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Vitaly Churkin

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tagsperson, russia, united-nations, diplomacy, calendars-and-daily-schedules
aliasesVitaly I. Churkin, Vitali Churkin, Vitaly Chrukin

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Described in the released files as”the russain ambassdor”;1 an address-book card in the release gives the job title “PR to the UN” (permanent representative to the United Nations) and the organization “Russia MID” (Russia’s foreign ministry)23
Signs himself”Vitaly Churkin”; his office signs “Ambassador Churkin’s Office”4
Contact with Epstein and his office recorded hereOctober 2014 – February 201756
Meetings and appointments in these records23 October 2014 (calendar reminder);5 25 October 2015 (lunch, reported the next day);7 20 November 2015;89 4 December 2015;10 20 May 2016, at Churkin’s home;11 28 July 2016;12 29 August 2016;13 6 September 2016 (offered, marked “TBD”);14 7 October 2016 (lunch, with Peter Thiel);1516 2 December 20161718
What Epstein offered third partiesA “one on one with the russain ambassdor” (to Brock Pierce, 28 November 2016);1 a meeting “tomoorw night at 6” because “he is heading security council this month” (to Tom Pritzker, 6 September 2016);19 a place at the Thiel lunch (to a correspondent addressed as Ken Starr, 7 October 2016);20 an invitation to a house lunch with two other guests (28 August 2016)21
His recorded response to EpsteinAccepted or proposed meetings repeatedly; invited Epstein to lunch at his own home in May 2016422
Died20 February 2017, reported the same day in a news alert forwarded to Epstein23

Vitaly Churkin was the Russian Federation’s ambassador to the United Nations. A news alert forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein on the day he died describes him as “Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations”,23 and an address-book card in the released files gives his job title as “PR to the UN” (permanent representative to the United Nations, the formal title of the post) and his organization as “Russia MID”, the abbreviation the card uses for Russia’s foreign ministry.23 Documents released by the Justice Department under the Epstein Files Transparency Act record contact between him, Epstein and Epstein’s office from October 2014 until five days before his death in February 2017: appointments entered on Epstein’s daily schedules, a direct message thread between the two men recovered in a device extraction, an invitation from his own office to lunch at his home, and a message from Epstein proposing to “more fully understand the thinking of the people in charge” in Russia so that he could “present constructive alternatives”.56424

The documents also record Epstein offering introductions to him to third parties: to Tom Pritzker in September 2016, to a correspondent addressed as Ken Starr in October 2016, and to Brock Pierce in November 2016.19201 Churkin died on 20 February 2017 and cannot answer for anything recorded here. Nothing on this page is a finding of wrongdoing by him or by anyone else, and no document cited here records him doing anything in his official capacity for Epstein or at Epstein’s request. An offer of an introduction is an offer of an introduction; where the record holds his own words they are set out below, and where it holds no response from him that is said.

Identification, and a warning about the surname

The phrase “Vitaly Churkin” returns 173 sheets across 158 documents in the released corpus. The surname alone returns 1,413 sheets across 1,250 documents. Of the 1,240 excess sheets, 870 print “Maxim Churkin”, “Max Churkin” or “Churkin, Maxim”: the surname search does not mostly sweep in unrelated material, it sweeps in a second, closely related person. Maxim Churkin is addressed by Lesley Groff in September 2016 as Vitaly Churkin’s son, when she wrote to him, “Hi Maxim…can you please give me your father’s address?”25 Office schedules abbreviate him to “Max Churkin” as well as “Maxim Churkin”,1417 and the office’s appointment emails run on past February 2017.26

Epstein’s own spelling is load-bearing for anyone searching this material. He writes “the russain ambassdor”, “aslo”, “tomoorw”; the correctly spelled phrase “russian ambassador” returns 62 sheets and does not return the November 2016 message quoted below.1 One office schedule prints the surname as “Chrukin”.13

October 2014 to December 2015: the appointments begin

The earliest dated item found here is a Google Calendar reminder addressed to Epstein’s account on Thursday, 23 October 2014, for an event titled “vitaly churkin” from 9am to 10am; the notification link carries a calendar time-zone parameter whose value is America/New_York, printed on the sheet with a quoted-printable break running through it.5

On Monday, 26 October 2015 Lesley Groff wrote to Jilla Moazami: “Hello Jilla …Jeffrey is asking me to please get Vitaly Churkin’s phone number and email address from you…might this be possilbe? Mr. Churkin came to Jeffrey’s home yesterday for lunch.” Moazami replied with a contact and the note that “his assistant name is Ivan”; the address and number themselves are blacked out on the page.7 Groff answered, “excellent! thank you so very much.”7

The following morning, in a device message thread whose header lists three participants, one of them labelled “Terje”, the device’s user sent two messages a quarter of a minute apart, “Let’s talk” and “Churkin Putin”, and the “Terje” side later sent the user an attachment named Vitaly Churkin.vcf.27 The card itself, reproduced elsewhere in the release, prints “Formatted Name: Vitaly Churkin”, “Job Title: PR to the UN” and “Organization: Russia MID”; its two telephone fields and its email field are blacked out and no value from it is reproduced here.2

On Friday, 13 November 2015 Groff wrote to Terje Rod-Larsen, under the subject “Jeffrey Epstein” and the salutation “Hello Jilla!”: “Jeffrey will be in NY next Thursday and Friday…might Terje be in town and available to come by and see him? He is hoping Vitaly Churkin can meet with him as well… perhaps 6:00pm on Thursday?”28

The direct thread with Churkin opens on 16 November 2015. Epstein wrote, signing his own name inside the message, “I’m in town wed- fri if you have time . Jeffrey Epstein”; Churkin answered “Friday around 4pm?” and signed “Vitaly Churkin”; Epstein replied “Perfect.”22 On 17 November the office told household staff that “Vitaly Churkin will come see Jeffrey at 4pm on Friday”, and the schedule for Friday 20 November carries “4:00pm Appt w/Vitaly Churkin”.8 On the day, Churkin wrote: “Jeffry I cannot make it at 4pm. Possibly could come over at 5-5:30pm. Vitaly”; Epstein answered “5 ok I must leave at 6 . Only if convenient”; Churkin then wrote by SMS, “Sorry, I’m stuck today. See you later.”2229 Groff wrote to the house that afternoon: “Vitaly Churkin is running late…I think this is why wheels up time has changed…not sure what time Vitaly will come, but later than the original 4pm….”9 Epstein’s last message that evening reads, “No problem I’m back dec 2”.22

The schedule for Friday, 4 December 2015, sent by Groff to Epstein and household staff, carries “11:00am Appt w/Vitaly Churkin”.10

October 2015: what Epstein proposed

The bottom of the May 2016 chain quoted below carries an earlier message from Epstein, dated in the chain to Friday, 30 October 2015, five days after the lunch Groff described. It reads in full:

I will be in paris for the next two weeks. . I m sorry , it seems I was unclear about what I thought might be helpful. I certainly do not have any product to sell or brillaint structure to propose. Financial solutions are tailored to specific needs and requirements. It is as if you asked a doctor what medicine you should take before he examines you.:) . It is obvious that your country has a least a stomach ache , if not a more serious fundamental disorder. I am well aware that in your words I am not the only one that has solutions. What I suggested was that I more fully understand the thinking of the people in charge so that I can present constructive alternatives. If this is not of interest , I fully understand and will look forward to sharing more fun stories at our next lunch.24

No document cited here records a reply to that message, what the earlier suggestion had been, or whether anything came of it.

May 2016: the ambassador’s own invitation

On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 a message from an account whose display name is “Ambassador Churkin’s Office” reached Epstein: “Jeffrey, / Are you free for lunch in my place (3 blocks from yours) - say 18, 19 or 20 May?” It is signed “Vitaly Churkin” over the block “Ambassador Churkin’s Office” and a telephone and fax line, both blacked out on the page.4 Epstein replied “20 great”; the office answered “20 it is. ███ - at 1p.m. / Best regards,” with the street address blacked out; Epstein wrote back “look forward to it.”3031

An office schedule circulated the next day still carried the appointment as “TBD Dinner w/Vitaly Churkin at his home, 3 blocks away from JE”, a phrase that returns exactly one sheet in the whole corpus.32 By the day itself the entry had been fixed to the hour the ambassador’s office gave: the schedule for Friday, 20 May 2016 reads “1:00pm Appt w/Vitaly Churkin at his home, 3 blocks away from JE”.11 Two days earlier the office had asked Epstein, “Do you want me to confirm your 1pm appt with Vitaly Churkin in Friday? If s[o], the only contact I have for him is his personal email address.”33

2016: Epstein offering the introduction to others

Four exchanges in the second half of 2016 record Epstein putting Churkin and other guests of his together. In the first the offer runs towards Churkin; in the other three it runs the other way, to a third party.

28 August 2016. Epstein texted Churkin at 7:28 a.m. New York time: “Don’t know if you have any interest . Ehud Barak and TOM Barrack at house tomorw . / You are always welcome”. Churkin asked “Thank u.what time?”; Epstein answered “1?”; Churkin replied “Good.”21 That afternoon Groff wrote to household and office staff under the subject “Churkin to join lunch tomorrow as well”: “Vitaly Churkin will also join the lunch tomorrow…it is now JE, ███, Tom Barrack and Churkin. / 4 total”. The schedule line for Monday 29 August reads “12:30pm LUNCH w/ ███ Barak, Tom Barrack and Vitaly Chrukin”; the given name beside “Barak” is blacked out on the sheet and is not supplied here.13

6 September 2016. At 6:28 a.m. New York time Epstein texted Churkin: “My very close friend Tom Pritzker . Hyatt hotels and chairman of CSI is in town . Didn’t know if you had any interest”. Churkin answered at 8:50 a.m., “Could do tomorrow 6pm.”34 Two and a half minutes later, at 12:52:39 UTC (8:52 a.m. in New York), Epstein emailed Tom Pritzker: “vitaly churkin can meet tomoorw night at 6 if you like. he is heading security council this month.”19 Pritzker replied that he would “like to meet him but worried on timing. I have a board meeting that day and then the board dinner that I am hosting at 7 by Time Warner Center.” Epstein wrote, “Your call. Should I ask for 530 or different day . No stress”, and Pritzker closed it at 22:22:14 UTC (6:22 p.m. in New York) with “I don’t think this will work. Rain check.”35 The schedule Epstein’s office had circulated the day before for that Tuesday carried “5:00pm Appt w/Max Churkin” and, beneath it, “TBD *Max’s Dad can meet today…WILL YOU MAKE THIS APPOINTMENT?”14

The next morning Epstein wrote to Churkin, “Re Pritzker -my schedule has gotten too crowded maybe 18 th or 19th if you are in town”; Churkin answered “18 might work”; Epstein replied, “great. also thorbjorn jagland will be staying with me.”36 The schedule for Sunday, 18 September 2016 carries an untimed line reading “TBD Churkin, Kathy, Wolfe, Woody, Pritzker, Jagland, Tom Barrack, Ehud, Andrew Farkas”.37 No document cited here records whether that gathering took place.

7 October 2016. Groff told household and office staff on 4 October, in a message whose header is stamped 1:04 a.m. UTC on the 5th, “Jeffrey has an important lunch on Friday with Peter Thiel and Vitaly Churkin…I will get back to you with timing but probably 12:30 ish..”15 Epstein and Churkin fixed the hour between themselves the next day: Epstein asked, “Do you prefer 12 or 1 pm”; Churkin answered “1”; Epstein wrote “See you then.”38 On the Friday morning Groff wrote, “Morning Karyna. Jeffrey would like you to be in charge of the important lunch today. It is for 3pp at 12:30! Peter Thiel and Vitaly Churkin will be coming”16. At 7:22 a.m. New York time Epstein emailed a correspondent named in the To line as Ken Starr: “peter thiel and vitaly churkin for lunch today. =A0 you are welcome if you are still in new york”.20 The schedule for that day reads “12:30pm LUNCH w/Peter Thiel and Vitaly Churkin”.39

28 November 2016. At 8:28 a.m. New York time Epstein wrote to Brock Pierce, in a message whose entire body is one line:

if he wants a one on one with the russain ambassdor =C2 , he will aslo be at my house this week vitaly churkin1

The To line carries the name and no address at all. The strings =C2 and =A0 are printed on the sheet itself, in the image as well as the extraction: they are quoted-printable encoding that the production has printed as text, and they are reproduced above as the page prints them.1 The message does not say who “he” is, and no document cited here identifies the third party or records whether any meeting followed. A phrase search of the released corpus for “security council” returns nine sheets that also carry the surname “Churkin”, and all nine are copies or quotations of the same message of 6 September 2016; the variants “sec council”, “securitycouncil”, “UNSC” and “presidency of the security council” return no sheet that carries the surname. The only statement about Churkin’s Security Council role those searches found is Epstein’s own, made nearly twelve weeks earlier: “he is heading security council this month”.19

The visit Epstein was describing had been arranged in the message thread over the preceding days. Epstein wrote on 24 November, “In palm beach- wild”; Churkin answered on the 27th, “I am back in ny.was away all month.received your messages just now.would be great to get together”; Epstein proposed “Thurs, Friday?”; Churkin replied “Both look good”; Epstein wrote “Thurs 4”; Churkin answered “4pm?ok”; and an hour and twenty minutes later Epstein closed it with “Great”.40 That evening Epstein emailed a redacted addressee, “vitaly churkin thurs at 4.”41 On the morning of 28 November, just under an hour before the message to Brock Pierce, Epstein wrote to Churkin, “Sorry , can we do Wednesday or Friday”; Churkin answered “Yes”; Epstein asked “4pm?” and added “Or you choose”; Churkin settled it with “Could it be Friday 4pm?”42 The schedule for Friday, 2 December 2016 carries “10:30am Maxim Churkin” and “4:00pm Appt w/Vitaly Churkin”, and at 3:58 p.m. New York time that Friday a member of the household emailed Epstein under the subject line “Vitaly Churkin is here!”1718

Maxim Churkin

Maxim Churkin appears in these documents in his own right. On 23 May 2016 Epstein texted Churkin, “Any maxim help is confidential”; Churkin answered “Of course”; Epstein wrote “Spasibo!” and Churkin “Spasibo you!” Four days later Churkin wrote “Greatly appreciated!” and Epstein answered, “He’s s great son.”43 On 1 August 2016 Epstein wrote, “Spoke to maxim . First job confirmed to start day after Labor Day :)”; Churkin answered “Fantastic!!”; Epstein added “He will love it” and Churkin, “No doubt.”44 On 6 September Churkin wrote, “Thank u very much for time with max,” and Epstein answered the next morning, “He’s going to be great.”3436 On 21 October Epstein wrote, “Maxim is scoring good grades . Thought u should know”; twenty-five minutes later Churkin replied, “Thank u v much!”; and an hour after that Epstein added, “FYI he is being exposed to the most diverse investment s . Only doable in the past 5 years , great foundation”.45

On 19 September 2016 Maxim Churkin emailed Groff his father’s address, which is blacked out on the copy of that thread read at the image here; Groff forwarded it to a household member with the line “Churkin’s address below! Can you deliver today please for JE?” and was told “It’s done)”.2546 Epstein’s office was still fixing appointments with Maxim Churkin after his father’s death: an email exchange of 15 August 2017 sets one for the following afternoon.26

February 2017

On Monday, 20 February 2017 a New York Post breaking-news alert headed “Russian ambassador to UN dies after passing out at embassy” was forwarded to Epstein by Glenn Dubin at 6:42 p.m. New York time. The forward carries an intermediate message from Paul Fribourg, sent that afternoon to a recipient whose name is blacked out: “Very sad. The father of the young guy you sent us. I met with his son last week. Very nice guy. We don’t have anything at this point but gave him a number of ideas. Life is short - start with desert!!!”23

Five days before, on 15 February, the two men had exchanged their last messages in the thread read here. Epstein: “I’m in town today”. Churkin: “What do u have in mind?” Epstein: “Coffee ? 3?” and “Or later(”. Churkin: “3fine”. Epstein: “Great”.6

The next morning Epstein wrote to Thorbjøn Jagland, as the To line spells the name: “my plans are up in the air, as you know my good friend vitaly churkin died suddenly in new york, I might return to be of help to family, we can talk on the phone later today if you like or tomrow.”47

Sixteen months later, on 24 June 2018, Epstein wrote to the same correspondent: “I think you might suggest to putin, that lavrov , can get insight on talking to me. vitaly churkin used to . but he died. ? !” Jagland replied, “I’ll meet Lavrovs assistant on Monday and will suggest / Thank you fo a lovely evening. I’ll com to un high level week.” Epstein answered: “churkin was great . he understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”4849

An address-book entry for “Vitaly / Churkin”, job title “PR to the UN”, organization “Russia MID”, was catalogued by forensic examiners among the contacts recovered from a Macintosh disk image; the entry carries creation and modification dates of 2017-11-09 02:38:47 (UTC), and its two telephone fields and its work email are blacked out.3

Limits of this page

These documents establish who wrote to whom, on what dates, what the quoted messages say, and what Epstein’s office entered on his schedules. They do not establish what was discussed at any of the meetings, whether Churkin knew of or agreed to any of the introductions Epstein offered third parties, whether any of those introductions took place, or what if anything followed from Epstein’s October 2015 proposal. The record cited here holds no response from Churkin to the Pritzker, Starr or Pierce messages, and no statement by him about Epstein of any kind.

Times are given as printed. The Sent: field in this export family is unzoned and is in coordinated universal time: several sheets cited above print an Apple date-received epoch beside that field, and on the three pinned here the epoch and the header agree in UTC and not in New York time.12018 Each device message thread prints “Timezone: UTC+0000” at the head of its first sheet, and New York equivalents given above are converted from that.22 Where a message survives only as a quotation inside a later reply, the quoted stamp is in the quoting party’s own time zone and is not used here.35

Telephone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses and a home address appear in several of these documents. None is reproduced here, from the image or from the machine text.

Names blacked out by the producing agency are not supplied. That includes the given name beside “Barak” on the 29 August 2016 schedule line, the sender of the “Vitaly Churkin is here!” message, the recipient of Paul Fribourg’s message, and the participant label on the device message threads. On the threads whose second participant is labelled “Vitaly Churkin”, the device user’s identity rests on the first message of the November 2015 thread, which is signed “Jeffrey Epstein” in its own text, and on the appointments those threads fix, which Epstein’s office carried on his schedules and in its own emails.22817 The one thread cited above whose header lists three participants, one of them labelled “Terje”, carries no such signature; the messages taken from it are attributed to the device’s user and no further.27

Lesley Groff; Terje Rød-Larsen; Thorbjørn Jagland; Tom Pritzker; Glenn Dubin; Ehud Barak; United Nations; 9 East 71st Street; Calendars and daily schedules; Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Footnotes

  1. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to Brock Pierce, headed “Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 1:28 PM”, body in full: “if he wants a one on one with the russain ambassdor =C2 , he will aslo be at my house this week vitaly churkin”. Read from the page image at 300 dpi: the To line prints the name and no address, and the strings “=C2” and “=A0” are printed on the sheet, not artefacts of the extraction. The same sheet prints “date-received 1480339704”, which is 2016-11-28 13:28:24 UTC and matches the 1:28 PM header, so the header is UTC and the New York time is 8:28 a.m. A duplicate copy of the same message carries a full internet date header reading “Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:28:24 +0000”. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02667731 p.1; duplicate at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01060291 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. Parsed vCard, “Formatted Name / Vitaly Churkin”, “Job Title / PR to the UN”, “Name / Vitaly Churkin”, “Organization / Russia MID”, “Program ID / -//Apple Inc.//iOS 8.1.2//EN”, “VCard Version / 3.0”. Read from the page image; the two telephone fields and the email field are solid black bars and no value is taken from them. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01614258 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Forensic examination report, contacts recovered from a Macintosh disk image: an entry with SourceType “Mac AddressBook”, First “Vitaly”, Last “Churkin”, Job Title “PR to the UN”, Organization “Russia MID”, Creation Date and Modification Date both “2017-11-09 02:38:47 (UTC)”. Read from the page image (sheet 18 of the run, which carries the production stamp EFTA00512449); the mobile number, work number and work email are blacked out. The same entry is printed twice on the sheet. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00512432 p.18 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Email, “Ambassador Churkin’s Office” to Jeffrey Epstein, “Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:56:27 +0000”: “Jeffrey, / Are you free for lunch in my place (3 blocks from yours) - say 18, 19 or 20 May?”, signed “Vitaly Churkin” above the block “Ambassador Churkin’s Office / tel. ███ / fax ███”. Read from the page image; the sender’s address and the telephone and fax lines are blacked out on the image and are not reproduced. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00703570 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. Google Calendar notification to Jeffrey Epstein, “Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 12:50 PM”, subject “Reminder: vitaly churkin @ Thu Oct 23, 2014 9am - 10am”, followed by the account address, which is not reproduced here. Read from the page image; the event link carries the calendar time-zone parameter, which the sheet prints as “&ctz=America/Ne=_York&hl=en” — the ”=” before the underscore is a quoted-printable soft break of the same family as “Invi=ation”, “ac=ount” and “cal=ndar” elsewhere on this sheet, and the parameter’s value is America/New_York. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02383676 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. Device message thread, “Platform: iMessage / Timezone: UTC+0000”, 15 February 2017, between the device’s user and a participant labelled “Vitaly Churkin”: “I’m in town today” (14:22:48 UTC), “What do u have in mind?” (15:00:23), “Coffee ? 3?” (15:24:06), “Or later(” (15:24:21), “3fine” (15:26:22), “Great” (15:26:43). Read from the page image, which renders the thread as two columns and settles which side sent each message; the user’s participant label is blacked out on every bubble. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619451 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. Email thread, Lesley Groff and Jilla Moazami, Monday 26 October 2015, the enclosing message headed “Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:10:43 +0000” and quoting Groff’s message of “2:00 PM” and Moazami’s reply of “2:09 PM” that afternoon: “Hello Jilla …Jeffrey is asking me to please get Vitaly Churkin’s phone number and email address from you…might this be possilbe? Mr. Churkin came to Jeffrey’s home yesterday for lunch. / Thank you, / Lesley / Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein”; “The only email address I have from him is this one which I use: ███ And the phone number is his office: ███ and his assistant name is Ivan.”; “excellent! thank you so very much.”; “You are very Welcome!!!” Read from the page image; the address and number are blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00336927 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. Email to household staff, “Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:59:20 +0000”, subject “Vitaly Churkin”, sender’s name blacked out: “Vitaly Churkin will come see Jeffrey at 4pm on Friday”, above the schedule for “Fri. Nov. 20, 2015 NY-LSJ” carrying “4:00pm Appt w/Vitaly Churkin”. Read from the page image, which prints the surname with a V where the machine text reads “Yitaly”, and which does not carry the addressee’s name that the extraction splices onto the front of the opening line. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00334958 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. Email, Lesley Groff to household staff, “Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:51:48 +0000”, subject “Vitaly Churkin running late…”: “Vitaly Churkin is running late…I think this is why wheels up time has changed…not sure what time Vitaly will come, but later than the original 4pm…” Text layer only; not read at the image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00334351 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  10. Schedule email, Lesley Groff to Jeffrey Epstein copying household staff, “Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 10:15 AM”, subject “Friday Dec. 4, 2015”, carrying “Fri. Dec. 4, 2015 NY” and the entry “11:00am Appt w/Vitaly Churkin”. Read from the page image; the parenthetical beside each entry is a blacked-out telephone number. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02353285 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  11. Schedule email, Lesley Groff to Jeffrey Epstein and household staff, “Sent: Fri 5/20/2016 10:43:52 AM”, subject “Schedule Fri. May 20, 2016”, carrying “1:00pm Appt w/Vitaly Churkin at his home, 3 blocks away from JE”. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02294364 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  12. Schedule email, “Subject: Schedule Thursday July 28, 2016”, carrying “Thurs. July 28, 2016 NY-PB” and “4:30pm Appt w/Vitaly Churkin”. Text layer only; not read at the image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02359376 p.1 ↩

  13. Email, Lesley Groff to household and office staff, “Sent: Sun 8/28/2016 5:22:22 PM”, subject “Churkin to join lunch tomorrow as well”: “Vitaly Churkin will also join the lunch tomorrow…it is now JE, ███, Tom Barrack and Churkin. / 4 total”, above the schedule for “Mon. Aug. 29, 2016” carrying “12:30pm LUNCH w/ ███ Barak, Tom Barrack and Vitaly Chrukin”. Read from the page image: the given name beside “Barak” is a solid black bar, the surname is printed, and the sheet prints the misspelling “Chrukin”. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02044775 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. Schedule email to Jeffrey Epstein, “Sent: Mon 9/5/2016 12:12:06 PM”, subject “Schedule Sept. 6-9, 2016”, sender blacked out, carrying under “Tues. Sept. 6, 2016 NY” the entries “5:00pm Appt w/Max Churkin” and “TBD *Max’s Dad can meet today…WILL YOU MAKE THIS APPOINTMENT?” Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02044301 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. Email, Lesley Groff to household and office staff, “Sent: Wed 10/5/2016 1:04:13 AM”, subject “Important Lunch Friday w/Thiel and Churkin”: “Jeffrey has an important lunch on Friday with Peter Thiel and Vitaly Churkin…I will get back to you with timing but probably 12:30 ish..” Read from the page image. This export family’s “Sent” field is in UTC — measured on two copies of one message of 19 September 2016, subject “Re: Vitaly Churkin”, body “Absolutely”: the copy at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02043049 p.1 prints “Sent: Mon 9/19/2016 9:38:35 PM” (read at that page image at 400 dpi; the machine text of that sheet misreads the year as 2018), and the copy at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00318823 p.1 carries the internet header “Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:38:35 +0000” — so the message went out on the evening of 4 October, New York time. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02040252 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  16. Email thread, 7 October 2016, quoting Lesley Groff’s message of “7:53 AM”: “Morning Karyna. Jeffrey would like you to be in charge of the important lunch today. It is for 3pp at 12:30! Peter Thiel and Vitaly Churkin will be coming”, and beneath it Epstein’s forwarded message stamped “October 7, 2016 at 7:43:26 AM EDT” and Groff’s earlier “What would you like for lunch today at 12:30 with Thiel and Churkin? Who to organize?” Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02040190 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  17. Schedule email, Lesley Groff to Jeffrey Epstein copying household staff, “Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:23 PM”, subject “Johanna Thuringer”, carrying under “Fri. Dec. 2, 2016 NY” the entries “10:30am Maxim Churkin” and “4:00pm Appt w/Vitaly Churkin”. Read from the page image; the parenthetical beside each entry is a blacked-out telephone number. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01786532 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. Email to Jeffrey Epstein, “Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 8:58 PM”, subject and body “Vitaly Churkin is here!”, sender’s name blacked out. Read from the page image; the sheet prints an Apple property list carrying “date-received 1480712290”, which is 2016-12-02 20:58:10 UTC and matches the header, so the header is UTC and the New York time is 3:58 p.m. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01772087 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to Tom Pritzker, “Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:52:39 +0000”: “vitaly churkin can meet tomoorw night at 6 if you like. he is heading security council this month”. Read from the page image; the recipient’s address is blacked out and the name is printed. A duplicate export of the same message prints “Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 12:53 PM” beside “date-received 1473166359”, which is 2016-09-06 12:52:39 UTC. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00819251 p.1; duplicate at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02452033 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. Email, Jeffrey Epstein, “Sent: Friday, October 7, 2016 11:22 AM”, To line “Ken Starr”, body: “peter thiel and vitaly churkin for lunch today. =A0 you are welcome if you are still in new york”. Read from the page image; the To line carries the name and no address, and the string “=A0” is printed on the sheet. The same sheet prints “date-received 1475839340”, which is 2016-10-07 11:22:20 UTC, so the header is UTC and the New York time is 7:22 a.m.; a reply copy of the same message quotes it as sent “On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:22 AM”. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02448859 p.1; the reply quoting it in local time is at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02447747 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  21. Device message thread, times in UTC per the header printed on the run’s first sheet, 28 August 2016: “Don’t know if you have any interest . Ehud Barak and TOM Barrack at house tomorw . / You are always welcome” (11:28:32 UTC, 7:28 a.m. New York), “Thank u.what time?” (12:21:33), “1?” (13:07:05), “Good” (13:12:47). Read from the page image, which settles which side sent each message. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619438 p.5 ↩ ↩2

  22. Device message thread, “Platform: iMessage / Timezone: UTC+0000”, 16 and 20 November 2015: “I’m in town wed- fri if you have time . Jeffrey Epstein” (14:46:03 UTC on the 16th), “Friday around 4pm? / Vitaly Churkin” (23:35:01), “Perfect” (23:54:19); then on the 20th “Jeffry I cannot make it at 4pm. Possibly could come over at 5-5:30pm. / Vitaly” (19:27:40), “5 ok I must leave at 6 . Only if convenient” (20:43:51) and “No problem I’m back dec 2” (21:42:12). Read from the page image, which prints the participant header with the user’s name blacked out and the second participant as “Vitaly Churkin”; the user’s identity is taken from the signature inside the first message. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619434 p.1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  23. Email, Glenn Dubin to Jeffrey Epstein, “Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:42:51 +0000”, subject “Fwd: Russian ambassador to the UN dies after passing out at embassy”, forwarding a message from “Fribourg, Paul” stamped “February 20, 2017 at 3:41:50 PM EST” to a recipient whose name and address are blacked out — “Very sad. The father of the young guy you sent us. I met with his son last week. Very nice guy. We don’t have anything at this point but gave him a number of ideas. Life is short - start with desert!!!” — which itself forwards a New York Post breaking-news alert stamped “February 20, 2017 at 12:36:00 PM EST” headed “Russian ambassador to UN dies after passing out at embassy”. Read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00664240 pp.1-2 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  24. Email, Jeffrey Epstein, quoted at the foot of the May 2016 chain and dated there “On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 1:22 PM”: “I will be in paris for the next two weeks. . I m sorry , it seems I was unclear about what I thought might be helpful. I certainly do not have any product to sell or brillaint structure to propose. Financial solutions are tailored to specific needs and requirements. It is as if you asked a doctor what medicine you should take before he examines you.:) . It is obvious that your country has a least a stomach ache , if not a more serious fundamental disorder. I am well aware that in your words I am not the only one that has solutions. What I suggested was that I more fully understand the thinking of the people in charge so that I can present constructive alternatives. If this is not of interest , I fully understand and will look forward to sharing more fun stories at our next lunch.” Read from the page image, including the misspelling “brillaint” as printed. The doubled and tripled spacing of the original is normalised to single spaces in the block quotation above. The clock stamp on that quoted line is the quoting client’s and is not used. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00703570 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  25. Email thread, “Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:38:35 +0000”, subject “Re: Vitaly Churkin”: Lesley Groff to a household member, “Churkin’s address below! Can you deliver today please for JE?”, forwarding a message from “Churkin, Maxim” stamped “September 19, 2016 at 5:02:02 PM EDT” that answers her earlier “Hi Maxim…can you please give me your father’s address?”; the reply and the sender’s address are blacked out. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00318823 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  26. Email, Maxim Churkin to Lesley Groff, subject “Re: Jeffrey Epstein”, the sheet’s unzoned “Sent” field dated 15 August 2017, confirming to her an appointment with Epstein for 4.30pm the following afternoon in answer to her question of the same day. Text layer only; not read at the image. An earlier exchange of the same kind — Lesley Groff to Jeffrey Epstein copying household staff, subject “Re: Maxim Churkin”, “Maxim Churkin confirmed he will come see you [a]t 10am on Thursday”, above Epstein’s “Thursday” of 17 January 2017, five weeks before the death and not after it — is at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02663188 p.1, where the bracketed character is supplied for a damaged extraction. Neither document is a schedule; both are emails. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02219221 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  27. Device message thread, times in UTC per the header printed on the run’s first sheet, 27 October 2015, from a run whose header lists three participants, one of them labelled “Terje”: user messages “Let’s talk” (10:19:58 UTC) and “Churkin Putin” (10:20:12); and, at 14:09:30 the same day, an entry on the “Terje” side reading “Sent an attachment / Filename: Vitaly Churkin.vcf / Path: Vitaly Churkin.vcf / Size: 314 bytes / Type: text/vcard”. Read from the page images: the attachment sits in the left-hand column, inside the run of consecutive incoming bubbles labelled “Terje” that begins on the preceding sheet, and carries no participant label of its own; the avatar that marks the run sits on the run’s last bubble and not on the attachment. It was therefore sent to the device’s user and not by him — the machine text carries no indication of side. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01614252 pp.3-4 ↩ ↩2

  28. Email, Lesley Groff to Terje Rod-Larsen, “Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:17:45 +0000”, subject “Jeffrey Epstein”, opening “Hello Jilla!” notwithstanding the addressee on the To line: “Jeffrey will be in NY next Thursday and Friday…might Terje be in town and available to come by and see him? He is hoping Vitaly Churkin can meet with him as well… perhaps 6:00pm on Thursday? / Please let me know… / Thank you, / Lesley / Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein”. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00335201 p.1 ↩

  29. Device message thread, “Platform: SMS / Timezone: UTC+0000”, two messages from a participant labelled “Vitaly Churkin”: “Sorry, I’m stuck today. See you later.” (20 November 2015, 21:22:19 UTC) and “My previous messages got deleted. Jeffry is that u?” (26 July 2016). Text layer only; not read at the image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01618888 p.1 ↩

  30. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to “Ambassador Churkin’s Office”, “Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 18:38:08 +0000”: “20 great”. Text layer only; the same message appears as a quoted block in the image-read copy at EFTA00827851. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00827817 p.1 ↩

  31. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to “Ambassador Churkin’s Office”, “Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 19:58:55 +0000”: “look forward to it”, quoting beneath it the office’s reply “20 it is. ███ - at 1p.m. / Best regards, / Ambassador Churkin’s Office” and, below that, the invitation and Epstein’s “20 great”. Read from the page image; the street address in the office’s reply and both telephone and fax lines are blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00827851 p.1 ↩

  32. Schedule email to Jeffrey Epstein, “Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 4:11 PM”, subject “Tim Zagat”, sender blacked out, carrying the week beginning Monday 16 May 2016 and, under “Fri. May 20, 2016 NY”, the entry “TBD Dinner w/Vitaly Churkin at his home, 3 blocks away from JE”. Read from the page image. A phrase search of the released corpus for “Dinner w/Vitaly Churkin at his home” returns this sheet and no other. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01799166 p.1 ↩

  33. Email to Jeffrey Epstein, “Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:34 AM”, subject “Confirm Vitaly Churkin?”, sender blacked out: “Do you want me to confirm your 1pm appt with Vitaly Churkin in Friday? If s[o], the only contact I have for him is his personal email address. (I have No assistant email or IS). Please advise if I should Reconfirm with Mr Churkin?” The sheet prints an Apple property list carrying “date-received 1463571224”, which is 2016-05-18 11:33:44 UTC and matches the header, so the header is UTC. Text layer only; not read at the image, and the bracketed character is supplied where the extraction is damaged. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02464677 p.1 ↩

  34. Device message thread, times in UTC per the header printed on the run’s first sheet, 6 September 2016: “My very close friend Tom Pritzker . Hyatt hotels and chairman of CSI is in town . Didn’t know if you had any interest” (10:28:45 UTC, 6:28 a.m. New York), “Could do tomorrow 6pm” (12:50:06, 8:50 a.m.), “Thank u very much for time with max” (22:57:23). Read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619438 pp.5-6 ↩ ↩2

  35. Email, Tom Pritzker to Jeffrey Epstein, “Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:22:14 +0000”: “I don’t think this will work. Rain check.”, quoting beneath it Epstein’s “Your call. Should I ask for 530 or different day . No stress”, Pritzker’s “Would like to meet him but worried on timing. I have a board meeting that day and then the board dinner that I am hosting at 7 by Time Warner Center.” and Epstein’s opening message. Read from the page image, which prints “board meeting” where the machine text reads “oar meeting”. The quoted stamps inside this chain run one hour behind New York time — Epstein’s opening message is stamped “7:53 AM” here and carries a 12:52:39 +0000 header on its own copy — so they are the quoting client’s clock and are not used above. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00642943 p.1 ↩ ↩2

  36. Device message thread, times in UTC per the header printed on the run’s first sheet, 7 September 2016: “He’s going to be great” (10:33:10 UTC), “Re Pritzker -my schedule has gotten too crowded maybe 18 th or 19th if you are in town” (10:34:07), “18 might work” (10:50:47), “great. also thorbjorn jagland will be staying with me” (11:30:48). Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619438 p.6 ↩ ↩2

  37. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to a redacted addressee, “Sent: Sun 9/18/2016 1:41:40 PM”, subject “Re: Sept 18, 19 2016”, quoting the schedule sent to him that morning, which carries under “Sun. Sept. 18, 2016 NY” the untimed line “TBD Churkin, Kathy, Wolfe, Woody, Pritzker, Jagland, Tom Barrack, Ehud, Andrew Farkas”. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02043195 p.1 ↩

  38. Device message thread, “Platform: iMessage / Timezone: UTC+0000”, 3 to 5 October 2016: “You around this week?” (12:31:34 UTC on the 3rd), “Some of my Silicon Valley friends in thurs fri will let you know” (12:34:51), “Are you free for lunch fri” (21:46:02 on the 4th), “Great” (23:41:53); then on the 5th “Do you prefer 12 or 1 pm” (04:35:47), “1” (11:03:14), “See you then” (12:32:51), “Tk u” (13:48:04). Read from the page image for the 5 October exchange; the 3 and 4 October lines are taken from the machine text of the preceding sheet and their attribution to a side is not certified at the image here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619444 pp.1-2 ↩

  39. Schedule for “Fri. Oct. 7, 2016 NY” carrying “12:30pm LUNCH w/Peter Thiel and Vitaly Churkin”. Text layer only; not read at the image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02347945 p.1 ↩

  40. Device message thread, times in UTC per the header printed on the run’s first sheet, 24 and 27 November 2016: “In palm beach- wild” (16:39:07 UTC on the 24th); then on the 27th “I am back in ny.was away all month.received your messages just now.would be great to get together” (18:43:27), “Thurs, Friday?” (18:44:03), “Both look good” (18:46:05), “Thurs 4” (18:47:15), “4pm?ok” (18:48:22) and “Great” (20:08:59). Read from the page images, which settle both the dates and which side sent each message: the machine text prints “In palm beach- wild” under the “Vitaly Churkin” label and under the 27 November divider, and the image shows it in the user’s column under 24 November. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619444 pp.3-4 ↩

  41. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to a redacted addressee, “Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:13:18 +0000”, body in full: “vitaly churkin thurs at 4.” Text layer only; not read at the image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00439004 p.1 ↩

  42. Device message thread, times in UTC per the header printed on the run’s first sheet, 28 November 2016: “Sorry , can we do Wednesday or Friday” (12:33:19 UTC, 7:33 a.m. New York), “Yes” (14:05:02), “4pm?” (14:05:55), “Or you choose” (14:07:18), “Could it be Friday 4pm?” (16:17:52). Read from the page image, which settles which side sent each message. On 1 December the same thread carries “My morning is now also open if you would like to come earlier . If not see you at 4” (11:12:51) and “4 better” (11:53:37), read at the image on the following sheet. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619444 pp.4-5 ↩

  43. Device message thread, “Platform: iMessage / Timezone: UTC+0000”, 23 and 27 May 2016: “Any maxim help is confidential” (13:09:57 UTC on the 23rd), “Of course” (14:39:13), “Spasibo!” (16:02:42), “Spasibo you!” (16:47:27); then on the 27th “Greatly appreciated!” (15:28:29) and “He’s s great son” (17:20:02). Read from the page image, which renders the thread as two columns and settles which side sent each message — the machine text runs them together and does not. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619438 p.1 ↩

  44. Device message thread, times in UTC per the header printed on the run’s first sheet, 1 August 2016: “Spoke to maxim . First job confirmed to start day after Labor Day :)” (14:46:58 UTC), “Fantastic!!” (16:11:35), “He will love it” (16:23:34), “No doubt” (16:26:33). Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619438 p.4 ↩

  45. Device message thread, times in UTC per the header printed on the run’s first sheet, 21 October 2016: “Maxim is scoring good grades . Thought u should know” (16:48:42 UTC), “Thank u v much!” (17:13:55) and “FYI he is being exposed to the most diverse investment s . Only doable in the past 5 years , great foundation” (18:16:13, printed on the following sheet). Read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01619444 pp.2-3 ↩

  46. Email thread, 19 September 2016, subject “Re: Vitaly Churkin”, carrying the replies “Absolutely”, “Thank you!”, “It’s done)” and “Great.” between Lesley Groff and a correspondent whose name is blacked out. Text layer only; not read at the image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00318825 p.1 ↩

  47. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to “Thorbjøn Jagland” as the To line prints the name, “Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:44:05 +0000”: “my plans are up in the air, as you know my good friend vitaly churkin died suddenly in new york, I might return to be of help to family, we can talk on the phone later today if you like or tomrow.” Read from the page image; the recipient’s address is blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01053558 p.1 ↩

  48. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to “Thorbjøn Jagland”, “Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:18:12 +0000”: “I think you might suggest to putin, that lavrov , can get insight on talking to me. vitaly churkin used to . but he died. ? !” Text layer only; the same message is quoted in the image-read reply chain below. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00933429 p.1 ↩

  49. Email, Jeffrey Epstein to “Thorbjøn Jagland”, “Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:59:24 +0000”: “churkin was great . he understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”, quoting beneath it Jagland’s reply of 3:28 p.m. — “I’ll meet Lavrovs assistant on Monday and will suggest / Thank you fo a lovely evening. I’ll com to un high level week” — and, below that, Epstein’s own earlier message. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00934357 p.1 ↩

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