Jeffrey Epstein (born 1953 in Coney Island, New York) is a reclusive American billionaire financier and philanthropist. He attended Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, NY. He began his career as a math teacher at Dalton before becoming a trader at Bear Stearns. He subsequently founded his own financial management firm, located on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He reportedly will not take clients with assets less than $1 billion. Epstein befriended high profile scientists and politicians such as Leonard Susskind, Dr. Richard Axel, Dr. Gerald Edelman, Murray Gell-Mann, Marvin Minsky and Bill Clinton. In addition to his private island in the Virgin Islands (Little St. James Island), he owns a home in Manhattan and a ranch in New Mexico. [1] Epstein has donated money to the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a former board member of Rockefeller University, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University. He has also funded microbiology experiments in Bangladesh, high energy physics in South Africa and M theory in India and was a founding member of the Scholar Rescue Fund. Epstein is a former trustee of the International Institute for Education, the parent organization of the Fulbright Scholarship program. He has held conferences on artificial intelligence, cosmology and the origin of life with prominent scientists. His donation of $6.5 million[2] funded the creation of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard in 2002.[3]
- ^ Jeffrey Epstein: International Money Man of Mystery. New York Magazine (2002-10-28).
- ^ Harvard to Keep Epstein Gift, Harvard Crimson 2006-09-13. Accessed 2007-09-13.
- ^ Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
External links
- "The Fantasist" (New York Magazine)
