Overview
- Justice Department documents released in February 2026 detail that from 2013 to 2019 Epstein gave at least $375,000 to the Harvard‑linked Hasty Pudding Institute and qualified as a “Guardian of the Sphinx,” which came with a prime table at the Order of the Golden Sphinx gala.
- Assistant emails show he routinely invited “girls” to fill a “table of 10,” including a 2015 message inviting recipients to the gala at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
- The trove indicates Epstein leveraged respected institutions as part of his network, with newly surfaced correspondence involving Harvard professors, donors and student societies.
- Harvard says its ongoing review of connections to Epstein includes donors named in the Justice Department files, according to a university spokesperson.
- The Hasty Pudding Institute says it has donated an amount exceeding Epstein’s gifts to a charity supporting trafficking victims, and chair Andrew Farkas denies any wrongdoing despite extensive email exchanges with Epstein.