Here is a look at some of the prominent people in the Journal’s reporting:

Woody Allen

The Oscar-winning movie director attended dozens of dinners with his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, at Epstein’s mansion and invited Epstein to film screenings. …

Allen said in a written statement that he has no idea what Epstein said to others about him. “At no time did he ever request I cast anyone in a movie—and I never did it,” he said.

Ehud Barak

The former Israeli prime minister visited Epstein dozens of times and accepted flights on Epstein’s private jet. Between 2013 and 2017, Epstein planned at least three dozen meetings with Barak. …

Barak said he would regularly visit Epstein when he traveled to New York and would meet interesting people at Epstein’s townhouse to discuss politics and other topics. …

“In retrospect, [Epstein] seems to be a terrible version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but at the time seemed to be an intelligent person, socially well-connected,” he said.

Thomas Barrack

Barrack, a real-estate investor and founder of Colony Capital, and Epstein had known each other for years and his name appears in Epstein’s address book. …

Barrack declined to comment.

Leon Black

The billionaire co-founder of private-equity giant Apollo Global Management had more than 100 meetings scheduled with Epstein from 2013 to 2017. They typically were scheduled to meet at Epstein’s townhouse and occasionally at Black’s office, the documents show.

The billionaire stepped down as Apollo’s CEO in March 2021. An Apollo review found he paid Epstein $158 million for estate planning and tax work. …

Leon Botstein

The president of Bard College had about two dozen meetings with Epstein over about four years, which were mostly visits to the townhouse. Botstein also invited Epstein, who brought a group of young female guests, to the campus.

Botstein said he first visited Epstein’s townhouse in 2012 to thank him for $75,000 in unsolicited donations to Bard’s high schools, then he returned over several years in an attempt to get more donations. …

Botstein, also the music director for the American Symphony Orchestra, invited Epstein to an opera at Bard in 2013, then a concert at the college in 2016, the documents indicate.

Botstein said he was expecting Epstein to support classical music causes and that the school took precautions when he visited. …

Botstein later confirmed to the Journal that he received checks from an account linked to Epstein in 2016 totaling about $150,000. …

William Burns

The documents show that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021 had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state. …

Sergey Brin

Epstein was advising the Google co-founder in 2007 on setting up a tax-saving trust for his children, according to court documents.

Naomi Campbell

The supermodel appears in Epstein’s schedules after 2008, and some women told the Journal that Epstein said he could use his fashion connections to make or break their careers. …

Campbell “had no idea Epstein was using her name to attract young girls interested in modeling, and as he did with many others, he overstated their acquaintanceship,” said a spokeswoman for Campbell. …

Noam Chomsky

Epstein arranged several meetings in 2015 and 2016 with the author and political activist, while he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

When asked about his relationship with Epstein, Chomsky replied in an email: “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.” …

In response to questions from the Journal, Chomsky confirmed that he received a March 2018 transfer of roughly $270,000 from an Epstein-linked account. He said it was “restricted to rearrangement of my own funds, and did not involve one penny from Epstein.” …

Vitaly Churkin

Russia’s U.N. ambassador had at least eight meetings scheduled with Epstein from 2015 until 2017, when Churkin died suddenly of an apparent heart attack, the documents show.

In 2016, Epstein scheduled lunches with Churkin and Trump campaign backers Peter Thiel and Thomas Barrack. …

Three days after Churkin’s death, Epstein sent an email to Thiel: “as you read my russian ambassador friend died. life is short, start with dessert.”

Joshua Cooper Ramo

Epstein scheduled more than a dozen meetings from 2013 to 2017 with Ramo, then co-chief executive of Henry Kissinger’s corporate consulting firm, the documents show. …

Glenn Dubin and Eva Andersson-Dubin

Andersson-Dubin, a physician and former Miss Sweden, has said she dated Epstein in the 1980s. …

The documents reveal Epstein offering help to one of the Dubins’ daughters, as he did for the children of other contacts. In 2012, Epstein emailed the Dubins’ daughter that he would arrange modeling jobs for her with apparel brands. In 2014, he scheduled a meeting between her and a professor at Harvard, where she was a student, the documents show. …

Ramsey Elkholy

An anthropologist and musician who billed himself as a modeling scout and introduced several women to Epstein. Elkholy was communicating with Epstein about finding attractive women who might interest him, and Elkholy brought several of them to the townhouse, according to the schedules and people familiar with the matter. …

A lawyer for Elkholy said his client believed Epstein was going to use his fashion contacts to further the careers of the models he introduced. Elkholy didn’t know that any guests he brought to the townhouse were later sexually exploited by Epstein, the lawyer said. …

Mary Erdoes

The head of JPMorgan’s asset and wealth management division made two trips to Epstein’s townhouse, in 2011 and 2013, when Epstein still was a client of the bank, people familiar with the matter said and court documents show. She exchanged dozens of emails with him and discussed sharing with him fees related to a charitable fund the bank was considering launching. …

Bill Gates

Epstein scheduled several meetings at his townhouse with the Microsoft mogul and visited Gates at his office in Seattle. Gates was photographed with multiple models introduced to him by Epstein. …

“Epstein tried, unsuccessfully, to connect himself to Mr. Gates by any means possible, including spontaneously bringing in people for photos with Bill, whom Bill did not know or interact with further,” said a Gates spokeswoman. “Mr. Gates only ever met with Epstein for philanthropic purposes, which he regrets.” …

Reid Hoffman

The documents reveal that the billionaire venture capitalist and LinkedIn co-founder visited Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean for a weekend, and was scheduled to stay overnight at his Manhattan townhouse in 2014.

Hoffman said that he met with Epstein to raise funds for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and that he regrets interacting with Epstein after his conviction. …

Thorbjørn Jagland

A former Norwegian prime minister who had several scheduled meetings at Epstein’s townhouse. In 2014, Epstein told a Polish model that he planned to introduce them. …

Joi Ito

The former head of MIT’s Media Lab accepted donations from Epstein. Ito had plans to visit Epstein’s private island in November 2014 with Reid Hoffman, as well as fly together to Boston. …

After Epstein’s arrest in 2019, Ito resigned from the MIT Media Lab and apologized for accepting funding from Epstein. …

Barnaby Marsh

When he was an executive at the large charitable fund John Templeton Foundation, Marsh met with Epstein roughly two dozen times, often for breakfast at the townhouse, the documents show.

Marsh, who advises wealthy people on philanthropy, said he went to Epstein’s townhouse for gatherings because it was full of billionaires and academics who had many of the same interests in charitable giving. …

Thomas Pritzker

Epstein scheduled several events at his townhouse with Pritzker, the chairman of Hyatt Hotels and member of a wealthy and politically connected Chicago family, according to the documents. …

Nicholas Ribis

Epstein and Ribis, a former CEO of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in the 1990s, were scheduled to meet several times from 2011 to 2017, the documents show. …

Bill Richardson

Epstein planned a dinner with Richardson at his townhouse in September 2016, the documents show.

The former New Mexico governor said that he didn’t meet with Epstein in 2016 and that he doesn’t know why he appears in the schedules. …

Ariane de Rothschild

A member of the famous banking family had more than a dozen meetings with Epstein. He sought her advice with staffing and furnishings as well as discussed business deals with her, according to the documents.

De Rothschild, CEO of the Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group, negotiated a $25 million contract with Epstein in 2015 for one of Epstein’s companies to provide risk analysis and other services to the bank, the documents show. …

Terje Rød-Larsen

Epstein made plans for the Norwegian diplomat to visit his private island in 2012. Rød-Larsen was scheduled to visit so frequently to Epstein’s townhouse—dozens of times from 2013 to 2017—that the staff knew to have cucumbers on hand for his gin, the documents show.

In 2013, Rød-Larsen wrote an email inviting a Polish model to Norway, which she used to obtain a visa to travel with Epstein to Norway. …

Rød-Larsen resigned in 2020 as president of the International Peace Institute after a Norwegian newspaper reported he visited the townhouse frequently, had received a $130,000 personal loan from Epstein, and had accepted about $650,000 in donations from Epstein foundations for the nonprofit. …

Charlie Rose

Epstein introduced a Polish model to the TV journalist and took a photo of them together at a TED conference in 2014. …

Kathryn Ruemmler

The White House counsel under then-President Barack Obama had dozens of meetings with Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group in 2020. He also planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean. …

Ruemmler had a professional relationship with Epstein in connection with her role at law firm Latham & Watkins LLP and didn’t travel with him, a Goldman Sachs spokesman said. …

Lawrence Summers

The former Treasury secretary and onetime Harvard University president had more than a dozen meetings scheduled with Epstein from 2013 through 2016, including several dinners, the documents show. …

Peter Thiel

A Silicon Valley investor and co-founder of PayPal, Thiel had several scheduled meetings with Epstein from 2014 to 2016, the documents show.

Thiel first met Epstein in 2014, after an introduction from Reid Hoffman, and said Epstein subsequently lured him to meetings with the promises of more introductions. …

Vera Wang

Several women said Epstein led them to believe he could make or break their careers and name-dropped contacts in the fashion industry, including the designer, who also appears in Epstein’s schedules after 2008, according to documents. …

Mortimer Zuckerman

The real-estate investor and media owner was scheduled to meet Epstein more than a dozen times over the years, the documents show. On some occasions, the two men planned to meet at Zuckerman’s office or home, which was near Epstein’s townhouse, the documents show. …

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(Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)