Overview
- The Justice Department published the correspondence on Friday as part of a broader release of Epstein-related records.
- In a 2016 email, Dr. Jess Ting asked Jeffrey Epstein to support a documentary about Mount Sinai’s newly launched transgender medicine and surgery program and noted he had been named director.
- Ting thanked Epstein for a previous $50,000 grant in the 2016 note, and a 2013 exchange shows Epstein said he would give that amount for breast cancer research.
- Emails from 2013 show an Epstein associate invited Ting to visit Epstein’s private island, with logistics discussed; the available records do not show that a visit occurred.
- A documentary about Ting’s work, Born to Be, was released in 2019, and the documents do not indicate whether Epstein funded it; the records do not implicate Ting in Epstein’s crimes.