’s message of 1 August 2016 to Brad Wechsler and to her conveying Black’s choice of successor to the general-partner interest are all quoted and cited on Black Family Partners. Not re-derived for this page. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

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