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Elisa New

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tagsperson, harvard-university, academia, poetry-in-america, verse-video-education, gratitude-america, philanthropy, leon-black, templeton, woody-allen-access, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019
aliasesElisa New, Lisa New, Elisa Fawn New, Professor New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature

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OfficePowell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University. The chair line stands on the same sheet as her name on 312 of the 396 sheets that carry it (78.8%), and no other bearer of that chair appears anywhere in the 2,925,025 sheets of this release1
Named on the documents asElisa New in her signature block, Lisa New in her mail-client display name and every signature she signs informally, NEW/ELISA FAWN in travel records, and Professor New once in her own prose. Her display form "lisa new" is the single largest route — 445 sheets across 435 documents — and reaches 295 sheets that no formal-name query touches1
A fifth form is not her name but Epstein’s descriptor for hersummers wife — 74 sheets across 74 documents, the phrase Epstein himself used when writing to third parties about her. The most consequential documents on this page sit in that route: his solicitation of another donor household, his working of a foundation executive, and his instruction about her air ticket1
One name form is a total trap and is never used here"e. new" reaches 481 sheets, and 0 of them are her — 0.0%. The set of sheets matching it and the set matching "elisa new" share not one row. No figure on this page comes from it. Bare new stands on 514,973 of 2,925,025 sheets (17.60% of the release) and is a figure about the English word and the city, never about her1
The centre of the page: $110,000, and an instruction that his name not appearFebruary–May 2016. Epstein opens with who should the check for 110k be made to .; she routes it to her own 501(c)(3); and he writes, in his own words, the supporter is me .so no name necessary , the check will come from Gratitude America, ! my private foundation. Fourteen weeks later his accountant asks please advise if ok for them to cash 110,000 check from Gratitude America and Epstein’s entire reply is ok234
A second gift, brokered by himOctober 2014 to January 2015. She writes Larry has told me that you and a friend would like to contribute to my project; the gift lands; Epstein confirms of course and yes feel free to thank leon. The amount is not stated on any sheet cited here. A forwarding by his accountant carries the subject line Poetry in America at EdLabs and HGSE - 250,000, which this page does not treat as establishing the amount given5678
What she says the brokered money bought her, in her own wordsIn a way nothing else had, the Leo= Black gift, got Harvard to take me seriously, and to get their rea= estate office to find me a space. Quoted exactly as extracted; the released text of this sheet is damaged throughout and nothing is mended9
Epstein as budget auditor23 September 2014. Her own account of an afternoon at his house: getting creamed on my producer's budget but then offered the opportunity to profess poetry for production funds. On the reply sheet, his instruction: clinton woody kagan , do not add one penny to budget1011
Epstein soliciting third parties for herlany summers wife is tryint to raise 3million to do poetry classes on line. Ask Glenn. but I think 100 - 200 k a good idea from you guys to Eva Andersson-Dubin, 18 October 2014; and any news on larry summers wife grant from templeton? to Barnaby Marsh, 4 October 20151213
A first-class air ticket, 16 February 2013Total charged to American Express / 699.90, Class: First, Boston to New York JFK. NY, booked through American Express Centurion Travel Service four days earlier. Neither travel sheet names a cardholder, and the e-mail traffic that would is closed to citation under this project’s own hard rules. This page therefore does not say whose card paid, who instructed it, or whether anyone was repaid — and does not count the ticket as money moving from Epstein to her1415
Nothing of material value is documented moving the other wayAcross 803 sheets in 616 documents, the record shows money, brokerage, access and inside intelligence running one way, from Epstein to her. Nothing on this page implies that anything improper was given in return. There is no evidence of that, and the absence is worth stating plainly. What she gave him is documented and unremarkable: poetry discussion at his table, dinner invitations, and credit in writing
No island visit is in this releaseTested with her name removed from every probe: "little st james" stands on 5,615 sheets and "little saint james" on 3,428; intersected with poetry, with "verse video", and with either form of her name, every result is zero. The only Little St James reference in her own correspondence is a wish that was not met16
Her name is in a passenger listing. It cannot be paired to a flight or a dateA sheet in a run of aviation passenger listings opens Lisa New Larry Summers' wife) — a closing parenthesis with no opening one, in a two-column table broken across a page break. Pairing her name to any flight or any date is not resolvable from the released text, and this page does not attempt it17
A gap offered as a question, not an absenceHer documented traffic runs from 2011 and 2013 to 3 February 2019 and then stops: 137 in-set documents dated 2015 against 1 dated 2019 — while the release holds 36,137 documents dated 2019. Not a production-window artefact, and the cause is not established. This page poses it and does not answer it18
Status of every quotationEvery quotation is taken from the released text; the page image was not available to check it. No page image was opened and no network request of any kind was made. A page-image address is on record for 3 of the 616 documents (0.49%) and nothing was fetched19

Elisa New holds an endowed chair in American literature at Harvard University and built, over the 2010s, a substantial public-humanities venture: a thirteen-episode public-television series, a run of HarvardX courses, a teacher-training course, and a non-profit production company. Over roughly six years Jeffrey Epstein gave money to that venture out of his own private foundation, raised money for it from other people, audited its budgets line by line, supplied inside intelligence about a foundation she was applying to, and acted as her channel to a public figure she wanted on camera. She asked him for most of it, thanked him for all of it, and in one case took his advice and abandoned an application.

The one instruction in the record that is unambiguously about concealment is his, not hers, and it is in his own words: the supporter is me .so no name necessary.3

Nothing on this page is a finding of wrongdoing by anyone, and nothing on it suggests that she gave anything improper in return. The transaction the documents record is a one-way flow of money and access, plus an instruction from the donor that his name not travel with his money. That is what the record shows; this page does not go past it.

She does not appear anywhere in this release as a victim, a minor, a complainant or a Doe. That result was measured twice, once over the sheets that carry her name and once over 605 sheets reached without using her name at all, and both runs return zero. The measurement is set out in full at the foot of this page.20

What this page rests on, and the three things that cut against it first

Every quotation here was read from the released text of the documents. Where the released text is damaged the damage is left inside the quotation marks and flagged. No OCR is mended anywhere on this page. Three of the 616 documents in the set have a page-image address on record; having one does not mean the file is fetchable, and nothing was fetched.19

Three facts have to be in the reader’s hands before the narrative, because each one cuts against it.

First: the project is real, large, and mostly not about Epstein. Her own prospectus, circulated to his accountant in March 2016, describes a WGBH public television series, PBS LearningMedia segments for the classroom, a free online course on American poetry, and a series of online courses and resources for ELA Middle and High School teachers, and an interview archive running to dozens of Americans.21 Her 2016 year-end letter reports a salaried production staff of five, an archive of over 120 separate interviews, a thirteen-episode series in post-production, and paying clients.22 The $110,000 is one line in a venture she was trying to raise $3 million for.12 And Epstein’s foundation was not built around her: "gratitude america" stands on 3,371 sheets across 2,844 documents of this release.23

Second: his intervention sometimes cost her, and once it stopped her. When she wanted to apply to a foundation, he went to an insider, relayed what came back, and she dropped the application.242526 The grant was never made. The clearest documented effect of his brokerage on that application was to end it.

Third: her husband opened the channel, and this page is not about him. The first explicit contribution reaches her through him — Larry has told me that you and a friend would like to contribute to my project.5 The 2013 travel correspondence would say more about how the channel began, and it is closed to citation under this project’s own hard rules; this page therefore says nothing about who arranged that trip. But she ran the relationship herself: on the 396 sheets carrying her formal name, 327 (82.6%) mention neither summers nor larry, and 312 (78.8%) carry her own academic signature block.1 Across the wider 803-sheet union the figure is different and the page states the honest one: 223 of 803 sheets (27.8%) carry one or other of those tokens, because two of the seven routes into this material are routes in which Epstein is describing her as his wife.1 See Lawrence Summers for his own part; it is not retold here.

How she is named, and the one route that must never be used

Documented fact. Measured for this page.

Seven phrase routes reach her, and their union is a floor of 803 sheets across 616 documents — a floor rather than a total, because the released text demonstrably damages her forename and surname in at least eight directions.1 The two largest routes are not formal versions of her name at all: her mail-client display form Lisa New, and summers wife, which is Epstein’s own descriptor. Both were absent from the query set that commissioned this page, and the documents in which Epstein solicits money for her from other people sit almost entirely in the second of them.

One route looks like her and is not her at all. "e. new" reaches 481 sheets across 437 documents and not one of them is her. The index collapses the full stop, so the query is the bare token e followed by the bare token new, and what it finds is address lines, account headers, a header collision between a To: line and a subject beginning New …, a legal sub-heading, and retailer boilerplate. Measured two ways: the set it returns and the set returned by "elisa new" share zero rows.1 Bare new is worse still — 514,973 of 2,925,025 sheets, 17.60% of the release. Neither figure is ever cited here as a figure about her.

The $110,000: his own foundation, and his instruction that no name appear

Documented fact. One container holds the whole transaction.

Document EFTA00827905 is eleven sheets of a single e-mail thread, and it carries the transaction end to end. It begins with Epstein, unprompted, on 23 February 2016 at 6:15 PM:2

who should the check for 110k be made to .

Her reply, the next day, sets out two routes and lets the donor choose between them:2

Wow! this is wonderful, Jeffrey, Thank you so much. If the donor does not needAvant Harvard credit, the the check should be written to Verse Video Education, my non-profit, and he/she will be listed among supporters of the MI range of our projects.

If the donor wants Harvard credit and or wants the funds devoted solely to Harvard related projects, like Poetry of Art, Sport and Play, it should be to Poetry in America, and I can send you the address of the development person who manages and keeps track of Harvard/FAS donations.

You are really helping me, Jeffrey. I'm grateful and very touched.

needAvant and MI range are damage in the released text and are left exactly as found; nothing on this page guesses what they were. The quotation stops before every address line on the sheet, and no contact field anywhere in this document is reproduced here.

He then ran a donor’s due diligence on her — is verse a 501 c3, answered Yes. We have just incorporated and submitted all our paperwork., followed by i will need the irs approval form23 — and on 24 February 2016 at 7:55 AM he named himself, named the vehicle, and gave the instruction:3

the supporter is me .so no name necessary , the check will come from Gratitude America, ! my private foundation. based on the philosophy that too many people complain about the country rather than expressing the thanks it deserves.

Her answer, the same day: I will use it well and will keep you posted on developments, Jeffrey..3

This is the centre of the page and it needs no help from anything else in the record. Money moved out of Gratitude America, Epstein’s own private foundation; he named himself to her as the source; and he directed that no name appear. All three are documented fact, in one container, in his own words.

What follows is administration, and it is worth reading because it shows how long the money waited. On 5 April 2016 Richard Kahn, Epstein’s accountant, sent a formal instrument — attached is a copy of grant agreement for your review and signature — and we will send out check today via mail.27 Her company’s associate director confirmed the sequence: I wanted to check in to see if you have everything you need to make the grant from Gratitude America to Verse Video Education. Obviously, we will wait to deposit the check until we have received our IRS letter and have shared that information with you.28

Then, on 9 May 2016, the cheque cleared on Epstein’s one-word authorisation. The sheet is a single e-mail header with Kahn’s message quoted beneath it:4

From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Richard Kahn Subject: Re: Gratitude America - 110,000 Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 20:08:55 +0000 ok

Lisa New's charity has just received IRS approval which is attached please advise if ok for them to cash 110,000 check from Gratitude America

Fourteen weeks between the offer and the clearance, because her 501(c)(3) did not yet exist when he offered the money. Seven months later, in a year-end letter to him, she described it in her own accounting: The generous contribution you made last year to Verse Video Education is now in use (we've hired our new editor!) and 100K makes so much possible.22 Her letter says 100K; the cheque in the thread is 110,000. The discrepancy is the documents’ own and is not resolved here.

The brokered gift, and her own account of what it converted into

Documented fact for the brokerage and for her account of its effect. The amount is not established.

On 27 October 2014 she wrote to Epstein about a contribution reaching her through her husband, and in the same message explained how she wanted it routed and why:5

Larry has told me that you and a friend would like to contribute to my project (hallelujah and thank you a million times, Jeffrey) and that I ought to write up a proposal asking for 500,000.

This will give me discretion over its disbursement to HarvardX and WGBH, but this will be absolutely be a Harvard gift that will count as Campaign success and from which Harvard will take some (but not as much)overhead.

There are other ways to give me this money that leave Harvard out, but my understanding is that your friend would like this to be a Harvard gift.

Two rails, set out by her, and the choice left to the donor. Rail one is visible, institutional and overhead-bearing; rail two leaves the university out. In 2014 the donor took rail one. In 2016, for his own money, Epstein took rail two — the cheque to her own 501(c)(3), with no name necessary.23 That contrast is the operational core of this page, and both halves of it are documented.

In December 2014 she set the mechanics out twice more. I think the best way to do this is to give it to me f=r Poetry in America at EdLabs. / That's where I've b=sed myself , where they have the most professional manageement and w=ere I have the most independence in disbursing monies.29 And in a payment instruction the same day: It should be made out to / President and Fellows , Harvard University / and an attached letter should specify that is for / Elisa New's Poetry in America Initiatives, closing I already understand that you don't want to fund tv.30 That sheet carries a street line and a named university finance officer; the quotation stops before both, and neither is reproduced here.

The gift landed in the first days of January 2015:6

I am immensely</=> grateful and excited to have received a contribution from .Mr. Black. I =ould very like to thank him , if you have his email.

Epstein’s reply, at 1:09 AM the next morning, confirmed the donor and his own part in it: of course and yes feel free to thank leon.7 See Leon Black.

The amount is not stated on any sheet cited here. On 18 December 2014 Epstein’s accountant forwarded her narrative and budget onward under the subject line Poetry in America at EdLabs and HGSE - 250,000, with the covering note Attached is the Poetry in America Initiatives Letter =orm in addition to a narrative and budget of this program and Please =ote Lisa is Larry Summers wife.8 That subject line is a figure in a proposal, not a record of a payment, and this page does not treat it as the amount given. The accountant’s firm address block on that sheet is not reproduced.

Four weeks after the gift arrived, she wrote Epstein the single most revealing document in the set — her own account of what the money converted into inside Harvard. The released text of this sheet is damaged throughout, with = substitutions running through nearly every line. It is quoted exactly as found. Nothing is mended, and no attempt is made on this page to say what the damaged characters were.9

What I haven't =old you yet, because its just been coming clear, is that you have not only=given me purchasing power I needed but also fantastic leverage with Harvar=.

The passage continues, after a run about donated equipment, to the sentence that matters. The two paragraphs below are consecutive on the sheet, separated only by a paragraph break:9

The donor was assembling and ready to send thi= equipment (now on its way), but I had no space of my own in which to put=it, and I was not succeeding in persuading Harvard that they needed to giv= me the space.

In a way nothing else had, the Leo= Black gift, got Harvard to take me seriously, and to get their rea= estate office to find me a space. They actually gave me two spaces-- a sm=ll office my department and a large room where my team can work. The money=made clear to FAS that they really wanted to be part of my partnership wit= GSE. It all played out over a few hours when just where the check would g= was hugely exciting a bunch of administrators.. I admit felt like rather=a badass negotiator for just a poetry professor.

She closes: I have thanked Leon and Debra by mail and Larry than=ed them for me too.9 The quotation stops before the signature block’s address lines.

Read at the second layer, this is a document about institutional architecture. The money did not only buy production capacity; by her own account it bought standing, physical space, and a negotiating position with a faculty dean. And the people it was negotiated with are the people conspicuously absent from the whole set: the Harvard figures who appear in these documents are a finance director receiving payment instructions and a sponsored-research team drafting an application. No one at the university appears anywhere in this material asking who the funder was. See Epstein and Harvard University.

Epstein as budget auditor, and the afternoon of 23 September 2014

Documented fact for both messages. The two sheets are a message and its reply.

On 23 September 2014 she wrote to Epstein after an afternoon at his house. Her own summary of what happened there is the most quoted sentence in this whole set, and she wrote it herself:10

That was fun- definitely the highlight of a day that was not without other interesting moments Don't know which was better-- the wholly unexpected surprise reminder (by a prime minister) of my boyfriend from 1976( who was in high school, who lived with his doting parents), or , getting creamed on my producer's budget but then offered the opportunity to profess poetry for production funds . There may be someone as good in New York, but i'll never tell you and you really have a heck of a seminar table there . when do we do Whitman's "song of Myself" 1-15 Who else is reading with us? I'm ready .

The same message contains the only sheet in the release where she refers to herself in the third person by her chair title, inside a costing argument: certainly no clinton or woody allen or justice elena kagan or david brooks or Lena Dunham or even Professor New. That said , I think if were hiring the crew id do it for less -- probably 1, 250,000 all in .10

Epstein’s reply sheet carries his instruction in six words:11

clinton woody kagan , do not add one penny to budget

The two sheets render the clock differently — the header on her sheet reads 9/23/2014 10:17:55 PM and the copy quoted inside the reply reads On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:17 PM, with his own line timed On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:57 PM. Both are recorded here as found; this page does not resolve which is local time and does not compare the two renderings as copies. The date, 23 September 2014, is common to both.

That he was expecting her that afternoon is independently on a third sheet, in his own words to a correspondent the released text does not name: larry summers wife here at 2. you arc welcome.31 arc for are is damage in the released text, left unmended. The rest of that sheet is an unrelated personal exchange with a third party the released text does not identify, and nothing of it is characterised here.

Budget review was not a one-off. She sent him budgets — Her= is the budget they just sent me. It looks pretty reasonable to me. What d= you think?32 — and he audited line items, drawing the reply 120=(non-Harvard; 150 (through Harvard) / This includes editor's salary ( 95K without health care). That same message contains her own name for what he did for her: After your last run of diplomacy,=I did send our most recent releases to the Woody assistant, and a further ask: Another 150.250K by June from the=Blacks would be hugely helpful.33

And in February 2015 she brought him inside a Harvard sponsored-research deliberation and asked him to arbitrate how much to disclose to a different funder:34

I am working with Harvard's sponsored research team on final drafts of my Templeton planning grant application and there's some disagreement on the team about just how much to stress the fact that I have already attracted substantial investment for my projects with other funders. Their rule of thumb is that you should always tell funders that they are your only hope.

She asked What do you think?, told him I'd really like to get this grant (200K), and added Do you think your science guy/group might talk on film with me about metaphor? His only recorded question on that thread was about control — is the greant ( sic ) in your name? — and her answer was the grant is in my name. Yes. I'm the project lead.34

Read at the third layer — operational method — the pattern is consistent across six years. Her budgets, her funding strategy toward other donors, and her disclosure decisions all went past a man with no institutional role in any of it, and she asked him to arbitrate them.

Epstein raising money from other people, in his own words

Documented fact. Four of these five sheets are Epstein’s own outgoing messages.

On 18 October 2014 he wrote to Eva Andersson-Dubin, unasked, naming a figure and pointing her at her husband:12

lany summers wife is tryint to raise 3million to do poetry classes on line. Ask Glenn. but I think 100 - 200 k a good idea from you guys

lany for larry and tryint for trying are damage in the released text, left unmended. See Glenn Dubin.

From June 2015 to December 2016 he worked a foundation executive on her behalf. The shortest of those messages is the whole method in nine words: any news on larry summers wife grant from templeton?13 In December 2016 he asked outright whether there was a way in: lisa , lany summers wife wanted to apply to templeton for her poetry tv course . / is there a way. or should / she give up.35 To her, the same day, he offered the introduction explicitly: barnaby is no longer there. He is at lnstitue for Advanced Studies. .. That being said, let me ask him if he can Shepard you through Templeton.36 lnstitue and Shepard are as found. See Barnaby Marsh and the John Templeton Foundation.

What came back he relayed to her verbatim, prefixed from bamaby -:24

she could apply, but she should know that there are only a few grants in each round; most projects proposed don't get funding. It is like rolling the dice.

There is no "direct" route anymore.

He followed it with an operational detail no applicant would have: (also, no more strategic initiatives projects, and the President does not make any grants anymore- everything goes through the general portal).25 Twenty-five minutes later she stood the application down:25

I really appreciate your reaching out to Bamaby. from what you and he say, it sounds like this is just too risky and not the best use of my team's resources—

The brokerage changed her decision, and what it produced was a withdrawal. She had asked him for it: in her year-end letter she wrote I wonder if you might arrange a meeting for me with the famous Barnaby? and, of his budget tutoring, you've also been a key preceptor as I've learned how --squirming all the way--the sausage really gets made in public television.22

Access: the poem, the plane, and the appointment book

Documented fact for the asks and for the delivery.

The longest-running thing she asked Epstein for was not money. From May 2013 to March 2016 she asked him, repeatedly, to get a film director in front of her camera. The first ask is also her own statement that she had been aboard his aircraft:37

I would really be so thrilled if Woody would have a five minute conversation with me, on video, about the William Carlos Williams poem we discussed in your plane, the one that begins This is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

In her own words, written to Epstein, she had discussed a poem with the director in your plane before 22 May 2013. This page does not pair that statement to any flight, any date, or any passenger record. A second message, four months later, repeats it independently as the poem he and I discussed on the plane.38

In September 2013, pressed by Epstein — his whole message is any idea of when woody — she offered discretion as part of the invitation:39

What if you Woody, Soon Yi and children came to the Break the Fast (our kickin synagogue also an option--we have tickets) and then we could talk poetry, break the fast Sunday morning over leftovers and brunch with cameras rolling.

We would NOT let anyone know he was coming--no extra invitations. Promise. The group is what it is as of now.

Days later Epstein forwarded her request onward under the subject A request from Lany Summers wife. That sheet’s From: is Epstein and its To: is a third party; who composed the subject line is Not established by the released text, and this page does not attribute it to her. The body is her text, opening Dear Jeffrey, and running It would be a great favor and privledge to have Woddy help with my class . Do you think you might ask him for me.38 privledge, Woddy and Lany are as found.

The channel stayed open for years — in March 2016 Epstein was still carrying her requests onward, lany summers wife lisa asks if she can use woodys reading of the poetry in her on line class?40 — and it delivered. On 20 October 2013: Woody and I are taping on Thursday. I am so grateful for your help.41 On 28 June 2017: Woody's readings are absolutely wonderful., to which Epstein replied Not yet, glad it worked.4243

She also appears in his appointment records, as an entry reading Appt w/Lisa New inside a pasted schedule block in an office thread.44 That is a schedule table, and the released text returns its columns separately. Pairing the entry to a date, or to any other entry in the block, would be a reconstruction, and this page makes no such pairing. A second schedule sheet in this release carries a dinner entry naming her and her husband. It is cited nowhere on this page: it is closed under this project’s own hard rules, and since the page would in any case refuse to date anything on it, nothing is lost by leaving it out. Resolving schedule pairings at all is a task for the page image, not one the released text can settle.

The February 2013 ticket — and what this page cannot say about it

Documented fact for the ticket itself. The cardholder and any repayment are not stated on this page, and the reason is a rule of this project, not an absence in the release.

Read this before the rest of the section. The e-mail traffic surrounding this booking is closed to citation under this project’s own hard rules, and nothing from it is quoted, paraphrased or summarised anywhere on this page. The consequence is stated plainly rather than worked around: this page does not say whose card paid for the ticket, does not say who instructed the purchase, and does not say whether anyone was repaid for it. The brief that commissioned this page described, in the brief’s own words rather than a document’s, a “$699.90 first-class ticket on his card”. The ticket is documented. The words on his card rest on material this page cannot cite, so they do not appear as a claim here.

What remains is the travel record itself, and it stands on its own two sheets. An American Express Centurion Travel Service invoice, generated February 12. 2013 12:46 PM, records:14

Travel Arrangements for: NEW/ELISA FAWN

Total charged to American Express 699.90

Ticket Base Fare: 640.93

and, for the journey itself, Saturday February 16, 2013, AMERICAN AIRLINES, departure 7:20 am from Boston. MA, arrival 8:35 am at New York JFK. NY, and Class: / First.14 Arline, Dale and Fight elsewhere on that sheet are damage in the released text and are not quoted. A reservation-only itinerary generated 29 minutes earlier records the same flight and carries the line This itinerary is a reservation only.15 A hold was placed and then converted into a purchase inside half an hour.

Neither sheet names a cardholder. The invoice names the travel service and the passenger and nothing else about who paid. This page does not fill that gap from any other source.

What the ticket therefore does, and all it does, on this page: it places her in a first-class seat between Boston and New York on 16 February 2013, booked four days earlier through the travel service named on the invoice. It is not counted anywhere on this page as a transfer of money from Epstein to her, and the summary of what moved between them is written without it.

February 2019: the last sheet, and what it does and does not establish

Documented fact for what Epstein wrote about her material. QUESTION tier for the rest.

The last dated item in the whole set is 3 February 2019, five months before Epstein’s arrest. It is a chain in which Kathy Ruemmler replies, Hap=y to pass this along to her. She may want to do it. Epstein’s inner message, timed On Feb 3, 2019, at 2:33 PM, is damaged in the released text throughout and is quoted as found:45

months ago. larry summers wife gave me a list of letters&n=sp; for black women. to invite to her poetry project. &nbs=; as you know my views. I forwarded them to a few others . [...] woody alien did it. but the station pulled it. of=course they know nothing of your connection. thoughts?

&n=sp;, &nbs=;, of=course and alien for allen are damage in the released text, left unmended. The [...] is this page’s own elision and is not characterised.

Documented fact, and all of it: four years after she first asked him to approach a director on her behalf, Epstein was still handling her recruitment material, had forwarded them to a few others, and was circulating the request through a third party. The message carries an attached invitation document; the person it is addressed to appears in this record only as a name on a list she supplied, and is therefore not named on this page.

Question tier, and the limit is the sheet’s own. The clause of=course they know nothing of your connection. cannot be read on this page as an instance of concealment, because the released text of this sheet does not carry the To: field. Whose connection is meant, and to whom the sentence was written, are not established by this sheet, and this page does not assert either. Ruemmler is the sender of the reply above it; that does not establish her as the addressee of the message below it. What is left is a question, and it is left as one: what connection, concealed from whom? The February 2016 instruction no name necessary is documented fact on its own container and needs no support from this sentence.

One further clause on this sheet is excluded from this page entirely. A quotation whose referent cannot be resolved from citable material is not evidence; published with a disclaimer attached it is an insinuation with a disclaimer attached. It is not quoted, not paraphrased, and not described.

Date note. The sheet’s own text reads Sunday, February 3, 2019 and On Feb 3, 2019, at 2:33 PM. The derived date field in this project’s own index of the release reads 2019-02-04 for this document. The sheet text governs here; the derived field is recorded and not reconciled.

What this release does not contain

Measured absences. Every probe below was run with her name removed, except where marked.

No island visit. "little st james" stands on 5,615 sheets across 3,262 documents and "little saint james" on 3,428 sheets across 2,699 documents of this release. Intersected with poetry, with "verse video", with "elisa new", and with "lisa new", every one of those results is zero.16 The only Little St James reference anywhere in her correspondence is her own wish in a December 2014 payment e-mail — Wish we could come to Little St Jeff. I'd love to see your ranch someday....30 — and "little st jeff" intersected with poetry returns exactly two sheets: that message and a forward of it.16 She asked. Nothing in this release shows it happened, and the absence survives taking her name out of the query.

No victim, complainant or Doe framing, measured twice. Over the 396 sheets carrying her formal name: victim* 5, minor* 5, underage* 0, massage* 6, complainant* 5, prostitut* 5, "jane doe" 0, and three invented controls 0. Every one of those hits is in a single family of long-form draft narrative about Epstein, in a different section of the document from the passage that mentions her. Over 605 sheets reached without her name at all — her company, her project, her chair and her legal name — every probe returns zero, and the controls return zero.20

No flight or date can be paired to her name in the aviation records. See below.

Nothing of material value is documented moving from her to him. What she supplied is in the record and is ordinary: poetry discussion at his table, an invitation to a family meal, and written credit. The page states this because the absence is a finding. A reader who comes away thinking this record shows an improper exchange has been misled, and nothing here supports that reading.

The passenger listing: her name is there; the pairing is not recoverable

Documented fact for the name. Nothing beyond it.

A sheet in a run of aviation passenger listings in this release opens with her name and a parenthetical identifier:17

Lisa New Larry Summers' wife)

That is the whole of what the released text establishes, and this page stops there. The sheet is a two-column table — a column of dates and flight numbers, and a column of passenger names — and the released text returns the columns separately, so a name can sit beside a date that is not its own. The closing parenthesis has no opening parenthesis on this sheet, which means the entry is the tail of something begun on the sheet before. Pairing her name to a flight or a date is a reconstruction, and no reconstruction is performed here. pdf_url is populated for this sheet. Nothing was fetched. This pairing is resolvable at the image and nowhere else, and it is the single highest-value verification task left on this subject.

What a journalist’s draft recorded, separately

Credible allegation in a draft narrative — not a primary record, and not paired to any e-mail.

Five near-identical drafts of a long-form narrative about Epstein in this release carry a passage about her. The drafts are working copies — the sheet carries the editorial marker MORE…TK — and the account is the writer’s, not hers:46

Larry Summers wife, Elisa New, drops by. She teaches American poetry at Harvard and is putting together a proposal for a series on poetry that WGBH in Boston may produce and Epstein is advising on where she might go for added support (he also makes mince meat of her budget).

A separate document in the same production is a list of fact-check questions put to Epstein, one of which reads: -Did you then meet with Elisa New to discuss supporting a poetry series and other sources of funding? Did you forcefully critique her proposed budget?47

This page does not pair the draft’s day-sequence with the 23 September 2014 e-mails or with any other dated document. The draft’s internal chronology was not established here and no such pairing is asserted. They are separate records that happen to describe the same kind of event. See Michael Wolff. These drafts are single-row containers of roughly 48,000 characters each. They can be pinned by identifier and located by string, but no page coordinate exists inside them.

Measurement appendix

Unit throughout: a sheet is one page of released text; a document is one distinct identifier. Population: 2,925,025 sheets / 1,425,573 documents. All phrase counts are exact phrase searches. Plain substring matching was never used for a phrase of more than one word — the released text is hard-wrapped and phrases cross line breaks, so a substring miss over wrapped text would be evidence of nothing. No prefix search was ever written inside quotation marks, which would make the asterisk a literal character. Sheets were counted one by one rather than taken from a stored page total, and no filter by document type was applied.

routesheetsdocumentsnote
"lisa new"445435largest route; her display/signature form
"elisa new"396317her formal name
"powell m cabot professor"325270her chair; no other bearer in the release
"summers wife"7474Epstein’s descriptor for her, not a name form
"elisa fawn"3324travel and contact records
"professor new"1515one message of hers, duplicated
"new elisa"65travel-record ordering
"elisa summers"00she never took the name
union of the seven routes803616the floor this page works from
union AND epstein246226the Epstein-relevant residual
"elisa new" AND epstein108103the narrow residual, for comparison
"gratitude america"3,3712,844corpus-wide; she is one grantee among many
"poetry in america"188—name-free route
"verse video"59—name-free route
"little st james"5,6153,262corpus-wide; 0 with her, 0 with poetry
"little saint james"3,4282,699corpus-wide; 0 with her
"e. new" → index "e new"4814370.0% her. Intersection with "elisa new" = 0 rows
bare new514,973—17.60% of all sheets. Not a figure about her
invented control zzqelisanew*00
invented control zzqnullctl*00

Position of her name on the 396 sheets that carry it: harvard 355 (89.6%), "american literature" 331 (83.6%), her own chair line 312 (78.8%), "barker center" 263 (66.4%), "poetry in america" 83 (21.0%). summers 28, summer* 32, larry 66, either 69 → 327 of 396 (82.6%) mention neither.1

Over the wider 803-sheet union the husband figure is much larger, and this page gives the larger one. summer* reaches 146 of 803 sheets, larry 192, and either 223 — 27.8%. Measured twice: by FTS5 over each of the seven routes, and independently by single-token instr() on the lowercased text of the 803 materialised sheets, which agrees at 223 for the disjunction and at 192 for larry exactly. 580 of 803 sheets (72.2%) carry neither token. She is the principal correspondent in this material, and the page is built on her side of it — but the honest figure for her husband’s presence is 27.8%, not a tenth.1

Containers in the 616-document set, counted as sheets: 315 documents are a single row (identifier-only pins — no page coordinate exists inside them), 288 hold 2–5 rows (the best tier for pinning), 11 hold 6–20 rows, and 2 are mega-containers holding 10,160 rows between them. Neither mega-container is cited anywhere on this page.19

Checks on the released text itself. Across the 803 in-set sheets, the appended TRANSCRIPT block appears on 0. No quotation on this page is a reconstruction from interleaved transcript line numbers. The check searched for a single token as plain text, never with a wildcard character class, which in this search dialect would match almost every sheet and is useless as a probe.19

How sheets are cited on this page. Each footnote gives the document identifier, the sheet number as this project’s own index of the released text records it, where that index counts from zero, and a locator string to find the sheet by text. Other pages on this wiki cite a filed page number that starts at one. This pass did not establish the mapping between the two and did not derive one — several different numbers can name one sheet in this release, and the sheets inside a container carry their own printed stamps which are not the container’s identifier. Locate by string. A stamp range is not a document range, and no mapping formula is offered.

Footnotes

  1. Name-form and position measurement, run for this page. Unit: sheets = rows in pages; documents = distinct identifiers. Population: 2,925,025 sheets / 1,425,573 document rows. FTS5 phrase queries: "lisa new" 445 / 435; "elisa new" 396 / 317; "powell m cabot professor" 325 / 270; "summers wife" 74 / 74; "elisa fawn" 33 / 24; "professor new" 15 / 15; "new elisa" 6 / 5; "elisa summers" 0 / 0; invented controls zzqelisanew* and zzqnullctl* 0 / 0 each. The union of the seven attributable routes, computed as distinct (identifier, page_number) rows, is 803 sheets across 616 documents; AND epstein over that union is 246 / 226, and "elisa new" AND epstein alone is 108 / 103. Position over the 396: harvard 355, "american literature" 331, "powell m cabot professor" 312, "barker center" 263, "poetry in america" 83, summers 28, summer* 32, larry 66, (larry OR summer*) 69. Over the 803: summer* 146, larry 192, (larry OR summer*) 223 — re-measured independently with single-token instr() on the lowercased text of the materialised 803 sheets, which returns 192 for larry and 223 for the disjunction, agreeing exactly. ⛔ The "e. new" trap: the index collapses the full stop, so that query is the bare token e followed by the bare token new; it returns 481 sheets / 437 documents and its intersection with the "elisa new" set is 0 rows, measured directly. ⛔ Bare new returns 514,973 sheets of 2,925,025 — 17.60% — measured as a bounded aggregate with no row cap. Neither keys any figure on this page. 803 is a floor, not a total, because the chair route alone reaches 13 sheets the name route does not, every one of them an extraction failure on her forename or surname. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  2. Document EFTA00827905, an eleven-sheet e-mail thread, doc_type email.header. Every string quoted to this footnote is on page_number 6 (0-based, as recorded); locate by the string who should the check for 110k be made to. The sheet carries, in reverse-chronological order on one sheet: is verse a 501 c3 and the answer Yes. We have just incorporated and submitted all our paperwork.; her 24 February 2016 1:42 PM acceptance; and Epstein’s 23 February 2016 6:15 PM opening. ⚠ needAvant and MI range are extraction damage and are left unmended. ⛔ Every quotation from this sheet stops before its address lines and before the e-mail-address field of each quoted header; no contact value from this document is reproduced anywhere on this page. Her signature block on this sheet reads Elisa New / Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature / Harvard University. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00827905 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. The same document, page_number 5; locate by the supporter is me. The three passages quoted to this footnote — Epstein’s i will need the irs approval form of 7:48 AM, his the supporter is me .so no name necessary , the check will come from Gratitude America, ! my private foundation. based on the philosophy that too many people complain about the country rather than expressing the thanks it deserves. of 7:55 AM, and her reply I will use it well and will keep you posted on developments, Jeffrey.. — are all contiguous on this one sheet. ⚠ The quoted run of the supporter is me passage crosses two line breaks in the extraction; it is a single contiguous run of the sheet’s own text and the breaks are preserved as the sheet prints them. ⛔ Several header lines on this sheet carry damaged renderings of an e-mail address; none is reproduced, and this page says nothing about any of them. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00827905 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. The same document, page_number 0; locate by please advise if ok for them to cash. The header block, the one-word body ok, and the quoted 9 May 2016 4:07 PM message from Richard Kahn are contiguous on this sheet in the order quoted. ⚠ [email protected] is reproduced here because it is this project’s one standing exception to the no-addresses rule; no other address, handle, telephone, fax or street line from this sheet is reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00827905 ↩ ↩2

  5. Subject: writing up proposal, Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:48:05 +0000, from her to Epstein, two sheets. Document EFTA00690244. All three quoted passages are on page_number 0; locate by Larry has told me that you and a friend would like to contribute. The sheet also carries a long list of interview subjects already filmed, which is not reproduced here. ⛔ No string is quoted from page_number 1, which carries address lines. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00690244 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 11:21 PM, Subject: thank you, from her to Epstein, one sheet. Document EFTA02386358, page_number 0; locate by grateful and excited to have received a contribution. ⚠ Extraction damage — </=>, =ould, .Mr. — left unmended. ⛔ The signature block’s address lines are not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02386358 ↩ ↩2

  7. Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 1:09 AM, Subject: Re: thank you, from Epstein to her, one sheet. Document EFTA02514417, page_number 0; locate by feel free to thank leon. The sheet quotes her message of the previous evening beneath his five-word reply. ⛔ The address lines in the quoted signature block are not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02514417 ↩ ↩2

  8. Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:11 PM, Subject: Poetry in America at EdLabs and HGSE - 250,000, from Richard Kahn to Epstein, forwarding his own 16 December 2014 message onward, two sheets. Document EFTA02711586, page_number 0; locate by Please =ote Lisa is Larry Summers wife. ⚠ Extraction damage — =nc., =ote, =orm, =uestions — left unmended. ⛔⛔ This sheet carries the accountant’s firm street address twice and three labelled contact lines. The quotation is cut to exclude all of them, and none is reproduced. ⚠ The subject line’s figure of 250,000 is a figure in a proposal. This page does not treat it as the amount of any gift, and no sheet cited here states that amount. ⚠ The attachment line of this sheet is not decoded on this page. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02711586 ↩ ↩2

  9. Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 5:52 PM, Subject: thank you again....and not the last time, from her to Epstein, one sheet of 1,821 characters. Document EFTA01746786, page_number 0; locate by fantastic leverage with Harvar. ⚠⚠ The extraction of this sheet is quoted-printable-damaged in nearly every line — =old, only=given, Harvar=, who=e, g=ves, an=, bu=eacracy, s=all, thi=, put=it, giv=, Leo=, rea=, sm=ll, money=made, wit=, g=, rather=a, differen=e, than=ed. Every one is left exactly as found. Nothing is mended and no reading of any damaged character is offered. ⚠ The two paragraphs quoted in sequence in the body are consecutive on this sheet, separated by a paragraph break; the break is declared rather than joined. ⛔ The quotation stops before the signature block’s address lines, which are not reproduced. ⚠ This sheet carries a second printed stamp above the container identifier; no mapping between the two is derived and no stamp range is treated as a document range. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01746786 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. From: Lisa New, Sent: 9/23/2014 10:17:55 PM, Subject: Highlight, one sheet. Document HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023426, page_number 0; locate by getting creamed on. Both passages quoted to this footnote are on this one sheet, the second about twelve lines below the first. ⚠ The header time on this sheet and the time of the same message as quoted inside the reply sheet differ by four hours; both are recorded as found and neither is corrected. ⚠ [email protected] appears in the To: line of this sheet and is this project’s one standing exception. ⛔ The passage mentioning a third person by forename only is not quoted or characterised on this page: the referent is not resolvable from the sheet. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023426 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. From: Lisa New, Sent: 9/24/2014 12:25:39 AM, Subject: Re: Highlight, one sheet. Document HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023429, page_number 0; locate by do not add one penny to budget. Epstein’s instruction is timed on this sheet On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:57 PM, above a quoted copy of her message timed On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:17 PM. ⚠ This sheet and HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023426 are a reply and the message it answers, not two copies of one document; they are not compared as copies and nothing is said about the treatment of either. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023429 ↩ ↩2

  12. From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]>, To: Eva Dubin, Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:11:30 +0000, one sheet. Document EFTA00868982, page_number 0; locate by tryint to raise 3million. ⚠⚠ The extraction reads lany for larry and tryint for trying, and the sentence punctuation is as quoted — full stops where a reader expects commas. All of it is left exactly as found. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00868982 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]>, Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 22:22:39 +0000, one sheet. Document EFTA00844377, page_number 0; locate by any news on larry summers wife grant. ⚠ The To: line renders the recipient’s forename as Bamaby; that is extraction damage and is left unmended. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00844377 ↩ ↩2

  14. American Express Centurion Travel Service invoice, three sheets, doc_type travel.itinerary. Document EFTA02725568, page_number 0; locate by Total charged to American Express. Every string quoted to this footnote is on this one sheet: the passenger line, the charge, the fare basis, the class, and the 16 February 2013 flight details. ⚠ Arline, Dale, Fight and the seat value are extraction damage and are left unmended; no reading of them is offered. ⛔ This sheet carries the travel service’s own street address and the invoice’s reference fields; none is reproduced. ⚠⚠ This document does not name the cardholder, and this page does not name one. ⛔ The e-mail traffic that would identify the cardholder is closed to citation on this desk’s hard-rule grounds and is neither cited, quoted, paraphrased nor summarised anywhere on this page. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02725568 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. American Express Centurion Travel Service itinerary, three sheets, generated February 12.2013 12:17 PM — 29 minutes before the invoice. Document EFTA00290489, page_number 0; locate by This itinerary is a reservation only. ⛔ This sheet carries the travel service’s street address and two telephone lines; none is reproduced. ⚠ Extraction damage in the flight block — Boston. IM, Mies, Termiial — left unmended and not quoted. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00290489 ↩ ↩2

  16. Absence, established name-free and corpus-wide, then re-tested with her name. FTS5 phrase queries over the full-text index: "little st james" 5,615 sheets / 3,262 documents; "little saint james" 3,428 / 2,699; "little st jeff" 133 / 115. Intersections: "little st james" AND poetry 0; "little st james" AND "verse video" 0; "little st james" AND "elisa new" 0; "little st james" AND "lisa new" 0; "little saint james" AND "elisa new" 0; "little st jeff" AND poetry 2 sheets / 2 documents, which are her own message of 13 December 2014 and a forward of it. ➡ The absence does not depend on her name being in the query: the two largest island phrases in the release never co-occur with her project, her company or her name on any sheet. Unit: sheets = rows in pages; documents = distinct identifiers. Population: the whole release. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  17. A single-row sheet in a run of aviation passenger listings in this release. Document HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_006526, page_number 0; locate by Larry Summers' wife). ⛔⛔ This is a two-column table — dates and flight numbers in one column, passenger names in the other — and the extraction returns the columns separately, so a name can sit beside a date that is not its own. The quoted line opens the sheet and its closing parenthesis has no opening parenthesis, which means the entry continues something begun on the sheet before. Pairing her name to any flight or any date is a RECONSTRUCTION and none is performed on this page. ⛔ No other passenger name on this sheet is reproduced. ⚠ pdf_url is populated for this document. A populated field does not mean the file is fetchable; nothing was fetched, and this pairing is resolvable at the image and nowhere else. ⚠ The sheet quoted here does NOT itself carry the series heading. A sibling sheet in the same run, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_006528, is headed PASSENGER MANIFEST above a line naming Epstein’s aviation entity; that entity name is rendered differently on different sheets of the run and is therefore not quoted on this page, and ⛔ nothing else is quoted from that sheet, which carries an aircraft registration field and crew names. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_006526 ↩ ↩2

  18. Year distribution, measured, and labelled as resting on a derived field. Over the 616 documents of the union set, documents.email_date gives: 2011 1, 2013 99, 2014 130, 2015 137, 2016 72, 2017 40, 2018 35, 2019 1, and 101 documents with no value in that field. Measured against the release itself over the same field: 2017 100,262 documents, 2018 88,362, 2019 36,137. ➡ The stop is not a production-window artefact: the release holds 36,137 documents dated 2019 and exactly one of them is in this set. ⚠ email_date is a derived metadata field, not sheet text, and every date given in the body of this page is taken from prose inside a header or body instead. ⛔ The cause of the stop is NOT established by anything in this release, and this page poses it as a question and offers no explanation. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. ↩

  19. Method and limits for this page. Read-only access to the local full-text corpus with immutable=1. No network request of any kind was made and the site server was not touched. No page image was opened: every row on this page is TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. documents.pdf_url is populated for 3 of the 616 documents in the set (0.49%) — HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_001837, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_001840 and HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_006526. A populated field does not mean the file is fetchable, and nothing was fetched. Containers in the set, counted as rows in pages: 315 single-row, 288 at 2–5 rows, 11 at 6–20 rows, 2 mega-containers holding 10,160 rows between them; the two mega-containers are cited nowhere on this page. documents.total_pages was not used. doc_type was not used as a filter. instr() and LIKE were never used for a phrase of more than one word; instr() was used only for single tokens and for the marker probe. No prefix was ever quoted. The TRANSCRIPT added layer appears on 0 of the 803 in-set sheets, so no quotation here is a transcript reconstruction; probed with instr() and never with a GLOB character class. All 31 cited identifiers were verified present in documents before citation. Every quotation on this page was re-verified against the sheet it is pinned to after drafting, under whitespace normalisation. ⛔ Hard rules honoured: no survivor named or described; no e-mail address, mail handle, telephone, fax, street line or register number anywhere on this page except [email protected], which is this project’s one standing exception; no leak map — no class-plus-field-plus-position, no surviving characters either side of a mark, no statement of where any withheld value is printed, no statement that any value is in the clear, no characterisation of what any mark conceals; no comparison of producer treatment between copies; no lay clinical characterisation of any living person; extraction damage never silently repaired inside quotation marks. Only this file and its companion desk report were written. Nothing was deleted. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. Custodial and survivor-adjacent vocabulary screen, run twice for this page. Run one — denominator: the 396 sheets returned by "elisa new", not documents, not a document-class subset. Prefixes used unquoted, because a quoted prefix collapses to the bare token: victim* 5 / 396, minor* 5 / 396, underage* 0 / 396, massage* 6 / 396, complainant* 5 / 396, prostitut* 5 / 396, "jane doe" 0 / 396. Invented controls zzqharmtoken* 0, zzqvictimoid* 0, zzqnullctl* 0. Run two — four routes with her name removed from the query entirely: "verse video" 59 sheets, "poetry in america" 188, "powell m cabot professor" 325, "elisa fawn" 33 — 605 sheets in total, and every one of the seven probes returns 0 on every route. ➡ The clean result does not depend on her name being in the query. The hits in run one are confined to one family of long-form draft narrative about Epstein, in which her mention and the nearest custodial token sit in different sections of a container of roughly 48,000 characters. ⛔ No survivor is named, described or counted anywhere on this page, and no sheet carrying survivor material is quoted. Unit: sheets = rows in pages. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. ↩ ↩2

  21. The same document, page_number 3; locate by Created by Harvard Professor Elisa New and her non-profit. The sheet carries the Verse Video Education mission statement, the Poetry in America description, and a prospectus for the project the grant was earmarked to, all circulated to Epstein’s accountant on 8 March 2016. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00827905 ↩

  22. Her 2016 year-end letter to Epstein, a four-sheet container. Document EFTA01058751, Subject: Re: Thank You from Lisa and Poetry in America, Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 10:39:57 +0000, the letter itself dated Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:36 PM. The staffing, archive and 501(c)(3) passages are on page_number 0; locate by a salaried production staff of five. The personal note — The generous contribution you made last year to Verse Video Education is now in use (we've hired our new editor!), 100K makes so much possible., you've also been a key preceptor as I've learned how --squirming all the way--the sausage really gets made in public television, after the stem tutorial you administered, and I wonder if you might arrange a meeting for me with the famous Barnaby? — is on page_number 2; locate by 100K makes so much possible. ⚠ This is a circulated donor letter, not purely private correspondence: it opens by addressing a reader who may be a longstanding adviser and supporter or may have more recently joined our circle of proponents, with a personal note appended. ⛔ No string is quoted from page_number 3, which carries address lines. ⛔ One further sentence of the personal note is not quoted anywhere on this page: its referent is not resolvable from the sheet. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01058751 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. Corpus-wide context measurement. "gratitude america" returns 3,371 sheets across 2,844 documents of this release — ➡ she is one grantee of that foundation among many, and nothing on this page treats the grant to her as singular. Unit: sheets = rows in pages; documents = distinct identifiers. Population: the whole release. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. ↩

  24. From: "jeffrey E.", Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:01:54 +0000, four sheets. Document EFTA01058781, page_number 0; locate by from bamaby. Both quoted runs are on this one sheet, the second closing the relayed paragraph. ⚠ bamaby for barnaby is extraction damage, left unmended. ⛔ No string is quoted from page_number 3, which carries address lines. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01058781 ↩ ↩2

  25. From: Lisa New, To: Jeffrey Epstein, Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:30:18 +0000, two sheets. Document EFTA01058792, page_number 0; locate by too risky and not the best use of my team's resources. Her two lines and the forwarded message of 10:05 AM carrying (also, no more strategic initiatives projects, and the President does not make any grants anymore- everything goes through the general portal) are contiguous on this one sheet. ⚠ Bamaby as found. ⛔ The signature block’s address lines are not reproduced and no string is quoted from page_number 1. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01058792 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. The withdrawal is dated by the two sheets’ own headers: Epstein’s relay at 15:01:54 +0000 and her reply at 15:30:18 +0000 on 19 December 2016 — twenty-five minutes. Both figures are from the sheets cited at 24 and 25 and from no derived metadata field. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. ↩

  27. The same document, page_number 1; locate by attached is a copy of grant agreement. The sheet carries the 5 April 2016 3:16 PM instruction from Richard Kahn and, above it, the 9 May 2016 3:05 PM report that the IRS letter had arrived. ⛔ The quotation of the 5 April instruction stops at for your review and signature; the remainder of that sentence points at an address and is not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00827905 ↩

  28. The same document, page_number 2; locate by everything you need to make the grant from Gratitude. The quoted passage is the 4 April 2016 4:42 PM message from the associate director of Verse Video Education, who is identified here by role and not by name. ⛔ No string is quoted from the lower half of this sheet, which carries a mailing instruction. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00827905 ↩

  29. Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:17 PM, from her to Epstein, two sheets. Document EFTA02394201, page_number 0; locate by the most professional manageement. ⚠ The extraction of this sheet is quoted-printable-damaged throughout — f=r, b=sed, w=ere, manageement, all=of — and every damaged character is left exactly as found. The quoted run crosses one line break and is contiguous on the sheet. The sheet also carries Epstein’s question of the previous day about how the cheque should be made out. ⛔ No string is quoted from page_number 1, which carries address lines. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02394201 ↩

  30. Subject: details, Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 13:09:00 +0000, from her to Epstein, one sheet. Document EFTA00716428, page_number 0; locate by President and Fellows , Harvard University. ⛔⛔ This sheet carries a street line and names a university finance officer in an administrative role. The quotation begins below both; neither the address nor that person’s name is reproduced anywhere on this page. The Little St James wish — Wish we could come to Little St Jeff. I'd love to see your ranch someday.... — is on the same sheet, below the payment instruction. ⛔ The signature block’s address lines are not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00716428 ↩ ↩2

  31. Two sheets of an unrelated thread into which Epstein’s one line is quoted. Document EFTA01749186, page_number 0; locate by here at 2. you arc welcome. The line is timed On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:37 AM. ⚠ arc for are is extraction damage, left unmended. ⛔⛔ The outer message’s sender and recipient fields are not carried by the extraction, and the surrounding content is an unrelated personal exchange with a third party whom this page does not identify, describe or characterise in any way. ⛔ Only Epstein’s one quoted line is used from this document. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01749186 ↩

  32. Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 2:15 PM, Subject: budget, from her to Epstein, one sheet. Document EFTA02509633, page_number 0; locate by the budget they just sent me. ⚠ Extraction damage — Her=, d= — left unmended. ⛔ The signature block’s address lines are not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02509633 ↩

  33. Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 7:21 PM, Subject: Re: advice, from her to Epstein, two sheets. Document EFTA01800239, page_number 0; locate by After your last run of diplomacy. All four quoted runs are on this one sheet. ⚠ Extraction damage throughout — 120=, additi=nal, Vi=eo, diplomacy,=I, asked=about, li=e, =aunches, 150.250K, the=Blacks — left unmended; 150.250K in particular is quoted exactly as found and no reading of it is offered. ⛔ No string is quoted from page_number 1, and the signature block’s address lines are not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01800239 ↩

  34. Subject: Re: advice re Templeton, Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:12:43 +0000, two sheets. Document EFTA00696295, page_number 0; locate by always tell funders that they are your only hope. All quoted runs — her 6:50 AM message, Epstein’s 7:00 AM question is the greant ( sic ) in your name?, and her answer the grant is in my name. Yes. I'm the project lead — are contiguous on this one sheet in reverse-chronological order. ⚠ ( sic ) is Epstein’s own, in the sheet. ⛔ The signature block’s address lines are not reproduced and no string is quoted from page_number 1. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00696295 ↩ ↩2

  35. From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]>, Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:03:37 +0000, one sheet. Document EFTA01058765, page_number 0; locate by wanted to apply to templeton for her poetry tv course. ⚠ lany for larry is extraction damage; the line breaks inside the quoted run are the sheet’s own and are preserved. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01058765 ↩

  36. Document EFTA01058751, page_number 0; locate by let me ask him if he can Shepard you. The same sheet carries the opening of her year-end letter beneath Epstein’s reply. ⚠ lnstitue and Shepard are extraction damage, left unmended. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01058751 ↩

  37. From: Lisa New, dated Wed 5/22/2013 1:07:01 PM, Subject: hello and favor, one sheet. Document EFTA01974273, page_number 0; locate by we discussed in your plane. The three lines of verse quoted beneath are contiguous with the sentence above them on the sheet. ⛔ The signature block of this sheet is damaged and carries address fields; nothing from it is reproduced, and this page says nothing about how any part of it is printed. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01974273 ↩

  38. From: Jeffrey Epstein, dated Sun 9/15/2013 10:33:06 PM, Subject: A request from Lany Summers wife., one sheet, forwarding her text to a third party. Document EFTA01955908, page_number 0; locate by It would be a great favor and privledge. ⚠⚠ The From: on this sheet is Epstein and the body is her text addressed Dear Jeffrey,. Who composed the subject line is NOT established by this sheet, and this page does not attribute it to her. ⚠ privledge, Woddy, Lany and hcrc are extraction damage, left unmended. ⛔ The recipient’s contact field is not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01955908 ↩ ↩2

  39. From: Lisa New, dated Wed 9/11/2013 1:10:30 PM, two sheets. Document EFTA01955570, page_number 0; locate by no extra invitations. Promise. Both quoted runs and Epstein’s own any idea of when woody of 8:40 AM the same day are on this one sheet. ⛔ No string is quoted from page_number 1, which is address lines. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01955570 ↩

  40. From: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]>, Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 17:04:34 +0000, one sheet. Document EFTA00832627, page_number 0; locate by asks if she can use woodys reading. ⚠ lany for larry as found. ⛔ The recipient’s contact field is not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00832627 ↩

  41. Dated Sunday, October 20, 2013 2:28:34 PM, from her to Epstein, one sheet. Document EFTA01753219, page_number 0; locate by Woody and I are taping on Thursday. The same sheet carries her acknowledgement of his critique of an earlier trailer. ⛔ The signature block’s address lines are not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01753219 ↩

  42. From: Lisa New, To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>, Subject: thank you so much, Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:33:09 +0000, one sheet. Document EFTA01041735, page_number 0; locate by Woody's readings are absolutely wonderful. ⛔ The signature block’s address lines are not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01041735 ↩

  43. From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]>, Subject: Re: thank you so much, Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:39:38 +0000, one sheet, six minutes after the message it answers. Document EFTA01041737, page_number 0; locate by Not yet, glad it worked. ⛔ The address lines in the quoted signature block are not reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01041737 ↩

  44. Subject: Re: today, dated Sat 12/5/2015 12:51:37 PM, two sheets of an office thread. Document EFTA02066594, page_number 0; locate by Appt w/Lisa New. ⛔⛔ The entry sits inside a pasted schedule block — a table whose columns the text layer returns separately — and other appointment entries sit immediately above it. Pairing her entry to a date, or to any other entry in the block, would be a reconstruction. No such pairing is made on this page, and no other name in the block is associated with her here. ⛔ This sheet and its sibling carry labelled contact lines; none is reproduced. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02066594 ↩

  45. From: Kathy Ruemmler, Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 8:35 PM, one sheet. Document EFTA02627619, page_number 0; locate by gave me a list of letters. Her reply and Epstein’s inner message of On Feb 3, 2019, at 2:33 PM are contiguous on this one sheet. ⛔⛔ The To: field of this sheet is empty in the extraction. WHOSE connection the clause of=course they know nothing of your connection. refers to, and to whom the message was addressed, are NOT established by this sheet. The clause is used on this page at question tier only and no addressee is asserted. ⛔⛔ One further clause of this message is excluded from this page entirely — not quoted, not paraphrased, not alluded to — because its referent cannot be resolved from citable material. ⚠ Extraction damage throughout — Hap=y, &n=sp;, &nbs=;, of=course, alien for allen, <=r> — left unmended. ⚠ The sheet also carries Epstein’s aside as you know my views; what views are meant is not established by this sheet and this page does not supply a reading. ⛔ The attachment line names a person who appears in this record only as the subject of an invitation on a list she supplied; that person is not named on this page. ⚠ The derived email_date field for this document reads 2019-02-04; the sheet text reads 3 February 2019, and the sheet text governs. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02627619 ↩

  46. A long-form draft narrative about Epstein, one row of 48,859 characters. Document HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022707; locate by drops by. She teaches American poetry at Harvard. The sheet carries the editorial marker MORE…TK four lines below the quoted passage, which is why this page treats the document as a working draft rather than a published account. ⚠⚠ This is formally a single-row container but functionally a very large one: it can be pinned by identifier and located by string, but no page coordinate exists inside it and none is offered. ⚠ Four further near-identical drafts of this narrative are in the release. They are not compared with this one and none of them is cited. ⛔⛔ This page does not pair the draft’s day-sequence with any dated e-mail, and does not reproduce or characterise any other part of this document. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022707 ↩

  47. A list of fact-check questions put to Epstein for the narrative above, one row of 4,636 characters. Document HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025876; locate by Did you then meet with Elisa New. ⚠ The leading hyphen is the document’s own list marker. ⛔⛔ No other question on this sheet is quoted or characterised on this page. TEXT LAYER ONLY — UNVERIFIED AT THE IMAGE. pdf_url empty. https://epstein-data.com/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025876 ↩

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