Overview
- More than 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, released by the House Oversight Committee, include numerous emails between Epstein and Thomas Pritzker.
- The correspondence shows exchanges dating from 2010 through February 2019, and Epstein referenced Pritzker in a note to himself one week before his July 2019 arrest.
- Messages include Epstein calling Pritzker “like family” and arranging social plans, while the emails themselves do not allege wrongdoing by Pritzker.
- Pritzker has previously denied allegations raised by Virginia Giuffre; his organization declined comment on the new emails, and no criminal charges have been brought.
- The document release has heightened scrutiny of other Epstein associates, with Larry Summers resigning from OpenAI’s board, and the House voting to require the Justice Department to release its Epstein files.