Epstein stands with his arm around a woman whose face is redacted in an undated Justice Department photo, in front of the Zorro Ranch animal pens.
Jeffrey Epstein wrote to his girlfriend and assistant in 2016 with a request.
“Please get oxygen for dental office. new york and new mexico,” he wrote in anemail, one of millions of documents the U.S. Justice Department has released on the sex offender and financier. He also instructed her to travel with anesthetic.
The message was directed to Karyna Shuliak, who graduated from dental school in 2015 and promptly applied for licensure in New Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — both sites of Epstein’s major properties.
The proposed name for Karyna Shuliak’s dental practice was “Zorro Smiles.”
In her application to become licensed in New Mexico, obtained byThe New Mexicanunder a public records request, Shuliak proposed she would practice dentistry from Epstein’s southern Santa Fe County ranch, at 49 Zorro Ranch Road.
The name of her proposed venture? Shuliak wrote: “Zorro Smiles.”
There’s no evidence Zorro Smiles or any dental practice was formally established at the ranch with Santa Fe County, which requires medical businesses to abide by certain regulations. But a handful of emails released by the Justice Department suggest there was dentistry equipment at Zorro Ranch: Later in 2015, Epstein instructed the ranch manager to unplug a “dental chair pump.”
Shuliak was licensed as a New Mexico dentist from August 2015 to around 2021, according to public records provided by the New Mexico Board of Dental Health Care. U.S. Justice Department files and public licensure information show she became licensed in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida in late 2015.
A photo of what appears to be a dental office in Epstein’s Virgin Islands property drew public attention late last year. The room features a large yellow dental chair and masks of unidentified men’s faces adorning the walls. Released by the House Oversight Committee, the photo came out of a U.S. Virgin Islands government investigation.
Zorro Ranch was not searched by law enforcement in the aftermath of Epstein’s arrest, even as several of his other properties were.
A New Mexico legislative “truth commission” investigating Epstein on Friday published a subpoena to the state Regulation and Licensing Department, seeking records related to oversight of medical, dental and ambulance services at the ranch.
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