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mandsleanan · 5 months

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The Affordable Care Act covers sterilization at no-cost if you're in the US.

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Sitting in the living room of her Cleveland home, 30-year-old Grace O’Malley reflects on when she ruled out having kids of her own.

O’Malley has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a genetic condition that weakens the body’s connective tissue, and can get much worse postpartum. About three years earlier, when she was in her mid-twenties, her condition worsened. O’Malley’s doctors told her that if she did get pregnant, her uterus could rupture and her child would be more likely to be born prematurely.

O’Malley was on hormonal birth control up until last May. But after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she knew an abortion ban was likely coming in Ohio and she might not be able to end a pregnancy if her birth control failed. She booked an appointment with her gynecologist.

“I went in that day and I knew right away I wanted a more permanent solution,” said O’Malley. “I was like, ‘I actually want to talk about getting surgery.’ And the nurse was surprised, and she was like, ‘Oh, okay.’”

Dr. Clodagh Mullen, an obstetrician-gynecologist at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, said since the Dobbs v. Jackson decision — which took away the constitutional right to abortion and returned the issue to state governments — many of her patients have been increasingly worried about access to reproductive healthcare and seeking more permanent solutions.

“Some patients will say, ‘Oh, could you stash some IUDs for me?’” Mullen said. “They get very nervous that [birth control] is just going to go away overall. Nobody can re-implant your tube once it's been taken out, so I think that they have that comfort of there's no way anybody can take this part away from me.”

Legislators in some Midwest states have floated bans on birth control, which, so far, haven’t gone anywhere. Mullen doesn’t anticipate that access to contraception will disappear.

“But I get why people have that fear, as I also probably didn't really think that Roe was going to get overturned, if you had asked me this four or five years ago,” she said.

What Mullen is seeing in Cleveland is mirrored across the country. The Kaiser Family Foundation surveyed more than 500 gynecologists across the U.S. in the spring and about half of doctors in states with abortion restrictions reported the number of patients seeking sterilization has increased since Dobbs.

That includes states like Indiana and Missouri - where abortion is banned with very limited exceptions, and states like Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin where bans are currently being disputed, or where residents feel they may lose the right to an abortion. Ohio voters just approved an amendment to the state constitution, which guarantees access to abortion.

Three Ohio health systems that track contraception — MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, University Hospitals in Cleveland, and Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus — reported a sharp rise in the number of patients seeking tubal sterilization.

Contraception decisions

There aren’t many big health risks to the type of sterilization procedure Mullen performs. Doctors mostly worry about regret. Most studies found that when doctors followed up, a small percentage of women wished they hadn’t gone through with the procedure.

The majority are like O’Malley, who had some complications post surgery, but said she never second guessed her decision.

“I've never really thought about it, honestly,” said O’Malley. “It’s become kind of a fact of my daily life. It’s like, ‘Hi, I'm Grace. I have red hair and I can't have kids.’”

O’Malley is happy her doctor respected her choice. She believes the political climate helped.

She shared the story of her best friend who sought sterilization in her late 20s, about five years ago. She said her friend had to meet with several doctors before one agreed to do the procedure, and even then, made her wait another year in case she changed her mind.

“My friend did not have that kind of grace,” O’Malley said. “Her doctor probably thought, ‘You would have other options. If you got pregnant and decided that it's really not what [you] wanted, then you could get an abortion.’ Whereas for me, that might not be the option.”

Men decide, too

Men’s contraception patterns are also changing, according to physician reports.

Dr. Sarah Sweigert, a urologist at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, said doctors at her office performed double the number vasectomy consults and procedures as they had before the ruling.

She points to a Cleveland Clinic study, which showed that, in the summer following the court decision, the average age of men getting the procedure has dropped from late 30s to mid-30s compared to the same period the year before. The study also showed there was a significant increase in the number of men under 30 and men without children seeking vasectomy consultations post Dobbs. Sweigert has seen that trend first-hand in her practice.

“I think as more women speak out about perhaps not wanting to be on various forms of birth control for decades, I think that men are more aware of vasectomies and perhaps are doing their part,” she said.

Vasectomies are generally safer than female sterilization and have a much quicker recovery.

But Mullen isn’t surprised that so many women want the procedure themselves – they are the ones who would have to carry the pregnancy and handle the ensuing health impacts.

O’Malley feels that acutely. She had been in vulnerable situations in the past. She was sexually assaulted in college and went through a period where she was homeless. O’Malley said her choice was an act of self-protection.

“It’s not like I sit around thinking that the worst case scenario is going to happen,” she said. “But I would want to know that I was going to be safe and I wasn't going to end up in a situation where I was pregnant and I would have no path to go.”

#Childfree #Reproductive rights #Sterilization #Roe was only the first domino

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zvaigzdelasas · 7 months

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Google Dot Com Les Wexner Jeffrey Epstein Enter Search [17 Oct 23]

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reality-detective · 1 year

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Since Ohio is in the Spotlight let me get you started in a Rabbit Hole🐇

Let's start with Les Wexner👇

What about Leslie Herbert Wexner? 👇

Okay you're probably thinking so what... Well this is what? 👇

This is Les Wexnar ‘s wife Abigail S. Koppel.

She received a $47 million dollar donation from Jeffery Epstein for her charity!

Wexner has donated over $200 million to The Ohio State University which coincidentally has an underground tunnel system. 👇

College students sit near the doorway to hell.

There is your beginning to the evil side of Ohio and Gov. Mike Dewine is just a RINO, he's a deep state stooge. 👇

Now You Decide 🤔

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schraubd · 9 months

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Another Case of Self-Inflicted BDS

Some of you are familiar with the "Deadly Exchange" allegation -- an effort by JVP and allied groups to block cross-training programs between Israeli and American police officers on the grounds that such programs really are just avenues for Israel to transmit brutality and oppression to their American counterparts. It's a signature campaign of the BDS movement, albeit one that -- like most BDS activities -- hasn't gotten much traction. But today comes the news that Itamar Ben-Gvir, the notorious far-right racist who also happens to be Israel's National Security Minister, has taken it upon himself to bar Israeli police from partaking in programs run by the Wexner Foundation for Jewish Leadership. Wexner programs have hosted an array of significant figures in Israel's security establishment, but as is becoming increasingly passe they have come under predictable fire from the Israeli right upon allegations that they are a tool of leftist indoctrination and the ever-shadowy "deep state". So a ban was announced, and yet another screen of isolation falls upon the Israeli public vis-a-vis the outside world (and here, in particular, the Jewish diaspora world). The Wexner programs are not, to be sure, exactly the sorts of police cross-training programs that "deadly exchange" targets. Nonetheless, this is yet another data point to the proposition that Israeli right is far more successful at actually instantiating a BDS regime than BDS activists ever have been. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/N4ARCB2

#boycott #Israel #Jews #police

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dragoneyes618 · 7 months

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"There was widespread shock and dismay over media and campus reactions to the atrocities Hamas committed against innocent Jews on Oct. 7, while we Jews observed Simchat Torah. The so-called mainstream or dominant news institutions initially held to their practice, in the name of impartiality, of avoiding calling Hamas’ marauding perpetrators “terrorists” or what they did, “terrorism.” This, so as not to summarily dismiss Hamas’ their claim that they were merely acting as freedom fighters against Zionist oppression. So, Hamas perpetrators were neutrally labeled as “militants,” “fighters,” “armed fighters” and “gunmen.”

And, on college and university campuses across the country student groups continued with their leftist, mindless anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism by issuing written statements signed by their members holding Israel responsible for all the death and destruction for supposedly having cruelly imposed its will on the Palestinians, thus creating the need for a Palestinian resistance. Also, once again, supportive left-leaning school officials said nothing to contradict this intellectual corruption and bigotry. Nor did most offer statements of their own condemning Hamas.

But it soon began to emerge that it was not necessarily going to be business as usual. It was hard for most people not to notice that non-pejoratives like militants, fighters, and gunmen seemed incongruous with the reporting on: the senseless, wanton, brutal slaughter and mutilation of innocent civilians – including men, women, children and the elderly – the decapitation of infants, the violations of women, the kidnappings. Indeed, what exactly does all of that have to do with any notion of a redeeming freedom fighter role.

The New York Times, as the acknowledged “paper of record” had been particularly infuriating, leading the way in rejecting the “terror” label. So, it is significant that it has now routinely taken to reporting on the events on Simchat Torah as “terror” and its Hamas perpetrators as “terrorists.” Perhaps even more important is how The Times now opines on the Oct. 7 events in its editorials. The other day it said this:

Israel stands on the verge of invading Gaza in response to the terrorist attacks by Hamas that many, including Israel’s leaders, have compared to Sept. 11 not just because of the scale and savagery but also because the terrorists sought to destroy the tranquility of daily life. They killed the very young and the very old, the strong and the weak, civilians and soldiers; they took some 150 hostages, including children, and survivors said the attackers raped women – all to send a message that no Israeli was safe.

It is also likely that there will be consequences for media outlets that don’t start to tell it like it is but persist in promoting anti-Israel propaganda. Thus, the New York Post reports that the leftist MSNBC, which has long been in the forefront of efforts to draw equivalence between Hamas terrorist brutalities and Israel’s self-defense, has lost 33% of it prime time viewers since Hamas attacked Israel. On the other hand, Fox News, which does a much better job of accurately reporting on the Middle East, has seen a full 42% jump in total viewership in the same period.

As for academia, there have already been financial repercussions arising from student support for Hamas’ Oct.7 attack and the deafening silence of school administrators. CEO’s of more than a dozen major companies, have declared they will not hire Harvard students who signed a letter blaming Israel for the attack.

Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife quit their posts on the executive board of Harvard’s Kennedy School – and presumably took their checkbook with them – in protest of Harvard’s president’s belated, lukewarm response to a student letter blaming Israel for the massacre committed by Hamas terrorists.

The Times of Israel reports that the Wexner Foundation philanthropy group has cut its ties with Harvard over the “dismal failure of Harvard’s leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stand against the barbaric murders of innocent Israeli civilians by terrorists last Saturday.”

In New York, Politico reports that at New York University School of Law, the president of the student bar association urged in its newsletter not to condemn “Palestinian resistance”:

This week, I want to express, first and foremost, my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination… Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.

After that comment went viral, a major law firm promptly withdrew a plum job offer that had previously been extended to her.

So, in addition to the tragic events of Oct. 7, the aftermath also has some lessons for us.

The notion offered by some in the media that there is a redeeming side to the Hamas obsession with eliminating Israel was effectively debunked by assertions that the unhinged Hamas terrorism was Israel’s fault after all. How can anyone lay that savagery at the doorstep of the victims? How can such depravity be cast in a positive light? What credibility then can we give to their antipathy for Israel? o the same effect the widespread antipathy on college campuses for Jewish students and pro-Israel sentiment.

It is probably too much to expect that those in the media will now take the bull by the horns and become more even-handed on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. But they could. And in all events, perhaps the business world will impose reality check on our future leaders in training."

Jerry Greenwald, The Jewish Press, Editorial, October 18 2023

#the jewish press #israel #israel hamas war #antisemitism #jerry greenwald

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sapropel · 7 months

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Zionism is so deeply entrenched in American institutions its fucking crazy. If you even like casually mention that maybe Palestinians are human and bombing them is bad you get the entire Ivy League sending a swat team to your house

#brown was like this too

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visualandpublicart · 1 year

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JOIN US ON THURS., April 27, 2023 FOR VPA’s VISITING ARTIST SERIES | FEATURING Related Tactics!

Lecture date: April 27, 2023

Time: 6-8pm

Location: VPA Complex, Build. 70

Free & Open to the Public!

For ADA Accommodations: Carol Silveira at [email protected]

Lecture Title: Collectivity as Practice

Lecture Description: Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) will discuss our work together as a collaborative unit, a platform that allows us to disrupt the idea of a singular artist voice wherever possible—challenging the radical individualism embedded in the art world and our lives—particularly as we engage with issues requiring a multiplicity of perspectives to build collective analysis and power. While the core of our work is a creative collaboration between the three leads, we often utilize curatorial approaches as artistic gestures to construct space for collective voice, address the impacts of systemic white supremacy, and foster mutual support and transformation.

About Collective: Related Tactics is an artistic collaboration between artists and cultural workers Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson. Formed in 2015, our projects are made at the intersection of race and culture. We explore the connections between art, movements for social justice, and the public through trans-disciplinary exchanges, collective making, and dialog. Related Tactics has exhibited at Wexner Center for the Arts, University of San Francisco Thacher Gallery, Southern Exposure, The Luminary, and Center for Craft; and supported through Kala Art Institute’s Print Public, Montalvo Arts Center, Craft Research Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Ruth Foundation for the Arts.

Artist’s Website: https://relatedtactics.com/

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usnewsper-politics · 3 months

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Controversial Conference Sparks Harvard-Wexner Split #antiSemiticconference #HarvardUniversity #IsraeliPalestinianconflict #proHamasrhetoric #WexnerFoundation

#Politics #antiSemiticconference #HarvardUniversity #IsraeliPalestinianconflict #proHamasrhetoric #WexnerFoundation

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ghjkl54 · 4 months

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Documents name alleged Jeffrey Epstein associates previously identified by accuser

Jeffrey Epstein list: Les Wexner, Prince Andrew among alleged associates named, previously ID'd by accuser Virginia Giuffre - ABC7 Chicago

Another batch of documents pertaining to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was unsealed Tuesday, ABC News reported.

The seven documents unsealed Tuesday total 1,482 pages. Over 215 documents have been released since last week.

The unsealed documents include several depositions from Ghislaine Maxwell, one from Epstein, one from alleged Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre and another from Sarah Ransome, an alleged adult victim of Epstein, who was referenced throughout Monday's unsealing.

The records are part of a defamation lawsuit brought by Giuffre against Maxwell, Epstein's longtime companion, that the two settled in 2017. Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

The Giuffre deposition included in the new batch comes from her testimony in a related defamation case filed by her lawyers against former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz in a Florida state court. In that deposition, she names billionaire retail magnate Les Wexner as "one of the powerful business executives" that she was trafficked to.

Wexner, who in 1991 granted Epstein power-of-attorney over his personal finances, has never been charged with a crime. After Epstein's arrest in 2019, ABC News obtained a message Wexner issued to employees at L Brands that said, "When Mr. Epstein was my personal money manager, he was involved in many aspects of my financial life. But let me assure you that I was NEVER aware of the illegal activity charged in the indictment."

Following Epstein's death in August 2019, Wexner accused Epstein of misappropriating "vast sums" of his personal fortune more than a decade earlier.

Wexner stepped down from his executive role at L Brands - the conglomerate behind retail staples Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works and Pink - in February 2020.

Wexner's charitable foundation did not immediately respond to ABC News' messages seeking comment on the filings released Tuesday.

The deposition also contains the names of men Giuffre has previously claimed she had been trafficked to, including Britain's Prince Andrew, Hyatt Hotel chief Thomas Pritzker, the late artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky and the late New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

Pritzker and Richardson previously issued statements denying the allegations.

Minsky died in 2016, before Giuffre's allegations naming him were released in 2019 by the 2nd Circuit.

Many of these documents have been unsealed and publicly available in various forms. The court is republishing them now with new portions unredacted.

The 134-page Epstein deposition had not been previously released but he was known to have invoked his Fifth Amendment right hundreds of times.

The records unsealed Monday included photos from Ransome and an exhibit that mentions discredited allegations Ransome made about former President Bill Clinton, former President Donald Trump, Prince Andrew and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson. She later admitted the claims were false.

Neither Clinton, nor Trump, nor Branson was accused by Giuffre, or anyone else besides Ransome, of any wrongdoing in the course of Giuffre's defamation lawsuit against Maxwell. Clinton has denied any knowledge of Epstein's crimes. Trump has said he cut-off contact with Epstein many years ago.

In a statement to ABC News on Tuesday, the Virgin Group, on behalf of Branson, said Ransome's allegations against him are "false, baseless, and unfounded."

Prince Andrew has long denied allegations that he had sex with Giuffre on three occasions, as she has claimed in court records and interviews. In 2022, Andrew settled a case Giuffre brought against him.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted in 2021 of aiding Epstein's sex trafficking of young women and girls. Her appeal will be heard in March.

#Epstein #EpsteinList

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jeckhhtttr · 4 months

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爱泼斯坦的行程：权贵与金融家兼性罪犯的秘录 #爱泼斯坦 #萝莉岛

此次曝光的爱泼斯坦私人行程安排和电子邮件披露了他在被登记为性犯罪者后的数年间与诸多名人的会面细节，包括中情局局长、高盛法务总监、巴德学院校长等人；宾客们表示，之所以与他往来是看重他的财富与人脉。

这批文件显示，自2021年起担任美国中情局(CIA)局长的威廉·伯恩斯(William Burns)在2014年担任副国务卿期间，与爱泼斯坦有过三次见面计划。两人第一次见面是在华盛顿，而后，伯恩斯去了爱泼斯坦位于曼哈顿的联排别墅。

在奥巴马(Barack Obama)执政时期担任白宫顾问的凯瑟琳·鲁姆勒(Kathryn Ruemmler)从白宫卸任后，于2020年出任高盛集团(Goldman Sachs Group Inc.)法务总监，在这两段经历之间的数年里，她曾与爱泼斯坦有过数十次会面。不仅如此，爱泼斯坦曾打算邀请她加入2015年的巴黎之行，2017年时还计划邀请她前往自己位于加勒比海的私人岛屿。

巴德学院(Bard College)校长里昂·波茨坦恩(Leon Botstein)曾邀请爱泼斯坦到访校园，当时，爱泼斯坦还带来了一群年轻女宾。2015年，作家兼政治活动家诺姆·乔姆斯基(Noam Chomsky)教授曾计划与爱泼斯坦同乘飞机，前往后者位于曼哈顿的联排别墅共进晚餐。

所有这些名字都没有出现在现已公开的爱泼斯坦联系人“黑名单”中，在记录爱泼斯坦私人飞机乘客信息的公共飞行日志中，也没有他们的名字。上述文件显示，爱泼斯坦同每个人都安排了数次会面，在此之前，2008年，他因一桩涉及少女的性犯罪被判入狱，并被登记为性犯罪者。这批文件涵盖了2013-2017年间的数千页电子邮件及行程安排，此前未曾被报道过。

这些文件没有透露大部分会面的目的。《华尔街日报》(The Wall Street Journal)无法证实是否每一次会面计划最终都成为现实。

这些人中的大部分人向《华尔街日报》表示，他们之所以同爱泼斯坦会面，与他的财富及人脉有关。其中几个人说，他们觉得爱泼斯坦已经服完刑、改过自新了。波茨坦恩说，他是想让爱泼斯坦给他的学校捐款。乔姆斯基则表示，他和爱泼斯坦讨论了政治及学术话题。

中情局局长威廉·伯恩斯2014年曾在华盛顿与爱泼斯坦见面，后来又去过爱泼斯坦位于曼哈顿的联排别墅。图为伯恩斯（居中者）今年3月出席一场参议院听证会。图片来源：AL DRAGO/BLOOMBERG NEWS

中情局发言人塔米·库伯曼·索普(Tammy Kupperman Thorp)称，局长伯恩斯在大约十年前与爱泼斯坦会面时，正准备卸任公职。“局长对他完全不了解，只是别人这样介绍他，说他是金融服务行业的专家，就如何向私人领域转型提供过一般性建议。”她说，“他们之间没有交情。”

一名高盛发言人表示，由于涉及鲁姆勒在瑞生国际律师事务所(Latham& Watkins LLP)的工作，鲁姆勒同爱泼斯坦存在业务关系，但二人未曾一起出行。这位发言人说，爱泼斯坦把鲁姆勒介绍给了潜在法务客户，如微软(Microsoft Corp.)联合创始人比尔·盖茨(Bill Gates)。鲁姆勒曾说，“我很后悔认识杰弗里·爱泼斯坦。”

一位瑞生发言人表示，爱泼斯坦并非该律所客户。

2006年，爱泼斯坦因在佛罗里达州性侵数名女孩而受到公开指控，受害者中年纪最小的仅有14岁。美国联邦调查局(FBI)和警方对此展开调查，2008年，爱泼斯坦与检方达成协议。他躲过了联邦指控，同时对招揽和引诱一名未成年人卖淫的罪名认罪。他被登记为性犯罪者，并在“日间监外工作”项目（译注：即白天在监狱外上班，夜晚和休息日在狱中服刑）中服刑约13个月。

当时，媒体对爱泼斯坦一案进行了大量报道，来自未成年少女和年轻女性的指控也出现在美国国内外媒体的新闻报道中。2006年，几名政界人士退还了爱泼斯坦的捐款。一些先前的伙伴开始与他保持距离。作为爱泼斯坦已知最大的客户，零售业亿万富豪莱斯利·维克斯纳(Leslie Wexner)后来说，他在2007年时断了与爱泼斯坦的往来。爱泼斯坦用的银行摩根大通(JPMorgan Chase& Co.)随后也表示，它于2013年关闭了此人的账户，不过之后数年里，仍有一些银行家和他见面。

2015年，弗吉尼亚·吉弗瑞(Virginia Giuffre)公开指控爱泼斯坦在她十几岁时对她实施性侵、让她成为性交易的牺牲品，还强迫她与一些有影响力的人发生性关系，其中包括英国的安德鲁王子(Prince Andrew)。安德鲁王子否认上述指控，并于去年就吉弗瑞提出的性侵诉讼达成和解。

这批文件显示，尽管有关爱泼斯坦的负面报道频频在媒体上出现，但他从早到晚还是排满了与各类显赫人物的会面。他们有时会在纽约的餐厅里用餐，有时会在高档酒店里见面，有时还会聚在知名律所的办公室里。但很多时候，会面地点都安排在爱泼斯坦的曼哈顿别墅里。

2019年，检方宣称，数年来爱泼斯坦正是在这座别墅里对女性受害者实施了性侵，其中许多都未成年，不仅如此，他还向其中一些人支付报酬，让她们把自己的朋友也拉入到性活动中来。

在《迈阿密先驱报》(Miami Herald)报道数十名女性声称自己遭受性侵后，2019年，检方以性交易共谋的罪名对爱泼斯坦提出指控。同一年，就在他等待审判的那段时间里，他死在了纽约的一所监狱里。据纽约市法医部门说，爱泼斯坦是死于自杀。

现年67岁的伯恩斯是一名职业外交官，曾任美国驻俄罗斯大使。2014年，他担任副国务卿期间，曾与爱泼斯坦多次见面。

其中一场午餐安排在当年8月，地点在华盛顿世强律师事务所(Steptoe& Johnson)的办公室里。上述文件还显示，当年9月，爱泼斯坦安排了两场同伯恩斯在自己别墅里的夜间会面。爱泼斯坦计划在其中一次会面结束后，让他的司机把伯恩斯送到机场。

中情局发言人索普说，据伯恩斯回忆，他是在华盛顿经一位共同好友的介绍认识爱泼斯坦的，他曾在纽约和爱泼斯坦有过一次短暂的会面。“局长不记得有任何进一步的接触，包括搭车去机场。”索普说。

次月，即2014年10月，伯恩斯从副国务卿的位置上卸任，转而去智库卡内基国际和平基金会(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)担任主席，直到2021年初，他被美国总统拜登(Biden)提名出任中情局局长。

这批文件显示，爱泼斯坦对于自己的一些宾客似乎很了解。据上述文件，和鲁姆勒见面，他会叫人提前准备好牛油果寿司卷。他还实地探访了鲁姆勒考虑购买的公寓。2014年10月，爱泼斯坦得知鲁姆勒的旅行计划后，曾让助理查看��的航班。“看看头等舱有没有票。”他写道，“如果有，给她升舱。”

凯瑟琳·鲁姆勒在离开白宫、成为高盛法务总监之前的数年里，与爱泼斯坦有过数十次会面。图片来源：WILLIAM B. PLOWMAN/NBCUNIVERSAL/GETTY IMAGES

2014年，鲁姆勒从奥巴马政府离职后的数周内，爱泼斯坦给她打过电话。他打算当年8月在他的别墅内安排一顿午餐，后来两人又陆续见了几面，爱泼斯坦把她介绍给了自己更广的熟人圈子。

上述高盛发言人称，鲁姆勒最初和爱泼斯坦见面是因为之前他曾给鲁姆勒打电话，问她是否有兴趣担任比尔·盖茨本人以及比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会(Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation)的代表。

比尔·盖茨的一位发言人表示，爱泼斯坦从未为盖茨工作过，他歪曲了两人的关系，而且盖茨后悔与他见过面。

上述文件显示，爱泼斯坦曾和他的员工讨论过，有那些在别墅里担任助理和工作人员的年轻女性在场是否会让鲁姆勒感觉不适。爱泼斯坦收到过两次由女性发来的电子邮件，询问她们是否应在鲁姆勒来访时暂时离开别墅。文件显示，爱泼斯坦告诉其中一位女性，他不想她在场，而对另一位女性，他表示，这不是什么问题。鲁姆勒现年52岁。

上述高盛发言人称，鲁姆勒在别墅里没有看到任何会令她担忧的事，她也没有表达任何担心。

在这段时期内拜访过爱泼斯坦的几个人说，他们注意到了爱泼斯坦别墅里的年轻女子。海伦·费舍尔(Helen Fisher)便是其中之一，这位研究爱情与依恋关系的人类学家2016年1月曾与爱泼斯坦共进午餐，探讨她的工作。

费舍尔博士说，午饭后，爱泼斯坦请她与自己的员工交谈。“然后，依次走过来了六个人，是六名年轻女子。”她说，“她们个个年轻貌美。”

费舍尔说，爱泼斯坦从未资助过她的研究，两人并非朋友关系，而且此后也没有保持联系。“我和杰弗里·爱泼斯坦没有任何关系。”她说，“我之所以记得这件事，是因为他那座华丽的房子，以及那六个年轻女子。”

接下来的数年里，鲁姆勒与爱泼斯坦安排的见面超过36次，包括共进午餐和晚餐。那会儿，鲁姆勒是瑞生国际的一名合伙人，专长是为白领做辩护。

“按照正常做法，爱泼斯坦也邀请她参加了一些会面及社交场合，把她介绍给其他业务伙伴，同时做一些引荐。”上述高盛发言人说，“这跟她同其他业务伙伴及客户的接触与交往是一样的。”

根据这批文件，2015年，鲁姆勒计划和爱泼斯坦一起飞往巴黎；2017年，爱泼斯坦打算在圣卢西亚(St. Lucia)停留，接上鲁姆勒前往他位于美属维尔京群岛的住宅度过一天。

上述高盛发言人表示，鲁姆勒从未去过他的岛屿，也“从未接受过与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦同乘飞机去往任何地方的邀请或是机会。”

目前除了在高盛集团担任法务总监外，鲁姆勒还是该集团声誉风险委员会联席主席，该部门负责监督业务和客户相关的决策，以防对高盛形象造成潜在破坏。

爱泼斯坦还在鲁姆勒与阿里安·德·罗斯柴尔德(Ariane de Rothschild)之间牵线搭桥，后者现为瑞士私人银行埃德蒙·德·罗斯柴尔德集团(Edmond de Rothschild Group)首席执行官。据该集团和高盛发言人说，经介绍得知鲁姆勒所在的瑞生国际能帮助处理美国监管相关问题后，罗斯柴尔德集团聘请了这家律所。

阿里安通过联姻嫁入了罗斯柴尔德这个知名的银行业家族，她与爱泼斯坦有过十几次会面。据上述文件，爱泼斯坦曾就人事和供给问题向阿里安寻求帮助，还与她讨论过生意问题。

文件显示，2015年，一家瑞士私人银行的CEO阿里安·德·罗斯柴尔德和爱泼斯坦谈了一份价值2,500万美元的合同。

2013年9月，爱泼斯坦在电子邮件中让阿里安帮他找一名新助理，“女性……会讲多门语言，做事有条理。”

“我帮你打听打听。”阿里安在邮件中回复说。

上述文件显示，2014年及2015年，阿里安代表爱泼斯坦购买了价值近100万美元的拍卖品。

2015年1月，阿里安被任命为埃德蒙·德·罗斯柴尔德集团董事长。据《华尔街日报》看到的一份计划书，当年10月，她和爱泼斯坦谈了一份价值2,500万美元的合同，内容是爱泼斯坦的南方信托公司(Southern Trust Co.)将为罗斯柴尔德集团提供“风险分析，以及某些算法的应用和使用。”

2019年，爱泼斯坦被捕后，罗斯柴尔德集团称，阿里安从未与爱泼斯坦会面，该行也与他没有业务联系。

后来，这家银行向《华尔街日报》承认，它先前的声明并不准确。它表示，2013-2019年间，阿里安曾因正常工作职责在该行同爱泼斯坦见过面；爱泼斯坦把罗斯柴尔德集团引荐给了美国金融界领袖、向该行推荐了律所，并提供了税务及风险咨询。

该行表示，“与此同时，爱泼斯坦还有几次私下向她征求过房产管理方面的建议，并寻求相关服务。”

该行称，对于爱泼斯坦遭到的任何法律诉讼，阿里安均不知情，“对于任何涉及他个人行为的问题，她同样不清楚。”该行表示，后来在得知他的行为后，“她对受害者表示同情和支持。”

在爱泼斯坦与阿里安的数次会面计划中，2014年1月的那场还包括前者的另一名常客——当时在亨利·基辛格(Henry Kissinger)旗下企业咨询公司担任联席首席执行官的乔舒亚·库珀·雷默(Joshua Cooper Ramo)。

乔舒亚·库珀·雷默计划同爱泼斯坦见面的次数达十几次。

上述文件显示，2013-2017年间，爱泼斯坦计划同雷默见面的次数达十几次，当时后者还在星巴克(Starbucks Corp.)和联邦快递(FedEx Corp.)的董事会中任职。从这批文件中得知，同雷默会面时，爱泼斯坦会准备好特色小食，因为他认为雷默是素食主义者。

雷默与爱泼斯坦会面中的很多次都安排在晚上，通常是下午五点后，地点则是在爱泼斯坦的别墅内。这批文件显示，2013年9月，雷默还被邀请在同一座别墅里与以色列前总理埃胡德·巴拉克(Ehud Barak)共进早餐，后者也是爱泼斯坦的常客之一。

雷默近日已从星巴克董事会离职，但仍担任联邦快递董事，他没有回复记者的置评请求。基辛格的一位发言人表示，对于雷默与爱泼斯坦见面一事，基辛格并不知情。

2015年，巴拉克还与乔姆斯基一同见过爱泼斯坦。现年94岁的乔姆斯基是语言学教授兼政治活动家，他对资本主义和美国外交政策一直持批评态度。

乔姆斯基称，爱泼斯坦安排了他们同巴拉克的会面，目的是讨论“以色列在巴勒斯坦问题及国际舞台上的政策。”

巴拉克表示，去纽约期间他经常同爱泼斯坦见面，经介绍他认识了雷默、乔姆斯基等人，并同他们探讨了地缘政治等话题。“他常常带其他有趣的人来，有文化艺术界和法律界的，还有科学、金融、外交或是慈善圈的。”巴拉克说。

2015年和2016年，爱泼斯坦安排了同乔姆斯基的数次会面，那时乔姆斯基是麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)的一名教授。

当被问及同爱泼斯坦的关系时，乔姆斯基在电邮中回复：“我首先要说的是，此事与你无关，也与任何人无关。其次，我认识他，我们有时会见面。”

据上述文件，2015年3月，爱泼斯坦曾计划与乔姆斯基、哈佛大学(Harvard University)教授马丁·诺瓦克(Martin Nowak)及其他学者聚一聚。乔姆斯基说，他们在诺瓦克的研究所里聚过几次，目的是讨论神经科学及其他话题。

这批文件显示，两个月后，爱泼斯坦计划与乔姆斯基夫妇同乘飞机，并与他们以及电影导演伍迪·艾伦(Woody Allen)及妻子宋宜·普列文(Soon-Yi Previn)共进晚餐。

“我怀疑我并没有搭乘过这架飞机，如果真有的话，那应该是从波士顿飞往纽约，一趟30分钟的行程。”乔姆斯基说，“我不知道有哪条规定要求我要把自己与一名伟大艺术家共度一晚的事告诉你。”

麻省理工学院与哈佛大学此前表示，2002-2017年间，爱泼斯坦至少向前者捐赠了85万美元，1998-2008年间向后者的捐赠额超过910万美元。哈佛大学2021年时表示，由于诺瓦克在同爱泼斯坦的交往中违法了本校政策，它对诺瓦克实施了处罚，同时关闭了他负责的一所由爱泼斯坦资助的研究中心。麻省理工学院表示，当初接受爱泼斯坦的捐赠非恰当之举，学校后来向支持性侵幸存者的非营利组织捐赠了85万美元。

乔姆斯基2020年接受播客节目”Dunc Tank”采访时说，一些在他看来比爱泼斯坦更恶劣的人都曾向麻省理工学院捐赠过。在节目中，他没有提到自己与爱泼斯坦的任何一场会面。

乔姆斯基向《华尔街日报》表示，他们会面时，“关于杰弗里·爱泼斯坦，所知的就是他曾被判有罪，而且已经服刑。根据美国法律和社会准则，这意味着他已是一个清白的人。”

麻省理工学院称，负责调查该校与爱泼斯坦关系的律师没有发现乔姆斯基和此人在麻省理工的校园里见过面，也没有发现乔姆斯基接受过此人的资金。哈佛大学2020年曾就它与爱泼斯坦的关系发布一篇报告，除此之外，它拒绝置评。诺瓦克表示，对于自己在爱泼斯坦与哈佛之间起到的穿针引线的作用，他感到后悔。他没有回复记者的置评请求。

现年76岁的波茨坦恩自1975年以来一直担任巴德学院校长，在大约四年时间里，他计划与爱泼斯坦见面的次数有二十几次，见面地点大多安排在后者的别墅。

“我是一个不怎么会筹款的人，他将慈善作为引诱工具的举动有点虐待狂的味道，而我实际上就成了施虐对象。”波茨坦恩说，“这就是我和他的关系。”

波茨坦恩说，他第一次去爱泼斯坦的别墅是在2012年，当时是为了感谢他主动向巴德学院的高中捐赠，在随后的几年中，为了获得更多捐赠，他又来登门拜访。上述文件显示，2015年，爱泼斯坦捐赠了66台笔记本电脑。

“我们查过他，他曾因性犯罪被判过重罪。”他说。巴德有一个专为囚犯提供教育的大型项目，他说，“我们相信犯人可以改过自新。”

这批文件显示，波茨坦恩还长期担任美国交响乐团(American Symphony Orchestra)音乐总监，2013年他邀请爱泼斯坦来巴德学院看了一场歌剧，2016年又邀请他在该校欣赏了一场音乐会。爱泼斯坦每次都计划带一些年轻的女助理过来，而且会乘坐直升飞机。

波茨坦恩称，他当时希望爱泼斯坦能支持古典音乐课程，他还说，学校会在爱泼斯坦到访期间做好防范。“鉴于他有前科，我们还安排了安保人员。”他说，“他不能自由接触任何人。”

波茨坦恩说，在爱泼斯坦家中，他被带入一间餐厅，两人在那里一起探讨古典音乐等话题。“他以亿万富豪的形象示人，一个非常非常有钱的人。”他说，“可我觉得他古怪又傲慢。最后我终于相信，他只是在耍我们，正因为此，我们便不再和他联系。” 尽管两人有过数次会面，但波茨坦恩说，爱泼斯坦再没向巴德捐赠过。“也算是因祸得福。”他说，“我们再也没拿到钱了。”

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Documents name alleged Jeffrey Epstein associates previously identified by accuser

Another batch of documents pertaining to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was unsealed Tuesday.

The seven documents unsealed Tuesday total 1,482 pages. They're the last set to be made public pursuant to the court's order authorizing the release last month. Over 215 documents have been released since last week.

In this March 15, 2005 file photo, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

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Following Epstein's death in August 2019, Wexner accused Epstein of misappropriating "vast sums" of his personal fortune more than a decade earlier.

Wexner stepped down from his executive role at L Brands – the conglomerate behind retail staples Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works and Pink – in February 2020.

Wexner's charitable foundation did not immediately respond to ABC News' messages seeking comment on the filings released Tuesday.

Pritzker and Richardson previously issued statements denying the allegations.

Minsky died in 2016, before Giuffre's allegations naming him were released in 2019 by the 2nd Circuit.

Giuffre's 2016 deposition also includes her claim that she met former President Bill Clinton not once but twice on Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island toward the end of her time in Epstein's orbit in September 2002 – something he has denied.

Giuffre said she met Clinton "On Little Saint Jeff's," referring to the island properly known as Little Saint James

She claimed to have been at a dinner with Clinton and two girls: "Young, beautiful like every girl that's generally around Jeffrey."

The second meeting was also on the island and also involved a dinner, she said. "Very similar, I mean, there was a dinner, lots of laughing, lots of joking, it was just a dinner and then I didn't have to do anything with Bill Clinton, he was never sexually involved with me. I've never witnessed him sexually involved with anybody else. Jeffrey asked me for a massage after dinner and I went off to Jeffrey's cabana," she said.

Clinton, through a spokesman, denied in 2019 ever being on Epstein's island and said he was not aware of Epstein's criminal behavior.

No documentary evidence has been presented that Clinton was on the island.

Personal flight logs kept by one of Epstein's pilots -- which surfaced in separate lawsuits against Epstein -- showed that Clinton and his entourage had flown extensively on Epstein's jumbo-jet to international destinations such as Paris, Bangkok and Brunei in 2002 and 2003. But none of the available records included the former president on a trip to Epstein's island.

Maxwell also denied Clinton was ever on the island and Giuffre's efforts to depose the former president to ask him whether he had been on the island were rejected by a judge in June 2016.

In a January 2016 email to Maxwell, Epstein encouraged her to focus her effort to discredit Giuffre on Giuffre's version of "the clinton story" which he said could be "easily dsiporived," an apparent typo for "disproved."

Many of the documents released Tuesday have been unsealed and publicly available in various forms. The court is republishing them now with new portions unredacted.

The 134-page Epstein deposition had not been previously released but he was known to have invoked his Fifth Amendment right hundreds of times.

The records unsealed Monday included photos from Ransome and an exhibit that mentions discredited allegations Ransome made about Clinton, former President Donald Trump, Prince Andrew and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson. She later admitted the claims were false.

Neither Clinton, nor Trump, nor Branson was accused by Giuffre, or anyone else besides Ransome, of any wrongdoing in the course of Giuffre's defamation lawsuit against Maxwell. Trump has said he cut-off contact with Epstein many years ago.

In a statement to ABC News on Tuesday, the Virgin Group, on behalf of Branson, said Ransome's allegations against him are "false, baseless, and unfounded."

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted in 2021 of aiding Epstein's sex trafficking of young women and girls. Her appeal will be heard in March.

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