In the fall of 2013, hundreds of students entered the doors of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School for the first time. One of them — an Austrian woman — arrived with requests from Jeffrey Epstein to recruit women on campus for his sex trafficking operation, according to recently released documents.
The billionaire financier pursued a yearslong relationship with the woman, influencing both her decision to attend Penn and her year on campus pursuing a Master of Laws degree, according to messages in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice and reviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The woman has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and there is no evidence she went along with Epstein’s request to recruit women on Penn’s campus.
Documents show how Epstein attempted to reach Penn, illustrating the lengths he went to coerce, pressure, and manipulate women he was sexually involved with under the guise of mentorship and intimacy.
Many messages in the DOJ files, including those between Epstein and the Penn Carey Law graduate, contain typos and misspellings. Those errors have been retained as they originally appear in the documents.
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In 2012, the woman wrote to Epstein about her aspirations to attend an elite law school: “I want to get to Harvard, Columbia, NYU or maybe Stanford,” she wrote, later adding Penn to the list.
Five months later, she consulted Epstein for advice on her acceptances to Georgetown Law and Penn Carey Law. When she asked him whether the steep cost of attendance was worth it, Epstein replied, “yes definitley,” especially if she found him “interesing giirs there.”
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While Georgetown had “smarter peopl,” Epstein wrote that Penn was “more fun” and had a “bigger campus” with “better programs.”
In April 2013, the woman wrote to Epstein that she would be attending Penn for a Master of Laws degree after receiving a partial scholarship.
