How Jeffrey Epstein interacted with the feds

Lawyers with bow ties and connections

This is part of an ongoing series, started in 2019, looking into Jeffrey Epstein. Click here for a guide to the whole thing.

The “cancer text” was the worst; everyone agreed on that.

In 2015, Jeffrey Epstein and Brad Karp (then chair of Paul Weiss, one of the most prestigious law firms in the world) spent a Sunday emailing each other without a subject line.

They also left out the name of the man they were talking about. And the woman. But there was definitely a man, and definitely a woman.

“I think the most troubling text is the ‘cancer’ text and he and I have talked about that and he understands that, I thought,” wrote Karp. “I don’t think she technically has a ‘legal’ claim (there have been no promises made, no stalking, no threats), though I told him yesterday that the filing of a baseless lawsuit would be devastating to him and his world and he should do everything he can to avoid that.”

By 1 p.m. Epstein had thoughts:

difficult to settle as there are others that would i think might be …